The Ghost in the NEO

Leo asked, "So what did you actually do? Hack it?"

At 2 AM, I found a pulse.

Then I copied a small APK called "FRP Bypass Helper" from my USB drive into the Downloads folder via ADB over WiFi (which I’d enabled using keyboard commands in the brief window).

For three seconds, the phone showed a blank desktop. No icons. No bar. Just wallpaper—a photo of Elias Voss on a mountain peak, smiling.

I installed it. Launched it. The app showed one button: