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Changed pin to blank and can't get into phone now. - umop - 10-08-2021
Hi all,
I got tired of putting my pin into the phone so I changed it to blank in settings. I tried opening the phone up and now everything I enter (including blank) results in Wrong PIN. What's the next step?
Thanks!
RE: Changed pin to blank and can't get into phone now. - Merc - 10-08-2021
Plug a keyboard into the phone, hit Ctrl+Alt+F2, login as root and change your password.
Changed pin to blank and can't get into phone now. - umop - 10-08-2021
Just tried that. I don’t see any response to the keystroke. Do I need to plug into a screen or should the phone display a terminal?
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Changed pin to blank and can't get into phone now. - umop - 10-08-2021
Hmm. Okay. I was able to get a terminal with ctrl alt F3. Tried logging in as root with:
- my old pin
- blank
- 123456
But none work.
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RE: Changed pin to blank and can't get into phone now. - umop - 10-11-2021
Is it time to reinstall the OS?
RE: Changed pin to blank and can't get into phone now. - bcnaz - 10-11-2021
I would just re-flash,
It is so easy with the Pinephone, especially if your are using an sd card.
Hopefully you do not have a lot of stuff saved on the existing installation.....
RE: Changed pin to blank and can't get into phone now. - Merc - 10-11-2021
Quote:- my old pinroot's password won't be any of those. I'm assuming because you tried 123456 that you're using Arch. root's password by default is "root".
- blank
- 123456
RE: Changed pin to blank and can't get into phone now. - megous - 10-14-2021
You can also boot the jumpdrive image and mount the eMMC partition over USB, then you can manually edit /etc/shadow.
https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive
Generate a new password with:
openssl passwd -6
and copy it instead of the current one to /etc/shadow