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Wing locking itself

I swear I did not change any settings, but starting yesterday my Wing would just lock itself when the screen shuts off. Anyone know how to disable this? Thanks
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another odd thing I noticed - I don't have to unlock when the phone's charging. very weird.

what programs are you using? If you hold down the end key for a second, the phone will lock. Maybe you are accidentally bumping it when you put it in your pocket or case.

Sorry I wasn't more specific... I'm running ttran's OpenTouch 3.0. when I turn on the screen (using the power button) I need to press unlock twice to get to the main menu. It's annoying and I'd like to get rid of it. idk... I didn't change anything and it just randomly started happening yesterday. help?

I agree with you PharmacySchool...I'm running Ttran's 3.0 ROM myself and the "locked" feature pop-up on me this afternoon, out of the blue. It is very annoying and I'm not sure what caused it to start happening. Was getting an address out of the contacts list, X'ed out of contacts once finished, clicked the power button to turn the screen off...next time I went to use the phone, it magically was locked and has been since. A real pain to have to hit the unlock button twice just to use the phone. Have played around a little with it, but no success on correcting the problem yet.

Make sure you're not overclocking the phone. This can cause lock ups if the CPU overheats or if it doesn't get the required voltage or for other reasons.

The lock I'm referring to and I believe PharmacySchool...is like a "key lock". How some phones have an option to lock the keys so it can't accidentally call someone if numbers get pressed by mistake or while in your pants pockets. Nothing to do with the CPU or it being overheated. All you have to do is press the button to turn the screen light off and instantly turn it back on...it's locked. You have to hit the "unlock" button on the bottom left hand corner and the tap the unlock button on the screen. After doing such...you can once again use your phone.

I have the answer!!!
pharmacyschool said:
I swear I did not change any settings, but starting yesterday my Wing would just lock itself when the screen shuts off. Anyone know how to disable this? Thanks
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another odd thing I noticed - I don't have to unlock when the phone's charging. very weird.
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I'm pretty knew at this but I ran into the same problem and I figured out how to fix it. I don't know all the fancy wording so bare w/me. On your main screen touch and hold your battery symbol/ 6th option down says DeviceLock with a green check/ uncheck that **** and your good to go.
NOW someone PLEASEEEEE create a slide 2 "answer" not a slide 2 lock. I am so tired of my phone answering its self in my pocket when I don't want it to.

A_C 's S2U2 has a slide to answer feature..... You should check it out.

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A_C 's S2U2 has a slide to answer feature..... You should check it out.
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I've installed S2U2-0.2-WM5 with Touch It v2.3 and had problems. I think I remember it having a slide to answer but I also remember it answering with the green button as well. Maybe there was a way to disable it but I don't know how.
Does it work better Open Touch v3.0. because thats what I'm running now.

WOW... thats an OLD version.... that version should not have the slide to answer.....Current Version is 0.99p. It can be found in the development and hacking forum. You'll need to enable the S2A feature with the settings program...Man the apps come a LONG way since your version...We got animated gif support, Random still backgrounds, an exceptions list so voice dialers will work properly and internet browsers will stay alive... Just try the new version.

midas1200 said:
I'm pretty knew at this but I ran into the same problem and I figured out how to fix it. I don't know all the fancy wording so bare w/me. On your main screen touch and hold your battery symbol/ 6th option down says DeviceLock with a green check/ uncheck that **** and your good to go.
NOW someone PLEASEEEEE create a slide 2 "answer" not a slide 2 lock. I am so tired of my phone answering its self in my pocket when I don't want it to.
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Midas, that fixed it. thanks a lot. I owe ya one.

nextpimp said:
WOW... thats an OLD version.... that version should not have the slide to answer.....Current Version is 0.99p. It can be found in the development and hacking forum. You'll need to enable the S2A feature with the settings program...Man the apps come a LONG way since your version...We got animated gif support, Random still backgrounds, an exceptions list so voice dialers will work properly and internet browsers will stay alive... Just try the new version.
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NICE!!!!! Works good so far. Now I won't be divorced! LOL

cool (less known) functions, hints and tricks?

