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[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
I drove to Fedex and got my Atrix. I'm pretty sure this will be possible. Are you interested in beta testing this? (Not sure when I'll have it ready, a 2.0.1 bugfix release will likely come first)

I can confirm the issue. I'm looking into it. I don't know what's possible yet, but it might be that without root, no third party app is going to be able to provide trackball wake. With root might require a custom kernel. :(. Hopefully I find something else though.

I have a lot of ideas floating around my head, but I'm also very open to feedback. If users talk about how they really want something I'll look into that.

It won't let you overlap and it must fit to the grid. You can change your grid size in Settings > Look & Feel > Layout.

Are you on a Samsung device? Samsung has a riddiculous bug that prevents updating settings. This can happen to any app on Samsung phones. If you are rooted, then deleting /dbdata/databases/com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker should make things right. You may need to disable/reenable WidgetLocker for it to take effect.

Glad you're enjoying it. What device are you on? Originally I had it max out at 8x8 an one of my beta testers commented that he'd really like 9x9 for the Nook Color so I pushed it to 12x12 with the Xoom in mind. But it's still cool if you're rocking 12x12 on a 3" flipout or something :)

Indeed it should be faster with this update. A few thoughts:

1) You're playing with the new update and very conscious of it, could just be imagination

2) It might be something specific with the phone/setup. If you and others do a Settings > Report Bug I'll see if I notice a pattern. (I did receive a report of this, but maybe it was yours)

3) If you notice any particular cases or details let me know.

This is weird. I received another email saying that GOSMS popups were not working. It's been a while since I've tested with GOSMS, it could be they've updated and I've updated and something's gone wrong in between. But your issue sounds very very weird. Can you try rebooting?
[Android Apps and Games] pkd600:
I've re-examined this further and noticed some erratic 5-second rule root behavior. Everytime the phone is rebooted, the root bypass setting must be checked and unchecked in order to get it to work. Even afterwards, sometimes it doesn't always work.
[Android Apps and Games] bryant_16:
Hey dev, thanks for the prompt reply. I will monitor it for the next few days and update you again. Do the device need to be rebooted after installing the new update?
[Android Apps and Games] Sentenza1591:
Hi Kevin,

Could you explain the idea behind the new "disable stock lockscreen" option?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] mingaldrichgan:
Thank you so much for the update. It really does have everything I could think of asking for in a lockscreen! In particular, I was pleasantly surprised by the option to change the number of rows (and columns) in the grid. Now I can have as many sliders as I want! Pity they can't all be rotary though (well, they can but only the bottom-most one would look aesthetically pleasing).
[Android Apps and Games] ghosty7:
Just installed the update and the issue is still there :-(.

I thought this might happen to all third party lockscreens, so i installed Simply Lockscreen, which is very good as well. This lockscreen behaves correctly with no issues of lag or displays issues. So it must be the way Widgetlocker is coded. Hope there is a fix soon.
[Android Apps and Games] SwiftJudgement:
I am. Samsung Captivate to be specific. I'll delete the file and get back to you. And as far as I'm concerned, the more rows/columns the better. :)

And a few suggestions for future updates. 1. Overlapping widgets ie Launcher pro plus. 2. More customization on the Battery/Alarm Clock widget. For example: display only Battery or Alarm, battery icons with exactly percentage (instead of draining/high, draining/medium, etc), change color of text.

Don't get me wrong, I loved seeing the alarm clock widget added to 2.0. I was trying to recreate it with minimalistic text widget and tasker, but couldn't find the right variables. So this will do for now (or until I find a way to hide the battery in your .smali files ;) )

EDIT: One more suggestion/question. Obviously a huge part of this update was creating themes for the sliders. I recreated a theme I made on 1.2.8 and it worked perfectly, so great job getting that all working smoothly. I didn't see a place to upload themes. Is that in the works?
[Android Apps and Games] Icke_Minski:
I try to hide the Go SMS pop up behind WL...

So I type in the paketname of go sms: "com.jb.mms" but it doesn't work.

Have somebody get this to work?

thx
[Android Apps and Games] tdrussell:
I assume just checking the box doesn't work?

Kevin, regarding GOSMS, that behavior went away after a few reboots.

