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Protecting your phone with screen locks
You can protect your phone by creating a screen lock. When it
is enabled, you need to swipe up on the screen, draw a pattern
or enter a numeric PIN or password to unlock the phone’s
screen and keys.
1.
Touch the
Home
key
>
> Settings > Security >
Screen lock
.
2.
Touch
None
,
Swipe
,
Pattern
,
PIN
or
Password
.
X
Touch
None
to disable the screen lock.
X
Touch
Swipe
to enable screen lock and allow
unlocking with a ‘swipe' gesture. You can unlock the
screen by touching the display and sliding up.
X
Touch
Pattern
to draw and redraw a pattern that you
must draw to unlock the screen.
X
Touch
PIN
or
Password
to set a numeric PIN or a
password that you must enter to unlock the screen.
3.
For Pattern, PIN, or Password lock, select how you want
notifications and their contents to show when the phone is
locked. Then touch
DONE
.
NOTE:
Remember the pattern, PIN or password you set. Otherwise, you
will have to upgrade the phone software to use the phone.
Protecting your phone with encryption
You can encrypt all the data on your phone: your accounts,
application data, music and other media, downloaded
information, and so on. If you do, you must draw an unlock
pattern, or enter a numeric PIN or a password each time you
power on your phone.
WARNING!
Encryption is irreversible. The only way to revert to an
unencrypted phone is to perform a factory data reset, which
erases all your data.