Jan092012

How can I regain access to my Facebook account?

vickie asks:

I’ve tried for 3 days now to get into my Facebook and it won’t let me.

I’ve changed my password. I’ve tried to answer new security questions, which are stupid because I can’t recognize every picture of someone. I don’t have a cell phone number. I sent them two IDs to prove it was me, gave them two names to show them it is me, still my Facebook is locked, yet others are sending me requests.

Help me someone please!


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    • Vickie January 9, 2012

      thanks but i have tried all of them with no luck ive wrote the facebook team thing and to the diabled facebook team and its like they cant give me an honest answer and all the stuff that is in here to help you well it doesnt work and there is no spot on there to write someone to even find out if you are blocked this is so wrong i use to enjoy facebook with my grand children
       

    • Vickie January 9, 2012

      well im about to give up ive restored everything changed my password i figure to many times gave them enouggh proof who i realy am and still no honest answer this is just so wrong my granddaughters are so upset als

      • Jay.0 January 10, 2012

        well, Can you tell me what exactly happened to your account?
        reading your comments, I dont think there is much hope, but Still I want to know the details, why this happened, and what is the problem ?

        You can just set up a new account, and forget the old one unless someone is misusing it.

        • Vickie January 10, 2012

          ok jay im not sure i just turned the computer on went to facebook it wouldnt except my password so i changed it tried again got nothing so like crazy ive been trying everything on here that that they said to do so i got anrw addres last nite they wrote me back i again sent them proof of who i am a picture id with my birth date and things on it, and a legal id i got to have as another proof because i dont have a drivers licence havent had one sence my son was killed but i havent heard a word back from them i tried to open anoother account under my maiden name but have to use my old yahoo address cause i have no other address and it would not go i just hate losing everything i have established on facebook for my selef and my grand daughters i noticed heck over a month ago it had me down as moriva new york address and i tried like crazy to change it to carthage new york witrh no help so if some one from there is using my name and have done something wrong im geting the worse end of it i ask them several times to get in and change it for me because they have gotten into my account but i guess they havent and if i had any old accounts to please close them out and just keep this one open but who knows havent heard a word yet they are suspose to  help i miss my face book, and alsio if it is disabled then why when i did the f10 thing to recover everything i got a new messenger they let me add my friends list from facebook
           i give up

          • Jay.0 January 10, 2012

            Ok uncle, summary of my answer :

            You can easily create a gmail account.
            click here :
            https://accounts.google.com/SignUp

            And use it to create a new facebook account if you can’t recover the old one.
            sign up :facebook.com

            ===========================

            Details:

            I read your comment, some points are still not clear,
            but as you said they asked for a proof.

            Check the image I attached with my comment.
            Is that what you saw on your profile? Then it a facebook bug which automatically disabled many accounts like this in 2010.

            I know, that you are upset because you can’t access your old account and data…
            I also lost a lot of my imp data when my hard disk crashed and I could not recover it,
            But then I realized that I was not born with that data, I will create or gather those things once again.

            So do not give up, get a new account with a new email id, (I recommend gmail)

  • degan January 10, 2012

    i for get my password acount how ican access my acount facebook
    please help me

    • susendeep dutta April 28, 2012

      You can reset the password of your account and after regaining the control of your account,make sure that you set up security questions for your account which will he helpful if in case you forget the password in future.

      How to Reset Facebook Password -

      http://www.ehow.com/how_5343400_reset-facebook-password.html

  • degan January 10, 2012

    only i need my to get my password lost how ican get my password

    • Jay.0 January 10, 2012

      You can reset your password, you cant get your password.

      https://www.facebook.com/recover.php

      1.Enter you email address (that you used for fb)o n this page.
      and click search
      2. Click send code option

      3.Open your email inbox, and click on the password reset link.

      Now you can enter new password and confirm it by entering again.

