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Hey guys, I search but came up empty. Is there a way to flash an Eclair or Flan lockscreen on damageless' 2.1 rom? If so can someone provide a link where to get it.
Thanks in advance
officer629 said:
Hey guys, I search but came up empty. Is there a way to flash an Eclair or Flan lockscreen on damageless' 2.1 rom? If so can someone provide a link where to get it.
Thanks in advance
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The Flan has already been addressed. But the Eclair... I would love to have an Eclair lockscreen...
So would I, but my biggest thing besides looks is the quick silent mode. I didn't pull anything up on Flan either though.... Do you have a link?
http://geekfor.me/fixes/vanilla-lockscreen/
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http://geekfor.me/fixes/vanilla-lockscreen/
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Thanks... Hopefully Eclair will be ported over soon
I don't know why people are still using the term "Flan", as both lockscreens are Eclair, but just two different versions of Eclair. Anyways, the lockscreens are built into the actual android framework, so the only way to get the 2.0 lockscreen is to use a 2.0 rom. If you use the new 2.1 roms you will only be able to use the new Eclair lockscreen ( the fix that was posted up in the thread will fix it in the new HTC roms). There was no porting involved, it was only fixing the layout because HTC broke it. I'm not flaming, just getting the information out there
No, I know, just didn't know how to differentiate the two.
Sorry for the silly question but what do the options on these other lockscreens actually do? I've only used the default sprint sliding lock screen. I'm guessing you press the padlock to unlock. Does sliding the bar still work? The emergency call button makes sense. What does the speaker button do? And the battery button, isn't there a battery level already on the lock screen? My searches just result in talking about how to get various screens. I couldn't find out how they function.
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Sorry for the silly question but what do the options on these other lockscreens actually do? I've only used the default sprint sliding lock screen. I'm guessing you press the padlock to unlock. Does sliding the bar still work? The emergency call button makes sense. What does the speaker button do? And the battery button, isn't there a battery level already on the lock screen? My searches just result in talking about how to get various screens. I couldn't find out how they function.
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you slide the pad lock right to unlock, slide the speaker left to mute the sounds. The only thing the htc screen i know of has over this one is that the htc you have the options for music(change song etc.)
Hello guys, i just bought a HTC Desire S and.. i have some issues
1. What do i have to do to view only phone no. when i press the phone button from main screen ??
2. When i press home button does my apps close ?? Or they are still running ?
3. The battery needs to be formated ?
4. And at messages (SMS) how can i make them more like iphone style.. i mean that the messages that i get from other person to have diffrent color... dunno smth like that... can i highlght them somehow ?
i hope that i am not doing smth bad asking this questions ^^
TY!
mariuck said:
Hello guys, i just bought a HTC Desire S and.. i have some issues
1. What do i have to do to view only phone no. when i press the phone button from main screen ??
2. When i press home button does my apps close ?? Or they are still running ?
3. The battery needs to be formated ?
4. And at messages (SMS) how can i make them more like iphone style.. i mean that the messages that i get from other person to have diffrent color... dunno smth like that... can i highlght them somehow ?
i hope that i am not doing smth bad asking this questions ^^
TY!
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1) Not sure what you mean by this exactly, just start pressing keys?
2) No, when you press home button applications don't close, they're left running, you do not have to worry about closing applications on gingerbread, use the Back button to exit applications rather than the home button if you want to close them.
3) the battery only needs formatting after installing/flashing new ROMS. To re-calibrate battery you need to be root.
4) you can get this by installing/flashing any of the custom ROMs which contain Sense v3.0 components (including the messaging apk), LBC MOD ROM has this.
To add to ben's response to number 4, if you don't have root, the third party sms app called Handcent is very good and can be configured to look like the iphone speech bubble text string. It has loads of options.
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thx a lot guys
at no 1 i was referring at the fact that when u want to dial a phone no. u press the button "Phone" from the main screen on the bar from the buttom of the screen.. and when i enter into phone i see my contacts twice.. one time from my phone and one time from my SIM card.. and it's kinda annoyng..
anyway thx a lot for answers
LE: can we install iGO on Android phones ?
I believe that you can use the view option in the people application to disable the viewing of sim contacts, although I personally only have google contacts and no sim or phone ones.
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So i was thinking of disabling the ring lock screen on sensation so that when you turn on the screen, it takes you to home right away.
For now, there is no such an option to permanently disable it. But i realized that a lot of third-party software have this ability. For example, if u try Go SMS PRO, it gives u an option to pop up a window when you get a new txt which bypasses the lock screen, meaning that you will not see the ring lock screen when the phone is turned on.
So i am sure there is a way to tweak the sensation to get rid of the lock screen. At the very least, we can trace how GO SMS does this and make a small program or patch out of it....
but is there any one who knows how to do so?
Wait for CM7
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Isn't there widget called "No lock" or something like that.... I thought that worked, not sure though, I do like that ring lockscreen.
