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[Q] Not able to turn off reactivation lock

Hi!
For some strange reason, after flashing a rom, I can't turn off the reactivation lock of my phone. I uncheck it, but when I enter download or recovery mode, it is still turned on..
Anyone faced something like that? Any suggestion would be fine.
Thanks and regards!
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It occurs toghether with a boot loop problem, such as described in other thread on this forum..maybe they are related?
Regards!

empat said:
Hi!
For some strange reason, after flashing a rom, I can't turn off the reactivation lock of my phone. I uncheck it, but when I enter download or recovery mode, it is still turned on..
Anyone faced something like that? Any suggestion would be fine.
Thanks and regards!
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Try a factory reset

jaythenut said:
Try a factory reset
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Thank you for your atention. After many attempts, I finally managed to uncheck the reactivation lock, problem solved. I still have this boot loop bug reported on this forum, but this is anothe issue...
Regards!

empat said:
Thank you for your atention. After many attempts, I finally managed to uncheck the reactivation lock, problem solved. I still have this boot loop bug reported on this forum, but this is anothe issue...
Regards!
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How did you solve it?

empat said:
Thank you for your atention. After many attempts, I finally managed to uncheck the reactivation lock, problem solved. I still have this boot loop bug reported on this forum, but this is anothe issue...
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me too.I have the same problems as you did. Reactivation lock on. always boot loop. HOW to lock off

I had a similar issue. I can't remember exactly how I got there, but I had the boot loops and wasn't able to flash anything via Odin/twrp. The way I solved it was by flashing a stock rom through Odin (equivalent to my build number not a newer one as that wouldn't flash either)
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hi .. i have the same issue. is there a way to disable reactivation lock without flashing a new rom? i just want to enter the recovery mode

Same Problem
empat said:
It occurs toghether with a boot loop problem, such as described in other thread on this forum..maybe they are related?
Regards!
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I am having the same problem and in the boot loop problem. How to resolve this issue?
Which is the other thread on this forum where this is discussed? let me know please.

sshamim said:
I am having the same problem and in the boot loop problem. How to resolve this issue?
Which is the other thread on this forum where this is discussed? let me know please.
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Hey i had the same problem and solved it. I have tried many things like reflashing recovery and afther that reflashing root and those went failed.
-->I was unable to do factory default.
-->reactivation lock was unchecked but was strangly still active
-->I also tried reflashing the stock firmware from
HTML:
www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
and strangly enough this one completed 100% and it solved my problem with reactivation lock.

so the only way to solve this issues is to flash the stock rom ?

Me too with lollipop
Hi I'm ressurecting this subject because I just have the problem and i'm not able to install another recovery or root my device. Even installing a stock rom fom Sammobile doesn't solve the problem :crying:
Every time i uncheck lock reactivation button it steels activate
I'm using lollipop BNL9 stock rom
Thanks for help

azerty-666 said:
Hi I'm ressurecting this subject because I just have the problem and i'm not able to install another recovery or root my device. Even installing a stock rom fom Sammobile doesn't solve the problem :crying:
Every time i uncheck lock reactivation button it steels activate
I'm using lollipop BNL9 stock rom
Thanks for help
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This exact thing is happening to my galaxy s5 running lollipop firmware. I cannot unchecked the reactivation lock in security, even with the correct password. I can't flash custom recovery or root cause reactivation lock always enables Odin to fail! Did you find any solutions?

At last
dbowmanda115 said:
This exact thing is happening to my galaxy s5 running lollipop firmware. I cannot unchecked the reactivation lock in security, even with the correct password. I can't flash custom recovery or root cause reactivation lock always enables Odin to fail! Did you find any solutions?
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Yes at last I called Samsung support to get help and and athe solution may be problematic for some people. In fact you need to suppress your Samsung Service account at http://account.samsung.com :crying: , after that reboot your phone and that's it. You can now check in download mode that reactivation lock is now :fingers-crossed: . When you do that you will loss all apps you buy through Galaxy Apps and nedd to eventually recreate a new account,if needed.

azerty-666 said:
Yes at last I called Samsung support to get help and and athe solution may be problematic for some people. In fact you need to suppress your Samsung Service account at http://account.samsung.com :crying: , after that reboot your phone and that's it. You can now check in download mode that reactivation lock is now :fingers-crossed: . When you do that you will loss all apps you buy through Galaxy Apps and nedd to eventually recreate a new account,if needed.
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Thanks for your help! I didn't read this until after I tried another solution. I flashed stock 4.4.2 and I could uncheck without any hassle. It seems Lollipop was the problem.

