I have just purchased the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (GT-P5210) and on trying to use it today, it somehow has decided it wants a password to let me in. Prior to this, I had only to swipe the screen and it would open.
I have no idea what the password it, and a reset does nothing (restarting). I have tried my email password, and several other password combo's but no luck
Anyone have ANY idea how this happens and what do I do now?
Thanks!
Bob
bobbyginaz said:
I have just purchased the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (GT-P5210) and on trying to use it today, it somehow has decided it wants a password to let me in. Prior to this, I had only to swipe the screen and it would open.
I have no idea what the password it, and a reset does nothing (restarting). I have tried my email password, and several other password combo's but no luck
Anyone have ANY idea how this happens and what do I do now?
Thanks!
Bob
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No idea how our why it would happen unless someone did it but I factory reset will fix it.
Edit: just in case you need it. To do this, power down the tab, in this order press and hold the menu button + volume up + power. When the logo shows release the power button only. It will enter recovery mode with errors. Release all buttons and press volume up or down to highlight format system/ factory reset. Then press power to select.
It will do some things before rebooting and the password should be gone.
The order of the buttons being pressed isn't really important, I just find it easier this way and you do need to make sure you have the first two buttons pressed BEFORE the power button.
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bobbyginaz said:
I have just purchased the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (GT-P5210) and on trying to use it today, it somehow has decided it wants a password to let me in. Prior to this, I had only to swipe the screen and it would open.
I have no idea what the password it, and a reset does nothing (restarting). I have tried my email password, and several other password combo's but no luck
Anyone have ANY idea how this happens and what do I do now?
Thanks!
Bob
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45975831&postcount=5
marincax said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45975831&postcount=5
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Very nice! A lot better than a hard reset.
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Hey guys, anyone else ever had this problem? All of the sudden my phone stopped responding to holding the Power button + End + Send keys. It worked just fine in the past, but all of the sudden stopped for no apparent reason. Both of the keys work just fine when the phone is turned on, so I don't think its a hardware problem. Any ideas? Thanks.
lysergication said:
Hey guys, anyone else ever had this problem? All of the sudden my phone stopped responding to holding the Power button + End + Send keys. It worked just fine in the past, but all of the sudden stopped for no apparent reason. Both of the keys work just fine when the phone is turned on, so I don't think its a hardware problem. Any ideas? Thanks.
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What are the symptoms? You mean nothing happens, that it just stays off when you press that trio of keys...or does something else happen?
(I assume you know that you can also hard reset by the "Clear Storage" function under Settings>System..)
Hard Reset
The phone must be off before you do a hard reset. You are probably doing this but others may be stuck.
Turn phone off
push send and end and power all at once and hold
push volume up to accept the hard reset when it asks you
Follow instructions on the screen.
MCbrian said:
What are the symptoms? You mean nothing happens, that it just stays off when you press that trio of keys...or does something else happen?
(I assume you know that you can also hard reset by the "Clear Storage" function under Settings>System..)
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The phone turns on and boots just like normal. I just don't get the tri-color screen.
It's not a big deal for now since I can just use "Clear Storage" as you mentioned, but I am worried that if I ever get to the point where it doesn't boot up then I won't be able to hard reset without flashing.
It just seems weird to me that its not working. I know I am doing it right because I have done it numerous times in the past. Just wondering if anyone ever had a similar issue.
P.S If it means anything I am using a cooked ROM and an updated radio, but I have hard reset a few times after these were installed. The only thing I can think of that I did prior to this is hard reset and did a full restore using Sprite Backup...
Can this be an SPL issue?
same problem...
I had to do a hard reset because i was suck in a endless reboot loop...i did it this way...
send key + end key + power key + reset button all at sametime and do let go until you see the comfirmation..
(hard to hold stylus with my teeth! lol
airpmobile said:
(hard to hold stylus with my teeth! lol
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That's hardcore
airpmobile said:
I had to do a hard reset because i was suck in a endless reboot loop...i did it this way...
send key + end key + power key + reset button all at sametime and do let go until you see the comfirmation..
(hard to hold stylus with my teeth! lol
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Thanks, this worked!
OK, so my little 9 year old brother got the Acer Iconia Tablet A100 so he wouldnt feel so left out that everyone else in the household has a tablet but not him, well he thought he would be smart and turn off the wifi and place a lock on it. Well he forgot the lock code and after many attempts he has to login with his google credentials, but the problem is that the wifi is off so it wont fix anything. So im trying to format it for him, I can get to the recovery screen, but only the volume buttons will work and the no other button will let me confirm the selection. Dose anyone know what i can do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwyGSwmzVtM
1. Place the rotation lock switch in the up position
2. Press and hold the Volume down button, which is located farthest from the rotation lock
3. With the Volume down button held, press and hold the Power button for 3 seconds then release it. Continue holding the Volume down button.
