New to android - missed call / text display on lock screen

feriso · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:20

Just had a new phone at work a S3 Mini.

Now in terms of smart phones I've only ever used iphones so its learnign curve.

One thing I can't see how to do is make it obvious about missed calls / text messages on the lock screen, the onlt indication I see is a small icon in the top left of the screen rather than the obvious ones you have on the iphone; how do you get these or something similar as its slightly annoying.

Ta

Liquid_Entity · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:24

You could use something like WidgetLocker and then use TeslaUnread Plugin and put some icons on the lockscreen

Or use Dashclock or something

feriso · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:33

Dashclock looks good but says its not compatible

?

Liquid_Entity · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:33

bummer

Rusty! · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:37

Dashclock is brill, but it's only for 4.2 and above as it uses the native lockscreen widgets.

Liquid_Entity · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:42

WidgetLocker Pro
TeslaUnread Plugin
Desktop Visualizer

Add a desktop visualizer icon to the lock screen, change widget image to what you want say gmail icon or something. The TeslaUnread plugin will then put a small number next to that icon. You can then set WidgetLocker pro to show whatever else you want as well as a unlock button or something.

feriso · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:43

Oh, just checked and I'm on 4.1.2

Bloomin android, why not just keep it simple to one OS for all.... like iOS (to some extent

) (this was toungue in cheek to cause trouble!)

feriso · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:44

Great, so I've got to pay £2 for something simple that iOS does free.... not a good start

benjo · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:50

I'm fairly sure the stock Touchwiz lockscreen displays swipeable icons for texts, missed calls etc?

Like this..

Rich_L · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:50

Depends how important it is, S3 Mini should get an update to 4.2 whenever Samsung get round to it, later this year apparently.

Try noLED maybe?

XeNoN89 · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:51

feriso said:
Great, so I've got to pay £2 for something simple that iOS does free.... not a good start

Don't worry, there is lots that will be free on android but costs money on iOS and lots of stuff that isn't even possible on iOS

Rusty! · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:53

You can do it for free, bin off the stupid stock ROM and stick CM10.1 on it

twist3d0n3 · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:55

widget locker with the nils lockscreen app - it looks almost the same as dashclock (not as nice, but very functional)

feriso · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:55

Rusty! said:
You can do it for free, bin off the stupid stock ROM and stick CM10.1 on it

Well, can't do that as its a works phone; I've been specifcally told by the IT dept to behave..... I'm the one with probably similar IT knowledge to them, even though I don't work in IT

so they have to watch me (in good way!)

feriso · 25 Jul 2013 at 11:56

Well if its getting 4.2 in Sept I might just wait as I'll be off on hols for a few weeks so I can get by until then.