Guys,
Very annoying problem on my Verizon HTC One M8 (1.55.605.2).
Sorry for the noob-like question, but I want to disable the lock screen and I can't seem to disable it. I know, I know ... It sounds ridiculous, but I'm wondering if the last OTA update disabled the feature. I'm not rooted, yet. Part of the process is to disable lock screens and while trying to do so, I can't. Grrrr....
I go to Security, Screen Security section and just below that I'm supposed to see the "No Lock Screen" option. What's up with that?! Any advice and/or workaround would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I'm on the same update, no root, no S-off (yet). Settngs > Security > Screen Lock > No Lock Screen is there for me, does what it advertises.
You don't see this when you click on screen security?
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Evocm7 said:
You don't see this when you click on screen security?
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Yes, I see the options, but the top three are greyed out for whatever reason. I'm ready to reset the damn phone. I have no clue why that changed and it's probably something stupid I did while playing around with the phone. :silly:
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Yes, I see the options, but the top three are greyed out for whatever reason. I'm ready to reset the damn phone. I have no clue why that changed and it's probably something stupid I did while playing around with the phone. :silly:
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Did you setup the phone to synch with an Exchange server? If so, that is likely the cause.
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Did you setup the phone to synch with an Exchange server? If so, that is likely the cause.
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Oh Shiznitz! That was it! I confirmed by resetting the phone and when setting up the access to the corporate email, it greyed out the options. Interesting. Thanks for that little nugget of information.
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Hey guys, i got an idea for an interested dev. I dont have a android phone yet, but I've been lurkin around here for a while and have learned a lot from all you guys.
Now, i for one know people who go through others phones. Needless to say, it is annoying. I have an idea to con these guys out of there snooping.
Its a lock screen app that implicates both that we know already, the standard bar swiping one
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and the combo one
I was thinking maybe we could get an app that let you swipe the bar, like if it was going to open it, but then act like if nothing happened. To actually unlock it, you would put the combo in invisibly, either by swiping through specific sectors, as if the screen were a grid.
This is my idea to you devs for a safer phone.
I like this idea. Would be a good April fools trick too.
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I like this idea. Would be a good April fools trick too.
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hahaaha, i know right. just hope a dev is willing to do it.
Can't imagine it would be that hard since both items are already built.
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Hmm well on cyanogenmod you can just hide the "dots" on the Pattern-lock. I use it currently. My current background is black, so that's why it's all black. It's just an extra security measure. Anyone without an android phone wouldn't really know what to do considering it doesn't even show the "Incorrect pattern" message (which you can turn on or off).
Note that this is the normal pattern lock with just everything hidden (except for the cyanogenmod message at the top, which can be turned off/changed to something else.) There's no slide-unlock then pattern-unlock, just pattern-unlock.
Lockscreen: http://imgur.com/PB4bN.jpg
Mainscreen: http://imgur.com/eWaJV.jpg
Lockscreen settings: http://imgur.com/iilIA.jpg
Hi,
I have the verizon m8 with viper 1.80, and everytime i turn off the mobile data I've get this extremealy annoying message that actually makes me want to buy a new phone and throw my phone on the face of the developer (An address would be nice):
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How can I get rid of it??!
Waiting for a savior :victory::fingers-crossed:
iii2 said:
How can I get rid of it??!
Waiting for a savior :victory::fingers-crossed:
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Don't turn off Mobile Data.
You're welcome!!
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Freedom First said:
Don't turn off Mobile Data.
You're welcome!!
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It's happening to me when I'm trying to turn off the mobile data, and It's frustrating to always press OK!
Anybody knows?
iii2 said:
Hi,
I have the verizon m8 with viper 1.80, and everytime i turn off the mobile data I've get this extremealy annoying message that actually makes me want to buy a new phone and throw my phone on the face of the developer (An address would be nice):
How can I get rid of it??!
Waiting for a savior :victory::fingers-crossed:
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First. That's on all sense ROMs. Kinda baked in. It was there on stock. GPE you have to press okay to turn off. AOSP just turn on and off as you please. No annoying message.
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pball52998 said:
First. That's on all sense ROMs. Kinda baked in. It was there on stock. GPE you have to press okay to turn off. AOSP just turn on and off as you please. No annoying message.
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Thanks for your help, but I'm on sense rom so aosp/gpe doesn't mean so much to me right now.
and about the first part I'm not that sure about it. I'm from Israel, and in here almost everyone have the european variant, And no one else except people in here usuing verizon, gets this message, this is why i know it can be removed and it's probably verizon exclusive.
nobody knows?
When I turn the phone off and back on it wants my password instead of a fingerprint... is this happening with you guys? The fingerprint only works AFTER the password has been put in if rebooted..
