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G2 forgets to lock itself..... HELP!

Hey fellas, to lock my phone I use the pattern lock, but since yesterday every time I lock the phone with power button or sleeps itself after 2 minutes, it doesn't show me the 'draw pattern screen', just the regular 'slide to unlock'.
So, I go and set the pattern up again, and lock it, it shows the 'draw pattern screen' and only shows once, after I lock the phone again, it won't appear anymore.
I'm using CM6.1.1, obviously rooted phone.
Any help or suggestions? Moderators feel free to move this post to cyanogen's thread if needed. Don't know if this might be a problem of CM itself.

Did you enable any of the quick unlock settings in Cyanogenmod settings? I bet my breakfast (which I already ate, sorry) that its because you need to review those CM settings. In User Input or something or other.
Uncheck all of those settings (that enable quick unlock)
(besides those pattern locks are easily hacked -- with the right light and the right amount of grease from your finger anyone can see your "path to unlock" - Im just sayin!)

Sorry man, that quick unlock feature is definetly not checked, it's under "settings/cyanogenmod settings/input settings", quick unlock not checked.
U owe me a pancake lol.
I dont remember getting creative with locking and unlocking settings, the weirdest thing I did was to install a few themes to the phone. Imma try putting everything to default, and start from there.

I've experienced some unlock and lock issues with cm6 aswell. It seemed as if there are settings that conflict with eachother. What happened to me was I changed it to rotory unlock with lock set to immediately engage on screen off. After changing that it wouldn't lock but the screen would turn off. I had to set it to 1 second and then reboot then it would lock just fine.
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What surprises me is that it stopped working for some reason, because I've been using cm6.1.1 for a couple of weeks and worked perfectly..
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don't remember where the setting is but it sounds like the time-out setting is not proper, the phone does not lock right away if it is sitting on the table and goes to sleep on it's own but you can set it to do that, i had mine set to 30 seconds so that if the screen turned off while i was waiting for something to download or happen i didn't have to unlock with my pin each time. look through the settings (probably security or cm settings) for the proper tweak, i would give better instructions but i'm currently on miui ROM

g_grey said:
don't remember where the setting is but it sounds like the time-out setting is not proper, the phone does not lock right away if it is sitting on the table and goes to sleep on it's own but you can set it to do that, i had mine set to 30 seconds so that if the screen turned off while i was waiting for something to download or happen i didn't have to unlock with my pin each time. look through the settings (probably security or cm settings) for the proper tweak, i would give better instructions but i'm currently on miui ROM
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Yeah, these settings are found under CM Settings->User Interface (down at the bottom). I don't think these will be the cause though, since the OP said he didn't really mess with any of the settings. Also, I don't think the settings would cause the "Slide to Unlock" screen to appear (the phone would simply turn the screen back on to whatever was last on, no pattern unlock, no lock screen).
Have you installed any new widgets or lockscreen apps recently? Out of curiosity, have you tried any of the other lock types just to see if they do the same thing (like PIN or password).

Delayed screen lock

Hey,
Does anyone else have problems with the delayed lock screen feature?
Settings -> Security -> Automatically Lock
(You need to have a pattern or pin unlock for the option to show up)
In there are delay settings, so the lock only activates after a set period of time. No matter what delay I pick, the screen lock activates instantly as soon as the screen turns off.
I was wondering if this happened for anyone else, before I post an issue with Google.
The weird thing is I'm sure it worked at one point, but I've tried a factory reset and it still doesn't work with a fresh handset.
Cheers

Do you use a (corporate) exchange account on your phone? I think I read somewhere that Exchange security settings can override the delay and force the phone to lock instantaneous.

gokpog said:
Do you use a (corporate) exchange account on your phone? I think I read somewhere that Exchange security settings can override the delay and force the phone to lock instantaneous.
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I do yeah, but I tried with a clean factory reset and it still happens
I don't know exactly how Exchange accounts work - If my device ID was registered with the Exchange server, would it still enforce the security settings even though the email account is not on the phone any more? (i.e. a factory reset).

Shodney said:
Hey,
Does anyone else have problems with the delayed lock screen feature?
Settings -> Security -> Automatically Lock
(You need to have a pattern or pin unlock for the option to show up)
In there are delay settings, so the lock only activates after a set period of time. No matter what delay I pick, the screen lock activates instantly as soon as the screen turns off.
I was wondering if this happened for anyone else, before I post an issue with Google.
The weird thing is I'm sure it worked at one point, but I've tried a factory reset and it still doesn't work with a fresh handset.
Cheers
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I have set a 5 minute delay on the lock and it has been working perfectly.
I cannot think of a reason why you are not able to apart from your Exchange set up.

