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Having never had a Samsung device before, I might be turning to the S6 Edge once it's released to replace my ageing Nexus 5 but I have a few questions that can put me off and was wondering if you guys can clarify them for me.
1) Does the 'international' version come with a locked or unlocked bootloader (i.e. if I were to buy it off of Amazon UK). If locked, how easy is it to unlock the bootloader on previous Samsung phones? This probably also voids warranty unlike the Nexus and HTC right?
2) How easy has it been to root Samsung phones in the past?
3) What does having an Exynos processor mean (in terms of modding)? Will that make it harder to root? harder to unlock bootloader? Not being able to Install Stock Vanilla Android ROM?
4) Finally, I've played around with a couple of friend's Samsungs (Note 3,4, S5,S4) and I absolutely hate TouchWiz.. It just looks ugly. How easy is it to get rid of it all together, including sounds, menus, etc. (either by installing Stock Android ROM) or by removing these components from TouchWiz ROM?
5) To sum up. Ideally I'd like to have Vanilla Android Lollipop with an unlocked bootloader and root, and customize as I like; do you think this would be possible? What would the tradeoffs?
I hope my questions are clear! If they aren't please let me know to clarify them further.
ombadboy said:
Having never had a Samsung device before, I might be turning to the S6 Edge once it's released to replace my ageing Nexus 5 but I have a few questions that can put me off and was wondering if you guys can clarify them for me.
1) Does the 'international' version come with a locked or unlocked bootloader (i.e. if I were to buy it off of Amazon UK). If locked, how easy is it to unlock the bootloader on previous Samsung phones? This probably also voids warranty unlike the Nexus and HTC right?
2) How easy has it been to root Samsung phones in the past?
3) What does having an Exynos processor mean (in terms of modding)? Will that make it harder to root? harder to unlock bootloader? Not being able to Install Stock Vanilla Android ROM?
4) Finally, I've played around with a couple of friend's Samsungs (Note 3,4, S5,S4) and I absolutely hate TouchWiz.. It just looks ugly. How easy is it to get rid of it all together, including sounds, menus, etc. (either by installing Stock Android ROM) or by removing these components from TouchWiz ROM?
5) To sum up. Ideally I'd like to have Vanilla Android Lollipop with an unlocked bootloader and root, and customize as I like; do you think this would be possible? What would the tradeoffs?
I hope my questions are clear! If they aren't please let me know to clarify them further.
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1. We don't really know yet. As far as I know all previous international models of the Galaxy S phones had unlocked bootloaders.
2. With my S2 and S4 it has been really easy to root. I don't expect real problems here.
3. Here's where it gets tricky. Exynos processors made it harder to create AOSP roms due to the closed-source nature of the kernel. I expect there to be no change there.
4. Well, custom roms may be able to help here. They may be able to tweak the UI, remove bloatware or even change the whole UI. Perhaps a stable AOSP port will be created, it's too early to tell yet.
5. If you want an AOSP rom, I'm not sure if the S6 is what you're looking for. A Nexus device would be ideal or you can look at the HTC One M9. If you can live with a Touchwiz based rom, you shouldn't have any problems here.
This is just my view on this all. There may be others who can shed some light on it.
From what I understood, rooting your Samsung allows you to remove quite alot of the TouchWiz bloat. Is it possible to also get rid of the UI they stick ontop of Stock Android or is that baked in?
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From what I understood, rooting your Samsung allows you to remove quite alot of the TouchWiz bloat. Is it possible to also get rid of the UI they stick ontop of Stock Android or is that baked in?
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Well, there is a difference between Touchwiz and the pre-installed applications. Touchwiz is the whole look&feel with the modified applications. This means a modded email client, dialer, contacts app, settings, launcher, power menu, etc.
While you can remove some applications while rooted (for example the Samsung Store), you can't modify the looks like the power menu, settings, top bar with the clock, etc.. This is baked into the rom itself.
Regarding the email, dialer, launcher and contacts apps, you can download and use third-party apps for that. This will make it look at lot better, but it won't fix everything.
