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I want to start this threat to put together information in order to sort out why the device lock delay (see below) appears and how to solve it.
wm6.5 device lock app has changed from "tap here and next there" to a slider style like app you know from s2u2.
problem:
device lock is enabled
Code:
HKCU\ControlPanel\BackLight\AutoDeviceLockEnable=1
wake up the device by short pressing the power button
device lock screen is displayed instantly
it takes ~2 seconds until the slider of the device lock screen is activated and can be slided.
if you use device lock it becomes really annyoing.
there are some threads about this like this one, but the solution is not working on a Touch HD.
can anybody sched some light onthe problem why and where it appears or maybe someone already found a solution.
please post any useful information.
please do not post tips like use s2u2 or any other locking app - I do not want to use them.
the only thing i can thing of is use s2u2 or any other locking app
egoist6 said:
please do not post tips like use s2u2 or any other locking app - I do not want to use them.
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cookiemonster55 said:
the only thing i can thing of is use s2u2 or any other locking app
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cookiemonster, either you didn't read his post or you're a sort of a jerk.
And yes, in response to the poster, I have the same problem.
Zoltair Wright said:
cookiemonster, either you didn't read his post or you're a sort of a jerk.
And yes, in response to the poster, I have the same problem.
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latest build 23001 still has this annoying delay
Iv noticed this too... The biggest annoyance for me is you turn the device on and the backlight isnt very bright, makes it near impossible to see the screen in daylight. Is it possible to have the backlight come on full when you press the power button?
i have this problem too. i think it is a serious bug of wm6.5
just hoping it will be fixed when the official release come out.
god i thought i was the only one, something about my config...
and i was exited about the new 6.5 lock screen,
but then it works like all the other M$ 6.5 sh!t, it doesn't
had to switch away from it
May be this help you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=527219
A1983 said:
May be this help you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=527219
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thanks for your help - but that was the solution i am talking about in my first post and unfortunately does not work.
also find this intensely annoying! if you look, on my hd, in the top left corner a small windows flag appears to indicate that the slider is locked, it disappears once the slider is active, and there is a definite exact time out, i dont think its random or a load time
hope this is sorted cos its rubbish!
regards
mat
What I've done that got rid of most of the delays regarding the lock screen on my Xperia:
I got 6 cpr files from my device's /Windows directory: LS_LockScene_xxxxxxx.cpr, LS_AlarmScene_xxxxxxx.cpr and LS_PhoneAlertScene_xxxxxxx.cpr. Get files that fit the resolution of your device, they are in pairs for portrait and landscape
opened each one of them in a text editor (they are XMLs inside)
removed all "ControlSequence" sections from them (those sections are small (like 4 entries) and big (up to 21 entries). These sections are animations of arrows. Arrows will still be there after that, they just won't animate.
uploaded cpr files back to /Windows, overwriting originals
soft-reseted.
Hope it works on your devices too
lemat1 said:
also find this intensely annoying! if you look, on my hd, in the top left corner a small windows flag appears to indicate that the slider is locked, it disappears once the slider is active, and there is a definite exact time out, i dont think its random or a load time
hope this is sorted cos its rubbish!
regards
mat
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yeah. and with 6.5 23003 onwards in the top right corner an "X" (for close) appears. only when it goes off you can access the slider.
it seems as if an app is started.
pikipirs said:
What I've done that got rid of most of the delays regarding the lock screen on my Xperia:
I got 6 cpr files from my device's /Windows directory: LS_LockScene_xxxxxxx.cpr, LS_AlarmScene_xxxxxxx.cpr and LS_PhoneAlertScene_xxxxxxx.cpr. Get files that fit the resolution of your device, they are in pairs for portrait and landscape
opened each one of them in a text editor (they are XMLs inside)
removed all "ControlSequence" sections from them (those sections are small (like 4 entries) and big (up to 21 entries). These sections are animations of arrows. Arrows will still be there after that, they just won't animate.
uploaded cpr files back to /Windows, overwriting originals
soft-reseted.
Hope it works on your devices too
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great. that helped a lot!
now the lock screen is flickering shortly and the whole lock screen slides in once more from the bottom to the top but then the slider is instantly accessible.
from a time perspective a great improvement!
update:
basically you can delete the whole layer
Code:
<Layer ID="SlidePath" >
...
