Replace HTC Lockscreen, an Incredible Find!

jtwonk said:

Hi I'm a complete novice with WL . But like it for what I have managed to suss out so far.

What I was really interested in & hoping it would do is change the standard drag down to accept call/ drag upto decline. This is mainly cos I have been declining the odd call when pulling the phone from my pocket. Sometimes it's my manager which obviously aint good .

Is there anyway I can change this function to a WL lock slide.


Cheers & thanks in advance

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jtwonk:

Unfortunately that feature of the phone is controlled by the launcher software and not the lockscreen. Anticipated updates for WidgetLocker are rumored to have better communications and music player support, but any improvements like that have been a long time coming. (I think the developer spends more time cracking down on pirates of his apps than updating the apps themselves.)

Anyway, I am using LauncherPro as my home application and it has a press to accept/decline instead of a slide. The buttons are smaller and precise so I really don't have a problem with accidentally pressing them. Incoming Call Authority - Paid App, Incoming Call Plus - Free App are a couple of app that I found that seem to replace the stock Dialer incoming call screen. Maybe look into those as well...?

Hope this helps.

Ruark said:

I just use No Lock. Works perfectly. No more lock screen.

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Easy Wake Mode does exactly the same things as No Lock unless you're using a security lock, in which case No Lock disables the security and Easy Wake Mode does not.

timebandit said:

There's a setting in Popup -> Hide Other, but I already have an application package name in that list(SMS Popup). Is it possible to have multiple apps in Popups -> Hide others or is it just for a single app/package?

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I think I got to you by email, but in case others are wondering, there is currently not a way of doing this but I might add it in the future. (Especially if more people show interest in it). I probably will add SMS Popup to be hidden along with chomp or handcent after I do some testing to make sure it responds well to my method of hiding.

jtwonk said:

What I was really interested in & hoping it would do is change the standard drag down to accept call/ drag upto decline.

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The incoming call screen and the lock screen are independent. HTC Sense will display buttons, rather than sliders, if the stock lock screen is disabled. It can be disabled using Easy Wake Mode (Or NoLock). But this is really just a side effect as WidgetLocker doesn't aim to change the incoming call screen. I'd love to make an incoming call screen replacement tool, but the lock screen has kept me pretty busy and the incoming call screen is more complicated than one might expect.

paulmz said:

Unfortunately that feature of the phone is controlled by the launcher software and not the lockscreen. Anticipated updates for WidgetLocker are rumored to have better communications and music player support, but any improvements like that have been a long time coming. (I think the developer spends more time cracking down on pirates of his apps than updating the apps themselves.)

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I'm rather confused by this post...

1) The launcher is completely independent of the incoming call screen. I don't know of any launcher that tries to replace the incoming call screen. Perhaps there is a rare one that does, but Launcher Pro does not for sure. Some people might say the "Sense incoming call screen" but that is independent of the "Sense UI Home".
2) Music player is also completely independent of the incoming call screen... I probably will do built in music controls at some point, but for now I recommend:
Phantom Music Control - Android app on AppBrain
[WIDGET] Phantom Music Control for WidgetLocker [UPDATED: JAN 15] - xda-developers
The dev is very active and we communicate regularly
3) Pirates are indeed a waste of time. I get bug reports from old versions or cracked out buggy versions or people pretending they've paid for WidgetLocker when they haven't. I don't want to ignore a legitimate user, and sometimes legitimate users restore cracked versions from backup or something, so I still try to reply to these emails. And yeah if a pirate site shows up on my Google Alert for "widgetlocker" I might take the 5 minutes to send a takedown notice. If it bothers you tell the sites to block google from indexing and I won't see it.
4) It takes me time to develop. I've touched some 30,000 lines of code since 1.2.8.1, probably more code has changed than has remained the same. I've made good progress, but it's still not ready for release. Lots of development time is spent discovering and resolving issues across all the different phones/interfaces. WL 1.2.8.1 is pretty solid with regard to that, which finally gave me a chance to focus on features, cleanup and refactoring, instead of small repairs.

