I changed my password after upgrading to an alpha numeric.
the last digit in my password is 1
however, the keyboard wont let be type the number 1 in the password field.
It let me type it when I set the password, but now it won't, and I am completely locked out of my phone. can't sync, battery removal fails....
does anybody have any ideas? I really need my phone...
no numbers will work at all in the unlock field. now it says "several incorrect pw's have been used, enter a1b2c3 to continue... would a hard reset work?
ok I fixed it lol...
for those of you that run into the same issue... DO NOT reset your phone.
on the unlock screen, you have to press alt then the number, rather than holding the key down and waiting for the number to appear.
LMAO !!!
zeyeon said:
ok I fixed it lol...
for those of you that run into the same issue... DO NOT reset your phone.
on the unlock screen, you have to press alt then the number, rather than holding the key down and waiting for the number to appear.
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Dang. That would SUCK if your alt button didn't work! I hate to hard reset unless absitively posolutely necessary...
I ran into a similar problem. I entered a numeric password but unfortunately I forgot the password! I've tried several different number but cannot seem to figure it out! Is there any way I can reset my phone so that I could bypass the password?
Flashed with RUU of froyo after the update.zip failed (missing too many files like cityid) So its now back rooted and everything is working great from what I can tell. However I just mounted it to copy some files over to the SD card an noticed now 3 drives are there. The two normals, emmc and sdcard, plus a 3rd Virtual CDrom which what I assume is the install for 3g mobile hotspot or something.
So I really never plan on using that, anyone have an idea on how to remove that?
Remove cdrom.iso to avoid being prompted to install Verzion/HTC hardware when the device is connected via USB. This is what the Virtuous ROM did. I have not tested this without the Virtuous ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765447
Cool, found it in /etc/CDROM.ISO I just renamed it and you are right, its not showing files, but it still has the CD drive itself, any ideas on that?
mims1979 said:
I just renamed it
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What did you rename it to?
Aesir Rising said:
What did you rename it to?
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CDROM.bak works, u can even just delete that file.
k.electron said:
CDROM.bak works, u can even just delete that file.
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that's what I was trying to get at with the OP. If the file name was renamed, but not the extension, then the 'drive' would still mount.
This has been reported to work as well:
Dial ##7764726
Hit Call
Type Password 000000 (that's 6 zeros)
Hit Feature Settings
Choose CD ROM
Click Disable
Hit menu, commit modifications (it will say no item changed)
INTREPID-NY said:
This has been reported to work as well:
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Makes sense. Some corporations I know wouldn't allow their employees to hook up their phones to their PCs if it was trying to mount CDs for app installs. Either way, I'm going to try that. Thanks for the info.
[Edit: That did work for me, btw.]
INTREPID-NY said:
This has been reported to work as well:
Dial ##7764726
Hit Call
Type Password 000000 (that's 6 zeros)
Hit Feature Settings
Choose CD ROM
Click Disable
Hit menu, commit modifications (it will say no item changed)
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That worked great. Thank you.
INTREPID-NY said:
This has been reported to work as well:
Dial ##7764726
Hit Call
Type Password 000000 (that's 6 zeros)
Hit Feature Settings
Choose CD ROM
Click Disable
Hit menu, commit modifications (it will say no item changed)
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Thank you works great.
crashdogy said:
Thank you works great.
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no go for me... The Droid X doesn't have a "feature settings" section of th Programming Menu.
what am I doing wrong?
when I enter ##7767426 on the dialer it
just returns to its screen (waiting for a
call to be dialed).
Can the utility be directly called from the
shell prompt? in winmo the ## codes
were all dialer short cuts to various
functions (mostly call to epst.exe).
I figured something similar was done
here too.
(my environment is in sig)
INTREPID-NY said:
This has been reported to work as well:
Dial ##7764726
Hit Call
Type Password 000000 (that's 6 zeros)
Hit Feature Settings
Choose CD ROM
Click Disable
Hit menu, commit modifications (it will say no item changed)
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That worked so well! Thank you so much! This was getting so annoying
Thanks to Dave Amenta, i got around to the Registry Editor in the Dell Venue Pro. I am able to read values, but not able to set them..May be i am doing something wrong. I am giving it to the community to crack it open.
