I went ahead and secured my phone with a password "sher" specifically. (if you understand the reference, you're awesome) and when I tried putting the password it says its incorrect.
What do I do?
nevermind, for some reason it still had my last password even though it was a pin number, weird.
Ok, the issue is that I forgot my password for my phone so it took me to the screen where you can either enter a backup pin, which I forgot, or your google details which I remember. The thing is my phone still says invalid username/password despite me changing the password on my computer to something else and double checking the username. this means my phone is useless as I can't use it. what do I do to fix this issue!
Greetings dellow xda dev's, I am currently running a Tmobile galaxy note 3, with the newest stock odexed FOL1 firmware, rooted, running twrp 2.8.5.0, I hav been installing apps and setting things up all day as a recent problem has forced me to factory reset my phone. Due to the way I use tasker to lock my phone (using secure settings to set a password) and restoring the old tasker profiles, my password appears to have been corrupted in some form or another as I have entered it a bunch of times and it won't unlock, claiming that the password is wrong. I have spent most of the evening looking at exploits and bypasses but none seem to work with my phone, there is no password.key file in the data/system folder, and deleting the gesture.key doesn't help. Using android device manager I can send a message to my phone and 'lock' it, but there is no unlock option anywhere on the screen; until I hit the home button and it simply sends me back to the normal lockscreen, and whatever new password I punched in with the manager doesn't work. I have tried several flashable zip files (lockscreen security bypass and pattern password disable), I have also tried everything mentioned in :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2620456 that article, as well as poking around in adb and in twrp's file manager, as well as some old lockscreen vulnerabilities (sadly copy and paste do not appear on the emergency dialer or the password field).
I am rather desperate to get my phone unlocked without a factory reset, as I just barely recovered from one recently, and need my phone for work tomorrow morning. I do have some tasker and autoremote profiles running that will tell my phone to setoff an alarm through tasker, and that will alert my phone to when my tablets battery life is low, but I don't know if either of those will help. I do not have any trusted bluetooth devices that can unlock the phone, nor do I ever seem to find a password reset/forgot your password option after typing in my password.
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated and tried come morning before work.
Hey guys -
Need some detective help. I did something to my 10, and I think I did something with the encryption, but I'm not sure how or what.
Follow me here, since I'm not sure what caused it, I'll start at the beginning, and see if anything raises a red flag..
Got phone from HTC, US unlocked version. Got it in.. heck, this past June, I think.
Unlocked bootloader. Got Sunshine, ran it, but never paid and never turned S-OFF.
Never set PIN or Fingerprint.
Installed Viper10 when it was out.
Went to do fingerprint. Got screen saying that for backup, needed to set PIN. Set PIN, then taught it some fingerprints.
Never had data issues, and as far as I know, never encrypted phone. TWRP, when run, did not need me to enter any password or key to access the phone. On bootup, would get PIN prompt, but AFTER Android loaded.
Never got any RUUs, never upgraded Viper10.
Installed CM13 today. Whohoo!
Install went fine, no issues. Restored apps from TiBu, deleted unused bloatware, including the built-in Android keyboard.
Set up other options, and finally got to enter in fingerprints.
It gives me the same screen I got on Viper. This time, though (and I have no idea why), I back out back to Security settings, and enter in PIN there.
Then train fingerprints!
Now, when I reboot system, or boot to TWRP, I get a prompt asking for password (TWRP) or PIN (Android). HOWEVER.. I can enter my pin in TWRP just fine. But not Android. Apparently, since it hasn't booted, Swype doesn't work, and I get no keyboard. Can't enter PIN in at all.
That is my mistake, however, as I removed the built-in Android keyboard. (Something I've done countless times before on other Android versions without issue..)
So I restore Nandroid backup of Viper10. I still get the PIN entry, and STILL have no keyboard.
I see reference in TWRP about PINs not working, so I delete that locksettings.db file (from memory, filename is likely wrong here..)
Phone boots up. Yay. No PIN prompt. Yay.
But now I do NOT have data - as in, it's acting like my phone is unencrypted now.
So, what I'd like to know is -
If NOW my phone is unencrypted, and I'm getting the 'No Data' issue, what was my phone doing BEFORE, when I didn't have to enter PIN, but was getting data?
How can I get BACK to not having to enter PIN and still get data? (In my case, will the instructions for unencrypted work? Or is my phone now 'special'?)
