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Media Player Controls

Being an iPhone convert one of the features/shortcuts I was really fond of was the ability to press the "home" button twice to be able to control the media player even if the phone was locked... Does anyone know is something similar exists for this phone?

It's probably not exactly the same but the built-in music player works pretty well. If the screen is locked, you just press the power button to bring up the lock screen and you can slide down the disc icon at the top and control the playback without unlocking the device.

I am unable to drag anything while the screen is locked.... I do require an unlock pattern so maybe this differs than the original lock screen?

ptc62 said:
I am unable to drag anything while the screen is locked.... I do require an unlock pattern so maybe this differs than the original lock screen?
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Start playing some music and then try it.

gtg465x said:
Start playing some music and then try it.
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What he said.
When you are playing music in the background, you have media controls in two other places. The first is the notification drawer if you have the phone unlocked and are doing something with it, and the second is on the lock screen, in the form of what looks like a half CD hanging out from the top that you can pull down and get media controls on.

If you have an unlock pattern, you lose the ability to use the stock music player controls on the lock screen, as well as the puzzle piece slide. I ran into this problem before as well and eventually went back to not having an unlock pattern.

Need advice on Lockscreen app.

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

Minor Exploit

[Yeah I know I've been playing around with it too much but...] I just discovered from [a non-password/gesture/facelock protected] slide lock screen you can open your notification panel and launch any app on it. From there you can hit the home button and get to your homescreen, unlocked. Real secure huh? No ADB, no SQlite3, just my finger. Example, Android Terminal Emulator.
[Edit] I guess I could have just as easily slid unlocked it with my finger. I just tried a password protected lock screen and it doesn't allow access to the notification panel so I guess since the slide lock isn't really a lock then its OK. I was freaking out for a second, forgive me.

Screen Lock Unlock, easiest way to turn screen on/off

Hi,
Screen Lock Unlock is my first android app.
It allows people to turn screen on and off without use a phone keys.
Just pass 2 time a finger, hand or what else to proximity sensor to lock or unlock the screen.
Try it and give me a feedback please.
Thanks.
I can't post any links so please go to Play Store and Search: glejo

i tried & i can give you 4 Star only ^_^ , missing star because of :
* if i am playing any game it will off screen if i pass my fingers two times on the sensor & this is should be not activated when playing.
Thank you
Edited : Many Thanks now i can give you 5 star

Hi thanks for feedback,
When your are playing the screen orientation is landscape?
If yes, don't mark the setting "Landscape Mode".
Let me know
Glejo

New idea: who can make this an app?

Would be awesome if we can really have full control on screen orientation. The default system rotation (even on Android 10) is still super annoying.
Here goes my idea:
Let's just put it that way, the system auto rotation should always turned on for the app to work.
By default, your (new) app has to always display a floating button with unlocked status (i.e. allow system auto rotation to work as usual, don't interrupt). Only when user wanted to lock the current orientation, be it portrait or landscape, then user can click on the floating button once, which will then turned into a locked icon, and the current orientation is locked.
For example, user would like to always browse Chrome in portrait mode, he can click on the floating button to lock it to portrait and won't be bothered of system rotates the phone when he/she lie on the bed or sofa. Then he opens youtube and go through a list of recommended/popular videos in portrait mode (locked earlier), and selected a video to watch, now he/she wants to watch it in landscape, so what he should do is just click again on the floating button, and then it unlocks portrait and now he can use the auto rotate to put the video in landscape mode, and click once again on the floating button to lock the current orientation in landscape! That's it, perfect solution for the annoying system rotation.
Imagine how simple and easy is this and I can't figure out why Google or Apple does not incorporate this in their OS, or perhaps their next version of Android/iOS? lol
Optional (Nice to have features)
You can make the app to always show locked floating button (to let user know current orientation is locked), and only hide the unlocked button after 5 seconds of inactivity/idle. To unhide or call it, user just has to slide from edges to make the floating button visible again and he/she can now click once to lock desired orientation.