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[Q] resting my m7 from the stock recovery doesn't work

hi folks...
I have tried to rest my m7 verizon to the factory state to get rid of the pin code screen that pop up every time I run my mobile the process of resting to factory it goes smooth and when I restart my phone nothing happened it is still show the enter pin to unlock I'm s-on not rooted and my bootloader locked... any help

ahmedj31 said:
hi folks...
I have tried to rest my m7 verizon to the factory state to get rid of the pin code screen that pop up every time I run my mobile the process of resting to factory it goes smooth and when I restart my phone nothing happened it is still show the enter pin to unlock I'm s-on not rooted and my bootloader locked... any help
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have you tried a factory reset from the hboot screen?
Normally the default pin for the phone with be the last 4 of the phone number.

ahmedj31 said:
hi folks...
I have tried to rest my m7 verizon to the factory state to get rid of the pin code screen that pop up every time I run my mobile the process of resting to factory it goes smooth and when I restart my phone nothing happened it is still show the enter pin to unlock I'm s-on not rooted and my bootloader locked... any help
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Try to give the wrong answer continuously until the phone is either frozen or locked for several seconds.
After that you should find a Forget Password / Pattern button, press this button and it should bring you to a screen to input your Google account username or password (Gmail account).
This step should bypass or unlock your forgotten security protection on your HTC ONE M7.
I have never used password or pin protection, so I cannot guarantee the results.
I hope that works for you, as I do not know why a factory reset wouldn't, unless it's recognizing the phone by your number and continuing to lock you out even after a hard reset.
I wish you luck! :good:

synisterwolf said:
have you tried a factory reset from the hboot screen?
Normally the default pin for the phone with be the last 4 of the phone number.
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thx for you're kind reply
this mobile I have bought from eBay with this problem pin code and I don't even know the phone number and yes I tried to factory reset from the hboot screen and it finish with no problems and after restart the mobile it's the same Enter pin code

ahmedj31 said:
thx for you're kind reply
this mobile I have bought from eBay with this problem pin code and I don't even know the phone number and yes I tried to factory reset from the hboot screen and it finish with no problems and after restart the mobile it's the same Enter pin code
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try what @santod040 posted and report back.

synisterwolf said:
try what @santod040 posted and report back.
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thx bro I already tried to give the wrong answer more than 100 times and it goes to reset screen after 10 times and make reset successfully and when it done and reboots it goes back as if nothing happened bloody pin screen again

ahmedj31 said:
thx bro I already tried to give the wrong answer more than 100 times and it goes to reset screen after 10 times and make reset successfully and when it done and reboots it goes back as if nothing happened bloody pin screen again
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p. s as I mentioned in the above comments I don't have the Gmail account cos I got this mobile from eBay and I don't care about saving any data from the previous owner

ahmedj31 said:
p. s as I mentioned in the above comments I don't have the Gmail account cos I got this mobile from eBay and I don't care about saving any data from the previous owner
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If you were locked out from the moment you bought it, I would request a refund.
Only way it will get unlocked at this point, is by the person who locked it, sounds like.
It's possible that if it came to you this way, it might even be stolen.
Not what you wanna hear. But that's what I would do.
That's if it did in fact come to you this way.
If not, then you should be able to remember your pin.
Really don't know if there's much that anyone else can suggest.

santod040 said:
If you were locked out from the moment you bought it, I would request a refund.
Only way it will get unlocked at this point, is by the person who locked it, sounds like.
It's possible that if it came to you this way, it might even be stolen.
Not what you wanna hear. But that's what I would do.
That's if it did in fact come to you this way.
If not, then you should be able to remember your pin.
Really don't know if there's much that anyone else can suggest.
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thx bro I guess you're right maybe it's stolen the problem there is no refund for it. one more thing I couldn't figure it out why it doesn't make factory reset even it shows me that it wipes every thing and it shows me the installation of the new Verizon S. we
I wonder why.... thx again bro

ahmedj31 said:
p. s as I mentioned in the above comments I don't have the Gmail account cos I got this mobile from eBay and I don't care about saving any data from the previous owner
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Did you see if adb is working ? What version of android ?
Thx Josh

ahmedj31 said:
thx bro I guess you're right maybe it's stolen the problem there is no refund for it. one more thing I couldn't figure it out why it doesn't make factory reset even it shows me that it wipes every thing and it shows me the installation of the new Verizon S. we
I wonder why.... thx again bro
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Because a security lock on a device isn't intended to be simply bypassed by wiping the device.
That would be way too easy for thieves.