Overall, performance in 2.0 seems much improved over the previous versions, though admittedly i had stopped using it for a few months. I'm back.
[Android Apps and Games] flame360:
Hi Kevin,

The update just looks awesome !! :)

But there a issue that's been really bothering me since i bought the app. Every time my phone rebots my widgets disapear. I have a nexus one running on cm7 lattest nightlie and my widgets are not on the sdcard.

Hope you can help, i'll send you a logcat if needed .

Extras features you could consider: Back up&restore settings and overlaap widgets.

Thankx
[Android Apps and Games] Homesnake:
I would like to know this as well.
[Android Apps and Games] berre:
great app, however the "normal" function of my home-button doesn't work anymore since I've installed it

- when I press the home button it no longer takes me to my default screen

- when I'm on the default screen and press home button I no longer see my screen overview

- when I long-press the home button it no longer shows me the recent apps

same for the search button which no longer pops up the search window

any possibility to fix this?

PS I have a stock Desire running LauncherPro

Cheers

B
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
You can use any widget. Check out BeautifulWidgets, Fancy Widget, Sense Analog Clock, Retro Clock or just search for Clock Widget on the market and see what comes up.

Are you running 1.2.2? I know 1.2.0 had some weirdness on the Desire. If you're already running 1.2.2 can you email me from Settings > Report bug (Includes your config file) and I might have you test a beta build.
[Android Apps and Games] berre:
I'm still on 1.2.0... this might explain some things, I'll upgrade and test!

thx for the feedback
[Android Apps and Games] jeppson:
Awesome app!!

4 stars for you in to the market.

One last thing, the next version you could implement your app with an unlock sound that would make this app the best of its kind.

Is it possible?

tnks a lot!
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Unlock and lock sounds are on the list (It was actually planned for 1.2 but Droid with Froyo is picky about what sounds it will play and I didn't have time to investigate). 5 stars then? :P
[Android Apps and Games] jeppson:
Yesss!

You are man!

About 2 dollars spent beautifully!
[Android Apps and Games] 123schiff:
Any plans to add a Missed Call and SMS notification on the slider
[Android Apps and Games] AndyCr15:
As you may remember, I really love this app (see my review of it here - http://hemorrdroids.net/?p=710)

One thing I notice, sometimes when I slide to unlock (I use custom sliders) it pauses for a split second, then falls back to the normal looking lock screen and then drops back to my homescreen. Does that make sense? Sometimes I try and slide to unlock again, thinking it didn't work and then the homescreen appears half way through my slide.

I guess this is my Galaxy S being a little laggy, but is there anything that can be done to not have it fall back to a locked lockscreen before going to the home screen?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] semsem1969:
Xperia X10 Lock screen

great app,

can you add Xperia X10 Lock screen ...

it looks good.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
This makes me think of another suggestion; user-installable skins for the locking and only one built-in.... That way they don't all take up space at once. Everyone wants something different, but I suspect most people will only use one given skin.
[Android Apps and Games] iTouch24:
good idea , i hide my status bar
[Android Apps and Games] investK:
Wow, a great tool!

But I found that its behavior differs to original locker. When phone goes to sleep, original locker would be waken later after a few seconds. It means that you can press any key to wake up screen without enter lock screen. But widgerlocker will directly show lock screen even phone just goes into sleeping.

Another concern is that, if I want to use any key instead of power key to wake up phone, I need to disable original locker. But as I know, in Andoird framework, power manager would turn off LCD and turn on locker at same time. I am wondering if I disable original locker, would LCD be turned off? (Dark screen only means that backlight is turned off).

If these two problem can be solved, I think this app would be the best locker in Android. :-)
[Android Apps and Games] esone1ll:
I definitely push for this feature. Adding missed call or SMS or email notifications to the sliders would be a KILLER feature. Please consider it!
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Which phone is this on? My phones, even without WidgetLocker, bring up the keyguard directly after screen off. However I am thinking of adding some options for this in the future.

WidgetLocker will not keep your phone or your screen awake. WidgetLocker does request the WAKE_LOCK permission but this is only used for a maximum of 5 seconds. I've made sure it's very battery conscious.