Im playing around with my newly rooted hero all day long but i feel im missing a bit of the techie geeky part of the equation..
I learned that by holding down home and power button during start takes the phone to the recovery screen (if you have a rooted phone) and the back + powerbutton returns fastboot screen.
I dont want to f##k anything up by messing about with it without any prior knowledge, so i ask you guys.. are there any cool functions, easter eggs or similar that arent well known (like in the first 10 pages on this forum)?
for instance, a verbose boot would be awesome, especially if it was a button combo to activate..
are there any more boot combos other than the above mentioned ones?

Holding down home will show a pop up of running programs; useful to switch between programs.

When the screen is off, double press the menu button and this will bypass the lock screen.

JBNAquatics said:
Holding down home will show a pop up of running programs; useful to switch between programs.
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that's not quite right. the programs shown are the most recent started programs, not necessary running programs (and of course mor programs are running in the background...). but it's really a handy feature.

i once managed to get to the android home screen that you get on phones like the Magic but i cant remember how i did it

kccl said:
i once managed to get to the android home screen that you get on phones like the Magic but i cant remember how i did it
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You get that by manually deleting Rosie.apk from the system/app folder.

Or by deleting its cache.
Then when you hit Home it will ask for you to choose the HTC or Android Home. As long as you don't select the use as default option, it will continue to do this.

TheBrit said:
When the screen is off, double press the menu button and this will bypass the lock screen.
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You're awesome.

G8D said:
You're awesome.
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Thanks.

G8D said:
You're awesome.
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You can just press menu from the lockscreen, no matter what button you pressed to wake the phone.

In the new ROM there's no camera zoom function on the screen by default. It can be accessed by the menu...
But who wants to do that?
Just swipe your finger up the screen the zoom slider appears, then swipe where you like to adjust the zoom level.
(from the Modaco forums)

Eh ? What zoom function ?
Explain please

joemax said:
Eh ? What zoom function ?
Explain please
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I believe he's talking about the camera's zoom...

Ah, now the word 'camera' has been added to the post it all makes sense

Switchbitch said:
Thanks.
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Wasn't intending to steal your thunder

One additional thing I found: Holding down the power button for 1-2 seconds will get you a menu where you can choose between powering off the phone, silent mode, vibration mode, airplane mode and internet connection.

Holding down the 'back' button in the browser will get you to your recently visited pages aka history.

Fleahole said:
One additional thing I found: Holding down the power button for 1-2 seconds will get you a menu where you can choose between powering off the phone, silent mode, vibration mode, airplane mode and internet connection.
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How else do you turn off the phone? I assumed everybody has to do this anyway.

With the new rom, you can touch the screen to focus that specific area. Okay everyone knows this. But do you know you don't have to click the trackball to take picture? Just tap and hold at the screen, it will focus on that area and then take picture.

busterz said:
How else do you turn off the phone? I assumed everybody has to do this anyway.
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LOL like that one, useless point he made there!

How to lock Ans/End key

Usually when a call comes and the phone is inside the pouch (good for protection), there are several ways of messing up by accepting or rejecting the call even b4 its completely out of the pouch as blelow:
On screen:
1) U can press the on screen message but which will send an auto sms to the caller and end the call
2) U can press the answer key
3) U can press the ignore key
Off screen (hardware)
4) U press the answer key
5) U can press the end key
Incredibly, all 5 options are simultaneously active. The screen can be locked by S2U2 etc. but I cannot find any option of locking the hardware keys.
Any help will be appreciated

Firstly thanks for Omnia i8000 support on XDA..
Now I feel secure..
Secondly even I'll lyk to disable my hardware keys for call ans/end..
is there a registry tweak or something we can do to disable it..

s2u2 has that option... go settings/phone and u have S2A Hard ans/end key...

Search 542482 - there's an app for that over in the Mobile Apps & Games forum

Solution found!!!!
The issue was really troubling me and I finally found a solution. Install a small program called Incall lock which locks the call & end key. But that will totally disable u from accepting calls under WM6.1. So install s2u2 and enable screen response and voila!! U have. Both these are available elsewhere in this lovely forum.
Note:- The whole process during inplementation is quite messy as u will first have to install .net compact & samsung SDK software (both freely available).
4 software to do a simple thing which should have been taken care of by the OS. That's life under our billy, the goat.
Hope this help. I would be glad to give something back to this site, i have greatly benefited from.

