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Unlock results in very dark screen

I recently installed widgetlocker, very cool app, but since then whenever I unlock the screen it come on very dark. I have to open up the quick settings and then hit brightness and press the slider to fix it every time. Not sure where to fix this in setting and not sure if it is widgetlocker related or not.
Thanks.
Mike

nrune said:
I recently installed widgetlocker, very cool app, but since then whenever I unlock the screen it come on very dark. I have to open up the quick settings and then hit brightness and press the slider to fix it every time. Not sure where to fix this in setting and not sure if it is widgetlocker related or not.
Thanks.
Mike
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Wouldn't imagine so, since I use it on mine and have never noticed this.

I uninstalled and reinstalled widgetlocker and this does not fix the problem. When I say dark, I mean darker than if you pull the bar in the settings menu all the way to the left. really dark. And a reboot does not fix it either.
more info: when I lock with the app the screen is bright, when the power button is pressed the screen does this fancy fade animation and blanks. When the screen unlock shows up the brighten animation, assuming tha there is supposeed to be one, does not run.

did a restore from a backup and the problem went away. I have not reinstalled widgetlocker and I am not sure that I will
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Mike

nrune said:
did a restore from a backup and the problem went away. I have not reinstalled widgetlocker and I am not sure that I will
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Mike
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Again, zero problems here with WidgetLocker.....

Missing notification bar on home screen.

For some reason, my husband's rooted nc has lost the notification bar on the home screen. He uses Zeam for the launcher. Have not been able to find a fix. Help please.
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rubyv said:
For some reason, my husband's rooted nc has lost the notification bar on the home screen. He uses Zeam for the launcher. Have not been able to find a fix. Help please.
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tell him to clear data for zeam launcher using the application manager
it will reset everything to default but it should give him back his notification bar

Did you try to double tap on empty space on your desktop?
That should uncover the notification bar in Zeam.

I just got mine yesterday and had this issue...or at least one similar to it when using zeam. Seems that having "full screen" checked in zeam's prefs will cause the notification bar to get covered up.

n8w said:
Seems that having "full screen" checked in zeam's prefs will cause the notification bar to get covered up.
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Yes. That's what the Full Screen setting does.

[Q] [root] System Tray Disappeared

Hello! This is my first post on this forum, so please LMK if I have breached any protocol.
I have a rooted Kindle Fire HD running 7.2.2 (I have disabled auto-updates by renaming otacerts) with Nova Launcher and Hololocker. Everything was working beautifully for a month or so, Google market is running great, etc.
It locked up streaming a video yesterday and I restarted the Kindle. When I restarted the Kindle, I had the screen locked in Horizontal mode. Now, when I start my system I cannot get the system tray to appear at the bottom of the screen nor can I get into the options menu at the top of the screen.
What are your thoughts on how to fix this? Some googling indicates that this functionality is controlled by the systemui.apk file. Is there some modification to this file I can do to fix the problem? Should I reinstall Hololocker? Nova Launcher?
Switching back to the Amazon home screen does not fix the problem.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts!
-a

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>>Solved! (that was quick) Disenabling hololocker fixed this. Then I reenabled and it is hunky-dory.
However, if anyone has any good tips or tricks for hacking the systemui file, they sure would be appreciated!

System Tray Missing
apoth30sis said:
Hello! This is my first post on this forum, so please LMK if I have breached any protocol.
I have a rooted Kindle Fire HD running 7.2.2 (I have disabled auto-updates by renaming otacerts) with Nova Launcher and Hololocker. Everything was working beautifully for a month or so, Google market is running great, etc.
It locked up streaming a video yesterday and I restarted the Kindle. When I restarted the Kindle, I had the screen locked in Horizontal mode. Now, when I start my system I cannot get the system tray to appear at the bottom of the screen nor can I get into the options menu at the top of the screen.
What are your thoughts on how to fix this? Some googling indicates that this functionality is controlled by the systemui.apk file. Is there some modification to this file I can do to fix the problem? Should I reinstall Hololocker? Nova Launcher?
Switching back to the Amazon home screen does not fix the problem.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts!
-a
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apoth30sis,
The screen lockers sometimes cause the tray and the upper status bar to disappear. We
are looking into a solution. Do not edit the systemui.apk file, the results can be
disastrous. We will post a solution once we have a solid Locker program. So far
everyone has some bugs, so we are designing our own. Thank you for the post, we
will advise once we are ready.

