In my attempts to restore my mom's phone, I keep running into the, "This device has been reset, insert the old e-mail." message. Now normally, this would be fine, but the phone seems to be overheating so bad, it causing the thing to reset before I get it done.
So the question is simple, is there way to get pass the google setup part (the thing I've been able to do before with my previous s3 and note 3, and just go to the part where it turns back into a phone.
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In my attempts to restore my mom's phone, I keep running into the, "This device has been reset, insert the old e-mail." message. Now normally, this would be fine, but the phone seems to be overheating so bad, it causing the thing to reset before I get it done.
So the question is simple, is there way to get pass the google setup part (the thing I've been able to do before with my previous s3 and note 3, and just go to the part where it turns back into a phone.
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From Wat I know there is but you would have to go to someone he can and they will charge you becuz the phone is considered Google locked
NotReallyBrain said:
In my attempts to restore my mom's phone, I keep running into the, "This device has been reset, insert the old e-mail." message. Now normally, this would be fine, but the phone seems to be overheating so bad, it causing the thing to reset before I get it done.
So the question is simple, is there way to get pass the google setup part (the thing I've been able to do before with my previous s3 and note 3, and just go to the part where it turns back into a phone.
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I while back I read somewhere, maybe here at xda not sure, that someone came up with a way to skip the Google lock. Of I can find it I will provide a link but it will be about a week or so before I can really dig into it. Try googling it bud.
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Hi all, I come to you all in this time of great need. I have in my possession a LG Optimus Net or LGL45C as its know technically.
I started to suffer from problems from gapps resulting from uninstalling the Google Talk app(yes doing this in retrospect was incredibly stupid). After failing to resolve my problem when trying to re-install it, I decided to take the easy way and just do a factory reset and start from scratch. Little did I know what was to meet me. I was given the "Touch to the android to begin" screen like so many others, but it was not meant to be that simple. I would touch the android, and it would light gleefully but it would not reveal to me the next step and sit there motionless. So I proceeded to the next logical step, touching each corner in succession to skip the setup process. But no matter how many times I repeated it, nothing came of it. Next I booted into recovery mode(stock I never bothered to install CWM, another one of my mistakes) and did another factory reset, clear cache, etc. This too did not work. And I thought, there was always installing CWM through ADB where then I can then just flash to a stock ROM I downloaded. But Alas!! USB debugging some how got disabled and it was all fruitless. A little google-fu later I came across a method to flash .kdz using obscure LG utilities. With renewed hope I followed the steps but to no avail. Now I come to you stranger, and plead you in somehow help me in recovering some use of this phone. I have exhausted all my options and I hope someone out there read this and comes in my time of need. Sorry for the long block of text :silly::silly::silly::silly:
Having the same problem as you, bookface.
I couldn't install CWM from the links provided in another post, all lead to a 404 Dropbox page. This sucks. And when I tried to use the installer from Play, I got a dialog saying it's not compatible. Some would say to ignore it, it would be fine...
But if something doesn't feel right, don't do it, I've always been told...
So, I was rooted, but phone started acting funny. Done a factory reset. Since I didn't have CWM, I thought it would clear that mess up.
Nope, almost all apps crash. I'm lucky that at least the browser, Gmail, and music apps work, but everything else, including Google Play Store, all crash upon launch.
Net10's forum is a lame excuse as a "forum." Seems like TracFone employees have NO concept of how a forum works. I looked at there for the same issue, and they rather take software/hardware issues to private messages?
I have NO computer, my hubby's friend who helps him says "You have an Android tablet, that is a computer!" Technically, yes and no. Since I can't root that thing, it's useless. (If you want to know, Polaroid PMID709 4.1 with Rockchip RK29xx, and impossible to root fully, it's "semi-rooted".)
And I'm lost. I and my hubby need this phone to work. Because we need it fpr work (our jobs). And I'm getting sick of TracFone screwing up Android ROMs.
Please help!
youve made much more headway than i. trying to help my neighbor with his. he set a lockscreen password on his lgl34c and then promptly forgot it.
so upon a bit of research, this model is a doozie to work with. i had intended to overdeliver by flashing him a ROM that might allow some hotspotting and the like. upon closer inspection, i dont believe that i will be able to do that. at best a towelroot...
but ONLY IF i can get past this lockscreen. i've tried to factory reset by:
1) removing/replacing battery then holding vol down+power and waiting for LG splashscreen then releasing power (still holding vol down ) and then re-pressing(holding) power again
2) turning phone off and holding home+vol up+power and holding 30-40 sec
ive repeated both methods many many times, and these are the only methods that i have seen described in my google searching. in fact, yours is the most advanced post i have found yet.
how can i factory reset this phone without access to the settings menu?
