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[Mod] Lockscreen Music Controls

I love the new lockscreen music controls on cyanogen mod but how can we get them onto other roms??
We need this mod!!

Any screenshots of this?
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lock here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1KkySFhzp4&feature=youtu.be&a)

is this the lock screen controls you want? (the one from the video)

There is an app that works with either stock music player of music mod by Eliot Stocker on the market. Haven't tested it, but I can imagine it'll be along the same lines
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I'm running one of the latest cyanogen roms and yes the lockscreen controls are awesome. I really missed that part from sense. And I must disagree with dmpwd because I feel the controls are way better implemented on cyanogen.
1) You can choose if you want the controls always available or not (unlike sense which only shows it when music is playing
2) The sense version always slides back down after 1 or 2 seconds which is really really annoying. By the time I hear the next song and determine if I want to skip that one as well it has moved back down again *sigh*
And it's a lockscreen...why would I want to look at the album art when the screen turns back off anyway right after I move to another song? The only thing missing atm is the artist/songname but I wouldn't be surprised if they're working on that already.
Oh, and cyanogen has the longpress volume-up/down for switching songs as well (very handy in the car).
But to each his own . I'm loving the mods/tweaks of cyanogen.

otijhuis said:
I'm running one of the latest cyanogen roms and yes the lockscreen controls are awesome. I really missed that part from sense. And I must disagree with dmpwd because I feel the controls are way better implemented on cyanogen.
1) You can choose if you want the controls always available or not (unlike sense which only shows it when music is playing
2) The sense version always slides back down after 1 or 2 seconds which is really really annoying. By the time I hear the next song and determine if I want to skip that one as well it has moved back down again *sigh*
And it's a lockscreen...why would I want to look at the album art when the screen turns back off anyway right after I move to another song? The only thing missing atm is the artist/songname but I wouldn't be surprised if they're working on that already.
Oh, and cyanogen has the longpress volume-up/down for switching songs as well (very handy in the car).
But to each his own . I'm loving the mods/tweaks of cyanogen.
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didn't know about that way to switch songs. sounds really good.
btw, would you please confirm whether cyanogen's lockscreen is the one on the youtube video posted in this thread?
thanks!

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If you pause the youtube video at the 15 sec mark, that's what the controls look like. So it's the white controls only without the square borders that are shown. If you pause the music then it only shows the play button. And there's no fast-forward or rewind on longpress of the buttons for instance. I'm using the cyanogen nightly (cm_bravo-07272010-154338) atm.
I just found out the lockscreen controls also work for the Pandora app . No idea if the sense one does that as well but it's handy. Mostly use the default music app myself.

the controls in cyanogenmod V6.0.0-RC1 look slightly different than the ones in the video, they are more basic and I definately prefer them.
Anyone help on how to do this??

widget locker 1.1 has that function
try it

darkenergy said:
widget locker 1.1 has that function
try it
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Already tried it, would defiantely prefer the cyanogenmod way ;-)

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darkenergy is right. Widget locker is great. You can use any (stock) widget on the lockscreen since it replaces it. I totally forgot about it since I use QuickDesk (which is awesome btw, double tapping the homekey brings up an extra screen which is basically a layer over any open application so you don't have to go back to a homescreen, I use it for all the toggles, a music and messaging widget). The previous versions of widget locker had some problems with QuickDesk and I don't want to be without that app.
The great thing is that now the developer updated widget locker you can also use the doubleclick on the homebutton on the lockscreen, which is really awesome. A single press doesn't do anything, stays on the lockscreen. Just make sure you use QuickDesk as default home, set Widget Locker as launcher in QuickDesk and your normal launcher in Widget Locker
I just updated widget locker to 1.2.2 and put the Pure Music widget on the lockscreen. This means you have the album art there as well if you want it. You can even use the 4x4 widget. Works great. Widget Locker is also very customizable. Hide notification bar, which keys unlock, different background and so on.

liamstears said:
Already tried it, would defiantely prefer the cyanogenmod way ;-)
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Why do you prefer the cyanogenmod way? It's great for sure, especially since you don't need another app but that's about the only benefit I see of the cyanogenmod way . Am all for it to see it as a default/option in other roms, just curious why you prefer it.

otijhuis said:
Why do you prefer the cyanogenmod way? It's great for sure, especially since you don't need another app but that's about the only benefit I see of the cyanogenmod way . Am all for it to see it as a default/option in other roms, just curious why you prefer it.
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1 less app running and I prefer how handcent works with default lockscreen, dont like it with other lockscreens :-D

