I never got into all the fancy control-your-microwave-from-your-lockscreen gadgetry. I have always preferred to use a secure lockscreen, and in that regard I have always liked the pattern lockscreen. I always see screenshots of these fancy lock ring screens, though, does anyone use the unsecure ones?
I really like the sense lockring with the 4 shortcuts. It's not secure from the point of somebody else using your phone but the shortcuts are very nice to have, especially the camera button. I have mine set to show my pictures as a changing slide show.
None.
I like to hit the volume rockers and have the phone pop up ready to use.
If that means I pocket dial someone once in a while (hasn't happened in the 6 months I've had an android) so be it.
I like the stock lockscreen
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I like the stock lock screen.
Ring makes it easy access and 4 shortcuts are convenient.
Plus it looks great.
If you are taking about the lock/unlock itself, I like the pattern lock for speed.
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I use the sense lockscreen. When I was on CM7, I liked a customized iPhone slider lockscreen with shortcuts via widgetlocker.
I use the weather sense lockscreen.
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I use the weather sense lockscreen.
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same here, i think it looks grand !!
I got tired of Stock sense unlock so I found Widget Locker from market and customized it like stock ICS unlock with time and weather info.
You can set whatever shortcuts and widgets with it and have them be usable or touch locked
Only thing it can't change from stock is the call answer/decline. They still use the HTC ring.
Together with ADW Launcher with ICS icons I have completely revamped my Sensation.
If you don't use a secure(pattern/pin/etc) lockscreen though, aren't you afraid of someone picking up your phone and reading your emails, texts, etc?
Stock for me but I do like some off them out there .... just some off them are buggy.
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If you don't use a secure(pattern/pin/etc) lockscreen though, aren't you afraid of someone picking up your phone and reading your emails, texts, etc?
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nope I got nothing to hide lol
townay said:
nope I got nothing to hide lol
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I use the lockscreen only to protect from accidentially dialing a number
I like the shortcuts to use directly without unlocking. And I have no important mails and texts on my phone...
sergeybrin said:
If you don't use a secure(pattern/pin/etc) lockscreen though, aren't you afraid of someone picking up your phone and reading your emails, texts, etc?
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First off, my phone is rarely outside of my pocket.
Second, if I were to leave it laying around, who's going to read my emails?
So no....not worried about it.
sergeybrin said:
If you don't use a secure(pattern/pin/etc) lockscreen though, aren't you afraid of someone picking up your phone and reading your emails, texts, etc?
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I never leave my phone unattended. I'm more concerned with someone stealing it than I am with them reading my email and making a twitter post in my name
The pattern/pin unlock screens are just too much work for me. It seems like I check to see if I have any new email every 5 minutes -the easier the better.
The new ICS face unlock is fun. It seems to recognize me about 80% of the time.
HTC Sensation XE Ring lock
Guys,
How to completely remove the HTC Ringlock?
Sense weather lockscreen.
sergeybrin said:
If you don't use a secure(pattern/pin/etc) lockscreen though, aren't you afraid of someone picking up your phone and reading your emails, texts, etc?
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This is the reason I have a PIN lock on mine. Use the Sense Weather lockring screen, but coupled with the PIN unlock too.
I work in a school, so don't want to risk either leaving it in a classroom by accident or having it lifted out my pocket!
using weather lockscreen
I am using the stock lockscreen, sometimes with a different background, but thats about as fancy as it gets for me
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Does anyone know a good looking lockscreen that will show you 'miss call' ?
I dont know about missed calls, but Lock Bot is an excellent replacement lockscreen that seems to work perfectly in FroYo. There are a lot of styles too.
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You could also try WidgetLocker. I wasn't a big fan of it on my Aria because it seemed laggy and I'd see the stock lockscreen a lot of times, but the Infuse appears to actually have enough power to run WidgetLocker correctly. There's all sorts of stuff you can do to modify your lockscreen with that. You could set up a WidgetLocker lockscreen and then use a widget of your choosing to display the information you want. I'm working on and off right now on designing a widget to display missed calls, unheard voicemail, unread texts, and probably some other stuff with minimalistic text. WidgetLocker isn't free though, so read up on it before you buy it. It does have some quirks.
