I can not find a way to unlock keyboard without tapping "Unlock" button on the screen. Does anybody know a solution?
Unlock then *
That is the only other way, so you have to open the keyboard.
can't unlock with '*' key
First: thank you for your replay!
In my keyboard '*' is in blue collor and to access this simbol it should first press blue dot key. That's why I can not unlock with keyboard.
Hi,
you can press the dot and the * at the same time, and it unlocks
Sorry for my english.
Xabier - Xbit
I'm always confused/intrigued about this, and why people would want to use the Unlock thing (unless its PIN protected or something??)
My Wizard times out after a minute to a blank screen, at which point pressing the touch screen or any button (except 'power') does nothing. I just tap the 'power' button and it 'unlocks'.
Likewise, I just tap the power button after usage to 'lock' the device immediately before throwing it in my pocket.
This was the functionality out of the box, one of the first things I did was remove the Unlock plug-in from my Today.
I use it, because if somebody calls you, or the alarm start, the wizard switch on automaticaly abd if you have it in the bag, you can call somebody.
Sorry for my english
Xabier
Ah right, that probably explains that then.
And don't apologize, its 100% better than my Spanish!
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When I lock it and then try to unlock, it asks me to press '*' to confirm. OK, I can tap the on-screen button, I can slide out the keyboard and actually push '*'. But is there a way to use another keypress as the confirmation, accessible w/o QWERTY keyboard?
hear hear! I would love that!
You mean that there is nothing similar like a common mobile phone to lock/unlock the device with a combination of front panel or side keys?
I wish you could do this from the hang-up button + center dpad. I miss this from my treo.
It would be great to be able unlock the device without using the touch screen or keyboard.
I was messing around the button settings, and it seems like the the only button that can do "press and hold" is button 5.
what I would like to do is program the side "ok" button to press to lock, press and hold to unlock. Any registry gurus or savvy hackers here know if this is possible?
TIA
The Mogul comes with the option of using the power button as a "lock" for the other buttons. You can choose when the device is off to only respond to the power button being pressed.
I think what he is looking for is a button method of initiating the "device lock" application that can be added to the Today screen.
The problem with just using the power button is that if you accidentally press the power button then all the other buttons and screen will work. He's trying to actualy lock the device with a button.
you are almost right ebmorgan, except that you CAN map a button to <lock device> under settings-->buttons, but you CANNOT map a button or map the press and hold button to <unlock device>.
I tried AE button plus, it gave me a lot more options button wise, but still doesn't have a <unlock device> function built in.
My bad....I didn't notice you said "unlock". I was think of locking.
spb software makes a program called "SPB Mobile Shell" and can be found here http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/mobileshell/?en
This does exactly what you want! The left softkey will lock the device, and the right softkey will unlock it, instead of hitting cancel on screen or the * key.
Although i run this program, but not this option, is because of the "now screen." Which comes up no matter what, when you wake up the device or unlock it, which kinda sucks for what i want.
anyhow, if it's cool for you, then get it and enjoy!
go into the Now screen settings in mobile shell. You can uncheck display now screen box.
The question remains... is there a way to map a program to the "ok" key on the side of the Titan? It really doesn't do anything and its not in the button options. It would also be nice to have the hold option available to the other keys.
Yep, you can uncheck the display now screen box, but then you won't be able to make the right soft key unlock the device, it goes back to "press cancel or *"
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go into the Now screen settings in mobile shell. You can uncheck display now screen box.
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Me too! I'm looking for a tweak that will unlock my device by press-and-holding a button. The default 2-step unlock of Windows-Mobile is so annoying especially during bright outdoors.
S2u2 doesn't work for me because you need to swipe the screen to unlock which is bad for less sensitive screens. And it doesn't have transparency so it covers the current app.
By default, when I place a call I have the touchscreen locked.
How do I unlock the screen?
Simply touching the "unlock" button does not unlock the screen.
I know it is possible to change the default behaviour to have the screen unlocked during the call but I do not like this setup.
