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Hello everyone, I've got an interesting problem that I want the experts here at XDA to help me troubleshoot. Feel free to ask questions as I know there's probably a million variables at this point with stuff installed, uninstalled, gps, root, task killers, etc.
alrighty with that said, I did the e-wrecked gps fix (changing the operation mode and server location+port). That seems to work great in terms of time to lock on my position as well as improved accuracy. Over the next couple of days I noticed some really choppy and lengthy phone start ups after the fix.
Eventually it got to (and currently is at) a point where it kept rebooting the phone, or at least touchwiz. It would load up, scan media, search for the network, do all the start up stuff, then lock up, and turn the screen off. Hitting the lock button/power button does nothing while it resets itself. Then it resets to the lock screen, the screen lights up and it goes into "searching" for the tmo network while doing the storage preparations, and other boot up stuff. It does not restart from cold (with the vibrant, tmo, and galaxy animations, only the lock screen and OS boot process)
Anyone else got any funky restarts going on, for whatever reason? I basically want to start seeing what would trigger this behavior. I started uninstalling stuff one by one trying to figure out why its doing that but sometimes it boots up fine, sometimes it boots but doesn't ever find tmo's network, and sometimes it just does the above.
Observations:
1. It will always boot up fine if the SIM card is out.
2. The last time it did it was today while I was at work, listening to music while the phone was charging. Im noticing that the phone gets pretty hot while charging and really hot if you're using while its charging (getting apps, surfing the web, playing games, etc)
So any thoughts from the tech gurus here? anyone have similar behavior in the past on other phones? is the heat affecting the sim card negatively? I can (and have) put my simcard back in my treo 680 backup phone with no issues whatsoever.
New observation, it consistently does the reset process as soon as the "Adjust Time and Date" as it registers/syncs with the network.
UPDATE: so, i did some research, ended up at the setCPU thread and saw that when set to OnDemand some people's phones experienced similar tendencies. Problem is, mine was already set to auto-detect and "Conservative". I un-checked start at boot, and tried again. Same problem. I uninstalled setCPU completely and my phone appears to be back to normal.
I'll update again if anything changes.
so one of the things that i removed during my troubleshooting was my corporate exchange account. When i added it back. it did its initial sync fine and gave me my calendar and contacts. I then rebooted and the problem came back.
I removed the account and rebooted. it went through two cycles of the restarts and on the third one, it worked. I left it alone after that.
I then was showing my friend some things (browser differences) and had 3 browsers open. It froze as i went to close Dolphin HD. Rebooted and now its back to the cycle.
Mine did this also. Installed several apps, woke up to find a slow phone. Resets galore. A quick reset to defaults and app restore fixed it, sans setcpu of course.
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my phone resets itself also as described above, but not really doing anything in particular. i dont have a whole lot of apps installed. i even was using google maps the other day and after it started up the screen went black and the device was unresponsive until the screen came back and it said searching and the media scanner was running.
well first off thanks for responding lol. i thought i was by myself out here.
secondly, i found that if i leave it alone and let it go through its cycle, it does eventually boot up ok (this is recently, before, it was endless). i havent restarted my phone (im afraid to lol) since it did it on its own yesterday (showing my friend the browsers).
since yesterday, i've used it for navigation (motonav), serveral installs, downloaded podcasts, rss feeds, etc and its been ok (even while charging and wifi on). again, havent actually restarted it since yesterday because its actually functioning for once.
Lastly, i unchecked the auto update time and date from network in the settings just to see if that makes a difference because based on previous expereience that is the point where it freezes and resets. Thanks for chiming in and let me know if there's any other advice you have
I'd suggest a reset as mentioned above.
Been checking out this site for awhile but this is my first time posting, today my phone started to have this problem and it just bootloops touchwiz if i have a simcard in the phone.
