HI,
Is there a way to really lock the phone from dialing last number? I mean,if I forgot to lock the phone and put the phone in my pocket. It dials my last number. Is there a way to prevent that besides remembering to lock the phone first.
Also, if its locked in my pocket, can the screen or buttons have a slighter delay from coming on to slide and unlock. I am trying to keep a longer battery life
Lastly, when I am on a call, and I press OK on the call and end up on the main menu while putting the phone back to my face, my face seems like it clicking on stuff. Is there a cab or tool to fix that so when you put the phone back to your face it does not start to engaged stuff.
Thanks
richsark said:
HI,
Is there a way to really lock the phone from dialing last number? I mean,if I forgot to lock the phone and put the phone in my pocket. It dials my last number. Is there a way to prevent that besides remembering to lock the phone first.
Also, if its locked in my pocket, can the screen or buttons have a slighter delay from coming on to slide and unlock. I am trying to keep a longer battery life
Lastly, when I am on a call, and I press OK on the call and end up on the main menu while putting the phone back to my face, my face seems like it clicking on stuff. Is there a cab or tool to fix that so when you put the phone back to your face it does not start to engaged stuff.
Thanks
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hi, is my question not valid? or am i not explaining it correctly?
1. I think it's easier to just remembering press the "hang up red button" before you put it in your pocket. It is that simple which you do not need an app for that.
2. By doing that will probably not save you much battery power imo.
3. There is a distance detector built-in right next to the battery charging indicator. Your screen is supposed to lock when you picked up a call and put the phone close to your face.
You can do a simple test just to cover the sensor or detector while you are on the phone with others. If your screen does not lock and goes completely blank, there is probably a problem with the sensor.
Hope these help.
zerglisk said:
1. I think it's easier to just remembering press the "hang up red button" before you put it in your pocket. It is that simple which you do not need an app for that.
2. By doing that will probably not save you much battery power imo.
3. There is a distance detector built-in right next to the battery charging indicator. Your screen is supposed to lock when you picked up a call and put the phone close to your face.
You can do a simple test just to cover the sensor or detector while you are on the phone with others. If your screen does not lock and goes completely blank, there is probably a problem with the sensor.
Hope these help.
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Thank you ! I understand
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So my buddy was just showing me his iPhone and one thing I LOVE and ENVY... He puts the phone to his ear and the keypad locks out...pulls it away? Comes back on (in order to dial for automated systems)
Could we set something up like this using the accelerometer? Perhaps when it lies flat-X number degrees, screen is on?
Know this *could* be an applications, however, being it is something that would need to be integrated into the OS itself, figured I would post it here. Mods move accordingly. Thx!
the iPhone has a..for lack of a better term... "Proximity sensor" that let's it know your head is close to the phone, I don't think you can simulate that with just an accelerometer. People aren't always standing upright while answering the phone.
The G1, in case you didn't notice, does do something similar, it turns off the screen so your ear doesn't accidentally do something, and if you have the lock set up you have to unlock the phone if you want to do anything other than use the keypad.
punkzanyj said:
the iPhone has a..for lack of a better term... "Proximity sensor" that let's it know your head is close to the phone, I don't think you can simulate that with just an accelerometer. People aren't always standing upright while answering the phone.
The G1, in case you didn't notice, does do something similar, it turns off the screen so your ear doesn't accidentally do something, and if you have the lock set up you have to unlock the phone if you want to do anything other than use the keypad.
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Suppose you're right, but I loathe having to unlock it every 5 seconds to enter new numbers. Perhaps an adjustable time-out? The time it takes to auto lock seems way too short.
momentarylapseofreason said:
Suppose you're right, but I loathe having to unlock it every 5 seconds to enter new numbers. Perhaps an adjustable time-out? The time it takes to auto lock seems way too short.
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Wouldn't your cheek make a much larger contact then a finger? I would think the most efficient would be to have the screen not recognize an large prolonged touch.
That and have it display the keypad to begin with and not lock.
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the iPhone has a..for lack of a better term... "Proximity sensor" that let's it know your head is close to the phone, I don't think you can simulate that with just an accelerometer. People aren't always standing upright while answering the phone.
The G1, in case you didn't notice, does do something similar, it turns off the screen so your ear doesn't accidentally do something, and if you have the lock set up you have to unlock the phone if you want to do anything other than use the keypad.
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The Diamond and Omnia use a light sensor to turn off or lock the screen. When you hold the phone up to your head while in a call, the light sensor, which is next to the earpiece, is covered, and the phone turns the screen off.
Unfortunately, the G1 does not have a light sensor. Which is kind of weird, since almost all HTC devices are shipping with one these days.
On the G1 when you're on the call screen the only thing you can touch is the little tab on the bottom that brings up the dialer... Unless you're doing something really odd in your phone call your face probably isn't going to accidentally swipe it enough to have the dialer come up. Which brings me to the point that locking the phone when it goes to a phone call is completely unnecessary.
