Comments on: App Review: AutoLock 1.2.2 (you don’t have it?)

By: vertigo

vertigo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:02:52 +0000

I second Colin’s suggestion of having the end key force lock the phone. That way, this app can be set to something like 15 or 30 minutes, or more, to keep the phone from locking while talking on it or while at home, but then it can be immediately locked when not at home in case it gets misplaced, preventing access by others.

Also, I can’t find 2.0, just 1.1.1 and 1.3.

By: mooapps

mooapps — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:52:27 +0000

AutoLock 2.0 has support for Locale. Enjoy!

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:00:23 +0000

Does this mean ‘lock’ as in shut the screen off and make you draw your unlock pattern?

By: Kappy79

Kappy79 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:21:05 +0000

Great review, keep them coming, as they are a great help to us newbies to Android. There is allot out there and it takes a while to find what we need. This app isn’t for me, but others could be :)

By: Janis Paulson

Janis Paulson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:17:28 +0000

gotta love a dev who uses “brittle” in the context of coding.
@Aaron: I think that’s the total memory used you’re looking at. I ran Autolock, and then ended it to find out the difference.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:48:42 +0000

Love the articles but when will write up’s about apps be placed under the apps tab.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:00:42 +0000

That’s exactly it. Basically I want to be able to lock the screen just by pressing the End key, but if I leave the phone sitting on my desk while doing something, I’d like to give myself a few minutes before it locks itself. Maybe it could be toggle-able option with the End key function? Mostly I see this being useful if I want to drop the phone in my pocket after being done with it and not worrying about accidentally pressing the call key for the first minute or however long i set my timeout to.

I know can put the shortcut on the screen, but I am very picky about the layout and use of the shortcuts I use, so I don’t think that would be a viable option for me.

By: mooapps

mooapps — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:37:53 +0000

Colin, if you press the END key, the screen will lock after your set timeout value, not immediately. Are you asking for a setting so the screen will lock immediately after pressing the END key?

FWIW, you can add a shortcut to the Home screen to force locking immediately.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:34:37 +0000

Does the screen still lock if you turn it off with the End key? If not I’d like that option.

By: Jon Mayer

Jon Mayer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:28:12 +0000

Anyone else scan the QR Code and it couldn’t find the app in the market?

By: mooapps

mooapps — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:53:43 +0000

Thanks for the review! Locale support has been on my TODO list, but I’ll consider it a top priority to get that 5-star customization rating ;)

What other features would you guys want?

I’ve heard about disabling the keyguard (either press MENU to unlock or slide to unlock depending on your device/version), but that’s a bit more difficult and brittle.

Please feel free to send feedback to autolock@mooapps.com. Enjoy!

By: Favre Dollar Footlongs

Favre Dollar Footlongs — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:50:45 +0000

This doesn’t really help if you use FlyScreen. FlyScreen still goes on after like a minute anyway.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:19:49 +0000

Cool application. Bought it to try it out, but looks to me like it uses way more than 2MB. Astro File Manager reports it to be using ~16.8MB! Seems like that is WAY too much.

By: ShawnS

ShawnS — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:25:37 +0000

When you bring the Droid back from sleep you normally have the slider. But, if you tell it to lock the phone, when you come back from sleep you will have to enter your unlock pattern (password) which can be a pain if you have a short screen timeout. It’s a pain to turn the lock feature on and off because when you turn it off it forgets your unlock pattern so when you go to turn the lock feature back on you have to enter a new unlock pattern.

It sounds like this app will ease some of the pain caused by this setup.

By: brian

brian — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:21:53 +0000

My moto cliq has this option in security settings.

I don’t know if this article only pertains to the G1