On Huawei's other phones with fingerprint scanners they feature gestures on the scanner, a lot like a touchpad on a laptop. You can swipe down for the notification tray and swipe it up, double tap to clear the tray, swipe up for the recent apps, and long press to go to the home screen.
Since none of this was mentioned to be included in M and I know that's custom Huawei software. I was still wondering if any devs out there might be wanting to work on an app to add these functions, or if something similar already exists. This really makes the scanner a lot more functional.
They also have a safe and app lock in their software 2 other great additions. I know I've seen an app lock for the Samsung phones, and not sure if it'll work on just any phone with a scanner. While these are great additions on the Huawei phones, their skin is not. I'd love to see stuff like this incorporated on stock version of Android. I know nothing about programming, but just hope some eager devs are out there and looking to enhance what the scanner can do and take better advantage of it.
I hope it does have this feature but I haven't heard anything about it either...
No, it doesn't have it.
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What about turning the screen on? Do you have to press power button, and then put your finger on the fp reader, or you can directly put your finger on the reader and screen goes on and phone is unlocked?
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What about turning the screen on? Do you have to press power button, and then put your finger on the fp reader, or you can directly put your finger on the reader and screen goes on and phone is unlocked?
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You tap the scanner, and it turns the screen on and unlocks it, it looks like a very slick process
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What about turning the screen on? Do you have to press power button, and then put your finger on the fp reader, or you can directly put your finger on the reader and screen goes on and phone is unlocked?
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Unlike the Xperia Z5, and Samsung phones (not 100% about Samsung phones), you do NOT need to turn on the device first. Simply putting your finger on the scanner is enough to wake it up and unlock it. The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 does that very well and is very accurate. This bodes well for the 6P for obvious reasons.
Yep. On Huawei Mate S, we can slide down on the scanner and it brings down the notifications list. I would really love to have that kind of gestures implemented so hopefully some devs would implement it on roms. *fingerscrossed*
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Unlike the Xperia Z5, and Samsung phones (not 100% about Samsung phones), you do NOT need to turn on the device first. Simply putting your finger on the scanner is enough to wake it up and unlock it. The Huawei Ascend Mate 7 does that very well and is very accurate. This bodes well for the 6P for obvious reasons.
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Samsung requires you to wake the device first. Basically you have to tap the home or power button then let it read your fingerprint. Kinda lame. I wish it were like the new nexi
Xposed will add this if someone makes it. I use gesture control but using the finger print scanner would be so much better
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Having never has a phone with FP scanner,can apps be set to only allow access if using FP scanner ?
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Having never has a phone with FP scanner,can apps be set to only allow access if using FP scanner ?
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I've seen no mention of that being built into M, but on Huawei phones with their EMUI skin they have an app locker which does this. It's a really great feature for a phone with a scanner. It's great to lock down banking apps or whatever else you want to keep people out of.
I know someone has created an app like this for Samsung phones, however I'm not sure if it'll work with other phones using a scanner. Hopefully someone creates something like this soon if it doesn't.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...fingersecurity-fingerprint-lock-apps-t2818896
As far as Xposed mods, that would require root and would also make it so you can't use Android Pay right?
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Samsung requires you to wake the device first. Basically you have to tap the home or power button then let it read your fingerprint. Kinda lame. I wish it were like the new nexi
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That's not true...my mom got a galaxy note 5 and if you touch the home button it unlocks the phone and if you press the home button....meaning physically depress the button it will wake and unlock simultaneously.
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That's not true...my mom got a galaxy note 5 and if you touch the home button it unlocks the phone and if you press the home button....meaning physically depress the button it will wake and unlock simultaneously.
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I have the note 5 as well, on it right now. Like you said, you have to physically press the button before it will read the fingerprint. The point was that with the new nexi, you only need to place your fingerprint on the reader for it to simultaneously wake up and unlock the screen. Not something the note 5 does
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I have the note 5 as well, on it right now. Like you said, you have to physically press the button before it will read the fingerprint. The point was that with the new nexi, you only need to place your fingerprint on the reader for it to simultaneously wake up and unlock the screen. Not something the note 5 does
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No...i said touch the button to unlock...and press the button to wake and unlock simultaneously. I tried t and it works on note 5
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Marshmallow has API's for app developers to implement this. I ordered this phone because I want to incorporate it with an app idea I have. I'm not sure if Marshmallow has this built in where you can limit access... I guess you could set up different accounts on the device which would limit access to the device based on fingerprint.
