I was recently told that there is an app that tracks any phone using the mobile number.
Apparently you dont need it installed on the phone your tracking all you need is to know their mobile phone number.
Is this even possible?
Can anyone tell me if this person is talking out of their A$$ or if this app ever existed? because it would be amazingly helpful in finding an Optimus G that was recently stolen from me. (I know who has it and know the # associated with their sim.)
If you can confirm this, can you also provide a link for download please? many thanks.
EDIT: I never wrote down my IMEI or serial #.. so Im kind of hooped.. Is there anyway to push an app to someone elses phone? or someway I can get this dealt with that I may not have thought of yet? My carrier has no log of the phone because I didnt buy it through them.
Tracking mobiles!
KXIX said:
I was recently told that there is an app that tracks any phone using the mobile number.
Apparently you dont need it installed on the phone your tracking all you need is to know their mobile phone number.
Is this even possible?
Can anyone tell me if this person is talking out of their A$$ or if this app ever existed? because it would be amazingly helpful in finding an Optimus G that was recently stolen from me. (I know who has it and know the # associated with their sim.)
If you can confirm this, can you also provide a link for download please? many thanks.
EDIT: I never wrote down my IMEI or serial #.. so Im kind of hooped.. Is there anyway to push an app to someone elses phone? or someway I can get this dealt with that I may not have thought of yet? My carrier has no log of the phone because I didnt buy it through them.
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You can track a mobile using ANDROID DEVICE MANAGER which is pre-installed in mobiles if the play store gets updated.
ANDROID DEVICE MANAGER can be accessed through
SETTINGS --> SECURITY --> DEVICE ADMINISTRATORS
Once you activate ANDROID DEVICE MANAGER, you can track your mobile, erase datas from your lost mobile by logging in to ANDROID DEVICE MANAGER in a web browser by giving the email id and password which you used in your mobile.
However i dont recognize any app that tracks a mobile using IMEI number..
KXIX said:
I was recently told that there is an app that tracks any phone using the mobile number.
Apparently you dont need it installed on the phone your tracking all you need is to know their mobile phone number.
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I'd be very very careful with apps advertized having this feature.
In theory, the mobile provider can track your phone, because they issued the SIM and phone number to you. But the providers don't supply this information to anyone but law enforcement/NSA/other three letter agency. Imagine the stalking possibilities...
Why I'd be very careful (as in: not downloading and installing at all...) about this is, that I've seen websites advertizing this service, and when you enter a phone number, you're asked to download and run an exe file. It probably won't work but infect your computer with malware.
I doubt it's any different with android apps.
If you install a tracking app on your phone yourself that reports to somewhere (e.g. google device tracking, "lost my iphone"), that's a whole different situation - you're voluntary giving your position to someone to keep, and that's sensor data acquired from your phone.
The truth
Everyone needs to know the truth that is sometimes hidden behind the most deceptive appearances. Everyone, too, needs to be certain of the sincerity of their relatives...
SpyBubble is likely to become the best smartphone application for that => phoneservicetracker.com
KXIX said:
I was recently told that there is an app that tracks any phone using the mobile number.
Apparently you dont need it installed on the phone your tracking all you need is to know their mobile phone number.
Is this even possible?
Can anyone tell me if this person is talking out of their A$$ or if this app ever existed? because it would be amazingly helpful in finding an Optimus G that was recently stolen from me. (I know who has it and know the # associated with their sim.)
If you can confirm this, can you also provide a link for download please? many thanks.
EDIT: I never wrote down my IMEI or serial #.. so Im kind of hooped.. Is there anyway to push an app to someone elses phone? or someway I can get this dealt with that I may not have thought of yet? My carrier has no log of the phone because I didnt buy it through them.
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I don't think tracking a phone using the mobile number is possible for consumers, if you lodge a police complaint they may go through your mobile carrier and then track it (depending on how much effort the police in your country put in for a lost phone). But if you know who stole it and their phone number that's a good enough basis to talk to the cops, you're going to need some proof of purchase of the phone though...
