Screen lock/unlock dodgy

[dtancu]

I am either going nuts or this is a common isue:
Normally when you tap "lock" on home screen the brightness diminishes and the phone is locked. To unlock, you have to tap "unlock" on the lower left side of the screen, hen you get a message telling you to tap again unlock in the middle of the screen and its unlocked.
Well, my Polaris only does this sequence sometimes. Especially if I let it go in standby for a couple minutes, as soon as I press any key I get another story:
In lower left corner of screen I have the word" cancel". Tapping it doesn't give me another "unlock" button on screen and the phone remains locked. I have to put it in standby from the power button and then try again to get the normal unlock behaviour.
Anyone else experiences this?

[dtancu]

Nobody? So everybody's unlock feature works like it should?
Then I think it's reset time for my Polaris....

[gnick666]

I personally don't use, the device lock feature... Just the standby, whith the HW buttons off... and it works just fine for me :)

[gainasp]

I have noticed that when you press the central button in the TC, what you describe is what exactly happens. But this happens to me only when I do that. If a tap the screen without touching the button, I have the normal behaviour.

[dtancu]

Yes, exactly.
@gnick: if I use the standby with HW keys lock it works ok for me also.
The issue is only with the HTC Home lock feature and the central key

[Sky740]

I am either going nuts or this is a common isue:
Normally when you tap "lock" on home screen the brightness diminishes and the phone is locked. To unlock, you have to tap "unlock" on the lower left side of the screen, hen you get a message telling you to tap again unlock in the middle of the screen and its unlocked.
Well, my Polaris only does this sequence sometimes. Especially if I let it go in standby for a couple minutes, as soon as I press any key I get another story:
In lower left corner of screen I have the word" cancel". Tapping it doesn't give me another "unlock" button on screen and the phone remains locked. I have to put it in standby from the power button and then try again to get the normal unlock behaviour.
Anyone else experiences this?

Yes, but very rarely and even then when I press Cancel the normal lock screen resumes and I unlock in the normal way. I have "Do not lock all buttons" selected in the Key Lock settings. Don’t know if this is significant.

[CompleteIdiot]

I use my TC while riding motorcycle, so I want several apps (TomTom, gps tracking [gps.run]), music [was WMP, but now Coreplayer] and TellmeText) running and the screen off so as to save battery power.

If you press the power button when key lock is on it will turn the display completely off, and *most* programs will keep running. TomTom is a notable exception- it stops working, presumably because it can no longer access the gps?. But better behaved/next generation GPS apps such as run.gps continue to run. WMP, bless its pathetic cotton socks, seems to work sometimes!

Are these inconsistecies uinique to my unit, or known quirks?

Anyone suggest a app that will turn the screen off and allow ALL open apps to run, including TomTom?

Thanks

[hambola]

I don't know how you're operating any of the buttons on the TC with riding gloves on!!

[CompleteIdiot]

I don't know how you're operating any of the buttons on the TC with riding gloves on!!


anyone got anything more useful to add to what was a serious comment/Q

[CompleteIdiot]

Man, the battery life sucks on this device :( So my quest on how to turn the screen completely off and lock the keys properly while running all software (especially GPS based such as TomTom) continues....

Anyone know of a 3rd party app that will do this?

I have not read all 200 pages, but it seems there are mixed results for running S2U2 on the Touch Cruise (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353008) ? Anyone having success?

Thanks

[Ramakin]

I know its late but I just saw this and thought I would mention that I managed to over come using TomTom without the device being on. However it doesnt save much on power as the GPS device need power to work.

But I using a simple function I wrote in my application to lock the device using the standard device lock API calls and then rather than switchingthe device into sleep mode (off) I switched it into IDLE mode, which is basically just switching the screen off, the device lock prevents any unwanted button presses.

The power button would just return this back to normal.

I have not yet worked out how to stop the device brightness changing when the screen lock is enabled on the device... :/ Which is my next task.

[CompleteIdiot]

Ramakin...
well that would be great because even saving having the screen dimmed during lock would help battery life. And, pressing the power button to resume would be MUCH easier than stabbing around at in the sun trying to unlock the screen. It would also make TomTom behave like all other 21C GPS applications, i.e. run on idle.
So, can you send details?

During a recent motorbike trip where I just used TomTom and tracking software (even turned the phone off) I was SHOCKED :eek: at how crap the battery life was :(