Hi all
Thank you all for the charitable (and helpful) replies
Was slightly concerned about my waffle being too waffly... but I appear to have got away with it (this time).
Am gonna try the HTC IME mod (ta Hadron).
However, am naturally also tempted by Swift Key, as discerning users have recommended it.
Lockscreeens, etc
I'm definitely not clear on them. To my mind, there are 2 'layers' of lockscreen (or at least there were on my old ROM):
* A lock screen which you slide or rotate to unlock.
* A 2nd lock screen that requires a PIN, pattern or password to unlock.
On my old ROM, I could control when the PIN driven one became active - as far as I know a slide lockscreen is active as soon as the screen is inactive (but perhaps that was configurable too and I just had it coming on straight away... just can't remember).
Anyway, on dGB, I presumed the configuration in "lockscreens" \ "delay and timeout" would define the behaviour of the lockscreens.
This also has to work in tandem with whatever display timeout settings have been configured (mine's set to 1 minute).
So... this is what I've set up to test the functionality:
Under "Location & Security" - I
had removed my PIN security, setting "change screen unlock" to "none" (so I could be methodical & monitor the behaviour of one thing at a time).
HOWEVER, since this greyed out my slide lock options in "Lockscreen" \ "delay and timeout" (somewhat unexpected, given I'd changed security lock, rather than slide lock), I reinstated PIN security.
So:
"Location & Security" \ "change screen unlock" = PIN
"Lockscreen" \ "style options" \ "lockscreen style" = "rotary"
"Lockscreen" \ "style options" \ "Incoming call style" = "sliding tab"
[I've also made the custom app starter active but am not expecting that to affect matters (I thought I'd have the camera easily accessible).]
Btw, could someone explain the difference between the "security lock" and "slide lock"? They sound self explanatory but I'm not clear why the slide lock becomes greyed out when I've not had PIN lock set...
Anyway, I've got the following going on in "delay and timeout":
security lock screen timeout delay & screen turned off delay are both set to 10 mins.
AND
slide lock delay is enabled.
slide lock screen timeout delay and screen turned off delay are both 1 min.
I'd have expected this to mean the slide lock becomes active after 1 min of the screen going off and the PIN 9 mins after that (so you're not having to input your PIN, every time the screen's off).
However, this is simply not the case. If I turn the display off and then on again, both screenlock and PINlock are both active. I've even tried rebooting the phone after configuring the locks, to no avail. I've also tried reversing the timeouts i.e. that which was 1m is now 10m and vice versa. No impact.
I expect I'm just misunderstanding something but it's not what I was expecting to happen (and software should do what I tell it to do, not what it wants to do
) lol grrr
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