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[Q] Encrypt phone without a lock screen?

Hello everybody I just encrypted my phone and chose I believe a 17 character random password which includes punctuation. It's hard enough to remember and I only wish to enter it when I power on the phone. However it seems I have to enter it every time the phone locks itself. I don't want that, it's a heck of inconvenience. I just want swipe to unlock, not no pin or no pattern and only want to enter the big as password when the phone turns on. I am rooted and on the latest AT&T firmware.

Same question. Please answer

It should be right in the security tab and I've tried it and only requires password whenever I reboot the phone
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[Q] Security PIN turning to password and locking me out

This issue has been addressed and no actual cause has been determined.
My pin lock pad which I usually use is replaced by a keyboard for no reason and my pin doesn't work anymore.
it keeps asking me for a password and after every 5 attempts I get a 30 seconds countdown.
To add insult to injury trying to restart the computer boots me into download mode.
It's very frustrating to say the least. Fortunately I have a twrp backup that I can restore but it's such a waste of time.
Has anyone else had this happen to them?

mrnovanova said:
This issue has been addressed and no actual cause has been determined.
My pin lock pad which I usually use is replaced by a keyboard for no reason and my pin doesn't work anymore.
it keeps asking me for a password and after every 5 attempts I get a 30 seconds countdown.
To add insult to injury trying to restart the computer boots me into download mode.
It's very frustrating to say the least. Fortunately I have a twrp backup that I can restore but it's such a waste of time.
Has anyone else had this happen to them?
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Not happening to me. but anyone who knows how to deal with this. So, just in case happened to us, we know what to do.

hemander said:
Not happening to me. but anyone who knows how to deal with this. So, just in case happened to us, we know what to do.
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Useless posts just to raise your post count are all over this forum, seriously if you cant offer anything remotely helpful why post at all? Also put your tongue back in!
OP can you extrapolate how to arrive at the issue and also please state device model, device status etc?

Are you using an application to set/unset your PIN?
I had this happening to me repeatedly, however it was accepting my PIN as the password so was more just annoying that anything else.
After some experimenting I found that it was Secure Settings (setting the PIN) that seemed to be the cause - somehow it was setting the PIN correctly the first time it ran and then subsequently it would switch to password.
I ditched it and instead setup my set/unset PIN via Pebble Locker (also using Wifi and other bluetooth devices to set/unset PIN).
After using it for a few days successfully, it locked once setting a password instead of PIN, and this time my usual PIN failed to unlock it. Luckily it was about 11pm and I knew that it would automatically unlock at about 7am the next day when the wifi was automatically switched back on - so I didn't need to reset or anything (although I got the impression at the time that you could unlock it via going to your google account somehow - but I can't recall the details and may have this entirely wrong).
I setup a Tasker profile so that I'd have a backdoor to disable the PIN by plugging it into power and checking if I'm at home at the time. Not the most secure solution, but hardly wide open either.

I'm having the same issue and it also appears to be a quirk with Secure Settings. Actually locked me out of my phone yesterday, had to return home where I had task to unlock phone in order to get back in.

NinjaBuzz said:
I'm having the same issue and it also appears to be a quirk with Secure Settings. Actually locked me out of my phone yesterday, had to return home where I had task to unlock phone in order to get back in.
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I've had this exact issue with Secure Settings

Locked out of Galaxy S4 using Unlock w/ WiFi

I have been using Unlock with WiFi on my Galaxy S3 using a 1 letter password with no issues. Please don't judge me for using such a simple password
Anyhow, I now have a Galaxy S4 and just got it all setup last night. Installed Unlock with WiFi, entered my 1 letter for the password, and now I appear to be locked out of my phone.
At the lock screen, when I type just 1 letter and press the return key, it just erases the letter like I didn't type anything. This continues up to 3 characters. If I type 4 or more, then I get a message, Wrong Password. So this tells me the S4 must only recognize 4 or more characters, yet Unlock with WiFi still allows you to enter one 1 character for the password. I have sent an email to the developer, but I was hoping someone from here might be able to shed some light on the matter. I 'm curious why or how this could have happened.
How do I get back into my phone? I have already tried the Android Device Manager, but my phone never receives the new lock. I know this because it allows you to enter a message that will be displayed on the lock screen, and I never receive the message. I also tried AndroidLost but no luck. It apparently thinks my phone is offline and none of the commands sent are successful on my phone.
Also, my phone is rooted if that helps. Just rooted it last night thanks to the help of this forum.
Thanks
Mike

Hmm... Try searching around xda for a lockscreen reset zip. I think it's I'm android software development

bennyboy78 said:
Hmm... Try searching around xda for a lockscreen reset zip. I think it's I'm android software development
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think any of that is going to work. It either requires a recovery partition to be installed or USB Debugging enabled.
I had USB Debugging on, but after I had everything setup on my phone I turned it off. I didn't install a recovery partition.
I have decided to just reset it and wipe it clean, since it's still like new and I have no data or pictures on it. Though I do dread fine tuning all my settings, reinstalling all my apps and setting everything back up the way I had it.
Anyhow, not sure how you reset the phone though. I thought after you enter the pin code wrong so many times, it will ask you to reset the phone. Anyone know the limit?
When I enter the code wrong after 5x, it tells me to wait 30 seconds, and then tells me a total of how many times I have entered the wrong code. I currently have entered the wrong code 30x and all it says is wait 30 seconds and try again.
Seriously, that sounds like it's going on indefinitely! If so, what can I do at this point?
I'm still waiting to hear back from the developer of the app that contributed to all of this.
Thanks
Mike

Quick ? about pin before boot option.

