Jaycemiskel
You really don't even have to clear credentials. Set up the security as a pin and then enter the wrong pin 30x. After you do that, enter the correct pin, and then you can change your security freely and the credentials will remain. Foxfi will still work perfectly.
Am I to understand that this means that Foxfi/Hotspot will never again ask for a pincode to unlock the screen?
You mentioned this in another thread. Did you do this in Kit Kat? Cause it didn't take anywhere near that many attempts before Foxfi informed me one more attempt and the phone will shut down and reformat (or something along those lines).
I have to agree with Monica on this one.
Foxfi or the OS only allowed me something like 7 or 8 mistakes and it rebooted and erased the phone.
My situation involved the password also being set, when that happens the pincode is not used anymore. The phone insisted on entering the "correct password" just to open the lockscreen.
That is an intolerable situation, requirng way too many keystrokes with secure passwords involving upper/lowercase/symbols. I won't ever set a pincode or a password again. Once burned Samsung's fault. Twice burned, my fault.