Hello I bought my verizon galaxy s5 yesterday on craigslist knowing verizon phones now come factory unlocked and intended to use it with my T-mobile sim. When I tested the phone everything worked fine but later on when I got home I decided to factory reset it to clean it up and now I am stuck with a "reactivation locked" window asking me for the owners samsung id, I then tried contacting the seller and now he wont respond so I am stuck with it. I have now made research and know that its a security new method on verizon phones. Is there a way to fix/disable this? any input will be greatly appreciated, thanks.
verizon phones now come factory unlocked??
This is news to me.
Kies or Odin might allow you to install a new image.
rolozcar said:
Hello I bought my verizon galaxy s5 yesterday on craigslist knowing verizon phones now come factory unlocked and intended to use it with my T-mobile sim. When I tested the phone everything worked fine but later on when I got home I decided to factory reset it to clean it up and now I am stuck with a "reactivation locked" window asking me for the owners samsung id, I then tried contacting the seller and now he wont respond so I am stuck with it. I have now made research and know that its a security new method on verizon phones. Is there a way to fix/disable this? any input will be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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Pretty sure you're screwed...it's an anti-theft security measure.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/5...ck-and-find-my-mobile-anti-theft-features.htm
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pego99 said:
verizon phones now come factory unlocked??
This is news to me.
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This has been the case with 4G phones. It is sim unlocked, as in you can use other carrier's sim cards, not with an unlocked bootloader in case that is what you were thinking.
rolozcar said:
Hello I bought my verizon galaxy s5 yesterday on craigslist knowing verizon phones now come factory unlocked and intended to use it with my T-mobile sim. When I tested the phone everything worked fine but later on when I got home I decided to factory reset it to clean it up and now I am stuck with a "reactivation locked" window asking me for the owners samsung id, I then tried contacting the seller and now he wont respond so I am stuck with it. I have now made research and know that its a security new method on verizon phones. Is there a way to fix/disable this? any input will be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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You will have to get it from the seller.
It likely wasn't done maliciously nor may they remember even setting it.
IIRC when setting up the phone it is an option that you can enable. Chances are it may be a password they use for many things and my not want to divulge it?
Unfortunately you will have to get ahold of them as only they know the password.
The only other thing I can think of is flashing the ODIN tar. Not sure that this will reset it anyways as when you enable this option there is a message saying that Reactivation lock must be disabled before sending your phone in for service.
9/10 guy probly screwed u for a claim because that feature would have to been activated it wont activate on a reset as it would have asked for password prior to reset and the fact that its asking for the Samsung id is evidence to the fact
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rolozcar said:
Hello I bought my verizon galaxy s5 yesterday on craigslist knowing verizon phones now come factory unlocked and intended to use it with my T-mobile sim. When I tested the phone everything worked fine but later on when I got home I decided to factory reset it to clean it up and now I am stuck with a "reactivation locked" window asking me for the owners samsung id, I then tried contacting the seller and now he wont respond so I am stuck with it. I have now made research and know that its a security new method on verizon phones. Is there a way to fix/disable this? any input will be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60279880&postcount=51
garsax said:
Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60279880&postcount=51
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This is the second thread you've done this in. Stop finding year old dead threads and posting a link to the solution that was found a year ago. If you want to get your post count up, try posting something useful (like me) in a thread you can contribute to:good:
Breakthough!!!! glitch found
rolozcar said:
Hello I bought my verizon galaxy s5 yesterday on craigslist knowing verizon phones now come factory unlocked and intended to use it with my T-mobile sim. When I tested the phone everything worked fine but later on when I got home I decided to factory reset it to clean it up and now I am stuck with a "reactivation locked" window asking me for the owners samsung id, I then tried contacting the seller and now he wont respond so I am stuck with it. I have now made research and know that its a security new method on verizon phones. Is there a way to fix/disable this? any input will be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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I found a way to access the devices of my sm-g900v with the build OE1 with this problem. So the bug i found is not complete but, i know that someone could do something with this info. All you need is blue-tooth headset mines are the lg HBS750. First you have to call 911. turn the bluettooth on and Quickly disconnect the call... you should be on the searching for devices.. At this point you connect you headsets and connect to wifi.. and press the speak/call button on the headset. S-voice should pop-up and ask you to connect to wifi (if you didnt follow my directions) if you did, you should be able to open settings are any stock app... i tired to disable from the settings but, it keep re-checking itself. Maybe someone could find out use this access to disable the reactivation lock.
have you find any solution to the reactivation lock?
rolozcar said:
Hello I bought my verizon galaxy s5 yesterday on craigslist knowing verizon phones now come factory unlocked and intended to use it with my T-mobile sim. When I tested the phone everything worked fine but later on when I got home I decided to factory reset it to clean it up and now I am stuck with a "reactivation locked" window asking me for the owners samsung id, I then tried contacting the seller and now he wont respond so I am stuck with it. I have now made research and know that its a security new method on verizon phones. Is there a way to fix/disable this? any input will be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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if you find anything that WORKS, plz can you post it here, i have the same problem, I bought a G900V, later upgrade to PD1 android 6.0.1 and find the surprise
I've got some phones with a reactivation lock as well. I'll look into above. Any chance you could bring up adb? If so I can give you the adb input commands to force a hard reset via a bug, it may work and bypass reactivation lock as it is a full wipe, but no promises. Otherwise I have a theory for disabling it via a script that can be pushed via adb and executed. I need to see if I have time, cause it needs to be done
Thanks for getting me that far!!!
ive gotten close
GeTex said:
I've got some phones with a reactivation lock as well. I'll look into above. Any chance you could bring up adb? If so I can give you the adb input commands to force a hard reset via a bug, it may work and bypass reactivation lock as it is a full wipe, but no promises. Otherwise I have a theory for disabling it via a script that can be pushed via adb and executed. I need to see if I have time, cause it needs to be done
Thanks for getting me that far!!!