I don't use Exchange and also have this issue... no matter what I set the delay at, it always locks.

I removed the Exchange account from my phone, and got the server admin to delete my device ID from the system - but it still locks instantly when the screen goes off, so it doesn't look like that's the problem.
How odd...

Anyone have any more info on this? It's pretty irritating and don't want to do a factory rest if I can avoid it!

Shodney said:
I removed the Exchange account from my phone, and got the server admin to delete my device ID from the system - but it still locks instantly when the screen goes off, so it doesn't look like that's the problem.
How odd...
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Did you remove the device administrator you create (at least in 2.x) when you accept the Exchange security policies? Might still be there I guess.

I think the timer only kicks in when the screen turns off by itself not when you hit the lock button. Try letting the screen goto sleep and see if the delay works.

balto said:
I think the timer only kicks in when the screen turns off by itself not when you hit the lock button. Try letting the screen goto sleep and see if the delay works.
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Oh yeah
Seems slightly odd behaviour - I'm used to the CM7 way where it would delay the lock whether you turned the screen off manually or not.
Cheers

balto said:
I think the timer only kicks in when the screen turns off by itself not when you hit the lock button. Try letting the screen goto sleep and see if the delay works.
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Oh... yeah, that worked! As Shodney said, seems strange as I come from a ROM (Android Revolution HD) that doesn't care if the screen times out or if you press power - it starts the timer from then.
To be honest I prefer the "old" behaviour - I like having a long "awake" time on my screen so it doesn't go off while I'm reading a web page or whatever and to turn it off manually to save battery. But I don't like it locking straight away! Guess I just have to live with it for now. Thanks for the answer anyway.

I find it weird too. The sgs2 was the same way. There is a great app called delaylock (https://market.android.com/details?id=de.j4velin.delayedlock2&hl=en) on the market that will make the lock work the as cm7 not sure it works on ics yet, I plan on trying it when my phone gets here Friday.
Glad I could clear all the confusion on this setting.

Turn screen off without locking

Guys
My screen timeout is at 1 min and it asks me for a PIN if unused for 10 mins. This all works fine but I want the ability to manually turn off the screen but don't want to input a PIN if I return to it before 10 mins. Is this possible? The key on the right of the phone turns off the screen but also locks the phone
Thanks

sam008 said:
Guys
My screen timeout is at 1 min and it asks me for a PIN if unused for 10 mins. This all works fine but I want the ability to manually turn off the screen but don't want to input a PIN if I return to it before 10 mins. Is this possible? The key on the right of the phone turns off the screen but also locks the phone
Thanks
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Can't you just turn your pin off?
Settings > Security > Screen Lock > None
Or just change the duration before it locks.

jhericurls said:
Can't you just turn your pin off?
Settings > Security > Screen Lock > None
Or just change the duration before it locks.
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He wants a PIN, but only if the phone is locked for over 10min. Hes expressing that this happens if the screen "times out" but not if the screen is intentionally closed.
OP, this is often a feature of custom ROMs (time-outs and lockscreen delays), but the assumption by default is that if you mean to shut the screen off (intentionally use the power btn) then you want it locked, however if you let it time out, you will probably want to turn it on without having to enter a PIN.

How come the best questions don't get answered??

LOL they do get answered but the answers aren't easy ones to follow

I wonder if this actually is a bug. It's mentioned in leaked documents from Verizon as a fix that's coming.
Although I wouldn't bet my life on it.
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Hang on, under Settings, Security, there is an option to "automatically lock # minutes after sleep". That sounds like it may be what we are looking for.
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Flanimal said:
Hang on, under Settings, Security, there is an option to "automatically lock # minutes after sleep". That sounds like it may be what we are looking for.
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Alas no - that's what happens if you let the screen sleep by itself. If you don't want to wait the 30seconds (or whatever) and use the power button to put the screen to sleep it locks the phone at the same time.
I'd like this too but I know of no way to do it.

There was an app that put the screen to sleep without locking it - assuming your phone would auto lock after 10 mins. I used to use it on my N1...

How about not forcing you to have a PIN/password when you set up a VPN on your phone.. what happened to choice Google??

gabster21 said:
How about not forcing you to have a PIN/password when you set up a VPN on your phone.. what happened to choice Google??
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Err .. how about the "P" part in VPN then?

