I recently had to add my corporate email account to my S3. I was required to add a PIN or password, which I wasn't real fond of, but I understood why so I did it.
Now, having been issued a work phone, I do not need my email on my personal device anymore so I removed it. However, I cannot remove the need for a PIN/password.
If I go into my lock screen settings and attempt to change to a different unlock type it notes that they are disabled by administrator, encryption policy or credential storage.
As a result I have removed all applicable device administrators (minus Tasker and Cerberus), cleared device credentials and removed my SD card as it notes that it is encrypted.
All of this has been to no avail as I still cannot change my lock screen type. Any suggestions on what is causing this issue? I asked our IT company and they said "Call Verizon." Um.... thanks?
Thanks for the input guys!
Bump. I would hate to have to wipe my phone to fix such a silly issue.
Halp.
Did you install something called device policy? We had to do this through our school email in order to be able to get our email on our devices. I also had the problem of not liking a security lock screen so I removed it. I don't know if this helps or not, but here are the steps, according to my school ITS website.
On your device, go to Settings > Security
Press Select device administrators
Uncheck Google Apps Device Policy
Press Deactivate.
Go to Settings > Applications and click the Google Apps Device Policy app
Press Uninstall to remove the application
sth84478 said:
Did you install something called device policy? We had to do this through our school email in order to be able to get our email on our devices. I also had the problem of not liking a security lock screen so I removed it. I don't know if this helps or not, but here are the steps, according to my school ITS website.
On your device, go to Settings > Security
Press Select device administrators
Uncheck Google Apps Device Policy
Press Deactivate.
Go to Settings > Applications and click the Google Apps Device Policy app
Press Uninstall to remove the application
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I appreciate the input by unfortunately did not have Google Apps device policy under my device administrators or installed applications.
I was however able to fix this by going to Settings > Security > Encrypt external SD card and unchecking encrypt. I was only allowed to uncheck this value after creating a 6 digit password though.
Hope this helps somebody. Thanks!
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There is a simple workaround on rooted phones for the Exchange security policy without having to replace the original mail app. I also posted this in the Android 2.2 Email.apk - Bypassing Exchange security policy - APK Attached thread but am making a new thread in case people have missed this very simple workaround. I am using it on an account on a Exchange 2007 server and I believe Exchange 2003 works as well. I heard from one person who did not have good results with Exchange 2010. All exchange functions work fine without any issues. I am using the stock email app so this only applies to the stock email app that forces a password security policy.
I am using an app called Autostarts found in the market (less than a dollar - I am not the developer) that allows disabling the exchange policy on restart. The setting can be found under Device Admin Enabled. Make sure you are in USB Debugging Mode before disabling the policy.
If you already have an Exchange account set up yet:
Install Autostarts from the Android Market and run. Find and click the Device Admin Enabled entry and press Mail (Exchange security policies) and select Disable (acknowledge the warning about disabling a system component). Close Autostarts and reboot the phone. After restart, change your screen lock under security to whatever you want (None, Pattern, or PIN).
If you don't have an Exchange account set up yet:
Install Autostarts from the Android Market then set up your Exchange account and let Exchange force the password policy. After the exchange setup is completed, run Autostarts and find and click the Device Admin Enabled entry and press Mail (Exchange security policies) and select Disable (acknowledge the warning about disabling a system component). Close Autostarts and reboot the phone. After restart, change your screen lock under security to whatever you want (None, Pattern, or PIN).
Hmm, this doesn't seem to wok. After disabling in autostarts, I reboot, and the mail app tells me (paraphrased) "You must have security policies enabled blah blah blah".
This worked perfect for me on a 2.2 Sense rom on Evo. Good find & thanks !
EDIT: So after trying this on a newer build like the Desire Z port to Evo.. it will let you bypass it, but only until you go to sync your mail. After that fact it will re-enforce your mail security. But, it is still another workaround for 2.2 builds.!
Great method! Very simple!
I am not able to search for any apps in the market.
Usually ended up with 'no results'
When I attempted to install the app from website on my desktop, it's greyed out for TF101, but they are available for SGS 2.