Just in case the guy hasn't wiped the phone and one of your accounts is still active on it, you can push apps through that account on Google Play by going to the Google Play website on your pc and logging in with that account. Then you can push one of many tracking apps and figure out where your phone is. My personal favourite is an app called 'android lost' through which you can do the usual - track, wipe, ring, vibrate etc but you can also access the mic and the cameras.
Also, you can maybe play it smart with some social engineering. Get a girl to call up the guy and ask him out at some place and you'll find him there!
do u got a way for the Iphone too?
kavb1986 said:
You can track a mobile using ANDROID DEVICE MANAGER which is pre-installed in mobiles if the play store gets updated.
ANDROID DEVICE MANAGER can be accessed through
SETTINGS --> SECURITY --> DEVICE ADMINISTRATORS
Once you activate ANDROID DEVICE MANAGER, you can track your mobile, erase datas from your lost mobile by logging in to ANDROID DEVICE MANAGER in a web browser by giving the email id and password which you used in your mobile.
However i dont recognize any app that tracks a mobile using IMEI number..
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do u got a way for the Iphone too?
Please give me download app
ishaang said:
Also, you can maybe play it smart with some social engineering. Get a girl to call up the guy and ask him out at some place and you'll find him there!
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This.
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This.
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As if they'd keep the original number? Can't call if the number has been changed.
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Hello, I've made a big blunder. I was able to create a vivo account with a virtual Chinese phone number. Unfortunately, I was not able to create a password and I cannot access the phone number anymore. So, my phone is stuck on "my" Vivo account. Is there a solution to remove this account ?
I know it's possible to do it when it's a Google account....
Edit 07.13 : Just to inform you that I found a way to fully reset the phone. If someone is interested, just contact me, I'd be glad to help.
I will tell you what happened to me, and I'm afraid it will not please you. Certainly not help you. At least it will tell you where you are and what is your only option left. Creating an account by adding a (Chinese) tel number, sends a verification code to that number. With the verification number you can confirm the account/password that you created, and starting that moment it is your account, and the one you need to confirm from time to time (by inserting the password) to change specific settings in your phone. It happened my phone also asked me for the password while installing some apps. Not on a really regular base, but simple and straightforward. So I got my new NEX, and I discovered very quickly like everyone else that it needed a VIVO account to set things up as needed. Based on reviews, I contacted the shop in China where I ordered my NEX, and confronted them with this vivo account fact. They said they were aware of the need of a VIVO account, but this only needed a Chinese tel number for people living in China. I was confident. So when my NEX arrived, it was an unpleasant surprise to find out it needed indeed a Chinese tel number to create a VIVO account. When I contacted the seller, I was hoping they would show me the way to register an account without living in China, like they had answered me before. They admitted they had been wrong about that Chinese number, so they offered me to use their tel number for registering my VIVO account. I was a little upset by the fact I had been mislead by my seller, so I didn't immediately grab their offer for creating an account based on their number. In the meantime, I had read about the public account spread by the VIVO support team, and based on this I registered the account on my NEX. After a few days, I began to feel uncomfortable about this 'public' account, as I really wanted my phone to be mine, without any restrictions whatsoever, as we are told to 'not try to change the account information and don't save any personal information in this account'. It's my phone after all! So I started thinking: if my seller allows me to use her phone number, then i shall have my own account and I will be able to use my phone however I like. So I contacted my seller again, and created a VIVO account with their tel number. That was easy: register a new account, and wait for PM from my seller to get the verification code. Peace of cake. I had my own account. Well... Not really. Was this a good way to do this? Is this safe? After all, it is not MY tel number, but from some 'anonymous' seller in a shop in China... I started to doubt. I thought, no worries, I can always go back to the public account when needed. And how do we change account? Looks so easy, I tried to do it, just in case. For changing the VIVO account, you need to log out from your actual account. And to log out from your account, you need the... password. When I introduced the