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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahmedfikry:
Very Nice...can i Request something?

Hi

Thanks for the nice application

very small, problem free so far (on Eten M700 with WM6) & useful

Can i have 3 requests please:

1- can you make the slider spring back to the left if it was accidentaly moved to the right, right now it stays half way & i think if you make it spring back it will be more safe as a lock & it will look better too

2- can you make the slider button wider (double) so i can catch it with my fat fingers

3- can you add an icon, so i may put it in my today launcher list & it would look better than the plain white square, something like a lock or key or a hand can do.

I also noticed that sometimes as i come out of the suspend mode, the slider is either late to appear (1-2 sec) & may remain unresponsive for two or three trys to slide it to right (stays in place)

Once started i couldn't figure how to get rid of it & seems that only way is to soft reset to go back to normal wake up without locking

Hope these comments help..thanks again for nice work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hidavi:
Those apps you mentioned take a ****load of memory and add to battery drain because of all the animations and graphics. His is a simple slide function that sips memory and battery life. Very useful IMO. Sliding is good cuz I find unlocking the WM way to be annoying. I have to touch an icon to lock. Then to unlock, I have to press two buttons. With sliding, it locks automatically and unlocking is accompished in one simple motion.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chunga168:
You're right that there's already enough S2U programs.

I also think S2U2 is an awesome balance between beauty and speed/mem cost. For people who have only tried S2U, you really need to change to S2U2... WAY faster and stable!

In most cases, yes S2U isn't that necessary, as it's similar an extra step to get to your today page, but I need it because:

1) My alarms don't wake if the phone is on standby, so I put it onto S2U2 mode when I sleep

2) My audio manager doesn't go to the next song if the phone is on standby, so I have to lock my phone while listening using S2U2

I question how good it'll be to have Slide 2 Lock as a today plugin, since I don't need some extra waste of space. What I do is set the gesture right-to-left (using FTouchFlo) to execute S2U2 so when I slide right to left, it opens S2U2, then sliding left to right, unlocks it. Love it!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jhonny11:
I hate to say it, but that's not quite true. If you setup the lock all buttons, sure you won't accidentally turn it on, but if you get a phone call, it doesn't just power right off (at least my 6700 doesn't) - it can and has made phone calls like that...

And as for the S2U/2 - they use quite a bit more memory than this. A 5k program use is great, although I won't use it because I like the clock on s2u2.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zcink:
Great App

This is all I ever really wanted. Just a very simple slide unlock. simple.

Excellent.

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] famewolf:
This simple slide to unlock app is perfect for my needs...Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fuzzvirus:
The point here is WJames created an application for his own use and shared it with everybody. If someone think that it is not req. they might not use it. Anyway thanks for the nice little app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mrpiggae:
Thanks! Great small app. Would be fantastic with a simple white clock above the lock bar though, so we could check the time on the phone without unlocking it. Thanks a bunch!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] 200mpx:
My probleme is that I can not terminate call after conversation is over. The red button is not working before the screen is unlocked :(

Touch wm6.1
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alienfreak:
All hardware keys (even the recieve and decline [red and green]) are locked... And up to now there is no way to make them work :)

But at least you can change the registry so you can accept and decline calls with the on screen keys...

But even with that there is a problem. If the lockdown wasnt activated at the time you suspended the phone it works fine. If you had the lockdown activated when the phone went into suspend you cant accept any calls without unlocking it first :(

So if you get 2 calls in a row you will be able to accept only the first without unlocking it...

But i still think the whole concept of the "real" Slide2Unlock project is flawed.

Why would people like a special screensaver that doesnt look like their real screen on which they work just because it is locked?

People use "themes" like iStyle, Maxhome, Aurora or SPB (and many more!) to make their today screens fit their desires and then just to have a better locking tool it just wastes all your efforts? Thats crap.

Thats why your tool is much better. People can keep the screen they are used too. If people want a screen that looks like that of a iPhone they should just use a theme for that. Not a keylocker. I really dont get why a keylocker should change your "desktop".

So you are definatyl on the right way!

Have you ever thought about making your project open source so people make the things they want it to be capable of themselves?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JDSX:
The sliding doesn't work as it should. If I touch the middle of the slider, the arrow shouldn't jump to that point. It should only slide when I drag the arrow and if I raise my finger up, the arrow should reset to the beginning of the slider. Otherwise someone touching the rightmost part of the slider will unlock it without actually sliding anything.

