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Preventing data connection

I've just received my Desire, and have asked O2 for a new data plan (I used to be on Blackberry). That won't go through until midnight today, and they will charge me £3 mer MB with NO LIMIT until then! So, I need a way to turn data off (apart from WIFI) as soon as I turn the phone on (it's currently charging). I've read some reports of people turning it off, but certain apps turn it on again.
What's the simplest way to do this please, until tomorrow? Thanks!

Hold down the power button until the menu comes up then turn off mobile network.

EroThraX said:
Hold down the power button until the menu comes up then turn off mobile network.
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Ok great, thanks. Yea now I've turned it on, it's pretty obvious.
Is there any chance of an app turning it on again without my knowledge? In some forums people say it can happen, but I THINK that may have been with WinMo.

Zackarydoo said:
Ok great, thanks. Yea now I've turned it on, it's pretty obvious.
Is there any chance of an app turning it on again without my knowledge? In some forums people say it can happen, but I THINK that may have been with WinMo.
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I've heard of it in the past but not on 2.1, a rogue application maybe but they shouldn't do. It would be pretty easy to notice if you were out of wifi range though as the data icon would appear in the notification bar, your best bet would be to just check on it if you install any app that mentions data in it's software permissions.

EroThraX said:
I've heard of it in the past but not on 2.1, a rogue application maybe but they shouldn't do. It would be pretty easy to notice if you were out of wifi range though as the data icon would appear in the notification bar, your best bet would be to just check on it if you install any app that mentions data in it's software permissions.
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Ok I'll do that. I'll also look for an app that'll show me data usage. I know there are some around.
Thanks for your help.

I'm in the same position as you (but my data plan doesn't go live till the 26th! lol), so I set up the phone to WiFi only thanks to the option on the setting screen, and so far it has only connected when I switched on the data toggle. I'll post here if I come across any apps that will connect though.
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dpk said:
I'm in the same position as you (but my data plan doesn't go live till the 26th! lol), so I set up the phone to WiFi only thanks to the option on the setting screen, and so far it has only connected when I switched on the data toggle. I'll post here if I come across any apps that will connect though.
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I've installed a program called NetCounter. It doesn't seem to count Wifi with the Desire (others have had the same problem), but for you and I that doesn't matter. I've got it set to alert me if 'somehow' the phone starts using data from O2. So it's just an extra safeguard. Sorry you have to put up with that until the 26!

I have the same question and I was told APNDroid does it too. Is it better to use APNDroid or the bult-in option?

I'm in the same position as you (but my data plan doesn't go live till the 26th! lol), so I set up the phone to WiFi only thanks to the option on the
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I've installed a program called NetCounter. It doesn't seem to count Wifi with the Desire (others have had the same problem), but for you and I that doesn't matter. I've got it set to alert me if 'somehow' the phone starts using data from O2. So it's just an extra safeguard. Sorry you have to put up with that until the 26!
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I'm using data counter widget, seems to work pretty well, plus its a big help having it always on one of my homescreens. Yeah its gonna hurt lol, luckily for the first week I'm at home so I got WiFi, but not looking forward to the 2nd one lol
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EroThraX said:
Hold down the power button until the menu comes up then turn off mobile network.
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Just add the widgets for network data, GPS, Wifi to the home screen (I've stuck mine under the clock) easy to turn on and off with single keys presses then rather than holding the power button down. I've also added the bluetooth shortcut but that takes a massive 2 key presses to turn on or off. I've found it useful for saving battery life as well.

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Just add the widgets for network data, GPS, Wifi to the home screen (I've stuck mine under the clock) easy to turn on and off with single keys presses then rather than holding the power button down. I've also added the bluetooth shortcut but that takes a massive 2 key presses to turn on or off. I've found it useful for saving battery life as well.
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He wanted the quickest way after turning it on, holding the power button is quicker than finding and adding those widgets for the first time.