Valynor said:
Err .. how about the "P" part in VPN then?
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Err.. how about no other phone forces you to do this? I have a strong VPN account I use to bypass my country's censorship, no private data involved no matter what the P stands for.
Give me a popup saying "It is recommended to have a PIN bla bla bla.." but don't force it on me. That's taking a page out of Apple's playbook.

gabster21 said:
Err.. how about no other phone forces you to do this? I have a strong VPN account I use to bypass my country's censorship, no private data involved no matter what the P stands for.
Give me a popup saying "It is recommended to have a PIN bla bla bla.." but don't force it on me. That's taking a page out of Apple's playbook.
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Well, ok, your opinion.
I think it's a little bit over the top, though. "Forcing" extra security (maybe) is an incovenience, not giving you freedom of choice like Apple does is something entirely different.

I was really surprised when the auto-locking timeout was not in effect if you shut the phone down yourself. Granted, I can understand why it is like this, sometimes you want an 'instant lock'. But reality is that sometimes you don't.
My HTC Desire locked itself if I did not use it for five minutes, no matter if the screen shut itself off or when I myself did. Sometimes I was in a public transport or queue in store and just shut the screen off, pocketed the device to pay or buy a ticket and then took it out again, continuing where I left off without having to enter the PIN again. Sometimes I used my phone, shut the screen off and remembered that I wanted to do something else too and I could still use the device.
But this is not possible with Galaxy Nexus. It locks whenever I shut the screen off myself despite the set delay. The auto-lock delay only works if the phone's screen is not shut down by the user.

In response to the OP, a feature like that is included in customized ROMS (including the one I am using, AOKP). However, I don't think that specific feature will be available for stock ICS for the time being.
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[Q] Screen off policy

Guys,
My company-policy makes me use a pin code to unlock the phone. In the past I used a screen off and lock app. There I used to check permissions for screen off...
so when I touched the icon, the screen would turn of and locked the phone.
Since ICS it seems to clash with my exchange policy, leaving me to enter my pincode EVERY time I unlock the phone while I've set my exchange policy on 10 minutes...
So I thought to use another screen off app, but it seems those apps have a delay (something about ics security). This could lead to pressing the soft buttons and waking the device in the 5 seconds (or so) delay.
Three questions:
1. Is it possible to have the two policies (exchange and screen off and lock) next to eachother without having to enter the pin every single time?
2. Is there an app which doesn't have the delay?
3. Is it possible to adjust a value or something to cut the delay?
many thanks in advance!

Mobile lock screen query

Using Note 3 neo since past few days
My office email forces me to use password lock screen and hence the same is setup on the phone. To avoid irritation while unlocking the phone typing pw again and again, I have set the pw interval of max (14 mins).
But when the phone is locked by pressing side button (no pw reqd to unlock as timer set is 14 mins), and by mistakenly, home button the pressed then phone gets unlocked and my hit any button, especially in pocket or in hand accidentally. Many times, i have seen camera being activated, audio msg gone on whats app, snapshot takes etc.
How to solve this prob.
Earlier when i was using LG G2/iphone, both had slide feature to unlock even after pressing home button. which prevents such accidental errors.

use a simple pattern lock or use samsung flip cover or u may opt some 3rd party lock apps from playstore

arinjayw said:
Using Note 3 neo since past few days
My office email forces me to use password lock screen and hence the same is setup on the phone. To avoid irritation while unlocking the phone typing pw again and again, I have set the pw interval of max (14 mins).
But when the phone is locked by pressing side button (no pw reqd to unlock as timer set is 14 mins), and by mistakenly, home button the pressed then phone gets unlocked and my hit any button, especially in pocket or in hand accidentally. Many times, i have seen camera being activated, audio msg gone on whats app, snapshot takes etc.
How to solve this prob.
Earlier when i was using LG G2/iphone, both had slide feature to unlock even after pressing home button. which prevents such accidental errors.
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For me..my phone is rooted and installed the patched version of email apps to get ride of it.

KSKHH said:
For me..my phone is rooted and installed the patched version of email apps to get ride of it.
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does the patched version gives you email badge counter of unread emails? If yes, which is it?

arinjayw said:
does the patched version gives you email badge counter of unread emails? If yes, which is it?
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Yes it is gives me unread email counter. It is stock application only.

KSKHH said:
Yes it is gives me unread email counter. It is stock application only.
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can I install it on unrooted phone? Can you share the file with me?

arinjayw said:
can I install it on unrooted phone? Can you share the file with me?
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No u can not. Unroot phone will not give you access of /system/app
You have to have rooted phone.