Did your screen stop locking itself?

[Xman_NYC]

Recently my screen stopped automatically locking itself when the screen shut off, which would often lead to pocket dialing when the phone was in my pocket a button got pushed.

Here's how I fixed it:

You need a registry editor like PHM Registry Editor (I think I found that in this forum). Go to \HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\ and change the AutoDeviceLockEnable from 0 to 1 then soft reset the phone and you're done.

[ptech]

Wirelessly posted (XV6975 Opera/9.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en))

thanks xman, but your solution didn't work for me. i used totalcommander to change the reg, reset, confirm the reg was changed, and it still doesn't autolock. any othervideas i can try?

[Viventis]

Mine did too. I wonder whether one of the cabs I installed caused this. This and a couple of other issues caused me to save all data and do a hard reset, which solved the non-locking problem. I will re-install my cabs one at a time to see if any are to blame.

my auto lock did not work but since I uninstalled Spb Mobile Shell it has started working again. I'm just guessing that the problem related to Mobile Shell but I don't have the knowledge to support that.

[obxKevin]

Mine started this just yesterday and I have changed nothing for a couple of weeks now. Phone just started running slower and it no longer auto-locks. Wonder what happened?

[jacko1]

honestly the best bet is a hard reset

[Nicaragüense]

check your power settings. mine get changed on ocassion with the wifi tethering program. but if i stop it normally it is fine.

[liquidi3ladz]

Isn't the autolock also tied into Tf3d?

[johncal]

I lost my auto lock when I added fingerkeyboard, but that's fine with me. I love fingerkeyboard but hated the auto lock anyways. Now when I want to shut my phone down I just use the selection screen and that works fine for me.

[froda]

that is exactly what happened to me