Showing posts with label KITKAT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KITKAT. Show all posts

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Bypass Android Pattern Lockscreen using CMD

WARNING! 
                 Try at your own risk.

Note*: 

            Make sure that your computer is set up with ADB (Android SDK) incase you don't have the ADB or don't know how to set it upheres a YouTube tutorial   for you to follow. 
            Make sure that your Android device setting for "USB Debugging" is ENABLED oractive.

Home>Apps>Settings>Developers options>USB debugging> check the box to enable
            Make sure that your computer is equipped with necessary drivers and use your native USB cable.

FOLLOW this steps:

1. Plug-in your device to your PC using your USB cable (works on Windows, Mac and Linux). Make sure that you have an active pattern screenlock.

2. On your PC click on START / SEARCH / RUNand type "cmd" to launch the Command Prompt

3. On the cmd window type in "adb shell" (no quotation marks) then hit enter.

4. After entering type "rm /data/system/gesture.key" (no quotation marks) then hit enter.

5. After the process you need to "REBOOT" your Android device (without unplugging it to your PC).

6. After your phone fires up unplug it to your PC then your good to go... CONGRATULATIONS you successfully bypassed your Pattern Lock Screen, your phone now will accept any pattern you will draw on the lock screen as VALIDand CORRECT.

Now if you're thinking that your phone's lock screen is not working properly. You can create a new Pattern password as normal as you did before the process like nothings happend. This will not hurt your phone's functions if you follow the steps.

To create Pattern Password just go to:

Home>Apps>Settings>Security>Screen lock>Pattern (4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich)
Home>Apps>Settings>Lock screen>Pattern(4.1.2 Jelly Bean).

Monday, December 29, 2014

How To Fix KitKat SD Card Write Restriction

In the last days Samsung has been pushing out Android 4.4.2 to flagship devices like the Galaxy Note III and Galaxy S4. Unfortunately, Google implemented an SD card write restriction in the latest Android version which can be quite annoying for users with an SD card in their phone.

The new “feature” basically restricts apps from writing to external SD cards. This can be quite annoying, because many users want to store apps on a secondary SD card instead of the main storage unit.

Luckily, fixing this problem can be easily done if you have root access. Here’s how you can do it (Please be aware that you’re performing these changes on your own risk!):

Make sure that you have root access
Perform a NANDROID backup to be completely safe
Use a root-enabled file manager and navigate to /system/etc/permissions
Edit platform.xml and find “WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE“
Add an additional group definition for this permission: <group gid=”media_rw” />
Save the changes and restart your device
You are now able to write on your external SD card again

I hope that I was able to help you.