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[Q] Slide to Unlock w/Pattern

Maybe an odd question.
Is it possible to have the slide to unlock screen available if you use a patter to unlock the screen?
I know if you use a pin the slide to unlock still shows.

SilentSummer said:
Maybe an odd question.
Is it possible to have the slide to unlock screen available if you use a patter to unlock the screen?
I know if you use a pin the slide to unlock still shows.
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Not on an aosp rom, no. On a sense rom you can. Just remove the htclockscreen.apk, and you'll be left with the vanilla unlock screen. If you have a pattern enabled, it still comes up after unlocking the slider. (Again, only on a sense rom)
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k2buckley said:
Not on an aosp rom, no. On a sense rom you can. Just remove the htclockscreen.apk, and you'll be left with the vanilla unlock screen. If you have a pattern enabled, it still comes up after unlocking the slider. (Again, only on a sense rom)
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Well that bites lol.
Thanks for the info.

SilentSummer said:
Well that bites lol.
Thanks for the info.
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I agree. I like having the lockscreen and pattern unlock. That way I can use music controls on the lockscreen, and still keep my phone locked with the pattern.
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k2buckley said:
I agree. I like having the lockscreen and pattern unlock. That way I can use music controls on the lockscreen, and still keep my phone locked with the pattern.
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I'll see if I can't get it added as a feature request for CM.

Try widget locker. Any widget you can add to the regular home screen can be added to the lock screen, including music controls, etc.
I have mine set up such that all the apps I normally use are available from the lockscreen. This way, don't have to multiple tap to get to them.
Don't mind the duplicate calculators..
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/4986/20110421152112.png

gpz1100 said:
Try widget locker. Any widget you can add to the regular home screen can be added to the lock screen, including music controls, etc.
I have mine set up such that all the apps I normally use are available from the lockscreen. This way, don't have to multiple tap to get to them.
Don't mind the duplicate calculators..
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/4986/20110421152112.png
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Does that cause any lag? When I tried widget locker a long time ago, it lagged. My phone on wake up.
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The only lag I notice is when booting, and possibly the first wakeup after sleep after a reboot. There after, it seems to wake up relatively fast (1/2 second?) Is it an instant wake, no, but I can live with waiting a split moment to have the functionality of not having swipe then tap, or swipe then tap twice to get to something.
Like you, I tried it some months back and thought it was a piece of garbage. I was reluctant to try it again, but got spoiled with CM7's multiple sliders on the lock screen. Having returned back to sense for other reasons, I missed that functionality.

SilentSummer said:
I'll see if I can't get it added as a feature request for CM.
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There is already a feature request for this in CM. look here:
http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=3050

gpz1100 said:
The only lag I notice is when booting, and possibly the first wakeup after sleep after a reboot. There after, it seems to wake up relatively fast (1/2 second?) Is it an instant wake, no, but I can live with waiting a split moment to have the functionality of not having swipe then tap, or swipe then tap twice to get to something.
Like you, I tried it some months back and thought it was a piece of garbage. I was reluctant to try it again, but got spoiled with CM7's multiple sliders on the lock screen. Having returned back to sense for other reasons, I missed that functionality.
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Thanks for the response. I may consider giving it another try.

If you plan on using this with cm7, keep in mind, actual widgets on the lock screen only work with the standard system theme. With other themes, the widgets disappear after a reboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13094660&postcount=1168
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955219
It's stupid little bugs like this that annoy the crap out of me. So much for final I can't stand the green, so I just have shortcuts on the lock screen. In fact, I could almost tolerate the green, but it changes the theme of the status bar pull down widget to a light grey instead of a more black.

Muellersirch said:
There is already a feature request for this in CM. look here:
http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=3050
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Yea, I saw that yesterday.

ICS 4.0 & All the Little Things! [undocumented features]

Just wondering for those of you who have the device already, have you guys found some neat features/tricks using 4.0 that haven't been documented or heavily advertised?
I would love to make a list of these features for other users to explore...
Lets get this started
List:

Reserved........

I know it's documented,but it was still a surprise to me - you can now finally delete apps straight from the app drawer, by dragging them just as if you were going to place them on the desktop,but then putting them in the recycle bin on the top.

No affiliation with apple. Or siri.
Sent from my samsung gt i9250 which is in the wrong country.

Nobody's talking about the search app. It's way better than the one in Gingerbread. Much easier to find stuff in your phone : music, app, sms, docs, etc. The old one was returning web search suggestion in 90% of the result... useless.
Search in browser let's you edit suggestion if you want to add something to it. But we lost popular web site suggestion

Just read it on Pocketnow but you can make folders in the favourites bar. Apologies if obvious.

When in the stock browser and you change orientation, tap the screen to make it rotate.

gambiting said:
I know it's documented,but it was still a surprise to me - you can now finally delete apps straight from the app drawer, by dragging them just as if you were going to place them on the desktop,but then putting them in the recycle bin on the top.
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You can do that on stock fascinate.
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mkropf said:
You can do that on stock fascinate.
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which runs TouchWiz, so it's not stock Android

Rotate the phone to the right whilst in any stock app (so the speaker grill and front camera are on the right). Notice that the back, home and task switch buttons have moved to the top of the screen so that they stay on the right.

