How can I remove retail mode from Galaxy Note 4? I do not want the phone to reset at certain time and I do not want all those videos to play over and over. And I want to root it. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
You shouldn't have bought a stolen phone. It belongs to Samsung .
If it says demo unit inside its got no calling capability.
I know that it will not have celullar capabilities, but I want the phone not to keep resetting at certain time. I want to use it as a tablet.
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Hi. I have a Samsung Galaxy 5s SM-900S. I discovered after buying it that it is a clone. Oh well!
I rooted it using Root Genius (Chinese) from Shuame download.
It was working great. Then I deleted some bloatware apps, and disabled others.
After that, all hell broke loose. I was stuck in a flash screen boot loop.
A techie friend put the phone in download mode, and it was able to open up, but no home page.
Then he downloaded Nova launcher, and I got my home page back.
But it was a slightly different home page.
The phone originally said 900T (under- about device), but I know it is G900S (from 3 apps that display the phone specs).
Now it says G900.
The problems now are:
1. my phone dialer disappeared. I downloaded another, but it wont ring when a call comes in
2. Every few minutes when doing anything, I get a message- Unfortunately, the process android process.acore has stopped.
I then must press the ok button to continue.
Can anyone help me? Do I need to flash a new ROM?
I don't wantto reset to factory settings if I can avoid it.
I am a newbie. But I learn fast.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Arnele
arnele said:
Hi. I have a Samsung Galaxy 5s SM-900S. I discovered after buying it that it is a clone. Oh well!
I rooted it using Root Genius (Chinese) from Shuame download.
It was working great. Then I deleted some bloatware apps, and disabled others.
After that, all hell broke loose. I was stuck in a flash screen boot loop.
A techie friend put the phone in download mode, and it was able to open up, but no home page.
Then he downloaded Nova launcher, and I got my home page back.
But it was a slightly different home page.
The phone originally said 900T (under- about device), but I know it is G900S (from 3 apps that display the phone specs).
Now it says G900.
The problems now are:
1. my phone dialer disappeared. I downloaded another, but it wont ring when a call comes in
2. Every few minutes when doing anything, I get a message- Unfortunately, the process android process.acore has stopped.
I then must press the ok button to continue.
Can anyone help me? Do I need to flash a new ROM?
I don't wantto reset to factory settings if I can avoid it.
I am a newbie. But I learn fast.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Arnele
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I'm just going to let you know right now... You're not going to get support in an official device thread for a clone.
I`m sorry you got scammed mate, try to get your money back or file a police report for fraude if the device was advertised as a genuine Galaxy S5.
There is no support for this (also not by the manufacturer) device and even finding a working rom wil be very difficult.
Good luck and hope you learn from this, if it sounds to be too good to be true, it usualy is
Sad to say, but he's pretty much out of luck. Scammers know they're selling a phone that's not genuine, so chances of getting money back are slim to none. Police also don't care. If you bought it with cash just take this as a life lesson, because there's pretty much nothing else you can do.
okay guys, well i buy and sell cars off auctions and in a land rover i just got i found a galaxy s7 edge in the glove box....me myself i have a galaxy s7 on sprint,,, but this edge is from tmobile, when i turned it on it automatically took me to where you have a blue screen and u sellect a language and so on, then i get to a place where it ask me enter the email it was first used on it...now i have the phone on me and if anyone has doubts of stolen phone and so on i have no problem posting pictures of the IME and so forward just fyi. anyhow i guess maybe someone at the aution planed on keeping it and they must had hit that reset crap and once they saw they got stuck just ditch the phone which by the way has a crack screen and crack back also. if pictures are needed for any reason let me know i will post them like i said i just found it in a purchase at the auction.
can i just download the marshmallow rom and flash it thru recovery to get pass this???
chriszal said:
okay guys, well i buy and sell cars off auctions and in a land rover i just got i found a galaxy s7 edge in the glove box....me myself i have a galaxy s7 on sprint,,, but this edge is from tmobile, when i turned it on it automatically took me to where you have a blue screen and u sellect a language and so on, then i get to a place where it ask me enter the email it was first used on it...now i have the phone on me and if anyone has doubts of stolen phone and so on i have no problem posting pictures of the IME and so forward just fyi. anyhow i guess maybe someone at the aution planed on keeping it and they must had hit that reset crap and once they saw they got stuck just ditch the phone which by the way has a crack screen and crack back also. if pictures are needed for any reason let me know i will post them like i said i just found it in a purchase at the auction.
can i just download the marshmallow rom and flash it thru recovery to get pass this???
