Hello,
When my phone boots up after restart, the lock screen shows up requesting PIN entry. You cannot use fingerprint to unlock after boot up, you have to use PIN for this first unlock.
On this same screen, at the bottom, it says "Unlock for all features and data".
So, until you unlock, mobile data is not activated.
Without mobile data, Find My Device cannot work.
Is there something I'm missing here? This design seems strange to me.
If your phone is stolen, and the device is restarted, the thief cannot get into your phone without your PIN and all your user data remains encrypted. Great.
But you also cannot use Find My Device to locate your device.
Or if the phone is lost and the battery dies, and a good Samaritan eventually finds it, and charges it. Same problem.
Just wanted to get thoughts on this issue. Thanks.
Yes I find this quite annoying as well. I am surprised not one person has information or experienced the same.
GPS probably still works.
So you're saying you're tried to locate your phone, on a computer, you've gone to https://android.com/find and it doesn't work if your phone isn't unlocked? That's a new one on me.
Phalanx7621 said:
So you're saying you're tried to locate your phone, on a computer, you've gone to https://android.com/find and it doesn't work if your phone isn't unlocked? That's a new one on me.
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Yeah that makes no sense "find my phone" works off the IMEI.. so if someone takes out your sim you can still erase your phone
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Anyone else uneasy that no matter what if someone finds your phone they can hook up to pc and have access to your internal storage?? Is there no way to change this and have a charge only option under usb?
If someone has your phone plugged into their computer, you either:
1) Are with them
2) Had your phone stolen.
If you have your phone stolen, there's nothing stopping them from battery pulling, going into recovery, and getting all your data from there (granted you're rooted).
Still ide rather not anyone including nosey friends get the pics of my ding dong off my phone with out my permission...
All kidding aside you see my point right
It's very simple, set a passcode and MTP does not show any data until the phone is unlocked.
beast67x said:
Still ide rather not anyone including nosey friends get the pics of my ding dong off my phone with out my permission...
All kidding aside you see my point right
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I typically prefer nekkids of my gf on my phone vs sausage but to each their own
This is why you should likely have the ability to remote-wipe your device (via Software), and why you need to ponder very carefully what data you keep on your phone. The easiest way to avoid your friends finding pictures you'd rather they don't see is not to keep those pictures on your phone in the first place.
There are encryption-based Lockboxes which function on the Galaxy Nexus, and it does actually support Full-Disk encryption (with many bugs and downsides), but in short, you need to assume that anything on your phone is accessible to anybody who cares enough to take it from you. Remember, security never buys you safety against others getting your data, it just gives you time to respond before they can get access.
Wow how foolish of me. I totally didnt realize and i googled this an apparently no.one else did.either thanks
sluflyer06 said:
I typically prefer nekkids of my gf on my phone vs sausage but to each their own
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Hahaha its my own sausage i swear.
Seriously though the guy above is correct. Locked my phone, plugged in, and no data shows.until i swipe and enter pin
There are also apps you can download to lock certain apps you don't want opened. (Gallery for instance)
I agree though, the safest and best bet is to set a password on your phone and be done with it!
beast67x said:
Hahaha its my own sausage i swear.
Seriously though the guy above is correct. Locked my phone, plugged in, and no data shows.until i swipe and enter pin
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A setting for my Exchange server for my company that i work for reminds me each time setup my phone that they can remote wipe my phone. As can i From our Web Access portal for email. Just another option.
Will
Mine doesn't work that way.
I have a pattern set on my galaxy nexus. If I connect it to my computer the "internal storage" doesn't show up until I unlock the phone.
However, if you lost your phone, there are numerous ways to get your data. This applies to most phones out there
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move the pics you don't want people to see into a hidden folder then they wont show up in the gallery
I have "gotya" installed. Not only will send me the gps location of my ohone command but also take a pic of the peraon using the phone when.an incorrect pin is entered. Screw wiping my phone ill just go get it myself
Hi guys!
