So, about a month ago I decided to factory reset my phone. I got it to factory binary mode, that was what I wanted to do because the phone kept messing up, getting hot, etc. I figured I’d reset it, download my apps back that I used a lot and everything else would be erased so I could start fresh, rather than going through every single thing in my phone and deciding what to get rid of, and what to keep.
Of corse, I have a AT&T phone that apparently makes this complicated with the Samsung factory reset protection. I got this phone from someone I've semi-lost connection with, and I did ask for the help from them, they couldn’t remember the login info (password/recovery info) for their old phone.
Basically what I’m asking here is when in factory binary mode, with FRP on, can I get back to the phones regular system? I’ve never done this before, and now I regret it more than anything. I didn’t backup my phone or anything, I’ve tried several times reading countless thin about flashing a phone and blah blah, so, does ANYONE know what I should do? I recently lost my job and buying anything isn’t an option, espicaly those websites that say you have to pay to get the FRP deleted.
Is there ANYTHING I can do a thing this point? I’ve heard with the FRP still on, that I can’t download the stock rom back or really do anything, is this true? Can anybody please help! This is my last resort, I’ve spent countless hours trying to google and read articles and this forum was the only place I saw people actually getting help and getting their problems resolved.
I have posted this once on the normal forums just found this section, so hopefully It'll be more helpful. Thanks.
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it's a Samsung Galaxy s6 edge (sm-g925a)
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Hi,
Last week I rooted my Samsung Exhibit 4G, but like any giddy noob I got a bit carried away removing the bloatware and ended up with a soft bricked phone.
For the past three days, I have scoured all of the interwebs to find recovery and flashing options for this phone only to discover that, although its a great piece of hardware, it's been largely ignored by developers. So the one promising lead was here but although I followed every step, all I have now is the "Firmware update fail" screen.
So I'm at the point that I'm ready to throw in the towel and try to return the phone, which is technically still under warranty.
My questions is: what I can expect from T-Mobile if I try to play dumb and return my phone in its current condition. Or would I be better off to send it directly to Samsung?
Any experiences with this or advice would be great.
Thanks!
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pseudoenergy said:
Hi,
Last week I rooted my Samsung Exhibit 4G, but like any giddy noob I got a bit carried away removing the bloatware and ended up with a soft bricked phone.
For the past three days, I have scoured all of the interwebs to find recovery and flashing options for this phone only to discover that, although its a great piece of hardware, it's been largely ignored by developers. So the one promising lead was here but although I followed every step, all I have now is the "Firmware update fail" screen.
So I'm at the point that I'm ready to throw in the towel and try to return the phone, which is technically still under warranty.
My questions is: what I can expect from T-Mobile if I try to play dumb and return my phone in its current condition. Or would I be better off to send it directly to Samsung?
Any experiences with this or advice would be great.
Thanks!
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If you want to exchange it with Tmobile, I'd try to exchange into a different phone then back into the first. Otherwise they'd try to start it up and say you modified it. But if you say you don't like the OS and have a fight about the $50 restocking fee, you can swap into the Lumia 710 then back into the Exhibit a day or so later.
If you soft bricked it, what kind of errors is it doing?
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If you soft bricked it, what kind of errors is it doing?
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At first, all I could get was the Samsung logo screen after boot. Then I followed the procedure above, but Odin said the flash failed. Since then, my screen will show nothing but a "firmware update failure" no matter what I do.
If I could just get it back to the Samsung screen, I might be able to play dumb but the firmware screen on it now is a dead giveaway I've been tinkering with it.
Bump...
I attached an image of what happened in Odin if anyone is interested in helping me figure out what went wrong with the flash.
BTW, my wife has exactly the same phone. What if I rooted her phone, installed Titanium and created a backup of her system files then downloaded them to my phone?
Would this work? How would I do it? If I can't come up with something soon, I predict my Exhibit is going to become the victim of a SERIOUS accident .
I believe this information should be out there for all Android users and i dont recall seeing it anywhere but i hang out here right now and thought i would share what i discovered on accident.
i reference a RAZR M here but INSERT any Android phone as far as i can tell.
***please Devs and such i am not one so ignore my possible misuse of how exactly it operates but i just wanted to share the point of this not how the Android OS operates
i had a RAZR M with ROOT and installed Avast Mobile Security (i believe many others would do this as well) and since i was root i installed it as a /System app. this as some of you may not know makes it kinda part of the OS now. this means that a Factory Reset does not remove it but instead installs it again. i will explain how i discovered this:
- had a RAZR M as mentioned and i installed Avast as /System
- you can rename the app itself to whatever you want like "fletch33" and so anyone who finds your phone wouldnt know it was a security app and try to uninstall it. this is a great feature so i renamed it.