lj50036 said:
Did you see if adb is working ? What version of android ?
Thx Josh
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adb is working... the software is kk and I'm s.off and bootloader is locked

ahmedj31 said:
adb is working... the software is kk and I'm s.off and bootloader is locked
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What is the output of this command .....
Code:
adb shell mount
Thx Josh

ahmedj31 said:
thx bro I guess you're right maybe it's stolen the problem there is no refund for it. one more thing I couldn't figure it out why it doesn't make factory reset even it shows me that it wipes every thing and it shows me the installation of the new Verizon S. we
I wonder why.... thx again bro
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If you bought it on ebay then you should contact the seller. If you do not get any help from the seller then open a case against the seller and ebay will help you to resolve the situation. If you receive an item bought on ebay that was not as described then you have options.
The only other thing I would suggest is to go to a verizon store and see if they might have way to bypass the password.

[Q] Cannot hard reset device, McAfee Mobile keeps asking for PIN, phone restarts

Hello, this is my first post so forgive me if I'm in the wrong area. Let me try to explain where I'm at. I purchased an HTC6500LVW from Craigslist that was restarting randomly. I figured if it boots up and works, even for a little while, I could find a solution on XDA to fix it. Well, I've tried to reset the phone a few different ways with no luck and even tried to use a tested working EXE version of the last RUU for the the verizon m7 (4.4.3) (from one of dottat's posts). The phone is locked, S-on, not rooted. The phone has a free version of McAfee Mobile app on it that is set up for security. I have never dealt with McAfee and I think their app is the cause of my problem. I can unlock the device with the McAfee PIN but it keeps prompting every few minutes. I can go into Device Administrator and revoke McAfee's permission and then uninstall the app. Then I do a factory reset and it doesn't work. Every time the phone reboots it ends up right back where I started with none of my changes saved and the McAfee app back on it with its crazy security PIN prompts. It says something about NV files when it's trying to do a factory reset. Is that some sort of security file that restores it back to where I started?
How particular is this phone when it comes to cables? I don't have original HTC data cable.

spyderbear said:
Hello, this is my first post so forgive me if I'm in the wrong area. Let me try to explain where I'm at. I purchased an HTC6500LVW from Craigslist that was restarting randomly. I figured if it boots up and works, even for a little while, I could find a solution on XDA to fix it. Well, I've tried to reset the phone a few different ways with no luck and even tried to use a tested working EXE version of the last RUU for the the verizon m7 (4.4.3) (from one of dottat's posts). The phone is locked, S-on, not rooted. The phone has a free version of McAfee Mobile app on it that is set up for security. I have never dealt with McAfee and I think their app is the cause of my problem. I can unlock the device with the McAfee PIN but it keeps prompting every few minutes. I can go into Device Administrator and revoke McAfee's permission and then uninstall the app. Then I do a factory reset and it doesn't work. Every time the phone reboots it ends up right back where I started with none of my changes saved and the McAfee app back on it with its crazy security PIN prompts. It says something about NV files when it's trying to do a factory reset. Is that some sort of security file that restores it back to where I started?
How particular is this phone when it comes to cables? I don't have original HTC data cable.
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Press and hold power + volume - till you boot into Hboot. from there do a factory reset.

synisterwolf said:
Press and hold power + volume - till you boot into Hboot. from there do a factory reset.
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I've tried that. It boots up the same.

spyderbear said:
I've tried that. It boots up the same.
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Well, I've confirmed with Verizon that McAfee doesn't come pre-installed. I talked to HTC and they were stumped. The rep said that I could send it in for a new board to the tune of $230 USD. However, HTC is sending me a data cable. I did an online chat with McAfee tech support (and I use the term loosely) and they said they would have to escalate me to a senior technician.

When I try to wipe cache partition it says:
Mount SDCARD failed 1 times
Mount SDCARD failed 2 times
Mount SDCARD failed 3 times
Mount SDCARD failed 4 times
Mount SDCARD failed 5 times
Can not mount SD Card.(No such device)
Write host_mode:0 done
Here's what it says when I try to perform a hard reset.
--Wiping data...
Restore NV for Verizon. . .
Formatting /data. . .
Backup Data Preload
Backup CW Package
Restore Data Preload
Restore CW Package
Formatting /cache. . .
Data wipe complete.
Write host_mode:0 done
Does that look correct? Because it returns to right where I left it. Same junk is still on phone from previous owner.