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Nope. FRP if there to prevent exactly what you are trying to do.
GibMcFragger said:
Nope. FRP if there to prevent exactly what you are trying to do.
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thaks for the help...but a quick youtube video help me bypass it in 10 min...i guess google frp aint really good...thanks guys or should i say thanks xda http://www.xda-developers.com/rootjunky/
My FRP method this:
Phone G935A, used Firmware G935U (not AT&T bloatware)
Insert prepaid sim 0$, and 0mb internet, but LTE network...
Personalise phone start, and wifi not turn on. Google verification fail, and NEXT button active...
Personalise finish, and turn dev.opt on, oem unlock on, and add the google account.
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Family member just passed away and his wife is trying to get to the contacts in his phone to let his friends and acquaintances know. Phone is locked with a Number passcode. Doesn't know if he had Google Account and I've seen some tutorials on unlocking the phone using SDK or even Odin having rooted my own phone before and change OS. BUt know him and his age, the phone has never been modified and developer tools has never been enabled. Do i just really need to download some custom recovery and flash that recovery on phone with ODIN to be able to access the contact list or just remove the Lock feature. They're contacting Verizon to see if they can help but if i can get into phone for them it would be a great help.
Carrier:Verizon
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S4
Model: SCH-i545
I know this sounds suspect and people maybe be hesitant to help thinking i have a stolen phone but i can reassure you that it's not the situation and you'de be doing a great service to my aunt who's trying to get things arranged and people notified of her husband's death. Anything i can do to prove it i would gladly do so. I've been researching how to do this myself and unfortunately I don't know if its possible on a Stock Verizon, Unrooted, Smasung Galaxy S4 SCH-i545. Dont want to accidentally wipe this phone and lose the contacts, pictures and videos on the phone. So like i said anything i can do to prove this is isnt bull**** id gladily do.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I'm in college and I recently busted my little LG HD Tribute and I decided I would look at the market for a new phone.
One of the new college students fixes busted up phones and sells them so I went to see what he had.
He was selling a brand new Galaxy S7 Edge for 50$ and I thought it was a steal, so I looked at it and it was working well for about 3 days.
I had it turned off charging the other night and I went to turn it on and it began to flicker the Samsung Galaxy Edge screen it shows whenever you turn it on, and just kept flashing. and does literally nothing else. I didn't know what to do, so I tried to reboot it in recovery and all it does is flash "recovery booting" and that's it. So, I can't even get into the BIOS settings of the phone to try and reset it to factory settings or anything like that.
The only thing I can get to pop up is the Custom OS Downloading screen and the "An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC Software." screen. So, I downloaded the Smart Switch PC program and ran it, plugged it in and it doesn't recognize the S7 Edge as a supported device. I tried changing USB ports and all, but it just doesn't recognize it. I tried the Emergency feature and that doesn't help either. Even with the SN and the Model ID it still can't fix it.
So I'm guessing it updated while I was sleeping? And something went wrong? I don't know, I didn't physically buy the phone from the carrier myself so I don't think I can just walk into T-Mobile and ask them to help. I'm not sure what to do. Any advice would be wonderful.
Have you tried reflashing everything with odin?
jsbarrett said:
I'm in college and I recently busted my little LG HD Tribute and I decided I would look at the market for a new phone.
One of the new college students fixes busted up phones and sells them so I went to see what he had.
He was selling a brand new Galaxy S7 Edge for 50$ and I thought it was a steal, so I looked at it and it was working well for about 3 days.
I had it turned off charging the other night and I went to turn it on and it began to flicker the Samsung Galaxy Edge screen it shows whenever you turn it on, and just kept flashing. and does literally nothing else. I didn't know what to do, so I tried to reboot it in recovery and all it does is flash "recovery booting" and that's it. So, I can't even get into the BIOS settings of the phone to try and reset it to factory settings or anything like that.
The only thing I can get to pop up is the Custom OS Downloading screen and the "An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC Software." screen. So, I downloaded the Smart Switch PC program and ran it, plugged it in and it doesn't recognize the S7 Edge as a supported device. I tried changing USB ports and all, but it just doesn't recognize it. I tried the Emergency feature and that doesn't help either. Even with the SN and the Model ID it still can't fix it.
So I'm guessing it updated while I was sleeping? And something went wrong? I don't know, I didn't physically buy the phone from the carrier myself so I don't think I can just walk into T-Mobile and ask them to help. I'm not sure what to do. Any advice would be wonderful.
