I purchased an I500 from ebay not realizing it does not take a sim card. Oops, my bad. Due to circumstances i can't get it returned so im stuck with it.
I was considering using it as an MP3 player (cheaper than an ipod with very similar function) however each time i start it up it says "Press Send to activate your phone."
Well this wont work, im in Canada, it tries to dial out and i get a no service message.
I know i can bypass the activation by pressing *#83786633 but i want to prevent it from asking me to activate alltogether. Anyone ever experience this? Do you have any suggestions?
I'm interested to know this as well as I purchased an I500 to do the same thing. Mine hasn't shown up yet but I'll be going through a similar situation. My understanding (and this could be incorrect) is that yes you will be able to use it as an iPod Touch, but it may keep asking you to activate. It'd be sweet if it is possible bypass this because the I500 could be a really fantastic PMP.
Just a guess since I can't test it:
Try putting the phone in airplane mode. This will turn off the radio and maybe that will stop the phone from asking you to activate. You can leave it in airplane mode indefinitely since you won't be using it as a phone. Again, I'm only guessing.
Wifi can still work, just turn it back on after you enable airplane mode.
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As soon as you turn off airplane mode, or if anything needs GPS, Bluetooth, Wifi, etc. the phone can trigger the setup process.
Good idea tho, thanks for your input!
Did you try freezing the setup wizard with TiBu?
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No, never thought of that. I did, however, find out how to trick the phone into thinking it was activated...
To access the hidden menus from the dialer:
• Open the dialer and enter *#83786633 then press the Home key
• Open the dialer again (clear previously entry if it is still present) enter *#22745927
• Enter the SPC 000000 then enable Hidden Menu
Now you can enter Service Mode by entering **772
In the service mode you can set the phone's number, the code for the carrier, etc. I just found numbers for my local carrier (so they wouldnt be rejected as invalid, you can try random ones if you like) and it worked!
You may have to put the SPC code in twice... not sure why
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hello please help i have run xda unlock program and the display reads start of repair process, preparing modem. found all locks to be already unlocked! it seems your device was successfully repaired. after closing this application turn flight mode on then off. what is the flight mode . also my device keeps saying invalid or missing sim card you can still make emergency calls if you service provider supports it. invalid pin pin must be between 4 and 8 digits in length can you tell me were im going wrong. thanks
Flight mode is the term used for when the phone radio transmitter is turned off but the PPC is still on. nCalled flight mode because it is how you need to setup your PPC if you want to use it in a plane.
On the XDA II to turn on flight mode, tap and hold the signal strength icon. A pop up will appear. The top section will allow you to turn the radio off (which turns flight mode on). Repeat the process to turn the radio back on (and flight mode off).
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alecjacks1 said:
hello please help i have run xda unlock program and the display reads start of repair process, preparing modem. found all locks to be already unlocked! it seems your device was successfully repaired. after closing this application turn flight mode on then off. what is the flight mode . also my device keeps saying invalid or missing sim card you can still make emergency calls if you service provider supports it. invalid pin pin must be between 4 and 8 digits in length can you tell me were im going wrong. thanks
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mayb a browse through the user guide will do a great deal...
dun be lame..
I need a way to be able to voice dial at any time even with the phone locked or with some other app the Voice Talk open via Bluetooth, I know this is possible on Android since my old Motorola Milestone could do it and would be legal under the new laws.
My province is now getting distracted driving laws which will make using my phone illegal with how many steps it takes currently.
I refuse to give up locking my phone since I have private info on it but I need to be able to make calls by pressing the button on my Bluetooth even with the phone locked since it could even be in my jeans pocket with no way to get at it when sitting.
Currently on my GS2 I have to unlock the phone then double click the home button to bring up voice dialing or even open the voice talk app if I am in a different app.
Compared to my Milestone where I never touched it and at any time even pattern locked or in a different app I could just press the button on my Bluetooth and say "call jane" or something and it always worked.
How can I get this back? Considering the laws are coming into effect next month for me.
I would like to keep the stock Samsung voice for most time but would be willing to have a second one that works even if the phone is locked.
I also have people that want this phone but willn't buy it until I get this fixed.
Use Tasker to disable the lock pattern when connected to a bluetooth device - therefore when you disconnect from your car bluetooth, your lock pattern will re-activate.
Problem solved!
OK I have that and think I am close to setting it up but can't totally figure it out how to disable the lock screen.
All I have figured out is a profile that runs if a mic headset is connected but when I try to figure out the task it does I get stuck.
I have never used Tasker before.
This is suddenly going to be to expensive since I found out the SGS2 requires extra work to disable the pattern lock which is a extra $10 plugin and I am not even sure if I want to pay for Tasker itself after the 7 day trial.
I might try and find out how it was done on my old phone when locked.
