Breaking Samsung Android Passwords/PIN

[Ravikaleova]

Hm, how do you practically extract that? I am trying to extract it from Samsung Galaxy S3. Of course /data/data and /data/system are not readable by the adb user and it would require to root the phone. But then we have one problem: even if USB debugging is enabled, you can't connect to the phone while locked to upload the new image. Another problem is that you might be required to unlock the bootloader (haven't done that so not 100% sure) which according to what I read will erase user data including the hashes.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

It is possible to root without unlocking boot loader therefore you won't lose any data, works on unpatched samsung devices see the Exynos Kernel Exploit linked below

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre...?t=2050297

another method

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre...?t=1894717Doogee Smartphone

You could possibly craft an APK which obviously will require root privileges allowing you to grab the data. Won't exactly be 'undetected' if the user already has a rooted phone, if the phone can be exploited then you could probably make it undetectable.

I think that might work in the event that you have the telephone opened (in the feeling of PIN effectively entered and not identified with bootloader). Still on the off chance that it is bolted, you shouldn't have the capacity to transfer anything by means of adb. I figure one probability might be to introduce a pin open applications (which don't oblige root) regardless reboot, that might oblige the google play record and the telephone being joined with the web around then. In any case yes, that bodes well for PIN recuperation - then you can root the telephone and move ahead.