I recently got a galaxy 6 edge plus from a customer I had because his contract was over and didn't want to keep his phone because the touch screen stopped working and he wanted a smaller screen for his hands (older gentleman). He have me his 6 for helping him set up a new phone on pre paid for him and because it didn't really work. I was able to get the touch screen working with a factory reset as it seemed to be just a software issue but in doing so cane across the frp screen. Called the gentleman and he said he might remember his gmail info and could meet me sometime in a week or so. My question is if he can't remember his login when I meet up with how screwed am I? So far I've tried doing the otg method and side sync with a pc just to see if I could do it without him but no luck so I'm thinking it's running 7.0. If I try to roll back or flash android will that work? Any ideas?
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Hi all,
This is my 1st Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S) its 5 days old and seems to have a problem.
When I surf the net through my wifi connection at home after 10>20 mins of use its freezes, vibrates then crashes back to my home screen. Once at home screen it then vibrates 3 more times.
Its not rooted or running any additional software.
I've reset it 3 times to see if this helps but it doesnt.
Today I phoned Samsung support (uk) and they said it sounds like a software issue and they asked me to takes it to car phone warehouse so they could check it over.
I dropped into cpw house and explained my problems and they said they would re flash the firmware. 1 hour later I picked the phone up and went back home.
When i got home I checked the phone over to discover they had down graded it from 2.2 to 2.1.
I surfed the net for abit over my wifi connection and didnt seem to have any issues but the gremlins got the better of me and I decided to upgrade the firmware through Kies to version 2.2.
The way I see it I purchased 2.2 Froyo not 2.1 Eclair.
Since updating to 2.2 I'm back to having issues with wifi where it freezes, vibrates then crashes to home screen and vibrates 3 more times.
Please can someone help because I'm not sure if this is a hardware issue or software.
Thx in advance !!
hi
you need to understand one thing
The Phone is on carers software, and by that it is meant to do whatever
carer decided it to do....
Without Rooting your phone ( what is breaching of your warranty)
De branding it ( in most of the cases)
And Un locking it.
there is not much you can do other than referring to the Carphone warehouse once again, for a WORKING software for your phone.
You can see witch Froyo Base/Breed you have in system informations
and then look for the answers for that specific Base/ Breed
But if you decide to Root your phone then tutorials for that are hire just google for it, its really easy, if you know what are you doing
best luck
xiadz
Thx for your reply xiadz.
Please let me extend..
The phone does not and wasn't purchased from the car phone ware house.
I purchased it from a local add. It was an upgrade and the previous owner was happy with his Iphone so I decided to purchase it from him (unopened and in the box) It is unlocked to any carrier and I have tried 3 different simm cards in it so it doesnt require unlocking.
Ive looked into the rooting and lag fixes but this didnt fix my problem.
I appreciate your help thou
Hello all,
I have been all around the intertubes in my day and have always been able to solve all of my technical problems with some advanced google searching, because if I am having this problem then someone out there has had it also and thought to ask right?
Not this time...
I bought this phone off craigslist, checked imei and it came back clean, got the phone running on t-mobile no problems at all, about 2 weeks later I get this RAC (Rent-A-Center) logo saying this phone won't work anymore yadayadayada, please call us with IMEI....my thoughts are someone sold me a phone they were leasing from RAC for a quick buck. I turned the phone on and it literally would not lot me access a single setting. Came up to an unlock screen wanting a Rent A Center associate PIN. I walked on down to RAC on my day off and they couldn't help me at all. They didn't even ask for the phone back, they informed me that the phone was "junk" and they couldn't even find out who it previously belonged to let alone unlock it for me (they didn't seem too interested in the latter).
I decided to take matters into my own hands and attempt to resolve this issue, no help what so ever out there. Plenty of RAC lock fixes for the s5 and other android phones but no specific help for my model. I attempt stock firmware through ODIN to no avail, then TWRP, custom roms, etc, etc etc, and it always comes up with the RAC lock screen.
I need help please, otherwise i'm out $325
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S6
Model: SM-G920T1 (as it says on back of phone)
USA Market
Any other information needed I am happy to supply.
If anyone could please help me with this issue, I would be more than happy. I finally made the switch back to android and this is how it is going so far. Thank you for any help anyone could offer.
