Gadgetory

have you ever counted up how many times you turn your smartphone on every day I'm Joe Levi with pocket now and wouldn't it be convenient if you could just swipe to unlock this is my nexus 4 it is routed I am running a custom ROM for you to do this you do need to be rooted and you need to flash a custom kernel we'll get to that in just a minute once you do that you can see I can just sweep to unlock I did that twice because I've kind of set my sweeping threshold down a little bit the way I'm doing that is through this foe 1 2 3 kernel and this is an app it costs about $5 in the in the Play Store you don't have to have this you can just flash the ROM and get or flash the kernel rather and get a lot of the same features but by doing this you can come over here all the way to the end and download the latest version very very quickly and easily then you just flash it like you would anything else from here you've got all of these controls will just buzz through a few of these so you can see kind of what they do and how I've got it set up of course one of the main reasons for installing a custom kernel is to overclock under clock and whatnot so I've gone ahead and turned that on we'll bump that up and we'll bump that up just for the purpose of this video Eco mode I've turned on will turn that off for the time being MP decision we don't like that because it's Qualcomm and it's proprietary so we'll just turn that off and use Intel flog active status instead go ahead and sweep over here we can change the voltages I usually leave these alone just because that's something really deep and geeky governor we can set this I like on demand so we've got that set right there set on boot SOC all of these different things that you can do and stats that you can get thermal information thermal this Qualcomm Zinn tarantella thermal is the kernel version and you can kind of see what's going on here I haven't had any thermal throttling or thermal over temps yet which is a good thing GPU you can set the graphics processor stuff IO scheduler and then this is what we're after this is called sweep to wake or slide to wake you want to call it they call it sweep tweak probably because they don't want to get in trouble with the the swipe with a slide to wake version which may or may not be patented or trademarked or whatever so sound boot I've gotten that turned on the sweep to wake function I've also got that turned on you can set how you want it to go if you want it horizontally vertically or some other custom direction I like horizontal your start position mid position end position threshold and then you apply parameters one thing that you want to do is make sure that you're ok with the possible battery drain that this is going to give to you just keep that in mind while we're in here let's finish the tabs out vibration you can set your vibration thresholds and whatnot I like 74 75 percent same see what most custom roms are doing these days with the nexus 4 screen you can set what screen you want if you want to go back to LG stock you can do that you turn the screen off turn it back on and it applies that not quite as vivid not quite as true to you know the nice pretty colors that I enjoy so we'll just turn it back off and back on and there you can see that Z control for your Z RAM and whatnot miscellaneous settings and then of course download that we already showed you an information all about the app so how does it work now very simply you have your device in the off position you come through here and if I can remember where I set my my parameter to all you have to do is swipe to unlock just like that it is going to take you a little bit more battery to do that because you've got to monitor the the touch screen on your screen even when the device is off and as you can see sometimes you can set your threshold a little bit too tightly and have it have it not want to wake exactly right but after you've played with it for a little bit you know exactly where to go to to wake it up and it's really quite a nice feature accomplishing this does take a custom kernel that's either something that you can buy in your brand new device like the Moto X or something that you can flash on compatible devices like I did with my Nexus 4 but now here's the question for you is swiping to unlock really that much more sim than just pushing the button to unlock we want to know what you think so head down to the comments below and let us know your thoughts I for one think that anything that you can do to make using your device a little bit easier and well a little bit cooler is well worth it thank you for watching if you liked what you saw here please give the video a thumbs up and why not subscribe to our channel if you haven't done so already also while you're at it share the video with your friends let them know what pocket now is all about or pocket now I'm Joe Levi we'll catch you next time