For others that may want to kn ow here is the thread for this on a GS2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110307
Nope, you don't need the plugin - there's a keyguard action that you would disable, which also disables the lockscreen.
I'm trying to set this up myself, but for some stupid reason, it's not responding when I press my bluetooth button at all...
Fricken Vlingo - you suck!
k1sr said:
Nope, you don't need the plugin - there's a keyguard action that you would disable, which also disables the lockscreen.
I'm trying to set this up myself, but for some stupid reason, it's not responding when I press my bluetooth button at all...
Fricken Vlingo - you suck!
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Are you sure that would work on our Samsung phones since they modified the locking system to use the /efs partition?
If you do get it working make sure to tell me how.
Hi Guys,
As the title is suggesting, my phone has been locked and the only way left to get in to the phone and access my data is using my google account credentials.
I was at a public place and needed to charge my phone so i turned off the data and wifi and set up a pin lock. So later when the phone was charged i tried to unlock it but i seemed to have forgotten the pin. while doing it multiple times i ran out of attempts to be able to unlock the phone using pin. So the only shot i was left with was using my google account info. when i try putting the google info, they show invalid even though i put the correct credentials.
And again my wifi and mobile data are off so even the android device manager doesnt seem to be a way to go.
I tried calling the LG customer service to see if they can help, i explained them the situation and told them i needed my data to stay but the only choice they offered me was a pin that would unlock the phone but also erase everything in it.
Also, I do not have my bootloader unlocked. or anything of that sort.
I will appreciate if anyone can help me getting back into the phone or even helps me to be able to recover the data that i have in the phone. Thank you.
I installed the NFC Ring Unlock application from McLear on the EZ2 tablet, which seemed to function well with my NFC ring.
I did one thing differently, because I don't like to give my Google master password to a 3-party app , I used an app password specifically for the NFC ring, which I considered to be one-time and didn't write it down
Then I had to fly and put the device in flight mode and powered it off some time later.
Now I get the NFC Ring Unlock screen in flight mode when I power up the device, but I can't get the unlock screen to work (NFC is also switched off in flight mode, didn't realise that and the Google authentication is also not working) and I can't get out of flight mode!
What I tried already:
Resetting the device by voulume-up/power, red button in SD-card and PC-companion connection.
Trying to hit the "normal" unlock screen which appears for a sub-second period.
Contact McLear, but they are flooded at the moment, because of the roll-out of their new products.
But neither of this works because they all depend on unlocking the device first.
Any advice?
If your device is unlocked and you have USB debugging enabled, you should be able to deinstall the App with ADB (Adcvanced Debug Bridge).
I guess that with the locked original Sony Bootloader, this doesn't work, though.
You could do a remote wipe with play device management:
https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager?hl=da&u=0
If Sony's software detect it when you connect it to computer, you might also have some options there. I am using Mac and only see repair device ,under the Xperia menu, as a potential solution.
Hey Svan, damn it sucks you are getting stuck by this! Sorry!
1. Did you try posting on the NFC Ring forum?
RE "3-party app" our app never stores your details, we use the Google provided Google Auth libraries to handle the authentication process. I can personally guarantee and promise at no point do we store or use your username/pass, we just get a success/failure callback from them and act accordingly.
2. Is it possible you can use your Google Auth or is your work-around preventing you from doing this?
We're actually just beta testing an updated version of the app that forces users to enter a pin code to handle circumstances such as this. Flight mode and two-form factor auth have been an issue for us so we're taking pro-active steps to address it ASAP This doesn't help you though ;(
3. As BabelHuber asked, do you have debug mode available? If so a simple adb uninstall of the app will get you moving again.
Sorry about the delay through support, I just took another team member on today to help with the backlog, he starts tomorrow so hopefully things will move faster!
Source: I'm the inventor of the NFC Ring
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I had a the exact same problem, and luckily I found a solution just in the moment I had already decided to factory reset.
I have the stock rom/bootloader/etc installed, no root.
Well anyway, factory resetting the phone is not an easy task either, so this is what I did to get to the factory reset option in the boot loader:
I pressed power for a loooong time, then the phone shutdown, I pressed power and vol-down for a looong time.
Some kind of boot menu appeared, I chose recovery.
At first I was stuck with a red triangle with an "!" over a lieing android. I found that pressing and holding power for 1 second then, while still pressing power, pressing "vol up" for 1 second and releasing both at once, presented me a special menu, wich contains the factory reset and option ... and also a mysterious "wipe cache" option, which sparked an idea of how I might circumvent the factory reset...
I remebered, that after the last OTA update the phone was so busy after reboot, that the NFC Unlock app was loaded after a long delay, while I was already able to interact with the phone.
So I though what the heck, before factory resetting the device I might as will try wiping that damn cache and see wether that caused the delay.
