About two weeks ago, while playing with my phone, a thought occured to me -- why do I have a lockscreen? I then removed my lockscreen all together so that when I hit my power button I'm on my home screen. Lockscreens made sense back when they were keyguards and you had hard buttons and could easly, easily pocket dial someone. But other than me being brainwashed by my mobile OSes for years, I couldn't figure out a solid reason to actually use a lockscreen.
I've been going straight no lockscreen since my epiphany, and it's not been a problem at all. Before switching back to BSX, I just put DashClock as my homescreen widget and it provided the same convenience as me checking my lockscreen. And even now with BSX, I have unread counts in my launcher, so I'm still not missing any of the information I routinely kept on my lockscreen. I've not pocket dialed, or answered, anyone, and I've cut out what I completely unrealistically imagine would've accumulated to years of my life spent "sliding to unlock" my phone.
So... my question. Why do you use a lockscreen? Do you actually need it? Or do you, too, just use it because that's what you do. You have a lockscreen.
No, I use one for pattern lock.
Not sure why I'm using mine still, I haven't had a password in a while. Maybe I should put it back...
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Does anyone remember the old g1 or the first mt3g phones how they had that lock screen it was a square and you had to press menu to unlock it? You know old school androids. Well I'm looking for one to put on here on my mt4g but I cant locate one. Is there even a mod developed for that to be possible?
Thanks in advanced!
..... Mr. Hammy ......
you aren't going to find anything like that style unless you use minimalistic text on widget locker to give something of that look and turn on menu unlock so menu will unlock the phone. but there is a reason why they changed to a real lock screen, the android 1.5 lock screen was bad. just being able to press menu caused alot of accidental unlocks and pocket dials.
Hmm I see well that's quite disappointing. I like the look of that. Reminds me of the old days when it only took 3 swipes to reach the end of the entire app library lol.
Well if anyone sees anything like that or makes one please send that my way?!
Thanks for your responce btw.
.... Mr. Hammy ....
Not sure if this is impossible, easy, or even already accomplished, but coming from CM7 to MIUI there are two CM7 features that I am sorely missing:
1. Lockscreen gestures. I want to secure my device, but I've always hated that with Android you have to get past your "slide this there" lockscreen, THEN enter your pin or draw your pattern before you can get to the phone. With CM7, you can turn off the slides/rotaries/tabs/whatever that normally appear on the lockscreen (so it's just your lockscreen background, clock, and music controls) and set it to unlock when you draw whatever special invisible lockscreen gesture (which I also feel is more secure/less susceptible to onlookers than connecting dots on the Android pattern grid) you specified. This feature is great, and I think a lot of people misunderstand it!
If that isn't possible, does anyone know how you can at least turn off the conventional lockscreen if you have the pattern lock on? I really just hate the redundancy of the two-step unlock process.
2. (Screen off) long press volume-button track skipping. Simple as that. I need to be able to skip tracks without looking at my device (when running, driving, working out, whatever). Even lockscreen music controls don't cut it, because you have to click the screen on, look at it, poke the right button, relock the screen etc. When you're running, being able to long press on the volume up button to skip a track is HUGE.
I'm loving MIUI otherwise. Looking forward to Ace getting a handle on the wakelock, and sound/games/media issues.
As an aside, I do wish Xiamoi would release source code for people to comb through...it seems weird to me that a corporation--Chinese or otherwise--would sink untold dollars/development hours perfecting and making freely available a product that offers no clear monetization strategy. Furthermore, Huawei and Baidu's longstanding cooperation with Chinese Intelligence agencies makes me leery of Chinese corporate interest)
Gestures would be cool especially since on the default lock screen you have over half the screen of nothing.
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Just wondering, if you accidentally hit reply, why "submit" the comment? You could have still avoided it.
Just found this flashable MIUI mod for the volume track skipping:
http://forums.miuiandroid.com/showthread.php?7356-MOD-Skip-track-via-volume-press
I haven't given it a shot yet, but if it works, it might be a good one to build into Ace's MIUI (like he inbuilt the extended settings mod).
Still keeping my eyes out for a lockscreen gesture mod.
I'm not sure if it is possible but I have an idea of a widget:
It's a widget that contains another widget that will auto after a specific condition (perhaps with llama/tasker?)
Examples:
hide music widget of choice if there's no music playing or headset plugged in.
Hide (school) timetable if you're not at that location.
Show GPS/traffic widget if not at home/school/work.
You might think of another great use yourself.
This is just an idea, and since I'm no app developer myself, (at least not yet) I hope one of the great android developers that are on these fora will take an interest in this project.
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But why hide the widget? That space where the widget that hid the other widget is still unusable because the widget can become transparent, but it can not remove itself from the home screen and then put itself back, since adding widgets is a system level command. And if it could do what I just said it can't, what if you put apps/shortcuts/widgets in its place, where would they go? I might be over thinking this whole idea a little but that's just my two cents. I do have a similar idea now that I read this, though. Use Tasker to restore backed up Nova/Holo/Adw/Apex/Etc, settings and home screen layouts based on what you said in your first post. That is probably going to take way longer to do, but it get the same effect and could probably save battery that way too. I mean, if I make a Tasker profile set up so that whenever I connect to my schools wifi, that it restores a previous backed home screen and settings layout. My phone always dies at school, so my home screen would become blank, with no dock or status bar, and just have gestures set up so that I can still get to my apps (swipe up for drawer, down for notifications, two fingers up for phone app, and two fingers down for messaging). With nothing on my home screen, I save battery because the Launcher does not have to load any thing. Android itself might be a limitation for what we're saying here, but maybe Key Lime Pie could bring us closer to that.
