I left my phone a couple of weeks ago at Pechanga casino's Eagle's nest bathroom, I guess you could say it got stolen since it wasn't returned. I logged into htcsense.com and locked it remotely, then a few minutes later clicked to erase data nirt knowing if it worked not.
I got a new one replace it, went back to htcsense.com from my pc to try locking it and it worked!
I haven't tried the erase command since I don't want ti reset the phone.
That gave me a little peace of mind. I just hope it erased all the data on the microSD card since I had tons of pics of my family.
Just FYI to all that htcsense.com remote access works. You just need to select it when setting up your phone.
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Since February my htcsense.com has said it is doing its initial sync and will take a few hours. Two days after it started that I decided to remote lock it as a test and the website still says that the phone is locked, but absolutely nothing has happened on the phone so far. I'm assuming someday my phone will just lock randomly when it finally finishes, until then it isn't any good for me.
I have thought about deleting the web account and recreating it but I am too lazy.
Btw this as a stock unrooted phone, I signed in to htcsense on the phone, linked it with the phone number, and turned GPS on. Everything it said to do.
If HTCSense is showing in your account & sync you may need to remove and add back.
I'm also unrooted. Running stock.
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As the topic says, last night I was browsing the internet when my phone froze and a few seconds later began to restart. But upon attempting it wouldn't load past the "Google" splash screen. I tried multiple times before I gave up and went into recovery mode. I wiped the cache and did a factory reset and the same issue persists. Will not turn on. So I've since been directed a couple ways, one was to try and flash the OS using WugFresh (just trying to get stock droid back, nothing flashy). I've since installed ADB drivers on my PC but I never enabled USB debugging and the program can't seem to do anything until I enable it (but the phone doesn't work...). I also can't contact google play about warranty or repairs because I have two step authentication on my account since they keep trying to send a text message to my phone.
Does anyone have any advice on how to progress?
I'm so mad that i've got flames shooting out my ears. Why? A few reasons. First, Snapchat doesn't let you log in on a rooted phone so I wanted to go back to stock for 5 minutes to log in then root again. Sounds simple, right?
I was already on 7.0, it was installed from an OTA update a couple weeks ago when I found out it was being pushed. I rolled from rooted stock MM to unrooted stock MM via ODIN. Downloaded and installed the OTA without a hitch. Forgot to log into snapchat on that day, instead I jumped straight to rooting. Tether is a necessity in my business.
Fast forward to last night. I wanted to roll from 7.0 rooted back to 7.0 stock, log into snapchat, then reroot. Couldn't find the simple tar.md5 of 7.0 that you drop into the AP slot in ODIN. I found a 7.0 that used all 4 slots in ODIN but I didn't like that it was different than what I was used to, so I tried to roll back to 6.0.1 using ODIN. It flashed fine but when it booted, the screen resolution was set to such a large dimension that the sprint splash screen, which normally only consumed the middle 1/3rd of the screen, was taking up the whole screen and bleeding off the edge. I tried a few times to get it to run but all the system apps would just repeatedly force close so that flash was a dud. Art this point i'm a but annoyed because a simple flash, boot, log in, flash, boot, done is turning into a longer process.
So, last resort (in my mind) I decided to go through with flashing that 7.0 that I'd found. I read through the thread, didn't see any current issues to stop me. I downloaded it, which took freaking forever because apparently the site hosting it throttles downloads to 12mbps. Finally got it downloaded, check md5, unzip, throw the 4 parts into the slots in ODIN, and flash. EVerything was successful.
Reboot into system, let it do its thing, log into snapchat, then throw her back into download mode and flash recovery then finish up and go to bed. Seems easy enough. Riiiight??
I unplug the phone, reboot it. Samsung splash screen appears, then an odd screen. A teal screen. With the word Erasing... at the bottom left. "Hmm, strange" I thought. I set the phone down and waited.
A few minutes later I start hearing a voice saying something. I realize its my phone. Behaving oddly. As if I just bought it and turned it on for the first time. I look at the screen in absolute horror.
The damn flash I's just performed deleted every freaking thing on my phone. all apps. all app data. all files. all contacta. all texts. everything. GONE. WTF.
Nowhere in that stupid thread did it say it wiped the phone. Nowhere, not anywhere, ever, did I see that this damn flash would've wiped my phone. Now I am livid. All this just so I can log into some stupid app, because my wife wanted me to use it with her. Everything. Gone.
I set up my account details, logged into my samsung account, did all the restore options, then went to bed because it was taking an awfully long time to restore, so I figured I had a fighting chance.
Woke up this morning to the phone still stuck trying to restore. It had made no progress since last night. So I decided to reboot it. It refused to finish the restore process, so I did a factory reset and tried again. Everything restored this time, all of my apps, contacts, texts, home screen etc. Except, none of the data that my apps had produced, restored. Game progress for a game I play: gone. 6 years of data produced by an app to log vehicle expenses: gone.
SO I tried a third time to restore everything to no avail.
