|
|
|
08-15-2010, 04:52 PM
|
#1
|
Knows Where the Search Button Is
Join Date: Apr 2009
Model: 9800
PIN: N/A
Carrier: AT&T
Posts: 34
|
Pesky Lock Button
Please Login to Remove!
Alright as most of the reviewers have noted, that Lock button is getting REALLY annoying. You honestly cannot put this phone in your pocket and have it not unlock itself.
I hope a patch to BB6 puts in a slide to unlock feature because without it, that Lock button is a true disaster in usability. Their QA must have only tested it with a holster.. you know the holster they did not include with the phone.
|
Offline
|
|
08-15-2010, 06:10 PM
|
#2
|
Appleinator
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: New Hampshire
Model: App6+
OS: AJBR549
PIN: Ask
Carrier: ATT & Verizon
Posts: 20,038
|
BTW, no holster is/was an AT&T decision, not RIM.
|
Offline
|
|
08-15-2010, 10:23 PM
|
#3
|
Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
Join Date: Dec 2005
Model: 9800
Carrier: ATT
Posts: 234
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by dz8
Alright as most of the reviewers have noted, that Lock button is getting REALLY annoying. You honestly cannot put this phone in your pocket and have it not unlock itself.
I hope a patch to BB6 puts in a slide to unlock feature because without it, that Lock button is a true disaster in usability. Their QA must have only tested it with a holster.. you know the holster they did not include with the phone.
|
Great idea of having a slide lock...
|
Offline
|
|
08-15-2010, 10:27 PM
|
#4
|
Admin & Founder
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Kitchener-Waterloo, On, Canada
Model: 9800
OS: 3.1415926
PIN: UnDisclosed
Carrier: Rogers
Posts: 5,268
|
I don't think they would do a slide lock, it's to iPhone, and they are trying to stay away from that.
I just use a password lock and it solves the problem with the lock button.
|
Offline
|
|
08-15-2010, 10:39 PM
|
#5
|
Knows Where the Search Button Is
Join Date: Apr 2009
Model: 9800
PIN: N/A
Carrier: AT&T
Posts: 34
|
Password lock works too ;) but then you have to shortcut the Password Lock or use the one programmable physical button we have. You can't tie it to the regular Lock button or maybe I haven't figured out how that's done?
|
Offline
|
|
08-15-2010, 11:39 PM
|
#6
|
Admin & Founder
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Kitchener-Waterloo, On, Canada
Model: 9800
OS: 3.1415926
PIN: UnDisclosed
Carrier: Rogers
Posts: 5,268
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by dz8
Password lock works too ;) but then you have to shortcut the Password Lock or use the one programmable physical button we have. You can't tie it to the regular Lock button or maybe I haven't figured out how that's done?
|
No.. you can't tie it. It seems password lock only works based off of its timer, and not the lock button (Or by pressing and holding A like with OS 5)
This is definitely a bug that needs to be fixed in a future release. Annoying.
|
Offline
|
|
08-15-2010, 11:49 PM
|
#7
|
Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
Join Date: Dec 2005
Model: 9800
Carrier: ATT
Posts: 234
|
FYI, the K key on the keyboard locks it, like on the older OSs. Yeah.
Posted via BlackBerryForums.com Mobile
|
Offline
|
|
08-16-2010, 08:56 AM
|
#8
|
New Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Model: 8820
Carrier: AT&T
Posts: 7
|
not on my Torch it doesn't. "K" doesn't lock it. Be great if the convenience key was maybe just a little more convenient, and let you assign the password lock to that. the top screen lock is useless.
|
Offline
|
|
08-16-2010, 09:02 AM
|
#9
|
Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
Join Date: Dec 2005
Model: 9800
Carrier: ATT
Posts: 234
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by forefun
not on my Torch it doesn't. "K" doesn't lock it. Be great if the convenience key was maybe just a little more convenient, and let you assign the password lock to that. the top screen lock is useless.
|
It does. Just make sure the option "Launch by Type" is set to "Application Shortcuts" and not "Universal Search".
|
Offline
|
|
08-16-2010, 10:37 AM
|
#10
|
Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
Join Date: Jan 2009
Model: 9800
PIN: ched off BBM, gained 3MB
Carrier: att
Posts: 271
|
Layer tape over the button until it's desensitized enough to be useful.
__________________
"You. My room. 10:30 tonight. You. 10:45... And bring a friend."
|
Offline
|
|
08-16-2010, 11:48 AM
|
#11
|
Admin & Founder
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Kitchener-Waterloo, On, Canada
Model: 9800
OS: 3.1415926
PIN: UnDisclosed
Carrier: Rogers
Posts: 5,268
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by rdef
FYI, the K key on the keyboard locks it, like on the older OSs. Yeah.
