Hi,
I've got an iconia tab A500 that I have upgraded though Wifi to Ice Cream Sandwich.
It was working perfectly fine.
Issue is that my daughter tried to much time a bad 'draw' to login and now the laptop is locked.
It's asking me a google account and everytimes it failed.
I searched a lot on the internet and I try to restore an old ROM
(I tried this one Acer_A500_7.006.03_COM_GEN1)
I placed the update.zip file on a sd card and try the volume - + POWER
an upgrade has been done but now the laptop is stucked every time on the 'ANDROID' message after the ACER logo.
What can I do ?
Please help
Unfortunately the USB debug was not activated
Thanks for your help
I have to admit this post seems dubious.
why would you want to go to the trouble of reloading a new rom when the existing one works, and you could just go to google.com and retrieve your account info?
the point is that I know very well the draw to do to open the tablet
but as now my little daughter locked it, I can't do it.
It is asking my google acount and refuse it every time.
about the google account I remember that I created a different one for the tablet (I have already one for the pc, one for my phone) and everytime the laptop refuse the password that I maybe don't remember very well.
Now even if I change it on google, it won't be updated on the tablet as the Wifi is not activated and as I can't log in.
My wish is just to be able to redo the draw to login as I know it what seems impossible. At this stage I'm totally stucked.
And FYI, this is a proper tablet and I have the invoice
ok matey u can of course see why this subject would raise questions,
there must be a way to switch on the wifi or it would be a HUGE flaw in the system lol ill have a look around when im on break from work.
thanks.
here are some proposals that could help me:
1) be able to reactivate the DRAW login as now it is asking me everytime the google account
2) be able to know which google account I used on this tablet (I need at least the login so I can try to change it on Google recovery but remaining issue will be that If I'm changing it it won't be updated on the tablet because tablet is not starting and Wifi was unactivated
3) in the worst case, be able to restore the tablet in its original factory state
FYI, my laptop was in ICS and was updated properly through Wifi (activated manually /then unactivated to keep battery)
multor said:
thanks.
here are some proposals that could help me:
1) be able to reactivate the DRAW login as now it is asking me everytime the google account
2) be able to know which google account I used on this tablet (I need at least the login so I can try to change it on Google recovery but remaining issue will be that If I'm changing it it won't be updated on the tablet because tablet is not starting and Wifi was unactivated
3) in the worst case, be able to restore the tablet in its original factory state
FYI, my laptop was in ICS and was updated properly through Wifi (activated manually /then unactivated to keep battery)
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but you said in your last post you manually updated the tab with a rom?.
if you try to login the tab should give you the option to switch on wifi.
if you cannot remember your google login check your other e-mail addresses for the confirmation email you would have received to set your secondary address. this will contain your google account info.
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I have the tablet since one year and I'm upgrading it though Wifi.
My last upgrade was done through Wifi to ICS.
Now issue is that as my daughter locked the laptop I can not enter in.
I'm not able to activate the Wifi or the USB debug as I can't log in.
I can not go back to either the draw login (what could be the best solution for me)
now it is asking me only the google account and every time it is rejecting my password
the issue is that even on the google recovery tool with my mail address, the site is not sending me the password to my mail address but it is asking me only to change it what I did but as there is no Wifi activated and as I can't login I'm always at the same point.
I insist on the fact that this is a proper tablet, that this is mine, that I have box and invoice.
So now I'm trying to restore other roms to have a clean tablet or even better just be able to redo the draw (this I remember).
But now everytime I'm login in it is display 'too many attempts' and asking me the google account
A friend came round with his new iconia to put software on it,
however when he tried to unlock it, he had already forgotten his password swipe. (he had'nt even had it a day...).
Eventually I managed a full (factory) reset, that wiped everything.
