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[Android Apps and Games] oufti.com:
I installed the update via the market but soon reverted to the previous version, I have "WP Clock" as live wallpaper with a custom background, when in widgetlocker the WP Clock appears fine but the background is not showing behind the unlocker part of the screen which make it looks ugly.
[Android Apps and Games] shiyau:
hey all..

my widgetlocker is not functioning well..

I'm using Desire HD..

when i turn off my screen, the screen turns off for less than 1 sec and turned back on itself to lockscreen.. my phone is rooted and i alr ticked the bypass 5 second rule.. but still not working well~

refer to this video about my problem..

p/s: new member not enuff post cannot share link.. swt!

please key in youtube.com/ followed by the address below..

watch?v=SrHpJrgHv10 <-- address

help needed :X
[Android Apps and Games] suua:
Hey guys :) i just upgradet to v2.0 and now when i unlock the phone using widgetlocker there is no transition!!!! I mean no zoom animation!!

Never happen vith older versions!

Any ideas? :) thanks in advanse
[Android Apps and Games] elburna:
This is what most of the people wanted because it used the Launcher Transitions which lagged all the time...

...via Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] suua:
I see!! Not so nice to unlock the phone without any animation :S
[Android Apps and Games] natious:
this is perfect, now everything fits on the galaxy tab. awsome job
[Android Apps and Games] Sentenza1591:
What is the advantage of the new "disable stock lockscreen" option?
[Android Apps and Games] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Any news regarding trackball wake? Hope this can be fixed without root. Would be a real dealbreaker for me...
[Android Apps and Games] shiyau:
anyone know how to solve my problem?

I'm still waiting for solution~ *tears flowing* TT
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Because if you turn it off and immediately back on??
[Android Apps and Games] Jaivyy:
Having the same problem with my Wildfire.

The sliders are extremely small.
[Android Apps and Games] w0mbat:
Beta works fine for me. Only the keys I asked it to allow now unlock the screen :)

I don't see the stock lock screen after unlock (HTC Desire)

Thanks for fixing the issue so quickly
[Android Apps and Games] swiadek:
bug or feature

Bug or feature: I don't know if it has already been reported, but i can unlock my phone with combination: Power - Home - Power - Home

Can anyone confirm this behaviour?

Phone: HTC Desire with stock rom (Froyo)
[Android Apps and Games] NoFatePPC:
not a problem with htc desire z stock rom
[Android Apps and Games] pkd600:
Trackball wake has been included with widgetlocker for some time now. What phone are you using? It's very buggy on the Incredible (even with root). To the best of my knowledge, there's no bug-free trackball wake option for the Incredible available, root or no-root.
[Android Apps and Games] Techvir:
Just want to report that the new version works perfect with Dell streak...

All the lag is gone..

All sliders fit perfect in the big screen...

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] netnerd:
anyone able to display missed call counts on lock screen?
[Android Apps and Games] Shahpur.Azizpour:
On My nexus one trackball wake was working very good with Android 2.2.1, but since 2.3.3 it doesn't work at all.
[Android Apps and Games] Roastednuts:
I am unable to install the update on my DINC Says the package was not signed...
[Android Apps and Games] kevin2516:
Other people are also having their lockscreen widgets disappearing after reboot, not just me. And no its not just cm7.
[Android Apps and Games] swiadek:
Here you go: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=949344
[Android Apps and Games] lumsdon:
Think I may try this app......looks very good!
[Android Apps and Games] ghosty7:
Updated to 2.0 and went back to stock Rom JSw5, it seems much better, however the delay in waking up is still there when not on charge. I also noticed that when not on charge and battery level is above 92% it wakes instantly, but below that level there is a delay. Am i the only one to notice this ?.

