Ok, so i just got a 7" HDX, and i wonder about 2 things:
Is the wifi supposed to be on always, even when screen is off. (I know i can switch it off manually, but i would prefer it to shut of when screen shuts of and nothing uses it, like my Nexus 10 does)?
Is the lock screen really supposed to be just a wallpaper and a unlock slider? (no time, date, notifications, wifi indication or anything. Can't even seem to change the wallpaper)
Other than that it's a nice and snappy little device
welcome to the world of crappy OEM skins on top of android
Epedemic said:
Ok, so i just got a 7" HDX, and i wonder about 2 things:
Is the wifi supposed to be on always, even when screen is off. (I know i can switch it off manually, but i would prefer it to shut of when screen shuts of and nothing uses it, like my Nexus 10 does)?
Is the lock screen really supposed to be just a wallpaper and a unlock slider? (no time, date, notifications, wifi indication or anything. Can't even seem to change the wallpaper)
Other than that it's a nice and snappy little device
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Hmm don't have one yet but can't you just try the MAYDAY and ask them?
Ok, i used mayday, and the answer is "no" to both questions
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Link to original thread in SGS forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692
Link to app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=363696&d=1279643523
madmack said:
I saw the idea posted somewhere previously that instead of getting the capacitive lights on, we really should be putting the phone's AMOLED screen to work ! specially that it doesn't consume any backlight energy when displaying a black screen. So I developed an app that does just that, upon receiving a notification, it will display a black screen with a red dot somewhere in the left top corner. Ok, i really should put these in bullet points..
the application does the following:
1. When your phone receives a notification, it switches the screen on and displays a red dot somewhere in the top left corner. The location of this dot is random every time you receive a new notification. This will guarantee using different LEDs so that the same ones won't be burned out ! The reason why I chose red is because it uses the least amount of energy to display.
2. The app runs as a service, after installing, you'll need to lock the screen once and unlock it for it to activate. After this, the application should run automatically after a reboot.
3. To get rid of the red dot, the only key you can use is the home key. Using the capacitive touch buttons will do nothing, and so as clicking anywhere on the screen. Once your screen turns on, the notifications disappear and will not come up until a new notification sound is received.
I have also logged the touch drivers and saw that although I'm displaying a black screen and setting flags to not respond to touch messages, android is still receiving touch messages when you touch any spot on the screen. This, I imagine, consumes resources! So I disabled the touch drivers when the black screen is active. Pressing on the Home button should reactivate it. If your screen is unresponsive to touch even after the notification screen is dismissed, a simple restart should take care of it. Once you've restarted, you can uninstall the app.
Now the touchscreen drivers were a lot easier to mess around with. The sourcecode given by samsung helped me achieve the activation/deactivation of the screen. Things are not the same with the capacitive buttons. You'll notice that when the black screen is on, if you touch any of the soft buttons, they'll light up (although am suppressing them programatically). Am still analyzing the drivers to see if there is an easy way to disable these drivers too when the notification is on.
One more note, make sure the notification sounds that you choose for your different apps (Calendar, Gmail, Gtalk.. etc) are the default samsung notifications or the ones you placed in /sdcard/sd/media/audio/notifications
Any other sound notifications will simply not trigger the program to display the notification screen.
I just want to let you guys know that this is a beta app. Install it at your own risk.
Enjoy ! Comments and feedback will be appreciated
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Thanks for the heads up, but after reading the thread I think I'll wait till it's been tweak a bit more.
That's a good idea, but if it's going to flash using the screen, why no take advantage of the fact that it's a SCREEN and flash an icon instead of just a little red dot?
For example, use the same system icons that appear in the notification bar when messages are received / calls missed, etc. And if you're worried about burning out pixels you could make it change location every minute or so.
Just my $.02
that was mentioned in the original thread... I think it is a good idea... I cant wait to see how this grows...
Does this require your GS to be rooted?
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That's a good idea, but if it's going to flash using the screen, why no take advantage of the fact that it's a SCREEN and flash an icon instead of just a little red dot?
For example, use the same system icons that appear in the notification bar when messages are received / calls missed, etc. And if you're worried about burning out pixels you could make it change location every minute or so.
Just my $.02
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the idea of a full icon was mentioned, but just like a blinking led, the idea here is to keep the notification using as little power as possible. Not sure if the power usage would be more or less showing one pixel or a whole icon.
