The phone turns on to a welcome screen that says hello Moto. There is no SIM card to it. There is no Google FRP bypass lock on it either. First it asks me to set up from another device. I say no, fresh start. Then it asks me if I'd like to connect to Wi-Fi. There's one option to set up offline, and there is one option to click skip as well. Neither of these two options work, they both are dead end; requesting that I do in fact connect to Wi-Fi. I connect to wi-fi. It takes me through Motorola's EULA page and ask me to check off the boxes for smart updates and being updated about new products and features all of which I say 'no". There was also a link to the Motorola privacy statement, which for now I ignore because it's not necessary to set up. Then it asks me to set up a SIM card or an eSim. Again there is an option to skip this, which is again, a dead end similar to that of the Wi-Fi options to skip.

Thus I'm stuck at a dead end when it comes to the conventional route of setting up the phone. If I finagle through the Motorola privacy statement, I can get onto Chrome, and I can even put an account on the phone. (Hard resetting the phone with my Google account on there doesn't work, it just recreates the aforementioned circumstances, sans Google account). I can also download and install apps, through Chrome, as well as the Aurora store. So I'm hopeful that there is a piece of software out there that I can install, to help me bypass this.

The phone turns on to a welcome screen that says hello Moto. There is no SIM card to it. There is no Google FRP bypass lock on it either. First it asks me to set up from another device. I say no, fresh start. Then it asks me if I'd like to connect to Wi-Fi. There's one option to set up offline, and there is one option to click skip as well. Neither of these two options work, they both are dead end; requesting that I do in fact connect to Wi-Fi. I connect to wi-fi. It takes me through Motorola's EULA page and ask me to check off the boxes for smart updates and being updated about new products and features all of which I say 'no". There was also a link to the Motorola privacy statement, which for now I ignore because it's not necessary to set up. Then it asks me to set up a SIM card or an eSim. Again there is an option to skip this, which is again, a dead end similar to that of the Wi-Fi options to skip.

Thus I'm stuck at a dead end when it comes to the conventional route of setting up the phone. If I finagle through the Motorola privacy statement, I can get onto Chrome, and I can even put an account on the phone. (Hard resetting the phone with my Google account on there doesn't work, it just recreates the aforementioned circumstances, sans Google account). I can also download and install apps, through Chrome, as well as the Aurora store. So I'm hopeful that there is a piece of software out there that I can install, to help me bypass this.

Yesterday I found in the garbage at a gas station pump, right at the top, a 2025 Moto G. No cracks in the screen or anything. I turned it on and kept my fingers crossed; I was hopeful I could use it since obviously it was discarded, it was not missed by the last person to have it. Nonetheless I remained doubtful it would be so. The phone turns on to a welcome screen that says hello Moto. There is no SIM card to it. There is no Google FRP bypass lock on it either. First it asks me to set up from another device. I say no, fresh start. Then it asks me if I'd like to connect to Wi-Fi. There's one option to set up offline, and there is one option to click skip as well. Neither of these two options work, they both are dead end; requesting that I do in fact connect to Wi-Fi. I connect to wi-fi. It takes me through Motorola's EULA page and ask me to check off the boxes for smart updates and being updated about new products and features all of which I say 'no". There was also a link to the Motorola privacy statement, which for now I ignore because it's not necessary to set up. Then it asks me to set up a SIM card or an eSim. Again there is an option to skip this, which is again, a dead end similar to that of the Wi-Fi options to skip.

Thus I'm stuck at a dead end when it comes to the conventional route of setting up the phone. If I finagle through the Motorola privacy statement, I can get onto Chrome, and I can even put an account on the phone. (Hard resetting the phone with my Google account on there doesn't work, it just recreates the aforementioned circumstances, sans Google account). I can also download and install apps, through Chrome, as well as the Aurora store. So I'm hopeful that there is a piece of software out there that I can install, to help me bypass this.