Hi all, feel silly posting a question like this but I am completely out of ideas at this point.
This morning I woke up and my P30 pro asked me to unlock it through PIN instead of using fingerprint (it usually does this sometime during the day "for security reasons"). Put my usual PIN, same one I am using since 20 years on all my mobile phone... PIN not recognized. Did it again various times paying attention, still no luck.
Things I did till now:
- Rebooted and retried, no luck
- Rebooted in recovery, safe mode, retried, no luck again
I am trying to unlock it since hours and after 3 wrong attempts I am blocked for 1 hour. I am absolutely sure that the PIN I am using is the correct one, anybody in the forum ever had a similar issue? And any idea on how I can solve this?
I own it since July 2019, never did a factory reset, phone upgraded to latest rom EMUI 12. There is a way I can at least access the internal memory to save some data? Photos are backup using google photos, but I would like to keep the original images before trying with a factory reset from recovery menu.
Thanks
Hey, I have exactly the same issue today. It asks me for a pin and I use the correct pin but it does not unlock. Did you find a solution?
Hey again,
I found the solution on my side. After the update the lock screen pin was replaced with another's app password (bank app screen password in my case). In order to be able to try many different passwords you are using to access different apps on phone and bypass waiting time:
Solution
1) Find old android phone and format it
2)Set up the old phone and use the gmail account you have on your p30 pro.
3) Select to restore from gmail and it will ask for lock screen password.
4) You can try many different passwords without waiting and when the password is accepted you can use it to unlock you are p30 pro.
jose13683 said:
Hi all, feel silly posting a question like this but I am completely out of ideas at this point.
This morning I woke up and my P30 pro asked me to unlock it through PIN instead of using fingerprint (it usually does this sometime during the day "for security reasons"). Put my usual PIN, same one I am using since 20 years on all my mobile phone... PIN not recognized. Did it again various times paying attention, still no luck.
Things I did till now:
- Rebooted and retried, no luck
- Rebooted in recovery, safe mode, retried, no luck again
I am trying to unlock it since hours and after 3 wrong attempts I am blocked for 1 hour. I am absolutely sure that the PIN I am using is the correct one, anybody in the forum ever had a similar issue? And any idea on how I can solve this?
I own it since July 2019, never did a factory reset, phone upgraded to latest rom EMUI 12. There is a way I can at least access the internal memory to save some data? Photos are backup using google photos, but I would like to keep the original images before trying with a factory reset from recovery menu.
Thanks
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I found the solution on my side. After the update the lock screen pin was replaced with another's app password (bank app screen password in my case). In order to be able to try many different passwords you are using to access different apps on phone and bypass waiting time:
Solution
1) Find old android phone and format it
2)Set up the old phone and use the gmail account you have on your p30 pro.
3) Select to restore from gmail and it will ask for lock screen password.
4) You can try many different passwords without waiting and when the password is accepted you can use it to unlock you are p30 pro.
apoelultras said:
I found the solution on my side. After the update the lock screen pin was replaced with another's app password (bank app screen password in my case). In order to be able to try many different passwords you are using to access different apps on phone and bypass waiting time:
Solution
1) Find old android phone and format it
2)Set up the old phone and use the gmail account you have on your p30 pro.
3) Select to restore from gmail and it will ask for lock screen password.
4) You can try many different passwords without waiting and when the password is accepted you can use it to unlock you are p30 pro.
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Hi @apoelultras , now that you are saying that to me I just remembered that exactly the day before I also changed the PIN of a baking app on my phone! In the meantime I also tried other PINs and I finally unblocked the P30pro using a very obvious PIN (my birthday date), that for instance was the same PIN I momentary put in the banking app (I usually access it using fingerprint).
But how is that possibile that an application is changing the lockscreen PIN? This is a bug of enormous proportions!
I've the same issue, but i've tried all possible PIN's i'm using, but it doesn't work for me.