I struggled with this as well, and then looked it up in the online manual, the only way to unlock it is with the D-pad, the silver circle with the Palm logo in it. Navigate with that button to the unlock button and then hit the Palm logo, it will unlock screen and buttons. There is a setting in the Keyguard application (start-settings-keyguard) that lets you change this, simply remove the checkmark and the screen will not lock again.
I want my phone to lock everytime I switch it off, so far the only way I can do it is by setting up a password. Anyway I can do it skipping that step?
Thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=542482
us this. wat im using locks when screen goes off.
Get keyboard config remapping tool, then do the following
1. Add key (press the power button on top of the device)
2. Click the + icon next to Actions, and pick Run Program from the drop down menu (browse to Devicelock.exe located in windows folder, or so it seems)
3. then add an additional Action, this time pick Action Type > Power Management > Power Toggle or Suspend Device from the drop down menu
okay everything is done and voila, your device now locks and turns it's screen off every time you press the power button on the top, and when you press the power button again it welcomes you with the slide to unlock screen.
I have attached all the necessary cab files below, the shortcutsandicons cab simply makes shortcut for you to the devicelock.exe in the start menu.
search for smartlock
The first link worked perfect! THANKS!
every suggestion so far locks the screen, but then I have to enter my password to unlock, it is only supposed to ask every 30 minutes, on my old 8525 i could lock the screen and then press a softkey and then a location on the touchscreen to unlock, is there anything similiar for the tilt2, or someway to configure any of the suggestions in this thread for that functionallity?
thanks
i use s2u2 works awesome no password needed ( but optional 4 the nosies lol)
Hi everyone,
Basically I am experiencing several nuisances that I hope some of you might have answers too.
Screen lock: The problem here is especially when reading something the screen will lock as its supposed to and I will have to unlock it with the slide lock in addition to the unlock pattern (I enabled it). What I'm looking for is a way to delay the screen lock. For example, if the screen blacks this should be an indication the screen is about to lock, allowing a 2-5 sec window for me to stop the locking if I'm looking at something.
Keyboard: I have the HTC IME mod, the one that comes with the rooting process. What I experience is when I am typing and if I make a mistake and use the left most arrow key to navigate to the mistake and correct it and then use the right most arrow key to navigate back this key will insert a "o" character for every time its pushed. I can push backspace and backspace will delete all of this characters at once. But if I pus the same key again it puts the "o" back. The only way to correct this is to use the left most arrow key once and then i can use the right most arrow key to navigate back.
Does anyone have any way around these issues?
Just constantly touch the screen or do something so it won't auto-lock.
Alternatively, just set the timeout higher.
I've never heard of the second issue.
I've had the keyboard problem with stock X10i keyboard, I turned off "word suggestion" which I found to be annoying rather than helpful. Problem solved!
As for the screen timeout problem you either extend the time before the screen times out, go to "Settings", "Sound & display" and "Screen timeout". You can set for a number of minutes or never and to make the phone sleep you'll need to press the lock button or there are apps on the market with a widget that that stops the phone sleeping until it is pressed again.
Hope that helps.
Sent from my X10i using XDA App
kindred7 said:
Hi everyone,
Basically I am experiencing several nuisances that I hope some of you might have answers too.
Screen lock: The problem here is especially when reading something the screen will lock as its supposed to and I will have to unlock it with the slide lock in addition to the unlock pattern (I enabled it). What I'm looking for is a way to delay the screen lock. For example, if the screen blacks this should be an indication the screen is about to lock, allowing a 2-5 sec window for me to stop the locking if I'm looking at something.
Keyboard: I have the HTC IME mod, the one that comes with the rooting process. What I experience is when I am typing and if I make a mistake and use the left most arrow key to navigate to the mistake and correct it and then use the right most arrow key to navigate back this key will insert a "o" character for every time its pushed. I can push backspace and backspace will delete all of this characters at once. But if I pus the same key again it puts the "o" back. The only way to correct this is to use the left most arrow key once and then i can use the right most arrow key to navigate back.
Does anyone have any way around these issues?
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Keyboard: Press Space and then remove the o with backspace. it works....