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One favor from XDA

I have joined the XDA community a while back and I learned a lot about my windows mobile device, seen lots of great apps and fixes but the best of this forum is how people work together for making each others' lives easier.
I have one huge favor to ask: I recently switched to android and tried to root it and I bricked it. I found a service that will fix it for 60$ and I need someone to help me next time I try to root it, just make sure that I do everything right through yahoo/msn whatever. My phone will be back in 3-4 days and if anyone is willing to help me, Thanks in advance

Vapaus00 said:
I have joined the XDA community a while back and I learned a lot about my windows mobile device, seen lots of great apps and fixes but the best of this forum is how people work together for making each others' lives easier.
I have one huge favor to ask: I recently switched to android and tried to root it and I bricked it. I found a service that will fix it for 60$ and I need someone to help me next time I try to root it, just make sure that I do everything right through yahoo/msn whatever. My phone will be back in 3-4 days and if anyone is willing to help me, Thanks in advance
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I can probable help, do you have google chat?

yeah, peoples here are good. it's not very easy to brick your phone here. Just make sure if you want to flash the Danger SPL aka Haykuro's SPL aka Death SPL whatever you want to call it. That you upgrade your radio first.
Also just to throw it in, you wont have to flash that SPL if you just use Firerats MTD partitions bootloader for the big roms you may want to flash.

Thanks
I have Yahoo and MSN but I can get google talk if you can tell me a few things about the rooting process

[Q] Streak 7 wont delete gmail account

Guys,
I love the forum, hardly ever post unless I can answer a question but i am furious and in bad need of advice.
A while back I picked up a tmobile branded dell streak 7 off of someone just to play with. I put it down, got busy with work and didnt think about it for a while.
Now on with the nightmare. 3 days ago I decided to set it up and see what could be done with it and i swear to god no matter how many ways I reset it, format it, wipe it or curse it... I will not release the information of the previous owner. His gmail account is still there and when I try to remove it it tells me I cant because certain applications need it. I havent seen anything else quite like this out on the interwebz and i have been looking for at least the last three hours. As always, any help would be much appreciated.

garradkiss said:
Guys,
I love the forum, hardly ever post unless I can answer a question but i am furious and in bad need of advice.
A while back I picked up a tmobile branded dell streak 7 off of someone just to play with. I put it down, got busy with work and didnt think about it for a while.
Now on with the nightmare. 3 days ago I decided to set it up and see what could be done with it and i swear to god no matter how many ways I reset it, format it, wipe it or curse it... I will not release the information of the previous owner. His gmail account is still there and when I try to remove it it tells me I cant because certain applications need it. I havent seen anything else quite like this out on the interwebz and i have been looking for at least the last three hours. As always, any help would be much appreciated.
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You should be able to do the reset that clears the internal memory, that should work.
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Yup, factory reset is the only way to clear it.

Passes away nexus 6

My wife and I each bought nexus 6 phones last year, one white and one black. My wife recently passed away. Her phone was locked with a pass code that I unfortunately don't know. I thought that I had a good idea what it was, but when I tried to unlock it Google word the phone and locked it. I want to be able to have this phone for a spare. Can someone tell me how to remedy this problem? I can't see having a$650 worthless brick when when I could have a perfect good spare nexus.

Hello,
Welcome to XDA.
To better assist you, your thread will be moved to your device Q&A forum linked below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/help
The experts there may be able to help. Good luck.

Sorry about the loss of your wife

Sorry to hear about your loss. It is possible you could simply just try to boot it into recovery mode. Have you put a custom recovery on there? IIRC, you can still access a device via ADB in recovery even if it isn't a custom recovery.
This should allow you to flash a new OS to the device and bypass the existing password. Maybe someone else can chime in and correct me if I am wrong. Sorry I haven't tried running without a custom recovery assuming you are.

Just thought I'd point out the possibility (probability) that this is actually a scammer sob story.
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If this was *my* wife, I think I'd have more important things to worry about than trying to break into her phone. I certainly wouldn't be using that as part of a story on the internet for breaking phone security.
OP: If you are NOT a scammer, then sorry to tell you that if you can't figure out the password, you can't gain access to the phone. HOWEVER, proof of purchase and copy of death certificate should be adequate for sending it back to factory for repair.

doitright said:
Just thought I'd point out the possibility (probability) that this is actually a scammer sob story.
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If this was *my* wife, I think I'd have more important things to worry about than trying to break into her phone. I certainly wouldn't be using that as part of a story on the internet for breaking phone security.
OP: If you are NOT a scammer, then sorry to tell you that if you can't figure out the password, you can't gain access to the phone. HOWEVER, proof of purchase and copy of death certificate should be adequate for sending it back to factory for repair.
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a great idea indeed
but op, if your wife died.. then im really sorry for that..

My train of thought as well @doitright
and as with everyone else, if this is true, sorry for your loss.

Bypassing FRP on Note8

Hey there,
Long story short I received a Note 8 from one of my relatives although they can't remember which Google account they used on the phone. The phone is now reset although it is prompting me to log in to their account. I've tried researching this but all of the methods seem to be outdated. This is my first time ever using an Android phone, it'd be awesome if someone could help me out!
Thanks

How many Google accounts does one have? The Note 8 is less then one year old... account forgotten?

If you have a proof of purchase, the carrier (if branded) will unlock it

OnnoJ said:
How many Google accounts does one have? The Note 8 is less then one year old... account forgotten?
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He’s somewhat younger and not the most tech advanced kid, we have no clue what account he could’ve used.

DrRedPanda said:
He’s somewhat younger and not the most tech advanced kid, we have no clue what account he could’ve used.
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Have him log into google play using a web browser(not from a smartphone) with each of his google accounts, under settings -> my device it will list all past android devices associated with that account (SM-N950**, obviously * represents model number)

DrRedPanda said:
Hey there,
Long story short I received a Note 8 from one of my relatives although they can't remember which Google account they used on the phone. The phone is now reset although it is prompting me to log in to their account. I've tried researching this but all of the methods seem to be outdated. This is my first time ever using an Android phone, it'd be awesome if someone could help me out!
Thanks
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Read this: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/frp/
Go, WITH a PROOF OF PURCHASE, to a Samsung Service Point!
Everyone can say this: "got this phone from one of my relatives"!
No one knows here if the phone has been stolen yes or no...!

The legal answers have been presented
Thread has run its course
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Reusing a found Samsung S10

Hello, my aunt just found a Samsung S10 and couldn`t find it`s owner since one month now.
I tried already to make a faktory reset but there i still need the google account to login to.
Is there any possibiliti to reuse it?
Thank you!

tomtom3000 said:
Hello, my aunt just found a Samsung S10 and couldn`t find it`s owner since one month now.
I tried already to make a faktory reset but there i still need the google account to login to.
Is there any possibiliti to reuse it?
Thank you!
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Doesn't it has sim card?
Anyways, Go to Recovery(google it). Then do factory reset from there. Everything will be erased. It will become like new phone.
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Perhaps take it to the police / cell provider so that they can trace the IMEI number and find its rightful owner? That would be the right thing to do...

As already stated above, if the device doesn't actually belong to your aunt, but has been found somewhere, the correct course of action is to hand it in to the police. Thread closed.