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Slide2Gesture?

Maybe this has been discussed before but no one tried to develop the idea.
well instead of S2U, i prefer to have a gesture that i choose to unlock the device... so no one can unlock it other than I... if im dont have these programming skills
anyone is able to do it?! it can be a modified version of A_C's S2U2...

karim099 said:
Maybe this has been discussed before but no one tried to develop the idea.
well instead of S2U, i prefer to have a gesture that i choose to unlock the device... so no one can unlock it other than I... if im dont have these programming skills
anyone is able to do it?! it can be a modified version of A_C's S2U2...
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Hahaha! Shouldn't that been called Gesture2Unlock?

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Hahaha! Shouldn't that been called Gesture2Unlock?
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whatever G2U ...

I like the idea of this

Cool thinkin...
No passworded needed, just a gesture.

Someone needs to copy the Microsoft Origami thingy where you unlock by tapping a certain sequence on a picture of your choice, with more security gained by moving to a smaller grid size.

ell, honestly, if you delete the images from your S2U2 directory, that should accomplish the same thing. You would just have to remember where to slide from. Or use your DPAD.

lawmangrant, i think you're missing a handy side-effect of having G2U: you can still view the today screen. I imagine that you can view the today screen, but not be able to do anything until you gesture. If anyone uses PointUI, it's kinda like the builtin lock. You see the main screen until you tap, upon which the lock screen comes up. It's pretty nice (personally use s2u2 instead) but G2U has potential uses.

It's a good idea, especially if you don't have the instructions right on the screen, it's a good locker to keep people out of your phone.

It should be Gesture2Unlock (or G2U for short) and it was discussed in the Kaiser forum here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=362231&highlight=gesture
A_C, the author or S2U2 was contacted, but he didn't think he could do it, as you can see from the thread...
I still like the idea.

I have a program in mind that does exactly what you want...
hm.. not exactly...
you have to tap to 4 or 5 different points on your touchscreen to unlock your phone...
but I don´t know the name at the moment....
I´ll try to find it....

This is a great idea.......

strange !!! walking down the street today i had this exact thought
may be some day!!!!

This was good, but doesnt work anymore...
http://softava.com/archive/pp/otp_features.html#

interesting. Would be very similair to taking a biometric of a persons signature. presumably tho one wouldn't want the signature to be drawn as you gesture2unlock, but instead "draw" onto an invisible notepad.
its no easy process (have researched biometrics) as the important part if the learning/recognition algorythm which will probably involve some neural network coding (ouch but fun).
What you need is something like this!!!
http://bip.golana.pub.ro/~mmihai/sign/index.html.
I've emailed Mihail about this (the author), pointing him to this post. I will post his reply as soon as it arrives.
Here's my email:
Dear Mihail,
I came across your website whilst looking for clues as to how we might implement a fellow forum contributor’s idea on xda-developers.com (here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=370632&page=2)
His idea was to unlock a pda using a gesture on the touch screen. To my mind that mean signature which lead me to search for some algorithms on the net. Your implementation was particularly interesting as it seems quick to operate, has low memory footprint and could work on a low spec machine (such are many pda’s).
I was wondering if you implemented such a system, or if the algorithm you have developed has been release for others to use, commercially or non-profit.
Your input into the discussion would be highly valuable.
Best wishes
Sean