TouchLockPro works great.
(I can't post a link yet...search for it in the Omnia 2 section at Modaco).

ad720 said:
TouchLockPro works great.
(I can't post a link yet...search for it in the Omnia 2 section at Modaco).
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I tried tpro but it did not work for me. I am using wm6.1 under samsung touchwiz. Cud it b because of that ?

TouchLockPro is the answer, however, if both touch screen and the keys are locked on all in-coming calls, how the hell do you answer the phone? First to unlock it then answer it? A bit troublesome.

captkkk said:
TouchLockPro is the answer, however, if both touch screen and the keys are locked on all in-coming calls, how the hell do you answer the phone? First to unlock it then answer it? A bit troublesome.
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See, even if no software was there u wud have to press a key or tap something to answer anyway. With S2U2 and incall lock, the only point of access is the slider (in my case) with which i can either accept or reject calls. So if i swipe to ans, the lock opens and i can straight away start talking. So there really is no extra step involved. Whereas, if I do not lock the key, I will have to be careful not to press the keys accidentally which is difficult as I often put it in my pocket and more so inside the pouch. I think the swipe to answer is the killer option.

bimboybimboy said:
See, even if no software was there u wud have to press a key or tap something to answer anyway. With S2U2 and incall lock, the only point of access is the slider (in my case) with which i can either accept or reject calls. So if i swipe to ans, the lock opens and i can straight away start talking. So there really is no extra step involved. Whereas, if I do not lock the key, I will have to be careful not to press the keys accidentally which is difficult as I often put it in my pocket and more so inside the pouch. I think the swipe to answer is the killer option.
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Slide to Answer is great option to traditional Click to Answer, that is very true, however, that option has been adopted in 6.5 and some 3rd parties phone app as well, so if in i8000 case, the phone interface can be omitted and use the 6.5 or simply use those better and more feature phone apps

captkkk said:
Slide to Answer is great option to traditional Click to Answer, that is very true, however, that option has been adopted in 6.5 and some 3rd parties phone app as well, so if in i8000 case, the phone interface can be omitted and use the 6.5 or simply use those better and more feature phone apps
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Well, as I said I hv 6.1 & 6.5 not yet available in my country. so...

Hi,
I installed Throttle Lock.. Nice lock... it has slide to answer..
secondly it does not interfere with the touch player, lyk s2u2 does..

Are you using Omnia II with WM6.1 ?
Because throttle lock is not saving the settings on my phone. And yes, I am clicking the "ok" button at the top right and getting a message "changes saved". And my slide to answer is ON but no slide is displayed. All I can see is the default lock screen which opens when I click on a button on screen but that certainly does not solve my problem. Using ver .07 (latest).
I have even registered myself. Hell, the config.xml file shows Calllock is on but its not even locking when the call comes. That should be the very basic default function. Sorry, back to s2u2.

I am using WinMo 6.1 original Rom...
I installed it on Storage memory.. and its workign fine.. It does interfere with the Samsund dialer when the call comes in... but I will try disabling the samsung dialer and check... back to your issue.. Try re-installing it.. and it should work.. iam able to save all my settings..
And when the call comes in My hardware keys are lock as well and I get option to Slide to Answer or reject..

Aafi-rocks said:
I am using WinMo 6.1 original Rom...
I installed it on Storage memory.. and its workign fine.. It does interfere with the Samsund dialer when the call comes in... but I will try disabling the samsung dialer and check... back to your issue.. Try re-installing it.. and it should work.. iam able to save all my settings..
And when the call comes in My hardware keys are lock as well and I get option to Slide to Answer or reject..
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Thanks. I unistalled S2u2 and installed again. Still no. Yet the program was working when I clicked on it. So, luckily having some working knowledge of windows, I found that the program is not putting a link in the start menu or start up folder. This I had to do manually. But thats unclean.
And what happens when a call comes is funny. There is a brief fight between the throttle default , the windows splash & the lock screen itself. Luckily, the lock screen is winning every time. But again unclean or is it the links I have placed.
Currenly, I have links to both thottlelock & throttlelockdemon in the startup & lockdemon in the start menu. How is it with u?
Also in the setting under samsung default setup, the options like lock mode & incoming are white on white. What are your current settings ?
Think this program was designed for HTC. But is definitly smaller and though not neat...working. Thanks

I have mapped it to a hardware key, so when I want to lock I press the hardware key..