Hey guys, let me just start off by saying I have spent almost 8 hours straight today trying to figure this out and dig myself out of a hole I've created for myself, that being said, I'm going to try and be as detailed as possible so you guys know EXACTLY where I am and what I've tried. This post looks long but that's because it is. It's pretty much my entire day's worth of trouble typed out. So just bare with me and see if you guys can help me out here!
I have a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 model: SGH-M919 it has Android 4.4.2. Now on to the problem: I've had this phone for almost a year now and a few months ago I rooted it. Did a simple Youtube tutorial and used Odin to do the work and everything worked out fine. A couple months down the road (yesterday), after using the phone like a teenager, downloading apps and cluttering it up it started to slow down and not run some apps. After thinking about it I decided to factory reset it. All of my contacts, photos, and videos were backed up on Google so I thought "why not?" Well, this is where $#!% hit the fan.. being rooted then factory reset, right before the phone came online it had me answer two questions about the root. Something to the effect of "Do you want to keep root? (This option is not reversible)" I thought since I wasn't using the features I originally rooted the phone for I figured nah just get rid of the root. So the phone did its T-Mobile boot up and started the Initial setup.
Everything up to to this point was fine until I wanted to log in to my Google account during the setup. Please understand that where I am I have full 4G LTE coverage and have access to a pretty fast and sturdy wifi connection. Well, when it came to the google sign in I entered my email and password and it came up with a message reading "Can't Sign in - Can't establish a reliable connection to the server" (believe me i wish that was the only issue) so after reading that, I thought I'd try with my wifi.. nope. Same thing. Since neither my 4g or wifi worked I thought it was Google's servers so I tried again this morning, same thing. (keep in mind at this point i think my phone isn't rooted anymore.) I call the t mobile store and they give me a technical support number, so I call it and I tell them i cant sign into Google. The gentleman told me he cant do anything because he can tell my phones been rooted. Only thing he suggests is to contact Google, well, the customer care number just tells you go to google.com/support and there's nothing there about my problem.
This is where I dig my hole even deeper. I tried another factory reset and up in the top left corner i still see that root text. Even the rooted android symbol pops up before the Samsung logo or t mobile. Since I saw that I thought "ohh it just didn't get unrooted all the way." I look up ways to completely remove a root and a lot of them require plugin your phone into the computer and using Odin to flash a stock firmware on to the device. I went to plug my phone into the usb port but my computer didn't recognize the usb device, having experienced this a long time ago I searched around for the latest Samsung usb drivers and I installed those. Device still isn't recognized. Let me just note before people tell me to use MTP mode or Developer tools> usb debugging or connection mode.. The only thing that happens when plugging my phone via usb is the phone starts charging and my computer makes the trumpet noise like something is plugged in. Other than that, there is NO notification of it being plugged in. The reason i stress this is because I called Samsung technical support at this point and the guy (not gentleman) treated me like a 5 year old and ran me through all of these options after i told him I already did everything he was suggesting, including downloading Samsung Kies 3 and having it install the drivers. It does not pick up the device either.. at this point I looked up ways to remove the root without the computer. I found out you can just go into the root app "SU" or something and theres a remove root option. I jumped on that opportunity and had it removed. I restarted the phone and all the problems still persist, it even still has the root text on the top left when you factory reset it again. However now, even if you factory reset and select the option "keep root," thinking it would bring back the"SU" app it does NOT.
So lets recap. I have a phone that thinks its rooted and even appears rooted to t mobile but doesn't have any of the root apps or privileges or capabilities to fix my Google log in issue (like the host file in filemanager). And I can't re-root to get that app back because none of my 3 usb ports, 3 different usb cables (one being the cord that came with the phone), or any of the ports/cables on someone else's computer will recognize the darn thing to work on that way! I have all these issues that are supposed to fix each other but I can't do any fixing because they cancel each other out too... I'm at a dead end.
