here is the thing .. I want to keep the fingerprint lock for apps via applock app but the thing is it asks me to setup the fingerprint in phone settings. but doing so it setups a lockscreen for my whole phone I dont want to do that . is there any workaround for saving the fingerprint without keeping the lockscreen ..? ..
you folks might ask why would you do that? here is the story " One of my friends had a bike accident and he was spot dead. the thing is they couldn't find a person who knows my friend he kept his phone locked so no one could call .. it took 4 hours to track his parents."
So seeing this i don't want to lock my phone , you know just in case something like this happened to me.. but i dont want my friends to creep around my phone . the app lock does the job .. but now I'm missing the fingerprint feature in my Moto G4 plus. please help ..! sorry for the long post
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Hi!
I have problem with lockscreen and locked phone.
When phone is in standby and locked and I'm trying to unlock it, it hangs in lockscreen. I can move slider to unlock phone but nothing happens and it just stays locked.
This happens sometime few times in one day and sometimes is everything ok for a week. When this happens I have to take out battery and put it back in and it's very very annoying.
Is there something to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance.
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I have same problem, but no solution yet
simple..just set a password at ur x2..and then,hola..it will not happen again..its also happen to me last time..almost everyday..
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Me simple installed android lockscreen, nice looking one, but no landscape(no problem for me), just search this forum if ya want
You can solved this problem by go to Start>Settings>Auto Lock> uncheck Enable Auto Lock. I have the same hang out like your. This way helpful for me. When you need to lock your phone just Start and tap on Clock icon.
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I have the latest build flashed. The Jan 21st one.
Im using Expanded Desktop mode with Pie.
When I unlock my phone, randomly the keyboard will be there. Funny thing is, my lock screen isnt even a key pincode, its a pattern unlock.
Its been happening 3/5 times I unlock my phone. Kind of annoying cause Pie doesnt help from making it go away. I have to switch to the camera widget, let it fill the screen, use pie to back out and then boom its gone.
If I had enough of a post count I would post in the dev thread but I dont, so I was hopping someone else has any ideas?
Thanks
ProudSikh said:
I have the latest build flashed. The Jan 21st one.
Im using Expanded Desktop mode with Pie.
When I unlock my phone, randomly the keyboard will be there. Funny thing is, my lock screen isnt even a key pincode, its a pattern unlock.
Its been happening 3/5 times I unlock my phone. Kind of annoying cause Pie doesnt help from making it go away. I have to switch to the camera widget, let it fill the screen, use pie to back out and then boom its gone.
If I had enough of a post count I would post in the dev thread but I dont, so I was hopping someone else has any ideas?
Thanks
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Known bug. Don't lock your phone with the keyboard up and it won't happen.
Hi everyone.
This morning I woke up and about to answer my text but once I tried to unlock the phone by the fingerprint, it won't respond and shows the message "The fingerprint sensor is not responding, try again later." So I decide to unlock by the pattern which is a simple 4 dots pattern that I've been using for more than 6 years so it can't be wrong. But the device said "Incorrect pattern" for 5 times until it lock itself for 30 seconds.
As far as I've known I didn't update or install any suspicious apps either. No Anti-Virus, No Cleaner No root and anything just FB and some games that are unharm. I didn't change the security settings for like years since it was already safe. I haven't set the smart lock or anything either. The way to unlock my phone is only fingerprint and pattern only. No tricks.
I've manage to unlock by restart the phone on the lock screen and manage to get in by that pattern that I've been using and the fingerprint sensor came back to work.
My question is what can cause this to happened? Is it a bug?
Side Note:
Scenario 1: My aunt's Galaxy Note 8 happened as well. But my aunt's phone doesn't even have a password lock or fingerprint set up because she doesn't leave the house much and she got nothing to lose on her phone. One day she install a mobile banking app and the bank staff asked her to put set up a lock screen security so she set to the password that she can remember and writes it down on the note in case she forgets.
When she came back home and she tries to unlock the phone it said incorrect password many times I even try to fix it for her but no luck until we solve it by unlocking it with Find My Mobile.
Scenario 2: My colleague's Galaxy J7 also encountered the security problem where he can't use his own password to unlock his phone but that's because he install some phony app called "Samsung Max" which is not made by Samsung but he thought it was the Samsung's app. I don't know what the app can do but it seems that it some sort of cleaner app. I've read the comment in the Play Store and saw that someone was like "Thanks a lot Samsung (implies Samsung) this app save me more space" and the dev replies back like "Thanks a lot" (won't denied that he wasn't an actual Samsung company)
Can apps even change the security settings on people phones these days? I've haven't visit XDA for many years since when I was having fun rooting my Galaxy S2.
What's your opinion?
Happened to my sister's note 4 before, and since then she don't use fingerprints in fear she gets locked out. Use Samsung find my device and unlock the phone. It didn't happen to her since then (around 2 4 years)
Is anyone else having issues with smart lock? I have my phone set to unlock with my fingerprints which works perfect, and I also have smart lock set to keep my phone unlocked at home. The problem is at least half of the time when I am at home I have to use my fingerprints to unlock my phone.
Anyone else having this issue?
I always had this issue with smart lock. Give Bixby routines a try instead. It's been much more reliable when doing things based on location.
kclive said:
Is anyone else having issues with smart lock? I have my phone set to unlock with my fingerprints which works perfect, and I also have smart lock set to keep my phone unlocked at home. The problem is at least half of the time when I am at home I have to use my fingerprints to unlock my phone.
Anyone else having this issue?
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Yes I have always had this issue. Smart Lock is garbage for location unlocking. Always has been
I am using bixby routine for same task and works perfectly
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The problem is at least half of the time when I am at home I have to use my fingerprints to unlock my phone.
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It's Smart Lock issue itself, not device specific. It literally never worked on my HTC 10, was spotty on HTC U11 and Tab S3, and is still spotty on S10+.
Google attempted to fix location problem in SL couple times already (they even disabled Trusted Places for short time) but to no avail.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/...ng-issues-smart-locks-trusted-places-feature/
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/05/23/trusted-places-seems-removed-smart-lock-option/
At Morning i used fingerprint to unlock my phone and later it locked only with the pattern then nothing of my patterns works anymore it only go to 60 Secs cooldown.
I see looks like more peoples get this problem time to time, but i need the files of my phone.
Not Workded:
Find My Phone By Samsung(i did not set up it at all)
Theres a way to remove the pattern or recover the files ?
Now it check to offline mode alone.
lris said:
At Morning i used fingerprint to unlock my phone and later it locked only with the pattern then nothing of my patterns works anymore it only go to 60 Secs cooldown.
I see looks like more peoples get this problem time to time, but i need the files of my phone.
Not Workded:
Find My Phone By Samsung(i did not set up it at all)
Theres a way to remove the pattern or recover the files ?
Now it check to offline mode alone.
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I hope that you have biometric unlock activated too.
Then you can unlock with fingerprint or face recognition.
If not and listen unlock is the only unlock option, you have to do a factory reset /wipe data AFAIK.