When i boot up the phone, it shows the please input your pin code thing..but then continues booting anyways? It used to allow me to put my pin code in first? Whats going on, and how do i fix it so it allows me to put in the pin before it boots?!
Same problem here.
Me too.
The quick and dirty fix I found is to remove the PIN request and set a phone lock code instead. The phone will always wait for the lock code on startup. The good thing with this is it locks the phone without regards to what SIM card you use. (You can call you SP and request a SIM card disable, right, but not a phone lock)
You can set a timeout for the lock. Additionally, whenever you connect the phone to a new computer it will lock the phone. Good anti-theft mechanism, but I'm sure it's easy to remove if you really want to.
I think it's a generic problem on this phone. I just push the call button again to get the PIN dialog up once more.
sad to hear this is a common problem as it poses a security threat..unless you take other measures. but inputting 2 passwords is quite annoying..ill just wait i guess... does anyone else have problems also that when on 3G the phone appears switched off if someone were to call and it doesnt connect properly?
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How can I solve problem with the PINPAD which is not showing at begining when the device is starting? My SIM card is secured by PIN code.
Hello
Why don¨t you simply use the built in keyboard
P-O
I think he means when you put a password over your SIM card and it asks you to enter a code when your phone first starts up...?
Buru898
In such a case. I belive that he has to perform a hard reset to recover a proper operation of the "phone system".
Marek1, what made you to come into this situation? Normally the phone-pad comes up by default.
P-O
Well yeah but don't tell me that tell him.
I guessed that because his post says PINPAD when the device is starting up.
But could be that the keyboard doesn't show up when he needs to enter the information for the PIN?
Hey Marek1 could you try and post a screenshot?
After having had my HD2 (4th HTC phone) for around 5-6 months, had to do a hard reset ftaer having a problem with the HD2 not recognizing my phone PIN #. Having now had the problem and doing a online search, seems this bug is a fairly common problem. I'd installed a couple of new Garmin maps (China mainland) and altered the gmsup file to read "LOCAL_VER=TAIWAN" from "LOCAL_VER=CHINA" which allows for the use of co-ordinates within GarminXT.
On the next restart of Garmin it started in Traditional Chinese, as opposed to
English or Simplified Chinese. No problem just changed the language settings to what I wanted.
Used the HD2 for several days without incident (and had not made any other changes or installed anything else), then used my Garmin on my HD2 to navigate a distance of around 380km (usually not a problem). Twice during the journey an advisory popup appeared with something like "Garmin unable... not enough memory... must shut down" - a message I've never had before, on any of my HTC's let alone the HD2.
Garmin then automatically shut down and I simply restarted it from my home screen shortcut, which it did without issue. The first time this popup message appeared I'd covered at least 150km. The second time I'd travelled another 80km or so. After it had occured again, I turned the phone off, waited 5-10 seconds and then turned the phone on again. The HD2 requested my usual SIMcard PIN, followed by the phone unlock PIN (simple 4 digit numeric PIN) and as usual I entered my respective PIN's (I use the same 4 digit PIN for both the Simcard and phone unlock). The Simcard unlocked fine, but the phone did not and I was presented with something along the lines of "incorrect password, please re-enter..."
In the end, after trying everything I could think of... soft reset, removing battery, trying PIN... 1234, 0000, 9999, and a few times getting "too many password attempts... enter a1b2c3 to continue". Once I got home a few days later I tried connecting to my two computers via activesync in the hope that they'd access what I wanted to copy etc. Unfortunately that did not work as both activesync connections asked for the phone to be unlocked, even though they'd been setup to unlock the HD2 automatically. I realised that inevitably I'd have to do a dreaded hard-reset. Pity as my last backup with Spb Backup and PIMbackup were done many months ago.
In my searches online I did find a couple of posts that made some references to users experiencing the same 'HD2 lockout' having installed Traditional Chinese and then having this problem. Though there seems there are far too many different situations that could also cause the HD2 to lock.
Also it's not the first time I've played or altered, installed GarminXT... and I don't think it's the first time I've had GarminXT start in Traditional Chinese. It maybe just coincidence... but for now, I'm trying to setup my phone back to the way it was after the dreaded reset.
password changed has happened to a fair number of people, and is probably nothing to do with the garmin stuff.
