I am wondering if there is a way to view the history logs for the knock setting?? To better xplain what I'm in need of : After using the same code for weeks suddenly all my unlock attempts failed. So then my bf (who knew the code but was always forgetting it) takes hold of my device & unlocks it on first attempt.But yet the code he used was backwards to what I KNOW had always been!! I am POSITIVE the code had to have been changed but he swears I am wrong. Is there a way I can access and view the system logs to see if he changed it and isn't owning up to doing so????????????? Please help...I don't like feeling as if I have lost my mind.
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I was thinking today what if someone stole my phone and like thought of a really good way of catching the culpret - i thought of something like every time you unlock your phone or dont unlock your phone correctly the phone automatically takes a photo with the front camera and sends it to your own email address!
just a thought though
maybe it exists?
i dont know
would be good at catching criminals maybe too?
WIMP - Where Is My Phone
That one for example?
This thread, for example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=479257
Hi,
I was wondering, can I put a code on my contacts and my messages?
I just dont like it when people are playing with my phone, how easy it is for them through my contacts and messages.
Never had this problem with previous phones (well it isn't a REAL problem, just a hindrance), cause there you had to go through at least 2 or 3 clicks to see them.
Anyone know any software I can install for this? Or how I can enable it?
Im running the stock rom btw, should it matter...
Put the main pin code in Settings & Lock or...
...don't give other people your phone!
I've never heard of something which locks just the items you mention, sort of goes against the point of an easy to use, easy to access phone UI.
I think I saw a Samsung phone which had it, everything was open on the phone, just the text messages required a pin. I saw it and loved it.
And its mainly now that I have a new phone that everyone wants to see it and use it, and I don't want to be prick and say no =)
As for a main PIN, I do have that.
what you got to hide!?
yes samsungs (well at least use to) enable you to set codes for individual programs. eg texts, pictures, videos etc etc. not seen another phone that does that though. tbh its good with have a lock code at all as alot of phones dont even have that!
best thing to do is turn touch flow off so its just the windows today screen, then they have to scroll trough your programs etc to get to contacts/msgs
I don’t actually need help with this. Its just a cautionary tale about a bug in the unlock program.
So after reading threads over the years of people who managed to forget their device’s username or password and thinking to myself – how on earth can you be so stupid? Guess what I managed to do. Somehow I managed to set an unlock pattern that I had no idea what it was.
In theory this is fine, as if you enter the wrong pattern 5 times a button appears that allows you to unlock with your Google account. However please note that this DOES NOT WORK at all. I tried every conceivable way of entering my username and password (@googlemail.com @gmail.com username on its own) and nothing worked.
After searching I note that this is a problem with Andorid (it seems to have been noted on a lot of droid forums). I understand that Google are aware of the bug but haven’t yet fixed it.
In the end I managed to hit upon the code (pretty much by random).
Be careful!!
EDIT - Google bug report here http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4784
More info here http://androidforums.com/support-troubleshooting/17319-forgot-unlock-pattern.html
Maybe YOU had this problem, but I forgot the lock pattern I had set and it let me login just fine...took a couple of seconds.
Not sure what the use of capitals was for then…
Ok for clarification – yes *I* along with some others definately have this problem. Clearly it is a problem but I don’t know the pattern of people it affects and doesn’t (UK vs Non-UK? Googlemail.com vs Gmail.com?)
I raise it because it’d be prudent for people to check before they actually need to use it.
I have a user of my app who is having a problem running it. My code launches another activity in the same app, and he is saying it is stopping before it should & returning to the previous activity, and he doesn't see any Force Close warnings.
I have run my code in the emulator & on my phone, I can't reproduce the error. We both run Android 2.2 on our phones, his is an HTC EVO & mine is a HTC Wildfire, as far as I can tell his specs are better than mine so shouldn't cause an issue - I deliberately chose a low spec for for my dev work so the code ought to run on anything.
As a bit of an Andoid dev noob (but been coding for years), is there any easy way I can make a special build of the app to send to him that would log any errors that happen ? I'd like to get a stack dump as well if possible, as I'm not sure exactly what routine in the activity its crashing out in. The activity that crashes is Gallery with 9 images in it, he can't flick through them or select one. I'm stumped as to whats causing it, any assistance would be gratefully received.
