Auto Restart Feature - T-Mobile Note 7 Questions & Answers

Is anyone using this feature? Worth using?

You should restart your phone once in a while, it will actually run better (if the phone is acting up first thing to do is restart). If it's worth? Depends on you, but for example I manually restart mine at least once a week as a habit, so for now that feature is off, if I change my habits then I put it on. On the other hand my wife never restarts hers, until she can't connect to make a call, so for her it would be very helpful.

Restarting your phone every now and than is not a bad idea...end of the day, it is a technology. Same reason I restart my modem every now and than (not once a week).
My mom on the other hand let her phone comes to the point, as stated above, till there is some problems. My solution? Restart. If you feel you will not remember...just enable it...i mean whats the worst thats going to happen?

I restart my phone every day. Not needed but it can't hurt.

Had a question about this.
Your phone is auto lock. If you - power button - restart. When it comes back on it askds for pin or patten before booting up.
How does this work with auto restart?
And i nornally try to reboot my phone once a week or if it starts to run slow.
But just wanted to know about tht

I don't have the auto restart option

It asks for pin password or pattern because all marshmallow devices that meet performance minimums come encrypted per googles policy When you first setup the phone any lock gets used for the already encrypted device.

Nirrik said:
It asks for pin password or pattern because all marshmallow devices that meet performance minimums come encrypted per googles policy When you first setup the phone any lock gets used for the already encrypted device.
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xile6 said:
Had a question about this.
Your phone is auto lock. If you - power button - restart. When it comes back on it askds for pin or patten before booting up.
How does this work with auto restart?
And i nornally try to reboot my phone once a week or if it starts to run slow.
But just wanted to know about tht
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I don't have this feature on because of the pin.a
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I use the feature and restart every Sunday at noon.
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Rydah805 said:
I don't have this feature on because of the pin.a
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So I don't have this because I have an actual lock screen with fingerprints or password?

fireguy0306 said:
So I don't have this because I have an actual lock screen with fingerprints or password?
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I'm sorry, I meant the secure start up pin.
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fireguy0306 said:
So I don't have this because I have an actual lock screen with fingerprints or password?
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I have fingerprint lock and I have auto restart available:
It wont work if you have sim card lock or password protected encrypted data, but the basic idea is: if your boot up holds requiring your password, obviously it won't work, since your phone wont be able to receive calls, SMS etc. until you input password and boot is finished, which could take hours with auto restart, you may not even know your phone is off.
My phone will fully boot up and receive calls etc., I just need to unlock it with fingerprint to activate screen.
This is my first phone ever that is locked and only because it was required for Samsung pay, despite the fact the credit card is encrypted and separately fingerprint protected (in other words won't work even with phone open unless I fingerprint again) so I'm not sure what's up with all this security paranoia, double password protection, secure folders, knox, full storage encryption etc. Pain in the neck and it's all only for show.

If I manually reboot It comes back to the home screen where I have to enter my password.
Where is the auto reboot setting?

fireguy0306 said:
If I manually reboot It comes back to the home screen where I have to enter my password.
Where is the auto reboot setting?
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If you still looking: settings/search auto start

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lock the device immediate with pin code

Hi all
Now I've set the device to ask a pin code to lock the device after 30 minutes of being not used. Isn't there an option/way so the pin lock is immediately active when I want it to be (like pushing some seconds on the end button), using another hardware button or by executing some file?
I've tried to map '"\Windows\Keylock.exe" /toggle' to a hardware key (with an timeout of 0 minutes in settings - lock), but that just prompts the way the/which keys should be locked, as if you would execute keylock.exe without the '/toggle' parameter.
The question is.. what invokes the pin unlock screen to appear?
PS: best wishes for 2008!
hold end call for 3 seconds!
ekw, thanks for you answer but
pushing the end call button:
- doesn't activate/show the pin lock screen,
- any "child who can read" knows howto unlock the device.
the thing is that if it gets stolen, they need to do a hard reset so sensitive data (putted on the device instead of the SD) will be erased
I already tries S2U2 but that locks the device in the same 'security' level as pushing the end call button for some seconds and it mentions howto unlock it
fyi: having the HTC TyTN II with HTC stock ROM (dutch)
Instant PIN Security
As noted in the first post, is there a way to get the phone to security lock on command, where you have to enter the pin to use it again?
I know you can hold down the end call button and get it to screen lock, but is there a way to get it to go into security lock?
I would like to turn the automatic settings off, so that the phone ONLY goes into security lock when I say it does, or, set it so that it only does it automatically like every three hours. That way, I can set it to go into security lock more often if I wish to.
Thanks!
if you turn the screen off using the power button,m and back on, does the lock not activate?
Or have you not told it to lock when waking from standy?
flashy said:
if you turn the screen off using the power button,m and back on, does the lock not activate?
Or have you not told it to lock when waking from standy?
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That works if you set auto lock on 0 minutes, but then you have to enter the PIN each and every time you turn the thing on. He wants it to lock only when he presses a lock key.
I unfortunately don't know of anything that does it.
kilrah said:
That works if you set auto lock on 0 minutes, but then you have to enter the PIN each and every time you turn the thing on. He wants it to lock only when he presses a lock key.
I unfortunately don't know of anything that does it.
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Exactly. Thank you for your comments.
I don't want to have to enter the PIN every time I turn it on. Well, I know I can set it for an hour or longer and that would be fine.
But I want to be able to put it down, with the PIN code enabled, without worrying about random prying eyes looking into it or using it.
Anyone else have any thoughts??