I guess now that Xposed has been released for Lollipop ART as soon as Rovo manages to fix it for Samsung ROMs, that will also allow changing the UI on the TouchWiz ROM substantially right?
well, i hate samsung when will get modify the handset
if someone will succeed root samsung device, it must be can't claim on samsung service centre
well, i just have old exynos from S4/S5, we don't know yet S6 comes with exynos 14nm
hope developers will make it later
Samsung added themes to the s6
Samsung added themes in the s6 so you can change the look and feel of the device.
ww.androidcentral.com/galaxy-s6-themes-let-you-take-control-touchwiz
Rooting Galaxy S6
Hey all,
I am new to posting on XDA. I've seen similar post throughout XDA but nothing that really answers my questions. I recently purchased the S6 and I'd like to root it. I don't want to install custom ROMs all I want is root access for mods that might require that. I have the international variant SM-G920F.
I don't really care about being able to pay using my phone.
1) Most posts claim that I won't be able to update over the air (OTA), is that true? If so is there any luck that this will change in the near future?
2) What root method do you suggest? In terms of ease of use.
3) Mods. What mods do you suggest?
Thank you,
Need to SIM unlock a Galaxy S6
I purchased my phone (Samsung Galaxy S6) from Best Buy to be used with AT&T. This was after 2 AT&T employees and a Best Buy employee told me that getting the unlock code is very easy and straightforward. I have been to the web site to request unlock codes twice. Both times failed. After that I called and they told me, effectively, that my phone is too new. Due to this they require 6 months of paid service before they will consider unlocking it. I am due to leave the country in 4 months. I need to get this phone unlocked... Can anyone tell me how to proceed?
P.S. I am a computer programmer with a lot of experience. I already have the phone in developer mode with the ADB activated. I have the android developers toolkit installed and ready to go. I mention this just so anyone responding will have some idea of the technical level they can use when replying.
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I purchased my phone (Samsung Galaxy S6) from Best Buy to be used with AT&T. This was after 2 AT&T employees and a Best Buy employee told me that getting the unlock code is very easy and straightforward. I have been to the web site to request unlock codes twice. Both times failed. After that I called and they told me, effectively, that my phone is too new. Due to this they require 6 months of paid service before they will consider unlocking it. I am due to leave the country in 4 months. I need to get this phone unlocked... Can anyone tell me how to proceed?
P.S. I am a computer programmer with a lot of experience. I already have the phone in developer mode with the ADB activated. I have the android developers toolkit installed and ready to go. I mention this just so anyone responding will have some idea of the technical level they can use when replying.
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What you will get, eventually, from ATT is a carrier unlock code that will allow you to use foreign carrier sim cards for service. This is not a bootloader unlock.
AbsaLootly said:
I purchased my phone (Samsung Galaxy S6) from Best Buy to be used with AT&T. This was after 2 AT&T employees and a Best Buy employee told me that getting the unlock code is very easy and straightforward. I have been to the web site to request unlock codes twice. Both times failed. After that I called and they told me, effectively, that my phone is too new. Due to this they require 6 months of paid service before they will consider unlocking it. I am due to leave the country in 4 months. I need to get this phone unlocked... Can anyone tell me how to proceed?
P.S. I am a computer programmer with a lot of experience. I already have the phone in developer mode with the ADB activated. I have the android developers toolkit installed and ready to go. I mention this just so anyone responding will have some idea of the technical level they can use when replying.
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1. This is a SIM Unlock, not a bootloader unlock. This will let you use your phone with other supported carriers, not unlock your bootloader.
2. If this is your intention, however, AT&T will only unlock the phone if you've completed your contract obligations with the line your phone is tied to. If you're under contract, you can't get it fully unlocked. However, if you tell them you need it internationally unlocked, they should be able to give you a different unlock code to get that to work. Try giving CS a ring and explain you need it unlocked for abroad, not for the US.
I have been trying the official routes to do the unlock
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What you will get, eventually, from ATT is a carrier unlock code that will allow you to use foreign carrier sim cards for service. This is not a bootloader unlock.
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I have tried the official routes (web site and phone) and been denied. They basically told me that while I own the phone, and owe them no money of any kind, the phone is too new. They are demanding 6 months of paid service to release the phone that I already own!