</Layer>
which removes the animation of the arrows and the arrows themselves.
do not delete this section if you do not know in which direction to slide the button
however, the delay is still ~1 second. but i think i can live with that allthough it is annoying to wait one stupid second to proceed
the delay you get when recieving a call with lockscreen on is caused by the slide to answer feature of alot of the new dialers. it conflicts with the popup call answer screen with wm 6.5. to fix this can find a dialer that doesnt have slide to answer feature. the backlight problem came from backlight.dll in the kaiser, using a new one from stock rom now and it works perfect
If you enable the enter a pin number after slide, there is no delay at all. I know this isnt a solution i hate entering a pin. however, i have a felling the pin app is running in the background and thus you dont get the flicker where it flicks from Start menu back to the lock app. Hence if you could create a dummy pin app, it could work to stop the delay.
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the delay you get when recieving a call with lockscreen on is caused by the slide to answer feature of alot of the new dialers. it conflicts with the popup call answer screen with wm 6.5. to fix this can find a dialer that doesnt have slide to answer feature. the backlight problem came from backlight.dll in the kaiser, using a new one from stock rom now and it works perfect
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thanks for your reply. but i also have the delay when simply waking up the device by pressing the power button (without receiving a call)
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If you enable the enter a pin number after slide, there is no delay at all. I know this isnt a solution i hate entering a pin. however, i have a felling the pin app is running in the background and thus you dont get the flicker where it flicks from Start menu back to the lock app. Hence if you could create a dummy pin app, it could work to stop the delay.
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that's true. i replaced LS_SimplePinScene_480x800.cpr with an empty one and allthough not using pinlock, the lock app did not work at all.
What if we designed something where when you slide it calls a mortscript or something and enters 0000+OK to by pass the pin screen (assuming you set pin to 0000). Then you edit the Pin screen so it is just a clear page, so you dont even see the pin screen flash up.
Not sure if this is at all possible as im not a programmer. Just a thought
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What if we designed something where when you slide it calls a mortscript or something and enters 0000+OK to by pass the pin screen (assuming you set pin to 0000). Then you edit the Pin screen so it is just a clear page, so you dont even see the pin screen flash up.
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good idea. maybe someone can change LS_SimplePinScene_480x800.cpr so that it does not expect the pin from screen but is embedded directly into the cpr file?
can anybody who has a better understanding of cpr files or the lock app give us some tips?
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Not sure if this is at all possible as im not a programmer. Just a thought
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me neither
currently when i get an sms i have to:
-press a hard key
-unlock the slider
-press the message tab
-then when i get to messages it isn't set to the latest message it is set to the last message checkeds
-then i have to scroll to message 1
coming from android that is a lot of button presses. in android you could actually read the first couple of lines from the lockscreen. is there a way for me to reduce the button presses?
Install S2U2.
S2U2 will be able to display the message on the screen (while the phone remains locked).
Do you have win6.5 lock enabled? when you get a message it should have a message slider and if you slide that it will automatically take you to the sms tab (or email tab if you got an email or missed call tab if you got a missed call or.....)
Set titanium as home screen then after unlock hit text.
Or you could:
-press a hard key
-tap the slider
-unlock the new slider which pops up
should take you directly to your new message.
dislabled said:
Or you could:
-press a hard key
-tap the slider
-unlock the new slider which pops up
should take you directly to your new message.
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Bingo!
dislabled said:
Or you could:
-press a hard key
-tap the slider
-unlock the new slider which pops up
should take you directly to your new message.
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this takes me to the messages tab, but it does not take me to the latest message. it takes me to the last message i checked when i was in that tab so i still have to scroll once.
i will check out that s2u2 and report back.
ok so i downloaded s2u2 and love the functionality of it. i hate the fact that it looks like iphone though i wish it were more original looking. or even the same but a different colorway, especially in the message bubble that pops up. but hey, it was free and works great so thanks for suggesting it.
much better than the stock lock screen for sure!
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ok so i downloaded s2u2 and love the functionality of it. i hate the fact that it looks like iphone though i wish it were more original looking. or even the same but a different colorway, especially in the message bubble that pops up. but hey, it was free and works great so thanks for suggesting it.
much better than the stock lock screen for sure!
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There is a disturbing amount of themes for S2U2, if you don't like the stock one (which does mimic the iphone alot) you should look at the other ones.
Svegetto said:
Do you have win6.5 lock enabled? when you get a message it should have a message slider and if you slide that it will automatically take you to the sms tab (or email tab if you got an email or missed call tab if you got a missed call or.....)
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How do I enable this, I've seen the message slider in other peoples screenies, but I'm not sure how to enable it.
