does anyone carry their smartphone without a lock screen?
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Oddly I never locked my phone until I got a phone with a fingerprint scanner (Pixel) and felt that security was convenient enough for me to put up with.
I don't know why I never locked my other phones, but I definitely wouldn't go back now.
I don't know why I never locked my other phones, but I definitely wouldn't go back now.
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Just shows that if it is fast and easy enough, people will use it.
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I find it interesting that many on here are trying to impose their view of the world on others. If you want to encrypt/use a screen lock on your phone, fine. If I don't (and I don't), none of anybody's business. If my company wants me to use my own phone, they can enforce password protection on the e-mail app (but instead they enforce screen lock, which means I will deactivate company e-mail while on vacation and sometimes over the weekend).
Over-the-top security, totally ignoring the end user, brought BlackBerry down.
Over-the-top security, totally ignoring the end user, brought BlackBerry down.
I use a Blackberry Classic as personal travel phone. No screen lock, no nothing. (there's nothing of value on it, though). Nobody steals those things anymore.
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Without intending offense, this attitude is quite depressing. Consider the fact that most people's phones contain not only their own personal information, but the often times include personal information of others, such as phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, etc. Unless someone's phone contains absolutely zero personal information, which is quite unlikely nowadays, consider the harm you might cause to others if your phone is lost/stolen/etc.
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All things being equal, I'd much prefer to be able to put a password on my phone. But I won't do that until Android makes a distinction between screen off and phone locked.
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Even the non-customized versions have smart lock with various detections for "not locked under circumstance X." Getting a BLE token you keep elsewhere on your person, for example, would work for this, with the phone locking as soon as it was out of range of you, or a second phone (e.g. when I had a work phone and a personal one, if it had then supported it I could have used the BT presence of my personal phone to keep my work phone unlocked.)
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Several of the open-source ROMs (I can't remember if this includes LineageOS, the version FKA Cyanogen) have options to do exactly that, or to treat the "off" as a lock only after a certain amount of time... up to and including "only require a password at startup to unencrypt." I think some carrier ROMs have done so as well.
Even the non-customized versions have smart lock with various detections for "not locked under circumstance X." Getting a BLE token you keep elsewhere on your person, for example, would work for this, with the phone locking as soon as it was out of range of you, or a second phone (e.g. when I had a work phone and a personal one, if it had then supported it I could have used the BT presence of my personal phone to keep my work phone unlocked.)
Even the non-customized versions have smart lock with various detections for "not locked under circumstance X." Getting a BLE token you keep elsewhere on your person, for example, would work for this, with the phone locking as soon as it was out of range of you, or a second phone (e.g. when I had a work phone and a personal one, if it had then supported it I could have used the BT presence of my personal phone to keep my work phone unlocked.)
ETA: Apparently this is a GApps feature and not a ROM feature. I don't have GApps installed so that explains why I haven't seen it. I do need to reflash a new ROM on the newer phone since I've been having a lot of problems with Lineage, so maybe I'll actually break down and install a GApps package at the same time.
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Hmm...interesting. I'm running Cyanogenmod 13 on my older phone and Lineage OS on a newer one and do not recall seeing anything like this in the settings, but I'll need to investigate, because that would be the best of both worlds for me.
ETA: Apparently this is a GApps feature and not a ROM feature. I don't have GApps installed so that explains why I haven't seen it. I do need to reflash a new ROM on the newer phone since I've been having a lot of problems with Lineage, so maybe I'll actually break down and install a GApps package at the same time.
ETA: Apparently this is a GApps feature and not a ROM feature. I don't have GApps installed so that explains why I haven't seen it. I do need to reflash a new ROM on the newer phone since I've been having a lot of problems with Lineage, so maybe I'll actually break down and install a GApps package at the same time.
I'm pretty sure the separate lock timer (and disabling auto-lock on screen off via power button) isn't GApps; my Nexus 6 doesn't have it, while my travel phone running an AOSP ROM (Krexus, based off 6.0.1) does -- under security in settings "Automatically lock? [___] minutes after sleep, except when kept unlocked by Smart Lock" and "Power Button instantly locks? [on/off]"
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My Chinese Doogee T3
has the ability to use bluetooth to keep the phone unlocked. So if I have my hifi bluetooth adapter on at home my phone can remain unlocked but if I go out it locks. Obviously if you've got a strong Bluetooth signal it'll stay unlocked for longer distances but with mine it doesn't go much beyond my front gate.
has the ability to use bluetooth to keep the phone unlocked. So if I have my hifi bluetooth adapter on at home my phone can remain unlocked but if I go out it locks. Obviously if you've got a strong Bluetooth signal it'll stay unlocked for longer distances but with mine it doesn't go much beyond my front gate.
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My Chinese Doogee T3
has the ability to use bluetooth to keep the phone unlocked. So if I have my hifi bluetooth adapter on at home my phone can remain unlocked but if I go out it locks. Obviously if you've got a strong Bluetooth signal it'll stay unlocked for longer distances but with mine it doesn't go much beyond my front gate.
has the ability to use bluetooth to keep the phone unlocked. So if I have my hifi bluetooth adapter on at home my phone can remain unlocked but if I go out it locks. Obviously if you've got a strong Bluetooth signal it'll stay unlocked for longer distances but with mine it doesn't go much beyond my front gate.
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My Chinese Doogee T3
has the ability to use bluetooth to keep the phone unlocked. So if I have my hifi bluetooth adapter on at home my phone can remain unlocked but if I go out it locks. Obviously if you've got a strong Bluetooth signal it'll stay unlocked for longer distances but with mine it doesn't go much beyond my front gate.
has the ability to use bluetooth to keep the phone unlocked. So if I have my hifi bluetooth adapter on at home my phone can remain unlocked but if I go out it locks. Obviously if you've got a strong Bluetooth signal it'll stay unlocked for longer distances but with mine it doesn't go much beyond my front gate.