Hey.
Having the same problem here. What do you mean with "suppress your Samsung Service account"? Delete the account?

azerty-666 said:
Yes at last I called Samsung support to get help and and athe solution may be problematic for some people. In fact you need to suppress your Samsung Service account at http://account.samsung.com :crying: , after that reboot your phone and that's it. You can now check in download mode that reactivation lock is now :fingers-crossed: . When you do that you will loss all apps you buy through Galaxy Apps and nedd to eventually recreate a new account,if needed.
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by "suppressing" the account, do you mean deleting the samsung account? because i dont see any other option there.
i dont want to lose my data and apps, so a factory reset is out of option.

Infortunately yes. You must delete your Samsung account

azerty-666 said:
Infortunately yes. You must delete your Samsung account
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Thanks buddy.. Just one more question.. deleting the account wont affect anything else than the paid galaxy apps.. right? i mean, will it interfere with other phone functionalities or not?
Edit: I just deleted my samsung account online and restarted my phone. Still unable to uncheck the reactivation lock. any ideas?
Edit: I had to factory reset my phone from the stock recovery. When it booted it asked for samsung account password, I clicked on forgot password, created a new password from my laptop and used that to login to the samsung account. After that I was unable to uncheck the reactivation lock. Downside is that I had to lose my data, I could get my apps back from the google account.

I think the account is not deleted because I had exactly the same symptoms before deleting my account.
Did you follow my link on the previous messages?

[Q] Sould I use reactivation lock after rooting?

Hi everyone.
I wanted to root my device and it didn't work, allways got Auth fail recovery on odin and device, until I unchecked the reactivation lock, then it rooted flawlessly.
(I know my google account and password)
I was curious is it safe to stay with reactivation lock checked in case this happens:
Lets say the soft bricks into a boot loop who knows why but recovery still works.. so if I want to factory reset from custom recovery(philz recovery, with Nandroid and efs backed up), I think it is the best to unroot before factory reset(hope I'm wrong), witch will be imposible if the root didn't worked because of the reactivation lock, the unroot won't work too?
I gues before trying any flashing etc is good to uncheck reactivation lock, but I can allways make a mistake and forget it on.
So let me make that short, is it safe to activate ractivation lock when rooted in case something bad happens with the boot start?
I want to activate it for safety but this safety could block me too?
Do you guys keep it on after rooting?
I hope the readers will understand my question and don't get any headakes, sometimes I gould it hard to express myself in english, sorry about that.

alexpu1u said:
So let me make that short, is it safe to activate ractivation lock when rooted in case something bad happens with the boot start?
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Well reactivation lock is an anti-theft feature. Theft deterrents are good although they only have significant value when they are well implemented. Which is arguable in this case. It's hardly undefeatable. 2 strikes. And can be as annoying as hell in not liking your custom kernel. Strike thr ...
Bottom line, if you are good at making backups and believe in theft deterrents, then enable it. It makes it slightly more likely that a lost phone would make it back to you. Or at least ruin the thief's day. There should always be a way to restore your device if you have a backup and your credentials.
However if you are forgetful, bad with backups or simply have no patience for having to search XDA threads or enter something on a command line to disable reactivation lock and recover from a bootloop, etc.. then obviously don't use it. It could cause you some exasperation if you are in an unbootable state and it is interferring with an Odin flash.
Pick one. And either way try not to lose your phone.
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That's what I wanted to hear, so it's safe to keep it on if I'm backedup and pacient in case of a problem.
Thank you for your time. I activated it .

alexpu1u said:
That's what I wanted to hear, so it's safe to keep it on if I'm backedup and pacient in case of a problem.
Thank you for your time. I activated it .
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Well, I'm not concerned with being locked out of my phone permanently. Nor convinced that RA would really stop a stolen phone from being reactivated. But it's plausible that it would delay some thieves from using Odin to obliterate your tracking software.
So a longer window in which it might be possible to pin down your phone's location. Or perhaps spur someone to return your phone in the case of a lost, rather than stolen phone.
Whether to use RA depends mostly on your willingness to put up with some temporary frustration should your phone somehow end up unbootable and you have to jump through a few hoops to disable the reactivation lock.
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alexpu1u said:
Hi everyone.
I wanted to root my device and it didn't work, allways got Auth fail recovery on odin and device, until I unchecked the reactivation lock, then it rooted flawlessly...
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But you can't enable this option after root, it does not work!

knox 0x1 (2)
jgfernog said:
But you can't enable this option after root, it does not work!
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interesting finding from me:
even if you are not root, with samsung knox 0x1 (2) the option is automatically enabled but you won't see it ticked. You can factory reset your phone when you have knox 0x1 (2) and see it will ask for reactivation account in order to by pass the phone. There is no solution. Samsung knox is funny.