Hi,

I'm running WL 1.2.8.1 - and love it. But, after about 5-10 uses, my phone reverts back to the standard Hero lock screen. I've tried the various combinations for the 5-second rule, nothing seems to work. I'm not rooted. I'm using a Hero phone, firmware 2.1.

Am probably going to replace my phone in a few months, so not the end of the world if I can't get it to work with this phone, but I do like the software as I hate the standard lock screen.

Also, if I open the WL application, then it goes back to working again for another 5-10 times before the Hero lock screen returns. So, I have to start the app, and exit, the app every 10th time I use my phone, more or less.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks.

ETA.. OK, doesn't seem to be connected to the number of times the phone is unlocked, I just unlocked my phone 30+ times in a row, no problem. So it must be a time thing. 30 minutes, or an hour, after I run the app it stops working and returns to the default lock screen. Will time it and come back with better information.

20 minutes and it reverts back to the Android default lockscreen. Doesn't even do the flash up of the default then switch to the WL. It just uses the default lockscreen. If I start up the the WL app again, I'll get it to work for another 20 minutes. And yes, before you ask, I did pay for it. I know it 'feels' like a demo version, but I have the full thing.

Does having a lock pattern interfere? I don't have the lock pattern activated though.

ReneeM said:

Hi,

I'm running WL 1.2.8.1 - and love it. But, after about 5-10 uses, my phone reverts back to the standard Hero lock screen. I've tried the various combinations for the 5-second rule, nothing seems to work. I'm not rooted. I'm using a Hero phone, firmware 2.1.
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20 minutes and it reverts back to the Android default lockscreen. Doesn't even do the flash up of the default then switch to the WL. It just uses the default lockscreen. If I start up the the WL app again, I'll get it to work for another 20 minutes. And yes, before you ask, I did pay for it. I know it 'feels' like a demo version, but I have the full thing.

Does having a lock pattern interfere?

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This is definitely not at all related to the 5 second rule.

It sounds like WidgetLocker is being killed. Are you using a task killer to do so? Some activate when the screen turns off, some activate every X minutes, some activate whenever is most annoying to users and developers.

If it's not a task killer it may be the system's doing, especially if you aren't using a notification icon. The notification icon tells Android that WidgetLocker doesn't want to be killed. If you are using a notification icon then does it disappear?

kevin@teslacoilsw said:

This is definitely not at all related to the 5 second rule.

It sounds like WidgetLocker is being killed. Are you using a task killer to do so? Some activate when the screen turns off, some activate every X minutes, some activate whenever is most annoying to users and developers.

If it's not a task killer it may be the system's doing, especially if you aren't using a notification icon. The notification icon tells Android that WidgetLocker doesn't want to be killed. If you are using a notification icon then does it disappear?

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I recently updated my task killer, and haven't really checked its settings since - hadn't thought of that. Thanks for pointing it out, will look there.

Also, I have the WL notification turned off, will turn it back on and see if that helps.

Thanks

Update:

I added WL to the ignore list of my Task Killer, and also turned on the notification. This seemed to resolve the issue.

I then turned off the notification, as too many things in the notification bar annoys me, and it still seems to be working fine. So I'm putting it down to my too-clever Task Killer.

Thanks for your help.

as always.... Thanks for being around Kevin to answer questions! It is devs like you that make this board what it is!!

great！！3q

I suppose it's okay if you only want to put widgets on your lock screen. But I placed the camera slider thinking it would allow me to use the camera without having to unlock the phone. No luck. I still have to enter the password. It's just that now I select the camera before unlocking the phone as opposed to after.

kwyjibear said:

I suppose it's okay if you only want to put widgets on your lock screen. But I placed the camera slider thinking it would allow me to use the camera without having to unlock the phone. No luck. I still have to enter the password. It's just that now I select the camera before unlocking the phone as opposed to after.

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Well, needless to say, if you turned off the password protection the camera would work the way you want.