It would be great if this is done on purpose in the code as some sort of battery saving feature to have have the ability to switch it off. I like it when it wakes instantly.
[Android Apps and Games] xxxdc5:
Kevin

Hey since I'm currently running a modified png from before the update I've been putting off updating... how can I update but still keep the look that I have? Is there a way to use a png image file for my sense slider on the new version or anything??
[Android Apps and Games] todd3835:
Mine looses them alot, but not every reboot. If CM7 random reboots, it definetly disappears. They would disappear sometimes on Sense also though.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
http://widgetlocker.teslacoilsw.com/general/uninstalling-modded-widgetlocker/

That's very weird. It's possibly a "feature" in your rom or the actual hardware, but definitely not in WidgetLocker. WidgetLocker doesn't control waking of the device. It's possible (Droid X for example) that controlling the stock lock screen can effect the device waking. If you enable Easy Wake Mode and aren't using lock screen security then the stock keyguard is completely disabled, so that's worth trying.

http://widgetlocker.teslacoilsw.com/themes-doc/creating-themes/

Sense isn't mentioned there but the idea is the same, the name of the slider is slider_sense.png (it's not stretchable since it's curved by default and that wouldn't stretch so well) and you'll need a sense_preview.png too
[Android Apps and Games] last0ne:
i use 2.0, it's use memory peak to 44MB

what's the happen?

is it normally?

i install theme a lot, about 20 themes.
[Android Apps and Games] gwar24:
I've read its been happening on unrooted vibrants and G2s.

Is there a fix in the works for this or what?
[Android Apps and Games] xxxdc5:
I'm not a graphic designer or a programmer and don't know how to make three patch images or use photo shop nor do i want to learn just to use existing png files that came from the index of the previously shared mods in the mod thread.

Is there no easy way to use the png files that were being used before? I'm sure you looked at the downloadable collection of different bars from before, the sense options are 1 png file... I don't know how to turn that into 2,3, or 4 different files as noted on your website for the iphone how-to.

It just feels like rather than making theming easier for everyone you just made it harder and more absurd for the people who actually cared to begin with.
[Android Apps and Games] shiyau:
yea.. but however, the problem solved..

it's due to my phone setting..

i set the screen lock to be immediately..

Setting > Security > Lock screen after > immediately..

but once i changed it to 3 minutes, the problem disappeared and solved :D
[Android Apps and Games] shiyau:
now another problem..

i cannot turn my alarm off when i have my WL enabled..

the alarm was ringing non stop once it started to ring until i had to restart my phone..

but once i disabled WL, the alarm goes back to normal as it was..

so apparently it's lockscreen problem right?
[Android Apps and Games] NoFatePPC:
dont have the alarm problem here with stock htc desire z 1.82 rom
[Android Apps and Games] shiyau:
oh yea forgot to mention..

i'm using desire hd on Android revolution HD :)
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
These people need to email me from Settings > Report Bug so I know about the situation and can look into it.

Themes will use memory but will be removed from memory if they aren't in use.

You seem to be in the minority, most people are pretty happy to not need to deal with signing apks and adb pull or push. If you just want premade themes then wait until they're ported over. Or downgrade which I made easy:

http://widgetlocker.teslacoilsw.com/general/widgetlocker-1-2-9/

If you read the post you'd see the reasons for the new format (resizable sliders and different screen sizes). And if you read my post you'd see it's only two pngs for sense (one being a preview image the other being the slider).

Have you removed the Sense lock screen APK? Or has your rom? Is your rom based on new Sense (Desire HD like) or older sense? HTC has different alarm bugs in each so WL uses the Sense lock screen APK to determine which bugs to work around. If that's missing it might guess the wrong method.
[Android Apps and Games] EnricoTV:
Hi,

sorry, but it's strange...I start ADWNotifier and for "Gmail app" "SMS app" Calls app" I select Widget Locker...but on the lockscreen I don't see any icon...and any notify...
[Android Apps and Games] Rohaq:
That's not how it works: You've got to select the apps you use for Gmail, SMS, and calls: ADWNotifier then patches the icons for those apps on the home screens of ADW Launcher and Widget Locker with unread email/unread SMS/missed call counts.
[Android Apps and Games] TheKorbenDallas:
I'm looking through my Superuser log and see that the new version of WidgetLocker no longer requests superuser permissions on boot, even though Root Helper is enabled.

If I go to WidgetLocker settings, "Advanced" submenu and then uncheck-check "Root Helper" setting, then WidgetLocker will immediately request superuser permissions.

