Hi everyone,
As most of you, I am looking forward for the Froyo upgrade which is supposed to release this week.
While waiting for that, can I ask can you recommend me any application that can unlock the Streak without pressing the power button? At first, I like that way to unlock the phone but after that I discover that it makes the power button sunk, something like that button is eroded after pressing so many times.
Is there anyway to unlock the phone just by touching the screen like the Iphone.
I tried unlock v2.0 or some application like that but they all request press the power button.
I will be grateful if anyone can help me answering me this.
Thank you so much.
I second this request if anyone knows! Thanks all...
Carlos
I too would like a different way of turning the screen on without the power button, ideally I'd like an app that can allow me to turn the screen on with the camera button instead.....preferably only requiring the first level button rather than having to push it all the way in.....I'm still not 100% comfortable with where the power button is located at the moment as well as like the OP said, it kinda sits a little too far in (sunk) and makes it difficult to find or press sometimes.....plus I don't press the camera button all that much so I'd rather have that and that it'll be the first button you'll find along the top.
Do a search for remapping keys in this f forum. I believe someone reported success in mapping the camera key to wake from suspend. I don't think you'll be able to power on using the camera button, though.
I'm pretty sure when the screen times out it physically turns off, so you wouldn't be able to wake it up that way.
The camera button is certainly possible though, ill look into it.
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I just had another thought. Tasker might do this for you. Instead of suspending, tasker can shut everything off and blank the screen with maybe a button press. Then when you touch the screen, everything is turned back on, and the screen lightens up as well. You will certainly lose more battery this way, but if the iphone is doing this, it must be the same there.
i used to use widgetlocker and it gives the option to unlock from any hardware key.
However i am using nolock and hence do no have a lock screen which is even better.
Suspend wake on a swipe or one of the soft keys would be great. The hardware button on my touch hd was getting difficult to press towards the end of an 18 months contract. My girlfriends went completely she had to remove the bit on top of the button and press in with the stylus to power on.
So anything to prevent adidonal wear on the streaks button would be a warm welcome
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Using the soft keys the wake the phone is risky.
Its very easy to.press on the soft keys when they r in the pocket.
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I came across this by accident
I installed screen suite locker to replace normal lockscreen but old lock screen kept coming up too, so I downloaded no lock to disable default lockscreen completly.
Works just how I wanted it portrait lock screen no default lockscreen, but now camera, volume & normal power button wakes up the streak
"menu unlock" from the market works perfectly. Its a black icon with pale grey horizontal lines
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vuxuancamtu said:
Is there anyway to unlock the phone just by touching the screen like the Iphone.
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I have the iphone. I can't unlock the screen without touching either the home button or the power button on the top of the phone. Besides, wouldn't the phone keep turning on if touching the screen woke it up?
No because it's capacitive only your hand (ideally) would wake it up.
I'm going to try these solutions, because I do not want to cause anymore wear on the buttons.
Try the volume rockers, mine, froyo is powering up the screen. As for the lockscreen app i have simply lockscreen. It's not so fancy, but it does a simple good job. This combination, makes the Streak wake up with volume rockers, and no other key like camera or capacitive buttons. Also, incomming call screen is in portrait, even if I let the phone down on the table.
Chers,
I hate the lock screen and don't why we cannot disable it.
Anyway, I use the app calls No Lock, by Bod from Android Market. Now, I can simply use the volume up or down button to turn streak on and without the lock screen.
Instead of even the volume rockers, can we not do something with just the three capacitive buttons ?
Try "lock 2" from the market paying of fro free You can unlock with all the button and then slide with your finger.
I use it from whe I had my dream and it works very well
I frequently use my Epic 4G as an audio player/streamer. I've been using a widget to prevent the screen from sleeping entirely which was all fine and dandy, except that I now have Pandora's GUI burned into the bottom of my phone. I absolutely hate having to press the physical power button to wake my screen and then unlock it just to skip a track or whatever. Does anyone know of an app that would allow the screen to black out, but then awaken via touch? Ideally with no lockscreen, but to the lockscreen without the power button would even be heaps better than having to deal with that physical power key on the side of the phone.
I love my evo 3D but one thing that has been driving me nuts is that whenever im holding it in landscape mode i keep hitting the heat sensitive buttons on the right while playing games or watching movies... this either causes the phone to vibrate or minimizes the app
is there a way to turn off the buttons in landscape mode?
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I love my evo 3D but one thing that has been driving me nuts is that whenever im holding it in landscape mode i keep hitting the heat sensitive buttons on the right while playing games or watching movies... this either causes the phone to vibrate or minimizes the app
is there a way to turn off the buttons in landscape mode?
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i haven't seen any 3rd party apps which disable these buttons .. the only controls i've seen were for the LED backlight on the buttons, which i don't think is what you're looking for.
i would think, in theory, there should be some type of API an application could tap into which would disable those buttons. the first downside which comes to mind is there is no way to exit out of the application if for some reason the application has any type of issues and the back/home buttons are still disabled.
perhaps with back/home buttons disabled, enable volume rocker to go back to home? the logic starts to get a bit tricky.
the best and most narrowly focused solution which comes to mind would be for the game app developer to handle those buttons during game play. perhaps require the home or back buttons to be held instead of tapped in order to trigger their standard action.
perhaps a 3rd party app could disable tapping the buttons and require them to be held for 5 seconds in order to trigger their standard tapping action?
i know on ics, this is handled a bit better as there are no hardware buttons and they are handled in the software. in the stock ics gallery, the buttons are dimmed to dots instead of their full icons while viewing images, which gives the impression there is greater software control over those buttons than previously.
i'm sure if somebody else has seen any solutions, they'll post up.
hope that helps with a few technical thoughts from the background of an application developer!
I know this has been asked too many times, but what I want is (I think) simple, just an app to turn JUST the screen off with a shortcut hardware key (vol up or down or anything), so for example when I click that button while I am recording a video, it continues recording it, or when I am playing a game it continues where I left it because locking the device is not good with some of the games I play. BTW I don't mind if the app needs root. Thanks in advance.
I had to replace my microphone/charger port part because my microphone wasn't working. It was like about a couple months ago since I did the repair and now its my multitask button( the button to the left of the home button) keeps activating as if I was pressing the button but I'm not. Even if I'm not touching my screen and watching a video it keeps showing the background processes. Is it because my microphone/charger port part is defective or is it because I did something wrong? Any thing I can try? Or can I temporarily disable the button because I have accidentally pressed the button when playing games before when my phone was 100% fine and working.