The above error only appear recently, when I switch rom.
Can anyone help? Driving me nuts :/
Hi!
Had similar problem with my p-1010. I got it and logged in first time overseas in some god forgotten country. Nothing helped. Now my kid has it and there is absolutely no problem with it. But all the time I was able to search, download, purchase apps for my SGS?
I asked for help from google staff. Their answer was: (keep in mind, those shortcuts and paths are for SGT P-1010. Yours are probably different. But procedure is the same)
- Power cycle the device
- Turn Airplane mode on and off. This turns off and on Wi-Fi. To do so go:
Settings > Wireless & networks. Check Airplane mode. Wait a minute or two.
Uncheck Airplane mode.
- Delete and re-establish your Wi-Fi network. To get it back, you will
need the security type and SSID for your wireless network. To do so go:
Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi settings > Wi-Fi. Uncheck Connected
to "your network here".
Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi networks. Tap your network. Write
down the security type. Tap Forget.
Settings > Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi networks. Tap Add Wi-Fi network.
Enter the SSID and security type for your network. Tap Save.
Connect to your network.
If the issue persists, I recommend you perform a factory reset on your
device. Please note that this will reset your device to its original
state. While your media content (photos, music, etc.) will not be deleted
from the SD card, applications and their related data will be uninstalled.
Before the factory reset, make sure that your contacts are synced to your
Google account by logging into Gmail from a computer and verifying if your
contacts appear there. If your contacts are not synced, then I recommend
updating your sync settings at Settings > Accounts and Sync and choosing
either AutoSync or touching the account you would like to sync and
choosing "Sync Contacts."
Along with syncing contacts, please back up any important application data
and/or settings by navigating to Settings > Privacy and selecting "Back
up my data'"and "Automatic restore."
To perform a factory reset:
1) Go to Home > Menu > Settings > Privacy (or Phone storage; depends on
the device)
2) Press "Factory data reset"
3) Press "Reset phone" (or "Reset tablet")
After you perform the factory reset, make sure you sign into your device
with the same primary Google Account you were using before. If you have
any questions or concerns before performing the reset, or if doing so does
not resolve the issue, please let me know so I can continue to investigate
the issue.
Maybe this will help. If not, try Chomp.
thanks!
The steps did not help much, but chomp sure did. guess i have to stick to chomp for now.
augustiners said:
I am not able to search for any apps in the market.
Usually ended up with 'no results'
When I attempted to install the app from website on my desktop, it's greyed out for TF101, but they are available for SGS 2.
The above error only appear recently, when I switch rom.
Can anyone help? Driving me nuts :/
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That's because the apps that you are looking for are not available for your Transformer.
I'm not able to disable the PIN (or any security based lock screen; Password, Pin, or Pattern) and set the phone to just "Lock Screen" or even "No Lock Screen." The Face Unclock feature is also not available.
How do I remove the PIN (without a factory reset?)
UberSlackr said:
I'm not able to disable the PIN (or any security based lock screen; Password, Pin, or Pattern) and set the phone to just "Lock Screen" or even "No Lock Screen." The Face Unclock feature is also not available.
How do I remove the PIN (without a factory reset?)
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Are you connected to a corporate Exchange email account? If so, I think the Exchange admin can require the lock screen and not let you turn it off.
dneiding said:
Are you connected to a corporate Exchange email account? If so, I think the Exchange admin can require the lock screen and not let you turn it off.
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+1 This happened to me on my last phone, built in policy in MS Exchange. I think if you delete the account, you can get the options back.
dneiding said:
Are you connected to a corporate Exchange email account? If so, I think the Exchange admin can require the lock screen and not let you turn it off.
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Only company email account used on the account is accessed through Gmail.
The "Lock Screen" was the selected option, until I tested out the PIN. But then when I went back into setting, Lock Screen and the other two were greyed out. So I can't remove the PIN now.
Only company email account used on the account is accessed through Gmail.
It's because you locked the microSD card. I had the same thing right now with LG G2 Mini
See if any of these will work for you
http://en.miui.com/thread-5684-1-1.html
it's for rooted devices and I'm not rooted. just delete the micro SD protection
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How do you delete micro SD protection? Can this be done without formatting the card?
