i remember a while back a fake video of a guy using a thumb print to unlock his phone.
Is there a modification that can be done so that somebody could just touch a location on the screen to unlock it? I wouldnt mind putting a fake thumb print background and having that as the unlock
I don't know of any answer to this, but a cool looking method would be that you have to hold your thumb on there for 1.5 - 2 seconds while a 'scanning bar' moves down the thumb like a photocopier.
Requiring a thumb to be held on would make it more secure against accidental unlockings in the pocket.
Calling any bored developers...
jez83uk said:
I don't know of any answer to this, but a cool looking method would be that you have to hold your thumb on there for 1.5 - 2 seconds while a 'scanning bar' moves down the thumb like a photocopier.
Requiring a thumb to be held on would make it more secure against accidental unlockings in the pocket.
Calling any bored developers...
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good idea..anybody want to attempt this?
i would be keen in using this! nice idea guys.
The purpose of S2U2 is to make people do a sliding gesture in order to unlock the phone, so that it cannot be unlocked using a simple "touch", even a long one on the screen.
So your request is just the contrary of what everybody wants S2U2 to do...
With your method, what would prevent a long un-wanted touch to be performed while the phone is in your pocket ?
Please also remember that Windows Mobile devices have, for the time being, resistive screens, unable to detect "a thumb touch"... They only can detect "one pixel at a time".
mysterd said:
The purpose of S2U2 is to make people do a sliding gesture in order to unlock the phone, so that it cannot be unlocked using a simple "touch", even a long one on the screen.
So your request is just the contrary of what everybody wants S2U2 to do...
With your method, what would prevent a long un-wanted touch to be performed while the phone is in your pocket ?
Please also remember that Windows Mobile devices have, for the time being, resistive screens, unable to detect "a thumb touch"... They only can detect "one pixel at a time".
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not sure what everybody wants S2U2 to do, if you mean what it was intended for isnt the purpose of this forum to build apps and change existing apps to further everyone's knowledge and pleasure of their phone? If you dont like the idea, no big deal dont comment.
What your saying is that something would have to press the power button on the phone and then touch a certain location for a set amount of time. I think this is highly unlikely, even more so for the people that carry their phone in a case or by itself in a empty pocket.
Im not sure what you mean by one pixel at a time, my sbp keyboard recognizes when I hold down a certain letter, so not sure how te WM would prevent this from working
You might be able to do something like this with wisbar desktop. I made something like this for a star wars image but nothing that scrolls down like you said. If any software could do it i bet on wisbar desktop. Great idea.
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not sure what everybody wants S2U2 to do, if you mean what it was intended for isnt the purpose of this forum to build apps and change existing apps to further everyone's knowledge and pleasure of their phone? If you dont like the idea, no big deal dont comment.
What your saying is that something would have to press the power button on the phone and then touch a certain location for a set amount of time. I think this is highly unlikely, even more so for the people that carry their phone in a case or by itself in a empty pocket.
Im not sure what you mean by one pixel at a time, my sbp keyboard recognizes when I hold down a certain letter, so not sure how te WM would prevent this from working
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By "one pixel at a time", i mean "one pixel at a time"... When you press a resistive screen, even with your whole thumb, in the end WinMo retrieves the coordinates of a single pixel that was "clicked". Actually the screen returns the coordinates of the pixel at the center of the pressed area (or something like that).
As for my comment, please be free to tell me i'm wrong, but please let me free to comment also
And finally, concerning the situation i describe to be likely, you're right, S2U2 was made because the situation is very likely : even with a case, it's very easy to answer a phone call or to click everywhere on an app when the phone is in the pocket.
So, no offense meant, let's all keep cool.
Have a nice day.
mysterd said:
By "one pixel at a time", i mean "one pixel at a time"... When you press a resistive screen, even with your whole thumb, in the end WinMo retrieves the coordinates of a single pixel that was "clicked". Actually the screen returns the coordinates of the pixel at the center of the pressed area (or something like that).
As for my comment, please be free to tell me i'm wrong, but please let me free to comment also
And finally, concerning the situation i describe to be likely, you're right, S2U2 was made because the situation is very likely : even with a case, it's very easy to answer a phone call or to click everywhere on an app when the phone is in the pocket.
So, no offense meant, let's all keep cool.
Have a nice day.
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thanks for the explanation. Wasn't sure what you meant.
