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...
Related
I synchronised my XDA last night and it was fine. However, I need to re-synchronise it again today. It is password protected. I have switched on my XDA but am unable to use the screen at all. Each time I tap the screen to enter my password, nothing happens and I am unable to get into my XDA. Please can someone help. I have already done three soft resets with no luck.
Thank you.
If it was recently backed up do a hard reset and they just resynchronise your data
rgs
jim
Forgot my Security Password Help Please ??
Hi I have forgotten my XDA 11s security password do you know of anyway I can get into my phone without resetting or loosing all the data ? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Cheers Tony
@ Tony - If a password was easy to break, there would not be much point to it. Do you not have a recent backup through activesync? or have you got active sync set to rember your password? (if so, copy the data you need off then do a hard reset)
XDA ii s Password
I have forgotten my XDA 11s security password (not the sim password) do you know of anyway I can get into my phone without resetting or loosing all the data ?
if I went through all the numbers to find the right combination for my password would my XDA eventually freeze or block my XDA permanently just like the banks (or the SIM) do with bank cards when you get your combination wrong 3 times??
Well, for a start, read my earlier post - it is ot worth having a pword if it is easy to break.
As for the lock after x attempts, it is likely to have this, but probably be 5, and MAY lock for 15 mins and then give you another attempt, then lock for even longer.
IF you want to do this and spend from now to infinity trying all of the possible 10,000 combinations, then go ahead.
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!
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 -_-...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Edit 2: Here's another one... No real solution posted.
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsmobile/thread/88834ba5-b64a-45c3-8dc4-378ffc3a40d6
seckin38 said:
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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,
several persons in our company (including me), who are using WM 6.5 (cooked ROM) and connecting to company's Exchange server via Exchange active sync (e-mails are on server) reported that suddenly this message appears on the phone:
"All information on this device will be erased after the next unsuccessful password attempt"
It is not possible to enter password and do anything with phone (just reboot). Funny is, that nobody did any attempt to enter password before - phone was just lying on table and this happened.
After reboot hard reset on device is performed and also memory card was wiped.
If somebody has same experience - just write here, maybe there will be some solution in future.
And note - if this happens to you, before reboot remove your storage card - it will be erased
Info:
IPAQ 614c, ROM WWE 21215(5.01) from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=496283
Company policy - forced password.
This has happened to me twice now, once when i was about to go on holiday, of course wiping the 8GB's os music on my card, and again last night.
It really is a problem, at first i thought it was some malicious b*stard at work, but now i think it's an issue with the rom.
I'm going back to 6.1, can't handle this happening every other week.
Artemis P3300 running different 6.5 cooked roms.
Cheers!
There is possible solution - when such message appears, do not press anything just remove batery - we have simulated it once and phone remained unerased.
If anybody can confirm this just give me a message.
z
I can confirm workaround - it worked for several my cloeqes.
Why is this happening still remains secreat.
Maybe solution to mysterious "...unsuccessful password attempt"
I was having this issue exactly as described in the first post frequently. I may have stumbled across a solution. Turn-off Showaco's TitaniumWeather.
Go to TitaniumWeather Options;
- check "Use On/Off Time:" set "On Time" and "Off Time" to 0
- uncheck "Enable Auto Updates"
- Save/Exit, then soft reset
It's been 3 days and I haven't experienced this issue since. It could be a coincidence, but worth a try... maybe others can help verify.
Hi,
this may be a solution for you, but not for us, because nobody is using Showaco's TitaniumWeather. We (3 phones) are using SPB Weather and there is no such settng.
z
I've been experiencing this problem on almost every cooked 6.5 rom I've tried on my Raphael/Touch Pro. As far as I know the exchange server has to be configured for remote wipe and enforce hard security for this to happen. Unfortunally most of the chefs arent working for companies which are as paranoid as mine (and yours) which meens they are quite unaware of the problem.
This problem might be connected to the Activesync "85010013" error when trying to sync for the first time. The "85010013" problem has to do with some security registry settings that are wrong in most 6.5 roms used by the chefs.
