I bought a pre-owned swift2. The previous owner had a google account which he told me he had removed the phone from his account, but when I try to set the phone up it wants me to use a previously synced account and wont let mr do anything else or let me see any other screens. I have done a hard reset but no difference. can anyone help please.
so you can't get to do a factory reset? whenever i've had a new phone it asks to use a google account, copy from another phone or skip and start fresh. you don't have that option?
ask the previous owner to take the phone off his google account. if he still has it in his name it might cause problems.
Andrew Joseph said:
so you can't get to do a factory reset? whenever i've had a new phone it asks to use a google account, copy from another phone or skip and start fresh. you don't have that option?
ask the previous owner to take the phone off his google account. if he still has it in his name it might cause problems.
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I have done a hard reset then try to set up the phone by trying both copy data and set up as new ( I don't have a skip option on this screen) when I enter my details I get a message saying unable to sign in to the device due to an unknown error try another
e mail or try again in 24 hours. Do you think I am doing something wrong?
i'm not sure if it's your fault or not. possibly the original owner not cleared the phone, possibly the phone not done a factory reset. try to get into recovery mode to do a factory reset.
you COULD try this - https://forum.xda-developers.com/swift-2/how-to/how-to-unbrick-marmite-t3674952
raithsphere said:
you COULD try this - https://forum.xda-developers.com/swift-2/how-to/how-to-unbrick-marmite-t3674952
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Thank you for this option. I am a complete novice to doing anything to the software on a phone so I am going to ask a silly question. Is this easy to do ?
damneddoug said:
Thank you for this option. I am a complete novice to doing anything to the software on a phone so I am going to ask a silly question. Is this easy to do ?
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I didn't have much issue as long as you follow the instructions you should be fine
raithsphere said:
I didn't have much issue as long as you follow the instructions you should be fine
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Thank you I will try this at the weekend.
Hi, after some help.
I have a wileyfox swift 2 phone & cannot get past the Google account verification screen. I've watched so many YouTube videos but nothing seems to be the same on my phone as it is in the videos... Can anyone help?!!
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Hi there,
i need some help,
i've got my dads sony ericsson xperia x10 mini pro phone, sadly he passed away 13weeks ago
i tried to work out what his pattern lock was but did it wrong far too many times, now its asking me for his googlemail login details, well as u can see i cant ask him... i can not access any part of the phone to do a restore as i need the details to login..
so can any body help me on doing a hard restore as ive tried holding the left and right buttons whilst pressing the power button but no luck...
i need to get in to the phone so i can use it as mine is now broken,
can
anybody shed some light on what to do that s not going to cost me any money,
thanks
Tubby,
Moved it to the right forum for you buddy.
Why you can't ask him? At least ask him to put the password and then you deactivate the security lock.
Felimenta97 said:
Why you can't ask him? At least ask him to put the password and then you deactivate the security lock.
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If you re read my original post you will see that i had said he has passed away..
So asking him is a impossible thing to do
Tubby-mummy said:
If you re read my original post you will see that i had said he has passed away..
So asking him is a impossible thing to do
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Oh, really sorry. Really, really sorry, I didn't get at first. Sometimes my english is awful. Do you know if he had recovery installed? Try to reboot in recovery and do a backup in case you want to keep any app or it's configs.. Then enter factory reset, reboot phone. Everything right, install App Extractor and recover the apps you want from the recovery.
In case he hadn't any recovery, I think the only option is reinstall Android, using SEUS (Sony Ericsson Update Service).
Again, sorry for the thing I said in my earlier post.
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I dont know what he had on the phone, ive got his sd card with all his pics etc so not worried about losing anything,
i cant get into any thing on the phone as it says pattern entered wrong too many times please enter googlemail and password, well i can not get past that, all i can do it call 999 ...
ive connected the phone via usb to my notepad but when i click on the usb via my computer it says to insert a disk to disk drive??
i honestly have no idea what to do, ive tried to download the sony ericsson pc suite but where i use a internet dongle it dont download...
i dont want to pay for the phone to b reset when i know i can do it myself some how and places round here have said they'd charge £50-£60 just to do it!!!!
and honestly it fine, no need to apologize so much, was a simple miss read,
Got a friend at work, and his kid managed to enter a usercode onto his SGS2. It´s his businesses phone with LOADS of meetings/notes/sms´s/photes (all on the phone, nothing saved to SD :/ )etc etc and he want to get his info back if possible.
USB debugging is NOT turned on.
vol+,home,power gets puts you on a enter password screen.
vol-,home,power puts you in download mode.
Is there anything that can be flashed via ODIN to get rid of the usercode WITHOUT loosing any info?
Just them him to take it into a Samsung service center proof of ownership may well be needed.
As i work in a phone/tv store we send in ~5-10/phones each day to service centers.
Not one time have the phone been "unlocked/reset" without it coming back factory reset
I´ll tell him to leave it be until monday, and if there´s no other way then flashing, well, suck for him....
JayDee78 said:
As i work in a phone/tv store we send in ~5-10/phones each day to service centers.
Not one time have the phone been "unlocked/reset" without it coming back factory reset
I´ll tell him to leave it be until monday, and if there´s no other way then flashing, well, suck for him....
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Read in another thread to try a bunch of wrong passwords until it asks for a PUK then use that to unlock it (Call carrier for PUK)
Tell your "friend" to ask his "kid" for the code.
Does he have a backup of his EFS? If so you can flash via Odin any xxxEFSxxx.tar file and it will allow access to the phone, you can then backup whats needed and then restore the original EFS.
