How to reset Android phone remotely

Olga Weis • 16 May, 2018

How to reset Android phone remotely

Factory Reset Protection is a part of Device Protection, a feature added by Google in March 2015 for Android devices with 5.1 and later versions. If your phone has this feature enabled – most probably it does – you can factory reset an Android phone only under the login credentials you used when the device was new.

This functionality is basically meant to keep thieves off your phone – even if someone gets hold of it, they won’t be able to wipe it clean and sell it off without knowing your login credentials.

However, as it is always the case with security features, Factory Reset Protection can become either your best friend or your greatest enemy.

Considering the number of accounts, passwords and PINs we use every day, it is highly possible that one day you might just forget what Google account you used when setting up your phone.

Or, say, you bought a used phone and the previous user did not remove google account from Android. What do you do then? How to remove a google account from Android? Is there a way to bypass Google account verification?

How to bypass FRP?

Not everyone is ready to spend precious time waiting for the technician to come over and unlock the phone. The modern market deals with that problem offering a number of services that will remove FRP from your Android device remotely.

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What do they do at service centers to factory reset Android phone remotely?

Not everyone is ready to spend precious time waiting for the technician to come over and unlock the phone. The modern market deals with that problem offering a number of services that will remove FRP from your Android device remotely.

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    Choose the amount of connections and install a special software application – ProductName. Register an account by clicking ‘Sign up’ link. It is a normal registration procedure.

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    Launch ProductName and sign into account.

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    You should install ProductName on remote computer, where the phone is physically attached, and local machine which will connect to the device.

Note: ProductName is not the software solution to reset Google FRP. You need the help of Service Center, like SupportKing or the third-party software, to do it. ProductName is for remote access to devices only!

Once Android factory reset is done, the phone owner can login using his Google account credentials.

If you want to know how to bypass FRP with a PC on Samsung devices, you should also know that it doesn’t differ from FRP Google Account removal on Lenovo, Asus, and HTC devices. Android factory reset protection can help a user set up his phone like it is new and use another account to work with the device.

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Most of us would probably go to a service center to get this problem solved, and that is reasonable. This is because service centers’ specialists know how to bypass Google Account on the Android phone, but it means you have to take your device to them.

Remote debugging means that you use your local debugging tool to correct the defective code running on a remote machine.

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Still would like to bypass FRP yourself? Here are some more specific steps to follow to remove Google account from phone:

Well, there is a trick for certain phones – you need to launch settings from a USB-OTG cable/drive, do the factory reset in the Backup settings and clean up all data related to Google accounts. Do the reset again and Factory Reset Protection is bypassed successfully, now you can setup your device anew.


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