Obviously 100+ pixels would use more power than just one but the screen is very power conservative. I think it's at least worth a try to see if it really impacts the battery that much.
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Does this require your GS to be rooted?
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I have it on my phone atm, it's not rooted. Seems to be working fine.
doesnt work if you have No Lock installed too
Umm..i have nolock and it works fine. Try turning it off, then lock and unlock your phone, and turn it on again. Should work.
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How do you properly remove the app? It is screwing everything up on my phone.
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How do you properly remove the app? It is screwing everything up on my phone.
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Just curious...How is it screwing up your phone?
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Just curious...How is it screwing up your phone?
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It was hurting battery leaving the screen on even though it was just red. I uninstalled it from manage applications and now my screen won't turn on once it is off, I have to pull the battery. Anyone know if doing a clear storage wipes the internal SD card?
+1 for icon notifications
If we can't have a real led, lets look cooler than all the other phones and have little icons of e-mail, sms, and missed calls. It would be nice.
and make them loook purrrrdyyyyyyy iphone-esque
Installed this today and so far so good. Sure it would look better with actual icons but if it saves me from having to unlock my phone all the time to look for new messages then I'm happy.
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Not sure why this thread is not getting enough attention when there were so many people begging for a notification app to come out?
Thanks for making the app, will try it out soon. Will give feedback as soon as I get it.
Not working for me at all. Tried default sounds, custom sounds, with puzzle piece, without puzzle piece, etc. Even tried a reboot. Yes, the service is running.
Samsung Vibrant
EDIT: Just worked, but seriously took like 10 minutes before the screen flashed and the red LED started blinking.
I'm having a problem with it as well. I see it running, but it doesn't notify me except for the initial notification. Also it seems to just keep the screen on.
I'll keep playing with it to see off I can figured it out.
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After much reading, it seems that the only known way to toggle Knock On/Off on the Verizon LG G3 is to root.
Because of my work situation and Good For Enterprise, I am unable to root. This has bugged the heck out of me.
I really wish to toggle Knock On/Off as when I'm cleaning the screen, fumbling the phone, etc it likes to wake up. From time to time I would get a stock LG Screen pop up that asked me to toggle this feature. I never did, as I didn't know how to replicate it.
Fast forward to last night. Note: so far I have only gotten this to work with a soft cotton shirt, but was able to replicate it numerous times. I pulled the phone out of my pocket. OCD & tempered glass don't mix. I starting cleaning my screen with my shirt. I had three fingers inside my shirt and start swiping up and down fairly fast with the screen off. Any other time, the screen would wake up, and I would have to manually turn it off to finish cleaning. However, the LG screen popped up asking to turn on/off Knock On. I left it alone, and tried this numerous times with success. I actually got a bit brazen and turned it off. I can tell you it indeed disables knock on as well as knocking off with the status bar (I use Nova). I can verify it works with the screen on as well, so it must have to do with swiping on the status bar.
I tried again this morning with a sweater and have yet to replicate it. If I figure anything more out, I will update this post, but props to Verizon for hiding stock features from us.
Erik
Mine doesn't turn on when I clean it... You must be doing it wrong
Chilidog said:
Mine doesn't turn on when I clean it... You must be doing it wrong
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Mine turns on every time I wipe it - be it with my T-shirt or actually cleaning it using the wipe and spray I use for my glasses. So it appears the OP isn't doing it wrong. But I'm sure he values you contribution to the topic.
Chilidog said:
Mine doesn't turn on when I clean it... You must be doing it wrong
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I wasn't aware there was a defined right and wrong way to use a piece of cloth to clean a smartphone screen. Is there any way you could post up a video on YouTube to share? Come to think of it, maybe the feature was always there, VZW just figured everyone was cleaning their screen the right way and wouldn't see it.
THANKS!!!!!
http://youtu.be/Tvh_l10fmzY
Cleaning it the wrong way brings up this screen-
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do you have a knock code set? When I had knock code set and I would clean the screen it would come on and I would get failed attempts to unlock. With Knock code turned off the screen says off while cleaning it
gramenz said:
After much reading, it seems that the only known way to toggle Knock On/Off on the Verizon LG G3 is to root.
Because of my work situation and Good For Enterprise, I am unable to root. This has bugged the heck out of me.
I really wish to toggle Knock On/Off as when I'm cleaning the screen, fumbling the phone, etc it likes to wake up. From time to time I would get a stock LG Screen pop up that asked me to toggle this feature. I never did, as I didn't know how to replicate it.
