{"id":2005,"date":"2016-08-16T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T21:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.signsofsuccess.co.nz\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2016-08-16T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T21:38:37","slug":"samsung-tablet-cyber-police-lockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glover.gen.nz\/wordpress\/samsung-tablet-cyber-police-lockout\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Tablet Cyber Police lockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A customer has had this twice now, so I am documenting how to get rid of it. It presents itself as a locked out tablet, with a message from the local police organisation telling the user that they have been visiting offensive sites, and unless they pay a $200 fine, the tablet will remain locked. Nothing will get past this screen.<\/p>\n<p>Solution &#8211; restart in safe mode &#8211; this works for a Samsung tablet.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Hold the power button down until the device completely powers down.<\/li>\n<li>Hold the power button again, and when the Samsung logo appears, hold down the &#8220;Volume down&#8221; button.<\/li>\n<li>The lock screen will appear with SAFE MODE in the lower left corner.<\/li>\n<li>Swipe to log on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>When logged on in safe mode, remove the offending app as follows<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go into Settings\/Application manager<\/li>\n<li>Sort the applications by size (option in the menu top right).<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to the apps about 1MB in size, look for something called System Update or similar just under 1MB in size.<\/li>\n<li>Click on it and click UNINSTALL<\/li>\n<li>Restart the tablet normally.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>All done!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A customer has had this twice now, so I am documenting how to get rid of it. It presents itself as a locked out tablet, with a message from the local police organisation telling the user that they have been &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/glover.gen.nz\/wordpress\/samsung-tablet-cyber-police-lockout\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samsung Tablet Cyber Police lockout<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glover.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glover.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glover.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glover.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glover.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glover.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glover.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glover.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glover.gen.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}