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Unlock with no PIN

ocnbrze
MikJF1947 said:
I have set up my brand new Teclast P80h tablet (using my OnePlus 7) as per the tablet's instructions. The setup finished successfully.
However, I now find the tablet demands a PIN to unlock. I cannot remember having used any PIN, and if I did there is only one possible number which the tablet doesn't accept.
How can I unlock without a PIN?
P.S. The reset hole doesn't reset but only restarts.
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you will have to hard rest the tablet:
https://www.hardreset.info/devices/teclast/teclast-p80/
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Password manager - browser integration - Samsung smartphone

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(Up front... I am deeply sorry for the late reply. I *thought* I replied, until I got back on the forum and noticed that the text was grey and I could still hit the reply button - again sorry!! Really ashamed...)


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Again many thanks !
Truly appreciate the elaborate reply.

I will investigate this further. For me, a change of password manager is an important step and I won't do that easily.
All password managers say they are great and I have not found any reviews disqualifying any password manager.
The devil often is in the details.
In the past I tried two other password managers for a short while, but they could not even log in into my bank account.
One even managed to first import the credentials, but some relaunches later, all the credentials were gone and/or the buttons to fill fields strangely showed up floating elsewhere... instead of near the fields that should be filled.
After numerous emails with support and after some re-installs, I gave up and returned to Roboform.

Anyway, this is a few years back...

As for Samsung Internet Browser, probably I should change to Chrome, or Brave, of Vivaldi.

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28-11-2020 edit:
I gave LastPass a try and I discovered that it doesn't have a desktop UI, which is my strong preference.
Gave Keeper a try, after importing data from my current password manager successfully and trying out sites, Keeper told me it had no entries for those sites, although they were definitely listed within Keeper. So, I gave up on Keeper, too much workload to visit each site and manually re-save the credentials. I intended.. to try out another password manager (1Password), but the support responses were terribly slow: wait for a day each time, the response prompted another question.
Hence I returned to Roboform and forget about the auto-filling.
BTW: I also tried Brave. Probably it is a matter of taste. No offense meant but likely I needed to go thru the tweaks listed on ghacks or so. I am now using Edge on my PC and switched to Edge on Android. It is really fast!! I think Edge is a bit underrated. Review sites usually recommend Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi for Android, but I am very positive about Edge.
Could be because I am using Edge on my PC though.
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Gboard turning off the spellchecker option does not work.

puppykickr
Yes.
I also found G-Board to be infuriating.

Use a different keyboard.
That is the easiest solution.

Swiftkey is fine if you like bells and whistles, and if you trust them with everything you enter with the keyboard.

A few others that are simple, small, and secure that I have on all of my devices are:

Simple Keyboard (Simply keyboard and nothing more) - https://f-droid.org/packages/rkr.simplekeyboard.inputmethod

Tiny Keyboard (the smallest possible keyboard) - https://f-droid.org/packages/rkr.tinykeyboard.inputmethod

Hacker's Keyboard (Four- or five-row soft-keyboard) - https://f-droid.org/packages/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard

And one more, just for more variety:

BeHe Keyboard (Hacking & programming keyboard with material design) - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.vlath.keyboard

If you like options similar to G-Board without the issues, Hacker's is where I would start.

If you want simplicity and streamline performance, my favorite is Simple Keyboard.
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Stopping google from downloading promos/trailers

MrJavi
Xavier Black said:
Brother, iphone isn't definitely the solution..not in the next five hundred years..that's a fact..the only flaw our Android has it's those two pesky apps..but there's always a way around everything..the way I handled it was downgrading the version of those two stupid apps..Google ps & Google ps.

But I didn't just dg them..I ported & pushed them into the priv-app folder(@MrJavi idea)..now they still work but passive..I cut their stamina and wildness..now they are domesticated..well I'm speaking from my phone..not for everyone else's phone..

Also on top of that you cut the internet for Google ps with an internet guard.