- this will do the standard stuff like locate your device, wipe it, make it beep, etc....
- i decided to give the phone to someone else and they wouldnt want root items or anything so i did a factory reset forgetting i had installed Avast as /System so they would have a clean start with the M
- since Avast was /System it became part of the Factory Reset process and so a what i thought was a clean fresh phone actually still had Avast on it but now since it was fresh and clean there were no signs like an app to remind me i had installed it as root. i honestly forgot it was on there.
- i had selected to get notifications of where the phone is if it traveled a distance but could see it whenever i wanted with a browser login to website and although i had reset it that STILL WORKS! i am getting emails when it moves and can login and see it.
- there are no visible signs that this is on the M (insert any phone)
- in my knowledge the only way the tracking etc... would stop is if i were to ODIN or SBF or whatever the equivalent is on that particular device or i would have to re-install Avast and it would then allow me to put in my passcode and then i could uninstall it.
the moral of the story is that any used phone could have had this done and if not by accident like mine but on purpose for whatever reason.
fortunately i gave the M to a family member and i will fix it for him but it really made me think what it could be used for ....
if this has been mentioned or i am incorrect i apologize in advance but when i started getting emails about where the phone i gave away was located all the time from Avast after a Factory Reset i decided i should share this so that others might take precautions with their second hand Android device.
1. I always Odin my phone and procedure to rooting with in a few short hours of owning device.
And if not, I'm pretty sure unlocking the device will erase everything. (in a lot of my previous cases)
2. And I see nothing wrong with the previous owner being able to track me picking up his wife and taking her back to the white house to make her my First lady
Yep, first thing I would do is wipe the phone properly.
"Factory reset" is a really bad name for the process...it does nothing of the sort.
Um, makes complete sense that you can still track the device. I assumed that before you even posted it. Same way you can track devices through android device manager, moto software, etc etc.
You're forgetting a huge oversight here.......it doesn't really do much good if stealing someones phone, then wiping it, would get rid of all tracking options. Kinda defeats the purpose. Otherwise people would steal someone's phone, factory reset, then go about their merry way and you're SOL...
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Um, makes complete sense that you can still track the device. I assumed that before you even posted it. Same way you can track devices through android device manager, moto software, etc etc.
You're forgetting a huge oversight here.......it doesn't really do much good if stealing someones phone, then wiping it, would get rid of all tracking options. Kinda defeats the purpose. Otherwise people would steal someone's phone, factory reset, then go about their merry way and you're SOL...
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sure but since most Android phones dont offer a iPhone like recovery and most users dont even know what root it then to me its those people that should have concern.
i always ODIN or SBF etc.. myself if i pick up a used phone but most people woudnt even know about that.
Manufacturers should release iPhone like recovery system so that an average person can clean their phone without tech knowledge and downloading a file somewhere.
Greetings all,
I had a Razr Maxx HD for about two years. loved it. Then one day the date and time stopped syncing. I spent weeks trying to fix it, scouring the internet and tried every possible fix I could find; from fiddling with airplane mode, soft/hard resets, replaced the screen (found several people who claimed this fixed the problem) and I even went so far as to flash a Verizon ROM onto the phone I grabbed from the net. (VZW_XT926_4.1.2_9.8.1Q_62_VQW_MR-2_VQW_CFC.xml)
I've been using a backup phone for a while now but would really like my razr back. I have nothing to lose at this point so I'm willing to try anything. Assuming this is a software glitch and not a hardware problem, I would like to completely wipe out the phone. Like EVERYTHING. I don't need anyone to hold my hand but would appreciate it if someone could post some resources that I can read through/follow. Googling the topic brings up alot of info on unlocking and rooting. I feel like those are things I might want to do on a healthy phone that I just want more control over. I want to do the equivalent to my phone of what I'm familiar with on a PC. (format HDD/creating partitions/loading OS) Don't know if this is even possible with a cell phone.
Any help would be appreciated.
Edit: so my understanding of a Kernel is that it manages communications between the hardware and software. I have wondered if something went wonky with that and if I can flash a basic android kernel/OS onto my phone to see if it fixes the problem. Forgive me if I'm not using terminology right.
Hello everyone,
Few days ago I wanted to try out encrypting my samsung note 3. The process took over few hours without anything happening. I then decided the encryption failed and restartet the phone. It then asked my to reset it to factory settings, which I didn't do (yet). Unfortunatly I didn't make a backup before trying to encrypt it, and I would really like to keep the data, especially pictures.
