Is there a way how to set a password or PIN lock for the bootloader or at least the recovery? There's been a lot of break ins in my area lately and when someone steals my phone, I wanna make sure that it will be rendered completely useless (Including IMEI blacklist) and non-recoverable.Is there a way how can be bootloader & recovery locked so a thief can't access the recovery without a password or a PIN lock and thus not able to reset the phone to factory settings?
So far, any anti-theft software I've seen doesn't have this ability and can be easily removed by factory data reset
Thundery Steak said:
Is there a way how to set a password or PIN lock for the bootloader or at least the recovery? There's been a lot of break ins in my area lately and when someone steals my phone, I wanna make sure that it will be rendered completely useless (Including IMEI blacklist) and non-recoverable.Is there a way how can be bootloader & recovery locked so a thief can't access the recovery without a password or a PIN lock and thus not able to reset the phone to factory settings?
So far, any anti-theft software I've seen doesn't have this ability and can be easily removed by factory data reset
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I believe, but not sure, that TWRP has a PIN code system
You should try Cerberus or avast!, with root they can lock into the system which means the thief has to reflash an FTF file
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Nope, TWRP doesn't have PIN protection. If you want to secure your phone, some tips:
1. Make sure the on/off menu cannot be opened when the phone is locked.
2. Make sure your data is always on
3. Use CyanogenMod Account / Cerberus / avast! AntiTheft
x. If you phone gets stolen, use one of the above programs to lock and wipe your device.
I'm getting close to getting a new phone, and there is specific data from my Motorola Photon Q that I want to move onto my computer to put onto my new phone, but all the websites and searches for ways to root this phone say I have to unlock the bootloader, which in turn means I also have to delete all the data from my phone.
Is there a way to root my phone without having to delete all the data or unlock the bootloader?
Napa39 said:
I'm getting close to getting a new phone, and there is specific data from my Motorola Photon Q that I want to move onto my computer to put onto my new phone, but all the websites and searches for ways to root this phone say I have to unlock the bootloader, which in turn means I also have to delete all the data from my phone.
Is there a way to root my phone without having to delete all the data or unlock the bootloader?
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When you rooting photon q or unlock bootloader you dont loose anything, some one wrote somewhere a bulls...
you dont lose anything from your phone, only flesh to stock or wipe / factory reset cause this not unloading bootloader or root
It is in fact, possible to root the Photon Q without unlocking your bootloader. It's called Towelroot. I did that, and it worked perfectly.
Hi,
I have a few questions about the FRP lock and the OEM lock on the Galaxy s6 running Nougat. I hope someone can help as I've not been able to find answers to questions this specific.
Ok, so, my first question is does the Galaxy s6 even have an OEM unlock option? If so, is it enabled by default?
Quick story before the other questions. I flashed TWRP and the sorts onto my s6 but decided to go back to stock and so flashed the stock firmware from sammobile through odin mode. After doing so I assumed the stock recovery would be restored and the phone would be as good as new right? As in all the FRP and OEM lock security features would be restored?
However, I did some research and found out that you can flash the stock firmware AGAIN as long as the firmware was signed by samsung even if OEM unlock is not checked.
My last question would be if someone was to use odin mode to flash the stock firmware, which is freely available, would the phone not ask for the previous Google account which was signed in on the device?
Hope is wasn't too hard to understand, I'm typing on my old S3 mini as I lost my s6 which is the reason I can't go and test this myself.
Thanks in advance
- There's no OEM lock on S6 (at least on international models). So, there is no OEM unlock option.
- If the bootable images (kernel and recovery) on your phone is Samsung signed, you can use FRP.
- If you want to revert the device to completely stock, I recommed that you should install a 4-part firmware.
- If FRP lock is not enabled on your device, phone won't ask anything about Google account (or Samsung account).
forumber2 said:
- There's no OEM lock on S6 (at least on international models). So, there is no OEM unlock option.
- If the bootable images (kernel and recovery) on your phone is Samsung signed, you can use FRP.
- If you want to revert the device to completely stock, I recommed that you should install a 4-part firmware.
- If FRP lock is not enabled on your device, phone won't ask anything about Google account (or Samsung account).
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Hi,
Thanks for the informative reply. I have just one more question.
If I had enabled FRP through the Samsung Pass settings with my Samsung account and then I was to flash stock firmware on to the phone, would the Samsung FRP lock prevent the user from using the device by asking for the email and password or would the new firmware get rid of any of the security measures put in place?
I understand the FRP lock files are stored on a hidden partition not wipeable through the stock recovery however considering signed firmwares are freely available it would seem to me that the FRP lock would be deemed useless if anyone could just do that.
I guess my final question would be do signed firmwares downloaded online and flashed over the existing firmware wipe the FRP lock partition of the phone?
