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[Q] Lockscreen + Security Screen = Bad Design!

Dear Sirs,
Here's something which, as far as I can see, hasn't been addressed by any ROM:
WHY are the lockscreen and security screen two separate things in Android?
Okay, hear me out.
You're a security-conscious chap, so you want to protect your phone with a pin number / password / pattern. So you set it up. BUT! You hit the screen-on button, and the lockscreen comes up. You swipe to open the lockscreen, and only then does the security screen come up, with its prompt asking for a pin or whatever. So you enter that, and then finally you can get into your phone, after an assortment of keystrokes, rendered all the more annoying by the extraneous lockscreen. What's the point?
Having a security screen, under these conditions, renders the lockscreen completely extraneous, and it is 'design inefficient'.
Why (oh why) is there not an option to remove the lockscreen and have just the security prompt screen? This would appear to be a extremely simple and logical feature to offer.
I hate to bring up iOS (which I hate), but with iOS the security screen is the lockscreen. And additionally, once you've entered your pin, iOS will open up without you having to press "OK"!
It just seems like this is an area where Android isn't at all well thought out. Is there anything that can be done about this?

There are apps that can do this (No lock, alot of others), and CM7 has that feature built into it.

I'm sorry to say that they do not.
All the apps that do this, including 'No lock', remove the lockscreen along with everything else, so any security is also removed.
Where in CM7 is the option to switch off lockscreen but retain the security screen?

Hey 314, good call on CM! 'Disable lockscreen on security' is exactly what I'm talking about.
Now, if only all the other ROMs could provide that, we'd be cooking.
Next: to remove the need for the ridiculous 'OK' following pin entry!

Best lockscreen replacement?

Hey guys, I'm looking for a rather particular lockscreen that I just can't seem to find. I'm wondering if anyone on here could help me find a good one. Features I'm looking for:
-some form of security (PIN or pattern)
-SMS notifications at the LEAST (compatible with third party texting apps like Textra). I would prefer to have all notifications available on my lockscreen, but I can live with just SMS.
-Integrated music controls
-Custom screen timeout time
-Elegant looking
So far the closest I've found was ACDisplay, but there's a couple of things I don't like about it. Firstly, having to click a notification to view it defeats its purpose. I want to be able to glance at my phone to see who texted me without having to touch it. Also, every so often I'll get the "swipe down to exit full-screen mode notification." Snaplock came close, but the music integration is sub-par and there lacks custom screen timeout. Anyone have ideas?

try "My Locker"..............................limit is your imagination only
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.headnum.kream.mylocker&hl=en

I guess you are on kitkat or below, as the G3's Lollipop lockscreen does feature notifications! As well as optional security (pin, knock code, facial recognition) and looks quite minimalistic. So if you're not on Android L yet, you coukd give it a shot otherwise I recommend the same locker as stated in the previous comment:good:

I don't agree. LG's 5.0 lockscreen is terrible. Notifications might display, but you can't open them when you tap on lockscreen like you do on stock android, but you have to unlock the screen, pushdown notification tray and then click notification (wtf LG?). The second killer of LG's 5.0 lockscreen is that when you put swipe to unlock, sometimes it fails to unlock. Even though I swipe, the screen stays locked and you have to swipe again to unlock. That happens to me in 20% of unlocking screen so I removed lockscreen altogether and now found third party lockscreen which isn't much better, but at least it unlocks when I swipe it.

Tomogitarist said:
I don't agree. LG's 5.0 lockscreen is terrible. Notifications might display, but you can't open them when you tap on lockscreen like you do on stock android, but you have to unlock the screen, pushdown notification tray and then click notification (wtf LG?). The second killer of LG's 5.0 lockscreen is that when you put swipe to unlock, sometimes it fails to unlock. Even though I swipe, the screen stays locked and you have to swipe again to unlock. That happens to me in 20% of unlocking screen so I removed lockscreen altogether and now found third party lockscreen which isn't much better, but at least it unlocks when I swipe it.
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Which app are you using?

Echo lockscreen, but it doesnt have media control since its relatively new and have ads. Still better than lg's lockscreen
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Go locker or widget locker

About notifications....
Actually, coming from Nexus 4 with Lollpop, I was dissapointed to see my new LG G3 having trouble with notifications:
Lockscreen always show notifications, BUT swiping left or right doesn't open the corresponding app (ex. dialer for unanswered calls), NEITHER double clicking on the notification does... INSTEAD I have to click one time the notification and after that swipe the lower part of the lockscreen to unlock and go to the corresponding app... It just feels akward to me... Any solutions?
And something else: sometimes when i swipe down the notification bar, i can see the app name and instead of the message i see: hiden content!!! But this is not all the times... Do you believe i have something wrong on the settings?
Thanks in advance...

Tomogitarist said:
I don't agree. LG's 5.0 lockscreen is terrible. Notifications might display, but you can't open them when you tap on lockscreen like you do on stock android, but you have to unlock the screen, pushdown notification tray and then click notification (wtf LG?).
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Unlocking the phone, right after tapping a notification opens that notification for me. Seems a little odd but I've gotten used to it.
Not using any PIN/Knock/Pattern.

on screen instant lock shortcut

Hi
I use nova launcher prime and am used to a shortcut on my screen to quickly lock the screen instead of using the hardware button to lock the screen. However since I have moved over to p2.. After I press the lock screen shortcut from nova the screen for goes black but the screen isn't locked... It is not till 10 secs later when the screen actually locks
I hate this feature as it stops me from putting the phone into my pocket instantly after locking. How to fix this? I have set up power button to instantly lock the phone after sleep.

