I've recently upgraded to the 2013 Nexus 7 and want to give my old Nexus 7 to my nephew. It is currently unlocked and rooted (4.4.2) under my account. I want to go back to factory (basically wipe the tablet) but keep it rooted for him. Can this be done without going through the Google account set up (I don't want to tip him off with e-mails to his account about the new device)?
Google account creation or login is not mandatory after a factory reset, and performing a factory reset in either the stock or custom recovery does not need a Google account either.*
A Google account can be set up/connected any time after skipping that step by starting the Play Store app.
To do any initial customizations following a factory reset (even without a Google account credential) though, you will need to connect to a WiFi AP.**
* something to watch out for is if your root app is not installed as a system app but as a market app - a factory reset will delete app portion, so restoring the app portion will either require a sideload (of a backup of the) .apk, or a google account to download it again from the market.
** perversely, the WiFi router does not need to be connected to the internet; after the tablet is connected to a router , the WiFi setup screen on the tablet will eventually time out and let you continue. This suggests a means to partially configure a tablet following a factory reset without the tablet ever "phoning home".
good luck
Edit: From your post it is not evident whether you are planning (i) a factory stock install followed by re-rooting, or (ii) have a lightly-rooted stock that you merely want to perform a factory reset on. In either event a solution would be to make sure that SuperSU is installed as a system app. That way 100% of your root kit will survive a "factory reset" procedure in the recovery. In the case of (i) you can certainly reconnect to your own Google account to download the newest version of SuperSU, get it installed as a system app (I think that is a menu item in the SuperSU app), and then do a "factory reset" afterward.
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My co-worker is going to sell my his Ideos S7, but he seems to be unable to do a factory wipe, and thus will not part with it until he does so.
He says he followed the directions on how to do the factory reset, but it continues to sync his Google account.
Any ideas on what could be done?
From the home screen, he pressed Menu, Settings, Privacy, and then Factory Data Reset? Did he let the process complete all the way, including the two reboots (it reboots once in recovery to wipe, then reboots again into the OS)?
I've used the Factory Data Reset to wipe my tablet 3 times now after messing with it, and never had my google account comeback automatically.
Be careful because it has been confirmed that this method does not remove the intial google login. This means that the new person that uses the device can access your google account and gmail potentially.
Can someone confirm this?
The best way is to flash a new firmware ROM from Huawei.
I am trying to install Dexter's ElocityMod v1.41, and running into two problems.
The easy and final problem is this: how do I know if the mod was successful or not? How can I verify that the A7 is running ElocityMod v1.41.
The confusing problem and first problem I have is this.
I power the machine up, and use the procedure ElocityMod v1.42 thread to enter the Recovery Menu
I press home and see the menu
I select Wipe/factory reset
BUT
At that point I am presented with the following:
Android system recover <1e>
Confirm wipe of all user data?
THIS CAN NOT BE UNDONE.
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes -- delete all user data
No
No
No
E:recovery.c Can't open /cache/recovery/command
Formatting MISC:...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So this confuses me. I have a few questions.
Do I want to wipe the user data? What will I lose by doing so?
I can move up and down selecting each list item. Do I want to press MENU and wipe each one?
Or do I want to wipe only the first item?
Or do I want to wipe only the user data?
And what is that stuff at the bottom about can't open a cache recovery command and formatting MISC:?
And finally, is the Elocity A7 easy to brick, or hard to brick and easy to recover from?
Thanks so much
Jerry
What I did when flashing was wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, and then apply sdcard:update.zip. I did the same thing for 1.41, 1.42 and the xbox controller patch. Wiping should erase all data and programs on your tablet. I am not sure how hard it is to brick this tablet but as long as the files you download from that thread don't get corrupted in the download process you should be fine. And even then I think you should easily be able to just turn it off and get back into recovery to flash again.
Thanks, I deleted the user / data partition, and actually did not apply the update (accidentally) and just rebooted to find that the tablet booted up just fine, looking reinitialized to factory defaults.
So I tried again, and this time applied the update, and it worked just fine.
And success seems to be self-evident, in this case, coming up, being asked to setup a "phone", and signing into a google account, and eventually seeing a lot more apps in the drawer, specifically including the market.
One other tip though, you can't sign into your google account until you setup a wifi channel. The tablet wants you to do it the other way around.
And just a note for google 2 step authentication users, if you do use 2 step authentication, then when signing in to an existing google account on the tablet, you do need to use a google application specific password.
yeah kind of dumb it asks for a google login when you don't even have wifi setup. you can also check the what version you have by going into settings and clicking about.
Hi all,
I have a G900I running Nougat. Recently My phone started getting slow, so I reset the phone. Here is where the issues occur, I had restored some apps and it worked for sometime but took a very long time to restore my existing apps that were installed, so I figured lets reset again and start without restoring at all.