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hi,
I broke my mi3's screen a few weeks ago and tried to replace it, but couldn't find a working one. so I decided to take a backup of the data by connecting to system via pc suite. But PC Suite wont work if the device is locked. So I tried to unlock it and disable pattern, by connecting an USB Mouse through OTG. But by this time I already forgot the pattern. Tried to unlock with what I remember, with several wrong attempts, now the phone shows "Phone has bee Locked, try again in 119 mins".
Just yesterday I found a Display online from a phone which is dead and replaced mine with that. Now the touch screen is working fine. Somewhere I saw that after 4 unsuccessful attempts by connecting at least 4 dots I will be able to reset the pattern using Gmail or Mi account. But the real pain is, just after one, please note just ONE unsuccessful attempt the screen Shows "Phone has been Locked, try again in 119 mins"
I know both my Mi account and Gmail User ID and Password.
Tried Android Device Manager to Lock my phone with a new pin, it didn't Help, says "Since Google has verified that a screen lock is already set, the password you entered won't be needed"
I have a lot of important data in the phone, I don't wanna hard reset my Phone, Please Help....
harunaku said:
hi,
I broke my mi3's screen a few weeks ago and tried to replace it, but couldn't find a working one. so I decided to take a backup of the data by connecting to system via pc suite. But PC Suite wont work if the device is locked. So I tried to unlock it and disable pattern, by connecting an USB Mouse through OTG. But by this time I already forgot the pattern. Tried to unlock with what I remember, with several wrong attempts, now the phone shows "Phone has bee Locked, try again in 119 mins".
Just yesterday I found a Display online from a phone which is dead and replaced mine with that. Now the touch screen is working fine. Somewhere I saw that after 4 unsuccessful attempts by connecting at least 4 dots I will be able to reset the pattern using Gmail or Mi account. But the real pain is, just after one, please note just ONE unsuccessful attempt the screen Shows "Phone has been Locked, try again in 119 mins"
I know both my Mi account and Gmail User ID and Password.
Tried Android Device Manager to Lock my phone with a new pin, it didn't Help, says "Since Google has verified that a screen lock is already set, the password you entered won't be needed"
I have a lot of important data in the phone, I don't wanna hard reset my Phone, Please Help....
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flash twrp and wipe data partition without wiping sdcard
this will wipe apps+appdata and won't effect files in sdcard
or switch to twrp and enable MTP after connecting a usb .now u can acesses all of your files
Or delete with twrp files relative to lock pattern
harunaku said:
hi,
I broke my mi3's screen a few weeks ago and tried to replace it, but couldn't find a working one. so I decided to take a backup of the data by connecting to system via pc suite. But PC Suite wont work if the device is locked. So I tried to unlock it and disable pattern, by connecting an USB Mouse through OTG. But by this time I already forgot the pattern. Tried to unlock with what I remember, with several wrong attempts, now the phone shows "Phone has bee Locked, try again in 119 mins".
Just yesterday I found a Display online from a phone which is dead and replaced mine with that. Now the touch screen is working fine. Somewhere I saw that after 4 unsuccessful attempts by connecting at least 4 dots I will be able to reset the pattern using Gmail or Mi account. But the real pain is, just after one, please note just ONE unsuccessful attempt the screen Shows "Phone has been Locked, try again in 119 mins"
I know both my Mi account and Gmail User ID and Password.
Tried Android Device Manager to Lock my phone with a new pin, it didn't Help, says "Since Google has verified that a screen lock is already set, the password you entered won't be needed"
I have a lot of important data in the phone, I don't wanna hard reset my Phone, Please Help....
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You still got the problem.?
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Hi all
So I have an issue I hope the XDA community can help me out with. My girlfriend forgot her phone after a class, panicked, locked the phone via the 'Find my Device' service, but got it back the day after. Shouldn't be much of a problem except that we cannot unlock the phone at all.
