Hi,
I had bought a used phone, used it for many months but today i hard reset it. Now its asking for old email address which i dont have. Seller is also not in contact. its a chinese brand with android v6.0 Marshmallow.
What can i do now?
The message it shows is:
This device was reset. To continue, sign in woth a google account that was previously synced on this device.
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So I sold my phone (Galaxy S6) on Swappa, first time ever. The buyer received the phone went to set it up and the an error reading "This device was reset. To continue, sign in with a Google Account that was previously synced on this device." He recommended doing a video call where I would give him the password so he could get in and remove my account. And I would be able to watch him so I know he isn't stealing my information. I changed my password before giving him it because it is similar to other passwords I use for other logins. When we went to do the call it keeps looping back to that same screen with an error message. I know it recognizing my email because I see my picture pop up when it asked for a password. In my research I just came across articles like this: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/07/13/dont-change-your-google-password-before-factory-resetting-your-android-phone-you-might-trip-a-72-hour-security-lockout/
I just want to know if I am permantly locked out because I changed my password after I reset, or if we can try again in 72 hours? I can't find anything more clear about changing the password after the factory reset, everything talks about before.
thefayeride said:
So I sold my phone (Galaxy S6) on Swappa, first time ever. The buyer received the phone went to set it up and the an error reading "This device was reset. To continue, sign in with a Google Account that was previously synced on this device." He recommended doing a video call where I would give him the password so he could get in and remove my account. And I would be able to watch him so I know he isn't stealing my information. I changed my password before giving him it because it is similar to other passwords I use for other logins. When we went to do the call it keeps looping back to that same screen with an error message. I know it recognizing my email because I see my picture pop up when it asked for a password. In my research I just came across articles like this: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...ne-you-might-trip-a-72-hour-security-lockout/
I just want to know if I am permantly locked out because I changed my password after I reset, or if we can try again in 72 hours? I can't find anything more clear about changing the password after the factory reset, everything talks about before.
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Well, wait for 72 hours and see
thefayeride said:
So I sold my phone (Galaxy S6) on Swappa, first time ever. The buyer received the phone went to set it up and the an error reading "This device was reset. To continue, sign in with a Google Account that was previously synced on this device." He recommended doing a video call where I would give him the password so he could get in and remove my account. And I would be able to watch him so I know he isn't stealing my information. I changed my password before giving him it because it is similar to other passwords I use for other logins. When we went to do the call it keeps looping back to that same screen with an error message. I know it recognizing my email because I see my picture pop up when it asked for a password. In my research I just came across articles like this: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/07/13/dont-change-your-google-password-before-factory-resetting-your-android-phone-you-might-trip-a-72-hour-security-lockout/
I just want to know if I am permantly locked out because I changed my password after I reset, or if we can try again in 72 hours? I can't find anything more clear about changing the password after the factory reset, everything talks about before.
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sorry, i cant help with your question, but in the future, remove your account from the phone before factory reset and you wont have this problem.
any phone running lollipop and forward will have this new security on it, and if your phone never had software older than lollipop on it, there is no way to bypass the security check.
Hi, i sold my old phone and forgot to disable the account security, i used factory reset before giving it to the buyer, now the person i sold it can't use it because it's asking for my google account after the reset. Is there any way i can disable that phone security from my google account? the buyer says i have to give him my main account (which for obvious personal reasons i don't want to) so he can deactivate it from the phone. Thanks for help.
There is no official way. You have to log in with your google account and then remove it from the phone. After a factory reset the device protection will be disabled.
Hi guys,
Don't ask why, at the time being I tought it was a good idea to disable oem in the developer settings while having a custom rom. That having said, I needed to do a complete reset with odin and flash the stock firmware. Because I still had my google account tied to my phone, they now want that I sign in with that account. After many failed attemps I changed the passwort an finally logged in. But then it said that I should use an account which was previously used with the phone. And I am 100% sure that that is the right one, but google tells me otherwise. I read something about a 24h lock if the password is changed. Is it as simple as waiting a day?
I know it is this email, because when I logged into google in the web, it showed me that the device was recently factory reset. It also showed me my phone nummber and I could see apps which I installed on this phone. I only have on, so that must me it?
I'm really lost here. I already searched for ways to contact google, but I came up with nothing email-related to my problem and I really don't wan't to call them. IIs there a working way to bypass it? I know there were some with earlier security patches.
Also, does anybody know, where I could post this in the google forums? I looked at all of them, but none would fit into my problem. The closest I got wouuld have been google play store
Don't know if it's usefull:
Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-G930F) running 6.0.1 with firmware downloaded yesterday straight from Samsung
Try that:
Thanks for the help, but the problem resolved itself. After waiting for a day I was able to log in using the account I mentioned. Don't know if it was part of the protection to display that the account was not usable or not, but it hat me severely confused.
I got a Blu Pure XL on ebay, and a seller not helping.... It was a password on it so he gave me 2 different, non did work. Now i even more screwed , because after was factory reset iam getting a :
"this device was reset. To continue, sign in with a Google Account that was previously synced on this device" message.
I tried to follow the advice on youtube, when they turn on/off a hotspot and they skip the message and go to the "Google Services"
There is a problem, the solution is to hold and able to highlight any words there and use the "share" option. So this BLU doesn't do anything. I am holding down, and a phone vibrates for a sec, but no copy/share or any highlighted thing going on. So what can I do?
It came with a box, so it is a clean phone, not stolen, but this crap is really frustrated ...
Got a help with a seller , and tried with his account. Well after i put his email and password is taken me back again to the page where is asking for email.. He bought it as new from Amazon, so no other google account was used with... What is next?
Update... I was able to open a settings and did a factory reset from there . Only took few hours of try lol
Thread closed, issue solved
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.
ExpandWeiner said:
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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