My son has a Note 4 from Sprint on FreedomPop. (Only the best for my boy!)
A few days ago he enabled "Secured with Password" for the Screen Lock. He typed twice a well known password for us. But now the phone unlocks with a swipe and it won't accept his password for the screen lock.
I rebooted, wiped the cache, etc. No matter what we type (even his last few passwords) it won't accept and let us in to modify the Screen Lock. So now he can get in but it is less secure than before. Rooting probably won't help unless maybe I figure out what file or command might take care of this.
Any ideas?
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As some of you might have experienced, there are situations when the phone gets into the "locked" state on power up. By "locked" I mean that it request some password you have probably never established by yourself.
I've already seen some posts on several sites from people asking about that password and personally called Samsung support to ask about it.
It seems that happens in several situations. One of tjen is a phone with a SIM lock enabled, but I've also noticed that it generally is a problem on phones that have Exchange synchronization enabled and are using phone password. You might have entered the password or SIM unlock code incorrectly several times, but it seems that might not necessarily be required. It JUST happens.
The password prompt is pretty brief and does not constitute for anything you might have entered by yourself. Samsung support says the default password is 00000000. Well, if your phone ends up in the locked state. It is probably not the password you will be looking for.
The solution is flashing your phone, but it results in data loss.
The other way is entering the password (called Freeze Password) generated by the tool in this thred. The password is unique to your particular phone and consists of 8 digits.
After entering them you may be asked for your current Phone Password. Although you might have established that while using your phone, you need to enter 00000000 then. That being done, you can choose new Phone Password that has to be different from previous one. Your data should stay intact.
It happened to me twice already while using Wave and I managed to address the problem having the FLOCK installed. You may try it for yourself.
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
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!
It could sounds rare but Android phone blocking it really happened! How can someone possibly setup a new password (PIN) and forget about it in a matter of several hours? Well, it turns out that all she wanted was to set something both easy to remember and hard to crack. So, she picked up a 6-digit PIN screen lock sequence, but obviously didn’t memorize it well enough later to confidently access her phone. Another thing is, averybody has several accounts that need password and sometimes is difficult to remember each. Internet show you alot of methods to unlock your device, but this could be the best, if you have some issue about it try this trick, I'll gave you the way to unlock samsung galaxy and HTC:
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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.