Hello, is there a way to keep the phone from locking while connected to my Home wifi?
Yes, Google Smart Lock will do this. It does not work consistently, so you may need to go into it, disable your address (assuming you make it location-based) and re-enable it from time to time. You can also set Smart Lock to stay unlocked when paired to a device. It won't keep your phone unlocked more than 4 hours, but that's 4 hours of not having to put in your fingerprint or PIN #.
yep_nexus said:
Yes, Google Smart Lock will do this. It does not work consistently, so you may need to go into it, disable your address (assuming you make it location-based) and re-enable it from time to time. You can also set Smart Lock to stay unlocked when paired to a device. It won't keep your phone unlocked more than 4 hours, but that's 4 hours of not having to put in your fingerprint or PIN #.
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Thanks nexus, exactly what I need.
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When my phone is in the holster, or when charging, it automatically comes out of standby mode every so often. I don't know why it keeps doing that, but it has done it so much that I had to turn on the Lock feature on so the buttons don't get accidently pushed when in my holster etc (very annoying). I spoke to a friend who said it might be a program running in the background that keeps making the phone come out of standby because it doesn't happen to his TP. But the running programs list only has Text, and Calendar always open so I doubt its those that's causing.
Any ideas on how to solve this really annoying issue? And does anyone else experience this?
Note: My carrier is Sprint and I have no custom ROM's)
G00gle26 said:
When my phone is in the holster, or when charging, it automatically comes out of standby mode every so often. I don't know why it keeps doing that, but it has done it so much that I had to turn on the Lock feature on so the buttons don't get accidently pushed when in my holster etc (very annoying). I spoke to a friend who said it might be a program running in the background that keeps making the phone come out of standby because it doesn't happen to his TP. But the running programs list only has Text, and Calendar always open so I doubt its those that's causing.
Any ideas on how to solve this really annoying issue? And does anyone else experience this?
Note: My carrier is Sprint and I have no custom ROM's)
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You will find that the Lock feature isn't really going to be any help either because the sliding of the keyboard will a) Wake the phone up and b) Unlock it as well if it slides more.
You can make this registry edit to make it so the slide doesn't wake up the phone. Now, when you get a text message or email (I think) the phone will wake up but as long as you don't slide it more than about half an inch, the phone won't unlock.
You should be using the lock feature on your phone anyway. If you haven't figured it out yet, you can make the "Long End key press" lock the phone. It works very well to make locking the phone quick and easy. Then you can either use the push button method to unlock OR side the phone open to unlock.
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You will find that the Lock feature isn't really going to be any help either because the sliding of the keyboard will a) Wake the phone up and b) Unlock it as well if it slides more.
You can make this registry edit to make it so the slide doesn't wake up the phone. Now, when you get a text message or email (I think) the phone will wake up but as long as you don't slide it more than about half an inch, the phone won't unlock.
You should be using the lock feature on your phone anyway. If you haven't figured it out yet, you can make the "Long End key press" lock the phone. It works very well to make locking the phone quick and easy. Then you can either use the push button method to unlock OR side the phone open to unlock.
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I guess I didn't phrase it right...I mean when the phone is just sitting there and the keyboard is not opening at all because it is sitting on a desk charging, no text or e-mail message go in or out, bluetooth not connected, and no alarms, or events pop up the phone comes out of standby...same scenario in my belt holster.
True I should be using the lock feature but I like to set the timer to 5 or 10 minutes but sometimes it comes out of standby before then.
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I guess I didn't phrase it right...I mean when the phone is just sitting there and the keyboard is not opening at all because it is sitting on a desk charging, no text or e-mail message go in or out, bluetooth not connected, and no alarms, or events pop up the phone comes out of standby...same scenario in my belt holster.
True I should be using the lock feature but I like to set the timer to 5 or 10 minutes but sometimes it comes out of standby before then.
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Interesting... You are really burning up your battery (if not plugged in) letting it not go into standby for 5-10 minutes but I wonder if it some other data transmission. What is your email interval set at? Even if no emails are received, it's still sending a data "pulse" to the server.
I have te same issue (Alltel Touch Pro)
I leave the phone on the charger overnite, and sitting by itself,
even with Lock on, it will wake up, stay up the timeout period,
then go back to sleep. Like it has Sleep Apnea?
I do email by webmail so that's not an issue.
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Interesting... You are really burning up your battery (if not plugged in) letting it not go into standby for 5-10 minutes but I wonder if it some other data transmission. What is your email interval set at? Even if no emails are received, it's still sending a data "pulse" to the server.