Here is what you need to do to get to the registry editor:
1. Go to the EM App in the DVP.
2. Choose RD Test. It will prompt for a textbox to enter something (its basically asking for password). Enter *#6336# . Now voila, you are in MFC Test.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the list and choose About EM.
4. Now it will say sorry..bla,.bla.. It will also have a textbox for another password. Enter *#734#
5. Voila you are in Registry Editor.
6.To read a value, go to the 'Path' prompt. While in, choose L M/C R/C U, etc..they are nothing but HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HKEY_CURRENT_USER,etc.. Then enter the remaining path name. In the Key field, enter the key you want to query. In the Type, press the down arrow and choose the type. Now hit the 'Get' button on top, you will see the result (If you enter all right). If you want to set data, i think you enter the value in Data field and hit set. But, so far no luck. Iam still researching.
IMPORTANT: DO not do this as this is super advanced user mode. You might end up brick'ng ur DVP if you do not know what your are doing.
This sounds awfully similar to the LG registry editor on the phone. I do not have a DVP in my possession, but I know a friend who does. I shall try this and let you know how it goes. (BTW, Dell Venue Pro works on Wind and Mobilicity in Canada)
I am trying to do a AT Hyperterminal command to unlock the phone.,Will see how it goes.
notebookgrail said:
Thanks to Dave Amenta, i got around to the Registry Editor in the Dell Venue Pro. I am able to read values, but not able to set them..May be i am doing something wrong. I am giving it to the community to crack it open.
Here is what you need to do to get to the registry editor:
1. Go to the EM App in the DVP.
2. Choose RD Test. It will prompt for a textbox to enter something (its basically asking for password). Enter *#6336# . Now voila, you are in MFC Test.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the list and choose About EM.
4. Now it will say sorry..bla,.bla.. It will also have a textbox for another password. Enter *#734#
5. Voila you are in Registry Editor.
6.To read a value, go to the 'Path' prompt. While in, choose L M/C R/C U, etc..they are nothing but HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HKEY_CURRENT_USER,etc.. Then enter the remaining path name. In the Key field, enter the key you want to query. In the Type, press the down arrow and choose the type. Now hit the 'Get' button on top, you will see the result (If you enter all right). If you want to set data, i think you enter the value in Data field and hit set. But, so far no luck. Iam still researching.
IMPORTANT: DO not do this as this is super advanced user mode. You might end up brick'ng ur DVP if you do not know what your are doing.
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It looks like the button isn't wired up to perform the SET command - the event handler is there, the button is there, but clicking it even without entering any data should return "1", but it's not doing anything...
What do you mean by AT unlock? What commands are you going to send to the modem? Do you have the modem drivers? If not, take a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929468
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It looks like the button isn't wired up to perform the SET command - the event handler is there, the button is there, but clicking it even without entering any data should return "1", but it's not doing anything...
What do you mean by AT unlock? What commands are you going to send to the modem? Do you have the modem drivers? If not, take a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929468
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When i get home, i will post the Registry Set Command CS code.
AT command - Yes, the command to the modem. And yes, i used the HTC Modem driver you linked for the DVP. I am able to query the modem from the modem properties - but i can't enter any commands in that properties window. So i am going to do a hyperterminal to send AT commands for SIM Locking and try to unlock it.
I also came across a test called 'SIM Lock' in Protocol, which returns what is its locked to.
notebookgrail said:
When i get home, i will post the Registry Set Command CS code.
AT command - Yes, the command to the modem. And yes, i used the HTC Modem driver you linked for the DVP. I am able to query the modem from the modem properties - but i can't enter any commands in that properties window. So i am going to do a hyperterminal to send AT commands for SIM Locking and try to unlock it.
I also came across a test called 'SIM Lock' in Protocol, which returns what is its locked to.
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The registry set command is:
IEmToCom.sync("EM:REGISTRY_SET:" + <path> + "," + <key> + "," + <data type, e.g. DWORD> + "," + <data> + "," + <path_type expressed as int> + ";", 1, false);
I was working with Dave over the weekend, but it looks like whatever value we insert is not being accepted - quite possibly because Dell hasn't implemented the interface yet.
this should surprise me and yet...
THIS IS DELL!
