I dont have a verizon sim card anymore since we switched to AT&T, and i was wondering since i reset my phone is there anyway i can bypass the activation since i dont have a verizon sim card? I just want to use the phone like one would use an ipod.
Im running 4.0.4.
Thanks!
Mitch21236 said:
I dont have a verizon sim card anymore since we switched to AT&T, and i was wondering since i reset my phone is there anyway i can bypass the activation since i dont have a verizon sim card? I just want to use the phone like one would use an ipod.
Im running 4.0.4.
Thanks!
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Hi, i hard reset my phone and it now takes me the verizon setup screen. I don't have verizon service but have the sim. I can't seem to bypass this screen. Any help on this will help a lot.
UPDATE: Found a way to by pass the screen to get everything working.
1.Boot phone and get to the setup screen.
2. Tap the lower left side of the screen right above the "Emergency Call" option. Tap it once.
3. Then tap the lower right corner of the screen right above the "Next". Tap it once.
4. Repeat the taps in 3 and 4 once more time.
5. Press volume up button and you should be in the test mode.
If you have already unlocked you network, everything should work fine after you follow the process.
Hope this helps anyone who does a hard reset for some reason and wants to go back.
Cheers
found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2078615&page=14
Bypass Activation for Samsung Stratosphere II
Here are some changes to do so. Tested and working fine
UPDATE: Found a way to by pass the screen to get everything working.
1.Boot phone and get to the setup screen.
2. Tap the lower left side of the screen right above the "Emergency Call" option. Tap it once.
3. Then tap the lower right corner of the screen right above the "Next". Tap it once.
4. Repeat the taps in 2 and 3 once more time.
5. Press volume up button and you should be in the test mode.
6. If not need to restart the phone and then start from step 2
If you have already unlocked you network, everything should work fine after you follow the process.
Hope this helps anyone who does a hard reset for some reason and wants to go back.
Cheers :laugh:
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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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So, this is my problem.
I turned on TalkBack on my Samsung Galaxy S3 then locked the screen and now I can't unlock my phone to turn it back off. It just continues to read everything from locked screen. My SIM card is locked and it tells me there is no service. I pulled out battery several times but it boots and won't let me go any further than locked screen and TalkBack starts reading everything out loud again. Please help me fix it
Update: I successfully unlocked SIM card but it won't let me go any further than locked screen again.
P.S. Excuse me if I misspell anything, english is not my mother language.
Second Update: I've noticed "Safe Mode" sign in lower left corner. Does it mean anything?
Third Update: I figuered out I need to slide two fingers at the same time to unlock it and move around so I managed to ge to settings and turn off talkback
happened to me as well
I noticed the "Safe Mode" as well.
Happened to me in the airport after I let some old lady call someone in a language I couldn't understand, so I had couple of theories, including the NSA controlling my phone...
Every time I restarted, I had seconds to use the touch screen! that's it.
phone being protected by a pin, meant I couldn't really do anything, but keep restarting.
There was a logo on the top left tray (running apps) that I didn't recognize, which disappeared after a second.
It took at least an hour for it to go back, many restarts, battery out & in, and any trick/buttons combinations that I know in the GS3.
Not sure what really solved it in the end...if it happen again, I am going back to square one.
I really needed to use the internet, but at least, this passed the time until the delayed flight finally came...
happened again. Airport again
Anyone has any idea?
Just got an amazing deal on Razr. It does have a clean ESN, but unfortunately, I do not have Verizon as a carrier, but I was hoping to use this as an "mp3" player and such. Root it, have fun with it, etc.
Right now, when I power on, it comes to the "Emergency call" screen, and says "No Service" at the bottom. The previous owner did leave an old SIM in it. When the SIM is removed it goes to the same screen when powered on.
I have read around (yes, I did try finding help around the web before I came here and asked) that the activation screen can be skipped and it'll work without a SIM.
