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[Q] Exchange active sync forced security

A letter, a number AAAAAND A CHARACTER!!!
Jesus. This sucks. I cannot believe how annoying my phone has just become. Is there any way to bypass this? I cant even set the screen timeout or use a pattern.
Someone please tell me I can beat this.
Thanks in advance,
Jason

Can you explain the situation clearly?
I don't have any problems with my corporate Exchange setup.
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the only way around this that I'm aware of is to sweet-talk your network admin to relax the security requirements

Rayan said:
Can you explain the situation clearly?
I don't have any problems with my corporate Exchange setup.
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I have exchange mail, work and on my note. Until yesterday I was able to set my lock to a pattern. Suddenly I got a forced exchange server security update which seems to have encrypted half my sd card as well as took away the option of locking my phone with a pattern, or leaving it unlocked, as well as the inability to change the timeout setting on my screen. I can only , and must set a type written password which must consist of no less than 6 button presses, which must contain of at least one letter, one number and one character.
i spend half my day typing passwords now. it is absolutely miserable.
help. please sweet christ help me.
help.
jason

Wow that sucks big time!
We don't enforce any policy like that!
We only enable the remote wipe and remote lock and obviously those policies kick-in on a per case scenario.
Do you happen to work at NASA or Area 51? :-D
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If you do a search on XDA, there is a hacked Samsung email app that bypasses or removes the mandatory locking. Unfortunately it has not been updated for a while. think it's in the Nexus S development forum. Other than that you can purchase the Touchdown email app which only forces you to put in your lock code when you open your corporate email, and you can keep your phone unlocked. The drawback of this is the app is like $20 or $30 dollars.. Finally there is Enhanced Email in the Google Play store for $10 which has the ability to disable Exchange security policies.

Wife forgot password anyway around it besides hard reset?

Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.

Deca4 said:
Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.
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Think I've read somewhere that's it's possible via adb, but you'd need usb debugging to have been previously enabled before you got locked out.
That's all I got as a possibility....
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Thanks for the reply. Unless usb debugging is checked by default, I'm 99% sure she did not check it.

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Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.
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I don't see it happening I your case. It's kind of the whole reason behind a lock code. Factory reset is going to be your only hope.
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Deca4 said:
Phone is completely stock. Is there any utilities to get pass the lock screen password? Can the carrier unlock it or Samsung without wiping it out?
Thanks in advance.
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I dont know if things have changed. but before if you kept failing. eventually It would ask you if you forgot your password. Then you would it would email your gmail mail account with a link and instructions to unlock your phone.

a3plew said:
I dont know if things have changed. but before if you kept failing. eventually It would ask you if you forgot your password. Then you would it would email your gmail mail account with a link and instructions to unlock your phone.
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We've tried so many times and it hasn't prompted us forgot password questions.
I see under the stock recovery you can still side load through adb.

a3plew said:
I dont know if things have changed. but before if you kept failing. eventually It would ask you if you forgot your password. Then you would it would email your gmail mail account with a link and instructions to unlock your phone.
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I'm not thinking our phones do that.
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I thought I would post what I think was the problem in case someone else has the issue. I think it is Gmail verification feature. It maybe possible if you forget your phone password, you can use the Gmail email password to get in as mention on some of the post? AT&T also said she should be able to unlock phone with Gmail password. Details below.
Phone has been reset a few days from posting this. Good thing pictures are syncing with Google Drive.
I believe the problem why the password would not work is because of Google's verify feature on Gmail. For example when you go on to another computer and try to access your gmail, it will ask for a verification code and send you a text with the verification code. I believe this was the problem because once the phone was hard reset, the phone would not accept her Gmail account password. After diagnosing this issue, I decided to try to disable the verification feature on Gmail. Once it was disabled, I was able to get past the Gmail password issue.
To avoid from this happening again I put Androidlost which will allow me unlock the phone remotely. Great App especially being free. My wife doesn't want the phone rooted so this is the best solution for me plus I been using this App since the Galaxy S2 was released and never had an issue with the App. I actually had the app installed before she got locked out but never finish registering the phone, yeah that sucked. Lesson learned the hard way.
Thanks everyone who tried helping.