Not sure it can keep your wife/gf out of your snapchat account
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No...i said touch the button to unlock...and press the button to wake and unlock simultaneously. I tried t and it works on note 5
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If the screen is off and you simply touch the home button (not pressing it) what happens?
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Maybe they changed things with Note 5 but Note 4 does not do anything by just touching the home button you have to press. It's a crappy scanner too. I cannot wait for my 6P to arrive and forget about the Note 4 (well, I'll use it for VR)
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I've seen no mention of that being built into M, but on Huawei phones with their EMUI skin they have an app locker which does this. It's a really great feature for a phone with a scanner. It's great to lock down banking apps or whatever else you want to keep people out of.
I know someone has created an app like this for Samsung phones, however I'm not sure if it'll work with other phones using a scanner. Hopefully someone creates something like this soon if it doesn't.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...fingersecurity-fingerprint-lock-apps-t2818896
As far as Xposed mods, that would require root and would also make it so you can't use Android Pay right?
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Yeah - AFAIK, root = no Android Pay...
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Yeah - AFAIK, root = no Android Pay...
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That's what I had read, so I'm hoping maybe this can be done with an app instead of Xposed.
My N5 is rooted and Android Pay works fine.
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Is there any way to make the fingerprint scanner with the screen off ?? I know in iphones they have a mod in cydia to do it.... Is it possible to get the same thing here ?
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Is there any way to make the fingerprint scanner with the screen off ?? I know in iphones they have a mod in cydia to do it.... Is it possible to get the same thing here ?
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Why on earth would you want that ?
And if it's possible, I guess it will drain your battery faster...
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Why on earth would you want that ?
And if it's possible, I guess it will drain your battery faster...
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when you swipe it unlocks, No need to turn the screen on, Works fine on iphones my gf has hers rooted and works perfectly
gdmlaz said:
when you swipe it unlocks, No need to turn the screen on, Works fine on iphones my gf has hers rooted and works perfectly
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As said, if it would be possible...the battery will drain a lot faster as the screen will always be active/the system will perform wakelocks all the time.
But it's a good idea
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As said, if it would be possible...the battery will drain a lot faster as the screen will always be active/the system will perform wakelocks all the time.
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That's what was generally said about double tap to wake, yet the phones that have this implemented, don't have drastically increased battery consumption because of it.
On the other hand, Samsungs half second delay after pressing home button, to wake after deep sleep (formerly just a "feature" of exynos devices, now with snapdragons as well) , is extremely annoying.
Don't see how would the screen always be active? Rather, the fingerprint sensor would be.
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That's what was generally said about double tap to wake, yet the phones that have this implemented, don't have drastically increased battery consumption because of it.
On the other hand, Samsungs half second delay after pressing home button, to wake after deep sleep (formerly just a "feature" of exynos devices, now with snapdragons as well) , is extremely annoying.
Don't see how would the screen always be active? Rather, the fingerprint sensor would be.
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That's what I was thinking if iphones are doing it without any problem and lg is using their knock why can't samsung
I don't believe battery drain would be an issue, but how would you keep the phone in a state to be read?
With double tap to wake and swipe to wake surely the waiting for action state is already developed.
Other possibility could be pressing the home button and sweeping the fi gerprint scanner at the same time to unlock in one motion.
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Other possibility could be pressing the home button and sweeping the fi gerprint scanner at the same time to unlock in one motion.
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This is already working.. I scanned 3 times the same finger, and now working like this..
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This is already working.. I scanned 3 times the same finger, and now working like this..
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if the screen is off the fingerprint won't unlock and turn the screen off at the moment...... you have to press the home key wait for screen to turn on then swipe
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With double tap to wake and swipe to wake surely the waiting for action state is already developed.
Other possibility could be pressing the home button and sweeping the fi gerprint scanner at the same time to unlock in one motion.
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if the screen is off the fingerprint won't unlock and turn the screen off at the moment...... you have to press the home key wait for screen to turn on then swipe
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I know. I talk about press (so the screen turns on) AND sweeping the finger at the same time.. This is working for me. I have to do a longer sweepe though.. And i have used all 3 finger setting to the same finger, probably a bit different portion of the finger every time..
Try it.. It works for me. Always unlock with one sweeping and pressing at the same time..