In case this isn't the right forum/website/thread/post area etc.. I have this whole message saved in Microsoft Word document so I can repost it anywhere you guys might suggest better results. Any help/advice will be much appreciated.
I returned my phone to stock UE40. So it's in something like a factory state. I booted up and, as expected, got the language selection screen. After that, I logged into my WiFi network. But I don't want to enter my account info. I just want to get to the home screen. Seems to me I did this very recently, but that may have been on a Nexus device, maybe one with a custom ROM. I don't recall for sure. Anyway, I can't get past that system request for my Google email address. Is there a way to do this where I can just get to the home screen without entering credentials?
maigre said:
I returned my phone to stock UE40. So it's in something like a factory state. I booted up and, as expected, got the language selection screen. After that, I logged into my WiFi network. But I don't want to enter my account info. I just want to get to the home screen. Seems to me I did this very recently, but that may have been on a Nexus device, maybe one with a custom ROM. I don't recall for sure. Anyway, I can't get past that system request for my Google email address. Is there a way to do this where I can just get to the home screen without entering credentials?
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One method is to NOT enter your wifi...or to tell it to forget it...maybe pull the sim to so no data connection...then it has no option to setup a gmail account and should let you skip it.
Once at home screen you can go into settings,wifi and re-enable your wifi.
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One method is to NOT enter your wifi...or to tell it to forget it...maybe pull the sim to so no data connection...then it has no option to setup a gmail account and should let you skip it.
Once at home screen you can go into settings,wifi and re-enable your wifi.
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I don't think I was able to get past the wifi request. That's what I tried the first time around. I could reset and try it again. The SIM card is already out.
I reset and tried to bypass the wifi selection. No go. Even if I turned wifi off, the system would just turn it back on and cycle me through language selection and wifi network. Strange. I KNOW I did this recently, but that may have been on a Nexus 6. Probably was.
FWIW, every time I reset the device, it bootloops when I try to boot into the system. Tonight, this happened a few times. First, when I wiped the device, flashed a system image, and tried to boot into it. Then, a few more times when I reset from stock recovery. Each time, I'd power the phone off during the bootloop and then restart. And it would be OK.
No matter. I'm where I need to be. Just wondered if there was a way around wifi selection and and entering an email address.
Sorry to bump this thread,
But I'm having a similar issue. I restored the phone and booted fine. Until I got to the setup page, I couldn't skip it so I login in my credentials and the "protect your phone" prompt appeared and sent me back to the language screen.
I’m restoring it again using the restore software 4.9.2 tool, since I had the 5 percent issue earlier and I’m going to try again and see if I can skip it.
Of course I’m unable to set up usb debugging as I can’t at least accessing the main home screen.
Any advice suggestions are much appreciated.
Thanks.
Never mind got it working and back on Twrp and flashing. Used an old samsung trick and accessed the developer settings that way.
How you did it?
I can tell you what I did to bypass it.
I first got a USB OTG flash drive from the local computer store. I then downloaded an unsigned apk file from any site that has them. Personally I stumbled upon this solution so I had some random "Unlock your phone" APK on the drive. Anyhow, when the phone was on I plugged the flash drive into the phone and tried to open the APK file, it gave me an error message stating that the app was unsigned but then it allowed me to go into security settings, from there I could turn off all of the google verification crap. After I turned off all of the settings, I wiped the cache on the phone, restored it, and it was fixed. No more verification screen.
i HAVE NO ISSUE ON 6045y WITH STOCK FIRMWARE OR WITH DCZ FIRMWARE. I can bypass the setup screen normally.
My girlfriend wanted to sell her mother's old S7 and I was tasked with wiping/resetting it. When the phone asked me for the password to the Google account, I thought "Don't try to trick a trickster, puny phone!" went straight into recovery mode and factory reset. Worked like a charm, I could create a new account, use playstore, phone ready to sell. So I went into recovery again, factory reset again and - fast forward a few days - the phone was sold and sent back, because after the 2nd reset FRP triggered and the buyer could not use it.
Main problem: The new account I created. I remember only [email protected] and the password.
Since it asked for _a_ previous owners login, I already tried gf's mother's, but that won't work.
So, is there a way to find out the test account? Otherwise, I found this method by tpierce89 to bypass FRP, but I guess at least I'd need the correct firmware to reflash, it says G930FXXS8ETC6.
