On my Nokia 9500 I have a very small reboot utility that remembers the PIN. So you do not to have to type that in. The reset brings you directly to the startup screen.
Would be nice on my Jasjar, because, before using the new Skype, I still have to soft reset to get it working.
Huib
I changted the header of my question so it is more clear.
Why not just disable the pin? That would be much easier and as safe as having it entered automatically, ie not at all!
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vijay555 said:
Why not just disable the pin? That would be much easier and as safe as having it entered automatically, ie not at all!
V
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I understand your question. And I think I was not clear enough:
The software reboots without asking for the PIN. I think that is better said.
It is really handy!
So if you remove/put back e.g. the 9500 battery of course the PIN is needed again.
I am not brilliant, but not that stupid!
Huib
I changed the header now, so the question is more clear.
Hmm this sounds like a "warm boot". I don't think the PocketPC has such a mode. Just soft reset only, which goes straight through the normal startup process, requiring all PINs (SIM pin and OS password). These could be entered automatically (at least SIM pin), but again, that would remove the need to have the pin entirely.
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It could be possible.
Activate the program,
Program sets the phone to No PIN,
sets a file in StartUp folder to load a proggi that reactivates the Pin,
Reboots without Pin,
loads the proggi from Start Up folder that sets the Pin back on,
Delete the file from Start Up folder
Question is offcourse if it is programatically possible to alter the Pin On/Of function?
Would be great to have this option build into Pocket Plus Software Soft Reset
That would all be easy enough I think. SIM Pin can be done programatically I think. Could be scripted.
I think Wivit's dual sim does something similar. But, it's not done internally in the OS.
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I have a problem after the update WM6. The password is wrong after removing the battery or at a leg battery. I must install everything again (hardreset). How can this occur to become? With no password en removing the battery there's no problem, but the e-mailaccounts are deleted?
Rikkie said:
I have a problem after the update WM6. The password is wrong after removing the battery or at a leg battery. I must install everything again (hardreset). How can this occur to become? With no password en removing the battery there's no problem, but the e-mailaccounts are deleted?
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This is problem for me too; I don't think anyone has a solution.
Or can someone say otherwise without a complicated reset routine?
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Hi Guys..
The only way to skip this password screen taht i found was it:
Do a HARD hard reset (All data will be lost).
just soft reset first your device, than after you see the stripped screen, press the record and camera button quickly before the the version appears (radio,etc).. then you will see the three options..
enable kitl should be no
clean registry hive should be yes
format storage should be yes
to choose just use the camera and record to change the options...
No more..
I hope that it help.
Hi all,
I've been reading on this wiki/forum for a few weeks and finally yesterday night I had some time to install Prophet VIII on my qtek 200. I installed all apps I had running before and it all worked well.
Now I remember reading something about the "Lock" setting, but didn't exactly remember what and couldn't find it back either. I set it to prompt for a simple pin (3412) and even set my hint to 3412 in case i'd forget. After fiddling around a bit too much, things got messy and had to reset the device. Guess what, I got the device lock prompt and it wouldn't accept my pin code.
It also didn't retain clock settings (went back to 31/08/2006 12:00AM) and some small settings i changed in the control panel either. What's causing this?
I reinstalled everything, now everything works again but I couldn't find anything about this device lock thing, so i didn't enable it for now. Doesn't this feature work in custom roms?
Thanks.
This feature doesn't work with WM6...period.....
Has nothing to do with the cooked versions, but is a glitch in the original microsoft programming.
I'm using PDAViet Mysterious 1.0 and have got the same problem on the Lock setting after a soft reset.
After entered the PIN code, nothing would happen if I click the "unlock" button. It neither unlocks the phone, nor displays a error PIN messagebox. Nothing!
Soft Reset doesn't help. Everytime it asked for the PIN code, and I cannot unlock it since the unlock button seems useless.
At last I had to do a hard reset to restore the system.