Of course, because you do not format it. Settings/security/decrypt SD card storage.
of course that option will be shown if you encrypted the card before
I think that also works with phone encrypt so maybe that's why you can't delete pin
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Do you have foxfi certificate installed?
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ChrisNee1988 said:
Do you have foxfi certificate installed?
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i did not install anything.
Did you ever solve the phone lock problem?
I have the same problem as the one you've described in this thread. Did you ever come to a solution on this one?
Settings - security - crecredentials storage - clear credentials
Worked for me
me 2
This also just worked for me thanks
MrRedPants said:
Settings - security - crecredentials storage - clear credentials
Worked for me
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jackie08 said:
This also just worked for me thanks
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Ditto. Clear certificates.
figured it out
I managed to sort the issue out by clearing the credential storage on my device. It may not solve the issue for everyone.
UberSlackr said:
Only company email account used on the account is accessed through Gmail.
The "Lock Screen" was the selected option, until I tested out the PIN. But then when I went back into setting, Lock Screen and the other two were greyed out. So I can't remove the PIN now.
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So I had this problem but only after this most recent update beginning may. And what I did was go to setting, then security, there should be a credential storage area. I cleared the credentials went back to lock screen and it wasn't greyed out anymore. I don't even know what activated this because all I did was add a pin just like you and then wanted it off and I couldn't. But I solved it. Hope it works for you. Good luck
To opt out, Go to Settings » Accounts» Remove Google and Corporate/Exchange account then restart device.
Now again go to Account and add Google account.
Now lock the phone and try to unlock with invalid PIN/Pattern for 5 times, next it will automatically open SnapView settings, there, remove SnapView.
That's it, Go to Security » Lock screen, enter the current PIN/Pattern, now it will display all other lock options....
100% working for Android Lollipop, others not sure!!
I'm trying to resolve an issue with the Android Lost app, and unfortunately the developer's forum page is closed. It does no good to contact him via email, as I always receive a canned response due to the many emails he receives. I'm hoping someone here may be able to help me troubleshoot.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled, cleared cache and data, but every time I reinstall Android Lost v3.26 on my wife's Google Pixel 3a running Android 12, I get the same following issues:
First, it opens and says Personal Notes, PIN code required. It will only take the old PIN.
How is it remembering the old PIN if I have completely uninstalled, deleted its data, rebooted the phone, etc? (Yes, I removed the Administrator permissions)
After entering the correct PIN, I get a popup, "Use Your Location", which I click OK.
It then instantly pops up the next window:
"Some Permissions are missing. For this app to work as expected you must accept the permissions. Let us go through them one by one."
I click OK. (It does NOT go through any permissions for me to select.)
Once again, instantly, another window pops up:
"Not all permissions were accepted. Most likely you have clicked deny and never ask again. To allow permissions you must go to your phone's settings menu and set it manually."
I click OK.
So I go to my phone's settings, and allow all permissions for the Android Lost app, YET, when I run the troubleshooter from the app, I get the results shown on the attached pic, Test12-Missiing Permissions.png.
I have also attached the log file generated by the Android Lost app.
Mike
Have you tried to reset your app launcher? I've had this problem and by clearing data in my launcher it reset my screen and all the apps pop back up.
Just tried by clearing the data and cache for the Pixel Launcher, but it made no difference.
One of the options for troubleshooting is to start from scratch and register your email again by clicking the button, Re-register at Google. Yet, when I click it, it says "Please Wait...", then 3 seconds later it says "No Google account found on phone - This app was NOT registered."
I can confirm, my wife's Google email is on this phone, so I'm not sure why it is saying that.
Hi,
I setup secure folder when I first bought my s22 Ultra (256gb Snapdragon) but never used it. My phone restarted today and I'm now getting prompts to sign in to my secure folder for notification purposes.
Problem being, I've never used it and completely forgot the password! Being incredibly clever I decided that having a recovery option on a secure folder was silly, so didn't setup that option, so now I cannot even reset the password or delete the secure folder.