password, I got the 'incorrect password' message. Several attempts later, I was thrown out of the 'next try' options, and asked if I wanted to retrieve my password. Hell no! My password not being accepted any more proved that it had been a bad idea to trust this 'anonymous' Chinese tel number to base my account upon. So I decided to throw everything of my phone again, hard reset, start from scratch, and resign myself by accepting the public account registration with its restrictions. To my surprise, my NEX didn't allow me to do that: after starting up from scratch, it showed the message: 'this phone is locked, and registered to this <Chinese tel number> account, please insert the password... I was stuck! When contacting VIVO support, explaining the situation, they said they couldn't help me, as it was not their account, and I had to contact the account number owner. Well, thank you for the support. Ok, I suppose this is a security matter, and they have their rules. Meaning I really needed to contact my seller again to retrieve my password, by requesting a verification code to be send to them. I had no choice, so I did it. I waited for a reply. And waited... No reply. No reply for a day... I slightly started to panic. Jeezz... are these people really that bad? Did they change the account password on purpose? Are they going to ask for a ransom to unlock the account? Ransomware? Will I have to buy a new device? (It will sure be a NEX again, despite the account troubles - which are my own fault - it is a wonderful device, that I discovered in the mean time)... I was really desperate. Untill the next day my seller simply messaged me that I could do a new verification code request to retrieve the password. So I did, and a few minutes later I got the code, retrieved my password, removed the account, and registered the public account. After that... enlightenment! Setting up a new phone is one of those things I love so much. It took me a few hours to get everything installed and set up so it felt again like 'my' phone, and I haven't stopped to get amazed about its performances and possibilities since that day.
Meaning, in the end, that you should be aware that whatever (Chinese) tel number you use to register your VIVO account, you always should be sure that the owner of this number is a real person, that you trust, and that you always can rely on should account troubles occur.I presume my seller didn't have any bad intentions when letting me use their number, but having no experience with this VIVO account they also allowed other people to use it for registering their account, without mentioning 'not try to change the account information', and someone did...
That's why I want to excuse myself toward any Chinese shop about reflecting here any doubt about their honesty. On the contrary, we live in another part of the world, in another time zone, and we sometimes forget shops in China have holidays too. In the end, they were very helpful, not really expert on the new NEX device (who is?) and they stay in my contacts/friends group. The shop is named HongKong Telling Communication Store
China (Guangdong) (Pp) (link: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/gr...765.html?spm=2114.12010608.0.0.31151860rkjiWg). They are friendly, they are simply good people and correct. I forgot to tell you they added some presents with my phone: screen protectors, a silicon case, and 'Lord of the rings' gadget which I don't really know what it is used for.
Thanks for reading.
Guy1731 said:
I will tell you what happened to me, and I'm afraid it will not please you. Certainly not help you. At least it will tell you where you are and what is your only option left. Creating an account by adding a (Chinese) tel number, sends a verification code to that number. With the verification number you can confirm the account/password that you created, and starting that moment it is your account, and the one you need to confirm from time to time (by inserting the password) to change specific settings in your phone. It happened my phone also asked me for the password while installing some apps. Not on a really regular base, but simple and straightforward. So I got my new NEX, and I discovered very quickly like everyone else that it needed a VIVO account to set things up as needed. Based on reviews, I contacted the shop in China where I ordered my NEX, and confronted them with this vivo account fact. They said they were aware of the need of a VIVO account, but this only needed a Chinese tel number for people living in China. I was confident. So when my NEX arrived, it was an unpleasant surprise to find out it needed indeed a Chinese tel number to create a VIVO account. When I contacted the seller, I was hoping they would show me the way to register an account without living in China, like they had answered me before. They admitted they had been wrong about that Chinese number, so they offered me to use their tel number for registering my VIVO account. I was a little upset by the fact I had been mislead by my seller, so I didn't immediately grab their offer for creating an account based on their number. In the meantime, I had read about the public account