If it recognizes one pixel at a time and you set a block of pixels as the touch point wouldn't this work.
thanks for the advice, anybody else?
You could make it look like it was scanning your thumb, but you couldn't make it really scan it. If you open up one of these touch screens it is just some metal dots on two sheets of clear plastic. They register when they are pressed together and touch. Nothing more.
I believe that Sunscape is an app that will appeal to alot of you guys.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=416843 I never tried it but I hear it has a rub to unlock feature...as well as using possible pressure points on the screen to unlock.
I've been doing alot of research about unlockers because I want to build one that like an unlocker combined with an applauncher, when you slide to unlock you basically just slide the icon you want to launch after the unlock and once the screen unlocks it opens to that program. I think it seems logical and keeps people from having to delve into the UI just to unlock and send an SMS or whatever...
I get another idea . In this version i Slide to right , who can change this for slide to left becouse i have SE Xperia X1. And slide to right it's uncomfortable for me becouse slider it's moving. If someone have this motive, please place this
So I have the LockBot Pro on my HTC Hero and was loving it over the last few weeks as I have start customizing my phone (Non-Root.) I have been using the option to swipe and then enter a 4 character numerical code to unlock the phone.
Today I happen to notice that when I bring up the lock screen where you either have to swipe and/or enter the code, instead of doing either, if I just hit the call button, it bypasses it all, therefore making the purpose of the lock screen pointless. I wanted the lock screen with the numerical pin code for security purposes, and hitting the call button to bypass is not acceptable to me.
Do I maybe have an option set incorrectly that is allowing this to occur or is this a bug in the program?
Can anyone recommend me a good, sorry, a great Lock Screen APP (Preferably) one where you can set some kind of code you must enter to unlock the phone?
Thank you,
Whiteice
Is it possible to answer the phone in a single gesture? Right now you have to unlock and then press answer. Maybe it's to prevent
pocket answering but it's a poor usability choice.
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Is it possible to answer the phone in a single gesture? Right now you have to unlock and then press answer. Maybe it's to prevent
pocket answering but it's a poor usability choice.
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u can reject call with single action..by pressing power button...i dont think u can answer with a single gesture..
Consider the patent bull**** that Apple is slinging around regarding things like "horizontal swipe to unlock" I think MS probably would have had to pay a ridiculous amount of manoy to them for something like "answer a touchscreen-based smartphone with a single gesture." <eye rolling goes here>
I've never been even slightly bothered by it, to be honest. No, you don't have to unlock the phone; that would be rather inconvenient with a password on the phone. The swipe, like all other times that it's used, is simply to prevent accidental taps from doing things. I find that after swiping, my finger is right about where it needs to be to hit Answer anyhow.
Oh, you can also reject (or at least silence) a call by hitting any of the Volume buttons.
I am required to use a PIN lock due to our Exchange settings. I've been getting around that using Enhanced Email to bypass the PIN lock requirement. I prefer to use the stock client.
Can I get Voice Commands to still work without having to open and unlock the phone. With Siri, even with the phone locked, I can simply long press the home button, Siri will respond and I can tell it to "Call John" and it will make the call, without the phone being unlocked. This is incredibly useful while driving.
With the Nexus, it seems I would need to click on the "on" button on the right, unlock the phone by entering a PIN and then tell it to "Call John". Which is a three step process requiring me to look at the phone to enter the PIN.
Am I wrong about that?
If I'm not wrong, Google really needs to find a better balance between lock screen security and performing tasks and seeing notifications.
Hi,
Since 1 year i'm dreaming about an APP but i can't find anything similar to my idea. I'm neither a developer to whrite it myself. If someone know an app similar to this idea or a framework to do the same please let me know. And sorry for my bad english.
I don't like to enter a pin, swipe a pattern, take a picture or fingerprint everytime i want to unlock my phone. I like it easy just swipe and unlock or double click screen. But after unlock there should be a timer running in the background like 10-30 sec. in this time you have to press a invisible button (user desides the location of the button). If the button is not pressed the phone lockes itself by a generated key, the key is then send to your email with login information like ip address, location and maybe a picture from both cameras. The only way to unlock it is by the key. You should also be able to wipe the phone remote and lock it by google.
There should also be a warning in the last 10 sec. when you may forget about it.
I know its maybe tricky with alarms and incoming phone calls. For alarm or incoming phone calls this feature should deactivated as the phone lockes itself anyway after you end call or cancel alarm.
