So hey guys,
To make a long story short i lost my old phone was low on money and got myself a Redmi Note 3 over some mysterious friends of friends and now i am stuck with a probably stolen phone.:crying:
Now befor everyone says that i am an ass for keeping it, i tried to give it back and even told the police but they just said to me it wasn't worth it so yeah now i have this problem.
So now to the real problem the phone is telling me that: "This device may be associated with existing Mi Account (some numbers and stars). Pleas login to activate this device."
'Well i don't have the passwort so i can't get in but the bootloader is also locked so i can't flash a new ROM, i tried to unlock the bootloader from the pc but you have to have debbuging enabeld.
And to conclude can someone tell me if i just bought a piece of junk or am i just stupid and if yes could you help me?:angel:
No one will help with that here. Sorry. Xda does not help hacking into stolen devices.
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hello guys, well a friend of mine lost his Galaxy S6 like a month ago on a taxi cab and he reported it as lost so the IMEI was locked in order to make it useless to anyone who find it... 3 days ago i asked if he was able to track it with any security app on the phone and he said yes... long story short, we found the device (the driver was trying to use it) and we manage to get it back from him bcoz it was useless... he called for official help to his cellphone provider and samsung but they both said that there was nothing they can do to unlock his IMEI....
looking around in many cites and youtube, there are tons of videos showing how they change the IMEI but no one tells how to do it and/or what software they use (obviously, they do it on previous charge but i dont trust them...) my friend gave me the phone and i want to try to use it... is there any way to change the IMEI so i can use his recovered phone??? please help guys
sorry model number is SM-920I not L
Please be advised what you are asking is not allowed on this forum even though the phone may belong to him.
Changing IMEI is considered illegal in many countries.
If your provider who locked the phone refuses or cannot remove the block there is nothing that can be done legally to help your friend.
Cosmic Blue said:
Please be advised what you are asking is not allowed on this forum even though the phone may belong to him.
Changing IMEI is considered illegal in many countries.
If your provider who locked the phone refuses or cannot remove the block there is nothing that can be done legally to help your friend.
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ok buddy, thx for answering tho
My mother got a Note 7, and gave me her Note Edge to replace the Note 4 I left on the bus. The first thing I did was a factory reset, and I regret it. Reactivation Lock = On.
I can't find a single YouTube video for bypassing this, and this isn't a common subject in specific phone threads on XDA because it's always in instructions to make sure this lock is off in advance.
I'm just hoping that members of this community might have some insight into recent developments to help me here. I still haven't ordered another phone but if it's looking bleak today, then I might have to let this brick sit around a while.
It's on BPC1, I believe? Can't access Accessibility Settings from the getgo, the OTG USB doesn't get a response from it, doesn't show up on ODIN. Some of ya'll r wizards tho so eh, I wont get my hopes up.
Thanks!
sduffy89 said:
My mother got a Note 7, and gave me her Note Edge to replace the Note 4 I left on the bus. The first thing I did was a factory reset, and I regret it. Reactivation Lock = On.
I can't find a single YouTube video for bypassing this, and this isn't a common subject in specific phone threads on XDA because it's always in instructions to make sure this lock is off in advance.
I'm just hoping that members of this community might have some insight into recent developments to help me here. I still haven't ordered another phone but if it's looking bleak today, then I might have to let this brick sit around a while.
It's on BPC1, I believe? Can't access Accessibility Settings from the getgo, the OTG USB doesn't get a response from it, doesn't show up on ODIN. Some of ya'll r wizards tho so eh, I wont get my hopes up.
Thanks!
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Hi, why not ask your mother for typing in her password to reactivate it? After that you shoult disable reactivation lock an factory reset. Found that:
"If anyone performs the factory reset via the recovery, the phone is more or less inoperable until the original owner signs into his or her Google account on reboot. This means that you have basically no extra steps to factory reset your own device for your own reasons, but a common thief can't do much of anything without knowing your password. "
Ughh. Nobody remembers their login credentials to anything. Everybody's a bunch of goddamn dummies. So much so its also not overlooked that i may have forgotten some basic stuff myself, right?.
I already went thru every frustration of trying to get my mother to remember something. Ends up it's an old email address of my little sister who can't remember the details. Why? I have no clue. smdh
The rightful owners have gifted me this device. Let there be no doubt.
Perhaps you have the address on one of your computers?
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The Radius Kid said:
Perhaps you have the address on one of your computers?
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Hey, thanks for taking the time to reply. I do appreciate it. Samsung gave the first few characters of the email address. My sister gave us the rest, and the password. And the message response from Samsung at this point is the same as when I enter my own Samsung account email and password. It's not an invalid User ID/Password error, its "Processing Failed", or something, rather.