This is definitely something weird and I can all but guarantee you havn't come across something like this before!!
Ok so, my friend broke his HTC One X, cracked the screen, but it still works. - he just wants the data off it.
Now, i have an MHL cable, plugged that in, rebooted the phone and went from there...the only issue is it boots in landscape. so when we pull the ring to unlock the device, because of poor software in the phone it just FILLS the whole screen with an "emergency call" massive button, but the emergency call text is skewered to the left hand side of the phone. Thus, we cannot enter his username and password into the input fields to give him his access back to his phone!!
Although funnily enough, the phone mysteriously loaded up once in portrait (so we could imagine the keyboard on the screen), but after 100 of attempts its not giving it us again, which means we cant enter his gmail user and pass in again!
Infact, when it did load up in portrait, we entered his gmail address and password, pressed sign in...PATIENTLY WAITED...and said the password was incorrect! FUUUUUU. Also, data is disabled on his phone (maybe why it fired the issue with it saying password was incorrect), and now we're back to square one, trying to get the phone to load up in portrait.
I recall, back when i had my Galaxy S2, that i once flashed a kernel to the device and it would mysteriously remove the password...the only issue we have with this is that the HTC One X, (if it does boot to recovery), doesn't display through MHL, so we can't flash anything to the phone anyway!! basically TOTAL lockout!
So guys...any assistance at all, because he's deeply upset the fact he's going to lose all of his files!!
Regards,
meeeeelz
meeeeelz said:
Hi guys!
This is definitely something weird and I can all but guarantee you havn't come across something like this before!!
Ok so, my friend broke his HTC One X, cracked the screen, but it still works. - he just wants the data off it.
Now, i have an MHL cable, plugged that in, rebooted the phone and went from there...the only issue is it boots in landscape. so when we pull the ring to unlock the device, because of poor software in the phone it just FILLS the whole screen with an "emergency call" massive button, but the emergency call text is skewered to the left hand side of the phone. Thus, we cannot enter his username and password into the input fields to give him his access back to his phone!!
Although funnily enough, the phone mysteriously loaded up once in portrait (so we could imagine the keyboard on the screen), but after 100 of attempts its not giving it us again, which means we cant enter his gmail user and pass in again!
Infact, when it did load up in portrait, we entered his gmail address and password, pressed sign in...PATIENTLY WAITED...and said the password was incorrect! FUUUUUU. Also, data is disabled on his phone (maybe why it fired the issue with it saying password was incorrect), and now we're back to square one, trying to get the phone to load up in portrait.
I recall, back when i had my Galaxy S2, that i once flashed a kernel to the device and it would mysteriously remove the password...the only issue we have with this is that the HTC One X, (if it does boot to recovery), doesn't display through MHL, so we can't flash anything to the phone anyway!! basically TOTAL lockout!
So guys...any assistance at all, because he's deeply upset the fact he's going to lose all of his files!!
Regards,
meeeeelz
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If you're asking for a method to bypass security, and access an accounts information on a device, I am definitely NOT happy divulging any means to do so.
No-one should ever ask for, nor should anyone ever provide, the means of bypassing any security, logging into any accounts, or accessing device data.
No offence, but you could be anybody and this device could have been acquired by any means.
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Tigerlight said:
If you're asking for a method to bypass security, and access an accounts information on a device, I am definitely NOT happy divulging any means to do so.
No-one should ever ask for, nor should anyone ever provide, the means of bypassing any security, logging into any accounts, or accessing device data.
No offence, but you could be anybody and this device could have been acquired by any means.
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Im asking for a method to force the screen to display in portrait!
After doing a bit of research ive noticed a lot of people would come to this conclusion, any assistance at all in WHY the username and password for my friends gmail account allows us to sign in via google, but NOT on the ONE x, even though its the only email address in use on the phone!
is there any way at all in putting the phone into a recovery mode of sorts, maybe via the emergency dial pad?