Unlock 5 minute 4K recording (Docomo Galaxy S6)
Just bought me the shiny new S6 and love everything about it except one thing; the 5 minute limit to 4K recording. Are there any apps that will let me record for longer durations, or is there a mod out there I need to use?
Thanks in advance.
Japan Jay said:
Just bought me the shiny new S6 and love everything about it except one thing; the 5 minute limit to 4K recording. Are there any apps that will let me record for longer durations, or is there a mod out there I need to use?
Thanks in advance.
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Any chance that you could download the QCN files from your phone so that I could use it in mine? That would really be awesome for me.
I have a Note 4, international.......not working good in Japan.
My wife is having a crisis here with her new note 5, the long story short is that she was away at Disney world (we live in Michigan, not sure if the geography had an impact) and she had her phone locked with the retarded finger print scanner. She tried to unlock it while her finger was wet and not only did it not unlock but it also continued to register tries and locked her phone and requested google account password. She apparently had two google accounts synced to the phone and she had no idea which was primary, add to that that she has a terrible memory, well, she waited until she had one try left to call and ask me if I could get it for her from her planner in the house. For whatever reason this password didn't work either (even though I could log into her gmail with it) and the phone did a forced factory reset. Ok, no big deal, right?
Phone reboots, starts the setup wizard, goes to what looks like a google screen which says this phone experienced an abnormal factory reset and you must sign in with a gmail account which was previously synced (it defenitely say "a gmail account" not "the gmail" or Primary gmail). So she signs in with the gmail that we know we had the right password for. The phone reboots and comes back to the same screen. Her gmail gets a message that SM-n920V signed in with this account and I went into the android devices and verified that "it was me". By this time I was at work and the only thing I could think was that it must need the proimary and that must be the other one, so in order to get her other gmail account working and I had to reset it's password (one gmail was backup to the other), ok, so I get both gmail accounts working. She tries to log in with that one and the it behaves exactly the same.
I was at work by this time and I start trying to research this and I find it's probably tied to samsungs FRP. I try to log into the samsung account and neither gmail is tied to it. I finally find it and it is tied to a yahoo account that she also has no idea what the password is. I manage to reset the yahoo account, and then the damned samsung account and now I can look at everything.
The only mention I can find about FRP on the samsung site is in a FAQ that I find and I find a little tidbit in there that says that if you change your google password you have to wait 72 hours to log back in with it. I have no idea how the samsung account would know the google password reset, but also, there are no prompts on the phone that mention this. it just asks for the account again and again.
So, my wife calls Verizon, they are clueless but they transfer her to samsung. Samsung support was apparently horrible with her, but regardless, they tell her it's googles fault and transfer her to google, google says it's a samsung bug and sends her back to samsung. Samsung finally tells her what I found about the FRP in the begining, that there is a 72hr cooldown, but FURTHERMORE, they tell her that she can't try the account until 72hrs are up, that just by trying to log in means she has to RESET PASSWORDS AGAIN and then just sit with her thumb up her butt for "up to 72 hrs" they tell her this time. They also said she would get an email when she can log in, but we still have no idea to which account...
So, all parties involved are fully satisfied that this is indeed her device but they claim there is no way to expedite this. I also know that this is 99% her fault, but come on, this is ridiculous. I also am not convinced that after 72 hours, which is really up to 96 now because it took until the second night after all of this to get an answer from tech support. Meanwhile my family is clear across the country and now with minimal communication capability. They got home safely today, and tonight would have been the initial end of 72 hours, but apparently she will be waiting for tomorrow night because they made her reset again. When she got home I tried to completely reflash the phone with odin, and it was 100% successful, but as soon as it boots it goes to software update does a really quick update (which I suspect is the FRP thing leeching onto the setup wizard) and then it boots, goes through until account sign in and then says the phone was reset... blah... blah... blah... I didn't try to log in, I don't want to make this drag out any longer, but WTF!!!!
There used to be a loophole to get out of the wizard, it's patched. Is there any way around this? I mean, tomorrow is not that much further away, I'm not trying anything risky this close to the end of the cooldown, but I highly doubt that it is going to make any difference tomorrow. It feels like a bug, I would expect that it would give some kind of warning, flag, or message that this was going to take 72 hours and there is nothing, its like a sign in bootloop... Added to that google themselves says its a sammy firmware bug, well I'm not hopeful.
