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My daughter have installed a screenlock software of some sort, and do not remember the password. This is not samsung own lock screen software, we know the password to this. But there is a secondary one. Is there a way to delete this app!
Am really lost atm, all forum threads i can find is regarding android lock screen and hardware reset. Since I am able to get past andriod's locked screen I was hoping there is a way to delete the app.
You could try booting to recovery and performing a factory reset. As this 3rd party lock screen app is not embedded in the OS, a factory reset *should* erase it along with all the other user installed apps. Obviously that will mean setting up the tab again, but (imo) that's preferable to having a tab you can't use.
Unfortunately factory resetting is the only option in this case if you can't remember the lock screen password.
It's a case of the app is doing what it's been made to do....protecting the system from (potentially) unauthorised access (I know the tablet is yours and all you are trying to do is gain access). The app is preventing this because of the lack of password. The only way around it is to factory reset and in doing so, erase any/all personal data on the tab.....as is intended. There is no work around for this situation....again, as is intended.
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So you know how when you write out something really long and detailed and triple check it for spelling, grammar and readability and realize that you've been on the page long enough that you have been logged out so you copy everything you've just spent over an hour writing to make sure you don't lose it when you log back in and then you've forgotten your password because you made it in the middle of the night and you were tired so you do a reset and they send you a new password full of random letters so you....copy and paste that into the log in.............yeah..... bye bye 300+ words.......
So I'll try again but forgive me if its short or missing a few details. Please let me know any additional information you think might be useful.
First a short thanks to the community for all of their advice to others. I have learned a great deal from these forums.
Now on to the issue. Essentially what has happened is I received an update to an app called Widgetsoid which was supposedly a complete rewrite and thus I had to recreate my toggles. At one point while using the "Screen always on/off" toggle (in the on position) my phone became unresponsive. After a battery pull and reset I was still experiencing issues. Mainly that the camera app wouldnt open and I couldnt toggle the flash on. I was already planning on doing a factory reset so i pushed up the schedule, backed up my data and went ahead with that. However, after the reset my camera app still won't load. I figured a factory reset would return the OS and the stock apps to their default state but apparently not. Unless of course the error is somehow in the hardware now which would suck.
Anyways my question is this: Where do I go from here? What do you think the problem is? Anyone see any red flags waving violently in the wind?
Thanks in advance for any light you may be able to shed on this issue.
My wife has a Galaxy Note 8.0 and has noted that recently the screen has been freezing on her.
The symptoms that she showed me was after the screen saver kicked in there was no response to get out of the screen saver. This is the default Android screen saver. It appears in such a state the screen does not sense her finger touch. Her Tablet is setup with a password to unlock in such a case and the screen not registering the finger touch would not allow any password entry. She believes this pin/password setup is not related to the problem.
The only recovery method when this non-responsive / freeze occurs (which is fairly frequent) is to hold down the power button and force a restart.
She has the tablet rooted.
Can anyone provide investigate methods and / or a solution to the problem? Possibly apps to provide log files which may log what the problem could be ? Or other approaches as to try as a fix. We checked her settings and did not notice anything untoward.
Many thanks for any or all for suggestions/help.
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Ever try the spen to wake it out of screen saver?
You can disable screen saver and reboot, then enable it with no security and see of the tablet wakes and goes into home screen.
Being rooted, you must have installed a developer app or two, or even messed with system files at one time. Rooting usually does not cause problems, what causes them is the root utility or uncertified apps. I only recommend two root utilities, one is saferoot and the other is philz recovery. I have been through a lot of developer roms and utilities, and it was very hard to keep a stable tablet after customizing either factory os or tweaking builds.
If the problem does not clear out after my suggestion then a full wipe with cache format and load stock firmware. If running 4.2.2 do not upgrade ro 4.4.2 and if running 4.4.2 don't downgrade to 4.2.2
My wife currently thinks a 'facebook' app is the culpret
Thanks for the suggestions and I'll keep them in my mind.
My wife went on a large app removal effort, in case one of her apps was causing this problem. Yesterday afternoon she remove 'facebook' app and she has not yet since seen this freeze behaviour. Hence she is thinking the Android facebook app caused the problem . . . although its really too early to say at this time.
She plans to monitor for a re-occurence of the freeze, and if the bad behaviour continues then I'll sit down with her and chat wrt some of your recommendations.
Hello everyone, I have an unlocked international Play and I've set only security pattern and several fingerprints activated start-up security, which means every time it boots up requires a pattern input before loading the system.
However it just happened to me that after I shut down and reboot, it asks me for a password which I have never set. I've tried also my google account password and it doesn't work and in the end I have to hard reset my phone and lost all data.
Before this happened I've used this phone normally, updated to October security update, installed normal apps... the last two app I've installed is Fingerprint Quick Action and Disable Increasing Ring. I suspect it was one of these two or the security update... but honestly speaking I have no idea what just happened.
So now after reset I abandoned pattern and just use password directly just in case this happen again, FYI.
When you set a pattern or a fingerprint, you are required to supply a PIN to get into the system in case you forget your pattern or for some reason it won't accept your finger.
I have no idea how you'll get around this without flashing and starting over.
Hope this helps in the future.
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When you set a pattern or a fingerprint, you are required to supply a PIN to get into the system in case you forget your pattern or for some reason it won't accept your finger.
I have no idea how you'll get around this without flashing and starting over.
Hope this helps in the future.
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Hi, on my device password is not required to set a pattern... perhaps you can try to clear your security pin and try to set a pattern, Play will not ask you to set a password.
ch3wt0ys said:
When you set a pattern or a fingerprint, you are required to supply a PIN to get into the system in case you forget your pattern or for some reason it won't accept your finger.
