I have my grandfather's old Droid Bionic and I want to see if there's any information on it (like pictures and such) before I reset it, but I can't get past the pattern lock screen and the phone has been disconnected from wifi for many years so Google Account password is different. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Whats the best way you have found to prevent pocket dialing? Ive turned ambient display off and have to use a patern to unlock now. It the only way Ive been able to stop it. It works but I dont like not being able to use ambient display and I also dont like how long it take to open the phone with the pattern.
Any ideas?
Vindii said:
Whats the best way you have found to prevent pocket dialing? Ive turned ambient display off and have to use a patern to unlock now. It the only way Ive been able to stop it. It works but I dont like not being able to use ambient display and I also dont like how long it take to open the phone with the pattern.
Any ideas?
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Well, other than the obvious, don't put it in your pocket pattern, pin, password is the answer. Ambient display can be turned back on with a screen lock set. Or set screen lock to swipe. That might be a help. Or possibly a flip case.
Enable the Smart Lock feature under Settings->Security. Then set up a trusted Bluetooth device (wearable, etc.) paired with the phone to bypass the screen lock when in range. I use a Motorola Keylink on the key chain in my pocket.
Then, before putting the phone in your pocket, touch the Power button to turn off the screen. To turn it on again, while connected to your trusted Smart Lock device, you merely have to swipe the screen after touching the Power key.
even with a pin on my phone i sometimes pocket dial... only happened like 2 or 3 times in the 4 months ive had the phone. somehow it pulled up the emergency dialer.
dansan382 said:
even with a pin on my phone i sometimes pocket dial... only happened like 2 or 3 times in the 4 months ive had the phone. somehow it pulled up the emergency dialer.
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I never add emergency contacts because this kept happening. No emergency contacts + some kind of lock is the best solution. I just write an emergency phone number to contact in the "Owner Info" in settings, so an emergency phone number shows up on the lock screen in case I ever lose my phone, and someone finds it and plans to return it.
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I never add emergency contacts because this kept happening. No emergency contacts + some kind of lock is the best solution. I just write an emergency phone number to contact in the "Owner Info" in settings, so an emergency phone number shows up on the lock screen in case I ever lose my phone, and someone finds it and plans to return it.
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i dont have emergency contacts either. what im saying is on my lock screen it brings up the dial pad and half the time its selected the emergency dialer at the bottom of the pin screen.
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i dont have emergency contacts either. what im saying is on my lock screen it brings up the dial pad and half the time its selected the emergency dialer at the bottom of the pin screen.
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I'm guessing you have a pattern as your unlock method, so the emergency dialer is always at the bottom as soon as the screen turns on.
Try changing it to a PIN, so you have swipe up first, and then the emergency dialer/PIN screen come up.
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I'm guessing you have a pattern as your unlock method, so the emergency dialer is always at the bottom as soon as the screen turns on.
Try changing it to a PIN, so you have swipe up first, and then the emergency dialer/PIN screen come up.
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no like i said i have a pin as my lock screen challenge. somehow the phone manages to swipe up the dialer or the unlock button and then pulls up the emergency dialer and start tapping numbers.
Same issue here, whether i have pattern or pin its still managed to unlock phone and pocket dial from the emergency dialler. I did have my pebble watch in smart unlock, this did all manner of things from video call the missus to change settings and force me to restore rom as i couldnt work out the issues.
I have a flip case that i really do not want to use as phone is big enough, ambient display on or off it still does it!
I'm running lmy48i rooted. Project fi the whole time.
My phone is randomly, not duplicatably, unlocking itself in my pocket, or as I'm holding it. It's not a power button issue, as much as i want it to be. Ambient display is off
I've pulled the phone from my pocket with it unlocked in camera mode, having taken numerous pictures, no on screen buttons working because it's not "unlocked". I've picked up my phone and it unlock itself straight to the home screen, with a good 5 second lag before the lockscreen kicks in.
This happens with a pin code lock also.
I don't want to have to factory reset, as I'd rather pinpoint the problem in case it is indeed something I've done, so i don't replicate it after a reset and still have the problem.
Anybody have any ideas what i could look at for this? It's not always been this way, but it's so random, i can't pinpoint any changes or programs that i have that would be causing it.
I've searched my heart out, but all my searches come up with other related things and I've not seen any one with this specific issue
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Settings -> Security -> Smart Lock -> enter your pin -> On-body detection -> turn that crap off.
Personally, I use Trusted devices (BT smartwatch,) and can understand Trusted places. But I don't know who'd want to keep their device unlocked when it's being carried around, possibly by a thief.
Tried that also. I tried toggling it on for a while then back off to see if maybe that'd jog some setting, but it hasn't fixed the issue.
I've even disabled smart lock altogether to see if that would work, and it hasn't.
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I've only recently enabled pin lock to make sure i wasn't in fact leg-unlocking my phone through my pants. But enabling pin lock, smart unlock or not, hasn't changed the situation.
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Apologies if this is common knowledge, I've been searching and testing all day. I'm trying to figure out Galaxy Note 5 phone encryption, as it relates to the Lock Screen.
When encrypting my Note 5, I'm forced to set either a password (7+ characters) or a fingerprint.
Once set and encrypted, I'm prevented from changing the Lock Screen lock method to anything else.
Many posts on the 'net point out the usability issues here - nobody will "want" to use encryption because nobody wants to enter long passwords just to unlock one's phone all day long.
Several posts talk about workarounds - clearing credential storage (greyed out for me) or accessing the lock screen via a different setting (Settings->Display->Lock Screen instead of Settings->Security Lock Screen - the former doesn't even exist for me.) No posts seem to have an actual working solution.
Decrypting the phone restores all of the Lock Screen lock options.
My desired outcome: Encryption enabled, with a password, lock screen enabled, but with a numeric PIN, on stock ROM without root. Galaxy Note 5 SM-N9208, 5.1.1, N9208ZTU2AOJ3.
Is such even possible?
Thanks in advance.
I forget fingerprint password. Now my phone did not open wifi & mobile data. I want to get important photo. I don't want factory restart. I have google account setting. I open GPS Location. How can I do?
Hello, I had this phone sitting in the drawer for about 5 months because I bought the LG G4. So today I decided to charged it and to make a backup on my contacts and photos but I can't remember the screen lock pin. Is there any way to recover the code other than hard reset? I don't want to lose the contacts and photos. Any help is welcome.
Hi, maybe I'm screwed, but anyway I will ask...
I have a Note 5 protected with fingerprints and obviously with a PIN.
My screen failed, imagine that you divide the screen in 7 parts horizontally, lanes 2 and 3 from the bottom does not respond.
My device rebooted and as I have to unlock it with the PIN after restart, I'm unable to do that because 3 of the digits are in the part of the screen that doesnt work.
I decided not to repaird the screen, I bought an S8, but I need the pictures stored in the note 5. I'm been unable to get them, because for the methods I know, the device must be unlocked.
Any thoghts??
Thanks! I was able to unlock it using the stylus...