Question Locked out of my phone after updating to android 13. HELP!!!

[nick2003all]

I just updated my phone to android 13 and everytime I type my password it says that it's incorrect. I've been using the same password for many months there's no way I'm typing it incorrect. How can I unlock my phone without factory resetting it?

 

[Bruno.beee]

Same here

 

[nick2003all]

Same here

Unfortunately I had remote unlock disabled and the only way around this was to factory reset my phone. I did have a 2 month old backup but still it wasn't convenient to reset my phone just because samsung can't properly update their phone.

 

[Nathos73]

I had the same problem when I updated, but it was fixed when I restarted it by pressing the power button and volume down for a few seconds

 

[nick2003all]

I had the same problem when I updated, but it was fixed when I restarted it by pressing the power button and volume down for a few seconds

I tried that multiples times and it didn't work. I even tried booting the phone into safe mode but that didn't work either. Unfortunately I ended up doing a factory reset :C

 

[a.tiger]

My update was okay ... To android 13 ...

 

[snigehere]

My wife just had this issue after doing a second update on her samsung z-flip4 .. after the first update she was able to sign in but not after the second ... I dredged through my memory for this solution....

In the past she set a password that was 17 characters... but the max password length was 16 characters.. some time in the past the system allowed a longer password but anything typed in past 16 characters was ignored.. it seems that with one of the updates this no longer happens and it looked at all characters entered. We typed in the first 16 only and bingo.. it unlocked!!!