Hello!
I have a HTC Touch Cruise and I was testing sprite terminator, which seemed a nice (and very useful) program. However, after the instalation I introduced a password with lower and upper case and numbers. In the end, it asked me to reboot and I said Ok.
But, after that, at the beginning it asks me for a password. The problem is that the keyboard only has numbers, not letters, which makes it impossible to introduce the password (as it has letters and the keyboard doesnt).
Ive tried to introduce my PIN and even tried to introduce only the numbers of my password, but none of them worked. I just dont know what to do.
Is there anyway to solve this without performing a hard reset? Cant I use another keyboard with letters?
Help is much appreciated.
Thanks.
Look for a little triangle that may pop up the keaboard you need, if that doesn't do it, sounds like a "HARD RESET" time. Your getting as smart as me
I've found on the sprite software forum someone with the same problem as me.:
http://www.spritesoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4827
The site admin has said something of how to solve the problem, but I didnt understand it quite well. Can someone help me understand what happened and how was this problem solved?
Thank you!
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Hello.
I recently got a Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 (with Windows Mobile 6.1), and I set a password on it.
Sometimes when it would ask me for my password, the shift or fn keys wouldn't work, so I couldn't enter it. I would have to soft reset the device to be able to type in my password.
Frustrated, I decided to disable password protection entirely. I then found that after leaving the device alone for a period of time (while sleeping, for example), it would lock and ask me for a password - but since I no longer had one, I couldn't. I would have to soft reset the device to bypass the password screen.
I searched around, and found that this was a bug in Windows Mobile, and the only solution was to hard reset and never enable password protection. After a while of putting up with it, I flashed my device to use itje's Touch-IT v7, and I performed a hard reset. It was fine for a while, but now it's doing it again: it's asking me for a password when I leave it alone for a period of time, but I don't have one. I never set a password this time.
Is there any real solution to this? It's incredibly frustrating. Thank you in advance.
you mean the security password that is enforced when using exchange email? there is ap app that will enable you to turn it off, but you should read this thread (the app is listed here but you should take heed of the warning from deedee). I leave it up to you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=358695
Try "hard reseting" it
I'm not using Exchange email, and the checkbox to disable password protection isn't greyed out (like it is in that thread). Thanks for the link anyway though, I'll have a look around the registry.
Anyone else know anything about this?
Edit: As I said in my original post, I already tried a hard reset when this problem originally appeared. I hadn't touched the password protection settings at all since my hard reset, but it's happening again.
Does nobody have a solution for this?
are you sure someone isn't messing with your phone and setting a password? I've been using windows mobile for 6 years and never had that problem.
And you said something about a bug.... can you link me to whatever you found?
Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.
I just tried searching for that again, but unfortunately I can't find it. It was a thread with somebody saying that they have no password set, yet the device asks for one so they can only bypass the screen by soft resetting - and that's the exact problem I'm having now. There was no solution posted so I didn't bookmark it or anything.
I am the only person that has had access to my phone, so nobody has messed with it. The password setting is definitely disabled, and the HKLM\Security\Policies\Policies\00001023 registry value is set to 1 (disabled). My phone doesn't ask me for a password when I first start it (so I can get past it each time via a soft reset), it just seems to happen after 10 hours or so - I'm not exactly sure what triggers it.
Edit: I'm not sure if this is what I read before, but it seems to describe the same thing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=291567
nuclear said:
Thats the question: is it really time for WM6?
So far i believe that the device cannot digest what we have so far of WM6. Too many non-functional things or bugs if you would like to say =_=
Device auto-locks and asks for password and if you dont have a password you cannot get into the device other than by soft reset. Asks password even for activesync! PDAViet has problem with activesync in vista as it disconnects after 5 minutes. WiFi only turns on from Comm center. Hang up's on 25MB free RAM. A lot of memory leak! 10MB to run SPB Time -_-...
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Edit 2: Here's another one... No real solution posted.
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsmobile/thread/88834ba5-b64a-45c3-8dc4-378ffc3a40d6
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I have recently purchased HTC Touch with WM6. 2 days ago, it suddenly locked. I couldn't unlock because it asks for password. Because I didn't set a password, I couldn't unlock.
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This is really wierd, i have been using wm since 5 was on the scene and ive never come across your issue. I appreciate that your not using exchange but did you try the zeynee unlock app? It might stop the lock screen, you never know. If it doesnt work then nothing lost huh??
I didn't try it, no. I was concerned about the posts saying the application used up too much battery power, and thought checking the registry would be good enough (since nothing should be changing the value). I'll install it now and see if the problem still occurs. I don't have much hope that this will help though.
Okay, it just happened again. The application didn't help.
Ok, worth a try...
Have yoyu considered flashing to a different rom to see if this works? Is there a new stock Rom available?
Ill have to look more into this, maybe msdn has something on it.
Well, I had this problem with both my original Vodafone ROM and the custom one I'm using now. I'm reluctant to flash it again due to the hassle of reinstalling everything again.
I think it may be related to notifications. It just happened again as I got a text message, and last time it happened just before I received a Skype call. When I'm away and come back to find it locked, there tends to be a new icon in the notification area. It definitely doesn't happen every time I get a notification though...
Hi! I have a HTC p3300. I am having trouble with it. I had WM5 and installed WM6 to try to solve the problem, it kept blocking and stoping, but neither that, even installed in Bootloader mode, solve my problem, at least for now.