As always I do appreciate people who work on this so take my feedback in that light.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sonus:
I have a substantial bug. I know you created the program to among other things prevent accidental hang-ups when using a headset and the phone is in your pocket. The app seems to do its job, unless my phone goes into standby during the call. Then mini S2U isn't functioning (as it only functions during a wakeup) and I end up hanging up the call accidentally.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mousio:
redraw beneath transparent window

How about using more transparent windows? Using 2, 3 or 4 transparent windows, perhaps you could create a moving "gap" as small as a single row or pixel, serving as an "update window" moving over the background to be redrawn row by row or pixel by pixel...

Then with some smart moving/timing, the chance of the user hitting the gap when it is just updating will probably be low enough for this approach to be usable? (if not using too much resources or so)

Just an idea :cool:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jpaq:
Hi WJames,

Have just changed my HTC Touch to a Samsung i780 now. Now it seems lockdown displays some funny behaviour.

When a call comes in, I cannot see the incoming call dialogue/window. The only thing that appears is the lockdown slider and the today screen in the background. Therefore I can't see who is calling until I unlock the slider. And of course I cannot answer nor ignore the call without unlocking too.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jem777:
new version and configurator?

great idea!

little & fast!

any new release?

a configurator would help!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JoeSchmoe22:
Tiny and Great!!

Great app and great concept! :cool: I really want a small basic lock application without the added GUI or features that take up RAM and burn battery life. But I think most people would agree that if you doubled the size to 10K to add a couple of features and fixed a few bugs, it would still be a great app.

Things that I noticed while using the app in conjunction with PocketBreeze [PB has d-pad navigation turned on] are:

1.] After waking the device on the Today screen only, the Windows key is not locked. Even though the slider notification is in the middle of the screen waiting to be unlocked, I can navigate the menu using the Windows key and the d-pad. I can even select the item from the menu using the d-pad and the item will launch in the background but the screen will not refresh. When I power off the device, for a split second the screen will refresh and you can see the app that launched in the background. When the device is activated again, it will open to the screen of the app that was launched during the previous session. [This is only an issue is on the Today screen, not an issue if I powered off on another screen.]

Edit: 2.] During an incoming phone call the slide to unlock notification area is still partially covered by the caller ID bubble. <--DELETE - I see that this can be adjusted in the registry settings.

3.] The green answer key is active during an incoming call on the Today screen. Since this key protrudes from my device slightly, it is still possible to answer an incoming call accidentally. The red key is also active and a call on the Today screen. In fact a call can be answered and ended without unlocking the device using the green and red keys from the Today screen. These keys are not active on other screens.

4.] The softkey at the bottom of the screen is active during an incoming call and could also accidentally by touched and answer an incoming call from any screen.

5.] The slide function works to unlock the device, but so does simply tapping the screen where the slider ends to the right. This could cause the device to become unlocked if it is woken by an alert and the accidentally tapped in this area.

All of the items outlined above may be device specific and/or PB specific, so maybe I'm just out of luck with this app. My device is a Sprint Mogul aka PPC-6800 with WM6 Pro and the new HTC ROM 3.35 and I use PocketBreeze v5.4.

Sorry for the lengthy feedback, but I wouldn't leave it if I didn't really like the app and didn't intend on using it. :cool: Good Luck with your development!!! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sonox:
WJames.....Thank you a lot for your application!

For me, it will working in a perfekt way and also for me is this application very perferkt together with mobile shell!!

one more. Thank you!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] JoeSchmoe22:
These hardware key issues are directly related to using PocketBreeze with the "exclusive d-pad navigation" checked ON. When I deactivate this feature in PocketBreeze, Mini S2U does shut these keys down properly. That's too bad that these two apps fight for focus as I rely on PocketBreeze to navigate through the various Today tabs.

Any way to correct this behavior so Mini S2U can lock out PocketBreeze while Mini S2U is in "locked" status?

Also, there is still the issue with the slide not actually having to be slid to the right, all that is needed is a tap on the right side. This should be addressed to avoid accidental unlocks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WJames:
I'm sorry that I've not been available to monitor this thread in quite awhile. I started a new job some weeks back, and my free time is virtually null. I'm posting the Lockdown source to the first page. It's pretty much as is. There are some comments in the source, but it certainly could stand more documentation. If you have any questions, free feel to post them here. I can't guarantee that I'll be able to respond in a timely fashion, but I will try to monitor this thread from time to time.

W James
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] NexVision:
Thanks alot for the fast response James. Great work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] crazy cat:
Nice App! I use it very often. will there come a new version soon?

Here my feature requests:

* Set high/wide of the box

* Change "lock" icon

* Costumize Wizard

* Baybe transparenticle effect
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] medosier:
Love this program

This is great. If you already have a program that shows weather, calls, msgs, etc..., this works great because you can still see all those things on the "now screen" in SPB Shell for example.

