Does anybody use these applications?
I ordered MT4 and I plan to install these:
no lock can wake up the phone by pressing ANY hard button
nexus one flashlight can use the phone's light.
mingkee said:
Does anybody use these applications?
I ordered MT4 and I plan to install these:
no lock can wake up the phone by pressing ANY hard button
nexus one flashlight can use the phone's light.
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the phone comes stock with htc's flashlight that give you 3 modes of brightness, blinking and sos... also you can change the buttons in the key layout to wake without an app theres more on that here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836702
he is correct and i was using no lock but be very careful because the genius button can place calls on its own if you have no lock enabled that gets kinda funny when you "butt dial" friends lol and i find the stock HTC flashlight app to work flawlessly already so no need for 3rd party apps.
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Hi everybody.
I've just installed WIDGET LOCKER and I find it a very cool app.
But I've a problem: I've enabled the EASY WAKE UP mode, but it doesn't work......in fact I've always to use the button on the top of the cell, while the volume buttons or the trackball don't do the same (wake up the screen): why? It's a very helpful feature and I'd like to use it. I've a Htc Wildfire Buzz.
Hope someone can help me.
Thanks in advance.
I seem to have the same problem aswell (just tried it but I dont really like using volume buttons to unlock, although I can and like to use trackball to wake (Menu > Settings > Buttons & Inputs > 'Tick' Trackball Unlock). What version do you have?
seedy97 said:
I seem to have the same problem aswell (just tried it but I dont really like using volume buttons to unlock, although I can and like to use trackball to wake (Menu > Settings > Buttons & Inputs > 'Tick' Trackball Unlock). What version do you have?
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The trackball works to unlock, but not to wake up the screen.
Anyway it's a problem of our phone, as told me by the developer of the app.
Ciauz.
Perhaps there is not (hardware) support for that. i had the same wish to do the same. there is a cool app called Tap Tap and it's using proximity sensor to on screen and off.
Popples said:
The trackball works to unlock, but not to wake up the screen.
Anyway it's a problem of our phone, as told me by the developer of the app.
Ciauz.
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This version of Widget works well on Android 2.1 but it can't with android 2.2 or 2.2.1. It used to be very good on my wildfire 2.1 but I have the same problem with my 2.2.1 OTA. I think Widgetlocker still doesn't fully support android 2.2.1
In cyanogenmod 7 the trackball wake function works good. But there is another nice app. It wake and unlock the wildfire by the proximity sensor. Just hold your finger on the right side of the HTC logo to turn off and on the device. I am testing it now and it works very good. The app is called proximity screen off
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Proximity sensor solution with widgetlocker and tasker
CoaBalboa said:
Perhaps there is not (hardware) support for that. i had the same wish to do the same. there is a cool app called Tap Tap and it's using proximity sensor to on screen and off.
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Ok, I know this was from an old post, but I hadn't seen any mention of this functionality and thought I'd share.
I've found great success in running with widgetlocker completely disabled, then using tasker to lock the screen when power off via power button (but only when not on a phone call to avoid interference from prox sensor screen off in call) and unlocking widgetlocker only when the prox sensor is not engaged, after a 100ms pause.
It saves cpu cycles, as WL is not polling for screen off trigger (tasker is already running after all) and is extremely snappy in unlocking on my Note 2. Its also very good about detecting my pocket, as the prox sensor on the note 2 can be set to poll when the screen is off, something not available on my older phone. I had it pretty dialed in on my previous phone, a 1st generation sgs epic 4g running cm10, despite some sluggishness due to lack of system resources, especially onboard storage space.
Obviously, everyone will have their own take on lockscreens. I'm the type of user who just wants the lockscreen out of my way. Aside from the phantom media widget which appears/disappears when the music starts/stops, I am not much for widgets on my lockscreen. When I first purchased, I really just wanted a method of avoiding having to slide to unlock, as that seems like a wasted gesture. I originally set out to solve the prox sensor unlock solution on android with the old windows mobile app pocketshield in mind as my paragon. If you are like me and just want the lockscreen gone without having to reach for it, but don't want to worry about pocket unlocks, then you'll be happy to hear that this setup with widgetlocker and tasker is an infinitely better and cleaner solution than pocketshield ever was.