[Q] Encryption - not being prompted for password at boot

I restart my phone daily, and after powering off, when I start it, I initially get the swirling dots, and then the screen to enter my pin ( white screen - not the lock screen). After I enter the pin, in get swirling dots again, and it then show me my home screen..
That is the normal behavior... Worked fine every day... Till today.
Today, when I powered off, and powered on, I never got the initial screen to enter my pin. After the swirling dots, it took me straight to my lock screen and asked for my pin. No idea what changed. I didn't decrypt my phone. Settings/ security still shows encrypted. I've restated 3 times, no difference. Straight to lock screen. Any ideas as to what has happened?
I'm on stock 5.0.1, rooted with auto root, boot loader unlocked. Nothing else. No change since the day I flashed 5.0.1 images. I did not disable encryption.
Edit: the only thing that comes to mind is that I installed last pass premium, and enabled it in accessibility. I then removed the app ( didn't like it) - not sure if that could have caused this issue?)
Looks like it is a known bug
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79309
I also had that problem, for me was the solution to go to security and change my password what i have set. So I don't select pin but password. Then restart the phone. If right is will ask for you password. And then go to you lockscreen. If it works you can switch back to pin again. Hope it helps
NightDivision said:
I also had that problem, for me was the solution to go to security and change my password what i have set. So I don't select pin but password. Then restart the phone. If right is will ask for you password. And then go to you lockscreen. If it works you can switch back to pin again. Hope it helps
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thats a post from 4 months ago. it would be considered old.
Oh I see it now. Haha silly me
NightDivision said:
Oh I see it now. Haha silly me
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thank you for trying to help the op amyways
FWIW- I'm having this problem now/still... On two devices, oddly/incidentally.
I posted this elsewhere... But I'm having the same problem. Any thoughts? I can post more details, but don't want to repost this everywhere that I see people having the same unresolved problem.
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* It used to be that when I did a reboot or shutdown and restart, I would have to enter a password before the system fully started.
* But now the phone boots into the phone without putting in my password. I can reboot the phone and it will boot all the way to the Lock screen, and I can unlock the lock screen with my fingerprint or my backup password.
* I am concerned that somehow my device is either no longer encrypted or that there is some setting which has stored the boot password.
subs said:
FWIW- I'm having this problem now/still... On two devices, oddly/incidentally.
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I just got this too after I've uninstalled Greenify, which adds an Accessibility app, and I guess it triggered this.
Reset your password/PIN again, check the "ask at boot" option and that's it.

Phone not locking when screen times out

Hey everyone,
I encrypted my phone and installed MobileIron to get work email and calendar. Ended up removing it all and decrypting phone after a few weeks. Since then, my phone isn't locking when the screen times out. If can be sitting with a black screen, but soon as I touch the home button it's awake and ready for action. It seems to lock eventually after sitting for an indeterminate amount of time.
Where the heck is the setting to control how long the phone waits before locking (requiring swipe or pin, not just turning off screen)? I know when I had the phone encrypted I found it and changed it to like 15 minutes so I didn't have to enter my 8 digit pin every couple of minutes, but now that its decrypted I am either blind or that setting is gone....
Thanks in advance.
UnexplainedBacon said:
Hey everyone,
I encrypted my phone and installed MobileIron to get work email and calendar. Ended up removing it all and decrypting phone after a few weeks. Since then, my phone isn't locking when the screen times out. If can be sitting with a black screen, but soon as I touch the home button it's awake and ready for action. It seems to lock eventually after sitting for an indeterminate amount of time.
Where the heck is the setting to control how long the phone waits before locking (requiring swipe or pin, not just turning off screen)? I know when I had the phone encrypted I found it and changed it to like 15 minutes so I didn't have to enter my 8 digit pin every couple of minutes, but now that its decrypted I am either blind or that setting is gone....
Thanks in advance.
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First thing is to go to settings > lockscreen > screen lock and change it to pin or swipe or something other than swipe until your device recognizes when you've locked it. If it starts locking with the pin engaged go back and turn it to swipe and see if it locks on its own again. Second I imagine that it locks when you press the power button to turn the screen off? Set your screen timeout to an obscenely high number so that you remember and get in the habit of locking the device by pressing the power button. This is just for habit because Android (the base system) engages the lockscreen when the power button is pressed and the screen is on. If you are running a custom ROM you could dirty flash to put system settings back to default and if you are on stock out of the box you may have to factory reset to get settings back to their default state. I know that last one is less than optimal, but if the first two options (changing the lockscreen type and locking manually) are not a good work around then you will either have to do the encryption routine again to see if it fixes it and if it doesn't then you may have to factory reset.