When using an ics app hold down on an icon in the action bar to get a description of what it does
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Not heavily advertised, but it should be:
The quick control in the browser. Almost the same as on honeycomb. Activate it in the labs settings of the browser. Love it!

appelflap said:
Not heavily advertised, but it should be:
The quick control in the browser. Almost the same as on honeycomb. Activate it in the labs settings of the browser. Love it!
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NICE find! Thanks!

This is known about, however you said undocumented and I haven't a single document for the Nexus/ICS apart from on one which came with the phone,telling me how to fix the battery.
Hold the volume down and power key, and you take a screen capture. Which is very handy on occasions
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If you tap the volume button which makes the volume bar appear, you can then press the icon to the left of the volume bar and it toggles between ring and vibrate.
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In settings/about phone. Tap repeatedly on the android version number (4.0...) then a little android appears. Keep ur finger on it and it grows into a screen animation.
If u didn't know about this,I guess u r now thinking this is a joke. Or is it?

Need someone to test; try swiping the web pages up/down using 2 fingers
, is it a feature or a glitch?

Stea1thmode said:
Need someone to test; try swiping the web pages up/down using 2 fingers
, is it a feature or a glitch?
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what's supposed to happen?

You can use the front facing camera to record in 720p hd

NexusDro said:
what's supposed to happen?
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I thought it scrolled page by page. try by flicking with 2 fingers.

[TIP] swipable live camera

I just noticed that when using the camera, a swipe to the left brings the last taken photo.
I'm on a 4.1.2 rom
Usually I pay attention to new android features, but I didn't remember reading about this one, so I thought I would share...

This was even announced along with 4.1 at Google I/O this summer

Unfortunately in 4.2 your can do the same thing on the permanent lock screen widget, exposing your gallery to everyone who might come across your phone.

stokholm said:
Unfortunately in 4.2 your can do the same thing on the permanent lock screen widget, exposing your gallery to everyone who might come across your phone.
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You mean even with a secure lockscreen?

asim0 said:
You mean even with a secure lockscreen?
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no, not with a secure lock screen. it shows a padlock then asks you to enter your password

asim0 said:
You mean even with a secure lockscreen?
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Yep, just tested it. Really stupid.
Though, on the flip side, I tried something I didn't realize before - tried to access the phones internal storage via USB and it wouldn't show anything until I unlocked it once after it was connected.

akusokuzan said:
no, not with a secure lock screen. it shows a padlock then asks you to enter your password
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Oh, you're right. I could have sworn that it didn't need unlocking, but it seems you're right.

You can use this app too. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34093005 It works well.
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stokholm said:
Unfortunately in 4.2 your can do the same thing on the permanent lock screen widget, exposing your gallery to everyone who might come across your phone.
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OMG the swipe saved a potential high jacker of my photo Two clicks... I don't get why everyone is up in arms about the lock screen camera. When using a secure lock it will only show photos taken during that session or nothing at all. If your unsecure then it takes two swipes to do what two what taps will do on every single other phone running iOS 4+ or Android 4.0+. Seriously swipe to the camera icon or tap it on a iOS device and then tap gallery... Voila all the gallery is there....
Seriously I don't really get all the hatorade being thrown towards Google over swipe to camera... Its fantastic IMO, abit slow though

Yup, this was there since 4.1.

altimax98 said:
Seriously I don't really get all the hatorade being thrown towards Google over swipe to camera... Its fantastic IMO, abit slow though
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I'm not sure we talk about the same thing; at some point the discussion shifted to lockscreen, but what I originally meant was: when you use the camera app (when you can see on your screen what is seen by the camera) then you can swipe to the left to bring the gallery; I know you can also click on the thumbnail preview at the bottom, but swiping is easier when you use the phone single hand

While in the gallery view you can fling up or down to delete pics.

[APP][ROOT] [UPDATE: 10.28.13] Flashlight Widget GS4

Another widget i decided to share with you peoples
I noticed by default there is a "Assistive light" widget for us to put on the home screen. It toggles the flashlight on or off. Well its really dim so i wrote my own widget to do the same thing. This one however gets put on the lockscreen so just swipe over and tap and boom you got a light
May add options for light levels.
Should work on all GS4 variants, only tested on T-Mobile variant.
TO INSTALL:
Simply install the apk, then in your app drawer look for "Flashlight options" and click it to set up your options. (The icon is a flashlight btw xD)
UPDATE 10.28.13:
- Added levels adjustment
- Remove widget and re-add to update after installing new APK
Then create your widget on your lockscreen and profit

Works perfectly thus far and exactly what my phone has been missing. THANK YOU!!

netzer119 said:
Works perfectly thus far and exactly what my phone has been missing. THANK YOU!!
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Same for me! Prolly gonna add the brightness buttons to it soon too.
What do you guys think? Three buttons, one for dim, half, and full brightness? Or a positive and negative button to adjust brightness in one by one increments? I think the three buttons would be quicker to adjust the brightness.
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Three buttons sounds great ..Can't wait for the update ..Thanks

Chosen_on184 said:
Three buttons sounds great ..Can't wait for the update ..Thanks
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agreed! maybe a strobe button in a future update if you're ready to disco disco...

