Need a useful lock screen - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Does anyone have a useful lock screen that shows minimal twitter feed, weather, clock, maybe even stock prices?
I cant seem to find any good lock screens anywhere.

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Does anyone know how to get rid of Weather Icon?

it really annoys me, i hate it being there because when i go to the start menu it often goes to open opera.
any ideas on how to get rid of it? i dont want weather.
I'd also love to know how to get rid of the accuweather widget. Does anyone know?
If you mean the widget that's part of the two Sony panels, it's tied to the clock being displayed. In options/clock&calendar, choose one of the calendar-only selections or none. Weather will go away, but so will the clock... :/
This weather mania is really crazy. Every launcher must have weather icon, and some can't even switch it off.
And the weather seems to be accurate to actual day, so it basically works as looking out of the window .. sometimes even that is wrong.
You might think it's for underground programmers who never go outside .. but then they don't really care about outside in the first place .. I must know

Suggestions for scene widgets please

Hi Folks
Just wondered if anyone has any suggestions for full size widgets for the hero?
Basically my home screen has clock,weather widget and a couple of other freqently used widgets.Swipe to the left and I have a full page of 16 other widgets.Swipe to the left again and i have a full size music player.Last swipe to the left and i have the full size bookmarks widget. If I swipe right from my homescreen then I have my camera album and thats it! The next two pages are empty
Now i for some reason dont like it I dont like to see the unused space but i'm struggling to find anything to put in them. I dont use twitter and not bothered about the footprints widget.
I have had a search on the net for something but as of yet been unsuccsesfull.
Anybody have any suggestions? Dont matter if its a novelty kind of widget or whatever....I'll give it a look!
Thanks in advance
Gaz
I too currently have an empty page
Mainly due to the fact bookmarks widget is not working on latest build of VillainRom.
Can't think of anything to place on that page at all.
The more widgets then generally the slower the UI and faster the battery drains. If you don't desperately need something there I would leave it blank.
cyberkid2002 said:
The more widgets then generally the slower the UI and faster the battery drains. If you don't desperately need something there I would leave it blank.
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Is this just because there is more on the screen graphically or do the widgets themselves slow it down? I was under the impression that the widgets are only shortcuts to the programs and so obviously use no memory untill launched!?
Gaz
Gazaman said:
Is this just because there is more on the screen graphically or do the widgets themselves slow it down? I was under the impression that the widgets are only shortcuts to the programs and so obviously use no memory untill launched!?
Gaz
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since widgets are "active" shortcuts they are executed the moment you go to the screen they are on. how would it display weather or news when it is a "dead" shortcut?
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since widgets are "active" shortcuts they are executed the moment you go to the screen they are on. how would it display weather or news when it is a "dead" shortcut?
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The weather widget that i use is the one on the clock so not an independant widget. I just assumed that this one was opened when i first chose this clock and just stays open.
Please go easy on me here as im still getting to grips with the whole 'mechanics' of the phone.
So all widgets that i have on my phone scene are active? Most (if not all) are just executable programs like google maps,google sky maps,shazam,flixter,meebo etc and as far as i'm aware dont require to be constantly updated via internet connection(unless opened).
Why would these be active?
If they are constantly active then why would people use task killers? It seems pointless if they are always active anyway!
Like i said,I'm sorry if this is all a bit basic but would be nice to now how it all works as i have actually noticed my phone seems quite slow lately and for some reason notifications on the top notification bar aren't disspearing when i have read my messages etc.
Maybe i have too many active widgets?!?
Thanks
Gaz
you have to make a difference between a widget and a shortcut to an app. the clock is a clock widget with integrated weather support. it is triggered if you go to the screen it is on and by time change (to display the correct time for example). as it has the weather feature it can also activate the background weather service.
a shortcut is the same thing as those on your windows desktop. it is nothing else than a link to the app, and doesn't do anything until you click on it.
check the way you add a shortcut and a widget, after pressing the + sign you have to choose which one you want to add.
It is a gray area as to what a widget is and not all widgets are active. The weather one is active. So is the one I use to give me London Tube status - as others have said they update as soon as you switch to the window (in fact I thought they did it in the background all the time, but i may well be wrong on that).
On the other hand the widget that switches BT or wifi or GPS on or off are not active unless you touch them then they do what is required (switch it on or off) and then become inactive. In reality they are a little mini-programme in their own right, but they are still called widgets.
Shortcuts are not the same as widgets - all they do is open a programme when touched - so Google maps etc are not widgets they are shortcuts.
I have filled all of my screens - any space left after the widgets is now filled with shortcuts to programmes I use most often. Doesn't appear to slow down the phone at all.

[Q] How do I get Clock with Weather on S4 Lock Screen?

I am trying to get the clock and the weather widget to show up on my lock screen - my old NOTE2 had the option in Lockscreen settings to show weather on Lock screen but I cant find that option here.
I was able to add a weather widget to the lock screen - but when you first open the lock screen all you see is the clock - then, if I swipe down on the screen - it opens the weather ap - see my screen shots attached.
The first is what you see when you first get to the lock screen
the second is what you see when youi swipe down.
I am wanting to get the look of the second screen shot - when you first see the lock screen -
any suggestions?
S4 Weather
I couldn't find a way to do it either, so I downloaded this little app and it's kind of cool.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.dashclock&hl=en
You can add several other notifications to it as well.
I use beautiful widgets on all my devices, lets me set weather, clock, battery, and all completely customizable. One of the few apps I ever paid for.
holmesm said:
I couldn't find a way to do it either, so I downloaded this little app and it's kind of cool.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.dashclock&hl=en
You can add several other notifications to it as well.
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Can you set it up with pattern security? The images on the Play store shows that you can but I haven't been able to do so. Every time I set up the widget and set the pattern security, it reverts back to the standard default clock.
Well I did once, but it has now reverted to the regular lock screen. Looks like maybe a bug - The other notification extensions I picked are taking up the whole screen. When I first installed it moved everything small up next to the clock when I had the pattern visible on the lock screen. I'm not sure how to make the widget smaller as of yet. Other users have reported the same problem, so maybe there will be a future fix.

S8 weather widget in the lock screen

Good day.
I have seen some pics of galaxy S8 with an weather widget in the lock screen, but i can't seem to find that in my settings.
Anyone has a clue where can i find that?
Thank you.

Show weather on lockscreen

Hey everyone!
My issue is that in my previous phones they all displayed the Google clock + weather info + next alarm in the lock screen, but Mi A1 only shows the clock, is there a way to edit the lockscreen to have it show or download something to do that?
I've looked at the options and there is nothing there :/
Thanks,
Kamefrede
it seem to be because AOD (Always On Display) screen ... its not only lock screen. It seem that due to security reason you can not show any widget here. You can use GLANCE PLUS but I dont know how to show any widget like Chronus on this. If you found a way to do, please let me know.
mikele2016 said:
it seem to be because AOD (Always On Display) screen ... its not only lock screen. It seem that due to security reason you can not show any widget here. You can use GLANCE PLUS but I dont know how to show any widget like Chronus on this. If you found a way to do, please let me know.
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I didn't find an "official" way to do it, so I installed an xposed module (Lockscreen widgets I believe its called) and removed the default lockscreen clock and replaced it with a 3rd party widget that included weather + clock
finally you just have to install and use chronus from google play store and you will see weather on locked screen in 2 minutes. no need glance no need xposed or whatever else, only chronus.

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