I am using an FP4 with Android since a few weeks.
After each update/restart, the phone asks for a SIM card PIN which I enter without issues.
Then, I need to enter my device PIN.
My FP4 does not accept the correct PIN (I am 100% sure about the PIN). The first time it was accepted after 15 attempts; now I have tried over 60 times.
I tried restarting several times, “find my phone” on Google (“device cannot be reached”) and all configurations of WiFi/5G/flight mode. None of this is helping and it is just a question of time how long I can use my phone.
Does anyone have an idea what is wrong and what I can do, apart from going for another phone?
Thanks!
You can try a factory reset with the knowledge that you will loose any personal data you have on there, but if you can’t access it, it doesn’t really matter.
Reset the phone without any SD card or SIM to ensure it at least works.
if you have an SD card do not insert and format as Internal, the default choice.
To begin with do not use a pin to lock the phone or any other option.
if you do, try something simple like the SIM backwards.
“To begin with do not use a pin to lock the phone or any other option.”
Indeed I normally use fingerprint to unlock. However, the FP only accepts the PIN after restart - no other auth method is accepted (“Nach dem Neustart des Geräts ist die Eingabe der PIN erforderlich”)
I would really love to avoid erasing my data despite all backups, so I will try to reach the support - will let you know here if this is of interest to anyone.
To me that sounds like there is a chance you accidentally hit at least one wrong digit while setting up your PIN and by chance you made the same hit in one of your many tries. Have you considered this? It is extremely unlikely - if not practically impossible - that the phone would take the exact same PIN at the 15th try if nothing changed. You could experiment by trying the adjacent number combinations, hoping that you get it right at some point. This would save you the reset at least.
Support will not be able to help you with an unknown PIN. Device contents are encrypted for security and there is no way around a factory reset if you can’t figure out the PIN yourself.
Yes, there is. You can go to Settings -> Security and change to a pattern or password. You will still have to enter your device PIN once to change the mechanism.
To be perfectly honest, I remembered a pattern on the number board instead of a PIN. Apparently my input was wrong, also caused by the fact that I never used the PIN before forced by the restart. So it was not a FP4 problem, but my mistake.
