SGS3 lock screen audio controls

Richie · 21 Jul 2012 at 22:37

Care to describe other examples?

snapdragon · 21 Jul 2012 at 22:38

I thought this was a troll thread from the start

Hate being right

Richie · 21 Jul 2012 at 22:41

I know but it amuses me for now

mrochester · 21 Jul 2012 at 22:53

Richie said:
Care to describe other examples?

I'm not gonna start ranting and raving about it because that just starts the inevitable flame war, I'm just going to rant and rave about the lack of lock screen controls, which I had never in a million years expected to be missing!

stoke1863 · 21 Jul 2012 at 23:03

but its very simple to fix, use one of the many other music players on the plays store(free ones)

jeez you have your solution its very simple so whats the ptoblem, its not an adnroid thing its a Samsung thing, infarct people like this should just buy an iphone and be done with it.

go pack up the S3 and retun it to he store for an iphone because it "just works"

mrochester · 21 Jul 2012 at 23:08

stoke1863 said:
but its very simple to fix, use one of the many over music players on the plays store(free ones)

jeez you have your solution its very simple so whats the ptoblem, its not an adnroid thing its a Samsung thing, infarct people like this should just buy an iphone and be done with it.

go pack up the S3 and retun it to he store for an iphone because it "just works"

I'm still having problems even with the players with lock screen controls. These controls don't actually appear to show on the lock screen, and I can only get them to appear by first having music playing, and secondly by tapping on the lock screen, which makes a second lock screen with the player controls appear in place of the first lock screen! Is there anyway of getting the player controls to simply appear in the middle of the normal lock screen so that when I press the home button, I can either unlock the phone as normal, control my music or use the 4 user configured shortcuts? I'm struggling to get something that "just works" like this!

stoke1863 · 21 Jul 2012 at 23:21

not sure i have seen anything that has musci controlls without any music on without having a different lock screen installed,

in regards to having to use a second lockscreen might just be your music player, try N7

mrochester · 21 Jul 2012 at 23:34

stoke1863 said:
not sure i have seen anything that has musci controlls without any music on without having a different lock screen installed,

in regards to having to use a second lockscreen might just be your music player, try N7

That's annoying. iPhones remember what you were last playing when you hit pause/stop and the lock screen controls allow you to start that up again without first having to open an app and hit play in there. That's what I'm trying to achieve.

Just tried N7 again and it doesn't integrate into the lock screen... it completely replaces the lock screen with another one for some reason.

smokedog · 21 Jul 2012 at 23:39

mrochester said:
I'm still having problems even with the players with lock screen controls. These controls don't actually appear to show on the lock screen, and I can only get them to appear by first having music playing, and secondly by tapping on the lock screen, which makes a second lock screen with the player controls appear in place of the first lock screen! Is there anyway of getting the player controls to simply appear in the middle of the normal lock screen so that when I press the home button, I can either unlock the phone as normal, control my music or use the 4 user configured shortcuts? I'm struggling to get something that "just works" like this!

The beauty of Poweramp, it plays as soon as you plug you headphones in.

Either that or download Lama(awesome app) to setup a plug-in headphone action.

mrochester · 21 Jul 2012 at 23:40

smokedog said:
The beauty of Poweramp, it plays as soon as you plug you headphones in.

Either that or download Lama(awesome app) to setup a plug-in headphone action.

I need something that's able to work both with and without headphones. Music would either be headphones or another 3.5mm cable, but podcasts would be over the speaker.

deano · 22 Jul 2012 at 11:17

this is one of the downsides to Android, you have to put in some effort to get stuff working. This is why i've always ended up going back to an iPhone, right from the time when i had a nexus one. Android is better in some areas, customisation mainly. choice of apps to do the same job. At the end of the day iOS will for pretty much everything just work. Android will require a lot more input. I've found this with the nexus7 over an iPad, the big plus for the 7 is the size it will fit in your pocket. once you have an android phone as you want it then they work well. On the plus android is certainly developing quicker in terms of features but is still lacking in the basics in some areas. I've used every iPhone and about 8 android phones. I keep switching back to android in the hope that it will have improved enough... for my needs. satnav software on android does not have music controls built in you would need to have a music app already running or paused and switch between the nav and music program using the notification bar. to skip a track on the iphone is so much easier in comparison to an android device

mrochester · 22 Jul 2012 at 11:25

deano said:
this is one of the downsides to Android, you have to put in some effort to get stuff working. This is why i've always ended up going back to an iPhone, right from the time when i had a nexus one. Android is better in some areas, customisation mainly. choice of apps to do the same job. At the end of the day iOS will for pretty much everything just work. Android will require a lot more input. I've found this with the nexus7 over an iPad, the big plus for the 7 is the size it will fit in your pocket. once you have an android phone as you want it then they work well. On the plus android is certainly developing quicker in terms of features but is still lacking in the basics in some areas. I've used every iPhone and about 8 android phones. I keep switching back to android in the hope that it will have improved enough... for my needs. satnav software on android does not have music controls built in you would need to have a music app already running or paused and switch between the nav and music program using the notification bar. to skip a track on the iphone is so much easier in comparison to an android device

Grrrr its just incredibly frustrating that these things are missing.

Crafty · 22 Jul 2012 at 12:46

mrochester said:
In which case I need something that'll allow me to subscribe to and manage podcasts too. Any ideas what app will do all of this?

Thanks

best one I have found is kiescast, which is actually a samsung app.

Take a look at google listen too.

chaparral · 22 Jul 2012 at 13:20

deano said:
this is one of the downsides to Android, you have to put in some effort to get stuff working.

This is why so many females own iphones..........

Robbo · 22 Jul 2012 at 13:55

I actually found this to be a very bizarre omission from Samsung. They must have quite literally forgotten to put it in.

Myshra · 23 Jul 2012 at 08:17

Considering it was on previous Galaxy models, this ommission actually confused me for the longest time. I'm just dropping the bar for now but it would have been nicer to have the widget built in.

edit: Maybe apple patented it