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| From | The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.mobile.android |
| Subject | Re: Fix Pattern Lock? |
| Date | 2015-08-10 14:01 -0700 |
| Organization | None, as usual |
| Message-ID | <mqb3bp$rr6$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <55C7C298.B66C0AAE@B.Maus.De> <mq8lkc$g33$1@dont-email.me> <55C7EA4E.3E311211@B.Maus.De> <mq9cv8$f9u$1@dont-email.me> <mq9l08$6ko$1@dont-email.me> |
On 08/10/2015 12:50 AM, chris wrote: > On 10/08/2015 06:31, mike wrote: >> On 8/9/2015 5:03 PM, Axel Berger wrote: >>> mike wrote: >>>> and help solve the problem. >>> >>> What's there to help? Ask the previous owner for the code. >>> >> Actually, I tried to do that, but I couldn't find the >> garage sale location the next day. After a hundred >> miles of garage sales, the houses all look a lot alike the >> next day. > > You need to realise that a lot of people pretend they have bought > something pre-own/cheap in order to get an answer regarding > circumventing security procedures. So? Are we the morality police? Why would somebody bother to steal a no-name non-working tablet? OTOH, we went back later in the day to buy a $10 yard-sale computer only to find that some jerk had stolen its hard drive. We buy dirt-cheap computers all the time, or at least we used to. We're full up right now. Some have really nice cases, some have a good power supply or motherboard, some have dead drives, but on balance it's a useful thing to do if you don't need bleeding-edge hardware. Right now we've got 6 working computers on our home network. Why? Because we can! (Not all are running, of course, but they could!) > Gotta ask, why didn't you check it before buying it? Stuff at yard sales frequently has dead or missing batteries. This doesn't mean they're bad, it just means you can't prove they work. You make an offer accordingly. People are really stupid. If they'd just put a couple of AA batteries in the camera they could sell it for a lot more than the throwaway price sensible people would be willing to pay. Most annoying thing -- a camera that worked except for the fact that no known sd card fits its slot. It LOOKED like a normal card hole, but wasn't. I bought what was supposed to be an adapter, but that didn't fit either. You can't win 'em all. > I fear you've wasted your money. These security features are designed to > be difficult/impossible to circumvent. If anyone could do it after > 'buying' a locked tablet then it wouldn't be much of a lock would it? > >> Hopefully, someone who is not more interested in badmouthing the >> messenger might chime in with some actual help. >> It's not about the 25-cents I wasted on it. It's about the >> challenge of learning about Android and keeping it outa the >> landfill a while longer. > > Your $0.25 Android lesson this week has been: don't buy a locked android > device without also getting the passcode. Are you one of those people who was so careful with his money that he could retire at 40? Probably not... -- Cheers, Bev ============================================================ Brian (Talking to crowd): You need to be independent minded. Crowd: We are! We are! Person in crowd: I'm not! -- Monty Python
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Fix Pattern Lock? mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2015-08-09 05:49 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? Axel Berger <Axel_Berger@B.Maus.De> - 2015-08-09 23:14 +0200
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2015-08-09 15:52 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? Axel Berger <Axel_Berger@B.Maus.De> - 2015-08-10 02:03 +0200
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2015-08-09 22:31 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 08:50 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2015-08-10 01:01 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 10:29 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-10 09:04 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 14:01 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2015-08-10 14:58 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 15:01 +1200
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-11 06:53 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 10:35 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-08-10 22:37 -0400
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 08:30 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? Leviatan <alberto.feSINESTO@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 11:07 +0200
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 08:35 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-08-12 17:43 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 14:05 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-08-13 05:45 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 15:39 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-08-12 08:38 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2015-08-13 14:17 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? John B. <johnbslocomb@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 18:17 +0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-08-10 14:00 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? John B. <johnbslocomb@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 06:35 +0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-08-11 05:25 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-11 06:48 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? John B. <johnbslocomb@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 19:19 +0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-08-11 14:00 +0100
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? "The Sorceress of Qar" <sorceress@qar.qanar.com> - 2015-08-10 11:08 -0500
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-08-10 13:48 -0700
Re: Fix Pattern Lock? F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-13 13:14 +1000
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