I personly do not like the lock screen at all and I use No Lock so that as soon as I hit power it is on my home or apps. Just make sure you have Advace Task Manager ignore it.
ummm.... the stock one?!?! that shows missed calls.
How did you remove the stock lockscreen?
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I personly do not like the lock screen at all and I use No Lock so that as soon as I hit power it is on my home or apps. Just make sure you have Advace Task Manager ignore it.
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mbworldz said:
How did you remove the stock lockscreen?
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"No Lock" is the name of an app that will turn off the stock lock screen. Its in the market.
The SGS II lockscreen is nice and has it. You need a ROM with it.
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Is there a way to get notifications and reminders on the lock screen without rooting the device? If so, how? I already tried Lockscreen Calendar, but it won't work with the AT&T/Samsung lockscreen. I missed an appointment today because I never saw the reminder.
For reference, here's a recent article on Customizing Android Lockscreens.
http://maketecheasier.com/customizef-android-lockscreen-for-maximum-productivity/2011/09/17
ditto. anyone
I found a program called Nudnik, which will create a popup, turn on the screen, and can unlock the screen. But when the screen times out, you still have to get through the standard unlock screen to find the popup underneath.
I'd still like to get all of my notifications to show up on the lock screen.
Executive Assistant
I've been using Executive Assistant (free version that has very unobtrusive ads) on my SGS2. It shows missed calls and texts, emails, calendar events, voicemail. Maybe some more, but that's all I have showing. It's scrollable, too, which is nice.
It took me a bit to get it where I wanted it, but I absolutely love it. It's pretty much exactly what I was looking for in a lockscreen notification center.
I hear great things about Widgetlocker, too.
HTH
Take a look at No-LED by MADMACK
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Take a look at No-LED by MADMACK
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No-LED by MADMACK Works like a charm.
Awesome!
Why not use widgetlockscreen it only cost about 2.00 or something like that in the android market. Then you can put anything on your lockscreen.
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Is there a way to get notifications and reminders on the lock screen without rooting the device? If so, how? I already tried Lockscreen Calendar, but it won't work with the AT&T/Samsung lockscreen. I missed an appointment today because I never saw the reminder.
You can download Lock Screen Reminder, it is a free app from MobileProgressive. Download it directly from google play or slide me.
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobileprogressive.screenreminder
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What is the service called so I can freeze it?
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You cant freeze that. There is nothing to freeze.
Why not just go to the Security portion of settings and disable the lockscreen? Just dont put any pattern, pin, or anything. Then anytime you lock the screen it just powers down the screen, hit the power button and its back on, no lock screens of any kinds.
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Thanks.
But I want a lockscreen.
I use WidgetLocker and every once in awhile, I get the stock lockscreen and have to swipe it away, then I get the Widgetlocker screen immediately after and have to swipe that away also.
And a couple other buggy type gremlin stuff. Nothing serious, just bits of annoying.
So it would be easier if I could just delete or freeze the stock lockscreen.
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Thanks.
But I want a lockscreen.
I use WidgetLocker and every once in awhile, I get the stock lockscreen and have to swipe it away, then I get the Widgetlocker screen immediately after and have to swipe that away also.
And a couple other buggy type gremlin stuff. Nothing serious, just bits of annoying.
So it would be easier if I could just delete or freeze the stock lockscreen.
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Your not going to be able to freeze it because its not really an app to freeze. Its part of the android.policy.jar and framework-res.apk file. This is what the rom makers mess with when they forcing say the AOSP lockscreen.
As far as why the stock one keeps showing up, something is not right, if you set the lockscreen to none on the security settings, then the widgetlocker should be the only one showing up, you shouldnt have two lockscreens. That only happens if you have the security set to a native lockscreen and then widget locker is sitting on top of that.
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if you set the lockscreen to none on the security settings, then the widgetlocker should be the only one showing up, you shouldnt have two lockscreens. That only happens if you have the security set to a native lockscreen and then widget locker is sitting on top of that.
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Huh, if that's the way it's supposed to be done, then I wonder why WidgetLocker doesn't do it for me.