It works fine without a simcard but my problem is it will not let me turn of auto update of time and date, i have tried disabling this setting and it just enables itself again. I have also noticed that if I started messing around with time and date settings even without a sim touchwiz reloads once. I guess im gonna give a reset a go.
martin0641 said:
Mine did this also. Installed several apps, woke up to find a slow phone. Resets galore. A quick reset to defaults and app restore fixed it, sans setcpu of course.
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heygrl said:
I'd suggest a reset as mentioned above.
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sorry, noob question (i came from winmo and a touch pro 2), what does "a quick reset to defaults" mean? is that like a factory wipe i.e. phone will be brand new again, gotta root again and reinstall everything, change settings, etc?
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sorry, noob question (i came from winmo and a touch pro 2), what does "a quick reset to defaults" mean? is that like a factory wipe i.e. phone will be brand new again, gotta root again and reinstall everything, change settings, etc?
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Root will stick but settings and apps/app data will be gone. It briefs you on what is and isn't lost when you do a factory reset.
Smae problem, its setcpu!
SetCPU with any settings will do this.
It needs an update, the auto detect some how loses and
will set the cpu to 19mhz max and min.
This is too slow to process. I rebooted and pressed settings and uninstalled it
while I could. Seems to behave once out of touchwiz.
For me it was another app not setcpu I never used it. After i did a reset i restored all my apps with titanium backup and once i restarted my phone it looped again. So i did another restore and left off all the apps that i installed right before the problem started and so far i think for me at least one of these caused it
Google maps update
google translate
the extra language pack for translate
barnacle wifi tether
hero of sparta
these are apps that I installed right before the problem happened and without these my phone works fine I am going to see if i can find that one that caused my problem.
It's not the maps update because my phone works fine with it.
It was hero of sparta a gameloft game from there web market funny thing is its suppose to work on the vibrant while dungeon hunter which works fine would only give nexus as a check out option. Anyway im going to try to get a refund tomorrow.
I get the same touchwiz reboot but for me it has only ever happened while using google maps. I do not use set cpu, but I have applied the gps fix. It is more than a little annoying. I have done a system wipe but the problem persists.
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yes, if you have setcpu, uninstall it - its buggy with the galaxys
- sometimes you can't wake your phone (if you set a screen off profile), forcing you to do a battery pull
- constant launcher restarts
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For me it was another app not setcpu I never used it. After i did a reset i restored all my apps with titanium backup and once i restarted my phone it looped again. So i did another restore and left off all the apps that i installed right before the problem started and so far i think for me at least one of these caused it
Google maps update
google translate
the extra language pack for translate
barnacle wifi tether
hero of sparta
these are apps that I installed right before the problem happened and without these my phone works fine I am going to see if i can find that one that caused my problem.
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and this is why i started the thread, to make sure i wasnt all alone. i have everything you have installed as well, but it was doing it before i picked up hero of sparta (and nova, and asphalt 5, man those guys make some good phone game lol).
anyways i just installed barnacle wifi tether yesterday so thats not it either (at least for me). That leaves the google stuff, out of the apps in your list, all of which were installed when i first got the problem, and are still on there after I've removed setCPU
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Root will stick but settings and apps/app data will be gone. It briefs you on what is and isn't lost when you do a factory reset.
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ok so, contacts, text messages, etc stay? Meaning if i do a factory reset, root stays, and all app stuff can be taken care of by, say, AppBrain since it has a running list of everything installed and knows where to get it to install it again? I apprecicate the advice, but this would still be a last resort sort of thing. my phone has worked fine for the past few days but I also havent restarted it yet either
just a quick update, my phone still does this if i reboot my phone (which is never now that i got my 32gb sd card), but for the first time ever hero of sparta caused it to happen while the phone is on. I uninstalled it so we'll see.
Today I had the strangest of issues!
I went to log in to my phone but it wouldn't recognise all 3 of the fingers I had (which previously worked and I haven't changed my fingers recently!).
It then asks for a password, my usual password didn't work, so I tried a series of other passwords I use, none worked.