2 stupid features that should be fixed with root

There are 2 features on this phone that are just so stupid that i've seen so far which I am suggesting be fixed with a custom rom. The first one has to do with the pattern lock. I don't understand why samsung does this but when you set the time for the lock to come on, it only works if the screen turns off by ITSELF. If you turn the screen off yourself like most people do the screen locks immediately regardless of the time you have it set for. My evo never did this. It would set the timer regardless of if you shut it off or if it turns itself off.
A second feature that is missing from this phone that the Evo has is the ability to set your notification volume to the same as your standard ringer volume. This feature should be in there. It's ridiculous that you have to turn down each one seperately. Phones from 8 years ago had this feature. Whenever custom roms are made for this phone can you guys please add these into the phone.

My 2 fix request,
Proximity sensor needs to be a little more sensitive & less wakeup delay when turning on device.

Ability to turn off camera sounds.
Ability to turn off that horrible notification when the phone is fully charged. You come home from a long day, plug in your phone, and then go to sleep, and then in the middle of the night it beeps with a notification to let you know it's charged. What an *sshole.

manekineko said:
Ability to turn off camera sounds.
Ability to turn off that horrible notification when the phone is fully charged. You come home from a long day, plug in your phone, and then go to sleep, and then in the middle of the night it beeps with a notification to let you know it's charged. What an *sshole.
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Oh god tell me they didn't keep that! Lol the devs got rid of it for the og epic and I am sure they will here. There is a app called silent sleep that can help with that.

I talk to my phone a lot using Google search. On my Evo it worked great all the time. On this phone it seems to listen to me talk..then just sit there for a long time...like it's still listening, but i'm way done talking. then eventually comes up and says "no audio heard". Not sure what's up with that. Seems to mostly happen when I'm driving.
love to see that cleared up.

re enabling USB Host would be nice

anubis13 said:
re enabling USB Host would be nice
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I hope this is one of the first things that is enabled after rooting.

Also, device and sd card encryption would be nice to have working.

allroy1975 said:
I talk to my phone a lot using Google search. On my Evo it worked great all the time. On this phone it seems to listen to me talk..then just sit there for a long time...like it's still listening, but i'm way done talking. then eventually comes up and says "no audio heard". Not sure what's up with that. Seems to mostly happen when I'm driving.
love to see that cleared up.
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Yea I just did about 10 tests and all worked perfectly Nd fast
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new evo users
Welcome to Samsung former Evo users, all normal stuff.. pretty similar to Epic "features" from whats been said.. Old news nothing new to see here

darkpoe said:
Welcome to Samsung former Evo users, all normal stuff.. pretty similar to Epic "features" from whats been said.. Old news nothing new to see here
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Appreciate that, I'd probably still be on my EVO however, I dropped it and shattered the screen. Apparently, this warrants me to use my wife's upgrade

I'll pay a dev to mod the browser with a desktop setting!
First device I've ever seen that also disables this capacity with third party browsers.
Sure glad I got this FOUR POINT FIVE INCH SCREEN!
Dumbass Samsung .

could you explain exactly what is not happening here with the browser. i read this topic in the general section couple days ago also, and it seems like its wrong.
i use skyfire, and when in mobile mode, all websites load as mobile (that's the idea). and once i change it to desktop mode, all the websites load as they would on a desktop... if you are saying NO THEY DON'T, could you please tell me what website, cause i tried about 10-15, and they all loaded in the mode i chose
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I'll pay a dev to mod the browser with a desktop setting!
First device I've ever seen that also disables this capacity with third party browsers.
Sure glad I got this FOUR POINT FIVE INCH SCREEN!
Dumbass Samsung .
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wings9130 said:
There are 2 features on this phone that are just so stupid that i've seen so far which I am suggesting be fixed with a custom rom. The first one has to do with the pattern lock. I don't understand why samsung does this but when you set the time for the lock to come on, it only works if the screen turns off by ITSELF. If you turn the screen off yourself like most people do the screen locks immediately regardless of the time you have it set for. My evo never did this. It would set the timer regardless of if you shut it off or if it turns itself off.
A second feature that is missing from this phone that the Evo has is the ability to set your notification volume to the same as your standard ringer volume. This feature should be in there. It's ridiculous that you have to turn down each one seperately. Phones from 8 years ago had this feature. Whenever custom roms are made for this phone can you guys please add these into the phone.
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Change the lock time to immediately and it will lock when you cut the power.
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rockky said:
I'll pay a dev to mod the browser with a desktop setting!
First device I've ever seen that also disables this capacity with third party browsers.
Sure glad I got this FOUR POINT FIVE INCH SCREEN!
Dumbass Samsung .
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You couldnt be more wrong about the desktop view being disabled in all browsers. Yes its not a feature in the default browser...which is fine seeing as how most sites have the option at the botton to "Load Standard Page View". But most ANY browser Including Opera Mobile (The Best Browser IMHO Anyway) Dolphin HD Etc. For Opera Mobile go to Settings>Advanced>UserAgent>Desktop. And no you dont have to set this everytime you close the browser, it keeps those settings.

