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XDA Zest, is it worth it?

Well, my friend found a XDA Zest which is fully working (as far as I know but i'll need a closer look) and he's offering me to buy for a bargain price. I currently own a W910i and since I'm not a bussinessman i never have had a PDA/Smartphone before and I know very little about them. Would it be worth getting the Zest to replace my W910i?
And could you get it "unblocked" in any good mobile phone shop or would you have to go to a specialist one?

hi i had this phone and it was not one of the best windows mobil phones, i ended up getting rid of it, and have now got a htc touch hd, as for the simlock, this xda zest is only avaliable on O2 so will already be unlocked to all networks.

So, you're saying that if I clicked the wee "reset" button it has, it would go back to factory settings?
Because it has a password on it from the last user.

ATZ' said:
So, you're saying that if I clicked the wee "reset" button it has, it would go back to factory settings?
Because it has a password on it from the last user.
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No the reset button does not factory reset. However there is away to factory reset your phone but I don't know how.

Well then how would I go about getting past the password without bringing it to a mobile phone technician?
Because the only possible way I can come up with is using my own Sim card or resetting the phone to factory settings.

Do a search for the option to "hard reset" your Zest, that will wipe it of all it's current data and return it to factory fresh for you.
brief google gave the following:
XDA Zest Hard Reset:
Joystick up + Power + Soft reset in bottom (push with stylus)
You can also get back factory settings via menus:
Start - Settings - System - Default Settings -
Password is 1234.

deedee said:
Do a search for the option to "hard reset" your Zest, that will wipe it of all it's current data and return it to factory fresh for you.
brief google gave the following:
XDA Zest Hard Reset:
Joystick up + Power + Soft reset in bottom (push with stylus)
You can also get back factory settings via menus:
Start - Settings - System - Default Settings -
Password is 1234.
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Yeah, Cheers m8, already done that and hopefully I'll get hold of the phone tomorrow. I'll try putting in my sim card and hard reseting the phone, if that doesn't work, what other options do I have?
I don't really want to spend more than £10 on un-blocking or fixing the phone so I hope that Hard reset works.

Thanks for all the help but my mate who found the phone returned it to the owner and so I'm not getting it.

ATZ' said:
Thanks for all the help but my mate who found the phone returned it to the owner and so I'm not getting it.
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!? So it was lost? Good for your friend to finally come to that decision. Maybe next time you lose your phone, you'll be so lucky.

ATZ' said:
Thanks for all the help but my mate who found the phone returned it to the owner and so I'm not getting it.
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And that is probably the best think you can do, return it back to it's legal owner.

(Solved) Cannot Sign Into Older, Factory-reset Device: "Unable to sign in due to unknown error..."

[Edit: Just a quick note to let folks know, if there was anyone who cared at all, that this issue has resolved itself. I have no real understanding why, but I did a few more "Factory Resets", both with "Wipe Userdata and Personalizations" and with just "Wipe Userdata". Whatever I did just seemed to work as my wife was able to sign in afterwards. When she did I removed her account from the phone, did the multi-wipe procedure again and was able to sign in as myself. That was the goal.
Thanks very much, again, to the folks who commented on my question!]
Hey All,
I have an older device, a Moto X Pure, that I've done the factory reset/wipe all data thing via the stock Recovery. The device is on the latest update that Moto provided 3 (or is it now 4) years ago now, Android 7.1. Other than an unlocked bootloader, everything else is on the device is stock and unrooted, although it does not have a SIM card installed in it at this time. In fact, the entire reason that I'm trying to initialize it is to test a number of different mobile service providers to find the best provider for my, largely rural, common travel pathways.
However, once I enter my wifi info successfully and try to sign into this device with my Google ID/password, I cannot do it. Instead I get an error message that starts with the text that's in quotes in the post subject. The message continues with "try another account, or wait 24 hours and try again." Now, I've done the 24-hour wait thing several times, but the result is the same.
The phone was my wife's daily driver until I replaced it a couple of months ago. I've had her try to sign into it as well, but she can't do it either with the identical result.
So I'm at my wit's end. Has anyone in this sphere ever encountered this error? Were you able to overcome it? Can any other kind soul here suggest a way to circumvent this? I mean one that doesn't involve sledge hammers and concrete pads?
Thanks!
cheers,
john

My guess is problems like reported could be related to Factory Reset Protection, which happens when the previous owner of a device didn't properly remove his/her Google account from phone prior to doing a factory reset.

jwoegerbauer said:
My guess is problems like reported could be related to Factory Reset Protection, which happens when the previous owner of a device didn't properly remove his/her Google account from phone prior to doing a factory reset.
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If his wife did a factory reset when she first got it then that's not the case.
OP, did she?
jwoegerbauer, how is the reset password handled? If you originally sign in to the device with one password but then change your Google account password, does the device authorization automatically update too?
Or do you use the original password?
Any failsafe to prevent the device owner from getting permanently locked out?
That whole embedded subsystem gives me a headache.

