[Q] security question - Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

If i lost my tf101 and i have set the screen lock password,
can the thief enter or crack into tf101 to see my personal such as android market, fourm account etc....

If it is a very experienced, then yes. Everything can be hacked...

Go to androidlost.com if you have google account. Using it and you google password you can remotely install and access your tablet.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

you can also log into the PC version of market
install Plan B and hopefully if the TF is still power on, it will send you location.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb&feature=search_result

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Security bug?

I had to reset my Google password this morning as there was some logins to Gmail that I didn't do. After changing my password from my computer I went to make the change in Android but couldn't find a means to.
I went to Google via the phones browser and was asked to login to Google which somehow fixed the problem.
It seems the browser has write access to the system password, which to me seems like a huge security risk. Can anyone else verify this?
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[Q] Changed Password, now can't get email on phone

Title says it. I cannot find a way to enter the new password on the phone. It just indicates errors synching, but does not offer to enter a new password, and I cannot find how to change it.
Any suggestions?
If its the gmail account password then your phone should automatically tell you that It can't log in to sync your contacts and what not then ask you for the new password..
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It is the GMAIL password, and it is not doing that.
I am getting a message "synch is currently experiencing proglems, and will be bak shortly". Now, maybe that is in fact the case. bit it is quite coincidental that it started immediately after I changed my password online.
....
In fact, I just went in and changed it back to the old password, and it synched fine, so it seems my phone is not operating like you indicate it should.
[EDIT]
You must login to the market. It then asks for the new password, and you are good to go. Cannot do it via GMAIL. Interesting...
[EDIT2]
By the way, it turns out that on that ASUS Tablet, you must do it through GMAIL, not MARKET. Exactly backwords. Go figure...
Lol that's funny. Its been a while sice I messed with it so I couldn't remember
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go to settings accounts and sync. remove your account and add it again with the correct password
mrevankyle said:
go to settings accounts and sync. remove your account and add it again with the correct password
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That requires a factory reset after...
mrevankyle said:
go to settings accounts and sync. remove your account and add it again with the correct password
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I had tried that. It will not let you because of all the things linked to the account on it. To do that you need to do a factory reset.

TF101 - unlockable, can I back up???

Hello everyone.
Here is my predicament. My daughter has a TF101 that is OEM with no root/ROM etc. The tablet has been offline for a few months now. We attempted to bring the tablet online last night and of course we forgot the unlock code. The "forgot password" option with her gmail account will not unlock the system as the wireless we had is changed out and the tablet can not contact the google servers.
Can anyone help with a way to unlock the system. Or a way to backup the tablet so I can reload.
Thank you
Tony
Excuse me, but I don't quite understand what you mean. Do you need access to your internet router? or google account? if it's your router you can look it up on any computer connected to it, or reset the router (hold reset button for 15seconds) and set a new password. If it's google then try recovering the password on a physical computer.
tsman said:
Hello everyone.
Here is my predicament. My daughter has a TF101 that is OEM with no root/ROM etc. The tablet has been offline for a few months now. We attempted to bring the tablet online last night and of course we forgot the unlock code. The "forgot password" option with her gmail account will not unlock the system as the wireless we had is changed out and the tablet can not contact the google servers.
Can anyone help with a way to unlock the system. Or a way to backup the tablet so I can reload.
Thank you
Tony
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Try this, just follow the instructions posted
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.curity.android.screenlockbypass
Thing O Doom said:
Excuse me, but I don't quite understand what you mean. Do you need access to your internet router? or google account? if it's your router you can look it up on any computer connected to it, or reset the router (hold reset button for 15seconds) and set a new password. If it's google then try recovering the password on a physical computer.
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OK. let me see id I can explain this another way. All I get on the logon screen of the transformer is to reset using your gmail account. The tablet is unable to reset as we type the gmail account and password with no results.
Any help would be great.
Tony
baseballfanz said:
Try this, just follow the instructions posted
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.curity.android.screenlockbypass
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I am unable to log onto the system therefore unable to install any apps from market.
Any other thoughts.
Tony
tsman said:
I am unable to log onto the system therefore unable to install any apps from market.
Any other thoughts.
Tony
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Can you access the Play Store from a PC? This method require you use a PC.
You can install app to your tf from your PC, just log into the Play Store with the same google account as your tf.
Find the app, click install, choose the device and it will auto install to your device. After this app installed, choose another app, any app and do the same. If it work your lock screen will be bypass. Backup your stuffs, do a factory reset to get rid of the lock code
From what I'm reading he can't unlock the tablet due to too many attempts. He also can't unlock it with the google account because it can't access his wireless router. That would also make him unable to install the app to bypass the screenlock. I'm not sure if there is any other way to get around it. unless you take the tablet to somewhere else that you had used wifi and hope they haven't also changed their wireless. Other than that a factory wipe is all I can think of.
Can you just set the SSID and password on the wifi router to a known good value that the TF is looking for? In other words, make your current wifi mimic the old one?
ADB might be a option too, although I bet that is a slim chance.

