No keyboard to access encrypted phone

[dr_gibberish]

I am running Rujelus's latest Blue Kuban ROM and after installing the most recent update, decided to encrypt my phone. I have thought about doing this for a while but did not have the time as it is a long process (1 hour +). So I went into Settings > Security, created a password and let it run through the encryption process. After about an hour the phone rebooted and a screen comes up asking for a password, which I know, but there is no keyboard on the screen! I push in the password box and all over the screen and nothing. I assume this is the accidental result of some feature of Blue Kuban, but now I have an encrypted phone and no way to access it. To restate - I KNOW the password, I just have no way to enter it on the screen.

I assume I can Odin back to stock and reset the whole phone, but I will lose EVERYTHING I was trying to protect (since all my backups are now encrypted too.) So my question is, is there any way to fix this? Perhaps something I can do in ADB? Some keypress combination that would make the keyboard appear? Anyone? Anyone?

 

[crawrj]

I am running Rujelus's latest Blue Kuban ROM and after installing the most recent update, decided to encrypt my phone. I have thought about doing this for a while but did not have the time as it is a long process (1 hour +). So I went into Settings > Security, created a password and let it run through the encryption process. After about an hour the phone rebooted and a screen comes up asking for a password, which I know, but there is no keyboard on the screen! I push in the password box and all over the screen and nothing. I assume this is the accidental result of some feature of Blue Kuban, but now I have an encrypted phone and no way to access it. To restate - I KNOW the password, I just have no way to enter it on the screen.

I assume I can Odin back to stock and reset the whole phone, but I will lose EVERYTHING I was trying to protect (since all my backups are now encrypted too.) So my question is, is there any way to fix this? Perhaps something I can do in ADB? Some keypress combination that would make the keyboard appear? Anyone? Anyone?

Did you encrypt just the device or the sdcard also? Also is ADB enabled on the phone?

 

[dr_gibberish]

Did you encrypt just the device or the sdcard also? Also is ADB enabled on the phone?

I think I just encrypted the device. (Encrypting the SD card would take a second pass, correct?). I also realized that I can access CWM, so if I could get some mod onto the SD card that can get the keyboard back, then I can flash through CWM, and I should be set.

FYI, I just plugged the phone into the USB port of the computer, and the drives appear under My Computer but when I try to access them I get "Insert a disk into removable drive E:". It does look like it is recognized under ADB. I can also take the SD card out and just stick it in my laptop if I can find a mod that will get me the keyboard back....

 

[crawrj]

I think I just encrypted the device. (Encrypting the SD card would take a second pass, correct?). I also realized that I can access CWM so if I could get some mod to get the keyboard back onto the SD card, then I can flash through CWM, and I should be set.

FYI, I just plugged the phone into the USB port of the computer, and the drives appear under My Computer but when I try to access them I get "Insert a disk into removable drive E:". It does look like it is recognized under ADB. I can also take the SD card out and just stick it in my laptop if I can find a mod that will get me the keyboard back....

And you do have CWM backups right? If so they should be on the sdcard. If they are on the internal storage instead let me know and I can help you move them. I would use calkulins format all zip from cwm. After that restore your backup from CWM. You should be fixed after that.

 

[dr_gibberish]

And you do have CWM backups right? If so they should be on the sdcard. If they are on the internal storage instead let me know and I can help you move them. I would use calkulins format all zip from cwm. After that restore your backup from CWM. You should be fixed after that.

Unfortunately, the last nandroid backup I have is pretty out of date though you're right that at least that would solve some of the problem (I wouldnt lose everything). I backed up with Titanium last night before updating the ROM, but did not nandroid.

However, I am really wondering if there is something I can flash that would make the keyboard appear on the initial screen. The Blue Kuban updater has a mod - "Restore the keyboard popup" that I think might fix this issue, however I cant figure out how to get that mod since I cant get into the phone to download it. I posted in the Blue Kuban thread and perhaps someone can download the mod and post it there.

Thanks for your help, I certainly feel more hopeful than I did when I first realized this...

 

[crawrj]

Unfortunately, the last nandroid backup I have is pretty out of date though you're right that at least that would solve some of the problem (I wouldnt lose everything). I backed up with Titanium last night before updating the ROM, but did not nandroid.

