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[Android Apps and Games] Zinloos1:
Got your app yesterday and it works perfect.

There is just one little problem.

I have an Archos 43 IT running Froyo 2.2, and launcherpro.

Normally when I press my power button, the screen turns black, and when I press it again the patern pin comes up and the screen will unlock.

But with your app, I press the power, and the screen turns black.

But after 5 seconds your app with the slider comes back on, without me touching anything. When I press the power button again, the screen will turn black and stay off. When I press the power button again, the screen starts up and everything goes as it should.

But it is pretty annoying that I have to press the power button twice instead of once to lock and stop my screen. Is there a setting I set wrong? Or is it something else?
[Android Apps and Games] Dexter488:
Nice looks great how much time you got to make this on ?

and again thanks : )
[Android Apps and Games] mulletcutter:
is there a way to make all the sliders look the same? like if i want motorola unlock/sound and i want to add an extra set, i dont want them to look like the froyo style.
[Android Apps and Games] lupajz:
Is it only me or does this app drains so much battery ? o.O I kept my phone inactive during night ( about 8 hours ) and it had drained like 40% of battery :(

Is this normal ?
[Android Apps and Games] rfarrah:
Are you sure it is this app? Doesn't happen to me.
[Android Apps and Games] lupajz:
Will try it this night again :) I'll post results tomorow :)
[Android Apps and Games] mattamous:
I'm running lpp and have noticed whenever have the widgetlocker enabled, it seems to lag the phone down and even sometimes the sliders (doesn't matter which slider) get kinda choppy. I have tried using the HomeHelper, and the Root by pass but it seems to run the same. I really like the app and the customization of it, but I find myself turning it off and going back to the stock lockscreen. I have the Droid Eris rooted but stock 2.1.

Any thoughts?

Thanks Kevin for the awesome app!!
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Not possible in 1.2.8.1. Possible after the update.

Ugh. I have seen this behavior before and managed to work through it on a phone-by-phone basis. Unfortunately I don't haven an Archos to test on.

Are you using any kind of pin/password/pattern? What happens when the screen times out rather than you turning it off? Does it work properly with Easy Wake Mode enabled?

If you can get me a logcat of the bug and possibly the /system/frameworks/android.policy.jar file I can take a quick look. No guarantees though as Archos are a bit different.

Slide anywhere on the screen is a bit tricky since there's widgets and sliders all over the screen :). But it's on my radar and a possibility in the future.

Check System Settings > About Phone > Battery Usage to see what app(s) are draining your battery.

Root bypass and HomeHelper are only relavent to the 5 second delay after pressing the Home button. Nothing more.

The next update is a bit smoother. But it's hard to say what your exact situation is. Phones sometimes take a while to wake up out of sleep, and naturally WidgetLocker needs to be active at this time. If anything else is activating on screen on though then it could be slowing WL down further.
[Android Apps and Games] bioan:
It would be great even without widgets. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] sqd:
Okay, thanks for the info Kevin, I'm gonna wait for the new version before I dig deeper into this vibration/lag-issue :)
[Android Apps and Games] Ellingsoc:
Where can i download the theme from because that would be great! Keep up the good work
[Android Apps and Games] nlancaster:
I love widget locker. works great!!
[Android Apps and Games] mattamous:
Thanks Kevin. I'll be eagerly awaiting the next update. The app is one of my favorites, just hoping it gets a little smoother. Thanks for all the hard work!
[Android Apps and Games] bryant_16:
Anyone know when the update is coming or is it Eben coming?
[Android Apps and Games] Gahh Its Lee:
Can we get the puzzle lockscreen at any point?
[Android Apps and Games] Zinloos1:
I have a pattern pin. When I let the screen time out, the same thing happens but it takes some more time. Easy wake mode is the same story.