Whatsapp

Has anyone gotten Whatsapp working? I'm not quite sure how to make it work. I side loaded the Whatsapp apk but tablets aren't supported. Anyone have any idea/experience?
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T
Yup, working fine here, but...
1) you have to have had it installed on an Android smartphone first
2) have Titanium Backup available for making a backup of that install
3) send the backup to the TF700T
4) CRUCIAL: uninstall Whatsapp on your smartphone
5) restore the backup on the TF700T
Step 4 is absolutely crucial because Whatsapp disallows account-sharing-like activity -- i.e., you may not use one account on more than one device. They have banned users in the past for doing so.
As an alternative, you might buy an el cheapo prepaid sim from Tele2 or whatever. Just backup the previous Whatsapp installation to a safe location, wipe Whatsapp data, then uninstall Whatsapp. Power off, put that prepaid sim into your smartphone, reinstall Whatsapp and reconfigure and activate using the new phone number. Then backup again, transplant to TF700T, restore backup... et voilá. This route would enable you to restore the first installation afterwards, thus having two Whatsapp accounts. May come in handy, might be a nuisance -- that depends...
You can pm me if you need more assistance.
So I need to be rooted?
Also, using a different number really sucks, it's kind of a deal breaker... Are you sure that they just lock double Whatsapp accounts? What is the reasoning for that?
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T
Vo01985 said:
So I need to be rooted?
Also, using a different number really sucks, it's kind of a deal breaker... Are you sure that they just lock double Whatsapp accounts? What is the reasoning for that?
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T
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Yes, you need to be rooted. Currently, there is no way around either uninstalling the app on your smartphone or using a different cell number. I have heard of people having had luck for a while (i.e., Whatsapp would function as intended for a while) and then blocked out of the Whatsapp network all of a sudden (no warning issued). They do, apparently, register MAC addresses or IP numbers.
As you could imagine, one of the technical reasons for disallowing account cloning is the fact that every message just gets sent (and received) once. If you would use the app concurrently on both your smartphone and your tablet this could result in one message arriving on your tablet, the next two on your phone, the next on your tablet again, and so on, and so on, thus breaking up the chronology of the conversatio. Hardly convenient. The protocol just is not designed to accommodate multiple devices on one account.

[Q] Unable to Unlock (TF700T)