It was one of these 2 methods (I think it was the one using the rotation lock, but I may have done the other one first).
http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/tablets/2011/Acer/ICONIATab/ICONIATabA500/IconiaTabA500faq51.shtml
http://www.hard-reset.com/acer-iconia-tab-a500-hard-reset.html
Hope it helps
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The exact sequence I did was this
1. Switch off
2. Press Vol-up + Power
3. If display goes on: Release power but hold vol-up
3. Toggle Lock switch (On>Off>On>Off)
Screen will display:
Erasing Userdata..
Erasing Cache..
Thank you, even I think I already try this I will try this again this evening.
thing is do you know if this is still working when laptop is upgraded in ICS ? (Ice Cream Sandwich - latest firmware available for A500)
Thanks
multor said:
Thank you, even I think I already try this I will try this again this evening.
thing is do you know if this is still working when laptop is upgraded in ICS ? (Ice Cream Sandwich - latest firmware available for A500)
Thanks
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Unfortunately, I don't know if it works with ICS...
It worked for me with the previous OS...
Try anyway...
Good Luck
It would help and be slightly less confusing if you stopped referring to the tablet as a 'laptop'. A laptop is an entirely different device from an Acer Iconia tablet.
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Hi,
I try method 1 and it worked fine !!!!
In fact the tip is to stay 3 sec and Power button and to play with lock button when tablet vibrates - staying with finger on volume + button
My data have been erased but I don't really care. Good news is that I can now use again my tablet. I have now to reinstall the games for my son. he will be happy.
You save my life ! Thanks !
Seb
wow he even clicked the thanks button..........
chismay said:
wow he even clicked the thanks button..........
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Ehhhh.... and I'm confused on just exactly "who" messed it up? Son or Daughter? Hmmmmmm...
I threw a couple of thanks out.....
Moscow Desire said:
Ehhhh.... and I'm confused on just exactly "who" messed it up? Son or Daughter? Hmmmmmm...
I threw a couple of thanks out.....
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Yeah weird that eh? Changed as much as the story, first he did Gen_1 update himself then said he only updated over wifi?
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I have been using Unlock with WiFi on my Galaxy S3 using a 1 letter password with no issues. Please don't judge me for using such a simple password
Anyhow, I now have a Galaxy S4 and just got it all setup last night. Installed Unlock with WiFi, entered my 1 letter for the password, and now I appear to be locked out of my phone.
At the lock screen, when I type just 1 letter and press the return key, it just erases the letter like I didn't type anything. This continues up to 3 characters. If I type 4 or more, then I get a message, Wrong Password. So this tells me the S4 must only recognize 4 or more characters, yet Unlock with WiFi still allows you to enter one 1 character for the password. I have sent an email to the developer, but I was hoping someone from here might be able to shed some light on the matter. I 'm curious why or how this could have happened.
How do I get back into my phone? I have already tried the Android Device Manager, but my phone never receives the new lock. I know this because it allows you to enter a message that will be displayed on the lock screen, and I never receive the message. I also tried AndroidLost but no luck. It apparently thinks my phone is offline and none of the commands sent are successful on my phone.
Also, my phone is rooted if that helps. Just rooted it last night thanks to the help of this forum.
Thanks
Mike
Hmm... Try searching around xda for a lockscreen reset zip. I think it's I'm android software development
bennyboy78 said:
Hmm... Try searching around xda for a lockscreen reset zip. I think it's I'm android software development
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think any of that is going to work. It either requires a recovery partition to be installed or USB Debugging enabled.
I had USB Debugging on, but after I had everything setup on my phone I turned it off. I didn't install a recovery partition.
I have decided to just reset it and wipe it clean, since it's still like new and I have no data or pictures on it. Though I do dread fine tuning all my settings, reinstalling all my apps and setting everything back up the way I had it.
Anyhow, not sure how you reset the phone though. I thought after you enter the pin code wrong so many times, it will ask you to reset the phone. Anyone know the limit?
When I enter the code wrong after 5x, it tells me to wait 30 seconds, and then tells me a total of how many times I have entered the wrong code. I currently have entered the wrong code 30x and all it says is wait 30 seconds and try again.
