Got my US F8331 fingerprint scanner to work - Sony Xperia XZ Questions & Answers

24 hours dicking around with Flashtool, et al. Countless fails, reinstalls, re-downloads ... Horray, the fingerprint scanner now works.
So what? You still have to press the power button to get the screen to come on then position your finger correctly on the power button (thus, an extra step just to wake the phone up).
Is there some profound bit of knowledge​ I'm missing out on or is that all this fingerprint scanner can do? I mean, the amount of inet press on what an "epic fail" the entire US line of Xperias are due to the inability to use this pretty useless feature causes me to wonder if anybody who's reviewed the device has actually even touched one.
Anybody know how to use this thing as an alternate to logins or anything other than as a screen wake up?

You still have to press the power button to get the screen to come on then position your finger correctly on the power button (thus, an extra step just to wake the phone up).
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Seems no more than normal.

It just seems there's a lot of bad press on a really great phone over a very minor, inconsequential feature. (Which once the Samsung 9 or Apple 8 come out, Sony's patent problems with the device will be over and they just slip it into an update. I'm sensing December ...)
If you haven't gone thru the trouble of this very frustrating issue of enabling the fingerprint scanner, do yourself a favor and don't bother with it. You can fully live your life AMD enjoy this beautifully engineered phone without it.

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Screen lock/unlock dodgy

I am either going nuts or this is a common isue:
Normally when you tap "lock" on home screen the brightness diminishes and the phone is locked. To unlock, you have to tap "unlock" on the lower left side of the screen, hen you get a message telling you to tap again unlock in the middle of the screen and its unlocked.
Well, my Polaris only does this sequence sometimes. Especially if I let it go in standby for a couple minutes, as soon as I press any key I get another story:
In lower left corner of screen I have the word" cancel". Tapping it doesn't give me another "unlock" button on screen and the phone remains locked. I have to put it in standby from the power button and then try again to get the normal unlock behaviour.
Anyone else experiences this?
Nobody? So everybody's unlock feature works like it should?
Then I think it's reset time for my Polaris....
I personally don't use, the device lock feature... Just the standby, whith the HW buttons off... and it works just fine for me
I have noticed that when you press the central button in the TC, what you describe is what exactly happens. But this happens to me only when I do that. If a tap the screen without touching the button, I have the normal behaviour.
Yes, exactly.
@gnick: if I use the standby with HW keys lock it works ok for me also.
The issue is only with the HTC Home lock feature and the central key
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I am either going nuts or this is a common isue:
Normally when you tap "lock" on home screen the brightness diminishes and the phone is locked. To unlock, you have to tap "unlock" on the lower left side of the screen, hen you get a message telling you to tap again unlock in the middle of the screen and its unlocked.
Well, my Polaris only does this sequence sometimes. Especially if I let it go in standby for a couple minutes, as soon as I press any key I get another story:
In lower left corner of screen I have the word" cancel". Tapping it doesn't give me another "unlock" button on screen and the phone remains locked. I have to put it in standby from the power button and then try again to get the normal unlock behaviour.
Anyone else experiences this?
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Yes, but very rarely and even then when I press Cancel the normal lock screen resumes and I unlock in the normal way. I have "Do not lock all buttons" selected in the Key Lock settings. Don’t know if this is significant.
2 stages for screen lock?
I use my TC while riding motorcycle, so I want several apps (TomTom, gps tracking [gps.run]), music [was WMP, but now Coreplayer] and TellmeText) running and the screen off so as to save battery power.
If you press the power button when key lock is on it will turn the display completely off, and *most* programs will keep running. TomTom is a notable exception- it stops working, presumably because it can no longer access the gps?. But better behaved/next generation GPS apps such as run.gps continue to run. WMP, bless its pathetic cotton socks, seems to work sometimes!
Are these inconsistecies uinique to my unit, or known quirks?
Anyone suggest a app that will turn the screen off and allow ALL open apps to run, including TomTom?
Thanks
I don't know how you're operating any of the buttons on the TC with riding gloves on!!
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I don't know how you're operating any of the buttons on the TC with riding gloves on!!
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anyone got anything more useful to add to what was a serious comment/Q
Man, the battery life sucks on this device So my quest on how to turn the screen completely off and lock the keys properly while running all software (especially GPS based such as TomTom) continues....
Anyone know of a 3rd party app that will do this?
I have not read all 200 pages, but it seems there are mixed results for running S2U2 on the Touch Cruise (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353008) ? Anyone having success?
Thanks
I know its late but I just saw this and thought I would mention that I managed to over come using TomTom without the device being on. However it doesnt save much on power as the GPS device need power to work.
But I using a simple function I wrote in my application to lock the device using the standard device lock API calls and then rather than switchingthe device into sleep mode (off) I switched it into IDLE mode, which is basically just switching the screen off, the device lock prevents any unwanted button presses.
The power button would just return this back to normal.
I have not yet worked out how to stop the device brightness changing when the screen lock is enabled on the device... :/ Which is my next task.
Ramakin...
well that would be great because even saving having the screen dimmed during lock would help battery life. And, pressing the power button to resume would be MUCH easier than stabbing around at in the sun trying to unlock the screen. It would also make TomTom behave like all other 21C GPS applications, i.e. run on idle.
So, can you send details?
During a recent motorbike trip where I just used TomTom and tracking software (even turned the phone off) I was SHOCKED at how crap the battery life was