Mine has happened twice in the last three days. I'm syncing with a BETA Exchange 2010 server which is pushing typical security settings (wipe threshhold, mandatory screenlock...) Both times occured after the phone was lying around locked (auto screen lock set at 15 minutes) for a while. When I attempted to unlock the first time, the PIN keypad would only take two digits then I'd get a wrong PIN message before entering the reaminig digits or even hitting enter. After 8 attempts at this, the device wiped. The second time, the phone wouldn't even let me enter in the PIN, but said it was going to wipe because I had exceeded the maximum incorrect entries. I'm starting to think the TF3D2 keypad is part of the problem when the device wakes and asks for the PIN. I've set the PIN keypad to classic as opposed to default and set the auto lockout to 24 hours. Once I finish backing up the Exchange sync settings and setting up my spare SD card, I'm going to set the lock time back to 15 minutes and see what happens.
Any solution to this problem?
Is there a solution to this problem? I am getting this about once a day. Thankfully it still allows me to enter the 10th password attempt, so I haven't experienced any data loss yet.
I am running a cooked rom with TitaniumWeather integrated and Exchange forced password. I disabled TitaniumWeather updates; it didn't have the On Time/Off Time options.
KriekV said:
I was having this issue exactly as described in the first post frequently. I may have stumbled across a solution. Turn-off Showaco's TitaniumWeather.
Go to TitaniumWeather Options;
- check "Use On/Off Time:" set "On Time" and "Off Time" to 0
- uncheck "Enable Auto Updates"
- Save/Exit, then soft reset
It's been 3 days and I haven't experienced this issue since. It could be a coincidence, but worth a try... maybe others can help verify.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Twice this has happened to me. One time it happened in the middle of me using the internet, the second time it was just laying on the table. I believe the issue is a 6.5 issue, since it never happened before I upgraded. I also use Microsoft Exchange. That also seems to be part of the issue. PLEASE HELP!
Hello dear xdadevelopers community,
So, a couple of month ago I sort of tried to change the password to my Sony Xperia Z3. I will proceed to explain step by step what happened, and hope that someone may have a solution to my concerns. It goes as follows:
1. I had a four-digit number password on my phone and it was working just fine.
2. Some day I tried to change my password and entered the pass-code in order to access the menu where the options to change the password are.
3. I worked around there but didn't seem to get anywhere- I was playing around on the security settings which would allow me to change the pass-code, without actually changing anything (my memory faded a little, so I don't exactly know the precise steps I took; I do, however, remember that it wasn't working properly).
4. I turned off the screen of my phone and found that I could not start it up again, although I entered the correct pass-code.
5. I tried this several times (entering my pass-code)- without success.
6. I went on the internet and found out that there should be options to recover my pass-code by e-mail or a security question- on mine there were none of these.
7. I thought to myself: OK, let me continue my research and try to find a solution by hard-reset (or something like that).
8. I tried everything I saw but it wouldn't work. I went to the store and they wanted me to pay.
9. I came here to see if someone could help me figure out what this is; personally I believe it's a software problem, and that the company should be held responsible for it.
10. If any further information is required, I am happy to provide it!
Thank you.
XDA Visitor said:
Hello dear xdadevelopers community,
So, a couple of month ago I sort of tried to change the password to my Sony Xperia Z3. I will proceed to explain step by step what happened, and hope that someone may have a solution to my concerns. It goes as follows:
1. I had a four-digit number password on my phone and it was working just fine.
2. Some day I tried to change my password and entered the pass-code in order to access the menu where the options to change the password are.
3. I worked around there but didn't seem to get anywhere- I was playing around on the security settings which would allow me to change the pass-code, without actually changing anything (my memory faded a little, so I don't exactly know the precise steps I took; I do, however, remember that it wasn't working properly).
4. I turned off the screen of my phone and found that I could not start it up again, although I entered the correct pass-code.
5. I tried this several times (entering my pass-code)- without success.
6. I went on the internet and found out that there should be options to recover my pass-code by e-mail or a security question- on mine there were none of these.
7. I thought to myself: OK, let me continue my research and try to find a solution by hard-reset (or something like that).
8. I tried everything I saw but it wouldn't work. I went to the store and they wanted me to pay.
9. I came here to see if someone could help me figure out what this is; personally I believe it's a software problem, and that the company should be held responsible for it.
10. If any further information is required, I am happy to provide it!
Thank you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi, thanks for using XDA assist!
First, please create an account so you can post in other forums.
Here is your device's main forum area:
(You should bookmark this)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3
After creating your account, please post your question here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3/help/sony-xperia-z3-help-thread-t3164306
The experts for your device are located there and will be able to help.
Good luck!