Reactivation Lock work around

[jaro1801]

Thank you all. Manage to turn off my gear fit pro 2

How ?

 

[GameOverSuckas]

I have had my Samsung Gear S3 Frontier attached to my S8 for years now with no issue. I recently bought a S22 Ultra and wanted it to swith my watch over to that. I followed the steps to switch it over and at the very end after it said paired and signed in to my samsung account. Says can't complete and reactivation lock needs to be turned off. At the time it would still connect to my S8 but with everything they told me to do and by resetting the watch now its useless. Turn it on and it immediately goes to the yellow Lets go screen.. then check phone for status. Those are the only two screens I can see on my watch now. 3 hours and 5 different reps and the watch is worse off then it was when I called.

Please if anyone can help I'd be forever grateful

 

[azeemw07]

File empty.rar --> empty.bin



Hey Brother !!! How did you get this file "empty.rar" from ????

Working.nice bro thank you

 

[aleph930623]

Here are the consolidated updated steps to get rid of / bypass the 'Reactivation Lock'. I JUST finished going through all the steps and it worked so I wanted to get these steps out there with some minor adjustments I noticed while still fresh in my mind. If you are a semi-noob like me, you can do it. Thanks to PaulieP and Bobus008 it is doable.


1. Download all the files you'll need courtesy of BOBUS008:

h.t.t.p.s:/./.w.w.w.dropbox.com/s/meo9rsl3kcr0ha0/GearFit2.rar?dl=0 -- - - - - I trust you know how to fix this URL - Sorry in advance Mr Moderator.

2. Hard Reset Fit2 - Hold power down until you see rebooting in blue, while it says that hit power button 2-3 times to get to bootloader menu. use power button to move to 'Download (wireless)' and hold power down to select. in Download (wireless) mode, hit power twice quickly to change to 'AP mode'.

3. Run NetOdin3 file and leave it running. Then go to your wireless settings and connect to the now-visible Gear Fit 2 (It will show an open network named SM-R360 or something). After a few minutes (or seconds for me), Net Odin should show an IP address in the box on the left.

4. Click the AP button in Net Odin and load the FTMA file from the 'Combination Firmware' folder. Hit Start and flash it. Once done, Fit 2 will reboot to a screen with yellow diagnostic info. Hit Power, settings, connection, wifi, turn it on, then connect to your wireless internet connection.

5. Once connected, then touch that network connection in the Fit 2 connection list to open up details, and note the ip address (example: 192.168.201.12) and copy it.

6. Hit back button to go back into settings, then Gear Info, then enable developer mode/DEBUGGING (this enables ADB), then hit back to back out of settings menu

7. Open up a command prompt window (ANSICON file provided) in same the directory where you have adb.exe, and type adb connect IPADDRESS:26101
- note IPADDRESS is your Ip address you copied above, and the :26101 is a port number. So using above example, I would type:
adb connect 192.168.201.12:26101

8. Once connected, type adb devices and you should see it listed.

9. In the ANSICON/command prompt window, paste the following lines pressing enter after each:

(note - during these steps the window continued to show messages about the versions being different, but this didn't seem to matter)

adb root on
adb push empty.bin /opt/usr/media/
adb shell dd if=/opt/usr/media/empty.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0p15
adb shell reboot download

(note - when I pressed enter after 'download', my gear fit 2 displayed some text on the screen, one line said 'reactivation OFF', which is great. It also said 'Downloading - do not restart...' at the bottom of the watch. I waited on this screen for about 30 minutes with no change, so I decided to hard restart the gear fit 2, which worked)

10. HARD RESTART - Even if it says 'downloading - do not disconnect/restart'

Hard Restart - hold power to reboot your Fit 2 (it's ready to be flashed with retail firmware), and just like before, but it into Download wireless mode, and AP mode.
-to check if the lock is removed, you can instead first select download mode (USB) instead of wireless, and see if it says ACTIVATION LOCKFF to confirm/doublecheck

12. In Net Odin take your unzipped retail firmware files (Firmware folder) and place each file as named in filenames, in the appropriate slots for AP, CSC, and BL. Hit Start to flash.

