On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:00:53 +0100, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

When locked, it shows a tiny padlock in a circle, at the lower centre
of the screen. Tap the padlock and it suggests 'swipe upwords to
unlock' - I am finding it quite a tricky exercise to get it to then
unlock, usually it takes me several attempts, so I'm wondering if maybe
I'm using the wrong technique. What seems to work most often, is a very
rapid swipe from the bottom to the top of the touchscreen.

Technique I suspect. Start from the circled padlock swipe up,
maintianing finger contact with screen to somewhere over half way up?
"Very rapid" doesn't sound right, try slowing it down, take a gentle
1/2 to 1 second?

My Android 7.1.2 (Linage) on a Samsung SIII Mini just needs a short
quickish swipe up from the padlock to bring up the pattern
recognition unlock screen. But is also happy with a longer slow swipe
as well.

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Cheers
Dave.