I found a unique combination when the lock seems to loose the password and wouldn't allow to access even after soft reset; however every thing seems to be working internally i.e. it receives calls; txt. But it does not synz with Outlook and unlocks.
This happens when I turn off the phone and plug it into the charger and then turn on the power.
Does anyone know any remote-registry tools that can allow to override the password.
Strange thing.. So if I went out and bought a brand new WM6 phone, the lock wouldn't work either?
My device has been working perfectly till suddenly & without any early notice the device has been locked with some kind of locking.
After reset the device goes into the locked status showed in the pictures, no option to do hard reset,
Tried all options, seems like one of the keys is defective and that’s why can’t perform hard reset.
The device is locked and the 90 minutes limit don’t go down, you can’t do anything.
However if there is a incoming call, you see it on the screen and you can answer the call.
Does anyone familiar with this lock screen ? how do i pass it & relase the device? please advise & help me ....
This is the password protection built into all versions of windows CE. (accesed form control panel/personal/security (or something like that, may vary with OS versions). It has options to lock the device after switching it off (going to sleep mode is considered switching off too), or after the device is not used for a given period of time. The whole point of this protection is to prevent unauthorized access to the device, so i think that without the password you're screwed
Did someone play with your phone before that happened? Maybe it was a "joke" by one of your friends? If you never set the password, anyone can enter the password settings applet and enable it. That's why it's always a good idea to set the password, even if you don't plan to use it -it is also required to enter security settings...
So, if you really want to HR, first of all make sure that one of the buttons is really defective - I just checked and you can't turn off the device by holding the power button when it's loched - this might be your problem. So try holding the comm manager and voice command buttons and press reset button on the side (keep the side buttons pressed until you get the "reset to factory defaults" question)
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If that doesn't work, try checking if the device connects to activesync when it's locked. It shouldn't happen, since it would be a possible security hole, but knowing microsoft...
If it does you might try to flash its ROM (of course you would lose all your data).
And if it does not and one of the buttons really is defective you might have to disassemble the device in order to do a HR (by shorting the switches' contacts with some metal object), but i wouldn't do this if you don't have some experience with electronics, since you might damage the phone if it's not handled properly with case removed. It might be easier to go to a GSM repair shop and have the switch replaced.
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My device has been working perfectly till suddenly & without any early notice the device has been locked with some kind of locking.
After reset the device goes into the locked status showed in the pictures, no option to do hard reset,
Tried all options, seems like one of the keys is defective and that’s why can’t perform hard reset.
The device is locked and the 90 minutes limit don’t go down, you can’t do anything.
However if there is a incoming call, you see it on the screen and you can answer the call.
Does anyone familiar with this lock screen ? how do i pass it & relase the device? please advise & help me ....
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Forget all that password bs. Lock your device with this rogram. Unlock by pressing both soft keys at the same time.
Ok, I have an AT&T 8525 version. It's been upgraded to WM6 using the official patch, and the only other thing I had running on it was SPB shell trial version or something. I set a lock password, where when ever you turned the screen on you had to enter a password to access the device. With the Shell trial thingie it would actually give you the clock first, which was why I was trying it.
Now, my problem is this. I'm an idiot and my phone got dunked in water. I took it apart, well, took the battery out, SIM card, etc, anything I could get out without dismantling the whole phone. Took compressed air and blew on it until my can froze up and I had to surgerically remove my fingers from the can o' air (ok, exaggeration there). Anyways, if I call the phone, it rings and does what it needs to. The problem is that I can't unlock the stupid phone now. I'm not forgetting the number, it just won't accept it. I'm up to 8 mins of wait time before I can reenter it as well.
So, my question, is there a way to break the lock code without destroying the data on the phone? If no, how do I reset the phone completely? Do I have to do a hard reset? Can I take it to AT&T to get them to reset it?
And one big question, does the reset go past WM6 and revert to WM5?
Thanks all.
anything, anyone?
Just having the same problem myself.
