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Pattern Lock.. Defeated!

EDIT: updated with step-by-step instructions.
Step 1. Download the Android SDK (http://developer.android.com/sdk/)
Step 2. Make sure to configure the ADB usb interface drivers (search the forums for more information on this if you're confused.)
Step 3. Plug your G1 into your computer (via usb). (Settings -> Application -> Development -> USB Debugging, must be enabled [it is enabled by default in JesusFreke releases i think])
Step 4. Open command prompt and enter the following:
Code:
> adb -d shell
# sqlite3 data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
sqlite> update system set value=0 where name='lock_pattern_autolock';
sqlite> .exit
# exit
Step 5. Now power off the phone, and turn it back on. Tada! No more pattern lock.

Sorry, Im speaking on behalf of the simpler folk, but how exactly do you go about doing this, and if so can you make an update.zip that would do this?

hey haykuro, probably you should post this in the development sub-forums..
anyways great stuff man..the code looks so simple lol..i am sure you toiled hard tho!
thanks again.

Joeriginal said:
Sorry, Im speaking on behalf of the simpler folk, but how exactly do you go about doing this, and if so can you make an update.zip that would do this?
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None of this is done on the phone itself. It's done using the adb utility for your computer. Just download the adb.exe file and the USB drivers then repeat the commands shown above at your command prompt.

whats the point of this?

The Great NY said:
whats the point of this?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485903

Yay! Now I can finally use that stolen G1!
J/k I already got rid of the previous owner's account by flashing DREAIMG.NBH
(No, I did not really steal a G1 )

interesting to know
thx.

Could be useful if you forget your own pattern Maybe we can remove the regular lock screen now?

As a follow-up, how difficult would it be to replace the regular lock screen with a different one (non-pattern based)? I struggle with the pattern one, because it's pretty easy for anybody to hold the phone up to the light to see the pattern. Would be useful to have a different, more secure lock screen.

That would be awsome if you could get rid of the first unlock with hitting menu

ICBM said:
As a follow-up, how difficult would it be to replace the regular lock screen with a different one (non-pattern based)? I struggle with the pattern one, because it's pretty easy for anybody to hold the phone up to the light to see the pattern. Would be useful to have a different, more secure lock screen.
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what the hell are you talking about? hold the phone up to the light to see a DIGITAL screen unlock pattern? maybe if you leave giant greasy fingerprints all over the screen...

Yes that's exactly right. The low-tech, looks at the fingerprint pattern works like a charm. Don't believe me? Try it yourself. I don't consider myself particularly greasy, but if you use the G1 as is, without screen covers or anything, you can usually see enough to figure out what the unlock pattern is.

cboy007 said:
what the hell are you talking about? hold the phone up to the light to see a DIGITAL screen unlock pattern? maybe if you leave giant greasy fingerprints all over the screen...
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That's what he meant. And it's very plausible to do, even if your fingers are a little greasy. Try it.

This is nothing revolutionary. All you are doing here is hitting the "Require pattern" switch to off, just doing it the more "intrusive" method.
This is not any sort of insight to replacing the lock activity.
as far as that goes, you'd have to completely rebuild the OS.
Code:
>adb shell logcat -d V | grep -i lock
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 54): wakeWhenReadyLocked(82)
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 54): pokeWakelock(10000)
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 54): pokeWakelock(7000)
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 54): pokeWakelock(10000)
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 54): pokeWakelock(5000)
D/KeyguardViewMediator( 54): pokeWakelock(7000)
this is the action of turning on the screen.
for further information on REPLACING the lock screen you can follow up in this thread http://groups.google.com/group/andr...b512cb203b/8324f7ff7ed232b3?#8324f7ff7ed232b3 (this is just one of the many i googled up.)

yea.. another issue with the lock is that as it may be confusing and magical to a non G1 user.. but i tell you.. .. if a g1 user sees you put your code in... its easily retained to the "allready used it, understand how it works" mind.