It's not P2s problem it's Android's security feature. You'll need root access to instantly lock screen

But from quicktiles there is an icon to do it

iniro said:
But from quicktiles there is an icon to do it
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Thanks yes i came across that as well... However it is really a total failure on Android part to not have anything built in to allow people to instantly lock... Isn't there any way to put a shortcut to the system icon on my desktop? In stock launcher or otherwise?
Unfortunately looks like Android is going the way of Apple with these silly restrictions becoming more n more common

Well it's a security feature which means they've probably found something wrong with putting a quick lock from 3rd party apps.

Use "Wide touch" found under Setting->Feature. You can assign multiple gesture into it.

zalaTheOne said:
Use "Wide touch" found under Setting->Feature. You can assign multiple gesture into it.
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Perfecto I wasn't aware of the same.. This makes it much easier then before. Thank you again

Can't swipe/eliminate notifications when in lock screen

I am in 4.7.6 stock and using xposed with gravitybox. I haven't found any option in settings or gravitybox which allows me to swipe to eliminate the notification in the lock screen.

OxygenOS does this by default. Simply swipe to the left or to the right and you see a bright grey background with a settings icon until the notification is wiped from the screen.
Doesn't this work for you?

Macusercom said:
OxygenOS does this by default. Simply swipe to the left or to the right and you see a bright grey background with a settings icon until the notification is wiped from the screen.
Doesn't this work for you?
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If I do that it appears a settings icon, after a while the settings icon disappears again but the notification stays.
Anyhow, do you know any way to just swipe to eliminate the notification? (maybe in settings menu, gravitybox or any xposed mod) Many thanks :good:

That's not a normal behaviour. If you swipe enough, it should remove it. Did you try disabling GravityBox and checking whether it's working?

I can confirm this bug (or a feature I don't know).
No matter how far I swipe, it doesn't swipe away. Just the settings icon appears.
Really annoying.
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Macusercom said:
That's not a normal behaviour. If you swipe enough, it should remove it. Did you try disabling GravityBox an
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d checking whether it's working?
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I just disabled gravitybox, and the problem persist

polema said:
I just disabled gravitybox, and the problem persist
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Mine is not rooted, I don't have any gravitybox or other third party stuff.
Just out of the box with usual apps (fb, instagram etc.).
And I can't swipe away swipe away notifications in lock screen.

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Looks like it has something to do with "Hide sensitive information" in the lockscreen settings. @polema please test without "Hide sensitive information".
Could do that myself.. but I don't have 5T with me today.
Here's how it looks in my case:

bat0nas said:
Looks like it has something to do with "Hide sensitive information" in the lockscreen settings. @polema please test without "Hide sensitive information".
Could do that myself.. but I don't have 5T with me today.
Here's how it looks in my case:
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Yeah, you're absolutely right, I had the same problem that in the video and after I uncheck the "hide sensitive information" I was able to swap to delete the notification.
The thing is that I'd like to have the content of the notifications hidden and at the same time be able to swap to delete them.

I'm having the same issue on my OP 5T OxygenOS 9.0.3. When trying to dismiss notification from the locksckreen, settings icon appears and notification is not swiped out. It usually takes 3-4 tryes to do the job. Very annoying
p.s. 'Hide sensitive data' checkbox is turned off

Hidden Notification History Log

I found a way to see a built-in notification history of android pie on a505f/ds
AP: A505FDDU1ASC7
I will attach the screenshot on how to see it.
By this way, you can see notifications even if it is hidden on the lock screen.
1. Fingerprint option must be enabled
2. Lock your phone and press power button to see the lock screen
3. Press anywhere on the screen to see any text over the fingerprint icon. (when the phone is charging it shows "charging: x%", Otherwise "Use biometrics to unlock"
4. Press that text and drag up. (You should get vibration feedback once you press that text)
5. You can see the notification history now
LET ME KNOW IF ANYONE SUCCEEDED. I WANT TO KNOW IF IT IS ME WHO DID THIS BY TWEAKING OR IS THE SAME WITH EVERYONE. THANKS

The default behaviour is not as you have described. Might be the effect of using tweaks like Notistar or Xposed/Magisk modules.

[email protected] said:
I found a way to see a built-in notification history of android pie on a505f/ds
AP: A505FDDU1ASC7
I will attach the screenshot on how to see it.
By this way, you can see notifications even if it is hidden on the lock screen.
1. Fingerprint option must be enabled
2. Lock your phone and press power button to see the lock screen
3. Press anywhere on the screen to see any text over the fingerprint icon. (when the phone is charging it shows "charging: x%", Otherwise "Use biometrics to unlock"
4. Press that text and drag up. (You should get vibration feedback once you press that text)
5. You can see the notification history now
LET ME KNOW IF ANYONE SUCCEEDED. I WANT TO KNOW IF IT IS ME WHO DID THIS BY TWEAKING OR IS THE SAME WITH EVERYONE. THANKS
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Its because of notistar lmao

Here

Thanks to everyone I've now understood that it is notistar.

[email protected] said:
Thanks to everyone I've now understood that it is notistar.
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What is notistar?

muhsin_cepelli said:
What is notistar?
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Notistar is an app that is made by Samsung for Android 9 (pie) to customize the notification screen. It is part of the Samsung good look app. It is a plugin, not a standalone app.
Good Look and its plugins are available in the United States, Australia, Canada, Singapore, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
But you can download and use it from ApkMirror. You need an extra app to access its settings if you are not in one of those regions cause Samsung Good Look won't work on other regions. You can use Activity Manager (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrefrsousa.tools.activitymanager&hl=en_US) or a similar app that can run hidden activity to access it if you are not in one of those regions like me.