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"selling a brand new Galaxy S7 Edge for 50$" a phone that cost around 700$?
The fact that it was sold "brad new" for 50$, didn't trigger some warning light in your brain?
Your s7e is no more than a cheap replica of the original, so "good luck" with the fix!!!
jsbarrett said:
I'm in college and I recently busted my little LG HD Tribute and I decided I would look at the market for a new phone.
One of the new college students fixes busted up phones and sells them so I went to see what he had.
He was selling a brand new Galaxy S7 Edge for 50$ and I thought it was a steal, so I looked at it and it was working well for about 3 days.
I had it turned off charging the other night and I went to turn it on and it began to flicker the Samsung Galaxy Edge screen it shows whenever you turn it on, and just kept flashing. and does literally nothing else. I didn't know what to do, so I tried to reboot it in recovery and all it does is flash "recovery booting" and that's it. So, I can't even get into the BIOS settings of the phone to try and reset it to factory settings or anything like that.
The only thing I can get to pop up is the Custom OS Downloading screen and the "An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC Software." screen. So, I downloaded the Smart Switch PC program and ran it, plugged it in and it doesn't recognize the S7 Edge as a supported device. I tried changing USB ports and all, but it just doesn't recognize it. I tried the Emergency feature and that doesn't help either. Even with the SN and the Model ID it still can't fix it.
So I'm guessing it updated while I was sleeping? And something went wrong? I don't know, I didn't physically buy the phone from the carrier myself so I don't think I can just walk into T-Mobile and ask them to help. I'm not sure what to do. Any advice would be wonderful.
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I don't think it was brand new. Because it only started acting weird just after three days. The screen would never flicker only because of an update, so it is definitely a defective phone or a fake one because no body in this world would sell such an expensive device for such a low price, considering that it costs more than 700$ brand new.
It may have been a brand phone, but since the guy according to you sells refurbished phones.
In your mind you should of known, he may have worked on it because it was defective for some reason.
To get it for a cheap price.
Not even defective refirbs would sell for that cheap.. most likely a fake goophone s7 there less than $100 New and they don't last long at all
Post some pics of it :good:
imgur com/a/zd8J8
^ That is the album everyone has requested.
It's spaced out because of spam filter xda-developers website has, so just add period.
I went back to the guy today and he admitted that he had actually stolen the phone from his step dad which makes a ton of sense.
This man had stolen the phone and apparently couldn't get into his step dad's Google account so he flashed it with Odin himself and that's how he got it working. He said he couldn't keep the phone due to his step dad would eventually found out he had it but honestly, I don't want the phone knowing this now. It's hot, and it's almost a brick. I seriously feel like a criminal having it, but I spent my work-study money on it and if I'm going to have it in my possession, I want it to at least work.
I left prior to him telling me that he had stolen the phone because I was disgusted and frankly I don't want to associate with this guy knowing this, even if he was honest...
I took it upon myself to try and fix it. I have tried flashing it with Odin myself like one of the users have suggested using the SM-G935T that is on the back of the phone as a reference for downloading the necessary files for the phone's model.
Every time I run Odin while it's plugged in saying it's "Downloading Custom OS" I get the error message: FAIL! (Auth) in Odin.
I don't know what to do.
Any advice would be lovely.
Thanks in advance.
The information you might want:
SM-G935T UD FCC ID:A3LSMG935US
Designed & Engineered by Samsung Manufactured in Vietnam
IMEI: 356164075069116
Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures BTW, was taken with the aforementioned HD Tributed.
can you go in to download mode? you need it in download mode for it to flash with odin.
power+vol down+home button
edan1979 said:
can you go in to download mode? you need it in download mode for it to flash with odin.
power+vol down+home button
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I did, it was installing it for like 5 secs then after a few logs it says FAIL! (Auth) and that's it lol.
I put it in custom os download mode and all, tried Odin. idk
Hi, I was with my friends earlier and this guy kept saying how his S8 is much safer than all other droid phones due to the Samsung account thing. This got me thinking...
So by now we all know Google Lock aka FRP is easy to bypass. And I dare say Samsung lock can be bypassed the same way, although I got no knowledge in this.
Imagine he loses his device abroad and he gets both Samsung and Google locks wiped along with a recovery factory reset. Is there a way to track the phone via IMEI? Even in another country? Can he still use his samsung account to track it?
ull disclosure: I placed a few beers as a bet that I could make his phone clean within minutes if I had a USB cable and a laptop with internet connection, he agreed. Make me drunk boys.