Hi All,
I've been doing a lot of searching and reading on the forums but haven't found an solution to my problem.
I've been tgrying to unlock the boot-loader of my tablet for days. I downloaded and installed v8 of the
ASUS unlock tool.
Everytime I try to use it, I get to the "Google Account Verification" step it says:
"Your password is not valid"​
I know I've entered the correct password. I've actually signed out of my google accounts from the tablet
and then signed back in just to make sure I wasn't fat-fingering it over and over.
Here're the details:
ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T
Android Version 4.2.1
Kernel Version 3.1.10-gb1a9af5
Build number: JOP40D.US_epad-10.6.1.14.10.20130801​
As far as I know, the tablet is absolutely stock (I bought it on e-bay)
If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.
I want to unlock, the install TWRP via fast-boot on the way to trying a couple of custom roms.
My search-foo is relatively weak so if I've missed an obvious thread, please forgive me.
atTHANKSvance!
Simeon
You don't have 2-step verification activ on your Google account, do you?
If yes, you need to disable it for this procedure.
berndblb said:
You don't have 2-step verification activ on your Google account, do you?
If yes, you need to disable it for this procedure.
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Brilliant!
You have almost certainly diagnosed my problem....
It's late here, but I'll turn off 2-factor authentication and try again in the morning.
I'll post again with my results.
That was my problem..
I didn't actually need to deactivate 2-step authentication. Google will generate an application specific password for those programs that can't handle the 2 step process. I generated one for the unlock tool and it unlocked on the first try.
That was it...
Instead of deactivating 2-step auth, I generated a new app specfic password for the unlock tool. I put it in and it worked the first time.
Thanks again!!
snevel said:
Brilliant!
You have almost certainly diagnosed my problem....
It's late here, but I'll turn off 2-factor authentication and try again in the morning.
I'll post again with my results.
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Thanks but it's just experience....
snevel said:
That was my problem..
I didn't actually need to deactivate 2-step authentication. Google will generate an application specific password for those programs that can't handle the 2 step process. I generated one for the unlock tool and it unlocked on the first try.
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I actually didn't have 2-step authentication activated...BUT...after reading this, I tried generating an app specific password for the Update tool, and worked for me. Thanks for the tip.
Here's another solution: (I couldn't get any of the above solutions to work)
After 20 minutes thrashing around in the jungle of Google settings I discovered that in the Google "Less secure apps" page of the account settings it says "Some apps and devices use less secure sign-in technology, which makes your account more vulnerable. You can turn off access for these apps, which we recommend, or turn on access if you want to use them despite the risks." So I changed the "Access for less secure apps" on that page to "Turn on" and - bingo ! - the Unlock app on my Asus tf700t accepted the Google account password that it had previously been rejecting and went on to unlock the tablet. Then I went back to the "Less secure apps" page of the account settings and changed it back to "Turn off", i.e. I restored it to the more secure setting.
Verily the Asus/Android/Google world moves in mysterious ways.
pacman65 said:
Here's another solution: (I couldn't get any of the above solutions to work)
After 20 minutes thrashing around in the jungle of Google settings I discovered that in the Google "Less secure apps" page of the account settings it says "Some apps and devices use less secure sign-in technology, which makes your account more vulnerable. You can turn off access for these apps, which we recommend, or turn on access if you want to use them despite the risks." So I changed the "Access for less secure apps" on that page to "Turn on" and - bingo ! - the Unlock app on my Asus tf700t accepted the Google account password that it had previously been rejecting and went on to unlock the tablet. Then I went back to the "Less secure apps" page of the account settings and changed it back to "Turn off", i.e. I restored it to the more secure setting.
Verily the Asus/Android/Google world moves in mysterious ways.
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I have tried this as well and I cannot get my tablet to unlock. I have verified it is registered within ASUS' systems, I have verified I do not have 2 factor authentication and I have less secure access on.
Does anyone have any other ideas how to get passed this Google Password issue?
Joe
Yes. Factory reset the tablet, setup wifi but no Google account, run the app, it'll work now
berndblb said:
Yes. Factory reset the tablet, setup wifi but no Google account, run the app, it'll work now
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I found that once I deleted my Google account on the tablet I was able to complete the bootloader unlock.
Thanks for the assistance.
JoeArech said:
I found that once I deleted my Google account on the tablet I was able to complete the bootloader unlock.
Thanks for the assistance.
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Been banging my head against the wall for a while on this one.
That worked perfectly... and without having to factory reset. Thanks!!!
charlygordon said:
Been banging my head against the wall for a while on this one.
That worked perfectly... and without having to factory reset. Thanks!!!
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I've been trying to unlock mine for over 2 years. V7 unlock installed, removed account, ran unlock tool, VIOLA! Success!
Now, what seems to be the best ROM to use is what I have to figure out next...... is there a solid KK or Lollipop ROM?

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