Frp locked

[skrezz]

My partner just bought a s22 ultra via Facebook market place after we got back and started setting it up we where stuck at logging in with Google. 

Upon looking into it the phones frp locked is there anyway we can get this fixed ? 

[Sonora]

Call the previous owner and ask them to delete their Google account properly. This means they must delete all accounts before resetting the phone to factory settings. This is Google's anti-theft protection and only the rightful owner can bypass it by entering their account. Selling through Facebook marketplace is most often fraudulent, buying through authorized Samsung partners, mobile operators or directly from Samsung is the safest way to never experience what you experienced.

[arianwen27]

Factory reset protection only enables if the device was incorrectly reset. If you reset a phone normally, you don't get that. You getting that means that phone was reset without knowing the owners code, aka probs stolen. As Sonora said, only option is getting the real owner to remove it from their Google account

[Sonora]

I had to reset my phones through recovery mode a few times because it didn't work otherwise, so resetting through recovery mode is also often used by owners when their phones get frozen or  blocked. And I can start the phone normally after I enter my data.

[arianwen27]

Yeah, Google sees that an incorrect reset. A correct reset is via the normal in android reset button. It's just very unlikely someone has a frozen phone, resets it via recovery mode, then instantly sells it on eBay without seeing if it works again

[Sonora]

Before selling your phone, it is definitely recommended to delete your accounts before resetting, even if you reset your phone normally through Settings.

[arianwen27]

It's not necessary though. Resetting a phone via settings wipes all accounts anyway. You'd just be doing extra work for the same outcome.

Unless you want to reset with recovery mode. Then removing your Google account will help. Because FRP won't enable

[Sonora]

You obviously haven't seen the videos of slightly more savvy users who managed to read the data of previous owners if the phone was just reset to factory settings, without first deleting the Account. Some even suggest resetting your phone two or three times, with different accounts and deleting it again, to be 100% sure that all data has been deleted and cannot be recovered.

[arianwen27]

That's not how thr flash chips on phones work. On a traditional hdd, you can recover data that has been deleted. On nand flash chips like those used in phones, after data has been deleted and thr chips run a cleaning cycle, data cannot be recovered. Plus since device data is encrypted, a reset would wipe the encryption keys. So if data is recoverable, it would be encrypted and unreadable

[arianwen27]

A simple Google search shows device full disk encryption keys are wiped on reset. So any remaining or recoverable data cannot be read or used for anything