Music controls maybe? Something for controlling the sound profile when you have a required screen lock pattern? I swore I saw things for this, but I don't remember
The HTC lockscreen has music controls which is very handy, there are alternate lockscreens out there to do stuff but not sure if the default one can be made to do anything else much.
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I would love to have this functionality back (had on my iPhone). Very handy when you want to know what is that tune that's rocking on your player without having to unlock my phone.
you can try the cubed player (^3), it has this option!
http://abrantix.org/3.php
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I would love to have this functionality back (had on my iPhone). Very handy when you want to know what is that tune that's rocking on your player without having to unlock my phone.
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You don't know what music you have on your phone? haha just kidding
I had this on my Hero with the sense and it could be handy sometimes. but now with cm i can skip music holding the volume button works great.
I think to do this you have to change the lockscreen and use a custom one. it would be great to see one that looks like the standard lockscreen but with the music info and maybe three buttons to change music and play/pause. I want to see it with the stock music player (i just like the stock)
You can add the Music widget to your lockscreen with Flyscreen. Might want to download NoLock or myLock Auto Unlock if you're using Flyscreen as a lockscreen replacement.
I like mixzing. Covers the whole screen.
bTunes will do it too
you can also use Lock 2.0 (paid version only) in the market, but you get an iphone style lock screen. at least it kills your regular lockscreen, unlike other crappy lock replacements. it only works with default music player, but it works well. you don;t get artwork, which is a bummer. man, htc made a kickass musicplayer lock screen thingie, we all gotta admit. theres no good replacement for n1 yet.
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you can try the cubed player (^3), it has this option!
http://abrantix.org/3.php
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wow, you're right! pretty impressive, considering how he did it! kinda buggy with the lockscreen, but interesting nonetheless.
I use "LockBot Pro" and i absolutely love it. try the free version out for 5 minutes to see if you like it or not. I love it because i can touch any button and it brings it out of sleep (im sure its not the only program that does this). I also love it because it has iphone like lockscreen (and desire, and others, try the paid version). Not to mention the skins are awesome because you can pick cool skins and you can add your own image as the lockscreen image. Not to mention you can add a bunch of images as your lockscreen and it picks them at random everytime you bring your phone out of sleep. Give it a shot!
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I use "LockBot Pro" and i absolutely love it. try the free version out for 5 minutes to see if you like it or not. I love it because i can touch any button and it brings it out of sleep (im sure its not the only program that does this). I also love it because it has iphone like lockscreen (and desire, and others, try the paid version). Not to mention the skins are awesome because you can pick cool skins and you can add your own image as the lockscreen image. Not to mention you can add a bunch of images as your lockscreen and it picks them at random everytime you bring your phone out of sleep. Give it a shot!
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the whole point of this onversation is about the now playing music info on the lockscreen, which lockbot doesn't have, so why are you suggesting it you're on the wrong forum....
mixzing media player put the app on the lock screen. super easy.
actually the stock music player on the galaxy s has this.. when scxreen is locked there is a round area with 1/2 the cd outline that you can actually pull down and control the playing song.. even without unlocking screen pretty cool.
Is there a known simple method to alter the useless lock screen on the captivate.it's not exactly pocket proof. Also I saw a lock screen somewhere that had several sliders that could launch the phone, mms, ect....
if I could skip the home screen when making a call/text that'd be awesome.
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Checkout WidgetLocker, works great.
or if you would like a free alternative but not as yet polished as it is new try Simply Lockscreen
the one your looking for that goes to phone, sms, email, and home is called GOTO... i had it on for a little bit... but ultimately kept the original lock screen
There's a widget named No Lock that lets you bypass the lock screen altogether. It's on the market and it works fine on my stock Captivate.
One tiny issue is that you have to hold the on/off button a little longer than normal to wake up the phone.
Thanks guys. Widget locker it is for me!
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this thing is the bomb! never looked back on my stock lockscreen
+1 for No Lock. Great as the Captivate has only capacitive buttons and volume buttons dont seem to activate the screen!