two things: since you enter an adb shell does this mean you can do this from a terminal on the phone?
also, cool thing i found,
first you need to have an unlock code set
then you need to have mybackup from the market,
create a backup up of your system settings
do a wipe/factory reset (i dont know if you had to but thats what i did when it happened to me)
now restore your system settings
now you will have an unlock screen that opens with ANY pattern even if its only one dot

haitiankid4lyf said:
two things: since you enter an adb shell does this mean you can do this from a terminal on the phone?
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yes. but if you are on the terminal of the phone, i'd guess you wouldn't need to bypass the lock screen now would you?
haitiankid4lyf said:
also, cool thing i found,
first you need to have an unlock code set
then you need to have mybackup from the market,
create a backup up of your system settings
do a wipe/factory reset (i dont know if you had to but thats what i did when it happened to me)
now restore your system settings
now you will have an unlock screen that opens with ANY pattern even if its only one dot
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cool

i got a quick question, if the phone is locked out how do u get into the settings to turn on usb debugging

wesgarner said:
i got a quick question, if the phone is locked out how do u get into the settings to turn on usb debugging
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haykuro said:
Step 3. Plug your G1 into your computer (via usb). (Settings -> Application -> Development -> USB Debugging, must be enabled [it is enabled by default in JesusFreke releases i think])
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Just update the phone using JF v1.42 update.zip and you should be good to go

Air command not showing up anymore?

I have a strange problem,
After restoring some apps i can't get the air command to show up..
Pressing the s-pen button does nothing
And detaching the s-pen usually triggers air command (I've set it that way in the settings)
But now it only pops up a message on top left "S-pen has been detached"
Any idea why?

deny_winarto said:
I have a strange problem,
After restoring some apps i can't get the air command to show up..
Pressing the s-pen button does nothing
And detaching the s-pen usually triggers air command (I've set it that way in the settings)
But now it only pops up a message on top left "S-pen has been detached"
Any idea why?
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Bump, still cant get this to work.. theres probably something conflicting with air command just like accessibility conflicts with one handed operation

deny_winarto said:
I have a strange problem,
After restoring some apps i can't get the air command to show up..
Pressing the s-pen button does nothing
And detaching the s-pen usually triggers air command (I've set it that way in the settings)
But now it only pops up a message on top left "S-pen has been detached"
Any idea why?
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Strange, I've also lost Air Command as well. Will have to fiddle with the settings.

Problem solved, turns out something is disabling the air command setting in settings 》control... cant believe i missed this lol

deny_winarto said:
Problem solved, turns out something is disabling the air command setting in settings 》control... cant believe i missed this lol
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Just spotted that myself Just the normal issues of getting used to a new device

S Pen
Since today I can not more start the air-command window with S-Pen. The air-command window appears just when i pull out the S-Pen from the phone.
How can I solve the problem?
Thanks

Sorry but...
Sure it is enabled in the settings app?
Just askin' ...
hit 'thanks' if i helped you
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teslax said:
Since today I can not more start the air-command window with S-Pen. The air-command window appears just when i pull out the S-Pen from the phone.
How can I solve the problem?
Thanks
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deny_winarto said:
Problem solved, turns out something is disabling the air command setting in settings 》control... cant believe i missed this lol
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Settings > Controls > Air Command
Now I saw it.

I continue to have a problem with Air Command disappearing. I ended up completely wiping and reflashing along with wiping my internal (which I never did coming to Sacs_N4-N3), everything is running smoother now, and AC was working. Then I tweaked the animation settings (going from .25 on all to 1x, and changing from stock speed in Nova to Relaxed), making sure I paid attention to where the setting were to change back if anything happened. And sure enough, AC disappeared. Even after changing everything back and rebooting I can't get it to come back. Is there anything I can flash/push to system to get it to come back (framework, systemUI) or some setting I should change? And I've tried just toggle off/on in settings with no luck. Thanks in advance.

