SophieFeb 20
Shit, shit, shit. Android display all black after turning on inverted colours. Doesn't reset to normal on reboot and now I can't unlock the phone. Any tricks to be done in recovery?
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This is all the phone does on reboot. Shows logos, warnings, the lineage OS animation, a split second of the lockscreen and then nothing. No button presses get any reaction so far other than holding power/vol down to get to fastboot and reboot from there.
Feb 20 at 2:31amWeb
Show threadSophieFeb 20
The phone was completely fine till I enabled "invert colours" from the swipe down menu becuse of a annoyingly white website. 😢
Show threadSophieFeb 20
Swiping about where the pattern should be makes the phone do some vibrations signalling a wrong pattern. I know that I only get so many pattern retries before the phone goes into an even more bricked state.
Show threadSophieFeb 20
These are the times where I hate how secure phones have become. Unfortunately, the phone can't discern between a border patrol agent trying to scan my phone for terrorist activities and my personal laptop trying to enable adb for resetting a dumb setting.
Show threadSophieFeb 20
I DID IT!!! Blindly swiping at the approximate places where the unlock pattern and settings menu should be did the trick! The second try after two hours oft sleep tonight.
Show threadMarcus MüllerFeb 20

@sophie might help to tell us the actual phone model!

anyways, this looks roughly like a 2023 motorola, so chances are it outputs displayport over USB-C and you could try attaching an external screen to see if there's anything shown that just gets lost in color inversion

Show threadSophieFeb 20
@funkylab No reaction to any of the usb-c to hdmi adapters I have laying around. That was the very first thing I tried.
Show threadMarcus MüllerFeb 20
@sophie sad :(
Show threadMarcus MüllerFeb 20
@sophie but maybe try a usb-c to displayport cable, too; unlike HDMI, there is native DP as USB alt mode; though this gets really into grasping at straws
Show threadMarcus MüllerFeb 20
@sophie do you see your phone appear on your wlan? (just as a functional check)
Show threadSebastian ElisaFeb 20
@sophie I've had this problem. too with C->HDMI, but it always worked fine with C->DP (if it worked at all) @funkylab
Show threadHenryk PlötzFeb 20
@sophie You could try to enable TalkBack by pressing and holding both volume buttons. Caution: It's very different to use, read up on it first.
Show threadSophieFeb 20
@henryk Can talkback get around the unlock swipe pattern?
Show threadSophieFeb 20
Phone model is a Motorola Edge 30 running #lineageos 23.2.
Show threadtkFeb 20
@sophie if you have developer mode enabled and usb debugging enabled you could change the settings back via adb?
Show threadSophieFeb 20
@tk es, I could, but allowing adb access involves tapping an allow button, which needs an unlocked phone, which in turn needs a working display.
Show threadSophieFeb 20
@tk I'd need a way to unlock and allow adb without the screen working.
Show threadtkFeb 20
@sophie yes, you could unlock via adb as well, maybe check where the field would pop up when you connect the usb cable and allow it blindly?
Show threadJoFeb 20
@sophie @tk you could try using a usb keyboard or trackpad. My usb c dock works perfectly when using to charge it...