How did I set the PIN the first time on Viper10, and not have it encrypt my phone? I'd like to ultimately get back to THAT scenario - where the lockscreen asks for PIN, but nothing else does (TWRP, Bootup, etc).
Thanks guys!
-Mike
I may be pointing the obvious, but have you do a full wipe before restoring your nandroid? If so, did you try to clean flash your rom to see what happens?
Maybe by removing stock keyboard something got messed up and keeps the keyboard in your nandroid from properly installing.
Yup, I tried restoring the Nandroid several times, some with wiping, some without. Also, I always clean-flash my new ROMs (i.e. ones not restored from nandroid backup, installed new, like going from Viper10 -> CM13)
Going to try again today while at work, see what happens.
During setup in CM13, there should be option to require PIN at startup (It is usually checked by default). Uncheck it and your phone will remain encrypted without requiring a PIN to start.
jackebuehner said:
During setup in CM13, there should be option to require PIN at startup (It is usually checked by default). Uncheck it and your phone will remain encrypted without requiring a PIN to start.
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Technically correct (encrypted) but effectively incorrect: encryption is moot if a password is not required to decrypt it. It would be like locking your door and leaving the key in it: it's locked but it's not secure.
You need a system keyboard to be able to enter PIN on bootup; hence, the pre-installed keyboard (Google on vanilla, TouchPal on htc) isn't really 'bloatware' as it's necessary. Google makes a good keyboard; TouchPal, though, yeah, necessary bloatware in this case.
Rolo42 said:
Technically correct (encrypted) but effectively incorrect: encryption is moot if a password is not required to decrypt it. It would be like locking your door and leaving the key in it: it's locked but it's not secure.
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Ah, so in previous ROMs (both OEM and Viper10, it technically WAS encrypted, I just never set the password? .. Huh.
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You need a system keyboard to be able to enter PIN on bootup; hence, the pre-installed keyboard (Google on vanilla, TouchPal on htc) isn't really 'bloatware' as it's necessary. Google makes a good keyboard; TouchPal, though, yeah, necessary bloatware in this case.
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Interesting, thanks for this; good to know. A shame, but good to know that's just how it is.
coyttl said:
Ah, so in previous ROMs (both OEM and Viper10, it technically WAS encrypted, I just never set the password? .. Huh.
Interesting, thanks for this; good to know. A shame, but good to know that's just how it is.
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Correct. The password is to get at the encryption key; it isn't the encryption key itself.
Bitlocker/SED works the same way. Otherwise, a password change would mean re-encrypting everything.
If you put in the wrong password, it'll look like you have no data.
Hi all,
I have a HTC Wildfire where I lost the pattern log in and password for the associated account.
The phone has not been online for at least two years.
Yesterday I powered it up for the first time in two years. It seems to work perfect, but I can only get to the log-in screen that is asking for account name and password. I have a pretty good idea of what the account email address is. And I think I still have access to said mail account. (not 100%, since I'm not sure what email address it is)
I have tried to connect with adb, but the device is listed 'offline' and I know that it is in 'S-on'.
I would like to recover the pictures stored in the phones internal memory. I have already recovered those stored on the sdcard.
I'm a developer, but not an android developer, so i feel confident with bootloaders, and debug tools like adb and fastboot.
Can you help me?
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Hi all,
I have a HTC Wildfire where I lost the pattern log in and password for the associated account.
The phone has not been online for at least two years.
Yesterday I powered it up for the first time in two years. It seems to work perfect, but I can only get to the log-in screen that is asking for account name and password. I have a pretty good idea of what the account email address is. And I think I still have access to said mail account. (not 100%, since I'm not sure what email address it is)
I have tried to connect with adb, but the device is listed 'offline' and I know that it is in 'S-on'.
I would like to recover the pictures stored in the phones internal memory. I have already recovered those stored on the sdcard.
I'm a developer, but not an android developer, so i feel confident with bootloaders, and debug tools like adb and fastboot.
Can you help me?
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Hi pal,
Your options without adb or s-off/unlocked bootloader are very limited. your easiest option is going to be work out the account name and password for the device.
doe the device definitely not have a custom recovery or an unlocked bootloader?
I guess I just have to start typing possible username/password combinations.
Do you know if I have unlimited number of attempts?