Making a call when PIN-locked?

[natehoy]

I have a corporate-issue Thunderbolt that has MobileIron on it, so it PIN-locks with a complex alphanumeric password every 15 minutes. When it's PIN-locked, I am unable to make any calls without unlocking it.

There's an "emergency call" button, but any number I've tried simply comes back with "call not placed - xxxxxx is not an emergency number".

On the Blackberry, there used to be a security setting that allowed you to make phone calls when the phone is locked, and there was another setting that allowed you to move the address book (phone numbers only) "outside" the security zone. So I could use a "place call" button to open my address book and make a phone call. It's really the one and only feature I miss from my Blackberry, but I miss it a LOT.

Is there any way to do this in Androidland?

We're all loving the new features these phones bring, but there are a bunch of us who find the whole "need to unlock the phone to make a phone call" horribly inconvenient.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer any advice.

 

[Chrstauffe]

did you ever get an answer for this? i really miss this feature too.

 

[natehoy]

Nope, and I've never figured out a way to do it.

 

[wildman]

There should be a option under the phone or security options that all's you to set up emergency numbers and then those numbers will work from the lock screen....

I haven't used the stock lock screen in so long I am unsure the exact directory but the option is in the OS..

I STAND CORRECTED, IT APPEARS THAT THIS OPTION WAS. CHANGED DUE TO POSSIBLE SECURITY ISSUES...

So this information is incorrect from what I have read on forums so looks like I can't help.

 

[yodatom10]

It can't be done you could before but HTC took it out as it was a security issue. if you root the phone you can do it but if you are stock your out of luck sorry.

 

[natehoy]

Unfortunately the reason this is such a problem is that I have to be stock - MobileIron would deny me access if it detected a non-stock firmware, and it also requires that I have a complex 7-character password with both numbers and letters with a 15-minute timeout before it PIN-locks. On top of that, we use Touchdown for email.

I don't miss my Blackberry, except when I want to make a call and the frikkin' thing is PIN-locked because I haven't touched it in 15 minutes.

 

[Chrstauffe]

I actually use Widget Locker and was hoping there was a way to do it from there. I was able to add a phone to the locked screen but it still takes me to my pattern lock to run the phone.

Has to be a app for this