Seriously, that sounds like it's going on indefinitely! If so, what can I do at this point?
I'm still waiting to hear back from the developer of the app that contributed to all of this.
Thanks
Mike
Whenever I hit skip, it'll show a blank page with a status bar and the back navigation key and then just take me to the wifi menu. I can't skip the wifi menu (The button is disabled). I've reflashed twice (using flash-all.bat) and used the stock recovery to restore to factory settings. Any help is appreciated. I used the leaked ROM but I heard it's the same.
finestrocker said:
Whenever I hit skip, it'll show a blank page with a status bar and the back navigation key and then just take me to the wifi menu. I can't skip the wifi menu (The button is disabled). I've reflashed twice (using flash-all.bat) and used the stock recovery to restore to factory settings. Any help is appreciated. I used the leaked ROM but I heard it's the same.
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Same here. I flashed the factory image from the Google site. I get connected to WiFi, but the next screen has "Skip" greyed out, and it just stalls ("Checking connection..." "This can take up to a minute"). I'm rebooting now and trying again, and will report back.
Update: Same thing. I know the WiFi connection is good, but I guess I'll try again when I get home tonight.
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Same here. I flashed the factory image from the Google site. I get connected to WiFi, but the next screen has "Skip" greyed out, and it just stalls ("Checking connection..." "This can take up to a minute"). I'm rebooting now and trying again, and will report back.
Update: Same thing. I know the WiFi connection is good, but I guess I'll try again when I get home tonight.
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About to try with a redownloaded image. Glad to know it's not just me. I should add that one of my many tries to hit skip, it popped up a message that said "Google Play Services is not responding". I'll update after I reflash.
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Same here. I flashed the factory image from the Google site. I get connected to WiFi, but the next screen has "Skip" greyed out, and it just stalls ("Checking connection..." "This can take up to a minute"). I'm rebooting now and trying again, and will report back.
Update: Same thing. I know the WiFi connection is good, but I guess I'll try again when I get home tonight.
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Any luck? I ended up flashing 4.4.4 again. Waiting for it to boot.
Hell, I can't even get the Nexus Root Toolkit to see my device, much less flash anything. Frustrating.
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Hell, I can't even get the Nexus Root Toolkit to see my device, much less flash anything. Frustrating.
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I'm in the almost same boat. Trying to flash it using the command line and it keeps failing. It's like our tablets hate us or something.
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I'm in the almost same boat. Trying to flash it using the command line and it keeps failing. It's like our tablets hate us or something.
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Okay, I got the Nexus Root Toolkit to see the device in Fastboot, and was able to flash with that. I've booted successfully, signed in, and I'm up!
It's...so...pretty...:good:
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Hell, I can't even get the Nexus Root Toolkit to see my device, much less flash anything. Frustrating.
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jimbobtexas said:
Okay, I got the Nexus Root Toolkit to see the device in Fastboot, and was able to flash with that. I've booted successfully, signed in, and I'm up!
It's...so...pretty...:good:
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I wish it was so simple for me. I had to disable the setup manager using this post. I still can't set up my google account. I found out it was Google Play Services that wasn't me allowing to do anything.
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I wish it was so simple for me. I had to disable the setup manager using this post. I still can't set up my google account. I found out it was Google Play Services that wasn't me allowing to do anything.
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You ever get this running? Nexus Root Toolkit was the best thing for me to get everything just right. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475
finestrocker said:
Whenever I hit skip, it'll show a blank page with a status bar and the back navigation key and then just take me to the wifi menu. I can't skip the wifi menu (The button is disabled). I've reflashed twice (using flash-all.bat) and used the stock recovery to restore to factory settings. Any help is appreciated. I used the leaked ROM but I heard it's the same.
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From Lollipop, Google wants user has a working net connection to boot up.
Prob 1, Your wifi has an active firewall to prevent accessing google servers.
Prob 2, You don't have a sim card or data plan.
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I wish it was so simple for me. I had to disable the setup manager using this post. I still can't set up my google account. I found out it was Google Play Services that wasn't me allowing to do anything.
