Anyone heard of a password/data vault type app that uses a pattern lock similar to the main Android lockscreen? Most require typed passwords which are inconvenient. OI lets you use a number pad, but it's still pretty clunky...
I'm looking for one of these too. What's OI?
"OI Safe" is the name of the password app. Password Master - Trial also has a number pad unlock.
Pattern lock isn't secure enough for a password database. There is too limited a number of possible patterns, so anyone with the slightest bit of craftiness can brute force their way through it in under a second.
Thanks. the numeric keypad of OI Safe was just what I was looking for.
I don't see much difference between a random pattern of dots on a 3x3 matrix and a random pattern of numbers on a 3x3 matrix except the pattern is quicker and easier to enter. Even if this was less secure, I'm only intending to use it for storage of less secure data, using Keeper or another app for my most sensitive info.
There is a big difference actually.
On the pattern pad, each position can only be touched once, can only be reached from an adjacent pad, and has a maximum length of 9.
On a number pad, each position can be touched as many times as you want, they can be touched in any order, and there is no limit to the length of the pattern.
You will note that *every* possibly input, whether it be numbers, letters, weird symbols, patterns, or some combination of those, can ultimately be translated into numbers. Binary numbers, in fact. Which means that a numerical pattern, as long as it is of sufficient length and randomness, provides all the password security you could possibly want.
Does ne1 know to lock the numeric keypad so that I won't dial numbers by mistake?
I have password protected the phone with numbers instead of pattern. I have to press the numbers and then press go to unlock the phone. Is there a way to unlock the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 just like apple phones or windows phones by just typing the numbers. I do not want to press the go after the 4 digit number.
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I have password protected the phone with numbers instead of pattern. I have to press the numbers and then press go to unlock the phone. Is there a way to unlock the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 just like apple phones or windows phones by just typing the numbers. I do not want to press the go after the 4 digit number.
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That's one of the annoyances I had to get used to when I switched from the iPhone. I would type my PIN and space out waiting for my home screen to pop up. You get used to it though.
If you're rooted, you can use Wanam Exposed and under Lockscreen there is an option for Enable quick PIN unlock, that will get rid of the need for hitting go after the pin.
I'm wondering whether it is possible to change the lock screen for the Moto X when the number lock is enabled. I prefer using the number lock to the pattern lock, but I feel that the particular implementation on the Moto X is ugly and inconvenient design-wise.
Specifically, the dial pad that is shown to enter the numbers is too small, so that I keep hitting the wrong numbers, and having to press the enter button as well is annoying.
Hence, I was wondering whether it is somehow possible to
(a) Change the appearance of the dial pad to make it look like the pattern lock (i.e. with large circles around each number that take up the entire screen rather than just a small part as the current dial pad) and
(b) Make the phone unlock after the right code has been entered withough pressing enter (I understand that this is required as the PIN can be of different length, so this might be impossible to change).
I've tried a bunch of the available iOS7 lockscreen apps but they seem to be generally slow, require root acces, have to constantly run as a seperate app in the background and/or include ads. Is there any way to get around this by changing a few lines of codes in the system APK that displays the lock screen? (Full disclosure: I have never in my life seen a line of Android code, let alone written some, so I might be completely naive about how this works!)
Yeah, those apps are probably your only hope.
I liked the Note 4 which you could tap and it made bubbles! Any way to change the way it is set?