Yeah I'm perplexed when some say it works for them.
Haven't tried skyfire but all the rest I usually test nytimes, engadget.com, gizmodo.com for example.
Do those open in.desktop for you?
vikramjatt11 said:
could you explain exactly what is not happening here with the browser. i read this topic in the general section couple days ago also, and it seems like its wrong.
i use skyfire, and when in mobile mode, all websites load as mobile (that's the idea). and once i change it to desktop mode, all the websites load as they would on a desktop... if you are saying NO THEY DON'T, could you please tell me what website, cause i tried about 10-15, and they all loaded in the mode i chose
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So ...just tried those sites on skyfire and same results: mobile pages.
Stupid Samsung-Sprint!

Re-enable the FM radio receiver......

rockky said:
Yeah I'm perplexed when some say it works for them.
Haven't tried skyfire but all the rest I usually test nytimes, engadget.com, gizmodo.com for example.
Do those open in.desktop for you?
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So ...just tried those sites on skyfire and same results: mobile pages.
Stupid Samsung-Sprint!
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Desktop mode works fine for me in Dolphin and Xscope.

Originally Posted by wings9130 View Post
There are 2 features on this phone that are just so stupid that i've seen so far which I am suggesting be fixed with a custom rom. The first one has to do with the pattern lock. I don't understand why samsung does this but when you set the time for the lock to come on, it only works if the screen turns off by ITSELF. If you turn the screen off yourself like most people do the screen locks immediately regardless of the time you have it set for. My evo never did this. It would set the timer regardless of if you shut it off or if it turns itself off.
A second feature that is missing from this phone that the Evo has is the ability to set your notification volume to the same as your standard ringer volume. This feature should be in there. It's ridiculous that you have to turn down each one seperately. Phones from 8 years ago had this feature. Whenever custom roms are made for this phone can you guys please add these into the phone.
tridogg97 said:
Change the lock time to immediately and it will lock when you cut the power.
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No i'm saying I don't want it to be immediate. I set it to 10 minutes and it will only wait the 10 minutes if I don't turn off the screen and wait and let it shut off by itself after one minute which is the absolutely the dumbest thing i've seen. Who actually waits for the screen to turn off all the time? You won't have akeyguard in your pocket and it wastes battery if you wait.
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So far htc sense seems much better than the samsung touchwiz interface. Hopefully they can add some features from sense to this phone.

rockky said:
I'll pay a dev to mod the browser with a desktop setting!
First device I've ever seen that also disables this capacity with third party browsers.
Sure glad I got this FOUR POINT FIVE INCH SCREEN!
Dumbass Samsung .
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All you have to do in the stock browser is in the url box type About:UserAgent and you can select what mode you want.

Galaxy Nexus notification light with light flow

I am really really happy that the galaxy nexus has a notification light. That was the thing preventing me from moving on from my nexus one.
Of course I wish Google would make the notification light more customizable because as it stands its really worthless by default.
I'm using light flow to help but its not perfect. Maybe its just not ready for ics yet or I'm doing something wrong but these r the problems I'm encountering:
In Google talk when I type a message and the screen goes off, the notification light comes on as if the person has responded but its being triggered by my own message. The only way I've been able to help with this is to hit menu>end chat after typing my message.
The other issue is with Google voice. I don't see a notification light up for it. Do any of you know if the paid version of the app will do it for Google voice?
Thirdly it doesn't seem to stop the sounds from the notifications in the night time mode...it turns off the light, but even though in that option I have it set to do the sound as well, it doesn't do it. I had to go into the sound settings and just turn off the notification sound (which actually didn't help, I had to go into each apps settings and turn it off there).
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The Light Flow developer is here on XDA. He's replied in a thread on the app forum. Perhaps your answers lie there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360090
Personally, I have the paid app and it has been hit and miss for me on ICS... sometimes I can't get the light to go away unless I FC the app. I uninstalled it for now until the niggles get smoothed out.