Aafi-rocks said:
I have mapped it to a hardware key, so when I want to lock I press the hardware key..
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Use incall lock for locking the keys when call comes. Works perfectly.
Tried the throttlelock for 2 days. Sometimes, the default wm screen was coming up and the look is messy. So more experiements......but till date s2u2+incall lock looks the cleanest. Will keep looking...

captkkk said:
TouchLockPro is the answer, however, if both touch screen and the keys are locked on all in-coming calls, how the hell do you answer the phone? First to unlock it then answer it? A bit troublesome.
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I'm using TouchLockPro. It's much faster and less memory consuming than S2U2 and it has multiple ways to unlock your phone!
In the newest version, you can unlock your phone by using the proximity sensor (and our Omnia II has one )
So if your phone wakes up in your pocket our pouch, it won't unlock, but if it wakes up in your hand or on your desk, it will unlock immediately!
Consequently, if you have an incoming call and the phone is in your pocket: It will remain locked until it's out of your pocket so you don't have to manually unlock before answering
I love it!

maardiweb said:
I'm using TouchLockPro. It's much faster and less memory consuming than S2U2 and it has multiple ways to unlock your phone!
In the newest version, you can unlock your phone by using the proximity sensor (and our Omnia II has one )
So if your phone wakes up in your pocket our pouch, it won't unlock, but if it wakes up in your hand or on your desk, it will unlock immediately!
Consequently, if you have an incoming call and the phone is in your pocket: It will remain locked until it's out of your pocket so you don't have to manually unlock before answering
I love it!
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I hv omnia 2 with wm6.1. Tried touchlockpro and was absolutely useless. How is it possible ?

Can u plz put in the download link.. Iam sure its somewhere on XDA itself, but I am kinda lazy to search today.... I'll download it once I reach home..

Trackball wake feature with No Lock app input needed

I am posting the timely reply to my email from the developer of the highly popular No Lock app, that many of us have been using for waking up our Nexus One with the trackball until we installed Gingerbread 2.3.3, for you wizards to possibly lend assistance to the developer . I questioned the developer as to getting a change done to the app so we could again enjoy the wonderful benefit of the app in waking up our phones with the trackball. Perhaps with the great knowledge base of our XDA members we can help him find a path to a fix of this most needed app. (especially those with a non functioning power button) He can be sent an email directly from the No Lock app in the Market. Let us all hope for a breakthru.
Here is his reply:
"Hi!
I wish I could do something. Unfortunately this is not in my hands
Normally my app is supposed to work exactly the same on all the devices,
and all the versions of Android. But in the real world, this is not the
case, and there is really nothing I can do about it.
On certain models, the app doesn't even work at all, and I have no idea why!
Have a nice day"

Trackball wake
I got the same formulaic reply. Obviously this developer isn't interested in fixing it on his own and perhaps we'll have to live with that. Trackball wake doesn't work with stock ROM on Anylock either, so it's a generic problem.
I also hope somebody can fix this (before my Vol key dies!)

The developer of widgetlocker commented on the trackball wake issue. It's something about pressing the trackball no longer dispatch event when the screen is off, therefore there is no way for an app to detect trackball press.
widgetlocker.teslacoilsw.com/general/trackball-wake-and-gingerbread-bad-news/

Loving GB - missing my wake on trackball!!
This is a behavior changing issue.

hope someone can make a trackball wake later..

No Lock app would be great to use with GB trackball! Hopefully it's developer will have a fix...in the meantime I'm using No Lock and the Volume button to wake my N1.

