mi unlock tool keeps resetting my hours - General Questions and Answers

TLDR; is there a way to bypass the mi unlock tool, cuz it ain't working for me. timer keeps getting reset. and no matter what i do, it keeps happening. also xiaomi support is absolutely useless
so i received my k20 pro about a month or more ago with the intention of putting on a custom rom.
from what i can tell, i've done everything right. i initially had 360 hours to unlock according to the tool. opened it again the next day to make sure the counter was going down. and it was fine.
but then i went back about a week later, and the countdown was at 380!!
did some digging and fiddling seems like perhaps i reset the account on the phone somehow or maybe the update to miui 11 reset it, i dunno, it certainly was NOT intentionally signed out.
so i made sure to do everything proper (which btw might be impossible bcuz all the guides are either broken chinese/english translations, or the ui/menus have changed, links to the english forums go nowhere): removed/re-enabled the mi account on the phone. dev mode. pair the account to the mi unlock status
380 hours.... check the next day.... looks good
that was about 6 days ago. so i went to double check the countdown again today.... back to 380!?!?!?!?
what the hell is going on? something reset again? now i legit cant even find the developer options menu. and the mi account thing. something reset developer mode. just had to go reactivate it
is there anyway to just bypass all this crap and unlock the bootloader, or something i am doing to cause this reset??? do i just have to leave the phone on the fastboot screen for 380 hours or something?
its been weeks with miui and i really want it gone, i dont want to start another 380 countdown to just go back a week later and have it reset
plz help, thanks
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that was a post i made on reddit a few weeks ago. i've since had a timer in my calendar, to wait the allotted time. only to see the timer reset TWICE. it's about a total of 4 times that this timer reset has happened to me.
i have contacted xiaomi "support" during all these resets and they all send me some boiler plate message along the lines of:
"I would request you to follow the timer/ waiting period shown in Mi Unlock Tool to unlock successfully, you'll see this sentence "Couldn't unlock the device after XXXX hours" which means "Please unlock after XXX hours." There is some translation issue in Mi Unlock Tool. Also would like to inform you that after you've successfully bound your Mi Account, do not log out the approved Mi account from your phone. Otherwise, the timer will be reset and you gotta spend more time waiting again."
i've literally begged them to put me into contact with someone who can actually help. my last message literally said plz don't respond with a canned answer, and guess what, i got the same canned answer, yay.

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[Solved]FRP Android MM

Hi there,
Here's the thing, After updating to MM my phone started with issues like no working home button, no status bar... etc.
So decided to make a factory reset using fastboot, but when google account verification came up I realized i didn't remember my google account pass, so i touched the "change pass" button and changed it using the phone.
But then, when trying to log in, an android alert came up telling something like,
"You should sign in with an actual phone owner's account"
Could you give a solution for this?
Do i have to wait 24hs as some sites say or the only way to access my phone now is flashing the whole ROM again?
I've got bootloader locked and is obviously not rooted.
Please Help me!!
Regards.
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Edit: Seems there's no fu*** option rather than "cool-down" wait. (Not clearly whether is 24 or 72 hours)
Thanks google indeed, not implementing apple kinda things was clearly why i did preferred your devices & s/w instead of theirs.
Edit2: Lock out is of 24 hours right now!
Sources:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/2015-moto-g/general/guide-fastboot-flashing-factory-t3187750/page73
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...ne-you-might-trip-a-72-hour-security-lockout/
http://www.pcnexus.net/2015/12/what...gle-72-hour-lockout-android-lollipop.html?m=1

