Hi all,
I've got a case sometime on Qtek 9100, which is protected by a password (in fact 4 digits) you have to tap when the device powers on.
Sometime, on the first screen , where i should tap the password, a countdowns appears, going from 512 to 0, then from 1024 to 0 and so on, and it is impossible to unlock the device (i had to hard reset!)
Do you have an idea of what this could be? And how to correct/bypass!
Thanks
Regards
N.
Well...
After two hours on Google, Microsoft and some good forums... I opened the manual which says "Each time you tap a bad password, the delays gets bigger until the device stops responding".....
Is this feature specific to Qtek 9100 or is it a Windows Mobile 5 feature?
Regards
N.
Related
Looking at an MDA Vario, on the homescreen you can "lock" the device.
I'd like to be able to PIN Lock my device by pressing a key, like I used to my C500 - or a button on the homescreen would be even better. The C500, just pressed the power button and chose "Device Lock" - nice and easy way of securing the phone, preventing anyone from using it.
Whilst I've got the timeout set on my MDA Pro, it doesn't always seem to kick in, and I'd like to be able to lock it manually, but can't find the way...
Can you help?
I agree...
The Qtek 9100 has this nice function as well. Why can't we use it in Universal as well?
set the time to 0 minutes, and then simply switch the device off. This will lock it.
lbendlin said:
set the time to 0 minutes, and then simply switch the device off. This will lock it.
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I think the point is, we want to have the "OFF and LOCK NOW" option to click whenever we feel like it, without the inconvenience of having it lock every single time we turn it off.
I see. Looks like a simple program would do that registers for a wakeup event, sends the unit to sleep and then blocks the device until a PIN is entered. However, that can be circumvented easily by a more sophisticated user...
What if a user of a Qtek 9100 (Wizard) could take the Lock Device.exe they have in their ROM's and give it to us???
Wouldn't that solve the problem? :?:
well, let's try !
Anyone??? All we need is the Device Lock.exe I believe from a Wizard...
There is no such file in the Wizards ROM. many have been looking for it, because we want to bind it to a hardware button and remove it from the Today screen. However, none of us have been able to find it. Posting it to you is therefore not possible, sorry.
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There is no such file in the Wizards ROM. many have been looking for it, because we want to bind it to a hardware button and remove it from the Today screen. However, none of us have been able to find it. Posting it to you is therefore not possible, sorry.
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I didn't know that my friend... That's unfortunate...
Thank you for your reply though
I don't even want to bind to hardware - just the software would be good for now!
I installed the latest UK TMobile Rom, and the lock device today plugin or something like that suddenly appeared... and works perfectly
With the new Orange ROM the locking kicks in whether the device is on or not. Previously, when I set the "Prompt for Password" after 5 minutes, that only happened if the device was off. If I had it on my desk, powered by AC or connected via Activesync, it would never activate.
Now, after the specified time has elapsed, up pops the lock screen.
I want to be able to have a password, but this is over-active! Is there any way to slightly relax this behaviour?
Regards
Christopher
Orange SPV M5000
I thought, it would probably be a good idea to put a password on my XDA Mini S, because I don't want people accessing all my data and my phone. So, I set my simple 4 digit password, set it to automatic after 15 minutes, and turned off my device. I turned it back on, and the device was unlocked. I thought i was going crazy, so I tried a few more times, disable and re-enabled the password, but this is just rubbish. Does anyone else's Wizard unlock itself if the time till the password screen should be activated hasn't passed? So it works if I set it to display the password screen after 0 minutes, but even then i'm worried it might do something, such as, press the "Yes" button when the device asks me if I wish to format my memory card which it is doing increasingly.
Anyone experienced this?
Thanks!
yupz, i can imagine what do u feel with this problem. it also happened 2 me in the first time i changed my ROM to AKU2. and i also feel a little bit confuse bout it. BUT...
then i think it's more useful, because when u put ur device on standby (push the power button) and in a while suddenly u need 2 use ur device again u don't need 2 fill in the password. it will automatically lock ur device only when u don't use ur device in 15 minutes.
so it works when u don't use ur device in 15 miutes and when u set it to 0 minutes, it will put ur device on standby directly after u don't touch ur device in seconds and it makes uncomfortable.
that's all bout my experience 4 the device lock. i hope it can help ur confusion. Gut Luck!!!
Hello! I encounterd this problem and i'm really scared because the pda is not mine. The thing is that when i tried to tap on the Messages icon - no rezult. i made a soft reset but after that i couldn't enter my pin code. reset again and this time i managed to enter the pin but then my charmer began to thing for so long that it didn't seem to end.What should i do? I hope this sounds familiar to you. Thank you in advance
Can be due to incompatible software issues, I guess. Since the phone is not yours, it is difficult to say what the owner has done on the phone, or probably it ought to be like that. As for the PIN, I heard that, it has an exponential time delay safety on it to prevent bruteforce entry, e.g. 1st time incorrect PIN = 2 seconds delay, 2nd = 4 seconds, 3rd = 8 seconds, 4th = 16 seconds, etc. Probably thats what it is doing?
Hard reset fixed everything
Hi,
As the title says, I bought a Dopod 838, second hand obviously, and when I power it up, it posts through the HTC screen, the Windows Mobile screen and the next screen asks for a four digit "Password".
NB I've tried this powerup with and without the SIM inserted, it seems as though the device is locked.
From the information the seller gave me, he never had a password on the device and it's not locked to any provider.
I've read through this and other forums, but I'm just more confused now than before, any ideas on what is going on and/or what I can do about working around this mysterious password? Is there a standard pass that the manufacturers use like other phones I've had?
I really appreciate feedback on this problem,
Cheers
Hard reset your Wizard by pressing CommManager + Voice Command and the reset hole.
The 4 digit password is set by previous owner.
PERFECT!!
Thanks for your help