Anyone know if there is a way to disable the lock pattern/pin in FROYO when you connect to an exchange server that requires it? I know about Lock 2.0, No Lock and Flyscreen but those are just overlays and wont disable the built in lock.
When I was running the Desire Rom there was a trigger you could set up on the table that held that flag but I'm sure that was a SenseUI thing.
I did search but found a ton of threads on the apps listed about but nothing to disable the built in lock.
aad4321 said:
I dont have that with exchage for me. It probably from the exchange sever and cannot be over ridden I know that blackberrys do that as well.
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Your exchange server admin must not that set up that security feature. My work has it set up. It was able to be overwritten but FROYO changed some APIs and that doesn't work any more. I'm hoping someone has found another way to do it but after I Google it, it doesn't look like it.
aad4321 said:
I dont have that with exchage for me. It probably from the exchange sever and cannot be over ridden I know that blackberrys do that as well.
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Of course it can be overridden. If you have root you control the phone and the rest is just software. Here ya go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=655649
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When I set up my exchange 07 account on my tilt it forced me to set a password lock on my phone. Honestly I don't have many security concerns with my mobile, and would like to bypass it because it's annoying. Is there a workaround for the password lock?
Set your lock to only prompt you after 24 hours of inactivity.
On the flip side, with WM6.5, the lock screen is much more useful.
lordxiagan said:
When I set up my exchange 07 account on my tilt it forced me to set a password lock on my phone. Honestly I don't have many security concerns with my mobile, and would like to bypass it because it's annoying. Is there a workaround for the password lock?
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Search....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317107
lordxiagan said:
When I set up my exchange 07 account on my tilt it forced me to set a password lock on my phone. Honestly I don't have many security concerns with my mobile, and would like to bypass it because it's annoying. Is there a workaround for the password lock?
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Is this your employers Exchange server? If so, they might have concerns about security (or they wouldn't be enforcing that policy).
The short answer is no, you can't bypass that password lock. Not if it's set on the Exchange server to enforce it. That's the only things that's made ActiveSync acceptable to corporations. End users always think any security is annoying. That's why it has to not be an option.
TomH123 said:
The short answer is no, you can't bypass that password lock..
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erm.....didnt ADB100 just post a link showing how u can bypass the exchange security policy?
XtreMe_G said:
erm.....didnt ADB100 just post a link showing how u can bypass the exchange security policy?
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I did, but it can be a bit chicken-and-egg if your IT dept has decided to enforce the policy each time your device connects. I hate this big brother approach and little things like this can quite easily put people off using their devices to their full potential.
Andy
ADB100 said:
I did, but it can be a bit chicken-and-egg if your IT dept has decided to enforce the policy each time your device connects. I hate this big brother approach and little things like this can quite easily put people off using their devices to their full potential.
Andy
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"big brother approch"? Have you even read 1984? A company wants to secure their property and it's considered big brother?
You're connecting to their Exchange server, downloading their content and they know you won't take security seriously unless you're forced to. I suppose you think server passwords and firewalls are "Big Brother" tactics as well? The potential of the device can be negated pretty quickly with no security in place.
zanyee
zanyee stayunlock will do what you need, simple and easy.
TomH123 said:
"big brother approch"? Have you even read 1984? A company wants to secure their property and it's considered big brother?
You're connecting to their Exchange server, downloading their content and they know you won't take security seriously unless you're forced to. I suppose you think server passwords and firewalls are "Big Brother" tactics as well? The potential of the device can be negated pretty quickly with no security in place.
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Yes, if it was their phone. It isn't, its mine. They want me to be contactable via email all the time so they provide a push email service (both BlackBerry and Exchange Activesync) which we can use. This allows purely emails to be sent and received, however they enforce a security policy on the devices that connect. With BBC (which I currently use until I get ActiveSync'd) they enforce a 10-minute complex password phone lock policy that can't be disabled - have you tried to use TomTom Navigator in a car with a 10-minute lock? It's impossible - this is my main gripe
I fully understand the need for security but having stupid timers (10-minutes?) is just annoying and makes you not want to use the device.
Andy
ADB100 said:
have you tried to use TomTom Navigator in a car with a 10-minute lock? It's impossible - this is my main gripe
I fully understand the need for security but having stupid timers (10-minutes?) is just annoying and makes you not want to use the device.
