Hello,
I just picked up an S9+ and I think it's great. I'm coming from having had a variant of the MotoX line for the past 4 years (MotoX (1st Gen) and MotoX Style/Pure).
I really like my new S9+, but there are two features in particular I REALLY miss from the MotoX. I'd like to know if there's anyway at all to get the S9+ to have the following:
1. What Motorola called "Active Display", and what I think Google now calls "Ambient Display". The functionality of Active Display is SO much better than Samsung's "Always On Display". Mainly that in Active Display you can preview incoming alerts without actually having to go to the lock screen or unlock the phone.
2. Gestures. On the MotoX line, you could use various gestures to activate functions on the phone. The best one was "twist" to activate the camera. Yes, I know a quick double tap of the power button on the S9+ will activate the camera, but a quick twist is slightly faster.
Anyway, if there's any possible way at all to work these features into the S9+ please let me know!!
Thanks everyone!
nbvolks said:
Hello,
I just picked up an S9+ and I think it's great. I'm coming from having had a variant of the MotoX line for the past 4 years (MotoX (1st Gen) and MotoX Style/Pure).
I really like my new S9+, but there are two features in particular I REALLY miss from the MotoX. I'd like to know if there's anyway at all to get the S9+ to have the following:
1. What Motorola called "Active Display", and what I think Google now calls "Ambient Display". The functionality of Active Display is SO much better than Samsung's "Always On Display". Mainly that in Active Display you can preview incoming alerts without actually having to go to the lock screen or unlock the phone.
2. Gestures. On the MotoX line, you could use various gestures to activate functions on the phone. The best one was "twist" to activate the camera. Yes, I know a quick double tap of the power button on the S9+ will activate the camera, but a quick twist is slightly faster.
Anyway, if there's any possible way at all to work these features into the S9+ please let me know!!
Thanks everyone!
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About point 2 there is only one answer, unfortunely. NO CHANCE!
nbvolks said:
Hello,
I just picked up an S9+ and I think it's great. I'm coming from having had a variant of the MotoX line for the past 4 years (MotoX (1st Gen) and MotoX Style/Pure).
I really like my new S9+, but there are two features in particular I REALLY miss from the MotoX. I'd like to know if there's anyway at all to get the S9+ to have the following:
1. What Motorola called "Active Display", and what I think Google now calls "Ambient Display". The functionality of Active Display is SO much better than Samsung's "Always On Display". Mainly that in Active Display you can preview incoming alerts without actually having to go to the lock screen or unlock the phone.
2. Gestures. On the MotoX line, you could use various gestures to activate functions on the phone. The best one was "twist" to activate the camera. Yes, I know a quick double tap of the power button on the S9+ will activate the camera, but a quick twist is slightly faster.
Anyway, if there's any possible way at all to work these features into the S9+ please let me know!!
Thanks everyone!
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You can install a different always on display from the play store
Hey, I also came from a Moto. Did you get any solutions?
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I now have two 5.1 phones, a Moto G 2015 and an Elephone S2. Both have this really TERRIBLE feature that switches the display on when the phone is moved about, or even when one's hand is waved about near them. I am astounded to find that some people think this is useful. I do not: if I want to get to the lockscreen, then I want to just press the power button, as in the past.
Neither of the phones appears to have anything relevant in their settings. I have read other posts and it's clear some phones do have settings for this, but these two do not.
Both my phones are rooted of course and using Titanium backup I've found that freezing 'Moto Display' does prevent the Moto G from having this dire and unwelcome 'feature'.
The Elephone S2 is a pretty bog standard version of 5.1, but I can't see anything in the Titanium list of app modules that seems relevant to preventing the motion and proximity sensors from starting up the phone. If anyone has any solutions to this problem, I'd be delighted to hear from them.!
Turn off ambient display.
Wakamatsu said:
Turn off ambient display.
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The nearest setting to that which the Elephone has is 'smart wake ', and I already had everything switched to off there. It seems to be the user interface for an app 'motion recognition' and is the settings for custom screen draw actions, not to do with position or proximity sensors..
But I think I have found the cure in my particular instance. It is another app 'Pocket Lock' which I installed because I used to use it on my Moto G 2013. It's to prevent the screen waking up by accidentally pressing the power button while the phone was in my pocket.
I automatically installed it on the Elephone, but there it seems to have the reverse effect of encouraging the sensors to kick the screen into action. I've de installed it and now it doesn't want to wake up unless I press the power button. Which is fine!
