New issue with unlocking my Samsung phone via phone link app on PC

Anonymous
2022-12-22T02:19:26+00:00

I've been using the "Phone Link" app on my computer and mobile and this has let me mirror my phone on my computer and enabled me to unlock the phone screen from my PC. However I'm no longer able to unlock from the PC and it is showing the following message: "Unlock on your phone. To keep your credential private and secure, we need you to unlock your phone to continue." Can anyone tell me how to resolve this issue?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Connect Phone and PC

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-05-21T06:59:37+00:00

    So if I remember correctly when Phone Link disabled the lock screen visibility and remote Bluetooth activation of your Samsung device you could still glitch yourself to view your lock screen.

    If you had Samsung Flow also connected on both your Windows device and Samsung Phone then you could ask for a connection request over Samsung Flow.

    This would then send a notification asking you to accept the connection which you were meant to accept manually. But this notification was visible in your Phone Link App which if accepted remotely you could then view the lock screen in Samsung Flow.

    This workaround got gutted when the type of notifications Phone Link could display were butchered.

    My advice if you want remote access to your phone for calling and access purposes is get a Samsung Tablet to pair with your Samsung Phone. They have consistently added more functionality and ease of access for devices in their ecosystem.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-04-30T15:11:54+00:00

    That's not it.. that command is required if you want any remote control of the phone at all without a confirmation dialog all the time (applies to all remote software like Anydesk or Rustdesk).

    Scroll up 6 posts or so, there I posted the phone unlock script via ADB..

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-30T14:53:24+00:00

    ...

    On Android there's a relatively simple one-click workaround to remotely unlock the phone via ADB ... You can find it some posts above.

    If your "simple one-click workaround to remotely unlock the phone via ADB" is this command:

    ./adb shell appops set com.microsoft.appmanager PROJECT_MEDIA allow

    Sorry. Doesn't fix the problem. With Phone Link versions newer than 1.22102-202-0, you'll still need to manually unlock your phone before you can access a phone-app from Phone Link on the PC.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-30T13:12:15+00:00

    The function was removed because MS insists on supporting iphones for no particular reason and the app would've been kicked off the Apple store if it supported remote unlock. This function is gone for good and will never return until maybe MS revives the Windows phone (lol, imagine that)..

    On Android there's a relatively simple one-click workaround to remotely unlock the phone via ADB (less simple without a USB connection but still possible). You can find it some posts above.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-30T05:42:35+00:00

    Don't bother Microsoft don't give a dam about customers they don't care about usage or feedback which they use to see how much rubbish they can get away with this thread totally shows how rubbish Microsoft customer support or care is a monolithic company with support staff that are reluctant to think or help there is no more damming evidence of this and their total disregard of customers than this thread not one Microsoft answer worth spitting at a disgusting and disgraceful showing

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