Feature request: Two things I would love to see added. Transparent background so we can see through it and the spring back function of the arrow like in S2U2. Thank you for the great application.

Michael Dosier
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jgreenme:
Options

Is there a way to make it lock only the touch screen and not the hardware buttons?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jant90:
That would be nice indeed.

Also I would love the function to make the S2U only apear when I'm being called (of course the EnableIgnore and the EnableAnswer do have to work then), as I often pick up my phone when it's still in my pocket (using the touch screen).

So basically I would love to see the following functions:

- Option to only show a S2U bar when being called / or when receiving a SMS.

- Option to make S2U only block the touch screen (and not the hardwarebuttons).

- Bugfix of EnableIgnore and EnableAnswer (btw, I would find it more logical if they were called DisableIgnore and DisableAnswer, meaning you would have to manually add those DWORDS and set them to 1).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] robsno:
SUPERB APP, no wasted overhead and seems stable, the best screen lock for WM2003SE. Many Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sean09:
Any luck on this? I too am having similar issues with accidentally rejecting/answering calls, and want only the hard buttons to work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] de vangestel:
Issues with touch cruise (solved :P)

Hy,

Not as an answer to previous questions, but just as extra info in case someone experiences the same problems as myself.

I have this app installed om my tc (with custom wm6.1 rom) and it did lock the screen but not the hardbuttons. I also got SPB Mobile Shell installed and I suspect this to be the source of the problem.

The solution seems to be an app called HookManager (http://www.mobiion.com/products.html).

Its a freeware app that allows your device to have mutliple apps hook to the keyboard.

It works at least on my touch cruise (woohoo), except for the record/speed dial button (dont know why).

Hopefully this will help some people out and it could help WJames if he's still monitoring this tread.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] monchatsam:
Excellent program, I installed on my Diamond and it works perfectly with EnableAnswer = 0 and EnableIgnore = 0.

Only small black dot, is that when I receive a call, the locking is behind the window with the buttons of reply. I can pick up accidentally. But when I press the taskbar, Mini s2u takes over. I therefore conclude that it is far behind.

Does there is no solution to pass before all the windows? Or that the program will revive only after a second, I'm sure it put the front.

It's really a good solution to avoid the problem of Diamond.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ruebyi:
Hi!

I tried Lockdown on my Herald. I tried to have Keylocker, wich shows my Batterystatus skin with a clock. But when running Lockdown the clock isn't updating anymore!

Could anyone confirm or give me a solution?

ruebyi
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] monchatsam:
Hi,

I can confirm, and i have read the entire thread, no solution :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sledutah:
Great little program. Just what I was looking for, something just to lock the phone so I don't accidentally hit the wrong keys when getting the phone out of the belt case. Without all of the overhead of other unlock programs.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Alfyk:
Parameter

Sorry for the stupid question but i don't know how to invoke a parameter.

May someone explain to me please ?

[Application Invocation

Lockdown [-lock] [-close]

With the -lock parameter, the application starts in lock mode.

With the -close parameter, the application is removed from memory (if running).]
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LeAdReW:
are there any skins for it?in registry i have only position parametr
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ca3sar:
yes this looks awesome, but lacking appearance. Any skin?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] polum:
Looking for the same

Looking for a similar program....

Any help?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meridianblade:
Please, can we have a way to only lock on incoming calls? I hate always answering the phone when im trying to take it out of my pocket..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] VarioIV_Alex:
I have a similar problem on my Vario IV:

when I wake up my phone after standby, and Lockdown comes up, the clock from TF3D shows a past time- either the time when the phone went in standby mode or some time when the phone was in standby, but not the actual time.

If anyone has a solution, please post it.

Thanks

Alex
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aven_soulgazer:
my touch has the clock problem stock. i have to wait for it to catch up when coming out of standby.

thank you so much for this program. its what i needed. just not sure how to get it to automatically start yet, need to read the thread on a pc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sovo:
Seems good

Hi,

The idea is a very good one. I've installed it recently (5 minutes) and seems to be ok.

Thanks for your effort and, if your time allows it, keep on with good ideeas
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] petkos01:
Great Aplication. It would be great, if somebody can continue with improving it. May be there is some programmer on this forum, with some spare time ;)

For now I need bacground be transparent. But I am just starting test of aplication.

Thanks WJames. Well done!

P.S. My settings on Diamond:

Position (DWORD, -1 OR 4294967295):

TextColor (DWORD, 0000000 hex):

Color of slider message. Note that the HEX color format is 00BBGGRR where BB is blue, GG is green, and RR is red.