I can't find the frameworks folder. In my system folder is only one map. Is it hidden? Do I need root to make a Logcat?
[Android Apps and Games] cubiii1980:
htc

thanks you
[Android Apps and Games] legendaryxm90:
FCs on phones with a sideways lockscreen like my G2 and presumably the MyTouch 3G Slide and the Evo Shift. A sideways functionality would be great. Also the inability to remove/change the bottom-most sliders is really annoying. :\
[Android Apps and Games] zelendel:
You can remove the bottom slider. IT is in the settings. I would tell you where but I uninstalled it myself, I had only one slider across the top. If I remember right you need to select non under sliders and the add one from the preview screen by long press
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Are you using the latest version? If so Settings > Report Bug, otherwise update to 1.2.8.1, this was fixed some time ago.
[Android Apps and Games] legendaryxm90:
Ohhh I just got it thanks :)

So I guess the only thing wrong I've come across with this app is the landscape FCing. Landscape functionality would be great!

EDIT: I'm pretty sure I am O_o ill check... yes I'm on 1.2.8.1. I'll report this bug.
[Android Apps and Games] bryant_16:
When is the new update coming?
[Android Apps and Games] Doctor Butts:
Just installed it a few weeks ago. This is a huge thread and I haven't read all of it but I only have 1 issue.

widget settings do not 'save' after reboot

Basically the slider configs are perfectly saved, but the other widgets I have (namely beautiful home and last.fm) always disappear and I have to add them again.

I know the update is coming eventually, but here's a item on my wishlist:

Can we get a slider that opens more than two items?

For instance, on the CM 7 rotating slider, there is the ability to add another app in the center- but you still must rotate the slider to activate it.
[Android Apps and Games] Rohaq:
I'm guessing that you've moved your widgets to your SD card: Move them back to your internal memory, and I think you'll find that they'll be persistent after a reboot.
[Android Apps and Games] tdog23767:
Is anyone else having FC issues running widget locker with CM7 RC1?

It seems like every few hours it force closes and locks up my phone (Evo) to where I have to pull the battery.

Could there be anything in the makeup of gingerbread that doesn't play nice with widget locker?
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Please keep in mind you are not running stock Gingerbread, you are running a CyanogenMod prerelease. I like to support custom roms, but I focus on stock first, then vendors skins, then stable custom roms. I tested WidgetLocker on Gingerbread the day the SDK came out and the day the Nexus S came out.

Are you actually seeing a Force Closed dialog for WidgetLocker, or is your phone just freezing? If your phone is freezing it's more likely than the bug is in CM7 RC1 than an app. Apps should not be able to freeze a phone.

Can you capture a logcat? Since you said the phone is freezing it seems the only method would be to plug into a computer and run "adb logcat" from a Terminal. This can often work even if you plug in and start logcat when the phone appears to be frozen.

-Kevin
[Android Apps and Games] tdog23767:
I've done some more research and I think it might be a wifi kernel issue with CM7. Others have reported toggling wifi sometimes cripples the phone. I happen to have an auto wifi app that periodically checks for wifi. I'll disable it and see if the problem goes away.
[Android Apps and Games] Ellingsoc:
It has been working great on my HTC Desire CDMA on CM7
[Android Apps and Games] akoe:
Would support for miui and wp7 lockscreens be possible?

And widgets behind sliders so i could have a clock behind a transparent iphone slider?
[Android Apps and Games] Dan2552:
how about landscape/portrait via accelerometer rather than having to have one forced? System default just stays portrait.
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Hmmm? It already works just that way for me. Perhaps you have some other app forcing an orientation, such as ADW forced to Portrait I've noticed will also sometimes force other apps to portrait.

I personally force it portrait as 95% of the time I'm using my phone and tablet portrait and I'd rather not have to wait for stuff (ADW, Widget Launcher, etc) to rotate and redraw when it thinks it's in portrait orientation (ie: half the time when you just lay the phone down). But that's just me.

So check other apps that can force orientation and see what happens.

EDIT: Oops, looks like forgot that the older version didn't rotate automatically ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Hyv:
great.. thank for share
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Coming in the update. System default is for portrait versus landscape determined by dock or hardware keyboard. It's somewhat poorly named but hard to explain. The new option is named "Sensor"

There's some bugs in Android related to the sensor while the screen is off so I didn't want to support it until I could work around the bugs.
[Android Apps and Games] xxxdc5:
Is there an option to have the notification bar be hidden (when looking at the lock screen) like I have seen in some of pictures of this app in use??

or is that only because their ROM happens to have that mod?
[Android Apps and Games] Anon87:
See the Look and Feel settings.