I talked with Senior Technician from McAfee this morning. He asked me to put phone in safe mode to uninstall third party apps (theirs). The phone would not enter safe mode by holding power button on top and then long pressing power off option and selecting to restart in safe mode. He told me if it couldn't enter safe mode he couldn't help me and I would need to contact HTC (again).
So... I call HTC and speak with a rep about entering safe mode. He has me go into power setting and uncheck fastboot then power phone down and then restart but hold volume down key as soon as I see HTC logo on boot and release after it completes boot. Now it enters safe mode.
I deactivate admin rights for McAfee and uninstall app. I restart phone in normal mode - McAfee is back. I repeat but perform factory reset through settings this time - same problem. I repeat again but perform hard reset through factory recovery - nothing.
Still dead in the water.

Is encryption checked in the security settings?

disconnecktie said:
Is encryption checked in the security settings?
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I looked at this last night... the pone acts like it's write protected for every partition on the phone. No form of reset while s-on works. Phone won't s-off either because nothing you change on the phone persists after a reboot.

dottat said:
I looked at this last night... the pone acts like it's write protected for every partition on the phone. No form of reset while s-on works. Phone won't s-off either because nothing you change on the phone persists after a reboot.
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Wow that's crazy. I wonder if maybe they had it encrypted before they sold it to him and then did a reset which yielded the same results he keeps having. I don't know any other way the entire phone could be write protected unless it was encrypted or a script running on boot that causes it.

disconnecktie said:
Wow that's crazy. I wonder if maybe they had it encrypted before they sold it to him and then did a reset which yielded the same results he keeps having. I don't know any other way the entire phone could be write protected unless it was encrypted or a script running on boot that causes it.
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with emmc you can never tell... hell.. i woke up this am to a text/hangout message (not sure which)... unlocked my phone (vzwM8) and it froze. Started rebooting. Would reboot in recovery/os/you name it. Seems overnight my own personal phone decided to fry it's internal EMMC. sucks

spyderbear said:
Hello, this is my first post so forgive me if I'm in the wrong area. Let me try to explain where I'm at. I purchased an HTC6500LVW from Craigslist that was restarting randomly. I figured if it boots up and works, even for a little while, I could find a solution on XDA to fix it. Well, I've tried to reset the phone a few different ways with no luck and even tried to use a tested working EXE version of the last RUU for the the verizon m7 (4.4.3) (from one of dottat's posts). The phone is locked, S-on, not rooted. The phone has a free version of McAfee Mobile app on it that is set up for security. I have never dealt with McAfee and I think their app is the cause of my problem. I can unlock the device with the McAfee PIN but it keeps prompting every few minutes. I can go into Device Administrator and revoke McAfee's permission and then uninstall the app. Then I do a factory reset and it doesn't work. Every time the phone reboots it ends up right back where I started with none of my changes saved and the McAfee app back on it with its crazy security PIN prompts. It says something about NV files when it's trying to do a factory reset. Is that some sort of security file that restores it back to where I started?
How particular is this phone when it comes to cables? I don't have original HTC data cable.
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Hey did you ever fix this I have same exact issue bought an htc one m8 off ebay and cannot reset it. When I "reset" it still has previous owner info. Any help is truly appreciated
Sent from my LG-MS323 using Tapatalk

OneShotGoGetter said:
Hey did you ever fix this I have same exact issue bought an htc one m8 off ebay and cannot reset it. When I "reset" it still has previous owner info. Any help is truly appreciated
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Boot to fastboot and do
Fastboot oem task 28
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dottat said:
Boot to fastboot and do
Fastboot oem task 28
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That didn't work, it weird because my phone is like the OPs phone. Except the phone will bootloop kinda like it will either load OS for like 5-20 sec and then reboot over and over or just straight bootloop. I get same results when trying to factory restore. Also if it does go to os for the 5-20 sec then like almost every app forecloses. I tried safe mode as well same situation. Also very weird is trying to use the rru and attempting to unlock bootloader. I managed after days of frustration to get it to fastbootusb but when I run rru it says Waiting for bootloader (I was already in fastbootusb) then it reboots the phone and goes to bootloop losing connection resulting in fail of umbrick. By the way it says like USB device unknown blah blah blah it malfunctioned. Then the same reboot situation happened when trying to unlock bootloader. Any ideas how to get this phone going?
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Mcafee Pin Lock Code after Factory Reset on Lg 4g
Would anyone happen to know besides 000000 &/ 123456 as a pin unlock code for and Lg 4G after it has been factory reset and mcafee mobile security has a lock code on there and I cannot figure out the pin to unlock it...it only gives 10 tries before locking me out for an hour then..god only knows what...if anyone may know what that pin unlock code may be could you pleeeeeeease e-mail me at [email protected] with the code to unlock this phone I bought from someone I cant get ahold of for $150 that I cant use!! GRRRR... Any help/assistance in getting this code or pointing me in the right direction to get it would be greatly appreciated...please & Thank You in advance