[Q] Disable reboot on power button long press?

Hi,
I've had my HTC titan for a few weeks now (since UK launch), and I am having a problem with the phone rebooting itself in my pocket, when I sit down. Now I am pretty sure that this is actually a windows phone bug AKA "Feature", but one that is more evident on the Titan due to it's size.
The problem is that when I sit down and lean forward (e.g. to tie my shoes), the power button gets pressed into my hip and is held down..and then after a few seconds the phone reboots. This is even with the locking enabled and pin protection.
Has anyone else come across this issue? Is there a way to prevent the phone rebooting from a long press of the power button? I am seriously regretting switching over to windows mobile again because of this issue..it's a real pain..I don;t mind if there is an app/mod I can install to fix this if it's not possible via standard settings (something like pShutXP for WM6) ..any ideas at all would be *very* welcome!
Thanks,
Spud/Pete
so, let me get this straight:
1) you want to disable the power button? How would you turn off the phone afterwards?
2) to turn off the phone, you need to slide down the lockscreen, and this is very unlikely to happen
3) if "you are tying your shoes" long enough, this will initiate hard shutdown of the device
So no, no way, carry the phone elsewhere.
Yeah, I'm confused by this too - as of Mango, simply holding down the power button won't ever turn off the phone (though it will show half the lock screen, with a prompt to slide it down fully to turn the phone off). Since the Titan comes with Mango... yeah, confused.
No..I am not talking about turning off the phone - thats completely different as you say, you have to slide down the screen and as its capacitive..that's pretty unlikely to happen in my pocket.
I am talking about the phone rebooting - I can replicate it in my hand by holding down the power button and the phone will reboot itself without touching the screen.
I don't want to disable the power button - I want to disable this reboot on long press functionality..as it's a right pain.
Maybe this is peculiar to the Titan rather than a general WinMob feature..but try it on your mango phone - lock the phone, and hold down the power button for around 10 seconds..don't touch the screen. Does it reboot?
Ideally holding down the button should just show the "slide to turn off" screen and nothing else, there is no need for that kind of hard reboot function when you can take the battery out on these devices..
Suggesting that I just don't have my phone in my pocket is not very helpful tbh- where else should I carry it?
No, my HD7 does not reboot if I hold the power button. I almost wish it would, since if the screen locks up I can't power-cycle the phone without removing the battery.
If there's not anyway to carry the phone such that it doesn't hit the power button (not a problem I have with my HD7, but I've never tried carrying a Titan in my pocket), consider getting a case - many of them can make the power button a little "stiffer" and less likely to be pressed accidentally.
I can confirm the problems Spud1 has!
Just like him i own myself a HTC Titan and with WP7.5 you can reboot the phone even when you don't slide down to shut down the pohone.
And that is VERY VERY annoying, even so much that i almost want to switch back for an android phone...
You can replicate this "feature" bij locking the phone when you push the start button on the top and put the phone in rest. (black screen) Then hold down the start button and do nothing. You get the half"Slide down screen to shut down the phone. Still don't do anything, no sliding, just hold the button. After 6/7seconds the phone wil just reboot!
This happens me also and can be replicated at least also on a HTC Trophy (it just shuts down) i believe it can be replicated on the Samsung omnia7.
This is something were i had contact over by chat and phone with HTC. But they will not help or are in no position to sort this out... A brick wall, and i got dissapointed by service.
I dont know how to get in contact with MS, otherwise i would love to do this!
So people, try it out, en then someone to solve this thing, i would rather pull my battery for a restart than this "feature"
PS. sorry for my typo's as a first post..
I've got this too on my trophy !!!!!
I can confirm this problem also on my Mozart.
It is probably one of the 500 innovations in mango.
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Innovations i can understand, but the Titan is an 4,7inch phone.
When you have this in the pocket of your jeans, like 85% of the people does, there is problem with this so called innovation.
And believe me, supportdesk at HTC in the Netherlands make me feel stupid about our complaints. The freaking phone restarts after 6 seconds while sitting on your knees or bend over to tie your shoe's...