Thanks again for your reply
Haroon786 said:
Hi,
Thanks for the informative reply. I have just one more question.
If I had enabled FRP through the Samsung Pass settings with my Samsung account and then I was to flash stock firmware on to the phone, would the Samsung FRP lock prevent the user from using the device by asking for the email and password or would the new firmware get rid of any of the security measures put in place?
I understand the FRP lock files are stored on a hidden partition not wipeable through the stock recovery however considering signed firmwares are freely available it would seem to me that the FRP lock would be deemed useless if anyone could just do that.
I guess my final question would be do signed firmwares downloaded online and flashed over the existing firmware wipe the FRP lock partition of the phone?
Thanks again for your reply
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Phone will ask Samsung or Google account only if you wipe the data (we assume that FRP lock has been enabled before wiping the data).
If you don't wipe the data while flashing any firmware while installing (or the firmware you try to flash doesn't wipe the data), phone won't ask you anything.
And, if FRP lock enabled on the device, bootloader will deny to boot (or flash) the unsigned kernel or recovery.
There's no way to wipe FRP lock via Odin.
So, we can say that FRP lock is pretty secure.
Yeah
But u can easy **** with samsung when u flash stock 5.0 with odin and on pc have sidesync or someting like that samsung suck because with that tutorial u can bypass frp really easy
JirkaPirkl said:
But u can easy **** with samsung when u flash stock 5.0 with odin and on pc have sidesync or someting like that samsung suck because with that tutorial u can bypass frp really easy
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:/
well here's hoping a typical phone thief doesn't know how to do that....
Quick question though, can an S6 be factory restored if the user only used the phone's PIN from the lock screen to the factory reset option in the settings app? Or would you be prompted to use your fingerprint? I read somewhere that factory restoring a device through the settings app disables the innate android FRP but i don't know if it's also the case with Samsung reactivation lock which is supposedly similar to FRP.
Thanks for the replies I appreciate it
Read on the way out from house !!!
Sorry for my bad but im now on the way but 1 yeah u will need maybe fingerprint for turn off reactivation ( frp) but first when u lost your phone use samsung accound on the browser for track lock etc 2 for factory reset u need only turn off phone and go to the recovery mode
I got S7 SM-G930L with a port Rom from S8 (https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/development/rom-s8-port-s7-s7-edge-ambasadii-t3619548). When I power on the phone I get a message: Custom binary blocked by FRP Lock.
I would like to get rid of the FRP Lock without losing my data.
I saw a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdAhu45UPsU According to the comments 40% lost their data and 60% didn't.
Could you please advise how to make sure that my data won't be lost?
Blackion said:
I got S7 SM-G930L with a port Rom from S8 (https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/development/rom-s8-port-s7-s7-edge-ambasadii-t3619548). When I power on the phone I get a message: Custom binary blocked by FRP Lock.
I would like to get rid of the FRP Lock without losing my data.
I saw a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdAhu45UPsU According to the comments 40% lost their data and 60% didn't.
Could you please advise how to make sure that my data won't be lost?
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If there's an option for OEM Unlock in developer settings enable that to disable FRP
But how do I boot my phone? Now I'm getting a red message: Custom binary blocked by FRP Lock and the phone is not booting past that. It will not even let me in TWRP.
Blackion said:
But how do I boot my phone? Now I'm getting a red message: Custom binary blocked by FRP Lock and the phone is not booting past that. It will not even let me in TWRP.
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reflash the stock fw using odin
Not sure
I was said that because I'm using a port of S8 on S7, after I'll reflash stock ROM the data might be lost due to differences of memory formats.
Is it true?
Blackion said:
I was said that because I'm using a port of S8 on S7, after I'll reflash stock ROM the data might be lost due to differences of memory formats.
Is it true?
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If you haven't backed up your data, it will be lost.
When you get yourself back out of this mess, don't touch that OEM unlock toggle again...
Blackion said:
But how do I boot my phone? Now I'm getting a red message: Custom binary blocked by FRP Lock and the phone is not booting past that. It will not even let me in TWRP.
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(sorry for the english but i'm italian) hi. i have the same problem, can you help me? i root my phone and after i unroot, but now the phone don't boot, it say custom binary blocked by frp, i understand that my bootloader is lock by oem, there is a way to unlock by odin or others method? i can't have access to recovery and the phone don't boot, what can i do?
corvasce03 said:
(sorry for the english but i'm italian) hi. i have the same problem, can you help me? i root my phone and after i unroot, but now the phone don't boot, it say custom binary blocked by frp, i understand that my bootloader is lock by oem, there is a way to unlock by odin or others method? i can't have access to recovery and the phone don't boot, what can i do?
