Tired of entering your password every time you turn on your phone? Unlock With WiFi™ unlocks your phone when you're connected to your home WiFi network. When you're at home, or work, you don't need to worry about losing your phone, so why should you have to enter your password?Unlock With WiFi is the leading password convenience app on the market. It's focus is on reliability, quality, and a great user experience. The setup wizard makes it easy to setup, and helpful dialogs are displayed if something isn't quite right.
How it works:
When you get home and connect to your WiFi network, your device will unlock. Then when you leave, and the WiFi disconnects, the device will lock again. You have to enter your password the first time after you connect to your WiFi network. This is so that if someone steals or finds your phone, they can't just bring it to your house to unlock it. After you enter your password once while connected to your WiFi network, you won't have to enter it again until you leave/disconnect. This is great for SMS texting!
Additional Features:
You can also set a lock delay, for when you're not at home. The default delay is set to 5 seconds (you can adjust it), so when you turn the screen off, the device won't lock until 5 seconds have passed. That way, if you remember something you forgot to do, you can turn it back on without entering your password. This feature is considered experimental at this time. It works on most devices, but isn't guaranteed to work on all devices.
There are also battery saving options to:
Turn off WiFi when you leave home
Turn on Bluetooth when you leave home
Turn off Bluetooth when you get home
Turn off Auto Sync when you leave home
Turn on Auto Sync when you get home
WidgetLocker integration
If you have trouble with this app, please email me (unlockwithwifi@benhirashima.com) and I will respond right away. Don't give me a bad review until I have a chance to help you get it working!
Known Limitations:
IMPORTANT: To uninstall this app, you must select Uninstall from the menu inside the app. The normal way won't work if device admin mode is enabled.
WARNING: This app doesn't work on some phones. Please read this description carefully, and the FAQ. http://benhirashima.com/unlockwithwifi/faq
Do not install this app on the SD card. It will not be secure if you do.
Unlock With WiFi doesn't work on phones with Android 4.0 and above that have full device encryption enabled.
This app won't work if your employer enforces a password policy on your phone. Some corporate Exchange email users have this.
Note that only PINs and passwords can be used with UWW in Android 4.0 and above. Patterns and face unlock are not supported. This is because of changes Google made to Android. There's nothing I can do about this.
Unlock With WiFi is incompatible with Lookout, Juice Defender, Green Power, BatteryFu and other apps. See the FAQ. http://benhirashima.com/unlockwithwifi/faq
Make sure to exclude Unlock With WiFi from your task killer apps, or it won't work properly.
Unlock With WiFi doesn't work on the Samsung Fascinate if it's been upgraded to Android 2.2 (stock Samsung ROM). However, it has been reported to work if upgraded to Android 2.3. It also doesn't work at all on the Samsung Charge. I have received a report that it doesn't work on the Toshiba Thrive tablet if it has been upgraded to Android 3.2.
See the FAQ for more details http://benhirashima.com/unlockwithwifi/faq
Tech support is only available in English.
License Agreement
By downloading this software, you are agreeing to the End User License Agreement, which can be read here: http://benhirashima.com/unlockwithwifi/eula. It's pretty standard stuff.
Unlock With WiFi™ is a trademark belonging to Ben Hirashima.
Keywords: security, automation, utility, tool