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Sold Nexus 6p

I sold a nexus 6p online. I shipped it out to the buyer. He received it and he is unable to sign into his account on the phone. It is telling him that it's still attached to my account. I was wondering if there was a way to remotely delete my account so the buyer and sign into it with his account.

mflammger said:
I sold a nexus 6p online. I shipped it out to the buyer. He received it and he is unable to sign into his account on the phone. It is telling him that it's still attached to my account. I was wondering if there was a way to remotely delete my account so the buyer and sign into it with his account.
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Search google for FRP (factory reset protection).
As far as I know there is no way to do it remotely. I think you should have signed out of your google account before you reset the phone. Most likely he will have to ship it back to you so you can sign in and then remove your account.

Here: https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity?pli=1
But I'm not sure how that will affect the device.
You could always change your password to something stupid for a few seconds for him to sign in and sign out depends how sensitive data you have on your account..

Will Android device manager do it? Will it remotely wipe the phone and remove my account from it, or will it flag the phone as stolen. I cannot get any solid information from repeated Google searches as to what happens after the device is remote wiped.

Android Manager will wipe the device but when it turns on it will ask for any Google account it was bound to before wipe. The other person needs to enter your Gmail account, then his, then you can either change password to your account or wipe it with Device Manager and next time it boots it will accept your account or his (because both were added before wipe).

You can always set a temporary password to your Google account, send it to the buyer and have him log in with his account. After that, you change your password back and voilà.

Is all of this a working protection against simply Fastboot unlocking bootloader, flashing stock image then rebooting into a working phone?

Mangala_Dharma said:
Is all of this a working protection against simply Fastboot unlocking bootloader, flashing stock image then rebooting into a working phone?
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If the bootloader is currently locked, I believe you would have to go into developer options to enable the OEM unlocking setting... Which you can't get to because of the FRP.

Mangala_Dharma said:
Is all of this a working protection against simply Fastboot unlocking bootloader, flashing stock image then rebooting into a working phone?
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Unlocking bootloader (OEM unlocking in dev options) deactivates this protection but to do it you still need to get in there somehow and you can't without first logging into a Google account it is currently bound to. And as you probably know without unlocked bootloader you can't flash anything.
And even if he could flash new ROM my friend had bought used Samsung S7 Edge and previous owner also left it locked. You can flash different ROMs with S7 Edge out of the box but the FRP survived several attempts at flashing stock/custom ROMs. We had to use the workaround found here at xda S7 forums.

Thanks for all the info.
I did not unlock the bootloader on the phone. I read a little bit about Factory Reset Protection and the only way around it was to sign in to the phone and then remove your account from the phone. It's something that was new this year for Android devices and I was just unaware of it.

It's actually been around awhile, just not widely implemented. If you remember which monthly security update you last installed, he might be able to get around it. YouTuber root ninja has some videos depending on patch. The one I watched just for kicks (since I'd like my 6P to be protected if lost) was a few months old though.
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I heard that with a simple factory reset with the stock recovery should remove the account from the phone.

Lol good luck with getting that off remotely it's impossible it's kinda like apple cloud system which is really good.

Will the SIM Unlock be persistant?

I purchased a Sprint LG 6, I got it brand new. I then turned to an online service who used a USB Redirector and some voodoo on their end to unlock it. Its working great but I'm a little nervous. There's no way sprint can re-lock it is there? If I hard reset, will I lose my unlock. The unlocker says that its permanent, but I'm worried about OTA updates and hard resets. I know some phones have been re-locked by way of a profile update.

if youre using Sprint and not other carrier why do you need it Sim unlocked and what online service did you use if you dont mind telling us.

