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Have you booted up your LG phone only to be greeted by a white lock screen stating "Enter password to unlock, 30/30 attempts remaining?" If so, your phone is in secure start-up, a type of encryption available on older Android devices (though LG phones seem to be affected by this screen randomly appearing). In this article, we'll go over what this error means, what causes it, and how to fix it.
Fast Facts: Secure Start-Up
"Enter Password to Unlock, 30/30 attempts remaining" appears because of secure start-up, a security measure on older Android devices and some newer LG phones. If you didn't set a secure start-up password, you can decipher it using your unlock pattern.
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What to Do If You Can't Unlock Your Phone
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Purposefully enter 30 incorrect passwords to wipe your device. If you can't remember the password used to encrypt your device, you can enter an incorrect password 30 times to force the device to wipe itself. Once the phone is wiped, you'll need to log in with the Gmail account that was associated with the device to use the phone, or it will stop functioning.
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Factory reset the phone. Instead of wiping the device, you can opt to factory reset it. This will also remove all of your data off the phone, and you will still have to log in with the Gmail account that was associated with the device to use the phone, or it will stop functioning.
- If you don't know how to factory reset your LG phone, check out this wikiHow article to learn how.
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Contact a data recovery specialist. Some data recovery specialists can recover data on encrypted devices. However, this is a very difficult process that requires expensive tools not available to the public, so it might be very expensive. Different data recovery firms will charge different prices, but the price tag could be upwards of a few thousand dollars.
- To find data recovery specialists near you, use your favorite search engine to locate them. Contact them via phone or online form (depending on what they offer), explain your situation, and ask what information is needed for a quote.
- If the firm you contact can't unlock your phone for you, ask if they know of any other firms that could.
- Unfortunately, you cannot recover your data without paying money. Due to the strength of the encryption, de-encryption tools available to the public won't be able to remove it. If you can't afford data recovery or no firms in your area offer the service, then you'll have to wipe your phone to use it again.
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