I just turned off the lockscreen in security (I think) and WidgetLocker is still working. I assumed it would be disabled also, if I turned off lockscreen. We'll see if this does the trick. Thanks.
The lockscreen settings in the settings tab only affects the original one, it cant adjust the widgetlocker one. It doesnt even know about that.
So if you removed the lockscreen from settings, it wont show the original samsung one anymore. If they still have Widgetlocker installed and enabled, it will then be your lockscreen. If you dont want that, then you need to disable Widgetlocker and either get another one you like or put the samsung one back on since you said you still want some type of lock screen, otherwise you wont have any lock screen, just a screen power off.
The lockscreen apps unfortunately cant modify the existing base OS code, they litterally just sit on top of the existing one and sort of inject themselves in there by you giving them the default. But if the stock/samsung one is enabled it still goes into effect, thats why you end up with two lockscreens. So basically you need to enable just one of them.
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Your not going to be able to freeze it because its not really an app to freeze. Its part of the android.policy.jar and framework-res.apk file. This is what the rom makers mess with when they forcing say the AOSP lockscreen.
As far as why the stock one keeps showing up, something is not right, if you set the lockscreen to none on the security settings, then the widgetlocker should be the only one showing up, you shouldnt have two lockscreens. That only happens if you have the security set to a native lockscreen and then widget locker is sitting on top of that.
Dixit
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Yeah, that works up until a reboot. Then the stock one pops up again
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Yeah, that works up until a reboot. Then the stock one pops up again
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Yep, it looks like you can disable any security settings that pertain to the default lockscreen. Like removing a pin, or special drawing function to unlock.
But it doesn't actually remove the lockscreen itself.
So I tried "No Lock":
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...nolock&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
This completely disables the default lockscreen.
But on reboot, you still see the lockscreen for like two seconds, then it goes away on its own.
I'll try this combo with WidgetLocker for awhile to see how it works. So far so good, but the real test will be over a few days use.
Sometimes that stock lock screen would come up when I bring the phone out of deep sleep. It's fairly rare, just enough to be a small annoyance.
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Yep, it looks like you can disable any security settings that pertain to the default lockscreen. Like removing a pin, or special drawing function to unlock.
But it doesn't actually remove the lockscreen itself.
So I tried "No Lock":
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...nolock&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
This completely disables the default lockscreen.
But on reboot, you still see the lockscreen for like two seconds, then it goes away on its own.
I'll try this combo with WidgetLocker for awhile to see how it works. So far so good, but the real test will be over a few days use.
Sometimes that stock lock screen would come up when I bring the phone out of deep sleep. It's fairly rare, just enough to be a small annoyance.
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Are you on a rom with 14 toggle? If It has a locksreen toggle, thats what I used when I used golocker. It never showed stock, except on a reboot.
This is probably the most noob question ever, but, how can I make the weather appear on my lockscreen? I can only find widgets to add to the panel when you swipe to the left from the lockscreen. I don't want to have to swipe to the side, I just want to see it when I turn the screen on.
I use the pattern lockscreen, but see the attached picture for the type of weather display I'm trying to get.
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Nevermind,
Realized there is a CM10 widget with all the goodies on it. I had installed Lockscreen Policy and turned widgets off, doh.
However, if anyone knows a way to disable the slide to the left and still only have the one CM10 widget screen, I'd appreciate that info!
Thanks.
That's the Chronus widget but it was recently renamed to cLock due to to legal reasons.. Im not sure what you mean by slide thing though.. Can you elaborate?
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I remember having lock screen notifications using ICS on my old Xperia T. It would show text, Facebook, calls, etc on the lock screen.
Does anyone know a decent mod or app to use for enabling lock screen notifications?
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I think we'll have to wait until android l
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Starlith said:
I remember having lock screen notifications using ICS on my old Xperia T. It would show text, Facebook, calls, etc on the lock screen.
Does anyone know a decent mod or app to use for enabling lock screen notifications?
