So I've been disabled on a Note 7 SM-N930W8 Rogers in Canada
I've finally had some time to sit down and write this out. I've been locked out of this Device since January when they blocked these phones in Canada. I completely forgot the pin number I setup when I put a password on this phone when I originally purchased it. I always have my phone on me and I always have a power block. Beleive it or not I've never let this phone die... that being said once night the phone was forced to update and boom wake up 4g Gone wifi gone now it's asking me for a pin number?!?! I've always used the retina or finger to get into the phone. I have some important information to download off this phone, only way i've thought about being able to get into the phone would be WIFI which would connect to my home wifi and then use the mobile.samssung.com account to remove the lockscreen pin or reset it....
I know I can restore the phone to gain access to it, but once I do this, all my data is gone.
Does anyone have any other ideas as to how I can get around this lockscreen situation?
Any help or ideas would be apreciated - i am done with the cat and mouse game just need my docs and will send back!
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Hi everyone
Here's the situation. My Mum passed away in December very suddenly. Her Desire Z is really causing us trouble. She had a screen lock pattern set, which we haven't been able to guess.
We have reset her Google passwords (since we didn't know the old ones) but the device has WiFi turned off, and mobile data turned off, so when we try to login to one of her Google accounts to reset the screen lock it says "invalid username and password". For these reason I also can't send an unlock reset from Google device manager. I've obviously tried connecting it via a USB cable just to copy photos or any other files but it won't even do that while it's locked. It just doesn't seem to recognise that a USB cable is connected, unless it's plugged into a charger.
I've googled it at length and tried all sorts of tricks like calling the phone and clicking certain buttons, opening the keyboard at exactly the right moment, and so on. Unfortunately nothing has worked.
I know how to hard reset the device, but is there any way at all to get access to it before I do so?
Thanks so much for any help you can offer.
My daughter has a sprint galaxy note 4 and last night she was watching Hulu and her phone jumped to the password screen, problem is the fingerprint scanner doesnt show up and her password isnt unlocking the phone (wrong password). Im an apple user myself and am clueless to her phone, ive called sprint and they suggested a factory reboot, problem is she has pictures on her phone of her grandmother that passed away and doesnt want to lose them ofcourse. She doesnt have the debugg active and no way to access that that i know of because the phone is locked, is there a way to take off the lock?
Tried restarting the phone? I've had the fingerprint mess up before and only allow me to use password but it fortunately worked
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yes its been reset several times and the battery taken out. Weve also tryed resetting the password using her google account but that doesnt work either
Edit: when the device has no internet the email used to unlock the phone is useless. The phone should keep the email and pass locally. So don't forget you pin or let anyone enter the wrong thing. I had to factory reset it however it still retained root. Strange? I wasn't able to obtain any data so far. I may try to dig deeper with a recovery program but right now I no longer need use of the device (my son has a new toy, lol).
This is my phone. Before anyone says it's not trust me it is and I can prove it via old cell bills. And that Google still has it attached to the account.
I need back into it for a few very important photos relating to an accident a few months ago.
This model was on the us cellular network. It is not an active phone. (No data). Here is my problem, not being able to connect to data or wifi networks I am locked out because my son played with the 4 digit pin. The phone now asks for my email and password. Of which I know but the phone will not accept it. Thinking that I might have updated my password since I was on the G3 last I have tried all passwords that I know I have used and still nothing. This phone is also rooted. With stock jellybean.
Any help would be appreciated.
combatarms said:
This is my phone. Before anyone says it's not trust me it is and I can prove it via old cell bills. And that Google still has it attached to the account.
I need back into it for a few very important photos relating to an accident a few months ago.
This model was on the us cellular network. It is not an active phone. (No data). Here is my problem, not being able to connect to data or wifi networks I am locked out because my son played with the 4 digit pin. The phone now asks for my email and password. Of which I know but the phone will not accept it. Thinking that I might have updated my password since I was on the G3 last I have tried all passwords that I know I have used and still nothing. This phone is also rooted. With stock jellybean.
Any help would be appreciated.
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You could go back to stock using KDZ. It will reset everything
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You could go back to stock using KDZ. It will reset everything
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I'm trying to avoid data loss. As I need the few images off the phone. After I get them off I really don't care what happens to the device.
march 16 per google was the last active date. From then till now it's only been a paperweight because I thought google backed up my images which isn't the case.
Does google keep passwords in a viewable manner in case I forgot one I used?
Edit: google doesn't save passes for viewing unless in your browser saved password section, however I wonder how it knows of a duplicate pass when changing the current one.
I forgot my password to this old phone. it was an alphanumeric password.
id like to bypass that without loosing data since id like to access my pictures.
it would be nice to access my apps as well, but i primarily want the photos.
Did you ever figure this out? Back in 2018 I broke the lock screen for a verizon s7 edge. There was a script floating around to disable then re-enable the lock screen. I didn't follow it correctly and just broke the lock screen. No data was lost, everything else worked except settings would crash when you tried to lock the phone. I'm just saying that it should be possible since I did it for a newer phone once. But adding some info like if your phone was rooted, what firmware it's on, or if you have usb debugging enabled may help.
Hi everyone!
Recently my phone battery died, and I charged it and after turning it on I cannot unlock my phone. The lock was 4 digit PIN and fingerprint and you have to enter that PIN every time you turn on your phone. So it keeps saying that the PIN is incorrect. Although I am 100 % sure, this is the correct PIN, I used it that morning, and I've been using it for more than a year by now. I had very important files left on this phone and I do not want to lose them.
I've been using this phone since 2018 and lately it's been slow and freezing from time to time. I bought another phone but unfortunately didn't rush with transferring my files to it from my old phone. I don't even have a Xiaomi account on it, and I did not back up any of my data, which was so thoughtless of me. So, I was wondering if there is possibly any way to unlock it without losing data. Please, help me. I really need those files.
I also tried to make an emergency call thinking during a call I could somehow unlock it, lol. But it keeps lagging and saying that "Phone has stopped". I also tried turning it on/off, restarting, entering different PINs (previous ones) but nothing has worked so far. Now I have a warning on the screen saying: "Your device will be wiped after 2 more failed attempts to be unlocked!".
So, I really do hope there is a way to get access to those files. And I'd be extremely grateful if someone could help me out with this.
A data recovery specialist may be able to retrieve them. Leave the phone powered off if you want to go that route. Otherwise you're likely boned.
When you use locks and encryption it is you who are the most likely to be locked out.
Always redundantly backup critical data on a regular basis. If you have a SD card slot, use the SD card to store all critical data and don't encrypt it.