I apologize if this question is not in proper category. I had a replacement Note 3 shipped to me from T Mobile a few days ago, and I have been having trouble. I did not root it. I was trying to see if there was a software update and it told me they were not available as it had been modified. Again, I did not do anything to the phone to change anything. I checked and it said it was custom.
So, I am wondering if anyone can direct me to where I can get a copy of the Stock software for TMobile and a link as to how to do it properly as I do not want a bill for the entire phone. And I was told there was something called Triangle Away that I would need to use to remove the Custom label. Could I just use that without restoring?
Much thanks
my rooted att g2 bricked due to the att update a few days ago. i couldnt get it to work as im android noobish. someone linked me to a an easy way to flash kitkat back onto the phone and i did so just nowand so far( 20 min with the phone ) everything seems to working normally. i had already called att about the phone and they are sending me out a refurbished device. There wont be an issue if i send back their refurbed phone and just say mine started working or just refuse it right? what would you do, keep the newly flashed kk phone or take the refurb?
joeynox said:
my rooted att g2 bricked due to the att update a few days ago. i couldnt get it to work as im android noobish. someone linked me to a an easy way to flash kitkat back onto the phone and i did so just nowand so far( 20 min with the phone ) everything seems to working normally. i had already called att about the phone and they are sending me out a refurbished device. There wont be an issue if i send back their refurbed phone and just say mine started working or just refuse it right? what would you do, keep the newly flashed kk phone or take the refurb?
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Correct. You can send the same phone back to them. I'd keep the one that is in the best condition.
I had a rooted BOG5 with TWRP, used Odin to apply stock BOG5 to sell after buying Nexus 6P.
It booted and I was able to skip setup wizards etc to show person who I sold it to it was working.
They couldn't get voice working on it so they wanted give it back to me.
In troubleshooting, I told them to do factory reset from within the phone and from within stock recovery.
I got the phone back and now I have the locked due to abnormal factory reset, my Samsung Account gives 'Processing Failed' message. Either I forgot to turn off the reactivation lock or they hosed something up. I tried their Samsung Account as well and get invalid password.
How do I get out of this lock out? Odin back to OC4? I tried to call Samsung and got a run around but they mentioned a Samsung Authorized Repair shop or something like that.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
joegard said:
I had a rooted BOG5 with TWRP, used Odin to apply stock BOG5 to sell after buying Nexus 6P.
It booted and I was able to skip setup wizards etc to show person who I sold it to it was working.
They couldn't get voice working on it so they wanted give it back to me.
In troubleshooting, I told them to do factory reset from within the phone and from within stock recovery.
I got the phone back and now I have the locked due to abnormal factory reset, my Samsung Account gives 'Processing Failed' message. Either I forgot to turn off the reactivation lock or they hosed something up. I tried their Samsung Account as well and get invalid password.
How do I get out of this lock out? Odin back to OC4? I tried to call Samsung and got a run around but they mentioned a Samsung Authorized Repair shop or something like that.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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try reflash BOG5?
Try with a different email account, that happened to me as well.
buhohitr said:
try reflash BOG5?
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Yup and with other versions but once you go to BOG5, you cannot go back.
I asked in another thread but do to time constraints I am in a bit of a rush. I am doing an exchange tomorrow and need to revert the phone back. I saved them when I initially rooted but after so many factory resets they got deleted accidentally. If anyone could hook me up Id really appreciate it.
I sold a nexus 6p online. I shipped it out to the buyer. He received it and he is unable to sign into his account on the phone. It is telling him that it's still attached to my account. I was wondering if there was a way to remotely delete my account so the buyer and sign into it with his account.
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I sold a nexus 6p online. I shipped it out to the buyer. He received it and he is unable to sign into his account on the phone. It is telling him that it's still attached to my account. I was wondering if there was a way to remotely delete my account so the buyer and sign into it with his account.
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Search google for FRP (factory reset protection).
As far as I know there is no way to do it remotely. I think you should have signed out of your google account before you reset the phone. Most likely he will have to ship it back to you so you can sign in and then remove your account.
Here: https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity?pli=1
But I'm not sure how that will affect the device.
You could always change your password to something stupid for a few seconds for him to sign in and sign out depends how sensitive data you have on your account..
Will Android device manager do it? Will it remotely wipe the phone and remove my account from it, or will it flag the phone as stolen. I cannot get any solid information from repeated Google searches as to what happens after the device is remote wiped.
Android Manager will wipe the device but when it turns on it will ask for any Google account it was bound to before wipe. The other person needs to enter your Gmail account, then his, then you can either change password to your account or wipe it with Device Manager and next time it boots it will accept your account or his (because both were added before wipe).
You can always set a temporary password to your Google account, send it to the buyer and have him log in with his account. After that, you change your password back and voilà.
Is all of this a working protection against simply Fastboot unlocking bootloader, flashing stock image then rebooting into a working phone?
Mangala_Dharma said:
Is all of this a working protection against simply Fastboot unlocking bootloader, flashing stock image then rebooting into a working phone?
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If the bootloader is currently locked, I believe you would have to go into developer options to enable the OEM unlocking setting... Which you can't get to because of the FRP.
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Is all of this a working protection against simply Fastboot unlocking bootloader, flashing stock image then rebooting into a working phone?
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Unlocking bootloader (OEM unlocking in dev options) deactivates this protection but to do it you still need to get in there somehow and you can't without first logging into a Google account it is currently bound to. And as you probably know without unlocked bootloader you can't flash anything.
And even if he could flash new ROM my friend had bought used Samsung S7 Edge and previous owner also left it locked. You can flash different ROMs with S7 Edge out of the box but the FRP survived several attempts at flashing stock/custom ROMs. We had to use the workaround found here at xda S7 forums.
Thanks for all the info.
I did not unlock the bootloader on the phone. I read a little bit about Factory Reset Protection and the only way around it was to sign in to the phone and then remove your account from the phone. It's something that was new this year for Android devices and I was just unaware of it.
It's actually been around awhile, just not widely implemented. If you remember which monthly security update you last installed, he might be able to get around it. YouTuber root ninja has some videos depending on patch. The one I watched just for kicks (since I'd like my 6P to be protected if lost) was a few months old though.
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I heard that with a simple factory reset with the stock recovery should remove the account from the phone.
Lol good luck with getting that off remotely it's impossible it's kinda like apple cloud system which is really good.