It then asked me to unlock with Google account, I did it and it worked.
after this it requested that I changed the password, I changed my password to a really simple easy to remember password, which I couldn't forget.
after this, I went back to work. a few hours later I came back to my phone and typed in the password I reset it to. IT DIDN'T WORK!
I checked I was hitting the correct keys, and re-done the password slowly, IT STILL DIDN'T WORK! (I didn't forget the password, I know EXACTLY what it was, there was 0.00000% chance I was incorrect)
after a few more tries, the phone complained at me and factory reset, thus erasing all the data. I wasn't too bothered as everything backs up to one drive or dropbox.
Has anyone had this happen to them?
I just cant understand what happened, I even tried reboots in-between in case it was a temporary glitch, all to no avail.
Bought 2 S7 edge for myself and my wife. The first time we have the same phone, which should make my mis duties easier. We got the phones hours before a trip, so I didn't have much time to play beforehand. I set up my phone including fingerprints and when we arrived at our hotel, I noticed that the always on display no longer was nor did pull from right work anymore. and I'm sure other things broke too. Both features were turned on BUT when I attempted to do anything that required entering a pin? My pin no longer worked. The fingerprint reader still worked, so I was not locked out. I searched for an answer but gave up and reset the phone via recovery. I prodded my wife to add security to her phone and she and use the fingerprint reader and after a couple of hours? He pin no longer works either. The fingerprint still works but poorly and we can't change that anymore. Is there any way I can get back into the phone without a full reset?
Another disturbing thing? While running Waze a few hours ago, my phone spontaneously reboot. I'm digging the speed especially the camera and battery life vs my old G3, but If it reboots by itself one more time? it goes back!
And I just fixed it myself by happy accident. We decided to bite the bullet and do a factory reset via recovery BUT I goofed and went into bootloader instead (vol down instead of up). When the phone rebooted I tried the pin and it works once again. If it happens again, I'll try booting to recovery and then rebooting to system to see if it fixes the issue too. I've had a bunch of Android phones, a few of them Samsungs and this has never happened before.
I've had my phone for a couple of weeks, and the initial PIN I set up still works. Haven't had any problems like that. No spontaneous reboots, either.
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I've had my phone for a couple of weeks, and the initial PIN I set up still works. Haven't had any problems like that. No spontaneous reboots, either.
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So far, just the one reboot. I'm hopeful it's just a one-off thing. As for the pin thing? I've added a password just in case. It didn't turn out to be that much of a problem, but I hope leaving this here might help someone else who experiences the same event. Curious that it happened to 2 phones in the same family.
Have had my devices since March 11, PIN code has not changed by itself. Have had at least one UI reboot automatically, but I have a ton of apps so no good way to tell what caused it.
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Wish I would have read this first. I found my pin not working this morning. I thought I was going crazy. I use the same pin on multiple devices and keep them in sync, so I verified my mind was not toast by pinning into another device. I just completed a factory reset...
my Pin changed spontaneously
I've had my S7 for about 1 week and the pin changed on its own. I always use the same pin. I'm really frustrated and stuck in a 2 year contract with this thing. If I have to keep doing a hard reset every time this happens, I'll break the phone and get a new one under warranty.
As an update, after this happened to my wife's phone it happened to mine a couple of days later. After an apparent reboot over night (update?) my password was gone and I was unable to access the phone. Tried everything including contacting both Sprint, Samsung, tried bootloader and recovery, device manager, ect. No luck. Eventually had to reset. After reset, I changed to pattern (least favorite security option) and the issue hasn't reoccurred.(yet?) even with many reboots. I'm giving it another week and I will set up Samsung Pay and play 50 questions with my bank and cc cards.....again. I was in Home Depot with 500lbs of mulch on my cart when I realized I had no wallet. No problem, I can use Samsung Pay.....till I remember that the card info was wiped out with the last reset...DOH! Tech fail! I won't use a pin or password till I'm sure this bug has been squished.