[Q] Lockscreen music controls on GNexus

I've had my Galaxy Nexus for a week and a half now and at first I thought the new feature of music controls appearing on the lockscreen was being a bit buggy as sometimes I would not see them on the lockscreen while I was actively playing music on the phone. After paying closer attention to it though, it looks like what's actually happening is that the music controls just flat out don't show up on the lockscreen unless the Google Music app is open and showing on the phone's screen.
In other words, if you start playing music via the widget on one of your home screens by pressing the "play" button and thus do NOT fully open the Google Music app and bring it up on the screen, the lockscreen controls won't appear.
Does this ring true for you other Galaxy Nexus owners? If so, I have to say that I am *extremely* annoyed by this behavior with the lockscreen controls. I do not want to have to actually open the music app, bring it up to the screen and then select "play" just to have the lockscreen show the music controls. Having to go through that defeats a big chunk of the reason and benefit of having a widget for the music app! I just want to be able to hit "play" on the widget and go from there.
Anyone else able to verify this is how things also work on their own GNexus?
Thanks for sharing your info on this!

I don't have this issue with the Music app. As long as its playing, background or not, it will show up with controls on the lockscreen.
I am running a custom rom however I don't think that portion of the rom has been edited.

RTContent said:
I don't have this issue with the Music app. As long as its playing, background or not, it will show up with controls on the lockscreen.
I am running a custom rom however I don't think that portion of the rom has been edited.
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Hmm...okay, thanks for the feedback! Interesting to know because my stock Galaxy Nexus def has this problem on a regular basis.
Anyone running a stock GNexus care to comment?

I'm running a stock Galaxy Nexus and had the same issue. I eventually found that the "headset button controller" app (a third-party one) was disabling the lockscreen controls...

Had the problem on both stock ROM and bugless beast. Just switched to aokp 25 today hoping it will go away..

I also dont experience this when i have GoogleMusic installed instead of AOSP Music (which does not have lockscreen controls, if i recall it right).
currently running:
self-built aosp kang (aosp/master)
tweaked stock kernel 3.0.8

I'm the OP for this thread and just thought I'd comment since it's been "brought back from the dead" with some new posts.
Back in December when I was asking about this issue I actually managed to have a conversation about this issue with someone from Google who is part of the Google Music team and it turns out this issue was a bug they had missed. They said they would fix it in an update to Google Music and sure enough, about 2-3 weeks later they pushed out an update that fixed it.
I never ran into this issue again after that update, so just wanted to share the info.

Got my lockscreen music controls back!
philb115 said:
I'm running a stock Galaxy Nexus and had the same issue. I eventually found that the "headset button controller" app (a third-party one) was disabling the lockscreen controls...
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I have been wondering for months why my lockscreen music controls were gone and uninstalling "Jays Headset Controls" brought them back! Thank you!

I just got my first 4.2 ROM. It's XenonHD and my music controls are no longer there.. Otherwise I like the ROM.. Argh..

Just and update, the music controls Are back, I don't to it was xenonhd that was causing it. I restarted and now it works so I dunno
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[Request] Time in Navbar

wile playing with my Gnex phone the following idea poped into my head;
would it not be handy to have the time displayed in the ICS navigation bar, replacing the homekey grafics but not the function...
then you can keep track of time while playing games of running any other fullscreen application where the notificationbar is hidden.
what do you guys think?

I like it
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Funny, I just had the same thought and saw this thread.
I would love to see the clock be displayed in the nav bar and persistently. I think it would look sick.
Is this even possible? I wonder ...

chewy74 said:
Funny, I just had the same thought and saw this thread.
I would love to see the clock be displayed in the nav bar and persistently. I think it would look sick.
Is this even possible? I wonder ...
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It might be. I forgot which rom had this but you were able to put music controls (previous, forward, play/pause) in the navi bar so it might be possible
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You're right, I totally forgot about the music control on the nav bar! Good catch
xXJay_RXx said:
It might be. I forgot which rom had this but you were able to put music controls (previous, forward, play/pause) in the navi bar so it might be possible
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then the question remains, is there any developer that can make this or is already working on it?

http://forum.aokp.co/tracker/
Go request it for AOKP.

good ideas but i need power menu soft key can use soft key from power menu

>.> Ummm bump? I like this idea too. perhaps not limit it to time but serve as a ticker?
I.e, normally it shows time, but it will show notification icons somewhere and a swipe will reveal the notification centre?
EDIT: On the top of my mind... we probably could get a couple of apps/mods to get something similar:
* There are full screen mods
* GMD gesturecontrol works on Gnex last time I tried.I suppose you can assign swipes and gestures to mimic the navbar buttons
* Only thing I don't really get is how we'd get a clock or notification area to show permanently at the bottom. Perhaps there are some apps that do this, Notifierpro plus does notification.. not time though.
* Paranoid android tablet UI, hide/remove the nav bar buttons, and try to move the notification area to the centre. Something like that...

