Is there any way to remove the camera widget from the lockscreen?!

[jonesmalaco]

That is, WITHOUT a 3rd party app? I mean, the phone stays in my pocket, right? I have the "double-touch the screen to activate the phone" enabled. To turn on the camera, it's just a simple swipe to the left, as you might know. I take the phone of my pocket and there are 30 photos taken of the darkness of my own pocket. Then I have to delete them all, being careful not to delete other meaningful pictures. So this happened 3 times already. I mean, I understand all the photo/instagram maniacs that need to take pictures in a hurry, so they don't have time to punch in the unlock pin code or whatever, to activate the phone, and get to the camera. But I really don't understand the lack of the option to REMOVE the camera from the lock screen, as I am not one of those picture aficionados, I'm sorry... can someone help, please? I googled all around and can't find an answer...

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome back! Does the solution at the bottom of this thread help? https://www.reddit.com/r/lgg2/comments/20c4gk/anyone_else_annoyed_by_the_camera_shortcut_on_the/

 

[jonesmalaco]

I googled that before, as I mentioned, and the answer is still no. All solutions at that topic either involves downloading a certain app (I refuse to do it, to me it's unacceptable that such feature can't be removed by default), or mentions stuff that doesn't even exist at all (widget option under lock screen settings => This doesn't exist on android 5.0.2, at least not on my phone. Also, swiping the lock screen the "other way" seems to do nothing at all.)

I can't even swipe away the lock screen at all, like before. Before I could do it, for example, just to take a look at my dog's pic which is the one behind the lock screen. Now I have to punch in the number code (not to mention the dialpad is EXTREMELY SMALL, as compared to before), and open the pic to see it. Android 5.0.2 RUINED my phone :'(

 

[B. Diddy]

I don't have a good answer for you, unfortunately. The thing that I always keep in mind about Android is that it's really more of a framework than a complete all-in-one package. The native features that come with stock Android are generally good but very basic, so if you want more or different features, that's what 3rd party apps are for. You can see the problems that occur when a manufacturer tries to customize Android by adding tons of their own "features" (or perhaps even removing some)--most of them end up not being very useful to the average user, and since they're baked into the system, the user can't get rid of them.

When I was using my ZenFone 2, I turned off the tap-to-wake feature because of this very problem. If you want to keep using that feature, then perhaps consider a case with a flipcover.

 

[sbudaj]

I found that if i have the screen facing away from my body this does not happen. Somehow when it faces my body the slight movement through my pocket to my skin seems to wake up the phone. I have since learned to face it outward and it doesn't happen anymore!