So she has more email accounts or something. I gave up man. A guy said he could unlock it over Skype, and my father things Samsung will unlock it for him if he has it in his hands next time he's on the phone with him. So I'll just get it back to em. I got a new Note 4 in the mail today, and also finally reported my other one as lost/stolen.
Its as taken care of as it's going to get i suppose.
Seriously im getting so sick of these "you just have to wait" I DO NOT JUST HAVE TO WAIT. Saying "you just have to wait" is not helping anyone, why aren't any of you actually trying to crack this?!
We buy the phone, its ours to destroy. Its open source so it shouldnt. I mean ffs is this a developers forum or customer goddamn support
I unlocked the bootloader for update with fastboot flashing unlock_critical. TWRP would not go from there obviously, but its a start. Where are all the real developers at lets crack this nut. This is BULL**** that xiaomi is forcing this lock ON AN UNLOCKED PHONE. Don't comment if you are as useless as 80% of the posters on this topic, im trying to make this a REAL developer thread with goals of actually accomplishing something, just like the olden days...
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Seriously im getting so sick of these "you just have to wait" I DO NOT JUST HAVE TO WAIT. Saying "you just have to wait" is not helping anyone, why aren't any of you actually trying to crack this?!
We buy the phone, its ours to destroy. Its open source so it shouldnt. I mean ffs is this a developers forum or customer goddamn support
I unlocked the bootloader for update with fastboot flashing unlock_critical. TWRP would not go from there obviously, but its a start. Where are all the real developers at lets crack this nut. This is BULL**** that xiaomi is forcing this lock ON AN UNLOCKED PHONE. Don't comment if you are as useless as 80% of the posters on this topic, im trying to make this a REAL developer thread with goals of actually accomplishing something, just like the olden days...
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Bro it's only matter of 3 days only. Send request wait 3 days and unlock
Easy!
And every OEM has their own policies related to bootloader unlock
Some require unique code (motorola and others)
Some allow unlock straight forward (nexus old days)
Some don't even allow the unlock (**** you honor)
And secondly there are always are second way to unlock
Like back in days honor have second way in which we our self generate codes for unlock.
Even if you do little more search implicitly xiaomi also sends code and push a fast boot oem unlock <with unique code> in mi flash tools
I remember when i bought redmi note 3, some developers figured out to unlock bootloader unofficially by flashing emmc but main fuss is you always have to make sure you don't accidentally relock-bootloader while flashing new firmware, so i unlock it with official way.
See with our poco they gave us 3 days time to get request, so I don't think it's an major issue
Else we have to figure out how and with what algo they generate codes.
I will find and post link for alternative version mi unlock which provides code for our device(it also fetch from xiaomi servers and only difference with official tool is, it won't unlock automatically) for your case study
I think people will spend their effort only on things that are real trouble.
And unlocking in 3 days is NOT an issue, just annoyance.
And it'll take more than 3 days to find the unofficial unlocking way.
I got my poco today and unlocked 5 minutes after i bind my account on it hahaha no 2 or 3 day waiting time
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I got my poco today and unlocked 5 minutes after i bind my account on it hahaha no 2 or 3 day waiting time
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yep, me too. maybe because my account already have permission to unlock years ago but with different phone. 3 days waiting time only for new mi account maybe
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yep, me too. maybe because my account already have permission to unlock years ago but with different phone. 3 days waiting time only for new mi account maybe
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Yeah its 4 year old mi account for new mi account they need to wat 2 day or more and worse on non poco device
Hi guys,
I'm a new user, I have a problem to which, when talking to a friend, he recommended me to register here and ask about my issue, as there seems to be plenty Android Experts that may be able to provide me a straight answer or give me hope.
My dad just passed away, I still can't believe it happened, given the fact that he wasn't too old... but going back on topic, his phone is a Redmi Note 4 that I ordered him around two years ago, he lived abroad and was a regular user, he never messed up with settings or anything, just stock MIUI with the updates that were sent as far as he mentioned me last time we could speak about his phone. What I would like to know is if it would be possible to recover his phone data, what me and my sisters care for the most are his pictures, we want to recover them and save them in a place where we have access to.
However, while searching on many websites, there are many Android Data Recovery software but they always request me to enable the USB debugging, but it is impossible for me, as the phone has a Pattern/Fingerprint lock.
Also, found several software that claim to remove your screen lock without deleting the device contents but when I'm going to the unlock step, there is a prompt that I have to confirm to delete all the information. And I've downloaded more than five software for each, the last one I downloaded is called Dr. Fone from Wondershare; I sent an email to them asking if I have to purchase the product to get that feature but I have not received any reply yet.
Basically, the phone is locked without USB Debugging, and I cannot access the files in the phone which is all we want.
Does anyone knows of a way to unlock it?
I'd even pay if it is necessary, I just haven't purchased the software mentioned above because I can't find if they are real or are just scam, there isn't like much information about them. Or has anyone purchased or successfully used any of those softwares?