Understandably there is a lot of confusion/anger towards this subject, but when it comes to 2 people trying to get into a device that is their own...any reasonable suggestion is welcome!!
You could always unlock the bootloader and use a custom recovery then mount the phones as mass storage there.
However this would void is warranty then again it depends how he broke the screen.
It maybe booting portrait as it thinks it's in a dock you tried without the cable?
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treebill said:
You could always unlock the bootloader and use a custom recovery then mount the phones as mass storage there.
However this would void is warranty then again it depends how he broke the screen.
It maybe booting portrait as it thinks it's in a dock you tried without the cable?
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Hey!!
Thanks for the idea but we can't tell if its booted in recovery even with the necessary key combo to get it into that mode...we're running out of ideas...im really annoyed that the user and pass for his gmail didnt actually let him in the phone...what other email address would google keep as a backup to confirm he is the owner of the phone?!
Also, the screen is completely destroyed, the digitizer however works lovely!
Alas, any more ideas? x
meeeeelz said:
Hey!!
Thanks for the idea but we can't tell if its booted in recovery even with the necessary key combo to get it into that mode...we're running out of ideas...im really annoyed that the user and pass for his gmail didnt actually let him in the phone...what other email address would google keep as a backup to confirm he is the owner of the phone?!
Also, the screen is completely destroyed, the digitizer however works lovely!
Alas, any more ideas? x
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if you're connected to a network it should work fine with a gmail/pass however if you can't actually see how do you know what you're typing or even if you are typing?
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if you're connected to a network it should work fine with a gmail/pass however if you can't actually see how do you know what you're typing or even if you are typing?
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genuinely we've tried his gmail username and password on the lucky attempt that is loaded in portrait!!! it just says its invalid!! :|
also, i was aware that the actual gmail account as such was stored locally on the device, and didnt need a data connection?
thanks again guys!
HTC One X ran over by a car... Data Recovery
meeeeelz said:
Hi guys!
This is definitely something weird and I can all but guarantee you havn't come across something like this before!!
Ok so, my friend broke his HTC One X, cracked the screen, but it still works. - he just wants the data off it.
Now, i have an MHL cable, plugged that in, rebooted the phone and went from there...the only issue is it boots in landscape. so when we pull the ring to unlock the device, because of poor software in the phone it just FILLS the whole screen with an "emergency call" massive button, but the emergency call text is skewered to the left hand side of the phone. Thus, we cannot enter his username and password into the input fields to give him his access back to his phone!!
Although funnily enough, the phone mysteriously loaded up once in portrait (so we could imagine the keyboard on the screen), but after 100 of attempts its not giving it us again, which means we cant enter his gmail user and pass in again!
Infact, when it did load up in portrait, we entered his gmail address and password, pressed sign in...PATIENTLY WAITED...and said the password was incorrect! FUUUUUU. Also, data is disabled on his phone (maybe why it fired the issue with it saying password was incorrect), and now we're back to square one, trying to get the phone to load up in portrait.
I recall, back when i had my Galaxy S2, that i once flashed a kernel to the device and it would mysteriously remove the password...the only issue we have with this is that the HTC One X, (if it does boot to recovery), doesn't display through MHL, so we can't flash anything to the phone anyway!! basically TOTAL lockout!
So guys...any assistance at all, because he's deeply upset the fact he's going to lose all of his files!!
Regards,
meeeeelz
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Well I tried several display options but upon opening my Exs phone which she decided to stiff me on a 2 year contract and run over the phone with a car. The main board was broken and the digitizer and screen were broken... I had access to a working HTC one X so I took the motherboard, battery assembly reconnected into the working shell with the functional main board and voila! All info and in my case lies revealed... There is also a rainbow table available with an app on Git Hub that will circumvent any password on the phone using a Dual Mini Usb go cable I believe, it is demonstrated on the Hak5 show... Hope this helps!