Hi Guys,
As I've replaced my Oneplus One to a Oneplus 2 and lost the ambient display option again, I'd like to see your opinion. How is it possible that in 2015 I can't tell my phone with the latest stock version of Android to simply turn the screen on for a short while when a notification comes.
I know I can (and actually I do) install 3rd party applications to do that but why isn't it in the stock version? What's Google's point of view about that? AFAIK the iPhones have always had this feature.
Thank you!
My last phone before this one is the Droid Mini. So far the Z5C is infinitely better in everything (but my expectations/standards are pretty low...) except that the Active Display feature from Motorola was awesome. From a bit of Googling, there are some other apps that copy this functionality to various degrees, but maybe some of you can give more specific insight than the articles?
1.) First of all, I'm confused. This article below states that Motorola released the app on Google Play Store for the general Android population... but it doesn't come up when I search it on my Z5C. What the hell?
http://gadgetstouse.com/featured/to...lay-notifications-alerts-android-device/19901
2.) If the Moto app is not available, any opinions on the alternatives? From reading a few articles, sounds like Dynamic Notifications is my best bet. Thoughts?
I tried xposed module, but it used proximity sensor, so it is not the same thing. I also miss that feature a lot from my nexus 5x, double tap to wake is kind of replacement when phone is laying on the table. When you take it out from a pocket, pressing the button isn't such a big deal. I couldn't find any reasonable replacement so I learnt to live without it
I really don't understand why other manufacturers don't copy-cat this feature. It was without question the greatest feature of my old phone.
I tried out Dynamic Notifications, but it's weird. First, it didn't play nice with the existing lock-screen and login structure. When I had a notification, pressing the power button no longer took me to the lock screen -- instead it just turned off and locked the screen. It's as if Dynamic Notifications became a second lock screen, and the power button toggled it on/off, and I had to tap the home key to get to the actual lock screen. On top of that, after getting to the actual lock screen it seemed to somehow screw up the fingerprint login because I kept getting prompted to use my other login method (PIN in my case). Most weird of all, it had some crazy bug when I used Uber. I was trying to check where the Uber car was on the map, and it threw me to the Dynamic Notifications screen, with the Uber notification showing. I logged in again, pulled up Uber again, checked the location of the Uber on the map, and it instantly did it again! And again... So screwed up.
TL;DR: Do not use this app, at least not on this phone. It's buggy and/or just makes you jump through extra hoops when logging in.
Yeah I also have double tap enabled. It's okay I guess.
Nexus 5x had a dedicated hardware sensors for that matter, I guess that may be the problem. Anyway I agree with you that every manufacturer should implement it.
I would try AcDisplay for the lock screen and if you want raise to wake, try Gravity Screen . Be warned though, Gravity Screen is kind of glitchy with the fingerprint sensor, so I would just use AcDisplay. ^_^
dlee390 said:
I would try AcDisplay for the lock screen and if you want raise to wake, try Gravity Screen . Be warned though, Gravity Screen is kind of glitchy with the fingerprint sensor, so I would just use AcDisplay. ^_^
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try use ambient display is an xposed module
dlee390 said:
I would try AcDisplay for the lock screen and if you want raise to wake, try Gravity Screen . Be warned though, Gravity Screen is kind of glitchy with the fingerprint sensor, so I would just use AcDisplay. ^_^
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So I finally got around to trying out AcDisplay. That video that is on the app download page shows how you can wake up the phone using proximity sensors, when pulling it out of your pocket or even waving your hand over it... But none of this works at all. Not even a little bit. Does that mean that the Z5C does not have any proximity sensors built into it?
Hi guys,
On my old OnePlus X and OnePlus 6T thanks to Oxygen OS I could set actions depending on the presses on the navigation bar (for example: long press the home button to lock the screen) in the settings but I can't seem to find this option on the settings app of my OnePlus Nord 2.
Is it hidden somewhere?
If it's not possible anymore out of the box, are there any apps, adb commands or accessibility hacks to lock the screen when I long press the home button?
I really miss this feature, I was able to lock the screen without touching the power button from anywhere (while being in an app, while texting, etc.).
Thanks!
Do you mean this?
Badtz-Maru said:
Do you mean this?
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No that's not it.
There was a setting on previous OnePlus phones that simply locked the screen (as pressing the power button would do) by long pressing the home button (the round one in the middle).
I can't seem to find this setting on my Nord 2 even though it is present on my OnePlus X, 6T and even on my friends 8T...