Any ideas?
TehPels said:
My girlfriend wanted to sell her mother's old S7 and I was tasked with wiping/resetting it. When the phone asked me for the password to the Google account, I thought "Don't try to trick a trickster, puny phone!" went straight into recovery mode and factory reset. Worked like a charm, I could create a new account, use playstore, phone ready to sell. So I went into recovery again, factory reset again and - fast forward a few days - the phone was sold and sent back, because after the 2nd reset FRP triggered and the buyer could not use it.
Main problem: The new account I created. I remember only [email protected] and the password.
Since it asked for _a_ previous owners login, I already tried gf's mother's, but that won't work.
So, is there a way to find out the test account? Otherwise, I found this method by tpierce89 to bypass FRP, but I guess at least I'd need the correct firmware to reflash, it says G930FXXS8ETC6.
Any ideas?
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It's the test account it's asking for, surely you can guess what it is? test account? test phone? test something?
Always sign out and remove the google account before any modification.
I'd be suprised if the method you've linked still works but you can try.
I tried all combinations I could think of. The thing is, I put in test and something as name and used the first gmail suggested.
Always sign out and remove the google account before any modification.
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Will do in the future, but since I don't do these things regularly anymore, I wonder what they think of until the next time.
What puzzles me is, why could I log in after the first reset, didn't put in the password then and FRP didn't trip.
Well, it looks like we have to pay for unlocking, hope it won't be more than the price we took for the phone.
TehPels said:
I tried all combinations I could think of. The thing is, I put in test and something as name and used the first gmail suggested.
Will do in the future, but since I don't do these things regularly anymore, I wonder what they think of until the next time.
What puzzles me is, why could I log in after the first reset, didn't put in the password then and FRP didn't trip.
Well, it looks like we have to pay for unlocking, hope it won't be more than the price we took for the phone.
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It depends on the firmware you had, some allow x amounts of factory resets before FRP kicks in. Its usually the network branded firmware which allows this.
AFAIK it was unbranded straight from amazon.de
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AFAIK it was unbranded straight from amazon.de
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Well my advice is to turn off FRP lock, it's a nuisance. It's not like a theif is going to bring you the phone back because they can't use it. They'll just throw it away or use for parts.
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Well my advice is to turn off FRP lock, it's a nuisance. It's not like a theif is going to bring you the phone back because they can't use it. They'll just throw it away or use for parts.
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Yeah, to me it feels like you own your device another bit less.
Anyway, is there a way to get around FRP on that phone now? Or do you mean turn it off on new phones?
TehPels said:
Yeah, to me it feels like you own your device another bit less.
Anyway, is there a way to get around FRP on that phone now? Or do you mean turn it off on new phones?
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Sign into Google online with the same email and password your using on the device. Then device activity and notifications, then review devices. Select the phone your want to disable, then the red "remove" button. Sign out online.
Make sure sync is turned on, so the Google account can sync with the phone and turn off FRP lock.
Then after that to check. Turn phone off, press volume down+home+power to boot into download mode, read what it says about FRP lock in top left.
Then just reboot phone by pressing volume down to cancel download mode.
Other way is just remove Google account from phone before modification.
Sorry if this is in the wrong location but it's been a long time since I've been here and everything looks different with the forum, lol. I couldn't find anything after searching the forum so making this post.
Here's my issue. I have a very old Galaxy S8+ issued by my employer. I left the company back in Jan 2020. Since then my son has been using the phone at the house to play games on and watch YouTube, etc. Whenever it would get running too slow I would just do a factory reset to clean everything out and my son was good to go again. UNTIL YESTERDAY. I did a factory reset like usual but when it restarted and I began the initial set up like you do with a new phone I got a message after connecting to my WiFi that "This device is managed by your organization". It then had a pop up for username/password for MobileIron. Never got that before so only thing I can think is that my old company started using this MDM software sometime between the last time I did a reset and yesterday. I don't have any sign in creds as I don't work for them anymore. Rebooted into "safe mode" to uninstall the app but cannot because the option is grayed out.
Is there any way to root this phone and get rid of the MDM software or install a ROM or something so that the phone is usable again? Obviously, I can't boot the phone up either than in "safe mode" Or is the thing a paperweight now. Just wanted to check before I chuck it in the trash. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I just saw my signature. LMAO! I think it's a little outdated.