HI
I'm searching for an app (or hack, or whatever) which allows me to do custom actions when there are too many incorrect unlocking attempts. For example, when 5 incorrect patterns are entered, get the location and send it to a remote web server. In my case, I would like to start Cerberus tracking, but that's not the main point.
Is there an app, or custom lock screen, or any security app that allows me to do this?
I am also looking for this. Have you got and idea on how to do it?
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Hi,
I am thinking about using apps which can autologin to special services like skype or facebook. But I do not want to give others access to my accounts when my device is lost or stolen.
I searched for android apps which can force a password / pattern request when launching a specified app and found some. But how do they work? Do they encrypt the target application settings or do they just act as a fake-security layer before launching the app, allowing everyone to bypass it when extracting a nandroid backup for example?
Thanks for help
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My wife has a RAZR MAXX. Her company is transitioning their corporate email from Groupwise (I'm amazed they are still on it) to Google for Business.
They currently allow the use of BYOD for email access. She has been using Touchdown to access their Groupwise infrastructure. Before allowing access to the new email system, they are requiring the installation of Google's Device Policy App.
Is anyone here familiar with it? We're very interested in it's capabilities prior to allowing it on her phone. If we decide it's too intrusive, she will opt out of the email access.
I understand it has remote wipe, of email, or the entire system and that it can enforce a device lock timeout and PIN. Those are fairly standard.
What I'm more concerned with is the other capabilities that I've heard about. I've read where it can apparently use the camera to take pictures. It can also report on the phone's movements. Can anyone confirm this? And if so, is this something that the admins will have a console for that's supplied by Google, or is it something a third-party application is used for? Are there any indications of things such as this being activated remotely? Are there any ways to limit what it can do? Are there ways on the phone to determine what the specific active policy contains, and also receive notification if the policy was to change?
Any other info regarding this would be very much appreciated.
Thanks.
I don't have a lot of answers for you, and would actually like answers to a lot of the same questions.
What I do have to offer is that my school Exchange server requires me to grant it similar access. I've never had an issue related to it. It is a bit unnerving to connect to the email server for the first time and allow it to wipe the device, take photos, activate location services...
How they make use of this access? I'm not sure.
Personally, I've never heard anything about it other than the initial granting of access, and to my knowledge they have never made use of the privileges. So if they have used it, there have been no alerts to it, but I strongly doubt they have.
But at any rate, when I accepted the policy it very specifically outlined what it requests, and allows you to accept or deny. At least in the implementation I used.
I decided to try and lock down my younger brothers Nexus 7 so that he could have his favorite apps but have no access to the internet. Android 5.0 has made this a little easier with the addition of Restricted Profiles.
However there is a major flaw.
Firstly i can disable access to all browsers etc but it does not have the option to disable access to settings. From there you can browse to "Accounts" then "Google Ads" which then gives you full access to the internet and acts as a mini web browser. This defeats the whole purpose of a restricted profile lol, is Google aware of this?
What i need is a way to disable access to settings. I have tried App lock apps but he manages to beat them by repetitively punching a bunch of random numbers
Is there a way to disable the quick settings and notification panel, so that when he tries to pull it down, it won't do anything?
I have hidden the settings icon from Nova so that he can't access this way. But all it takes is a simple swipe down, tap the settings icon in the quick settings panel, go to Accounts, then Google ads and you have access to a full web browsing experience LOL.
Did i mention he's 7? I'm scared of what he'll be able to do at 16
I realise it will probably require root. I'm willing to try anything at this stage!
Any suggestions?
Hi Guys,
Imagine I want to create an app that will use biometrics from the mobile phone.
I want to use the sensor in the way it registers multiple records in my app. From functional perspective it's like the registry - you log in to app, you have "your team" and you need to register their fingerprints.
Is BiometricPrompt API capable of doing it? Or it only serves to authenticate one user that the device belongs to?
If the answer is not in my favour, do you have any other ideas?
Hey,
So I have this case at work, employee that was leaving company returned company issued phone after a very long time of deleting this user's google account, covid situation made it hard to return the equipment back to the company earlier.
There was a screen lock that was forgotten by this user, what made removing de-facto non-existing google account from it's settings impossible.
Only option was to factory rest it through recovery mode and try to bypass it.
The problem is that every tutorial I found online is outdated.
- I tried using the talkback way but the option to show privacy policy is not even there now.
- using proxy method while connecting phone to the Wi-fi also doesn't work because the error message that should pop up after a while of no internet connection also doesn't show up.
- Trying to open up any app using "share" option on selected text also doesn't work, after pressing "share" a pop up window with apps is empty.
My question is does anyone by any chance knows another way or maybe there is a possibility to downgrade the system so above solutions might work again.
We even tried to re-create this users' gmail account only to log in with those credentials but it didn't work.