I would love to turn off the on-screen soft keys. The problem I am having is that I use my fingerprint instead of a password for access to certain apps, like banking.
However, when I try to use the fingerprint to unlock the app what happens is that the screen returns to home, which is what it's technically supposed to do. But this negates being able to unlock an app with the fingerprint and I really do not want to go back to using a long password for this.
Another smaller issue is that when I use the on-screen soft keys both the scanner and the middle (home) soft key do the same thing...they both take you back to the home screen.
I feel that if I am using the on screen soft keys that the fingerprint scanner should ONLY unlock the phone, or a designated app, and conversely if I use the fingerprint scanner exclusively to move through screens and recently opened apps that I should still be able to unlock an app without the scanner taking me back to home and prematurely closing the app.
Am I making sense here?? Anybody find a way to do this?
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I have been trying to Find a Macro Mapper or some kind of 3rd party ap to lock my device when i press the power button. The only work around at this time is to use Lock Device with 4 number pin and 0min lock setting. however i am tired of constantly pressing digits and would rather use native Lock Function that requires bottom left tap to unlock than middle right side tap to confirm unlock. However, it is only initiated from a Lock on screen tap.
IF anyone knows how to enable this lock by pressing the power button which is in my case on the right side of my mogul(PPC6800) that shuts off the screen and powers down to standby i would greatly appreciate it. this is also a replacement for S2U which has a few bugs with slide out keyboard and memory leaks.
Try this...
http://www.vijay555.com/?Releases:VJDeviceLock
there is a program by spb that has this funtion... I don't know the name of it but i will look around. I don't remember the specifics of it, but there was a check box that says to lock teh device when you hit the powerbutton (or anytime the display turns off)
i believe it is SPB mobile shell
"Device Lock
Spb Mobile Shell 1.5 improves usability of device locking. Now you can lock your device using a hardware key, soft key on Today or a shortcut. You can also unlock the device using only soft keys. When your device is locked the Now Screen shows you the most important information, so in most cases you don't even need to unlock the device. "
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/about/pressreleases/2007/jun19.html?en
you can at least try it out and see if it does what you want.
damn i apparently didn't didn't read all of your post... so you don't want to use slide2unlock.. hmm i guess your best bet is to try spb mobile shell and play with the options to see if you can get it to do what you want -- unless of course someone wiser than me knows of something else.
::ignore below:::
it turns out that what i was really was thinking of was slide2unlock
http://ac.xenpage.eu/S2U2-0.99c-WM5.rar
(from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353008)
options:
lock when device wakes up --- on/off
lock when backlight turns off ---on/off
power off in --- (time in S)
but blank screen only -- on/off
blank screen on talk -- on/off
then it has some other options for how it looks -- but if you don't mind doing the slide bar to unlock the phone it will do what you want.
Hi,
I am using Widgetlocker because of the ability to unlock with the keys on the side of the Atrix (volume keys).
But after unlocking the screen it is impossible to immediately use the fingerprint scanner to unlock the phone.
What is the correct setup to get Widgetlocker unlock the phone.
Expected behavior:
1 The screen is dark
2 Press the Volume key to have the Widgetlocker-Screen visible
3 Swipe the finger [not working]
4 Phone is unlocked [not working]
Currently I have to press the Back button after step 2 to see the Motorola/Atrix Unlock screen (where I can swipe the finger and unlock), which is annoying.
Any ideas? Thanks for any input.
Sounds like you just have conflicting lock screens. I would try lockbot it disables the system lock.
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Thanks for your feedback, was checking on the market.
But as far as seen no Vol. Key support - instead I have to shake it (probably as well not the best way in business)...
I use No Lock. This allows me to wake my phone with the volume rocker rather than the power button..which I prefer. If I'm going out and about somewhere I feel like I want the fingerprint scanner on..I simply turn the lock back on.
Even though WidgetLocker doesn't prompt you to swipe your finger it should stil accept it. Can you confirm you're trying this?
I have a beta that improves reliability of using the fingerprint scanner. Let me know by email if you'd like to try the beta.
Hi,
I can confirm that it sometimes works probably after I started the phone.
But later it is not possible (at least for me), so my question was what are the correct settings to get this behaviour. I would like to check - if it's my fault.
If it works - you are right - only swipe and it's unlocked.
But the usual way is that it is not working, so I have no chance I have to press the back button (to get the stock lock screen where swipe is possible).
Thanks for your help.
Need simple 3 different apps..
HOME
RECENT APPS
Screen Wake by shake / multitouch screen & allow to unlock unlock
Objective is not to use physical button as I've bad experience of using button they fail quickly due to mechanical wear, journey started with Nexus One...
Simple app HOME takes to home want to put in quick launch JKay, Screen Wake by shake or screen touch
Currently I use home launcher and select home required. May be someone can use this code & recode.
Also want to put the recentapps application to my quicklaunch.
I thinks its one liner code, can someone please make it available in Market, I'm sure it will go superhit...
I like using the fingerprint for navigation. If I hold I can return to the Homescreen. This works for everything but browsers which don't exit on hold(unless I tab them first, then it works). Is the browser waiting for a fingerprint read response?? Can I turn it off so it exits like all my other apps?
For me it's double tap that brings the home screen with browsers, not hold.
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That doesn't work for me. Well it does if I'm only reading one page infront of opening it (Tap once - back to browsers opening page Tap second time - Back to homescreen).
Holding closes every app but the browsers
Very annoying especially when it works for every other app but the browsers which get used a fair bit.
This is still my major annoyance with this phone. Has anyone found a browser that exits on holding the fingerprint reader?
I believe this is done by design, since the browser makes use of the fingerprint scanner as touch to go back - for people using this feature it would become very annoying to have it return to the Home Screen. The proper use of the fingerprint is to touch to go back, and touch and hold to return to Home Screen, and this appears to be disabled in apps that have a Back button to avoid confusion.
The only workaround I have is to first slide up on the fingerprint to show recent apps and then touch and hold to return to Homescreen.
When the navigation bar is enabled, the physical home/fingerprint reader works as a home button. Normally this wouldn't be a problem except when you accidentally hit it or when you're trying to unlock an app with your fingerprint and it sends you home instead.
I don't understand why huawei wouldn't add a setting for this.
I know that using gestures instead of the navbar would disable that button from functioning as a home button but emui 9 gestures just feel half baked.
P.S. I do not have root.
Thanks!
It doesn't do that on my mate 10 pro. Navigation bar is, of course, enabled, screen gestures (apart from the frickin search thing, which just doesn't go away) and the little movable thingy are turned off. Pull-down gesture on FP sensor is usually enabled, but I just turned it off for a test -- still FP sensor doesn't work as home button.
@wurstwarenfachverkäuferin, it happens only on standard Mate 10, pro version is not involved. Unfortunately, I didn't find the way to disable this feature.
DP, please delete.
You could put app in the appassistant And turn on the mistouch prevention function.