Hello,
At my work someone handed in a lost phone, 3 months later and no one has asked for it and as it has a screen lock so we can't see who it belongs too. Its a BQ Aquaris x5 Cyanogenmod. I did a hard reset, all went well! I put my email in and now it asks me to verify ownership putting in the old gmail account from original owner.
I tried updating the firmware but bootloader is blocked. I've seen tutorials on youtube to get around verifing the account but as its Cyanogenmod it has another keyboard and the tutorials don't work.
Is there anyway to get around it or do I now have a paper weight?
MaDoGK said:
Hello,
At my work someone handed in a lost phone, 3 months later and no one has asked for it and as it has a screen lock so we can't see who it belongs too. Its a BQ Aquaris x5 Cyanogenmod. I did a hard reset, all went well! I put my email in and now it asks me to verify ownership putting in the old gmail account from original owner.
I tried updating the firmware but bootloader is blocked. I've seen tutorials on youtube to get around verifing the account but as its Cyanogenmod it has another keyboard and the tutorials don't work.
Is there anyway to get around it or do I now have a paper weight?
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I was never been in such a situation - so I don't know really what's possible and what not. Are you still able to activate the developer settings?
If yes, then I would try to unblock the bootloader by using fastboot, flash TWRP onto recovery and try to flash a OS whatever you want. The support for CyanogenMod/OS is gone so I would try to install the successor of it --> LineageOS.
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To start with let me first point out that when it comes to phones I'm a total noob. I got a Runbo X5 direct from China (I'm in America) and I tried to update the phone the way one of the Runbo Blogs said to. Well my Runbo X5 is totally bricked, it won't even turn on. I'm trying to find someone that I can send it to to be fixed. So far every repair service I've asked has said they can't do it, (I guess they just fix Samsung). I just want to send the phone off to get fixed. Can anyone help?
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To start with let me first point out that when it comes to phones I'm a total noob. I got a Runbo X5 direct from China (I'm in America) and I tried to update the phone the way one of the Runbo Blogs said to. Well my Runbo X5 is totally bricked, it won't even turn on. I'm trying to find someone that I can send it to to be fixed. So far every repair service I've asked has said they can't do it, (I guess they just fix Samsung). I just want to send the phone off to get fixed. Can anyone help?
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Hi friend , How can I help you? what is problem of your phone.
Hey maybe somebody can help me. I've a Runbo X5 too and now a friend of mine used too many pattern attempts so that my phone got blocked and I had to log in with my google account or something. Nothing worked and after I switched the phone off it now only boots into recovery and I get the dead android with the red triangle. I already tried to delete cash, factory reset the phone and rebooting it but still the same.
What can I do now? Please help me.
Hi,
i'm posting here, because I don't know what exactly my problem is.
I factory reseted an android smartphone (samsung galaxy core prime) through the recovery menu.
The bad thing is that the device was synced with a google account, that hasn't been deleted before the reset.
When I want to setup the clean phone, i get asked to login with the previous google account. But when I do, it says the account is the wrong one.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure its the correct one, because I can see the device under "Recently used Devices" in my google account. But i can't delete it there... probably because the account is not set up on the phone.
Now my question: Could i solve the problem if I flash a custom ROM on the phone? I already tried it with a Stock ROM for T-Mobile, but it didn't change anything.
Hope you guys can help me out!
BR
You won't be able to even flash a custom recovery on a FRP locked device.
There's ways to get around FRP lock, check out rootjunky.
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Hi Everyone,
First of all glad to be here.
Secondly i need Help unlocking phone without loosing any data which is more precious than anything in the world.
here's what i tried so far based on help available online but first phone specs.
Phone:
Asus Zenfone 2 ZE551ML
phone set on password lock and forgotton.
came with OS 5.0 Lollipop but system updated a few times and now don't know the exact version.
What Have I tried:
1. Tried cashing lockUI by entering so many words it does carsh but come back afterwards quickly unable to do anything.
2. tried connecting to PC but it only recharges not even the data storage.
3. tried wrong password so many times and no forgot password option in lollipop.
4. tried google device manager but lock option says "Phone already have a password and wont change it"
i need to get into the phone without loosing data and must read messages because the messages have the lock password but cant get to it.
can anyone please help me and show me anyway to get to messages after seeing what i am unable to do especially cant connect to PC.
Please help me as pictures, voice data, and call recordings are the only things i have of my lost kids and wife:crying::crying::crying:
HELP PLEASE!
Got It.
Never Mind i got it unlocked.
I forgot I installed my own designed Android app that can override the existing code and removes it.
so happy to get my stuff back i would have given anything to get it back. First thing i am gonna do is upload everything online.
thanks All.
Hi! I have a strange problem. I recovered a cell phone (redmi note 6 pro) from a deceased relative, his closest people gave it to me. the problem is that I want to install Xiaomi.eu, but I am seeing strange things. First of all, the bootloader is unlocked. Second, I suspect that it has some type of bypass or something like that (I don't know much about the subject, I just change rom) I cannot start or create an account in My community. My fear is that when flashing the xiaomi.eu rom, the phone would be blocked with my account or something, and I would have several problems because I could not access the email or account of the previous owner and there is also the possibility that it is not even the account of the previous owner who would request in the blockade. thanks for reading, sorry for my bad english.
update: I was able to create an account from my google account. I don't know if it is safe to proceed
Update 2: (I wait for the last one) I already linked my phone number, google and facebook account to my account. everything seems to work, the My community app lets me in normally. Is it safe to proceed?
You can install a custom recovery as your phone is already unlocked. Then try to flash a Xiaomi EU rom, download that form a good website. You can get help by searching in YouTube or google. But careful please, don't get your phone bricked.
Dunno if this a taboo subject but I have a locked Huawei P Smart Pro 2020 version (no dedicated forum?). It's a work phone, guy got fired and left phone locked and we want to give it to another employee, so no funny business. It's had hard reset done on it but the FRP has kicked in and is asking for PIN or Google account, both unknown obviously. Is it possible to do a proper factory reset using a PC and/or OTG cable and some software at all, or is it a bin job?
Tried just about every BS method on the web and none have worked!
Re-flash phone's Stock ROM.
I was thinking along those lines. Do I need HiSuite or whatever it's called to do that? Apologies for questions. Only a novice at this but it's the Huawei bit I'm new to really!
Look inside here:
How to Flash Huawei Stock Firmware – All Methods
How to Flash Huawei Stock Firmware – All Methods - Easy Firmware Biggest All Brands Mobile Firmware Provide Find any firmware, ever released by Phone Brands.
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Here we go again, sorry!
I've downloaded the firmware and unzipped it and there are now 3 folders named
update_sd_base
update_sd_cust_STK-L21UDV_hw_eea
update_sd_preload_STK-L21UDV_hw_eea_R1
Each of them has an UPDATE.APP file in them. I copied the one from the top folder to the microSD and did the vol up, vol down + power button thing and nuffink the phone just boots normally to the language selection page. Going to the Huawei recovery and trying to update from there just gives an error. Did I copy the wrong file, or should it be all 3? None of the other methods will work due to the phone being locked.
I don't suppose all I need to defeat is the PIN unlock as I could then get into the settings and remove the google account?
If I had any hair I'd have torn it all out by now!
Can't guide you because I never was in need to re-flash a Stock ROM on a Huawei device.
I've probably spent a good 12 hours on it now and no free methods work. The phone insists on being unlocked before reading any files.
As it is not my device I'm throwing in the towel. If it were mine it'd have had a hammer through it by now!