The model is a Redmi Note 4 I believe it was the Global Version, with MIUI 8.1, but I'm not sure.
I'm getting a bit frustrated, maybe my dad doesn't want us to unlock his phone and that is why I cannot find a way, but I would like to know if it is possible.
I really appreciate your time, I'm sorry for the long text, if there is anything that maybe I'm missing, please let me know.
Thanks in advance
Javier
Thjavo said:
Hi guys,
I'm a new user, I have a problem to which, when talking to a friend, he recommended me to register here and ask about my issue, as there seems to be plenty Android Experts that may be able to provide me a straight answer or give me hope.
My dad just passed away, I still can't believe it happened, given the fact that he wasn't too old... but going back on topic, his phone is a Redmi Note 4 that I ordered him around two years ago, he lived abroad and was a regular user, he never messed up with settings or anything, just stock MIUI with the updates that were sent as far as he mentioned me last time we could speak about his phone. What I would like to know is if it would be possible to recover his phone data, what me and my sisters care for the most are his pictures, we want to recover them and save them in a place where we have access to.
However, while searching on many websites, there are many Android Data Recovery software but they always request me to enable the USB debugging, but it is impossible for me, as the phone has a Pattern/Fingerprint lock.
Also, found several software that claim to remove your screen lock without deleting the device contents but when I'm going to the unlock step, there is a prompt that I have to confirm to delete all the information. And I've downloaded more than five software for each, the last one I downloaded is called Dr. Fone from Wondershare; I sent an email to them asking if I have to purchase the product to get that feature but I have not received any reply yet.
Basically, the phone is locked without USB Debugging, and I cannot access the files in the phone which is all we want.
Does anyone knows of a way to unlock it?
I'd even pay if it is necessary, I just haven't purchased the software mentioned above because I can't find if they are real or are just scam, there isn't like much information about them. Or has anyone purchased or successfully used any of those softwares?
The model is a Redmi Note 4 I believe it was the Global Version, with MIUI 8.1, but I'm not sure.
I'm getting a bit frustrated, maybe my dad doesn't want us to unlock his phone and that is why I cannot find a way, but I would like to know if it is possible.
I really appreciate your time, I'm sorry for the long text, if there is anything that maybe I'm missing, please let me know.
Thanks in advance
Javier
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I understand your situation, I lost my father a few years ago. It is possible to recover the data from your dad's phone, but, unfortunately, it is against the forum rules here to help with cracking a phone to retrieve data that does not belong to you. The reason why it is against the rules, even in your unfortunate situation, is because anything we tell you could be seen and used by other people to break into devices that do not belong to them.
Another factor is, we don't know if what you tell us is actually true or not. That does not mean that you are deceiving us, it just means we have no way of knowing and we can't just take your word for it.
These reasons make it unacceptable for anyone in this forum to help you. It's all about security and maintaining security, regardless of the situation, and it is somewhat a legal issue. Helping crack the device could be a liability against XDA or the members helping you. A member or user can choose to compromise their own security but we can't help with devices that are not theirs.
It is best if you didn't ask this question here and it is pointless for you to try making another thread about this issue with different wording because all of your threads and posts can be viewed from your user profile page. It is also pointless to try making another username to post this issue again with different wording because the moderators and Admin can see that it is still you with a different name.
I know it sucks, but anyone that helps you will be violating the forum rules. I'm not saying that you can't get this done, I'm just saying no one HERE can legitimately help you. I would try linking you to other places that can help you, but even that might be pushing the rules a bit.
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each device has a google account (and maybe a xiaomi account). you can check from PC if there is the google password saved in browser. if not, each google account has a fallback email address where you may be able to request a (google) password reset. from google you can lock the phone with temporary password, then unlock the screen with temporary password. if you recently changed the google password before, you need to wait at least 72 hours with internet connection. besides this you can check photos.google.com or drive.google.com for any backups.
without knowing the google account, you still can try to bruteforce the pattern with Teensy or Hak5 USB Rubber Ducky microcontroller connected via USB OTG adapter. if the phone does not support USB OTG there are more expensive solutions like XPIN Clip (this is just a common hint, the important part is the code for microcontroller which i don't share here). also there might be a chance to flash TWRP custom recovery in EDL Mode without unlocking the bootloader or factory reset via exploit, and TWRP might be able to decrypt userdata partition with default_password
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I'm desperate for some help. My girlfriend has found her old android 4.2 it's a CTC EASTCOM. Some propper chineese phone. It's got a pattern lock on it which she doesn't know and she doesn't remember what she has on it. We think its lost photos from her childhood. I have done alot of research into what I can do and I've come up dry.
Can you please help me
How to remove FRP-lock can't get told you here because it's not verifiable that you are the legit owner of the device.
Contact a service center.