Has anyone noticed that, occasionally, when you enter your lock pattern, instead of the standard straight lines you get a 'shooting star' type animation as you drag your finger?
I have seen this on my device several times, but can't recreate it or work out when/how it happens.
Anyone else? Or am I just tripping balls?
I've noticed this to. It is some sort of "smart" screen capture mode, the idea is that you use your knuckle to circle the area that you want to be visible in the screenshot. Why? I don't know, it's a pretty useless feature.
Google "P9 knuckle screenshot" to learn more, and yes - you can disable it.
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I can't remember if I've seen this as possible; seen this as a want; or it already exists.
I don't use a lock screen on my phone at all. Sometimes I worry about security, but not enough to deal with a lock screen all the time.
Solution would be that if your phone is out of Bluetooth range of your watch, then you hit a lock screen (with password). If you leave your watch at home or something, then you get to enter your password when you turn on your phone. When you have your watch on, no lock-screen.
This already out there somewhere? Wonder if Tasker could do something like this.
Looking at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955092 with Bluetooth plugin, but is there something like this in the Gear store somewhere?
This feature is included in Gear Manager. I use it and it works great.
lyall29 said:
This feature is included in Gear Manager. I use it and it works great.
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I just saw the option, but 1 problem - it seems to force you to use a slide unlock when the gear is in range, and pattern unlock when it is not.
Any way to use *no* lock screen when gear in range?
Not that I know of.
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Not that I know of.
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Thanks for the replies. Hmm - additional security vs pain of lock screen.
Question I'll have to go look up - I haven't used a lock screen since I was going crazy in my Widget Locker days. I remember reading a lot about being able to customize the screen a bit and/or add some more basic info - how customizable is tge default lock screen nowadays?
Edit: Nevermind, I just went to lockscreen to turn on 'swipe' and got a page full of stuff that disappears when you select 'none' (which is where I was a minute ago...)
polstein said:
Thanks for the replies. Hmm - additional security vs pain of lock screen.
Question I'll have to go look up - I haven't used a lock screen since I was going crazy in my Widget Locker days. I remember reading a lot about being able to customize the screen a bit and/or add some more basic info - how customizable is tge default lock screen nowadays?
Edit: Nevermind, I just went to lockscreen to turn on 'swipe' and got a page full of stuff that disappears when you select 'none' (which is where I was a minute ago...)
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Did anyone find a way yet to use a pin rather then pattern lock to use with autounlock? anytime I activate autounlock it prompts for a pattern which is not what I like. I want to use a pin if possible...
Maybe try this app?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jraf.android.nolock&hl=en
I'm not sure if it only disables the lockscreen when you don't have password on, hopefully there's some settings you can mess around with.
When I use Quick Capture while the phone is locked (the twisting motion), then take a picture, and swipe to view it, I get dropped to the lock screen. I did a factory reset and the problem persists. I don't have any security set up; I use swipe only.
When I use the hotspot to go to the camera from the lock screen, I don't have this problem.
Has anyone run into this or know of a fix?
Just swipe up and your picture is there. Easy. If it bothers you that much, select none for security. Not like you have any with the swipe anyway. Good luck.
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Just swipe up and your picture is there. Easy. If it bothers you that much, select none for security. Not like you have any with the swipe anyway. Good luck.
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It bothers me, and I don't want to disable the lock screen entirely. I understand that's a workaround, but it's worse than the bug itself.
It is not a bug, it is intended. Else you would be blowing security all the way apart, more than google already did on lollipop.
There is no security. It didn't work that way before Lollipop, nor did it work that way on the original Moto X.
It makes sense if you have a password or lock code, but I do not. It actually displays the picture for a half second before dropping to the lock screen.
The iPhone actually handles this in a clever way when you have a lock code: by only allowing you to see the pictures you've taken since you last unlocked. I'm not sure what Android does if you have a lock code, but I don't have one.
It's definitely a bug.
does anyone know how to turn off this annoying pop up whenever i double press home button to use camera?
and screen over ray disable when i install new apps.
yeah its really annoying!
No but if you do let me know.
