I have forgot my screen lock pattern of my MOTO G3. What do I do now? How can I access my mobile now. If there is any solution, please let me know.
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My son has an impression tablet 10 and has forgot the lock pattern. How can we reset it without knowing the code?
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:     The type of lock that's acceptable may be predetermined by your system   administrator.   Where I can define what's acceptable? I can regenerate the certificate if needed.  So I can use slide lockscreen again.  (I'm using CM9 RC1, Android 4.0.4)
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I understand that unlocking the bootloader will wipe my Android phone, but have been looking around for why.  Seems to be by design, but what is the reasoning for that design?  Is it some security concern, some obscure technical reason, or just for lulz?  I'm looking for something solid to chew on here, something more than because "that's how it is".
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I can't find the safari icon on my iphone 4?  I have tried resetting home screen layout and that doesn't work.  My restrictions button is 'on' and it asks for a password for this button.  I don't have a password.  Can you help? Thanks,
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When I initially set up my phone, I had to both choose a pattern and scan my fingerprint, for providing maximal security. Now, when I want to unlock my phone, I can choose, whether I want to do that with the pattern or with my fingerprint.  Why providing the fingerprint, when someone still can use my pattern? Is there any way, to deactivate the pattern, so that it can be unlocked by the fingerprint only?
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I have an Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo.  Bus 002 Device 042: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-I9300 Phone [Galaxy S III], GT-P7500 [Galaxy Tab 10.1]   The keyboard &amp; language setting is português.  I today installed Android Device Manager and to test it's functionality I locked the phone with the password: "abcd" (4 letters were required).  After entering the password and confirming with the "OK" button of my keyboard, the phone showed me that the password is wrong. "Senha incorreta".  I reset the password after some tries to "123456" and the phone reloaded the lock screen. Again the password showed up to be wrong. I also tried the alphabetic password: "abcdefg" - same error.  I changed the language of my Google account from German to Portuguese and reset the password to "123456" again and I tried to really reboot my phone and unlock the SIM card again. But anyways I can not get through my lock of the Android Device Manager.  I tried to enter the password 35 times wrong with hope to get a chance to authenticate with my Google Account login.  I also tried to connect the phone with adb but it does not show up in this state with:  adb devices   So what can I do to get access to my phone again?
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The screen lock is not working, it does not lock the screen (no password required).  I would like it to prompt for a password every time the screen locks (clock screen).  All instructions tells me to enable this in privacy but I can not enable or disable as it's grey (gray).  Ubuntu 17.10 upgraded from Ubuntu 17.04, upgraded from Ubuntu 16.10.    Any help or advise would be great as I already tried many setting and installs and removes suggested on online.
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Where would I ask a question pertaining to an ordinary phone? Or just cell phones in general? I saw Windows Phone while browsing the SE database, nothing else really popped out at me. Google didn't bring up anything either. Is that just too small a community to cover with SE?
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Recently upgraded to Ubuntu 18.10, having two problems.  Easiest to explain: when I open "settings", go to "privacy", select "screen lock", I get the popup window with the screen lock settings, but everything is grayed out:   Second issue: If I step away from the machine for long enough (seems to be 5 minutes), the screen blanks. Hitting a key or moving the mouse wakes it up. But when it wakes up, the only things on the screen are the icon bar at the left and the top bar with status icons on the right end. The rest of the screen is blue, not my normal lock screen image. The screen isn't locked, it doesn't prompt for a password, it's just...blue.  I can move the mouse pointer around the screen, the icons react if I click on one, I can bring up the popup with volume/brightness controls on the top bar. But if the pointer is on the blue background, neither left nor right button clicks do anything.  Now, if I press ctrl-alt-F1 from there, I get a lock screen where I can enter my password. Then I get the blue screen back, but if I press ctrl-alt-F2 I get my normal screen (with running applications) back.  ctrl-alt-F2 without going through the lock screen first does nothing.  I'm not finding anything while searching that matches either of these sets of symptoms. Suggestions?
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The power button on my Nexus One doesnt work smoothly any more, sometimes taking nearly half a dozen attempts before the unlock screen appears on the phone. I was wondering is there is any other way to invoke the unlock screen on my phone, apart from pressing the power button. I have Gingerbread 2.3.4 on my phone.
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I am using samsung galaxy j7, in the developer options there is a option "OEM Unlock" if I turn it on will it wipe my data?   Also does samsung locks bootloaders? My device is not tied to any carrier.
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So I took a plunge and installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my main home PC. So far so good, but there is one annoyance - the system "locks" the computer after a period of inactivity causing me to re-enter my password.  I really would like to avoid this, but have no idea how. I already tried the power settings (no pass on wake up) and the screen saver settings with no luck. Is this some sort of bug, or am I missing something?  P.S. In this case I favor convenience over security.
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A few weeks ago I integrated my SD card to use as phone memory. Everything was fine until a couple of days ago.  All of a sudden I saw the "insert SD card" notice appear on the notification bar. I open the back cover but the SD card looked like it was in place. I remove it and insert it back and the notice disappears. But then I notice that when I go to file explorer (FX) to access my files, it says "Access was denied". I can't access anything that is on my phone memory, although the apps are working. I guess system files are OK, but everything else is not.  My phone is rooted so I tried to access the files through TWRP but I can only see system folders.  Phone is a Moto C plus. Nougat.
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On my Nexus 7 2013 Wi-Fi with Android 5.0.1 Lollipop I used the Slide setting for the lock screen. To experiment with a VPN, I switched to pattern lock.  After deleting the VPN entry I had created, I tried to switch back to Slide. However, the Slide and None options are grayed out and unusable under Settings -> Security -> Screen lock. Only the Pattern, PIN, and Password options are available.  How can I switch from Pattern to Slide?
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I have lost my Android Phone. How can I track it via IMEI number.   Can I install any application which can given me the number of SIM currently on given IMEI number.  Please help
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Unlocking the bootloader and/or the recovery is very popular discussion across many devices. But doing so exposes a very obvious and inevitable issue with security!  An unlocked recovery means that no matter how secure you make your android lock screen, someone can easily reset phone to restore the phone to a fully functional (and lockless/insecure) state and the worst part, they don't have to erase your data(meaning they can access all your personal files and folders)!  It is almost hilarious! In fact if the phone supports insertion of external SD cards, you can even flash your own software into the phone and maybe bypass the lock screen without wiping any data.  For example: One possible loophole is using the 'Tasker' app which has a feature that can temporarily disable the keyguard. And the best part is that Tasker can be flashed using the recovery!  So is there any method by which I could add a security measure that prevents complete access to my recovery and/or boot loader that will make my phone less insecure?!  Expected answer: Method by which a custom pin/password must be entered before entering the bootloader/recovery. So that my bootloader/recovery is still technically unlocked but simply requires authentication to use (this also ensures that conventional unlocking methods won't work as the phone is not really locked!). This also means that one does not have to lose root access to ensure security!
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On the default lock screen, whether using pattern or pin, there is a button at the bottom which says "Emergency Call". But if I try to call my home number or anything it tells me "That is not an emergency call." What does it let through? Is it only 911?   Is there any way to tell it to allow a certain set of numbers from the emergency button, like to set a list of emergency numbers such as: 911, Home and Wife? This would seem like it would be very useful, so if someone finds you smooshed on the road, they know these certain people should be called.