lawmangrant said:
ell, honestly, if you delete the images from your S2U2 directory, that should accomplish the same thing. You would just have to remember where to slide from. Or use your DPAD.
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Azimuth21 said:
lawmangrant, i think you're missing a handy side-effect of having G2U: you can still view the today screen. I imagine that you can view the today screen, but not be able to do anything until you gesture. If anyone uses PointUI, it's kinda like the builtin lock. You see the main screen until you tap, upon which the lock screen comes up. It's pretty nice (personally use s2u2 instead) but G2U has potential uses.
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I see pluses and minuses to this approach as opposed to using s2u2 with the deleted slide graphics.
If you want true privacy when someone picks up your phone, you wouldn't really want them to see your today screen especially if it contains appointment and tasks info, etc. That's where I think using a modified s2u2 would be better.
If you don't have appointment info on your screen or nothing that is "dynamic" or constantly changing except the clock, then you could skin s2u2 to "match" your today screen and place the clock exactly where it is on your today screen. For example if you have HTC home as your today screen, you can skin s2u2 clock to match the position and font as HTC home and then take a screenshot and modify it to a wallpaper, cutting out the clock par. The tricky part is the missed call and sms counter. S2u2 has the potential to disply that info but to replicate that look of htc home would require major changes, probably requiring A_C's help?
Of course if our devices had the horsepower, we could modify s2u2 to just take the screenshot of the today screen and load it as a wallpaper everytime it starts up, maybe a mortscript, but it would probably would be too slow realistically.

Im glad that u liked the idea... A_C said that he doesnt have the skills to do it.. but im sure he can help...
i don't mind if the appointments info appears on the screen, but i prefer no one can access all other applications... typing a password takes time... especially when activated side by side with S2U2...

Why a signature recognition? How about a gesture system like the one found in firefox plugins:
https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/39
https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/12
They're based on eight directions - four sideways and four diagonal.
Directions are defined as:
U - up
D - down
L - left
R - right
7 - up/left
9 - up/right
1 - down/left
3 - down/right
So to program a gesture you just need to input the directions of strokes it consists of.
For example URDL would mean drawing a rectangle starting from bottom left, and then going up, right, down, left. You can also describe more complicated gestures that way - R2D1L7U9R would mean drawing a circle starting from its top point and moving right.
In my opinion biometric algorithms don't make much sense, since they would need a styluys to work - try to draw your signature using a finger
Simplified gestures should work with finger as well as stylus, and should still provide more than enough security.

Great minds think alike.
What I wanted was a way to use touch to unlock the device very easily without it being easy to copy. I also wanted data to be safe should the device be reset.
I thought of using the standard S2U and just using a skin which didn't make it clear how to unlock so as to deter casual snoops.
There must be a way to do this! If no-one comes up with something soon then I'll dust off my programming books and give it a try.

the new Ftouch Flo a.k.a FtouchSL has some new gesturing features ( like corners )..maybe this would be useful

How to display Tasks in TF3D Home

Good evening everybody,
Well, until last week I used an HTC Elf (3450) and the SPB Diary.
The main purpose for me was to see my "rendez-vous" and tasks of the day on the same screen.
Now I have the Touch HD. I find the Touch Flow 3D very nice and easy to use. It's more than I want but ... how can we display the tasks ???
It seems it's not possible (for the moment ?)...
And I just can't believe that no one, here, is interested in displaying the Tasks on the Home screen just behind (or instead of) last calls for instance ...
I'd appreciate if someone could develop a plug-in or a stuff like that ...
Please ! Give my tasks back to me !!!

That's a good question. I would like to know that too

Would be great..
Year me too

I would also be very interested in displaying tasks in the home screen (the screen is so big, let's use it !).
It's so obviously useful.
And you can't even have a Task tab, according to HTC's FAQ :
Can I add Tasks as a tab in TouchFLO 3D ?
No, TouchFLO 3D does not support Tasks as one of its tabs.
As an alternative, you can put shortcut to Tasks in the Start Menu:
Go to Start > Settings > Personal tab > Menus, check the Tasks box.

download SECOND TODAY
download TODAY AGENDA
voila

sorry. But I did not get it, what should I download?

ekerbuddyeker said:
download SECOND TODAY
download TODAY AGENDA
voila
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http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_wm_tools_im_cs.htm#SecondToday
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=270288
Just trying it out myself!

Thanks for your answers,
marcopolo007uk & ekerbuddyeker
I just added Second Today. It works fine and btw you can have 2 fully environments swapping from one to the other but ...
- 4027 Ko in memory
- I tought about something more simple : just a few more lines on the home screen or why not ... a new tab icon ?
I really don't understand what is the problem with those tasks and why it seems so difficult.
If HTC can't do that I'm sure someone here could ...