Never read of anyone finding a way around it other than hard reset, though.
i vaguely remember reading that the mentioned PIN issue is sometimes related to swype...might want to look into that avenue.
It's just happened to me. I installed swipe keyboard and done soft reset, then entered my pin but hd2 will not accept it. Any one found a solution to this?
Had this once too, though I didn't know anything about swype back then .(Didn't have it on my phone)
I simply turned off the device, removed the battery AND THE SD CARD then re-insert them after 5 minutes it should accept PIN normally (If not, then try to remove the sd card and don't re-insert it just boot) . (happened to me when i Just left Android DS V5 and went to WinMo, My device wouldn't accept the PIN)
Found this. Don't have a clue how to use this, but maybe someone knows and can shed some light.
Just check out the 'Solution' at the following address. I have not got permission to enter link or full web address.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768815
Hope this can rescue my hd2 and all who have the same pin lock problem.
I also experienced this problem that HD2 forgot my PIN. even 2 my colegues too.
back in the time when I got stuck on "enter PIN" screen, I found somewhere on the internet, that HD2 only forgets PIN, when you have exchange server set up. They say that it's not HD2's fault, but microsoft's. it's just a matter of time, when you get to this problem. the only solution is HardReset without any possibility backing your data up! since then I don't use exchange at all... never again in my HD2!
HD2 unlock Pin Code for SURE....
goto: HKLM/Microsoft/Software/Shell/Lockscreen/
check for DWord: Active and change it to '0'
check for Dword: Enable and change it to '0'
check for Dword: ShowLockScreenPicker and change it to '0'
reset your device and enter ur password and it will accept it.. now in settings u can navigate to Lock option and disable it easily only if u remember your code and it does not accept the code.
Hi all,
I have a HD2 which I've linked to my work exchange server. Email, contacts sync etc works great. What's not so good is the need to enter a 8 digit pin code each time I unlock the screen. I can't change the exchange policy because I work for a very large company.
What I would like to happen is to be able to lock and unlock the screen without entering a PIN code. I don't mind if it's been locked for 20 minutes entering a passcode. But at the monent it's everytime I unlock the screen.
The PIN code is required after either 20 minutes OR each time I unlock the screen. Annoying!!
Is there an app to help? PIN code after 20 mins is ok, just not each time I unlock the screen.
HELP!!!!!
Anyone on this??? It's annoying!!
I know there are tools that can break the policies. Just try google searching for exchange/corporate policies and you'll find it.
I've got a question for you as you're also having a pin code on your device. If I receive a call when the device has been locked I only get the windows mobile phone canvas after accepting the call and not the nice htc screen with the slider. If I get the call when the device has been unlocked before everything is alright. Is that the same with your device?
Yes the behaviour you describe is the same on my phone. The phone gives you limited functionality when you answer a call- but only when the phone was locked before you took the call. This is to prevent someone calling your phone and bypassing the PIN security check. You can unlock the phone during a call by entering the PIN code- but it's not easy entering a 8 digit PIN while on an important call :-|
Do you have a link you can post which will help me to break the exchange security policy on the HD2.
Regards
I am looking for a reverse thing to a sim-lock. I have a phone, which I would like to make sure of, that no other card can be used in it as mine- or a card that has the same pin as mine. I thought about a phone-lock for the sim-card. Once the cell is turned on, the cell enters the pin code without being noticed by me. I keep forgetting this damn number anyway. However, I don't want to miss the capability of the card being rpotected by its pin number, either when put in a different phone, or the functionality, that if someone wants to steal my phone, that it enters the preset pin number, therefore bricks the sim-card.
Basically this is what I want:
1. The phone enters a preset pin, without me or anyone else seeing it.
2. If another sim-card is installed, the card shall be bricked because the phone tries to enter the preset pin.
And last but not least: If someone has a sim-card that has no pin that is put into the phone, is it possible to deny the service the sim-card offers?
WaveSecure seems to do pretty much what you want.
Effectively it can lock out the phone and stop other SIM cards being used.
It was free to begin with, but I think it has now been sold to one of the big companies and may be chargeable.
WaveSecure is cool but!
I think that WaveSecure does part of the job, but the most imprtant one, is entering the pin number automatically. This however is not supported by WaveSecure.
Maybe there is another app anyone can think of.