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What do you mean by AT unlock? What commands are you going to send to the modem? Do you have the modem drivers? If not, take a look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929468
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For the AT unlock, go to protocol, then TMO, then AT Command - Here you can pass various AT Commands. Unfortunately, we need the Password to reset any setting here. The password is 8 char long. And the DVP is 'ph-net pin' locked.
damn.....i think it probably means that we need to get the modem rom somehow in order to figure out how to generate the unlock PIN
I'm probably missing something really obvious here, but what does SIM unlocking have to do with registry write access?
kltye said:
I'm probably missing something really obvious here, but what does SIM unlocking have to do with registry write access?
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It was a off topic discussion. I should have started a new thread for it. My mistake.
Is there anyone volunteering to reset their phone (cold boot)? I think i might have found the way to edit the registry. There are 2 modes for the EM App. One is Driver and another is socket. Not sure which one is by default. But i know how to change them. It requires a reset of the phone (cold boot) to take effect. I have too much of data on my phone to try it and reload everything. I can PM them the details and see if they are able to edit the registry.
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Is there anyone volunteering to reset their phone (cold boot)? I think i might have found the way to edit the registry. There are 2 modes for the EM App. One is Driver and another is socket. Not sure which one is by default. But i know how to change them. It requires a reset of the phone (cold boot) to take effect. I have too much of data on my phone to try it and reload everything. I can PM them the details and see if they are able to edit the registry.
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You could try calling new EMToCom() rather than EMToComByDriver() when you initialize the connection, and see if that works. I've tried it and it seems that it fails to execute the command, with the debug window printing:
A first chance exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' occurred in EM.dll
calling COM receive error(socket) : 0xffffffff
I tried calling the turn on LED command via my flashlight app that works fine with the driver connection, but I'm getting the same exception when I connect via socket. Do you know if there's a special way to send commands if you connect via socket?
notebookgrail said:
Is there anyone volunteering to reset their phone (cold boot)? I think i might have found the way to edit the registry. There are 2 modes for the EM App. One is Driver and another is socket. Not sure which one is by default. But i know how to change them. It requires a reset of the phone (cold boot) to take effect. I have too much of data on my phone to try it and reload everything. I can PM them the details and see if they are able to edit the registry.
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I'll be a guinea pig
domineus said:
I'll be a guinea pig
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Sent you a PM.
Shoot me the details and I may be able to help out sometime this week.
it didn't work for me...doubt it will work for anyone else =/
domineus said:
it didn't work for me...doubt it will work for anyone else =/
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Was it doing the same blank result box? Any difference did you notice with either the Driver or Socket option? - i mean not just registry editor, but overall.
blank result no changes =/
I hope we all find some progress on this because I believe that this is what is holding us back from a lot of customization on this phone....
every time I try to enter a number/letter combination on any browser windows it won't let me enter certain characters and just erases it. I have to enter a space, the letter or number and then go back and erase the space. it's so annoying
second if I'm on certain webpages trying to enter text I have to automatically enter a space as opposed to it happening automatically. soitbasicallywouldlooklikethisifIdon'tpressthespacemanually
third and other issue is with stored user names .. if I enter the first letter it brings my name in a drop down box. if I tap it the username and all text I type gets entered so I have to go in and delete the first few characters which is annoying. anyone have any ideas? it's been a problem since the first OTA and tmobile sucks at technical assistance since everything they have had me do has failed
Hi Friends,
I am not able to reset secure box password in Messages app. Is there any default password for secure box?.. Can we reset the password without factory reset. Awaiting your reply
anbu joseph said:
Hi Friends,
I am not able to reset secure box password in Messages app. Is there any default password for secure box?.. Can we reset the password without factory reset. Awaiting your reply
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Never had to try it, but google search found this:
The password is stored on plain text in this file "/data/data/com.android.mms/shared_prefs/com.android.mms.categoryInfo.xml" either read it or delete the file to reassert the password. Deleting the file will not affect the secure box messages in anyway.
kr338r said:
Never had to try it, but google search found this:
The password is stored on plain text in this file "/data/data/com.android.mms/shared_prefs/com.android.mms.categoryInfo.xml" either read it or delete the file to reassert the password. Deleting the file will not affect the secure box messages in anyway.
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but i m not able to find this data directory in my phone please help me out