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Truth be told , you've taught me quite a lot valuable information in return my friend. :)
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Help CAT S60 Camera doesn't work after reassembly

ocnbrze
yes get a new phone.......i would never trust myself with dyi fixing anything electronic like that. most here are not that proficient in electronics.

the only thing i can think of is doing a factory reset to determine if this is software or hardware related. if the reset does not work, then you did something wrong when you changed the screen.
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Help Help with PDF app, please

bambaleilo
The same thing happened to me, and with the 6.1 as well. I tried a few different apps, uninstalled the default one, installed it again, but to no avail. I ended up deleting all of them after all, and I switched to https://pdfliner.com/ for all my pdf work. I wasn't using my phone for this that much, so I didn't bother to figure out what was wrong, I just use my computer now. However, thanks for clarifying this, now I know what caused the pdf readers not to work, and maybe I'll try to use them again from my phone.
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Thanxgiving Pie

MoodyBlues
ocnbrze said:
i have rarely been to Knott's save for their Knott's Scary Farm
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Oh, Knott's Scary Farm! Such fun. The mazes and everything. Spooky. :o

and even then i never had their pies. i do remember their jams, but thats about it.
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Well, if you're ever there again, have a slice of boysenberry pie and see how you like it, then stop in at their shop with a BAZILLION different kinds of preserves/jams/jellies! They have amazing stuff in there that you'll never see in supermarkets.

plus i doubt that it would be better then my uncle's berry pies.
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Probably not, for a variety of reasons. One, a fond memory tends to color things a certain way, I hate to use the term 'sugar-coated' while talking about pie, but there you go. Plus, your uncle's berries were fresh-picked, and nothing can compare to that. When I used to have a vegetable garden, the veggies picked fresh from the yard then brought inside and cooked immediately tasted a million times better than anything bought from a store.
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Apps Write Lock Block command for NfcV

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I am trying to lock data to a NXP ICODE SLIX SL2S2002 tag type 5 (ISO 15693) to make it readonly by using the WRITE SINGLE BLOCKS command through the NfcV object in an ionic based app:

JavaScript: 
   private readonly cmdISO15693 = {
   READ_SINGLE_BLOCK: 0x20,
   WRITE_SINGLE_BLOCK: 0x21,
   LOCK_BLOCK: 0x22
};

this.nfc.connect('android.nfc.tech.NfcV', 500)
     .then(
       (data) => {
           console.log('connected to', this.nfc.bytesToHexString(tag.id.reverse()).toUpperCase());
           console.log('maxTransceiveLength: ', data);

           const offset = 0; // offset of first block to read
           const blocks = 8; // number of blocks to read
           const bytesOfText: number[] = this.nfc.stringToBytes(text);
           console.log('bytesOfText: ', bytesOfText);
           console.log('hex string: ', this.nfc.bytesToHexString(bytesOfText));

           let cmd = new Int8Array([
               0x60, // 0: flags: addressed (= UID field present) or 0x90 0x60 0x40 0x20??
               this.cmdISO15693.READ_SINGLE_BLOCK, // 1: command
               0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,  // 2-9 placeholder for tag UID
               0x00  // 10: block number
               // 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00  // 11- DATA
               // ((blocks - 1) & 0x0ff)  // number of blocks (-1 as 0x00 means one block)
           ]);
           console.log('cmd: ', [...cmd]);

           // tag uid in which direction
           cmd = arrayCopy(tag.id.reverse(), 0, cmd, 2, 8);
           console.log('cmd new: ', [...cmd]);
           console.log('cmd buffer: ', cmd.buffer);
           // arrayCopy(bytesOfText, 0, cmd, 11, 4);

           this.nfc.transceive(cmd.buffer)
             .then((res: ArrayBuffer) => {
                 console.log('transceive result:', res);
                 try {
                     console.log(Utf8ArrayToStr(res));
                 } catch (e) {
                     console.log('Utf8ArrayToStr not possible', e);
                 }

                 this.nfc.close().then(() => console.log('closed connection'))
                   .catch((err) => console.log('error closing', err));
             })
             .catch((err) => {
                 console.log('error while transceive', err);
                 this.displayToast('Error to write the RFID-Chips.', 'warning');
             });
}


I don't know which bytes I have to pass for each block. I use the phoneGap-NFC plugin for ionic. Every time I try to set it readonly I get the answer 'Tag was lost' and by the READ_SINGLE_BLOCK command, too. The Ionic method makeReadOnly() does not work because this is blocked by the tag. I have to set it by means of the bytes. I dont know do I have to use Int8Array or Unit8Array, do I have to use reverse() on the tagId because the hex is mirrored or do I just pass the UID bytestring instead of the hexstring?
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