Are you guys thinking of little bubbles on the unlock slider indicating these things, or on a custom slider for SMS/Phone/Email?
[Android Apps and Games] esone1ll:
I was thinking little bubbles on the appropriate slider, with an option to turn it off.

So, when I add a direct link to the dialer on a slider, I get an option to enable the "missed event" bubble for that app: in this case, missed calls. The bubble appears on the slider itself, but not on the actual edge of the slider -- more towards the edge of the screen.

If I add a link to, say, Messages on a slider, then that slider's bubble displays unread SMS messages. If I add a link to Gmail, then unread email. Etc.

Does that make sense?

Thanks for taking feedback!
[Android Apps and Games] esone1ll:
Actually, I take that back. The sliders are too close to the edge for that. The best and cleanest way would be to put the unread count right on top of the icon for that slider; so the "2" for two missed calls replaces the phone icon on my phone slider.
[Android Apps and Games] investK:
I am using nexus one. You can check that when nexus just fall into sleeping after the idle time you set, you can just press scroll ball, and you can see that the screen would be turned on without waking keyguard.

Thanks for your explanation. :o
[Android Apps and Games] E_man5112:
That would be great. And a default icon for gmail and messaging. Right now they are just application links.

Otherwise awesome app.
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Realize that this will add the capabilities to read SMS/settings and other things to his app. With this "wallpaper" thing going around, this will get all the paranoid twitchy people worried.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
I've been thinking about this too. How do people feel about permission inflation? I imagine people reading this thread will be more comfortable with WidgetLocker requesting these permissions as they see the justification, but what if you discovered WidgetLocker on the Market?

Also to get weather animations to work on the Sense devices it looks like I'm goin going to need some more permissions too, Read sync settings and discover known accounts. I don't think anyone cares about read sync settings, but discover known accounts might bother some people (Though not anymore than read SMS i'd imagine).

WidgetLocker doesn't (yet) require internet access which probably helps reduce paranoia. I think I'll also create a note justifying each permission on my webpage. There's simply not even room in the Market description to include it there.
[Android Apps and Games] MAMeingast:
I would like to know this as well! I can't seem to figure out how the counts can appear on the lock screen...
[Android Apps and Games] Rohaq:
You could set up a task in Tasker to toggle it, and then run that through the Launcher Shortcuts > Task option? You'd have to purchase Tasker though.

The only other option would be if there were an app that toggles wifi, without a widget, but I know of no such thing.
[Android Apps and Games] rfranken:
major issues since the update.

prior to the update everything was pretty darn good.

since the update it is unusable and i had to uninstall and install the old version.

by the way i love the new features...and i can set everything up perfectly how i want it...and it all seems to work. problem comes when restarting the phone. ALL is lost. not just all the settings and locks and shortcuts i just setup...but the program will no longer even start. FC until i uninstall it and reinstall it. (but then i have to set it up from scratch again and can't reboot or it is broke)

what should i do?

edit

I'm on a Droid X

rooted
[Android Apps and Games] Rohaq:
Open ADW Notifier from your usual app drawer, then set it up for the app that you use for each type of program, e.g. Messaging, Gmail, Dialer One, whatever. It'll amend the icons for those apps on your ADW Launcher or Widget Locker without counts for unread messages. It can take a little time to kick in though.
[Android Apps and Games] jolinnard:
Same here. N1 with CM7 and all apps in the internal memory. How can we help to solve the issue?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Ellingsoc:
Make sure you didnt move the app to your sd card
[Android Apps and Games] tdog23767:
Hey Kevin,

Nice work on the update.

Any chance of adding the ability to add a shortcut to the center hub of the rotary slider a la CM7's lockscreen? Unless the capability is already there, could someone fill me in on how to enable it?

Thanks, keep up the great work.
[Android Apps and Games] bryant_16:
May I know in terms of memory in the RAM, how much is it being taken up?
[Android Apps and Games] rfranken:
I've never moved an app to the sd card so it should be going where the market download normally puts it.

edit

on the 2nd time i tried the updated for good measure i deleted data and the older version of the app first.. then installed the new one. that didn't help.
[Android Apps and Games] Rohaq:
If you're running a custom ROM, there's a chance that it's automatically moving it to SD based on your storage space? Check in the application manager in your settings!
[Android Apps and Games] rfranken:
Nope, (i was surprised that i do have 10 apps on my card though....but not this one. (re-downloaded and installed the new version and it didn't go to the SD card)
[Android Apps and Games] rfranken:
Hmmm.

