He hadn’t reconnected it to Wi-Fi.
The screen went black. Then, in tiny green letters: “You are now invisible to cell towers. Use at own risk.”
And if, somewhere in Samsung’s real servers, an engineer saw a spike in an unknown diagnostic code labeled and simply marked it as “user error” before going back to their coffee.
He should have stopped there. But the word FREE and LATEST had already reprogrammed his common sense.