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Originally Posted by 88%
I never considered that forgetting my password would potentially brick the DPT-S1, so I find this pretty shocking. I'd always just assumed that I could factory reset it just like any other Android device.
If true that the device can't be factory reset without a password, I consider this an inexcusable design flaw on Sony's part. I can't think I've ever come across a piece of hardware that can't be reset.
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Certainly factory reset a Kobo Nia removes the password.
But common with Satellite boxes (parental PIN) and PC BIOS passwords that you have to know the PIN or password, no reset mechanism.
Years ago someone set boot passwords on all of a schools Research Machine brand PCs and I was called in. Fortunately such a thing was none standard and I knew the password was stored on an 8 pin memory chip. Most BIOSes then used the RAM on the RTC backed up on a lithium cell (or in the case of Amstrad 2 x AA cells). The extra IC appeared to be in a socket so I unplugged it. The PC then booted without asking for a password. The teacher in charge insisted he'd do the rest.