2 Ways to Bypass Factory Reset Protection on Samsung devices

Follow the steps to bypass Google account verification after hard resetting your Samsung Galaxy device.

Samsung is now serious about your security and privacy, they are now taking the right measures to protect your personal data. Most of us are happy with the security but at the same time you’ll get annoyed when you’re locked out of your device and unable to get access to it.

Samsung’s old devices such as the Galaxy S3, S4, Note 3 and so on were not having this feature but the newly released devices such as Galaxy J5, J7, Note 5, S6 Edge, S7 Edge are having it and if you hard reset your phone using recovery, you’re certain to get your phone locked unless you provide the right Google account verification, it had before. In most cases, users forgets their email or password and are stuck at the Google verification screen. But you don’t to have worry as I have got you covered.

Thanks to the anonymous developer who has released an apk app that can help you to bypass the verification step and then erase everything to get access back to your normal Samsung Galaxy device.

This device was reset. To continue, sign in with a Google Account that was previously synced on this device.

1. How to bypass Factory Reset Protection on Samsung devices

Before you get started, You’ll need to have access to any of these 2 things:

• OTG Cable for Android or
• Having access to PC

If you have got OTG cable then follow these steps.

Step 1: Firs of, download Bypass Samsung Google account verification app apk.

Step 2: Copy the apk file to your USB.

Step 3: Using the OTG cable connect your USB to phone.

Step 4: Once connected, it will popup the file manager app and install the apk app.

Step 5: You should now have access to phone settings.

Step 6: Scroll down and find Backup and reset.

Step 7: Tap Factory data reset and Reset device or Erase everything which will erase the following from your device:

• Google Account
• System and app data
• Device settings
• Downloaded apps
• Music, Pictures and all other user data.

Step 8: Finally your phone will reboot normally and may take some time while booting and that is normal after resetting your device.

2. Bypass any Samsung Galaxy Google Account Verification without OTG

It is almost similar to the first method, but instead of using the OTG cable you’re going to use your PC.

Step 1: Download and Install SideSync APK.

Step 2: Run SideSync application on your PC and connect your phone using the USB cable.

Step 3: You should get a popup as shown in the screen below:

Step 4: Tap Chrome to download the bypass app apk. Enter the following into the url bar:

https://goo.gl/iao0ya

Step 5: Once you download the apk file, now tap back to open the Samsung apps. It will ask you to install the SideSync on your device but instead search for ES File explorer and install it.

Step 6: After installing the ES File explorer, open it.

Step 7: Go to download folder and run the bypass app apk to install it.

Step 8: You should have Settings menu open, scroll down and find Backup and reset.

Step 9: Tap Factory data reset and Reset device.

Step 10: That’s it! You’ve finally unlocked your device.

Hey, Its not over yet…