There is a ROM that has all the features you are looking for:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1729942
However the base is CM9. I hope it will be upgraded to JB soon. I use it since a month and I prefer it over any other ROM.

xt720 said:
There is a ROM that has all the features you are looking for:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1729942
However the base is CM9. I hope it will be upgraded to JB soon. I use it since a month and I prefer it over any other ROM.
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This is pretty much exactly what I wanted! Thanks!! Waiting for jelly bean! I'll run PA until then.
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Music control on lockscreen

Its silly they didn't add this. I know you can use the notification bar within the lockscreen if there is no security but I want the security. Yes I know I can get PowerAMP/PlayerPro and use the app/ICS lockscreen but want to avoid that?

I know you said you want to avoid it but I bought PowerAmp and it's so much better than the stock player it's well worth getting even without the lock screen control it gives you. Just my two cents - sorry I can't offer any help with the stock player.

Security
I have noticed that my spotify music control only comes on when i have a pattern enabled in security.

I would say Widget locker, and some widgets.

eatonjb said:
I would say Widget locker, and some widgets.
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no ruins the swipe lock then and all its features. I was actually looking for a way to get the controls on the swipe lock. It so dam annoying :crying:. Samsung always messes up the lockscreen on all there devices.
My first Galaxy S and SII both had music control on the lock screen but when you enabled security you would then loose "swipe lockscreen" and just be prompted with the security screen. With the S3 since they added the swipe lockscreen on top of the security screen I was hoping for native music controls but they messed up again. Seems like the reason is because the notification bar can be accessed from the swipe lockscreen so no need to clutter the lockcreen but of course it does not work when you enable security.
PowerAmp is actually not bad and the ICS lockscreen works well its still annoying you have to get to the ICS security lockscreen before a track can be changed, main reason i wanted it on the swipe screen was while driving in a car.
This is a major feature for me and was actually the sole reason why i returned the S2 for the hTC Raider and kinda hoped they sorted it out by now.

Try "Notification Toggle" since ICS and JB let you use the pull down even when locked (not sure about that if there is a lock code/pattern. but its quick and works pretty well.
i just have the FF/REW/Pause-Play .. works great!

this?
You can pull the notification bar down by default anyways if you don't have security. The point here is to pull down with security.

My music controls work as long as I use pattern or face unlock.

seems you are using google music am i correct?
Also stock ROM?

Yep
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Better lock screen on Touchwiz?

I know a lot of people don't like Touchwiz UI so they would suggest moving to AOSP our CM but I enjoy the motion features built in to the TW ROMs. With that in mind, are there any mods that can make the lock screen more functional?
I had CM7 on my captivate for a while and I loved having the audio player accessible from the lock screen. I tried widget locker on this phone (GS3) but it seemed to slow it down and the music controls were always there, even when I wasn't using the music player. If I remember right, on CM7 the music controls only showed up when I was listening to music.

^^^^ I also chose to stay TWUI due to all the features the phone provides. Hopefully we can get some devs on board to update the lockscreen. I would actually like an htc weather lockscreen port....
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Widget locker. In the play store keep all the features of tw but totally and easily customizable lockscreen
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bruceo said:
Widget locker. In the play store keep all the features of tw but totally and easily customizable lockscreen
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I haven't found the setting that only makes the music controls appear when I am listening to music. You're saying it has that ability?

Organized_Chaos said:
I haven't found the setting that only makes the music controls appear when I am listening to music. You're saying it has that ability?
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I use PowerAmp and the music controls (which look great) only show up when music is playing.
I presume you already know about adding icons, weather, stock, etc. to the lock screen via TouchWiz? Some replacements look interesting (I want one, too, hehe!): Hive Unlocker. Here's a list: http://techthumbs.com/replace-your-android-phones-lock-screen

Organized_Chaos said:
I haven't found the setting that only makes the music controls appear when I am listening to music. You're saying it has that ability?
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Widget Locker does have this ability via widgets. In particular, Phantom Music Control https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.jhg.musiccontrolwidget&hl=en from the market is basically a widget with player controls along with music metadata. The widget has a neat ability to disappear when there is no music playing. HOWEVER, the widget is still there along with the controls so if your screen accidentally turns on, you run the risk of pressing those "invisible" buttons. I haven't used it since Gingerbread so they may or may not have addressed this issue.
Or if you're main concern is to just change tracks, look for a ROM that has "Long-press volume to change tracks". This is very convenient when you're working out or any other situation where you don't feel like turning your screen on just to change tracks. I'm using The Devil's Reject right now which has it already baked in. Very cool ROM as well!