However, if I just keep "Root Helper" setting enabled and reboot the phone, WidgetLocker will not request superuser permissions. The old version of WidgetLocker did request superuser permissions on boot. This one doesn't. Is this normal? By design?
[Android Apps and Games] Rohaq:
I'm guessing that it only needs to change the setting once, and needs su to do so, but doesn't need su to check if the setting is already in place, and if it's already in place, doesn't attempt to make the change on boot.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Simpler than that actually, it's a bug :o

The Root Helper component isn't starting.

Will be fixed in 2.0.1
[Android Apps and Games] Rohaq:
Very honest of you to admit! :)
[Android Apps and Games] pkd600:
Glad to here its being fixed. This is the same issue I noticed.
[Android Apps and Games] gsu_golfer:
I don't know why, but I've had the urge to get this lately.

Can someone show me what I can do with it?
[Android Apps and Games] xxxdc5:
That's exactly what I meant. The minority was the people that actually cared about customizing or using other people's offered mods and it seems to me like it was taken away to give the ability to the majority which seems like are people who didn't know about it or may not have cared until you gave them that option. Just seems like we got screwed that's all and that It could have been done a lot better so that the previous index people were using and happy with would still be able to be used. What I'm saying is that rather than making it easier for the people who were doing it... you came up with something completely different for EVERYONE, and that's not helping the ones who actually wanted to mod.

hope that makes sense. Just my $.02 and yeah I guess I will either stick to the older version with known bugs, or wait til someone ports the originals over since that's pretty much the only options I'm left with.
[Android Apps and Games] Dodgylegs:
>Just seems like we got screwed...

Er, no.
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Any questions? :) Screenshot from my Nook Color tablet, ignore the status bar at the bottom (specific to Nook Color, unrelated to Widget Locker).
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
I got several emails a day from people asking about how to mod, problems with signing their APK, or when I would make it so they could theme the sliders with messing with the APK and resigning or rooting or anything. People, who were unable to or not interested in modding the APK cared.

Previous theme creators now can have a wider audience for their work. Previous theme creators can now test/tweak their themes without building/installing APKs for each change. Previous theme creators can now change the android and motorola themes without dealing with nine-patch images (which require significantly more work than the three patch as some of the stretching information is normally computed at compile time so it's not a simple matter of replacing a PNG).

Previous theme installers can now do so without dealing with the APK.

Since you are the type of person that wants to mod things, I encourage you to port the themes over. It will help out others and give you a chance to do some modding.
[Android Apps and Games] Rohaq:
Personally I much prefer the new theming method; patching APKs for each theme is a pain in the backside for the general userbase, and Kevin shouldn't be expected to support versions of Widget Locker that have modified the executable from its original state.
[Android Apps and Games] knifer:
I'm not sure if anyone has any idea why this could be happening but I add widgets to my lockscreen and everything works fine. As soon as I reboot my phone my lockscreen is blank again. Can anyone help me out so I don't have to re-add all my widgets after each restart??
[Android Apps and Games] mingaldrichgan:
Dear Kevin,

I don't know if anyone else has requested this before, but... would you consider allowing overlapping widgets and sliders in a future release? I'm sure others can think of other uses for such a feature, but my personal wish is to place widgets in the center columns between slider ends.
[Android Apps and Games] xxxdc5:
I'm a full time college student in the 4th year with 3 jobs to try and pay bills and get by. Wish I had time to mess around with all of that but I don't which is why I was hoping for an easy method to use the stuff the generous devs have already made available to everyone.
[Android Apps and Games] Rohaq:
I will admit that reading over the documentation, I'm still a little confused as to how to make a ThreePatch PNG image, but it's probably not that hard once you know how. Perhaps a page with step-by-step instructions is in order, Kevin?

That said, wait for the devs of those themes to convert their patches over. Once they convert their themes, the benefits of the new system will far outweigh the old 'patch the APK' method.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin2516:
I like the new theming system, but I find it very annoying that the mods only work best on the screen resolution it was created for, I don't want to ask the creators to remake their themes for my screen size or port it myself as that is just time consuming... since most/all the mods are hdpi, not all of us have hdpi phones. unlike wl 1.2.8 where it was the same size and looked perfectly.