From what I've gleaned, this is a bug specific to Sprint variants of the S7 and Sprint is aware of the problem.
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As an update, after this happened to my wife's phone it happened to mine a couple of days later. After an apparent reboot over night (update?) my password was gone and I was unable to access the phone. Tried everything including contacting both Sprint, Samsung, tried bootloader and recovery, device manager, ect. No luck. Eventually had to reset. After reset, I changed to pattern (least favorite security option) and the issue hasn't reoccurred.(yet?) even with many reboots. I'm giving it another week and I will set up Samsung Pay and play 50 questions with my bank and cc cards.....again. I was in Home Depot with 500lbs of mulch on my cart when I realized I had no wallet. No problem, I can use Samsung Pay.....till I remember that the card info was wiped out with the last reset...DOH! Tech fail! I won't use a pin or password till I'm sure this bug has been squished.
From what I've gleaned, this is a bug specific to Sprint variants of the S7 and Sprint is aware of the problem.
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Got bitten by this bug myself. Have had the S7 edge for a week and a half, fortunately still in the "playing" phase so forced to do a factory reset was not to bad...I too have switched to pattern and no issues either.
Yeah, it's the strangest thing. This happened to me as well only it was a password and not a pin. I honestly thought it was a mistake on my part. About a day after initially getting the device and setting up the fingerprint and password, my phone died ( I was using Gear VR and it didn't alert me that battery was even low), and when I rebooted it said something like " enter password for storage encryption" or something of the sort. I assumed it was my unlock password but it wasn't working....
So I looked all over the internet and all I could find were recommendations to try your normal unlock password. I tried and tried until I got the dreaded "you have 9 attempts remaining before factory reset" popped up. That's when I thought back to when I first set up the password and how I wasn't used to the edge of the screen yet. So I kept accidentally hitting keys on the edge while I was typing (because normally you can rest your hand on the edge, but on this if you do that you're pressing the edge of the screen). So I tried my exact password with one of the characters as a common "typo" that I kept making for that letter. And voila! It worked! Now the weirdness continues.
At this point I'm happy I figured it out but found it SO odd that I typed that password so many times and input a typo.... I must had used that password at least 15 times over that day....the odds of me doing a typo every time..slim. So the whole thing felt extremely sketch so I immediately went to change the password (and just turn off security in general, don't need it, just was playing around with fingerprint and needed password) after it booted up. And, of course, even with the typo the pass no longer worked. I tried it until the wait time between each try was an hour, heh. I tried all sorts of typo variations of the password, but to no avail. But, at least the phone was now ON. So I was able to backup my SMS, Apps, Settings, Themes, etc and prepare for the factory reset. What a wild ride.
I have no idea why it even happened in the first place. I never turned on any encryption and I never turned on "require password on boot up." Those settings were even toggled off when I checked while the phone was still on. (couldn't see all settings without password though).
Even weirder, I have no idea why the password with the typo even worked that one time to get it to boot. That same password never worked again.
IDK how widespread this is, but be CAUTIOUS and back up the things that you need to. Also, sign up for a Find My Mobile type service to unlock your phone and give you remote access should happen to you. Or just disable the security altogether until they announce a bug fix for this issue. I thought I was the only one with this issue and chalked it up to a weird freak occurrence. So thanks for the topic as I now know it wasn't just me.
Weird. Wonder what's triggering this. I've had my device since March 11 and haven't had it happen (yet). Hrmph.
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Update RE: my Sprint S7 with spontaneous pin change
Sprint S7 . I bought my phone 2 weeks ago, about 1 week in the PIN # (I had a 4 digit #) spontaneously changed. I could only get in with my finger print which only works 1/2 the time (don't both trying if your hands were just washed or out of the shower).