H790 stuck in bootloop after random crash

Hey all, I need some assistance here. So my device is Nexus 5x H790 unlocked bootloader, stock ROM, Usb debugging enabled. I had the latest October updates (90S I believe) and everything was running just fine on it until about 5 days ago. I was using my phone like normal and suddenly it turned off. I could not turn it back on and when it did it would get stuck at the Google screen and then begin to bootloop several times before turning off. I have gotten to the recovery screen 1 time and wiped cache but still same result. There was one instance where the phone completely booted up and was receiving the numerous texts over the few days and even sent a few. Then it crashed again after 5 mins :crying:
Here is what I've tried:
-Attempted to reflash October images from googles website. I have experience doing this before from using Heisenburg's method 9 (no change)
-Then began to research and thought it was the power button getting stuck issue. Brought it to a repair shop and they opened it and checked out the power button and said it was firmware not the button and to factory reset (brought it here because the device is 13 months old and figured it was cheaper/faster than sending to LG and waiting a whole month to get it back)
-Brought home from repair shop, reflashed latest October images and still could not boot up fully.
-Now I want to factory reset but cannot get to recovery screen, when I enter bootloader and scroll to Recovery it just goes to Google image again....I believe there are commands to wipe device userdata and tried "fastboot erase userdata" and "fastboot format data" but gave errors
I will try next to use a different USB port, now that just found a thread on here saying the 3.0 ports dont seem to work with that command even though I've used the same port for every image flash I've done in past
Any help/ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

Same problem...
I have the same problem. Mine started bootlooping to the Google screen the same day my warranty expired...
I'm gooing to send it off to LG, but I really wish I could get my pics and texts off before they wipe it
mjp5099 said:
Hey all, I need some assistance here. So my device is Nexus 5x H790 unlocked bootloader, stock ROM, Usb debugging enabled. I had the latest October updates (90S I believe) and everything was running just fine on it until about 5 days ago. I was using my phone like normal and suddenly it turned off. I could not turn it back on and when it did it would get stuck at the Google screen and then begin to bootloop several times before turning off. I have gotten to the recovery screen 1 time and wiped cache but still same result. There was one instance where the phone completely booted up and was receiving the numerous texts over the few days and even sent a few. Then it crashed again after 5 mins :crying:
Here is what I've tried:
-Attempted to reflash October images from googles website. I have experience doing this before from using Heisenburg's method 9 (no change)
-Then began to research and thought it was the power button getting stuck issue. Brought it to a repair shop and they opened it and checked out the power button and said it was firmware not the button and to factory reset (brought it here because the device is 13 months old and figured it was cheaper/faster than sending to LG and waiting a whole month to get it back)
-Brought home from repair shop, reflashed latest October images and still could not boot up fully.
-Now I want to factory reset but cannot get to recovery screen, when I enter bootloader and scroll to Recovery it just goes to Google image again....I believe there are commands to wipe device userdata and tried "fastboot erase userdata" and "fastboot format data" but gave errors
I will try next to use a different USB port, now that just found a thread on here saying the 3.0 ports dont seem to work with that command even though I've used the same port for every image flash I've done in past
Any help/ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
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How could ur warranty be expired when it is 24 months by buy date.

Domin_PL said:
How could ur warranty be expired when it is 24 months by buy date.
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I'm fairly certain its 12 months for manufacturer. I did not get the extra Nexus protect

In Europe there is 24 month warranty for all sold products. Kind of bad thing or kind of good thing.

ugh wife's Nexus 5x did this same thing. Been up all night trying EVERYTHING. Fastboot works but bootloader is locked so I can't do anything. Going to recovery just reboots the phone to logo.bin and then turns off again. Download mode is unreliable and when I get it to finally trigger, it doesn't go to the second phase where it waits for a firmware update (so I can't do the LGUP thing).
So I guess this is an OTA problem? Some BS.

fanta110 said:
In Europe there is 24 month warranty for all sold products. Kind of bad thing or kind of good thing.
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In France LG does not guarantee the 24 months since March 2016. my nexus 5x is broken down one year and 1 day after the date of purchase with this same issue. At first LG told me that the warranty was OK then they retracted. I have a beautiful invoice with the change of motherboard ....