The problem I'm having with most of these alternate lock screens is that quite often the Samsung one still comes up and then I have to unlock twice. If that doesn't happen then sometimes two of the new lockscreen will come up.
I've tried changing around settings but every one I try has these similar issues. Is there no way to just disable the TouchWiz lockscreen?
Hi guys,
It's very annoying to see that android isn't able (by default) to use the lockscreen and the lock pattern. The only one I saw so far is HTC. You can use the lockscreen and the pattern together. On the LG the lockscreen is gone if I select a lock pattern. Is this a line in a .xml file or something? Does anybody know that? If so, is anybody able to mod that?
You can use lockscreen apps.
You should post such stuff in general.
What is the point of having two lockscreens?
What are the downsides of only a pattern lockscreen?
I want to keep it as stock as possible. On other thing is, that I don't like only pattern. It doesn't show the same info as the normal one like music. I like the app widgetlocker. But sometimes it seems to lock a little bit later and the app is one of the biggest battery drainer I ever had. Anyway, I don't want to use any kind of third party apps!
use gesture unlock. cmsettings. lockscreen, and you can keep lockscreen or you can remove it.gesture unlock is far the best.
and hope you are on cm7
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I want to keep it as stock as possible. On other thing is, that I don't like only pattern. It doesn't show the same info as the normal one like music. I like the app widgetlocker. But sometimes it seems to lock a little bit later and the app is one of the biggest battery drainer I ever had. Anyway, I don't want to use any kind of third party apps!
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Stock has no double lockscreens.
You can use CM7 to show lockscreen music controls. It is in the CM settings.
HTC has 2 cause it has its sense interface.
There are some music apps which can do separate lockscreen controls as well.
Is there an app or mod out there that'll turn the lock screen, or an app in general, that would display weather/pictures/news etc in a rotating fashion?
My thought is to mount the xoom in the kitchen and have it just scrolling through various things on a timer.
It'd be nice if it were configurable to turn on/off the screen at given times.
Anybody know if something like this exists?
Or have suggestions, maybe a combination of apps?
Thanks!
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Is there an app or mod out there that'll turn the lock screen, or an app in general, that would display weather/pictures/news etc in a rotating fashion?
My thought is to mount the xoom in the kitchen and have it just scrolling through various things on a timer.
It'd be nice if it were configurable to turn on/off the screen at given times.
Anybody know if something like this exists?
Or have suggestions, maybe a combination of apps?
Thanks!
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Check out widget locker. It works ok with the xoom. Lots of customize-able options to make it look and feel how you want it. Tons of themes, and you can setup your own widgets however you feel fit.
May want to post this in the questions and answers thread though.
For more information, read about app here - http://tinyurl.com/3cec6me
And for more theme information you can look here -http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=968613
Flyscreen lets you do that and it's even optimized for the Xoom.
In HTC Sense, whenever I activate the display, I get the normal unlock screen which allows direct access to different apps by swiping the corresponding dock icons...
This normal lockscreen is ALWAYS shown, and if I have enabled a secure lockscreen (like pattern unlock or face unlock), this secure lockscreen is shown AFTER the first "normal" lockscreen.
Is there an AOSP/AOKP/CM based mod that can do the same thing?
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Use case is the following: I use face unlock, but sometimes I just want to have a quick look at the lockscreen (widgets). But with cyanogenmod, as soon as I press the power button, my face gets recognized and the phone is unlocked. It's so quick that I can't even see the dashclock widget.
So it would be perfect to have a normal "slide to unlock" lockscreen (with different slide targets for different apps), and THEN the face unlock.
I don't get it why HTC Sense seems to be the only system that has this kind of behavior properly implemented
Follow-up: Now I use Widget Locker, it does exactly what I want.
another follow-up:
Unfortunately, Widget Locker has its own problems...
I have different apps that show music or other playback controls on the lockscreen (Play Music, TuneIn Radio, Yatse), and those don't work with Widget Locker.
So this brings me back to my original question... is there really no "not-Sense-based" rom that can display the normal "slide to unlock" screen before the secure lockscreen?