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How can I prevent my phone from being answered and displayed, unless a password is provided?
The current security, only prevents you from using the device, but if there is an incoming phone call, you are able to SEE it and ANSWER it.
Thanks

switch it off in comm manager then lock your device

LOL that would be a solution but i prefer to have the phone on.

By the time you put in your password, the caller will have been directed to voicemail.

You can try "slide 2 unlock"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353008
It is showing your incoming calls too but you can set it to use the slider to answer this call.

You can still answer the phone with S2U on. Why would you want to do this anyway?
As one of the contributors has said, by the time you had entered a password to answer the phone the caller would have dropped off. Boyfriend/girfriend trouble perhaps?
WB

You Guys are incorrect about the call going to voicemail before entering the password. My Motorola Razor, has this type of security built in.
You cant view the caller, answer it or do anything with the phone until you put in the password. I put my phone down alot and people have a habit of answering my phone.

I got a question also about the security
I ONLY want to lock my sms/email/mms with a pass..
Most phones can do that but windows mobile not..
Help?

i guess no one knows how to do this

have you googled?
this one may fit the bill, I especially like the hard reset option, loads of fun to be had by finding ya mates device entering the password incorrectly a few times and then forcing a hard reset
http://www.totalpocketpc.com/PS_4.0_Website/default.html
http://classic.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=18993&associateid=17
All Hardware Buttons Become ‘Disabled’ While Device is Locked.

that program is no good, it still allows incoming phone calls to be displayed and answered while device is locked

is there any kind of help out there

Did you try the magical "SILENCE" function ? activated it, then no one will know when your phone is Ringing or new SMS are coming EVEN you left the phone at the meeting room . And the BEST of it, YOU CAN LEFT THE PHONE ON !!! ( Like I do when I'm sleep or at the gym).

i want to hear the phone but if i chose not to pick up, then i wont. The whole point of security is soo OTHERS cant get to your phone.

always put your phone in your pockets

ughhhh someone got to know

Hmmm ... sounds like what you're seeking is a very personal enhancement that nobody using a WM device has needed until now. If nobody has offered a usable suggestion, and you can't find anything with an Internet search, then, as I see it, you have only two options:
1) Go get that Razr
2) Take advantage of WM's extensibility, and write your own cutomized app. You can do it in PPL or MS C++ ... maybe a few other languages. If you do a good job, you might even be able to make a few bucks on it
-pvs

pvs said:
Hmmm ... sounds like what you're seeking is a very personal enhancement that nobody using a WM device has needed until now. If nobody has offered a usable suggestion, and you can't find anything with an Internet search, then, as I see it, you have only two options:
1) Go get that Razr
2) Take advantage of WM's extensibility, and write your own cutomized app. You can do it in PPL or MS C++ ... maybe a few other languages. If you do a good job, you might even be able to make a few bucks on it
-pvs
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2) Amen !!!

Google Voice Actions - Your Experiences

How you all finding this?
It can dictate a text no problem, but doesn't seem to pick up the TO: field for me.
So if I say "send text to bob how are you" it will fill in "2 bob how are you" in the message field and leave the TO field empty. how are you getting on? It's still pretty cool. And you can say things like "call 08665242424" and it gets that perfect. Although when I say "call Joe" it just won't find the appropriate entry on my SIM card.

hey,
So far with the actions, i had a little bit of troubling getting it to call my contacts e.g. "call Paul C" an it suggests everyone else in my list with the surname C except "Paul C" also the text thing doesnt seem to work at all, but i have found it's very good at web searching and also when you have already entered the texting menu, i think once it gets the support for different countries it will be really good and fun to use.
At the minute its more of a novelty, but it could become very very useful.

We had a lot of fun earlier as what I said and what the phone thought I said was so different!
e.g.
Send a text to Teresa to say hello
=
Send a text recycle au
I did manage to get the thing to give me directions to Skegness (although I was trying to call somebody at the time).
Maybe I need to lay on an american accent and try again

But... But... But... It worked so well in the little video!

Very hit and miss for me. If it works, it works spot on 100% and great. If it fails, it fails epically.

