Hello,
My question is in subject. My phone is Xperia Arc S, android version 2.3.4 Phone is rooted.
Now, I think I used ALL utilities there are to keep that damn unlock slide from appearing every time I turn my phone on. "No lock", and all that stuff, a lot. But all of those apps fail from time to time which makes me mad. Why the unlock exists at all?! A stupid invention of apple. WM didn't have it and was just fine.
Anyway. Is there a way to kill that unlock once and forever?! I guess editing some file with Root Explorer might help (did so already to prevent my Arc from waking up by "home" button - just edited some "keyboard.txt" file in text editor). Something like that, a real hack, not an app again, I guess those apps get kiled sometimes by system, no matter what... so they fail accidentally.
Thanks!!!
P.S. Did search on this forum but only found couple more apps... which also didn't work 100%...
Check out Disable Lock Screen on Google Play
I can disable it in settings but i dont know if that is possible in gb
sony xperia ray
ics 4.0.4 rooted
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I guess this subject might need some explaining.
My parents are going on a trip in a month and they have there heart set on taking a smartphone with them.
What they need is being able to call, text and mail.
They also want to be able to use it as a backup (just in case) for finding their way. So just in case they get lost to find out where they are on their map or use the gps to guide them for a little while.
So basically, calling, sms, mail and gps.
They don't need to be able to change a lot of settings.
So, I was thinking about installing their (yet to buy) smartphone with a simple home screen and the settigs they would need.
To keep them from accidentally messing anything up, I was wondering if it is possible to password protect settings and stuff.
So, does anyone have an idea on:
-how to protect settings etc.
-a good homescreen
-other things like very simple gps app for example
...
I know it's a lot, but any help is much appreciated.
Bada? Much easier than android...
But why do you think, they'll mess up settings?
I was just thinking that if they happen to end up in a settings screen or something they don't know,they might press something wrong.
But on the other hand... I just have to tell them to press the home or back button in such an event.
About bada... I feel stupid now,but i didn't know about it.
The reason for android was that I have an android phone and would at least be able to offer some remote assistance if necessary...
I saw the samsung gt s5560 or something today ... That interface lookes rather simple,maybe I should take a look at that.
Thanks already,more ideas are always welcome ;-)
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'app lock' can password protect apps and settings from being opened. It's free on the market and works well.
I wouldn't password protect settings, that way they can turn GPS on and off as needed without running it constantly.
Google maps/nav should work fine. Set up a simple toggle widget on their screen, I suggest Widgetsoid, but there are others. Tell them what the settings do, or in Widgetsoid turn labels on. Flashing a rom with notification toggles built in would help, since they could directly turn on/off GPS and data without being taken to settings screens.
I would also install a launcher that will allow you to lock the home screen so they can't accidentally delete the widgets/shortcuts you've set up for them. Never used it myself but I believe ADW launcher can lock the home screen but there must by others.
I can confirm that adw ex allows you to lock the homsecreen, so nothing can be changed. If you buy a phone with touchwiz, then you can lock settings and use quicktoggles in the notification bar. I can't live without them now. On a side note:widgets could possibly simplify the homsecreen.
App lock and ADW are good ideas (I actually use adw on my tablet).GPS widget on home screen can be very usefull too. Thanks for all the sugestions already!
I got a mail yesterday that they have seen some smartphones they seemed to like. I don't really know them myself except that there's only one android phone (if my web search is correct off course)
The phones they saw:
Nokia lumia 710
Nokia lumia 800
(those are WP7.5 I think)
Samsung galaxy+
(only android in the list as far as I could tell)
Samsung galaxy wave III S8600
(This one is BADA I think)
So I might just wait for what they decide to do, a first look at them on the web seemed to sugest that they're all fine for what they're looking for. They all seem to have the possibility to use gps with some (free) maps as a backup and off course sending mail.
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Guys, Can I pls get your help for the below issues I have with my Sony Tablet S
I cant seem to "close"recently used apps', even after completely shutting down & disconnecting power. Its like I want to "delete browsing history" on a PC
I cant seem to log-out of Gmail at all as I can't see an option to do so.
The remote control learner does not learn at all, inspite of following all instructions. I have a Pioneer Amp to control music, but I've had no luck. After some research I've found out that the tablet can only learn from some models post 2011. Is this true?