It's almost time for me to leave home (I'm a truck driver, home on weekends), so I decide I will jsut re-root the phone since I am pretty sure I can try to restore the apps form my samsung account again, sometime this week. Re-rooting went fine, I made sure tether worked and then I hit the road.
Turned on my bluetooth headset so I could talk to my wife. The damn thing won't pair to my phone. No matter what I try, the headset won't pair.
I try again to hit the restore option from my samsung account. it wnts me to log in again because my session expired. I enter my password, it logs in then instantly expires my session, demanding login again. Endless cycle. I cannot log into my samsung account. I boot into recovery and clear cache and dalvik in hopes that it fixes it. Reboot, only to find the same problem exists. I do some research and find out that since I am rooted (as I've always been!) I can no longer log into my samsung account on my samsung phone that I OWN! WTF!! Since I rooted, my data is now being held hostage.
All of this crap, because everybody in the whole freaking universe is against people rooting their damn phones. This is ridiculous, pathetic, and unacceptable.
I now know that Google does not sync/backup any data, nor any app, other than its own. And I now know that Samsung backs up... god only knows what the hell they backup from your phone... then they'll hold your own data hostage form you if you choose to root your phone for whatever reason.
BIG THANKS to the person who uploaded the 4-part 7.0, called it an update, and did not disclaim that it is guaranteed to wipe everything you ever had, right off your phone.
All I wish I could recover is the 6 year old cumulative data from one app. But nope that's gone too. This has me the most distraught.
yes I know I should've made a nandroid. it wouldve avoided this whole thing. noob idiot dumbass mistake. I also know that I cnnot trust tht just because it doesn't specifically say itll wipe everything, doesnt mean it wont.
the end.
FML.
Ded. Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhaha. Noob shizz....
FYI. Clear App Data on Samsung Account using Titanium Back Up and you'll be able to sign in to your Samsung account.
Still laughing.
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sinisin said:
Ded. Hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhaha. Noob shizz....
FYI. Clear App Data on Samsung Account using Titanium Back Up and you'll be able to sign in to your Samsung account.
Still laughing.
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Your tip worked. Thanks.
I can't wrap my head around the fact that 2 backup services, Google and Samsung, BOTH did not back up app data from the one app I needed the data from, the most. Samsung actually backed up 40 some apps, Google was only 14. Backups are current, less than 5 days old. This is 2017, and services are still shoddy at best. Back when I had my Hero, I looked upon these current years as potentially amazing ones... Other than the phone manufacturer technology, I'm not too thrilled... Oh well, it's whatever I guess.
I don't mean to laugh at you too much. But that rant was epic. I'd check all the back up settings on Google and Samsung. Make sure they're set to back up everything.
If this app and it's data were that important to you, you shouldn't have left it's fate to assumption. I'd suggest looking in to a service that will regularly back it up to a cloud. There are a million or so options.
I run apps that rely on years worth of data too, and they've been backing up data to an encrypted cloud account since forever.
Anyway man, I'm sorry that you lost important stuff. But it was entertaining at the same time. Good luck man!
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Oh I've been there. Learned the hard way to back the data to my computer or even dropbox if I'm not near a computer. You live and you learn my friend.
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Hello, a few days ago my aunt called me, because she was unable to get her phone to work. Turns out she managed to get into the recovery menu while attempting to turn the phone on and hit factory reset from there. I do have access to her login details for the account that was used with the phone, and the phone in question does appear to be linked to this account. I have waited 72 hours since she reset the phone, but haven't been able to log into it. I also do not see the option to remove the phone in the security tab in her Google account. How screwed is the phone?
The phone is a Gigaset GS370, and finding a legit stock firmware for it is unlikely, although if anyone has any ideas, it's appreciated.
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Hello, a few days ago my aunt called me, because she was unable to get her phone to work. Turns out she managed to get into the recovery menu while attempting to turn the phone on and hit factory reset from there. I do have access to her login details for the account that was used with the phone, and the phone in question does appear to be linked to this account. I have waited 72 hours since she reset the phone, but haven't been able to log into it. I also do not see the option to remove the phone in the security tab in her Google account. How screwed is the phone?
The phone is a Gigaset GS370, and finding a legit stock firmware for it is unlikely, although if anyone has any ideas, it's appreciated.
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FRP can likely be bypassed.
But you really need to see a video of it being done to understand.
Search YouTube for frp, your device and Android version.
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So, I had gotten robbed at gunpoint a few months ago and they had taken my Samsung Galaxy Note 10+. I naturally filed a police report and yesterday I got it back, which would normally be a good thing however, they had gotten past all 3 of my password locks reformated it and put a pattern lock on it...how do i get past this? I found this video on youtube
is this a good thing to try?
It won't be easy, here's someone that just did it successfully:
Unauthorized Factory Reset - Samsung T395
Hi, I recently did a factory reset on my old tablet. Upon starting it now shows "An unauthorized attempt has been made to reset your device to factory settings". It then asks for a google account to verify. I have entered ALL google accounts I...
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