When I try to go into the recovery (Vol down + power) to hard reset, the physical volume buttons don't work to scroll to the options, nor does volume up work to select options. Just ends up resetting the phone after the timeout.
I have looked everywhere for a workaround or fix for this. Couldn't find much on the recovery part of it.
Stock ROM and unrooted (told by previous owner)
HELP?
So i bought a Samsung Mega from ebay and seemed everything was ok. However a day or 2 later i noticed i was not able to make a call. I went and did a reset and everything was fine. I have now noticed this is a recurring problem. out of no where the network stops working and i cant make any out going calls or receive any. The bar on the phone still shows a small bar like there is a network. I also noticed that when i make a call with the phone, the screen shuts off automatically. i press the power button to get it back up and when i try to touch anything on the screen it attempts to pull down the drop down menu. It pulls it down like 2 inches and i have to mess with for the actual touch commands for it to work. as soon as i hit the button to call it shuts off. This device is already rooted and i dont know if something done to the phone has made it wonky. I dont really care about the root and if there is way to fix it i would like to hear any suggestions. this is running android version 4.2.2 kernel version 3.4.0-2052936. the Mega model is SGH-I527. Thx
After allowing to download a security update a couple of days ago, my watch went into a boot loop. It would get up to the screen with the time and the colorful spinning circles, run for a bit, then turn off.
I can enter fastboot, which has a message that the battery is low, and to connect a USB data cable (don't believe that's possible), status: 0.
I can also enter recovery. However, the instructions say that I should swipe up on the image of the dead Android. This doesn't work at this point, but a long press of the physical button does. So I enter recovery, and see my list of options. Again, I'm supposed to be able to swipe up and down to scroll through the list, and swipe left and right to select an item. No swiping works. Both a short and a long press just select the item in recovery, and the only item I can select at that point is to reboot.
After draining the battery as much as possible, to the point that I can't even enter fastboot without charging, I powered it on, and instead of displaying the time and spinning circles, it's just the spinning circles, but I think I have the same problem. It was running that for at least 20min and never got past, which is longer than even a first boot after factory reset.
Any thoughts on how to navigate in recovery or factory reset another way?
Same situation in here, but I solved it by pressing power button for 10 seconds, then the watch reloaded and everything went fine.
I have the same problem, but I get to the factory default option and back to the initial loop
Did anyone fix this?
Motorola have said they'll take my watch in for repair, but as I'm outside the 1yr warranty, they'll charge me. Also, they don't know the cost of the repair, so I'm basically giving my watch away allowing myself to be held to ransom for whatever price they seem fit.
Same here but its booting showing we got key update and I can't navigate to any side, even though on recovery mode same touchscreen not working. all was ok before this update...
ITMASTER said:
Same here but its booting showing we got key update and I can't navigate to any side, even though on recovery mode same touchscreen not working. all was ok before this update...
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There might be a possibility that your recovery mode is working, but you have to navigate with two fingers or swipe multiple times to get from one to the next entry. I thought that my touch is broken, but its just a bad engineered handling.
I hope this helps
Cheers
Rezoran said:
There might be a possibility that your recovery mode is working, but you have to navigate with two fingers or swipe multiple times to get from one to the next entry. I thought that my touch is broken, but its just a bad engineered handling.
I hope this helps
Cheers
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Yes Same here I also managed to do that !!
But anyway its not working normal and its not an system update..as after full reset you get back... this is just wear os update which is not coming back to my watch after I have reset it, I got old interface and security patch stays on 2017 April so our watch is lost support for updates
Is there a way to report Motorola support team that with this update they make watch useless?
You can get the touch to work in recovery. It's just very buggy...
Swipe down (might be up, not quite sure anymore) like a maniac as soon as you select recovery mode and don't stop for about a minute. You might have to press the button to get rid of the android symbol. But the touchscreen will suddenly start working normally allowing you to navigate the recovery. Might take you a few tries, but it does work.
Good luck.