Is there anybody over here who knows how to deal with this/disable it or has connections to discuss this problem with HTC or MS?
I can confirm this problem on HTC Trophy too(custom rom)
If i hold down Power button ,slider shows up .If i continue to press Power Button and do nothing my phone is power down (not restart)
It's a standard WP7 behavior, why do all of you complain? It's not a problem but standard feature (to be able to reboot phone if touchscreen stop working). Buy another, not so tight, jeans or belt phone holder or protective case.
Who said i wear tide jeans?
There are also people on a Dutch forum that had problems with some protecting cases or just in a bag. And that was with the Trophy.
I finally love the system itself, but this is a 4.7 inch phone where i payed a lot of money for, so i'm allowed to expect something.
Apparently the Systems features and the size make it a combined "problem".
a lot of people get this problem now and in the future when Sales go up!
BAM., there is nothing what you can do. I think it's by hardware design so there are no registry settings to disable power button. But what you expected is absolutely irrelevant to the current WP7 products
That is a straight forward answer! Until now HTC didn't give a proper explanation..
If it is hardware related, this is the only thing that s#cks on wp7/HTC Titan. But i still don't think so, because other ones, like the trophy just shut down.. No restart!
It just feels so dissapointing... Because i really started to like WP7.
Hopefully there will come a MS answer somewere/sometime for this.
thnx anyway!
Omnia 7 has the same behavior (press and hold makes the scroll down menu appear, keep holding and the device reboots) so it's not restricted to HTC devices.
Fortunately, I tie my shoes really fast
lg quantum here, same thing lol
Confirmed on my HTC Surround, phone shuts down. Also on my Blackberry 8350i (although power button is right below the screen and it comes with a holster so not really an issue). Pretty sure that the Evo Shift I used to have for work would do the same thing.
It's a pretty logical function though. If your phone were to lock up for some reason, there's no soft reset button that you can press. This serves the same function. Try holding down the power button of your PC for a few seconds. You'll find that it does the same thing. When you first press it your computer will (probably) start the shutdown process but if you keep holding it then it goes straight to off.
It's logical for a PC, or maybe even for a device where you cannot remove the battery or there is no other way to reboot the phone if it locks up (but who's to say that this "feature" will even work when the phone locks up anyway..)
But for a mobile phone where the power button can easily be pressed accidentally, where a device has to deal with much more than just sitting on a desk..no that is just poor design.
I understand that for many people it won't be an issue - but the fact remains that for lots of us it is (it's good to see that it's not just me!)...and calling it a "feature" doesn't help (thats a long running trick in the software trade..many features are just bugs/poor design disguised as such!).
I suspect that to fix this problem we are going to have to wait for a full unlock for HTC mango devices, so that we can load native apps who can potentially resolve the problem. I don't know enough about WM7 development yet to know if you can get at the Hardware Interrupts or not but if we can do that, then I am sure we can fix it. It's possible there will be some registry/configuration options too buried deep in the system, but without the interop-unlock we're stuck I think..
HTC/MS support sure as hell won't help us out as it's definitely going to be called a feature, no matter how big of an annoyance it is.
This combined with the discovery of how terrible Bing searching is has really put me off Windows Phone 7 though (the terrible search is the worst thing)..I'll be jumping back to iPhone next yearwhen Apple release their redesigned one, can't see a reason not to anymore. Which is a shame as I love the device + UI
Spud1, the long power button press can be handled by hardware schematics, not a firmware or drivers (but actually I don't know exactly, of course). So, your hope is very weak...
True it can - but you could override this kind of behaviour in WM 6.x..and WP7 is still just windows CE with a layer over the top really, so there is a good chance that it's doable.
The thing that makes me think it's possible is that people who have upgraded their devices to Mango from NoDo seem to have the same issue - which leads me to believe that it's partly to do with Mango rather than down to specific devices..but to be sure more people who have those kind of devices (and particularly those without a HTC device) need to read this thread and reply

Potential fingerprint scanner issue?

