PIN suddenly not correct

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Hey guys,

i need some help.
Yesterday I charged my Pixel5 over night as ususal, it restarted and this morning I cant log in.
After the restart it wants my password, not fingerprint, and it simply does not accept the pin code.
I am 100% sure I have the correct one, it's 6 digits, but the pin pad is scrambled - could it be that it somehow "scrambles the numbers wrong" - you know, the 1 is not where it displays the one?

Please help, Im away on a trip and quite urgently need my phone, cant perform a reset & install the backup (and who knows if it would accept the pin for the backup??)

And yes, i am really really sure I have the correct pin...

Many thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Hulk

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There is nothing we can do to help you, unfortunately.

PIN scrambling is an optional feature of GrapheneOS and it works perfectly well. You need to press correct numbers, their positions might be confusing but don't mind it.

Sounds like either you "think" you are entering the correct PIN or somebody else has changed it (only possible if that person has physical access to your phone and knows your PIN).

Sorry to hear about your situation.
Factory reset is always an option.

MetropleX

Lockout_Pin to confirm what Hulk has already stated, having used the PIN scrambling feature, auto reboot etc from Android 11 and now on 13 that the features work as intended and without issue.

Do you have multiple users set up? Could you be using a different users PIN?

Lockout_Pin

Just wanted to give an update - I have exactly zero idea what happened, but after a few hours (and a few reboots after I got locked out for longer and longer periods oO), suddenly the PIN got accepted.
Yes, the same PIN i had tried all the time before
Yes, I was using the scambled number pad correctly...
No, I simply cannot replicate it (hopefully!)

As I said, no idea....
Ill just forget it happened and hope I dont run into this problem again while on the road.

Hulk

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Glad to hear that it worked out in the end!
Hopefully it will never ever happen again.
But just in case, please write down your PIN somewhere.
Just in case