Having uh, accidentally entered my duress pin a week or so ago I’ll tell you now it works: Enter pin as normal, device starts to unlock, pin pad fades back then the device hangs for a few moments and reboots. Then it rebots to a menu that states the boot image is corrupted and your only option is a factory reset.
Point being is that it looks normal, unless you know what happened it could have been a memory issue and the phone just died. The GOS boot graphics give the game up though, I wish they’d change that especially with more scrutiny every day against devices running it.
That’s good to know, not having looked into it myself. Sorry about your stressful pocket square though, hopefully at least restoring it came with a nice wee break from the stress firehose. Maybe I should get a Graphene phone with duress PIN after all…
I was on travel thousands of km from home, with no backups and all digital tickets. Lessons were learned, but I made it through in the end thanks to some very helpful folks along the way.
Remembering security layers to get my eSIM back was the most challenging step, and once the phone number was back I could recover the rest with ease, worth noting for any with a physical Sim, recovery is much easier, but that applies to the agents who steal your phone too.
My phone started to refuse to charge. By the time I realised, and got it turned off, I was below 10%. I was also supposed to be meeting family in another city the next day.
Between bursts of power on to deal with things like directions to a shop to buy a new phone, I was down to 3% when I got the new one. Just enough to authorise a new phone on my Google account.
Worth noting so long as you have your SIM and can receive text messages, you can recover your google account, and log in with just username and password. Which gets you into all the 2FA stuff if you use google authenticator. One of the lessons I learned there is just how insecure all that is. Even though it made recovery possible for me, it means its not secure at all, and I need to revise my approach and unlink things.
Having uh, accidentally entered my duress pin a week or so ago I’ll tell you now it works: Enter pin as normal, device starts to unlock, pin pad fades back then the device hangs for a few moments and reboots. Then it rebots to a menu that states the boot image is corrupted and your only option is a factory reset.
Point being is that it looks normal, unless you know what happened it could have been a memory issue and the phone just died. The GOS boot graphics give the game up though, I wish they’d change that especially with more scrutiny every day against devices running it.
That’s good to know, not having looked into it myself. Sorry about your stressful pocket square though, hopefully at least restoring it came with a nice wee break from the stress firehose. Maybe I should get a Graphene phone with duress PIN after all…
I was on travel thousands of km from home, with no backups and all digital tickets. Lessons were learned, but I made it through in the end thanks to some very helpful folks along the way.
Remembering security layers to get my eSIM back was the most challenging step, and once the phone number was back I could recover the rest with ease, worth noting for any with a physical Sim, recovery is much easier, but that applies to the agents who steal your phone too.
I played that game, though not as badly.
My phone started to refuse to charge. By the time I realised, and got it turned off, I was below 10%. I was also supposed to be meeting family in another city the next day.
Between bursts of power on to deal with things like directions to a shop to buy a new phone, I was down to 3% when I got the new one. Just enough to authorise a new phone on my Google account.
I now travel with a spare phone tucked away!
Worth noting so long as you have your SIM and can receive text messages, you can recover your google account, and log in with just username and password. Which gets you into all the 2FA stuff if you use google authenticator. One of the lessons I learned there is just how insecure all that is. Even though it made recovery possible for me, it means its not secure at all, and I need to revise my approach and unlink things.