      • Vickiespencer86 January 11, 2012

        jay, i have tried that it doesnt work im just giving up i tried to get g mail with no luck the dang red stuff keeps coming up about characters should i maybe try g mail under my maiden name i dont want to use that name for family reasons but i will this is such bull
         

        • Jay.0 January 11, 2012

          So, you are having problems while signing up on gmail?
          It is totally up to your choice what name you are using.

          what is that red thing you are talking about?
          Does it says username not available, already taken by someone else ?

          or you can’t enter correct captcha ? (text that you have to type, as it is)
          ===============================
          It is not a difficult thing, requires patience sometimes,

          Take help of someone you trust,if you cant do it by yourself.
          Tell them to set up a gmail account , and a facebook account (with that gmail id) for you.
          and send/tell you the passwords of both.
          which you can change later.

          It will not take much time of that person, any friend or relative will do it for you.

          You can give up or ask for more help.

  • Jay.0 January 11, 2012

    Okay !

  • Shelia Bess February 29, 2012

    I’m in the same boat Vicki s in.Get this I can pull up my face book,( its Shelia Bess) really but it want except my password.Then I go to my yahoo, and I can’t get in to that . Have you got an answer for me. PLEASE….  Shelia

    • Jay.0 February 29, 2012

      You can reset your password here:
      http://www.facebook.com/recover.php

      Facebook will send you a reset link or code, using which you can reset your password.

      If you do not have password to your email, it can also be reset by using forget password  option.

      does that answers your question ?

      I suggest you to create a new account with a new email id,
      If you are seeing a message just like Mr Vicki did, which asks for government id and all.

      • Shelia Bess February 29, 2012

        No it just want let me use my password and then when I click on reset password it want let me get in to my yahoo acc. so I can. I have my family and friends on there. And I’m not sure where to go to get help from yahoo either. In other words I have to be able  to get in to cherokee_princess18 before I can maybe get my face book back .  Some one up there really doesn’t like me

      • Shelia Bess February 29, 2012

        It want let me use my other email add I have. I only have one yahoo email I can get in to now. cherokee_princess44 I can get in to cherokee_princess18 I can’t, so will they send it to that on instead ? I can give them my phone no I can give them some of my family that is on face book or some friends what is it going to take?

        • Jay.0 February 29, 2012

          I think we are making a simple thing complicated.

          when you reset facebook  password, it will send you an email to : cherokee_princess18

          You just have to open the inbox and click the link facebook will send to you.

          you just need to know the password of your email.

          If not you can recover the email password here :

          By clicking on I cannot access my account.
          and then forgot my password.
          then answer security questions or receive reset link on other email if you have added it aleady.

  • Leersings March 27, 2012

    My brother ‘s Facebook account and home page etc. now appears  when I sign in to what used to be my Facebook page. How can I change this back Facebook to my original setting  which show that it is my account and home page. profile etc. . 

  • fiza March 27, 2012

    i had deleted my facebook a/c few months back. i want to access facebook wid d same a/c. wat should i do??? 

    • susendeep dutta April 28, 2012

      You can try creating a new Facebook account with the same credentials that you deleted and see if it works for you.

  • Ryan Cross April 27, 2012

    I have an account that the domain name for the email expired, and we lost it…stupid consultants… So now we need to re-access the account and we 1. Don’t know the password 2. Have NO way of retrieving the password b/c we cannot access our domains email account b/c someone else owns it…

    Any ideas?!

    Thank you!!

    • Ryan Cross April 27, 2012

      If you’d like to email me you can at Crossryan@me.com!

    • Bruce Epper April 28, 2012

      Sorry, you are SOL on that one. When a domain expires, the hosting company (I am assuming it was hosted) may hold on to your data for a few weeks before deleting it unless it is picked up by – in this case – another entity where they will delete all data before reassignment (including all associated web pages and email data and mailboxes). Basically, once the domain was purchased by someone else, the mailboxes themselves don’t even exist.

      Now, if you had been able to grab the domain again before this other entity and proven that you were the previous holder of the domain, it may have been possible for you to regain access to the account and all associated data.

  • joey diana pena May 5, 2012

    i have 2 accounts with the same email address but i cant open the other account anymore. how can i open that agaiiin? :(

    • Susendeep Dutta May 7, 2012

      It might be due to password issue.Try resetting the password.

