And no, this is not another one of those.. " I locked myself out threads".
I used to have a Treo 700wx which worked wonderfully until I switched to ATT and bought a HTC tilt. The Tilt being way faster and everything I could ask in a phone there is 1 small problem..
With the Treo, when I went to "lock" I could enter any sequence of numbers, either being 1111 or 1234, or anything simple. With the Tilt, its not so simple.
When I try to enter a simple password, it says it must be more complex.. The exact error message is "Password Error. Please enter another password. The password must be at least 4 characters and not contain a simple sequence". That's nice and all HTC, but considering my phone is in MY pocket 90% of the day, I don't necessarily need a complex password.
Ive tried looking on xda, all the possible software sites that Google has thrown at me, and I couldn't find a single post or thread about this.
I do know there are programs out there like the iphone slider, which is amusing. and a couple of other ones with patters and whatnot.
So my question is Does anyone know of a way to make it so I could have a simple pin with the default lock program? And if not, does anyone know of a similar program that does the same thing?
The reason I ask is myself a few other windows 6.1 users have also asked the same question. If anyone knows, please share so this community will know!
Thanks
- Felman
*edit* I just realized that this thread belongs in the "Questions and answers" area*
I'd suggest editing the registry, and changing the policies.
However, if you're synching with Office/Outlook Exchange servers and the server is actively pushing security restrictions to your phone periodically, you might have a hard time getting rid of said restriction permanently.
Thank you Bouvrie for your post, and I did find some useful information, but nothing to the lines of actually modding the registry to allow me to have custom passwords that are not complex.
Any more ideas?
So this part ain't of any help to you ?
Determining Password Complexity
Registry Key: HKLM\Comm\Security\Policy\LASSD\LAP\
lap_pw\PasswordComplexity
Value: 0 = Require Alphanumeric. 1 = Require numeric (PIN). 2 = No restriction.
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~Flo
You didn't say if it was to do with enforced security settings?
If so, this little app will help
http://www.zenyee.com/2008/10/19/stay-unlock-goes-20-after-two-years/
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So this part ain't of any help to you ?
~Flo
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I did think this part would work, but after looking into the registry, I found it was already set at 2. Because I do not have a password set.
brandall said:
You didn't say if it was to do with enforced security settings?
If so, this little app will help
http://www.zenyee.com/2008/10/19/stay-unlock-goes-20-after-two-years/
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I just tried this app, and it did not work the way we thought. Thanks for the try!
anyone have any ideas.. I can't seem to find any regedit keys that deal with this issue.
It's impossible BOB.
Is it me or does the DeviceID of a Viewsonic G always come back as the same thing on every device?
I'm running TNT Lite. Running certain market apps immediately lets me take over an existing account owned by someone else, and other apps tell me my deviceID is already registered and give me the username / email address of the person who registered it.
First, it's a bad idea for an app to identify the user solely on the DeviceID. Second, it's a bad idea (and probably against the Android specifications) for all devices to report the same DeviceID, I would assume.
I've also written an app that tracks mileage for tax purposes. I developed a web based license solution that allows a user to either purchase the "pro" version through the Google Market, or I can also "gift" it to people, identified by their gmail account.
When I gift it to someone, it allows them to register up to three devices associated with their gmail account and it sends me an encrypted one-way hash of the DeviceID. I've seen a couple of the same DeviceID's associated with users that my own gTab reports.
This also means if anyone tries to set up an app that does any sort of encryption key based on the deviceID that it would be easy to break.
So, long story short, is this a problem with the core Viewsonic build, or is this an effect of TNT Lite? Or are all DeviceID's the same unless you have a cell radio?
VEGAn 5.1.1 has the same problem... found that out the other night while trying to get Line2 going.
If memory serves correctly there's a hack involving the Android Emulator that I'm adding to my list of todos.
Well I found a post here by Chief Beefalo describing how to do it, but his post is wrong when it comes to the viewsonic.
It's stored in the database at:
/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
In the "secure" table is a row with device_id. Just update that from sqlite should do the trick. It's a 16 digit hexadecimal number.
Of course then you still need to generate a random number that doesn't still conflict with anyone else...
Now the security expert in me starts to think about how bad it would be to write an app that would roll through a ton of deviceid's and log into Pocket Empires (which only locks it down by the deviceid, no password) and trash people's accounts.
I believe you found the android_id ... check out this write up:
http://augendev.wikispaces.com/Market+Fix
start at step 18
And I can confirm this works. You can use a tool such as Android ID Changer (on the market) to update your id. Once that is done you're now free of all the other custom rom holders.
