Recent content by Useless Peter

Tried that, no joy. The phone is unuseable, but I'll take great comfort that it is not effectively bricked, just "locked"! Thanks for the reply

Yeah, that could be an idea, I'll keep you posted thanks.

If you have recovered the account on google by going through their verification on the pc, then you have proved that you own the account. Is this part of google's T&Cs that we sign up for, that you will never be able to unbrick your own phone if they see fit? As for bypassing, google are hot on...

No joy, still bricked...The same reason I left apple, too much hassle if things went wrong, now google appears to be as bad.

I'll give that a try and let you know how I get on. Thanks for the reply.

Hi. The wife has a Motorola Moto G5 (XT1675). At the start of the week, the phone went into a power down, restart loop. Could not stop this even by removing the battery and it was impossible to get into safe mode either. This was only resolved with a hard reset. On attempting to reinitiate the...