4. Once the tablet vibrates, switch the rotation lock on and off repeatedly while still holding the Volume down button.
5 Release the Volume down button and stop switching the rotation lock once the "Erasing Userdata..." message appears in the upper left corner of the screen
6. Once the factory reset has been completed your tablet will load to the Welcome screen.
7 Your Factory Data Reset has completed now follow the onscreen steps to setup your tablet.
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OK, so my little 9 year old brother got the Acer Iconia Tablet A100 so he wouldnt feel so left out that everyone else in the household has a tablet but not him, well he thought he would be smart and turn off the wifi and place a lock on it. Well he forgot the lock code and after many attempts he has to login with his google credentials, but the problem is that the wifi is off so it wont fix anything. So im trying to format it for him, I can get to the recovery screen, but only the volume buttons will work and the no other button will let me confirm the selection. Dose anyone know what i can do?
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Hard reset the tablet, you'll lose everything, but it will revert to factory condition.
Power off the tablet
Hold Volume + (the one furthest from the power button/ lock switch, right if holding landscape)
While holding Volume + press and hold the Power button
Once it turns on, holding the Volume +, release Power and wiggle the lock switch up and down a few times.
Screen will then say its formatting or resetting or whatever it says.
After this completes, it may reboot, or power off, or continue booting into android, whatever it does, just let it go into android
It should greet you with the Welcome screen for setup.
Resume playing with it.
Edit: Ah I was gonna link a youtube video but Romman0 beat me to it! I must be getting slow in my old age.
Lol, I just happened to be on.
I was editing a bunch trying to get the [tube] code to work (to no avail) and added text instructions.
Romman0 said:
Lol, I just happened to be on.
I was editing a bunch trying to get the [tube] code to work (to no avail) and added text instructions.
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Well at least I got the typed instructions in first! lol
I just happened across the post while I taking a break from trying to learn git, and working with the a200 device trees :crying:
pio_masaki said:
Hard reset the tablet, you'll lose everything, but it will revert to factory condition.
Power off the tablet
Hold Volume + (the one furthest from the power button/ lock switch, right if holding landscape)
While holding Volume + press and hold the Power button
Once it turns on, holding the Volume +, release Power and wiggle the lock switch up and down a few times.
Screen will then say its formatting or resetting or whatever it says.
After this completes, it may reboot, or power off, or continue booting into android, whatever it does, just let it go into android
It should greet you with the Welcome screen for setup.
Resume playing with it.
Edit: Ah I was gonna link a youtube video but Romman0 beat me to it! I must be getting slow in my old age.
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Can I do a hard-reset once I have unlocked bootloader & installed a custom recovery? Is there a way to go back to stock recovery?
Chocu1a said:
Can I do a hard-reset once I have unlocked bootloader & installed a custom recovery? Is there a way to go back to stock recovery?
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You can still hard reset yes but it only erases user data nothing else.
If you want to go back to stock use one of the update.zip methods in vaches stock rom thread. It'll go back to stock recovery. If you want just the stock recovery there's a stock recovery.IMG around somewhere I'll see if I can find it.
Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.
I have looked under the settings for hours and have not found anything! Need help :/
The only way for me to get back to home is to press back a bunch of times, I can't hold the home button to pull up recent apps either.
I am new to android, or just phones in general and my friend flashed my phone with AOKP.
Any help is appreciated!
Alright guys, I was the one that flashed his phone, and he's new to forums so I'll address the problem he's having.
We live far apart so can't really fix his phone for I don't have an S3 myself. His home button was working as it should, home would exit, long press would bring up the multitasking etc.
Today randomly his phone wouldn't respond to the home button. The thing is, I told him to wipe dalivk, do a factory reset, etc. and hes able to use the home button in the recovery but not the ROM itself.
There's a huge probability that he has possibly changed the settings somewhere binding the home button to do absolutley nothing on keypress, but I am just unsure of his settings on his phone. Could anyone help out please? Thanks.
what rom?
Flash stock? See if it's working again?
knifeproz said:
Alright guys, I was the one that flashed his phone, and he's new to forums so I'll address the problem he's having.
We live far apart so can't really fix his phone for I don't have an S3 myself. His home button was working as it should, home would exit, long press would bring up the multitasking etc.
Today randomly his phone wouldn't respond to the home button. The thing is, I told him to wipe dalivk, do a factory reset, etc. and hes able to use the home button in the recovery but not the ROM itself.
There's a huge probability that he has possibly changed the settings somewhere binding the home button to do absolutley nothing on keypress, but I am just unsure of his settings on his phone. Could anyone help out please? Thanks.
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what rom and launcher.
Op says its aokp.
Next thing id try is reflashing the rom.