When my phone rings, the screen turns on. It doesn't matter if I lock ir or not. The Answer and Ignore buttons are still pressable on the screen. Is there any registry setting I can change to make it so the screen stays locked when the phone rings?
I still want to have the option of pressing the Answer and Ignore physical buttons on my phone, but I keep accidently hitting answer or ignore on my screen when pulling the phone out of my pocket.
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If you install ACs Slide 2 Unlock then you will need to slide to answer or ignore a call. Should stoip the accidental pressing of on screen buttons.
That is not an option. It cuts my standby battery life down to half a day. w/o it I can standby w/o recharging for about a week including phone calls. I probably only talk on the phone a few hours a week though.
BTW I failed to mention that I am on WM6.1
What exactly what you like to do?
If you use a regular dialer the phone will turn on anyways.
If you want something else, like S2U2.. you'll have to accept it's requirements.
Tho, I'm not aware of the battery drain issue. my phone's running S2U2 and it's fine.
try playing with the preferences.
I've really enjoyed my Skyrocket (switched from iPhone 4), but I have to say by far my biggest complaint since using this phone is trying to talk on the phone. I can't talk two minutes without suddenly hitting a bunch of keypad keys, making all kinds of beeping noises, which then typically mutes the line. I take the phone away from my face, wait for the screen to return from black (typically takes about 5 seconds), then I go back and unmute the phone and return to talking. Or it just puts them on hold. This is such a prolific problem that I find myself screaming profanities at my phone on a daily basis lol. It's really extremely frustrating. My google-fu has lead me to NO answers, which amazes me because I figure this HAS to be more common of a problem. I've tried holding my phone so many different ways - making sure my face is making contact with the whole phone and pressing hard, holding just the top half to my ear and holding lightly, attempting to make no contact at all - no matter what I try, I still hit this problem an unfortunate number of times per conversation. Is there no app in the market that tries to improve face-touch recognition or anything like that?
When you make the call push the power button to lock it
xcrazydx said:
When you make the call push the power button to lock it
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Oh. See, on the iPhone, that ends the call, so I didn't think of that. Thanks!
mrmonkey3319 said:
Oh. See, on the iPhone, that ends the call, so I didn't think of that. Thanks!
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There is a setting to make the power button end the call as well
shouldn't his proximity sensor kick in? When i make a phone call, as soon as i put the phone to my face the screen shuts off
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shouldn't his proximity sensor kick in? When i make a phone call, as soon as i put the phone to my face the screen shuts off
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Yeah that works fine on mine. He may have disabled the sensor in settings, or it wasn't on by default for some reason
Settings/Call/Turn on Proximity Sensor.
If this is checked off your screen should go dark when you put your face up to it (and no buttons getting pushed...)
Is it possible to wake up the phone by touching the fingerprint sensor? On other phones (e.g. nexus 5x or honor 8)
it is very nice because it is very quickly and you don't have to push the home button or power button.
It must be possible to do it on galaxy s6?!
Download always on amoled and turn off clock in app settings. Minimal battery drain.
Thx, but 10 % accu drain per hour is not good.
when you take a phone, press middle button, a phone turns on and unlock, what's wrong with that? maybe you press twice?
That's it. I don't want to press twice. On other phones it is possible without pressing.
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That's it. I don't want to press twice. On other phones it is possible without pressing.
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you don't need to press twice, press once and keep finger for +1s, phone turns on and unlocks.
I don't want to press anything. Just put my finger on the fingerprint. I understand... It isn't possible.
is your phone rooted? install macrodroid and find macro template called Ultimate Jedi Handwave. also in macrodroid settings go to trigger options / proximity sensor trigger and tick Work With Screen Off.
now you don't even have to touch you phone, just do a Jedi handwave over your phone and screen will turn on to the lockscreen. if no lock you get to homescreen just by waving over phone. pretty neat. proximity sensor triger with screen off will drain some battery, but a little playing with macro's and you can set phone to go to battery saver on when screen is off and vice versa.
will post photos later today.
Isn't rooted. Hand wave over the phone is allready possible by stock rom. I don't like it.
Sounds like you already know what you want isn't possible on stock, I do agree having it on the nexus's is nice but given this fingerprint reader is now 2 years old there's not anything that can be done via stock. I'm pretty sure if rumors are to be correct the S8 will have this functionality though
Damn... I thought it would be possible with an app or something else. Maybe with an Nougat Update?! It is only a software problem, isn't it?!
I got the Galaxy S22 Ultra in July of this year and since then, it has dialed emergency number more than 5 times. I have no idea how to stop it. I have:
a) Removed the phone dialer icon from lock screen.
b) Unchecked the Emergency SOS option.
c) Unchecked the "Wake Screen on double tap".
But, for some reason, the screen still keeps waking up when the phone is in my pocket and particularly when I am going up/down the stairs or on a treadmill. The second observation is that it does not dial 911 but dials 112. Then I get a call from the emergency responders and I have to explain to them about the phone.
