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Prevent Hard Reset

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My son isn't so thrilled that we've put parental controls on his Samsung A5 so has tried a number of routes to get past them. His latest is simply hard resetting his phone by holding down the Volume Up, Home and Power buttons eventhough it means his content is lost.

Is there anyway to password protect this hard reset method? One idea that comes to mind is to put a PIN on his SIM so that when the phone comes back up he's forced to put that in before using the phone. This of course affects his abiilty to reboot his phone at any time but might be the price he has to pay.

Any other ideas?
 
Yeah there is a solution... Take the phone away and give him one of these!

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Just curious but about how old is your son and are you using a third-party parental control app/service or the Android one?
Take a look into implementing 'Factory Reset Protection'. It won't necessarily lock your son out of his phone's Recovery Mode (restarting while holding down the Volume Up, Home, and Power buttons) but it does lock the phone for 24 hours. More details here:
http://www.pcnexus.net/2015/12/what...-google-72-hour-lockout-android-lollipop.html
 
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