Thanks.
Why not point to your app and let others here try it on their phones? It could simply be other apps installed on his phone interfering with your app.
Long time programmer here too and when I get to where you're at (and I"m sure you've put some hours into this LOL), I go back to STEP 1.
I comment-out any and all code but the bare minimum; break it down to the Intent, startActivity and maybe a Toast message in the second activity. Even parse down your XML files to bare minimum.
See if that works. Then, ADD BACK ONE LINE OF CODE AT A TIME Run program and make sure it works. Yeah, it's painful, but in my 20 years of coding, I've learned to put my pride aside and to not "pretend" all the code I've written is correct.
Sometimes on bigger projects, I"ll change or add a couple of lines of code, run a back up and test. Rinse and repeat LOL. That way, I know I"m only a couple of lines of code from what "used" to work.
Good Luck!
Thanks both of you.
old_dude - Its a paid app. Only £0.99 but I don't think people would pay to help me. There is a free version of the same app (with less functionality) that this guy can get to work. If your really interested the 2 versions are -
Plink Log - Free Version
Plink Log Pro - Paid version
Rootstonian - agreed thats the approach I'd normally take if I was having problems on my dev phone or the emulator. The problem is that its OK on my HTC Wildfire/Android2.2 but on this guys HTC EVO/Android2.2 its having problems. I dont really want to keep sending him .apks with 1 or 2 lines extra enabled just to see if that fixes his specific issue. I was hoping there was something I could code to catch whatever crashes the activity & log it somewhere for me to analyse. When I do PC dev work, I have a global exception handler that catches anything I dont explicitly handle, and dumps the full call stack into a Log File I can read later.
I think I'll just have to take the existing app & put loads of debug code into it to save messages into a log file & see what bits of code are being called & what isn't & then get him to email me the results.
Thanks for the ideas guys, its always useful to get input from another perspective.
Dave
Hmmmm, just discovered setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler - might be able to use that with printStackTrace. Sounds interesting.
I read this article ... and our X8 it seems vulnerable to an remote attack usdd
read article and check this test with browser:
remote attack usdd test page
i use GingerDx v029 with stock kernel is the attack is successful, my imei code appeared, I do not know if with other ROM, you will experience also with your rom and report if you want.
the solution appears to be to use a new dialer called Dialer One, free on Google play.... or some Web users have reported that the code appears to be ineffective when run on browsers other than the default, which could be a temporary solution.
This is just blatant scare-mongering!
No issue found here!
...for me with GDX v029 stock kernel and stock browser .... imei code has appeared, and the attack is successful
:silly:
And did your entire world implode? No - it's a proof of concept page, that's all..
with all my respect, but I think you did not understand the significance of this test
...and if you open a page in a that he wrote 10 times your puk wrong and you did lock your sim? or cancel and your photos or your contacts
I do not believe in the Mayan prophecy for 2012 ....the world will survive .... but you may lose a good time or good memories
meditates
ciao ciao
Keep to legitimate websites and you'll have no such issues..
Being safe online = Don't be stupid online!
:cyclops:
nice speech, but the security flaw persists my friend :angel:
It's a known issue on many phones, seems JB is not vulnerable, and if I remember correctly neither are CM roms but not too sure about it..
Problem lies in the way the dialer handles those requests. But if it shows the IMEI it is not said the remote wipe using this vulnerablety is also working. You are potential vulnerable to it.
An option is to install a second dialer so a pop up screen will appear, the code will not be activated automaticly that way.
_Arjen_ said:
It's a known issue on many phones, seems JB is not vulnerable, and if I remember correctly neither are CM roms but not too sure about it..
Problem lies in the way the dialer handles those requests. But if it shows the IMEI it is not said the remote wipe using this vulnerablety is also working. You are potential vulnerable to it.
An option is to install a second dialer so a pop up screen will appear, the code will not be activated automaticly that way.
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I don't think CM7 is invulnerable ..I remember one of my friend saying that the test took him to the dialer and showed the IMEI
POTATO!!!!