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I have an s5 on bok3 firmware right now with a samsung reactivation lock lockout without root or unlocked bootloader and no custom recovery
i first went back to bok3 firmware then used the otg usb/cable bug to access the file manager i've also gotten into play store settings phone and couple other things but also i force closed a bunch of apps and then backed into the setup wizard and got phone activating as if it was a new device but alas it failed as i had disabled and/or forced close activation agent. I haven't been able to recreate since. ps you can access lock screen by going to android device manager on the web and using the lock feature to change the lockscreen password. I also discovered samsung account is the issue app for reactivation lock as when i force closed and disabled it setting menu crashes instead of does nothing when you try to do a factory reset in setting or add a samsung account to your device.
perhaps we can install a custom version of the s5 samsung account app to our device i dont have the skills to change it but you might. Just a thought
Reactivtion lock is off!!!!!!!!!!
I booted NCG on PB1 Bootloader
is a new thread on s5 verizon general on xda
im testing it to see if reactivation lock can be circumvented this way will tell you either way as soon as i can
IT IS CONFIRMED WORKING AND REACTIVATION LOCK IS OFF
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver.../reactivation-lock-off-finally-stuck-t3433342
this is the guide i wrote
Hi all,
I recently bought a galaxy note 4 in the UAE that was locked to a network over there. Thing is, i live in Kenya and of course the sim here wont work with the phone, so i decided to do a factory reset, dont know if have ****ed myself over or what coz i keep getting stuck on the samsung account screen where the same message keeps coming back over and over 'processing failed'. Question, is my phone bricked? Any help will be highly appreciated. And in addition if anyone knows where i can get an unlock code online, that would be great. Cheers!
I was trying to recover some deleted files off my daughter's Samsung Core Prime Galaxy phone the other day using Dr. Fone (trial version). I followed the instructions (to enable debugging, etc.) and things seemed to be going fine until "analyzing phone" reached 90%. Then I got an error message saying phone needs to be rooted. When I disconnected the phone, the screen lock had changed from a pattern lock to an alphanumeric password. We don't seem to have that password and trying to translate the pattern to alphanumeric does not seem to work. Does the Dr. Fone app implement a password we don't know about?
I have emailed their tech support trying to get help but have received no reply.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Hello everyone,
so I tried to hard reset this phone. Galaxy A5 A510F. On the screen where it asks me to enter my login information, I tried to just use my own Google Account to do that, but the phone is telling me that I need to provide the information of the Google account of the former user. Unfortunately, this is not possible.
So as a result, I cannot unlock the Developer options and cannot enable ADB Debugging, because FPR lock prevents me from going any further than the screen where it checks the account information.
Do you know any way to overcome this problem and disable FPR, so that I can use this phone?
There are numerous guides on the internet and tutorials on Youtube, however I found none so far which is working. There must be a way to disable FPR and just flash another custom ROM on this thing. I hope someone on this forum can help me out, that would be much appreciated!
Hi everyone, i’m having an extremely weird issue with my Samsung J5 Prime (SM-G570Y/on5xelte). First of all; sorry for bad english, this post will be a bit long.
So i want to unlock OEM, to install custom recovery and custom ROM (and being able to login with google account from gms (Google Play Service app)).
i activate developer options.
Then go to Settings > Developer Options, but OEM Unlock is missing (i did'nt have the screenshot of the settings), i already try every method to reappear it but nothing worked.
Trying my luck, im rebooting my phone to download mode, on there i didn’t see any text that says OEM Unlock, i tried to flash OrangeFox Recovery using ODIN. And suprisingly it worked, i even double-checked it by actually booting to recovery. i did'nt expect it to work though...
Then i install RadicalQuack Custom ROM, and do some root-level customization.
But as soon as i try to login Google account from Google Play Service (this didnt affect web login or any other login) on Stock/Custom ROM, and reboot the phone... my phone was FRP locked, i was shocked because my configuration isn’t even backed up.
I have to flash stock rom in download mode, get to setup, login google, remove the account, then i can get rid of FRP lock.
And at this point is where everything is confusing.
If i use stock rom without any changes, the "OEM Unlock" option is'nt appearing at all.
But if i use custom ROM (in this case i use RadicalQuack), the "OEM Unlock" option Appears (until i remove "ro.frp.pst" in build.prop)
So i can do anything but CANNOT login using Google Account from Google Play Services or get FRP locked and All data destroyed.
Now my question is, is it safe to enable "Unlock OEM"? Because i dont know if OEM Unlock is currently enabled or not, i dont know how to check if the bootloader is actually locked, i dont want to get locked forever on samsung stock and bloated shtt again.
PS:
Somehow... i can login Google account without getting FRP locked by:
Unlocking OEM (on the custom ROM ofcourse, since it won't be visible on stock ROM anyway...)
and removing "ro.frp.pst" (especially "ro.frp.pst=/dev/block/persistent") on /system/build.prop, /system/vendor/build.prop, /vendor/build.prop
what did you do?
Hiii, what did you do? I need to unlock oem un my j5 prime
Same Problem Happens to me But Now How you use custom rom without getting frp lock please Tell I Have Also J5 prime And Same Happens to me also I need to flash stock rom from which my custom rom get erased