Whats the point of quick launching the camera if you have to dismiss that before snapping a pix
I have no pop up message, when double clicking home button, goes straight to camera and it should be some setting you made, because I haven't played much with settings, so mostly factory settings and don't have it. I also haven't seen overlay disable message either and I installed plenty of programs. I got once warning, something wouldn't run (can't remember what) if I don't disable overlay, it's probably some Google protection, so I don't give unwanted permission to program hiding under screen overlay. Personally I think it's all nonsense, after a while people will click OK without even reading the message or not fully understand the message. Probably another setting in security somewhere. Sorry I can't pinpoint exact issue to fix it.
I used to get the Screen overlay warning whenever I was updating permissions AND I had a floating app like Hover Note or Hover Browser floating anywhere on the screen.
The only other time I got it if I didn't have those up was when I had Twilight installed to reduce blue light from my phone. I had to pause it in order to get that Screen relay alert to stop showing up then.
I never get that message and double press home to get the camera all the time
Just started using intelligent scan and it's really impressive in how fast it is. I'm just annoyed that I never get to see the lock screen, to determine myself if I want to fully unlock the phone.
Maybe I just want to swipe some notifications away or play/pause the music. I can't do that, without going to the home screen first.
Is there some setting that I'm missing that would disable intelligent scan going straight to the home screen?
Edit: Found the setting. Don't know how to delete this.
You could have at least shared the setting you found.
Open intelligent scan in the setting menu, confirm your pass info the then off this setting.
If I have the phone on my desk where it can't scan my face and unlock, is there any way to reach over to view and dismiss notifications? Currently if I double tap the screen it just goes straight to trying to scan my face, but it only shows a notification icon and no contents. I can pull down the notification shade and check it that way, but that's an extra couple of steps. Am I just out of luck if I want to use face unlock?
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If I have the phone on my desk where it can't scan my face and unlock, is there any way to reach over to view and dismiss notifications? Currently if I double tap the screen it just goes straight to trying to scan my face, but it only shows a notification icon and no contents. I can pull down the notification shade and check it that way, but that's an extra couple of steps. Am I just out of luck if I want to use face unlock?
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I'm seeing the same thing. Haven't found a way around it. There's a setting in face id that you can check that asks you to confirm unlock when it scans your face, but, it isn't working apparently. This is definitely one of my gripes so far.
i think i have a fix for you guys if its sitting more or less flat and you wave/hold your hand over the top it will activate the screen with out it scanning your face its part of the motion sense options i believe
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i think i have a fix for you guys if its sitting more or less flat and you wave/hold your hand over the top it will activate the screen with out it scanning your face its part of the motion sense options i believe
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It will activate the screen, but it'll only show the notification icon, not the contents.
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If I have the phone on my desk where it can't scan my face and unlock, is there any way to reach over to view and dismiss notifications? Currently if I double tap the screen it just goes straight to trying to scan my face, but it only shows a notification icon and no contents. I can pull down the notification shade and check it that way, but that's an extra couple of steps. Am I just out of luck if I want to use face unlock?
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Try swiping down on the screen. Notification should appear at the top & you can view or dismiss.
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Try swiping down on the screen. Notification should appear at the top & you can view or dismiss.
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Yes, I already mentioned that in the OP. I'd prefer to skip that extra step.
I have just switched from a OnePlus 7 Pro and I am confused by this too.
Is it not possible to view notification content directly on the screen without pulling down the shade every time?
Disabling 'Skip screen lock' makes the phone behave like other androids without face lock. You can read and interact with your notifications. But it's an extra step to unlock the phone.
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Disabling 'Skip screen lock' makes the phone behave like other androids without face lock. You can read and interact with your notifications. But it's an extra step to unlock the phone.
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Good catch! I'm going to do this for a while and see whether I prefer this and having to swipe up, or just let it unlock.
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Good catch! I'm going to do this for a while and see whether I prefer this and having to swipe up, or just let it unlock.
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Yeah, I tried it and realized I like the skip lock screen feature more. I think it's a bug and have raised it to Google via the feedback option. Hopefully they fix it.
dhawalsinha said:
Yeah, I tried it and realized I like the skip lock screen feature more. I think it's a bug and have raised it to Google via the feedback option. Hopefully they fix it.
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This is definitely the better way IMO. It'll probably save battery, and I don't have to be on the home screen every time. I do already miss the one step unlock though. My 3xl, I would just grab it and hit the fingerprint scanner at the same time. This one I have to swipe now. Oh well, not sure there is any other way.