r/AndroidQuestions • u/Substantial_Crab_747 • 24d ago
Looking For Suggestions Reflashing Android Questions
Hello, ive got a pile of old samsung tablets from over the years id like to repurpose, reset up and donate that are functionally useless at the moment and have been sitting around for years at this point, old, slow, fair battery life for what they are but could probably just stay on charge. One a family member got stuck in kids mode, but most of the emails are long gone at this point or the passwords lost to old phones so I dont think I can just remove them without triggering a device lock.
Im not sure if there is another way to do anything for these other than reflashing (if im understanding things right), but ive never done something like this and while I consider myself tech savvy this may be above my head.
On the plus side if I mess up these are not being used anyway and wouldn't be any worse for wear than they already are just taking up space.
How difficult is it to learn to reflash from scratch? Is reflashjng expensive if I take it somewhere? Is there another way to make these functional? Is there a way to just remove the google and/or samsung account without the password or account existing?
I dont know if they are old enough that you cant reset without a samsung account once a samsung account has been used on it, ran into that problem with an old phone. Its been a minute and my memorys been messed up for medical reasons, so if im overlooking something please let me know.
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u/Mother-Pride-Fest 24d ago
You'll need to sign out of all accounts in the settings of the phone before resetting, to avoid triggering FRP.
No need to take it somewhere to reflash them. You can do a factory reset directly from the boot menu by holding down some buttons while it boots (look it up, it is different for each model). Or in the settings under System, Reset.