1. We can log in and see the phone via the links below. The first link gives the option to set a new password, but since she has a pattern lock this is overwritten. All other functions via these sites seems to work.
https://myaccount.google.com/find-your-phone
https://www.google.com/android/find
2. When trying to unlock the phone it will not accept the normal pattern. She has also tested her previous pattern, but no luck. It tells her the pattern was incorrect and displays a timed delay for the next unlock attempt. She is 100% certain she's using the correct pattern as it is the same as on her work phone.
Even after 20+ attempts we do not get a prompt to reset the password or account recovery via the Gmail account associated with the phone.
3. USB Debugging is not enabled and standard recovery mode. ADB sideload works, but no luck with any of the various pattern reset packages. Normal ADB commands doesn't work (error:closed) so can't remove gesture.key (Newbie in this area)
4. Only reason we haven't done a factory reset is that she's a musician and have some demo files on the phone that were not backed up and she doesn't have any automatic sync going on... Despite I have told her to enable this many many times:-/
So we are getting a bit desperate trying to get the files off the device. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
PDK
Contact Oneplus directly.
They have very good support.
Unleashed by ONEPLUS 3T rooted
Hi all,
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 SM-N960F.
I use fingerprint recognition, face recognition and a pin number so hadn't needed my pattern for a while.
My battery ran out. I charged the phone, restarted, it asks for pattern and after a number of failed attempts, have 1 left. Before I try one last pattern and have to do a factory reset (and lose all my family holiday snaps over the last year), is there any way I can get into the phone and recover the data?
There is a dearth of rubbish and click bait on the web. But if anyone can help, I'm told it's XDA. I have a samsung and google account - both linked to phone, remote access, a backed up OS (but not photos), but can't connect - presumably because it has not booted up. Any help appreciated! - & no I haven't enabled any development options....
is it rooted, do you have twrp on it?
i am copying this from other website. you can try this method.
If your phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network and it is linked to your Samsung account then you can unlock your device’s screen remotely from the Find My Mobile website.
Use any computer or mobile device with Internet access, open a web browser and go to http://findmymobile.samsung.com. Click on SIGN IN.
Click on MORE.
Click on UNLOCK MY DEVICE.
Enter your Samsung account password and then click on UNLOCK.
Depending on the network and the state of your device, this process may take a few minutes. You will receive a notification and the screen of your mobile device will be unlock.
Munawar Mehmood said:
i am copying this from other website. you can try this method.
If your phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network and it is linked to your Samsung account then you can unlock your device’s screen remotely from the Find My Mobile website.
Use any computer or mobile device with Internet access, open a web browser and go to Click on SIGN IN.
Click on MORE.
Click on UNLOCK MY DEVICE.
Enter your Samsung account password and then click on UNLOCK.
Depending on the network and the state of your device, this process may take a few minutes. You will receive a notification and the screen of your mobile device will be unlock.
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>>Thanks - yes I have tried this already, but the phone isn't picked up because (presumably) it is not past boot loader.
Daniehabazin said:
is it rooted, do you have twrp on it?
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>>Hi, no it doesn't. I can put it on, but I understand that you need to have USB debugging activated on the phone (which I do not recall ever doing) to be able to connect and remove pattern file. Happy to hear if that's no the case.
jwaz said:
Hi all,
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 SM-N960F.
I use fingerprint recognition, face recognition and a pin number so hadn't needed my pattern for a while.
My battery ran out. I charged the phone, restarted, it asks for pattern and after a number of failed attempts, have 1 left. Before I try one last pattern and have to do a factory reset (and lose all my family holiday snaps over the last year), is there any way I can get into the phone and recover the data?
There is a dearth of rubbish and click bait on the web. But if anyone can help, I'm told it's XDA. I have a samsung and google account - both linked to phone, remote access, a backed up OS (but not photos), but can't connect - presumably because it has not booted up. Any help appreciated! - & no I haven't enabled any development options....
