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Incredible 2 pattern lock

I bought an incredible 2 off of eBay knowing it would need repairs as it was stated in the listing, now that I have it, I got it to turn on but it has a pattern lock on it, I checked the ran and it is clean, and also there is a notice on the lock screen with an mms I'm guessing from whoever lost it, only thing is I can't get past the pattern lock, i tried to use my own gmail account to get past it when you put in the wrong pattern a few tries, butthat didn't work either, is there a way I can unlock the phone, hard reset it with some button pressing combination, or will I have to root,flash the phone, if that's even possible with not being able to get past the unlock pattern
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Contact the person?
Or if not, get into recovery using some sort of button combination than factory reset it. I don't know what the combo is but im guessing it's one of the volume keys (if not both) and the power button.
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Power then phone on holding power and volume down and see if there's an option for a factory reset.

If it was stolen or lost you should contact the owner.
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Try googling for the factory reset codes and enter it on the emergency dial.
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Htc one x newbie questions! Plz help

HI, I'm New to the HTC one x just got my phone today brand new for $300. I got the following questions I will like to ask hopefully you guys can help me out .
1. After unlocking the phone to be on another career "simple mobile" will I have to unlock everytime I flash a rom or o root it??
2. I noticed it don't have a battery cover. And no SD card slot. So how do I restart my phone if it bootloops. Freezes???? .
3.how can I root my HTC one x??? What's the easiest way???.
4. My phone keeps showing me the "loading"(HTC launcher) screen everytime I hit the home button.
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Thanks guys and hope to hear soon from you!!!
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Guess what? None of those questions have ever been asked before!
Oh, actually, I think they might have been. There's a search function on this forum.
No
Hold power button
Htcdev.com
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The sd card is a virtual sd card carnt be removed and if you hold power and volume button it will emulate a battery pull
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To Reboot your HOX after Freezing ...
Press 10 seconds the Power Button, the HOX Menu buttons blink 3 times ... then HOX Restarts!

[Q] [!Data recovery!] waterdamage/black display/no touch/no auto usb storage.

I did do a search, I couldn't find anything directly related to my problem as it's not how to fix the phone, but how to recover my data in this specific situation.
Alright, so I went to Dublin, got absolutely smashed, and dropped my new One X in the toilet. It's working fine - turns on, buttons light up, goes to what seems like sleep mode and waking up when I use the volume buttons, all seems okay except my display is ****ed - black, sometimes with streaks of visibility but nowhere near enough to see what's going on. No touch either.
No-one will touch it and I don't care so much about the phone, I just want all the pictures I took from my drunken holidays. As HTC so intelligently decided on internal storage instead of SD cards I'm a bit at a loss here. I can connect my phone to the PC, but the default behaviour is 'charge'. With the update that came out a while ago it defaults to USB storage when plugged in (or so HTC customer service says) but I rooted it and ran CM10.
What I need is a way to force USB storage through the PC, or a way to do a full backup of the phone without having to turn storage on. I'm not sure if this is possible? I'd appreciate some help here!
(It's dry now, was about two months ago, also I don't need advice on how to get it fixed, I'm not interested in paying for this as I'm going to give it away for spare parts and buy a waterproof phone)
Thanks in advance guys!

How about usb-debugging, enabled or not?
Are you currently on CM10?
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Oop's that sounds bad but I'd be happy to help you to get your photos off. Firstly have you rooted yet? If so you could get it into recovery mode and with help from a friend or another phone then you could activate the usb mode. Also I'd be happy to take it off you for spares as I have two hox's in my house.

TToivanen said:
How about usb-debugging, enabled or not?
Are you currently on CM10?
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USB debugging.. I'm not quite sure. I think it was on. I am on CM10 but as I said, can't see or use the display at all..

Maximus78 said:
Oop's that sounds bad but I'd be happy to help you to get your photos off. Firstly have you rooted yet? If so you could get it into recovery mode and with help from a friend or another phone then you could activate the usb mode. Also I'd be happy to take it off you for spares as I have two hox's in my house.
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I've already promised it to a friend of mine - I am rooted, running CM10 but even if I get it into recovery I've no idea what I'm doing as the screen is completely black so it doesn't really help. How could another phone help me, I don't know anyone with a smartphone as we're all insanely good at drowning them in alcohol.

