somehow my PIN which i have been using for a long time months has been changed, i think there's a bug in this device. there are times after keying in codes and pressing unlock, it does nothing. anyway, are there any way of bypassing this aside from restoring my device?
thanks!
did you try to do a hard reset? That return the phone to the factory setting. I am not too sure if that will also remove the password.
If not, I would say, maybe see if you can flash the rom as that probably will wipe everything.
i was wondering if there are other ways aside from hard resetting
The same thing just happened to me 1 week ago. I switched my TP2 off as I was boarding the plane. When I arrived, I turned the phone on & it would not accept the PIN. This PIN has been the same for months now.
After researching, the only viable solution was to do a hard reset... Now I'm afraid to set a new PIN in case the problem happens again.
No one seems to know the cause of this bug.
i am having the same problem... it happened randomly since i got my tp2, even fter rom upgrade and such... sometimes nothing for month, sometimes twice in a couple of days... very anoying but at least it's a good occasion to upgrade the ROM and thanks god for myphone!
hard reset is the solution
So I've had my Tab 3 for a little over 6 months now and have had no issues what-so-ever 'til now. My problem is with the screen just suddenly becoming unresponsive after locking it after use. I swiped my finger across the screen to unlock and got right back into my tablet like normal, but then once I tried to do open up applications from the Home Screen nothing happened. I tabbed lightly and swiped repeatedly trying to get a response.... nothing.
My screen LCD screen is flawless and is original, it has never been tampered with. There are no cracks or scratches or anything it just suddenly stopped working. So I figure it's a software issue, no big deal, right? Wrong. I did a soft reset by holding down the power button, it reboots and comes back to the home screen. Nothing. I figured wth I have nothing important on here, let me do a hard reset. Boot into recovery mode wipe the cache and tablet performing a hard reset. Tablet then reboots to the default setup screen to choose language. Nothing. I can't choose anything. I don't know what's wrong. Lastly, the battery was semi-low around 20% or so before this all happened. So I let it fully charge again hoping that'd help, but nothing. I'm at a loss of what to do next.
NOTE: This is all original and is stock everything. I've never modded this tablet or rooted it. I don't understand how the digitizer would just give out for no reason, it hasn't been dropped or anything.
Any other troubleshooting I can do? I've thought about installing the USB drivers and putting it into download mode to flash a custom rom or even the original to see if it'll work, but I don't want to do that unless necessary. If it is the digitizer are these hard to replace and costly?
Ta-ky said:
So I've had my Tab 3 for a little over 6 months now and have had no issues what-so-ever 'til now. My problem is with the screen just suddenly becoming unresponsive after locking it after use. I swiped my finger across the screen to unlock and got right back into my tablet like normal, but then once I tried to do open up applications from the Home Screen nothing happened. I tabbed lightly and swiped repeatedly trying to get a response.... nothing.
My screen LCD screen is flawless and is original, it has never been tampered with. There are no cracks or scratches or anything it just suddenly stopped working. So I figure it's a software issue, no big deal, right? Wrong. I did a soft reset by holding down the power button, it reboots and comes back to the home screen. Nothing. I figured wth I have nothing important on here, let me do a hard reset. Boot into recovery mode wipe the cache and tablet performing a hard reset. Tablet then reboots to the default setup screen to choose language. Nothing. I can't choose anything. I don't know what's wrong. Lastly, the battery was semi-low around 20% or so before this all happened. So I let it fully charge again hoping that'd help, but nothing. I'm at a loss of what to do next.
NOTE: This is all original and is stock everything. I've never modded this tablet or rooted it. I don't understand how the digitizer would just give out for no reason, it hasn't been dropped or anything.
Any other troubleshooting I can do? I've thought about installing the USB drivers and putting it into download mode to flash a custom rom or even the original to see if it'll work, but I don't want to do that unless necessary. If it is the digitizer are these hard to replace and costly?
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well replace a screen digitizer require a basic set of skills on mobile repairing. However I found this on ebay (US) http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...en.TRS1&_nkw=T217S+screen&ghostText=&_sacat=0
but you can try to flash into latest firmware by samsung and try again
My note 4 randomly freezes and goes to black. It also randomly restarts, gets stuck, and then restarts again. It's very annoying, if I want to check something, I hit the home button and the phone is frozen on the lock screen. Random apps are also crashing but instead if just closing the app my phone's screen just shuts off and I can't get into the phone for at least a minute. I don't know what the problem is and I really don't want to factory reset my phone.
I would pull the battery and take out the SD card (if you have one) and sim card and boot it up and see if that helps.
If u r using de-bloatware app then try restoring all the apps.
Factory reset, don't install anything and see if it continues. Then start installing a couple of apps till it happens again, try to identify the offending
App.
Same here.. Just started happening 2 weeks ago.. I have yet to find the offending app. ****ing ATT and their ****ty note 4 ughhhh
Happening to me too. Even after factory reset, and in Safe mode. I think it is from the June 16, update. I plan on taking it in to the att store and having them flash the new update to the phone. Thinking maybe my over the air update got screwed up somehow.
I put mine on ultimate power saving mode at night to keep it from dying since I forgot my charger. When I woke up, I tried to turn off ultimate power saving mode, but the option was gone. I rebooted and it got stuck at the att boot logo. I took it to the att store and they said I'd have to file a claim on insurance and that they can't fix it.
I cane home and connected it to adb to see if I could back up my files. Without sending a command to it, it wiped itself and factory reset. I lost everything, but since then I have had no issues.
Mine started doing this a couple of weeks ago. Factory reset twice, sd card out. Still doing it. Had to go back to note 3. With sd card and sim card out it seems to work ok on WiFi only.. No stuttering or force closes since?
