Not starting on lock screen after reboot.

[DobriniaMerk]

Steps to reproduce

1. Disable all keyboards except thumb-key, including the stock one.
2. Set screen lock to password (not PIN).
3. Reboot the phone.
4. Try to enter the password.

Expected behavior

thumb-key should start.

Actual behavior

thumb-key does not show up to enter the password, and you get a soft-bricked device.

version of the program

3.3.5

Android version

Android 14

Device

Tecno Pova 5

Other details

Issue I found while trying to unlock my device: AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard#2445

About unlocking:

TL;DR: If you have no trusted ADB RSA fingerprints, no custom recovery, and no USB OTG support, you're screwed.

Acknowledgements

• I have written a short but informative title.
• I have updated the app to the latest version.
• I have searched the existing issues and this is a new one, NOT a duplicate or related to another open issue.
• This is not a question or a discussion, in which case I should have gone to lemmy.ml/c/thumbkey
• This is a single bug report, in case of multiple bugs I will open a separate issue for each one (they can always link to each other if related)
• I have admitted that I am a clown by having checked this box, as I have not read these acknowledgements. 🤡
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[DobriniaMerk]

Actually, I haven't updated to the latest version because it's hard to do on a locked device.

[dessalines]

That issue only seems applicable to android 10. I'm also a little scared to test this since it could brick any device.

[LucaMkIII]

I've noticed a pop-up message when I turn on Thumb-Key as an input method that mentions this (I'm on a sort-of stock Android 12 - I'm not sure if the pop-up is on stock Android or not). Checking for this pop-up could be an easy (and safe) first test.

• AnySoftKeyboard also shows the pop-up.
• Fossify Keyboard (https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Keyboard) does not give me this pop-up.

Here's a screen recording showing each.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/24f9e8a1-cd81-4a33-b937-f172cc0aa717

[SpacePirates6]

I want to preference this with I have very little experience on Android 14

But on newer android, if the apk isn't a system app then it cannot load without the device being unlocked the first time, If I remember correctly this is a function of the user space being encrypted before first unlock, you can achieve a similar soft lock if you forcibly remove gboard on using root or adb, as there is no expectation for a user to do such action they do not have a failsafe.

[mruncreative]

This may be near impossible to do as others have explained above.