Sent from Soft-Rooted HTC Desire using Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] bryant_16:
When is the next update coming?
[Android Apps and Games] Dan2552:
I have a feature suggestion.

How about a custom action for the ongoing notification. I mean, we basically need it there to keep the app running, so it's already taking up space. But how about setting it to something that you'd want to access often (how often do you need to edit your lockscreen settings?)

For example, I'd much rather be able to use it to load Google Talk, as I like to talk to people while i'm using other apps.
[Android Apps and Games] jpzsports:
I use SMS Popup with Widgetlocker and it pops up and works great but when I hit the "Reply" button, nothing happens. I can only hit close.

Is there a setting I can change to fix this?

Or could this be added in the next update?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] xxxdc5:
Thanks, I haven't actually bought the app yet. I wanted to know this first.
[Android Apps and Games] xxxdc5:
Everytime I unlock I get a force close! how the eff do i even begin to diagnose this with all those damn menu options!?

setup if this helps:

Rooted S off

Warm TwoPointTwo RLS 5.3

Chad's 12/23/2010 2.6.32.27 kernal
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
The menu options aren't really for diagnosing force closed but for customization. None of them should cause force closing.

1) Are you using the latest version of WidgetLocker (1.2.8.1)?

2) Are you using a legitimate version of WidgetLocker? I hate to even have to ask this, and I mean you no offense by asking, it's just a large amount of people waste my time with bugs in some cracked out pirated version of WidgetLocker that naturally I don't support.

If both of those are true then if you could get me a logcat I can see what's going on. To get a log cat you can use LogCollector on the Market and email the log after the crash to kevin@teslacoilsw.com
[Android Apps and Games] xxxdc5:
I just meant there are so many things in the settings menu that I dont know where to start to fix this problem.

Also, I got it from the market today so yeah its legit and the newest.

Basically when on the lock screen I pull down and then then FC comes up and I'm dropped into the home screen and then if i lock my phone again and go to wake it up the stock Warm TwoPointTwo lock screen comes up

I took a log after this happened and sent it to myself so I will forward that to you. Hopefully this will help
[Android Apps and Games] roflha:
I liked it but I stopped using it because it got rid of my Sense lockscreen. Is there something I missed, because the pictures made it look like it worked with sense?

If I could put my HTC Weather widget on the lockscreen I would be very pleased.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
The problem is happening when playing the unlock sound. This is a common FC after modding/theming the APK, but I didn't think it happened ever with the stock APK. Regardless the update should fix it, and you were right that the settings menu is the key to fixing the problem for the time being:

Disable Settings > Behavior > Sound on unlock

(Probably should turn off Sound on lock as well, though I'm not sure if that has the same issue)

You can change the unlock slider in Settings > Look & Feel > Slider & Layout (Or after the update long-press to add a custom slider and change the theme to Sense).

However HTC widgets are not standard widgets and can only be used by HTC apps. You can however place BeautifulWidgets or Fancy Widget there.
[Android Apps and Games] roflha:
Ah thank you for that. Though I have yet to find a replacement widget for the HTC weather that was as good.
[Android Apps and Games] xxxdc5:
OMG such a little thing to throw a wrench in the whole machine HAHA. Yeah I just unchecked it and now it seems to work BUT now it wont stay enabled... is this because I should be using the "HomeHelper" option or the "root bypass of 5 second rule"??

If so, which one do you recommend?

thanks for your help also.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Are you using a task killer or similar that might be killing WidgetLocker? Is the notification icon enabled and does the notification icon disappear?