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fuzzynco said:
I leave the phone on the charger overnite, and sitting by itself, even with Lock on, it will wake up, stay up the timeout period, then go back to sleep. Like it has sleep apnea?
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mrrogers: What I meant was I like the Lock on feature to come on after 5-10 minutes...it is already in standby mode, but the lock feature is not activated until 5-10 minutes (look inside your lock settings and you will see what I mean) so I am not draining the battery.....e-mail interval is set at 4 hours so it can't be that. Even if it was that, the screen should not wake up just for sending data in or out.
fuzzynco: YES I have the same problem...its as if the phone does not want to sleep. It stays up for the timeout period then goes back to sleep then turns on again a few minutes later for no apparent reason...but for me it also comes out of standby even when not being charged.
I suppose mine might do it too then, I guess I never notice because I plug in to charge and go to sleep. :-D
I am going to test this out tonight and see what my phone does. I am running a custom Rom so who knows what might happen. I thin something that also could mask the fact that this is happening to me is that my backlight and power setting are 30sec and 1min.
If I'm not doing something on my phone, it is locked. Unlocking is so simple I don't bother with timing the locking event. I think you must use the actual "Password" protection right? I do not use that feature but I know the settings you are referring to. I have only been referring to the device lock.
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I suppose mine might do it too then, I guess I never notice because I plug in to charge and go to sleep. :-D
I am going to test this out tonight and see what my phone does. I am running a custom Rom so who knows what might happen. I thin something that also could mask the fact that this is happening to me is that my backlight and power setting are 30sec and 1min.
If I'm not doing something on my phone, it is locked. Unlocking is so simple I don't bother with timing the locking event. I think you must use the actual "Password" protection right? I do not use that feature but I know the settings you are referring to. I have only been referring to the device lock.
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My backlight and power settings are the same as yours.
I didn't understand your last paragraph. All I have enabled is my "lock" feature in the settings. The system lock with password is enabled after 5 minutes, but that doesnt mean it takes 5 minutes to go into standby mode. Standby mode is seperate, and it only takes 30 sec to go to standby. But after 5 minutes of standby, the "lock" feature with password is enabled.
My problem is that before that 5 minute mark, the screen comes out of standby for no apparent reason.
I'll chime in here. Verizon Touch Pro. Haven't really done much to it, but a few advanced config settings. Mine will wake up in the holster, and even when it's just sitting there on the desk charging. I only let the screen stay on for a short time, so I haven't seen my battery suffer, but this happens enough to be annoying.
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I'll chime in here. Verizon Touch Pro. Haven't really done much to it, but a few advanced config settings. Mine will wake up in the holster, and even when it's just sitting there on the desk charging. I only let the screen stay on for a short time, so I haven't seen my battery suffer, but this happens enough to be annoying.
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exactly stanton! same thing with me...My screen is only set for a short time so I haven't seen battery loss but very annoying. Any theories out there?
Mine does it as well Sprint TP
I think all Windows mobile phones pretty much do this.
No idea why, but there's really nothing you can do about it.
I have been testing this evening and I can't get my phone to do it. I've been testing on battery power and will try plugged in tomorrow during the day.
Are you guys using TF3D? I'm not so I wonder if it might be something tied in there? Weather? Maybe some crazy update in the music tab?
Wish I could have helped... I'll check in tomorrow and report what I find on external power.
Long time lurker, here...
I seem to remember a similar issue with the XV6600 (Blue Angel) that was traced back to some settings having to do with the syncing with Exchange servers. My memory is kind of fuzzy on the issue, but that could be a place to start to look?
I've had my Vz TP for about a week now and have not had that issue.
Check Pocket Express. By default, it's set to update itself every 4 hours (at least on the Sprint TP).
My TP was doing the same thing (ie: coming out of Sleep on it's own). That, and the Data Connection wouldn't stay turned off. I don't like my computers and phones doing anything without my expressed permission so this was driving me nuts. Since I found the Pocket Express setting and set it to manual, my phone doesn't misbehave anymore.
Another setting you might want to look at is the QuickGPS settings. It will automatically try to update itself too. I changed mine to "Remind me when data expires" and "Auto download when connected to PC via ActiveSync" and that works best for me.
Basically, you have to go through every one of your apps and check their configurations. The two I mentioned above are definite sources of your problem but there could be others.