Anyone else experience this? Any resolution? I will report back tomorrow one way or another, but I suspect we will be getting a new device from Verizon.
Thanks,
Jason
We had two customers who reset their password and it made them wait 72 hours before that password could be used again for the verification. Now those phones both worked after the 72 hours but they only had one Gmail on there. Only thing I can think of is to absolutely make sure both accounts have the password. And try each on the phone after the 72 is up for both of them. Google locks the phone believed to be the IMEI of the phone after a reset on 5.1.1. Something new we ended up running into
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Thanks for the reply! It is good to know that it is possibly going to work. I'm surprised that it is baked into lollipop-- Google claimed that it was all Samsung's fault. I checked my Tab S which is running some spin of CM on lollipop and there is no FRP options in the settings like there are in my note 4 on official firmware. I did run across a few other references to it being a lollipop thing, but all I can say is what google tech support told us.
I have to say that it really surprises me that with the fact that all three of the corporations with some sort of power with the device having been satisfied that she is the actual owner, can't just remotely restore access.
I'll update when we find out more... I'm trying to figure out which account might be primary by looking back in her google device history, oddly enough they both show this device as a "new device" trying to sign into her accounts on the day that all this went south. I wonder if there is more going on here-- I have completely wiped and flashed different roms and still had google recognize the device as my previous one.
Thanks,
Jason
jacampb2 said:
Thanks for the reply! It is good to know that it is possibly going to work. I'm surprised that it is baked into lollipop-- Google claimed that it was all Samsung's fault. I checked my Tab S which is running some spin of CM on lollipop and there is no FRP options in the settings like there are in my note 4 on official firmware. I did run across a few other references to it being a lollipop thing, but all I can say is what google tech support told us.
I have to say that it really surprises me that with the fact that all three of the corporations with some sort of power with the device having been satisfied that she is the actual owner, can't just remotely restore access.
I'll update when we find out more... I'm trying to figure out which account might be primary by looking back in her google device history, oddly enough they both show this device as a "new device" trying to sign into her accounts on the day that all this went south. I wonder if there is more going on here-- I have completely wiped and flashed different roms and still had google recognize the device as my previous one.
Thanks,
Jason
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Yea no problem at all and like I said it did just show itself the past couple weeks. So far it's from 5.1.1 but it has work keep us posted and I'll look into more if need be
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Well, she got it unlocked. Apologies to you Jacob, but the Verizon tech who made her reset passwords a second time was an idiot. She was in a chat with a Samsung tech today and told him she still didn't have an email and 72 hours was almost up and she didn't want to try to login and end up reseting her lock out again. He told her no email was coming and that the only way she would know if it was unlocked was if she tried... Smh... It may have been unlocked for days now. Lol. It did her some good to go through withdrawal.
Fwiw I blocked updates and am still on Kk with my note 4, the frp thing is in my security menu. I have it turned off on hers now too, but the option was buried in developers settings and is listed as "OEM unlock". Maybe this post will help others before they get in her position. Thanks for the info!
Later,
Jason
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72 hour lockout if you change password around a Factory Reset.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...ne-you-might-trip-a-72-hour-security-lockout/
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jacampb2 said:
Well, she got it unlocked. Apologies to you Jacob, but the Verizon tech who made her reset passwords a second time was an idiot. She was in a chat with a Samsung tech today and told him she still didn't have an email and 72 hours was almost up and she didn't want to try to login and end up reseting her lock out again. He told her no email was coming and that the only way she would know if it was unlocked was if she tried... Smh... It may have been unlocked for days now. Lol. It did her some good to go through withdrawal.
Fwiw I blocked updates and am still on Kk with my note 4, the frp thing is in my security menu. I have it turned off on hers now too, but the option was buried in developers settings and is listed as "OEM unlock". Maybe this post will help others before they get in her position. Thanks for the info!
Later,
Jason
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Lol no offense taken just trying to help. Was new to me till I read up on it and experienced it. Sorry it took so long but glad you were able to get it unlocked ?
