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Lock Screen every time I switch apps from notification menu

I did a quick search but didn't find anything on this. For whatever reason, whenever I switch apps from the drop down notification menu, it forces me to input my lock screen pattern, even when I have the lock screen toggled off. I have my settings set to auto lock after 1 min, but this happens whenever I switch apps, even before a minute has passed.
Is this a known issue? Is this happening to anybody else? Is there a fix?
Thanks.
Edit: I'm still on 4.02. It hasn't updated to .04 yet.

No one?
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Has this always been happening or did you install/flash something before it started happening?
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I just got my GN yesterday, and it updated by itself to 4.02.
It's been happening ever since I turned on the lock screen. It goes away when the lock screen is turned off. But it's bizarre that it would ask for the lock pattern every time I switch apps from the notification drop down. It doesn't ask for the pattern if I were to switch apps with the App Switcher button.
Really perplexing...

Hate to keep bumping this, but this is just incredibly bizarre.
Can someone test on their GN if the same happens? Turn on a lock screen input, anyone will do. I happen to have the pattern lock. And try to switch between apps or alerts from the pull down notification menu (you can send yourself an email or something, or turn on the music player) and see if you are forced to put in your pattern/passcode/etc before you can switch over.
I have to put in my pattern to unlock the phone every single time I switch apps ONLY from the pull down menu. It's bizarre. If I switch apps from the App Menu, it doesn't do this.
I don't know what's going on. Is this a "feature" of ICS? Seems a bit overkill on security. Or do I actually have a faulty phone (but it seems software related?).
Any help would be great. If need be, I'll make a video to demonstrate what I'm talking about.

I had this problem on CyanogenMod. Change the lock screen to what you want, and then reboot. It should be fixed. If you don't do a reboot for some reason it gets confused.

Yes happens to me sometimes too on both 4.02 and 4.04 stock. I don't use a pattern lock but it just fades out and when I turn screen back on it's lockscreen.

Never had this problem. That is weird. I suggest flashing a stock image and see if it still happens. Make a nandroid first of course but throw it away and make a new nandroid if problem goes away.
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gravis86 said:
I had this problem on CyanogenMod. Change the lock screen to what you want, and then reboot. It should be fixed. If you don't do a reboot for some reason it gets confused.
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I will try this. Thanks for the suggestion. Hopefully it will work. Will update.

gravis86 said:
I had this problem on CyanogenMod. Change the lock screen to what you want, and then reboot. It should be fixed. If you don't do a reboot for some reason it gets confused.
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Yes, this solved it. Thank you! Oh, Ice Cream Sandwich.

I spoke too soon. It's back. I noticed when I toggle the lock screen off, the problem exists. But if I toggle the lock screen on, the problem goes away.
So it may be an issue with the widget itself. I'm using "No Lock" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jraf.android.nolock&hl=en)
I'm gonna test other toggle widgets to see if it's app related.

onthecouchagain said:
I spoke too soon. It's back. I noticed when I toggle the lock screen off, the problem exists. But if I toggle the lock screen on, the problem goes away.
So it may be an issue with the widget itself. I'm using "No Lock" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jraf.android.nolock&hl=en)
I'm gonna test other toggle widgets to see if it's app related.
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So.. it's a third party app you're using and not the stock ics lockscreen..
It would've been wise if you told us that on the first post

qtx said:
So.. it's a third party app you're using and not the stock ics lockscreen..
It would've been wise if you told us that on the first post
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Yes that would have been good info to have, but I am not running anything custom on my lock screen (though I am on CM) and had this same problem.
I had to reboot the phone after every time I changed the lock screen from anything to anything or I'd run into problems. When changing from no lock screen to a lock screen, I would lose notifications when waking the screen up if the notification was for the last app open.
For example, I was in the Messaging app and locked the screen, without going to the home screen first (so if I were to unlock the app would be right there). Then I received a text and notification worked. I pressed the button to wake the phone and the lock screen showed up (pattern unlock) and the notification for my new text message in the notification bar disappeared. But I hadn't even unlocked so I could get to the app yet...

[Q] White dot in notification bar: what's that?

Hi guys, few days ago I was using my Galaxy Nexus when a strange white dot came out on the left side of the notification bar. It appears and disappears with apparently no reason and, if you try to open the notification menù while it shows it, there are absolutely no notifications related to this strange symbol.
When you close the notification menù, it reappears and then goes away without any interaction.
Today I discovered that I can reproduce this kind of "notification" by opening the Clock app and then touching twice the screen to reduce the backlight and to raise it back.
Anyone knows what's that?
Here's a screenshot:

That is a Google Now Card Notification, just pull down your Notification Bar, and swipe it away, it'll get rid of the dot.
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I never noticed that. That dot looks VERY faint. My Google now notifications look different IIRC.
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iDaZzLeFatHoeZz said:
That is a Google Now Card Notification, just pull down your Notification Bar, and swipe it away, it'll get rid of the dot.
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Thanks for answering but that's not related to Google now and when I pull down the notification menu there's nothing showing.
Any other ideas?

Run addon detector from the market. I think you downloaded an app with push notifications.
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DougTheModder said:
Thanks for answering but that's not related to Google now and when I pull down the notification menu there's nothing showing.
Any other ideas?
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Well that is odd then. Puzzling. Every time that dot appears for me, it is due to the fact that I have a Google Now notification. Try a Task Manager to see what app is open, and when you close it, see if the dot continues to appear.
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Thanks for the smart suggestions. I'll try both the solutions and reply! :good:

Its your GPS.
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I just saw this same exact dot today. I was watching a full-screen video with an embedded YouTube link. The 3 soft buttons went into "discreet" mode and turned into 3 pale dots. All the notifications on the notification bars all turn into a single pale dot like this as well.
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Did anyone ever figure out what this was?