3rd times the charm?

only thing i did different this time was i left the old version alone and installed. Now its working pretty well

only difference is the newer version takes an additional 18 seconds longer on reboot to put away the stock unlock and put widget locker in its place.

plus my camera icon changed on reboot.

(freaking me out...i reboot again and the camera icon changed again)

edit. the other very odd thing that happened when updating this app is it changed back my custom pull down notification bar image and put it back to the default for the theme i have.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
CM7 Nightlies:

I can't reproduce, but I have a clean install. Can you guys trying running Rom Manager's "Fix Permissions"? I imagine CM7 nightlies corrupted something.

http://widgetlocker.teslacoilsw.com/general/uninstalling-modded-widgetlocker/

It depends on how many widgets and themes you are using. A quick check of two of my phones, with very different configurations, one was using 8MB (1 widget, no themes) one was using 16MB (many widgets and themes).

-Kevin
[Android Apps and Games] bschapp:
Clocks, widgets, etc.

I'm knew to homescreen modding. Can anyone tell me how to get the custom clocks and widgets as seen in the attachment?
[Android Apps and Games] flame360:
Hey,

So i runned fix permissions, rebooted the phone, placed the widgets, reboot the phone again and still no widgets. Hope you can solve this issue.

Thankx
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
I'll keep the issue in mind, but it might be a cyanogenmod issue and unfortunately you/I can't go for them to support as they don't support nightlies at all.

-Kevin
[Android Apps and Games] rskkgbk:
I’ve had this same issue, and I’ve tried both Handcent and GoSMS.

WL seems to disable the Handcent pop-ups from appearing at all, even after the screen is unlocked. GoSMS pop-ups appear on top of WL and unlock the screen.

If it matters, I’m using an Incredible with stock Sense. Everything works fine under the Sense lock-screen.
[Android Apps and Games] flame360:
Could you make a back up & restore setting ? it could temporarly solve this issue
[Android Apps and Games] rfranken:
I had done that....but wanted to be sure so redid it all again.

It's working...so i'm happy. but the lil issues remain that it takes much longer on boot or reboot then the last version did. about 10 seconds longer give or take to take effect and remove the stock unlock mechanism.

plus it keeps changing the icon on my slider that i gave it for my camera.

and this newest version does seem to lag ever now and then where as i dont seem to remember the older version doing that as much. (by lag i mean when i turn the rotary unlock it isn't silky smooth all the time)

all in all i'm good and love the changes...just want to mentioned the above things.

thx for your hardwork and support
[Android Apps and Games] IMGetwired:
Hey, does ADW Launcher need to be installed (but not necessarily in use)? WidgetLocker tutorial notes state you don't need to be running ADW launcher for this to work. I use LauncherPro, and I can't figure out how to make the notification bubbles show up on the lock screen either. Do I need to add a custom slider for Gmail / SMS? What I'd like is for the unread gmail count to show on the unlock slider, and the unread SMS count to show on the ringer slider. Any ideas/help appreciated!

Droid X, rooted, 2.2.1, deodexed.
[Android Apps and Games] elburna:
No you don't need ADW itself. Just start ADWNotifier, assign the Apps you want the Notifications for, and then place the Apps on the WL-Screen. The bubbles should appear after a few seconds (and notifications of course ;) )

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[Android Apps and Games] TheKorbenDallas:
The new version breaks the EasyWake functionality. Basically, it is no longer possible to completely disable EasyWake.

If you enable EasyWake option in WidgetLocker settings, it works as it should - any button will wake the phone from sleep.

If you disable EasyWake in WidgetLocker settings, it works as follows:

- If the phone went to sleep from unlocked state, then EasyWake remains disabled, i.e. only power button or touchpad can wake the phone. This is how it should be.

- If the phone went to sleep from locked state (i.e. WidgetLocker was active at the time), then EasyWake is enabled (!!!), i.e. any button will wake the phone. This is obviously broken.

