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Screen remains locked on incoming Riot phone call
On Sony Xperia X (F5121), an incoming voice call rings, but fails to unlock the screen. Same on Jolla phone and Samsung Galaxy J6(2016). This also applies to video calls.
Same for Samsung Galaxy S III. Also for Nexus 5X I think (but here not 100% sure as it was a while ago when I used it.)
Same here with LinageOS (Android 9) and also with Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 stock android 8... very irritating... It means for me. I had to type the password first to unlock the phone screen then I can try to pick up the phone until the caller do not give up...
When a call comes in to my android phone (7.0.1) I have to unlock my phone to accept the call (riot) and this really should match the experience of a real call, where I can just pick up.
Can we get this moved to P1?
This issue has the solution: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android/issues/3491#issuecomment-687703149
An application forcefully unlocking a device because it receives a phone call is a security threat. That is, if I'm reading that correctly.
What I would like to see is displaying the call over the lock screen with the display on. When the call ends, the lockscreen is displayed as it should.
I would actually say once the call is picked up elsewhere it should go back to lock screen and put the device in sleep at the timeout the device has set. Not when the call ends, as some calls can go for hours. Right now, whenever I receive a call my devices never shut their screens down until I go to each device (android) manually and tell them to turn their screens off.
An application forcefully unlocking a device because it receives a phone call is a security threat. That is, if I'm reading that correctly.
If that's the case, then how do other apps like Whatsapp, Signal, Skype do it? How about the phone app?