Posts made by Rob3E

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who missed this and was confused. When I got my order confirmation, I wrote back to say that they had mixed up the "top" and "bottom" inlays. They wrote back and said that it didn't matter because they were the same size, which sent me looking through information trying to figure out how I had misunderstood that. I never did find it. I had, until then, thought that my "bottom" inlay would rarely be seen, and that the "top" inlay would appear to be a band that encircled the ring unless you examined it more closely. I don't know if the knowledge that the ring was symmetrical would have changed my order, but I do know I was disappointed to learn that the ring I imagined was not the ring I would be receiving.
I'm sure it makes production easier to not have to deal with two sizes of anything. But if I had my druthers, I'd just want the smaller antenna centered under the larger inlay. But who knows, I may change my mind when I see the ring.
Also, I'd like to point out the "top" and "bottom" are not especially informative adjectives when describing a ring, and are even less helpful when the ring is symmetrical. Perhaps that will be changed now that all sides of the ring are equal.

I did the same thing with Llama and NFC unlock. Llama lets you define locations based on wifi or cell towers, so when I'm connected to home wifi, I set the password to nothing, and no password prompt comes up. When I leave home Llama changes my password, and a password prompt comes up, but thanks to NFC unlock, I can bypass it. I had this running for a while, but it's disabled now while I await my ring.

I believe it's baked into the android OS that the NFC antenna turns off when the screen is off. There are workarounds, but they do require some modification of the OS, so they that may prevent that functionality from being offered the standard, NFC unlock app. There are ways to make that happen, though.

This thread: [url:3fsoxvsp]http://forum.nfcring.com/topic45.html[/url:3fsoxvsp] talks about a way to use NFC to unlock your phone from the standard, Android lock screen. The same combination of mods can be used to make the NFC chip active even when the phone's screen is off. There is, I think, a battery penalty for that. Whether or not it's worth it, I can't say. I only have NFC active when screen is on.

Keep in mind that none of this deals with the security hole this opens up: Once the NFC chip is active when the screen is locked or off, any chip can be read and acted on, not just your ring. I don't know if the NFC Ring Unlock app deals with this issue, and I don't know what actions an NFC chip could or could not initiate on your phone, but it's something to keep in mind if you take steps to make your NFC chip active when the screen is off.

I'm not clear from your description what you have and have not done. Are the "unlocker plugin" and the "nfc unlocker app" the same thing?

What I am talking about specifically is kind of a hack and as such, it exposes you to some risk if you're not clear how to use it or what it does. One risk is ruining your phone, so don't take what I'm saying as "advice" but simply as an option that has worked for me.

Here are the steps I followed as I remember them:

Download, install, and activate the Xposed Framework using the instructions here: [url:1fsjutc9]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401[/url:1fsjutc9]

[quote:1fsjutc9]1. Download the Xposed Installer APK and install it
2. Launch the Xposed Installer, go to the "Framework" section and click on "Install/Update"
3. Reboot
4. Done![/quote:1fsjutc9]

Make sure Xposed is installed and running.

Then download and install the Xposed module, NFC Unlocking, using instructions here: [url:1fsjutc9]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2478163[/url:1fsjutc9]
The module is based off of another module called NFC LockScreenOff Enabler, so, once NFC Unlocking is installed, it may be referred to by Xposed and Android as NFC LockScreenOff Enabler.

You may need to reopen your Xposed settings to confirm that the NFC LockScreenOff Enabler is activated in your Modules list.

You then need to open the app, NFC LockScreenOff Enabler, and add your tags to the Authorized NFC tags.

Then you might want to reboot again, because why not?

Now if it still doesn't work, you should see if any of those steps didn't stick:
Xposed installed? Running?
NFC LockScreenOff Enabler enabled in Xposed?
Are you tags listed as authorized in NFC LockScreenOff Enabler?

There are some troubleshooting tips in those threads that may help you solve your problem if you can identify whether you issue is with the Framework or the Module.

I haven't played with any of those apps, but I have been playing with being able to unlock my phone via NFC using the standard lock screen. It seems like if this were possible, it would solve your issue.

What I don't know is how secure it is. I guess if you keep your NFC chip from being scanned, you'll be fairly secure.

Involves some minor hacking of your phone, which has some risk associated with it.
Involves rooting your phone.

Seems like it has potential to cause trouble for you if it's installed incorrectly, especially if you don't know how to back up and restore your phone if something goes wrong.

But I've been toying with my phone, so I took the plunge, and it's been, mostly, working for me.

First requires the Xposed framework [url:2bba7los]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401[/url:2bba7los]

Then you need to install the NFC Unlocking mod [url:2bba7los]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2478163[/url:2bba7los]

Then there's some set-up involved.
The upshot is that I can now set a standard passphrase and use the default lockscreen, but when the prompt comes up to enter a password, I can enter the password or scan an NFC tag. Except for the option to scan a tag, the lockscreen is unchanged.

Hasn't been 100% bug free for me, but it's also not clear whether my issues are with this mod or are because of other things I've done when fiddling with my phone's software.

Are there any examples of a 3rd party app that takes control of the iPhone lock screen? Doesn't sound like the kind of thing Apple would approve.