spread by the VIVO support team, and based on this I registered the account on my NEX. After a few days, I began to feel uncomfortable about this 'public' account, as I really wanted my phone to be mine, without any restrictions whatsoever, as we are told to 'not try to change the account information and don't save any personal information in this account'. It's my phone after all! So I started thinking: if my seller allows me to use her phone number, then i shall have my own account and I will be able to use my phone however I like. So I contacted my seller again, and created a VIVO account with their tel number. That was easy: register a new account, and wait for PM from my seller to get the verification code. Peace of cake. I had my own account. Well... Not really. Was this a good way to do this? Is this safe? After all, it is not MY tel number, but from some 'anonymous' seller in a shop in China... I started to doubt. I thought, no worries, I can always go back to the public account when needed. And how do we change account? Looks so easy, I tried to do it, just in case. For changing the VIVO account, you need to log out from your actual account. And to log out from your account, you need the... password. When I introduced the password, I got the 'incorrect password' message. Several attempts later, I was thrown out of the 'next try' options, and asked if I wanted to retrieve my password. Hell no! My password not being accepted any more proved that it had been a bad idea to trust this 'anonymous' Chinese tel number to base my account upon. So I decided to throw everything of my phone again, hard reset, start from scratch, and resign myself by accepting the public account registration with its restrictions. To my surprise, my NEX didn't allow me to do that: after starting up from scratch, it showed the message: 'this phone is locked, and registered to this <Chinese tel number> account, please insert the password... I was stuck! When contacting VIVO support, explaining the situation, they said they couldn't help me, as it was not their account, and I had to contact the account number owner. Well, thank you for the support. Ok, I suppose this is a security matter, and they have their rules. Meaning I really needed to contact my seller again to retrieve my password, by requesting a verification code to be send to them. I had no choice, so I did it. I waited for a reply. And waited... No reply. No reply for a day... I slightly started to panic. Jeezz... are these people really that bad? Did they change the account password on purpose? Are they going to ask for a ransom to unlock the account? Ransomware? Will I have to buy a new device? (It will sure be a NEX again, despite the account troubles - which are my own fault - it is a wonderful device, that I discovered in the mean time)... I was really desperate. Untill the next day my seller simply messaged me that I could do a new verification code request to retrieve the password. So I did, and a few minutes later I got the code, retrieved my password, removed the account, and registered the public account. After that... enlightenment! Setting up a new phone is one of those things I love so much. It took me a few hours to get everything installed and set up so it felt again like 'my' phone, and I haven't stopped to get amazed about its performances and possibilities since that day.
Meaning, in the end, that you should be aware that whatever (Chinese) tel number you use to register your VIVO account, you always should be sure that the owner of this number is a real person, that you trust, and that you always can rely on should account troubles occur.I presume my seller didn't have any bad intentions when letting me use their number, but having no experience with this VIVO account they also allowed other people to use it for registering their account, without mentioning 'not try to change the account information', and someone did...
That's why I want to excuse myself toward any Chinese shop about reflecting here any doubt about their honesty. On the contrary, we live in another part of the world, in another time zone, and we sometimes forget shops in China have holidays too. In the end, they were very helpful, not really expert on the new NEX device (who is?) and they stay in my contacts/friends group. The shop is named HongKong Telling Communication Store
China (Guangdong) (Pp) (link: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/gr...765.html?spm=2114.12010608.0.0.31151860rkjiWg). They are friendly, they are simply good people and correct. I forgot to tell you they added some presents with my phone: screen protectors, a silicon case, and 'Lord of the rings' gadget which I don't really know what it is used for.
Thanks for reading.
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Thanks for sharing your experience, still it won't help me a lot, because my problem is that I used a virtual phone number to create my account, and this number is no longer active. I would never have considered creating an account, but this was the only way to change the launcher for good. This was my first Vivo phone and probably the last one.
Have you tried a factory reset?