Sometimes I have to format the mobile 2, 3 and 4 times a day (any suggestions would be appreciated) and, since I have to do that, I always need to install all my software, well, 3 or 4 programs, and to resetup all the device. My question here is, can I, in some way, create an image of the ROM after all these installations, just to avoid myself all those time consuming operations? I am tired and tired of doing the same thing all day. I am tired of having the same blue screen, well, white, MS-DOS style, saying that the device wasn't properly shut down, to press yes or no, and then it starts formating itself... Please, some help. I intent to send it to repair, at least to check how much do the mobile store asks me for the repair, and, after that, consider if it is worth or not, but, since I like the mobile so much, I really, really, really would like some advice on it.
The very same moment that I write this I am completely MAD with it because I was finishing one of the plenty formating sessions I do everyday and it gave the same problem, blocking itself, stoping itself (sorry, can't specify with an even exact word) when rebooting so that the Regional settings took effect.
I am tired, at this time, 4h25 in the morning in Portugal, have classes at 10h. Need to set the alarm to wake up in the morning, and really, really, really hope and expect some help from a lot of you guys.
Wait, the word for what happens to the mobile is FREEZE! Damn vocabulary at this time of the day...
My question was «How can I cook a ROM», but, since I have never did it before, any other preferable solution is also welcome. In fact, any other solution easier for me to do is a lot welcome. Anyway, if not, any help will be appreciated by itself.
Thanks for reading, at least, and I will be eagger waiting for that help.
Márcio Guerra
P.s.- Just by the way... Does also any of you know how to really «crack» the TomTom Navigator? It was cracked when I bought the mobile, but, after formating it once, lost the way how to do it, because the first time wasn't done by me, but the previous owner. If possible, help to this question also appreciated. Thanks!
P.p.s.- Mobile just went dead for all those formats! Any advice? Now, even in bootloader mode it just checks for the card contents and freezes in the big RGB screen... No idea! I guess that its time has come... Did it really died? Any help, please!
Hello people,
I suppose this problem isn't directly concerning only my Topaz, that's why i place this threat in general forum.
Since about two hours my device hasn't got any letters! Sent a mms to a friend, everything was fine. Later tried to write my girl, but only numbers/digits show up in the editor... I don't know what I have done... Maybe some more informations would be helpful. I flashed a different ROM to my device, but I think that isn't the problem. I haven't had used Tweak HD before, then the problem showed up and everything a found was because of this program. So I installed it, activated T9, then disabled it, but the problem is still there. I get this problem, when I use the normal phone keypad.
Could anybody help please?
THX
Alex
Can be closed!!! After the fourth or fifth softreset, it works again. Didn't change anything. But for whatever reason it works now.
Hi folks
Is there any app or way to assign password for hard reset.
I mean that, is there any software or registry edit that requests password when try to hard reset?????
For safety reasons.
thanks in advance.
I thought you needed to type in 1234 when you used clear storage. Pretty much all pda's have a way to hard reset with hardware buttons, anyway. Won't the code get wiped during the reset? I guess I don't get the point. If you're afraid of randomly losing data, backup frequently.
I would not suggest having a password, because sometimes your device can get stuck and you won't be able to type your password. It's happened to me a few times that I installed a program that caused my phone to stop responding to anything I pressed and all I could do was a hard reset.
The only reason i can see for having a pwd is to make the device totally useless to a thief. Trouble is by the time he discovers that even hard resetting requirers a pwd it's too late, you have already lost the device.
As for requiring one to actually hard reset to protect against accidentally doing it, personally i agree with the previous poster, not a wise thing as HR is a "get out of jail free" means of recovering an otherwise unuseable device. Been there and done that more than once.
So is there any way to do that????
i know the consequences of setting password while device dies but i need to answer some one and he doesn't care about this matter
so pls guide me if this possible
thank
deedee said:
The only reason i can see for having a pwd is to make the device totally useless to a thief. Trouble is by the time he discovers that even hard resetting requirers a pwd it's too late, you have already lost the device.
As for requiring one to actually hard reset to protect against accidentally doing it, personally i agree with the previous poster, not a wise thing as HR is a "get out of jail free" means of recovering an otherwise unuseable device. Been there and done that more than once.
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I agree with Dee here (although your friend isnt interested) i ctually forgot my login pwd on my works comp after a weeks holiday, so for that reason its not a good idea
Gettin back OT, ive never seen or heard of this, although nothing is impossible, it will mean a serious reg hack. For that reason we'll leave this thread open and see if someone comes up with a solution
Hello, its been a while since i've visited these boards as I've been happily working with my Orbit2 now for about a year, without issue...
Until today!
My situation is this; for the first time I felt I needed a 'lock' on my device as I am due to start training with the army on Monday. So I found the 'Lock' application that came with the device, windows mobile standard I assume, entered a password 'test' just to try it out...only to find on the password input screen there are only numbers available so i am unable to enter my password. I can't believe it allowed me to use a password I was unable to enter
This is a hugely serious issue for me. I need use of my phone and information stored in it during the next few days as i pack and prepare to go.
Is there anyway to bring up a letter input screen on the lock?
Does anyone please have any ideas how I can fix this ridiculous problem!?
PLEASE HELP!
After some deep digging, I have discovered that hard reset is the only option.
Seems I created an alpha-numeric password, but didn't select alpha-numeric in the options!
What a horrible error, I blame bad software design! Fortunately i have a backup only a few months old...