Hello all,
I am looing to aquire the said phone, however the seller says that they don't have the password to unlock the phone (makes me wonder), however, if I di get the phone, how would one go about 'factory resetting' the phone to default settings, ergo clearing all settings includiong passwords?
Is there a universal method?
The version is 2.3.x Gingerbread
Thanks!
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Hi,
I have an unlocked T-Mo Vibrant. I bought it from a guy from Craigslist. I didn't had the time to remove the primary account of the previous owner.I cant access the market for this reason.
What i need to do so that i can use my own Google account as the primary account?
If i do a hard reset will the phone again be locked to T-Mo?It is running the official 2.1update1.
I am currently in india, so cant ask the guy again to unlock it for me and i am simply novice in Android though i love my phone .
Thanks,
Suman
Suman_Auddy said:
Hi,
I have an unlocked T-Mo Vibrant. I bought it from a guy from Craigslist. I didn't had the time to remove the primary account of the previous owner.I cant access the market for this reason.
What i need to do so that i can use my own Google account as the primary account?
If i do a hard reset will the phone again be locked to T-Mo?It is running the official 2.1update1.
I am currently in india, so cant ask the guy again to unlock it for me and i am simply novice in Android though i love my phone .
Thanks,
Suman
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Do what I did - except I didn't need to reset the phone, but if you do, you should be ok.
Reset it to factory specs, then use the WiFi to access the market. As long as you have an account ready to register with Google. Get the SGS tool or whatever it is you need and you're set.
I'm no expert but that's how I accessed the Market.
If i reset it to factory settings the phone again wont get locked to the carrier....right?
Is there any other way other than factory resetting to remove the primary account.
i have a xperia pro android 4.04,,, and i forgotten its screen pattern and now it is asking for the google account. and after entering google account it says it is invailid.. is there any procedure.. to unlock the phone.. help would be highly appereciated..thanks
The Google account way has always worked for me even without an internet connection. Try to remember your pattern. If you absolutely cannot remember it and the Google account way isn't working at all, I think your only option is to restore it to factory settings in the bootloader or use one of the tools in your phone's forum to restore to stock. Seems to me that you're talking about the stock ICS version for your phone. If you're already rooted, have an unlocked bootloader and custom recovery installed then you can just full wipe your phone and re-flash your ROM, but I don't think you've done all that.
Hi! I have an (annoying) situation here, i recently bought a phone (bottom), the phone has been wiped of all apps, however, the last person (the seller) didn't do a FULL factory reset, so his Google account is still the primary.
I know you can remove the primary account via factory reset, but there seems to some sort of PIN/password, you dont need a pin/password to unlock the phone (from sleep), the screen asking for a pin also popes up when i tried to apply a lockscreen password
Ive emailed the seller already, but he takes a long time to respond, and i hate to wait.
i know theres specialized hardware like Riff-Box, but this phones waterproof and i dont want to break any seals
Ive also tried to do a root, but kentai/japanese phones have tight security with a small amount of hackers (link to root bellow)
Anyway, my question is that is there anyway to get that pin out of the phone/disable/remove it WITHOUT rooting or cracking the case open
eg software hacks
ive already tried the ADB methods, which require a root, and i have a copy of SDK with proper ADB drivers if anyone has any complex suggestions
Phone
-Sharp SH-06D [normal, NOT the NERV edition]
-internationally unlocked by DoCoMo
-running an unrooted 2.3.5 and (obviously) stock ROM
Thread on unlock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1735254
Software/phone ADB driver
https://sh-dev.sharp.co.jp/android/modules/driver_eng/
FYI i have full acess to everything except the reset, password, and superuser/SU
Hello,
I have a Samsung S2 (GT-I9100), the current android version on it was 4.0.2. Recently i tried to upgrade it to android 4.1.2 (I guess it is the latest supported version for this phone isnt it?).
I tried using Samsung Kies and Odin, but always end up with the phone getting locked (I get that SIM Network Unlock PIN message).
I even tried with the "Samsung S unlock" app, but it failed to unlock it.
However, when i downgraded to 4.0.3, the "Samsung S unlock" app unlocked successfully.
I have tried several things, i called my operator to ask for the PIN (but he had no idea what an "unlock PIN" is and asked me to change my phone instead ... -.-), i even tried to extract the "hash" from my data file, and i tried to crack the hash with hashcat, but it failed. I even tried to dial *#197328640#, and proceed as some tutorials has indicated, but i couldnt go beyond the "PHONE CONTROL" menu.
So i have some questions, im planing on installing cyanogenmod (android 5.1.1), would that removed the lock? (i cant try it now, i dont have the phone on me), like is the lock only for samsungs ROMs? or it is like HARD-CODED in the phone?
Another thing is, i was taking a look at where the lock functionality is located (in the source code), and i think i was able to find it in the "hidden.img" file, in an application called SecPhone.apk (odex), so my question here is, if i somehow was able to bypass this function (like always return true or something) then repack the hidden.img and install the new version, would that work? Or i shouldnt waste my time on that?
(And can anyone provide me with the source code of the Android 4.1.2? its a bit hard and annoying to navigate though the code on the browser, i tried to download it using the google repo tool, was running that under VM (as it only works on linux), and it i didnt have enough space, so it failed, and im a bit to lazzy to re-install the VM ...)
One last thing, while examining the code, i noticed that the unlock function takes 2 parameters, the PUK and the PIN, and only if the PUK is null then that function will use the PIN, so would introducing the PUK as the unlock PIN would work?
Thank you for your time ...
Hi folks,
After changing the broken screen of my Umi Z phone, I have a privacy protection code to enter at system launch. It looks like it's a security option in android. I don't remember having set that but well, it's on. The right way to unlock is to send a sms to my phone from some other trusted phone with the code #mima# but as I didn't enter any trusted phone, I can't do it !
So I've tried a factory reset as it usually works. It didn't.
Then I've reinstall the official rom, wiping all before. Still got the protection code to enter.
I can access it with adb, with flash tool and installed twrp and supersu. That let me get access to the system data and I could save all my pictures and other stuff.
But I can't use my phone and don't see any other way to override that protection code.
Any other idea ?
Thanks for all