Recent content by phlyx

And just how does one provide proof of ownership for a 9 year old phone??? It was registered to a Verizon email account that is now defunct and has been for about 6 years.

Thanks but I did contact Samsung support and after a lengthy phone call the only option they gave me was taking the phone to an authorized service center for repair. I would think they could reset my password in their database but not what they said.

Also, when I try to log in to Yahoo email it tries to get me to verify that my Verizon account is me by EMAILING A VERIFICATION CODE TO MY DEFUNCT VERIZON ACCOUNT. Geeze.

Thanks for the info and not trying to bypass anything, it's my phone and I should be able to use it. That phone is from 2016 (I think) and in 8 years I used many different passwords and update them and I have tried everything I can think of. Also, if I try several times then it locks my...

We have an old S6 that's been sitting in a drawer and we were thinking about just using it for games for our granddaughter. When we power it up and connect to our Wifi, we get a message that the phone had an abnormal factory reset and it wants us to log in with the original Samsung username and...