I just upgraded from an SGS to SGSII. The one big thing i hated about the SGS was the lockscreen, I like to have it locked with a PIN/Pass/Pattern which works but you loose the ability to read text message or view phone calls or even change tracks.
I know i can get Widget locker but its just not as effective like the native lockscreen without a password. Is there anyway to the phone lock with password and still have the ability to do simple things like read text etc without unlocking?
I know Sense has a very nice lockscreen that let you configure it so it can do much more like open camera etc.
Trying to decide between the HTC Raider and Samsung Galaxy S II
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i thought the galaxy s2 had a ring lockscreen which you could have widgets on and then drag to whatever was needed? cant seem to find the option? was i just imagining things? are there any good apps that provide this function for galaxy s2?
cheers
not sure why you thought that?
The new HTC phones have a ring lock screen but don't think they can have widgets
Youre thinking of the HTC Sensation. Its like the GS2 but slower and more bloated
Try WidgetLocker from the market. It's cool and supports widgets.
I really like my Evo 3d but I wish that I could put more shortcuts on the actual lock screen. On my Htc Hero I had a lockscreen that I could put my silent toggle on there (I just can't remember which lockscreen it was). It was like a semi-circle dial and to access the apps, you'd just click on the app or toggle and "dial" and it would either toggle phone to silent, or open the app. I looked at widgetlocker but that seemed too complicated for what I wanted. Any ideas? I can't put any widgets on this lockscreen, only apps. any ideas anyone?
Thank you.
well widgetlocker is the best choice. also check out simplylockscreen. search for lockscreen replacement on the market and find something that might suit your needs.
Sent from my MIUI SCH-i500
Been wanting the same. So far the only thing I have seen is in a couple ROMs the ASOP lockscreen, and I believe some have the four slidders to let you unlock, silent, vibrate, straight to sms, however you want them. If your not rooted I know there's a couple different apps that'll let you use a different lockscreen. Not sure how food they are cus I've never used them but I'm ran across them in my searches.
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not sure if its available for you, but miui has a lot of different lockscreen customizations and customizations to the whole interface in general. make sure its compatible with your phone and im pretty sure root is required. before flashing anything make sure it is compatible!
Alternatively, you could search "lockscreen" in the android market. Good luck!
its possible to add the galaxy s2 lockscreen on a 2.3.4 JVP galaxy S with galaxian without cwm?
I seem to have a little issue with the lockscreen on ICS. I'm currently using the mainly stock, but rooted ICS rom. On the lockscreen, whenever i set it to any security lock other than "Slide," I can no longer see the music player or any notifications from the convenience of the lockscreen. On the Jellybean rom (CM10) I tried there was an option to 'Show Widgets on Lockscreen" which overcame this problem. Now I'm pretty sure Samsung in all their infinite wisdom could not have possibly programmed TouchWiz to do this lockscreen BS. Is there anyway I can set it to a more default ICS lockscreen look, where I can see notifications, and maybe have some shortcuts on the lockscreen?
Forget using that stupid pattern lockscreen. It will protect you about as much as a broken condom in Africa. Seriously there are only 362,880 patterns possible and any crap laptop could bruteforce that small of a number in no time at all. Besides if i steal your phone i don't care about your data, im just going to wipe the device from recovery and sell it. If its a girlfriend you need to keep out then there are ways of hiding everything incriminating using a few choice apps without locking the phone which ALWAYS makes girls suspicious.
But seriously, you either want your device locked or not. No one is going to make a security lockscreen that displays personal info. That's insane.
So,
Little bit of a rant. But seems Samsung chose to remove the Lock Screen widgets feature. I just spoke to someone on live chat about this, they claim Android as of KITKAT 4.4.2, no longer has this feature. Bull sh!t.
Now, I saw the lock screen was ported to Galaxy S4 and in that port there also is no lock screen widgets.
I am requesting help of ALL OF US developers for the S5 and the like to come together and see if we can figure out how/where they disabled this. I also am thinking of just porting the Galaxy S4 lock screen to our phone. However, this would most likely break the finger print scanner.
What i would personally like, is modifing smali code to enable them again on the current lock screen. The main parts of the lockscreen are found in /system/priv-app/Keyguard.apk. I am personally working on this. There HAS to be a way to enable it.
To start, i'm simply comparing different aspects of the lock screen with the Galaxy S4 lock screen. Hopefully this will lead to the idiotic changes made by Samsung.
Please, if anybody has any input, please post!! This, to me, is the only let down of the S5. I really want this working. While I can make an app to "mimic" the lockscreen widgets, i really want native support. And im sure others do as well
Thanks guys for reading!
It seems that they also disabled "settings shortcuts" also. On my Note 3 a screen press brings up the widgets screen where you can add shortcuts (I find Battery to be very useful) - I can't do this on my S5?
What the hell are these Samsung idiots thinking?
docfreed said:
It seems that they also disabled "settings shortcuts" also. On my Note 3 a screen press brings up the widgets screen where you can add shortcuts (I find Battery to be very useful) - I can't do this on my S5?
What the hell are these Samsung idiots thinking?
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You are correct. No Widgets on the lock screen. I'm trying very hard to get this back. Except for tonight, pretty little liars is on xD
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elesbb said:
So,
Little bit of a rant. But seems Samsung chose to remove the Lock Screen widgets feature. I just spoke to someone on live chat about this, they claim Android as of KITKAT 4.4.2, no longer has this feature. Bull sh!t.
Now, I saw the lock screen was ported to Galaxy S4 and in that port there also is no lock screen widgets.
I am requesting help of ALL OF US developers for the S5 and the like to come together and see if we can figure out how/where they disabled this. I also am thinking of just porting the Galaxy S4 lock screen to our phone. However, this would most likely break the finger print scanner.
What i would personally like, is modifing smali code to enable them again on the current lock screen. The main parts of the lockscreen are found in /system/priv-app/Keyguard.apk. I am personally working on this. There HAS to be a way to enable it.
To start, i'm simply comparing different aspects of the lock screen with the Galaxy S4 lock screen. Hopefully this will lead to the idiotic changes made by Samsung.
Please, if anybody has any input, please post!! This, to me, is the only let down of the S5. I really want this working. While I can make an app to "mimic" the lockscreen widgets, i really want native support. And im sure others do as well
Thanks guys for reading!
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Good to see you here finally seeing some guys from the tmo gs4 forum migrating here lol
Update: I have the galaxy s4 lockscreen somewhat working now! :d
Hi, Im using dashclock on my lockscreen and ive got it maximised by default, and when a notification comes in I click it to open the notification and I have to enter my pin. That all works fine and im happy with that. The problem I have is when I dont have any notifications,I don't want dashclock to be maximised, I want to have my pin pattern there, I dont want to have to swipe up to open it. I don't know if there's anyway around this?
I suppose (and forgive me for this) im looking for something similar to the IOS lockscreen in terms of notifications and unlocking, but I dislike the idea of having a replacement lockscreen as I find they're slow and aren't smooth.
Im using Xperia Z2 (4.4) and im rooted.