The disadvantage, i can unlock only with one finger.
The problem for me is that i have the home button to wake switched off using wanam exposed module. The phone was active in pocket way too many times.
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This is a terribly complicated app that gives zero extra security. A real fingerprint scanner is 100% secure and absolutely hassle free.
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The concept is complete different.. hope you understand we are using Image processing..
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This is a terribly complicated app that gives zero extra security. A real fingerprint scanner is 100% secure and absolutely hassle free.
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The concept is complete different.. hope you understand we are using Image processing..
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The reason of this not being to work out in comparison to the other "Fingerprint Sensors" out there is because fingerprint sensors are meant to be stealth, and be done in stealth. If you are going to on the flash and have the phone scanning for your finger and takes 15 seconds to process the whole finger, by that time people will already know what you are doing and that defeats the point of it being a proper way to secure your phone, in all sorts of situations.
And also, the video is ridiculous. But nice try nonetheless. If you are able to get the phone to capture your fingerprint by just placing it in front (like literally 1cm away) and without the needs of a flash, you got my money.
Looks like a big joke to me. I unlock my phone just by a swipe, your system takes too long, use APN+flash and is not certified to work. At least you made me laugh.
Welp, this whole community just shot you down. Nice idea though. but not practical.
This is a classic case of "making an app for the sake of making it" but not care about why such functionality exists in the first place.
Finger scanners exist not because people want to scan their fingers, but because it's faster, more convenient and more secured than using a pin lock or a pattern lock.
Those are the tenet of finger scanning, if you can come up with a better method to unlock the device (i.e. even more faster and convenient) then whether or not that method uses a finger scanner doesn't matter.
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I believe the finger print scanner is experiment, we have pin and pattern lock too..
The video has made my day. On the other hand I totally agree with others that it's not practical at all and scanning your muddle finger in public would raise quite a few eyebrows.
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I agree, soon I will try my best to make it more fast.. Mean time you can use the pin or pattern
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The video has made my day. On the other hand I totally agree with others that it's not practical at all and scanning your muddle finger in public would raise quite a few eyebrows.
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I agree, soon I will try my best to make it more fast.. Mean time you can use the pin or pattern
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You must understand that there are many free apps out there that does the same features in regards to using a PIN or a pattern, so either you do a brand new feature to actually unlock the phone, or rework on your fingerprint scanning "feature".
Like I stated before, if you really wanted such a feature to work, it is be able to do the following with ease.
1) Scan your finger within 10-15 seconds so that it will not look awkward in situations.
2) Flash is a no go for such stuff.
3) The UI definitely needs to be fixed a LOT in terms of the scanning and recognition part, the main UI seems decent and nice actually, with the hexagon design to access different menus and such.
4) Includes other ways to unlock like Bluetooth app press a button to unlock or something that would make your app be different from others and make people want to use your app.
There you go.
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You must understand that there are many free apps out there that does the same features in regards to using a PIN or a pattern, so either you do a brand new feature to actually unlock the phone, or rework on your fingerprint scanning "feature".
Like I stated before, if you really wanted such a feature to work, it is be able to do the following with ease.
1) Scan your finger within 10-15 seconds so that it will not look awkward in situations.
2) Flash is a no go for such stuff.
3) The UI definitely needs to be fixed a LOT in terms of the scanning and recognition part, the main UI seems decent and nice actually, with the hexagon design to access different menus and such.
4) Includes other ways to unlock like Bluetooth app press a button to unlock or something that would make your app be different from others and make people want to use your app.
There you go.
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Hi,
I just updated to mm official ota yesterday. Everything running great. One small issue I'm having though. When I turn on the screen and unlock with the finger print sensor it goes straight to the pin request. It seems the phone has unlocked, like the little vibration you get when it unlocks but it goes to pin unlock as if I've already tried and failed a few times with the sensor.
Anyone else?
The forum is full of posts discussing this. Anyway, apparently under marshmallow you cannot use an app to lock your screen because when you unlock, it will happen as you described. So probably you are using another method to lock the screen, other than pushing the power button. You'll see thsh when you lock your phone with the power button, you'll be able to unlock it with just the scanner. I don't even have marshmallow yet but I have been reading around.
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The forum is full of posts discussing this. Anyway, apparently under marshmallow you cannot use an app to lock your screen because when you unlock, it will happen as you described. So probably you are using another method to lock the screen, other than pushing the power button. You'll see thsh when you lock your phone with the power button, you'll be able to unlock it with just the scanner. I don't even have marshmallow yet but I have been reading around.