I have a S7 from AT&T, non-edge. I have the lock screen setup with the fingerprint reader and a pin code.
95% of the time, the fingerprint scanner works the first time.
4% of the time, it will work the second time.
1% of the time, it does something VERY strange. If it fails the first and second time, it will NOT unlock the screen using the fingerprint reader unless i enter the pin code. It will let me keep trying my fingerprint, but it will says its not valid. I can enter the pin code, unlock the phone, relock, then boom, the fingerprint reader works again. Its like once it fails twice, even though the phone lets you keep trying, it doesn't really read it.
Has anyone else experienced this? It's very annoying and I am wondering if I should RMA, or if this is a software issue.
Finger print scanner indeed suck.. Just make multiple imprints of same finger.. Get every angle possible.
Only time I have to enter my pin is when I reboot the phone. It wants my pin instead of my fingerprint. After that first time though the fingerprint is all I have to do.
when entering a fingerprint each time change the angle of the chosen finger slightly as you press the home key having multiple images at diff angles lessens the chance of not getting a match.
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This has taken some getting used to, coming from the Nexus 5x... its fingerprint scanner is so much better.
On the nexus, you go from a black locked screen straight to the home screen in a split sec with a touch of the scanner that's way more accurate and gets it 99% of the time .
With the S7, I'm having to press the power/home button, then scan, which gets it right more like 65% of the time. And is a 2 step process. Or hold the home button down and try to time it just right- too soon and it doesn't read.. too long and i open google now... haha too complicated. I'm almost thinking there's an issue with mine it's so inaccurate. Or maybe i'm just spoiled to the nexus...
Bottom line= LG & Google implementation= much much better.
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This has taken some getting used to, coming from the Nexus 5x... its fingerprint scanner is so much better.
On the nexus, you go from a black locked screen straight to the home screen in a split sec with a touch of the scanner that's way more accurate and gets it 99% of the time .
With the S7, I'm having to press the power/home button, then scan, which gets it right more like 65% of the time. And is a 2 step process. Or hold the home button down and try to time it just right- too soon and it doesn't read.. too long and i open google now... haha too complicated. I'm almost thinking there's an issue with mine it's so inaccurate. Or maybe i'm just spoiled to the nexus...
Bottom line= LG & Google implementation= much much better.
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Press and depress the home button quickly, but instead of taking your finger off the button immediately, keep it on there lightly touching for a split second. It's not that difficult.
It works for me on the first try 95% of the time. The other times it's my fault for not covering the button but instead getting just a corner of it.
I also set it up with both thumbs and both index fingers and it works with all. I'm quite pleased
I've been having aroung 50% success rate on the first time with the fingerprint scanner and about 95% on the second attempt. I don't know if I'm doing anything wrong. I've made the fingerprint profile many times, change position and angles but I still can't get it to work reliably. I wish i could see if theres any gaps, or maybe tone down how "strict" the scanner is.
I've found another flaw in the finger print reader... I'll describe the issue, then upload a vid to show it.
My screen is set to lock/dim/shut off after 30 seconds. At which time you'll have to press the home button OR power button to wake the phone, followed by using your finger print to open the phone.
However, within a few seconds of the screen shutting off you can just press the home button with any finger even ones you've never registered a print for and it will unlock the phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhb0e01aLuQ
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I've found another flaw in the finger print reader... I'll describe the issue, then upload a vid to show it.
My screen is set to lock/dim/shut off after 30 seconds. At which time you'll have to press the home button OR power button to wake the phone, followed by using your finger print to open the phone.
However, within a few seconds of the screen shutting off you can just press the home button with any finger even ones you've never registered a print for and it will unlock the phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhb0e01aLuQ
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There is a setting, which by default locks the phone 5 seconds after the screen turns off. During that time you can just push the button and no need to unlock.
But if you push the power button to turn the screen off, if locks immediately. There is a setting for that as well.
Yea...that's not a good thing. Should not be on by default.
Chronzy said:
This has taken some getting used to, coming from the Nexus 5x... its fingerprint scanner is so much better.
On the nexus, you go from a black locked screen straight to the home screen in a split sec with a touch of the scanner that's way more accurate and gets it 99% of the time .
With the S7, I'm having to press the power/home button, then scan, which gets it right more like 65% of the time. And is a 2 step process. Or hold the home button down and try to time it just right- too soon and it doesn't read.. too long and i open google now... haha too complicated. I'm almost thinking there's an issue with mine it's so inaccurate. Or maybe i'm just spoiled to the nexus...
Bottom line= LG & Google implementation= much much better.
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It works 100% of the time for me if i press the home button and leave my finger on it. Its not even a tiny bit innacurate. Maybe your fingers are greasy.
The reading from screen off sounds a bit better but is essentially the same thing. Just on S7 you have to actually press the button down rather than just press the finger on the sensor. Im not sure why the added pressure makes it that much worse.
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Yea...that's not a good thing. Should not be on by default.
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Forgot to reply to this part.
No it shouldnt be on by default. Its a great feature, if you dont like it you turn it off.
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Yea...that's not a good thing. Should not be on by default.
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That's an android thing. My previous LG and Motorola phones had the same settings by default.
It is convenient because if the screen turns off due to timeout while you are reading something you can quickly turn the screen back on without having to unlock it (password unlock can be very annoying). I gotta tell you if that feature didn't exist, I would have to set a really long screen timeout because I do quite a bit of reading where I don't touch the screen for a while and the constant need to unlock would drive me crazy.
Plus, an extra 5 seconds (added to the screen timeout) is unlikely to make it insecure. If you hit the power button to turn the screen off, it locks immediately. I think it's the best combo of convenience and security.
i'm just saying i feel like that goes against the "security" of having your phone.... your phone could get stolen while unlocked, and all they have to do is set your screen to never time out and now they have access to all your info...
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i'm just saying i feel like that goes against the "security" of having your phone.... your phone could get stolen while unlocked, and all they have to do is set your screen to never time out and now they have access to all your info...
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I someone steals your phone, while it's unlocked, they already have access to all of your data. The 5 second delay isn't going to make a difference.