Many thanks
install the hd mini unlock screen, shows most of the message when you wake up the phone with out having to slide to unlock
HTC_Junglist said:
How do I enable this, I've seen the message slider in other peoples screenies, but I'm not sure how to enable it.
Many thanks
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You just click the slider instead of sliding it. It obviously only works if there's something to show you.
johncmolyneux said:
You just click the slider instead of sliding it. It obviously only works if there's something to show you.
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Yeah but at the moment, message or missed call, these icons on the lock screen don't show.
bump, thanks for any pointers
HTC_Junglist said:
Yeah but at the moment, message or missed call, these icons on the lock screen don't show.
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So I understand, after a missed call, email sms etc. do you see a number on the unlock slider? If so, and you tap the unlock slider, you should see one or more notification sliders pop down. Are those not appearing? If that's the case, have you ever installed anything intended to modify the lockscreen in any way?
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So I understand, after a missed call, email sms etc. do you see a number on the unlock slider? If so, and you tap the unlock slider, you should see one or more notification sliders pop down. Are those not appearing?
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No unfortunately.
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If that's the case, have you ever installed anything intended to modify the lockscreen in any way?
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Yes I have (See screenie), but even before this change I've not had the other icons come up. I've always wondered how I could get them to show up since having the phone.
I'm on Orange network (UK) and on official 1.66 rom.
Thanks for your help.
LOL, it has a little number "1" on your slider, lol
just tap that a$$
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LOL, it has a little number "1" on your slider, lol
just tap that a$$
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Still nothing, that screenie was taken after tapping
It's not important, it would just be nice.
well it is displaying right. normally you would just touch the slider instead of sliding it and a secondary slider would appear, but if that is not happening for you i don't know where in the settings to enable/disable it.
HTC_Junglist said:
Still nothing, that screenie was taken after tapping
It's not important, it would just be nice.
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I can't imagine why it's not working. I've attached a cab with the original lockscreen files. You may try installing it and see if that works. Outside of that, you may have a reg setting inadvertantly changed somewhere.
@methodz: Are you still using S2U2? If not, or you go back to the oem LS, I think we can take your original question one step further (literally). Not sure if you've seen this, but you can change the commmand of the notification slider to go directly to your email inbox instead of the manila tab, or have the sllider actually call your voicemail directly instead of taking you to the dialpad. I dunno about sms as I haven't tried it, but either way it may worth looking at the bottom of this post here by Da_G: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4268138&postcount=3. It will require a tad of registry editing, but for me it's worth it. Less steps to get to things.
Hi, in my s4 : the screen is locked, i press back button, a white square appears at the bottom of the screen....????? ¿¿¿
If there is a unread message i touch message notification the same white transparent square appears.. but nothing inside.... What is this?
Thanks a lot..
Luca
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lucausee said:
Hi, in my s4 : the screen is locked, i press back button, a white square appears at the bottom of the screen....????? ¿¿¿
If there is a unread message i touch message notification the same white transparent square appears.. but nothing inside.... What is this?
Thanks a lot..
Luca
Inviato dal mio GT-N8000 con Tapatalk 2
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Does it look like this?
Actually I was try to ask the same question.
This is what I got when I press back button on lockscreen
I noticed after rebooting the clock wont show for 20 seconds on the lock screen. The clock box outline is there but nothing displayed.
My S4 is a SHV-E300S. This problem sounds like a software issue.
I have an empty box..... No keyboard....
I think a future use or a present bug....
Luca
What type of lockscreen do you have?
Could it just be that this white square just wants to tell you that you have to unlock it by sliding your finger within that rectangle?
The same rectangle appears when locked with pattern lock...just with the pattern lock inside. Or with the pin with the pin keyboard inside.
Sadly Samsung broke the lockscreen so badly, that you have to choose either lockscreen or lockscreen widgets...you would notice that this rectangle tells you to unlock the phone once the widget for example opens or the gallery in the camera opens if the camera is enabled as lockscreen widget. But Samsung somehow disabled that awesome feature...I totally hate them for that
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What type of lockscreen do you have?
Could it just be that this white square just wants to tell you that you have to unlock it by sliding your finger within that rectangle?
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Yes I also think that's it.
lucausee said:
I have an empty box..... No keyboard....
I think a future use or a present bug....
Luca
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Did you finally find out what the problem was, I have now the same problem but it just appear since yesterday, everytime I try to open a widget or an app from the lock screen this empty box shows up... making slower the process to open the requested widget or app.