Now is there any way I can still get the data? Or even the slightest possibility?
USB Samsung Kies, Samsung Smart Switch can't access the device.
Now is there any way to still get atleast some data?
So many people had this problem nobody can solve it, I been looking for 2 days to solve it.
Please help me I don't want to lose my pictures from last 4 years. :crying:
Thank you!
I can pay 100$ if somebody can help me with this
It really doesn't work the way everyone says it should. I was trying to unlock the bootloader on my phone, and I made sure to download firmware for the phone that matched the model number. It was a Lumia 920 model RM-820 from AT&T, and the firmware I used was supposedly designed for that phone. The filename of the firmware I found was RM820_3051.50009.1425.2001_RETAIL_nam_usa_100_01_443332_prd_signed.ffu
Ever since I flashed it, it's been bringing up a frowning face and rebooting itself. I've been told to use the WDRT tool, but it won't recognize the phone no matter what I do. It keeps searching for the device and never finding it, no matter how many times I reset the phone or whether I pull up the screen with the gear and the lightning bolt by using volume up. When I use the screen with a gear and lightning bolt, the software tries to detect something, but it never gets any further than the "please wait" screen. Anything other than that mode completely fails to detect anything.
It's very difficult to find information on this problem, because a lot of the FAQs and guides are really old and full of dead links. I don't have any kind of real background in this, and I struggled to make sense of anything I was reading about this. I'm really kind of a moron when it comes to phones, and I was a little overconfident because I know what I'm doing with PCs. I really hate how phones obfuscate all the details, won't tell you what's going on, turn your device into a brick if you make one mistake, and make it so hard to do anything with a device other than what the manufacturer intended.
In all honesty, it's very likely that if I don't get this thing fixed, I'll probably end up putting my SIM card into a TracPhone or similar device for a couple months until I can afford a new phone. Could someone help out a total moron? Please?
EDIT: Well, you can actually go ahead and close this thread... I don't know what happened, but apparently my Mom was able to fix it. The procedure failed on my desktop PC, my Surface Book, and my old laptop... but my Mom tried to use her laptop, and somehow it worked. I wasn't even watching her, so I have no idea how, though. And she doesn't know anything about computers, but she somehow did in 10 minutes what I couldn't do in 2 days.
athenian200 said:
It really doesn't work the way everyone says it should. I was trying to unlock the bootloader on my phone, and I made sure to download firmware for the phone that matched the model number. It was a Lumia 920 model RM-820 from AT&T, and the firmware I used was supposedly designed for that phone. The filename of the firmware I found was RM820_3051.50009.1425.2001_RETAIL_nam_usa_100_01_443332_prd_signed.ffu
Ever since I flashed it, it's been bringing up a frowning face and rebooting itself. I've been told to use the WDRT tool, but it won't recognize the phone no matter what I do. It keeps searching for the device and never finding it, no matter how many times I reset the phone or whether I pull up the screen with the gear and the lightning bolt by using volume up. When I use the screen with a gear and lightning bolt, the software tries to detect something, but it never gets any further than the "please wait" screen. Anything other than that mode completely fails to detect anything.
It's very difficult to find information on this problem, because a lot of the FAQs and guides are really old and full of dead links. I don't have any kind of real background in this, and I struggled to make sense of anything I was reading about this. I'm really kind of a moron when it comes to phones, and I was a little overconfident because I know what I'm doing with PCs. I really hate how phones obfuscate all the details, won't tell you what's going on, turn your device into a brick if you make one mistake, and make it so hard to do anything with a device other than what the manufacturer intended.
In all honesty, it's very likely that if I don't get this thing fixed, I'll probably end up putting my SIM card into a TracPhone or similar device for a couple months until I can afford a new phone. Could someone help out a total moron? Please?
EDIT: Well, you can actually go ahead and close this thread... I don't know what happened, but apparently my Mom was able to fix it. The procedure failed on my desktop PC, my Surface Book, and my old laptop... but my Mom tried to use her laptop, and somehow it worked. I wasn't even watching her, so I have no idea how, though. And she doesn't know anything about computers, but she somehow did in 10 minutes what I couldn't do in 2 days.
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I've had a similar problem with mine, bootloader unlock process didnt finish correctly and my Lumia 920 won't switch on, respond to Soft/Hard resets or respond to connections to the computer. WDRT and WPInternals no longer detect the device at all.
I hope someone knows how to sort this out