Moving thread .... don't believe its a sprint issue
I switched from sprint to T-Mobile. They screwed up and let us keep our old phones and did a discount for the hassle. I figure I don't need 2 S8's so I would just sell it. Welcome to my nightmare.....
So I factory reset the phone to get all my data off, I did this through the settings menu. No issues the phone reset. It was at the beginning new phone screen so I just left it and placed the phone on craigslist.
I get a buyer and we meet at the store. The lady who works at sprint and was going to verify the phone was not stolen starts the phone and asks me for the password..........huh?....
The phone is at a password screen and I have maybe 5 at most that I use various combos of, none of these work. She brings it over to the "techs" there are they say they have never seen this. I then apologize the the man who wanted to buy the phone and proceed home. I do some searching online and find out how to get into certain menus and do resets, and re-flash the stock rom. Even after those it wants a password.
I then think I'll just use find my phone with good and unlock it. Well it is a sprint phone and I have T-Mobile now so it has no connection, and I can't get past the password to get to the wifi settings. So google says it can't find my phone.
I contact Samsung and since it’s been less than a year they say they will help. I send in the phone and they send me it back with the crack on the back of the phone fixed and nothing else. I called and they said they have record of me asking for help with a password problem. I then ask if I can send it back and get that taken care of and they said it would cost 150$ because they fixed the phone......huh?
I really just want this password off the phone. At this point it’s a matter of I am more curious about finding a way to get it off the phone than selling it. I’m also open to all ideas. Taking it apart, flashing something third party on it.
If you need pictures I will get them up shortly. Or a video. At work currently, so I can probably reply in a timely manner. If you need more info please ask and I’ll try and get whatever you need
Thanks in advance
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EDIT 2- sigh* I don't know why the images are sideways. They show the lock screen // the fact that is is not FRP locked // i have done a factory reset
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So, I was over at a friend's dinner party, and a friend of mine was screwing around with my phone. She tried the password a bunch of times, then was at the 2 minute lock timer, and I don't know if the battery came loose or something, but the screen went black and wouldn't turn back on. So she gave me back the phone, I took out the battery and put it back in to reboot.
I get the phone locked wait for x amount of time thing.. for 113 6xx minutes.
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Edit: I just looked at the numbers and just realized I'm an edited. It's 2 and a half months. lol.
I do know the PIN, but I don't want to wait that long. And I really don't want to reset it since I got a few things I want to keep on there. Is there any way around this?
Additional info: Samsung Focus, developer unlocked, running latest updates.
Please help me out. Thanks!
Connect to Zune and restore it to previous backup. or better post in MS phone support forums for quick help
n do post the solution here when u get it
I figured my only option would be to restore or hard reset. I restored it to my last point which was about a month ago which isn't too bad, but I wish I had a later restore point.
In addition, I just realized it set the date and time to Oct 18 for some reason, which is exactly 78.xxx days (amount of minutes left) of the timer away from the current date.
So for anybody who can figure it out, the lock timer probably can be changed by learning how to change to date and time through another method. I was thinking Zune could sync up with it somehow, but I didn't feel like trying. Needed my phone.
Thanks
Yeah get that girl to buy you a new phone or rent one for 2 and a half months lol
lol enough with the giggles you're best solution would be to restore from previous versions
Hello everyone!
I seem to have a big problem with my phone that I cannot figure out. I'm fairly good with phones and very good with PC, but this problem eludes me.
My Huawei H866C was working just fine yesterday until boom, system freeze. This happened numerous times and most of the time, all I was doing was looking around in the settings etc. My first gut reaction was to factory reset it.
So I did.
When it was done, the phone rebooted like it should, and there I found the "tutorial" screen.
I tap the green android and it proceeds to the next screen which has only one button labeled "Begin"
When I press begin, it immediately throws this error; The application SetupWizardEx (process com.huawei.setupwizardex) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
Well, needless to say, I've many dozens of times with no success.
I recall a similar incident with my sisters motorola droid bionic, in which after a reset the phone wanted some carrier info before it would load the home screen and let you use the phone. With that incident, I was able to bypass it by touching all 4 corners of the touchscreen. I can't find anything like that to bypass this tutorial nonsense.
I know that the phone isn't bricked, because I never rooted it. Furthermore, I can still bring up swype keyboard settings by holding the menu softkey. From there, I can click a web link in swype help and open the browser with no wifi connectivity. I can go through browser settings, and swype settings. When I first turn the phone back on, I can even use the slide-down menu briefly before it takes away my access.
I was really starting to like this phone until now.
Is there any way to bypass this annoying tutorial so I can use the phone? Otherwise, I'm afraid my money was wasted.
I have included some fairly low quality pictures to try and illustrate my problem.
ANY help at all would be greatly appreciated.
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Well admins, you may as well delete this thread. It's helped no one, including myself. I'm just going to return the phone and get my money back..
HuaweiTurk said:
Well admins, you may as well delete this thread. It's helped no one, including myself. I'm just going to return the phone and get my money back..
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And that's exactly what I did. My best advice? STAY AWAY FROM TRACFONE/NET10/Straight Talk at ALL costs! Sure, they give you cheap unlimited everything, but the phones are pure garbage. :good:
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Hello all,
From what I can tell XDADevelopers is the best place to ask stupid questions - because I'm noticing with how much time I've spent on here trying to solve this problem that everyone here seems to be particularly helpful! However, I have spent way too much time trying to solve this myself, so this is my last ditch effort before I go and buy myself a new phone, haha. If anyone can get this phone working again for me I will PayPal, send some BTC, or eTransfer ( if you're in Canada ) for your time!
