The thread title pretty much says it. I'm running CM10.1 nightlies on a Galaxy S2, and it has happened in several different versions. I used MagicLocker for a bit, using its screen security, but recently switched back to WidgetLocker. I thought this may be caused by MagicLocker somehow, so I uninstalled it. Screen Security is still defaulting back to slide. I really don't know of another app that would be doing this.
Hopefully one of you know what's going on.
Thanks.
Have you tried a hard reset or asking in the GS2 section if anyone else is having similar issues with the ROM you are running?
_Epic said:
Have you tried a hard reset or asking in the GS2 section if anyone else is having similar issues with the ROM you are running?
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If by hard reset you mean restart the phone, yes. Have I wiped and started fresh? No. I'd like to see if there's something I can just toggle or if I'm overlooking something stupid first.
My next stop was the GS2 forum if it didn't get solved here.
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Something more specific to add is that it only defaults to slide after my first unlock with protection on. I can even restart the phone right after setting up the lockscreen protection, but, as soon as I unlock the phone, we're right back to it being set to slide. It's really odd.
Well I figured out what it was.
PhoneLocator Pro was set to "Lock automatically OFF" in the "Screen timeout & Lock" and lock settings menu. I guess I didn't set that properly after changing roms.
Derp. :silly:
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Edit!
I fixed the problem. I was going over my apps and their settings and I noticed that one of them,battery indicator pro had a lockscreen off feature which was flipped on. Totally weird! But I have my lockscreen back! Woot!
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Out of curiosity, has anyone else experienced this?
My 3VO's Lockscreen has disappeared. Legit.
When I press the screen lock button it simply doesn't. It turns the screen off, but it doesn't actually lock the phone.. as a consequence now the phone will do random things in my pocket and its annoying as hell.
I've tried a number of things to restore it just short of a full reset. That I'm trying to avoid because I use this phone as my main one and to restore all my setting would suck major ass.
Please someone shed some light on a solution for me?
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Out of curiosity, has anyone else experienced this?
My 3VO's Lockscreen has disappeared. Legit.
When I press the screen lock button it simply doesn't. It turns the screen off, but it doesn't actually lock the phone.. as a consequence now the phone will do random things in my pocket and its annoying as hell.
I've tried a number of things to restore it just short of a full reset. That I'm trying to avoid because I use this phone as my main one and to restore all my setting would suck major ass.
Please someone shed some light on a solution for me?
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Have you rooted and frozen some of the HTC APK's? (There's one for the lockscreen, I'd imagine) That's what it sounds like. If not, I'm not exactly sure what you can do aside from a factory reset...
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Have you rooted and frozen some of the HTC APK's? (There's one for the lockscreen, I'd imagine) That's what it sounds like. If not, I'm not exactly sure what you can do aside from a factory reset...
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I haven't even touched the whole perma-temp root thing. When we get permanent root then I'll crack this Guy open. But till then.. I'm not interested in it. Besides I actually like the sense 3.0 locksceen.
I seriously hope I dont have to factory wipe this thing. If i tell the phone to use apassword or pattern or pin code to lock up then the screen comes back .. but that's a pain in the ass to always unlock the stupid thing
Gene_Bailey said:
Out of curiosity, has anyone else experienced this?
My 3VO's Lockscreen has disappeared. Legit.
When I press the screen lock button it simply doesn't. It turns the screen off, but it doesn't actually lock the phone.. as a consequence now the phone will do random things in my pocket and its annoying as hell.
I've tried a number of things to restore it just short of a full reset. That I'm trying to avoid because I use this phone as my main one and to restore all my setting would suck major ass.
Please someone shed some light on a solution for me?
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go to the market and download the app called backup everthing dont need to be rooted backup everthing like the application title then factory reset now redownload the app again and restore the backup from your sd
phonegod said:
go to the market and download the app called backup everthing dont need to be rooted backup everthing like the application title then factory reset now redownload the app again and restore the backup from your sd
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If it comes to that I definitely will. Thanks man
Hi all, I've tried so many app's over the last couple of days that claim to stop the screen from locking but they have all just bypassed the lock screen... Well, they've tried to anyway. These kind of work arounds don't actually stop my phone from locking in the first place though.
My phone is a W008+ iPhone clone with Android 2.3.3. When it's charging, the screen will time out and switch off; But it doesn't lock. So I can hit any key to bring the screen back on and as it wasn't locked in the first place, I'm taken straight back to where I was.
When not charging, I get the same behaviour for ~2 or 3 seconds... Any longer and it locks forcing me to use the power key and swipe the lock screen along with any other security measures I may have in place.
What I'd like is to be able to set the 'lock' timeout in the way that I can set the 'screen' timeout. This is obviously possible but the question is: How far will I have to go to get this functionality?
Is there a setting I've missed? I'm very new to Android so there's lots I don't know yet.
