http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1089
Google is only half of the problem. Corporate IT can (and do) lock the phone down such that you cannot even disable the lock... On Mar 7, 6:41 pm, DAE51D <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
