Here's how Android 15 blocks thieves from bypassing factory reset protection
Here's how Android 15 blocks thieves from bypassing factory reset protection
Factory reset protection is getting several key upgrades in Android 15 to make it harder to bypass.
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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Sounds like good ideas that'll be a pain in the ass for innocent power users.
Until they sign back in to their own phone..? How is that a pain?
Not eveyrone has or needs a google or any system-wide account to use their phones.
And if you don't sign into Google, the protections won't activate, and you won't have a problem.
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.
because I want to get rid of google, and not use or even have a google account anymore
If you don't sign into a Google account, you will never arm this mechanism at all.
Then don't buy their devices? What a novel solution.
I could imagine this could also deeply enforce OEM locks on the bootloader.
So for everybody trying to root or custom rom a device this isn't the best situation.
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