Are there any app's that can really do this? Maybe this would need a root app?
Or would I need a custom rom?
Any ideas?
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.jraf.android.nolock
try this
or you could flash cyanogenmod, in cm there is an option to disable the lockscreen in cyanogemnod settings -> tablet tweaks -> disable lockscreen
'No Lock' is one of the many I've tried. This type of approach isn't what I'm after.
Someone mentioned on the AndroidForums that some systems have a 'Set Lock Timeout' setting in the location & security settings. This sounds like the kind of thing I'm after but I don't have it on my 2.3.3 system. Maybe there's some kind of tweaking app that adds this?
I will most likely get round to using a custom rom but being so new to Android at the moment, I haven't quite got the confidence for it yet. I keep finding so many stories from people bricking their similar Chinese clone-phones.
I've been suffering from sporadic sense restarts for a couple of weeks now, usually after heavy app use and when using the 'back' key to get back to the main screen. I've tried uninstalling programs and removing widgets to try and isolate the problem with little success. However, I may have stumbled upon it's root cause...showing the weather on the lock screen.
Right before a sense restart one day I briefly saw the weather lock screen flash which I thought was peculiar, so I disabled it (set it to the basic wallpaper) and it has been running perfect ever since! Also the lag moving from screen to screen that was happening from time to time is totally gone now as well. It's like the turbo has been turned back on....
I'm not sure if this is a coincidence, or possibly gets sense below a memory threshold that's the underlining issue, but I thought I'd pass it along to see if it helps others that have been experiencing the soft restarts as well.
Yeah, I have been having the same reboot screen problems with Sense even without the Weather lock screen. It makes me like Sense more and more after I really liked it on the TP2, OG Evo, and Evo 3D.
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E This has been covered in a number of threads. Weather in and of itself is not the culprit, it's the resource use and how much of that sense and the Sense loader takes up. A search will show many discussions
midmofan said:
E This has been covered in a number of threads. Weather in and of itself is not the culprit, it's the resource use and how much of that sense and the Sense loader takes up. A search will show many discussions
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Exactly.
Plus I have been using just a normal wallpaper and I still get sense restarting.
DarkManX4lf said:
Exactly.
Plus I have been using just a normal wallpaper and I still get sense restarting.
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ALL of Sense's lock screens take up about 50MB of data. Productivity, Weather, nothing but the wallpaper.. they're all the same.
The best bet is if you're root to delete HTC's lockscreen, saving 50MB, and going with stock ICS. You have to unlock to answer phonecalls, but it's worth it.
Also, get a different launcher like nova or apex. Even if they have to restart they're MUCH quicker than Sense.
try my rom
ive never had sense reboot
From more experimenting it looks like it's not the weather lock per se, as soon as I added a battery widget I started getting restarts again. It's like Sense gets to a certain memory usage and the restarts ensue. The last thing I did before it stopped restarting was change from the weather lock, so it's quite possible it was on the edge and the weather graphics/etc. put it over the threshold.
Anyways, a custom ROM is definitely next on my list, would have already done if I could get into wallet to reset.....
Did you try changing the build prop? I did that to reset my wallet so I could Rom it.
You don't have "Don't keep activities" checked in developer options do you? I had that checked and it it caused sense to restart constantly... As it should, I wasn't thinking when I checked it.
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Saneless One said:
Did you try changing the build prop? I did that to reset my wallet so I could Rom it.
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what???
just install No Lock from the play store....problem solved!!
moses2303 said:
You don't have "Don't keep activities" checked in developer options do you? I had that checked and it it caused sense to restart constantly... As it should, I wasn't thinking when I checked it.
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No, not checked. Background process limit is set to 'standard' as well although I did try different settings under that with little success.
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what???
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Regarding resetting the wallet..
I edited my build.prop to have ro.device or something along that to say htc_jewel instead of just jewel. I was able to get into wallet, and I used that lucky break to clear out my wallet settings so I could wipe out the OS.
Hello everybody!
Im having a little issue with my NT. I cant activate the screen lock pattern, in fact, my tablet cannot be locked in any way.
I installed ADW launcher, and tried any menu that I have found to activate lock, but no success.
Does anybody have any clue what else can I try?
btw, NT rocks!
patolin_01 said:
Hello everybody!
Im having a little issue with my NT. I cant activate the screen lock pattern, in fact, my tablet cannot be locked in any way.
I installed ADW launcher, and tried any menu that I have found to activate lock, but no success.
Does anybody have any clue what else can I try?
btw, NT rocks!
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With cm7 you can go to settings, then cyogenmod settings. There you will see the lockscreen options. You have a few different choices. I personally use Go Locker and paid for the ICS theme, which when using gives you 3 choices of how to unlock. I like the ics style unlocker. Hope this helps.
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thanks for your advice but it didnt work. I will keep trying. But its kinda weird. the first time I tried cm7 from a sd card the screen lock worked fine.
