So I managed to track down a Prime at BestBuy and I just bought it. I came to university, opened it up and started setup. When it got to the wifi network section I connected to my university's wifi successfully and then it asked me for my google account which i input but then i got a message that there was no data connection. It was then that I remembered that in order to gain internet access in my university i have to input my student info on a page (think starbucks that you can connect but you dont get internet access until you accept some agreement on their page). However in the setup i have no way of doing this and im stuck in the setup. Whenever i hit back (so i could skip the google account part) what it does is try to login to google servers again, and of course i keep getting the same "no connection" message. I cant get out of this "loop".
Could anyone help?
Skip the Google account, open the browser, and sign in to gain access. Then go to Settings, Accounts, and add your Gmail from there.
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that is what i wanted to do once i realized i had to sign in. when it asked me for the google account i had 3 options "use existing" "create new" "skip". At first i chose "use existing" and the rest is what i explained in my original post. However i can no longer go back to this menu so i can choose "skip". Whenever i hit back, it tries to login to google again. it doesnt go back to initial page where i could skip...
Agreed. Skip the account setup, fire up your browser and register on the network and then setup your google account.
Also, not to be a nag, but instead of the vague "someone please help" title, it would have been better to put some detail in there.
tush said:
Agreed. Skip the account setup, fire up your browser and register on the network and then setup your google account.
Also, not to be a nag, but instead of the vague "someone please help" title, it would have been better to put some detail in there.
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About the first, please see my reply before yours.
About the second, I agree, I'm sorry.
luisrodg said:
that is what i wanted to do once i realized i had to sign in. when it asked me for the google account i had 3 options "use existing" "create new" "skip". At first i chose "use existing" and the rest is what i explained in my original post. However i can no longer go back to this menu so i can choose "skip". Whenever i hit back, it tries to login to google again. it doesnt go back to initial page where i could skip...
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if its not letting you get back to the page to skip, then just reboot the tablet or factory reset to start process over it. or try a soft reset before the factory reset. soft reset is sticking a paper clip into the hole on the volume rocker side. right underneath the micro SD card slot. press until it clicks then you should see it reset. then hopefully it'll let you start the process all over again so you can log your student info in first. then once connected, you can always add your Google info in afterwards.
goodluck!
Removed... Demandarin beat me to the post
Try this too, it was offered to me by Aznmode to try when my prime screen stayed black... This should factory reset your device. I coulnt see the screen so I dont know if it works.
1. Hold volume down then press and hold power.
2. When you feel it vibrate (this could take up to 10 seconds if the tablet was already on) wait another 5 seconds and then release both buttons.
3. After you release wait another 5 seconds (dont wait too long here or it will reboot on its own if you dont select anything after about 10 seconds) then press volume down 1 time and volume up 2 times.
4. The tablet will factory wipe and after another 10 seconds it will reboot.
I turned it off, turned it back on and setup began from the beginning. This time I chose "skip" etc. All good.
Thanks all.
Hahahaha, guess that was easier
You could also just setup your prime at home wifi where you need not login...
TransformerPrime said:
You could also just setup your prime at home wifi where you need not login...
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From his post he is away from home and at his university, so, it could be awhile before he gets back home.
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So I went into my setting to see if the update happened to be out but when I clicked the "check for update" button it didn't even have a pop up to let me check or even tell me that my device is up to date. Any thoughts on why this is?
Make sure .....
A) you setup a Samsung acct on your settings, accounts and sync
B) connected to a wifi with full open internet. My work wifi sometimes rejects email and some work protocols.
C) reboot your tab just incase a task killer or something killed a dependant process for the update or the OS is being querky.
I tried update and got nothing. Doubt anything will be on until at least midnight pacific ... but who knows where the US servers are for the Wifi tabs.
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All that is set up correctly it's like the service isn't running or something. When I click check for updates it acts as though I never clicked it no pop up or anything.
Something to try, no guarantee: go to the app info for the app "Google Play services", go into Storage and clear the cache....do a restart of the device and try again. If it works I cannot tell you why (and I have asked Android support for that type of help...no really good answer).
Hello everyone,
we got this cheap tablet for my niece as a Christmas gift. She put a password on it and now she doesnt remember the password. It is connected to one of my gmail accounts, but I cant even get the tablet to give me an option to bypass device password via my gmail and password.
I have attempted to use the reset button to factory reset the device, but every time it reboots it asks for the password again.
I am about to throw the thing in the trash and tell my niece "sorry, you borked it, too bad so sad" but I thought I would try here before I did that.
Thanks in advance!
hamm81 said:
Hello everyone,
we got this cheap tablet for my niece as a Christmas gift. She put a password on it and now she doesnt remember the password. It is connected to one of my gmail accounts, but I cant even get the tablet to give me an option to bypass device password via my gmail and password.
I have attempted to use the reset button to factory reset the device, but every time it reboots it asks for the password again.
I am about to throw the thing in the trash and tell my niece "sorry, you borked it, too bad so sad" but I thought I would try here before I did that.
Thanks in advance!
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I kept messing with it, and after trying the power + volume down process about 25 times I finally got it to take and entered into recovery. It didnt work at all the first bunch of times I tried it, basically this thing is annoying.
Thank you!
Factory Reset Sophix Tablet that works
hamm81 said:
I kept messing with it, and after trying the power + volume down process about 25 times I finally got it to take and entered into recovery. It didnt work at all the first bunch of times I tried it, basically this thing is annoying.
Thank you!
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So I was having the same problem. It turns out that you do not press the volume up button along with the power button, but instead press the volume button in the middle along with the power button. Found that on a you tube video.
That resets the device to factory settings.
Note: If you have a memory card in the device, take it out before you start all this process so it doesn't lose data.
Sophix Tablet is made by digix media but I didn't find their website helpful to reset the password. Their website had me downloading zip files to my computer, etc. Very lengthy and time consuming.
Hope this helps someone else!
Any possible workarounds for getting off the retrieve pattern lock if you have forgotten a gmail acct? Done doing factory reset via cwm and tried installing stock rom and kernel but it always ends the same way. With customs, I always get a bootloop.
izuall187 said:
Any possible workarounds for getting off the retrieve pattern lock if you have forgotten a gmail acct? Done doing factory reset via cwm and tried installing stock rom and kernel but it always ends the same way. With customs, I always get a bootloop.
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i seems an answer is in the post a few below yours::
Samsung Galaxy SCH-i500 how to bypass "Login with google account" screen?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2182268
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1. Completely power off and power on your Galaxy-S phone.
2. Right after you pass the Galaxy-S and just before the Verizon Wireless logo video ends, immediately tap on the home button extremely fast and repeatedly (at least 4-5 times per second). If the Emergency Call button pops up, click that every now and then (3-5 times) but keep tapping on the home button. During this process your phone may flash the password screen or keypad screen just a few times and your phone will seem to be lagging due to the tapping.
3. Keep tapping until you see your Android home buttons stay steady at the bottom. Voila, you’re in your phone! If the emergency keypad constantly shows up or if it shows the Google account screen constantly, you have failed. The success rate can be around 15-50% so keep trying until it works. (You may want to grab a young phone-savvy guy or girl to do it if your fingers are too slow)
4. Find and run the Settings App and go to Accounts & Sync.
5. Under Manage Accounts, remove all accounts except your Google account.
6. Press your power button off and on and enter your correct Google account information.
7. It will ask for a new security pattern. Enter it twice and you are done!
This solution worked for me. If it does for you, please leave a comment with your carrier and phone model to let others know that it worked!
... but worked just fine.
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will try this method. will keep you posted if successful or not.
managed to get in. but now theres a new one. somehowmthe owner had a tw launcher installed and im'm stuck on fc error message. if i try to close it, i'm back on the gmail acct retrieval. hmmmmm.....
Looks to me that o won't he able to do the above steps. Hands are too slow. Also found out that it's like a common issue to the sgs stock recovery. Used odin and flashed cwm 2.5.1.x instead amd wipe from there. Worked like a charm.
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Hello, I cannot access my phone at all and it is driving me insane
Some context, a lot of Moto X Play phones have this thing where once the internal storage gets full, the phone goes crazy, the navigation buttons don't work, you can't swipe down for the notification bar, you can't receive or make calls.
