Along with the
Android Lollipop 5.1 update, Google has introduced
a new security feature designed to render
the phone unavailable for usage in the unfortunate event when it might
get stolen or lost, therefore protecting all the
important data on it.
However, this feature,
despite being very useful, can cause some serious
problems and put people in a situation in which they
need to bypass Google account verification, so they
can use the phone.
What’s the Google Account Verification and how it works?
Let’s say that you just lost your phone
and another person finds it. Normally, this person
will not be able to use the phone if you have already
set up a screen lock pattern or security
PIN.
Before Android 5.1 Lollipop, this wasn’t such an
issue, as a simple factory reset would’ve bypassed the
lock.
However, after Google introduced the Google
Account Verification or Factory Reset Protection
(FRP), this didn’t work anymore. Thanks to the FRP
lock, the phone becomes unavailable if the
person who performs a factory reset doesn’t have the
credentials of the Google account which was previously used
to log on the phone.
They will get the “This device
was reset, to continue sign in with a google account
that was previously synced on this device” message, meaning that the
phone is useless, unless they bypass the Google
account.
Automatically, this can have a big impact on
users who buy a phone from a third party seller and
cannot get in touch with the person that sold them the
phone. Most users reported not being able to use the
phone because they could not get past the screen where
the phone asks for the Google
Account. If you’re
in the same situation, I bet that you have one this
question: Is there any method to bypass this
lock?
Below you will find all the
instructions you need to bypass Google
account verification for some of the most popular phone
brands.