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I purchased a Sprint LG 6, I got it brand new. I then turned to an online service who used a USB Redirector and some voodoo on their end to unlock it. Its working great but I'm a little nervous. There's no way sprint can re-lock it is there? If I hard reset, will I lose my unlock. The unlocker says that its permanent, but I'm worried about OTA updates and hard resets. I know some phones have been re-locked by way of a profile update.
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They must have used either QCPro or Octoplus. The phone will not get re-locked if you do a soft reset (wipe data and reset factory settings). Nevertheless, it will get re-locked if you do a Hard Reset (Through android menu on bootloader).

Dittrik said:
They must have used either QCPro or Octoplus. The phone will not get re-locked if you do a soft reset (wipe data and reset factory settings). Nevertheless, it will get re-locked if you do a Hard Reset (Through android menu on bootloader).
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You have a link to the QCPro, I can't seem to find a website.
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pretty sure that was a typo for gcpro.
device that runs around $200 that can sim unlock, fix frp, and repair imei... according to the info. tempted to get one myself.
most people on eBay that do remote unlocks via team viewer use something similar. figure if I unlock about 15 phones I'll break even

Is the GC Pro unlocking different from getting it unlocked from Sprint (after the phone is payed off of course)?

Unlock bootloader without having access to settings on SM-A510F

So a mate of mine found an A5 recently without any identification on it. Thought he might as well keep it himself else it'll just be useless.
Problem is the phone's stuck in the initial setup so he asked me to unlock it. My plan was to install TWRP, wipe everything completely and flash the firmware again. I can't get to the settings to access the OEM unlock though. Is there any way to unlock the bootloader and/or get TWRP on there so I can completely wipe the phone?

Same situation here... How did it turned out?

Will the bootloader unlock code change when installing/restoring roms?

Hi
Since it now costs money to unlock the bootloader, the last thing I'd like to do is to request multiple unlock codes.
I'm wondering if the code can change, forcing me to buy the service again?
I've heard of the bootloader to lock again when restoring the phone using huawei official recovery but will the old code work again?
Thanks /a

shaglord said:
Hi
Since it now costs money to unlock the bootloader, the last thing I'd like to do is to request multiple unlock codes.
I'm wondering if the code can change, forcing me to buy the service again?
I've heard of the bootloader to lock again when restoring the phone using huawei official recovery but will the old code work again?
Thanks /a
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No,there is a certain firmware that can lock the bootloader at a downgrade,if it happens, it will be locked again.
What firmware that was I do not know exactly but I believe B017.
But normally the bootloader stays open.
You have the Unlockcode to unlock it again

Stolen S10+. No bootloader, so can they simply factory reset and bypass the password?

Okay, so i'm out of the XDA world for a couple years, technology probably changed a lot, so no blaming for being noob etc.
So, i lost my phone on 25.12.2020, FindMyDevice and FindMyMobile are completely useless, all their functions are unusable for some reason.
I started panicking really, so i checked on some videos online if people can bypass the password and use the phone somehow. Surprise, it is easy AS FVCK! All they did was go in recovery and just factory reset it. On top, 3rd day i changed my Google password (which i will never regret in my life), so probably the phone is out of my Google account as well.
So my last hope is that i remember i was trying to root my phone and i couldn't. It was from Verizon. Unrootable. It was some bootloader v4 or some ****. Not really sure.
TLDR, Unrootable S10+ with unlockable bootloader, is it able to factory reset? Wipe it out and bypass the password?

It is always possible to boot to recovery mode and erase the device there. However, deleting the entire storage does not mean that the device is usable after that. When a device is not 'officially' wiped; it is mandatory to log in with the last google account that was on the device. It does not matter that you have changed your Google password. This securityfeature is called frp lock. Unfortunately, frp can also be circumvented when a device is rooted. But in order to be able to root, the bootloader must be unlocked and that is only possible if the device is unlocked. Your device cannot be used by others. But as you mentioned before, FindMyDevice did not work on your device so this lock is of no use to you. The only thing you can do is register the imei number as stolen and then wait for the device to be sold and checked.
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Sorry for my bad English.

Mate thanks a lot for your answer, you really helped a lot! Im glad those busters wont be able to use my phone now!