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I used smartswitch when I encountered frp lock
https://www.blogtechtips.com/2017/06/24/easily-restore-samsung-device-firmware-with-smart-switch/
1eStar said:
If you haven't backed up your data, it will be lost.
When you get yourself back out of this mess, don't touch that OEM unlock toggle again...
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@1eStar
Firstly I have a question regarding the OEM unlock as I just came out of the FRP Lock. Do I turn on OEM unlock or does it have to be turned off? Last time I had this FRP Lock was a year ago though did it again(the mistake with the OEM unlock) as I had forgotten it(Lots of grey hair)
Just don't know if it has to be on or off?
Secondly I have managed to come out of it(so far , hopefully) without wiping data with this guide
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@1eStar
Firstly I have a question regarding the OEM unlock as I just came out of the FRP Lock. Do I turn on OEM unlock or does it have to be turned off? Last time I had this FRP Lock was a year ago though did it again(the mistake with the OEM unlock) as I had forgotten it(Lots of grey hair)
Just don't know if it has to be on or off?
Secondly I have managed to come out of it(so far , hopefully) without wiping data with this guide
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To unlock your device by frp lock you must flash the stock firmware when you are in bootloader mode you see custom binary blocked by frp,if you try to flash a random firmware(always of your device) the operation may not be a good end and device say an error with this:
Knumber) Snumber) Bnumber)
When you go to download the stock firmware you must see the "code" Of the firmware with write the same S or B number
If you Don't understand see the 10th post of this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8+/help/custom-binary-blocked-frp-lock-regular-t3745085
corvasce03 said:
To unlock your device by frp lock you must flash the stock firmware when you are in bootloader mode you see custom binary blocked by frp,if you try to flash a random firmware(always of your device) the operation may not be a good end and device say an error with this:
Knumber) Snumber) Bnumber)
When you go to download the stock firmware you must see the "code" Of the firmware with write the same S or B number
If you Don't understand see the 10th post of this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8+/help/custom-binary-blocked-frp-lock-regular-t3745085
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@corvasce03
Thanks.
I think I got back allright except this here and I used exactly the same stock(file) as a year ago
Someone Help My Soul!!!
Guys, I'm scared to death on letting my phone reboot, I have been told to never let my phone restart unless my google account has been removed, can someone please explain how this FRP block really works?
Am I at risk at every given point of phone restart for real?
Cirphrank said:
Guys, I'm scared to death on letting my phone reboot, I have been told to never let my phone restart unless my google account has been removed, can someone please explain how this FRP block really works?
Am I at risk at every given point of phone restart for real?
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It stops someone stealing your phone, wiping it, installing new firmware and using it as if it was new. If you know the gmail and password you put on the phone to access the play store then you just need to re-enter it after the phone restarts. FRP will only kick in if you have flashed new firmware to the phone.
I have a new firmware flashed on the phone.
And I'm using a new gmail with is, not some one July bro used on it.
What am I to do now? I have developer settings OEM unlock toggled on already.
Cirphrank said:
And I'm using a new gmail with is, not some one July bro used on it.
What am I to do now? I have developer settings OEM unlock toggled on already.
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I'm not sure what you mean. If you have a Google account on the phone that you know the email and password to, then just reboot the phone. FRP lock will only activate if you flash new firmware to the phone without removing the Google account first.
Your device should only have 1 Google account registered on the device which let's you access Play store etc. If there is more than one, you need to delete the ones you don't know the email and password to.
Okay...
Oh, okay, now I am getting the rationale.
Albeit, when I flashed in the new custom firmware, it started give me the undo changes by restarting your phone notification, like it did the first time ever that I got the lock. I didn't click it, activated an app that discarded the notification rather.
Now it makes me doubt if I had really removed my mail before flashing the phone.
hey
i have got the same problem. when i deleted xposed installer, my device rebooted. every time i try to turn it on, it says in top left corner 'custom binary blocked by frp lock'. i tried 3 diff rom to flash, no succes. i tried to acces twrp (my device is rooted) but again no succes. can you guys help me?
i have a G930F
thanks.
stasikkk777 said:
i have got the same problem. when i deleted xposed installer, my device rebooted. every time i try to turn it on, it says in top left corner 'custom binary blocked by frp lock'. i tried 3 diff rom to flash, no succes. i tried to acces twrp (my device is rooted) but again no succes. can you guys help me?
i have a G930F
thanks.
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Yeah you've messed it up by not signing out of account before unistalling xposed. When you say 3 different rom's do you mean stock or custom?
Even in this state you should be able to flash a stock rom to the device with Odin and it will ask you to type the google email and password after boot.
Always turn off FRP lock before modifying the phone, it's a really annoying feature.