PenColor (DWORD, CCCCCCCC hex):

BackgroundColor (DWORD, 00000000 hex):

HeightMultiplier (String, .12):

TabWidthMultiplier (String, 1.9):

EnableAnswer (DWORD, 0):

EnableIgnore (DWORD, 0)

WARNING: When you use Lockdown be careful and put mobile to stand by with Today screen on. Otherwise hardware buttons lock doesn't work properly!

ISSUE: I've noticed strange thing. Sometimes during incoming call is possible answer by touch screen. Othertimes it's not. I can't find differencies at circumstances.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dmsc:
Nice app, but I can't use it on my X1 because MortPlayer stops playing when the X1 sleeps :mad:

dmsc

Edit: Works OK with BT-Headset :) but I bought PocketShield
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lengfengfly:
Sometimes cannot answer by touch screen, too. Not knowing the reason.

Piece of advice: Auto slide-back! Occasionally, I touch the arrow accidentally and the arrow move a little, I touch again, it moves again, finally, it's unlocked! If it can slide back automatically when I didn't slide to the end right and lift my finger, this will not happen.

How about this advice?!:p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ajhvdb:
Thx, working like it should. Anyone have a good color scheme?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Enchanter:
thanks so much for this app , it small but strong , i love it

Good bye n goodluck man :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Gopher-TM-:
Not too bad, but:

still no lockdown for camera button. :(

Regards, Gopher.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] character:
this is awesome !!! to have a small space for slide to unlock to let me not click so many times in my phon eis great work!!! 5kb man you are really cool!!!! one thing though can we replace the original pictures in the screen? as you have said this is a beta release so that when the time comes we can customize it right???

as I have said THIS IS AWESOME keep up the good work and sharing a real useful application
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] evojulz:
This is a great little app!!

S2U2 has always been a bit heavy to justify use, but working properly this will do just fine.

Problem for me is that when a call comes through the keys remain locked and the call notification bubble covers up the slide bar so I can't unlock and therefore can't answer the call :eek: just need to make the slider higher on the screen?

Also the point about the slider returning to the left would be logical to fix.

Don't add too much or it won't be 5kb for long ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WJames:
Thanks everyone for the feedback. I'm taking all your comments into account, as I prepare to release another version. As I make changes, I have two goals: keep the application as basic (and small) as possible and fix any bugs. This does not mean I won't provide some optional functionality. I like the "snap back" and the wider thumb track suggestions. The clock suggestion also sounds good, but it would require my resume monitoring thread to periodically wake up and update the clock. If keep it to one second intervals, it really should impact the battery, but I'll probably just make it optional.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jpaq:
Hi WJames.. thank you so much for this simple but ultra useful app. Yes the snap back suggestion is excellent but maybe as an option. You will see why I am suggesting this as you read on.

And yes, wider thumb track or bigger slider, please! One thing I notice is that when I am holding the phone in my left hand, its almost impossible to unlock with my left thumb for some reason. I dunno whether this is due to the less than ideal size of the thumb track/slider or is there an issue of sensitivity.

Is there a way to make the slide slightly more sensitive or responsive? And here is why I think sometimes it may not be a good idea for a snap back action of the slider. If for some reason I could not slide all the way to the right and have to try again, then at least I am trying from where I left off and not have to slide from the beginning again! However, if the slide could just be a little bit more responsive, then I guess this is a non-issue.

Hope my feedback helps.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Gajet:
Is it not possible to make this appear over the top of a locked Today screen?

Rather than sit on a black background as the screeny suggests.

My first thought was how cool it would be if it played nice with Spb Mobile Shell's Now screens. Where as S2U unlock would be a screen of itself and unlocking would send you to the Today screen, bypassing the NOW screen, if something like this would just sit on the top of the NOW screen and unlocking would not close it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] juiceppc:
Hopefully M$ is listening and will implement something like this in WM7. To me the only productive reason to use a program like S2U2(screen locker) would be to not have to use the smallish terribly placed power buttons on a lot of WinMo PDA phones. They are usually so small and flush and hard to find or are right in the open easily pressed. On a side note the "Treo Keyguard" is what all WinMo PDA phones should be using. I wonder why it hasn't or can't be extracted. Anyway, the problem for me is that if I want to avoid the power button altogether I need a way of turning on/off my phone by using other button. I like using AEButton Plus to map long press to a button to shut it off and I usually disable the WinMo keylock program so pressing "any" button will wake it up. The problem with this is S2U2 won't work with AEB. :(

I've tried other ways to work buttons to turn on/off the PDA but S2U2 won't play nice and sometimes I'll press a button that wakes up my PDA and S2U2 won't be there.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nonegiven:
Good app. I stopped using S2U2 because of memory card corruption on the CDMA Touch. For those looking for something else, a similar app that lets you see the screen behind the lock is onlock.