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.
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Hey all,
I've managed to get a far better response on my keyboard by making a simple change. I find it surprising that the keyboard issue only affects Pocket Outlook, I've never had a problem elsewhere.
Anyway, the fix is to change the keyboard repeat settings. In Settings/System/Keyboard, click "Repeats Setting" and increase the "Delay before first repeat". Now this is where it gets wierd...Outlook actually ignores this setting. It's labeled as "up/down key repeat setting" and it does actually control the up/down action on the Today screen in the same way as the same control on a regular computer. But it doesn't work on the hardware keyboard on the phone, and I expect that this incompatibility leads to the problem. It reminds me a lot of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch#Contact_bounce in electronics, basically you aren't getting a clean "key down" then "key up" event from each keypress.
Hope this helps some of you!
The problem in Messaging is that every time you type a letter into the message field the horizontal scrollbar appears and disappears. This happens every keypress. Since keypress = keyDown + keyUp, and the scrollbar appears during keyDown, the OS sometimes (quite often when you type fast) misess the keyUp event, repeating and repeating and repeating the processing of keyDown event.
The kb lag is present in ALL apps (try typing FAST in Notes), but most of the apps do not do anything specific between keyDown and keyUp, thus the lag is not as easy to 'notice'.
Yeah, I still get the scrollbar problem, however before making this change Messaging was completely unusable for me. I had to wait 1sec between key presses otherwise I just get gobbledygook on the screen. It was very frustrating and I assumed that's what people refered to by "keyboard lag". The scrollbar thing is a different problem altogether and just a minor annoyance for me now, a purely visual one.
At the moment I can type "the quick brown fox..." in both Messaging and Notes at full speed with no errors. Yesterday I could not do that in Messaging at all.
Yup... The MOST annoying thing about the kblag is the backspace-key auto-repeat :|
I just slided the setting to 7 and it's great now. Thanks fraser.
Does anyone knows if the password prompt after waking the devise can be changed? I had my corporate email set on my Nexus and the password prompt is annoying me every time i would like to change it like to prompt after 5 or 10mins is possible.
Are you on CM6? There are new settings to control the lock out time.
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Are you on CM6? There are new settings to control the lock out time.
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Yes I am on CM6 where are these settings? I been all over but can't find them.
Edit: Found the lock out time, what I like is to avoid the time it takes once locked to ask for password.
I am looking for this as well.
CM Settings > User Interface > Screen Timout Delay
"How long to delay before enabling screen lock when screen times out"
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Alternatively you can use the Power Controls widget and choose the "Screen lock" to do it manually.
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CM Settings > User Interface > Screen Timout Delay
"How long to delay before enabling screen lock when screen times out"
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Alternatively you can use the Power Controls widget and choose the "Screen lock" to do it manually.
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I think we may be talking about two different things.
I have a pin lock set up. After the screen turns off its quite a pain to type in a 7 digit number each time. I'm looking for a way to continue to keep the slide to unlock screen when the screen turns off, but to delay the actual pin/pattern lock for x amount of minutes
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I think we may be talking about two different things.
I have a pin lock set up. After the screen turns off its quite a pain to type in a 7 digit number each time. I'm looking for a way to continue to keep the slide to unlock screen when the screen turns off, but to delay the actual pin/pattern lock for x amount of minutes
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The slide to unlock and pin are joined at the hip. You can't have one without the other. (this was stated by android team member and it will not be changing anytime soon as it's a security issue).
If you use the settings I pointed to you can delay the lock combo altogether for X amount of time. Use the top for when the screen turns off by itself, and the bottom one for when you manually press the power button to turn the screen off.
(I know this because I use a pin code as well, and I just tested it)
I supposed you could pester someone over at CM and they'll look into decoupling it.
You can download an app from the market to disable/enter your password for you if you dont like having to enter it everytime you wake the phone. I personally use an app called Lockpicker so i dont have to type in my exchange email password everytime I wake my phone. Just a suggestion.
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You can download an app from the market to disable/enter your password for you if you dont like having to enter it everytime you wake the phone. I personally use an app called Lockpicker so i dont have to type in my exchange email password everytime I wake my phone. Just a suggestion.
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I like your suggestion, because our Draconian IT policies force us to use a password after wake always. I will look for the app now.
Thanks a lot.
Edit: this doesn't work with Froyo. Bummer.
See link: http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/tools/lockpicker_fwag.html
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The slide to unlock and pin are joined at the hip. You can't have one without the other. (this was stated by android team member and it will not be changing anytime soon as it's a security issue).
If you use the settings I pointed to you can delay the lock combo altogether for X amount of time. Use the top for when the screen turns off by itself, and the bottom one for when you manually press the power button to turn the screen off.
(I know this because I use a pin code as well, and I just tested it)
I supposed you could pester someone over at CM and they'll look into decoupling it.
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I see. I tried what you suggested and it is what i was looking for. I just have a habit of turning off the screen with the power button and never configured the second setting. Thanks for pointing that out!
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.
So, since the marshmallow update, my pattern lock condenses to the bottom left/right quarter or the screen, which, with my giant sausage thumbs, is far too small to accurately input my pattern. Does anyone know of a way to make it full screen again, or is there a setting I'm just too blind to see?
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So, since the marshmallow update, my pattern lock condenses to the bottom left/right quarter or the screen, which, with my giant sausage thumbs, is far too small to accurately input my pattern. Does anyone know of a way to make it full screen again, or is there a setting I'm just too blind to see?
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It's a setting. Go to Settings --> Advanced Features --> One-handed operation and the bottom toggle needs to be off. At least that's how it works on my Sprint Note 5
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