Translucent box on lock screen
Hey guys. I also noticed this. I thought it was for shortcuts to go to a specific feature/app. So far I've noticed that when I have a new message come in and I make a swiggily 'm' on it (the box), it takes me directly to the message. Works both in Landscape mode and Portrait.
Update: Its not only an 'm' but any swipe that takes you to the message. This is only true if you bring up the box by tapping the message notification and not the back button.
Update 2: This also works for missed call notifications (tapping the missed call notification and swiping in the box that gets brought up takes you directly to the call log).
Hi,
I'm using Nova Prime and keep reading that it's possible to double knock the notification bar to turn off the screen without lock so the fingerprint sensor still works. But I have not been able to get my S7 Edge to screen off with this method, it just tried to open up the notification tray. I can use the double tap feature in Nova prime to screen off and lock, but then can't use the fingerprint sensor without first putting in a pin -- this is not what I want. I would be satisfied with knocking on the notification bar to do this, but can't make it work. Is there something I need to enable first?
There's one screen lock app that does what you want, but it uses sort of a kludgy method to do so.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iglint.android.screenlockpro
Any app that actually turns off the screen will cause the behavior you've described. Screen Lock Pro, using the Marshmallow workaround in settings, applies a dark overlay to he screen, so it looks like it's off. But it doesn't really shut off until about 10 seconds later. Most of the time this is OK, but if you press the power button during that 10 seconds, intending to turn the phone back on, you've actually turned it off. And if you touch one of the soft keys, they'll light up.
Another option is built in. Settings / Accessibility / Dexterity and interaction / Assistant menu. This puts a blue spot on the screen to which you can assign various functions, including screen lock.
meyerweb said:
There's one screen lock app that does what you want, but it uses sort of a kludgy method to do so.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iglint.android.screenlockpro
Any app that actually turns off the screen will cause the behavior you've described. Screen Lock Pro, using the Marshmallow workaround in settings, applies a dark overlay to he screen, so it looks like it's off. But it doesn't really shut off until about 10 seconds later. Most of the time this is OK, but if you press the power button during that 10 seconds, intending to turn the phone back on, you've actually turned it off. And if you touch one of the soft keys, they'll light up.
Another option is built in. Settings / Accessibility / Dexterity and interaction / Assistant menu. This puts a blue spot on the screen to which you can assign various functions, including screen lock.
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Thank you for the answer.
Acutally, I'm not looking to install Screen Lock Pro. I want to get the double tap on the notification bar working through Nova Prime which is supposed to turn off the screen without locking the phone. But for some reason that's not working on my S7 Edge. Any ideas why? Does anyone have this working on the S7 Edge or is that function not supported on the S7 Edge with Nova Prime?
I don't know if it's a Marshmallow issue, or an S7 issue, but any app which actually locks the screen will require a PIN unlock afterwards. There's no work-around that I've seen.
It´s not "tapping on the notification bar". It´s tapping anywhere on the screen (besides the notification bar). That´s how it is working for me with Nova to turn the screen off.
If you want double tap specifically the notification bar, you have to use an extra app like the one posted above or use this free app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoenixstudios.aiogestures
Here are some comments I found regarding the "tap the notification bar" that turns off screen and still allows fingerprint unlock using Nova Launcher. Supposedly you do not need an extra app to do this since it is built into the function of Nova Launcher. Is this phone specific or why cannot get the double tap on notification bar to work on the S7 Edge. Does anyone have this working?
The double tap in Nova locks the screen and will require password, etc. to open. Fingerprint will not work. The same is true for all of the apps that allow double tapping to lock the phone. Something in the code for Marshmallow only allows locking and not just putting the screen to sleep. Double tapping the notification bar or hitting the lock button will work as it should with the fingerprint scanner working.
This is correct, using a gesture or anything other than double tapping the status bar or letting it timeout will not allow you to use the fingerprint sensor to unlock the phone. On my previous phones I'd use the screen off and lock app to be enabled by using the swipe down gesture to turn off the screen. Even using that app with the G5 won't let me unlock with the fingerprint sensor
Fix = Nova free knock on the notification bar at the top of the screen and fingerprint scanner will unlock the phone.
It works the same with the paid version [of Nova Launcher]. Knocking on the notification bar will turn the screen off and the fingerprint scanner will work to unlock.
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Double tapping the notification bar to lock is a feature found on LG phones, and the user you quoted mentioned the LG G5.
Hi everyone, I was wondering if it were possible to hide seeing my face when using the iris scanner, I think it would look more neat.