Thanks to both of you for the feedback on this!
jwoegerbauer said:
My guess is problems like reported could be related to Factory Reset Protection, which happens when the previous owner of a device didn't properly remove his/her Google account from phone prior to doing a factory reset.
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Ah, yeah, that definitely happened. By that I mean that the previous owner did not properly remove their account prior to my doing the factory reset.
Now the question is: Is there any way for me to recover from this situation? I have the latest factory ROM for this device (from three or four years ago). Can I just flash that over what's on there? Or have I tripped some kind of circuit breaker and I'm just hosed?
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If his wife did a factory reset when she first got it then that's not the case.
OP, did she?
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No, and we bought it on Swappa about six months after it came out, with an unlocked bootloader no less, so we just assumed that the seller did a reset before transferring it to us, but we don't know that definitively.
blackhawk said:
jwoegerbauer, how is the reset password handled? If you originally sign in to the device with one password but then change your Google account password, does the device authorization automatically update too?
Or do you use the original password?
Any failsafe to prevent the device owner from getting permanently locked out?
That whole embedded subsystem gives me a headache.
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Yes, same questions now that blackhawk mentions them. (Since I didn't think to ask such good ones myself!)
Thanks again to both of you for your help!
cheers,
john

setup problems with Samsung A71

Hello all,
i have a strange Problem with my A71 which i use as a work phone. We got the order to migrate some internal stuff which makes it necessary to reset the mobile phone. in the description i think they missed one important point, delete / unenroll the google account first and then make a reset...but i'm not sure.
Because now after i done the reset it's not possible to get to the screen where it is possible to enter the google credentials. Means the telephone starts, i enter the PIN from the SIM, accept the User terms and conditions, log into my W-LAN, the phone search for updates, ask me if i might be restore data from an old phone. After that a quick screen pops up with the note "Checking" and then i see the error
Log in not possible
There was a problem communicating with the Google servers, please try again later.
In addition. When i try to connect with the normal mobile network, it says thats not possible to connect with the internet
What we have here?
is it the FRP or any other "the phone is locked" thing? and how i can resolve this problem?
Because the SIM is working fine...tested with another phone. And the W-LAN is working as well.
Thanks in advance
Greetings

Dean666 said:
Hello all,
i have a strange Problem with my A71 which i use as a work phone. We got the order to migrate some internal stuff which makes it necessary to reset the mobile phone. in the description i think they missed one important point, delete / unenroll the google account first and then make a reset...but i'm not sure.
Because now after i done the reset it's not possible to get to the screen where it is possible to enter the google credentials. Means the telephone starts, i enter the PIN from the SIM, accept the User terms and conditions, log into my W-LAN, the phone search for updates, ask me if i might be restore data from an old phone. After that a quick screen pops up with the note "Checking" and then i see the error
Log in not possible
There was a problem communicating with the Google servers, please try again later.
In addition. When i try to connect with the normal mobile network, it says thats not possible to connect with the internet
What we have here?
is it the FRP or any other "the phone is locked" thing? and how i can resolve this problem?
Because the SIM is working fine...tested with another phone. And the W-LAN is working as well.
Thanks in advance
Greetings
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Hmm... If it's the device of your company, they should help you.
If it's your private device, then try to do the factory reset again in recovery mode. Hopefully it helps.

It_ler said:
Spoiler: too long... thats what she said :D
Hmm... If it's the device of your company, they should help you.
If it's your private device, then try to do the factory reset again in recovery mode. Hopefully it helps.
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Spoiler: too long... thats what she said :D
Dean666 said:
Hello all,
i have a strange Problem with my A71 which i use as a work phone. We got the order to migrate some internal stuff which makes it necessary to reset the mobile phone. in the description i think they missed one important point, delete / unenroll the google account first and then make a reset...but i'm not sure.
Because now after i done the reset it's not possible to get to the screen where it is possible to enter the google credentials. Means the telephone starts, i enter the PIN from the SIM, accept the User terms and conditions, log into my W-LAN, the phone search for updates, ask me if i might be restore data from an old phone. After that a quick screen pops up with the note "Checking" and then i see the error
Log in not possible
There was a problem communicating with the Google servers, please try again later.
In addition. When i try to connect with the normal mobile network, it says thats not possible to connect with the internet
What we have here?
is it the FRP or any other "the phone is locked" thing? and how i can resolve this problem?
Because the SIM is working fine...tested with another phone. And the W-LAN is working as well.
Thanks in advance
Greetings
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go download the fosctory FW from sammobile.com/firmware and use samfirm to actually download it (its literally 4x faster than directly from the site) and flash it with the CSC instead of the HOME_CSC. Once you do that, itll think its a brand new phone and itll truly factory reset it which recovery factory reset doesnt do really. If you were wanting to keep your data on the device, youd use HOME_CSC. Thats the only difference between the two, but its a BIG difference and ive seen people use the wrong one multiple times LOL myself included LOLOLOL

