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Having quite the issue with my Pro1. Had the phone for nearly a year now and for most of it no real issues. A couple of months ago I unlocked the bootloader and installed Lineage 16.0. Everything was good except that every time I setup a fingerprint, it would work without issue until I restarted the device where fingerprints would always disappear. Originally I figured it was a bad flash and left it as because I was barely using my phone at the time. But now I tried to reflash and Im still getting the same issue.

Things I've tried
- changing pin/pattern
- enabling/disabling secure boot
- wiping all partitions/userdata/cache an incredible amount of times
- flashing stock using fastboot via Waxberry's method
- flashing stock using TDM's recovery tool
- re-locking the bootloader

So yeah... I'm at a complete loss and could use any help at all. It seems weird that it would be a hardware issue if it works before a restart, but I'm out of ideas of what it could be on the software/firmware side of things so that's where my mindset it going.
 

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You can aquire root rights through adb (DevOps - USB debugging - Rooted debugging) without rooting the phone. Run adb root from your computer and delete "/persist/data/fingerprint".

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10 hours ago, DieBruine said:

 

You can aquire root rights through adb (DevOps - USB debugging - Rooted debugging) without rooting the phone. Run adb root from your computer and delete "/persist/data/fingerprint".

Thank you so much! That was driving me insane.

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Just for anyone else having this issue I resolved it a bit of a different way (^thank you for those threads and the massive help) and here is how I did it.
 

I was unable to do adb root since the whole reason I flashed back to stock is my new job is now very phone dependent and I was having some issues in Lineage, so I flashed the persist.img instead

  1. Enable developer options and usb debugging
  2. Make sure you bootloader is unlocked (had to unlock and re-lock it after flashing)
  3. Put this file into your adb folder (Persist.img file from TDM) http://files.nwwn.com/android/pro1/persist.img
  4. In CMD go to your adb folder ("cd C:\adb" or wahtever you used) and first check your device is being with "fastboot devices"
  5. Run "fastboot flash persist persist.img"
  6. ???
  7. Profit!

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