However, I am really wondering if there is something I can flash that would make the keyboard appear on the initial screen. The Blue Kuban updater has a mod - "Restore the keyboard popup" that I think might fix this issue, however I cant figure out how to get that mod since I cant get into the phone to download it. I posted in the Blue Kuban thread and perhaps someone can download the mod and post it there.

Thanks for your help, I certainly feel more hopeful than I did when I first realized this...

I have never messed the the encryption so I don't know if this is possible, but if that doesn't work you might try to install a stock rom from CWM and see if that gives you the keyboard back.

 

[dr_gibberish]

Since your sdcard isn't encrypted you should be able to copy the mod there and install it from CWM. Just put it in the computer and copy the Mod to it.

Edit: Nevermind I see is isn't a zip file now.

I think it IS a zip, I just don't know how to get to it other than through the updater which is built into the ROM. Typically, all the files in the updater download to your SD card as zip files and then the phone will reboot and install them in CWM automatically. I just need someone to download the mod on their phone running Blue Kuban and then post it here so I can copy it to my SD card and install it. (That's assuming it really does fix this issue.) I posted over in the Blue Kuban thread so hopefully someone takes pity on me and puts it up there...

 

[crawrj]

I think it IS a zip, I just don't know how to get to it other than through the updater which is built into the ROM. Typically, all the files in the updater download to your SD card as zip files and then the phone will reboot and install them in CWM automatically. I just need someone to download the mod on their phone running Blue Kuban and then post it here so I can copy it to my SD card and install it. (That's assuming it really does fix this issue.) I posted over in the Blue Kuban thread so hopefully someone takes pity on me and puts it up there...

I changed my previous post with another possible option if that doesn't work.

 

[crawrj]

Installed Kuban and pulled the zip for you. Attached

 

[dr_gibberish]

Installed Kuban and pulled the zip for you. Attached

Totally appreciated your doing this and, unfortunately, total fail. Installed fine, booted back up, still no keyboard on the initial screen. Now I am wondering, even if I restore a nandroid, am I going to face the same thing at boot up?

I just tried to nandroid backup my current setup so I can at least get back to it, and, as I should have guessed, it fails ("Can't mount /data") because it is encrypted. What's more, my old CWM backups are on the internal SD card and so I cant access those either. I think I am screwed. I just hope I can Odin back to stock without a problem. Thanks again for your help, that was above and beyond....

EDIT: For anyone else who might run into this situation, I WAS able to Odin back to a full stock FF18, but everything else I tried failed. (e.g. flashing a "no data" rom through Odin, flashing anything through CWM) I lost all my data on the internal SD card and cant even remember everything I lost. Only bright point is that I have a recent Titanium backup on my external SD card which is solid, so I should be able to get some of my app data, texts, etc back.

 

[crawrj]

Totally appreciated your doing this and, unfortunately, total fail. Installed fine, booted back up, still no keyboard on the initial screen. Now I am wondering, even if I restore a nandroid, am I going to face the same thing at boot up?

I just tried to nandroid backup my current setup so I can at least get back to it, and, as I should have guessed, it fails ("Can't mount /data") because it is encrypted. What's more, my old CWM backups are on the internal SD card and so I cant access those either. I think I am screwed. I just hope I can Odin back to stock without a problem. Thanks again for your help, that was above and beyond....

For your backups. Once the phone is up connect to it from adb. once in adb shell do cp -r /sdcard/clockworkmod /sdcard/external_sd/ This will probably take a while so just be patient until it completes.

What I would try first is to install a stock rom via zip. See if it installs and fixes the keyboard issue.

If that doesn't work, Odin an image that doesn't wipe data and see what happens.

If that fails, do a full Odin restore.

 

[jcazes]

I just ran into this problem myself. I Odin'd the FH13 rooted stock rom, installed CWM and FI25, everything seemed to be fine and then I ran the encryption. After the reboot my keyboard was inaccessible and I can't seem to make it come up.

Even if this was working, Android with encryption seems unusable. I can't imagine having to enter a password EVERY TIME I unlock my phone. I guess I won't be checking work email after all! :laugh:

 

[jcazes]

Grrrrrrreat! So because I could not get a keyboard to show up after encryption I decided to flash to another ICS build, and now I'm getting a "blank USB Storage" notification. I didn't encrypt my SD card; just the phone! I even installed the ROM from the external SD card, and when I reboot to CWM I can access it.

Anybody have any ideas?

 

[patrao_n]

I thought USB storage was the internal SD?

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