Jacob is a technology writer and researcher. He's also an avid sports fan, especially when it comes to the Chicago White Sox. When not working, you can usually find him tweaking his Android devices or ...

You may recall a while back when a guy by the name of RootJunky managed to bypass Factory Reset Protection (FRP) on Samsung and LG phones. Well, he’s at it again, this time discovering a new method ...

Factory Reset Protection was introduced with Android Lollipop, and, like Apple’s iCloud Activation Lock, it’s supposed to make it really hard to resell a stolen Android phone. The gist is that when ...

Welcome to another #GalaxyS7 troubleshooting article for the day. As a number of S7 users are still struggling with Factory Reset Protection issue, we’ve decided to address it again in this material.

Due to many forms of online threats nowadays, major tech companies come up with security protection for their customers and users. One of such ways that Google and its partners use to add security to ...

In Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google introduced a security feature called Factory Reset Protection to help folks keep their data safe. It works like this: if FRP is turned on and your Android device is ...

If you thought that the Factory Reset Protection option on your stolen Samsung smartphone safeguarded your data, then think again. Thanks to a flaw in Samsung phones, the security feature can be ...

Smartphones offer users plenty of ways to keep the data they store secure, but what about protecting the phones themselves? Google’s tried to make Android phones less appealing to thieves by ...