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>>Some details from download mode:
Product name: SM-N960F
Current Binary: Samsung Official
FAP Lock: On
OEM Lock: On
Secure Download: Enabled
CCIC = MAX777705 hw: 3 main:30
Warranty Void: 0
BP SWREV: B:5 K:5 S:5
EVT 1.0
LOT_ID = A04FA
CHIP_ID = 08b40c6ccd00
----
product_line: 2
asb version: 16
---
LPDDR4 manufacturer = samsung
LPDDR4 process version = 018
LPDDR4 size = 6gb
If you need any more info, let me know.
I don't think it would be possible sadly. You have not enabled USB Debugging so you can't flash anything. Also OEM Unlock is turned off. It doesn't work via remote control as the phone is not booted up pass the lock screen at least once. How can you forget your pattern ? Try to remember it or guess blindly, maybe you'll catch the correct one. Also if you do eventually get in again, turn on auto restart once a week. That not only helps to keep performance in top shape but it will ask for the pattern once per week when it auto-restarts so you won't forget it again.
koragg97 said:
I don't think it would be possible sadly. You have not enabled USB Debugging so you can't flash anything. Also OEM Unlock is turned off. It doesn't work via remote control as the phone is not booted up pass the lock screen at least once. How can you forget your pattern ? Try to remember it or guess blindly, maybe you'll catch the correct one. Also if you do eventually get in again, turn on auto restart once a week. That not only helps to keep performance in top shape but it will ask for the pattern once per week when it auto-restarts so you won't forget it again.
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>>I forgot it because I never use it. Thanks for the tips.
jwaz said:
Hi all,
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 SM-N960F.
I use fingerprint recognition, face recognition and a pin number so hadn't needed my pattern for a while.
My battery ran out. I charged the phone, restarted, it asks for pattern and after a number of failed attempts, have 1 left. Before I try one last pattern and have to do a factory reset (and lose all my family holiday snaps over the last year), is there any way I can get into the phone and recover the data?
There is a dearth of rubbish and click bait on the web. But if anyone can help, I'm told it's XDA. I have a samsung and google account - both linked to phone, remote access, a backed up OS (but not photos), but can't connect - presumably because it has not booted up. Any help appreciated! - & no I haven't enabled any development options....
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Isn't it you need to enter pin number, not the pattern? Pattern is more secure than a pin?
Rosli59564 said:
Isn't it you need to enter pin number, not the pattern? Pattern is more secure than a pin?
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>>It's a pattern that is required, not a pin.
Hi.
My daughter has somehow managed to pin lock her phone and from what i can find online . The only way to remove the pin is to restore the phone to factory setting and loose all data. Ive tried a few diffrent programs to try and remove the pin but all give the warning that all data will be lost. Is there any way to remove the pin without loosing the phone data and pictures. The programs i have purchased are Pass Fab android unlocker. 4uKey for android.
Thank you.
Hello Gavshell, your daughter has a goofle account through the account here https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9395014?hl=en
your answer is there
Thank you for the reply. We have tried that method. It works all through the process until the very last verification point and for some reason fails. I have contacted Samsung direct and they say the phone will need to be erased to log back in to it.
Hey,
Yesterday night probably my p30 pro got an overnight update. This morning the only option to me for unlocking the lock screen was the pin option. I tried many times my pin but i get an incorrect pin error. Anyone to suggest any solution? I don't want to wipe my data
Hey again,
I found the solution on my side. After the update the lock screen pin was replaced with another's app password (bank app screen password in my case). In order to be able to try many different passwords you are using to access different apps on phone and bypass waiting time :
Solution
1) Find old android phone and format it
2)Set up the old phone and use the gmail account you have on your p30 pro.
3) Select to restore from gmail and it will ask for lock screen password.
4) You can try many different passwords without waiting and when the password is accepted you can use it to unlock you are p30 pro.