Credit: Ryan Haines / Android AuthorityTL;DRGalaxy S22 Ultra owners are finding their retail phones claimed by a shady company called “Numero LLC” after performing factory resets.The lockout happens via Samsung’s servers at the IMEI level, meaning factory resets and manual firmware flashing cannot bypass it.Affected users are stuck between Samsung and Knox support teams, neither of which currently claims to have the tools to fix the records.Samsung Galaxy phones are among the best you can buy for enterprise use, thanks to features such as hardware root of trust via Knox Vault, an irreversible e-Fuse to detect firmware tampering, and the Knox Suite for managing devices at scale. But over the past few months, non-enterprise users have been encountering a “digital brick” scenario that weaponizes some of these very features, effectively locking them out of their own phones.The “This device isn’t private” trapWe’ve spotted several Galaxy S22 Ultra owners complaining (1, 2, 3, 4) that their phones are allegedly locked after a factory reset.