Sold a android phone on eBay. I wiped and factory reset the phone from bootloader before selling. A week after receiving the phone the bidder has contacted me to say this:
[i]"Hi
Your phone arrived today. Unfortunately, due to how Factory Restore now works, it won't let me complete setup without your Google account.
Please go to https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity and remove account access for this phone.
If this doesn't work (for me), I will have to return the phone to you so that you may re-setup the phone, and then send it to me so that I can sign it into my account and out of your account. This may make you uncomfortable, in which case I may suggest we do that together in person in a public place.
This whole situation sucks, I know, but Google are just trying to make sure I haven't stolen your phone."[/i]
This is something I'm not aware of being an issue. Seems like a scam to me and I have told them that.
Anyone else aware of this?
Just go to that link and click to the right of that device, then click remove access.
Hard to see how [i]removing[/i] a device from your account could be a scam.
Though a quick Google suggests that [url= https://www.androidpit.com/why-a-factory-reset-doesn-t-wipe-all-your-data ]a Factory Reset doesn't properly wipe an Android phone anyway[/url] - so either way they'll soon be browsing through all those photos of you in your wife's knickers 😀
I had deleted the device from that link before selling.
Does seem an odd scam but I've never heard or experienced android locking out a new user after a device reset. Just doesn't feel right.
Hmmm he maybe legit [url= http://www.pcnexus.net/2015/12/what-is-factory-reset-protection-google-72-hour-lockout-android-lollipop.html?m=1 ]link[/url]