This is probably a stupid question but once my phone locks and I wake it up there's a padlock that requires me to swipe outside its circle before it will unlock by reading my fingerprint to unlock as if I have swipe AND fingerprint as my lock settings....
Anyone else having this issue? I've been messing with settings all night and can't figure it out lol.
Thanks!
Mine works just fine. Push home button and leave finger there for fingerprint identification.
JRowMe said:
This is probably a stupid question but once my phone locks and I wake it up there's a padlock that requires me to swipe outside its circle before it will unlock by reading my fingerprint to unlock as if I have swipe AND fingerprint as my lock settings....
Anyone else having this issue? I've been messing with settings all night and can't figure it out lol.
Thanks!
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Sounds like you have Smart Lock enabled. If you swipe in the middle of the screen instead of the lock icon, does it unlock the phone without having to use your fingerprint? That is how mine is set up with Smart Lock, but if I am away from a trusted location, I have to place my finger on the scanner instead of swiping the screen. When at a trusted location, if you want to lock your phone, you have to swipe the lock icon for it to ask for your fingerprint.
It was because I had trusted devices nearby.
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Sounds like you have Smart Lock enabled. If you swipe in the middle of the screen instead of the lock icon, does it unlock the phone without having to use your fingerprint? That is how mine is set up with Smart Lock, but if I am away from a trusted location, I have to place my finger on the scanner instead of swiping the screen. When at a trusted location, if you want to lock your phone, you have to swipe the lock icon for it to ask for your fingerprint.
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Hm. I just turned off smart lock instead.
If I swiped the padlock, I'd have to THEN do the fingerprint.
Any idea on where this double lock issue is coming from?
JRowMe said:
Hm. I just turned off smart lock instead.
If I swiped the padlock, I'd have to THEN do the fingerprint.
Any idea on where this double lock issue is coming from?
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Swipe in the middle of the screen instead of the padlock. Swiping the Padlock tells the Smart Lock feature that even though you are near a trusted device or place, that you still want to require a fingerprint to unlock the device. It's useful if you are having a party or something at a trusted location and want extra security. You shouldn't see the Padlock if you turned off Smart Lock, if you still do, maybe try to reboot?
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Swipe in the middle of the screen instead of the padlock. Swiping the Padlock tells the Smart Lock feature that even though you are near a trusted device or place, that you still want to require a fingerprint to unlock the device. It's useful if you are having a party or something at a trusted location and want extra security. You shouldn't see the Padlock if you turned off Smart Lock, if you still do, maybe try to reboot?
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Did someone say party?
I enabled smart lock and have my home as a trusted location. When I open the phone with the power button or a short press on the home key, I don't see a padlock, just the usual lock screen saying use fingerprint to unlock. I open maps and it sees my location as home, am I missing something?
junksecret said:
I enabled smart lock and have my home as a trusted location. When I open the phone with the power button or a short press on the home key, I don't see a padlock, just the usual lock screen saying use fingerprint to unlock. I open maps and it sees my location as home, am I missing something?
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Mine was doing that too when I just put in my address from Google Maps. I had to select "Add a Trusted Place" when I was at my house. When I did that, it pulled up a map and put a large circle around my location. As long as I am in that circle, it works perfectly. I never was able to get it to work using just my address.
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Mine was doing that too when I just put in my address from Google Maps. I had to select "Add a Trusted Place" when I was at my house. When I did that, it pulled up a map and put a large circle around my location. As long as I am in that circle, it works perfectly. I never was able to get it to work using just my address.
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Thanks. I was at a friends today, added his location to trusted locations and it worked like a charm. I got home and tried to delete my "home" as a trusted location but it wouldn't let me remove it, only edit or turn off the location. Anyway, I turned it off, then back on.....edited it, and re-chose it from Google Maps. After all the fiddling, one of them worked because it's now "all good in the hood"....
I am running a stock un-rooted note 5 . my issue is that I have to Swipe up on the lock Screen and use the fingerprint to unlock but I only want to use the fingerprint . Any idea HOW to do this?
Please search next time. You have smart lock activated. If you have a lock icon on you lock screen, your phone is not secure. Just swipe anywhere but from that icon and your phone unlocks. If you swipe from the lock icon, then you are securing it for the next time you turn the screen on. To change the smart lock setting, go to settings > lock screen and security>secure lock settings> smart lock.
The thing is I already searched and could not find anything on this. Also smart lock is not turned on. If I wipe it's either use finger print or pin if it can't read my print after a few tries. My phone will not unlock from just a swipe it has to be a pin or password. I don't want to swipe at all but just use a finger print.
I figured it out the thread can be closed.
driodman98 said:
I figured it out the thread can be closed.
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I'm having this same issue. What was the solution?
Hello, good day!
Are there any apps there that can lock your phone screen (like double tap to lock), and can be unlocked using your fingerprint only?
I have a rooted device, and have tried nova launcher's double tap to lock gesture, but every time I unlock my phone, it asks for the pin. I'm on android 6.0 btw.
thanks
I use SMART LOCK and FINGERPRINT scanner but even when my screen says it's unlocked by smart lock I still have to swipe up to get to my home screen. Is there any way around this? I was afraid I was going to miss the rear finger print scanner that would just instantly get me to my home screen after picking up my phone correctly. Thanks
I think the only way to do that is with facial recognition. I know there's an option for that security to unlock/swipe the screen after it recognizes your face.
clrader said:
I use SMART LOCK and FINGERPRINT scanner but even when my screen says it's unlocked by smart lock I still have to swipe up to get to my home screen. Is there any way around this? I was afraid I was going to miss the rear finger print scanner that would just instantly get me to my home screen after picking up my phone correctly. Thanks
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I didn't setup smart lock yet, but I do have fingerprint setup. When screen is black, I put my registered finger to the right spot and phone unlocks and goes to home screen
There's an option for face unlock
For smart unlock, I'm afraid that that's not possible since that swiping is the only thing protecting your phone to be accidentally while walking/running or whatever you are doing those moments.
This can be done with Face Unlock
clrader said:
I use SMART LOCK and FINGERPRINT scanner but even when my screen says it's unlocked by smart lock I still have to swipe up to get to my home screen. Is there any way around this?
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You can also set up "Unlock with S Pen remote" - pressing the S pen button will turn the phone on and bring the last screen you visited.
clrader said:
I use SMART LOCK and FINGERPRINT scanner but even when my screen says it's unlocked by smart lock I still have to swipe up to get to my home screen. Is there any way around this? I was afraid I was going to miss the rear finger print scanner that would just instantly get me to my home screen after picking up my phone correctly. Thanks
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go to your phone settings, search for face recognition and turn off "Stay on Lock Screen"
Hi there, I'm interested in getting this phone, but wondering if it can wake by double tapping the screen?
thanks!
The closest thing I have gotten working is double tap to sleep (via Nova Launcher settings). But I don't think there's any way to enable double tap to wake on this phone.
You can double tap the finger print sensor to wake the phone...... But not the screen.