Can you confirm that you have clockworkmod installed?
I will soon return with directions on how to mount USB storage using only volume and power buttons.
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TToivanen said:
Can you confirm that you have clockworkmod installed?
I will soon return with directions on how to mount USB storage using only volume and power buttons.
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I do yeah! Thank you

Okay, here's a little guide:
Hold power and volume down for 25 seconds. Do not let go even if it vibrates.
1xvoldown
1xpower
Wait 20 seconds
Connect USB to PC.
5xvoldown
1xpower
8xvoldown
1xpower
The sdcard contents should pop up on pc. If not, reboot and do it all over again.
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TToivanen said:
Okay, here's a little guide:
Hold power and volume down for 25 seconds. Do not let go even if it vibrates.
1xvoldown
1xpower
Wait 20 seconds
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Just to make sure, I don't hold power, just one press, then wait 20 sec, yeah? And I disconnect it first. ..Annoying, it ran out of bettery. I'll let it charge a while then try it out and return to the thread. Thanks a lot

Kvntess said:
Just to make sure, I don't hold power, just one press, then wait 20 sec, yeah? And I disconnect it first.
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Correct, begin the process disconnected. Only hold in the beginning, all the other steps are single taps.
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TToivanen said:
Correct, begin the process disconnected. Only hold in the beginning, all the other steps are single taps.
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I'm literally crying manly tears from my womanly eyes. ...I thought.. my pictures.. Thank you. Wow. I can't. No words. I love you. I'll think of you when I brush my teeth.
Another thing, now we're at it, do you know where my contacts are stored by any chance.

Kvntess said:
I'm literally crying manly tears from my womanly eyes. ...I thought.. my pictures.. Thank you. Wow. I can't. No words. I love you. I'll think of you when I brush my teeth.
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LOL
You're welcome. It's always a pleasure to help people in a situation like this.
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TToivanen said:
LOL
You're welcome. It's always a pleasure to help people in a situation like this.
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You've no idea! -Do you know how to get my contacts off the internal storage if possible. Google is not my friend it seems :3

Kvntess said:
Another thing, now we're at it, do you know where my contacts are stored by any chance.
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Have you checked if they are on your sim card? They might also be synced to your google account.
The only thing I know is that they are not on the sdcard. They are probably stored somewhere in /system/.
It could be possible to retrieve them through shell commands, provided that your phone has usb-debugging enabled.
Imma do some research and let you know if I find anything useful.
In the meantime, leave the handset to a bag/box of rice for the night. I have once recovered a dead display by doing that.
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TToivanen said:
Have you checked if they are on your sim card? They might also be synced to your google account.
The only thing I know is that they are not on the sdcard. They are probably stored somewhere in /system/.
It could be possible to retrieve them through shell commands, provided that your phone has usb-debugging enabled.
Imma do some research and let you know if I find anything useful.
In the meantime, leave the handset to a bag/box of rice for the night. I have once recovered a dead display by doing that.
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They aren't synced to google, only my old contacts, and they're not on my sim, that's the first thing I checked of course.
I did find com.android.contacts folder, but it's empty, or hidden system files. Thanks a lot. You are BRILLIANT.
Really.. I'll give it a shot, it's been a couple months though so I doubt there's any pee left in it.

I did find out that /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/
has some info, but I believe that it contains only the entries that are already synced to google. Not very useful.
Oh well. I'll try again tomorrow.
If any of my dear colleagues knows something about this, please drop in.
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TToivanen said:
I did find out that /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/
has some info, but I believe that it contains only the entries that are already synced to google. Not very useful.
Oh well. I'll try again tomorrow.
If any of my dear colleagues knows something about this, please drop in.
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I really appreciate this. I'd make you cupcakes but I don't know where you live so have a thanks instead

[Q] Recovery Question

Hey all I have a question about recovery on my GS2. My question is my phone wont power on due to a black screen and constant vibrating. It happened to me twice now and the first time I was able to fix it. My question is I made a recovery on my phone after I fixed it and I called t-mobile tonight and they are going to send me a replacement phone. My question is I have a backup and I was wondering if I could take that backup and restore to it on my new phone???

It SHOULD work. No guarantee though.

meekrawb said:
It SHOULD work. No guarantee though.
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Okay, One more question is there any way that i could wipe all the data on my old phone before i send it in, So no one has my personal data?

Anthony74 said:
Okay, One more question is there any way that i could wipe all the data on my old phone before i send it in, So no one has my personal data?
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i think you can do a factory reset. it's in settings.

Yes, you can erase all info. Just wipe it all. Factory reset...cache....system...dalvick...etc. Your phone will be squeaky clean :fingers-crossed:

I cant power on the phone or get into recovery.

