Official myLock thread - we don't like the lockscreen

[mtbhk44]

I just discovered this app - While I am thrilled to be able to avoid the lock screen (a button and then a swipe is redundant imo), one option I'd like with this app is the ability to keep the phone at full brightness maybe 15 or 20 seconds before it dims. If I'm reading an article or something I cant read the entire screen in 5 seconds. It might be enough for me to uninstall this app unfortunately. Am I missing this option somewhere?

[Martin030908]

Your bug doesn't seem to duplicate for me. Having never tested non-persistent yet in this set of revisions, I tried launching with persistent unchecked, and also launching persistent and unchecking it to have the running service turn off the notification.

I think what actually might be happening to you is a bug with the stay awake setting. I need to add back key handling to the settings screen because if you press back after checking stay awake, it cancels the visual check but the code doesn't react to the change and can cause an unexpected state of stay awake that screws up the rest of the functionality that is expecting auto-sleep.

Also, do you have any task killer or other app that runs a service?
Check running services under the Applications category in settings

Task killers are the devil. I don't have one No services other than native ones. (Google apps, etc.)

I'm rooted.... but alpha 1 runs fine.

[xanthus1132]

What is the creator's twitter anyways...?

[petjakob]

mtbhk44, this functionality has been an idea for the app from the start. My co-worker and I both noticed the need for an on demand brighten that would time itself out. It seems possible, there are a few widgets out there which toggle brightness in stages. Before we exactly knew what we wanted to do with the app we knew we wanted to access notification panel from the lockscreen and be able to get a brighten via button shortcut or shake. We haven't done any implementation yet, but I am leaning toward allowing shake to create a 40% bright that runs for 20 seconds. The setback is that to get the brightness to actually change in real time you have put a window or dialogue onto the screen which controls the brightness in real time. Without doing that, when you change the system brightness setting it doesn't kick in till the next screen sleep & wakeup.

The twitter I use to post random rants or progress is @mylockandroid

I went ahead and pushed out the 2c build as our v1 market release since we've given it a month to find the most important fixes (like the handcent compatibility) and my direct co-workers who've been using it constantly have reported rock-solid satisfaction.

Right now I'm working out the last kinks in security idle timeout & a pattern mode concurrent custom lockscreen, and focusing on coding the clock display and music controls that will show up if you lock with music playing. I'll continue to push out a3 revisions till we have everything in a great working state to push as the first market update.

[dtartini]

I love the idea. There are still a couple of bugs that I noticed (the dev is aware and is working on them). Once all the kinks are out I will gladly reinstall. Once it works I would even pay for it.

[petjakob]

Thanks for supporting the project so far. I decided to push the alpha 2c version into the market today just to try to reach more people with it and get more feedback on what would be useful to people with their lockscreen mod.

Please leave us a good review if you have a minute.

[Martin030908]

Thanks for supporting the project so far. I decided to push the alpha 2c version into the market today just to try to reach more people with it and get more feedback on what would be useful to people with their lockscreen mod.

Please leave us a good review if you have a minute.

You're in the Market? Congrats! It's been a long time coming...
Will download to help give some feedback.

[Matth3w]

Just curious, what's the status of making a custom phone unlock screen like the iPhone uses instead of the slide to unlock?

Also, are you guys experiencing any lag with the custom lock screen?

Lastly, how much have your butt dials and accidental unlocks gone up with just the power button as unlock for example?

[dtartini]

I love the idea. There are still a couple of bugs that I noticed (the dev is aware and is working on them). Once all the kinks are out I will gladly reinstall. Once it works I would even pay for it.

Ok so I just installed the version from the market...I'm not sure which version I tried earlier but this one is much better. Keep it up dev!

[Martin030908]

Just curious, what's the status of making a custom phone unlock screen like the iPhone uses instead of the slide to unlock?

Also, are you guys experiencing any lag with the custom lock screen?

Lastly, how much have your butt dials and accidental unlocks gone up with just the power button as unlock for example?

I've been using this app since it's first alpha, not a single butt dial. The power button isn't something I've found that gets 'accidentally' pressed. This is why I prefer this app over "Screen Mode Widget".... because it allows the volume rocker and camera button to 'wake' the phone.... this leads to butt dials and pocket mishaps

There's slight lag, but it's gotten so much better as development has gone on... so I can only imagine it will improve.