So here goes:
I installed an 8.0 Oreo Superman ROM ( I don't remember the exact one I flashed - IIRC it was this one but I'm not entirely sure, but it was working really well and I was extremely satisfied with how everything was working ). Now I did this a while ago and I've been extraordinarily busy lately so it's been a while, so forgive the lack of detail. I was trying to install some sort of application/feature through Magisk Manager and it wasn't working as expected so I did what in hindsight what I know now to be an incredibly stupid idea - which was to disable OEM Unlock and disable developer options and reboot hoping it would get whatever I was attempting to install working. Instead I was greeted immediately to the following bootloop upon starting the phone again:
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I'm unable to boot into TWRP and Odin/PC does not recognize the phone at all. I've tried on multiple computers, different cables, etc. My other Samsung S7 has no trouble being recognized by my PC & Odin as well as Samsung Kies, so I know it's not a driver issue. I only have the IMEI engraved on the back of the phone since I have long lost the box that had the SN on it, which might allow me to reset it through Kies as far as I understand. I am starting to think this is well beyond my capabilities to fix, or the phone could potentially be completely bricked. But again, that's why I'm here asking for advice.
I have tried my best to solve this on my own but I simply don't have time to keep working on this - so like I said, I'd be willing to pay to have someone attempt to come up with a fix for this issue or at least tell me I need to go and buy a new phone - though, ideally I'd prefer the former, haha. If the phone is toast, I was thinking of getting a lightly used Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 off Kijiji or Ebay or something - but if anyone has any recommendations for an alternative I am open to that as well, but I like the bezel-less design and the fingerprint reader, but ideally I'd like an OLED and wireless charging.
Anyways, hopefully someone on here has a solution or at least tell me with 100% confidence that I can safely toss this phone and I will keep my fingers crossed....
Thanks guys - any help would be greatly appreciated.
So I moved from a Note4 to this Find X2. In my previous phone, I had a setting to display a custom message in the lock screen "If you find this phone please call...". When yesterday I set my new FindX2 I was prompted to move my previous android configuration to the new one. So I did.
Now, I want to remove this message as I noticed it is wrong, it says to call to my own number, which, if phone is found, they would be ringing the phone itself... So anyway, I dont need the message there. You guessed it, there is no option (as far as I searched) to removed this setting. If any of you can lend me a hand on this... I wouldn't like to restart the whole setting and configuration from scratch again.. Please let me know if you know how to delete this message. Thanks.
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Yeah that option doesn't exist. I miss it. You may need to do a factory reset to get rid of it..
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Yeah that option doesn't exist. I miss it. You may need to do a factory reset to get rid of it..
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What...? Seriously this is an issue they should solve. It makes no sense to import a setting that can't be set anymore.
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So I moved from a Note4 to this Find X2. In my previous phone, I had a setting to display a custom message in the lock screen "If you find this phone please call...". When yesterday I set my new FindX2 I was prompted to move my previous android configuration to the new one. So I did.
Now, I want to remove this message as I noticed it is wrong, it says to call to my own number, which, if phone is found, they would be ringing the phone itself... So anyway, I dont need the message there. You guessed it, there is no option (as far as I searched) to removed this setting. If any of you can lend me a hand on this... I wouldn't like to restart the whole setting and configuration from scratch again.. Please let me know if you know how to delete this message. Thanks.
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I have a message on my Find X2 Pro too after moving from a OnePlus 6T.
Hopefully the option will appear on an update. If not, factory reset seems to be the only option.
I did a factory reset and didn't import anything this time, having to manually set some stuff.
Too bad, oppo, they even didn't reply as costumer service.
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Can anybody explain how someone else's phone number appeared as the owner (admin) of my phone? I could still use it fine and had no notifications or indications anything had been changed or tampered with...
I called the number and somebody answered (I hung up as i didnt think anyone would actually answer) they didn't realise it was me so I guess they didn't know their number was displayed. I've since factory reset and changed all passwords but really at a loss how they could have done that (and as to what they were doing)
its possible that they borrowed your phone for something and needed to sign in but didnt realise what they were doing and accidentally did this.
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View attachment 5711787Can anybody explain how someone else's phone number appeared as the owner (admin) of my phone? I could still use it fine and had no notifications or indications anything had been changed or tampered with...
I called the number and somebody answered (I hung up as i didnt think anyone would actually answer) they didn't realise it was me so I guess they didn't know their number was displayed. I've since factory reset and changed all passwords but really at a loss how they could have done that (and as to what they were doing)
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It's usually my Gmail account not a phone number, nothing suspicious on any google security page it's like they swapped my user info without me noticing. Plus I could still use everything, so strange.
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its possible that they borrowed your phone for something and needed to sign in but didnt realise what they were doing and accidentally did this.
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Hi thanks for the reply, no nobody borrowed my phone and logged in. I haven't clicked on any dodgy links in texts or emails nor have I used any unsecured wi fi networks. I'm totally at a loss of the methodology or functionality of how they did this (or how long it was like it for before I noticed)
My phone's not been out of my possession so it must have been done remotely but how could someone else be the owner (admin) of my phone instead and me still be able to use everything as normal without noticing anything? I've been using emails and google services absolutely fine. It's freaking me out to be honest, I don't know if this meant they had access to my entire handset or just google services?
Is this an android issue if its the sign in for the device?