Same here. If it works, it works, if not, well I just hope I'm not showing it off to a friend as it can make an ass of itself.
The text action? Doesn't work for me at all. Neither does setting an alarm. Getting directions is perhaps the most reliable voice action of all. Calling people is hit and miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just doesn't complete the action. I'll say, "Call Claire XYZ Mobile", and it displays a list of 'did you mean?' options. The top one is usually right, but when I click it it Googles it as a search term!

The Alarm is still in development

the fact it requires a data connection means its learning as it goes. Recording 10000s of new words per day and linking them based by region. In time it should be able to learn words with accents etc so well that its hard to fool.
at the moment it is certainly more novelty than technological wow. but.. I think it will get there. I wish you could "teach it" by sampling your address book. I mean you click on a contacts name and then say it 5 times and the google learns how this name is pronounced in your region. then it recognizes it next time. I think they'll get there. this is a good start.

If it learns as it goes, then all those who set theory phone to US English may not be helping out develop the software for their own language if each voice request is sent out with a language tag from the phone.
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How do I know what version of "voice search" I have?
I used the QR code from the google blog and and doesn't recognize some of them.
For example, it will recognize "note to self I am cool" but it will ask to do a search instead of noting to self.

It picks up very few words I say correctly. Usually "call" it always gets correct. Brilliant concept but not very practical for the masses yet.
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I've found this terrible so far, 0% success rate! Even speaking in most clearest English with no background noise.
Maybe you have more success with an American accent??

But the odd thing is that the previous "search by voice" and technologies such as Translate both recognise voice really really well.

As with most of you, no success at all.. another interesting thing is set it to US English and hold it up to your speakers and play the guy from the Youtube video talking and it fails to get correct anything he says as well so I would like to know how they got 100% success rate in the video.

I have had limited success with it set to US english, one big problem is the "listen to" command, it insists that I need to install a music player, I have spotify installed (which is on the approved list) but voice action does not appear to recognise that it is there.

thejinx0r said:
How do I know what version of "voice search" I have?
I used the QR code from the google blog and and doesn't recognize some of them.
For example, it will recognize "note to self I am cool" but it will ask to do a search instead of noting to self.
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It is looking for the nearest psychiatrist, as it has deduced you are in urgent need thereof

Like the previous voice to text, it mainly accepts US english inflection, for the moment being.
However in my fake mafioso-US-english accent I could manage to type some emails, but I couldn't, for the hell of it, make it recognize the 'to' field most of the times. I think you really have to speak it all together "send email (no pause) to xyz (pause) how are you ?"

Too many "SERVER PROBLEM" .... not good.

OK, I've figured it out. It works and works just as accurate as in the Google vid. You just have to speak at your normal pace and the phone no more than around 6 inches away.
I can use US and UK accents to get it working. I've moved around enough to know them well.
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I have tried it for directions, navigation, voice dialing good.text message no go on generic htc sense 2.2.
Northern irish accent.
Just saying one word searches for pizza, thai, pubs god tho.bruins up google search entries by location.plus point
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Locked out

Hi all, I know there are many posts on this, but I have a customer with an i9000 and locked out of phone with pattern, and has forgotten pattern. No 3 button download, and not in debugging mode. so no 3 buttin fix. Am I wasting my time, should I just tell then to send it off to the service centre.
Regards tony
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tonyg_253 said:
Hi all, I know there are many posts on this, but I have a customer with an i9000 and locked out of phone with pattern, and has forgotten pattern. No 3 button download, and not in debugging mode. so no 3 buttin fix. Am I wasting my time, should I just tell then to send it off to the service centre.
Regards tony
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Uhm.. Perhaps you could try adb from a PC and do "adb reboot recovery" and then wipe your phone to default?

us1111 said:
Uhm.. Perhaps you could try adb from a PC and do "adb reboot recovery" and then wipe your phone to default?
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If I remember correctly it doesnt work.
But you could flash the 3 button fix - thats a start and maybe ypu can reflash it or something (no idea if it works).