But I do like this version for resizable Widgets(overlap would be nice)
[Android Apps and Games] bland.life:
Read somewhere before that Widgetlocker has some double lockscreen issue when using PIN password or gesture unlock.

That put me off from purchasing the app.

Does the new Widgetlocker 2.0 solve the issue?
[Android Apps and Games] blinde:
I have question about widget locker. Is there any widget that shows missed call/messages on lockscreen and yet those icons are hidden if there aren't any activity?

Too confusing? I mean i don't want to see those icons unless I have missed calls or messages. I've tried sms unread widget and it's nice but those icons bug me.
[Android Apps and Games] tdrussell:
could someone explain this to me?

usage is about 300kb. Phone Idle battery usage is something like 15%, which is exponentially higher than normal. My only operational change has been the addition of widgetlocker. Before you ask, i have no widgets on my lockscreen:

I THINK this is normal:

as it doesn't appear to be keeping the phone from sleeping:
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Theme downloading and/or analytics (can be disabled in settings).

That is a percentage though, so if you normally play angry birds for 3 hours a day, and today did not, then percentage wise more battery is discharged in phone idle than it would have been on other days. Similarly, if today for whatever reason you are getting excellent reception, then less battery is going to the radio, so higher percentage to phone idle.
[Android Apps and Games] Cret:
Is it possible to use widgetlocker at all so that NONE of the hard keys are capable of unlocking the phone or opening menus?

Ie the Power hard key will 'wake' the phone by pressing it but cannot do more than this, and the ONLY way to unlock the phone or invoke any menus is by using the slider?

I'm soooo sick to death of my phone unlocking in my pocket and making calls etc so I needed a replacement unlock slider, but also I need to disable anything the hard keys can do when the phone is locked apart from:

1) Wake the phone so the slider can then unlock it

2) Answer a call (maybe, ie optional and can disable)

3) Reject a call (maybe, ie optional and can disable)

That's what I need if Widgetlocker can help?

I tried Lockbot but the power key menu is still active on my rom, and also it often requires 2x wakeup presses of the power key so not so good.

Thanks if you can help!
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Press of Power button will wake the device, pressing it again while screen is on will turn the screen off. Long-pressing it while screen is on will bring up the power options menu. The only lock screen that really blocks this power options menu is the Sense one, WL only has experimental support for blocking it. Stock Android's lock screen does not.

Defaults in WL mean no other button wakes the device, but if you are using any third-party app to disable the stock lock screen then this will cause any button to wake the device and is outside of WL's control (hint: disable the third party app)

WL's experimental support to block the power dialog is experimental, not officially support, may cause undesirable side effects (I don't know of any and my limited tested hasn't caused any except that it also disables expanding of the notification bar.). I'm just mentioning it for completeness. It can be accessed in Settings, long-press the volume down button to get to Experimental, and enable block power dialog.

Home, menu, back, search buttons can all be configured to be allowed or blocked in WidgetLocker. On some phones the end call button might not be blockable.
[Android Apps and Games] tdrussell:
Thanks for the response Kevin.

Only reason i brought up the percentage was because i new exactly what my usage was. could have been an anomaly.
[Android Apps and Games] bland.life:
I suppose the pin lock double lockscreen problem in non-Sense ROMs is still not fixed in WidgetLocker 2?
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
No problem. Battery life/usage is confusing. Android does an OK job of reporting things, but definitely could be better (Gingerbread helps).

Correct. On non-Sense roms, PIN still requires a slide of the stock slider.
[Android Apps and Games] byrong:
I was able to solve my disappearing widgets by disabling the Theme Chooser (which comes as a standard feature in CM7).

A cautionary note about the Theme Chooser app (as seen in CM7)

I wanted to come by and mention it in this thread because another member posted this in the CM7 nightlies thread:

But after I stopped using the Theme Chooser, I haven't had a single problem with WidgetLocker on any of the CM7 Nightly builds. Not only do my widgets survive reboots, but I've flashed through multiple nightlies at this point without having to setup my widgets again.

