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Lockscreen widgets ?

I believe that 4.2.2 had lock screen widgets ... How on earth do I get them to work
I believe bbc news is one of the widgets bit I've tried every which way I can to get out to work
Please help
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You can't use some lock screen widgets if you have a security lock screen thanks to Samsung being weird and annoying. Plus they removed the quick launch camera lock screen with their silly app matrix.
If you just use the slide to unlock feature then slide your finger from the top down and then left or right and you'll have the option of adding more.

You first have to enable them in the settings. Also you can enable quick camera instead of using the app matrix, you'll find that in the same place.... Main settings---> lockscreen ---> check the multiple widgets box. Tap the next box down to configure the quick launch camera as default instead of the app matrix should you choose.

Lockscreen

im gettingvreally annoyed with unlovking d phone and the clock expands. Is there a way to remove the expand option?
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I don't see one.
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Bumping this one ... Anyone knows how to get a clean unlock screen like S3 for example ?

Are we all on the same page here.... sometimes the lock screen will go haywire and show some mini applications, or boxes that have edit options? Like adding stuff to the lock screen when you didn't ask for it... ? Anyway to turn it off.... Might have to buy a custom locker

I dont have any widgets/apps on the lockscreen, but its kind of annoying when the clock expands and makes it hard to unlock the phone....

I guess we got too used to the "slide from anywhere to unlock" feature. Just slide at the very bottom and youre golden every time
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If you slide downward from the clock widget or any other screen widget, this feature allows you to edit the current widget, add a new one, or replace.

Question on lock screen

Buddy of mine got the S4, when he swipes down on the lock screen the widgets come down, the little pad lock and circle to actually unlock the phone never move, often it takes multiple attempts to finally unlock the phone. When I had my S4 I remember the lock and circle moving around? Is there some setting he had active or deactivated that is causing that?

SteveISU said:
Buddy of mine got the S4, when he swipes down on the lock screen the widgets come down, the little pad lock and circle to actually unlock the phone never move, often it takes multiple attempts to finally unlock the phone. When I had my S4 I remember the lock and circle moving around? Is there some setting he had active or deactivated that is causing that?
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Circle that moves is swipe unlock. unlock style set to None.

His is set to swipe.
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I've noticed this too. If you grab the bottom of the widget box around the clock you can resize it. If you drag it all the way up, as tight around the clock as possible, then the unlock screen works as you would expect, but when you have expanded the widget box, you get this issue with the lock you are describing. I hope this helps.
Ps if you swipe on the clock from left or right you will see the border of the widget. It's kinda hard to grab and resize. If you expand it all the way down it shows a button to edit the widget.
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That's normal
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[Q] How to add pattern lock and keep swipe light effect??

hello, just wondering if anyone knows how to keep the swip light effect lock but still have a pattern lock after you swipe? if I activate pattern lock, it removes the swipe unlock and just goes straight to the pattern when you wake up your device. I want to be able to keep swipe unlock cus I like the light effect but then after you unlock, go into a pattern password or a numerical password.
Anyone know any app that can maybe do this?? thanks!

That option was available on my note 2 not sure why the option has gone.
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J4ME5x said:
That option was available on my note 2 not sure why the option has gone.
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Dam that sux, i hope there some sort of app or something that can enable us to do this

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[Q] Access Camera from lockscreen without having to unlock

Not sure if this was addressed already but is there ANY way, even if the device needs to be rooted, for the camera or apps to be accessible through lockscreen without having to unlock similar to IOS?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appershopper.ios7lockscreen
You can download this right here and have the iOS 7 lock screen which you can set up the camera up to it. Also if you don't put a pass code on your phone you can have widgets on it and you can pull your camera up from there as well.
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Can't you just setup a PIN in your phone then enable the Camera to appear as a Lock Screen Widget from your lockscreen?

Raiken_ said:
Can't you just setup a PIN in your phone then enable the Camera to appear as a Lock Screen Widget from your lockscreen?
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if you setup a PIN to unlock you phone you can't have a lockscreen widget besides the clock, but if you set just swipe to unlock, you can add more widgets to your lockscreen ( if you enable multiple lockscreen widgets on settings->lockscreen). Just swipe down when you're on lockscreen and then swipe from left to right to add more widgets

snKee said:
if you setup a PIN to unlock you phone you can't have a lockscreen widget besides the clock, but if you set just swipe to unlock, you can add more widgets to your lockscreen ( if you enable multiple lockscreen widgets on settings->lockscreen). Just swipe down when you're on lockscreen and then swipe from left to right to add more widgets
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But will this give me access to the camera without first unlocking my phone?
This seems to be a big problem with the S4

I use widget locker. It will give you what you're looking for and worth every penny.
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jedilost1 said:
But will this give me access to the camera without first unlocking my phone?
This seems to be a big problem with the S4
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yes, it will