use search function next time, and dont make post in development... its all in the STICKY!
Try to put your gmail login info from all different gmail account you have.
Also try this. Take out battery>wait for 3 hours > but the battery back > press power button for 20 seconds (This method was listed by one guy on other forum).
One guy also mentioned this method.
AGAIN ITS the lamest thing you could ever think of, anyway heres how it goes,
1) Log in to your google account on your pc, the same account you registered for your phone
2) After logging in look at the top right corner of your inbox/email page, it would say your google username. Like say if you name is John, and you have a google id thats registered to your galaxy s as ,[email protected] Now this google id on the top right corner of the page would be displayed [email protected]
3) Type in the google id, thats visible on the right hand top corner of your page ([email protected]) into your galaxy s handset locked page, and type in the password.
TADA AND YOUR ON TO THE NEW SCREEN TELLING YOU TO PUT IN ANOTHER PATTERN.
Thanks
Zoh
If you cant login by computer then go here
HTML Code:
https://www.google.com/accounts/recovery
...And if you don't remember your secret (recovery) question then try the following method (check the link)
EDIT: you can also try this (very helpful to lot of ppl with the same problem) http://www.docstoc.com/docs/39761478...d---Locked-Out
Any way try all the methods and let me know if it works...BEST OF LUCK
or try recover mode and wipe all data
or try
this solution is with thanks to another person on another site...
You need a WiFi connection available for this to work!
1) Call your phone from a different phone.
2) Answer the call. While still connected...
3) Hit the BACK button on the phone (the arrow softkey)
4)This takes you to the home screen (it might take a few attempts, it depends on your timing. It took me 4 attempts)
5)Drag down your notifications bar and turn the WiFi on if it isn't already.
6)Close the notifications bar then hit the MENU softkey, select Settings then "Accounts and sync".
7)Click "Add Account" and select Google.
8)Sign up for a new google account as normal.
9)When the signup process is complete (and it must successfully create an account) you can hang up the call. (Do not sync the accounts)
10)Now when the phone asks you to unlock it using google credentials, use the ones from the account you just created. It will now ask you for a new security pattern, then for the same pattern again to verify.
11)Once you are back into the phone, turn off this "feature" until Google release a fix for the bug.
12)You can now delete the "false" google account which you just created from the phone. You should log into google and delete it from there too really.
13)Now reboot your phone. When the phone starts up and it still says "Phone Locked" don't panic!, Just drag the screen out of the way to unlock the phone, just like you did before you activated the pattern security.

Let's hope the guy remembers his google account details.
Seriously though, if you are not going to be able remember your combination lock..... why make it so complicated in the first place?

Thanks for the copy and paste, yeah I've tried all that, I was just after an opinion from the experts.
But doesn't look like I'm going to get one.
No probs, I'll just get my customer to send out back to service centre.
Tony.
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tonyg_253 said:
Hi all, I know there are many posts on this, but I have a customer with an i9000 and locked out of phone with pattern, and has forgotten pattern. No 3 button download, and not in debugging mode. so no 3 buttin fix. Am I wasting my time, should I just tell then to send it off to the service centre.
Regards tony
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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if 3 button download mode doesnt work, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8901928#post8901928
it would mean all phone contents will be lost though

Awesome, thanks for the info.
ill get my soldering iron out
Regards Tony

[Q] set the "lock phone after" setting to more than 15 minutes

Hi!
I have a corporate app installed on my desire, which requires a screen lock with password to be enabled, and i can't seem to find a workaround, so the password stays
The only thing i can think of is to increase the timeout, until the phone gets locked, and i need to insert the password.
And here comes the problem. In my previous ROM, the maximum timeout was 15 minutes, and in my current ROM, there is no such option, to set a timeout, the phone locks right wenn i turn off the screen.(and i can unlock it only with the password...)
So here's the question: how can i set this timeout to more than 15 minutes. Where is this setting stored ?
I already googled, and found nothing. I was digging with sqlite3 in /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db, but i can't find this. Maybe it is more hardcoded ?
Please help me! This thing is killing me!!!