I need some technical help as I have a really weird problem with my zenfone 2. A couple of weeks ago I bought some skype credit and made a phone call. For some ungodly reason right after this call there was a pin screen in place, with no warning or messages. I tried to put in several pin numbers as I thought it was a sim lock but nothing could get past the lock. I tried putting in 5 wrong codes in the hope to see a "forget password" button but nothing. I tried resetting the lock via google device manager and it says that it can't since a screenlock is present and will not reset the pin. I have even tried to get into recovery mode so that I can do a factory reset but at this stage I get an "error" here so this avenue is also blocked. I have even attached the phone via usb to the computer but the computer sees and empty hard disk. I have even tried to use adb to take a look inside, but this did not work either as the device is not seen. I have also tried rebooting in safe mode but the screen lock behaviour is just the same. . At the moment the wifi is also off so now google device manager can not locate the phone So at the moment I am out of ideas. I am now inclined to believe that my phone has been hijacked by some sort of new yet super sophisticated lockware/malware.
I have already accepted that all our family photos including the ones from our recent holiday are permanently gone for good with no chance in hell of recovering them.
Does anyone have any ideas to get around this annoying problem?
So what are my options? Is there any software that I can use to break this beasts back? Do you have any suggestions?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3316831
Try this it might work
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Thanks ... where is the original article as how to use this ...
niannella said:
Thanks ... where is the original article as how to use this ...
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Just flash it in recovery
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Ladies and gentlemen of XDA, I have come before you today to admit to my defeat.
I have scoured the internet and tried all kinds of fixes and such and still no luck. So hopefully someone here can help me figure out what I'm missing.
I rooted both my husband's and my G955u. Both of our phones took the root well and were performing spectacularly. Then, randomly one day, something went glitchy with my phone. For some reason or another, I ended up putting the phone in airplane mode. For the life of me I can't remember why. The airplane mode icon would not turn back off. I turned the phone off and back on. Each time, I see the signal connection icon at the top, but there are no bars filling it. I cannot call, text, or use data unless I am connected to wifi.
I unrooted and flashed back to stock. No fix. I applied other root methods. Still no fix. Factory reset, cleared cache, took sim card out. Still nothing. Sim card works fine in other devices and no sim card will work in my phone. I have flashed each and every stock (2bqk5, 2bql1, 2brb1) with no luck. Took it all the way back down to 2bqk5 and allowed ota updates all the way to 2brb1. Still nothing.
Had an error for a while that when I entered recovery mode, it would either show no command or error followed by a screen saying that it had failed to unmount my EFS. That screen isn't showing up anymore, so I somehow fixed that. My IMEI and SN are both showing and are both correct. Phone network shows unknown. Mobile network shows state as connected. Mobile network type shows as IWLAN. Not Roaming, IMS registration status is on.
I have tried to flash the combined tar file of the modem and the Nonhlos.bin I extracted from my stock bql1 files. Flashed through Odin, still no fix.
I am at a total and complete loss. I don't know what else to try. Husband's root is still intact and working great. Can anyone help a noob figure out what I haven't done yet? I'm sure I'm missing something stupidly obvious. Any and all help is greatly appreciated and stories of your epicness will be told by my children's children of the time I was saved from the purgatory that is no cell service by the heroes of XDA.
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Ladies and gentlemen of XDA, I have come before you today to admit to my defeat.
I have scoured the internet and tried all kinds of fixes and such and still no luck. So hopefully someone here can help me figure out what I'm missing.
I rooted both my husband's and my G955u. Both of our phones took the root well and were performing spectacularly. Then, randomly one day, something went glitchy with my phone. For some reason or another, I ended up putting the phone in airplane mode. For the life of me I can't remember why. The airplane mode icon would not turn back off. I turned the phone off and back on. Each time, I see the signal connection icon at the top, but there are no bars filling it. I cannot call, text, or use data unless I am connected to wifi.