I had the same problem. Obviously there is something in the settings that mess with the Air command. When I did factory reset and no restore settings restore from google everything started working again. Somehow, I've changed something that broke the air command service from starting and listening to the pen bus messages

Interesting. I have all animations turned off (under dev settings) and Apex is set to the highest speed. Air Command works perfectly fine.
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delian said:
I had the same problem. Obviously there is something in the settings that mess with the Air command. When I did factory reset and no restore settings restore from google everything started working again. Somehow, I've changed something that broke the air command service from starting and listening to the pen bus messages
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try Settings > Device > Accessibility > Vision > Switch Access
hope it helps

ChoHenz said:
try Settings > Device > Accessibility > Vision > Switch Access
hope it helps
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Thanks a lot.you are my angel.
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AC issue - Any suggestions?
I'm having the same issue; I get a response with the AC but it quickly disappears.... Any advice??

[Q] How To Disable Auto Factory Reset?

Just installed Moar Rom. Auto factory reset is automatically turned on in the lock screen options page and I am not able to disable it. I've searched the forums and did a lot of searching online but I have not been able to find any solution for this. By any chance does anyone have any advice on how to turn of this feature? Thank you!

Slalom Frog said:
Just installed Moar Rom. Auto factory reset is automatically turned on in the lock screen options page and I am not able to disable it. I've searched the forums and did a lot of searching online but I have not been able to find any solution for this. By any chance does anyone have any advice on how to turn of this feature? Thank you!
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I think you're talking about the Power Menu in MOAR settings.

Rapunzl said:
I think you're talking about the Power Menu in MOAR settings.
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I don't believe there is anything in there related to what I am trying to solve. If you go to Settings > Lock Screen, at the bottom there is a section titled Auto Factory Reset. I would like to turn this off.

Slalom Frog said:
I don't believe there is anything in there related to what I am trying to solve. If you go to Settings > Lock Screen, at the bottom there is a section titled Auto Factory Reset. I would like to turn this off.
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Sorry, Yes I misunderstood. Have you checked security settings for Google and Samsung. I would say one of them is the reason it's greyed out.

I found that this setting was being controlled by my Exchange server at work. I had read online that this was something that Verizon had implemented, however it appears that is not the case here.

Sync Issue Gmail

Hi. Is there any way to disable Doze mode fully? I am sick of refreshing gmail for important emails.

chainrulez said:
Hi. Is there any way to disable Doze mode fully? I am sick of refreshing gmail for important emails.
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Hello... You can go here:
Settings > battery > 3 dot menu: optimization > tap on "non optimized" and select "all apps"
You can scroll down, tap on Gmail and choose "don't optimize"
I don't have any problem with Gmail notification though I let doze do its job.
Have you tried wiping Gmail data and cache or wipe, uninstall and reinstall to see if it works? You could also try to just wipe the whole cache from recovery...
Good luck...

5.1 said:
Hello... You can go here:
Settings > battery > 3 dot menu: optimization > tap on "non optimized" and select "all apps"
You can scroll down, tap on Gmail and choose "don't optimize"
I don't have any problem with Gmail notification though I let doze do its job.
Good luck...
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Yes sir done that 100 times but it won't detach from doze, this is a known issue in nexus series and that's why I wanted to disable it completely. I am using Greenify instead already and it's serving me well.

chainrulez said:
Yes sir done that 100 times but it won't detach from doze, this is a known issue in nexus series and that's why I wanted to disable it completely. I am using Greenify instead already and it's serving me well.
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Hey sir!
If you wrote the step you used trying to fix the issue, I wouldn't have advised it in the first place...
Anyway... Have you tried a search on Google? I found a command that disable doze completly. At least people report notifications working after that. It seems to work on OnePlus and Huawei devices, so it must be worth to try. If you haven't already...
Open a command prompt and issue:
adb shell dumpsys deviceidle disable
Not sure it survives a reboot.
Good luck... :good:

5.1 said:
Hey sir!
If you wrote the step you used trying to fix the issue, I wouldn't have advised it in the first place...
Anyway... Have you tried a search on Google? I found a command that disable doze completly. At least people report notifications working after that. It seems to work on OnePlus and Huawei devices, so it must be worth to try. If you haven't already...
Open a command prompt and issue:
adb shell dumpsys deviceidle disable
Not sure it survives a reboot.
Good luck... :good:
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Thanks a million respected sir, I got this message which I assume it worked:
Deep idle mode disabled
Light idle mode disabled
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:highfive::good:

chainrulez said:
Thanks a million respected sir, I got this message which I assume it worked:
:highfive::good:
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Wow... Nice. No need to credit me for this. But thanks. As I said, i just found the command with this simple Google search:
"Complete disable doze Android" without quote.
Try to reboot and check if the notification work yet. Or Google the command and see people reports. Hopefully the output you got from the command prompt confirms doze is really off for good. :good:
Cheers...

Q: Can you turn off the capacitive buttons' backlight?

So I am thinking about ordering this phone, and i don't like capacitive buttons' backlight, so, can you turn it off??

zwanzig20 said:
So I am thinking about ordering this phone, and i don't like capacitive buttons' backlight, so, can you turn it off??
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Nope
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Try looking at this guide.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-3/how-to/guide-disable-capacitive-button-t3518182/page2

LiamAtkins90 said:
Try looking at this guide.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-3/how-to/guide-disable-capacitive-button-t3518182/page2
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That'll disable the capacitive button. Not the backlight

Ahhhhh gotcha, sorry bro

so far therz no way I guess this is really annoying !!! I wonder why Xiaomi did that. therz absolutely no modification provided for backlight keys :crying::crying: they shdnt ve provided HW keys in first place though...its an A1 device damn it !!! it shd come with on screen keys like pixels !!!

Any news? It's the only point that stops me to buy this phone (I hate soft touch buttons, in this way they will be invisible).

abeeshek said:
so far therz no way I guess this is really annoying !!! I wonder why Xiaomi did that. therz absolutely no modification provided for backlight keys :crying::crying: they shdnt ve provided HW keys in first place though...its an A1 device damn it !!! it shd come with on screen keys like pixels !!!
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It's not Xiaomi fault, the stock android rom doesn't have that feature.

NITRO_100 said:
It's not Xiaomi fault, the stock android rom doesn't have that feature.
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I guess that came out wrong.....I know that stock android do not allow that light modification setting(coz none of the Google phone use hw buttons). what I meant there is stock navbar shd ve been provided by xiaomi there just like pixel or most of the other old A1 devices. I hv managed to switch off those button lights though by changing the backlight brightness value to - 0 but then again cant activate navbar by good old trick 'qemu.hw.mainkeys' coz thats not working on stock 7.1.2 !!! :laugh::laugh::laugh:

check this trhead https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a1/themes/mod-disabling-button-light-recents-home-t3681685

Google Inc said:
add a script to your init.d that you can turn off it
echo 0 >/sys/class/leds/button-backlight/leds/button-backlight/max_brightness
echo 0 >/sys/class/leds/button-backlight/leds/button-backlight/brightness
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How to activate the init.d folder? I put my script in there but it doesn't run automatically on every reboot

Can anybody explain in details how to TURN OFF backlight of sensor buttons?

Google Inc said:
add a script to your init.d that you can turn off it
echo 0 >/sys/class/leds/button-backlight/leds/button-backlight/max_brightness
echo 0 >/sys/class/leds/button-backlight/leds/button-backlight/brightness
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Hi,
How you enable init.d? I sees init folder but not init.d (unless I create it). init have .rc files in it and maybe it'll auto run.

Refer this thread - https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a1/how-to/guide-how-to-off-cappactive-buttons-t3730093
It helped me too