I recommend using the root bypass of 5 second rule and not using the HomeHelper.
[Android Apps and Games] xxxdc5:
No not using a task killer but I switched to the root bypass and tried but didnt work then the homehelper and then back again and rebooted a few times. After my last reboot after the change to root bypass again everything seems to be working once the phone boots up all the way.

thanks

edit: I did notice that even after checking root bypass, if I press the power button to screen off/lock, and then press it again to screen back on/lockscreen and dont wait more than 5 seconds, the stock lock screen still pops up at first
[Android Apps and Games] polstein:
I'm afraid I can't help but to day I have the same problems on mine. I click Inbox & then reply to get around.
[Android Apps and Games] MDtouchDiamond:
So I tried to download widgetlocker today for my evo from the market, but after I paid it said authorizing payment, and then never got passed that after several minutes. So I hit cancel, and then hit the purchased button to try and download again, and got the same authorizing payment load forever. So I hit refund, and then was told you can only refund once. I want to try this! but obviously don't want to pay again if it won't let me download it.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
The Google Market is a mess today. I'm seeing a huge number of stalled downloads. Google seems to be placing everyone into "Custom Review In Progress", even users who have bought apps from the Market before.

https://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answer=45175&hl=en_US

Go ahead and try to purchase it again, when it eventually goes through (I wish there was something I could do) try it out, you'll like it. But should you not email me (kevin@teslacoilsw.com) with your order number and explain the situation and I can manually refund it.
[Android Apps and Games] ghosty7:
Strange Behaviour

When the phone is on charge, widgetlocker runs like a dream. It turms on instantly. When not plugged in, it takes almost 2 seconds to activate and sometimes the standard lockscreen appears briefly before widgetlocker kicks in.

I am on Samsung Galaxy s and have tried all the options to stop this behaviour but no luck. Any suggestions ?
[Android Apps and Games] elburna:
Do you have SetCPU installed and a "plugged-in/plugged-out profile" running?

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[Android Apps and Games] ghosty7:
I do not have SetCPU installed and no profiles as you mentioned.
[Android Apps and Games] TobbenTM:
Just updated to new version, really exited about theming, downloaded a theme, even unzipped is just in case, but still not found when placing a new slider. Please help????

Edit: got it working. Seems that you have to open the file from the internet browser, with widgetlocker. Would be handy with a tool from within WidgetLocker..
[Android Apps and Games] mrmyth:
Just like every time I buy a jacket the weather gets warm, a new themable WL is out after I've bought the Atrix and fell in love with its ability to unlock via fingerprint scanner.

Any chance that can be added into WL or is that proprietary Motorola software?
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Is it hard to port the existing mods to the new version?
[Android Apps and Games] NoFatePPC:
I have installed "ultimate 1x1 unread widget" to display the unread count for gmail and exchange.... its a working app, but when i add those widgets to the widgetlockerscreen , iy doesnt update the unread count???

Is that normal?
[Android Apps and Games] nightmareselm:
That seems complicated. I only saw about 5 themes available so far.
[Android Apps and Games] kam333:
great update,

many thanks

Kam
[Android Apps and Games] syrenz:
Ha. That's hilarious. I got bored of waiting for this update to happen and droidlife featured GOTO lockscreen the other day which I checked out and got. And then right after I buy that you decide to put up this update. XD

Anyways, awesome job on the update. Really happy that you added landscape mode as well as themes and resizing. :)
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
How on earth do i REMOVE the ugly stock slider? I won't go away.
[Android Apps and Games] syrenz:
Hold down in the middle of it and drag to trash.

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I put custom slider shortcuts in (for camera and camcorder) and when I try to access them I get "Application not installed" when it clearly is... Fix please?
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Yeah, i'm an idiot :P
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
If you try to open the wltheme.zip (like from browser downloads page or from astro or similar) it should prompt you to open with WidgetLocker. However some browsers (*cough* samsung *cough*) are broken and ignore all other apps and rename files, hence having WidgetLocker download and install the themes itself.

I'd be shocked if it wasn't proprietary, but it's something I'm interested in as well. I was supposed to get my Atrix today but Fedex decided to pretend I wasn't available. I'll see what's possible after I get my hands on it.

It shouldn't be too hard, however I did have to change the format of images and introduce a three-patch "stretchable" image as tablets and resizable sliders make things a bit more interesting.

