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S22 wont unlock after restart

(Topic created on: 04-03-2025 05:11 PM)
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goaadrian
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Just last week. I experienced that the phone had been freezing, especially in the messenger or facebook app, freeezes then restarts. it was very unusual to me so I looked at all the apps I have currently and tried to remove those which I dont use anymore (unfortunately this didnt prompt that I back up my data already). a few days pass, I got used to the freezing and waited for it to restart. but this time, when I tried to unlock the phone using my password, the keyboard keeps hiding. so I had to press the text box so I can input my password but the keyboard keeps hiding. I had to quickly type in my password before the keyboard hides again. then, when pressing "done" after typing in the password, it has a sound that its unlocked, but it goes back to locked status again. and this repeats until it freezes and restarts again.

I tried soft reset, I tried opening in safe mode both didnt work. it also switched to airplane mode after doing these thing. the only option, as far as ive seen others had the issue is to do a factory reset which im still not ready to do since the data will be lost forever. 

anybody here had this scenario and had a fix? im desperate,  please help!

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johnz237
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Hi! Welcome to the samsung members community!

Maybe try restarting cache partition
Plug into pc/laptop/USBC
1. Turn off the device
2. Press and hold the correct buttons to open the recovery menu
3. Use the volume buttons to highlight Wipe cache partition
4. Press the power button to select it
5. Use the volume buttons to select Yes
6. Press the power button to confirm
7. The device will reboot

No data will be lost- this is temp files
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BandOfBrothers
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@goaadrian your data should be safe if you back upto Samsung Cloud and back up your photos to OneDrive or one of the other vaults for Photo's. 


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