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with CM10, you can configure what the home button does, or you can assign "nothing" to it. aokp is basically cm10 with more options, just fiddle with the settings and find that option, it should say something like "hardware keys"
Can someone help me??
When I was trying to install a new rom with Odin, something gone wrong and now my note 8.0 only can blink a white screen when I connect it into the PC, and don't do nothing when it isn't connceted to a power source. I tried to use the Odin to restore it, but it can't enter into USB debbugging mode...
Please, someone can help me????
You need to enter Download mode to odin.
Shut down your Galaxy Note 8.0 and reboot it into Download mode. Press and hold Volume down + Menu keys.
nickdollahz said:
You need to enter Download mode to odin.
Shut down your Galaxy Note 8.0 and reboot it into Download mode. Press and hold Volume down + Menu keys.
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The problem is that i can not do anything with my tablet... It don't start for anything. The only way the note can do something is connecting to PC, and in this case I only can see a blinking white screen, and nothing else more. I thing that I have broken my Note, but I will be so grateful if someone can help me
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The problem is that i can not do anything with my tablet... It don't start for anything. The only way the note can do something is connecting to PC, and in this case I only can see a blinking white screen, and nothing else more. I thing that I have broken my Note, but I will be so grateful if someone can help me
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Is that mean you cant enter download mode???
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hendrawiadnyana said:
Is that mean you cant enter download mode???
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It seems to be the problem, but the first time I enabled the USB dowload mode. It's like there isn't nothing whitin my Note. And I only can watch an blinking white screen...
The first time I tried to change the room, there was a problem and failed the Odin flash. And when tried to turn on the Note it only display an error message, saying something that I had to repair using kies, but kies didnt recognize my Note. I tried another time, and filed too. But after this time I only can see an white blinking screen.
There are somethig I can do to restore my Note???
many thanks
angel_1985 said:
It seems to be the problem, but the first time I enabled the USB dowload mode. It's like there isn't nothing whitin my Note. And I only can watch an blinking white screen...
The first time I tried to change the room, there was a problem and failed the Odin flash. And when tried to turn on the Note it only display an error message, saying something that I had to repair using kies, but kies didnt recognize my Note. I tried another time, and filed too. But after this time I only can see an white blinking screen.
There are somethig I can do to restore my Note???
many thanks
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try this: power button, vol up and home, after Samsung logo comes up, release all buttons except vol up. scroll down to wipe data/factory reset by navigating with vol up or down, press power button to select
Elpidio said:
try this: power button, vol up and home, after Samsung logo comes up, release all buttons except vol up. scroll down to wipe data/factory reset by navigating with vol up or down, press power button to select
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Thanks, but all i can see is this imatge, i attached in this post... Any combination of buttons don't make any diferent result. And this white screen only appears when the Note is conected to the PC, otherwise i cant see anything, because the Note don't start
Please!
Can someone tell me the way to rescue my Note?? or confirm the unfortunate death...
what happen when you press vol down+home button+power
can it go to download mode... the only way to fix...
angel_1985 said:
Please!
Can someone tell me the way to rescue my Note?? or confirm the unfortunate death...
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I think u have hard bricked ur device only way to restore it by going to samsung service center or by using 'jtag box' but using this is much risky since it requires disassemble ur tab and buying jtag box is much costly so I think only samsung sevice center can help u out
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tejkkarani said:
I think u have hard bricked ur device only way to restore it by going to samsung service center or by using 'jtag box' but using this is much risky since it requires disassemble ur tab and buying jtag box is much costly so I think only samsung sevice center can help u out
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Thank you very much. I'm going to go to the samsung service center... I hope this will not be so much expensive... but I want my Note alive!!!
Is there an alternative to clearing the google lock pin when you boot the device? I am thinking hard reset is the only way
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ambervals6 said:
Is there an alternative to clearing the google lock pin when you boot the device? I am thinking hard reset is the only way
Sent from my SM-G920T
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To hard reset, You have to turn off the phone, Press and hold Vol-(down) and Power button at the same time. When you see LG logo, release power button for 1 second and hold it again (never release volume button).When you see the screen prompting "Yes" or "No" select yes using any volume button, press power button and wait until done.
Once you do this, everything will be removed, right ? I did this, took out sim, and if I power on I get to the setup menu, about to sell it, just want to be sure without completing setup that my phone is safe to sell.
(Verizon version)
Thanks.
ambervals6 said:
Is there an alternative to clearing the google lock pin when you boot the device? I am thinking hard reset is the only way
Sent from my SM-G920T
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I know this problem is already solved, but you can factory reset your phone from within android, too. Just go to settings --> General --> Backup and Reset and chose "Factory Reset" option at the bottom. This is an implementation all modern android phones usually have Just for your next sell. Cheers