13. Once done and rebooted, should be clean and good to go.

These steps worked for me as of 5 minutes ago. Hopefully BOBUS will keep these files available for a while.

thanks a lot. almost 5 years later, your guidance worked perfectly.
luckily, files still available on dropbox. i managed to reset reactivation lock in about 10 minutes.

thanks to all ppl involved in this thread too
br

 

[naderrr]

Hallo,

I need a few files to download... all the searches are broken...


the ADB and the ANSICON files... can anyone put a download link?

Cheers and Thanks.

....found it... h....ttps://www.dropbox.com/s/meo9rsl3kcr0ha0/GearFit2.rar?dl=0

plz i need for r760 file adb

 

[naderrr]

plz i need for r760 file adb

C:\Users\user>adb root 192.168.0.108:26101
'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
how it work i need to remove samsung accout

 

[naderrr]

Thank you so much you are best dude. Finally happened . Guys do this ;

adb connect (ip adress):26101
adb root on
adb push empty.bin /opt/usr/media/
adb shell dd if=/opt/usr/media/empty.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p(your watch code in reply)
adb shell dd if=/opt/usr/media/empty.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0p(your watch code in reply)
adb shell reboot download

You have connection or root problem do debug on off and restrart watch check your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Good luck with guys.

i need adb r760 to write comments to remove samsung accout

 

[Edcleison ribeiro]

Olá,

Preciso de alguns arquivos para baixar... todas as buscas estão quebradas...


os arquivos ADB e ANSICON... alguém pode colocar um link para download?

Felicidades e obrigado.

 

[endritendrit]

hi, i need urgently ansicon please can someone provide a link to download

 

[podiwadda]

why does it say
connected to 192.168..114:26101
adb: unable to connect for root: closed
adb: unable to connect for root: device offline

this method worked till i connect my gear s3 to the wifi.

 

[ToMeeK01]

why does it say
connected to 192.168..114:26101
adb: unable to connect for root: closed
adb: unable to connect for root: device offline

this method worked till i connect my gear s3 to the wifi.

Ive got the same Problem....pls Help

I have Restart the Watch, Debugging on off.....20x...nothing helps......

I.ve got the same Message

adb: unable to connect for root: closed
adb: unable to connect for root: device offline

 

[SuperlativeB]

Locations for empty.bin file

After some research, I found a handful of mmcblk0p locations to place the empty.bin file.
The only one I have personally tested is the R730A one, so use at your own risk;
SM-R360/R365-mmcblk0p15
SM-R500-mmcblk0p20
SM-R600-mmcblk0p17
SM-R630-mmcblk0p15
SM-R720-mmcblk0p14
SM-R730A/730V-mmcblk0p26
SM-R732-mmcblk0p14
SM-R760/R770-mmcblk0p15
SM-R765/R775-mmcblk0p16
SM-R800/R810-mmcblk0p19
SM-R805/R815-mmcblk0p21
SM-R820/R830-mmcblk0p20
SM-R825/R835-mmcblk0p22
SM-R840/R850-mmcblk0p7 (this one I doubt its correct due to the inconsistency, but you never know)
Hopefully this will help some people out, I know I spent a long time trying to figure this out myself.

I have been looking for exactly this after experimenting on my own for an evening , I can say that 16 will very likely break the flash and will need to redo the combo firmware and start over. I will def test these other tmrw

 

[straphupjay]

So For Everyone having problems Connecting to adb instead of using your home internet connect to a hotspot, this is what works for me. for the files, if you have a gear S3 SM-760 I managed to find the paid files free, you can download them here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/e4ti5zzph3f6krp/GearS3FrontierReactivationBypass.rar/file Theses files contain everything you need to flash the firmware including the Combination file, AP file, BL file, and the CSC file. NOTE-This Is For Gear S3 SM-760 model I havent tested it on any other model or firmware so download with caution Hope This Helps Some of Yall

 

[翡冷翠的城]

Mod translation: My SM-R8050, the activation lock problem seems to be completely hopeless. Thanks to the pioneers for their continued efforts

我的SM-R8050，激活锁的问题，好像彻底无望了。感谢先驱者前赴后继的努力

 

[Badger50]

Mod translation: My SM-R8050

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[fareed11]

hello my frind the dropbox link that you put in the discipion is not warking can you pleas give us another one?

 

[fareed11]

hello my frind the dropbox link that you put in the discipion is not warking can you pleas give us another one?