Hello guys, recently got the G2 after my Nexus 4 drunkenly got a bit smashed up and I love it, however one thing is winding me up. You can swipe from the home button to either launch google now or quick memo, except every now and then the phone seems to lose the ability to do this. I have got in the habit of swiping from the home button to quickly get into google now so its annoying when it doesn't do anything, not even bring up the ring and the two shortcuts.
Any ideas why this might happen and ways to fix it other than rebooting?
Related
I've developed and app that is a slide show of pictures which each play a sound when you tap them. It's like a picture book for ages 2-4.
The problem is, since android won't let you capture a home button press and essentially disable it, when parents give the phone to their child to play with unattended (brave parent), the child can inadvertenly exit the app and then make calls or otherwise tweak the phone.
There are two other apps that currently have a psuedo fix for this issue. The apps are Toddler Lock and ToddlePhone. I've tried contacting the developers of these apps for some guidance but they haven't been willing to disclose anything, which if fine, but does anyone here have any suggestions?
It looks like both of those other apps are acting like a home screen replacement app. When you enable the "childproof mode" on those apps the user is prompted to chose and app for the action and the choices are "Launcher, LauncherPro, etc." plus the toddler app. You then have to make the toddler app the default and voila, the phone is "locked" and can only be "unlocked" using a key combination or touching the four corners of the screen, etc. when you "unlock" the phone. your normal home screen app default restored. You don't even have to make the toddler app the default the next time you enable the "childproof mode".
I have read that these two apps have problems with Samsung phones and they can cause an an infinite crash-and-restart-loop that requires a factory reset to fix. Obviously this is not the ideal solution to the problem but it looks like the only one availiable at this point.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to implement a "childproof mode"?
Could it run on top of the lock screen
So Do you mean making the app a lock screen replacement? I suppose that could work.
Do you have a suggestion on how to accomplish that?
I am looking for some way to possibly lock the soft keys temporarily while in an app. Reason being my son (2 years old) is constantly brushing them and jumping out of the apps he is using, especially in landscape mode. While of course the ultimate solution is teaching him to NOT hit those buttons, he doesn't have the understanding/coordination yet to avoid them.
At least for a while I'd love to find some way we can lock/unlock the softkeys. I cant think of how that can be done because there would also have to be some way to quickly UNlock them...from within an app so we can get back out of it, change apps ect. Then relock them again in some other app.
Any ideas?
Only thing that comes to mind is glazed rom's edge-swipe-to-hide (not just lock) the nav bar.
Might be an easier solution out there. But a cursory search doesn't reveal anything. Nav bars aren't exactly common even in android.
Anybody using widgetlocker for a lock screen replacement, I know we know have lockscreen widgets (tho it seems only about 4 to choose from) but what I love being able to set is shortcuts for gmail, phone and messaging right there and have support for unread messages/missed calls with telsa unread.
Anyway the problem I have is that widgetlock doesn't seem to disable the soft keys (like the stock lockscreen does) so basically I can just bypass unlocking. Anybody have a work around, I know this isn't the first device with softkeys so this must have been a problem that as come up before.
NVM, root helper and 'hide navigation keys' got rid of the soft keys, only problem now is it is just so laggy/unresponsive to touch, takes several attempts to unlock. Hopefully this is just a bug with 4.2 devices and they will fix it soon.
I got a problem w/widgetlocker and the multitask softkey. When I go to the lockscreen, it takes a second for the multitask softkey to appear while the back and home keys are lighted automatically. It just happened today..does anyone w/widgetlocker experience that problem? I wonder if there's a way to fix it and it's starting to bother me.
This has happened twice today. I am using the phone and the voice typing display will not go away. I can use the phone.. .i can go to the homescreen, open apps, look at settings, etc, but i cannot close the voice prompt, and i can't use it.
It essesentially makes the phone useless until i reboot.
I am not sure why it is doing this. Not rooted nor unlocked or anything.. just stock.
The other thing it is doing is that sometimes when i wave my hand over the screen i will see the unlock screen. it will have the time and a lock icon below it ... if i touch the lock icon, it moves to a lower (on the screen) position and when i re adjust to hit the lock again it moves back up. Not sure how to screen shot this... maybe a video from a different phone.
when this happens, it will unlock by pressing the power button. I think this has something to do with the smart lock. DAMN google for forcing you to have a lock when you use Android Pay. Never had this problem on my Note 4 with Wallet.
Anyway, any help on either of these bugs would be appreciated
ok, i can reproduce the bug.
can someone else try this to confirm?
- with the phone screen off have someone send you a text message.
- swipe up directly to messages. ( use the google one, but i am not sure if it matters.)
- reply to the message with a google voice typing
- hit the power button to turn off the screen.
- Have the person text you again.
- open message by swiping up to it.
At this point the tap to speak screen will be there and not go away until you reboot.
no one else?
here is a video showing the problem I can't believe I am the only one experiencing this
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11731783/20150929_123443.mp4
crash613 said:
no one else?
here is a video showing the problem I can't believe I am the only one experiencing this
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11731783/20150929_123443.mp4
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I can try it when I get my phone, but that's a few weeks away...
To those who are having trouble with the action memo function of their Note 4, specifically writing a partial memo, then minimizing it to collect more info (or just keep it readily available until the task at hand was completed), and as soon as the note shrunk to that little yellow-ish square, it vanished? As if the system was treating it as a running process but forgot to actually display the minimized memo? This problem prevents you from just opening up another action memo because again, the system thinks "I'm sorry Dave. I know you want to use action memo, but it's already running." in order to get it to come back up again you have to either reboot, or you -might- be able to kill a few S Note-related processes and get it to come back up again.
This problem frustrated me quite a bit and I couldn't figure out what was causing the problem until recently during my toying with the developer settings, I decided it looked and felt much better when all three of the animations were turned down. The phone still showed a little eye candy, but got things done faster at the same time. All three of them set at .5 worked well for me. However, for some reason when those animation settings were set lower than 1, the action memo minimization animation would shrink (pleasantly) quickly into its little square, causing some kind of hiccup with the system and then it poofs. I fixed this problem by changing the animation settings to 1 for all three. Inconvenient, but I get my action memo back, which I use daily.
Just a tip I hadn't seen on the Note 4 forums that I wanted to add for any others experiencing the same issue and wondering how in the world to fix it.
Cheers!
Doesn't work for me on both 0.5/1x
It is an annoying issue.
If anyone else finds a solution to that, please post here.
So it still vanishes when you minimize action memo, even though your animation speeds are set to 1?