Galaxy Screen Lock

whatstherush

Hi all,

I have a Samsung Galaxy S and was just wondering is there away to lock your screen with a number code, rather then tracing out a shape on the 3x3 grid. It seems kinda of easy to try a load of combinations to guess it.

Does any know will it lockout completely if there is a certain number of failed attempts, too afraid to try incase I lock it out myself.

Thanks in advance.

thehomeofDob

The lock pattern can be extremely secure...

4 dots:1624 solutions
5 dots:7152 solutions
6 dots:26016 solutions
7 dots:72912 solutions
8 dots:140704 solutions
9 dots:140704 solutions
Total:389112

http://beust.com/keyguard.html

and here...

http://beust.com/weblog2/archives/000497.html

whatstherush

Ah I see, thought you could only use 4 dots. Cheers for that.

drunkmonkey

I've 7 and a school kid broke the combination after 3 trys they other day:o

heebusjeebus

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I've 7 and a school kid broke the combination after 3 trys they other day:o

Were the smudges visible? Thats the fatal flaw with this method.

drunkmonkey

heebusjeebus wrote: »

Were the smudges visible? Thats the fatal flaw with this method.

It was either that or he was a prodigy...

There's hardly a retina scan app?:)

thehomeofDob

I would say that by nature most of us would use a combination that is easy for us to remember and thus not so complicated. It can be secure, but like a numeric passcode it's all down to how difficult we make it.

Craigels

how do i use this guard mine is just swype to unlock.....

thehomeofDob

Craigels wrote: »

how do i use this guard mine is just swype to unlock.....

Applications > Settings > Location and Security. Look under the heading "Screen unlock pattern".