Again, in the current version it is impossible to completely disable EasyWake. If you put your phone to sleep from locked state, then it will always EasyWake, regardless of your current EasyWake setting.

The previous version of WidgetLocker didn't suffer from this problem. For me, for one example, this bug makes it virtually unusable. My phone is MyTouch 4G (original ROM) with LauncherPro.
[Android Apps and Games] rskkgbk:
Just noticed something odd....

With the standard Sense lockscreen, I can unlock to my home screen with nothing else happening.

With WL enabled, when I unlock to go to the home screen, I get the full-screen Sense weather animations everytime I unlock.

I don't have any Sense weather/clock widgets on my screen, and I'm not changing anything other than clicking "enable WidgetLocker".
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Thanks for the detailed steps to reproduce, but I just tried on an N1 and couldn't reproduce. What phone are you on? Better yet can you Settings > Report Bug saying "This is about the accidental easy wake from XDA" or similar.

Sorry it's unusable for you now. You can get the 1.2.9 apk to downgrade from here: http://widgetlocker.teslacoilsw.com/general/widgetlocker-1-2-9/

If I can reproduce expect it to be fixed in 2.0.1 (I still don't give official ETAs, but the wait wil be much shorter than it was for 2.0 ;) probably about a week or so depending on what issues crop up).

Settings > Look & Feel > HTC Weather Animations > Disabled

Basically the animations, which are on by default on sense phones, don't work with third party lock screens. To work around this WL triggers them itself. However there's no way for WL to read the Sense settings or get information on the weather widget itself. On by default prevents people from freaking out because they're broken after installing WL, but does cause a bit of confusion sometimes as one wouldn't expect them to be related.
[Android Apps and Games] pkd600:
I can confirm I have this same issue. Droid Incredible.
[Android Apps and Games] TheKorbenDallas:
myTouch 4G (HTC Glacier) with original HTC Sense ROM and running LauncherPro.

Will do that.
[Android Apps and Games] lagaba:
Confirm same issue here...

Desire on Z rom
[Android Apps and Games] kevin2516:
Love 2.0, but most mods dont display properly on phones with different resolution now... In the old version, the slider imgs were the same size and all mods displayed perfectly. is it possible to fix this? I dont want to remake each mod I like on my phone just to make it look right.
[Android Apps and Games] walk.away:
im having a problem in which when using the iphone slider it will unlock then 5-10 seconds later the lock screen pops up again so i have to unlock twice. this happens fairly often but not everytime.

also, the iphone slider waits to slide back before unlocking, is this by design in the new version?
[Android Apps and Games] danielzink:
Is there a walkthrough anywhere on configuring sliders for the new update ?

I can't seem to make my notification badges work.

Dan
[Android Apps and Games] kevin2516:
My widgets keep disappearing after reboot. :/
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
I believe I've fixed the accidental easy wake on Sense phones. If you want to try the beta you can get it here:

http://teslacoilsw.com/tmp/WL_2.0.1beta1.apk (Requires valid Market license)

If you try it, please let me know if you see the stock lock screen AFTER WL unlock. (And are not using lock screen security as that issue is unrelated).

Changes since 2.0

Fixed accidental easy wake on (some?) Sense phones

Fix some FCs

Better handling of Samsung's permission corruption issue

Czech translations

Updated Korean translations.

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If your widgets are disappearing on CM7 then you are going to have to wait CM7 is stable as I couldn't reproduce the problem and it's impossible for me to support CM7 if Cyanogenmod won't support it themselves yet.
[Android Apps and Games] mattamous:
Is there anyway to turn off the vibration when unlocking? I couldn't find the settings on it.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin2516:
widgetlocker 1.2.8.1 worked fine with cm7, no widgets disappearing on the widgetlocker lockscreen.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Settings > Behavior > Slider Haptic Feedback

WidgetLocker 2.0 also works fine for me on CM7rc1. I've spent too much time already digging into this because I'd love to help you guys out, but I can't justify the time anymore. There's a reason Cyanogenmod isn't accept bug reports.
[Android Apps and Games] mattamous:
Sorry for double post. Thanks Kevin!