Try this ?
I remember uninstalling a lockscreen on a sensless Rom thru titanium backup. Try it out but make sure to back it up first.
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Isn't there widget called "No lock" or something like that.... I thought that worked, not sure though, I do like that ring lockscreen.
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Correct. I've been using No Lock since my HD2. Works great.
I just turn it OFF using Elixir 'Lock' switch and then using the 'Lock Screen Widget' to soft OFF & can use volume or power button to turn ON
no lock works fine. but im wondering how much battery it drains while its running in the background....
Ders is a way to disable it. Go to system/app and look for htclockscreen.apk and rename it to htclockscreen.bck this disables it and give u the orignal android lockscreen and if u wish to go back to sense 3 lockscreen simply rename the .bck back to .apk
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Ders is a way to disable it. Go to system/app and look for htclockscreen.apk and rename it to htclockscreen.bck this disables it and give u the orignal android lockscreen and if u wish to go back to sense 3 lockscreen simply rename the .bck back to .apk
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but i dont want any lock screens at all
I just downloaded the No Lock app and trying it out. It seems to work great for disabling the ring lock screen, at least it seems like I have found some a way to not have to fight to unlock my Sensation right now.
Does it also remove the PIN lock screen as well? I just want to get rid of the unnecessary ring screen, but still want security on my phone.
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Does it also remove the PIN lock screen as well? I just want to get rid of the unnecessary ring screen, but still want security on my phone.
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I just tested all three methods of security and yes with the pattern, pin, and password the No Lock disables all of them. So when you are using No Lock your device will not lock in any way unless you doable No Lock. Or if you use the lock widget it will look your device but it ask for administrative rights first.
Now there might be another app out there that will disable just the default lock screen but still allow you to use the pin, pattern, or the password. But if you still want some security you can try Smart App Protector (app lock). It is on the Android market and it is free. It allows you to lock any application you want to be secure with a pin, pattern, or password. I am about to test it out myself.
If you're using Android Revolution HD there are files you can flash to disable it
I tried No Lock, but nuked it after trying it out.
It had the function I wanted but had a bad (for me) sideeffect.
On incoming call, I reached down in my pocket and one or two of my
sausagefingers accidentally denied the call while picking the phone out
of my pocket. Everytime.
My Alzheimerbrain just could'nt remember to pick up the phone gently-ish.
So I'm doomed to be semibound by phone.
As title says, after moding my DS with latest VOIDU mod, when i get called, i first have to unclock my phone and then i can accept call, which before, on stock rom, when call came, i didnt have to unlock it first, i could answer it straight away with touching my screen.
Any help available?
Doesn't sense 3.0 have the answer and decline circles instead of the four shortcuts. Are you sure you're not unlocking instead of dragging the icons. I don't get many calls so can't help you more than that. Sorry
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As title says, after moding my DS with latest VOIDU mod, when i get called, i first have to unclock my phone and then i can accept call, which before, on stock rom, when call came, i didnt have to unlock it first, i could answer it straight away with touching my screen.
Any help available?
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It's sense 3.0 lockscreen. You aren't unlocking your phone. You are answering the call + unlocking at the same time.
Ohh, yeah, i had turned on Android lockscreen and i had that security pin drawing thingie so i guess it wasnt compatible with sense3..
Thank you guys.
What do I need to do to have the pattern lock be the only lock screen I have? I removed the sense lock screen but that puts the ics lock screen first and then the pattern unlock which is a complete waste of time.
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Sense lock and pattern
Unfortunately I don't see a way to disable the HTC Sense lock since it it the only thing that protects the phones from input. You will have to unlock Sense before you can use whatever security settings you have applied.
The only thing I could see as a possiblity is removing the HTC Sense software but then what is the point of having the HTC One S? Most likely a custom ROM will be the only way to get the results you are looking for.
It is very easy to remove the sense lock screen. As I indicated, I already did that. Now the ics lockscreen comes before the pattern which makes no sense (pun not intended)
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I know this might sound like a pain, but using the facial recognition will also work, if the recognition doesnt recognize it goes to a pattern unlock.
You still need to unlock using the sense unlock or the ics unlock first.
OP, I'm not really sure how this is supposed to work, and I've never seen this behaviour on any ROM, ICS or Gingerbread. The problem is, how is the phone supposed to know that you want to unlock if there is no lock screen?
Let's say the phone is sleeping and the screen is off. No way to unlock right now. So then I press the power button to wake the phone. That doesn't necessarily mean I want to unlock it. Maybe I want to check the time, or see if I have any notifications. There needs to be a further action to tell the phone I want to unlock, which is the purpose of the lockscreen.
The pattern lock is not designed to BE a lockscreen, it is designed to prevent people unlocking your phone who are not authorised to do so.
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You still need to unlock using the sense unlock or the ics unlock first.
