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Fingerprint Scanner (Works with up or down swipe)

I have very good accuracy with the fingerprint scanner when it comes to flat finger swipes, however not very good luck when it comes to one handed swiping with my thumbs.
I have repeated the one handed thumb swipe setup numerous times with varying results, but less the great.
With that said, I decided to setup a couple of up and down swipes and have pretty much solved the one handed swipe problem in my case.
Hopefully this can be of some benefit to others.
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Finger print scanner

Hi
My finger print scanner seems to only work about 10% of the time, anyone else had this problem and how do i fix it?

ant78 said:
Hi
My finger print scanner seems to only work about 10% of the time, anyone else had this problem and how do i fix it?
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No problem here, way better than the sensor on the Note5. Have you used one before? I wonder if your fingers just don't work well with them.

ant78 said:
Hi
My finger print scanner seems to only work about 10% of the time, anyone else had this problem and how do i fix it?
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Go to setting, security, imprint and setup another finger, you can use the same finger if you like. Make sure if you are using a case on the phone that you setup the imprint with the case on. If you setup the imprint with no case, then put a case on your phone, your phone will read your finger differently, therefore it may not work correctly. You scanner should read your finger 9/10 times if not more

if it works that bad, delete all prints and RE DO
mine has yet to fail

i have set up my finger again, the problem im having is that i can access my phone by the power button thus by passing the finger scanner most times. Surely i should only be able to access my phone when my finger print is confirmed.?

You should just be able to use the finger print scanner and not touch the on button at all. About 99% accurate for me.
When you set it up, did you keep moving your finger on the sensor between presses (not during) to make sure it had a good cross section of the finger to recognse?

All is working fine now after the recent security update from google

Finger scan in OOs vs H2OS

In H2 my FS works really well but total other story in OOs, it reads to set a finger but then in the lockscreen nothing happend. Any clue?.

Maybe other customers are not setting up the fingerprint correctly. Each time you lift your finger and place it down, should be a bit of an alternative positioning. Like: Maybe they hover their finger not enough and setting up the exact position for the whole process. I have no problem with my fingerprint and besides my signature states: I'm currently on OOS 2.1.2.

How fingerprint scanning works on the G4 plus?

Hi,
I need to know something. I hope you'd help me.
On the g4 plus, how fingerprint scanning is working? the sensor is excited for finger's sense at all times or only when the phone's held in the hand ie when the phone detects a motion? Asking this 'cause I'm having some weird problem. My sensor doesn't sense my finger at all when I don't hold it in my hand. I just put a finger on the sensor when phone's absolutely still on the ground in sleep mode, not moving. But the sensor was unable to respond. I have to press it harder to make it detect my fingers. Quite irritating.
But the sensor properly detects and senses my fingers when the phone's in my hand. What could be the problem? Is the sensor defective or it's perfectly normal ?

It doesn't work when is horizontal on a table. If you press slightly harder, the phone moves (tilts "up" the top part a little) and it works.
Weird for me to test since I have registered only my thumbs. I never use it like that. On table I see the notifications and if I need to do something about them, I always lift the phone up from the table.

Mine (UK model) works just the same on the desk or in the hand. no added pressure required. maybe try re-doing the finger registration

Are you sure that the phone's in sleep mode when you touch the sensor? Just put the phone on table for 2-3 minutes and then try to touch the sensor without touching anything other than it. Could you please check it again... Can you unlock the phone?
SP1Viffer said:
Mine (UK model) works just the same on the desk or in the hand. no added pressure required. maybe try re-doing the finger registration
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Mine (IN model) works perfectly in both situations...

jack_04 said:
Mine (IN model) works perfectly in both situations...
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In that case, my replacement for the phone isn't unnecessary.

What I feel like when we move the phone a little then it activate s the FPS and it works fine.
But if the phone is stationary for some time and touching the FPS doesn't unlock.
So I think it's not a problem.

Mine works fine also... but I can't use the finger print sensor to sign in apps or remember passwords on the browser (I use chrome) ... I used to have a Galaxy S6 and it automaticaly asked me If I'd like to use the sensor for this ... but G4 don't.. can anybody help me with that? thanks

Fingerprint past swipe up lockscreen?

So I bought my wife today a Moto G5 Plus 32GB (I've had a 64GB version for a few months) but am having issues with fingerprint unlock. When we were setting it up today we noticed that on mine, finger print scanning will skip the swipe up to unlock screen when I put my finger on it but hers won't. You can tape your finger a second time on hers and it will fully unlock, but not with the first press of a finger like mine. We can not for the life of us figure out why mine is different as we are running the same exact settings in security and both are running nova launcher. Does anyone have an idea on how to enable a one press of the finger scanner to unlock and skip the lock screen?