I have no idea how you'll get around this without flashing and starting over.
Hope this helps in the future.
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This is right actually, this has been my experience with all my devices, whether they had a fingerprint scanner or not.
If you didn't have to set a PIN then I don't think it is normal.
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Hello everyone, I have an unlocked international Play and I've set only security pattern and several fingerprints activated start-up security, which means every time it boots up requires a pattern input before loading the system.
However it just happened to me that after I shut down and reboot, it asks me for a password which I have never set. I've tried also my google account password and it doesn't work and in the end I have to hard reset my phone and lost all data.
Before this happened I've used this phone normally, updated to October security update, installed normal apps... the last two app I've installed is Fingerprint Quick Action and Disable Increasing Ring. I suspect it was one of these two or the security update... but honestly speaking I have no idea what just happened.
So now after reset I abandoned pattern and just use password directly just in case this happen again, FYI.
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I had also faced this, I think it occurs if you enable encryption. What you need to do is enter the numbers corresponding to the pattern in sequence. For eg, if your pattern is the first row, you'd enter 123.
This is in case you have set pattern as the security feature instead of security pin. Sorry you had to wipe your device but quick googling would have helped you out.
Hope this will be useful to someone else in the future.
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I had also faced this, I think it occurs if you enable encryption. What you need to do is enter the numbers corresponding to the pattern in sequence. For eg, if your pattern is the first row, you'd enter 123.
This is in case you have set pattern as the security feature instead of security pin. Sorry you had to wipe your device but quick googling would have helped you out.
Hope this will be useful to someone else in the future.
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Apparently my Google skill requires improvement... Thank you so much anyway, so the pattern is actually treated as number pad, gosh.
Can you tell me if bluetooth is ON or OFF by default at startup after a factory reset? I swear that it was off the first time I booted up but now it is on. Makes me wonder if it was infected or changed. Anyone know if the default was changed? Thanks
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Can you tell me if bluetooth is ON or OFF by default at startup after a factory reset? I swear that it was off the first time I booted up but now it is on. Makes me wonder if it was infected or changed. Anyone know if the default was changed? Thanks
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Bluetooth may or may not be "on" but it should not be "connected" or "remember" any devices if you did a factory reset.
However, without wiping internal SD and data, you are subject to "potential weird things" that can happen.
It's why I never report a bug unless I made absolutely sure to wipe data and internal SD before trying to reproduce an issue.
Bluetooth has been turned on by default for all the software versions I've used.
Upon a factory flash or reset, Bluetooth will be enabled but no devices will connect/be remembered.
On a side note, No application can "infect" an android. Most of these antivirus applications are complete bullcrap. Dont get me wrong, there are some dangerous apps out there, but you would still have to give the app permissions and accessibility access For it to do any damage. even then, simply uninstalling them Will remove everything.
Thanks for your responses. I do appreciate it. Well, unfortunately I have had multiple phones infected by ex-neighbors. I literally would lose control over the phone and during calls they would make beeping sounds like I had hit a key. Once I flashed my phone outside of town and they kept messing with it. I had always thought they had a tool which enables persistence even through flashing, but it may be that they are using Signaling System 7 (SS7) and are just reinfecting them remotely. (you can watch a 60 minute special on SS7 if u like, available online) They were using an IMSI catcher when I lived next door to them. With the Pixel XL I was having ALOT of data use and reset the phone after some weird stuff happened that I had come to recognize as likely signs of being compromised, and I think put in a new SIM with a new phone #. It was much better after that. It was a nightmare with them and one of them even followed me home after work a month after I moved away. Not to mention steal things like laundry soap and put them on their side of the street in front of my house. Creeps. At this point it is just pathetic and weird. Just trying to take reasonable precautions now and live my life. If they want to waste their time that is sad.
Really glad to hear the bluetooth being there is not a deviance from default. Thanks
Currently using the Note 10+.
Samsung messages app and specific other apps keep waking up the screen when there's a notification.
I have searched and tried every method that I have found so far and none of them work.
What am I missing here? Why is there no option to prevent ALL apps from waking up the screen upon a notification? How is it that certain apps like Samsung messages and Realtor (real estate app) and a few others keep waking up the screen?
AOD is on. I receive notifications from other apps perfectly fine and an icon will appear in AOD, but these other ones will wake the screen.
If you have screen saver on and you receive a message through the night, guess what, your phone screen will go into screensaver all night with the screen on.
I have to say I am amazed at the fact that this isn't an easy question to answer unless I'm missing something completely, and what's even more amazing is that this same question has been open LITERALLY since 2015 amongst other Android devices without a working solution.
If you know the answer to this, and I don't mean you kind of sort of want to suggest things, trust me I've taken every suggestion at this point to no avail, I mean if you TRULY know the answer to this, please chime in.
Suggestions like use other apps and whatever is not an option considering this happens to multiple apps and seems random meaning you can't keep replacing apps. Suggestions like turn off notifications entirely OBVIOUSLY is not an option.
My 2 N10+'s don't behave like this.
What OS version?
That 3rd party real estate app may have caused it. I don't allow trash apps on my phones because of multiple issues they can cause. Sometimes they will permanently alter hidden settings that will remain even after uninstalled. A poorly written app can cause a lot of trouble...
Clear system cache.
Try clearing lock screen data.
Check all notification settings... again, including lock screen, edge lighting and associated 3rd party apps (turn off background battery/data usage).
Try running it in safe mode at night to see if this stops it. If so, it's a likely 3rd party app.
Find the root cause otherwise it will likely reoccur if you do a factory reset... play with it.