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Samsung Galaxy phones are among the best phones you can buy for enterprise use, thanks to features like hardware root of trust via Knox Vault, an immutable e-fuse to detect firmware tampering, and more. knox suite<\/a> For managing large scale devices. But over the past few months, non-enterprise users have been facing a “digital brick” scenario that weaponizes some of these features, effectively locking them out of their phones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n We’ve seen several Galaxy S22 Ultra owners complaining (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>) that their phones are reportedly locked after a factory reset.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The sequence is almost the same in every case: After the reset, users connect to Wi-Fi to begin the standard Android setup. However, before they can sign in to their Google account, they are put on hold knox mobile enrollment<\/a> (KME) Provisioning screen with the message “This Galaxy S22 Ultra is not private”, stating that the phone is managed by an organization and all data and activity is visible to a remote IT administrator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n“This device is not private” trap<\/h2>\n