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I turned that reset feature off real quick.....I have a 2 year old and a5 year old. My phone would get wiped and reset every day!
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dakota-boy said:
I turned that reset feature off real quick.....I have a 2 year old and a5 year old. My phone would get wiped and reset every day!
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Oh yes be glad you don't have an iPhone to see the disabled screen....lol
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Had the same problem only I gave up, and pulled out my old phone for the holidays, but just last night I tried it aging putting in my gmail account and it worked. But I had none idea their was a cool down wait time, this is stupid you would think they would give you a warning.. good luck to you all I can say is that it did work after the cool down.
I do not own the phone but my friend ad work is in the same situation I have been helping her the only thing is it has been more then 72hrs and it is still not letting her in she has been trying to log in the whole time not sure if that will re set the wait time also the phone was forced factory reset after the failed password scenario any help would be great she just got it 2 weeks ago
Hi. Just a tidbit of information here. This isn't really "Google" locking out the phone. It is in fact a bug on Samsung's newer phone models. If you do some searching you will see that mostly people with samsung phones get locked out. It appears that there is some spotty coding in Samsung's customization of the Android OS which interferes with the FRP. I played around with it on my Nexus 5 and don't get this problem, only on my extra phone which is a core prime
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my phone is on a lockout which really sucks! my question here is by trying to log in multiple times because no one told me this was going to happen either at the store where I bought the phone or when the idiots reset it without telling me this, will it reset the timer again? my lock out started on Wednesday afternoon and I kept trying to log in and even changed my password but nothing until yesterday that I was told about the lock out did I stop. I really hope it does not reset because that is the only means of communication I have.
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my phone is on a lockout which really sucks! my question here is by trying to log in multiple times because no one told me this was going to happen either at the store where I bought the phone or when the idiots reset it without telling me this, will it reset the timer again? my lock out started on Wednesday afternoon and I kept trying to log in and even changed my password but nothing until yesterday that I was told about the lock out did I stop. I really hope it does not reset because that is the only means of communication I have.
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The 72 hours is a Google thing. If you reset your Gmail password it is not valid for use on the locked phone until 72 hours after reset. That being said their is a work around and I believe it might still work. I have method to try and an app I made to get it bypassed. Just let me know if you need the steps with an otg cable and a USB flashdrive
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Jacob11701 said:
The 72 hours is a Google thing. If you reset your Gmail password it is not valid for use on the locked phone until 72 hours after reset. That being said their is a work around and I believe it might still work. I have method to try and an app I made to get it bypassed. Just let me know if you need the steps with an otg cable and a USB flashdrive
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hi if you have a way to bypass it, please let me know, i'm locked out of mine as well , already reset and waited 72hrs, same thing, please help
How to bypass Factory Reset Protection (FRP) on Samsung Galaxy Note 5 [Step-by-step Guide] http://drippler.com/drip/how-bypass...ion-frp-samsung-galaxy-note-5-step-step-guide Via j.mp/drippler_app
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hi if you have a way to bypass it, please let me know, i'm locked out of mine as well , already reset and waited 72hrs, same thing, please help
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Anilpalepu posted exactly what I had. Made the app that he already had tho so I already had it
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So I've owned a couple note 4's and currently have a note 5 pro which all work perfect. But I bought a note 7 pro (global rom) for my wife and it doesn't seem to find my routers (either of them) nor does it connect to a mobile network via the sim.
Sometimes it will find a wifi network out of the blue and will connect to it, but it will get stuck in a cycle of connecting and disconnecting. The same for the sim card (though it doesn't connect to anything, it just appears to try). I can see the sim pop up in the settings but disappear then reappear and so on.
So far it's a paper weight. Google searching solutions renders nothing helpful.
I've reset the network options, factory reset the phone, turned it off and on, restarted it, changed my wifi encryption, wifi band and a different sim. Nothing works.
Do I just count this a broken device and send it back? That's even if the aliexpress store will accept it...
I don't think I can flash another rom since I have no network to unlock it.
Oh also, what's this "violet" variant I see quoted everywhere here?
