I'm beyond tired of pushing the power button on my Evo to turn it on, then swipe down go get the pattern grid, then finally swipe my pattern to get into the GUI.
I know I can turn off all that stuff manually (each and every time, with Menu > Settings > and confirmations and all this BS), but then I have no easy way to actually "lock" my phone when I want to. So for example, if I have my phone in my pocket all day, or I'm driving in my car, then I don't want to do the magic incantation every few minutes, but say I set it down on my desk at work to go to the bathroom or something, or in my case -- I have a very nosey girlfriend who will snoop through my phone when I'm home, I want to then lock it. On the PalmOS, I could push the power button off and on all day long and go in and out of the GUI without password prompt. Then on my GUI screen I had a little "lock" icon to press and it and it would then lock my screen and require a password to unlock again. Rinse repeat. It gave me the control to decide when I need a password lock or when I just wanted to turn the screen off to conserve battery. It seems stupid to me that apparently this sort of functionality WAS available in previous Android versions, and Google decided to neuter the OS and impose what THEY believe is the right security. Isn't that up to the users to decide? The fact that the OS doesn't work this way by default is baffling enough, but when they then break/cripple apps that tried to make up for the deficiency is ludicrous -- especially when a 15 year old phone had this built in. There's a lot of things with Android I see that they should have just looked at PalmOS when the modeled their OS. It's like they wrote Android in a vacuum and didn't even consider that maybe somebody else already did that (and did it better, so just copy what they did). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
