Finally found a widget to turn off my Nexus screen with no delay. Touch the widget and INSTANT screen lock. This combined with widget locker means I hardly ever have to use the power button on my N1 (after a call I still have to unlock with power button though). Just wish I'd found this before I paid for two other screen off widgets that had delays before the lock
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Whats its name?
I believe it's called 'lock screen widget'. Thanks to the op for suggesting this. I also just purchased 'power off'. My power button is fine but with all the stories of the power button failing I do worry about it, so using these two widgets will reduce the use of it hopefully avoiding any problems...
Edit: power off from the market sux. Refunded, uninstalled...
MarkM83 said:
Whats its name?
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As the poster above noted, its called "lock screen widget". I had the power button on my original Nexus die after 3 days so I've been looking for a way to avoid using it as much as possible....this helps immensely. With "widget locker" I can unlock the phone with the trackball or volume keys so my power button hardly ever gets touched.
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Why not warranty the phone? I had to do that twice for the power button.
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peliROJO said:
Why not warranty the phone? I had to do that twice for the power button.
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I did warranty it. I'm using these pre-emptively to hopefully keep my power button functioning as long ad possible.
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Sorry to change topic but does anyone know an app that allows trackball wake up flawlessly. All the apps i tryed will work 60% Of the time sometimes not at all.
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Trackball wake in the majority of roms does the job for me
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I use No Lock to bypass using the power button. No Lock simply disables the device locking so you can wake the device with the volume buttons or the trackball, at all times. The only time I use the power button now is to power on/off the device. No Lock is free too.
sitinon327 said:
Finally found a widget to turn off my Nexus screen with no delay. Touch the widget and INSTANT screen lock. This combined with widget locker means I hardly ever have to use the power button on my N1 (after a call I still have to unlock with power button though). Just wish I'd found this before I paid for two other screen off widgets that had delays before the lock
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If you want it themed...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7281360#post7281360
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I use No Lock to bypass using the power button. No Lock simply disables the device locking so you can wake the device with the volume buttons or the trackball, at all times. The only time I use the power button now is to power on/off the device. No Lock is free too.
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No Lock is great for turning the screen ON...but I wanted something to turn it OFF without hitting the power button or waiting for the screen to just "timeout". The two other widgets I found both came with 5-7 sec delays before the capacitive buttons or trackball didn't cancel the action (Lock Enabler looks to have a few seconds delay as well). This widget is just like hitting the power button as it INSTANTLY shuts the screen off. This is exactly what I'd been looking for.
hi guys dont by it now because it not working at the time. it says beta expired when you try to open it, and sends you back to market
martintspedersen said:
hi guys dont by it now because it not working at the time. it says beta expired when you try to open it, and sends you back to market
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Are you talking about the lock screen widget?
It has been working for me for almost a year (and saves a lot of power button presses )
Yup been using Invisible Lock Widget for a few months.
Rather than a widget which takes multiple presses to get to, I just long press search.
That and using widgetlocker to wake means I'm not using my power button at all.
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You could try Lockscreen also: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.blogspot.androidinspain.LockScreen
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Is it possible to lock n unlock screen without using power button,( with help of touch alone) ?
I dont like pressing power button often..
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Same here. Been trying to find an app or widget to put my wildfire on standby without having to press the power button. Thanks.
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I could suggest you guys two things (not entirely what you're looking for but...close enough :-D ):
- using a custom ROM that allows you to wake up with trackpad (i think WildPuzzle has that)
- using an app called No Lock ( http://www.appbrain.com/app/no-lock/org.jraf.android.nolock ). With this on, you only need to press the power button, no longer swype down (or sideways) to unlock ;-)
hi phunctionist.
tried the second option you suggested and it works pretty well. only problem is I need it the other way around (put the device on standby, not to wake it up)
thanks anyway. i will still give this a try.
Ok, really noob.
I turn the phone off every night but sometimes I forget if I turned it off or not.
As far as I know, we can only click the power button to light the screen but if the phone is already shutdown it will turn on again.
Is there any other key to touch the phone so we'll able to see if it's on?
Hold town power and vol down. If it is on it will.go to.the lock screen and if it is off hboot will appear, wait for the green text to go and then use vol keys to navigate to fastboot and press power to select and then navigate to power down and press power
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Thanks.
A lot faster
Well that's what I do
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Hi i really like CM 7 nightlies, but it's kinda annoying to wake the phone by the power button and my trackpad is broken. I know that there is a wake by volume button option but i prefer not to use it because i listen to music a lot and waking the screen every time i change the volume and turning off the screen is annoying. So i was wondering if there is an app or some option in the settings that i missed that enables wake by any other button like the home or genius button?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850464
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Thanks a lot!
I know this question has been asked before by someone else but there was no working solution.
I use the Touch Control app to wake my phone, and would prefer to use a gesture on the screen instead of the power button to wake the device. Does anybody know of an app, mod or editable system file I could use to stop the power button waking the device? I know that on a couple of other phones you can edit system/usr/keylayout to stop the home button from waking the device. (I would still like to be able to use the power button to turn the screen off, take screenshots etc.)
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