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I havent had my VZW tp do that yet. But i see its doing it on all 3 CDMA companies. I wonder if its a glitch in the hardware or the data settings that makes it do that. I dont run any email through my phone. I wonder if the email is the cause of its insomnia.
I have the same issue whether on a stock or Custom ROM.
Not sure about effects on battery. Never really gaged it. I always get 24 to 36 hours before I have to recharge.
Its not a program in the background. I just created a clean ROM with nothing in it and it still does it.
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I havent had my VZW tp do that yet. But i see its doing it on all 3 CDMA companies. I wonder if its a glitch in the hardware or the data settings that makes it do that. I dont run any email through my phone. I wonder if the email is the cause of its insomnia.
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Im pretty sure its the HTC APM 1.5 drivers.
Any other thoughts?
I didnt see any problems with the TP waking up on any of the GSM versions.
I am curious as what would be different that would cause this.
My sprint pro also does this.
Ill have it in my hand and the screen will just turn on. Not sure why.
I have a Nexus 5 with Google Play Services v. 6.5.99 and I'm getting some strange behaviour with the Smart Lock feature.
When I initially used the Trusted Places feature, I noticed that when I drove away from my home, the lock function didn't work automatically. This is also happening on my husband's Nexus 6. I don't think this is right and believe the phone should lock when you move away from the unlock zone.
However, the main problem I'm having is that the phone won't lock when I turn off the Home toggle and have no customised places set up. I also deleted a work address in Google Maps and so this option is naturally greyed out in Smart Lock Trusted Places. At one point, I played around with adding my home as a customised place and have since deleted it. I also changed my home address in Google Maps to my parents' address so I could test it when I was at my own home to see if the phone would lock. Nothing seems to work.
The only way I can get the phone to lock now is to disable the whole Smart Lock feature in Trusted Agents, otherwise I have a phone which won't lock. The exception is after a reboot - I have to unlock it once and then the phone stays unlocked.
Because of this, I can no longer use the Face Unlock feature either.
I've read that some people are finding they have to unlock their phone when it should be unlocked already but it's worse if you have no Trusted Places set and the phone won't lock. Does anyone else have this problem?
I too have the same problem with my Nexus. Only way to enable lock for me was to disable smart lock or turn the Location service off
Glad it isn't just me. I set my parents address as a customised place and the behaviour seemed to be as it should be when I went there. It appears that the problem lies with the Home trusted place.
I have the same problem although I've never used trusted places. I have a smartwatch setup as a trusted device, phone is a Nexus 6 rooted
I use passcode screen lock on my G3, and use a GPS based golf app on my phone while playing a round. I pretty much in a hurry to unlock screen each time so that I can see the shot distance and other info from this app. Can I temporarily disable my screen lock only when I am golfing? Another way is to remove screen lock before a round, then I will need to reset my passcode each time afterwards.
thanks.
Hi! If you always golf at the same place(s), you can use the Xposed Module "No Lock Home". You'll have to add all of the cell towers that your phone will connect to while you play the course, but once you do it'll be good except for the once-in-a-while occurrence of new cell towers and just plain when it decides to connect to a different tower than usual.
Delayed Lock app from Play Store, with the location plugin set for the golf course coordinates. The app comes with 7 day free trial, then costs $2.49. I use it to keep my phone unlocked when connected to home wifi, but I have tested the location feature too and it works well.
hawkswind1 said:
Delayed Lock app from Play Store, with the location plugin set for the golf course coordinates. The app comes with 7 day free trial, then costs $2.49. I use it to keep my phone unlocked when connected to home wifi, but I have tested the location feature too and it works well.
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I only keep my phone unlocked when I'm home and when I'm connected to my car's bluetooth, so I can't report on the built-in stock location-based unlock capability that's similar to what you describe. Have you tried Settings / Lock screen / Smart Lock / Trusted places / Add trusted place ? In theory it should work similarly, but you might need to keep Mobile Data on all the time (I don't).
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Hi! If you always golf at the same place(s), you can use the Xposed Module "No Lock Home". You'll have to add all of the cell towers that your phone will connect to while you play the course, but once you do it'll be good except for the once-in-a-while occurrence of new cell towers and just plain when it decides to connect to a different tower than usual.
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Thank you for your suggestion, I don't know this about Xposed module and will try this feature at home. For golfing, I tend to play several courses in the area, so this feature might not working for golf app.
hawkswind1 said:
Delayed Lock app from Play Store, with the location plugin set for the golf course coordinates. The app comes with 7 day free trial, then costs $2.49. I use it to keep my phone unlocked when connected to home wifi, but I have tested the location feature too and it works well.
