Hi All.
My dad passed away and the task fell to me to look through his electronics for important documents.
I managed to unlock his sim by using the puk code but the phone has a secondary pin which i have no clue what it is. I tried to use the google "Find my Device" site to give the phone a temp unlock pin but the service reports it won't instate the temp pin because the phone already has a lock set up.
Is there a way to force the android device manager to accept the temp pin from Find my Device or maybe another way around the pin?
Thanks in advance.
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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?
I just purchased HTC Cingular 8525 and was told that it was unlocked. Well it is unlocked to the sim card that it arrived to me with, but when I put my sim card (from different carrier) in it, it asked for the pass code. Being an idiot to all of this, I started trying to put the number in that would unlock my old phone.
After a lot of searching, I found that I only have so many tries to unlock and then it is bricked. Okay, my screen says "you have tried 5 times, please wait until timeout". Does that mean that I have bricked it? I paid for someone to give me the code but the screen still says the above. There is a box for entering the code and the curser is flashing and it will allow me to input the number, but when I press enter nothing changes.
Is it bricked or just still locked? What can I do to fix this? Please help an idiot before I pull any more of my hair out on this.
Thanks,
Dona
Not bricked at all. Just locked, you will need the PUK code to unlock it probably.
Contact your carrier (Orange, O2 etc) and ask them for your PUK code
dona123 said:
I just purchased HTC Cingular 8525 and was told that it was unlocked. Well it is unlocked to the sim card that it arrived to me with, but when I put my sim card (from different carrier) in it, it asked for the pass code. Being an idiot to all of this, I started trying to put the number in that would unlock my old phone.
After a lot of searching, I found that I only have so many tries to unlock and then it is bricked. Okay, my screen says "you have tried 5 times, please wait until timeout". Does that mean that I have bricked it? I paid for someone to give me the code but the screen still says the above. There is a box for entering the code and the curser is flashing and it will allow me to input the number, but when I press enter nothing changes.
Is it bricked or just still locked? What can I do to fix this? Please help an idiot before I pull any more of my hair out on this.
Thanks,
Dona
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You will have to call your carrier. Be carefull because if you enter the wrong code to many times, you'll fry the sim card. So, if you cant get the puk code from the carrier, you'll have to replace the sim.
Just so ya know, the PUK code is relative to the sim card security. It just means what it's been asking for is YOUR pin code that you would at some time have applied to your sim card to secure it from prying eyes. Any phone you put your sim card in should ask for it each time the phone is turned on.
The other code that is a possibility here is if the previous owner of the HTC entered a security code to prevent other sim cards being used in their phone. It may be worth contacting the person you got the phone off and asking them for the PHONE security code they would have set.
I must say that it seems unusual for a second hand phone to be sold with an old sim still in it. The sim card is the previous owners personal account so any info left on it might also be available for you to access. I'd certainly not sell a phone without making sure the old personal data had been removed (including the sim, even if it was no longer activated).
my 8525 needed an eight digit number my code number was four digits So four 0's in front of it did the trick
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if update from original ROM and brick in 11%
if update radio brick in 0%
Help me please...
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?
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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