I decided to do a factory reset on Tuesday night and used a pattern tracing instead of a # pin. The phone worked fine for 2 days and then it happened again this morning. The pattern was spontaneously changed. I called Sprint, they told me they've heard nothing. I called Samsung same story there. I did try to power off the device (which I hadn't tried before) and turned the phone back on, it did recoganize the original password. So try shutting down and restarting...it might recognize it again. or try safe mode. I'm trying to trouble shoot this. I think the ADT app might be to blame?
This happened to me last week as well. A couple reboots cleared it up. Very odd though.
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And I just fixed it myself by happy accident. We decided to bite the bullet and do a factory reset via recovery BUT I goofed and went into bootloader instead (vol down instead of up). When the phone rebooted I tried the pin and it works once again. If it happens again, I'll try booting to recovery and then rebooting to system to see if it fixes the issue too. I've had a bunch of Android phones, a few of them Samsungs and this has never happened before.
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Saved my freaking life man! Same thing happened to my wife's phone. I went into Boot Mode (power down, the on power up hold power and volume down button), then selected start phone normally.
Her original PIN worked! She was freaking out!
Thank you!
Not sure if Boot Mode was needed or just a normal reboot... But it's fixed!
Same problem. Luckily I barely use this phone for anything other than calls. I did a hard reset immediately. You guys are not the only ones out there.
My Samsung S7 Edge just did the same thing this AM. PIN changed, no idea what it is. Fingerprint works. Will back it up and do the reboot first. TMobile so this issue is not Sprint specific.
This just happened to my wife's s7 (Verizon) if you reboot the phone for any reason the back up pin or pattern is required it which it was but doesn't work... And of course were not sure if she made a Samsung account cause if you have a Samsung account supposedly you can change the password from a browser through that site. With this and the screen randomly shutting off and not coming back to life til you run through the boot menu I'm not so sure I'll be getting another Samsung phone.
This glitch of auto PIN change occurred on my Verizon S7
:crying: To be clear, this occurs on other carriers as I am using Verizon. Issue: PIN is no longer recognized but fingerprint works only until the device is rebooted. If rebooted, fingerprint no longer works and all you can do is receive calls. Samsung advised me that Verizon has a way to reset password.
As I write, Verizon (a level 2 tier tech named William) was able to show me how to fix this by logging into my Google account, and enabling "lock and erase" and clicking on "lock" I was able to change my PIN and my phone works fine! Now I am updating the software as Samsung released a software update on September 1, 2016, that fixes the problem. A word to everyone: be sure your google account is active and includes your S7. Be sure to download the software update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jph8tr said:
As an update, after this happened to my wife's phone it happened to mine a couple of days later. After an apparent reboot over night (update?) my password was gone and I was unable to access the phone. Tried everything including contacting both Sprint, Samsung, tried bootloader and recovery, device manager, ect. No luck. Eventually had to reset. After reset, I changed to pattern (least favorite security option) and the issue hasn't reoccurred.(yet?) even with many reboots. I'm giving it another week and I will set up Samsung Pay and play 50 questions with my bank and cc cards.....again. I was in Home Depot with 500lbs of mulch on my cart when I realized I had no wallet. No problem, I can use Samsung Pay.....till I remember that the card info was wiped out with the last reset...DOH! Tech fail! I won't use a pin or password till I'm sure this bug has been squished.
From what I've gleaned, this is a bug specific to Sprint variants of the S7 and Sprint is aware of the problem.
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:crying: To be clear, this occurs on other carriers as I am using Verizon. Issue: PIN is no longer recognized but fingerprint works only until the device is rebooted. If rebooted, fingerprint no longer works and all you can do is receive calls. Samsung advised me that Verizon has a way to reset password.