I have just allocated the left soft button to tasks until a better solution comes along.
Regards

GLOC said:
I have just allocated the left soft button to tasks until a better solution comes along.
Regards
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Run that one by me again please......
Beards

On the home page, I have assigned the left soft key (normally phone) to launch my task manager (using the registry editor) so it is only one button from the front page.
Sorry if I was unclear in the first post.

GLOC said:
On the home page, I have assigned the left soft key (normally phone) to launch my task manager (using the registry editor) so it is only one button from the front page.
Sorry if I was unclear in the first post.
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Many thanks GLOC..... Now fully understood.
Beards

TF3D tasks view ?
Hello,
I am wondering how to view my daily tasks /not appointments/ in some of TF3D tabs ?
Any solutions ?
10x in advance

yeaaaah .. i hope someone come up with that .. or HTC team develop a plugin or something .. it would be pretty neat
and a disadvantage actully ^_^
but still over-all a pretty good PPC

This would be a nice to have!

I think it's very surprising that this feature is not already available, it's the first thing I need to check everytime I look at my phone.

That would be really nice!

I tried installing the Xperia panels interface the other day, and was pleasantly suprised to see you can have tasks on your home screen there.
How wedded to the TF3D home screen are you? You could try the Xperia one.

If I could replace the "Call History" on the home tab for "x active tasks" or "x tasks to do today" would already be great!
Is it possible?

If I could replace the "Call History" on the home tab for "x active tasks" or "x tasks to do today" would already be great!
Is it possible?

Confirmation of calendar events/reminders

Hi folks,
searched around this forum (and others) unsuccessfully for hours now, maybe someone knows what i'm looking for.
I don't like the procedure of confirming appointments or tasks provided by WM6 in combination with tf3d.
If you can't confirm the alarm instantly it disappears after a while and the softkey is overruled by tf3d.
As you all know you have to press the top bar and after that the bell in the upcoming screen to bring the reminder in front and if you want to be reminded later you need two more fingertips.
What i am looking for (or what i'm dreaming about) is a fingerfriendly dialog (maybe in a transparent curtain style corresponding to tf3d or so) popping up and staying in front of the screen until it is confirmed, containig the information about the task or appointment, maybe the current time, buttons for confirmation or repeating after a while.
By the way a big thank you to all the developers and contributors, this forum is No.1 and helped me a lot for years now.
Thanks in advance

Me too!
Yeah, I'll second that! Bloody annoying when the pop-up disappears before you get a chance to interact with it. If anyone has a solution to this, I'm all ears

Pop up stays put when using S2U2

Cheers...
hays said:
Pop up stays put when using S2U2
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Thanks my friend... been using another screen lock app, S2U2 is alot better I have to say - and FREE!

Hmmm....., S2U2,
i followed the developing from on the beginning and used it on my old prophet (at this point a lot of thanks to A_C for this excellent piece of work) but found that the handling of appointments when popping up wasn't as good as the rest of the app.
The appointment comes up (as the native windows dialog, which is, let me say, not very beautyful, also the top bar comes up, cutting of the S2U2 clock) and stays on the S2U2 screen but if you don't recognize it and the device goes into stand-by and you switch it on later the pop-up is gone (at least on the prophet), which is no problem on a classic today screen, but on a tf3d screen the softeys are overruled and you have the "problem" described in my first post.
And as a locking solution you have some other opportunities today, SlideToAnswer and TouchlockPro are fitting my needs better on the diamond.
Also in times of eyecandy i think this dialog is a missing link in the chain of beautyness.
So i'm still in hope that someone has a recommendation, but maybe it's not a problem for the most.

how to make a short cut to reminder ?