Andy
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Valid issue...have you tried talking to you it Dept. about maybe changing it to maybe a hour or so ?
Hello,
i am running Froyo on my nexus one.
When configuring a new Exchange support, i get:
""SETUP COULD NOT FINISH.
This server requires security features your phone does not support""
Touchdown is working fine and reports the following securities features:
Allow simple password
Password/PIN required
Failed attempts 10
Min length 5
Min Complex 3
Timeout 1800 sec.
Password recovery
So the question are:
1) Which of this securities is not yet implemented natively in froyo?
2) Will it make it in the final froyo release?
If any of you has some inputs, it would be nice to share.
Thanks in advance!
Best
dico
Sorry I cannot help with your problem other than to say that I have exactly the same issue. I am really shocked that Google have not got this fully working. We are hardly talking about a new protocol here!
Whilst I have Touchdown and have done since moving to Android last year, this single problem has stopped my company giving everyone Android phones. Come on Google, get it sorted!
Maybe because the foryo we got is not final? Ever thought of a unfinisched product that you use, is not finisched?
jaapschaap said:
Maybe because the foryo we got is not final? Ever thought of a unfinisched product that you use, is not finisched?
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I think the point is that proper exchange support should really have been there from day one.
You just don't build a serious, high end smart phone with out proper integration to corporate mail (read exchange ).
Unless you're Google apparently.
badomen said:
I think the point is that proper exchange support should really have been there from day one.
You just don't build a serious, high end smart phone with out proper integration to corporate mail (read exchange ).
Unless you're Google apparently.
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Well, I work and live in the corporate world and use my phone as such a device. I guess I sort of agree with you there about the exchange support, I can't really legitimize why they didn't incorporate this almost-brainless sync method.
Does the security policy of your works exchange server require to have a screen lock pin, specifically mobile device security policies? I noticed, after wiping from Froyo(with screen lock pin prior to EX acct) to CM and then back to Froyo(no screen lock when configuring), that I received an error that setup could not finish, I assume this is because without having a screen lock policy set up on the phone the exchange server will not authenticate to my device. Check that out. Also, this is not a finalized product.
Mine works fine...and I manage the Exchange system here...no problems.
My biggest issue is that Google has provided half-ass support for Exchange, and this version is no different.
You can't even move an item to another folder from the inbox with the stock Froyo.
The Desire Rom has the functionality and ability, best interface and options compared to the stock Android.
The stock Rom sucks honestly...if it weren't for Desire...I would still have my iPhone, even they figured out, licensed and got working properly the Exchange support 18 months ago. Windows mobile devices have had this for 3-4yrs.
My first post! May as well make it contributory.
It is interested to note that one may need a PIN lock set up first *before* adding an exchange account that requires one... I know I haven't been able to get our 2.2 Nexus One's to connect to our corporate Exchange Server for my girlfriend and I.
Let me go change to a PIN lock and see what happens when I try to add the exchange account...
Yep, no go still. "Unable to open connection to server."
They really need to add a Verbose button to these error messages.
still not working
Hello,
I tried setting up a PIN code before starting up the email application.
Does someone knows where to find the email app log file to see what is not good?
Thanks in advance!
best
CJ
To be honest, I tried using touchdown (which as great as it is, still lacks a lot of features), then tried using the Froyo Email/Calendar apps... Nothing has ever worked smoothly with Exchange + Android. I ended up migrating my email server (luckly it is only a personal email server) to Google Apps, and I have never been so happy with the performance and stability.
It is a tough cookie to swallow, but gmail is much better then Exchange on Android...
Hi,
Just wondering, I want to bypass the exchange policy (annoying pin lock), so thinking of using those modified AOSP email.apks.
However I would like to retain use of the original email client provided by Samsung.
Anyway to say setup and sync with the modified email.apks but then use Samsung's read/compose ? Do they share same database?
Ideally of course would be a modified Samsung email.apk.
Cheers
fy
fylim said:
Hi,
Just wondering, I want to bypass the exchange policy (annoying pin lock), so thinking of using those modified AOSP email.apks.
However I would like to retain use of the original email client provided by Samsung.