I suspect this is why some people report no problems on CM7 and others do: use of the Theme Chooser.
[Android Apps and Games] Just-in-time:
I loved WL but had to uninstall. while unlocking my phone it would just lock up sometimes and reboot. And while the phone is in the dock if i turn off the screen so theres no light the soft buttons light up. Since theres not FC to report idk how to get the error to the Dev.
[Android Apps and Games] Ellingsoc:
Long pressing volume buttons does not change the song when i have this set as lockscreen.. Running CM7 htc desire
[Android Apps and Games] byrong:
This feature has been broken in CM7 since the merge of 2.3.3. For the Inc, that would be Nightly #11 (published March 2), but I don't know version numbers for the Desire.

Does the feature start working again if you completely disable Widget Locker?

I only ask because WL did not interfere with vol button track skipping when I was on the build from a few nights ago. It wasn't until the recent merges that the feature stopped working, and whether or not I have WL on doesn't make a difference.
[Android Apps and Games] flame360:
@ byrong

This also worked for me Thankx a lot ! . I was going crazyyyyy about this everytime pick the widgets pick the color pick what typing the widget does i have ocd when it comes to my phone and cm7 build ghr78 random reboots dind't help at all ;) ;)
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
I appreciate this information and details. For what it's worth, in my attempt to reproduce I did try using the Theme Chooser and still didn't have any issues, but it could be that the issue only crops up sometimes even with Theme Chooser. Hopefully disabling it is a universal fix.
[Android Apps and Games] OneDeep:
Kevin I been working on themes for a couple days now, I emailed you about the sense files last week. This been my only issue with creating themes was I can't get the images all the way to the bottom of the screen.

For example the sense slider will not go all the way to the bottom.

So its impossible to have a background. Unless I need to change the size of the image.

I never used the last version so maybe you changed the offset but I'm sure alot of people including myself would love it if it was back the old way.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
Good point. One row is 150px, Sense slider is unscaled at two rows, so you'll need a height of 300px.

Here's an example that touches the top and bottom. You may have to play with it a bit to get the clock to line up right as it's still a bit off in this example:

http://teslacoilsw.com/tmp/SenseGenericBlue.wltheme.zip
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
I've had multiple users confirm this. Thanks again.

Another note from a user, it seems you might still be able to use CM themes just need to be careful when setting them up
[Android Apps and Games] byrong:
That sounds similar to the behavior in the AutoStarts app: changes made while in System theme will remain after a theme change. Hopefully this serves as a reliable workaround for people.
[Android Apps and Games] Ellingsoc:
Ya it is broke even with out widget locker :( lol
[Android Apps and Games] Cret:
Thanks very much for the detailed info Kevin. I'll try Widgetlocker and see if this works. Will be delighted if so!

Appreciate your comments.

Also, it's very interesting that the Sense lock is the only one that doesn't have the power button options menu as you say. Unfortunate though as I think that the Sense one is the worst of the lot, and is the one I really did not want to use because it proved most susceptible to unlocking the phone in my pocket, probably because of the big surface area of the slider I presume.

Thanks anyway, I'll see how I get on with the setting you described. Just bought WL now via paypal so hopefully get the APK through soon so I can try it.... :)
[Android Apps and Games] Cret:
Quick update - installed and so far the experimental block menu function seems to work!

So I'm very happy at the moment, thankyou!

One other thing that I'd really love to have in this app if it's at all possible, and that's to have the Experia X10 style Lock available to select. It's like a quarter circle swipe, and I've found when using it in Lockbot that it seems to work best in terms of preventing accidental unlocks. Would love to have that in there to choose if possible....

Either way though, thanks as it looks like Widget locker has done the job. :)
[Android Apps and Games] gsu_golfer:
Will there ever be a short term trial for this or anything like that? I wanna try it out, but I don't like to pay for stuff without having some experience wit how it works.
[Android Apps and Games] kevin@TeslaCoil:
No need to uninstall, just install the beta over your current install.

Sorry, not in the near future. The paid version alone is keeping me rather busy. I simply don't have enough extra development or support time to support a free version.