I'm currently locked out of my phone despite knowing the password, and I would greatly appreciate help or advice for what to do next, and if it's worth not just wiping it now based on the problem. The most important stuff is safe, but a lot of the other stuff has no backups. Part of this seems like an
This is what's wrong.
The keyboard I use (FUTO Keyboard) has had directboot support for a while, and I've had GOS and the keyboards I have enabled configured the way it is for quite some time (almost two years), I haven't made any major changes to any configuration. I have not disabled any system apps, I'm aware of why this is very dumb. I have however disabled the stock keyboard as an active input method so it does not pad the keyboard switch list, as I have several. It allows you to do this so long as Gboard is enabled, so I assume this is intended? The app itself hasn't been altered in any way, nor have any system apps, to be clear.
If I open the emergency dialer after booting, there's a good chance I can trigger this dialogue, indicating to me that something in a recent build has gone very wrong, as I was using it fine a few minutes before I rebooted the phone
I'm writing this here and not just on their page because in the video I posted, you can see the keyboard switcher fails to trigger anything at all no matter how it's pushed and I don't remember it working as I haven't needed it. I believe it should be possible to switch keyboards as I have other keyboards installed and active that support direct boot, such as gboard (for handwriting).
I have tried safe mode, it doesn't revert to the stock keyboard nor does it do anything else that would seem to help me escape this softlock.
I can't use a USB keyboard as I naively disabled USB data unless unlocked, including BFU, I didn't think such a catastrophic software failure was possible. If the switcher button not working is fixable via an OTA update, I can wait for that, but if it's not it's likely there's no other avenue I can think of to fix this without wiping the phone.
If it's not possible to fix without wiping I'd rather know sooner rather than later. I'd also assume in any case that even with the password there's more to the encryption implementation, and data recovery would not be easy or non-destructive, but correct me if I'm wrong. I'd also like to know if possible if anything I did directly resulted in this, as I didn't think of any changes I'd made as being destructive to the OS's function. Thank you.