Holding power button and both up and down volume buttons don't work either? I mean hold all 3 at the same time.
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ntdatter said:
Holding power button and both up and down volume buttons don't work either? I mean hold all 3 at the same time.
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yeah it vibrates like it is going to turn on and the screen stays black, I tried power + VOL UP + VOL DOWN and nothing

I see. I don't know. Seems like a hardware problem.
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Maybe sticky power button
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Ugot get into downlod mode and flask stock rom the will erase all ur stuff
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Screen died

I got my SM-P601 about 2 weeks ago, and it has been working perfectly since then, until last night. I left my note 10.1 with my father and left, when I got back, it was acting really weird. When I press the power button, you hear that sound that it woke up, but the screen doesn't power up until about 2 seconds later, it performs normally afterwards. Tried rebooting, no luck. It still gets weirder, so I leave it for an hour or so, when I try later, the screen no longer powers up (I don't know it's that or it has failed, crashed or something) but it is obviously powered up because when I press the power button, you hear that usual sound, and the same thing when you unlock it, I navigated through pages and even opened up some games, it's all working, except there's no screen, just plain black. The bigger problem is, I rooted it, so no warranty for me.
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Any suggestions?
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odaibasha said:
Any suggestions?
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If you can get to recovery power+volume up , then wipe data & reboot .

I tend to agree, factory reset is worth trying.

Alright I'm gonna try that, but I'm gonna need help navigating through the menu. After I power it off, I press the volume up and power and release the power button after about 5 seconds right? (I can't tell when the samsung logo shows up). The thing I wanna make sure of, the factory reset option, is it the third or fourth option? I am not sure if it is the same as my GS4. The confirmation afterwards is the eighth option. Can someone confirm that?
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odaibasha said:
Alright I'm gonna try that, but I'm gonna need help navigating through the menu. After I power it off, I press the volume up and power and release the power button after about 5 seconds right? (I can't tell when the samsung logo shows up). The thing I wanna make sure of, the factory reset option, is it the third or fourth option? I am not sure if it is the same as my GS4. The confirmation afterwards is the eighth option. Can someone confirm that?
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It`s the fourth line " wipe data/factory reset.

Okay I think I successfully factory reset it. However, nothing's changed. The weird thing is, the touch screen is working, it is functioning properly and I can select apps etc... but I just can't see anything.
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odaibasha said:
Okay I think I successfully factory reset it. However, nothing's changed. The weird thing is, the touch screen is working, it is functioning properly and I can select apps etc... but I just can't see anything.
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How can you select apps , while you can`t see anything

Well, I know where they are.
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Just because your Knox flag has been tripped, does not automatically mean your warranty has been completely voided. Samsung is going to have to prove that your rooting the tablet is what caused the screen failure.
Were you running a custom ROM or kernel? If not, then there is no way I can think of that simply rooting the tablet caused the screen failure.
Now that's not to say your warranty isn't voided for another reason such as the tablet was dropped et al.
Just thinking outside the box... Did you happen to have Screen Filter or a like application installed at the time your screen went black? If so, someone may have adjusted the brightness setting to zero and that could be causing the problem.
Good luck.

I hope that's the case, can they even tell it is rooted without the screen being on?
To answer your questions, I haven't installed a custom ROM neither a screen filter app, I tried adjusting the brightness multiple times so one of the tries must have actually hit the correct place, still no effect though.
If nothing works, I think my only option is to take it back to samsung.
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odaibasha said:
I hope that's the case, can they even tell it is rooted without the screen being on?
To answer your questions, I haven't installed a custom ROM neither a screen filter app, I tried adjusting the brightness multiple times so one of the tries must have actually hit the correct place, still no effect though.
If nothing works, I think my only option is to take it back to samsung.
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ya you should try samsung .at this point it wont hurt .just tell them screen went out and go from there. don't mention root .unless they ask.they will be able to tell anyway.this should be covered under warranty.good luck. let us know how it goes.

I had the exact same issue with this tablet.
The problem is that the backlight is dead.
If you look closely at the screen under the light, you'll be able to see some icons and letters.
In my case, Samsung did not cover the warranty because my device was not purchased in Canada and it was rooted.
I mean Canada didn't even have the device at the time.
Long story short, I did something bad to get my tablet "repaired".
But I blame Samsung for having such a crappy warranty service.

Yeah I think I'll just take it to them. I'll let you know what happens.
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killer8297 said:
I had the exact same issue with this tablet.
The problem is that the backlight is dead.
If you look closely at the screen under the light, you'll be able to see some icons and letters.
In my case, Samsung did not cover the warranty because my device was not purchased in Canada and it was rooted.
I mean Canada didn't even have the device at the time.
Long story short, I did something bad to get my tablet "repaired".
But I blame Samsung for having such a crappy warranty service.
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May I ask what that bad thing was?
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odaibasha said:
May I ask what that bad thing was?
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Just a wild guess but I suppose you could go buy a new one from a retailer here in Canada, swap out the faulty one for the new one and return it claiming it's faulty (I doubt any of them check the SN on the back and the one on the box match), or I guess you could even swap the SN on the box from the SN on the US box so it does match.
Not saying he did that, but it's the easiest way to get it "repaired"
Come to think of it you can do this for any tablet, even though this is downright fraud. So please don't.