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    Post pictures of your latest purchase

    I bought a used older cheapo Magna from a friend for 20bucks. I had to do some repairs but it works. Came time to look for new rims/tires and this gracious retiree way out South here basically donated tubes and tires to me and sold me full alloy rims all for 60bucks. Now i have a 20 dollar...
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    WC 1M Post Challenge - You Ready?!

    Ah the moderators dream testing ground. I thread with upwards of 9m replies and comments 🙂
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    How to reset a Lumia 640 without the Microsoft account password?

    I think if accounts lay dormant for some time or the device itself there are AI-like features for the sake of infosec that basically stall provisioning and or protocols like this. At least that is how it should be or even how I would do it... Basically it's waiting to make sure a human is...
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    How to reset a Lumia 640 without the Microsoft account password?

    I understand. It was perhaps a timing thing or maybe it never would have given you a code... It's also not your fault since this was probably the first time you had to experience this. I too locked myself out of a lumia 640 XL basically the same way and after that spent months doing many tests...
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    How to reset a Lumia 640 without the Microsoft account password?

    It's basically an early version of TPM but on mobile. Only the newer SoCs supported this from Windows Phone 8 but also upgraded to Win10m. Honestly any phone that supported this f reset protection feature from Win Phone 8 but was also upgradeable to win10m was a complete hot mess... Because you...
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    How to reset a Lumia 640 without the Microsoft account password?

    Also there won't be an option to "unlock" a linked device or even remove the reset protection from web all that is done at the device level the web sync simply hashes the encryption linked to the device with its own recovery key and this then allows you to unlock the device if you hard reset it...
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    How to reset a Lumia 640 without the Microsoft account password?

    What happens on a lot of these phones that actually had integrated reset protection but were originally running Windows Phone 8 is that this feature functions optimally only when running W10m especially if the device was upgraded to w10m at one point. You will cripple the device even more if it...
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    How to reset a Lumia 640 without the Microsoft account password?

    Oh if you removed it then it never synced activation lock probably. You can always hard reset the device in those cases let it reboot and try to sync it that way because then you are forced to use a key or Microsoft account pw. Was it running Windows Phone 8 or W10m?
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    How to reset a Lumia 640 without the Microsoft account password?

    Yes I just read up on it and have wheels turning now [emoji846]
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    Three word story...

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    How to reset a Lumia 640 without the Microsoft account password?

    Whoa! Trade in any phone for some kind of incentive on a 5G phone? I'm looking into this one... It. Most likely forces you to switch your account to their new holding for the 5G network. I have an older no credit check account [emoji846]... Wonder how long they will let me use that before I'm...
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    How to reset a Lumia 640 without the Microsoft account password?

    If you have access to the account that managed this device you just need to make sure it syncs... Could be a day could be two. Check the account frequently. I owned dozens of windows phones at one point and had them all in my account some synced and some not. The ones that I had most recently...
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    Three word story...

    surrounded by fumes
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    Post pictures of your latest purchase

    Been a minute...
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    windows concept - New Start

    Microsoft should just open source bits and pieces of W10. The parts they would allow a community to basically build add-ons for and submit them to the store. Or allow them to use an add-on for such aspects of windows that are only approved. This way for instance. If the task bar itself was the...