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androcib said:
In France LG does not guarantee the 24 months since March 2016. my nexus 5x is broken down one year and 1 day after the date of purchase with this same issue. At first LG told me that the warranty was OK then they retracted. I have a beautiful invoice with the change of motherboard ....
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Just curious how much the new motherboard was quoted for repair? At this point I finally reached the recovery screen and performed a true factory reset but havent tried flashing latest images from google. I will update and let you know if that worked. If that doesnt work, I will be getting the pixel on Verizon on black friday for the $10/ mo

Call ended as soon as it starts to dial

As soon as it starts to dial a number it says call ended. If I turn airplane mode on and off, it fixes it for a little while. The only thing I changed recently is take trip out of the country recently and I had a sim card in from another carrier for a little while. When I got home I put the TMobile sim back in, rebooted, and that's it.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?

merkk said:
As soon as it starts to dial a number it says call ended. If I turn airplane mode on and off, it fixes it for a little while. The only thing I changed recently is take trip out of the country recently and I had a sim card in from another carrier for a little while. When I got home I put the TMobile sim back in, rebooted, and that's it.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
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Try reflashing the T-Mobile home csc file and wipe cache in recovery and see if that helps. If you flash the regular CSC file it will wipe all your data.

This is not a rooted phone. Everything on it is stock - also not a branded phone, it's unlocked from samsung

merkk said:
This is not a rooted phone. Everything on it is stock - also not a branded phone, it's unlocked from samsung
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Unfortunately I'm at a loss. I'm sure you tried wiping cache in recovery.

Galaxy S9 Developer options problem

Hey Forum! Hopefully y'all can help me. I have a S9 from Rent A Center and so does my wife, well her phone updated to Pie(9.0) 3 weeks ago and we're both on Cricket Wireless. Well mine hasn't updated and I've even went in and manually checking for updates and it says my phone is up to date so I downloaded the firmware from Sammobile and it failed cause i forgot to turn on USB Debugging in the developer options. So I restart my phone and go to settings and hit the build number and it says that developer options has already been turned on. But back in settings the options are nowhere to be found. So I figured doing a factory reset would help, but when i reset the phone and booted it up and went back to the build number and pressed it 7 times instead of saying developer options had been enabled it backed completely back out to my home screen and so i went back to settings and hit the build number again and it said that the developer options had already been turned on but again nowhere to be seen. So my question is is there a way to remove RAC from the phone or is there a way to remove knox where rac is on the phone? I need help cause I want the update, but it seems there is no way to do it with RAC on the phone.

USB debugging has nothing to do with flashing firmware with Odin

Ok then. I get a mdm mode cant download when I try flashing the firmware in download mode

Bamablood94 said:
Ok then. I get a mdm mode cant download when I try flashing the firmware in download mode
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Not sure if it still works with the S9, but there was a trick where you set up PIN security on the phone, but also enable the setting where if the wrong PIN is entered 10 times it factory resets the device, this supposedly removed the Rent-a-Centre crap after the reset which you cannot do while it is still active
Then enter the PIN 10 times wrongly

*Detection* said:
Not sure if it still works with the S9, but there was a trick where you set up PIN security on the phone, but also enable the setting where if the wrong PIN is entered 10 times it factory resets the device, this supposedly removed the Rent-a-Centre crap after the reset which you cannot do while it is still active
Then enter the PIN 10 times wrongly
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So it's a different factory than going into the settings and doing a factory reset?

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So it's a different factory than going into the settings and doing a factory reset?
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No, same one but supposedly you do not have access to that with Rent a Centre software on the device, nor can you do it from recovery (As far as I am aware from reading others with the same phones)

Oh so basically I'm screwed until they come out with the update for my device

Bamablood94 said:
Oh so basically I'm screwed until they come out with the update for my device
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Do you have the ability to factory reset your phone as it stands right now?
If no, follow the above instructions...

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Do you have the ability to factory reset your phone as it stands right now?
If no, follow the above instructions...
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Yes I can and have reset my phone. But when I set it back up it shows up rent a center in the Knox portion of it and I guess reinstalls them. So to speak