souja9 said:
sometimes I can't get the light to go away unless I FC the app. I uninstalled it for now until the niggles get smoothed out.
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I was having same problems - light won`t stop flashing even after I checked received sms or missed phone call. Had to uninstall app But once its fixed, I will be first to install it - fantastic!

Anyone else know if there's any other app that can configure the lights?
I've bought a few over the years for my other devices but haven't tried any for Galaxy Nexus yet.
I've noticed though in Google Voice, when I get a text, the light is green.

I used light flow for a bit. but killed at after a day or so. Its still a little buggy in ICS as others have said

i had the proble with the light not turning off too. I had to turn off the notification light for no signal and low battery, and its been perfect since then.

I guess knock on wood, but I have never had a problem with the light staying on with Lightflow paid version.. I feel like if you swipe to dismiss a text message, it will stay on, but if you just open the Messaging app, it will stop blinking. Also, if you use the "x" on the notifications window, it will stop blinking without opening Messaging.
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With regards to the above post, I have never had the "no signal" light on, but I do have "low battery" and it works fine.

Strange, my problem is actually the opposite to you guys. With light flow my notifications clear just fine, every time. However, it seems like about half the time it refuses to notify me at all. Drains a bit of battery too.

ksc6000 said:
I am really really happy that the galaxy nexus has a notification light. That was the thing preventing me from moving on from my nexus one.
Of course I wish Google would make the notification light more customizable because as it stands its really worthless by default.
I'm using light flow to help but its not perfect. Maybe its just not ready for ics yet or I'm doing something wrong but these r the problems I'm encountering:
In Google talk when I type a message and the screen goes off, the notification light comes on as if the person has responded but its being triggered by my own message. The only way I've been able to help with this is to hit menu>end chat after typing my message.
The other issue is with Google voice. I don't see a notification light up for it. Do any of you know if the paid version of the app will do it for Google voice?
Thirdly it doesn't seem to stop the sounds from the notifications in the night time mode...it turns off the light, but even though in that option I have it set to do the sound as well, it doesn't do it. I had to go into the sound settings and just turn off the notification sound (which actually didn't help, I had to go into each apps settings and turn it off there).
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I'm working on improvements for ICS. There's a few things I'm working on for a release in the next few days.
Firstly, at the moment gtalk just doesn't work correctly for identifying notifications due to changes in the gtalk app. I've pretty much rewritten the notification detection for gtalk now and it seems to be working fine in the test builds.
There's a bug I've fixed where for some people the app won't work after a reboot.
As for swiping away notificatons, that won't clear them. It's really frustrating that the accessibility service is so limited in this regard and won't report anything useful back on what's happened. Because of this, I'm adding a new option to clear notifications additionally when you pull down the notification bar as this is something I've managed to hook into. Therefore it'll clear when you either open the app, or pull the notification bar down (but will then be off even if you don't actually view the notification)
I've had a few crash reports (thanks to those who send them in) that I've been trying to fix also, but some of these can take a few iterations to completely stop.
As for battery use, after the next market release adding the above, I'm going to try and add a new feature to just display the most recent notification that's come in. Although it wouldn't be my personal choice, it'll use less battery than the notifications where it's changing in succession around all the notification colors.
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As for the sounds not stopping, have you set the native app to "silent" for it's notifications. Just want to see if it could actually be the main app that's triggering the sound.
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The paid version of the app also supports google voice.

