Monday, March 23, 2015

Android activated accelerometer to unlock your phone – CNET in Spanish

Android Police confirmed that the operating system adds a feature called ‘On-Body Detection’, which avoids entering passwords if the device exits your pocket.

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The accelerometer Cell Android Lollipop allow activation detection body. Screen Capture César Salza / CNET

Google has begun to release a new function for users of Android 5.0.1 hereinafter called On-Body Detection (detection in the body).

According to a report
Android Police, function, described in the screenshots, allows the device to use the accelerometer to recognize the position thereof and thus know if you are in your hand or pocket, so when not in either of these two places is blocked automatically .

will be able to activate this feature first thing in the morning, for example, when you need to enter your unlock pattern if you were active. The source site reveals that at first the device must “learn” when it is in your pocket and when you have it on hand. Once the accelerometer through movement determines each position, it automatically starts. Yes, if you go from your hands to other people your computer will not crash, because you can not differentiate.


When the device is placed somewhere else, such as your desktop, rerun the Lock you have selected when goes to sleep – request pattern, for example -., once you unlock it manually initiate and learned new routine, the function will be activated again

The website also reports that this function has been known in the Nexus 4 and other devices of the same range and reach cell phones with Android Lollipop onwards once you update the Google Play Services application.

This new feature, that has not been confirmed by Google, comes with other updates that overall the company is doing to their own apps and the app store Play Store, which has begun to classify them by age and country.

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