OP, I'm not really sure how this is supposed to work, and I've never seen this behaviour on any ROM, ICS or Gingerbread. The problem is, how is the phone supposed to know that you want to unlock if there is no lock screen?
Let's say the phone is sleeping and the screen is off. No way to unlock right now. So then I press the power button to wake the phone. That doesn't necessarily mean I want to unlock it. Maybe I want to check the time, or see if I have any notifications. There needs to be a further action to tell the phone I want to unlock, which is the purpose of the lockscreen.
The pattern lock is not designed to BE a lockscreen, it is designed to prevent people unlocking your phone who are not authorised to do so.
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I completely disagree. If you press the power button, you want to use your phone. If you want to check the time, do that in the status bar or the fact that it displays on the pattern screen regardless. There is no point in having an action to tell the phone I want to unlock it.
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I completely disagree. If you press the power button, you want to use your phone. If you want to check the time, do that in the status bar or the fact that it displays on the pattern screen regardless. There is no point in having an action to tell the phone I want to unlock it.
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+1
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You can disagree, but that's not the way that Android works, and it never has been. It's also not the way iPhone works, for that matter.
The fact that it has been this way "forever", isn't an argument for keeping it this way. What if we had to press the power button 20 times to wake it up? Would you like to keep it that way because it had always been that way? No, you would've said it was useless.
I want to use some sort of security, but I don't because the way it is now it just takes too much time.
If anyone made a lockscreen that way, that UI designer would probably get fired pretty quickly.
The fact is that the trend is going in completely the opposite direction of what you want; the trend as you can see from HTC's lockscreen and also the ICS lockscreen is to display more information on the lockscreen without having to unlock the phone (time, weather, notifications, music etc). That decision is the result of customer feedback and market research.
So the way the phone designers are looking at it is (in the case of using a pattern lock or face lock):
Step 1) Information screen (lock screen)
Step 2) Security screen
I think the closest to get to what you want to do is install something like volume wake + volume unlock, so you can press the key twice in quick succession to wake the phone and skip the first lock screen, and go to your pattern as fast as possible. There is no way that I know of to completely get rid of the lock screen totally.
It takes about 1/2 a second to swipe the ring to get to your pattern lock, so I think "it takes too much time" is a bit of an exaggeration.
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You can disagree, but that's not the way that Android works, and it never has been. It's also not the way iPhone works, for that matter.
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That's not true, the lock screen as he described it is exactly how my nexus one worked in Android 2.1-3. It is far simpler and provides all the information needed to either power off the screen or continue to unlock, in one step.
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That's not true, the lock screen as he described it is exactly how my nexus one worked in Android 2.1-3. It is far simpler and provides all the information needed to either power off the screen or continue to unlock, in one step.
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I have always used a hidden lock screen with gesture unlock. So when I hit my power button, I see some basic information. No indication it is a security or lock screen, until I enter my special gesture to unlock the phone.
I agree with the OP, there needs to be more options. Can't wait for CM 9...
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You can disagree, but that's not the way that Android works, and it never has been. It's also not the way iPhone works, for that matter.
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Android has NOT always been this way, CM7 definitely had this behaviour. Ie no pattern unlock = ICS lock screen. If you have a pattern lock, the ICS screen does not get used.
So + 1 for the op on this, I really can't stand having to unlock twice to use my phone, but I still want the security of the pattern unlock or the number lock or the face unlock.... Pleeeease!
OK, I admit: I was completely wrong. Very sorry.
I tried this on AOSP Gingerbread and ICS, and in both cases, the pattern lock is part of the lockscreen that comes on when you turn on the screen, as OP said.
The problem that you have is that the pattern unlock HTC's pattern unlock app, it is not the normal Android pattern unlock (you can tell by the icon design, fonts etc). So it can't integrate with the stock lockscreen.
The only way to do what you want is to get rid of Sense 100% (not just hiding it), and that means use an AOSP-based ROM such as CM9, AOKP or "JollyRancher".
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OK, I admit: I was completely wrong. Very sorry.
I tried this on AOSP Gingerbread and ICS, and in both cases, the pattern lock is part of the lockscreen that comes on when you turn on the screen, as OP said.
The problem that you have is that the pattern unlock HTC's pattern unlock app, it is not the normal Android pattern unlock (you can tell by the icon design, fonts etc). So it can't integrate with the stock lockscreen.
The only way to do what you want is to get rid of Sense 100% (not just hiding it), and that means use an AOSP-based ROM such as CM9, AOKP or "JollyRancher".
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Thats what I hear! LeeDroid told me pretty much the same.. I normally would have jumped to go AOSP, but Sense isnt so heavy now and I quite like the framework, i.e the copy paste stuff, the browser seems to be more capable with handling frames etc.. I have changed my launcher, so I now get pretty much the best of both worlds!
But damn that forced lock screen!
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The answer is already there at the end of my last post. What you want is not possible on a sense rom, so go install CM9.
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