Hey, so basically just title. Trying to set a password on my phone, but it doesn't work.
I have used the TWRP and the stock recovery to wipe and format all data. Everything is stock except for the fact I have TWRP installed.
After doing a fresh wipe + reformat, phone works exactly as expected. You can set a pincode, and do everything you want with a fresh phone. To remove variables in a scientific manner, I've also tried flashing in TWRP, then boot back to system, and trying to set a passcode again. Still works. Then boot into TWRP, and only restore back in the DATA partition, and bam. Passcode can no longer be set. So the issue definitely only occurs after using TWRP to restore the data partition.
Trying to set a password seems to work as expected at first; Enter the pincode once, then enter the pincode again a 2nd time to verify. At first everything looks good, but the pincode never actually got applied. Repeat infinitely, no password ever actually sticks. Can't register a fingerprint or face unlock, as without a password, the phone prompts an error that you need a password before you can use those features. I've included a picture of the password menu after trying to set a password; Notice how it says "turn ON password", where as normally its meant to say turn OFF password, thus implying no password was ever set (because it wasn't)
Anyone happen to know why this is and/or how to solve it? Phone works perfectly fine, it's just scary not being able to lock a phone with your personal stuff on it.
Also, seeing as my end goal is simply getting a phone with my data on it, is there a way to flash in the data partition using fastboot? Usually it'd be a simple command like "fastboot flash data data.img" but in this case, TWRP saves the DATA partition (many gigs) in multiple chunks, named data.f2fs.win000, data.f2fs.win001, etc etc. Theres a good dozen or so files and not sure how to flash them all in at once.
I have used the TWRP and the stock recovery to wipe and format all data. Everything is stock except for the fact I have TWRP installed.
After doing a fresh wipe + reformat, phone works exactly as expected. You can set a pincode, and do everything you want with a fresh phone. To remove variables in a scientific manner, I've also tried flashing in TWRP, then boot back to system, and trying to set a passcode again. Still works. Then boot into TWRP, and only restore back in the DATA partition, and bam. Passcode can no longer be set. So the issue definitely only occurs after using TWRP to restore the data partition.
Trying to set a password seems to work as expected at first; Enter the pincode once, then enter the pincode again a 2nd time to verify. At first everything looks good, but the pincode never actually got applied. Repeat infinitely, no password ever actually sticks. Can't register a fingerprint or face unlock, as without a password, the phone prompts an error that you need a password before you can use those features. I've included a picture of the password menu after trying to set a password; Notice how it says "turn ON password", where as normally its meant to say turn OFF password, thus implying no password was ever set (because it wasn't)
Anyone happen to know why this is and/or how to solve it? Phone works perfectly fine, it's just scary not being able to lock a phone with your personal stuff on it.
Also, seeing as my end goal is simply getting a phone with my data on it, is there a way to flash in the data partition using fastboot? Usually it'd be a simple command like "fastboot flash data data.img" but in this case, TWRP saves the DATA partition (many gigs) in multiple chunks, named data.f2fs.win000, data.f2fs.win001, etc etc. Theres a good dozen or so files and not sure how to flash them all in at once.
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