I'm having a really bad issue where once the screen is off, I can't get it to turn back on. The only way to get it on is to reboot the phone via ADB. Then, once I turn it off, it stays off again. If I press the power button SOMETIMES it will flash my lock screen for a 10th of a second, but then turn back on. This started when I installed the app. I was able to test the LED colors, and it did that during the test, too. Hopefully it's an easy fix!

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I'm having a really bad issue where once the screen is off, I can't get it to turn back on. The only way to get it on is to reboot the phone via ADB. Then, once I turn it off, it stays off again. If I press the power button SOMETIMES it will flash my lock screen for a 10th of a second, but then turn back on. This started when I installed the app. I was able to test the LED colors, and it did that during the test, too. Hopefully it's an easy fix!
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i got this problem too, turn off foreground, uninstall, install, turn off foreground, turn on. You should be good to go then. App is a bit buggy, but better than what google is currently offering us.

No dice
The good news though is that I can get my phone to work again by entering an ADB shell, entering "su", running a "ps" to list the running processes, then running "kill (proc number here)" to end the process, allowing me to turn my screen back on.
EDIT: Ok, so after killing the process using the method listed above, I re-entered the app, turned the "run in foreground" off, then turned it back on, then rebooted. Phone seems to be ok now.

agreenbhm said:
No dice
The good news though is that I can get my phone to work again by entering an ADB shell, entering "su", running a "ps" to list the running processes, then running "kill (proc number here)" to end the process, allowing me to turn my screen back on.
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hmmm i have the app running almost perfectly on my phone right now too...thats what I did...are you rooted running stock 4.0.2?

agreenbhm said:
I'm having a really bad issue where once the screen is off, I can't get it to turn back on. The only way to get it on is to reboot the phone via ADB. Then, once I turn it off, it stays off again. If I press the power button SOMETIMES it will flash my lock screen for a 10th of a second, but then turn back on. This started when I installed the app. I was able to test the LED colors, and it did that during the test, too. Hopefully it's an easy fix!
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You can also pull the battery if you want. There are several of us that have had this issue with light flow. The developer has stated that he is working on a fix. I would suggest removing the app until there is a confirmed solution.

Smokeey said:
hmmm i have the app running almost perfectly on my phone right now too...thats what I did...are you rooted running stock 4.0.2?
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Yes, stock 4.0.2 rooted...for now.
cam30era said:
You can also pull the battery if you want. There are several of us that have had this issue with light flow. The developer has stated that he is working on a fix. I would suggest removing the app until there is a confirmed solution.
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Yea, battery pull works too, but considering how finicky the battery cover of the GN is, plus the case i have, it's easier to adb reboot or kill the process.
See my above edit, though. I seem to have gotten it to work.

Guessing root is needed for this to work?

JaydenR said:
Guessing root is needed for this to work?
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Yup, that's correct.

agreenbhm said:
Yup, that's correct.
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Was wondering why it wouldn't work for me.

agreenbhm said:
Yup, that's correct.
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Its working fine for me, and im not rooted yet.

artemis92 said:
Its working fine for me, and im not rooted yet.
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I stand corrected; app description says root is not needed. I was thinking of another app I saw that does similar functions that requires root.

Camera crashes every time I launch it. (caused by LastPass)

*Edit 2* This is apparenly caused by "LastPass" which I just enabled prior to this crashing. Thank you to EddyOS for helping me out.
Good morning, *crazy realization / edit down below*
I just got my HTC One M8 yesterday and it is really nice, but one problem is that every time I click the camera app button, or launch the camera from the lock screen, I get this crash every single time.
I have reboot my phone, not installed anything weird or crazy, and this is just nonstop happening.
The only way I can actually get to my camera and use it, is if I turn t he phone off, flip the phone 90 degrees so I’m holding it like a camera, and pressing the volume down button to do the quick launch camera.
Everything else I try to get to the camera with crashes.
This is beyond frustrating.
Thank you for your time,
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*Edit 1 - I realized that whenever I am holding the camera in "landscape mode" it works fine and doesn't crash / launches fine. As soon as I 'stand the phone up tall" it will crash. I can even launch the camera anytime if I am holding it in landscape mode when I press the camera app and it opens fine. As soon as I stand the phone up the camera crashes! This is the worst bug I have ever had in a phone and is starting to make me regret going with HTC again (going on 7 years straight with HTC but I feel let down).

