[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] djchiments:
Lock screen/ Exchange / Unresponsive from sleep - read and searched, Please Help!

Hello,

Please let me preface by apologizing for my long message here, I just want to provide some details to help diagnose and also by saying that I love this ROM. I have searched Google, this thread, other forums and I can't seem to come up with useful information related to my issue. With respect.... ONE continuous thread for multiple versions of this ROM is rather daunting to search through and maintain any sort of following. I don't know how you guys do it.. but maybe split them up by release? I'd almost be willing to host something on my web server to make it easier to navigate and find answers for people. :)

Anyways - I have a couple of issues. I have a VZW - S4 running a clean install of 18.1 on the MDK firmware. Wiped everything to install this. So far everything aside from the following is working great!

1.) While setting up for first use everything was fine. I added my accounts and more specifically added my work exchange account. This required me to setup a PIN to which i had already setup using the stock Lock screen settings. Rebooted multiple times for various reasons, no issues. Now... I am almost certain that as soon as I went into HyperTweaks, and to the lock screen tab all hell broke loose regarding my lock screen and ultimately the way some other settings work.

First, the lock screen settings in HT - never stick. They always revert after reboot, or even after leaving the HT app. I think that this is what the problem is for me. Because with exchange, I am forced to change my pin EVERY time I restart the phone. whether it be a Hot or cold boot. Due to security policies on my work server, I can't use the most previous 10 PINs so it always has to be something different. No problem there.. but for every restart it is a pain. Now when I do change it to a different one (sometimes) it will stick, until I need to go into HT to change something. At that time, I didn't have any exposed modules installed or activate.. not even the framework.​

Secondly, the look screen immediately at boot is not the PIN lock screen, but the generic swipe up to unlock. This not only poses a huge security risk if anyone rebooted the phone, but it also makes me believe the HT Lock screen default settings don't stick and keep overriding the Stock settings. If I let the screen time out or manually lock the screen it will come back on with the correct PIN lock screen. Then Exchange security wants me to change the PIN again. I thought I saw something like this mentioned before, but I can't find it.​

2.) Sometimes, for no real reason the phone (screen) will not come back on after it has been off for a period of time. Maybe longer than 30 min? It is real random. Not even plugging it in will wake the phone. If i have an alert, the LED will flash, but it is other wise non responsive. Sometimes I can get out of it by pressing the power button a few times, or the home button. The rest of the time, I am forced to pull the battery and in some of the cases this causes my first issue listed above.

3.) Not really a big deal... but my contacts don't seem to be merging? listing? correctly. I have multiple contacts that I get from different sources, Google account mainly, Exchange, Facebook, Lync, LinkedIn Some do a good job of merging together, I can usually tell because pictures will pop up. However I was noticing that just at looking at my contact list, not even touching it that people's pics were disappearing and even some contacts all together were disappearing from certain accounts. No longer to be found or searchable. When they did come back, there was no picture. For some I had to manually merge (or link contacts as android puts it) I don't know why this is happening. Everything was said to be synced. I did read that maybe LinkedIn was causing this.. but after removing the account the issues were still there. The contact list just kept shifting around.

Thank you for reading this. If any info is needed, please ask. I'm pretty technical, so lay it on me.

Cheers!

-Chris