Hello guys. During setup my 6p asked me about having the pin checked before booting android itself. Am I correct in assuming having this on will stifle android device manager's ability to locate lock or wipe the phone in the event it is lost or stolen seeing how the rom never boots until the pin is entered. Seems super safe but at the expense of losing any chance of recovering it should it be stolen and still connected to data or lost by me.

RngrYogi said:
Hello guys. During setup my 6p asked me about having the pin checked before booting android itself. Am I correct in assuming having this on will stifle android device manager's ability to locate lock or wipe the phone in the event it is lost or stolen seeing how the rom never boots until the pin is entered. Seems super safe but at the expense of losing any chance of recovering it should it be stolen and still connected to data or lost by me.
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I don't know about remote finding and lock but I can tell you I had it for a little while and then when I loaded the last pass app it said I had to disable it for that to work so I did because I love LastPass
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Yes, if you have the option for requiring PIN to boot enabled, the device will never fully boot into Android and you would not be able to track it. The upside is that the thief would not be able to use the phone until that PIN is entered.

Galaxy S8 is soft locked (not rooted)

Ok this is going to be a nightmare to explain, my brother has an S8 on Sprint, his battery was low and turn on max power settings and enabled some sort of restricted app usage setting or something to that extent, after locking his phone he went to unlock it (he has a password lock) the keyboard to type won't pop up I'm guessing because he switched his default to Gboard, ok this is where it gets screwy and yes he managed to mess up this bad, I did some googling and realized Samsung find my mobile has an unlock screen option if you sign into it with your Samsung account on your phone, so I gave him my phone and he tried to sign in here forgot his password because he used a randomly generated password with lastpass, ok I download LastPass it won't let me in I'm not a recognized device, I think try the desktop site I get not the right location because he's not living where he originally set it up at, so I thought reset your Samsung account password and send it to your Gmail he can't get into his Gmail because again he used a randomly generated password with LastPass and he can't get into LastPass, id factory reset with Stock Recovery but FRP will kick in and he doesn't know the password.
Look I've done my fair share of rooting and roming and installing stuff I shouldn't have, but I've never messed up this bad, it's beyond what I can think of though, I've tried everything I can think of but any help would be appreciated thank you in advance
I've contacted Samsung support and tried explaining everything but they are just f***ing worthless, they kept thinking I wanted to reboot the phone when I was asking if battery saver turned off when the battery was full
Should also say he took the Oreo update whenever it dropped for the S8

Joe199799 said:
Ok this is going to be a nightmare to explain, my brother has an S8 on Sprint, his battery was low and turn on max power settings and enabled some sort of restricted app usage setting or something to that extent, after locking his phone he went to unlock it (he has a password lock) the keyboard to type won't pop up I'm guessing because he switched his default to Gboard, ok this is where it gets screwy and yes he managed to mess up this bad, I did some googling and realized Samsung find my mobile has an unlock screen option if you sign into it with your Samsung account on your phone, so I gave him my phone and he tried to sign in here forgot his password because he used a randomly generated password with lastpass, ok I download LastPass it won't let me in I'm not a recognized device, I think try the desktop site I get not the right location because he's not living where he originally set it up at, so I thought reset your Samsung account password and send it to your Gmail he can't get into his Gmail because again he used a randomly generated password with LastPass and he can't get into LastPass, id factory reset with Stock Recovery but FRP will kick in and he doesn't know the password.
Look I've done my fair share of rooting and roming and installing stuff I shouldn't have, but I've never messed up this bad, it's beyond what I can think of though, I've tried everything I can think of but any help would be appreciated thank you in advance
I've contacted Samsung support and tried explaining everything but they are just f***ing worthless, they kept thinking I wanted to reboot the phone when I was asking if battery saver turned off when the battery was full
Should also say he took the Oreo update whenever it dropped for the S8
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Why not just factory reset it then

adj998 said:
Why not just factory reset it then
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Because he can't get into LastPass to get the password for his Gmail so he won't be able to get passed FRP

Joe199799 said:
Because he can't get into LastPass to get the password for his Gmail so he won't be able to get passed FRP
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Ah I see what you mean. Well same thing happened to me but I had to wait 24 hours to logon to my phone so i didn't mess with FRP

adj998 said:
Ah I see what you mean. Well same thing happened to me but I had to wait 24 hours to logon to my phone so i didn't mess with FRP
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Yea I was just getting it couldnt verify I own the account so I just factory reset and I'll try to bypass FRP