I found this trick in one of the tips and tricks videos on youtube and have not seen it mentioned anywhere else so thought maybe many people didnt know about it, since tips and tricks are posted all the time here and there, and every time there are people who didnt know about it.
This one was one of my favorites of the many thare are..... anyways...
push the home button, or the power button when the screen is off WHILE holding the phone in portrait, then place a finger on the lock screen, NOW rotate the entire phone to landscape and walla, camera
Yep, saw that one on one of those annoying tips that pop up every ½ second when you first start up the phone. There is a bunch of stuff you can do if you go into the motion settings
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Or I could just swipe the camera at the bottom on the lock screen...lol. I couldn't get this to work. Maybe I don't have it activated.
P1 Wookie said:
Or I could just swipe the camera at the bottom on the lock screen...lol. I couldn't get this to work. Maybe I don't have it activated.
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You dont have to activate it in motion settings. You cant turn it off. You can remove the camera shortcut on the lock screen and put something usefull there
carhigh said:
You don[']t have to activate it in motion settings. You can[']t turn it off.
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You do and you can. There's an option for Quick Camera Start under Lock Screen Settings.
By the way, I find that the camera crashes if it's in video mode when I launch it via quick-start rotate gesture. But if it's in still-photo mode, or if I launch it by swiping the lock-screen camera icon instead of by the rotate gesture, then it starts normally.
Gary02468 said:
You do and you can. There's an option for Quick Camera Start under Lock Screen Settings.
By the way, I find that the camera crashes if it's in video mode when I launch it via quick-start rotate gesture. But if it's in still-photo mode, or if I launch it by swiping the lock-screen camera icon instead of by the rotate gesture, then it starts normally.
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Doesn't crash for me when I use the gesture when the camera is in video mode. I love the gesture and removed the camera quick launch icon.
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I asked this question a while back and had no responses.
Well now I am back with a video proving it is (somehow) possible!
Il talk you through it first...
note: when i talk about the lockscreen player, it is not the xperia lock screen player.
When using the phone in landscape and I start playing my music which has a "lockscreen player"
I lock the screen, wait a moment and then press the home button to wake the screen.
The lockscreen music player appears.
I press unlock on the player (still holding phone in landscape) and then the swipe to unlock bar appears.
But the time and the swipe buttons are rotated for a split second!
As you can see from the video it suddenly reverts back to portrait for the pattern unlock.
There must be somebody who knows something about this as i always use my phone in landscape and it is literally my only moan about the phone!
Have a look at the video, keeping in mind it is all in landscape after I start playing the music.
http://s1112.photobucket.com/albums...ew¤t=lockscreenrotate_Oct_18_2012_1.mp4
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140 views and no responses :|
even if you dont know the answer but are interested in finding out, leave a post because its clearly possible as the video shows!
update
i found an app "ultimate rotation control"
but its a bit glitchy, as with all these types of lockscreen apps
it enables the lockscreen to rotate but its just another app to take up space
il carry on looking anyway
I'm so very interested in this too. I run a Galaxy tab 7 in both my cars as my car stereo. I've tried running CM9 and 10 which are both landscape capable lock screens but both OSs are so much buggier/quirkier than Overcome. I've actually come back to overcome and still annoyed at the portrait lockscreen. What's funny is that I saw the sceen flash landscape once so I'm also intrigued.
Like you, I'd rather not run another app. I love how FAST the overcome/gingerbread rom is over the ICS/JB roms. If you find a hack/tweak/adb alteration that solves the problem I'm SOOO for that.
Good Luck to both of us.
yo-meister said:
I asked this question a while back and had no responses.
Well now I am back with a video proving it is (somehow) possible!
Il talk you through it first...
note: when i talk about the lockscreen player, it is not the xperia lock screen player.
When using the phone in landscape and I start playing my music which has a "lockscreen player"
I lock the screen, wait a moment and then press the home button to wake the screen.
The lockscreen music player appears.
I press unlock on the player (still holding phone in landscape) and then the swipe to unlock bar appears.
But the time and the swipe buttons are rotated for a split second!
As you can see from the video it suddenly reverts back to portrait for the pattern unlock.
There must be somebody who knows something about this as i always use my phone in landscape and it is literally my only moan about the phone!
Have a look at the video, keeping in mind it is all in landscape after I start playing the music.
http://s1112.photobucket.com/albums...ew¤t=lockscreenrotate_Oct_18_2012_1.mp4
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I can fix the rotation, but it will end up portrait only, not landscape.
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I want the screen to stay portrait locked until I hold the menu button or something of that nature to switch to landscape. Is this even possible?
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scottmog said:
I want the screen to stay portrait locked until I hold the menu button or something of that nature to switch to landscape. Is this even possible?
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Probably possible but it would ruin the other functions of the button. I believe the menu button brings up google now if its held. Going into a button mapper would most likely give u that ability, but the code for it to be held and launching a system function instead of an app would be different.
Why not just add the screen rotation to the toggles up top, make it the first toggle so u wouldnt even have to scroll to find it.
In my launcher, nova prime, i set the default to portrait, so that never rotates and i keep the autoscreen rotate off up top. Most apps that need to be in landscape will override the portrait lock and go into landscape. If i need landscape mode, i hit the toggle, do a little shake, and i got landscape.