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Mine was doing the same thing. Turns out the battery was taking a crap. New battery and no more issues. For myself at least.
Mine is unusable. It boots into download mode half the time after factory reset. When I get it to boot up it only lasts for 15 minutes then resets again and gets stuck
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Mine is unusable. It boots into download mode half the time after factory reset. When I get it to boot up it only lasts for 15 minutes then resets again and gets stuck
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Try what I did accidently. Connect to your pc. Boot into recovery lode and see if you can connect with adb. Then connect to with adb sideload and let it sit there. Maybe send a few commands and see if it will do like mine. It might get it to unhang. You might lose everything if it restores, but it might do like mine.
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Mine was doing the same thing. Turns out the battery was taking a crap. New battery and no more issues. For myself at least.
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Mine mostly ok, albeit chained to at&t FIRMWARE, but I do get an odd eeror: when in a call the phone will make a a keypad tone,as though I'm leaning on the keypad [not], often mid-Bluetooth handsfree calls. It last 2-4 seconds, long enough to interrupt the flow of a call. anyone ?
I have had tons of apps update as of late. I too am experiencing lag, lock ups, black screen. I thought I was alone.
Had a friend's Note 4 do the same only he was on Sprints network. He was not rooted and on MM. I tried a factory reset and it helped for an hour or two then it went back to random rebooting or apps freezing. I tried flashing factory software through ODIN. It was good for an hour then went back to random reboots and apps freezing. I tried another ODIN flash without restoring any of his apps and the same thing happened. I tried changing the battery and that wasn't it, I removed the SD card and that wasn't it either.
He had to take it to Sprint and they ended up just giving him an S7.
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I started having this problem just after the update. I tried to switch the battery out and tried to take SD card out. I factory reset it about 3 times now. Nothing has solved it.
I took it into AT&T, and even though I'm not under warranty anymore (had phone for almost 2 years now), they worked with me and ended up giving me a new s7.
I suggest you go talk to AT&T because this is a problem with all AT&T Note 4's. Tell them you want it fixed and talk to the managers and get them to contact the corporate help desk. Don't leave without them fixing it. You paid $900 for this phone.
Gave you a new S7? Or swapped it out on a next contract?
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Gave you a new S7? Or swapped it out on a next contract?
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I did not pay a dime. But you have to show them that it freezes and crashes even after they factory reset it
Just left an [email protected] store. He looked at me like I had 3 heads. He had never heard of such. Will call corporate and work my way down.
I did hold a S7 edge.... it was a thing of beauty and speed. No ir though... it's why I like note 4
Works without sim
I've had the exact same issues, (Galaxy Note 4 on AT&T). Tried factory reset, wiping cache, re-flashing with odin, removing SD card, removing apps, multiple batteries, etc.... the only thing that has worked so far is removing the SIM card. It runs flawless without it. Currently using my S3 for calls and text and use the note 4 like a giant iPod touch on wifi only. Hoping this is a software issue AT&T will correct but knowing them..... best bet is probably to wait until August and get the new Note 7.
Why not try the MM update that is out right now, it´s not an OTA but by just renaiming the file to update.zip, putting it in your ds card and applying it through recovery you will have a practically new phone, it´s worth the try.
I´m ruuning it and it´s been great so far, no bugs, no errors.
I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing the following issue, perhaps it's related to https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-9-se/help/ghost-touch-mi-9-se-t3953616 ?
Sometimes, when trying to unlock the phone from the lock screen, it will not register my touches. Or perhaps more likely, only register them partly.
First I need to swipe up to get to the unlock pattern. This step will sometimes not work at all, or sometimes swipe up a bit.
If I get past the first step and get to the pattern screen, it will no let me draw the pattern. It might recognize one of the points you're supposed to touch to draw the pattern, or it might just vibrate whenever it's touch.
Waiting a while, or furiously cleaning the screen will sometimes work, sometimes not.
Did a factory reset, but the problem came back after a few days. Sent to service (purchased from eGlobalCentral). Did another factory reset before sending it in, but they couldn't reproduce it of course, even though I gave instructions that it was intermittent and needed to be used daily for a few days after factory reset.
Wasted around $60 on this.
No touch issues when I finally manage to unlock it.
Anyone had similar issues?
In the last few weeks my normally totally reliable Pixel 2 XL has started switching off or restarting. It never happens when I'm using it and it's always when it's in my pocket. It can happen if I have full charge or anything inbetween. The phone is now just out of its 2 year warranty period and it's highly probable that the issue is down to the battery needing replacing. I've tried factory resetting but this hasn't helped.
However I was wondering if there's an application that I can pull logs from it to see why the phone is switching off and rebooting? As once I factory reset my phone it just installed all my old apps, so if one of these is the culprit the problem will still occur.
Thanks.
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In the last few weeks my normally totally reliable Pixel 2 XL has started switching off or restarting. It never happens when I'm using it and it's always when it's in my pocket. It can happen if I have full charge or anything inbetween. The phone is now just out of its 2 year warranty period and it's highly probable that the issue is down to the battery needing replacing. I've tried factory resetting but this hasn't helped.
However I was wondering if there's an application that I can pull logs from it to see why the phone is switching off and rebooting? As once I factory reset my phone it just installed all my old apps, so if one of these is the culprit the problem will still occur.
Thanks.
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This has been happening to me too!
Especially when inputting Wi-Fi passwords.
As an update to this, my phone totally died the other week. I can just about get it into the Android boot screen when holding volume down and the power buttons when its chagring. But if I select retart or developer mode it flicks on the Start up splash screen and then powers down. I now can't even sell it for spares or repairs as I can't factory reset it!
In the mean time I've 'borrowed' a crappy works phone and I'm impatiently waiting for Google to release the Pixel 4A.