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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Unusable Android J5(6)
Date: 18 May 2025 09:18:01 GMT
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AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
> On 5/15/25 7:56 AM, AJL wrote:
> >On 5/15/25 5:32 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> 
> >>  *How* do you 'reset' them? With a 'Hard reset' ('Wipe data/factory
> >>reset') from the 'Android Recovery' boot menu as described before (see
> >>for example <https://www.devicesfaq.com/en/hard-reset/samsung-galaxy-j5>
> >>for the phone under discussion).
> >
> >On my Galaxy S10+ it's Settings > General management > reset > factory data
> > reset.
> >
> >But it's been 5+ years since I gave a phone away (current phone's age) so I
> > don't remember the exact reset routine I used. But I do remember that the
> > grandkid I gave it to used it with no problems on his family account.
> 
> 
> > I recently reset an iPhone (wife's old one, she upgraded) and put it on my
> > extra Apple account. I play with it on WiFi only as an added toy. I used my
> > extra Google account on^M it for the Google stuff if that counts as a semi reset/reuse...
> 
> I'll be giving this iPhone to a grandkid in a few days so I factory reset it
>  tonight. I didn't mention it before because I forgot but it DOES require an
>  Apple account password to factory reset it, even when the phone is already
>  signed in.

  Thanks for the feedback.

  As to Rudy's (the OP's) 'Hard reset' ('Wipe data/factory reset') of
his Android phone: That probably has been solved, but sofar he hasn't
confirmed that.

  If not, there probably still are two other methods, the one via the
Google Account of his friend and - IIRC - the adb one on a computer.

> BTW Frank I fell off the wagon and got a new Windows 11 LT toy. Just
>  couldn't stay away. Pray for me...

  You sinner! In short order, the Usenet Court will decide what your
penance should be. Be prepared that it will be *very* severe!

> >>  If you indeed use that procedure, that would negate Jörg's comment
> >>that after a 'Hard reset' the device would not be usable for *another*
> >>user (than the previous owner/user).

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