diff --git a/res/values/non_localizable_custom.xml b/res/values/non_localizable_custom.xml
index 76335ea7e..a0f32cd1e 100644
--- a/res/values/non_localizable_custom.xml
+++ b/res/values/non_localizable_custom.xml
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@
 	<bool name="auto_answer_calls">false</bool>
 	<bool name="intercept_outgoing_gsm_calls">false</bool>
 	<bool name="automatically_start_intercepted_outgoing_gsm_call">true</bool>
-	<bool name="store_ha1_passwords">true</bool>
 	<bool name="use_linphonecore_ringing">false</bool>
 	
 	<!-- This settings handle the behavior of the view waiting for the remote provisioning configuration to be done -->
diff --git a/src/org/linphone/AccountPreferencesFragment.java b/src/org/linphone/AccountPreferencesFragment.java
index ba0116912..ba01adbca 100644
--- a/src/org/linphone/AccountPreferencesFragment.java
+++ b/src/org/linphone/AccountPreferencesFragment.java
@@ -82,13 +82,7 @@ public class AccountPreferencesFragment extends PreferencesListFragment {
 	OnPreferenceChangeListener passwordChangedListener = new OnPreferenceChangeListener() {
 		@Override
 		public boolean onPreferenceChange(Preference preference, Object newValue) {
-			if (getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.store_ha1_passwords)
-					&& mPrefs.getAccountPassword(n) == null) {
-				String ha1 = LinphoneUtils.md5Hash(mPrefs.getAccountUsername(n), newValue.toString(), mPrefs.getAccountDomain(n));
-				mPrefs.setAccountHa1(n, ha1);
-			} else {
-				mPrefs.setAccountPassword(n, newValue.toString());
-			}
+			mPrefs.setAccountPassword(n, newValue.toString());
 			return true;
 		}		
 	};
@@ -220,7 +214,7 @@ public class AccountPreferencesFragment extends PreferencesListFragment {
     	userid.setSummary(userid.getText());
     	
     	EditTextPreference password = (EditTextPreference) account.getPreference(2);
-    	password.getEditText().setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD);
+    	password.getEditText().setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_VISIBLE_PASSWORD);
     	password.setText(mPrefs.getAccountPassword(n));
     	password.setOnPreferenceChangeListener(passwordChangedListener);
     	
diff --git a/src/org/linphone/LinphonePreferences.java b/src/org/linphone/LinphonePreferences.java
index a7eef8dff..e43182019 100644
--- a/src/org/linphone/LinphonePreferences.java
+++ b/src/org/linphone/LinphonePreferences.java
@@ -166,7 +166,6 @@ public class LinphonePreferences {
 		private String tempDisplayName;
 		private String tempUserId;
 		private String tempPassword;
-		private String tempHa1;
 		private String tempDomain;
 		private String tempProxy;
 		private boolean tempOutboundProxy;
@@ -206,11 +205,6 @@ public class LinphonePreferences {
 			return this;
 		}
 
-		public AccountBuilder setHa1(String ha1) {
-			tempHa1 = ha1;
-			return this;
-		}
-
 		public AccountBuilder setDomain(String domain) {
 			tempDomain = domain;
 			return this;
@@ -323,7 +317,7 @@ public class LinphonePreferences {
 			prxCfg.setQualityReportingInterval(tempQualityReportingInterval);
 			prxCfg.setRealm("sip.linphone.org");
 
-			LinphoneAuthInfo authInfo = LinphoneCoreFactory.instance().createAuthInfo(tempUsername, tempUserId, tempPassword, tempHa1, null, tempDomain);
+			LinphoneAuthInfo authInfo = LinphoneCoreFactory.instance().createAuthInfo(tempUsername, tempUserId, tempPassword, null, null, tempDomain);
 
 			lc.addProxyConfig(prxCfg);
 			lc.addAuthInfo(authInfo);
@@ -474,18 +468,6 @@ public class LinphonePreferences {
 		LinphoneAuthInfo authInfo = getAuthInfo(n);
 		return authInfo == null ? null : authInfo.getPassword();
 	}
-
-	public void setAccountHa1(int n, String ha1) {
-		LinphoneAuthInfo info = getClonedAuthInfo(n);
-		info.setHa1(ha1);
-		saveAuthInfo(info);
-	}
-
-	public String getAccountHa1(int n) {
-		LinphoneAuthInfo authInfo = getAuthInfo(n);
-		return authInfo == null ? null : authInfo.getHa1();
-	}
-
 	public void setAccountDomain(int n, String domain) {
 		String identity = "sip:" + getAccountUsername(n) + "@" + domain;
 
diff --git a/src/org/linphone/LinphoneUtils.java b/src/org/linphone/LinphoneUtils.java
index 0cdf4794a..108625276 100644
--- a/src/org/linphone/LinphoneUtils.java
+++ b/src/org/linphone/LinphoneUtils.java
@@ -23,14 +23,13 @@ import static android.view.View.VISIBLE;
 
 import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
-import java.security.MessageDigest;
-import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
@@ -404,32 +403,5 @@ public final class LinphoneUtils {
 			e.printStackTrace();
 		}
 	}
-
-	public static String md5Hash(String username, String password, String domain) {
-		String passwordToHash = username + ":" + domain + ":" + password;
-
-		byte messageDigest[] = null;
-		try {
-			MessageDigest digest;
-			digest = java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
-	        digest.update(passwordToHash.getBytes());
-	        messageDigest = digest.digest();
-	        
-	        StringBuffer hexString = new StringBuffer();
-	        for (int i = 0; i < messageDigest.length; i++) {
-	            String h = Integer.toHexString(0xFF & messageDigest[i]);
-	            while (h.length() < 2) {
-	                h = "0" + h;
-	            }
-	            hexString.append(h);
-	        }
-	        String hash = hexString.toString();
-	        return hash;
-		} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
-			e.printStackTrace();
-		}
-		
-		return null;
-	}
 }
 
diff --git a/src/org/linphone/setup/SetupActivity.java b/src/org/linphone/setup/SetupActivity.java
index 93aa4ab8a..ec18e8ceb 100644
--- a/src/org/linphone/setup/SetupActivity.java
+++ b/src/org/linphone/setup/SetupActivity.java
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
 */
 import org.linphone.LinphoneManager;
 import org.linphone.LinphonePreferences;
-import org.linphone.LinphoneUtils;
 import org.linphone.LinphonePreferences.AccountBuilder;
 import org.linphone.LinphoneSimpleListener.LinphoneOnRegistrationStateChangedListener;
 import org.linphone.R;
@@ -293,12 +292,8 @@ public class SetupActivity extends FragmentActivity implements OnClickListener {
 		boolean useLinphoneDotOrgCustomPorts = getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.use_linphone_server_ports);
 		AccountBuilder builder = new AccountBuilder(LinphoneManager.getLc())
 		.setUsername(username)
-		.setDomain(domain);
-		if (getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.store_ha1_passwords)) {
-			builder = builder.setHa1(LinphoneUtils.md5Hash(username, password, domain));
-		} else {
-			builder = builder.setPassword(password);
-		}
+		.setDomain(domain)
+		.setPassword(password);
 		
 		if (isMainAccountLinphoneDotOrg && useLinphoneDotOrgCustomPorts) {
 			if (getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.disable_all_security_features_for_markets)) {