After a bit of trouble I got the new JI6 update installed on my vibrant. One of the "lovely" changes included was apparently "better" exchange support. By better I guess they mean that I now have to put up with a rather annoying and completely unwanted need to include a password to access my phone after it has been asleep for a bit. I quite simply do not want this. Yes I understand its for security etc, but no I do not want this simply because I need to connect to an exchange server. Does anyone know a way around using this feature?
Would it be possible to use the mail app from stock? If so, how?
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T.Els said:
One of the "lovely" changes included was apparently "better" exchange support. By better I guess they mean that I now have to put up with a rather annoying and completely unwanted need to include a password to access my phone after it has been asleep for a bit.
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I know this isn't what you want to hear, but just to make things clear -- The improvement was the fact that the email client more fully supports the ActiveSync protocol. The password requirement wasn't supported before, and is now. And the actual requirement comes from your Exchange provider. Ask them if they'll let you use Exchange without a password. Odds are they'll say no. But still, if they agree -- they can remove the requirement for you.
If it is not possible to disable the password all together is there a way to change it? I have been finding it very annoying to have to enter a password every 15 minutes or so, so if it can't be disabled, is it possible to change it to something else (ie 1111)? Would installing an earlier version of the email.apk work? If so, where could I find that?
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Hello all,
I am sorry if I didn't do a throughout search but I needed help urgently..
and so...
I was playing with a friend's Hero's pattern lock, until it got locked till the extent whereby only inputting the gmail's account details were the only way to unlock it...
He tried to input the particulars, but they didn't work..
he was rather sure that the details were correct..
Anyone can provide any help to this?
Is there any way to "rollback" to the lock screen? I am sure my friend remembers the pattern... just that we couldn't go back ):
Or do we need some kind of internet connection to connect to verify for the account?
Anyone who have experience, I appreciate your help! (and everyone else)
Thanks!
is the phone rooted ? do you have access to the recovery menu ?
No I don't think so... my friend just recently got the phone and has done pretty much nothing other than installing apps from the app store...
He's a first time user of Android too... (so am I...)
Btw, recovery menu wise, do you mean the one whereby he holds a few of the buttons and on the device?
Yea, we managed to get there,
but didn't make any selections because there were some important messages inside the phone... and he doesn't want to hard reset his phone...
Any help? :/
Well if you are on the original stock rom that got shipped with the phone (I assume its 1.5), then I do remember a bug which didnt allow us to get through that menu. So we needed to do a hard reset.
If it has the 1. 5 Rom you can call the phone and disable the unlock pattern. You can do this by going into settings while the call is still being made.
Don't know if you're understanding this. This is the best way to explain.
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I've done this a few times accidentally and the Google sign-in has always unlocked it.
Get him to log into his Gmail account on a PC to check his username and password, and then try the same details on the phone. If he's signed in with the correct user account then it should work if everything has been input correctly.
Also, when the phone tries to auto-complete his email address make sure it's correct... my phone always wanted to give me @Googlemail.com, however my email is @Gmail.com so I had to manually change it.
As for apps he has downloaded from the Market... if you do need to do a hard reset then he will be able to download everything again via the downloads tab in the Market app,
Also, any photos, mp3s etc stored on the SD will all still be there as the SD remains unaffected by a reset. The only thing he might loose is any contacts stored on the phone which are not sync'd with Google or saved on the SIM.
I am attaching the Mail.apk that comes with the Thunderbolt and begging someone who is up to the challenge to mod it and allow the removal of the device admin so I don't have to put in a password every 15 min. I hav.e searched and every patched Mail.apk for the desire doesn't work. I totally need this as I am sure that others will too. Your work will be legendary.
That would be so awesome.
On a side note...Why does Sense only let you sync 3 days with MS exchange? I have always synced 7 or 30 days with my other android phones.....Mytouch 3g, G2, and my Nexus 1
I don't think that it has to do with the Mail.apk as I can synk up tp thirty days. I just have to deal with the password issue. So in the mean time I am using touchdown.
Search market for lockpicker app. It bypasses the exchange policy that makes you enter your password. It's a sense thing. And this app was made for it.
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denonlake said:
Search market for lockpicker app. It bypasses the exchange policy that makes you enter your password. It's a sense thing. And this app was made for it.
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Says it does not work with Froyo
The people in security at your work will hate you for this. It's there for a reason. You lose your phone and work data escapes... you can be jailed and fined (depending on the data)
I work for a company that has to be hippa compliant and mass HI-TECH compliant. We don't even allow android devices to connect because of things like the lack of device encryption.
Help please...
I accidentally deleted Mail.apk using titanium backup (idiot). I tried to install the attached mail.apk from the first post but it didn't install. Can someone please send me an apk that can be installed.
Thank you!
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I accidentally deleted Mail.apk using titanium backup (idiot). I tried to install the attached mail.apk from the first post but it didn't install. Can someone please send me an apk that can be installed.
Thank you!
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That is the APK from the stock rom and I did the same thing as you. But I was able to flash to a recovery that I just had made. I posted that Mail.apk directly from the stock rom and it wouldn't install for me either. The plot thickens...
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The people in security at your work will hate you for this. It's there for a reason. You lose your phone and work data escapes... you can be jailed and fined (depending on the data)
I work for a company that has to be hippa compliant and mass HI-TECH compliant. We don't even allow android devices to connect because of things like the lack of device encryption.