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I will give this app a try, thank you.
Delayed Lock works for me. thanks.
Is it just me or does location-based Smart Lock not work? Basically, even though I setup my home location (I even used other troubleshooting steps where they tell you to setup multiple pins, etc)... but the phone never stays unlocked at home. Is it just me?
VS996, 20j... stock rooted ROM.
What am I doing wrong?
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After reading your post I checked my Smart Lock settings and I see that I had to re-enable them. I don't know why this is, but it's not the first time. Not sure if I checked when I upgraded to vs996 20j. I think it's just one of those things that don't work as advertised. Like On-Body Detection.
Yeah, I was hoping that I could do the same with bluetooth detection (ie, if a certain BT is around, then it would remain unlocked) but it seems even that option requires that you're connected to that device, not that it's just nearby. Very disappointing that all this still doesn't work.
Fingerprint scanner is very convinient, but not that much secure as PIN or password. Is there any way (preferrably for non-rooted Pixel 6) to force my phone to periodically ask for a PIN or password to unlock (once every hour or afrer X mins of inactivity or so), but still keep a fingerprint unlock on? I know I could schedule to reboot my phone, but the phone would be unavailable during reboot (no phone calls) and I think I would need some third party app to save and restore notifications (which can be lost during reboot). Any suggestions?
My aim is to prevent someone to force me to unlock my phone with a fingerprint. They could use a force to put my finger on the fingerprint scanner, but no one can get a PIN out of my head. Yeah, I'm paranoiac - there's no need to remind me ;p
In that case, best and only solution is to stop using fingerprints. Just use pin and turn on notification history.
And what about available options for this matter on rooted phones? Is there any way to force Android to lock a phone with a PIN after X minutes? I don't want to stop using fingerprint scanner completely, but at the same time I don't want it to be the only screen unlocking option. I don't believe there's no way to accomplish this.
Alternatively I came up with an idea to make a "soft reset", kinda like on older Windows OS where instead of rebooting entire OS we could simply kill and restart explorer.exe process (I used to do that after installing some software which wanted to reboot my OS before first use). Does anyone know if such thing is possible and how to make it? I guess if it would be similiar approach to the one I used on Windows (restarting some process) then I could simply schedule some script to run every hour or so, but what that script would be?
Maybe use Tasker, and set a profile that open an app every amount of time?
I always have used this "lock" app, basically lock the phone so only with the password you can unlock it.
It's free, no ads or bs.
Lock - Apps on Google Play
Ultra-simple lock screen
play.google.com
snake218 said:
Maybe use Tasker, and set a profile that open an app every amount of time?
I always have used this "lock" app, basically lock the phone so only with the password you can unlock it.
It's free, no ads or bs.
Lock - Apps on Google Play
Ultra-simple lock screen
play.google.com
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Thanks for suggestion, I'll check that out later, but I'm quite doubtful it'll work as the app you suggested seems to override other screen lock options, so it would switch off fingerprint scanner once activated. I'll give it a try though.
There is already a built in function called 'lockdown'. I don't know if can be triggered via Tasker though.
Choose when your Pixel phone can stay unlocked - Pixel Phone Help
You can keep your Pixel phone unlocked in some situations, like when your phone is in your pocket or connected to another device you use often. When you use Smart Lock, you only need to unlock once wi
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Turn on lockdownImportant: Lockdown will only work until you unlock your phone. If you want keep using lockdown, turn it on each time you want to use it.
Hold the power button for a couple seconds.
Tap Lockdown. This turns off notifications, fingerprint or face recognition unlocking, and Smart Lock while on your lock screen.
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chaimav said:
There is already a built in function called 'lockdown'. I don't know if can be triggered via Tasker though.
Choose when your Pixel phone can stay unlocked - Pixel Phone Help
You can keep your Pixel phone unlocked in some situations, like when your phone is in your pocket or connected to another device you use often. When you use Smart Lock, you only need to unlock once wi
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Right, I forgot about it, but as you noticed - I also don't know if it could be triggered via Tasker. I think it's time to finally play with Tasker for a bit. Fingers crossed!
$ROGAL$ said:
Right, I forgot about it, but as you noticed - I also don't know if it could be triggered via Tasker. I think it's time to finally play with Tasker for a bit. Fingers crossed!
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