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Here's how Android 15 blocks thieves from bypassing factory reset protection (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This article goes into more detail about how these new measures will actually work compared to the blog post earlier this year from Google. Namely:

Enabling the OEM unlocking setting will no longer prevent FRP from activating.
Bypassing the setup wizard will no longer deactivate FRP. FRP restrictions will apply until you verify ownership of the device by signing in.
Adding a new Google account is blocked.
Setting a lock screen PIN or password is blocked.
Installing new apps is blocked.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sounds like good ideas that'll be a pain in the ass for innocent power users.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Until they sign back in to their own phone..? How is that a pain?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not eveyrone has or needs a google or any system-wide account to use their phones.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This assumes everything works fine. It's probably an edge case, but on my Nexus 6P an update somehow messed with my encryption keys, and the screen lock pattern that I'd used for over a year stopped getting recognised. I can't remember the solution but I vaguely remember having to factory reset. Whatever the solution was, it wasn't too different to what a thief would do... I was bypassing the screen lock after all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

because I want to get rid of google, and not use or even have a google account anymore

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

If you don't sign into a Google account, you will never arm this mechanism at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then don't buy their devices? What a novel solution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who's devices? This is not a manufacturer dependent thing.

Android is useful without any google built-in software, and unfortunately it's not affordable to avoid having a smartphone in today's world.
If you wanted to say to not buy Android devices, all I can say is you are very ignorant. And ignorance is a lot of things but novel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do not know if your being sarcastic, ignorant, or lazy, but there are other companies out there that produce cheap phones with operating systems other than android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

cheap phones with operating systems other than android.

Who please? All I know of are Apple, or Nothing Phone- they're not cheap IMO.

Genuinely interested though, I'd love to deGoogle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Since you asked nicely:

https://pine64.com/product-category/pinephone/

https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

https://www.kaiostech.com/explore/devices/

https://shop.jolla.com/details/91eb91d3-c3de-41d0-b3c0-7075a339112d/

There's a reason iOS and Android OS both dominate the market: they do literally everything all these phones attempt to do but better in pretty much every single way, including the ability to easily de-Google ironically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Aha! I have heard of Pinephone. Had forgotten them. Will investigate these others. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Looks like they "just" have to stop signing in with a Google account, and may have to enable adb and install apps using it / e.g. Shizuku