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Probably next time you can try choose language like "Chinese"(中文简体), Cuz' here we have firewall to block Google, Probably google knows that so the connection check only last for one minute. This worked for me.
I got my new S8+ today and set everything up using only wireless. During setup, I forgot my google password so I reset it. After I got everything setup, I shutdown and inserted the SIM card. To my surprise, my phone reset completely. Now when I try to reconfigure the phone, during the google password authentication process, I get a message that I the phone was reset and because of the password change I can't use it for 24 hours?? What kind of crap is that? Does anyone know how to get around this??? I can't use my new phone at all because I can't get logged in??
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I got my new S8+ today and set everything up using only wireless. During setup, I forgot my google password so I reset it. After I got everything setup, I shutdown and inserted the SIM card. To my surprise, my phone reset completely. Now when I try to reconfigure the phone, during the google password authentication process, I get a message that I the phone was reset and because of the password change I can't use it for 24 hours?? What kind of crap is that? Does anyone know how to get around this??? I can't use my new phone at all because I can't get logged in??
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Can you login and authenticate on a web browser? Have you tried to boot into stock recovery, do a factory reset and don't login to your google account during setup?
Try PWR + VOL UP or PWR + VOL Down to get into recovery mode once you boot up the phone.
RMXO said:
Can you login and authenticate on a web browser? Have you tried to boot into stock recovery, do a factory reset and don't login to your google account during setup?
Try PWR + VOL UP or PWR + VOL Down to get into recovery mode once you boot up the phone.
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I can't get into recovery mode. I tried PWR and Vol up and down and neither works, phone just boots. There is no home button on the S8 so how do you get to recovery?
Sword Fish said:
I can't get into recovery mode. I tried PWR and Vol up and down and neither works, phone just boots. There is no home button on the S8 so how do you get to recovery?
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Ok, you have hold the Bixby button also. This is really strange. I can login to my account on my PC but not on the phone? What kind of security is this? Designed to tick you off, that's all I can see.
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Ok, you have hold the Bixby button also. This is really strange. I can login to my account on my PC but not on the phone? What kind of security is this? Designed to tick you off, that's all I can see.
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Guess the Bixby button acts like the old home button. Were you able to do a factory reset and see if that fixed the issue?
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Guess the Bixby button acts like the old home button. Were you able to do a factory reset and see if that fixed the issue?
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Yes, I was able to factory reset but it didn't solve the problem. Googles ridiculous security won't let you use a new password on a phone that has been reset for 24 hours? Why can't you verify who you are and continue. Severe overkill if you ask me. The worst thing is, I didn't reset the phone, the google software did! All I did was setup the phone and reboot it and it reset itself...
Even weirder, is that during the setup, you can say you forgot password. You then have an option to send a request to reset your password to your old device. When you say yes, your old device gets a prompt and you can reset your password. Even that doesn't work on a reset phone!
The more I think about this google security method, the more I realize it is designed to punish one person, the true owner of the phone. If my phone had been actually stolen, and it wasn't me that reset the password or the phone, the thief will still have access in 24 hours so that part of the security hasn't played any part at all. So I the true owner of the phone is being punished because my phone reset itself. Makes no sense at all. Security has to be something that is logical and not crippling. This policy cripples your phone and punishes you if you have an accidental reset. Thanks for nothing Google!!
Sorry to hear that. By any chance you called Google for tech support?
Call up google and they should be able to fix it.
Also you can skip the google account and log into the phone you just cant use gmail or playstore.
And there is a way around this i just dont remember what it was. Had to do this to my wifes phone a while back when she forgot her password.
I think it was to skip the google sign in, in setup. Then add the log into google via the web browser and then add the google acccount via system accounts.
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Call up google and they should be able to fix it.
Also you can skip the google account and log into the phone you just cant use gmail or playstore.
And there is a way around this i just dont remember what it was. Had to do this to my wifes phone a while back when she forgot her password.