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Tell your "friend" to ask his "kid" for the code.
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The kid is 3 years old, and his name is Emil. Just think for a second, if the phone where stolen or ill gotten, why go through this trouble?! The meetings, calander etc can be restored (with pain) but the photos etc cant be replaced! And as i do this, send phones to service, on a daylie basis i want to explorer any other options first as it will likely be wiped when it is returned!
Odia said:
Does he have a backup of his EFS? If so you can flash via Odin any xxxEFSxxx.tar file and it will allow access to the phone, you can then backup whats needed and then restore the original EFS.
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Nothing saved on his part. Got NSPRO, z3x and SGTool and tried everything that i could think of with these tools, but as usb debbuging is off no codes could be read...
Thanks for the input, i´ll guess it will be a hail mary pass to send it in to Anovo, as the biggest servicecenter is called in Sweden.
What is a "usercode" to begin with if it's not the Pattern/PIN/Password lock?
Overcomming the Pattern/PIN/Password lock is rather easy, as Odia suggested, but you even can do it with custom kernel via root ADB in recovery, don't even need to flash a stock EFS, just delete all cryptoprop* files.
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vol+,home,power gets puts you on a enter password screen.
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THAT sounds like the device encryption is enabled.
If that is really the case, there is nothing you can do without the password, as if you do the above, the password will be gone, but so is all the data as it can't be decrypted anymore.
0000 is always worth a try .
jje
Thanks for the info.
The phone was setup by a former IT guy at the company he works at. That would explain why it is encrypted, as my friend is not very tech savvy.
Unfortunately the guy now works abroad and they have not been able to reach him, and i guess that servicecenters wont reset it with content remaining to avoid potential problems with info coming into the wrong hands.
Thanks all for the replies!
It's impossible to reset it without loosing/wiping the data when not knowing the password - that's the idea when encrypting it
Has nothing to do with service centers "not wanting", it's just technically not possible.
First of all I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but help is indeed what I need. I just got a phone to add some games in it, that is of a friend's kid and after installing a handful of apps, when I tried to uninstall it told me I can't since I am on guest mode. Sadly as it seems he has absolutely no idea what's the guest mode password.
I remember reading somewhere that through google, I could get on a computer on the account and reset/change it. I found a device manager that brings up the map and it has a password change there. Is that the one that changes that google guest mode?
Thanks in advance for any reply and again sorry if this is not the right place to ask.
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Decided to factory reset, since there were other things messed up.
weltall2 said:
First of all I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but help is indeed what I need. I just got a phone to add some games in it, that is of a friend's kid and after installing a handful of apps, when I tried to uninstall it told me I can't since I am on guest mode. Sadly as it seems he has absolutely no idea what's the guest mode password.
I remember reading somewhere that through google, I could get on a computer on the account and reset/change it. I found a device manager that brings up the map and it has a password change there. Is that the one that changes that google guest mode?
Thanks in advance for any reply and again sorry if this is not the right place to ask.
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It is always a good idea to mention what phone you are talking about
Normally there is a combination ob buttons you have to press at startup to get into a recovery mode. Inside this recovery mode you can do a factory reset. This might not be the best solution as all your app data will be gone, but if definitely works.
susimsu said:
It is always a good idea to mention what phone you are talking about
Normally there is a combination ob buttons you have to press at startup to get into a recovery mode. Inside this recovery mode you can do a factory reset. This might not be the best solution as all your app data will be gone, but if definitely works.
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I have a Xperia A2303 stuck in guest. I can't reset or anything. Please help me
Hi guy my mum recently purchased the samsung j3 off a private seller, it is unlocked only problem is upon booting the phone it asks for the original owners google account to get past the set up phase? We contacted the original owner but refusing to help us out. Was wondering what my options are as ive never seen this issue before.
Thanks.:good:
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Hi guy my mum recently purchased the samsung j3 off a private seller, it is unlocked only problem is upon booting the phone it asks for the original owners google account to get past the set up phase? We contacted the original owner but refusing to help us out. Was wondering what my options are as ive never seen this issue before.
Thanks.:good:
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Interesting, what version of Android is it running? Have you tried booting into recovery mode and performed a full factory reset? Let me know how it goes I'll do my best to help you out !
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Interesting, what version of Android is it running? Have you tried booting into recovery mode and performed a full factory reset? Let me know how it goes I'll do my best to help you out !
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Not 100% sure about the version of the software as cant go to the settings. Yes been in recovery performed Factory reset etc. Still asks for the login details of previous owner!
ykdr-scott said:
Not 100% sure about the version of the software as cant go to the settings. Yes been in recovery performed Factory reset etc. Still asks for the login details of previous owner!
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Okay, I would recommend taking a look at this video here! If that doesn't work you can always use Odin to re-flash the phones factory firmware. Let me know if you still have questions !
Dont find any free method on youtube. Make this))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euapITIxiT0
Crazy cool for all those who bought it used and it locked. Nice work?
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Thanks! Try to make bypass on 24a version later
what does this do? just lets you get past the set up wizard without logging in? why is this helpful?
Just curious. Thank you.
kaluna00 said:
what does this do? just lets you get past the set up wizard without logging in? why is this helpful?
Just curious. Thank you.
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If you make factory reset with google account on phone, after reset phone asks you to enter your account. If you dont know it - its big trouble -)
MFKilla said:
If you make factory reset with google account on phone, after reset phone asks you to enter your account. If you dont know it - its big trouble -)
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Roger that. Thanks for the explanation.