After wiping the cache, I booted and Android went through all those apps, and then showed the launcher/home screen without the widgets loaded etc, for just long enough to switch off the airplane mode, before the unlock app was loaded and immediately locked the screen again.
It might have helped that I disabled the SIM Card PIN check, i don't know.
Only this time I could unlock it normally :silly:
I hope this helps
I recently took a trip to Japan, and while there I got a local sim card to avoid paying Verizon's ludicrous roaming fees. I put the card in, set my network information, and registered my phone with an intercepted web page. It told me to put my phone in airplane mode for 5 minutes so their network can finish registering my existence. I went into airplane mode, waited 5 minutes, and tried turning airplane mode off. Except nothing happened. If I pressed the airplane mode button from the power menu, the menu would just close. If I did it from the settings menu, the box would untick, but nothing would change.
Switching over to wifi I found many threads claiming there is an issue where if wifi calling gets enabled, you can no longer toggle airplane mode. It makes sense that this happened because I was using a data only sim, and I guess the phone fell back to the only option that allowed it to make phone calls. The standard solution is just to turn off wifi calling. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge there is no way to do that on this phone. I have heard that some people had this option added in 5.1.1, but I'm still running on 4.4.4 (problem for another day: my phone is hardware encrypted for work, I installed TWRP in an old attempt to get 5.0.1, and now when I try to update, it reboots into TWRP which can't load an encrypted phone).
I eventually managed to kind of fix the problem because I found some commands that forcibly toggle airplane mode via adb. Namely
adb shell settings put global airplane_mode_on 1
adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.AIRPLANE_MODE --ez state true
However, the airplane mode buttons still don't work to turn it off, and right now I can only turn it back on with adb or by removing my sim card (which forces me to reboot my phone which is extra slow because I have to re-enter my hardware encryption key).
I assume that if I could just change the wifi calling setting it would fix all of my problems. Unfortunately, every post about that I can find assumes there is a menu item for it. Does anyone know an adb command I can run, a utility I can use, or a setting file I can change to fix this field? If it helps, my phone is rooted. A simple reboot does nothing, and I would rather not have to do a factory reset if at all possible.
Thanks
Did you try a third party app to toggle airplane mode on/off ? Maybe dl one from play store and see if it uses different commands than android UI.
Can you try to run commands through a local terminal on the phone (termux for example) ?
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I recently took a trip to Japan, and while there I got a local sim card to avoid paying Verizon's ludicrous roaming fees. I put the card in, set my network information, and registered my phone with an intercepted web page. It told me to put my phone in airplane mode for 5 minutes so their network can finish registering my existence. I went into airplane mode, waited 5 minutes, and tried turning airplane mode off. Except nothing happened. If I pressed the airplane mode button from the power menu, the menu would just close. If I did it from the settings menu, the box would untick, but nothing would change.
Switching over to wifi I found many threads claiming there is an issue where if wifi calling gets enabled, you can no longer toggle airplane mode. It makes sense that this happened because I was using a data only sim, and I guess the phone fell back to the only option that allowed it to make phone calls. The standard solution is just to turn off wifi calling. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge there is no way to do that on this phone. I have heard that some people had this option added in 5.1.1, but I'm still running on 4.4.4 (problem for another day: my phone is hardware encrypted for work, I installed TWRP in an old attempt to get 5.0.1, and now when I try to update, it reboots into TWRP which can't load an encrypted phone).
I eventually managed to kind of fix the problem because I found some commands that forcibly toggle airplane mode via adb. Namely
adb shell settings put global airplane_mode_on 1
adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.AIRPLANE_MODE --ez state true
However, the airplane mode buttons still don't work to turn it off, and right now I can only turn it back on with adb or by removing my sim card (which forces me to reboot my phone which is extra slow because I have to re-enter my hardware encryption key).
I assume that if I could just change the wifi calling setting it would fix all of my problems. Unfortunately, every post about that I can find assumes there is a menu item for it. Does anyone know an adb command I can run, a utility I can use, or a setting file I can change to fix this field? If it helps, my phone is rooted. A simple reboot does nothing, and I would rather not have to do a factory reset if at all possible.
Thanks
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Don't have WiFi calling on this phone yet, only the S7 has AC 2.0 (advanced calling 2.0) which is WiFi calling capable, we have HD calling is all. Factory reset is best option.
I tried downloading a few apps to toggle airplane mode, but none of them worked.
Using a console app I was able to just run the adb commands locally to toggle airplane mode (it required root which is fine because I already had it via KingRoot). To avoid having to type in long commands by hand, I made them scripts in GScript Lite so I can just click a button to toggle it off or on. Its not as convenient as the menu toggles, but it's better than nothing.
Since you have root snoop around in the root directory and see if you find what was installed and remove it.