If u have linked your phone with android device manager you can simply change the password to whatever you want on android device manager on your desktop.
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[Q] Best way to hide settings (getting first phone for a kid)

Is there some app to manage the phone? Or perhaps there's a way to do this without 3rd party apps?
Basically we got our daughter her first phone ever 2014 MX and just in case I'd like to lock it down as much as i can. I don't mind her using apps and obviously calling but I did set a limit on data and in general i don't want her any any of her friends to potentially screw with settings.
Thanks!
Oh yea, running Lollipop

You could set her as a guest account. Not sure what that would lock down, try it. And you can set a data limit. Both in stock settings

I use this for all my kids tablets. Works great
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.applock

T-R said:
Is there some app to manage the phone? Or perhaps there's a way to do this without 3rd party apps?
Basically we got our daughter her first phone ever 2014 MX and just in case I'd like to lock it down as much as i can. I don't mind her using apps and obviously calling but I did set a limit on data and in general i don't want her any any of her friends to potentially screw with settings.
Thanks!
Oh yea, running Lollipop
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Get Cerberus. it's a great app.

N6 not visible in device manager

Hey guys,
I`am having a problem with my Nexus 6 not beeing recognised in ADM and on the web Google Play site in device manager though it shows up in Google Play and syncing goes without problems. Running full stock MMB29V not rooted.
I contacted Google to look if the issue is beeing caused on their end because i tried everything else to solve the issue on my end.
Things i tried:
1.
1) Go into multitasking and close Android Device manager if it is open.
2) Open Google Settings app. Then go to Security. Uncheck both Android Device manager options. I believe they are Remote Erase and Tracking.
3) Go to Settings > Apps > All > Google Play Services. Clear cache and data.
4) Reboot
5) Back to Google Settings. Recheck both options.
2.
Did a data factory reset
3.
Reflashed the factory image folowed by a data factory reset.
4.
Booted up in safe mode.

ok @gee2012, ill try to make this painless..
now, in my n6, when i go into device manager, it cant find my n6. BUT, if i open my device manager app on my sgs4, it finds my n6 right away. it just seems like an android/google issue.

simms22 said:
ok @gee2012, ill try to make this painless..
now, in my n6, when i go into device manager, it cant find my n6. BUT, if i open my device manager app on my sgs4, it finds my n6 right away. it just seems like an android/google issue.
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Visibility isn`t my main problem per se, i also can t enroll`in the N beta program for instance for automatic updates becasue it says i have no eligable devices linked to my account.

gee2012 said:
Visibility isn`t my main problem per se, i also can t enroll`in the N beta program for instance for automatic updates becasue it says i have no eligable devices linked to my account.
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now thats odd, as i enrolled(not like im gonna take an ota). but still, mine isnt visable either.

simms22 said:
now thats odd, as i enrolled(not like im gonna take an ota). but still, mine isnt visable either.
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Thats what i mean I tried virtualy anything to get it to work and all fails. Thats why i contacted google because i thinks its a problem on their side.

gee2012 said:
Thats what i mean I tried virtualy anything to get it to work and all fails. Thats why i contacted google because i thinks its a problem on their side.
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does the play store see your n6?

simms22 said:
does the play store see your n6?
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Yup, in My Devices its visible but not in the device manager section

Weird.
A friend had this same issue while trying to enroll - he got around this by adding a second Google account (you could create a new dummy account I guess if you don't have a second one already) to his phone, and signed up on the preview page using that account.

jj14 said:
Weird.
A friend had this same issue while trying to enroll - he got around this by adding a second Google account (you could create a new dummy account I guess if you don't have a second one already) to his phone, and signed up on the preview page using that account.
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Could do that, but i want to know whats wrong my account (settings) or at the Google end and why it doesn`t link my phone to my account in the ADM.

Understood, and agreed. You'd want ADM to be able to locate your device in case it goes missing.

i'm exactly with this problem too on my nexus 6p.
i'm not able to see my device on ADM, keeps spining. already did all the troubleshooting i could find including the ones on the original post.
i do have another 2 google accounts on my nexus and no problem with them on finding the device in ADM and also the nexus is showing up on androidbeta enroll devices.
It might be something related with my primary google account since there is no problem on the other 2 google accounts.
The only thing that's different on my primary account is that it is protected with 2 step verification.
it's really weird and i really wanted to enroll to android N on my primary account.

therethere said:
i'm exactly with this problem too on my nexus 6p.
i'm not able to see my device on ADM, keeps spining. already did all the troubleshooting i could find including the ones on the original post.
i do have another 2 google accounts on my nexus and no problem with them on finding the device in ADM and also the nexus is showing up on androidbeta enroll devices.
It might be something related with my primary google account since there is no problem on the other 2 google accounts.
The only thing that's different on my primary account is that it is protected with 2 step verification.
it's really weird and i really wanted to enroll to android N on my primary account.
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My primary account is 2-step secured too. In Google Dashboard it also shows 2 Nexus 6`s , the primary secured one has the option to remove it from the account and the other non-secured one can`t be removed. Hope Google can solve this annoying issue.