As I write, Verizon (a level 2 tier tech named William) was able to show me how to fix this by logging into my Google account, and enabling "lock and erase" and clicking on "lock" I was able to change my PIN and my phone works fine! Now I am updating the software as Samsung released a software update on September 1, 2016, that fixes the problem. A word to everyone: be sure your google account is active and includes your S7. Be sure to download the software update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I tried the Google method but every time I try to change the pin it just tells me that Google verified that there is already a lock screen pin so the new pin/password won't be necessary.. l would love to find a fairly simple route as all the adb pin/password removal videos and such are a little different and well it's my wife's phone so it's a little more important to save her stuff then mine
Hi guys, today when i rebooted my Vernee Apollo Lite i got stucked when trying to access my phone supposely because i was putting a wrong pin when trying to access the android system. I'm pretty sure that i was putting the pin well but nothing works. I've even already done a hard reset to the phone but it stills ask me for a pin that i don't know which is. Can anyone please try to help?
Hi,
Has anyone ran into this issue where the pattern changed itself or no longer worked? I definitely did not update or change it. All of sudden today, it just stopped taking it. Initially, I was able to unlock with my fingerprint. However, when I went into lock screen settings to try and figure out what's the issue, it prompts of course for the pattern. It then of course said it was incorrect and then told me to try again. Now I'm currently locked out 60 minutes and my fingerprint doesn't work anymore either! This is such an annoying bug and have no idea how this came about since I haven't updated or downloaded any new apps. I've also rebooted several times as others have stated, and the problem persists..
This worked for me!
itsxiao said:
Hi,
Has anyone ran into this issue where the pattern changed itself or no longer worked? I definitely did not update or change it. All of sudden today, it just stopped taking it. Initially, I was able to unlock with my fingerprint. However, when I went into lock screen settings to try and figure out what's the issue, it prompts of course for the pattern. It then of course said it was incorrect and then told me to try again. Now I'm currently locked out 60 minutes and my fingerprint doesn't work anymore either! This is such an annoying bug and have no idea how this came about since I haven't updated or downloaded any new apps. I've also rebooted several times as others have stated, and the problem persists..
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Hey- I had the same issue happen to me yesterday. I was able to accidentally find a solution by following these steps
1. Turn off your Android device.
2. Press and hold the "power", "volume down", and "bottom" buttons simultaneously. ...
3. Release the buttons once your Android device is powered on.
4. A Warning screen will appear, press the volume down option to cancel and (restart phone)
5. Phone will restart and ask for your pin, the original pin should now be working again.
6. Add your other fingers to the scanner! - at least that's what I did
A friend gave me this phone saying it was not working properly and he already bought a new phone, I factory reset the phone and it seems fine. But he left the phone in the devices list on his google account, and asked me, as a challenge, to bypass the frp... I've bypassed 4 frp's before, including one that was not documented at all, but I got stuck on this one. Limited settings are the only barrier between me and success. Thanks in advance!
erase frp partition (oem misc fota?) do backup of the partition beforehand!
https://github.com/bkerler/edl
Is there any way I could do this easier? I don't even know where to look right now
it's your silly challenge, do your homework
aIecxs said:
it's your silly challenge, do your homework
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don't mind me but i sense some humor here.sad.
the fun begins with next thread - how to unbrick LG G6 from erased IMEI
nope, I solved it. You have to bug out the wifi by pressing next and then immediately turning off wifi, set a pattern, restart and fail inputting the pattern 30 times (took like 20 minutes for some reason), resetting the phone, and now it will ask for the pattern after connecting to a network, input the pattern and bam, phone unlocked. Nice
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nope, I solved it. You have to bug out the wifi by pressing next and then immediately turning off wifi, set a pattern, restart and fail inputting the pattern 30 times (took like 20 minutes for some reason), resetting the phone, and now it will ask for the pattern after connecting to a network, input the pattern and bam, phone unlocked. Nice
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What kind of mental disorder is capable to reveal such trick?
What do you mean? I accidentally got the wrong pattern and it told me that there are 29 tried left until it reset, and I remembered that, in a few old bypass vids on YouTube, they had a pattern lock after a reset... That meant that if this worked, I could use the pattern I set to unlock the phone. And maybe you said that as a joke, but at least now you know how I got to this solution.
And the wifi bug? A random old frp bypass for an older version of the G6