I had similar problem. Somehow, the notification bar is tied into the Google apps you installed for Google Play. To fix this, you must activate your Gmail app on your fire HD. Once it's activated, your notification bar will return. Don't forget to reboot after activating Gmail app.
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ameswilliam said:
I had similar problem. Somehow, the notification bar is tied into the Google apps you installed for Google Play. To fix this, you must activate your Gmail app on your fire HD. Once it's activated, your notification bar will return. Don't forget to reboot after activating Gmail app.
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ameswilliam,
This makes sense since Gmail sends a setup command to the notification bar.
Thank you for the feedback.

Need help with holo locker on my HTC One

Hello,
Im currently using my HTC one with nova launcher. After dloading and installing holo locker I noticed two things.
1) When i lock my screen and go back to unlock it, The htc sense home screen will flash for a second before holo locker kicks in
2) I cant seem to find a way to get my security pattern or a password with this lockscreen.
Any help would be appreciated
Thank you
-Nick

I have similar issues. Rarely, but it does happen, I too have issues with the lockscreen sometimes showing the main page and after a deley it shows the lockscreen (This is after I've pressed the power button, ready to unlock). Not sure about the security pattern as I don't use one, I'm sure there's an option to enable security within the Holo Locker app.
My main issue was with the sim lock. I had this enabled but while using Holo my phone had no service. I rebooted my phone and realised that without my default lockscreen, I never saw the keyboard to enter my pin so my phone remained locked with no service until I disabled it in settings or switched back to my normal lockscreen ... Annoying to say the least ... Don't even get me started on the notificatons problem when using third party launchers and lockers but there are solutions but I'm wondering if it's all worth it, just to have no status bar on the lockscreen and homescreen.

AllAboutTheCore said:
I have similar issues. Rarely, but it does happen, I too have issues with the lockscreen sometimes showing the main page and after a deley it shows the lockscreen (This is after I've pressed the power button, ready to unlock). Not sure about the security pattern as I don't use one, I'm sure there's an option to enable security within the Holo Locker app.
My main issue was with the sim lock. I had this enabled but while using Holo my phone had no service. I rebooted my phone and realised that without my default lockscreen, I never saw the keyboard to enter my pin so my phone remained locked with no service until I disabled it in settings or switched back to my normal lockscreen ... Annoying to say the least ... Don't even get me started on the notificatons problem when using third party launchers and lockers but there are solutions but I'm wondering if it's all worth it, just to have no status bar on the lockscreen and homescreen.
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yeah I hear you

[Q] Replace the Amazon Lockscreen

Is there anyway to replace the lockscreen

Ownster said:
Is there anyway to replace the lockscreen
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I tried to do this a week ago (non-root) and could not find a standalone lock-screen app that would actually replace the Amazon one. Some wouldn't run at all, and the rest would appear only after the Amazon one, which of course defeats the purpose.
I did find one thing that works though. I use Smart Launcher 3 as my launcher, and Smart Launcher 3 has a built-in lock-screen option. I enabled that and it has worked perfectly ever since. I never see the Amazon lock screen anymore and the SL3 lock screen is very nice.

theophile2 said:
I tried to do this a week ago (non-root) and could not find a standalone lock-screen app that would actually replace the Amazon one. Some wouldn't run at all, and the rest would appear only after the Amazon one, which of course defeats the purpose.
I did find one thing that works though. I use Smart Launcher 3 as my launcher, and Smart Launcher 3 has a built-in lock-screen option. I enabled that and it has worked perfectly ever since. I never see the Amazon lock screen anymore and the SL3 lock screen is very nice.
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Yeah I have tried the same thing, the one thing I usually run across is the fact that amazon has a modified settings app and lock screens can't be enabled. I really just want to disable the amazon one completely if I can and replace it. I have root and Xposed installed.

Can root be used here to replace the amazon settings so we can use a custom lock screen?
I really want to use google now when the device is locked and be able to switch songs from google play without having to unlock the device?

EDIT: Oops! Miss-read this!
Root device.
Install TWO launchers for safety (I used APEX and Google Now).
Save a copy of the fire launcher and then delete the fire launcher using root.
This will leave your tablet in a buggy state. REBOOT.
Then pressing home will let you chose your default launcher. I used Google Now.
Check the end of this video for a play-by-play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux-2b3X3BlI

I attempted to search for something obvious through pm list, no specific apk file, probably integrated into system UI, I suppose a more experienced member will have to look, as I am in no way an expert.
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With nova launcher you can add an 'activities shortcut' to settings.
On my phone this lets me get to settings options that are not usually visible in the settings menu.
Has anyone tried this with the fire? ( I don't have a fire 7 yet)