topic Re: Sign in with fingerprint and invisible lock pattern in X Series

Sign in with fingerprint and invisible lock pattern

SXFan — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 08:14:40 GMT

Everytime restart the cell phone, Lock pattern must come first. Am I able to use fingerprint to lock without using fingerprint?

Moreover, there is no place for me to unclick "visible lock pattern". Does anyone has any idea?

Re: Sign in with fingerprint and invisible lock pattern

Emir1 — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 10:12:49 GMT

Hi @SXFan, welcome to our community!

There's a setting which you choose when setting a screen lock, it asks you if you want to use "Secure start-up", which forces you to enter the screen lock each time you restart your device. To change this, go to Settings > Lock screen & Security > Screen lock > Enter your screen lock > Choose screen lock type again, even if you have Pattern as an example, press Pattern again and now choose "No thanks" for the Secure start-up.

Regarding the Visible lock pattern setting, you may find it under Settings > Lock screen & Security > The cogwheel to the right of "Screen lock" > Make pattern visible, untick this.

Did that help? Let me know how it went!

Re: Sign in with fingerprint and invisible lock pattern

SXFan — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 14:47:05 GMT

Invisible is sorted.

However, for finger print login. I tried redo pattern and chose no thanks. I reboot the cell phone. It didn't work. It still require pattern login.

Re: Sign in with fingerprint and invisible lock pattern

Emir1 — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:44:35 GMT

Glad to hear that it's partially solved!

Regarding the reboot, do you happen to have any Device administrators which could force some extra security, such as an Exchange ActiveSync account with a security policy? You can see your Device administrators under Settings > Lock screen & security > Device administrators, by clicking on the activated administrators (marked with a ticked check box) you can see all the operations which they are allowed to perform.