I unrooted and flashed back to stock. No fix. I applied other root methods. Still no fix. Factory reset, cleared cache, took sim card out. Still nothing. Sim card works fine in other devices and no sim card will work in my phone. I have flashed each and every stock (2bqk5, 2bql1, 2brb1) with no luck. Took it all the way back down to 2bqk5 and allowed ota updates all the way to 2brb1. Still nothing.
Had an error for a while that when I entered recovery mode, it would either show no command or error followed by a screen saying that it had failed to unmount my EFS. That screen isn't showing up anymore, so I somehow fixed that. My IMEI and SN are both showing and are both correct. Phone network shows unknown. Mobile network shows state as connected. Mobile network type shows as IWLAN. Not Roaming, IMS registration status is on.
I have tried to flash the combined tar file of the modem and the Nonhlos.bin I extracted from my stock bql1 files. Flashed through Odin, still no fix.
I am at a total and complete loss. I don't know what else to try. Husband's root is still intact and working great. Can anyone help a noob figure out what I haven't done yet? I'm sure I'm missing something stupidly obvious. Any and all help is greatly appreciated and stories of your epicness will be told by my children's children of the time I was saved from the purgatory that is no cell service by the heroes of XDA.
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Solved on my own. Downloaded the app shortcut master and launched secret menu #27663368378. Chose options 2,1,2,3,4 and restarted phone and I had network access again. Hooray!
Yliria said:
Solved on my own. Downloaded the app shortcut master and launched secret menu #27663368378. Chose options 2,1,2,3,4 and restarted phone and I had network access again. Hooray!
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Was just about to post about this, I too have been experiencing those issues, difference is my phone has not been rooted. Has the issue completely resolved?
Yes. That completely fixed my issues. You may not have to root to fix the issue if you can find the right secret code to access the service mode menu. But once the nv was restored, all was golden.
This is the screen you need to get to.
wow you went through all those downloads and flashes !
This was my first time ever rooting. I had no idea what I was doing or what exactly I needed to fix it I just knew I was pissed to high heaven and refusing to pay 200 for the replacement phone they said I needed.
Originally, geek squad tried to say that I had a chip failure due to the mipi device fail that showed up on menu *#0011#. But I didn't buy it. Turns out it wasn't a hardware issue. Just the NV data being a butt. Saved me 200 bucks. I'll take 50 million menus, flashes, and downloads over that anyway. That's what unlimited data and pdanet hotspot tether is for.
What did the menu have in it? I'm having a similar problem with not connecting to the network (unroot), but on my Galaxy S7. I've tried a million things, only to find out the "MIPI DEVICE FAILED".
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This was my first time ever rooting. I had no idea what I was doing or what exactly I needed to fix it I just knew I was pissed to high heaven and refusing to pay 200 for the replacement phone they said I needed.
Originally, geek squad tried to say that I had a chip failure due to the mipi device fail that showed up on menu *#0011#. But I didn't buy it. Turns out it wasn't a hardware issue. Just the NV data being a butt. Saved me 200 bucks. I'll take 50 million menus, flashes, and downloads over that anyway. That's what unlimited data and pdanet hotspot tether is for.
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I have the exact same issue on my S8+, MIPI device fail and can't get any network signal. On xfinity mobile here. I can't get that menu you're talking about, I downloaded Shortcut master and launch the menu you mentioned in your first post but it won't launch. Do I have to be rooted? Please help!
Mipi device failed. change the charging port and maybe it solves it. it has happened to me with a s7 and a note 8 and I have solved it by changing the loading port
menu *#27663368378# Chose options 2,1,2,3,4 and restarted phone
mario0383 said:
menu *#27663368378# Chose options 2,1,2,3,4 and restarted phone
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I have the same issu on my G955U at&t variant. how did you solved the problem?
I'm having this issue in this model and the menu "*#27663368378# Chose options 2,1,2,3,4 and restarted phone" didn't solve, it will be necessary to change or reconnect the charging port or other part?
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.