I guess you just need to determine which feature is more important. But if there are things important enough on the phone that require a password, why would you want any app to bypass that?

I was wondering if there was any plan (or if it was even possible) to bypass the lockscreen on AOSP ROMS with a PIN set. I swipe WL, but then I get the vanilaa lockscreen. I swipe that, and then I get to the PIn entry. Is there any way to get rid of the vanilla lockscreen step? This works on sense roms, but for some reason not on AOSP.

Thanks,
Nkk

paulmz said:

But if there are things important enough on the phone that require a password, why would you want any app to bypass that?

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Everything is a compromise between security and convenience. In the future I'd like to give the user the option of bypassing the security for certain apps. This way they can chose to allow the camera, but not gmail. But the more security conscious can just have everything require the security input.

nkk said:

I was wondering if there was any plan to bypass the [stock slider] on AOSP ROMS with a PIN set. I swipe WL, but then I get the [stock slider]. I swipe that, and then I get to the PIn entry. Is there any way to get rid of the vanilla lockscreen step? This works on sense roms, but for some reason not on AOSP.

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Normally I get rather annoyed with HTC/Motorola/Samsung for their "additions" to Android. However this is one thing HTC did right. They don't as aggressively tie the stock slider to the security input.

I have a few root-based ideas to get around this, but no implementations yet.

Hi Kev im have that Boot Down problem again. i forgot the fix. after phone sits and a wake it it goes to the HTC screen- 10-15 sec. passes as it boots before i can use the phone-

freddyttt said:

Hi Kev im have that Boot Down problem again. i forgot the fix. after phone sits and a wake it it goes to the HTC screen- 10-15 sec. passes as it boots before i can use the phone-

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When you boot your phone Android is slow to load third party applications. However it will load your default Home. Right now your default home is set to HTC Sense, then later all third party apps get started, including WidgetLocker. If you've already dismissed the stock lockscreen WL won't interrupt you by appearing on the screen, but it will still start running in the background ready to take over next time your screen goes off.

If you enable the HomeHelper then WidgetLocker can start earlier (Settings > Behavior > Select System Home > WL HomeHelper). However with WidgetLocker's HomeHelper as the default, it's possible Android will remove the Sense Launcher from memory causing it to reload/refresh sometimes. In your case I'd recommend go ahead and trying the HomeHelper to get faster WL on boot, and if it's causing reloads then decide between faster WL at boot (default home as HomeHelper) or launcher reloads (default home as Sense)

Also as a heads up, the HomeHelper is hidden by default in the next update. This is to make WL easier to use and less confusing. However there's still a few things it's good for, such as quick loading at boot, or blocking the Home button while in other apps before unlocking. HomeHelper is still there, just hidden, to enable it after the update you'll need to go to Settings > Advanced > HomeHelper

whitewallman said:

Widgetlocker 2.0 released today!
Joy!

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i definitely agree!!

Just installed this on my mytouch 4g today and love it. One issue... When I turn off my screen, it comes back on by itself 5 seconds later. Is that by design? For now I have to hit my power button twice to turn off my screen.

Grookes said:

Just installed this on my mytouch 4g today and love it. One issue... When I turn off my screen, it comes back on by itself 5 seconds later. Is that by design? For now I have to hit my power button twice to turn off my screen.

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No, that is not by design. It should stay off.

Grookes said:

Just installed this on my mytouch 4g today and love it. One issue... When I turn off my screen, it comes back on by itself 5 seconds later. Is that by design? For now I have to hit my power button twice to turn off my screen.

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PIN/Password security and the "Lock phone after" set to Immediately? Looking into this, work around for now is to set the "Lock phone after" to 3 minutes (System Settings > Security). Only effects Sense 2.0 (Desire HD/Inspire, myTouch 4g)
-Kevin

Hey Kevin. We had some issues with WidgetLocker and CyanogenMod7. I LOVE the new settings but my widgets disappear on the lock screen some times and after unlock the phone slows down terribly. Any ideas?