I'm very shure this APP need root access, i don't care, i rootet most of my phones.
@MOD's: i hope this is the right forum to post this, if not im sorry.
Please let me know if there is an App like this. If not and someone like the idea and want to develop it just do it That would make me very happy.
Peace out
scheissegalo said:
Hi,
Since 1 year i'm dreaming about an APP but i can't find anything similar to my idea. I'm neither a developer to whrite it myself. If someone know an app similar to this idea or a framework to do the same please let me know. And sorry for my bad english.
I don't like to enter a pin, swipe a pattern, take a picture or fingerprint everytime i want to unlock my phone. I like it easy just swipe and unlock or double click screen. But after unlock there should be a timer running in the background like 10-30 sec. in this time you have to press a invisible button (user desides the location of the button). If the button is not pressed the phone lockes itself by a generated key, the key is then send to your email with login information like ip address, location and maybe a picture from both cameras. The only way to unlock it is by the key. You should also be able to wipe the phone remote and lock it by google.
There should also be a warning in the last 10 sec. when you may forget about it.
I know its maybe tricky with alarms and incoming phone calls. For alarm or incoming phone calls this feature should deactivated as the phone lockes itself anyway after you end call or cancel alarm.
I'm very shure this APP need root access, i don't care, i rootet most of my phones.
@MOD's: i hope this is the right forum to post this, if not im sorry.
Please let me know if there is an App like this. If not and someone like the idea and want to develop it just do it That would make me very happy.
Peace out
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That would not be as secure as just using a PIN/password. Anyone could randomly press the screen after swiping and get lucky enough to actually tap the invisible button to unlock it even if they don't know that the invisible button is there or where it's located.
Come up with a better idea.
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Droidriven said:
That would not be as secure as just using a PIN/password. Anyone could randomly press the screen after swiping and get lucky enough to actually tap the invisible button to unlock it even if they don't know that the invisible button is there or where it's located.
Come up with a better idea.
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The Button is not to unlock the phone. its just something i know is there but noone else because its invisible. if no button is pressed after x secounds THEN the phone will lock with a complicated key send to my email. Invisible button is just an idea, could also be a noise you have to make or whatever. the idea behind it is to make your phone like the swort from Wesley snipes in the movie blade. If you not press the button your hand get smashed. Not to smash someones Hand but to make the phone unusable same time get pictures and location of the thief.
but unlocking phone for yourself is still just a swipe. I hope you got me this time. Sorry if my english is to bad to explain what i mean.
scheissegalo said:
The Button is not to unlock the phone. its just something i know is there but noone else because its invisible. if no button is pressed after x secounds THEN the phone will lock with a complicated key send to my email. Invisible button is just an idea, could also be a noise you have to make or whatever. the idea behind it is to make your phone like the swort from Wesley snipes in the movie blade. If you not press the button your hand get smashed. Not to smash someones Hand but to make the phone unusable same time get pictures and location of the thief.
but unlocking phone for yourself is still just a swipe. I hope you got me this time. Sorry if my english is to bad to explain what i mean.
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You didn't understand.
If you locked your device and someone picked it up and tried to unlock by swiping, it would take them to the timer you mention, while the timer is counting they could randomly tap the screen and get lucky enough to tap the invisible button, EVEN IF THEY DON'T KNOW IT'S THERE OR WHAT IT DOES, then the device will be unlocked.
I'm saying they could very easily "accidently" unlock your phone
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Droidriven said:
You didn't understand.
If you locked your device and someone picked it up and tried to unlock by swiping, it would take them to the timer you mention, while the timer is counting they could randomly tap the screen and get lucky enough to tap the invisible button, EVEN IF THEY DON'T KNOW IT'S THERE OR WHAT IT DOES, then the device will be unlocked.
I'm saying they could very easily "accidently" unlock your phone
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I think you don´t understand.
the button and even the timer is unvisible. you can use the phone for x sec normally. YES maybe the thief is lucky and hit the unvisible button without knowing he did. But it won´t happen a secound time. then the phone get locked ............
anyways i would put the button in a area where you never tap, like corners.
i know this is maybe not the securest way to lock the phone but i'm lazy and i like to just swipe to unlock. it's just to have a little bit more security, i hate pin or patterns. But i see that i'm alone with that opinion