Meanwhile I am rowsing git, maybe I find ssomething in there!
kevke said:
I think that WaveSecure does part of the job, but the most imprtant one, is entering the pin number automatically. This however is not supported by WaveSecure.
Maybe there is another app anyone can think of.
Meanwhile I am rowsing git, maybe I find ssomething in there!
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doesnt entering the pin number automatically defeat the point of having a pin?? If someone steals your phone, they wont need your PIN to unlock it??
Yes and no!
Assuming that I want the card only to work without hesitation with this particular cell, then I need the cell to enter the pin automatically, and when put into another cell, it the pin dialog ifres up, since the pin request is still in effect. I am not concerned about someone stealing the phone, it is insured against stealing. And assuming someone would use the phone with his own sim, without resetting the phone/ putting a different firmware on it: the phone would try to enter the preset pin, thereby bricking the card.
Anyway, the phone has been tempered with, in a way, that the cell can only call numbers which are for free for me, according to my cell-plan.
So having the pin still in effect is basically a precaution against taking the card out and set it in a different phone.
I don't know if anyone is going to believe this. I decided to test Android Device Manager's lock feature. Worked fine on my tablet. Did not work right on my phone. Now I am locked out of my phone. It would not accept the PIN I selected. I tried sending different PINs and it won't accept any of them! When I change the "message," it does change but the PIN doesn't work.
1) Is there any way to fix this???
2) If not, ugh, if I send an ERASE command, will I be able to get back into the phone?
Help!!
Thanks!
Paul
(I don't know how to prove this isn't a stolen phone - I have full access to it via Device Manager in my google account)
Talked to AT&T. I was screwed. FYI for anyone else... The Android Device Manager Lock may not work right on the AT&T Galaxy S4.
The entire point of locking a phone through ADM is to render it useless for anyone that has stolen it or "found and tried to use it" if it was lost. It's not intended as a tool to be used day to day or for any other reason than loss or theft. As such, I don't see why there would be a need to re-activate the phone after locking it through ADM.
However, if it simply won't let you unlock the lock screen, why not use ODIN to re-flash the firmware and start fresh with an unlocked lock screen?
scott14719 said:
The entire point of locking a phone through ADM is to render it useless for anyone that has stolen it or "found and tried to use it" if it was lost.
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I should have posted more details. Actually, you can factory reset the phone and it comes out of it fine, albeit factory reset. It doesn't make the phone useless. It just protects the data on your phone with the standard PIN lock screen. It's certainly no kill switch.
To add more info to this - it literally changes the lock screen setting to PIN lock. So, for example, on my tablet, I had a pattern lock. Even after I unlocked it with the ADM PIN I sent, the next time it locked, it was the same PIN lock. I had to go back and change it to the pattern lock.
This is unlike the 3rd party solutions I have used in the past (e.g. Lookout, AVG) which overlay their own lock onto the phone one time only. Once you unlock through their PIN system, the device reverts to whatever locking method you had been using (or none).
This is just what I learned from the experience. Maybe people knew this but it was interesting to me.
PaulQ602 said:
I should have posted more details. Actually, you can factory reset the phone and it comes out of it fine, albeit factory reset. It doesn't make the phone useless. It just protects the data on your phone with the standard PIN lock screen. It's certainly no kill switch.
To add more info to this - it literally changes the lock screen setting to PIN lock. So, for example, on my tablet, I had a pattern lock. Even after I unlocked it with the ADM PIN I sent, the next time it locked, it was the same PIN lock. I had to go back and change it to the pattern lock.
This is unlike the 3rd party solutions I have used in the past (e.g. Lookout, AVG) which overlay their own lock onto the phone one time only. Once you unlock through their PIN system, the device reverts to whatever locking method you had been using (or none).
This is just what I learned from the experience. Maybe people knew this but it was interesting to me.
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Thanks for the additional info. It's nice to know how it works or is supposed to work. Starting mid-2014, all cell phones sold in the US will be required to have a "kill switch" available. I wonder if it will operate in the same way. I guess time will tell. Again, thanks for the info.
I do wish people who don't read a persons message properly and are not informed on the subject wouldn't waste every ones time posting their drivel aye Scott!
You like so many others state the obvious, I did like your post Paul and thank you for taking the time to post
I have had issues with ADM and have found the application about as useful as Scott's drivel