MaXi32 said:
interesting finding from me:
even if you are not root, with samsung knox 0x1 (2) the option is automatically enabled but you won't see it ticked. You can factory reset your phone when you have knox 0x1 (2) and see it will ask for reactivation account in order to by pass the phone. There is no solution. Samsung knox is funny.
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Yeah! There are some problems with it. I saw people saying that their devices had KNOX enabled even with the option unchecked in settings.

I wouldn't bother with reactivation lock for any scenario
1. Easy to bypass
2. Only causes problems for yourself if you forget to disable it before flashing
3. Anyone who knows how to flash a new ROM, which is what it's designed to prevent, can bypass it flashing a KitKat ROM anyway
4. You've lost your phone anyway, they're not gonna give it back because they can't use it

How to trace your note 4 after rooting?

Hi all, im thinking about rooting my phone and i dont mind tripping the knox counter.
I wondered if the tracing still works using the find my mobile site from samsung?
Knox is really succesful because if you enable it they cant hard reset your phone or root it do remove the tracing, right?
So is there any possibility to have the same functionality after rooting?

Wally93 said:
Hi all, im thinking about rooting my phone and i dont mind tripping the knox counter.
I wondered if the tracing still works using the find my mobile site from samsung?
Knox is really succesful because if you enable it they cant hard reset your phone or root it do remove the tracing, right?
So is there any possibility to have the same functionality after rooting?
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You can still trace it after root via Samsung. Idk about the reactivation lock tough becouse u need to disable that before rooting

Racinghart91 said:
You can still trace it after root via Samsung. Idk about the reactivation lock tough becouse u need to disable that before rooting
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I'd like to know the same thing, when rooted and on stock recovery: reactivation lock enabled;
Will it still ask for Samsung credentials if reset from system?
Will it still ask for Samsung credentials if reset by bootloader?
Will it still ask for Samsung credentials if flashed via PC?
Kind regards, Stefan.

I tried the tracker at the Samsung site yesterday. It didn't find my rooted phone, didn't make the phone ring etc,
I was just relying on cellular data for the connection (no WiFi or GPS).
Maybe it was a one off.

N910p how to root?

I'm on Android 5.0.1 and i have the sprint variant of the note 4 and I have tried many methods to get root. I could really use some help

Just to help get this started...
You've read through and tried [SM-N910*] CF-Auto-Root?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/orig-development/sm-n910-cf-auto-root-t2897428
"On your phone - Settings - Security and Turn the Reactivation Lock off"

catseyenu said:
Just to help get this started...
You've read through and tried [SM-N910*] CF-Auto-Root?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/orig-development/sm-n910-cf-auto-root-t2897428
"On your phone - Settings - Security and Turn the Reactivation Lock off"
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I tried it yesterday but it didn't work. I had the reactivation lock on so I guess that is why. I got it rooted now

Good deal, all's well that ends well.

Notes 4 updated, locked in lockscreen

Hello,
I have a note 4 (Italian) blocked on the lockscreen.
after updating to 5.1 lollipopop (samsung official update via wifi),
the fingerprint reader has started to give some problems, then in about 24 hours by the update the phone does not ask me more unlocking fingerprint, but only by backup password;
but also by entering the backup password will not unlock, and says password wrong.
unfortunately debugging is not active ....
What can I do before performing a hard reset?
thanks!

Happened twice with my phone ...at last it accepted the backup password. .
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i don't think that work on my note.... i have I tried a million times

Help!!

Doesnt it give you an Unlock via Google option?

Use Find my phone for unlock
You can unlock your phone screen with browser.
https:// findmymobile samsung com

Do hard reset if u don't find solution.

I think there is a way that's need TWRP recovery and you must flash a file!
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unfortunately I tried using Google Android Device to replace the password and lock the phone but it says it on the phone already has a password ....
I did not want to make a hard reset because I do not have a data backup ....
I can use this procedure http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...ck-screen-pattern-password-pin-t2948336/page7 ? But I do not have root permissions, and I would not risk after knox 0x1 because I noticed a spot in the display that I should replace warranty
thanks

mdp987 said:
unfortunately I tried using Google Android Device to replace the password and lock the phone but it says it on the phone already has a password ....
I did not want to make a hard reset because I do not have a data backup ....
I can use this procedure http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...ck-screen-pattern-password-pin-t2948336/page7 ? But I do not have root permissions, and I would not risk after knox 0x1 because I noticed a spot in the display that I should replace warranty
thanks
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You can't use it without root...
Sorry.

I can do is root and then go back?

mdp987 said:
I can do is root and then go back?
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You can always go back to your original software after root bat you will trip Knox for ever that mean you will void your warranty.

I saw that came out a firmware in late November N910FXXS1COK2 always based on 5.1.1 but with the fix, if I did the flash of this by Odin on my mobile in theory should fix it if it really had been caused by the previous update?
Odin also works with phone locked and debugging disabled?
thank you