Am I missing something about trackball wake? I'm running CM7 nightly #7 and using Widget Locker with the "any hardware button unlock" feature enabled and my trackball wakes my phone just fine (even though I prefer to use the volume keys instead). Our is this an issue on stock 2.3.3?

sitinon327 said:
Am I missing something about trackball wake?....is this an issue on stock 2.3.3?
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sitinon327 said:
Am I missing something about trackball wake? I'm running CM7 nightly #7 and using Widget Locker with the "any hardware button unlock" feature enabled and my trackball wakes my phone just fine (even though I prefer to use the volume keys instead). Our is this an issue on stock 2.3.3?
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Yes. It used to be that you could just get an app to add this functionality, but now, you have to change it at the rom level. So sure CM7 will work, but it's over the top for people who just want trackball wake to install a new rom.

Yep, i also asked the widgetlock dev about this issue. Sadly there seems to be no real fix to this.
i really hate the fact that i cannot use trackball wake anymore, especially since the power button of the nexus seems to be quite fragile and can become defect easily. There are many threads about buggy power buttons in this forums.
Workaround for me is also to use the volume buttons for display wake, which is ok, but i preferred trackball wake...

missed my trackball wake..

I normally just use the clock app to prevent my phone from locking. With Gingerbread, I also can't use the trackball to wake the phone anymore. Good thing the volume buttons still work.

Would it be so hard for Google devs to include in stock ROM an option which allowed trackball to wake up screen now that everybody knows how buggy power button is and making a good ROM even closer to perfect?
I know. I'm asking for far too much... Google listening to its customers...

decodecoding said:
Would it be so hard for Google devs to include in stock ROM an option which allowed trackball to wake up screen now that everybody knows how buggy power button is and making a good ROM even closer to perfect?
I know. I'm asking for far too much... Google listening to its customers...
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yep. this will never happen. there are like a trillion bugs/tasks which are probably more important for Google than this very specific thing...

[Q] change lock screen unlock method?

mine now doesn't have a bar going across or something to drag down like iphone/htc sense - the whole image moves instead? seems very weird and would like to change it if i can?
i can't see an option to though. would prefer an pure android type of unlock method (with a custom wallpaper though). can i do this without rooting? want to leave that for a week or 2 to get used to the phone 1st
ta all

Look on the market .
jje

And look for what? I cant find anything useful, like stock lockscreen.
Anyway, i think you need an update.zip for things like that.

BlackLine said:
And look for what? I cant find anything useful, like stock lockscreen.
Anyway, i think you need an update.zip for things like that.
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i searched for " lock screen " and found something useful
lock screen
just use google there are endless possibilities
click here
there is even a video WOW

i do have 'goto my lockscreen' or whatever it's called but a lot of these alternate apps have a major problem (or 2) in that they interfere with bluetooth and wake up on any button press.
that's not really useful

1. Get widgetlocker
2. Win!
3. ???

tommo123 said:
i do have 'goto my lockscreen' or whatever it's called but a lot of these alternate apps have a major problem (or 2) in that they interfere with bluetooth and wake up on any button press.
that's not really useful
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try widget locker

I use 'ripple lock' which is a honeycomb'esqe unlock screen.
It is good but relatively new so there is room for improvement. however, the developer updates it regularly!
Sent from my Galaxy S2 using XDA App

dealwithit said:
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just did. very nice but wakes up on any button press
havent tested if it causes bluetooth problems yet but will do later on - off to see green lantern in a bit

tommo123 said:
just did. very nice but wakes up on any button press
havent tested if it causes bluetooth problems yet but will do later on - off to see green lantern in a bit
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Widgetlocker is very configureable and you can tell it to stop waking on certain button presses. I am currently using it here and it is pretty awesome.

tommo123 said:
just did. very nice but wakes up on any button press
havent tested if it causes bluetooth problems yet but will do later on - off to see green lantern in a bit
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Edite widget locker settings, if i'm not mistaking you can disable hardware buttons unlock

ta, but i already unticked everything i could under buttons and inputs but vol down e.g brings the unlock screen up when it should do nothing
think it's a limitation of android and can't really 'replace' the real lockscreen as such. maybe a version that requires root will do it, who knows.
at the very least this will cause battery rundown.

You are right. I missed your point. I was talking about unlocking. Device wakes up when you press the hardware buttons, but will not unlock with the settings i was talking about.

i missed that part of yours too.
ta for the help mate