Flaw in lockscreen security

I find it incredible that for a phone with a non-removable battery that you can turn the device off without having to get past the lock screen security. This is a major security flaw in my opinion.
If you were unable to power down at the lockscreen, then if your phone were to be stolen, then at least you would have the time it takes for the battery to eventually die to attempt to track it.
A long-press of the power button at the lockscreen should only be allowed if the lockscreen type is set to none/swipe.
If anyone is in a position to put in requests to Samsung themselves, could you please submit this.
Any further thoughts welcome....
What if you're stuck on your lockscreen, your screen doesn't respond and you have to reboot your phone to solve the problem ? how are you supposed to do if this option is removed ?
Terrible idea you have here
And if there was no way to turn it off from the lockscreen, the stealers would just have to wait until the phone have no battery left, then the phone would be off
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What if you're stuck on your lockscreen, your screen doesn't respond and you have to reboot your phone to solve the problem ? how are you supposed to do if this option is removed ?
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A long-long press of the power button (approx 8 seconds) will force a reboot as per all Samsung phones, so if you do have a problem you can then go into recovery (eg. to wipe cache etc.). Ok, the thief might also be aware of this and do a factory reset in recovery straight away, or even keep the phone in recovery until the battery dies, but some may not be aware to do this. And, even if a thief did a reset, then at least your data would be wiped, which is half the battle when a phone is stolen.
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Terrible idea you have here
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Cheers!
BigBen60 said:
And if there was no way to turn it off from the lockscreen, the stealers would just have to wait until the phone have no battery left, then the phone would be off
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But at least you would have the time it takes for the battery to die to track it, which I already stated. So once stolen, you could have anything up to a day to find it again. Currently if someone steals your phone, all they need to do is switch it off immediately, and you will have no chance of ever seeing it again.
A nice firmware feature would also be to send an e-mail to yourself of the phone's current location when battery level reaches a low level (eg. 5%). Some apps (eg. Lookout) have the facility to do this.
As the S7 has a non-removable battery, it should at least have the option to disable the power key menu at a secure lockscreen.
All phones with non removable batteries are like this for the reasons the person stated above. This function is exactly the same as if the phone has a removable battery. If a thief stole an s5 they could just take the battery out immediately and you couldn't track it either... The battery isn't a security feature. It's just to power the phone. They need to have a way to cut the power on devices. This is standard for most electronics. Hold the power button on your laptop and see what happens.
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Don't know if you are aware but if you setup and use Samsung's Find My Mobile, you can lock, disable shutdown, and display a message on the screen with a button to call a number of your choice should you lose the phone. Try it out.
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Considering the fact that should your device become unresponsive/problematic you can always fall back on a long-long press of the power button at any time, including at the lockscreen, in order to reboot / go into recovery (which is an inherent hardware feature across all Samsung phones), I therefore still believe that allowing a power off at a normal long press at a secured lockscreen prior to passing the lockscreen's checks represents a flaw in your device's security. I think power off (but not reboot) should be omitted at the lockscreen popup and only included when a longpress of the power button is done after the device has been unlocked.
And what makes it worse, you can also pull down the quick panel shortcuts at the lockscreen which would enable a theif to turn off location from there too.
Basically, find my phone type functions are only of any use only if your phone is ever lost, but useless if ever stolen.
Dri94 said:
All phones with non removable batteries are like this for the reasons the person stated above.
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And I believe having a non-removable battery could be seen as an opportunity to enhance security for reasons I've explained above.
hawkerpaul said:
