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The solution is much easier . There is a different way to activate device lock which does also disabled the power button. I will add this info to Phone_control pages.

Thanks a lot! It was bugging me for months, and I never found solution.

/Estel

smscon 0.10.9-1 has been queued for loading into fremantle extras-devel repository

Solved TrueCrypt dilemma: Remotely control the phone after reboot even if device lock is active!
New options to lock and unlock the device depending on validness of SIM card and PIN code.

Changelog en detail:

• NEW: New option "DEVICELOCKLATE" (yes/no). Applies to situation where phone was locked at shutdown and therefore will be locked on next boot: If set to "yes", and the phone boots again, it will ask the device lock code _after_ asking for SIM pin code. This allows the phone to connect to telephone and wlan networks albeit it is device locked. This in turn allows to remotely control the phone via smscon even after rebooting with active device lock.
  Note that "DEVICELOCKLATE" only works if smscon loads on boot.
  If "DEVICELOCKLATE" is enabled, which is default, it solves the smscon/TrueCrypt dilemma.
• REMOVED: The option "SIMUNLOCK" converts to new "LOCKMODE_NEWSIM"; see below.
  "SIMUNLOCK" still exists but is no longer used and will be completely removed in future version. Until then it is kept for API compatibility with older versions of smscon editor.
  When upgrading to this version, the current "SIMUNLOCK" setting is used to initialize all the new "LOCKMODE_xxx" settings accordingly, which are:
• NEW: New option "LOCKMODE_BADSIM" (keep|unlock|lock) to define automatic device un/locking on either no SIM or on new (=unauthorized) SIM with _wrong_ PIN.
  Note that "unlock" only works if DEVICELOCKLATE is "yes".
• NEW: New option "LOCKMODE_NEWSIM" (keep|unlock|lock) to define automatic device un/locking on new (=unauthorized) SIM with _correct_ PIN.
  Note that "unlock" only works if DEVICELOCKLATE is "yes". In earlier versions the functionality of "LOCKMODE_NEWSIM" was known as "SIMUNLOCK" which becomes obsolete.
• NEW: New option "LOCKMODE_OKSIM" (keep|lockifnopin|lockalways) to define automatic device locking if authorized SIM is present in phone.
• NEW: For developer only: New smscon command line option to check if current SIM is authorized:
  smscon -test imsi
  Returns message and true/false shell return code accordingly.

Also smscon-editor 0.10.9-4 that suits smscon 0.10.9-1 is available in fremantle extras-devel repository.

Release of SMSCON Editor 0.10.9-4 in extras-devel

Changes:

• NEW: Added new SMSCON device lock options: LOCKMODE_BADSIM, LOCKMODE_NEWSIM, LOCKMODE_OKSIM
• CHANGE: Removed deprecated SIMUNLOCK option.
• NEW: Added a button for revoking the authorisation of the current SIM only.
• CHANGE: Moved the enable/disable switches for the daemon and the boot in the initialisation window.
• NEW: Added user confirmation dialogues for operational sensitive actions.
• CHANGE: Major redesign of main and initialisation windows.

Sorry for the late announcement. In a couple of weeks when I get some more time I will try to review the main window once more, since both yablacky and me think it can be improved. For the time being, my focus was more on the new functionality he brought with the latest SMSCON.

Absolutely awesome, thank You!

Will test extensively in first bigger batch of free time, and report back.

hahaha do you remember Estel when i said


so you replied


i think i missed "four riders of elopcalypse riding sky"

BTW thanks for the updates guys, i was waiting for that for a looooooooooong time.

Having issue with SMSCON, I had to reflash combined on my N900.
I had the current "stable" SMSCON package installed.
After my reflash I let HAM/Backup App reinstall all my applcations, not releasing Devel was enabled.

I opened up SMSCON it took the default password, I changed the password and reinput all the settings.

Now I can't enter SMSCON the password shows incorrect everytime.

I have tried re-installing both "stable" and "devel" version and the password is showing incorrect.

Is there a way to restart SMSCON from scratch?

Deinstall smscon and smscon-editor the regular way.
Open a shell terminal, become root.
Then enter this command:
Then again install packages from stable or devel.

Needed root. Thanks.