The Oxygen OS version running on the Nord 2 is completely different from all the other OnePlus phones, which sucks...
This is probably why:
https://www.slashgear.com/oneplus-nord-2-oxygenos-is-built-on-top-of-oppo-coloros-25683993/
I use on Nord 2 , Double Tap to Sleep and Double Tap to Wake . DTS from Microsoft Launcher and DTW from own system . Both are working flawless .
muppetz said:
I use on Nord 2 , Double Tap to Sleep and Double Tap to Wake . DTS from Microsoft Launcher and DTW from own system . Both are working flawless .
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Yes I also do that but this isn't exactly what I want since you have to return to the homescreen and only then you can double tap to lock. I want to be able to lock my device while in an app and without touching the power button.
No those actions are sadly missing , the OS in the Nord2 is missing a lot of OxygenOS previous features because it's now merged with ColorOS and they decided to not include a lot of usefull features from both OS and that's very stupid IMO .
Pouic said:
No those actions are sadly missing , the OS in the Nord2 is missing a lot of OxygenOS previous features because it's now merged with ColorOS and they decided to not include a lot of usefull features from both OS and that's very stupid IMO .
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Yeah that's what I figured, that sucks
Just returned the phone because of that (and other reasons too for example slight black crush on low brightness and very bad battery drain especially on standby/when I sleep)...
I have a Nord CE and even though it lags sometimes in the UI it's overall way nicer (screen and battery life are fantastic). I just miss the alert slider on the CE and the vibration motor sucks but it's not a big deal to me.
I think the black crush in low brightness is a common issue with a lot of OLED panels , my previous oled phones had exactly the same behaviour .
As for the standby drain it must be an app you have, during the night I get 0.5~0.7% per hour on my nord 2 , and I easily get 2 days with a single charge and moderate usage.
But the fake OxygenOS with so many useful features missing is clearly very annoying for me, if the Android 12 update don't bring anything new I think i'll switch for a Pixel 6
Pouic said:
I think the black crush in low brightness is a common issue with a lot of OLED panels , my previous oled phones had exactly the same behaviour .
As for the standby drain it must be an app you have, during the night I get 0.5~0.7% per hour on my nord 2 , and I easily get 2 days with a single charge and moderate usage.
But the fake OxygenOS with so many useful features missing is clearly very annoying for me, if the Android 12 update don't bring anything new I think i'll switch for a Pixel 6
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Yeah the battery life would probably have settled after 2-3 more days of use but the fake feeling OS really put me off.
The black crush issue is indeed plaguing OLED displays it seems, I tried the 7T, 8, 8T and Nord 2 in the span of a year and sent every single one back after a few days because of it and stayed with my 6T which had a perfect screen.
I recently bought the Nord CE to give it at try and the screen is also perfect, so now that I've finally won the OLED lottery I'm keeping it despite it lagging sometimes compared to my 6T.
I feel like the black crush issues are worse on high refresh screens: the 8T screen (120Hz) had the worst black crush and all of the 90Hz had it too but less pronounced (except for my Nord CE). I rarely see black crush on older 60Hz devices (My 6T, my girlfriends Oppo Reno 2, older Samsung phones, etc.).
I miss this feature too. Could you please share it with me if you find a solution?
platway said:
I miss this feature too. Could you please share it with me if you find a solution?
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Depending on which Android version you are: when rooted (Magisk) activate LSPosed and then GravityBox (R). This has all the options you need! DO. NOT. PUT. YOUR. CLOCK. IN. THE. MIDDLE!!! This will bootloop your device! All other GravityBox features seem to work.
On A12 there is no official GravityBox but in LSPosed you'll find an unoffical version for Android S. Not a lot works but buttoncontrol does!
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Depending on which Android version you are: when rooted (Magisk) activate LSPosed and then GravityBox (R). This has all the options you need! DO. NOT. PUT. YOUR. CLOCK. IN. THE. MIDDLE!!! This will bootloop your device! All other GravityBox features seem to work.
On A12 there is no official GravityBox but in LSPosed you'll find an unoffical version for Android S. Not a lot works but buttoncontrol does!
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So I have to root my phone first.
In case you want to use GravityBox: yes.
exis_tenz said:
Depending on which Android version you are: when rooted (Magisk) activate LSPosed and then GravityBox (R). This has all the options you need! DO. NOT. PUT. YOUR. CLOCK. IN. THE. MIDDLE!!! This will bootloop your device! All other GravityBox features seem to work.