Just my 2 cents.
Hi Guys,
Title says it all. When the Amaze is asleep and I tap either camera button, the phone will wake up to the lock screen, which is really annoying because the case I have makes it very easy to accidentally tap the camera/video camera buttons. Is there anyway to disable this functionality so the phone will only wake up when the power button is pressed?
I still want to maintain the long-perss to camera functinoality of the buttons, of course.
Thanks everyone!
Roadcabe said:
Hi Guys,
Title says it all. When the Amaze is asleep and I tap either camera button, the phone will wake up to the lock screen, which is really annoying because the case I have makes it very easy to accidentally tap the camera/video camera buttons. Is there anyway to disable this functionality so the phone will only wake up when the power button is pressed?
I still want to maintain the long-perss to camera functinoality of the buttons, of course.
Thanks everyone!
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There is no way to change it if you are not rooted. If you have rooted your phone or have any custom rom use Root Explorer to do the following:
Go to system/usr/keylayout folder
Mount it as R/W
Open ruby-keypad.kl file in text editor.
Change the following 2 lines and delete the WAKE.
Code:
key 248 CAMCORDER WAKE
key 212 CAMERA WAKE
Save the file and reboot.
Awesome, thanks for the info. Cheers
Hi i have a similar, but different question - how do I make it so that long-pressing camera button, will launch Camera App, even if phone is locked with pattern / password??
I bought Amaze because of camera, and I often need to take a picture quick and unlocking the phone each time is a pain in the @SS ... especially if I need to take a pick once every minute
Thanks
levchikb said:
Hi i have a similar, but different question - how do I make it so that long-pressing camera button, will launch Camera App, even if phone is locked with pattern / password??
I bought Amaze because of camera, and I often need to take a picture quick and unlocking the phone each time is a pain in the @SS ... especially if I need to take a pick once every minute
Thanks
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Take off the lock, if they made it capable of doing that then basically anyone could steal your phone and get off with your info since there is no lock what so ever.
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@ Dark Nightmare
You are wrong about disabling lock and everyone being able to steal ur info. And no - I will not disable lock - I have too much precious info on my phone.
1) this works perfectly on Energy Rom (only Energy Rom is buggy).
2) I did as instructed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28194573&postcount=8
And it works - Camera key launches Camera APP ... and if I try to get into the phone - it shows lock screen / pattern - does not unlock the phone!
^ also works on PB/SpeedRom6
In theory it would seem possible as the capacitive screen is "always listening" (ie as with the knock-on feature) you could create custom gestures that an app could listen to and perform tasks. For instance, I would like a gesture where you swipe your finger up the screen to turn the volume up, or down to turn it down.
Is this technically possible? Does anyone know of an app/hack to get such a thing working? Personally I find the back-button placement a bit fiddly and find that touching the camera lens is often the case as oppose to just wanting to turn the volume up
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodmooddroid.gesturecontrol&hl=en
IamPro said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goodmooddroid.gesturecontrol&hl=en
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Does that work with the screen off? I can see no mention of it on the play store details page.
Interesting idea. There are alternative methods of turning your phone on though. There are shake on apps you could try to see how you like. I use a shake off app that I love. Just doing a quick shake when I'm done with the phone is just extremely convenient. Its one of the apps that I make sure to install first thing.
If you do find a gesture app that can work with the screen off that doesn't eat the battery like little shop of horrors, let us know.
Is there a way to turn the hardware buttons into the notification light instead of the Power button led? I have a case that covers the power button and miss the notification blink that I had on the Atrix HD. Thanks in advance.
There's an older app for that on the play store. Called LG notification lights or something like that. Doesn't officially support OG, but might be worth a try. I don't recall any talk of the feature... Probably because we have a notification light. It was popular on the i777 though.
