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zoidberg · 05-03-2015, 07:08 PM

I actually stumbled across a way to do this recently. It's a little complicated, I'm not sure how safe/stable the procedure is and it may well void your warranty! I have an M96, but according to the wiki it's OS setup is pretty similar to the T68 so in theory the same procedure could work.

I had to take the boot image from the latest update.zip I applied, unpack it, edit a settings file, then repack it and flash it back to the device using fastboot. The file was init.freescale.rc, and the setting, I commented out this setting: `setprop ro.ONYX_DISABLE_KEYGUARD 1` and now the pin screen shows.

Here's a site with a very good guide on editing boot images:http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.ph...ck_Boot_Images. I did things slightly differently, using a program called abootimg which I found in the ubuntu repo instead of the one mentioned on that site, but the process is the same.

Should get you started!

I should say again that I'm not an expert in any of this and can't rule out the possibility of bricking your device if it goes horribly wrong. Someone more knowledgable might come along and tell me I did a really dumb thing and was lucky to get away with it, or just that there's a much simpler way of doing it!

05-03-2015, 07:08 PM	#4
zoidberg Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 204 Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: United Kingdom Device: m96	I actually stumbled across a way to do this recently. It's a little complicated, I'm not sure how safe/stable the procedure is and it may well void your warranty! I have an M96, but according to the wiki it's OS setup is pretty similar to the T68 so in theory the same procedure could work. I had to take the boot image from the latest update.zip I applied, unpack it, edit a settings file, then repack it and flash it back to the device using fastboot. The file was init.freescale.rc, and the setting, I commented out this setting: `setprop ro.ONYX_DISABLE_KEYGUARD 1` and now the pin screen shows. Here's a site with a very good guide on editing boot images:http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.ph...ck_Boot_Images. I did things slightly differently, using a program called abootimg which I found in the ubuntu repo instead of the one mentioned on that site, but the process is the same. Should get you started! I should say again that I'm not an expert in any of this and can't rule out the possibility of bricking your device if it goes horribly wrong. Someone more knowledgable might come along and tell me I did a really dumb thing and was lucky to get away with it, or just that there's a much simpler way of doing it!