djcla
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Thinking of switching to an s3 from iPhone4 but had a question. is it possible to open the camera from the lock screen without using a pass key as I have not worked this out on the desire s I've tried?
Hey,
For the S3 you can have it set where there is four apps in the lock screen.
So yeah you can have camera in lock screen
Crafty said:I don't think this is true, I've just been trying it out.
If you apply a pattern or pin lock the shortcuts don't appear on the lockscreen.
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But it does mean when you want to unlock the phone you need to swipe and then enter pattern or PIN to open the phone.
djcla said:so is it not possible to achieve this and bypass the pin lock similar to that on the iphone?
Yep. You can put controls on the lock screen, or you can control it via Bluetooth.Can you control music playing when the s3 is locked like you can on iphone?
limegreenzx said:With touchwiz 4 launcher on the s3 and sense 4 on HTC it IS possible to launch the camera app without entering your pattern or pin.
Crafty said:I don't think you can. If you enable the swipe screen as well as a pin or pattern you can flick the camera icon up to start it, but this takes you to the pattern or pin screen - once entered it'll launch the camera app right away.
To be honest a pattern or pin is pretty useless if the phone did allow access to any app without entering pattern/pin.