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There's an older app for that on the play store. Called LG notification lights or something like that. Doesn't officially support OG, but might be worth a try. I don't recall any talk of the feature... Probably because we have a notification light. It was popular on the i777 though.
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Thanks. I'll have to check that out. The only reason I want it is because of the case I have. :good:
I have confirmed that LG Touch LED Notifications by Martin Börjesson works on my E970 with KitKat AOSP 4.4.2. I have the Diztronic TPU case that covers the notification light. When I get a notification it will vibrate first (can be adjusted), then light the capacitive buttons. Perfect!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.martinborjesson.o2xtouchlednotifications
I used to have a Samsung Moment that did not have a dedicated notification light, the Devs used to do kernel edits that allowed for the BLN app by Neldar to work.
Also, just in case there is anyone like me who keeps their phone on vibrate but still wants notification lights for Gmail without the vibrate notification, do the following within the Gmail app:
Press hardware menu button or three squares menu button in top right of Gmail app to access Settings;
Select your connected Gmail account;
Leave Notifications box checked, press Inbox sound & vibrate;
Press Sound, select Silent;
Make sure Vibrate is unchecked.
What I would love to see is the ability to assign up to three types of notifications to the three capacitive buttons that we have.
Example:
Missed call = Back button
SMS message = Home button
Gmail message = Menu button
Missed call + SMS + Gmail = All three buttons lit. Hmm... maybe I will email this suggestion to the Developer of Trigger - location profiles to see if they could add this sort of functionality to their already awesome app.
Does anyone know if the E970 has one LED light to illuminate all three capacitive buttons, or are they three separate LEDs? Edit: Boo! Only has two... http://imgur.com/a/ydoJb
I've been using an app called ButtonLED I found on XDA since ICS days and still works with KitKat roms. The GUI is pretty basic and not the prettiest but the app is functional. When you turn the logs on, it will track what app or keywords appear in the status bar. You can then go in and add that app or keyword to be excluded and not trigger the notification. I'm going to check out the LG app and see if that performs better (battery drain, etc). Here's the link for the info on ButtonLED... http://www.xda-developers.com/android/buttonled-turns-your-hardware-buttons-into-a-notification-led/ Even though the app is not being updated, I've been running 1.6 with no issues.
dandrumheller said:
There's an older app for that on the play store. Called LG notification lights or something like that. Doesn't officially support OG, but might be worth a try. I don't recall any talk of the feature... Probably because we have a notification light. It was popular on the i777 though.
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didn't work on mine unfortunately. I'd tried it a couple of weeks ago while looking for solutions on this issue (along with many other apps). I'm on SnowJB. So far the only one that has worked is using Xposed+GravityBox... the problem with that one is that it seems to link the side notification LED red light to the front softkeys LEDs, so when the phone is charging and the red LED is flashing on/off the front LEDs flash as well. This bothers me because once I go to sleep and charge the phone the white front LEDs do seem very bright... plus I don't like the fact of having them flashing every night for 8 hours straight, gives me the impression that it'll cause them to get damaged much sooner than normal since they weren't really desinged to flash like that. There is an option on GravityBox that says DISABLE LED FLASHING WHILE CHARGING... which I thought could've helped to prevent that charging flashing but at least in my case that option did nothing,
It would be awesome if someone could come up with a mod for this. Even better if someone knew what file could be edited through root browser to make the red light flash faster on notifications.
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didn't work on mine unfortunately. I'd tried it a couple of weeks ago while looking for solutions on this issue (along with many other apps). I'm on SnowJB. So far the only one that has worked is using Xposed+GravityBox... the problem with that one is that it seems to link the side notification LED red light to the front softkeys LEDs, so when the phone is charging and the red LED is flashing on/off the front LEDs flash as well. This bothers me because once I go to sleep and charge the phone the white front LEDs do seem very bright... plus I don't like the fact of having them flashing every night for 8 hours straight, gives me the impression that it'll cause them to get damaged much sooner than normal since they weren't really desinged to flash like that. There is an option on GravityBox that says DISABLE LED FLASHING WHILE CHARGING... which I thought could've helped to prevent that charging flashing but at least in my case that option did nothing,
It would be awesome if someone could come up with a mod for this. Even better if someone knew what file could be edited through root browser to make the red light flash faster on notifications.
