I have bought Note 3 (N9000) in UK and all was fine for many months up until I traveled to Saint Petersburg for my photography session.
I had a screen lock set up to unlock the screen - upon arrival and getting to roaming network the code stopped working.
and I could not unlock my phone...
I'm pretty sure it worked just fine (I used that code million times) before my travel but it simply doesn't work now - even when back in London on my current mobile provider network. Not sure what happened, but was unable to use phone in Russia, and I'm only able to receive phone calls now. I've tried around thousands of various code combinations, waiting 30 seconds for another 5 tries. My best hobby whilst in Russia :silly:
Anyone experienced something like this? I would not like to do factory reset as too many data on my phone to do this, but I need to bypass the screen lock. Now I'm not sure if region lock has triggered something dodgy once I have went to Russian mobile provider networks... Ah, yes, phone is mine in case you're wondering