Line2 is now working great for me!
Here's another link to the same (basic) instructions with a better download link if you have problems with the one above:
http://www.smartqmid.com/wiki/index.php?title=Getting_Android_Market_to_work_with_2.1_v1
Can't I just modify the Android ID with a random 16 hex digit number? It might be a duplicate with 1 device out there, but that would be better than to be a duplicate with every ROM of the same kind?
The emulator solution takes all of maybe 15 minutes. You could also look into stealing 15 of the 32 bytes consumed by a guid. I'd like to find the code that supposedly regenerates the android id and host it on a web page. Curious to learn what its variability is.
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This is also what we used to do over on the Pandigital Novel Slatedroid forum. It was called the "ugly" Market hack. Maybe it should have been called the "secure" Market hack.
When I originally got my GTablet, I couldn't figure out how to port the ugly hack over, and eventually we found the other Market hack that we currently use. Also, interesting enough, I added the xbin folder into TNT Lite originally to get sqlite because of early attempts to get that hack working.
OK. So I tried the emulator path and the problem I have is that I ended up with a 18 digit Android ID instead of the 16. The Android ID application will not let me change the ID to an 18 digit number, only a 16 digit one. Any ideas?
I dropped the first two digits ... go figure
Btw I'm finding the same Id on every rom ... it is not limited to any one distribution. The only app this has visibily effected for me is line2. Seems fewer and fewer apps rely on this value... atleast on its own. Problem for us is some bring in the imei code and all the gtab is going to do is return zeroes there.
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Synman said:
I dropped the first two digits ... go figure
Btw I'm finding the same Id on every rom ... it is not limited to any one distribution. The only app this has visibily effected for me is line2. Seems fewer and fewer apps rely on this value... atleast on its own. Problem for us is some bring in the imei code and all the gtab is going to do is return zeroes there.
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So you just dropped the first two digits and it worked? Let me try that!
Thank you!
BTW, I am running Vegan 5.1.1 So this is not a TNTLite only problem. I am guessing that any ROM will have this problem.
Agreed. I've seen the same id on vegan 5.1 and chalkilin.
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A suggestion:
any coder, or anyone who can modify the "SettingsProvider.apk" can change the creation to something else.
On FolioMod and Elocity i changed it to be based on the "ro.firstboot" value, so any new installs will always be different, and yes it might conflict in any firstboot values match by the second or a minute in other parts of the world but chances are small.
its normally generating it from the ro.serialno value..
block machine shutdown with password, for security reasons. Is there someone who can do a 'simple (not sure lines of code to change this).
would greatly appreciate it if someone did that! http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/highfive.gif
[REQUEST} Block machine shutdown with password
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, for security reasons. Is there someone who can do a 'simple (not sure lines of code to change this).
would greatly appreciate it if someone did that! http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/highfive.gif
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I thought this situation if our devices are stolen, the thief is going to be a guy VERY smart strip power from the device. On devices that do not have removable battery would be really useful. And a photo that vai email to the wrong device password. Actually only the first would already be of good size. Sorry for the english: p!
"I wish I could say that I'd anticipated this possibility in advance
and created a fake password that unlocked a completely
innocuous partition on my phone, but I wasn't nearly that
paranoid/clever." (c) Cory Doctorow
Thats clever indeed.
I'm sure no mobile OS has been having that back to 2007 - certain plousible deniability solution for mobile devices.
Yet there is no apps with that kind of functionalities on the market.
Aslo while searching I discovered one interesting work which would solve storage side matters:
users.encs.concordia.ca/~mmannan/student-resources/Thesis-MASc-Skillen-2013.pdf
I'm not a developer and I have no clue how to:
- split and store user profiles on differect partitions
- be able to decrypt one of those on demand and allow user to login into desired one depending on the pattern / pin has been entered
Are you guys aware of any an existing solutions for Android?
Thank you!
Goodmorning everyone
..by being the owner of this device, and for which I am satisfied
I noticed (a bug?) upon opening the application
"Browser"
if you want to enter your own web account by typing
user and password, the keyboard provided by the app,
does not display the entire group of keys by concealing precisely
the most extreme ones (see key 1 or key zero)
and there is no way to
remedy this lack.
note well:
this condition is created only and exclusively during the input of user and password
in fact in other conditions, the keyboard is complete
I ask you:
"Is there a valid solution to remedy this gap?"
... maybe a different app or a more suitable setting ???
THANKS to all, however