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How to disable required password on bootup

Ok so if your phone reboots or crashes, you will need to enter a password or pattern in order for the phone to work. Even alarms and everything won't work until you enter the password. That's pretty bad especially if you NEED an alarm
Some people mentioned turning it on and off and it would give you a prompt to disable it.
But for us rooted people, it doesn't give us that option. And our data is unencrypted right?
Is there a workaround if I install a custom rom?

The phone is only unencrypted if you unencrypted it. I didn't decrypt when I rooted, and a few days later TWRP was made to support the 6p without decrypting. I don't know about alarms not working when locked, mine works fine every morning and I usually after to enter my PIN or scan my finger when I tap on a notification. I was using Smart Lock with my Pebble Time, but even that still requires a PIN again after 4 hours (I'm not using it for Smart Lock anymore because the fingerprint scanner is so convenient).
If you're referring to the "please enter PIN to continue booting" part, go to security settings when tap your method (mine is PIN) and I am asked if I want to require a PIN to start the device. This will require you to put in your PIN while Android is booting up and won't proceed unless the PIN is entered. THIS would cause you to lose all ability to use the phone such as alarms or emergency calls. I would toggle this OFF ("no thanks"), and it will still require an actual PIN (fingerprint won't work) for the first unlock after a reboot.

fury683 said:
If you're referring to the "please enter PIN to continue booting" part, go to security settings when tap your method (mine is PIN) and I am asked if I want to require a PIN to start the device. This will require you to put in your PIN while Android is booting up and won't proceed unless the PIN is entered. THIS would cause you to lose all ability to use the phone such as alarms or emergency calls. I would toggle this OFF ("no thanks"), and it will still require an actual PIN (fingerprint won't work) for the first unlock after a reboot.
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I believe the OP is talking about how it requires pin on the initial lock screen after booting up. Not even finger print or any smart locks will bypass, you have to enter the pin. As far as I know, the phone is functional at this point, so alarms and calls/text etc should come through.

jasonftfw said:
I believe the OP is talking about how it requires pin on the initial lock screen after booting up. Not even finger print or any smart locks will bypass, you have to enter the pin. As far as I know, the phone is functional at this point, so alarms and calls/text etc should come through.
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Correct, as I stated in the last sentence of my post. My phone is completely usable in this state. I can read and dismiss notifications, but if I tap on one to launch that app, I have to unlock with PIN. Imprint won't work. I have a Tasker profile to launch Spotify when I plug in my headphones at work and it runs just fine after a reboot and before I've unlocked.

Lock Security Not Working

Is there anyone experiencing that no matter what lock I use, my phone always allows me to just swipe up once to unlock? I tried facial unlock & that works flawlessly, but I also added the secondary pattern and I still swipe up once and my phone just unlocks completely. I also disabled facial recognition with just primary pattern or number lock as the security and the phone still opens right up like no security is on it at all.
Anyone have a solution for this or does this seem like another bug for a future update?

Settings>Display>Navigation Bar>"Unlock with home button" - is this enabled or in any way related to what you're experiencing? Just a guess

james.chiocchio said:
Settings>Display>Navigation Bar>"Unlock with home button" - is this enabled or in any way related to what you're experiencing? Just a guess
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I just took a look and that option is off. the kick screen doesn't skip. I have to swipe up Everytime...let's me right in

Do you allow Smart Lock on a network or attached device? What you're describing is the phone's behavior when connected to a Smart Lock approved device.

BarryH_GEG said:
Do you allow Smart Lock on a network or attached device? What you're describing is the phone's behavior when connected to a Smart Lock approved device.
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I do, my Huawei watch

Swiissjokr said:
I do, my Huawei watch
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That's what is doing it. I had my Asus Zenwatch 2 listed as a trusted device in Smart Lock and my phone was doing the same thing. I removed all trusted devices and now I have to use my pin, finger print or irises to unlock my phone.
Sent from my wickedly kewl Galaxy S8 using my fingers. Duh!!!

It is set to not turn on the lock when the screen goes off for 10 minutes by default. You have to go I to lock screen, secure lock settings
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truckerdewd said:
That's what is doing it. I had my Asus Zenwatch 2 listed as a trusted device in Smart Lock and my phone was doing the same thing. I removed all trusted devices and now I have to use my pin, finger print or irises to unlock my phone.
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I removed it from trusted devices and now I'm back to normal thank you

Swiissjokr said:
I removed it from trusted devices and now I'm back to normal thank you
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Welcome
Sent from my wickedly kewl Galaxy S8 using my fingers. Duh!!!

So it's this a bug? Trusted devices should unlock only when phone is connected or in vicinity to them.

Also seeing this same behaviour. My home wifi is a trusted device and obviously it unlocks when I'm connected to it, but now for the second time I've been away from home for over 2 hours and it happily unlocks with just swipe. It only asks for biometrics if I reboot the phone. So it seems that there's a bug in trusted sources whereby it believes its still connected to wifi for some time after you disconnect!

I had to disable my trusted place (home) even though I was 100km away to fix the issue.

Lock Security not Working
It may also be the On-Body Detection is set to ON under the Smart Lock feature

The way I fixed mine after reading all of these posts was Settings>Lock Screen and Security>Secure Lock Settings>(Enter Pin or whatever security option you have enabled)>Secured Lock Time>, then add the diode to the first selection, "Instantly with the power key or when the screen times out." Then it prompted my security feature everytime the phone locked. When adding a timeout period if you lock with the lock button for some reason it thinks you did it by choice (owner) and figures you will open it without the need to input security feature. I have everything mentioned above off so, I was baffled as to why it didn't prompt my pin option. Now timeout or self lock (by owner) it prompts pin all the time. Hope this helps.

