I know this is kind of stupid but I was wondering if there was any sort of hack or registry edit so that there isn't a minimum length on a pattern lock. Android required that you use at least 4 Dots which actually sort of bugs me because I want my pattern to be super simple to avoid failed attempts. Just brushing across the bottom row, or maybe even just tapping a single dot. A one dot password might seem stupid but if you thing about it, if you handed a person your phone and said, "guess my password" nobody is going to be trying 1 or 2 dot combinations. Everyone is going to draw a pattern. Just wondering if this was at all possible.
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i completely agree with this request. i too would like to have a single dot password for my phone. this does not seem that unreasonable, there is no rule requiring a password. what difference should it make how long it is? i truthfully do not care to have a password on my phone at all for security reasons. it's incontinent and what does it matter if the phone is stolen? i just prefer that the password screen comes up this if someone just picks up my phone they will think it's locked and hopefully just leave it alone
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First I'd better cover myself - yes I have searched first and not got the answers!
I'd like to be able to lock my phone so that someone who comes along to try and use it is prompted with a password. Sounds simple, doesn't it?
However, I don't want to be prompted to enter a password every time I turn it on. This means I need to be able to choose to lock it or not when I feel like it. Having to set a password and unset it each time is a real pain.
The old solutions to make this easier - Picture Password, Kai's lock tool etc don't work at all on WM6.
The new, great slidy tool that looks like iPhone doesn't do it either.
Does anyone else have this feature or a workaround? It sounds so simple and it's what I do with my PC all the time. Thanks.
some older pda's had fingerprint readers for that purpos
I looked around, but couldn't find an answer to this. Sorry if this has been asked before; you can close this and point me in the right direction if so.
Is there a way to change the backup/failsafe after the face unlock without redoing the face unlock? What I mean is, can I change from a pattern to a PIN without resetting the entire face unlock? Or can I change the pattern or PIN without resetting it?
I ask this because I have had problems with people going through my phone in the past, so the combination of a new job (with lots of confidential emails, etc.) and crazy girlfriends has made me want to make my phone as secure as possible. While the face unlock + blink keeps it pretty safe, I want to change the backup pattern/PIN from time to time. People see me enter it when the face unlock fails, or once or twice I've had to give it to someone to use my phone when I was across the room or outside or something. Once someone has this pattern/number, the face unlock + blink security measure can be bypassed very easily. Since I do the Improve Face Matching a few times to make the feature better, I'd prefer to not have to redo this every time I need to reset the backup pattern/PIN.
Thanks.
(edit: bump)
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Bump. I'm guessing this isn't possible considering it's an old thread that has yet to be answered. Either that or it's in the wrong section LOL.
Maybe so, but I really want it answered.
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Occasionally, while on call, or when I open my phone, I get this message (image below)
"Password required for additional security"
I have fingerprint unlock saved in the settings. Instead of allowing fingerprint unlock, it requires entering my password/pin. I use a long and secure password, so it takes time to enter it and make sure it's correct. I already enter this password everytime my phone boots, so this additional request is extremely annoying and unnecessary.
Does anyone know Why this additional request is made? What triggers it? Or How to disable it?
Any help is appreciated
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I get this occasionally and I have a short pin. I think it is very much "backing" up fingerprint security since no security is perfect. Good security involves something you have "fingerprint" and something you know "pin" since it would be very unlikely an imposter would have both. I would be very surprised if there is a way to turn the random check of your pin off.
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Unfortunately, this "security check" can make your device LESS secure, because it happens at random times. If you're in the grocery store, at someone's house, or anywhere with security camera's, then entering your Pin/Password can be recorded on video. More businesses and people are installing camera's everyday.
In these situations using Fingerprint (instead of Pin) is More Secure. It's for this reason I want to disable it randomly requiring pin/password
hate this
Yep I hate the one that programed this security feature without an obvious way to turn it off, we don't no one telling us what is good for our security. I want it to unlock everytime I touch the finger print scanner, even at startup, and if anything I want it to lock down if I use a certain finger and then require a password.
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I actually have a pretty simple PIN just because of this situation otherwise fingerprint is just fine :/
can this be disabled? everyone can see me type in my pin when this happens
I just had an idea and I though I would share it... imagine you had a lock screen app. You can add one code 1234, it opens your phone. Another one 1345, that opens WhatsApp. All unlock the phone, but they do different actions. Maybe someone could make an app like this...
Or use different fingers on the fingerprint reader to launch different apps
I'm not sure if either is even possible tho... I like to think that unlock codes, patterns and fingerprints etc. are hardware based these days, in which case the phone will not accept different inputs for different things, just like there's just one truecrypt password. Unless the functionality already exists deep within the system.
I may be wrong tho, hope someone will chime in.
you can use the default lockscreen plus an app lock
Hello;
After looking for hours about this I'm very angry because of the stupidity of Google. Here I go:
I have configured fingerprint to unlock my phone because I sometimes can't or it's very uncomfortable for me to unlock my phone with a password / PIN / Pattern because using with one hand and I need to unlock as fast as possible all the time.
Now it comes the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life: no matter what, the phone will ask me to enter whatever I have configured for security, rendering my fingerprint totally useless. This is completely nonsense because it's not configurable by the user. The correct way of doing this is to enable an option for the user to choose: "Additionally ask every 72 hours for the password to provide extra security". Just a checkbox that can be enabled or disabled, because Google should think about the user. This security crazy paranoia is making devices less secure, because people who don't want to enter their password when they have configured fingerprint choose to disable security completely to stop being asked for the damn password.
But I'm asking here because I absolutely know there is a way to disable this, I don't care if it involves hacking / opening / soldering the device, anything to stop this will be welcome, because for me is completely necessary, or else I will have to either sell the phone or disable security completely. Entering the password on startup or when your finger fails 3 times is ok and full of sense, I have no problems with that, but every 72 hours because yes is an absolute no-no, sorry.
I hope somebody knows the exact formula to [email protected] Google / Xiaomi back, because they are simply stupid.
Thanks.
P.S: Please, if you are about to say things like "it's a feature" or "I like it, it makes more secure your device so it makes sense" or "somebody could cut your finger and use it", I prefer you don't post a comment, because I'm looking for a solution not an explanation on why it is like that to understand why the things are done like they are done, I hope you understand.
How about a factory reset?
bigogofthewest said:
How about a factory reset?
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I think this is the right decision.
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I think this is the right decision.
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This is bad design from Google. When I was in the crowd (e.g. inside the train), people surrounding me were looking at my finger typing the PIN as I was not able to unlock it using my fingerprint anymore after 72 hours. It makes the phone becoming very insecure. You should lock the phone with PIN only when I am not inside the crowd (e.g. during evening hour)