Also I am getting a weird error message saying "all apps associated with this action have been turn off, blocked, or are not installed." I do use package disabler pro, but everything I disabled was the same stuff I disabled on my s6... anyone have an idea of what could be causing this?
Last thing is the message that pops up saying my SD card is inserted, anyway to get rid of that so it doesn't pop up every reboot?
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Firstly the password is normal. There's a quip on there about it being safer that way. I also found if you install greenify and allow it administrator access you can't do fingerprints anymore either. They just upped the security. That's all.
Secondly you probably disabled something , as it sounds like you already know. Lastly that's normal. Guessing it's like the s5 popups that seemed to never go away
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Firstly the password is normal. There's a quip on there about it being safer that way. I also found if you install greenify and allow it administrator access you can't do fingerprints anymore either. They just upped the security. That's all.
Secondly you probably disabled something , as it sounds like you already know. Lastly that's normal. Guessing it's like the s5 popups that seemed to never go away
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Meh... kinda sucks...
Any clue what I might have disabled to cause that? Or am I going to have to go through it one by one.. :'(
Nevermind I got it. It ended up being game launcher which I checked by accident. Hopefully root happens soon to disable that SD card thing cause that's annoying.
Agreed. Glad you found it!
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Agreed. Glad you found it!
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Me too!
One more thing, though. Anyone have any idea of how to add the temperature (weather) to the lock screen? My S6 had the time and a little icon showing what the weather was...
I have disabled NFC and all Android Pay/Samsung Pay apps, and still the 'N' icon still appears every now and then, and it will only go away if I restart the phone.
I notice that after a night of charging that most times I wake up and see the icon. I can't remember another situation when it happens, but I'm not using wireless charging so it's not being used. Does anyone know why this icon appears after disabling NFC, and how I could prevent it from doing so?
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Thank you!
clearly you have it pointed north then.
Do you have custom ROM?
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Slade8525 said:
clearly you have it pointed north then.
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Haha, I loled at that, but alas, it is not a compass problem.
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Do you have custom ROM?
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No, it's stock M. It's the AT&T variant G930A, which does not support root yet.. I'm wondering if there is any other app or something I could be doing that's dependent on NFC, but like I said I can't even turn on NFC if I wanted to, everything's been disabled which a package disabler.
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Haha, I loled at that, but alas, it is not a compass problem.
No, it's stock M. It's the AT&T variant G930A, which does not support root yet.. I'm wondering if there is any other app or something I could be doing that's dependent on NFC, but like I said I can't even turn on NFC if I wanted to, everything's been disabled which a package disabler.
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...Clearly then its witchcraft, Voodoo, or the 'Ghost of Near Field Communications Past'... Considering its a phone though, who you gonna call?
In all seriousness, backup and try a full reset after you go through all Settings options fully; try restarting it as well before factory reset. Shouldnt be doing that. I have an S7 Active never had that issue but it would drive me nuts.
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...Clearly then its witchcraft, Voodoo, or the 'Ghost of Near Field Communications Past'... Considering its a phone though, who you gonna call?
In all seriousness, backup and try a full reset after you go through all Settings options fully; try restarting it as well before factory reset. Shouldnt be doing that. I have an S7 Active never had that issue but it would drive me nuts.
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Since this reply found out the G930A is rooted now! I don't know where I've been the past week. Anyway, thank you for your help, I'm gonna do a backup and root and freeze the apps. See if that helps.
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The little AT&T thing shows up on the left side of my status bar and blocks my notifications. I've looked everywhere. Anyone know to get rid of this?
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The little AT&T thing shows up on the left side of my status bar and blocks my notifications. I've looked everywhere. Anyone know to get rid of this?
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You can try this app from Samsung, Good lock using Galaxy Store.
Use Quick panels and it will let you customize it. Posted what it offers. There's more you can also do with Good lock.
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lmanlo said:
You can try this app from Samsung, Good lock using Galaxy Store.
Use Quick panels and it will let you customize it. Posted what it offers. There's more you can also do with Good lock. View attachment 5086065
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THANK YOU!!
Weird, when I get notifications, they replace the ATT logo.
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Weird, when I get notifications, they replace the ATT logo.
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It happens when I unlock the screen when notifications are already there the at&t will be there and block them. its not like it stays there but its annoying and now gone so im happy
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It happens when I unlock the screen when notifications are already there the at&t will be there and block them. its not like it stays there but its annoying and now gone so im happy
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Carrier branding is so stupid — like we don't know what carrier we have. I'm on Verizon and finally this year decided to get my device directly from Samsung because I was tired of seeing Verizon's stupid boot screen and other little addons.