I don't have a case on my phone so can't say whether that would negatively effect the fingerprint reading. The recognition has been pretty reliable since I started using the power button to wake up the phone.
On 2/5/16, 'Ray T. Mahorney' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote: > On this fingerprint topic I have never been able to get it to work and the > defender case may or not have something to do with that? I am also guessing > that the finger has to be just about rock steady on the button when it's > taking the reading? > > > Ray T. Mahorney > WA4WGA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 5:46 > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Interesting observation re my problems with fingerprint > recognition > > Hi Kimber, > > I think it may have to do how you press the home button. Especially on the > new phones, the 6S and 6S Plus, Touch Id is so incredibly fast and reliable > that all you have to do is press down the home button with the finger you > scanned and by the time you let go it's usually enough for the phone to > unlock. On my old 5S I press the home button to wake up the phone and as I > let go I continue to rest my thumb on the home button for about a second or > a bit less and it unlocks for me very reliably. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Kimber Gardner > Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 3:38 AM > To: viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Interesting observation re my problems with fingerprint > recognition > > In light of our recent discussion of the fingerprint recognition on the > iPhone I have something interesting to report. I've been doing some very > unscientific testing with my iPhone 6 and have found the following. > > When attempting to unlock the phone with my fingerprint, if I press the lock > button on the side of the device while holding my thumb over the home > button, nine times out of ten my print will be recognized and the phone will > unlock. If however, I press the home button to unlock, the opposite is true > and nine times of ten the recognition will fail. > > I don't know what this means but I thought it was interesting. > > Kimber > > -- > Kimberly > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kimberly -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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