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Install the button led app. It works.
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You could probably do that with Tasker in the Play store. $2.99 though.
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mikeylikey said:
Install the button led app. It works.
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Thx....
didn't work either... which version did you install? (I saw there were several on the dropbox download link).
The problem I have with these apps is that they interrupt the normal function of the softkey lights... for example I like to have these lights always ON while my screen is ON as well, I don't like them to time out... and there is an option withing stock Android to set them up like that.... but when I use an app to use the LEDS for notifications for some reason it disables the stock preset and shutts them off entirely while the screen is on... I kinda gave up on this. I'd just be so happy if I could modify the frequency of the RED LED on the power button on notifications.
emv1031 said:
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didn't work either... which version did you install? (I saw there were several on the dropbox download link).
The problem I have with these apps is that they interrupt the normal function of the softkey lights... for example I like to have these lights always ON while my screen is ON as well, I don't like them to time out... and there is an option withing stock Android to set them up like that.... but when I use an app to use the LEDS for notifications for some reason it disables the stock preset and shutts them off entirely while the screen is on... I kinda gave up on this. I'd just be so happy if I could modify the frequency of the RED LED on the power button on notifications.
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I use the same setup with cap keys always on. That's the downside all apps/mods have regarding the keys getting disabled when the screen is turned on after a notification. Simply turn the screen off and back on to reset the keys and they will turn back on/reset. I'm using 1.6.
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I'm wondering if there's a way (app or manual edit of system files) to make the hardware buttons less used to keep them from getting soft
and for that I'm mainly focusing on the power button as it is frequently used, I have two ideas:
- taking the gesture from the new M8 which is by double tapping the screen, if you're a developer please tell me if it's possible to take that function from the M8 maybe edit it and make it work on the One Max!
- We have a great special thing called fingerprint scanner, and since it's not that good at identifying the owner's fingerprint but always works at identifying fingerprints of people, maybe we can use it to wake up screen by simply swiping the finger over it!
So here is my question and here are my ideas, if you have a good answer for me please share it in the comments!
Thanks XDA!
Also looking for a way to do it, but in my case the reason is my power button stopped working and the only way to wake the device is by plugging a charger. What could I use else before having it fixed by service?
for switching off i use nova launcher with the app "screen off and lock"
DoubleTap on screen now the max going off. (i do this with all phones)
But switching on with doubleTap i always searching how it can work. I have
no idea
my understanding is that without a modded kernel, turning screen ON with touchscreen taps is a no go.
an alternate is to use something like the xposed sense 6 toolkit feature "wake screen with volume buttons". granted it still uses hardware buttons, but at least the power button wont have to take as much "abuse" anymore.
for turning screen off, sense 6 tookit offers gestures on the homescreen. i have mapped swipe down to screen off.
i vaguely remember reading about another xposed mod that can map double tap on status bar to screen off.
just my 2 cents!
edit: i m using another xposed mod called "sense 6 lockscreen mods" that enables double tap to screen off on the lockscreen.
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greddy said:
for switching off i use nova launcher with the app "screen off and lock"
DoubleTap on screen now the max going off. (i do this with all phones)
But switching on with doubleTap i always searching how it can work. I have
no idea
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Try WTN by Wolandsoft. Works perfect for me. I was looking for a way to turn on the phone in the car while driving. This works perfectly.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wolandsoft.wtn&hl=en
barrr said:
Try WTN by Wolandsoft. Works perfect for me. I was looking for a way to turn on the phone in the car while driving. This works perfectly.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wolandsoft.wtn&hl=en
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Try AutoScreenOnOff
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danielkao.autoscreenonoff#
Even better than WTN that I recommended. Just found this one last night. A lot smoother.