I hope that the futur global rom will permit us to create an "international" Vivo account.
if anyone reading this message created a Vivo account using a virtual phone number ending with 61508, please contact me in private. Thanks
evenshop said:
Thanks for sharing your experience, still it won't help me a lot, because my problem is that I used a virtual phone number to create my account, and this number is no longer active. I would never have considered creating an account, but this was the only way to change the launcher for good. This was my first Vivo phone and probably the last one.
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My message was that you should get in touch with the shop where you bought your NEX, and acquire an agreement for returning your phone and have it Factory reset by VIVO. I'm afraid that's the only solution.
Yes, actually I'm the shop , but I will return it to my supplier. If only the rom.bin was available, I could flash it myself...
Hello, I was able to obtain the Update file : https://mega.nz/#!5I4hxaQD!FBdmF9C8q8AWfOmb0qlFvIrvP2BI1JgXNBHdpyABjlE
Can anyone help me so that I can flash it with SP Flash Tool ? Thus I may be able to fully reflash my device and get rid of this Vivo Account...
evenshop said:
Hello, I was able to obtain the Update file : https://mega.nz/#!IBoSBCKK!jxb8Bsfm1z_nFm2GjA8dSrnGQXDarpCTLtE_oybIQSA
Can anyone help me so that I can flash it with SP Flash Tool ? Thus I may be able to fully reflash my device and get rid of this Vivo Account...
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From what I've read,this SP Flash Tool may not be compatible with the VIVO NEX:
The flash tool is intended for use with phones equipped with Media-Tek processors,the VIVO NEX has a Qualcomm SnapDragon 845 processor.
If it may help some people here is a link to the full update : https://mega.nz/#!5I4hxaQD!FBdmF9C8q8AWfOmb0qlFvIrvP2BI1JgXNBHdpyABjlE
As for me, I'm fed up with Vivo. It's unacceptable to force poeple to have an account just to use an alternative launcher.
evenshop said:
If it may help some people here is a link to the full update : https://mega.nz/#!5I4hxaQD!FBdmF9C8q8AWfOmb0qlFvIrvP2BI1JgXNBHdpyABjlE
As for me, I'm fed up with Vivo. It's unacceptable to force poeple to have an account just to use an alternative launcher.
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Nobody force you to buy a chinese phone that is not sell natif with google play store.
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Nobody force you to buy a chinese phone that is not sell natif with google play store.
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This is not the problem. Google Play Store can be installed very easily (just download it from VivoStore....) What doesn't please me, is that you have to have a Vivo account just to use another launcher. That's my opinion and of course, you can think differently.
In other country if you want Nova you need Gapps and a Google account ... In China, they need a ViVo account for Vapps. Wait for a global version if you dont want this kind of problem.
evenshop said:
If it may help some people here is a link to the full update : https://mega.nz/#!5I4hxaQD!FBdmF9C8q8AWfOmb0qlFvIrvP2BI1JgXNBHdpyABjlE
As for me, I'm fed up with Vivo. It's unacceptable to force poeple to have an account just to use an alternative launcher.
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I bet by holding down power, volume down, and volume up you can boot into fastboot. Then go to recovery. You get a menu with a bunch of Chinese options. I bet one of them would be update from phone storage. Probably something you can try...
Maybe nobody gives a damn, but I am glad to inform you that I was able to fully reset my phone and get rid of the account it was blocked on, without knowing the password of the Vivo account and without being able to receive text message on the phone number linked with the device. If anyone is stuck in the same situation, I'd be glad to help. But I won't tell the process here, because I don't want Vivo to know how to do it (if they ignore it)
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Maybe nobody gives a damn, but I am glad to inform you that I was able to fully reset my phone and get rid of the account it was blocked on, without knowing the password of the Vivo account and without being able to receive text message on the phone number linked with the device. If anyone is stuck in the same situation, I'd be glad to help. But I won't tell the process here, because I don't want Vivo to know how to do it (if they ignore it)
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same problem here... pm sended!
evenshop said:
Maybe nobody gives a damn, but I am glad to inform you that I was able to fully reset my phone and get rid of the account it was blocked on, without knowing the password of the Vivo account and without being able to receive text message on the phone number linked with the device. If anyone is stuck in the same situation, I'd be glad to help. But I won't tell the process here, because I don't want Vivo to know how to do it (if they ignore it)
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Of course i want to know how to full reset this phone! Pm send. :good:
No feedback from @evenshop i have sended it back to china, to unlock it on a Vivo support center..
