Thread: [Announce][Fremantle] recoverlock - Recover N900 Lock Code
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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2013-09-13 , 15:20
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Originally Posted by impeham View Post
if anyone just need to bypass the lock code screen when it shows (using sftp client) i found that this works for me:

dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.system_ui /com/nokia/system_ui/request com.nokia.system_ui.request.devlock_close string:"com.nokia.mce" string:"/com/nokia/mce/request" string:"com.nokia.mce.request" string:"devlock_callback" uint32:'0'
That's good to know.

Though as I presume you realize, this addresses two different things. Being able to bypass the lock code screen is useful, but it doesn't actually allow you to change the lock code, as you need to know the current lock code to reset it (at least without manually overwriting the section of the CAL area that stores the password hash). Which means, if the lock code is set to something you don't know/remember, you can't regularly lock your phone again unless you're able to do workarounds like you mentioned whenever you have to unlock it.
 

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