09-12-2020, 05:54 PM
I feel like I'm losing my mind, here, so hopefully someone can help me out, here. I apologize if this duplicates someone else's thread, but it didn't appear that this particular problem was already represented on a couple of searches. I may have missed something, though, since searching for "PIN" turns up basically every thread as a substring for "pineXYZ."
So, the phone showed up this afternoon. I opened the back and connected the battery. I walked through postmarketOS's setup process. And then, after seeing that there was no software to speak of available, locked the phone to avoid wasting the battery and went to go deal with some other things. So far, so good.
Coming back a few hours later, though, I'm stuck at the lock screen. My PIN doesn't seem to work, so I just get the "Invalid Passcode" animation. I can log in via ssh, but that seems to be a different user, so I'm not sure that's helpful. I've tried variations on the PIN on the chance that I just zoned out or slipped when entering it, and I tried the 147147 default. The only thing I haven't been able to try (because I can't see the setup process anymore) is the possibility that my PIN--chosen because of the shape, rather than the numbers--was input on a number pad with a different orientation, but I don't think it was different.
I assume that there's no way to bypass the lock screen, or else it wouldn't be a particularly good lock. But is there a way to use my not-quite-right ssh connection to change the main account's PIN? Do they maybe share a PIN at the operating system level? Failing that, since I've done literally no work on the phone beyond setting my name and timezone, is there a straightforward way of running some sort of factory reset so I can start over?
Thanks! (And once I'm back in, I can wonder why none of the software controls seem to wake up the camera and Cheese just doesn't run at all. But that's a problem for later...)
So, the phone showed up this afternoon. I opened the back and connected the battery. I walked through postmarketOS's setup process. And then, after seeing that there was no software to speak of available, locked the phone to avoid wasting the battery and went to go deal with some other things. So far, so good.
Coming back a few hours later, though, I'm stuck at the lock screen. My PIN doesn't seem to work, so I just get the "Invalid Passcode" animation. I can log in via ssh, but that seems to be a different user, so I'm not sure that's helpful. I've tried variations on the PIN on the chance that I just zoned out or slipped when entering it, and I tried the 147147 default. The only thing I haven't been able to try (because I can't see the setup process anymore) is the possibility that my PIN--chosen because of the shape, rather than the numbers--was input on a number pad with a different orientation, but I don't think it was different.
I assume that there's no way to bypass the lock screen, or else it wouldn't be a particularly good lock. But is there a way to use my not-quite-right ssh connection to change the main account's PIN? Do they maybe share a PIN at the operating system level? Failing that, since I've done literally no work on the phone beyond setting my name and timezone, is there a straightforward way of running some sort of factory reset so I can start over?
Thanks! (And once I'm back in, I can wonder why none of the software controls seem to wake up the camera and Cheese just doesn't run at all. But that's a problem for later...)