Miyagi said:
No feedback from @evenshop i have sended it back to china, to unlock it on a Vivo support center..
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Hello, sorry but I'm not connected 24/7. I am going to tell you how to do it. First let's me explain again in what situtation I was in :
I performed a hard reset with the recovery. So I was stuck at startup screen (even not able to access home screen). My phone was linked to a Vivo the password of which I didn't know + had no access to the phone number it was linked with.
How to do it (sorry if I'm not 100% accurate, because I did many things, and I was dead tired).
1) When you are connected to your wifi, go the first screen of the gallery : https://imgur.com/a/ePeIhtT
2) Press on the left button on your phone to access "Jovi"
3) Then you go to "Vivio find my Phone". To to so, follow each of the screen you'll find here (in the right order) :
1) (click on the head)
2) (click on the head again)
3)(click on Vivo, last link at the bottom)
4)(click on Vivo cloud)
5)(click onfind my phone)
6)(click on the link "findphone.vivo.com)
Then you'll be redirected to the Vivo find my phone screen. From there, choose the toogle "erase". It's a brush. You'll probably get an error message.
Then find the restart button "circle with a small bar", at the buttom right corner if I remember well. You'll have to scroll down to find it.
Then your phone will restart and fully reset.
Combination file help
Not sure but I need to frp bypass
I think I can downgrade file as long as it's a sqs5
Bootloader 5
n950usqs5crj3
Any help could be great
Makave71 said:
Combination file help
Not sure but I need to frp bypass
I think I can downgrade file as long as it's a sqs5
Bootloader 5
n950usqs5crj3
Any help could be great
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Why do you need to bypass the FRP? Just put your email and password in and you'll be fine and won't need to do that.
Well I buy it cheap off someone that couldn't do anything with it because he don't know much so now I'm trying to do this so my wife can use the phone
If you can help with that great
Because I know the obvious way is put in info lol
Makave71 said:
Well I buy it cheap off someone that couldn't do anything with it because he don't know much so now I'm trying to do this so my wife can use the phone
If you can help with that great
Because I know the obvious way is put in info lol
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Sorry man I can't help you because when someone is trying to bypass the FRP security it's usually because the phone was stolen from someone and I'd rather not give out my combination firmware for that reason.. You can call the carrier that the phone came from and ask them to help you and if it hasn't been reported stolen then they'll get it off.
Discussions about FRP without proof of ownership aren't allowed on XDA.
FRP is there for exactly this reason, its meant to protect stolen phones from being used again illegally.
This is Samsung's instructions on what you can do about FRP:
If you already reset your device, but don't remember your Google username and/or password, the device can't be used. In that case, you can do one of these:
If you know your Google username but can't remember the password, you can reset your password on the device, or at www.google.com. It can take up to 24 hours for a new password to sync with all registered devices. After 24 hours, you can try logging in to your phone with the new password.
If you have multiple Google Accounts, and you can't remember which Google Account you set up on your device, visit https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager.
Log in with your Google username and password and check the list of devices registered to the account. If you don't see the device listed on the account, it means the device is registered to a different account. Use the same process to check for devices linked to your other Google Accounts. When you find the registered account, use it to log in to your device.
If you can't remember any of your Google Account information, you can send your device, along with proof of purchase, to an authorized Samsung Service Center. Samsung has special tools to reset the phone to factory defaults with no protection enabled.
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Source: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/frp/
Furthermore:
If you've bought a phone that is FRP locked you should take it up with the seller and get them to tell you what the Google sign-in details are, and if they refuse to tell you then make sure you ask where they got the phone from. Do not try to break the lock yourself!
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