I read of a fix that involved using Nova launcher, and using the Activities widget to link SetupWizardTestActivity which opens the Set up wizard and usually fixes the phone
However I've stupidly let my phone get full again and this method has stopped working for me. I am completely stuck in the phone 'welcome' setup loop and cannot get into my phone at all.
What happens is I press next once selecting my language, then I get onto the Wifi setup page which can only be skipped if you have a mobile connection working. This setup process cannot be done with no connection. If I press skip/have a SIM in, it gives me the privacy page which I accept, then puts me on the Add your Google account page. Now if I type in my account, it tells me 'This account already exists on your device'. If I try to make a new one, it leads me through some pages and eventually tells me I must sign in with the account I used when I first set up the phone, which it does not let me.
If I skip the Google account setup page, it just loops me back onto the Privacy page.
I've tried it in safe mode, I've tried wiping the cache partition, I'm not factory resetting the phone.
Thanks to whoever can help me.
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Hello, I cannot access my phone at all and it is driving me insane
Some context, a lot of Moto X Play phones have this thing where once the internal storage gets full, the phone goes crazy, the navigation buttons don't work, you can't swipe down for the notification bar, you can't receive or make calls.
I read of a fix that involved using Nova launcher, and using the Activities widget to link SetupWizardTestActivity which opens the Set up wizard and usually fixes the phone
However I've stupidly let my phone get full again and this method has stopped working for me. I am completely stuck in the phone 'welcome' setup loop and cannot get into my phone at all.
What happens is I press next once selecting my language, then I get onto the Wifi setup page which can only be skipped if you have a mobile connection working. This setup process cannot be done with no connection. If I press skip/have a SIM in, it gives me the privacy page which I accept, then puts me on the Add your Google account page. Now if I type in my account, it tells me 'This account already exists on your device'. If I try to make a new one, it leads me through some pages and eventually tells me I must sign in with the account I used when I first set up the phone, which it does not let me.
If I skip the Google account setup page, it just loops me back onto the Privacy page.
I've tried it in safe mode, I've tried wiping the cache partition, I'm not factory resetting the phone.
Thanks to whoever can help me.
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Why don't you take a backup using adb? After that you can factory reset your phone.
Use a external SD card as your default write disk after reset.
It keeps asking for the original email it was setup with. I cant set it up to any email. I am able to get it to do a verification but it wont take the email or password. I have been working at this for weeks now. Well not 24/7. It is active with my ATT sim card in the phone. I even try the accessibility settings but the phone wants the original account that it was used with. Well I don't remember it. I have a verizon email account it does accept but then it reverts to adding a google account. I have what I think is my google account but it doesn't seem to like it for some reason. I would do accessibility and then hold the home button and it tells me to setup account. I haven't tried rooting. If I can login to the phone I can add a new google account but I'm also unable to add a friends it just wants whatever was in it. The phone is my wife's and i just want it for emergencies and don't want to go buy a new one from ATT. The phone is basically brand new.
Sorry but I'm unable to post this in the LG forum. If I root the phone will it help me or can I access my google account and somewhere it will allow me to bypass this to get to the user screen. like I do have a gmail address and I maybe able to access the phone but my wife claims she doesn't remember setting one up? Any help is appreciated. I also went to ATT and of course they just wanted to reset well restore or wipe it clean. They didnt think to disable find my phone or whatever is stopping me here.
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Power on to 'Welcome' screen. Press +hold 'Emergency Call' while repeatedly tapping 'Arrow', this will get you to the home screen. You're in. 1)Deactivate 'Device Administrator' 2) clear data+cache+ DISABLE GPSERVICES and GPSTORE, 3)do a Factory Reset from within the phone. This works for Android v.7.
For Android v.6- Power on + go to 'WiFi screen', with WiFi ON tap ' + add network' this pulls up the keyboard. On 'Keyboard' press 'gear icon' and swipe up to the letter 'S' . Above the keyboard a 'gear icon' next to the word 'Settings' pops up. Tap this. You're in. 1) Deactivate 'Device Administrator' 2)clear data+cache+DISABLE GPSERVICES and GPSTORE, 3) do a Factory Reset from within the phone.