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hi i have my blackberry pearl 8220 pw protected and i did the pw so many times to see what happened and it wiped the phone and removed the pw is there a way of stopping this as if lost someone could do this and have a free phone as pw wouldnt be needed
The psaword feature was designed to erase sensitive data. So it sounds like it worked just like it was supposed to. It doesn't destroy hardware as far as I know. So the best you can do is report the phone lost/stolen and the carrier will block MEID so that the phone can't be activated for service.
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My suggestion wont work just check again.
http://forums.crackberry.com/f3/how-...-tries-230095/
This technique can be used to change the number of tries before it gets wiped.
Although you cannot set this value to infinite - it does allow you to change it to 255 tries. Anyone whole stole your phone will be seriously confused long before they reach that value. ...
It's better to give someone a free phone than access to your sensitive information. :)
thanks for the link reed didnt know you could do this
thanks for help but wouldnt it be better if it just erased data and not the pw
If you are under BES with the correct IT policy in place, the phone gets wiped to a blank state with a JVM 513 error. The thief can not rebuild it because it still prompts for the password.
I second that!It's better to give someone a free phone than access to your sensitive information.