Didn't dunk in water, but found wi-fi was locking up so did a soft reset with the sylus in the reset hole and when it rebooted, it would not accept the password.
Apperently, this is a common fault with WM6 where if you reset (or lose power whilst settings are in cache memory) the phone 'forgets' your password.
Maybe this is what has happened to yours - the only way round it is a hard reset.
Must be a "feature" not a bug.
*sigh*
Makes me pretty hesitant on ever using the feature again. I'm having serious issues trying to get it back to Syncing w/ my desktop and letting me access the device as a folder. Right now it's just powering up but nothing else.
How to reset the password
Ive just updated my rom to wm6 2days ago. Now im having the same problem...my device was set to auto off after 3min then when turned on... password prompt...i know the password...but was not accepted. Tried to re-flash wm6 but nothing happened. Anyone plsss help!!!! Thank you very much in advance!
Unit: XDA IIs,WM6 from Helmi & etc (thnk u very much guys ...u know who u r)
Re below post...hard reset did not reset the password tnx anyway
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"Just having the same problem myself.
Didn't dunk in water, but found wi-fi was locking up so did a soft reset with the sylus in the reset hole and when it rebooted, it would not accept the password.
Apperently, this is a common fault with WM6 where if you reset (or lose power whilst settings are in cache memory) the phone 'forgets' your password.
Maybe this is what has happened to yours - the only way round it is a hard reset."
maria_terie said:
Re below post...hard reset did not reset the password tnx anyway
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"Just having the same problem myself.
Didn't dunk in water, but found wi-fi was locking up so did a soft reset with the sylus in the reset hole and when it rebooted, it would not accept the password.
Apperently, this is a common fault with WM6 where if you reset (or lose power whilst settings are in cache memory) the phone 'forgets' your password.
Maybe this is what has happened to yours - the only way round it is a hard reset."
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Hard reset worked for me. Only issue now is I can't get it to allow me to explore the device any more. It'll sync emails, etc, but won't let me access the device while connected to the USB.
The WM6 I used was the official version, not sure if that's a difference.
Hello,
Wondering if someone can help me, i have a very strange problem indeed!
I've just rest my device and when it came up with the Unlock screen to type in my unlock code (4 digits) I can press the buttons on the screen, and the code is typed in, but when I come to press any of the unlock buttons, they do the physical depress animation but it's as though they are not registering the click event.
This is on Mirri WM6.5 rom.
Any help would be appreciated, I also tried to use MyMobiler to use my mouse to try and do it, but as I last used it as Mass Storage, it won't connect as I can't get to set it as ActiveSync.
*Edit - Further update, if I dial 999, I can correctly press the cancel button, which means it's not that portion of the screen which is obscured, it's just the unlock, contacts, mail buttons that are failing to unlock the device. I receive no error messages when typing incorrect codes either.
Could it be possible a program has changed my password?
Thanks in advance folks.
D.
** HARD RESET DEVICE **
Too business critical to keep messing about, please leave comments if you have any ideas incase this happens in future.
I severely doubt your password has been changed. If you are unable to press unlock, it may be worthwhile performing a hard reset to see if this fixes your problem. Obviously backup contacts, emails etc beforehand as you should still be able to do this.
Hi,
I was unable to do anything with the device, so had to hard reset.
As the device was locked upon startup, the only thing i got was the enter device unlock code screen.
I know the changed password is a strange idea, but can't think of anything else unless my device is actually knackered... just finished hard reset now.
THEAnarch1st said:
Hi,
I was unable to do anything with the device, so had to hard reset.
As the device was locked upon startup, the only thing i got was the enter device unlock code screen.
I know the changed password is a strange idea, but can't think of anything else unless my device is actually knackered... just finished hard reset now.
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Any joy after hard reset?
All seems to be working perfectly now, have lost a few days of txts since my last backup, but otherwise all up and running... very strange indeed!!
Thanks for checking back