I use a pin (numerics) to protect the data on my MDA vario 2. I type in this pin using the stylus keyboard. Anyway, I saw that the Swisscom version uses a touchscreen input panel to type in the pin for the PPC. Does anybody know how to get this done with the MDA Vario 2?
Try going in to the Pin's setting area, there should be a radio button or something for making the password stronger. The V.keyboard u see is for letters input.
The Swiss guy is using a numeric code to protect his device. A numeric touch pas shows up to enter it. That's what I would like to have. Any idea? Maybe a program in the Swisscom extented ROM?
Hi,
There are 2 ways to protect you data (not SIM PIN) on WM5 devices. They are 'Simple PIN' or 'Strong alphanumeric'. When you use 'simple pin' you will be prompted with a standard numeric input display. If however you use 'Strong alphanumeric' then you will get a text box to enter your password into and you either use the onboard keyboard or the slide-out QWERTY one.
I much prefer the 'simple PIN' for ease of entry.
Gav.
Thx GavinN, interessting: I use a 'Simple PIN' (it's selected) but I get allways a text box to enter your password into, so I have to either use the onboard keyboard or the slide-out QWERTY one.
I much prefer the 'simple PIN' for ease of entry, so any idea how to get it??
d.
Hey D,
That's interesting. I enabled it on my TyTN and looked through the registry but can't find the setting for where this is stored. I was looking at it a few weeks back so there is some sort of entry which you might be able to 'hack'.
I'll look again later and post another reply.
Gav.
THX! Looking forward ;-)
I get the simple pin with touch pad. Its been there from first use and is the sim card pin that I set up on my old phone before I upgraded. Not sure how you set up a sim card pin on the tytn. Do you have another handset you could try setting one up on?
It's not the pin for the SIM card. I use a second password to secure my device, and I uase only numbers (simple key settings). Now my device shows the keyboard and a text box to enter the key instead of a numeric touch pad, even after a hard reset. Could somebody post the registry entries of HKLM\Security\Phone\Skin with all keys and entries? Maybe I can look for differences to my settings.
Hi D:
--ROOT---
Folder: DIALER
Folder: PROGRESS
DWORD: Enabled = 1
STRING: ext = \windows\phcanhtc.dll
--DIALER--
Folder: landscape
Folder: portrait
--PROGRESS--
Folder: landscape
Folder: portrait
Lots of other folders under them but nothing 'Simple PIN' related.
Gav.
digger_de said:
Thx GavinN, interessting: I use a 'Simple PIN' (it's selected) but I get allways a text box to enter your password into, so I have to either use the onboard keyboard or the slide-out QWERTY one.
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Some suggestions. You can try selecting the security to the higher security (e.g. not "Simple PIN") option, save it, wait and reboot the system. Then, go into the security again, and try simple pin to toggle the settings, which may help.
And, also, as with Windows, and Linux, there are security concerns over the users level of password protection. As I know, for some devices, there are this coopoerate mode, which seems to be like the WindowsXP Professional Edition. Such 'higher-end' edition often has default higher security level (eg user cannot use short password, user password will automatically expire, etc). So, I'm wondering, does your phone shows any form of.. "Professinal" tag on it?
Hi G.,
looks same at my device. I will walk to a t-mobile shop to check another device.
No, no professional or else device.
I tried to use higher encryption, rebooting etc. and then simple pin. I always get an alpha input field and keyboard for entry, but never the numeric touch pad entry. I got no f... clue why.
Heureka, I got it: I selected simple password and entered 5 digits, resulting in no warnung or else and the keyboard for entry. Now I enterd exactly 4 digits and the numeric touch pad for entry appeared ...
Eh?
Typical Microsoft!!! Glad you got it sorted.
Gav.
Hi,
I've had a good search and can't find anything to help with this problem; basically when the key locak comes on, instead of the numeric pad on the screen to unlock, there is a text box, and the numbers are needed to be input with the stylus or via the main keyboard. This is realyy awkward while driving!!!! PLease help, how can i get it back to the numeric screen pad????
Thanks.
It's very simple.
When you set a numeric password consists of only 4 digits you will see unlock screen with big numeric buttons.
If the password consists of 5 or more symbols you will see what you can see now.
Thankk you very much! it has been driving me crazy!!
I'm working on an application. This application has several fields which will only have numerical input (Zip code, phone number, part #, etc).
This application runs on Windows Mobile 5 & 6 with a touchscreen and full keyboard (So basically Treo's and HTC phones).
To type a number on these phones, you need to hold down a Function Key, then hit a letter which corresponds to a number. It has been requested to eliminate the need to hit that function key, and have it automatically input the number.
I cannot hard code this because it's certainly not very extensible (Well, I could hard code it, but whatever)
I was thinking I could P/Invoke "keybd_event" the Function key, and it should work from there.
However, I cannot find what key code the "Function" key is.
And also, will this key code be the same across all phones?
I suppose one last note, if you know a better way to achieve this without using P/Invoke, I'm up for new ideas
Thanks for your time,
Dan
I'm afraid I can't be of much help here, but you for sure *can't* get a Function key code. There isn't. It's deep in the keyboard driver.
However, according to this, there's some hook you can ask OS for to convert letters to numbers. But with MS, it might as well be hidden from public...
There has to be some message that's sent to the OS when I hit the Function Key, I just (obviously) don't have Spy++ on my PPC.
I was looking up a few things.
Is there anything relevant contained in keybddr.dll?
Hello,
I've seen this problem mentioned a few times, but i've never found a fix for it. When using the 20 key touch pad to enter a password it locks you into numeric only and there is no way to swtich. I'm always forced to switch to the old school stylus keyboard.
What makes it worse is that for some reason if I try to enter text into the URL field in Opera mobile it also locks me into the numpad, forcing me to use the goto command or the old shool stylus.
I know everyone suggests the cootek keyboard to work around this, but I'd really like to fix the Touch Keyboard as I find the cootek one a little gaudy.
Thanks for any help!
j
Pretty please?
Sometimes when entering data in a form, the standard stock samsung keyboard is replaced by a numeric pad - containing only large numbers in.
I would like to activate this pad at will, since it's a lot easier to enter numbers.
Anyone know it is possible?
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Sometimes when entering data in a form, the standard stock samsung keyboard is replaced by a numeric pad - containing only large numbers in.
I would like to activate this pad at will, since it's a lot easier to enter numbers.
Anyone know it is possible?
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it is possible if the coder set the attribute for the text box, so that it display a numpad instead of ordinary keyboard.
Yes, that's what I thought.
It sure would be nice to activate it from the user side when needed...