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Hi there been trying loads over the weekend, all the ios7 etc, an awful lot of them have flaws like letting access to the phone through the recent app button. there have been several plus sides as well. At the moment i have found this app "Echo Notification Lockscreen" on the play store. I have also added "iControl(IOS 7 Partner)" but again there were limitations not all the actions will work with this lock screen.
The ultimate which i've not managed was an IOs lock screen (that was actually secure) that let you reply to text messages (and others) without having to unlock the phone (1 app did that but wasn't secure).
Try to use Nils from Google play
Hi again, just a bit more info. I have had another go today at finding the best solution. several sms apps will display on the lock screen but then disapear after a set time, no good if you missed it as it arrived.
I have been playing with the Nils app before and I am unable to get contact pictures to display next to messages, even after trying several sms apps and being in touch with the developer.
But the best I've managed so far is as follows. A app called iOS 7 Lock Screen Theme by huntdevs gives a plain lock screen which can slide to reveal a pin code screen. On the plain screen you can then use NiLS Lockscreen Notifications by Roymam this will then display sms and other notifications on the lockscreen, these remain on the screen untill opened, even if the screen times out and is turned back on manually, furthermore you have the ability to reply to them from within the app whilst still locked.
Warning as I said earlier there is a facility to disable the home button but the recent app button is still active meaning that any apps used recently have the ability to be opened without unlocking the phone. Further more the pin lock screen gives you access to the emergenecy dial function and sadly again where as the default lock screen will only let you dial an emergency number, this app will let you see all of your contacts and further more dial any number you want!!
One final thing the ios7 locker does give you access to the functions of the Iphone from the slide at the bottom of the screen and for me the added advantage of this app over several of the others is that the phone function icon is missing (all be it available through the emergency function).
hope tihs helps.
I use NiLS. I purchased the pro version so i can customize it to my liking and for the ads not to draw my data. It works like a charm, instant, and looks almost stock.
I have attached an image for an example.
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I use NiLS. I purchased the pro version so i can customize it to my liking and for the ads not to draw my data. It works like a charm, instant, and looks almost stock.
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Hi there I see you have the same issue as I have experienced the App refuses to show the contact picture (unless of course you don't use them).
On a further note i have had to uninstall the iOS7 lockscreen, apart from the issues already mentioned, a big down side for me turned out that the app kills sound from the walkman app when the screen goes off, so listening to music, throwing to a sound bar or linking to a car Bluetooth are all muted. So again im back to stock lockscreen with just the Nils app over the top for indication only.
When i first installed the app it would show the users image. I didn't like it so I changed it to App Icon. Oddly, i tried to switch it tot he other 2 settings, and now it does't appear. .. oh well i am not really worried about it. I like the basic icon look instead of the pictures.
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I use NiLS. I purchased the pro version so i can customize it to my liking .
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Is that how you have the default sony clock with the nils notifications in your picture?
lebooo said:
Is that how you have the default sony clock with the nils notifications in your picture?
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The clock and lock screen is all sony stock. NiLS will just add the notification over whatever lock screen you have.
Will it work with a PIN locked screen? There's not much space for notifications actually so I wonder how it would look.
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Will it work with a PIN locked screen? There's not much space for notifications actually so I wonder how it would look.
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It doesn't the lock screen always starts maximized, Dash clock used to have the option to just have a padlock at the bottom of the screen so your information was always visible when turning on the phone but the latest version of that always starts with the lock pattern or number pad visible and you have to swipe down every time to view notifications and then back up again to unlock your device (there all a pain now with extra strokes needed to use them)
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I use NiLS. I purchased the pro version so i can customize it to my liking and for the ads not to draw my data. It works like a charm, instant, and looks almost stock.
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How come when I use nils on my stock I have to resize the clock to see notification?
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How come when I use nils on my stock I have to resize the clock to see notification?
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Odd, I know you can resize/change the location of the NiLS. When you have a NiLS message on your lock screen, tap and hold down on the notification to adjust (i had to adjust mine because when it was charging the notification would be on top of the charging percentage)
After installing again and play around I knew my original mistake. Just do not add nils as lockscreen widget. Let nils display notification automatically then I can resize.
BTW will this lockscreen feature notification be part of Android L? Just thinking on buying the nils pro version.
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