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Thanks for the reply!
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But why hide the widget? That space where the widget that hid the other widget is still unusable because the widget can become transparent, but it can not remove itself from the home screen and then put itself back, since adding widgets is a system level command. And if it could do what I just said it can't, what if you put apps/shortcuts/widgets in its place, where would they go? I might be over thinking this whole idea a little but that's just my two cents.
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Thank you for the reply, PenguinxEnjoi
I can see now that my idea can be a bit confusing.
I just had the idea to hide the widget when I don't need it so it doesn't clog up my lock/home screen.
If it means turning it invisible I'd like that just as much as removing it. I just don't want to see it.
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I do have a similar idea now that I read this, though. Use Tasker to restore backed up Nova/Holo/Adw/Apex/Etc, settings and home screen layouts based on what you said in your first post. That is probably going to take way longer to do, but it get the same effect and could probably save battery that way too. I mean, if I make a Tasker profile set up so that whenever I connect to my schools wifi, that it restores a previous backed home screen and settings layout. My phone always dies at school, so my home screen would become blank, with no dock or status bar, and just have gestures set up so that I can still get to my apps (swipe up for drawer, down for notifications, two fingers up for phone app, and two fingers down for messaging). With nothing on my home screen, I save battery because the Launcher does not have to load any thing. Android itself might be a limitation for what we're saying here, but maybe Key Lime Pie could bring us closer to that.
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If this is possible it would totally be an option. Especially since I'm using widgetlocker and nova launcher.
This will probably be done using intents (if it's supported) but I've only begun using tasker (after llama) so I'm still not sure how they work.
Have you found the way to auto hide widgets for example with Tasker?
extension!?
I have been trying to find a way to recreate a menu pop down resembling the app drawer menu on my desktop and yes...there are many hurdles to be made through an auto hide feature. Why there cant be an app writin that works along with zooper pro or uccw (or done internaly themselves) that can acknowlege a widget name and link it to a static bitmap/icon within another widget as in a"press on" action is beyond me. I know that is probably the last thing those two companies wanna do but it would really make it fun for the average joe just trying to create something fresh and different for their own pride and joy. I havent had much luck getting any reaponse on this. Lol obviously due to a lack reason. And no im not talking about the chocolate covered carmel candy. Bit if any of you developers out there want to take a stab at it. Looks like there is a code writtin in a somewhat similar context that i believe could work. In the end. Its us vs. Them. Hope to see something more happen with this.
And of course..i am mot allowed to copy and paste outside links yet. Thanks XDA. but if you type in."auto hide widget" in google it should be the second link you see. Hope someone makes this a reality. Will be watching for developments.:silly:
Pop up widgets from the developer of the sslauncher. Does the trick nicely. Also you can use swipepad with the widgetpad addon. Works nice for me. Widget here, widget gone
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Have you found the way to auto hide widgets for example with Tasker?
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you could use overlays (paid version) which integrates in tasker (free version does not)
Hi,
I did search for lockscreens and didn't find anything close to what i am looking for. I used to use a Jailbroken iPhone and one of the only things I miss is this lockscreen system I had in place;
If I wanted to lock the screen and not have to put in a pin number to open it every time I just pressed the sleep button. However if I wanted it to have pin lock I just held the sleep button for a second.
It's so simple and saves so much time.
So I suppose if I had the standard lockscreen (I am Note 3) with a pin unlock, and the alternative being WidgetLocker (with no pin unlock) then i could just switch between the two. If that's possible, then it would just be a question of assigning widgetlocker to a button/gesture.
Do you know of anyway to achieve what I want?
Thanks, Chris
I have been on the hunt for a solution to how the LG lockscreen handles notifications. I hate how you cannot just double tap to open the notification like you can on the AOSP lockscreen. After trying damn near everything I could find, I came across Floatify. I remembered using it back in the kitkat days and forgot about it. Seems the dev is still active, even has beta group on G+ with an update yesterday. It can be used with the stock lockscreen, which is something I prefer over replacement lockscreens and handles everything very well, with all sorts of features. The pro-key is 2.50 but with everything available, its easily worth it.
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I have been on the hunt for a solution to how the LG lockscreen handles notifications. I hate how you cannot just double tap to open the notification like you can on the AOSP lockscreen. After trying damn near everything I could find, I came across Floatify. I remembered using it back in the kitkat days and forgot about it. Seems the dev is still active, even has beta group on G+ with an update yesterday. It can be used with the stock lockscreen, which is something I prefer over replacement lockscreens and handles everything very well, with all sorts of features. The pro-key is 2.50 but with everything available, its easily worth it.
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Can you please provide some screen shots for the lock screen and the Floatify working together to see how it looks on the screen? Thanks
I simply "open" the notification by sliding down on it and then pressing it.
All in all takes less than a second. I find that adequate enough and no need to install another app for :good:
I use NEXT lockscreen by Microsoft. Bit dubious at first but its absolutely excellent. Just slide the notification left to dissmiss or right to open it. Best part its absolutely free.