I personally have a Motorola Moto G2 (Upgrading in a few days). Since I have a few things which are really personal and secretive I have two users on my phone. One with my all private stuff which I use most of the time and the other for use when I am with family or they ask to go on my phone. I thought about this instead of sliding down the notification bar and changing the user from there. We should be able to just log in directly into the user for example I have a pin and say the pin for my private account is 9999 and my pin for the other account is 1111 when I want to unlock the phone I want to be able to just go to a lock screen where I can access both by just typing either pin in. Thoughts?
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Hey fellow XDAers!
Quick question today: Is it possible to set up Exchange accounts on an Android phone (or in my case 100+ phones), but let the end user be prompted to enter the Username and Password when they start using the phone?
One solution might be to at least enter the Username up front, together with a bogus Password. This should give a wrong password message or similar and then prompt for the correct one, but is hardly an elegant solution. Also, it requires us to enter the correct user name in the correct phone, which generates significantly more work distributing the right phone to the right person.
Is there any better solutions out there from you brilliant XDA people?
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Can anyone recommend an email client that requires you to put in your email account password each time you connect?
I want to use it specifically for my banking and nothing else/no other email accounts.
I don't really want the app to save my password, because I don't routinely password-protect my phone (too much hassle for too little benefit), and I want to know that my bank details/emails are safe if I ever lost my phone.
I don't know the answer to your question off the top of my head, but there are apps which will password-protect other apps (there are many, app lock, app protector, etc.).
Yeah, I did think of that, but since I'm paranoid and my phone is rooted/not password protected, I figure that anyone with a clue could get past that if they got hold of my phone. So I really want to not store the email password on the phone at all. I guess if I can't find an app then I'll just have to use the browser...
If you're paranoid, why do you stay rooted and not password protected? You could set a pattern lock, or at least unroot.
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If you're paranoid, why do you stay rooted and not password protected? You could set a pattern lock, or at least unroot.
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Convenience. I have several apps that require root permissions, and I flash a new ROM quite regularly.
As for the pattern/password protection on my device - I don't want to do that because it will involve several hundred inputs a week, whereas I only really intend on checking this specific email account a couple of times a week at most, so I'd really rather have to input the email password at that point.
There's nothing else sensitive on my phone that I would care about anyone getting their hands on.
Bump. Any ideas, anyone?
I was attracted to the Nexus 9 by the facility to have individual password protected user accounts. However it would appear that if the unit is turned off or battery goes flat whilst in possession of a user it require the owner's password to get back in? This sort of negates the benefit of the separate password protected accounts or have I set it up incorrectly or otherwise doing something wrong? Many thanks
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I was attracted to the Nexus 9 by the facility to have individual password protected user accounts. However it would appear that if the unit is turned off or battery goes flat whilst in possession of a user it require the owner's password to get back in? This sort of negates the benefit of the separate password protected accounts or have I set it up incorrectly or otherwise doing something wrong? Many thanks
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HTC Support have now confirmed "Unfortunately there is not function to allow you to do that, it will always go back to the main account holder when the battery dies or turns off."
My son committed suicide in September and his phone was found near his body. He put a pin lock on his phone. I've tried two of the 5 times available to open the phone with no success. I stopped by a local phone service business who directed me to this site suggesting someone might be able to help.
Initially, I was desperate to open the phone thinking there might be a clue as to why he ended his own life. We had no idea he was considering such an act. Since then I've had second thoughts about trying to open his phone, yet, I can't help but wonder if he might have left a note on the phone.
The phone is a Samsung Galaxy S7.
I've just joined this group to see if someone can help. I look forward to hearing from you experts on the possibilities.
Hi , if it was adb enabled you can remove pin code by following this method .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swV-BUt8HQg
Opening PIN locked phone of deceased son
Thanks for the suggestion. I started to review the full video but confess that I stopped after it appeared to assume I could log into my son's "Gmail" account which I cannot do. I reached out to Goggle and of course the won't help me log into the account. They might provide me some of the content of his emails.
At this, I have no way of accessing any email accounts with either Samsung or Google's Gmail in order to help open up the phone.
Frankly, I'll know within minutes whether there is something he left for us, his parents. If it help make anyone comfortable in helping me I could provide my son's death certificate minus social security numbers and other security risk data. I doubt you it would be useful but it's a form of proof at least that I'm not trying to break into just anyone's phone.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I started to review the full video but confess that I stopped after it appeared to assume I could log into my son's "Gmail" account which I cannot do. I reached out to Goggle and of course the won't help me log into the account. They might provide me some of the content of his emails.
At this, I have no way of accessing any email accounts with either Samsung or Google's Gmail in order to help open up the phone.
Frankly, I'll know within minutes whether there is something he left for us, his parents. If it help make anyone comfortable in helping me I could provide my son's death certificate minus social security numbers and other security risk data. I doubt you it would be useful but it's a form of proof at least that I'm not trying to break into just anyone's phone.
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There is a way to remove Google Account by using twrp Recovery image for your device .
Search on the internet twrp recovery for your Model and instruction how to flash twrp recovery .
Once you install custom twrp recovery go to:
data/system/ and delete
Accounts.db
now reboot
You are done
twrp recovery question
If I go through the twrp process you describe will it leave the data that's on the phone intact? It would be nice if the phone still had access to the gmail account my son had. It sounds as if the process you recommend will disassociate the phone from his gmail account. Is that right.
Is this the only way to disable the pin lock which is all I want to do.
davewts said:
If I go through the twrp process you describe will it leave the data that's on the phone intact? It would be nice if the phone still had access to the gmail account my son had. It sounds as if the process you recommend will disassociate the phone from his gmail account. Is that right.
Is this the only way to disable the pin lock which is all I want to do.
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Here you have for lockscreen , but if is also google account then delete file before that i send you .
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software-hacking/remove-lockscreen-recovery-t3530008
Hey, so I got this idea from a book and I was wondering if there's a way to make it possible if I root my phone. I want to have 2 separate user accounts but there is no option to switch accounts, the way you would access one is to type in its password (say 1234) and the way you access the other would be to type in its password (5678). So it doesn't look like there are multiple accounts, and if I need to give someone the password I can tell them 1234, but all my actual data is hidden unless I type 5678. Is that possible? I am willing to root my phone.
Thanks