I haven't used cm7 in a while, but try checking under Security settings too. I think there are lock screen settings there.
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I got a Samsung Galaxy S, and activating the lock pattern in the same way that I have set in my NT works without issue. I think I will need to reflash my nook, and reinstall all the apps
Have you unchecked "Settings"->"CyanogenMod settings"->"Tablet tweaks"->"Disable lockscreen"?
Yes, I have tested that too, but nothing.... Next week I will reflash the NT this thing isnt a "national security" issue, but to be safe, i dont let my tablet alone LOL
I take the long way, and reflashed all, wiping all the old stuff from the NT. And voila! screen lock is back. I suspect that the last reflash i did, didnt wipe all the memory down, and there were some leftovers of the cm9 test I did.
By the way, I installed this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1512373 and It looks amazing, including an ICS theme, and some nice apps preinstalled.
Hi all,
About two weeks ago I updated my XS to the official ICS update and am half happy/half annoyed with the result.
Firstly, I'm having trouble with the Home Screen Auto-Rotate. I can't see any settings/toggles for it, and it only seems to activate when plugged into a charger, and turning on/off screen rotation doesn't seem to affect it.
This is a problem for me, because I tend to be lying in bed when charging the phone, and having the home screen auto-rotate while all other applications are fixed in portrait is really annoying!
Have any of you found some setting for this? Or have a solution?
Secondly, there's the issue with the Lock Screen. With the ICS update, the ONLY way to view notifications in the lockscreen is by using "Slide" as a lock screen option, unlike Gingerbread. This is a problem because most people tend to want the "slide to unlock" and then some sort of security function (pattern, PIN, password, face recognition).
From what what I've gathered from reading some posts, ICS removed that functionality or something rather.
Do any of you have any solutions that keep the "Xperia" theme/look?
Thanks,
Aruim
Your first problem is non issues and standard features of any phone for Android(exactly the same as GB), you need to take a quick trip to the dev section to find a solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769082
Your second problem, if I understand you is also a non issue, you can pull down the status notifications menu in the lock screen(new to ICS), you can slide to open any notification(exactly the same as GB) and you can slide to unlock(exactly the same as GB)... you will find everything (exactly the same as GB) in the security\screen lock section of the settings.
-smc
somemadcaaant said:
Your first problem is non issues and standard features of any phone for Android(exactly the same as GB), you need to take a quick trip to the dev section to find a solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769082
Your second problem, if I understand you is also a non issue, you can pull down the status notifications menu in the lock screen(new to ICS), you can slide to open any notification(exactly the same as GB) and you can slide to unlock(exactly the same as GB)... you will find everything (exactly the same as GB) in the security\screen lock section of the settings.
-smc
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The second prob the OP has is possibly the one I've seen most people comment on.
Some of us want notifications on our locks screens, but also want security, such as a PIN. You could do this on GB, now you can't. You have to have one or the other now with ICS. It's not *exactly* the same as GB.
Not a deal breaker, admittedly, but something *I* think Sony should have left, or at least included it as a choice.
hi
For this problem,
I went to disable the Live Ware.
Or, if you use this program, you can only uninstall the new update.
(the behavior you do not want to depend on this)
this worked for me
aruim said:
Hi all,
About two weeks ago I updated my XS to the official ICS update and am half happy/half annoyed with the result.
Firstly, I'm having trouble with the Home Screen Auto-Rotate. I can't see any settings/toggles for it, and it only seems to activate when plugged into a charger, and turning on/off screen rotation doesn't seem to affect it.
This is a problem for me, because I tend to be lying in bed when charging the phone, and having the home screen auto-rotate while all other applications are fixed in portrait is really annoying!
Have any of you found some setting for this? Or have a solution?
Secondly, there's the issue with the Lock Screen. With the ICS update, the ONLY way to view notifications in the lockscreen is by using "Slide" as a lock screen option, unlike Gingerbread. This is a problem because most people tend to want the "slide to unlock" and then some sort of security function (pattern, PIN, password, face recognition).
From what what I've gathered from reading some posts, ICS removed that functionality or something rather.
Do any of you have any solutions that keep the "Xperia" theme/look?
Thanks,
Aruim
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warface said:
The second prob the OP has is possibly the one I've seen most people comment on.
Some of us want notifications on our locks screens, but also want security, such as a PIN. You could do this on GB, now you can't. You have to have one or the other now with ICS. It's not *exactly* the same as GB.
Not a deal breaker, admittedly, but something *I* think Sony should have left, or at least included it as a choice.
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I stand corrected; i misunderstood.
I prefer it the ICS way tho, I'd prefer not having to slide to unlock then to again go thru security, to then have access to the phone. One poor mans solution is to pick your security method then set sim lock, at least yull have two part security option when u first turn on your device.
-smc