I also have an Onkyo reciever for which I've downloaded the andriod app. This works well, but the app inevitably starts with the wrong orientation - inspite of my best efforts to hold the tab in the correct direction in which the app opened the last time. (It seems to rotate regardless)
I have no other issues such as force close or auto dimming as per my understanding of the most frequent issues on this forum
Thanks for your help guys. I really need it. Cheers
You could use "Advanced Task Killer free ( Or pro )
If you close an app does not mean it really shuts down but it wil stay there in memory,
The Task Killer will terminate all running apps.
Gmail is always running unless you uncheck the auto synchronize with Gmail,
you can find that in Settings / Accounts if that's what you meant.
I have several IR devices and i choose them from the device list no problems at all some actions didn't work well so I had to learn it from my remote control that worked fine to.
Orientation is a known issue but if you have your tablet rooted you could use a rotation app which requires root access something like full rotation i quess can't remember.
Don't mind my English
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Guys, Can I pls get your help for the below issues I have with my Sony Tablet S
The remote control learner does not learn at all, inspite of following all instructions. I have a Pioneer Amp to control music, but I've had no luck. After some research I've found out that the tablet can only learn from some models post 2011. Is this true?
Thanks for your help guys. I really need it. Cheers
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I have learned my tablet remotes from Dreambox 800HD (digitalbox for cable) and from my Harman Kardon AVR255 EU (reciever) and both are pre 2011. I also got it to work with a tv and digitalbox when I was visiting my father in the US. Can't remember the models though, but no problems with the remote. The tv in US was an old "fat-tv" not the new flat-tv
Honeycomb has no built-in method of killing apps at user request and for a good reason: Android does a better job itself. If Android needs to kill an app, it will do so, so you don't need to do it yourself. As for clearing history and the like, thats a bit trickier, but the stock Browser does include Incognito tabs for private browsing.
Gmail, on the other hand cannot be logged out of unless you go into Settings -> Accounts & Sync and either turn off Gmail sync (which still leaves you signed in, but not updating) or simply delete the Google Account. Gmail's not really made to be signed in or out of regularly.
As for your problems with the IR, thats definitely not the case and whatever your problems are, they're relatively isolated. Can you give us more detail on what you've tried and what happens when you do so?
With your Onkyo app, that almost invariably means that the developer has not included landscape support. If there is no landscape option for an app, it will force rotate to portrait, or vice versa if the app doesn't have portrait support. If you're sure they have, make sure that the Auto-Rotate Screen in your Settings toggles is set to On and if it still doesnt work, email the developer and let them know. Could be an isolated issue.
The question was not how to kill apps the question was how to delete recently opened apps and I have this question too. It seems there is no way.
Where are you finding these recently closed apps? As far as I knew Honeycomb didn't have any equivalent of the pre-3.0 "hold home button" dialog. The multitasking button in the bottom left shows running, paused and killed apps together, so there is no way to differentiate between recently used and closed apps, and recently used but still running apps.
maybe this helps
Schrammi said:
The question was not how to kill apps the question was how to delete recently opened apps and I have this question too. It seems there is no way.
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dont know about honeycomb cause i never tried this on it but on ics u can drag the apps out of the recently opened apps drawer and it disappears... try it... maybe it helps... or u can wait for the ics update to help u get rid of this issue....
Yes on ICS. But ICS came out last night us only for the moment. And with he there is no way.
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dont know about honeycomb cause i never tried this on it but on ics u can drag the apps out of the recently opened apps drawer and it disappears... try it... maybe it helps... or u can wait for the ics update to help u get rid of this issue....
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As Schrammi said, that is a new ICS feature and on Honeycomb, the only way to clear apps from the multitasking panel is to reboot (which will also end the app, obviously)
Does anyone else think that the Xperia Ray shutdown/poweroff sequence is a bit annoying? First, it's too long - who needs to confirm twice that they want to switch off their phone? Then it signs off by vibrating which I find really irritating - I'm a committed vibration hater!
Anyone else share this opinion and done anything to remedy the situation? If so, do let me know.
I'm sure the vibration thing's sorted out easily by removing an .apk file or something somewhere.. My Ray's rooted/locked bootloader/ ICS 4.0.4 btw.
go to general section, this is the development thread, don't open up a new thread just to ask this
This how shut down works on every single Android device I have and I really doubt it can be changed...
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Sure it can be changed, I got rid of that (bloody horrible) O2 closedown animation by deleting an .apk file or two from the internal memory. Removing the shutdown vibration should be just as easy.