Worked perfectly. Thanks.

Update added levels option

In infamous alpha ROM I just have to long press home button while on lockscreen to turn torch on and off. Any way that I can use your app instead as your is brighter.
Thanks
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Works great as always @elesbb... Thanks
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Netuser said:
In infamous alpha ROM I just have to long press home button while on lockscreen to turn torch on and off. Any way that I can use your app instead as your is brighter.
Thanks
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Just install it as a regular app, then under your lockscreen, add the flashlight widget.

elesbb said:
Just install it as a regular app, then under your lockscreen, add the flashlight widget.
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Not getting option to create widget on lockscreen.
In settings/lockscreen/ ?
Don't see it under widgets app drawer either. ?
Pp.
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PanchoPlanet said:
Not getting option to create widget on lockscreen.
In settings/lockscreen/ ?
Don't see it under widgets app drawer either. ?
Pp.
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Lock your phone by pressing power button, then swipe to your left and you should see the (plus) symbol to add lock screen Widgets.
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Any way this can be added to the lock screen where I don't need to swipe to get to the widget? Ideally, I'd hit the Home or Power button to turn on the phone, then either use your flashlight widget, or swipe to go to the home screen. I'm a beginner on playing with the lock screen, but a flashlight like yours (excellent job on the 3 settings!) is really the only thing I'd like to access that quickly.
Any way to use this as a home screen app? Ever since I've been on Android, I've missed the 3-level flashlight I had on WinMo 6.5 on my old HD2.
Great effort on this, thanks!

hella356 said:
Any way this can be added to the lock screen where I don't need to swipe to get to the widget? Ideally, I'd hit the Home or Power button to turn on the phone, then either use your flashlight widget, or swipe to go to the home screen. I'm a beginner on playing with the lock screen, but a flashlight like yours (excellent job on the 3 settings!) is really the only thing I'd like to access that quickly.
Any way to use this as a home screen app? Ever since I've been on Android, I've missed the 3-level flashlight I had on WinMo 6.5 on my old HD2.
Great effort on this, thanks!
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You can tap and hold my widget on your lockscreen and drag it to the RIGHT most "page" on the lockscreen and it will be the first thing you see when you turn on your screen.
Meaning, tap and hold my widget on your lockscreen, and move your finger to the right of your screen until you see the gray squares stop moving.

Thanks, elesbb! Got it working. Now if I could only get the big clock I normally see to show along with your light, it would be perfect, although it seems only one widget per screen is allowed? Again, I'm a noob about lockscreens.
You really make some cool additions to the phone.
elesbb said:
You can tap and hold my widget on your lockscreen and drag it to the RIGHT most "page" on the lockscreen and it will be the first thing you see when you turn on your screen.
Meaning, tap and hold my widget on your lockscreen, and move your finger to the right of your screen until you see the gray squares stop moving.
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hella356 said:
Thanks, elesbb! Got it working. Now if I could only get the big clock I normally see to show along with your light, it would be perfect, although it seems only one widget per screen is allowed? Again, I'm a noob about lockscreens.
You really make some cool additions to the phone.
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Yes, only one widget per screen, currently working on an app that will hold a widget within a widget (not looking to promising) so i may have to edit the actual smali files itself to add say two widgets per screen. (thats something i REALLY want) so once we finally get a sammobile tar of 4.3, i will be working on mods for my ROM and that is one that i widh to add.

cant find screen rotation LOCK in device settings.

I don't have any mods or ROM's or not even rooted or unlocked but since day 1 I have not had my screen rotation lock icon or cant find it AT ALL in settings on my Samsung Galaxy 6 Edge. All previous Android phones I have had there has been no problem locating this setting. It is usually just in the swipe-down from top settings menu.
Please see attached picture. I found this picture on the web. My phone does not have that icon at all and cant even find it anywhere in settings to turn it on.
My goal is to have this icon or find the setting so I can LOCK my auto-screen rotation when I want to such as when I am in the grocery store using my Google Keep to check off my grocery list. It becomes a major issue.
If my phone is just buggin out and for whatever reason doesn't have it in its OS install for whatever reason is there a third party app for screen orientation lock?
Thanks!

It's the fourth one on the top row
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papi5120 said:
It's the fourth one on the top row
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I wish it was that easy. That is no a screen shot of my phone. I am attaching pictures of my phone now.

OK when you have your phone on the home screen you remember how you would swipe down the top and you would get some icons look for the one that says portraits and you should see it has a little lock on it touch that button and your auto rotate should appear hopefully this helps it did on my galaxys7 lmk if it did