Fast forward to last night. Note: so far I have only gotten this to work with a soft cotton shirt, but was able to replicate it numerous times. I pulled the phone out of my pocket. OCD & tempered glass don't mix. I starting cleaning my screen with my shirt. I had three fingers inside my shirt and start swiping up and down fairly fast with the screen off. Any other time, the screen would wake up, and I would have to manually turn it off to finish cleaning. However, the LG screen popped up asking to turn on/off Knock On. I left it alone, and tried this numerous times with success. I actually got a bit brazen and turned it off. I can tell you it indeed disables knock on as well as knocking off with the status bar (I use Nova). I can verify it works with the screen on as well, so it must have to do with swiping on the status bar.
I tried again this morning with a sweater and have yet to replicate it. If I figure anything more out, I will update this post, but props to Verizon for hiding stock features from us.
Erik
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If you're not too attached to the stock LG launcher, then I've heard changing your launcher does this. Can't vouche for it as I haven't tried it, but this is what I've read. Might be worth a try if it bugs you that much and you can't root!
supposedly with the new Google Now launcher the knock on and off don't work.
That may be an option for the OP.
I think with Nova launcher you can toggle the knock on and off but I am not sure about that, just what I have read here.
both launchers install without root.
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labcoat22 said:
supposedly with the new Google Now launcher the knock on and off don't work.
That may be an option for the OP.
I think with Nova launcher you can toggle the knock on and off but I am not sure about that, just what I have read here.
both launchers install without root.
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I use the Google Now Launcher and knock code still turns my phone on without problem. I can still knock off but only on the notification bar.
Also, no issues with it turning on when wiping the screen.
One thing that has happened though is sometimes I pull it out of my pocket and end up touching the screen in a way before I enter my knock code that makes it think I put in the wrong code.
That is good to know. I have read of some folks the knock to un-lock stop working after installing a third party launchers
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LaTropa64 said:
I use the Google Now Launcher and knock code still turns my phone on without problem. I can still knock off but only on the notification bar.
Also, no issues with it turning on when wiping the screen.
One thing that has happened though is sometimes I pull it out of my pocket and end up touching the screen in a way before I enter my knock code that makes it think I put in the wrong code.
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Action launcher has an option for knock off an works great! Knock on as well as knock code works without issues too.
I use nova launcher prime and have mapped the double tap gesture to greenify hibernate and lock. This allows me to use nova but still enjoy double tap to turn off the screen
Is there a way to have the second screen always display time, battery, connectivity, and notification? Hoping to have extra real estate on the main screen.
I would be interested in knowing this as well, maybe there is someway to use the full screen (with the second screen part) altogether?
I'm confused. My second screen always shows the time, date, battery, and any notifications.
Does it show that info while the screen is on? Or does that information move to the main screen?
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Does it show that info while the screen is on? Or does that information move to the main screen?
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I can only speak for stock and unrooted but it DOES NOT show time, date, or battery info whilst the main screen is on. As far as notifications go, only briefly (1-2 seconds) as they come through.
I am also interested in this. I am very happy with the phone and the only issue is how the top gets slightly darker during immersive mode. Only when lighting up the second screen does the main screen become uniform for immersive apps. Is there a setting with the default ROM that forces the second screen on for all apps?
Same issue here
anime513;65644647Is there a setting with the default ROM that forces the second screen on for all apps?[/QUOTE said:
I'd think there must be. And at least with root we should be able to change that setting. Now let's hope someone finds it.
BTW: I contacted LG about this but haven't gotten a response yet.
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anime513 said:
I am also interested in this. I am very happy with the phone and the only issue is how the top gets slightly darker during immersive mode. Only when lighting up the second screen does the main screen become uniform for immersive apps. Is there a setting with the default ROM that forces the second screen on for all apps?
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Is this still an issue with newer V10 batches? It's the only thing keeping me from trying again. I'm a bit OCD and I returned 2 V10s in November because on book readingnin immersive mode, it drove me crazy that the top of the screen was slightly darker than the rest.
I'd be willing to give it a go again if I knew LG fixed.
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Hello there,
Well I think everything is in the topic, but a lil' background is never useless
I got a good old Galaxy S4 mini (second edition, with the quad core cpu). I wanted to have the feel of a new phone so I installed Lineage OS 14.1 (the only stable custom rom for my phone), I like it mostly but there are a couple of things that makes it annoying.