Easier than going into the build prop files and writing code to over ride button settings.
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moabizzi said:
Probably possible but it would ruin the other functions of the button. I believe the menu button brings up google now if its held. Going into a button mapper would most likely give u that ability, but the code for it to be held and launching a system function instead of an app would be different.
Why not just add the screen rotation to the toggles up top, make it the first toggle so u wouldnt even have to scroll to find it.
In my launcher, nova prime, i set the default to portrait, so that never rotates and i keep the autoscreen rotate off up top. Most apps that need to be in landscape will override the portrait lock and go into landscape. If i need landscape mode, i hit the toggle, do a little shake, and i got landscape.
Easier than going into the build prop files and writing code to over ride button settings.
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This is how I control AR as well. If an app can only run in landscape, it will indeed over ride the system setting. If I need landscape, I'll just hit the toggle...its as easy as mapping a button for the function. Actually, its even easier ;-p
Hi,
Is there any way/app to use fingerprint sensor as a shortcut launcher?
For example, double press fingerprint to launch camera....etc
Thanks,
Jack
ubcjack said:
Hi,
Is there any way/app to use fingerprint sensor as a shortcut launcher?
For example, double press fingerprint to launch camera....etc
Thanks,
Jack
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That would be interesting, but you do know double pressing the power button is the camera shortcut
buru898 said:
That would be interesting, but you do know double pressing the power button is the camera shortcut
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I do know that but power button is a lot harder to press than fingerprint sensor....
Don't you feel that?
cool idea but would probably cause a lot of unintended triggering
ubcjack said:
Hi,
Is there any way/app to use fingerprint sensor as a shortcut launcher?
For example, double press fingerprint to launch camera....etc
Thanks,
Jack
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This would be awesome. Huawei is doing something like this, I believe, a swipe down on the fingerprint reader will bring down notification. I like the idea of a double tap or swipe to launch camera. or any shortcut. You could even get advance with it and do tap patterns for multiple shortcuts.
I could see devs interested in this being a feature in their Roms. I do not believe false reads will be an issue for a scan of the finger should still be required. Randomly touching the sensor with your skin should not activate it.
Fingerprint has so much potential for many uses but so far I feel the big sensor is wasting a lot of space on our phone and only thing it does is unlock.
I have wear so if Google allows smart unlock to skip lock screen, I don't even use fingerprint sensor at all.
It'd be really cool if they let you use it as a mini-trackpad. Imagine scrolling up and down a page without touching the screen.
smac7 said:
It'd be really cool if they let you use it as a mini-trackpad. Imagine scrolling up and down a page without touching the screen.
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This is even more interesting.
The funny thing is those sensors allow that kind of feature, they call it navigation mode.
However it appears that this mode is not enabled.
is it possible to put flashlight on lockscreen instead of camera.. can not see options for this.
thanks
I keep that button for camera and enable this:
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/for...orchlight-enabler-root-required-t3150187/amp/
Turn on the torch using the long hold volume up while screen is off.
Iwannagiv said:
I keep that button for camera and enable this:
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/for...orchlight-enabler-root-required-t3150187/amp/
Turn on the torch using the long hold volume up while screen is off.
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not really what im looking for, double tap on power button opens camera so dont need it on my lockscreen .i just want to put flashlight icon on lockscreen.
thank you , any one know if this is possible without dl another app?
It is possible with the app BxActions. You can choose to double click Bixby button to turn on flashlight on lock screen. I use it
I think you can only put an app shortcut there, and the built-in flashlight isn't an app, it's part of the OS. If you installed a flashlight app from the Play store, you could probably put it on the lock screen.
bobwal70 said:
is it possible to put flashlight on lockscreen instead of camera.. can not see options for this.
thanks
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can you pull the notification down on the lock screen ?? if so, hit the toggle there.
This is trivial to do with root and xposed, does that work for you?
It can now be done with Samsung's Good Lock 2018 app, in the LockStar section of it. You can add up to 6 shortcuts, and flashlight is among the available ones.
https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-good-lock-samsung-galaxy-android-oreo/
I have good lock but i am unablevto use thus option, i try to set up with a simple black image as my background and try to add myv6 apos to the lock screen but it always fails. Don't know why
Just got button mapping pro to change motion actions but nothing works I changed edge actions no problem that worked great but nothing on motion sense any help would be great
Mattnbren said:
Just got button mapping pro to change motion actions but nothing works I changed edge actions no problem that worked great but nothing on motion sense any help would be great
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Are you sure you read and followed the instructions at the top of the Motion Sense section?
All settings are done as directed and when I change motion sensor to close screen or even turn the flashlight on it does not work I've tried several different gestures for the motion and it will not work with button mapper I was able to change the side squeeze feature without any problem again any help will be awesome
Mattnbren said:
All settings are done as directed and when I change motion sensor to close screen or even turn the flashlight on it does not work I've tried several different gestures for the motion and it will not work with button mapper I was able to change the side squeeze feature without any problem again any help will be awesome
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You need to use a Pixel Live Wallpaper for it to work, otherwise motion sense does not turn on.
Button Mapper works in the apps where motion sense Is triggered, exanple YouTube or Google play music