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hello please can someone help as 02 cant

I received a replacement phone for my samsung s7 and the phone o2 have sent me does not allow me to get past the google email and password. it seems to be attached to the previous owner

 i have reset this but still does not work any help?

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It's the newer Knox anti theft block @MI5
On setting up you are given the option of "prevent new sim on reset by requesting account password" or something like that.
Obviously if O2 had checked the device, this S7 would have shown this on their assessment.
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It needs to go back to O2 to be replaced again if the security lock is active.
Call 202 and ask returns. They may be busy as telephone services are stretched at the moment because of the new Note7.
They may say it needs repairing, but not this soon after replacement, it should be a swap.

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Have you done a factory reset by holding Vol Up+Home+Power and booting into recovery menu?
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It's the newer Knox anti theft block @MI5
On setting up you are given the option of "prevent new sim on reset by requesting account password" or something like that.
Obviously if O2 had checked the device, this S7 would have shown this on their assessment.
@Anonymous
It needs to go back to O2 to be replaced again if the security lock is active.
Call 202 and ask returns. They may be busy as telephone services are stretched at the moment because of the new Note7.
They may say it needs repairing, but not this soon after replacement, it should be a swap.
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Ah I see, cheers slight_smile
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Correction:
It's done through Google and not Knox.
It "presents factory reset by unauthorised user."
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Lockwatch does that but you can clear it (with password) whilst doing the reset, not after when the phone boots up - that's gonna cause no end of problems!
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Yup,
Z4/Z5 premium had it too if you activated Xperia protection on initial install.
It would show up the password screen after the reset, if you look at eBay, loads of locked out models.
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I'm guessing this is what the op is seeing.

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It seems the folk at xda are not too keen on this kind of thing tho and googling "Google account lock" yields some very positive results.

Hint# it can now be bypassed....

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Could be worth looking into then wink
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