I'm really digging the customizations in the new WL. I dropped it for months, but now I'm back! Thanks Kevin

06Stang said:

Hey Kevin. We had some issues with WidgetLocker and CyanogenMod7. I LOVE the new settings but my widgets disappear on the lock screen some times and after unlock the phone slows down terribly. Any ideas?

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Unfortunately this seems to be a CM7 issue and I can't reproduce it myself. Without the Cyanogen team even deeming CM7 worthy of their support or accepting bug reports, I can't justify spending more time looking. You're going to have to switch roms or wait until CM7 is stable. I suspect CM7 isn't properly saving widget permissions so it's deny WL of the widgets. All this has to be fixed in the CM7 side of things.

@ Kevin
I really like your app. Im having a lil problem though when using widget locker and NoLed. If I get a gmail during boot up the icon pops up then goes away leaving a black screen with the soft lights lit. Nothing will work to get me to the home screen unless I hold down the power button till the power menu appears, then if I hit the back button everything works normal. It only happens at start up though. Before both widget locker and NoLed updated last everything worked in harmony. Please help. Thanks

Hi Kevin, just purchased WidgetLocker and its great! I have a couple questions and requests though. I saw above you said CM7 has some problems with WL. I am on CM7 so that may be the cause of a few of these.

1. I am using GoSMS. If I receive a text and dont touch my phone, the screen turns off as it should. I turn the screen on and there is no notification popup for the SMS as there should be. Also, my menu bar does not have the notification. It's as if I read it. The notification light also does not work half the time if I dont touch the phone after receiving the text.

2. My home button is unlocking the phone and I dont know why. Am I missing a setting?

3. Any way you could add a feature to have the wallpaper for the lockscreen change to a random picture in a certain folder?

4. I have the Call button set to open the dialer. Before it would open the Contacts menu. I rebooted the phone and now it opens the Call Log menu. Any ideas?

Thanks for the great app

mach1man said:

@ Kevin
I really like your app. Im having a lil problem though when using widget locker and NoLed. If I get a gmail during boot up the icon pops up then goes away leaving a black screen with the soft lights lit. Nothing will work to get me to the home screen unless I hold down the power button till the power menu appears, then if I hit the back button everything works normal. It only happens at start up though. Before both widget locker and NoLed updated last everything worked in harmony. Please help. Thanks

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I'm experiencing the same problem. My temp solution is to disable "Auto-start" in NoLED's "Miscellaneous" settings. You just have to remember to start NoLED manually after you reboot.

kevin@teslacoilsw said:

Unfortunately this seems to be a CM7 issue and I can't reproduce it myself.

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Users have come through and figured this out!
xda-developers - View Single Post - [APP] WidgetLocker Lockscreen replacement
Basically disable ThemeChooser at least while setting things up.

mach1man said:

@ Kevin
I really like your app. Im having a lil problem though when using widget locker and NoLed. If I get a gmail during boot up the icon pops up then goes away leaving a black screen with the soft lights lit.

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Aside from disabling NoLED's start at boot can you try disabling WL's Appear at boot option? You won't need to manually start WL as it still starts, it just won't display right away and maybe this will help.

Ashhong said:

1. I am using GoSMS.
(a) If I receive a text and dont touch my phone, the screen turns off as it should. I turn the screen on and there is no notification popup for the SMS

(b) Also, my menu bar does not have the notification.

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(a) is my fault (b) is their fault. I'll contact them about (b). I'm working on (a) also but it's a bit complicated.

2. My home button is unlocking the phone and I dont know why. Am I missing a setting?

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Uncheck Allow Home Button in Settings > Buttons & Inputs. If it's not that then Settings > Report Bug and I can look at your setup.

3. Any way you could add a feature to have the wallpaper for the lockscreen change to a random picture in a certain folder?

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Possibly in the future

4. I have the Call button set to open the dialer. Before it would open the Contacts menu. I rebooted the phone and now it opens the Call Log menu. Any ideas?

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I don't think this would be related to WL. Haven't heard any other reports of it.

-Kevin