Summary: is it normal for the unlocked lockscreen to never appear? I only get the locked one. If I turn off the screen and turn it on before the lock timeout, it's at the last app instead of at an unguarded/soft lockscreen.
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Every other Android phone I've used has a separate display timeout and lock timeout. Meaning, if the display turns on before the lock timeout, there is an unlocked lockscreen (that you can just swipe away). It doesn't actually lock until the lock timeout.
But this phone....only ever gets the lockscreen after the lock timeout. If the display tuns on before the lock timeout, it's already unlocked and in an app. You can sort of get around this is by enabling "power button locks instantly", but that totally defeats the purpose of the lock timeout. What's worse is that it does have the normal two separate display and lock timeouts like every other Android phone, but still somehow has this weird instantly-in-an-app behavior.
So basically, it lacks an unsecured lockscreen. Did I mess something up or is this normal?
The only explanation I have for this is that Sony disabled the unsecured lockscreen due to how hard it is to accidentally turn on the display (since the button is recessed).
Please, anybody? In other words, is it normal that the lockscreen to only appears after the lock timeout ("Automatically lock" setting) and that there is never an unguarded lockscreen?
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So i just noticed this for some reason but I have my display timeout set for 2 minutes which is fine
but when i get a text message or a missed call and it leaves the screen on for 2 minutes as well. i figure this could be a battery drainer over time especially if im not at my phone to lock the screen back
is there a way to set the lockscreen display time independent from the system display timeout? has this always been the case? For some reason i always remembered the lockscreen turning off relatively shortly after a notification. maybe im just going crazy:silly:
bump...is this kinda common sense that the lockscreen display stays on for however long the system default for display timeout says to?
i could have sworn the lockscreen didnt stay on for a minute before it turned off even though my display was set to "sleep" after a minute
I was wondering if anybody had noticed this.
When I change lock screen security from swipe to say "lock pattern", it does nothing.
It'll disable other lock widgets, because I guess in 4.3 or touchwiz you can't have widgets and lock patterns (but I digress).
The lock screen unlock will still be a swipe, no pattern.
Anybody else experience this?
Any work arounds?
Thanks.
yellowfddriver said:
I was wondering if anybody had noticed this.
When I change lock screen security from swipe to say "lock pattern", it does nothing.
It'll disable other lock widgets, because I guess in 4.3 or touchwiz you can't have widgets and lock patterns (but I digress).
The lock screen unlock will still be a swipe, no pattern.
Anybody else experience this?
Any work arounds?
Thanks.
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I assume you changed the timeout for the lock engage?
FourPointedFreak said:
I assume you changed the timeout for the lock engage?
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That baffles me until I noticed I did not change the timeout for the Secured lock time to instant. Then I said to myself, this can be useful. Set Secured lock time out to 1 hour and use the password lock option. If I lost or displaced my phone, it will be password locked in 1 hour but if I use my phone constantly every 5-10 minutes, I still have the benefit of the easy to use slide to lock knowing that it is backed up with a password lock after 1 hours of no activity.
Then I try to repeat this on my old Sprint Note 2, Sprint Note 3, Samsung Note 10.1 2014 and I can't do it. Instead of a slide to unlock within the specified Secured lock time, I am greeted with a totally unlock screen. Which is really bad for butt dialing and accidental touch screen use since the screen is not protected by slide to unlock while it is in your pocket.
It seems this is a unique feature to AT&T note 3.
Try turning off the lock screen effect. I had this problem and I changed the effect from watercolor to none and that fixed it.
I'm making a sort of a "screensaver" functionality with lock screen - changing background every 30min.
Is there a way to keep the screen on, while lock screen is visible? Can lock screen be launched programmatically?
Even unconventional solutions/hacks are welcomed.
I´m not a developer but you could do somrthing with notifications that wake up the screen
It's an idea, thanks.
I'm having an odd problem with Lollipop's smart lock feature that I can;t seem to find much about elsewhere on the internet so I wonderin if it might be related to a Sony app.
I set up the phone's security and it works fine. Then I set up a smart lock trusted place/device (same scenario happens with both). Put the phone to sleep and wake up and the smart lock seems to work -- I have to only swipe up to get to the homescreen (no password required). But from then on the security is basically disabled altogether. The next time I wake the phone I no longer have to swipe up the lockscreen. If I leave the trusted place/device the phone also just goes straight to the homescreen. When I return to the trusted place/device, same thing.
So essentially the smart lock feature is disabling security altogether on the first "smart" unlock. The only way to get security working again is to go back and set it up all over again (enter new pattern/pin). Has anyone else experienced anything similar?
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to unlock my screen to toggle VPN (Android default VPN since there doesn't seem any decent third-party app out there, which supports IPsec-VPNs) on while on specific wifi network. Everything is working fine except the screen unlock, since Autoinput doesn't work with screen off/locked.
I tried of course the Autoinput-Action "Screen unlock" but this doesn't seem to work on a rooted 7.1: Screen just gets turnd on, Notifications jumping a littl ebit up but then the srceen tunrs of again.
Also tried Secure Setting, but this app seems to be long dead...
Any ide, how to accomplish this? And no, Open-VPN is no option, since the target doesn't support it (it would make things so much easier of course since there is a real tasker integration available).
Thanks!
any idea how to get auto input working?
the unlock action can't be configured, so how should this ever work?
so if I understand correctly you want to turn on the screen and unlock it.
you have managed to turn it on, how about turning off screen lock, and then turn it on? then you should be being straight to home screen.
since you are already using Joao's apps, there is something about disabling lock screen in his Autosettings app I think.
alienyd said:
so if I understand correctly you want to turn on the screen and unlock it.
you have managed to turn it on, how about turning off screen lock, and then turn it on? then you should be being straight to home screen.
since you are already using Joao's apps, there is something about disabling lock screen in his Autosettings app I think.
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thanks for your answer! you are right about what I'm trying to archiv and I guess the Unlock-Action from AutoInput does soemthing similar since it disables the lock screen completely and I have to set it active again after using this task. The disableing works, but the screen doesn't stay on long enough for AutoInput to perform the intended task – the unlock action doesn't have any configuration options, so basically I have to add something, which ensures the screen is on for a certain amount of time