And I believe having a non-removable battery could be seen as an opportunity to enhance security for reasons I've explained above.
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It does seem that Samsung have missed a trick with shutdown from the lock screen that could be very simply enacted and give another string to the security bow.
or you can just disable power menu on lockscreen via Gravity box..viola ?
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Considering the fact that should your device become unresponsive/problematic you can always fall back on a long-long press of the power button at any time, including at the lockscreen, in order to reboot / go into recovery (which is an inherent hardware feature across all Samsung phones), I therefore still believe that allowing a power off at a normal long press at a secured lockscreen prior to passing the lockscreen's checks represents a flaw in your device's security. I think power off (but not reboot) should be omitted at the lockscreen popup and only included when a longpress of the power button is done after the device has been unlocked.
And what makes it worse, you can also pull down the quick panel shortcuts at the lockscreen which would enable a theif to turn off location from there too.
Basically, find my phone type functions are only of any use only if your phone is ever lost, but useless if ever stolen.
And I believe having a non-removable battery could be seen as an opportunity to enhance security for reasons I've explained above.
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You seem to be missing the whole point. Every phone behaves this way. Whether a removable battery or not. You can disable the power to every fun from every manufacturer at any time no matter what type of battery. It's not a security flaw. Also you can go into settings and disable the notifications from being pulled down before the device is unlocked.
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They should make phones with no batteries to fix the battery flaw, powered by air. Working in this field, I've seen a lot of broken and stolen phones come and go, if you really want to remove the battery, it'd take 2 minutes max if you arent worrying about replacing a 10 dollar back glass.
People consider iPhone's battery non-removable too, you can get that thing disconnected in less than a minute. Also there are dongle tools (Can even DIY one) that can force your phone into recovery/download mode simply by plugging it in.
So I think this is just needless worrying.

phone locking despite trusted places.

My phone keeps locking despite trusted places being set. This includes my home and work but in either of those places it locks. I wonder if the phone locks just from hitting power button as I tend to hit that to immediately power off the screen? If so, where is this setting to prevent locking when power button is pressed?
thejase said:
My phone keeps locking despite trusted places being set. This includes my home and work but in either of those places it locks. I wonder if the phone locks just from hitting power button as I tend to hit that to immediately power off the screen? If so, where is this setting to prevent locking when power button is pressed?
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This happens to me on my tablet (Pixel C). I have to go into trusted places and set a location manually with a pin on a map. If I put a pin somewhere near my home, it will work for awhile, but eventually, I have to do it again to get it working.
I think location based safe lock is just kinda buggy on Android.
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This happens to me on my tablet (Pixel C). I have to go into trusted places and set a location manually with a pin on a map. If I put a pin somewhere near my home, it will work for awhile, but eventually, I have to do it again to get it working.
I think location based safe lock is just kinda buggy on Android.
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Thanks for this. My wife was saying she had the same issue on her s9+ so I assumed an Oreo bug was at play here. My guess would be the perimeter is set too small. Not visually but behind the scenes as the map will show a few hundred feet. There is no way to adjust this that I'm aware of.
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thejase said:
My phone keeps locking despite trusted places being set. This includes my home and work but in either of those places it locks. I wonder if the phone locks just from hitting power button as I tend to hit that to immediately power off the screen? If so, where is this setting to prevent locking when power button is pressed?
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This has been an android issue for a while it's not an issue with the OnePlus 6

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