Fingerprint scanner gestures

On Huawei's other phones with fingerprint scanners they feature gestures on the scanner, a lot like a touchpad on a laptop. You can swipe down for the notification tray and swipe it up, double tap to clear the tray, swipe up for the recent apps, and long press to go to the home screen.

Since none of this was mentioned to be included in M and I know that's custom Huawei software. I was still wondering if any devs out there might be wanting to work on an app to add these functions, or if something similar already exists. This really makes the scanner a lot more functional.

They also have a safe and app lock in their software 2 other great additions. I know I've seen an app lock for the Samsung phones, and not sure if it'll work on just any phone with a scanner. While these are great additions on the Huawei phones, their skin is not. I'd love to see stuff like this incorporated on stock version of Android. I know nothing about programming, but just hope some eager devs are out there and looking to enhance what the scanner can do and take better advantage of it.

Fingerprint scanner not showing.Backup password doesnt work

Hello guys.

My note 4 was working flawlessly until 2 hours ago. I locked it and after 15 minutes of inactivity i pressed the unlock button and the finegerprint scanner wasnt there. I tried rebooting many times and nothing happened.I used the backup password and it doesnt work. Tried up to 30 times and nothing. Cant even reset it via google acc manager.I dont to hard reset because i got many information on viber and whats app and i cant lose them.

Any idea guys?

Fingerprint Scanner Dilemma

So, the Android M launched and it sports fingerprint recognition, thats awesome.
Our phone do have the hardware, but what about accessibility?

I mean when samsung pushes the M update to S6, will the scanner use Google APIs or Samsung APIs for the recognition?
If it uses Samsung APIs then I think we may not be able to use the services provided by google for the fingerprint scanner.
Also, a lot of Devs will be creating apps based on fingerprint recognition using Google's API, will our phone scanner be able to make use of it?

What do you think guys...

Fingerprint Scanner Does Not Work [Clean&Dry Msg]

Ever since i got my T Mobile Galaxy S6 Delivered a couple of days ago, the finger print scanner does not work.
It keep displaying the message :

"Make sure that the home key is clean and dry, then try again"

Here is a video of the problem: https://vid.me/aHjp
I bought the phone on Swappa, and the seller claims it never got wet.

I've tried searching for similar issues but have no found anything like it... any thoughts?

MyFile, Media scanner and USB OTG devices

I recently purchased a 128GB Samsung Galaxy S6 (SM-G920I) to replace my rapidly dying S4. I used SmartSwitch to transfer most of my information from the S4 to the S6.
First thing I did was flash the official 5.1.1 firmware for it from the SamMobile website. (firmware G920IDVU2COGA_G920IXSA2COGA_XSA as I am in Australia). I then rooted the phone using TWRP 2.8.7.1 "zeroflte" and the "UniKernel 6 for TWRP".

I have a USB OTG device I plug into the phone to access files I only need intermittently. It works well except for a couple of things:

(1) How do I stop the MyFile browser from popping up whenever the USB OTG device is plugged in? It's very annoying and I use a different file browser by preference (not that I want that one to pop up automatically either).

(2) There are music files on one of my USB device, but said USB OTG are not scanned and so those files are not added to the Music Player list of media. I have installed an app called "Media Scanner" which quite happily scans /storage/UsbDriveA on my phone and thus adds the music files to the play list. However, it has to be manually triggered every time. Is there a way to get the media scanner (built-in, or the app) to run whenever the USB OTG is (un)mounted?


Many thanks for any pointers.