I'm at my wits end with this issue, I even took a day off work, and the samsung store couldn't fix it, they had me on the phone with some other support channel that also couldn't help, they send me a link to contact the "knox team" thatr was just a link to the samsung site.
I left my S22 Ultra in an uber on a late night ride home, the driver was unresponsive to mine and uber's attempts to reach him, for several days. The following morning, I got a new sim and a cheap (hopefully temporary) a13 phone so clients/friends could reach me, and I could have my 2fa sms for nearly everything I do. I saw spending on my google wallet, and still hadn't heard from the driver 2 days later, so I remote locked down the phone from the smartthings site, and tried to erase it. A day or two after that, the driver finally gets back to uber and agrees to drop the phone off for the lost item fee, which I gladly paid, until I got the phone and couldn't use it. I entered my pin(which I'm 100% sure I didn't forget) and it didn't work. I went to the smart things website, attempted remote unlock several times, and it just kept saying saying remote unlock disabled. I tried a bunch of the buttons on smartthings/findmyphone none worked, tried recovery and download modes, but the phone messages when attempting traditional shutdowns saying shutdown not possible because of remote lock. It will forcibly shutdown briefly with the pwr + vol-down for 7 seconds method, but doesn't allow me into recovery mode, or download mode to factory reset. Boots back up to airplane mode, and same lock screen that doesn't accept my pin.
After a while, I figured maybe it's FRP related and removed the s22u from all 3 of my google accounts, and my samsung account. Which didn't help at all. I did hours of troubleshooting with my carrier confirming no blacklist, or sim lockout they told me to contact samsung support, but ultimately I'd end up in a samsung store. I was only able to reach samsung chat support, i told them all the troubleshooting steps I'd done and they directed me to a samsung store assuring me that would work. So I took a day off unpaid, and waited 3 hours to see a tech, who quickly directed me back to samsung support. I got pretty impatient since this was 7 days later, and it was starting to become the circular "we can't fix it they can" and I was told twice, by my carrier and samsung chat support told me this was the final sure step to get my phone working. The tech called another, different support team with me, and they also couldn't do anything, they essentially said it's knox tripped, meaning somebody tried to hack it, and failed. I'm thinking that's what I've been thinking the whole time I couldn't reach the driver, I'm glad that feature works, but now what? This is an expensive purchase, I expected to last at least another year, maybe 2-3. I was sent a link by that final support agent, which sent me to basically knox.samsung.com where she said I would "figure out, how to contact them, on that page", but it doesn't really work, because I don't have a company login for knox management or something. This phone was purchased from my carrier, by my families small corporation, that cell account has 5-7 phones depending on the season,I do some work for them and the carrier offers nice deals to corporations on hardware, but I know my Dad, the director of the corp, is not into knox management tools or something, he uses an iphone and isn't some cyber security enthusiast.
So, who do I talk to about getting out of this knox tripped state as they called it? I have my receipt, I don't care if the phone is factory wiped(actually prefer it at this point), I have backups and don't store anything critical solely on the device anyway. I just want the phone working again, I'm still making payments on it.
I just can't figure out who to reach, I'm told they'll have some other pin that the phone wants right now.