Found related threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-galaxy-s6/general/how-to-remove-rac-g920t-dojc-t3356087
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-galaxy-s6/help/samsung-galaxy-s6-sm-g920t1-t3335973
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I finally received my preorder Note 7 on Thursday 18th Aug, was very excited to try the Iris scanner but unfortunately it stopped working after setup/transferring everything from Note 4 to Note 7 and also realized that the phone doesn't have auto brightness check box in quick setting or in settings->Display. So did a factory reset hoping to get Iris and brightness sensor to work but
no luck.
So I called T-Mobile about the issue, she told me to call Samsung. Called Samsung explained everything to the Samsung Rep, he said he is gonna put me on hold and phone got disconnected plus he didn't call me back even though he asked for me number in case of disconnect.
when i called the second time the samsung rep told me to take the phone to Best Buy for Samsung Experience Consultant to REFLASH the Firmware. I asked her if she can send me the firmware so i could flash it myself, she said No it has to be a Secure Flash.
Today i took the phone to Best Buy and samsung consultant check the phone and saw that Iris is keep failing when he tried to Setup it up so he connect it to his Laptop to flash but unfortunately the phone would register with his laptop so he couldn't do anything and told me to have T-Mobile replace the phone since it is defective.
Called T-Mobile after going through all that BS. TMO Rep told me since the phone is on JOD I'd have to return the phone by Mail and wait till they receive the phone then i can go to a T-Mobile store and buy a new Note 7.
I love the phone but all this BS makes me not to get another Note 7 after i return this defective one on Monday.
UPDATE:
Returned the defective Note 7 and bought another one from the store. this one is working fine and No issues yet. Thank God.
And it will probably take weeks till i get refund for the defective one that i returned...
I am sorry if you got a defective unit. Just be aware that T-mobile does treats this as RMA, which in this case, they will process it as a return, then they would send a new one. If I am you, I would return it, then get one from the store. If you had any issues escalate the issue because it's certainly not your fault and they should be faster!
man that sucks. I normally dont have to go through all that if i need a replacement. They send me out another phone and i put mines in that box and return it.
But i would try a full reset from the boot menu.
Once you done that add your patten then reboot.
Then try the iris scanner.
Also have you try to use odin yourself to see if the phone get detected?
xile6 said:
Also have you try to use odin yourself to see if the phone get detected?
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I couldn't find the Firmware that time to odin it myself. I tried to Smart switch's device initialization and it asked me for model and serial but no firmware available to download.
I did factory reset from Recovery and from setting but didn't help.
it was definitely hardware failure not software.
Hello all and thanks in advance for any help. I really liked Samsung Pay and used it a lot when I got my phone. Then one day about a month ago it just stopped working. No errors just won't connect to any place that it worked previously. It vibrates like it is going to connect like it always did be before but just won't do it. I have even factory reset and still the same problem. Does anyone have any ideas what may be wrong? Samsung has been no help so far.
check nfc if that doesnt work then its defective
I had a recent issue where it stopped working. When it worked fine in beginning. I had to do a factory reset and it fixed it.
I just got my Samsung pay working but I had a issue saying device not supported. I did factory reset three times uninstalled , started fresh no backups same issue. Samsung support and samsung pay support told me to trade phone in. I knew it was a software issue.
What I found out is the Samsung pay on Google play store is not a good for this phone. I googled Samsung pay apk and downloaded version 2.9.86 and that got everything working for me support had no clue what was wrong I how this works for you
Back in the day I had a few Google Nexus 6 phones. I had a spare 64GB one sitting here that I had let my ex-girlfriend use at some point when she broke her Samsung S5 or S6.
She used my N6 for about 5 months and finally got a new S8. The thing has sat in a box ever since.
I pulled it out the other day and decided to pick up another SIM from my carrier so my 9-year-old could have a phone to play with. I changed the thing up and realized it still had the ROM on it from when my ex-GF used as it still had a PIN code set so I booted in TWRP and full wiped it and installed the newest Nitrogen OS Pie.
So I start the setup process, I get to the WIFI part and put in my WIFI and now I'm sitting at a screen that wants me to input a pin code OR use the email associated with the phone. I tried my email and that is NOT it. It must have locked to her email.
Unfortunately, we no longer speak so asking for her help is not an option.
I Googled FRP unlock but none of them have worked so far.
Any thoughts?
Would any older ROMS allow me to get around it and "start over"?