EDIT:
Video attached
https://youtu.be/-WqCdt2NKhU
Download Miflashtool and the last fastboot rom for ur phone.
joke19 said:
Download Miflashtool and the last fastboot rom for ur phone.
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I can't do that if my bootloader is still locked though? I can't unlock it without sim data either..
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I can't do that if my bootloader is still locked though? I can't unlock it without sim data either..
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try this
https://www.xiaomitool.com/V2/
its free and you can change roms without unlocking bootloader but the options are very limited for locked bootloader.
you can change stable to developer, vice versa but this will change firmware files and may help you.
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try this
https://www.xiaomitool.com/V2/
its free and you can change roms without unlocking bootloader but the options are very limited for locked bootloader.
you can change stable to developer, vice versa but this will change firmware files and may help you.
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Yeah I can't downgrade as it gives me a message to unlock the bootloader. "Current version is illegal, onl allowed to flash the latest stable version" - "Couldn't verify, Looks like the ROM's secure-patch version is lower than the current version."
It only allows me to flash the same version, which doesn't fix anything.
I guess back to the seller on aliexpress it goes :/
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Yeah I can't downgrade as it gives me a message to unlock the bootloader. "Current version is illegal, onl allowed to flash the latest stable version" - "Couldn't verify, Looks like the ROM's secure-patch version is lower than the current version."
It only allows me to flash the same version, which doesn't fix anything.
I guess back to the seller on aliexpress it goes :/
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Look here for the right rom for the recovery mode
https://xiaomifirmwareupdater.com/
Thanks for the help, but Miui 10 only allows flashing of current or newer roms if the bootloader isn't unlocked. I'm on the latest.
Device issue it seems
No response from Hong Kong Goldway as of yet... It's been 3 days since notifying them.
Well it turns out it's going to cost at least $100usd to send the phone back due to it having a lithium battery. I've updated to Miui 11 and still the same issue. So it must be hardware. I guess I'll toss it in the trash, which is a shame as its perfectly functioning otherwise.
Check if will they cover it after find the problem.
Otherwise, a MI center on your city or watch videos to open it and fix it by yourself.
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Yeah Mi center can't help. I'm having a big headache with HK Goldway. I would really suggest people have second thoughts about ordering from them given my experience. Granted, I've had 3 phones that are fine from them, but if anything goes wrong... well now I see it's not worth the risk.
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Mean while that promise was not kept, and they insist I return it now.
..wow
I have Samsung pass that appears and then refuses to work because it says my phone is rooted.
I have put custom rom one I android 9 and because of bugs I returned to combination android 8 for my samsung a520w because it is the phones best option.
I am stuck with samsung pass and Knox that hampers and returns to try to fill passwords but then stops midway to tell me phone is rooted.
I have tried all sorts of ways but none work.
I tried to fix it by changing samsung pass to samsung.jpk instead of apk and flushing the cache while trying to make like new but cannot change name without root access.
Is there any way to return my phone to it's original state since I have never rooted it.
Did you unlock the bootloader?
If so you blew the efuse.
The only way to reverse this is to replace the mobo.
Sounds like you've triggered the Knox efuse by unlocking the bootloader and installing a custom ROM. Nothing to do about that...
I changed the rom different ones and everything worked fine for samsung pass in the one ui rom posted online here, the Korean one I from this thread that I installed, but to many bugs, and it thought my phone was a A7, but everything worked like new, just too many bugs, so i side loaded the old rom which has all samsung pass, it's a combined rom with and for my phone a520w.
What do you mean by mobo?
Do you mean new phone...
But i know that since i managed to get it all normal for the one I, me and that it can be fixed.
We even tried magisk and ended up with frp block, had to redo allover, tried also to delete samsung pass which cannot since do not have root access, so there must be some solution for this,
But you are right about boot lock, but how come it is saying rooted when I never rooted.
Ever since I put lineage 18.1, it is like samsung did not like me putting on a custom rom.
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Did you unlock the bootloader?
If so you blew the efuse.
The only way to reverse this is to replace the mobo.