  • samkit May 6, 2012

    how can i open my facebook account when my facebook account is lockd and it is open with me cell number

    • Susendeep Dutta May 20, 2012

      Login with your mobile number and reset your password and try login with your email address.

  • Hacker May 7, 2012

    i want to verify or get update via my mobile on my fb account.
    bt it was used for another account wich i’ve no further access.
    now i wanted to use that no. for my original fb account bt it doesn’t work.
    the error show me that this no. is used to verify another account. try again.!!!!
    anyone has solution for it, vth full procedure.!!!!

  • Arthur May 7, 2012

    My facebook received a virus hack so I was made to create a new password.

    I then could not enter my facebook with my new password and since my email log in is no longer an accessible email account I couldn’t receive emails from Facebook regarding access to my account.

    I then clicked ‘Forgot your password’ followed by ‘No longer have access to these’ under my email address on the log in page

    I followed the steps to reset my password, entered 3 security codes from friends to recover my account, then resetting my log in email to an accessible email address.

    I waited 24 hours to let the account activate. 8 days later I’m still stuck on the log in page as Facebook does not allow my new email to log in. Quoting that:

    ‘We’re sorry. The email you used to start the account recovery process is already in use. Please restart the process with a new email address.’ (see Image 1)

    I then started the process again with another email address I had, I got as far as ‘Recovering your account through friends’, and Facebook alerts me that:

    ‘Sorry, your account is temporarily unavailable.
    Please log in to http://www.facebook.com from a computer and follow the instructions given.’

    I’ve tried cleaning my cookies and logging in from various computers/browsers with both my old email address and my new one and Facebook still declines entry, suggesting that a) my password is incorrect or b) there is no account created with this email log in.

    PLEASE HELP… i run a social media agency so i’m missing out on alot of online work!!!

    • Susendeep Dutta May 8, 2012

      You can try log in using your mobile number.More FAQs below -

      http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=110975895658061&ref_query=log+in+using+mobile

    • KAY May 9, 2012

      This same thing happened to me! I still have not gotten mine back its been gone for almost two weeks! please let me know if you get yours back and how you do it, because cause mine is still saying that my Facebook is temporarily unavailable and I have tried EVERYTHING.

      • Tina May 10, 2012

        Kay,

        Have you tried everything described in this article: How To Recover Your Facebook Account When You Can No Longer Log In

        • Wendy May 18, 2012

          I have tried all of that and everything is working until the end and then it says email is not valid or I have used up my tries for the time. NOTHING works!

          • Tina May 18, 2012

            Wendy,

            This sounds like you have gone through the recovery process at least once. You need to wait at least 24 hours before access to your account will be restored. Give it 48 hours, then try again. Not sure what else to recommend.

          • Wendy May 19, 2012

            Thanks Tina but I try every 24 hours with the same response. No help at all.

      • Wendy May 18, 2012

        This is the same for me too! So frustrating!

    • Wendy May 18, 2012

      I have the same problem and nothing is working! So frustrating!

      • Susendeep Dutta May 20, 2012

        Have you tried login using phone number.

  • afewerki negash May 11, 2012

    i have chanched my password of my facebook a few days before but with the new password i can’t access my account

  • afewerki negash May 11, 2012

    i can’t access my account with the new password

    • Susendeep Dutta May 20, 2012

      Try login through mobile number.

  • gvantsa May 17, 2012

    I’ve changed my phone number.
    How to login in my account because confirmation code is sent to the old number.

  • ali rocky May 19, 2012

    i have a problem in my fb account … when i logged in they want a code which they sent on my mobile but i cant get any code , how can i login normally again

  • Monika May 22, 2012

    Hey I also have the same problem as vickie have, I want to regain access on my facebook account. Please help me. What I.d? Nothing is working.

  • Monika May 22, 2012

    pLz someone help me…. I love my i.d and i have all my friends over their, i used to stuck to it for hours, i feeling so helpless

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