Unlock Your Android Phone With Open Source Wearable NFC
coop0030 (263345) writes "Becky Stern at Adafruit has created a guide on how to create an open source NFC ring or other wearable to mod and unlock your Android phone. From the tutorial: 'Unlock your phone by just picking it up! No more pesky password or gesture PIN, just scan an NFC tag! This guide covers creating an NFC ring, putting an NFC tag in your nail polish, modding your Android installation to read tags from the lockscreen, and creating an automation toolchain to unlock the phone when the desired tag is scanned.'
There is also a video that demonstrates how it works."
Boy, and I'd always heard it was a lot harder than that to get an unlocked phone
Now whoever try to get your "secret" stuff don't need to beat you with the 10$ wrench.
You can grab NRC tag rings fairly cheaply at most of the Hong Kong importers.
One of many examples:
http://www.dx.com/p/smart-nfc-...
So now the muggers will be sure to ask for our jewelry as well as cellphone and wallet.
You can also just put an NFC sticker in your wallet. Works pretty well. Admittedly, it's often more natural just to swipe in my pattern. And if you keep your phone and wallet in the same pocket you'll be prone to butt dialing.
I don't know about anyone else, but when I pick up my phone, I want it to work. Every time. This kind of interlock just adds another point of failure. Suppose a bunch of thugs (you know who I mean) are in my house, and I need to call the police?
If these things are ever sold anywhere, by anyone, it will be the first step in a slippery slope by which the phone grabbers will gut the First Amendment right to call anybody I want, any time. How long before the FCC demands a remote kill switch?
Instead of putting the chip and antenna in her nail polish, she could have put it in her nose ring.
... two days ago that had been missing for over six months, not sure how enthusiastic I'd be about this.
If you don't happen to have any NFC tags around, Shell gas stations with their Circle K convenience stores are using them as their new "loyalty" tags. You won't be able to write to them, but you can certainly read the ID out of one.
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just a little off
You're wife didn't go back to her lover's place for six months to get it off the night stand?
Sad that their relationship seems to be breaking down.
A no fucking clue ring? Isn't that a man's wedding band?
I bet if you put the NFC in her wedding ring and made it the only way to unlock her phone, she'd be less prone to lose the ring!
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If so, is it: A. because I used the word, "chick," B. because I'm focusing on a single characteristic, rooting a phone, instead of the whole person, or C. because I'm implying that the most important thing about a woman rooting her phone is that it increases her sexual attractiveness?
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The mailman was clearly on medical leave.
I've been doing this on my Galaxy S3 for over 9 months now using an NFC tag glued to my watch band. All you need is a rooted phone running Android 4.0.3 and above and a willingness to install an XPosed plugin or two. This link has all the details:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-nfc-unlocking-based-t2478163
TL;DR Steps:
Much easier (and safer, IMO) than installing a modified system apk, and this method can also survive system upgrades provided that you maintain root. It will launch whatever action is set for that NFC tag (link, text, app, whatever), but you can use another XPosed module to supress the "Empty Tag" message on empty tags, if you so desire.
The Adafruit link from TFA has some interesting ideas on how to squeeze your NFC tag into some interesting places, and you can also buy some pretty small NFC tags on your own. I bought 20 Midas nTag NFC tags on Amazon for $13 with Prime shipping, and they measure 19mm x 12mm. You can shave another 2mm off of either dimension if you're very careful with the trimming. That was more than small enough to fit on the clasp of my watch, or on the back of a plastic watch band.
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This is simple, and brilliant. Also much better than injecting an NFC tag under your skin, which was the previous approach to the same idea last I read. Kind of the downside of a male dominated tech industry, nobody thinks up stuff like nail polish :)
That seems most reasonable to me. i dont wear rings but i do wear hands ... uptil now anyway
Pebble has an app that does something similar with Bluetooth. So long as your Pebble (watch) is in range and connected via BT, the phone is unlocked. As soon as it loses the connection it's back to pin-unlock mode.
Android doesn't have this as an option?
That's funny. The next release of Blackbery's OS (10.3) will have this.
You're wife didn't go back to her lover's place for six months to get it off the night stand?
Sad that their relationship seems to be breaking down.
"You are wife"?
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For a number of motorola phones, this feature is already available. For $10, you get a clothing clip and 3 RFID stickers. Tap the phone to any of them, and it unlocks.
http://www.motorola.com/us/mot...
1. Lure a new victim using latest NFC Android smartphone
2. Chop off hand wearing NFC ring and holding the smartphone
3. ???
4. Profit!
How secure is it? How easy is it to impersonate the NFC tag?
Since yesterday i'm using xNT implant to unlock my phone and its as fast as 5 point gesture unlock i used previously. ...maybe if i forget to bring my hand ....
and i wont forget to wear my wing
I'd very much have a [professionally installed] subdermal RFID implant in my hand. There's no way I can loose it, and no matter the situation, I can always unlock my phone.
There's no such thing as "I got so drunk I lost my hand last night.". In case of really nasty accidents, you always have the classic pin-code anyway.