Posted via BlackBerryForums.com Mobile
|
Mine does not do this either.
|
Offline
|
|
08-16-2010, 01:22 PM
|
#12
|
CrackBerry Addict
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Airport lounges and starbuxxx
Model: 9900
OS: 7.0.0.296
Carrier: Vodafone Business
Posts: 573
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dubdub
BTW, no holster is/was an AT&T decision, not RIM.
|
Any reference on that for confirmation? I can understand AT&T being directly involved in any feature rollout decision that directly involves the network and the infrastructure (eg voip), but a case?!
"Hi Apple, we're ATT, you can't have VOIP over our network" makes sense.
"Hi Apple, we're ATT, you can't offer a pair of headphones or a charger or a case over our network" sounds ridiculous to me.
Please explain, thx.
|
Offline
|
|
08-20-2010, 10:14 PM
|
#13
|
Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
Join Date: Dec 2005
Model: 9800
Carrier: ATT
Posts: 234
|
Just installed PatternLock Lite. It's free and completely solves this problem.
Posted via BlackBerryForums.com Mobile
|
Offline
|
|
08-20-2010, 11:51 PM
|
#14
|
Thumbs Must Hurt
Join Date: Jun 2007
Model: 9800
PIN: N/A
Carrier: AT&T
Posts: 91
|
rdef, Great Fix! Thanks!
|
Offline
|
|
08-21-2010, 01:34 PM
|
#15
|
Thumbs Must Hurt
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: NYC
Model: 9800
Carrier: AT&T
Posts: 82
|
Excellent recommendation - after trying the lite version I went with the full version. Thanks.
Quote:
Originally Posted by rdef
Just installed PatternLock Lite. It's free and completely solves this problem.
Posted via BlackBerryForums.com Mobile
|
|
Offline
|
|
08-22-2010, 12:32 AM
|
#16
|
Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
Join Date: Jan 2009
Model: 9800
PIN: ched off BBM, gained 3MB
Carrier: att
Posts: 271
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by the-economist
Any reference on that for confirmation? I can understand AT&T being directly involved in any feature rollout decision that directly involves the network and the infrastructure (eg voip), but a case?!
"Hi Apple, we're ATT, you can't have VOIP over our network" makes sense.
"Hi Apple, we're ATT, you can't offer a pair of headphones or a charger or a case over our network" sounds ridiculous to me.
Please explain, thx.
|
ATT buys phones and related bits from RIM. ATT sells phones and related bits to consumers. What ATT buys and what ATT sells is up to ATT, not RIM. Does that help?
__________________
"You. My room. 10:30 tonight. You. 10:45... And bring a friend."
|
Offline
|
|
08-25-2010, 10:10 AM
|
#17
|
New Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Model: 9800
PIN: N/A
Carrier: att
Posts: 1
|
Its annoying, so annoying that I think I am going to return the phone before the 30 day trial is up. Even if I use the PW lock, its locks yes but hitting that button in my pocket it keeps beeping at me, VERY ANNOYING. Also, being a leftie when I go to take a picture the way I hold the phone I hit that damn lock button and lock the phone accidentally losing the now gone picture I was trying to get. WHATS WITH THAT BUTTON
|
Offline
|
|
08-25-2010, 05:24 PM
|
#18
|
Thumbs Must Hurt
Join Date: Sep 2007
Model: 9800
OS: 6.0.0.546
PIN: N/A
Carrier: AT&T
Posts: 73
|
I just got an Otterbox case which solved this problem for me. (great case btw but I wish it had the textured feel of the original Torch battery cover)
|
Offline
|
|
08-29-2010, 09:50 AM
|
#19
|
BlackBerry Master
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Los Angeles
Model: 4s
OS: iOS
PIN: 79B32491
Carrier: AT&T
Posts: 4,546
|
Another vote for PatternLock. You can even "Assign to hardware lock key."
|
Offline
|
|
10-06-2010, 05:34 AM
|
#20
|
New Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Model: torch
PIN: N/A
Carrier: Vodafone UK
Posts: 9
|
patternLock lite
Got to say, I was 1 day away from returning this phone, but patternlock lite makes the phone useable on an everyday basis. I tried the password protect but that's a pain, the phone doesnt ship with a holster in the UK ( never used the holster on my curve) but I can not for the life of me work out why the designers of this phone would install such a crappy lock button..
|
Offline
|
|
|
|