so i swear, it worked before.....and when it first boots up it works...but after the screen goes off and comes back in, i can't pull the bar down on the lock screen....wtf? there must be a setting somewhere, right?
It really does work as far as a setting for it I have no idea
you know what? i think it's only hwen you don't have a sim card installed. whenever i do, it seems it works, but once i take it out, it won't let me! that's so crazy lol
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I am noticing that I occasionally get a notification (ring/vibrate) which results in a blank icon. I even installed a task manager to see what was running and killed everything 1 by 1 but the blank remains.
It only goes away with a reboot. There is no apparent pattern to it's appearance though.
Ideas anyone?
That's just your phone telling you that everything is fine and not to worry about it...
entropism said:
That's just your phone telling you that everything is fine and not to worry about it...
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Haha.. It's not really a problem, persay, other than taking up a spot where I could quickly see relevant info.
Just makes me have to pull down the Notification Bar to see the other ones.
Do you have status notes?
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Do you have status notes?
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Yes. Good call. I uninstalled it and the blank space went away.
Thanks for the help!
I was trying a great lock widget WigdetLocker lately on my evo froyo. But I noticed one thing I dont really like, hope it's just me not how to setup correctly, hope you guys can help me out.
I realized the app i was on before lock, it's gone after unlocking. For example, I was commenting some friends status on facebook, maybe have to leave for a min, then widget locked my screen, then i came back, and unlock the phone. it just leaded me back to home screen. it's really different from what i used to before i installed widget. I mean, unlock the phone, sense just directly backed to the app before phone locked.
So it's just me, who didnt setup correctly, or it's some con the widget has for current widget. Anyone can provide some help please?
screen timeout .. look in there in settings ......
dgattenb said:
screen timeout .. look in there in settings ......
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I checked, there is no something i can set there to fix my problem.
I didnt say something wrong with screen timeout. The problem I have now is that when I unlock the phone(under widgetlocker), it cannot bring me back to the screen i was before i locked phone, or phone automatically locked.
i also have widgetlocker running on my evo and it takes me back to whatever app i was in before the the screen turned off. that is how it worked for me right away, i didnt have to change any settings to get it like that. if i were you i would try uninstalling the app then installing it again and seeing if it performs properly after that
I tried uninstalling this program but the skull unlock screen is still on my phone.. how can i get it back to the factory unlock screen.
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SILLY ME... it was a different app
Hello,
I set my phone up to use the screen lock pattern option but now I cant seem to get rid of it. I was having problems with NoLED and thought the screen lock was interfering with it so I disabled it but even now when I turn my screen off and on it asked for my pattern. I have to put it in but it no longer seems animated.
Obviously this would be a bug and what I need to do to disable the screen lock now?
Whew! You gave me a bit of a scare just now.
I hadn't set a lock pattern yet, so I did to test this for you. Sure enough, I got the same thing as you.
Set a lock pattern, then un-set it by selecting "none" in the Settings/Security/Screen Unlock section. I was still getting the unlock pattern even though it was supposedly non.
I managed to turn it off by going through the set a new pattern process, then setting it to none after confirming the new pattern. Give that a try.
The other thing you might try is to switch it to a pin and see if the pin can be turned off. (I haven't tried that.)
A 4 day NS user and I didn't even know about noled. What a cool idea to fix the annoying no led problem. Thanks for leading me to the app.
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A 4 day NS user and I didn't even know about noled. What a cool idea to fix the annoying no led problem. Thanks for leading me to the app.
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Yeah it is, worked well until I added a few more apps. So if you dont have many apps it works well. There must be a conflict somewhere but cant be bothered trying to figure out what other app is affecting it, still might be the phone lock as well. It could also be gingerbread, NoLED might not be updated for it.
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Whew! You gave me a bit of a scare just now.
I hadn't set a lock pattern yet, so I did to test this for you. Sure enough, I got the same thing as you.
Set a lock pattern, then un-set it by selecting "none" in the Settings/Security/Screen Unlock section. I was still getting the unlock pattern even though it was supposedly non.
I managed to turn it off by going through the set a new pattern process, then setting it to none after confirming the new pattern. Give that a try.
The other thing you might try is to switch it to a pin and see if the pin can be turned off. (I haven't tried that.)
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Thanks for that, did the same as you and turned it off. NoLED seems to work properly again. Looks like the lock affects NoLED.
I'm not sure what the deal is with the phone, but I'm still able to to use the phone when it's "locked". By that I mean, when it has the ring lock that u pull up to unlock the phone I'm still able to pull the notification bar down and get to stuff. Due to this, whenever someone texts or calls or anything, the phone isn't truly locked and I will be typing gibberish in my pocket or accidently calling people and navigating to weird things. It is extremely annoying. I'm assuming this can be solved if I put a passworded lockscreen but I don't want to have to type something in everytime I turn the screen on.
2nd problem is while on the phone w/ someone the phone is still very active. While talking on the phone w/ it up against my ear I am doing the same thing...navigating to things, I have accidently called someone on 3 way, just things that shouldn't be happening. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can do? I'm unlocked and rooted w/ the OTA ICS.
My last phone you couldn't turn off, reboot, or change network settings while the phone is locked. This is a very useful feature as if your phone "walks away" tracking cannot be disabled so as long as your battery is not dead you have full tracking abilities.
I did notice this feature seems to work with GPS. If you try to toggle, it will prompt for a password but that alone isn't enough to track it. I need to lock mobile data as well. I could probly just remove it from my notification tray but that is an inconvenience as I do use that toggle.
Any Ideas?
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My last phone you couldn't turn off, reboot, or change network settings while the phone is locked. This is a very useful feature as if your phone "walks away" tracking cannot be disabled so as long as your battery is not dead you have full tracking abilities.
I did notice this feature seems to work with GPS. If you try to toggle, it will prompt for a password but that alone isn't enough to track it. I need to lock mobile data as well. I could probly just remove it from my notification tray but that is an inconvenience as I do use that toggle.
Any Ideas?
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Not all devices have added those as all it takes to beat them is removing the sim card and all android devices will reboot if the power button is held for an extended time.
Well I thought about the reboot and it will boot back up so I didn't see that as a problem. Didn't think about the sim card though. Well lets just hope if someone gets a hold of my phone they won't think about it either. Anything I can do to make it harder is still worth it.
Oh well. If someone has a way to make this happen please share. I don't even know if its something I can make happen with an app or by editing anything in the android system. I will keep looking in the mean time.
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Well I thought about the reboot and it will boot back up so I didn't see that as a problem. Didn't think about the sim card though. Well lets just hope if someone gets a hold of my phone they won't think about it either. Anything I can do to make it harder is still worth it.
Oh well. If someone has a way to make this happen please share. I don't even know if its something I can make happen with an app or by editing anything in the android system. I will keep looking in the mean time.
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I can tell you that there are 3 steps when a device is stolen and the first one is remove the battery and the second is remove the sim card so no one can call it. the 3rd step is resetting it.
You will need a custom rom to get those options.
If you care about security too much, I would say never unlock your bootloader.
Its so easy to keep pressing the power button and reboot to bootloader and flash stuff to access your memory (With unlocked bootloader of course)
But with locked BL, they have to erase the storage in order to unlock it and do stuff. So, if security is a big concern to you, its good to always keep it locked.