Biometrics to turn off phone?

One of my favorite features on my S8 was that in order to restart or turn off the phone, biometrics was required (Iris or Fingerprint) in my case. I do not see this feature on the Note 8. I can't find a setting I might be missing, is the feature just not available on this phone? I did a search, but couldn't find anything.
I know what u mean I still own my S8, i use cerberus so it has that feature in it and it also has the feature of blocking the notification drop down while phone is locked. I don't use that feature though.
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Semantics said:
One of my favorite features on my S8 was that in order to restart or turn off the phone, biometrics was required (Iris or Fingerprint) in my case. I do not see this feature on the Note 8. I can't find a setting I might be missing, is the feature just not available on this phone? I did a search, but couldn't find anything.
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Setting,lockscreen,then secure startup
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jerrycoffman45 said:
Setting,lockscreen,then secure startup
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Thanks, but that requires a pin to power the phone on. My S8 could not be turned off without using Iris or Fingerprint so If I lost it or it was stolen it could not be turned off and I could track it.
Semantics said:
Thanks, but that requires a pin to power the phone on. My S8 could not be turned off without using Iris or Fingerprint so If I lost it or it was stolen it could not be turned off and I could track it.
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the thief can turn off your device through recovery. bixby+power button +volume up. all done: p
My note 8 does that. If I try turning off my device without unlocking it first(i have fingerprint and pin on), it will tell me to enter my figerprint or pin. And this kicks in for me 5 seconds after turning the screen off. If you unlock the phone first, it wont tell you to input figerprint/else
davnav899 said:
My note 8 does that. If I try turning off my device without unlocking it first(i have fingerprint and pin on), it will tell me to enter my figerprint or pin. And this kicks in for me 5 seconds after turning the screen off. If you unlock the phone first, it wont tell you to input figerprint/else
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Mine still turns off even when locked without using anything. I don't know.
Semantics said:
Mine still turns off even when locked without using anything. I don't know.
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My Note8 requires a PIN or biometric to power off or restart if it's not unlocked when I hold down the power button. Not really sure what this feature is for, but it works as it should.
Mr. Orange 645 said:
My Note8 requires a PIN or biometric to power off or restart if it's not unlocked when I hold down the power button. Not really sure what this feature is for, but it works as it should.
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I have no idea why this doesn't work for me. Frustrating.
davnav899 said:
My note 8 does that. If I try turning off my device without unlocking it first(i have fingerprint and pin on), it will tell me to enter my figerprint or pin. And this kicks in for me 5 seconds after turning the screen off. If you unlock the phone first, it wont tell you to input figerprint/else
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whats the point of having to unlock your device to be able to turn it off ? if someone steals your phone and doesnt know how to turn it off without password/whatever, he can just wait until battery drains and phone turns off on its own lol
Furma said:
whats the point of having to unlock your device to be able to turn it off ? if someone steals your phone and doesnt know how to turn it off without password/whatever, he can just wait until battery drains and phone turns off on its own lol
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Yeah, but during that time, I would still be able to track its location while its on
This feature has a major flaw.
If you enable secure start-up you can't power-off phone without biometrics or pin, but you can reboot it and all the tracking functions are off. Reboot should be also available if you enter the biometrics or pin.

Note 9 suddenly asks for pin, doesn't take pin, can't power off

What happened:
Stock ROM, unrooted
I was using my Note 9 all morning, put it down, came back later and it asked for my pin. Biometric input did not work and can't get to the swipe screen.
What I tried:
I've entered the correct pin numerous times and it just tells me to wait 30 seconds and try again.
I can't use Samsung Find my Mobile since it was never configured
I can't power off, as it just asks for the pin again
I can't start in Safe mode, as it just asks for the pin again
Any help/suggestions would be most welcome
grimmoh said:
What happened:
Stock ROM, unrooted
I was using my Note 9 all morning, put it down, came back later and it asked for my pin. Biometric input did not work and can't get to the swipe screen.
What I tried:
I've entered the correct pin numerous times and it just tells me to wait 30 seconds and try again.
I can't use Samsung Find my Mobile since it was never configured
I can't power off, as it just asks for the pin again
I can't start in Safe mode, as it just asks for the pin again
Any help/suggestions would be most welcome
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Long press power+vol down will force restart. But I don't see how it's going to help.
That worked!
Rosli59564 said:
Long press power+vol down will force restart. But I don't see how it's going to help.
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Believe it not, rebooting was the key. After that, it took the pin and I was back in business.
Thanks for the tip! I had assumed there was no way to restart, so I'm super happy now.

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