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Claudejoel1967 said:
I changed the rom different ones and everything worked fine for samsung pass in the one ui rom posted online here, the Korean one I from this thread that I installed, but to many bugs, and it thought my phone was a A7, but everything worked like new, just too many bugs, so i side loaded the old rom which has all samsung pass, it's a combined rom with and for my phone a520w.
What do you mean by mobo?
Do you mean new phone...
But i know that since i managed to get it all normal for the one I, me and that it can be fixed.
We even tried magisk and ended up with frp block, had to redo allover, tried also to delete samsung pass which cannot since do not have root access, so there must be some solution for this,
But you are right about boot lock, but how come it is saying rooted when I never rooted.
Ever since I put lineage 18.1, it is like samsung did not like me putting on a custom rom.
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Motherboard ie mobo
The efuse is in one of the chipsets on the mobo.
Probably a BGA* one that's not easy to replace and Samsung doesn't even supply that chipset as best I know. Yeah...
One of the reasons I keep my Samsung's stock.
*Ball Grid Array, all the contracts are on the bottom of the chipset completely hidden by the chipset when mounted/reflow soldered. Some like the CPU on PC mobos can be removed as it is help in place by a physical mounting system.
The reflow variant is directly soldered on using precision placed solder paste that is then precisely heated to allow it to reflow.
I had the same problem, but remained with 8 combo , because of all the bugs from other versions since android 11 makes the phone slower.
I wonder if I should change phones since I am so used to my a520w...
Really too bad there is not a reset for knox and pass, if you fixed yours let me know pls...
I work for an NGO in The Gambia. Every year, a company gives us their decommissioned phones as a gift. We equip them with a few apps, switch the phones to English, and if necessary make a good one out of two broken phones. After we send everything to the Gambia and distribute it to our staff.
About me, I am an IT system technician, I am well versed in the administration of Windows and Linux systems and have many years of professional experience. But I'm only marginally familiar with Android systems, I've played around with ADB a bit or rooted my own phone, but nothing more.
This year we received, among other things, 6 Samsung Galaxy XCover 4 mobile phones. Of these, 5 are blocked, obviously the mobiles had been reset to factory settings. Of course they didn't know that the Google accounts had to be removed BEFORE!
I didn't even know the term FRP until a few days ago. Odin was also a foreign word for me and I had never loaded firmware into a mobile before.
I've learned a lot since then but of course I still don't have a clue.
I suggest that these phones now have a security level that successfully repels all known ways of entering the system. Especially with this tip I had high hopes that this could lead to success: (https://github.com/wuseman/Samsung.Xcover.4-FrpBypass), but that doesn't work either.
Neither does the original of this idea at https://www.hardreset.info/devices/...le-verification/frp-samsung-android-8-2020/?p =5
For the latter, I had specially simulated a battery, because it is almost impossible to insert the SIM card with the battery inserted. But as I said, all unsuccessful.
I thought a solution could be to downgrade the operating system so that one of the exploits could now work again. That's why I started experimenting with Odin. And only Stock FW. I found it here e.g. https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-xcover-4/firmware/SM-G390F/DBT/#SM-G390F.
However, the attempt to downgrade within an Android version already fails. So if Android 9 U5 is on the cell phone and I want to downgrade to U4, that's not possible. Thank goodness Odin somehow checks that and breaks off, so far I haven't lost any of the phones.
Is there a way to tweak this somehow? Or are these phones lost?
What exactly does this FRP do. Why isn't this information also deleted from the phone by flashing? Where the hell do they store the info that this phone once was used with a ****ing google account!
I lost several nights to solve this. For that lost time I could buy 5 brandnew phones, but in the meantime that is also a question of prestige.
I would be really grateful for any advice!
Klaus (from germany)
If the Google account wasn't removed it wasn't properly decommissioned!
blackhawk said:
If the Google account wasn't removed it wasn't properly decommissioned!
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Some of this phones (not the xcover) even have working exchange accounts installed. Is a small company.
Klaus D. said:
Some of this phones (not the xcover) even have working exchange accounts installed. Is a small company.
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The easiest way is to have the original users remove their Google account and maybe Samsung Knox account if applicable. It needs to all be gone.
FRP is well known and is in place to help secure devices in the event of being lost or stolen.