Note 8
Mine has the same issue. but i dont have any trusted devices. i think its a bug in the software. It only asks for pin or iris scan after a couple of minutes being locked otherwise i can just swipe and it unlocks which is ****.

Don't do hard resets, login to the samsung account, go to find my mobile, then unlock your phone from there, it will delete the password. It will tell you to use a pin for access to samsung and the phone etc. Add the pin into the phone, then unlock the phone when you're on the phone screen. This will wipe off the passcode, this is so your settings don't keep restarting (happened to my note 8). Next part is to clear credentials in the settings and reset settings. None your data, apps will be affected, just the theme and basic security stuff. Now you can finally reset your pattern to however to you want it to be. As good as gold! Hope this helps.

Thanks a lot. I finally figured out what the issue was. My On-Body-Detection in the Smart Lock settings was On.

Just go to Setting -->Lock Screen and Security --> Smart Lock. Deactivate all the options there.

I have a Moto E4 and I have a secondary pattern up and everytime I swipe up it unlocks it instead of making me put in the pattern

Why does my OP5 occasionally want my pin?

Running the standard OS - no unlocking at all.
My OP5 is set up for face unlock and fingerprint unlock. No issues there and both work OK. But every so often, I am asked for my PIN number “for additional security”.
Anyone know why and whether I can stop this happening?
Cheers
Alan

alan sh said:
Running the standard OS - no unlocking at all.
My OP5 is set up for face unlock and fingerprint unlock. No issues there and both work OK. But every so often, I am asked for my PIN number “for additional security”.
Anyone know why and whether I can stop this happening?
Cheers
Alan
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If for instance, the finger print sensor keeps activating incorrectly in your pocket, it will stop those attempts and make you use another method, e.g. Pin.

I have the standard flip cover - so it shouldn't activate.
Alan

It's a security feature. Makes you remember your pin and makes sure you are the owner of the device who knows the pin code.

I think its because op5 reboots sometimes automatically. Its random.

OK- thanks. [But mine doesn't reboot occasionally unless I ask it]

alan sh said:
OK- thanks. [But mine doesn't reboot occasionally unless I ask it]
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Stock Android asks for a pin every 72 hours of uptime.

NaterTots said:
Stock Android asks for a pin every 72 hours of uptime.
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Ah, thank you. That makes sense.
Alan

help! my phone is locked and i can't open it

I added pin lock because the gmail ask for more security or something like that.
i don't know why but i can't get access to the phone - my number doesn't fit and i have no idea what to do.
i don't want to loss all my data, this is non-root device.
anyone can help me please?

odedc said:
I added pin lock because the gmail ask for more security or something like that.
i don't know why but i can't get access to the phone - my number doesn't fit and i have no idea what to do.
i don't want to loss all my data, this is non-root device.
anyone can help me please?
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Unless you setup smart lock where it unlocks when you're at your home wifi for example. There isn't much you can do with a lost code and a device with a locked bootloader. I would try to do your pin but try the possible buttons you could have accidently pressed. Other than that you would need to boot into recovery and just factory reset. This will get your phone back but your data will be wiped. Maybe someone else has suggestions. Did you enable USB debugging?
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Yeah unless you have smart lock, usb debugging, and/or you are rooted you are going to have to loose your data

I always enable smart lock for my car, for just this very scenario.
I once was using "ultimate rotation control" and due to a bug, it would blank the lock screen (the phone didn't have FP reader, at the time) so that it was impossible to unlock. But then I remembered I had it set up to automatically unlock in the car. Lo and behold, the solution worked.

Frankenscript said:
I always enable smart lock for my car, for just this very scenario.
I once was using "ultimate rotation control" and due to a bug, it would blank the lock screen (the phone didn't have FP reader, at the time) so that it was impossible to unlock. But then I remembered I had it set up to automatically unlock in the car. Lo and behold, the solution worked.
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Awesome I'm definitely going to do this! Idk why I haven't before lol
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odedc said:
I added pin lock because the gmail ask for more security or something like that.
i don't know why but i can't get access to the phone - my number doesn't fit and i have no idea what to do.
i don't want to loss all my data, this is non-root device.
anyone can help me please?
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Can't you use the Find My Android thing that Google has to change the passcode on your phone? I'm pretty sure you can use it to remotely lock your phone. Then to unlock it you use your Google Password.

unlock with "OK Google" if you have Voice match activated?

Automatic Reboot a Cell Phone

Hi guys,
I was trying disable the fingerprint at night when i arrive at home enabling only screen lock with pin, i can't found any way to do that so i started to reboot the phone before sleep (when a phone is restarted, the first unlock screen must be by the pin code). Now I'm trying do this automatically, i want know if has some way to do this without root since the tasker need a root.
thx

You can always unlock the phone with your PIN or by fingerprint. But after a reboot it needs your PIN for security reasons.
You can set this condition without a reboot by enabling "show lockdown option" in "Settings > Security & location > Lock screen preferences". Then press and hold the power button and klick on "Lockdown". Now your PIN is required to unlock the phone for the first time - without reboot.

WoKoschekk said:
You can always unlock the phone with your PIN or by fingerprint. But after a reboot it needs your PIN for security reasons.
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What I want is exactly that, disable fingerprint (for my girlfriend spy reasons) but i want automatize a phone reboot before I sleep.
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skyter_666 said:
What I want is exactly that, disable fingerprint (for my girlfriend spy reasons) but i want automatize a phone reboot before I sleep.
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What kind of automatization are you thinking of? At a specific time? You can try the app "Tasker"...