chris_uk
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Registered: 8th Jul 03
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My mates son just had his phone stolen at school...
Samsung S5 and it had a pin number to get in.. How easy are these to bypass.?
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
Location: West Yorkshire
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Not sure but he wants to be putting device manager on his next one to find it on maps
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chris_uk
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Registered: 8th Jul 03
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its got some tracking thing on it but the phone is turned off.. as soon as its turned on it should give him its location.
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Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
Location: Derby
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There was a bug recently on android phones with pins that if you put a really long number in it let's you access the phone. Can't remember what version it affected though
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ShEp
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Registered: 9th Aug 05
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Hold home button and power up, can bypass the pin in that menu, shows on youtube how to do it.
Missus forgot her's after not using it for months, and had to bypass it when she gave it to her sister.
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Dom
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quote: Originally posted by chris_uk
How easy are these to bypass?
A factory reset via the bootloader is the only way to bypass it (i believe). No idea if tracking persists beyond this point but anyone with an Android phone should be using Cerberus installed to the System partition anyway (reflashing a ROM is the only way around it).
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