I had encrypted enforced through a company policy. Device worked fine no problems. Enter pin at boot and in we go.
This policy was removed and I de-encrypted the device. Still no problems.
The device clearly showed it was not encrypted and I had the option to encrypt - so all good so far.
I rebooted the device and was asked for my device storage password. I entered my old pin and it booted ok. Bit strange I thought but device works so that's good right?
So I did a factory reset. Same thing happened. prompted for a PIN
I re flashed the phone back to the original carrier ROM - same thing. Still being prompted for PIN.
I installed TWRP 2.6 and did a format - same thing.
Does anyone have any idea how to get rid of the encryption? (Well the fact it keeps asking for the de-encryption PIN - as its actually not encrypted)
thanks
My father in law died last weekend and we don't know the pincode of his stock Nexus 5X. We can access his Google account and we know the pincode of his sim card. I hope someone can help us out to get access to his phone. Things we've tried:
- The vingerprint reader was setup but we've tried a lot of possible pins. We've tried his vinger yesterday but because of the attempts the pin is also required now.
- With a pattern lock you'll get a possibility to unlock through the Google account password after some attempts but his phone was secured with a vingerprint and/or pincode. Only the delay between attempts get increased, currently 16 minutes between them.
- The lock option from https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager, but because there is already a pin lock it doesn't work. The pin doesn't change.
- I've tried to access the phone through ADB, booted into the recovery but "adb devices" doesn't see the phone. When I choose to "install update through adb" I see the devices with "adb devices" but I can't use "adb shell", only sideloading works.
- Installing a custom recovery could work but the bootloader is locked, when I unlock it a full wipe will be performed so we still can't access the data.
- From the Play store in the browser on my Mac I've installed the androidlost.com app on the phone, but the app needs to be opened once before it can be used.
- A rubber ducky could help us out, but I don't have one and the time between attempts get increased and increased... it would take weeks, months or years to unlock.
What other possibilities do I have?
First sorry for your lost!
Second, i don´t know for sure, but maybe get the phone to the store where you bought it and explain the situation, maybe they will give a correct advice or like you said the phone is registed in google ( device manager) maybe if you contact them they will help you with that ( the problem is they probably will take a long time to reply or don´t reply at all) or wait for a more expert user than me here in xda,
again, sorry for your lost and hope you solve this problem,
cheers
If the phone was rooted with a recovery installed, YES, you could delete the passcode files and get into it, without root/recovery, you cannot get into it without the password, that is the point of encryption and passwords and all that jazz.... Yes there is probably a way for some high level hacker to do it but good luck finding that.... If you just want to be able to USE the phone, do a factory reset from recovery....
HI,
I just encrypted my phone using Lineage menu. My phone restarted but know I am stuck on twrp-3.3.0 as a password is asked... Don't tell me I have to flash again, I spent all last night already...
The screen shows : Mount / Decrypt Data
Enter Password
Thanks...
Mark
Hi,
i recently bought two Samsung tab 3 10.1 tablets, however when i turn it on i get the message
"Enter you pin or password to use the encrypted device memory"
I have tried to do a factory reset which will not work and i have also tried to install a factory image, on which it goes on the device but loops back to the pin/password screen.
Can anyone help? i am willing to pay for help
You reflashed stock firmware with Odin?
Month ago I decided to put passcode for my RedMagic 5G device. I couldn't find any other option but (pattern) So i place it, after that i got the (finger print) option so i tried to place it but in order to do so i would have to put the pattern. I put the pattern it gave me (wrong password) message i tried couple of times it didn't work.
Searched in Google and i read "if its locked, after few fail attempts it will give me to recover password using google account"
So i locked it kept trying but it never show me the "google option" it just kept adding more cool down time for the next attempt.
I deleted the device from my google acct. I format it (wipe data) all my data gone and it still require the pattern.
i format it multiple times and pattern still require.
to the point it got in loop mood and got stuck on retrieve data ,I flashed it with ROM. the problem solved but still require the pattern.
i format it after the new ROM but still require pattern.
PLEASE help what i should do now?
and would root fix the problem?