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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? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 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. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 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". 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 |