[Completed] please help with resetting ZTE Axon

Hello.
I have the ZTE axon A1R (not pro) and about a month ago I received a notification for a update to marshmallow 6.0 and so I went through the process, and it completely froze and would not boot.
Since then I did a factory reset however I cannot get passed the sign in screen where it asks you to sign in with the gmail that was previously associated with the phone. I have done this countless times and it simply does not accept the email even though it is correct. I have initially waited 3 days and since then tried many many times but it simply throws me back to the sign in screen.
I have tried the other option where google sends a code digit and this doesnt work wither.
I have been in contact with zte customer service but it is a complete joke. They have done absolutely nothing to help me and what I thought would take a couple of days at the most to fix, has now been over a month and is very frustrating. They keep sending me email to "wait and that they forwarded my concerns to the appropriate people to help" however this has not happened in over a month now.
what can I do? (I tried searching for this problem here on xda forums and google in general but cannot find the relevant information. Mostly what I find is stuff for the pro version of this phone)
Thank you
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hi,
thanx for trying to help but sadly the above is for the Axon 7.
i am only able to find information (on xda) regarding Axon 7 and axon pro neither of which is my phone.
mine is the regular axon (A1R) http://www.gsmarena.com/zte_axon-7686.php
I should note that I am not so much interested in rooting it or anything like that.
I just want to be able to use it again under any circumstance but I simply cannot get passed the "sign in with email previously associated with this phone" because it keeps sending me back after I put in the correct information.
ZTE has been a complete failure in helping me even though it was their update that has cause me problems in the first place
Try to change the email password from another device, a pc maybe
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Try to change the email password from another device, a pc maybe
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I have done that.
no go.
and the weird thing is that, when i do type in the wrong password, it knows, and says so... but when I type in the correct one, it doesnt say anything, just jumps right back into the 'please sign in with the email associated with this password' screen.
I think it may be a issue with the update itself.
I cannot get passed the 'verify your account'
page. I tried everything, I keep putting in the
correct email and password, and even trying with the
code that google sends via text, and it always just
sends me back to the 'verify your account'.
THis is a problem with ZTE update. It fails to
recognize the previous email that was associated to
the phone.
When I power the phone while holding the 'up' button
and go into android recovery, it says:
ZTE/P897A10_ROGERS/billy
6.0.1/MMB29M/20160707.005703
So it seems that even though I have reset the phone
into factory reset, it has still applied the 6.01
update which is not what the phone came with when I
bought it (it came with 5.01)
Perhaps this is the problem and why it is not
recognizing the email associated with the phone.
I dont know why it says "ROGERS/billy"
Rogers is not the carrier that I am with and billy is
not my name.

Found Mate 9 can I unlock it?

Hello guys, I'll begin by saying that I'm not english so if i make mistakes u have to forgive me. Yesterday, a friend of mine came to me by saying that he "found" a phone, which actually is a Huawei Mate 9 MHA-L29.
Now, he told me that he tried to return the phone to the police but it didn't have any SIM card in it and they just told him to keep it because they couldn't do anything. I was actually searching a good and cheap phone to buy and he told me that he can sell it to me at a nice price if i manage to unlock it, now the problems start. So when i turn it on, it hasn't any wallpaper and it wants the unlock Pin, which obviously is unknown.
Something like this happened to me a month ago with a P8 Lite which i factory resetted even if it had a pin and everything went fine.
With this phone tho, if i go to eRecovery (both buttons and start button) and press "Download lastest version and recovery" it makes me choose a wifi and then gives me "getting package info failed".
If i try Vol Down and start button, it takes me to the EMUI update i guess (I'm kinda new to these things so please understand my ignorance.) and tells me "System install failed".
Also tried to link it via USB to my PC and tried Recovery from HiSuite but i guess since the device is in "only charge" and i don't have the pin to change that, it doesn't work either.
Do you guys think is it possible to unlock it someway? I would really appreciate your help.
It could be the original owner who had lost the phone had contacted Huawei and had them disable phone, (making it useless).
debugging seems to be not enabled
password isn’t known
pin isn’t known
factory reset without removing pin/password before will not be successful!!!
as i know, this phone is fully useless for you.
BTW: bad for you, but good for all the people which have lost her phone.
If you would have the original box and bill, the HUAWEI service center can help.
Without this, you will get no help!
and at last...
How often do you think, people have "lost" her phone without sim card installed into it? Not often i think!!!
If it has the original software and recovery on it, chances are that FRP lock is still enabled so unfortunately, it's worth nothing. Maybe you guys can post it on some public ad sites and the owner will be found and give a reward.

Can't unlock and can't read error message as its not in English!

I get a error that is like 621**** and a few other digits and the rest I'm assuming is in Chinese.
History is I added phone to mi account almost a month ago, 10 and a half days ago I tried unlocking and got same error, tried again today and got same error but due to the language barrier I can't understand.
I get the utility from official source and have installed driver it gets to 99% each time.
I'm assuming its asking me to wait longer but I don't know how.
Steps leading up to this, went into dev settings oem and usb settings clicked, find my device enabled add account via data done.
I did notice that up until today when I added account again after it didn't work it didn't show mobile number.
I can't speak Chinese so will put a badly translated message up from online translation, hope someone can help as a futher 14 days have now passed and I still can't unlock it says "the phone has been numbered 629911 by looking for the phone lock, can not unlock it"
No idea what that means

I got trolled by FRP

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.
cooltt said:
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.

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