Hi,
we are some people thare are looking for how to make a shortcut to the reminder.
you know ? the litle bell on the top on the screen that call the curent outlook appointments.
we were mainly looking for that to when using SPB mobil shell 3 :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3935248&highlight=reminder#post3935248
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Originally Posted by jraggio View Post
My device is really great now with MS and the various widgets posted here to use for customizing things. I love the thumb friendly interface especially on the calendar and weather etc. What I'd really like is a widget that indicates when I have active reminders. If it had a count, even better, but a simple green / red would be great. When I have an active reminder now I need to tap the bell in the status bar to have them show. This bell is difficult to tap without a pen and defeats the finger friendly aspect of MS. Any ideas?
Thanks,
John
Just checked SPB's forum and there is a pretty popular thread there asking for this exact functionality. Doesn't look like SPB is listening or at least responding. Hopefully somebody here can add one.
http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewtop...=136335#136335
I got in the same position when using Homescreen++. I got things almost just the way I wanted them and still felt things lacking without this. I don't even need a fancy display for the notifications / reminders. Just an indicator that when tapped, shows the regular WM notification balloons. Heck, at this point I'd even take a setting that leave the balloons up until I dismiss them. Maybe a mortscript could do this? Anything to avoid fumbling with the little bell. It is really hard to hit with just my thumb.
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and :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4068203&highlight=reminder#post4068203
Hi I searched in the first page but found nothing :
how can I make a Link that will make the reminder coming in the front of the screen ?
now I can only click on the litle litle bell on the top of the screen.
any ideas ?
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and on SPB forum :
http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24379&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
An icon that would light up if there are system notifications. Press it, and in a good way show notifications/allow them to be dismissed.
-m
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any ideas are welcom.
thanks !

UP !
anybody has an idea how to make a shortcup to launch the (too) litle reminder bell ?

Ditto. Not only reminders...but I get all kind of alerts during the day - text, email, calender reminders. It would be nice if I could assign a shortcut to open my pending reminders

Way to have "People" tab open contacts directly?

When one selects the "people" tab at the bottom of the phone, it opens the HTC "People" app, where you can put photos of people to click on as "favorites".
If one then clicks on the phrase "all people" on the bottom left, one comes to Contacts.
Is there any way to set it, registry tweak, etc., so that clicking on that people tab will bring you directly to Contacts, without having to go to their "People" app first?
Thanks for your input.

i just put the htc contacts tabe on my homescreen. but id also like to see if there is a fix or not for this...

74. Add All Contacts to Home Screen Left Softkey
By default the left softkey on the the Sense home tab is coded to Phone which is pointless and a waste because you can get to the same Phone page by pressing the Send hardware key. Change it to the All People page (eliminating 2 taps) by using the following reg entry:
HKLM/Software/HTC/Manila
HomeLSKPath = !"\Windows\manila.exe" --switchtopage Manila://people\browserlayer\?.page
HomeLSKText = Contacts
Search [REF] *Leo Hints, Tips and Registry Tweaks* in the forum.

Thanks for the reply, Bazingo. I'll try that.
I'm still very much a newbie at Sense, just having got the HD2 a couple days ago, and never having used a device with that interface before.
One unfortunate thing I find about it though (again, I could be wrong, being so new at it), is that (out of the box) it seems so unconfigurable.
For instance, the main feature seems to be that ribbon of tabs at the bottom. That is a good idea. However, from what I can see, the only configuration one can do of them, is to remove them (other than Settings or Home)! One should be able to set any of the tabs to do what you want it to do, to include whatever app launchers you want from it, etc. One certainly SHOULD be able to set that people tab to go directly to contacts, if one prefers that, over that HTC "People" app.
I'm sure I'll learn more ways to hack the configuration here on XDA, and I am really grateful for this site. Most users won't know, of course, about XDA, might not feel comfortable with hacking the registry, or installing cabs from folks they don't know. This UI should really be much more configurable "out-of-the-box". (I wonder if HTC is listening?)

Configurable?
I really don't know what to say except wow. People should know what there buying before they purchase it. Do a little research. There's a reason they made it that way, last I checked Manilla wasn't open source. Nevertheless you are in the right place when it comes to customizing.

cdguider said:
I really don't know what to say except wow. People should know what there buying before they purchase it.
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My response to a comment like that-- arrogant BS sarcasm.
Well, if having such an attitude makes you feel good, to each his own!