I think it was to skip the google sign in, in setup. Then add the log into google via the web browser and then add the google acccount via system accounts.
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I wish it was that easy. Google said nothing they can do. Have to wait 24 hours.
Not sure if this new with OS7 but you cant get by the Google log on screen any longer. The NEXT key is greyed out so you cant bypass. Only have 5 more hours to wait.
Swordfish
Sword Fish said:
I wish it was that easy. Google said nothing they can do. Have to wait 24 hours.
Not sure if this new with OS7 but you cant get by the Google log on screen any longer. The NEXT key is greyed out so you cant bypass. Only have 5 more hours to wait.
Swordfish
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Thats sucks and good to know. Sorry you had to be that guy to find out for the rest of us. Thanks for taking one for the team!
You have to wait 24-48 hours to get into your phone. It'a a security measure from google against stolen phones.
I had the same problem with an S7edge, depending on firmware version there were methods to bypass the FRP ( if I remember well). I succwded after 6 hours using a bluetooth handfree, launching s-voice, launching a program who disabled the FRP.
What is very frustrating is that in my google acount S7edge was there as my device, but there was no option to skip login to google in the initial setup.
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Sword Fish said:
I wish it was that easy. Google said nothing they can do. Have to wait 24 hours.
Not sure if this new with OS7 but you cant get by the Google log on screen any longer. The NEXT key is greyed out so you cant bypass. Only have 5 more hours to wait.
Swordfish
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Look for FRP bypass. I was in the same situation. I don't know any method for Nougat
24 hours was up so finally got my phone access back
Sent from my SM-G955W using XDA-Developers Legacy app
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24 hours was up so finally got my phone access back
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You already used your phone after waiting for 24hrs? Because i have the same problem with my s8+ too.
Hello,
As i attempted to root my Galaxy Tab A (SM-T580), it came up with the following message..."custom binary frp lock". In an attempting to repair that error, this error come up..."An error has occurred while updating the device software".
Can anyone please give me a fix for this. My tablet is on 6 months old & i'd like to savage it if i can. any help is deeply & truly appreciated.
Ravendark
I found this on xda from someone else with the SM-T580:
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Originally Posted by Arguntom
Hey guys I recently purchased a used SM-T580 Galaxy Tab off of Amazon and the device came with and FRP lock that I can't seem to figure out how to bypass. I've been on YouTube for the last few days just trying nummerous different methods like the SideSync, OTG, Odin, and Realtek method just to name a few, however none of them are compatible with this tablet. It's very frustrating because I need this tablet working in order to take notes in my college classes. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thanks.
I was having the same problem, but i figured it out last night. Without OTG cable, Odin, SideSync, Realtek, or a PC. I'd been messing with it for 3 days, so Im not 100% sure of what everything said and i'm definitely not going to relock it to try an duplicate it, but if you've been all over youtube then you've seen methods that require a wifi connection, (I found it easiest to use my phone's wifi hotspot) you disconnect your hotspot or unplug your router immediately when it says checking for software update, which appears after clicking accept on the privacy policy. (Again it's easier to just turn off the hotspot than to unplug your router" When done correctly it souls say "couldn't sign in" and then the next screen will either ask you to set up time and date or it asks you to add a name to the tablet (can't remember which is first) then asks to set up a screen lock passcode or pattern (set up either one), after doing all this 100 times I noticed it asked me if i wanted to set up a IMAP/POP3 account to use within the Gmail app (which I'd been skipping) but for some reason it didn't give me this option every time. You have to be connected to the internet for the next part so if you haven't already go ahead and turn your hotspot back on or router and add any email address other than a Gmail (I used my yahoo account) then follow through with the setup into it takes you back to the very first screen you see when you turned on the tablet. Now just turn the tablet screen off and back on (just the screen, do not power down the tablet) put in your lockscreen password and now In the top right corner there should be a little yellow icon which lets you switch users (if you see this, you've got it beat) now create a new user signing into your Gmail and Samsung accounts (if you don't have one, create a new account) once you're done with that it will take you to the home screen, pull down the notification bar and go into settings (notice since you're on an added user you can't factory reset the device) find "Users", and then switch back to the owner profile, it then tells you that you still need to set up the tablet to continue. Once i clicked okay it now let me pull down the notification bar to access settings, but this time you're on the owners account so you can factory reset it, go to "Back up and Reset" and then go ahead and factory reset it again. If done correctly the FRP will no longer be on the tablet. I know this probably sounds extremely complex so if you have any questions feel free to message me and Ill give you my email and phone number and ill help walk you through it
