Help Using the optical trackpad button to wake the phone

[below_radar_00]

Just downloaded LockBot. I'm actually liking it. I thought I read somewhere on one of these posts that you can change the settings around so that only one button takes you to the unlock screen though? I can't seem to find that setting, if it actually exists. I don't like that Vol Up, Vol Down, Power and Trackpad all turn the screen on. Anybody know of a way to disable some of these buttons from bringing the screen back?

 

[dibs ODDJOB]

So I tried myLock. WTH am I doing wrong, I can't get the app to wake on Trackpad push.

I have myLock is enabled checked. But when I have that checked, I can't choose the Mode Select. I have to uncheck it, change the Mode, then check it again. Stupid.

On Advanced Mode, it wakes on Trackpad, but has this dumb semi-transparent overlay screen that tells me to hit any touch key, which is overkill.

Might go back to NoLock if I can't figure it out.

 

[tsailor1]

I just downloaded "no lock" and it seems to work pretty good. After your phone goes to sleep just hold down optical pad for a second and your phone screen comes on. It works good for me.

 

[Jakaro]

I just downloaded "no lock" and it seems to work pretty good. After your phone goes to sleep just hold down optical pad for a second and your phone screen comes on. It works good for me.

Tried No Lock, but it didn't work the same %100 of the time, half the time the optical joystic never wakes up the phone.

 

[woop]

I just downloaded "no lock" and it seems to work pretty good. After your phone goes to sleep just hold down optical pad for a second and your phone screen comes on. It works good for me.

Was buggy for me, and I didn't want it to wake my phone through the volume rockers.


Can a dev please make the Incredible community happy and make an app that will ONLY wake the phone through either power button or optical trackpad? (I think alot of us are even willing to pay if necessary)

 

[adi]

Since there are several other programs that do what we want BUT ALSO much more than we want, it just can't be too hard to create an app that will do just what we want...ONLY wake the Inc. with the optical BUT only do that and ONLY do it with the optical - not with any other buttons...am always hitting volume control by mistake...Like someone else said, I'll pay for this much faster than some of these fully loaded versions, which I have finally uninstalled. PLEASE!

 

[jcoberg10]

+1 to everything in here. I don't like the current unlock setup and the simpler the app the less problems.

 

[conn]

I'm surprised more people don't have a problem with this. This is the only thing I don't like about this phone. I would easily pay for an app (stable, with no bugs) that would allow for the phone to wake from the track pad.

 

[kennytv]

Totally agree! Love the Incredible....need an easier way to unlock.

 

[red97xj]

i am subscribing to this hoping someone will post the app when its made!

 

[jakeh0]

subscribed. it seems weird that the trackpad button doesnt do much of anything

 

[woop]

+1 to everything in here. I don't like the current unlock setup and the simpler the app the less problems.

Yeah, considering I always accidentally hit my volume rockers, I would not want that as a way to wake my phone.

 

[adi]

It just can't be that hard to create such a simple app. I have even emailed the developer of some of the existing apps mentioned above thinking since they had already created apps that are more than so many of us want, they should be able to scale back and make the simple one that we want. One dev said he answered ALL emails but I have yet to see any replies. Lets try to keep this thread alive so hopefully some dev will jump on this.

 

[asahi]

I emailed the NoLock developer and he indicated that the phone doesn't allow for seperate control of the track pad and the volume controls. It sounded like an all or nothing feature (at least unrooted).

I have to agree with a previous poster I tried MyLock and went back to NoLock. Neither are perfect but the minimalistic approach of NoLock worked best for me.

 

[C0bra K0mmander]

Downloaded LockBot. Have to hold trackball for two seconds but it does wake up the phone! Thanks for the advice!!!

+1

 

[generous]

I'd be curious to see if you can use the optical joystick for other tasks. For example, I'd like super easy access to my task switcher. (not the 'recent apps')

 

[yojoe600]

can we change what our buttons do like winmo?

 

[woop]

can we change what our buttons do like winmo?

Not at the moment. Once we get root, we can.

 

[mills23]

I tried this on my Dinc and it dont work for me.

I am using Keyguard Disabler and it wakes the phone with trackpad. It is a very simple, free and good app IMHO. Sometimes you have to reset the disabler which is easy to do, but it doesn't happen enough to bother me.

Just another option for ya.

 

[Squintz82]

I tried this on my Dinc and it dont work for me.

It only works if you disable the screen lock too. Not what most of us are looking for.

 

[BringTheRain403]

does anyone know if Lock 2.0 will allow you to wake the phone with the trackpad?

 

[woop]

does anyone know if Lock 2.0 will allow you to wake the phone with the trackpad?

That app looks to just make it so your lock screen has a different theme and the iPhone-ish slide to unlock.

 

[BringTheRain403]

I tried the free version of lockbot and it was SLOOOOOOOOW! Sucks! It looks like it could be pretty cool!

 

[n0m0n]

Hopefully along with a wakeup app there will be other option or app's created for this track button.

 

[golfinglenn]

Screen mode widget lite does what you are looking for. It has 3 modes when you hit the widget, (slide lock activated, no slide lock, and screen always on). When in no slide lock or screen always on mode, when screen is off you can hit the trackpad and the screen comes on and is unlocked with no slider.

I know somebody will ask why would the screen be off if it was set to always on, so that is if you want to manually turn screen off with power button instead of it timing out all the time and you still retain trackpad wake up.