Resetting settings on a Note 4

I have a rooted Note 4. There is an option to do a factory reset on the phone and another option to reset settings. The Reset Settings option states "This will return your phone to its factory default settings. This will not affect any downloaded apps, personal data, or the following protected settings: Security, Language Settings, Account Settings, and Default Applications."
If I reset the settings (not the factory reset but the other) will it interfere in any way with me having root access to the phone?
I am asking because I am having an issue sending and receiving text messages and making calls at my office in spite of having 3 to 4 bars of 4G service. Data connectivity is not a problem, just sending texts and making calls. When I try to make a call, I go from having 3-4 bars to zero and the phone stays at "dialing". Once I end the call, the bars go back to where they were. When I try to send a text, I get a message stating there's no signal and that the message will be sent when a signal is available.
The problem exists outside in the parking lot as well as in the building and seems to cover areas within the immediate vicinity of my job site, say within a square block. The phone performs great outside of this area, at home, and everywhere else, just not here. I've done everything else I can think of to fix the problem--restarts, airplane mode on/off, pulling battery, pulling and replacing the sim card, clearing whatever cache I can find, etc. I'd like to try this but I don't want it to affect my root.
Thanks in advance.

Try a network reset instead, it's under Connections in settings.
Clear data in Sim card tool kit.
That's an older OS then I'm using but hopefully those options are there.

Unfortunately, I do not have a network reset option on my phone. I just have the reset options I mentioned in my first post. As for the SIM tool kit, I see it in applications manager but I don't know how to access it.
(Sorry for the late reply...I didn't know I had a response to my post)

Settings>Apps>Sim card tool kit>storage, clear all data.
Network reset Note 4:
Reset Network Settings in Samsung Galaxy Note 4
This is what we are going to explain in this step-by-step guide where we will visually decode how to Reset Network Settings in Samsung Galaxy Note 4 along with
allmobilefacts.com

blackhawk said:
Settings>Apps>Sim card tool kit>storage, clear all data.
Network reset Note 4:
Reset Network Settings in Samsung Galaxy Note 4
This is what we are going to explain in this step-by-step guide where we will visually decode how to Reset Network Settings in Samsung Galaxy Note 4 along with
allmobilefacts.com
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Strange...I don't have any data to clear. Is this normal?

blackhawk said:
Settings>Apps>Sim card tool kit>storage, clear all data.
Network reset Note 4:
Reset Network Settings in Samsung Galaxy Note 4
This is what we are going to explain in this step-by-step guide where we will visually decode how to Reset Network Settings in Samsung Galaxy Note 4 along with
allmobilefacts.com
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As for resetting the network, I do not have a general mangement option or a network reset option on my phone.

fosgate3 said:
Strange...I don't have any data to clear. Is this normal?
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No, never saw that.
You're in deeper than I ever had to go...

fosgate3 said:
As for resetting the network, I do not have a general mangement option or a network reset option on my phone.
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You sure?

blackhawk said:
You sure?
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Positive. I do not have any option for "general management" on my phone...never had such an option since I got it. The only options to reset anything are under the "Backup and Reset" option which gives me the choice to do a factory reset or a choice to "Reset Settings" as described in my first post for this thread. I would choose that option but I don't know if it's going to jack with me having root access to my phone.
The attached screenshot shows the details with the "Reset Settings" option.

fosgate3 said:
Positive. I do not have any option for "general management" on my phone...never had such an option since I got it. The only options to reset anything are under the "Backup and Reset" option which gives me the choice to do a factory reset or a choice to "Reset Settings" as described in my first post for this thread. I would choose that option but I don't know if it's going to jack with me having root access to my phone.
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Isn't network reset under back up and reset.
Read that link, it's buried.

Attached are screenshots showing all the options I have in my settings menu.

blackhawk said:
Isn't network reset under back up and reset.
Read that link, it's buried.
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No it isn't. I do not have an option to reset the network. The attached screenshot shows what is under backup and reset.

Use the search function.

blackhawk said:
Use the search function.
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I really appreciate your help here but again, I don't have an option for resetting the network. I've already searched for it, I submitted screenshots even. I don't what more I can do. There is no option for resetting the network on my phone. Maybe it was added after Lollipop v5.1.1?
Network reset was the first thing I looked for before ever posting anything here. I searched everywhere for it and used the search function too but it's not there.

Someone on here was once trying to helpe with this through Discord but I don't know what happened to the person. Their approach involved me granting remote access to my phone but we never could get the timing right for when we both could be online at the same time

fosgate3 said:
Someone on here was once trying to helpe with this through Discord but I don't know what happened to the person. Their approach involved me granting remote access to my phone but we never could get the timing right for when we both could be online at the same time
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Do not do a remote access with a bloody stranger...

No Idrive anymore

Hello
I need some help!
I have an Chinese Android unit and cause some problems i had to reaet it to factory settings. After that I have no Idrive menu anymore. If I want to switch to bmw original menu, it shows me black screen.
In factory settings menu there is no any options! (Before reset was)
My BMW model is: 1er f20 2012
Regards
JVD

Take it to authorized service center and let them try to fix it.

jwoegerbauer said:
Take it to authorized service center and let them try to fix it.
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I wrote for them but unfortunately they don't reply!