Hear me out— not a loon

[WhatHappenedNow]

Someone had physical access to my Samsung s22 for a good amount of time, and ever since then I haven’t been able to factory reset, random stuff would be on the clipboard, the phone would keep changing accessibility options. I’d also get really strange predictive words when using the keyboard. I know how y’all treat people who think they are being hacked, but I can’t think of anything else it could be. What do you all think?

 

[ocnbrze]

why can't you factory reset?

have you tried a hard reset?

https://www.hardreset.info/devices/samsung/samsung-galaxy-s22-5g/

 

[WhatHappenedNow]

I get an error whenever I try to factory reset. Lemme try the hard reset. Thanks.

 

[WhatHappenedNow]

why can't you factory reset?

have you tried a hard reset?

https://www.hardreset.info/devices/samsung/samsung-galaxy-s22-5g/

Ah yeah I did do this. I get an error that says Factory Reset Failed php something or other.

Also I can’t uninstall WhatsApp. And my google folder renamed itself to “you can also try decgoogle” whatever that means

Edit: Also I searched for my kernel and search results turned up nothing.

 

[AugieTN]

At this point I would just get rid of the phone.

 

[WhatHappenedNow]

At this point I would just get rid of the phone.

Okay so here’s where things go off the rails. I got an s23 and it does the same thing I swear lol

 

[WhatHappenedNow]

At this point I would just get rid of the phone.

And to be clear even though I select not to restore any backups, it does it anyway.

Maybe I should turn off sync?

 

[Dannydet]

You need a new device and a new Gmail account beforehand. New password, everything.

 

[ocnbrze]

can you take a photo of the error? or at least write down exactly what it says? sounds highly unusual. and no this does not sound like a hack. and are you sure your other phone, the s23, is giving the same exact error? when do you get this error? when you select factory data reset from the recovery menu option? or when you are trying to get to recovery?

 

[WhatHappenedNow]

can you take a photo of the error? or at least write down exactly what it says? sounds highly unusual. and no this does not sound like a hack. and are you sure your other phone, the s23, is giving the same exact error? when do you get this error? when you select factory data reset from the recovery menu option? or when you are trying to get to recovery?

It says PDP back up failed set up wizard finished. Sometimes it won’t even boot into recovery mode, sometimes I do select factory reset and it’ll start up but give the error. And yes both.

 

[ocnbrze]

It says PDP back up failed set up wizard finished. Sometimes it won’t even boot into recovery mode, sometimes I do select factory reset and it’ll start up but give the error. And yes both.

try connecting your phone to the computer first before trying to get into recovery.

 

[WhatHappenedNow]

I really don’t want to be that guy but those this log line mean

try connecting your phone to the computer first before trying to get into recovery.

that worked! At least on the s23. Thanks so much.

was looking into the logs from the from the bootloader screen and it just looks like there was an MDM and some other scripting that ensured a reset would always fail. At least I think so— pretty much a layman

 

[WhatHappenedNow]

I really don’t want to be that guy but those this log line mean

that worked! At least on the s23. Thanks so much.

was looking into the logs from the from the bootloader screen and it just looks like there was an MDM and some other scripting that ensured a reset would always fail. At least I think so— pretty much a layman

Also! I remember once hearing from a “pro” that my kernel was not an official one.