Phone is non-rooted, Android 12 and upgraded to Android 13. Problem happens on both.
I have searched on Google but cannot find anything relevant. I have no idea how to stop the phone from dialing emergency number. Please help...
Prior to S22 Ultra, I has S20+ and it never dialed emergency number.
Thanks,
Arun
check whether the power button have issues. check by dialing *#0*# and tap on SUB KEY.
rahulkr0507 said:
check whether the power button have issues. check by dialing *#0*# and tap on SUB KEY.
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What is supposed to happen? When I pressed the SUB KEY, the phone screen turned a bright grey. Pressing the back button, the screen turned bright purple. Pressing the back button second time brought back to the original screen.
If I dial *#0*# and press the power button, the screen turns bright red. Then pressing back button turns the screen bright purple and pressing back button second time takes me back to the original menu screen.
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Does it turn red without pressing the power key, just wait few seconds to check whether its happening, because if there is a problem with the key then definitely the screen changes to red by itself.
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Does it turn red without pressing the power key, just wait few seconds to check whether its happening, because if there is a problem with the key then definitely the screen changes to red by itself.
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It does not turn red by itself. I waited couple of minutes.
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Type in settings SOS, under Safety and you will find an option to press power button to call 911, you can turn it off there.
It is already off but the phone still dials emergency number. It did so again yesterday. I was just standing and watching TV and phone was in my pocket. On closer inspection, I am seeing that the phone dials 112 and NOT 911. 112 is also considered an emergency number.
This has been happening once/twice a month ever since I got this phone. I have turned off every possible emergency dialing but it still does so.
Someone told me that these phones have a feature that when they detect certain type of movement, they assume that the person is in an accident or has fallen down and they will dial emergency number and there is no way to stop it. This is super dumb IMHO.
From what you're describing it seems that the screen gets turned on randomly and it also accepts interaction even though the phone is in the pocket.
I have no idea why would the screen turn on (and allow touch interactions) when it's in the pocket.
Do you have a screen protector/cover or similar that might "simulate"touches ? or maybe a case that pushes some of the buttons on the side ?
You are absolutely correct about screen turning on randomly. Many times, when I pull the phone out of pocket, I see that its screen is on and dialer is on emergency call screen. It would only take one touch to dial the emergency number.
I do not have any screen protector, only cover. The cover is Spigen and I cannot see a way that it would simulate screen touch. The power key on the cover is recessed to prevent accidental press.
I have another theory. I have configured Samsung wallet and this wallet can be activated by screen swipe from bottom to top. Even when screen is totally off, a swipe from bottom to top activates the wallet and card shows up. This wakes up the screen and brings up all the menus etc. including provision to dial emergency number. I am not sure if friction between pocket and phone screen is causing to launch this screen.
The only problem with this theory is that I had the same setup on S20 without any issues. But on S20, I always used screen protector which might have reduced the touch sensitivity. On the S22, I have tried couple of screen protectors including many brand names and they just do not stay.
Go ahead and test your theory by switching off your swipe gesture for your samsung wallet and see if that'll do it.
I had this exact same problem several times on my Samsung Galaxy S21 5G. Has absolutely nothing to do with the Emergency SOS feature. Mine would call 911 with my phone in my pocket while mowing my lawn...very embarrassing to tell an LEO at high alert barging into your backyard that yeah, you really are okay...maybe hot and in need of a beer, but essentially okay.
What's happening is you have Double Tap to Turn On Screen enabled. A double tap in your pocket or bag will open the lock screen, expose the soft key for making an Emergency Call, and ultimately a couple more unfortunately well placed taps will place the call to 911. Apparently this has become a huge problem nationwide since the Android 13 update late last year. To disable it, in the phone Settings, go to Advanced Features, Motions and Gestures, and turn off Double Tap to Turn On Screen.
markarin said:
I had this exact same problem several times on my Samsung Galaxy S21 5G. Has absolutely nothing to do with the Emergency SOS feature. Mine would call 911 with my phone in my pocket while mowing my lawn...very embarrassing to tell an LEO at high alert barging into your backyard that yeah, you really are okay...maybe hot and in need of a beer, but essentially okay.
What's happening is you have Double Tap to Turn On Screen enabled. A double tap in your pocket or bag will open the lock screen, expose the soft key for making an Emergency Call, and ultimately a couple more unfortunately well placed taps will place the call to 911. Apparently this has become a huge problem nationwide since the Android 13 update late last year. To disable it, in the phone Settings, go to Advanced Features, Motions and Gestures, and turn off Double Tap to Turn On Screen.
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I had already disabled double tap before posting here, but it was still dialing 911. Finally, I have put a screen protector film on and did NOT increase the screen touch sensitivity. Normally protective film manufacturers recommend increasing screen touch sensitivity after installing the film. Since then, it has not dialed 911 (knock on wood).