Anyway to say setup and sync with the modified email.apks but then use Samsung's read/compose ? Do they share same database?
fy
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My initial response was: no. But thinking about it, there is a chance this actually might work. AFAIK, the way that the modified email apks work is that the creation of a "security device admin" is surpessed when defining an exchange account (don't know the exact name in english, but it's a device wide pin lock because you have to enter it every time you wake your phone from sleep). But apart from that a modified email apk creates accounts & databases exactly the same way as the original. One question remains open, and that is that an original email app might check for a policy also every time the account is actually used.
Also, a problem with the modified email apks is that they want to replace the existing email system app. If there is a way to keep the exisiting email app in place, and install a modified second one to just create the exchange accounts, this might work. I have been installing system apps manually through Root Explorer before, surpressing replacements, i will try tonight with email apps
Thanks. For your feedback. It is not exactly clear how the modified apks work. I would think that it would be easier to 'inform' that the policy is applied but does nothing to trigger the pin lock setting.
In this case it may work. Also head that Autostarts can disable this device administrator on some phones but sadly the 1.6.1 version on mine doesn't. It says do not have sufficient permission although already given rooted permission.
Appreciate if you could let me know how did your tests go.
Cheers
Phone rooted, I swear I read something a bit back about ripping the encryption settings out of the phone so that I can connect to an exchange server without encryption/pin lock, but I cannot for the life of me google it back up. I like the stock email client and would prefer to continue using it, and the older email client I installed refuses to work with the exchange server. Aaaaand I like the little email widgets.
Can anyone point me in the right direction here towards what I need to do to set up my exchange account without it enforcing encryption/pinlock/camera disabling? It's my school's account, and there IT guy simply told me they aren't going to disable it on their side.
And besides free wifi tether, if there is anything else cool we can do once this phone is rooted, that'd be nice to know, too.
punkonjunk said:
And besides free wifi tether, if there is anything else cool we can do once this phone is rooted, that'd be nice to know, too.
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AdFree is pretty sweet...blocks most ads (won't block audio ads in Pandora, though)
Yeah, adfree is pretty awesome. Titanium sounds neat, too, but I'm a little skittish about freezing anything that's needed to run the phone, and so far it's impossible to slow this thing down anyhow, but it may be useful. I can't seem to find an overclocking app that's tailored to this phone, but my understanding is that motomizer works and the internals are basically the droid RAZR. Tinkerin' with that a bit.
I found one thing regarding the email client and it's lock downs, but it suggested installing an older email client which apparently doesn't have a widget, and a fix involving adding and removing the account and then removing security settings, but neither of these worked.
siiiiigh. It's my schools email, which is really frustrating. I don't understand why they'd have those securities in place at all.
The reason that schools have hardcore security in place is because the teachers and administrators use the came e-mail client... it has to be secured in order to protect sensitive info.
I know that the fingerint scanner can be ued to unlock the phone and for paypal, web sign in and samsung verification but can I do anything else with it? It would be cool to lock specific apps. Are there any 3rd party apps that utilize the fingerprint scanner?
Ya, lastpass can be used to login to websites/applications automatically using your fingerprint. Really sweet not having to manually type in logins and passwords anymore!
And fingersecurity allows you to set up specific apps that require a fingerprint to get into them. It even has a in app purchase where you can set it not require the fingerprint while connected to specific trusted wifi networks and bluetooth devices. And even to set to only open when you use a specific finger, so not all fingers can open it if you don't want it to.
These are 2 that I have come to not be able to live without. I hope you like them as much as I do.
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Ya, lastpass can be used to login to websites/applications automatically using your fingerprint. Really sweet not having to manually type in logins and passwords anymore!
And fingersecurity allows you to set up specific apps that require a fingerprint to get into them. It even has a in app purchase where you can set it not require the fingerprint while connected to specific trusted wifi networks and bluetooth devices. And even to set to only open when you use a specific finger, so not all fingers can open it if you don't want it to.
These are 2 that I have come to not be able to live without. I hope you like them as much as I do.
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Dude fingersecurity is exactly was I was looking for. Thanks a lot! Do you know if there is an app to launch apps with your fingerprint?
Na, haven't heard or seen anything like that...don't exactly know how that would work exactly but maybe someone will figure it out.