OctoPlus Continues to bring new offerings to the table in the Phone repair industry. Octoplus FRP Tool allows you to reset Google Factory Reset Protection (FRP) for Samsung, Huawei, LG, Alcatel, Motorola and many other manufacturers as well. The Latest FRP tool they have comes in two options. The Octoplus FRP Tool and the Octoplus FRP Digital license.…
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Z3X box is one of the tools we train on here in the Phonlab Smartphone Tech course. The tools you can get from the Z3X team are amazing and have been developed for over a decade. Z3X offers 4 different boxes and the newest box is Pandora which is designed for MTK or MediaTek devices.…
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The AT+AKSEEDNO calculator makes it easy to answer the Samsung device challenge questions with the right AT command. This can calculate the proper response to give back to Samsung basebands for the AT+AKSEEDNO command. When sending AT commands, some commands may require AKSEEDNO challenge request and response before continuing, like with AT+IMEISIGN or AT+BLOBSIGN. If…
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FRP / Factory Reset Protection also know as Google account locked to previously synced account. Factory Reset Protection was implemented by Google in Android 5.1 and above. To turn on FRP you need a device that has a google account logged into it and has a password of any kind turned on, pattern, password or…
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MY RIGHT TO REPAIR VS APPLE In early December of 2019 I received an email from Rob link over at Repair.org which turned into a meeting with Kevin O’reilly and Nathan Proctor from U.S. PIRG these organizations advocate for our right to repair. After those meetings it was clear that this was much bigger than…
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When I first started out, I had only two things: a laptop computer and the desire to learn everything I could about smartphones. That is really all that you need to become a great smartphone tech. I would spend hours awake late at night reading everything I could about anything that would earn me money…
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Motorola devices are amost completely based on Qualcomm chips well that is until Lenovo purchased them a couple years back. Now that Lenovo owns Motorola there are some devices that are media tek chips also. All this being said we are going to take a look at the qualcomm bulk Mode on on these Motorola…
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Samsung Reactivation Lock a thing of the Past? If your a smartphone tech then you know how annoying it is when you have a Samsung locked android smartphone, well that is now a thing of the past, and we literally stumbled on it. There was no announcement from Samsung or anyone in the community.…
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Reverse Engineering Apps. A Primer Reverse engineering is a pretty cool concept. Someone builds something, you want to see how they did it, so you take it apart and see how it was put together in the first place. It can be a great way to learn, and it pushes technological progress forward. But there’s…
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Coding is like printing your own money!!! Everyone has that one app idea that’s sure to be the next big thing, yet so many of these possibilities slip away unnoticed by the world. The problem isn’t coming up with the idea, it’s crafting it into a tangible app people can download and share. If you’ve…
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