murf43143 said:
Good morning, *crazy realization / edit down below*
I just got my HTC One M8 yesterday and it is really nice, but one problem is that every time I click the camera app button, or launch the camera from the lock screen, I get this crash every single time.
I have reboot my phone, not installed anything weird or crazy, and this is just nonstop happening.
The only way I can actually get to my camera and use it, is if I turn t he phone off, flip the phone 90 degrees so I’m holding it like a camera, and pressing the volume down button to do the quick launch camera.
Everything else I try to get to the camera with crashes.
This is beyond frustrating.
Thank you for your time,
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*Edit 1 - I realized that whenever I am holding the camera in "landscape mode" it works fine and doesn't crash / launches fine. As soon as I 'stand the phone up tall" it will crash. I can even launch the camera anytime if I am holding it in landscape mode when I press the camera app and it opens fine. As soon as I stand the phone up the camera crashes! This is the worst bug I have ever had in a phone and is starting to make me regret going with HTC again (going on 7 years straight with HTC but I feel let down).
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Factory reset?

animaleyes76 said:
Factory reset?
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If I had to factory reset this phone less than 12 hours after I received it in order to get the most basic functionality out of it, this sucker is going back and it will be the first time in 6+ years I have not gone with an HTC Flagship.
Nice phone but very disappointed with a few things (this crash is beyond making me mad) and this is coming from an HTC fanboy. I just can’t stand to see Samsung be the only ones with no competition thus bringing down quality for everyone which was the main reason I support HTC as well as their innovation. This just sucks though.

personally i'd reset it.. if it happened again i'd agree with you.
Tech is tech.. sometimes things go wrong. I've not seen a single other user with the same problem.
good luck

It's LastPass causing the issue, there is another thread saying so elsewhere on here

EddyOS said:
It's LastPass causing the issue, there is another thread saying so elsewhere on here
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I did just enable lastpass for the system. Holy crap, thank you I will update the main post.

murf43143 said:
I did just enable lastpass for the system. Holy crap, thank you I will update the main post.
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Wow, thanks for pointing this out!

harrybozack said:
Wow, thanks for pointing this out!
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Make sure to thank Eddy!

Good lock 2018

https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-good-lock-samsung-galaxy-android-oreo/
Works brilliantly, I live in UK, and have to use the quick short maker app, must have for stock roms

Installed them all, played about with them all, only one I kinda like is the recent apps one, but even that I'm beginning to get a bit sick of now, pretty much the same experience of when I tried it on either my S5 or S7, that also got uninstalled very quickly

MattJaO3D said:
https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-good-lock-samsung-galaxy-android-oreo/
Works brilliantly, I live in UK, and have to use the quick short maker app, must have for stock roms
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Blurred QS Bg is also in Goodlock?

Yep, blurred options are available

The new task changer is so good. If you quickly switch between the 2 recent apps by quickly double tapping there's no lag whatsoever. Old version had a little hiccup!

stevenl23 said:
The new task changer is so good. If you quickly switch between the 2 recent apps by quickly double tapping there's no lag whatsoever. Old version had a little hiccup!
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Yea I liked it too but my muscle memory has gotten used to swiping left/right to clear recent apps and was constantly doing that instead of swipe up/down, so have reverted back
Think I'm stuck in my ways tbh, at least with Samsung, same reason I cannot think of anything I would like to use the Bixby button for, so it just sits there useless, maybe with a different manufacturer's phone I could change my habits

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Yea I liked it too but my muscle memory has gotten used to swiping left/right to clear recent apps and was constantly doing that instead of swipe up/down, so have reverted back
Think I'm stuck in my ways tbh, at least with Samsung, same reason I cannot think of anything I would like to use the Bixby button for, so it just sits there useless, maybe with a different manufacturer's phone I could change my habits
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Use bxactions!! I use it and if you give it increased control just by following the instructions (involves plugging into computer). It's so good because I've programmed it to launch google assistance, pause music, flightlight etc.

