HTC has announced a new app that it has launched that brings the HTC lock screen seen on new devices like the HTC One M8 to other users. With the app available, the lock screen is now supported away from the HTC Sense Android skin.
The interesting thing about the HTC lock screen is that it has a method for deleting all the data off your smartphone if the password is entered wrong ten times in a row. The idea behind that feature is to keep hackers from being able to brute force their way into your device and steal personal data.
In operation that feature caused an issue for some users if the phone went into a pocket and movement caused incorrect passwords to be entered enough to wipe the smartphone data. To stop that from happening, HTC has tweaked the way the lock screen works.
That tweak involves requiring a pattern to be drawn on screen after the password is entered incorrectly five times. That should keep random presses in a pocket from being able to wipe your data. The HTC Lock Screen app is available on Google Play now.
SOURCE: SlashGear
To other HTC users, right? Since it doesn’t appear available to my non HTC smartphone
“This app is incompatible with all of your devices.”
Not available on my HTC One X or Xperia Z1…
Does that mean I can uninstall it from my m8 too?
“it has a method for deleting all the data off your smartphone if the password is entered wrong ten times in a row” — what about intentionally entering wrong passwords…?