I had this show up on a Nexus 7, playing a YouTube video in full screen made it go away so I'm guessing as stated above it has something to do with video controls hiding or something.

Is it related to SIP VoIP accounts? IIRC that's about what it looks like when connected, except green. Did you try to set something up there and it's showing that faint white dot to show it's not connected?

Mine is a blue dot and I recently found out what it was hehe

Same here, on my Nexus4. I can make it pop up at any time by tapping on any picture to hide notification bar and buttons and then tapping again to show them back (in my case it works every time i hide and show buttons, no matter which app im using - gallery, video player, youtube, etc). That white dot then pops up. Sometimes it stays for only a fraction of a second, sometimes for half a minute, and then just disappear, whether i open the notification bar or not. My guess it's just some weird FW flaw (besides, this dot looks just like these white dots indicating hidden buttons).

Any news? I have it using different roms, I assume it is something app related...

Eureka !!!
Had this dot with the fading lines. Noticed the dot disappeared right when I updated an installed app on Play Store (first it was replaced by the downloading arrow and then disappeared completely)
If you have this dot, check for apps' updates. You probably have at least one...
*Noticed it's a two years old thread just after posting... sorry

Confirmed for me
xredjokerx said:
Its your GPS.
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some apps you guys are opening have GPS related features, such as the photo apps ability to give you the location in which the picture was taken. When the dot appears for me, I turn off location (GPS) and it disappears every time. Hope my experience helps someone! If anyone still needs it :highfive:
Sony Xperia Z3 D6603 stock 5.1.1
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I haven't seen this in a little while but I thought it was related to google now weather (they've since updated that icon to be clouds and whatnot)

I can also see this small white transparent dot on the top left corner of notification area it appears on my phone mostly when I check my whatsapp shared media images from whatsapp, I just attached a screen shot here,no idea which application responsible for this dot :silly:

For me it was the "Ok google" setup that i started, then interrupted. Once i went back into the "Ok google" detection setup under "Voice" and finished setting it up, the notification disappeared.

[Q] Take "Ongoing" off of notification bar

I am trying to get rid of the "Ongoing" in my notification bar. It just showed up one day. There is a battery with the percent on the left side on the status bar, too. Any idea on what to do to get rid of this?

Forgot to add this picture.

whipps said:
Forgot to add this picture.
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That's from your carrier only way to get rid of it is to root your phone and custom rom.....but some custom roms has that as well but most of them don't

rener78 said:
That's from your carrier only way to get rid of it is to root your phone and custom rom.....but some custom roms has that as well but most of them don't
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That doesn't make any since, because my wife's SGS3 doesn't have it on her phone.
Thank you for the info. I will look into it

I don't think it has anything to do with rooting your phone. It just means that you have ongoing notifications. And you can't clear these like you can the one time normal notifications because they are still active i.e., ongoing. Once you close those tasks, like turning off the wifi calling and whatever the other item is, the ongoing notitications will clear themselves automatically. I don't know how to keep it from showing these ongoing notifications when they are active. Probably a feature of the app itself. Unless the app itself gives you that option under its settings.

It's a setting in the app.

psykhotic said:
It's a setting in the app.
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That makes sense, but what app?

The app that is shown.... click on the ongoing notification the app should open then hit menu and look at the notification settings. You may have to reboot after you then it off. WiFi calling can't be hidden.

Ok. I found the app. I went through all my apps I downloaded after it happened and it was a new feature for Widgetsoid.
Thanks for the help all

[G3 S] Odd black notification pop-up ad

Hello!
My wife has a LG G3 S (D772) and lately she has been receiving these weird notifications in black boxes on her home screen. She is running stock Lollipop ROM.
It's from a trusted retailer that we have bought from before but neither of us have seen these kind of notifications before. The button on the left says Save and the one on the right says Cancel. Here's what it looks like.
Anyone seen this before? What are these exactly?
Thanks!

xenover said:
Hello!
My wife has a LG G3 S (D772) and lately she has been receiving these weird notifications in black boxes on her home screen. She is running stock Lollipop ROM.
It's from a trusted retailer that we have bought from before but neither of us have seen these kind of notifications before. The button on the left says Save and the one on the right says Cancel. Here's what it looks like.
Anyone seen this before? What are these exactly?
Thanks!
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Looks as if its a third party app try booting into safe mode for a few hours maybe longer and see if it still pops up if it do3s not its most def 3rd party app...
Look in settings and permissions and see what can draw over the screen and notifications

Strange notification icon that disappears after unlocking phone?

When i unlock my phone i notice this notification icon that looks like a tornado/triangle in the upper left corner, it disappears quickly before i can even take a screen shot of it. If i wouldn't of sold my s8 i could of taken a slow mo video of it heh. Any idea what it could be?

Here's the little guy.

Weather app?
Maybe it does a quick update each time you unlock

Disabled the samsung weather app and its still there, never had this icon appear on my s8.
Hmm it almost looks like the lightflow icon, wonder why it behaves like this.

You'll probably have to go through your notifications turning them off one by one until it disappears.

looks like light flow logo to me, do you use this app ?