Disable Lock Screen on Samsung Galaxy S8

[joeco...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I just got a Samsung Galaxy S8. Is it possible to disable the lock screen with Tasker? It is running Android 7.0. i didn't think it was possible in 7.0 with Secure Settings. Is it and if not, is there another way?

Thank you for you help.

[John Doe]

You can use securetask plugin. You have two options: 1) If you want to move between none/swipe/pin you need to set the app as device onwer 2) if you don't want to set the app as device owner you can turn off the option to lock your device with power button in the security menu, then you can change a security setting called "Auto lock timeout". You can set it really high in order to keep your phone unlocked, it's not the same thing as 1) but it can work.

[joeco...@gmail.com]

Thank you. Can you please describe the profile and task with securetask?

[John Doe]

Which one? 1) or 2)?

[joeco...@gmail.com]

If you could post the steps for how to build the profile/task for 1) If you want to move between none/swipe/pin you need to set the app as device onwer  with securetask that would be great. Thank you!

On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 8:35:28 AM UTC-5, joeco...@gmail.com wrote:

[John Doe]

About one you need to set the app as device owner, it's quite tricky so be sure about what you do. You find instructions in the app, there is an "how to" button. Then you can use the "Keyguard" action to enable/disable the swipe-to-unlock. If you disable the keyguard and you have currently a pin/fingerprint or whatever your phone will be set to "none" as security pattern. If you turn on the keyguuard you set the pattern to "swipe". To restore the pin/password you can use the "set password" action. Before to use this action you need to set the pin/password in the app, there is a setting about it. That's all. The tricky part is at the beginning to set the app as device owner.

About the point two: you need to grant some permissions using a pc, connect the phone to a pc with debugging usb enabled (you find the options in the developer settings). Install adb (and the needed drivers if you use windows) on your pc and then use a couple of commands, the commands are described in the "how to grant permissions" menu in the app.