Well if your device is payed and given to you by your employer he has the right to put some restricting software on it (although I've never heard of such an android).
And what is this corporate app? Is it developed by your company, if it's strictly for use within the company, then no other one, besides the people in the company would know whether it has a function for more than 15 min timeout.
If you have permissions to install apps see if "No Lock" from the market works.

3722 said:
Well if your device is payed and given to you by your employer he has the right to put some restricting software on it (although I've never heard of such an android).
And what is this corporate app? Is it developed by your company, if it's strictly for use within the company, then no other one, besides the people in the company would know whether it has a function for more than 15 min timeout.
If you have permissions to install apps see if "No Lock" from the market works.
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It is my own phone, the software is developed by my company. It installs a policy,that requires a phone lock password to be set. In the system... This lock can have a timeout, but maximum 15 minutes. I'd like to change this to 2hours or even a day. But there is no such option in the GUI, this is why I want to find where this setting is stored in the system.

I think you may have configured your Microsoft Exchange email on your phone. If you do that then the IT admins have the right to enforce a lock screen after 15 minutes. I have the same problem. Unfortunately there's nothing you can do about it, except look for a software that can over-ride the lock-screen.
There used to be a software called LockPicker. But I heard it does not work with Froyo anymore. So my suggestion is that either learn to live with it, or look for an overriding software

drumster said:
I think you may have configured your Microsoft Exchange email on your phone. If you do that then the IT admins have the right to enforce a lock screen after 15 minutes. I have the same problem. Unfortunately there's nothing you can do about it, except look for a software that can over-ride the lock-screen.
There used to be a software called LockPicker. But I heard it does not work with Froyo anymore. So my suggestion is that either learn to live with it, or look for an overriding software
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Yes, I found this thread also,and that setting is stored in that database I mentioned in the first post. The problem is, in my case it is not exchange. It is a different story.
There must be a solution for this. I mean if there is a setting in the GUI, then it must be stored somewhere! And it must be possible to change it...

It sound like they use a crypto-software or ssl certificate, if you bypass it or try to bypass it.
Your phone can be locked or not fully functional, and your it admins will be angry

I think there is a little misunderstanding here. Let me rephrase my question!
Does anyone know how to set the "lock phone after" time in the security settings menu of the phone to a value higher than 15 minutes?
If you don't see that option, then you are using a sense-less rom. I found it only in roms using sense.
It is a system setting, not an application password. I will try to create screenshots today, so you can see what I mean

Hey Google Call ___ command not working sometimes

On the pixel 3 XL sometimes when I say Hey Google it takes a moment to work, and when I say Call __ the screen shows the command but it will not call. I have to open the Phone app and manually call them. Anyone else get that?

I have the same issue a quick reboot fixes the issue, but it's super annoying to have to constantly reboot your phone to make a call via the google assistant.

doesnt work when i say a nickname while using maps. i have to say the complete persons name.

I guess the word hasnt really got out yet that feature has been taken away by Google because they deemed it a security risk. I think that is the worlds worst decision and has taken the choice out of our hands. Google could have easily just placed a warning that if used it "could" pose a security risk. But, that goes against all the new "Titan" security that they peddling now. Remember what is used to say here in Google App settings/voice? Well this is what is says now!

Archangel said:
I guess the word hasnt really got out yet that feature has been taken away by Google because they deemed it a security risk. I think that is the worlds worst decision and has taken the choice out of our hands. Google could have easily just placed a warning that if used it "could" pose a security risk. But, that goes against all the new "Titan" security that they peddling now. Remember what is used to say here in Google App settings/voice? Well this is what is says now!
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What feature was taken?

Novakingwai said:
What feature was taken?
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If the phone is on the lockscreen, OK GOOGLE will not make calls, or display personal results. More specifically, it will not read your messages, but it will display the messages on the screen. To be clear, it doesnt matter if you the lockscreen personal results option is turned on.
Very stupid IHMO. I get Google removing this "feature" due to security, but I will say that in the very least they should have the phone alert you that it cannot make a phonecall, read your personal messages aloud, etc instead of just not working and making people think something is broken.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/19/18001460/google-pixel-3-xl-google-assistant-voice-match-removed