Now the biggest issue is to get apps download at all. I can only update the existing apps that were installed. I have tried many solutions from google but no go from disabling the google play store app, clearing cache and for Google Play Services. as well. I keep on getting the Google play error of 905 and 495. I am quite stumped on how to fixed this issue.
Is there any method to fix this issue? I hope I am not resorted to root and install a custom rom to fix this issue. I have attached a screenshot of the stock rom I am running.
reset your phone from zero
i know it will take some time to configure your apps but it will fix your problems
NOTEont restore anything from google
Steps
Install TWRP
go To wipe
Advanced Wipe
NOW CHECK EVERYTHING but the external storage(must be unchecked)
swipe to wipe loool
now go to reboot menu
reboot to download
flash stock rom lol
login to your google account and uncheck restore my apps
disable sync lol
I have a set of Sprint Tab E devices that seem to be getting stuck in an activation loop. These were all used so I have no idea what the previous owner did with them. When I boot into download mode, it shows 0x0 by the Knox Warranty indicator so it appears the fuse hasn't been tripped.
The device turns on, goes into activation, says it needs to reset, wash rinse repeat. Any ideas on what could cause this and how I might be able to fix it?
I also have another set that appears to activate but does not connect to LTE. I think these have had the software flashed at one point because the home screen after factory reset has a different background than the ones I've had that were good. I have not tried flashing anything as of yet.
Thanks for any and all advice, direction, etc!
I have found a solution to the activation loop for anyone who needs it.
Step 1: Ask Sprint care to do an OMADM Refresh. It can’t be any other kind of refresh. Must refresh OMA specifically.
Step 2: Reset the activation on the device:
1. Go to Apps -> Calculator (By default, Calculator app is located in Samsung folder) then type (+30012012732+
2. Dial ##72786#
3. Tap Yes
The device will activate once more. May loop once as well. Then it will stop looping.
For the tablets not connecting to LTE, I reflashed the stock software to the tablet and they now activate and connect to data. This created a new problem with google play services. When I try to access any of the google apps (play store, gmail, etc.) I get an error stating that google play services has stopped working. I've tried all of the following:
1) Clear cache and data of both google play store and google play services.
2) uninstall updates of google play store and google play services.
3) clear cache of google play framework
4) download and install latest google play services (not even sure if it was the right one. Tried armeablev07 no dpi.
5) factory reset (this stuck me in the "checking for updates" stage on one with google play services constantly shutting down. won't be trying this again)
I am completely at a loss at this point. My next step is to try rooting the device and uninstalling google play services all together then reinstalling with a fresh APK then removing root and/or flashing back to stock ROM. My concern is that this will tick the knox indicator and i'd prefer to keep it intact if at all possible.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
For anyone that can understand this, here is the logcat file from when I attempt to sign in to the google play store. Any ideas what is happening here?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uLFiOhGbW2vWjXPicKoilzleTm8gszT6/view?usp=sharing
Hi!
I recently bough Oneplus 8T. I was using it for about 2 weeks. Everything stock, no modifications. Today (13 March, 2022) I unlocked bootloader ( and before entering fastboot to unlock the bootlader, I didn't manually delete google account from it). It worked OK. I booted into the same OS, logged in. Everything was working. Then I followed THIS guide to downgrade from OxygenOS 12 to OxygenOS11. I downloaded the Apk for local update, then downloaded the Downgrade package, inserted that package to this app, it loaded successfully and then I rebooted (again, I didn't delete Google account manually). It worked well: first it booted into recovery and wiped data itself, then rebooted again into OxygenOS 11. Now here's the problem. I connected to the Wifi, moved forward, and then I had a prompt "Verify PIN. Your phone was reset to factory settings. To use this phone, enter your previous PIN." The thing is, I'VE NEVER SET UP ANY PIN CODE. I WAS ALWAYS USING THE SAME PATTERN. But I noticed "Use my Google account instead" below this message. I thought, "thanks God". I clicked that, I entered my gmail, my password ( I'm using only 1 gmail, I've never had any other gmail). I logged in to Google account successfully, but it says "Please sign in using one of the owners accounts to continue" and jumps back to the google account login prompt. Well, I am the only owner, because It's brand new phone, I also use only one gmail, so I couldn't missmatch accounts. In this moment, my phone is just useless piece of metal and glass. I can't use it. Can anyone help me please? Thank you in advance.
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[EDIT] Google is so smurfing smurf. They just make noobs like me go crazy, and get heart attack, in fear of loosing phone. All I did was followed THIS video, which uses "exploit" to enter chrome-> settings -> disable google play services, and then you can log in normally, and factory reset within system, which removes google account properly. LOL
also check out msm recovery tool