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Much appreciated. I done a quick search and scanned through but didn't see anything. I now realise I have Nova launcher quick link for screen lock which I use and after its asking for the pin. Power button is as you said. Thanks again!
Does Mate 10 has the double tap to wake feature?
No and i haven't found a non-root solution for it either.
Wow that's such a shame... The mix and matching of features across these Huawei devices is becoming really frustrating. There's no reason why only the Chinese version of the Mate 9 had this feature.
I don't think you really need a double tap to wake. A simple touch of the fingerprint sensor wakes the phone quickly.
Exactly, that fingerprint scanner is ridiculously fast!
i need double tap to sleep
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i need double tap to sleep
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plenty of 3rd party apps on playstore. No root needed.
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I don't think you really need a double tap to wake. A simple touch of the fingerprint sensor wakes the phone quickly.
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For the 10 Pro, that functionality is useful. It's just weird some of the choices made for an otherwise great phone. It's unfortunate.
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For the 10 Pro, that functionality is useful. It's just weird some of the choices made for an otherwise great phone. It's unfortunate.
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Copyright issues with LG. But there are 3rd party apps for Samsung that put an icon on Always on display and you just double tap on that icon to wake. I guess its not different to Samsung having a home key always turned on even when screen off. So Huawei should as well implement something similar to have icon on the Always on display and click or hold or whatever is best gesture on that to turn on the screen.
End of the day its still a two step process in the least over the single step process of front fingerprint sensor. The small bezels means no way a front fingerprint could fit there and so there needs to be a long term solution. LG type reliable face unlock feature would help in many scenarios as well and its comparatively easier to partially lift and look at the phone from a desk then double tap and scribble the password.
There is also Huawei's strong security measures to overcome. My current Huawei does not allow using anything other than a pin password for unlock when you have the fingerprint activated. So thats four extra screen taps compared to the Pattern type password (which cannot be used when fingerprint activated).
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plenty of 3rd party apps on playstore. No root needed.
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What app that works with fingerprint without pin
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my ex oneplus 3t has this feature. how only lg has it?
Surely it's obvious this would be useful when the phone is laying on a desk/table (on its back) when the fingerprint sensor is not accessible? Double-tap to wake would be awesome on this device. Just got it, and it's my only (at this stage) gripe.
Same here
I hope some update fix this
I set up Fingerprint Quick Actions app on my old Axon 7 so that when I pressed the fingerprint reader, it shut off the screen. Now, when I try to set up the same system on the S9+, I can set the screen to turn off, but when using the fingerprint reader to wake the phone up afterwards, I am forced to do a pin-unlock instead of biometric.
Does anyone know a fix or is this not something that can be done anymore in Oreo?
Same problem here...all third party lock screen app is not supported in this sense.
use Nova Launcher and Jews the problem mentioned above will not. Double tap gesture to turn off the screen
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use Nova Launcher and Jews the problem mentioned above will not. Double tap gesture to turn off the screen
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it wont work as said by OP, both widget type and double tap screen lock/off will make fingerprint unusable since it will ask for a pin. really wanted this too, hope we can find a solution.
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it wont work as said by OP, both widget type and double tap screen lock/off will make fingerprint unusable since it will ask for a pin. really wanted this too, hope we can find a solution.
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Actually, Nova DOES work, because it doesn't actually lock the screen. It resets the screen timeout to a very short value, turns the screen off, and then resets both after the device locks on it's own (or you take some action). I use it all the time, but it only works from a Nova home screen, not from anywhere else.
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Actually, Nova DOES work, because it doesn't actually lock the screen. It resets the screen timeout to a very short value, turns the screen off, and then resets both after the device locks on it's own (or you take some action). I use it all the time, but it only works from a Nova home screen, not from anywhere else.
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It doesn't work for me. I tried it.
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It doesn't work for me. I tried it.
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For a similar outcome I am using the 'screenoff' app and it's working for me (Snapdragon SM-G965U1 running Pie)
Because I haven't done enough posts I can't post the link but search for github and jsalatas and ScreenOff and you'll find it
Powers off screen with app button instead of fingerprint sensor and then allows fingerprint opening.
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It doesn't work for me. I tried it.
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I posted that a year ago. Things may have changed since then.