I'm having the same issue. Even my second account doesn't show up.

i turned my location off, then my n6 stopped showing up in device manager. i turned on my location, and my n6 showed up in the device manager.

Tried that but no go
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Tried that but no go
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did you reboot after you enabled location? its worth a try..

simms22 said:
did you reboot after you enabled location? its worth a try..
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I tried everything humanly possible including your suggestion, at last i made a bugrepport and sent it to Google after contacting them and after investigation they can not determine the cause of the issue and they said they get back to me if they have a solution. I`am using 2 accounts atm so i can at least sign in properly.

How to prevent ColorOS[CN] setting from changing back?

I realized that when I change some settings in ColorOS it magically changes back without telling you.
I installed Google Assistant from the app store. It required Google Assistance to be selected as the default Assistive App [default value : none]. After I changed that.. it changes back at some random amount of time.. I'm not able to work out how long it takes for it revert the setting.. but sure enough it will.
Another App is LastPass.. It requires me to Enable Autofill from accessbility Options.. Once again I turn it ON.. after some random amount of time it will revert it back to "Off"...
What can be done to stop this from happening?

Blah blah blah! said:
I realized that when I change some settings in ColorOS it magically changes back without telling you.
I installed Google Assistant from the app store. It required Google Assistance to be selected as the default Assistive App [default value : none]. After I changed that.. it changes back at some random amount of time.. I'm not able to work out how long it takes for it revert the setting.. but sure enough it will.
Another App is LastPass.. It requires me to Enable Autofill from accessbility Options.. Once again I turn it ON.. after some random amount of time it will revert it back to "Off"...
What can be done to stop this from happening?
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Happens to some degree in the EU model too,noticed the lastpass app autofill stops amongst other things. Am thinkin maybe it's the Phone Manager app which I think kills battery intensive apps if you allow it

manus31 said:
Happens to some degree in the EU model too,noticed the lastpass app autofill stops amongst other things. Am thinkin maybe it's the Phone Manager app which I think kills battery intensive apps if you allow it
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I'll give this a try.. I've gone into phone manager -> startup manager and allowed the two apps.. the two apps wasn't there even though I have allowed the app to run in the background.
We will see tomorrow.

Nope that didn't work.. anyone else have other suggestions? Anything to remove delete or hack?

Blah blah blah! said:
Nope that didn't work.. anyone else have other suggestions? Anything to remove delete or hack?
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Man,I don't know what the issue is but read on the Realme community that the OS just reverts to defaults to ensure proper functioning of the phone,
ColorOS is certainly the biggest downside to this phone. Am missing OxygenOS on my 6T a lot though I'm Gona stick with the x2 pro for now,
Bought the phone for its flagship specs and storage and and to get away from the hassle of messing around with the phones setting's with tricks and mods.
Have decided to just accept colourOS for what it us.,though there is some battery drain,it's not awful and I'm still getting notifications.
Will just have to hope things improve with updates and the next big update should improve things a lot,mind you,it's a long way to April ?

Not notice anything revert on mine... This sounds like the same issue I had on the mi 9... I can't remember how I solved it but it was something to do with the auto security checks the phone manager app did... After a set amount of time the phone manager would perform certain checks and reset certain options throughout the operating system.

ngagephone said:
Not notice anything revert on mine... This sounds like the same issue I had on the mi 9... I can't remember how I solved it but it was something to do with the auto security checks the phone manager app did... After a set amount of time the phone manager would perform certain checks and reset certain options throughout the operating system.
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Sounds about right,Have feeling the phone manager app has something to do with it.It does not like the developer options

Ok.. I found my work around for now.
I'm using tasker every 10 mins to change the accessibility options for all the apps that need it and set the google assistant to default.
Working ok so far for the last day.

Blah blah blah! said:
Ok.. I found my work around for now.
I'm using tasker every 10 mins to change the accessibility options for all the apps that need it and set the google assistant to default.
Working ok so far for the last day.
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Seems like more trouble than its worth,the only settings I'm having trouble keeping are the animation ones, but honestly it's not bothering me anymore. Have animations setting set to fast in the stock launcher setting and it's not so bad.
Didn't think lastpass was working but it has been appearing to autofill login to sites in a chrome

Did anyone found a solution? Im having this issues too...

B0dYGu4rD said:
Did anyone found a solution? Im having this issues too...
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you can simply turn off battery optimizing for the app and check... it works

Nice suggestion... Ill try this :good: