Hello
My Nexus 6 was stolen.
The phone was NOT rooted, bootloader was NOT unlocked and the screen was locked by the symbol. Android Device Manager can't connect to this phone since a few days and from that moment I don't have of course any location information.
Is it very difficult to change IMEI of this phone?
Could you flash new system without knowing security symbol?
If somebody guessed my symbol and wipe/flash my phone, is there a way for him to bypass login to my google account and just login to his? (I'm talking about this new security feature bringed with lolipop)
4rch0n said:
Hello
My Nexus 6 was stolen.
The phone was NOT rooted, bootloader was NOT unlocked and the screen was locked by the symbol. Android Device Manager can't connect to this phone since a few days and from that moment I don't have of course any location information.
Is it very difficult to change IMEI of this phone?
Could you flash new system without knowing security symbol?
If somebody guessed my symbol and wipe/flash my phone, is there a way for him to bypass login to my google account? (I'm talking about this new security feature bringed with lolipop)
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If you were on 5.1 or above, your phone is totally secure. Unless the thief knew your screen lock, your Google password, you are safe. To even prevent further, I recommend changing your Google account password.
Evolution_Tech said:
If you were on 5.1 or above, your phone is totally secure. Unless the thief knew your screen lock, your Google password, you are safe. To even prevent further, I recommend changing your Google account password.
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I changed my google password, but screen lock wasn't very complicated... so I'm a bit affraid.
I hope the police will find it by IMEI localisation or thief will give up and return it somehow... But tbh more likely is that he will just throw it away.
**I HAVE PROOF OF LEGAL OWNERSHIP** My girlfriend bought her 16 year old son a Note5 on the T-Mobile network. Apparently he had dirty fingers when attempting to unlock his phone so he was locked out. I performed a hard reset to start over. The big problem is he doesnt remember ANY passwords, security questions, ect. to access his google account. Is there anything that can be done besides using the phone as a nice paperweight?
Open your Google account from pc go to settings then you'll see paired devices then remove the devices from list
It's happened to me with my s6.
numba1stunna201 said:
**I HAVE PROOF OF LEGAL OWNERSHIP** My girlfriend bought her 16 year old son a Note5 on the T-Mobile network. Apparently he had dirty fingers when attempting to unlock his phone so he was locked out. I performed a hard reset to start over. The big problem is he doesnt remember ANY passwords, security questions, ect. to access his google account. Is there anything that can be done besides using the phone as a nice paperweight?
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Have you solved the issue?
Muthumbi said:
Have you solved the issue?
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Unfortunately I havent resolved the issue yet, any suggestions?
I would continue trying to guess the password. This happened to me but I remembered my Google account so it wasn't too bad. Did he setup a recovery email for that Gmail account?
You can send the device away to a JTAG flashing service, to reinstall the OS.
If you want you can root the phone then wipe the data and it will be like a new phone
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I have a freinds phone, bought from ebay and seller not responding. I've only done Samsung in the past. How do I bypass the frp feature?
Get the seller to remove the device from their account. If they won't respond, file a dispute through ebay and get your money back. With the March update I believe, bypassing the FRP is no longer possible.
chiquitabiddy said:
I have a freinds phone, bought from ebay and seller not responding. I've only done Samsung in the past. How do I bypass the frp feature?
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Do you still have the nexus 6? If you do pop your sim card in and call it from another phone and answer on the nexus 6 and click add a call or the conference button what ever and get into the contacts go to the dialer but first look up the nexus 6 secret codes one of them should point to usage statistics and click on that once you find it and then click the top back button and that should land you in to settings then go to users and and add a user (you) and log in with a gmail account and then go in to settings and turn off the find my phone and android security crap and factory reset make sure you are logged in first then you should be able to login with your gmail account and pass code bypassing google stupid crap took me an hr to figure it out lol also make sure to do disable lock code and the swipe to unlock use none
Hello,
Following a crash, I had to do a factory reset in the recovery of my note 8.
Of course, at boot, he asks me the Google account ID. Sadly, I do not have them anymore (email address deleted since). I tried my old ID: it does not work ...
Will a flash of rom stock via odin reset the frp? Or should it go before by an "adb frp tool", then flash a "combination firmware", before reflash the rom stock?
I have already tried all methods of bypass frp before 10/10/18 (sms class 0, bluetooth headset, samsung keyboard settings...)
(I am in N950FXXS5CRJ1 of 01/10/18, oreo 8.0). I'm french.
With proof of purchase, your carrier or samsung service will help you, that's it, WITH PROOF OF PURCHASE
neitsabes99 said:
Hello,
Following a crash, I had to do a factory reset in the recovery of my note 8.
Of course, at boot, he asks me the Google account ID. Sadly, I do not have them anymore (email address deleted since). I tried my old ID: it does not work ...
Will a flash of rom stock via odin reset the frp? Or should it go before by an "adb frp tool", then flash a "combination firmware", before reflash the rom stock?
I have already tried all methods of bypass frp before 10/10/18 (sms class 0, bluetooth headset, samsung keyboard settings...)
(I am in N950FXXS5CRJ1 of 01/10/18, oreo 8.0). I'm french.
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You know when people come in here talking about needing to get the FRP security lock off and then going on to say their gmail account is magically gone or deleted it automatically makes us think the phone is stolen!! People don't just randomly delete their gmail account nor do they forget their password so easily! If it truly is your phone take it to the carrier I.E. "at&t, Verizon etc etc." Because they will be able to easily recover the phone for you quickly!!
neitsabes99 said:
Hello,
Following a crash, I had to do a factory reset in the recovery of my note 8.
Of course, at boot, he asks me the Google account ID. Sadly, I do not have them anymore (email address deleted since). I tried my old ID: it does not work ...
Will a flash of rom stock via odin reset the frp? Or should it go before by an "adb frp tool", then flash a "combination firmware", before reflash the rom stock?
I have already tried all methods of bypass frp before 10/10/18 (sms class 0, bluetooth headset, samsung keyboard settings...)
(I am in N950FXXS5CRJ1 of 01/10/18, oreo 8.0). I'm french.
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Personally I don't buy it.
If you deleted your Google account, you would have been signed out across the board, you need to be signed in to a Google account for FRP to be enabled...
If you are a thief or a 'finders keepers' you will agree FRP is a great feature. Must suck holding this great phone and not be able to use it.
stonedpsycho said:
Personally I don't buy it.
If you deleted your Google account, you would have been signed out across the board, you need to be signed in to a Google account for FRP to be enabled...
If you are a thief or a 'finders keepers' you will agree FRP is a great feature. Must suck holding this great phone and not be able to use it.
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Personally I think it's stolen just by the way he worded that and saying that the gmail account was deleted isn't sitting with me right because then the phone would literally nag the crap out of him saying stuff like the play store can't work, gmail can't work and most importantly as you said FRP can't work without the email.. I'm betting it's stolen.
One time, I went to my carrier service center to activate volte calls, while I was waiting for my turn, an old lady ahead of me explained to the employee her case, that her device was locked, that she had no idea what email or anything else, as her grandson was the one that took care af all those things, she only used the phone to make calls an send sms, the employee said that it was ok, all she needed to do was to provide a proof of purchase, or the contract, and an ID, that was it, she did, and problem quickly solved, so, anybody asking for some way to bypass frp, is obviously trying to unlock an illegal obtained device, period.
winol said:
One time, I went to my carrier service center to activate volte calls, while I was waiting for my turn, an old lady ahead of me explained to the employee her case, that her device was locked, that she had no idea what email or anything else, as her grandson was the one that took care af all those things, she only used the phone to make calls an send sms, the employee said that it was ok, all she needed to do was to provide a proof of purchase, or the contract, and an ID, that was it, she did, and problem quickly solved, so, anybody asking for some way to bypass frp, is obviously trying to unlock an illegal obtained device, period.
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That's why I don't even try to help someone who comes along claiming that they magically forgot/lost their gmail account and password information. When he said he deleted the gmail account a while back the first thing that came to my mind was well without a gmail account you can't exactly do much with the phone because everything is going to be nagging you, Google, Play Store, Gmail, Google Services, maps and many other things and FRP can't lock without the gmail account so how could you possibly get FRP locked out.. You could by lying and stealing a phone and claiming it's yours..
Yeah, absolutely right
I certainly understand the views on going to a service center. But no. Not everyone with this problem is trying to cheat with a stolen phone. I just bought a very nice Note 8 (SM-N950U1) for $200 off eBay (from an individual with a 100% record) only to find it is FRP locked and I doubt she knew. Just did a factory reset and sell. So now I have to pay $50 at a service center and with the drive, it will take me about two hours. So some of us do have a legitimate reason to want to do a FRP unlock ourselves. Hopefully, the seller will rebate me the $50 so I don't have to send it back and start my long search for this model, in this condition for what i can afford all over again. Just say'in. Well glad I have XDA forums to let me know my position. - So thanks - Jim
My dad wants to sell his mi 9
He doesn't remember the password he used when setting up the phone.
He apparently used an unknown email when setting it up, because if we ask for a reset link by email it says it isn't valid
If we try to reset by having a code texted to him, there is no code being received
This is super annoying to be able to unlock the phone but that not being enough of a security check to perform a reset
viper98 said:
My dad wants to sell his mi 9
He doesn't remember the password he used when setting up the phone.
He apparently used an unknown email when setting it up, because if we ask for a reset link by email it says it isn't valid
If we try to reset by having a code texted to him, there is no code being received
This is super annoying to be able to unlock the phone but that not being enough of a security check to perform a reset
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On the other hand, I would think that security is good if a random user is blocked from resetting the phone. For a user to not just forget the password but also to forget what email address was used when setting up the phone it takes quite a lot of forgetting! To allow anyone to reset the phone is in my mind a bad idea.
To be able to unlock the phone you need to use the Mi-account, but to be able to perform a reset you need to log on to the Google-account used when you initially set the phone up. Unlocking and resetting are two different things, the first handled by Xiaomi and the second is handled by Google.
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On the other hand, I would think that security is good if a random user is blocked from resetting the phone. For a user to not just forget the password but also to forget what email address was used when setting up the phone it takes quite a lot of forgetting! To allow anyone to reset the phone is in my mind a bad idea.
To be able to unlock the phone you need to use the Mi-account, but to be able to perform a reset you need to log on to the Google-account used when you initially set the phone up. Unlocking and resetting are two different things, the first handled by Xiaomi and the second is handled by Google.
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Nope, you can't reset the phone without the Xiaomi password. He knows the google account and password.
I dug around some more and was able to discover that there is no email associated with his xiaomi ID. It just has his phone number. But since it is refusing to send a text to that number with a verification code, I don't know where to go.
viper98 said:
Nope, you can't reset the phone without the Xiaomi password. He knows the google account and password.
I dug around some more and was able to discover that there is no email associated with his xiaomi ID. It just has his phone number. But since it is refusing to send a text to that number with a verification code, I don't know where to go.
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The kind of reset that requires access to the Mi account is when you want to restore backup from Mi Cloud.
For factory reset you don’t need the Mi account, you just need access to the Google account used when the phone was last set up.