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Ironically, some idiot in you IT department is in an airport right now, with a laptop containing all your details for your govt contracts...and he just lost it
cps68500 said:
The people in security at your work will hate you for this. It's there for a reason. You lose your phone and work data escapes... you can be jailed and fined (depending on the data)
I work for a company that has to be hippa compliant and mass HI-TECH compliant. We don't even allow android devices to connect because of things like the lack of device encryption.
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It's far worse than what my employer's IT implemented...
Our Exchange policies haven't changed (I know many people at work who are setup to receive email + calendar from our corporate exchange server, nothing changed).
I only have to enter a pin ever ~30mins. Then I upgrade my Cappy to froyo and setup the exchange account again. NOW I have to re-enter it every time my screen blanks (timeout), even for 1 second.
This is froyo mail app folks, not my employer's Exchange settings. they didn't change, my email client did.
I want it back the old way. Not to mention calendar only synchs ~5% of my meetings now. crappy appy on my Cappy!
i was watching G4 earlier and they said that Android saves all of our passwords in plain text and anybody can easily access these. How threatened should we feel if we are using the custom roms such as CM7? They said that they have release 2.3.4???? not sure if thats the correct version but i believe thats what they said.
Cm7 is 2.3.4 and I'm no expert but if someone was trying to hack my phone I'd just turn off wifi or the phone.
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i was watching G4 earlier and they said that Android saves all of our passwords in plain text and anybody can easily access these. How threatened should we feel if we are using the custom roms such as CM7? They said that they have release 2.3.4???? not sure if thats the correct version but i believe thats what they said.
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They are reporting it inaccurately (sensationalism) or you just remembered it wrong. Either way, the actual issue is not that big of a deal. Here's a more accurate article about the problem: http://blogs.computerworld.com/18308/google_android_security_flaw
Your password is not at risk. To avoid having to resend the password itself every time your phone communicates to Google's servers (which would be a security risk), the server generates a token (a bunch of random letters and numbers basically) that your phone will send instead of the real password. The token is only valid for a number of days, so if it is compromised, there's no permanent damage being done. The issue is that this token is sometimes sent unencrypted when you are connected to a wifi network, which means it could be intercepted by someone else connected to that wifi network. However this is something Google can and will correct on their side -- i.e., no one needs to apply any software update or patch to their phone to fix the issue, as mentioned in the article I linked to.
By the way, if you log into Facebook while on public wifi on a laptop, you will be putting yourself in the exact same risk. Facebook does exactly the same thing, but the only difference is Facebook doesn't care to fix the issue.
Google addressed the issue server side and all is well again.....
sauce:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/18/google-confirms-android-security-issue-server-side-fix-rolling/
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Cm7 is 2.3.4 and I'm no expert but if someone was trying to hack my phone I'd just turn off wifi or the phone.
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Actually Cm7 is 2.3 -2.3.3 while Cm7.1 is 2.3.4.
Thanks for clearing that up I don't ever use a public wifi anyways so I wouldn't be at much risk
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hi, i know i can back up and manually upload to another phone but what im looking for is keeping texts constantly in sync. the idea being that i want to use one phone most of the time but for some occasions id like to swap the sim cards over into the other device.
i am aware that supposedly this functionality is baked into google voice but since im not american it doesnt work and hence not an option.
so is there something that would do this?
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hi, i know i can back up and manually upload to another phone but what im looking for is keeping texts constantly in sync. the idea being that i want to use one phone most of the time but for some occasions id like to swap the sim cards over into the other device.
i am aware that supposedly this functionality is baked into google voice but since im not american it doesnt work and hence not an option.
so is there something that would do this?
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Maybe try this.
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Maybe try this.
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hmmm, app looks interestying but the website for the company doesnent even mention it and seems to be very comercial, i think they want to then charge you per redirected text which isnt really what im after.
So I just got my Z2 yesterday and tried to set it up with my work account when I discovered that it erroneously keeps telling me that I need a password rather than a PIN lock. My device administrator requires only a PIN lock (and my M8 currently uses only a PIN lock).
I was able to somewhat get around this issue by installing the stock Google 4.4 email app and exchange service (which does work with only a PIN), but that app will not sync with my car to show my email on my navigation screen like the stock app would (and like the M8 does). Does anyone have any ideas on how to get around this "password" thing, which is clearly an error in Sony's software?
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So I just got my Z2 yesterday and tried to set it up with my work account when I discovered that it erroneously keeps telling me that I need a password rather than a PIN lock. My device administrator requires only a PIN lock (and my M8 currently uses only a PIN lock).
I was able to somewhat get around this issue by installing the stock Google 4.4 email app and exchange service (which does work with only a PIN), but that app will not sync with my car to show my email on my navigation screen like the stock app would (and like the M8 does). Does anyone have any ideas on how to get around this "password" thing, which is clearly an error in Sony's software?
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That's just the way it is with Sony KitKat phones. It's stupid. Just use Nine mail client instead of the stock version.
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That's just the way it is with Sony KitKat phones. It's stupid. Just use Nine mail client instead of the stock version.
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My concern is that Nine will probably not work with my car. I will give it a shot, though. Thanks for the suggestion.
By the way -- I tried Nine and it's fantastic. I might even stick with it even if it doesn't work with my car (and it probably won't) just based on the application level security. Not having a passcode is incredible. I had forgotten what that feels like.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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By the way -- I tried Nine and it's fantastic. I might even stick with it even if it doesn't work with my car (and it probably won't) just based on the application level security. Not having a passcode is incredible. I had forgotten what that feels like.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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You shouldn't work on email and drive at the same time anyway :good: