Setting Unlock Pattern
As I added more and more stuff to my new Droid I began to wonder how secure is this? A kid could figure out how to slide the unlock. Can I secure it with a password? Sort of. I found in the ‘Location and Security’ menu the ability to set your own ‘Unlock Pattern’ which to be honest I thought was a little weird at first. I still wonder how secure it really is as it seems easy for someone to see me entering it (vs typing something on a small keyboard). On the plus side, once I got used to it… doesn’t really take any longer than swishing the unlock in than in the ‘no pattern’ scenario. My initial thought was that I would just set it to be required when traveling but may just keep it on.
The process was just like setting up password, but does feel like your missing something. Thought it might help to see it so here are the steps I went through to set my pattern….
As I said from the home page open the menu and touch the ‘Location and Security’
Select ‘Set Unlock Pattern’ which takes you to an intro page giving the steps coming
‘Next’ will open an intro describing how to create the pattern with four dots
The next screen allows you to record your pattern, letting you retry (reset) if you don’t like it.
Once you feel comfortable with this… touching ‘continue’ takes you to a pattern confirmation page, where you enter it again
After touching ‘Confirm’ it takes you back to the preferences screen with the ‘Require pattern’ set and ‘Use visible pattern’ set.
Now when I ‘locked’ the phone and tried to come back I was prompted to enter my pattern
One tricky thing I found was that if I opened with the slider… had to enter my pattern sideways (in a way), but got used to that pretty quick
Otherwise, you can still disable sound and go into airplane mode etc.