One of them is that I liked on the samsung to unlock it fast, meaning, when the phone is locked (screen off), I press the home button, the screen switches on, and I can directly type the PIN code to unlock the phone. From the Lineage settings you can set it up so that the PIN tab loads directly (actually you prevent the lock screen from loading), but you get nothing else from this screen ! No notification, no battery life, not even time....
Basically, I'd like to have all in one lockscreen because I don't like to swipe and lose time, I don't have much notifications, so a screen with half PIN pad and half time/notifications (maybe wdiget) would be perfect ! The ideal would also be not to have to press OK when entering the PIN code, you enter the X valid characters and this is it.
What lockscren would you advise me to test ?
Sorry, just upping the thread, it never appeared on first page as it was moved from an other section of the forum.
I hope someone will know about a lockscreen that would fit my needs
Hi everyone ,
I've got the chinese Find X 256Gb (PAHM00) and there are issues with the 'curved panoramic light'.
If somebody is calling me, the screen lights up, showing the number and the 'curved panoramic light' lights up too.
But the main problems are the messages and notifications. If my phone lays down for a while (standby) and i recieve a message, the screen lights up showing the message on a banner and turns off after a few seconds, no 'curved panoramic light'. I tried several different settings/options, but there are always only two results: 1. as mentioned above, 2. the screen stays black and the phone just rings, no 'curved panoramic light'.
One time, the phone was in my pocket and i recieved a message, I immediately pulled it out, the screen was black and the 'curved panoramic light' lit up, but only two times. I can't reproduce this.
What's wrong with my phone? I even did a factory-reset, but without positive results.
Does anybody have the same problems or a solution?
Thanks.
@Oppo-newbie
Settings --> Smart & Convenient --> Gesture & Motion --> Turn off "Screen-off Gestures"
This option is already turned off. The 'Raise to Turn On Screen' is off too.
Oppo-newbie said:
This option is already turned off. The 'Raise to Turn On Screen' is off too.
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Panoramic ligth does work here, but only 2 times. I believe that's normal. So don't expect it to keep flashing, it's just 2 times and that's it.. (Probably would kill the battery if it kept flashing.
No, Oppo says: 'When someone is calling or there are new notifications that just came in, the curved edges will light up, continuously.' ( I can't put in the Oppo link ) . On the website, they also say, that the curved light doesn't work if 'Turn On Screen Notifications' is enabled and I think that this is my problem, but I don't have this setting in my menu.
Same question i want to ask.
Any idea how to keep the light flashing until i read the message?
hope they fix Light Options...
I’ve only ever seen 2x for notifications and infinite for calls. I think you’re experiencing the feature exactly as designed
Same here. Could you fix it? I mean, if this is how it's supposed to work , it's pointless.
Lucky_stipe said:
Same here. Could you fix it? I mean, if this is how it's supposed to work , it's pointless.
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As for now, this feature is ridiculous. I couldn't find a solution. Hopping Oppo will fix it with an update.
By the way: can anyone tell, if it is the same for the 'global' version?
The Edge panoramic light is working like i had hoped it would. I receive the same problem as well. If anyone know which exact method to have the settings too, that would help greatly as I'm about to loose my mind with this phone and its mysterious operational system.
how to turn on panoramic lights for notification on find X
hey guys i got it :laugh:
you can turn on guester if u wish
just turn on lockscreen magazine
and subscribe any photo
lockscreen magazine exist in themes
superHACKERds said:
hey guys i got it :laugh:
you can turn on guester if u wish
just turn on lockscreen magazine
and subscribe any photo
lockscreen magazine exist in themes
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are you saying if you have lock screen magazine on it will work more effectively, please clarify thanks .
Mine works completely fine. Have global version CPH1871EX.
I have the screen clock on standby active and also the lockscreen magazine.
Also please check if the Turn on Screen for Notifications in set to OFF in the Notifications & Status Bar settings. Might be the reason why your display switches on instead of showcasing the panaromic notification light. BTW the notification light comes only twice over the edges and not more.
Here, I got it working after hours of try and error. Actually, it was a theme issue for me. First of all I turned off "Turn on screen for notifications" option in "Notification and statusbar" menu. This is what I did next:
0. Set lockscreen from the default theme
1. Turn on Lockscreen Magazine
2. Click on a like button, read a story
3. Turn off Lockscreen Magazine
4. Open Themes -> me -> my wallpapers
5. Set any wallpaper as lockscreen one