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Captivate Lock Screen

Aerimus

Aerimus

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I have a confession to make. One of the first things I did when I got my Captivate was tried to De-TouchWiz it. I immediately got a new launcher and used lockbot to change the lockscreen.

Well, what I'm finding out is that there are some things about TouchWiz that I really like. For example I love being able to change wifi settings etc. on the drop down notification drawer. I also love being able to change the brightness by swiping the notification bar.

The one thing that I decided to come back to as a UI element is the Lock Screen. I didn't even give it a shot when I first bought the phone and today I've been using it and I love it. The puzzle message system is just a great tweak and I love how you can just move the puzzle piece into the puzzle hole to go straight to that application instead of swiping the whole screen to unlock and go to the home page. I also really like that you can kind of swipe any which way to unlock the screen, as well as the fact that it's transparent to your wallpaper/live wallpaper.

All around, bravo to Samsung on the lock screen. I hope others are enjoying it as much as I am.:)
 
Although I think the lock 'animation' seems a little cheesy, I like the puzzle pieces integration. But the best part to me is the stock music player integration on the lock screen. Half of the album art shows on a disc at the top of the screen, pull down to access the player. No need to unlock to pause or go forward or backword in your playlist.
 
FYI, I'm using Launcher Pro and I still have my WiFi/BT/Sound controls in my slide down notification menu[?]

I think that's present regardless of the launcher (so you can use whichever launcher you'd like).

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See the other 5:41PM post below, hahaha! Good timing!
 
FWIW, I am using LauncherPro (free version) and I still have the settings toggles in the notification drawer and it can still adjust the brightness with a swipe across the top of the screen. Not sure about the notifications on the lock screen as I just started using it yesterday and I haven't missed a call yet.
 
is it possible to have Handcent SMS integrated within the lock screen and puzzle pieces, since i use it as opposed to the default messaging?
 
Aerimus said:
I also love being able to change the brightness by swiping the notification bar.
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Ya know, for the life of me I couldn't figure out how my brightness setting kept going back up when I set it to the lowest setting possible... I must have been swiping by accident the whole time. Is there a way to disable this feature?
 
tekonus said:
Ya know, for the life of me I couldn't figure out how my brightness setting kept going back up when I set it to the lowest setting possible... I must have been swiping by accident the whole time. Is there a way to disable this feature?
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Enabling automatic brightness will, for sure. I haven't found any other way yet.
 
jeremytanner said:
Enabling automatic brightness will, for sure. I haven't found any other way yet.
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LOL that seems counter-intuitive. I just want the damn phone to stay on the lowest brightness setting... I really haven't even needed it on anything more than that. It still looks great.
 
Aftashok said:
is it possible to have Handcent SMS integrated within the lock screen and puzzle pieces, since i use it as opposed to the default messaging?
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Ditto on that one! I love the puzzle piece but I love Handcent more - if the two could marry I'd be in heaven....
 
tekonus said:
LOL that seems counter-intuitive. I just want the damn phone to stay on the lowest brightness setting... I really haven't even needed it on anything more than that. It still looks great.
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There is a setting in Sound and Display>Power Saving Mode, that will automatically adjust the brightness.
 
JamesR913 said:
There is a setting in Sound and Display>Power Saving Mode, that will automatically adjust the brightness.
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Yeah I already had that one AND the regular automatic adjustment one turned off... why they had 2 different settings to do the same thing, I dunno.
 
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