It's hardcoded in the operating system (probably in services.jar), it's not an apk that you could just delete
Exactly. Any animation can be deleted as it is added by the carrier or manufacturer but the vibration is there in Vanilla Android.
The length will depend on the phone specs, the ROM and the number of process the phone has to shut down (which changes from user to user) so you'll never get anything faster unless Google makes some changes.
On my Atrix running CM7, it's taking 6 to 8 seconds to shut down and the vibration is kind of a an alert saying that it all went fine. Perfect if you shut it down and then put it in your pocket : you know it shut down without having to check it. It's a feature.
Its possible to shutdown with one touch in 1 sec but its like turning off ur PC by pulling out power cable... I would not recommend since OS is saving ur present Settings for Next boot...
If u want to try then check Quickboot app from Play store.. it does the same thing...
That's fine - thanks all for the replies!
Hi guys. I finally put my hands on Xperia Ray. So far so good. I am enjoying this phone and everything is as expected. I updated it to the latest ICS for my country (v4.0.3) and everything is running very smoothly. I didn't rooted it and i run stock software from my operater (simply i still don't have need to install custom things)
I tried quite a few free task manager but somehow i like default ICS task manager. I can access it by pressing Home button for few seconds on my ray (which isn't touch button it is real button).
Is there any way i mean how can i create shortcut on Xperia Ray screen so i could access it in the same way i can access every other application? What is the procedure. I tried with conventional method (touching somewhere on empty screen and adding widget/shortcut/program/ but ICS task manger is not in the list or i simply can't find it..) but with no luck?!
Is that even possible? To add shortcut to default ICS task manger?
Thanks guys..
magnumko said:
Hi guys. I finally put my hands on Xperia Ray. So far so good. I am enjoying this phone and everything is as expected. I updated it to the latest ICS for my country (v4.0.3) and everything is running very smoothly. I didn't rooted it and i run stock software from my operater (simply i still don't have need to install custom things)
I tried quite a few free task manager but somehow i like default ICS task manager. I can access it by pressing Home button for few seconds on my ray (which isn't touch button it is real button).
Is there any way i mean how can i create shortcut on Xperia Ray screen so i could access it in the same way i can access every other application? What is the procedure. I tried with conventional method (touching somewhere on empty screen and adding widget/shortcut/program/ but ICS task manger is not in the list or i simply can't find it..) but with no luck?!
Is that even possible? To add shortcut to default ICS task manger?
Thanks guys..
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Unfortunatley, you will have to use the nonstock task manager from Google Play
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6426198
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6426198
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Thanks guys. I read article about that FAQ: Why You Shouldn’t Be Using a Task Killer with Android (geekfor.me) however i am baffled and puzzled about one thing.
If Task manager is (how writer of that article is claiming) is (quote from article) likely doing more harm than good by killing tasks that aren’t ready to end. then why is it there in the first place?
Wouldn't be illogical to think that superb google developers intentionally put it there in ICS to likely doing more harm then good? That's a bit stupid in my opinion.
I read article several times and only thing which makes sense to why this task manager should not be there is situation where you kill application when it's not ready to be killed but then how does writer of this article know or decide when this is good thing to do and why is he assuming that all users don't know when is time for application to be killed or not? I am genuinely curious to see answers on this issue but at this point of time i am more willing to believe that this application wouldn't exist as default application built in OS if it was really harmful then to believe writer on some article at some public forum. To be clear that there is no disrespect intended to the creator of that article it's jsut that my logic tell me that this app wouldn't be there if it was really harmful.
Btw i am using it every day yet i didn't experienced any issue so far.
the stock task manager is helpful when some app is persistent and just won't shut down and it uses some CPU percentage. or when you notice some app is draining your battery.
Hi
I replace a screen for one of my old phones, Sony Xperia Arc S. I followed the tutorial on youtube and everything went fine. Boot the phone, got to the unlock screen. All is well, but as soon as I unlock the phone, it will just go crazy. It will open random apps, like opening the dialer or calender or anything randomly. i can push the home button but it will just keep on opening stuff. I got where i did a factory reset on the phone. When I have to choose the language, all is fine. Got to the home screen and it went all crazy again. I am going to open the phone and reset all components again, but has anyone ever seen this sort of thing?
I will post a video of it if that is possible if you want to see.
thanks