What phone are you on? Work around is to go to Select Application instead of using the WL Action, you can still select the desired icon for it (Built in if you're using the Android style)
[Android Apps and Games] SevereDeceit:
For those having trouble removing the stock slide lock, long press it and bring it to the top of the screen. Then bring it back down to the bottom of the screen and trash it...
[Android Apps and Games] rfarrah:
I went to the download on my phone using Astro, but didn't get the prompt to open with Widgetlocker no matter what I pressed. :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] reinbeau:
I was told to "Download and place the .zip in your /sdcard/data/com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker/themes".
[Android Apps and Games] Ellingsoc:
LOVE the update great job has everything i ever wanted keep up the great work
[Android Apps and Games] LordManhattan:
Yeah, i was skeptical after installing it, but now it's really simple to use. Awesome update!
[Android Apps and Games] pkd600:
nice update but i seem to be having an issue where the root method for bypassing the 5-second rule doesn't seem to be working. i went in and rechecked the settings in widgetlocker, checked the settings in superuser, and even restarted the phone but still seem to be having this issue. if i press the home button-power-power i get the "5-second rule notification" even though I have the root method for bypassing this checked. I'm on a droid incredible if that matters.
[Android Apps and Games] kam333:
not sure if its been requested yet,

any chance of adding a backup/restore setting.

it can take quite a bit of time to set it up, would be great to save my preferences.

Kam
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Can you uncheck and recheck the setting and if that's not working do a:

ls -l /data/data/com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker/files/widgetlocker_helper

and tell me what that says?

Planned
[Android Apps and Games] elburna:
Great piece of work. Especially regarding that this is such a complex App. So probs and thumbsup to the Dev. Some more themes would be cool but I'm sure as time comes, themes will come. :-)

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[Android Apps and Games] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Damn just got the gingerbread update and suddenly the trackball wake on my Nexus one doesn't work anymore. This was the most important feature for me. Anybody got am idea why this stopped working?
[Android Apps and Games] nightmareselm:
What do you have planned in future updates?
[Android Apps and Games] Rohaq:
I seem to recall that you were working on an counter for unread SMS/missed callsin the custom sliders? Any word on that?

Also, WidgetLocker actions for Gmail/Email with an unread counter would also be awesome.
[Android Apps and Games] syrenz:
Pretty sure that's in (you have to use adw notifier with it I think).

@Kevin: Milestone XT720 2.1

I'll try that.
[Android Apps and Games] pkd600:
Checking and unchecking it seems to have fixed the issue. I'm not sure why it didn't work the first time, but that was before I restarted the phone. Maybe the phone needed to be restarted and then have the setting toggled off and back on. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Roelosaurus:
Love the new version, but when I make an item bigger or stretch it, it resizes it so that it becomes smaller again? Is there a way to bypass this resizing? :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] SwiftJudgement:
I seem to be losing my settings configurations after reboot and (weirdly) usb mount. I had problems with this on 1.2.x but I always assumed it was because I modded the sliders.

Any ideas?

PS. Wonderfull app and an even better update. The customization is fantastic, and I love being able to set my grid to 12x12. Definitely worth buying.
[Android Apps and Games] Rohaq:
I wasn't aware of that, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] bryant_16:
I feel that unlocking is abit slow now since update. Can dev look into it?
[Android Apps and Games] suprafreak1000:
My unlocking is noticeably faster, this update is sick thanks for all ur work !!
[Android Apps and Games] gwar24:
just updated and i'm pretty happy with it, but everytime i reboot, all the widgets i put on the lockscreen are gone. I keep having to put simi clock and circle battery back on there every time i reboot. Im running cm7 nightly #4.

Does anyone know whats causing this or how to fix it?
[Android Apps and Games] tdrussell:
Weird behavioral thing...

lets say, i launch the camera from widgetlocker. If i hit the back button, it ALWAYS takes me to GOSMS, no matter what app i used last, etc.
[Android Apps and Games] tdrussell:
can anyone think of a way to set a slider to toggle wifi?
[Android Apps and Games] NoFatePPC:
can some1 tell me more about adw notifier? how to use it with widgetlocker to have the unread counts ?

Thnx