asked 2015-09-24 23:14:37 +0300
Okay, a really stupid question which certainly was already asked and answered. In SFOS 1.x I could swipe down to quickly get to lock screen, then pull down to access favorites. How to do that in SFOS2? Right now I lock+unlock the device to get to favorites, which is surely not the way this was intended.
answered 2015-09-24 23:51:48 +0300
The problem is not that you can't get back to lock screen.
The problem is that previously you could!
A lock screen is, as the name suggests, a one-time thing. A simple shield to prevent an accidental activation when the phone is locked. Putting any functionality in there other than to unlock the phone was a mistake that Jolla has finally realized and fixed in 1.1.9.
There is one more thing left to fix: the lock screen pulley menu. It should not be there, it should be in home screen.
It appease that you are way to used to other operating system. The great thing of Sailfish and Jolla was that they have managed think outside the usual box. I think that they have lost the claim to be "un-alike" with this move to SF OS 2.0 on the phone. I can understand that this concept is useful for a Tablet PC which has a different use case to a phone. The new system is way to alike with all others now. The feature to have some of the "unimportant" items like the phone signal bars and batter indicator mostly accessible "on the fly" was a brilliant move. This is now lost! Instead it is replace with a finicky status bar which requires glasses to be read and is not obvious. My overall support and satisfaction is essentially gone now and your claim of a lock screen purpose is swimming with the stream.
I will move to my crappy Firefox OS phone, it is slow but has, as of today, better features.
hippy ( 2015-09-25 00:42:10 +0300 )editReturning to lock-screen used to be my way of locking the phone for 2 years... and the pulley, are you really suggesting to remove it from lock-screen? Have you forgotten to take your pills? Nothing can replace a pulley menu, your body learns how to trigger any app (you set up) without looking at the phone from screen off state. Now I probably never manage to do that with the launcher, which needs a precision action and probably me looking at the phone or I call instead of taking a picture...
chemist ( 2015-09-26 12:13:44 +0300 )editanswered 2015-09-24 23:37:50 +0300
SF OS 2.0 ,the lock screen and home have been separated, you don't have to pull down to access favorites on the lock screen,a bottom edge swipe will go to the app list,then you can select your favorite app directly.
Asked: 2015-09-24 23:14:37 +0300
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I would also be interested in the solution, but I fear there is none yet.
Venty ( 2015-09-24 23:18:19 +0300 )editI can see no reason why it shouldn't work as it used to ? But clearly it doesn't !!
olli ( 2015-09-24 23:20:33 +0300 )editWait a minute. You mean that I am actually not that stupid and you can't get from home to lock screen without locking the phone and then unlocking it?
ScumCoder ( 2015-09-24 23:22:37 +0300 )edit@ScumCoder yupp, it appears that way. I think having the favourites pulley available on home screen (amended by a "close all apps" pulley menu entry) would be a nice feature. Many people miss the favourites.
t-lo ( 2015-09-24 23:30:47 +0300 )editThe only reason I can get up with is that they have something in mind for the next update. (From Jollas web site : The next OS upgrade will include further improvements to the Sailfish OS user experience, and it will complete the transition to Sailfish OS 2.0. At that point the software version numbering will also jump to 2.0.)
olli ( 2015-09-24 23:37:29 +0300 )edit