Ok this is going to be a nightmare to explain, my brother has an S8 on Sprint, his battery was low and turn on max power settings and enabled some sort of restricted app usage setting or something to that extent, after locking his phone he went to unlock it (he has a password lock) the keyboard to type won't pop up I'm guessing because he switched his default to Gboard, ok this is where it gets screwy and yes he managed to mess up this bad, I did some googling and realized Samsung find my mobile has an unlock screen option if you sign into it with your Samsung account on your phone, so I gave him my phone and he tried to sign in here forgot his password because he used a randomly generated password with lastpass, ok I download LastPass it won't let me in I'm not a recognized device, I think try the desktop site I get not the right location because he's not living where he originally set it up at, so I thought reset your Samsung account password and send it to your Gmail he can't get into his Gmail because again he used a randomly generated password with LastPass and he can't get into LastPass, id factory reset with Stock Recovery but FRP will kick in and he doesn't know the password.
Look I've done my fair share of rooting and roming and installing stuff I shouldn't have, but I've never messed up this bad, it's beyond what I can think of though, I've tried everything I can think of but any help would be appreciated thank you in advance
I've contacted Samsung support and tried explaining everything but they are just f***ing worthless, they kept thinking I wanted to reboot the phone when I was asking if battery saver turned off when the battery was full
Should also say he took the Oreo update whenever it dropped for the S8
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Ok this is going to be a nightmare to explain, my brother has an S8 on Sprint, his battery was low and turn on max power settings and enabled some sort of restricted app usage setting or something to that extent, after locking his phone he went to unlock it (he has a password lock) the keyboard to type won't pop up I'm guessing because he switched his default to Gboard, ok this is where it gets screwy and yes he managed to mess up this bad, I did some googling and realized Samsung find my mobile has an unlock screen option if you sign into it with your Samsung account on your phone, so I gave him my phone and he tried to sign in here forgot his password because he used a randomly generated password with lastpass, ok I download LastPass it won't let me in I'm not a recognized device, I think try the desktop site I get not the right location because he's not living where he originally set it up at, so I thought reset your Samsung account password and send it to your Gmail he can't get into his Gmail because again he used a randomly generated password with LastPass and he can't get into LastPass, id factory reset with Stock Recovery but FRP will kick in and he doesn't know the password.
Look I've done my fair share of rooting and roming and installing stuff I shouldn't have, but I've never messed up this bad, it's beyond what I can think of though, I've tried everything I can think of but any help would be appreciated thank you in advance
I've contacted Samsung support and tried explaining everything but they are just f***ing worthless, they kept thinking I wanted to reboot the phone when I was asking if battery saver turned off when the battery was full
Should also say he took the Oreo update whenever it dropped for the S8
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Why not just factory reset it then
adj998 said:
Why not just factory reset it then
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Because he can't get into LastPass to get the password for his Gmail so he won't be able to get passed FRP
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Because he can't get into LastPass to get the password for his Gmail so he won't be able to get passed FRP
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Ah I see what you mean. Well same thing happened to me but I had to wait 24 hours to logon to my phone so i didn't mess with FRP
adj998 said:
Ah I see what you mean. Well same thing happened to me but I had to wait 24 hours to logon to my phone so i didn't mess with FRP
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Yea I was just getting it couldnt verify I own the account so I just factory reset and I'll try to bypass FRP