This is the last versión 1.0.00.27?

stevenl23 said:
Use bxactions!! I use it and if you give it increased control just by following the instructions (involves plugging into computer). It's so good because I've programmed it to launch google assistance, pause music, flightlight etc.
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Like I said, I can't think of anything I would want to use the Bixby button for, I don't need another button for anything
I know about bxactions, I tried it (buggy) but even still there was no action I wanted to map that button for
Maybe if I lived in a cave it would be handy for the flashlight...

*Detection* said:
Like I said, I can't think of anything I would want to use the Bixby button for, I don't need another button for anything
I know about bxactions, I tried it (buggy) but even still there was no action I wanted to map that button for
Maybe if I lived in a cave it would be handy for the flashlight...
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It's pretty buggy if you don't give it full control or whatever its called. Involves plugging in computer and executing a file on phone. Cause otherwise it launches bixby for a split second and is pretty annoying. And for the flashlight, sure you don't need it all the time but it dos have its uses once in a while. The better features for me is pause music, skip song and importantly launch google assistant instead of bixby

stevenl23 said:
It's pretty buggy if you don't give it full control or whatever its called. Involves plugging in computer and executing a file on phone. Cause otherwise it launches bixby for a split second and is pretty annoying. And for the flashlight, sure you don't need it all the time but it dos have its uses once in a while. The better features for me is pause music, skip song and importantly launch google assistant instead of bixby
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Yea I executed that file with adb and the phone connected originally, I set it up via the instructions but it wanted to do something other than I told it to
The button is just in an awkward place for me, I press it whenever I pick up the phone, or press the power button, they've placed it in such a position that they get a load of stats saying it's being used 10x more than it really is due to accidental presses, similar to when Microsoft changed the X close button to OK Accept for upgrading to 10 and claimed it was a mistake
Above the volume up or above the power key would have been a better place, somewhere you only press it when you mean to
If I map it for flashlight or anything else I'm gonna get sick of constantly accidentally launching whatever I map it to
Maybe in 12 months when the novelty of a new phone has worn off I`ll start playing about with it but quite happy to have it do nothing atm

I never had the chance to try this on my S7, so it's a breath of fresh air on my S9. Trying everything now to see what I'll keep. So far the lockscreen options are nice indeed.

*Detection* said:
Yea I executed that file with adb and the phone connected originally, I set it up via the instructions but it wanted to do something other than I told it to
The button is just in an awkward place for me, I press it whenever I pick up the phone, or press the power button, they've placed it in such a position that they get a load of stats saying it's being used 10x more than it really is due to accidental presses, similar to when Microsoft changed the X close button to OK Accept for upgrading to 10 and claimed it was a mistake
Above the volume up or above the power key would have been a better place, somewhere you only press it when you mean to
If I map it for flashlight or anything else I'm gonna get sick of constantly accidentally launching whatever I map it to
Maybe in 12 months when the novelty of a new phone has worn off I`ll start playing about with it but quite happy to have it do nothing atm
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True, the button is very easy to press, i have a case so less of a issue for me. Yeah i would root my phone but the disadvantages that arise greatly outweigh the benefits

Good lock has been officially released for the US galaxy store

Will it be available in the EU too?

ja-ki said:
Will it be available in the EU too?
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Hopefully it will be, it's a good app, best for custom without root, the other apps are good also, the newer edge lighting has more effects, and also a routine app, one handed mode + and edge touch which I not used yet.

Thanks for the links! After installing all the apps I found that I preferred the way Samsung gave me my device!
However I've still retained one hand operation +, edge lighting plus and quickstar. The rest of the apps didn't seem to attract me much.
Thanks again!
Cheers!
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I really like it, bit more customisation is always a good thing.
I got the "Badlock" version here which doesn't need any other apps to be able to change settings etc. - https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8+/how-to/lock-lock-2018-8-0-devices-t3804657

http://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.samsung.android.goodlock
It's now out officially for UK

MattJaO3D said:
http://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.samsung.android.goodlock
It's now out officially for UK
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Don't tell me Canada got it before the UK... Eeek ??????
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