I know you can activate the iris scanner as soon as you wake up the phone but I set the home button to automatically unlock (since I use smart lock and that makes it very convenient) so when I press the home button it'll instantly go to the unlock screen where the front cam is activated.
OK I guess I could use the power button instead but I was wondering if there's a way with the home button. Thanks!
Mine is intermittent as to when it does show the camera view. Most of the time it will just come up with a line of text saying look here for iris scanning and I'm never quite sure where I'm supposed to actually be looking.
degsyh said:
Mine is intermittent as to when it does show the camera view. Most of the time it will just come up with a line of text saying look here for iris scanning and I'm never quite sure where I'm supposed to actually be looking.
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You should be watching towards the top of the screen near the grid, you should do this even before turning the screen on and it's faster and more accurate
If you look at the red light left hand corner it's unlocks instantly
Yeah its not too bad, i wear glasses so is a bit of a pain sometimes it works through them most of time it doesn't. I might try and get used to doing that "guess where the fingerprint scanner is without putting your finger all over the camera lense" manoeuvre.
I meant why does it *sometimes* come up with the camera viewfinder - does yours *always* come up with the camera viewfinder?
It shows the camera when the unlock isn't instant, or this is what I noticed, just wanted to hide that for a sleeker look
JohnPyn said:
It shows the camera when the unlock isn't instant, or this is what I noticed, just wanted to hide that for a sleeker look
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Not an answer but an option. You can go into Settings>Lock screen and security>Iris Scanner>Preview screen mask
There's some goofy masks but maybe there is one that might preset a "sleeker" look for you.
burrzoo said:
Not an answer but an option. You can go into Settings>Lock screen and security>Iris Scanner>Preview screen mask
There's some goofy masks but maybe there is one that might preset a "sleeker" look for you.
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Yep I know about that, that makes everything even worse imo Ahah the main problem to the "sleeker look" is that the camera is super low res, I don't know just feel it's useless but u guess there's no way to get rid of it
I got exactly same question !
That things is pure ugly in term of design and aesthetic, LoL
Hopefully someone can found a way to permanently hide that visual
To unlock your S8 or S8+ with your iris without seeing the camera preview go to:
Settings => Lock screen and security => Iris Scanner
... and turn on the very last option called "Iris unlock when screen turns on".
Regards,
JaeMelo said:
To unlock your S8 or S8+ with your iris without seeing the camera preview go to:
Settings => Lock screen and security => Iris Scanner
... and turn on the very last option called "Iris unlock when screen turns on".
Regards,
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Thank you,
But we already know and use that option indeed.
But sometimes, we want to jnlock the phone on the table, when its not facing our face, thus we slide up the lock screen,
And then, bam, those ugly visual appear above the PIN number pad. LoL
Sure it has nothing wrong with the function. We just simply hate how it "broke" our beautiful lockscreen layout
otonieru said:
Thank you,
But we already know and use that option indeed.
But sometimes, we want to jnlock the phone on the table, when its not facing our face, thus we slide up the lock screen,
And then, bam, those ugly visual appear above the PIN number pad. LoL
Sure it has nothing wrong with the function. We just simply hate how it "broke" our beautiful lockscreen layout
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LOOOL, I'm sorry but that made me laugh. I guess we'll have to wait for a tweak.
otonieru said:
Thank you,
But we already know and use that option indeed.
But sometimes, we want to jnlock the phone on the table, when its not facing our face, thus we slide up the lock screen,
And then, bam, those ugly visual appear above the PIN number pad. LoL
Sure it has nothing wrong with the function. We just simply hate how it "broke" our beautiful lockscreen layout
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You can trigger the iris scanner again by clicking the text on the top center instead of swiping, this will not show the guidance visual.
I found the best way to mitigate this is to do two things.
1. Enable the toggle for "iris unlock when screen turns on" under lockscreen>iris scanner
2. Disable the toggle for "Unlock with home button" under setting>display>navigation bar
It's still not perfect but I'm at 90% success rate and it's far faster than fingerprint debacle. I figure when you press the home screen without option 2, phone triggers instant to unlock. With it unchecked it pauses so you can look at notifications.
Should default this way imo.
By golly you are right!
Babychan said:
If you look at the red light left hand corner it's unlocks instantly
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I know this is an old thread but I just would like to thank you for this tip! I always look at the line of text to unlock my phone and it sometimes doesn't do the trick. But looking at the red dot hasn't failed me yet!!! And it's almost instantaneous! Thanks for this tip.