Is there any way I can delete the secure folder without the password and without having to factory reset the phone?
Thanks for any help!
Try
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If you have forgotten your Secure Folder password, you can reset it by confirming the Samsung Account you used to set it up.
Open Secure Folder on your device.
Tap FORGOT PASSWORD.
On the next screen, login with your Samsung Account. ...
In the pop up box, tap RESET.
... "
raul6 said:
Try
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If you have forgotten your Secure Folder password, you can reset it by confirming the Samsung Account you used to set it up.
Open Secure Folder on your device.
Tap FORGOT PASSWORD.
On the next screen, login with your Samsung Account. ...
In the pop up box, tap RESET.
... "
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Thanks for the response.
Unfortunately I don't get a forgot password option as I didn't link it to my Samsung Account.
No option after you enter incorrect password?
No unfortunately not, just asking me to wait 2hrs before trying again. No buttons or anything.
I've used the wrong password so many times it's gone from waiting
2 mins
10 mins
30 mins
1hr
2hrs.
But none with a reset option as I didn't setup the password recovery by linking it to my Samsung Account.
Some ideas here. Pages 4 and 5
Secure Folder Not Accepting Correct Password, Password Reset Not Working
There seems to be a major Secure Folder issue with the latest phone update (see reddit posts piling up in last few days below) Secure folder is not accepting the correct password when entered, and when I click on reset password it goes to a black screen with a spinning white circle that never...
us.community.samsung.com
raul6 said:
Some ideas here. Pages 4 and 5
Secure Folder Not Accepting Correct Password, Password Reset Not Working
There seems to be a major Secure Folder issue with the latest phone update (see reddit posts piling up in last few days below) Secure folder is not accepting the correct password when entered, and when I click on reset password it goes to a black screen with a spinning white circle that never...
us.community.samsung.com
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Thanks for that. I had found that link before posting here - as I cannot do the password reset or get the phone to accept a password, I cannot get to the delete button unfortunately I cannot get to any of the secure folder settings without the password.
I've read factory reset will not delete/remove secure folder
raul6 said:
I've read factory reset will not delete/remove secure folder
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It would seem that unless I can somehow remember the password I set, I'm just going to be stuck with this notification for eternity.
I wish Samsung would go ahead and address these random secure folder pop up notifications since it's been going on for a while now..
dj24 said:
I wish Samsung would go ahead and address these random secure folder pop up notifications since it's been going on for a while now..
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I spoke with Samsung support and their only answer was to do a factory reset. Not ideal!
For anyone annoyed by the notification and unable to remove it (e.g. if like me you've forgotten the password), I've found a workaround to just get rid of the notification at least until Samsung sorts out the secure folder issue.
Download: Ncleaner (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.easy4u.ncleaner).
Use this to block the notification and then you can uninstall Ncleaner. Reboot your phone and you shouldn't have the notification come up
Bit of an update on this - if you enter the password wrong so many times that you have to wait 24hrs between password attempts, it finally gives you the option to uninstall Secure Folder. Issue solved for me.
raul6 said:
Try
"..
If you have forgotten your Secure Folder password, you can reset it by confirming the Samsung Account you used to set it up.
Open Secure Folder on your device.
Tap FORGOT PASSWORD.
On the next screen, login with your Samsung Account. ...
In the pop up box, tap RESET.
... "
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I'm having the same problem, but I tried that, but when I press forgot password, it just has a loading screen that never ends
would go ahead and address these random secure folder pop up notifications since it's been going on for a while now..
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I found a way to reset a samsung secure folder without password and sasmung account (i haven't linked the secure folder with samsung account) but you are going to lose everything in there. I used the Alliance Shield app (Shield Rebirth actually, needs a small donation). I could provide instructions if this is ok here
_DuDe_ said:
I found a way to reset a samsung secure folder without password and sasmung account (i haven't linked the secure folder with samsung account) but you are going to lose everything in there. I used the Alliance Shield app (Shield Rebirth actually, needs a small donation). I could provide instructions if this is ok here
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Is it possible to be done free?