Re: Unusable Android J5(6)

R.Wieser <address@is.invalid> wrote:

Frank,
 

Please *read* my response to J?rg [1], including me pointing to
the specific part of J?rg's reference.
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To do a 'Hard reset' ('Wipe data/factory reset'), *you only need
to push/use the (physical) buttons on the device.

 
I suggest you read your indicated message yourself, and point out (quote)
where you said that last bit.  Good luck. :-)

  'Kiddo' :-), don't be a wise guy! I said, what I said I said. "that
last bit" is in Jörg's reference, not in my text, so I *can't* quote
"where I said that", because *I* didn't say it!

  See!? *Read* my responses. Read what they say and don't 'read' what
they don't say.

  That out of the way:

Besides the problem that my device has a few other buttons other than the
power one that is, and you forgot to mention which one(s) I would need to
press - as well as until when.

  Again, which buttons is in the part of Jörg's reference to which I
pointed. For my response/article see footnote [1], which you snipped.

I know of a "factory reset" - or whatever its called it the settings  - but
was not aware of a rather similar thing hidden behind a special button
combination.
 
Also, I was, just as others here where, assuming it was a theft deterrant.
Not something that could be evaded by pressing the right buttons.

  As I pointed out elsewhere in the thread, it's a theft deterrant
against theft of your *data*, obviously not against theft of your phone.
After "pressing the right buttons", your *data* is gone/wiped.

     And if
anything my visit to a local phone-repair shop seems to support that, as
they didn't make any suggestion that it could be done that way.

  That's why I said, I think 45 Euros is a rip-off.

  Poster AJL seems to have practical experience with this (giving his
old devices to his (grand) kids, etc.), so I have asked him for details.

And by the way, that special buttons trick doesn't seem to want to work
here.

  I've addressed that issue in another response:

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