On A12 there is no official GravityBox but in LSPosed you'll find an unoffical version for Android S. Not a lot works but buttoncontrol does!
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Any solution you know for A13? I have a OP9P with A11 but decided to update OS and I miss this feature a lot, both long pressing home button to open notification bar and double press home button to lock screen. Don‘t know why they took out these features, they were really useful. (Im rooted but I didnt found GB for A13 or any other magisk module solution yet)
Unfortunately this was all I have. My OP9 is running A12 with /e/OS
Does anybody know whether LineageOS 20 has this long press mapping feature? I'm getting really annoyed with this and the fingerprint brightness bug in OOS12 on my OP7T. About ready to jump ship.
xdapepe said:
Hi guys,
On my old OnePlus X and OnePlus 6T thanks to Oxygen OS I could set actions depending on the presses on the navigation bar (for example: long press the home button to lock the screen) in the settings but I can't seem to find this option on the settings app of my OnePlus Nord 2.
Is it hidden somewhere?
If it's not possible anymore out of the box, are there any apps, adb commands or accessibility hacks to lock the screen when I long press the home button?
I really miss this feature, I was able to lock the screen without touching the power button from anywhere (while being in an app, while texting, etc.).
Thanks!
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App switching screen on Android 12 is pretty bad. So easy to make mistakes, always unintentionally swiping down or up. I haven't used Android 11, not sure if they are same . Came from iOS.
I came from an lg v20 with android 8 on it and i prefer how it was done on there but with the new app switcher screen I have to say I love the easy screenshot, url sharing, and text selection on screens that are otherwise not text selectable so I guess that makes up for it.
What i dont like is the screen isnt very responsive to touch with my tempered glass screen protector unless I force 90hz in developer options. Speakers sound like crap compared to my v20 , and of course no easily removable battery, no microsd slot, no headphone jack and no ir remote sucks too but as far as I know there isnt a single good flagship phone out there that still has all those.
I only bought a new phone because the v20 became unbearably slow and good new batteries are hard to come by anymore, I also need it for developing AR apps.
nraudigy2 said:
App switching screen on Android 12 is pretty bad. So easy to make mistakes, always unintentionally swiping down or up. I haven't used Android 11, not sure if they are same . Came from iOS.
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By default, they use a bunch of hideous gestures.
Go into System Settings --> Accessibility --> System controls, and change "System navigation" to "3-button navigation". That will give you three nice buttons on the bottom edge of the screen... back, home, and task switcher.
96carboard said:
By default, they use a bunch of hideous gestures.
Go into System Settings --> Accessibility --> System controls, and change "System navigation" to "3-button navigation". That will give you three nice buttons on the bottom edge of the screen... back, home, and task switcher.
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Checked this out too, but you get the ancient Android 7-or-8 like buttons. Much rather see the Pixel 3's buttons placed on the bottom.
Although the gestures are a bit finicky, it took me a while to get used to, but now I've got it under control.
Its not about "ancient", its about EFFECTIVE. The 3-button menu bar is the only option that has ever existed that doesn't involve indecypherable/inconvenient gestures.
Helpmepleasekidnqpped said:
My wife was kidnapped and I have no idea how to get her GPS turned on. her phone find my device is off but she tried to share location with me
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Call the police! They may require SIM card tracking from the operator! Or by IMEI of the device!
trabadura said:
Call the police! They may require SIM card tracking from the operator! Or by IMEI of the device!
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I'm 99.99% positive that you replied to some kind of scammer. They created a profile to report this on a random forum? I reported the user, if there is any legitimacy, forum admin can sort that out and deal with it.
bebop707 said:
I came from an lg v20 with android 8 on it and i prefer how it was done on there but with the new app switcher screen I have to say I love the easy screenshot, url sharing, and text selection on screens that are otherwise not text selectable so I guess that makes up for it.
What i dont like is the screen isnt very responsive to touch with my tempered glass screen protector unless I force 90hz in developer options. Speakers sound like crap compared to my v20 , and of course no easily removable battery, no microsd slot, no headphone jack and no ir remote sucks too but as far as I know there isnt a single good flagship phone out there that still has all those.
I only bought a new phone because the v20 became unbearably slow and good new batteries are hard to come by anymore, I also need it for developing AR apps.
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Welcome to 2021! Phones haven't had removable batteries for a while now...
dunno how your triggering app switching when swiping up and down considering you need to swipe from bottom of screen and hold it for a good second
basic gestures hard