I am having a nightmare of a time with the new Samsung Galaxy S 2, on AT&T. Initially it would not connect to Exchange 2010 using the built in account connector. A week later that now works, having changed nothing on my end. Now it connects OK, but will only allow me to set up a complex password on the device to unlock it [no PIN / swipe etc.] despite using the same policy as everyone else. On another Android I have [Atrix 4G] I can use the finger print reader, pin code & swipe pattern and switch between them fine. Our older WinMo 6.5 phones are working fine with pin numbers only. I am using the same Active Sync policy. The phone is set to lock after 10 minutes of inactivity, and I don’t want to leave it much longer than that if I can avoid it.
Ultimately I need to be able to set it up to do the swipe pattern, or at least the PIN number, some of our users need to make phone calls in the car & a complex password is not going to fly. I need the phone to sync with exchange for email, contacts, calendar & tasks, as well as the security features like full encryption & remote wipe [a must] and the recover lost password & failed logins functionality.
Any recommendations?
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I created a separate Exchange ActiveSync policy. Enabled AN passwords and allow simple passwords. Rebooted devices & sysnc'd. Both were required to enter complex passwords. On the GS2 the only option was the complex password. On the Atrix the only options were the complex password & the fingerprint reader [though a complex password was required as the backup in case fingerprint was not available].
Removed requirement for AN password, still allowing simple passwords. Rebooted devices & sync'd. Now the Atrix will allow for a PIN, password & fingerprint. The SG2 will still only allow for a password.
Removed requirement for AN password and removed simple passwords. Rebooted devices & sync'd. Atrix will still allow for a PIN, password & fingerprint. The SG2 will still only allow for a password.
Removed password requirement completely [no Encryption or anything]. Rebooted devices & sync'd. Now both devices will allow for a PIN, password & nothing as well as the fingerprint on the atrix.
Turned encryption & simple password back on & now it requires a password on GS2, pin, password or fingerprint on the Atrix.
It seams that to enable encryption on the galaxy s 2 you must also use a complex password. :-(
any ideas how to get around this?
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Most of the Questions around Wifi and credentials are the opposite of mine, they want to know where to find saved passwords or how to save them.
I'm trying to determine how to prevent Android from saving the Password when authenticating to a WAP, as we use expiring passwords that change every 2-3 minutes via RSA SecurID token.
At work we use:
802.1x EAP - PEAP
No Phase 2
No CA Cert
No user Cert
DO USE Identity
DO USE Password - RSA SecurID (Changes every couple minutes)
I'd like to figure out how to make droid prompt for a new password everytime it tries to Wifi Connect to a WAP at work, which can happens multiple times through out the day as I move around.
Currently, the droid saves the password (which expires every couple minutes) and then tries to use this expired password on the next reconnect, which locks out my account after a few retries.
So the options I can think of but, can't see a way to accomplish, are:
1. Don't save the password.
2. Prompt for credentials after any authentication failure.
3. Clear the saved password immediately.
Any one have any ideas?
These are the major setbacks I don't like about Samsung Dive.
You can lock the phone remotely but only with a 4-digit number. This is a joke security, you can even guess it via bruteforce, unlimited attempts. Even user's password or pattern can be way more secure.
No automatically wipe everything (data and sd cards) after a specified time if the password is not entered correctly or after a number of tries. I think the Android itself should come with this option.
No internal or external sd card wipe available
No SMS lock feature. This is extremely useful when there are no Wifi or 3G active connections, whether because the user has a economizer profile that disables data when no demanded or because it's a place with no signal coverage for 3G, or wifi is existent but key encrypted.
Sometimes the phone is not found when in connected only to wifi.
Any suggestions or alternatives? It's a big deal for me because have my google account with drive, gmail, saved passwords for web browsers, ebay app, pictures and so on.
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scandiun said:
These are the major setbacks I don't like about Samsung Dive.
You can lock the phone remotely but only with a 4-digit number. This is a joke security, you can even guess it via bruteforce, unlimited attempts. Even user's password or pattern can be way more secure.
Automatically wipe everything (data and sd cards) after a specified time if the password is not entered correctly or after a number of tries. I think the Android itself should come with this option.
No internal or external sd card wipe available
No SMS lock feature. This is extremely useful when there are no Wifi or 3G active connections, whether because the user has a economizer profile that disables data when no demanded or because it's a place with no signal coverage for 3G, or wifi is existent but key encrypted.
Any suggestions or alternatives? It's a big deal for me because have my google account with drive, gmail, saved passwords for web browsers, ebay app, pictures and so on.
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Have you tried Cerberus yet?
It's quite nice and does most of the stuff you need.
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I've searched around for an answer to this question, but I can't seem to find anything.
My office uses secured 802.1x wireless. When I try and connect, I get a message saying "You must set a lock screen PIN or password before you can use credential storage". Is there a way around this? I really don't want to set a PIN or password on my phone...
Set it, set up your connection, then change your lock back to None. It only needs the lock when it's initially creating the store. You can remove the screen lock once your credential store is set up.
Awesome. I figured it would be something simple.
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Set it, set up your connection, then change your lock back to None. It only needs the lock when it's initially creating the store. You can remove the screen lock once your credential store is set up.
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This didn't work for me, it asks me to create a code (pattern, pin or password) if I want to create, for example, a VPN connection.
Then, lockscreen requires my code to unlock, and it doesn't allow me to change lock back to none because, it says, it's protected under a credential storage.
If I clear my credential storage it clears my saved connections. This was not an issue on stock and on
Not sure if anyone else has run into this but here goes....
My work has an Exchange 2013 server and I activate my phone using ActiveSync on it. As you may know you can assign device policies in Exchange to require a password (or not) among a few other things. I have admin access to the exchange server and long ago had set my policy to not require a password. I still used one but in order to use certain things like Smart Lock the password requirement had to be disabled on the Exchange side. This all worked fine up until Android 6.0. Now no matter what the policy is my phone always requires me to have a PIN and disables Smart Lock. I'm guessing this may require an update on Microsoft's end? Anyone else experience this?
On the most of the android phones by default, informing the user all the saved WiFi password it will be sync with your google account. In case of change the phone or reset the phone, user are able retrieve them by input the g-mail user and password and bring back the saved WiFi network on the android device.
Most of the time this feature, it is work fine but not always.
It happen for me recently! I just saw all my saved network has been disappear, I try all possible option (safe-mode/ set account on a new phone/ restore my phone/ contact google support 2 times)
Even the google support can't figure it out how it been erased
Google final answer it was "it might was some technical issue while synchronizing with the cloud"
I try to put some of the WiFi pass again, but even after it there is no options on the android or google dashboard to see the new WiFi pass has been sync or not.
Basically the information about WiFi password it has been collected from user but there is not any report to the end user about it!
The password is should reachable again same as the saved password in the google chrome or the history of location/search in all other services...
but
1- The SSID/pass is not retrievable from google account.
2- In Google dashboard is not show at least like names of the saved network.
3- Google is not even tell the user number of the saved WiFi network.
It should be a way to monitor this sync process and make sure it's working in proper way!
is there any way to monitor this sync process?