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Finally a trackball wake up for Froyo 2.2

All you guys coming from an iphone or blackberry can finally get the phone woke up by clicking the trackball. No more fumbling around with a case on the N1 trying to look for the wake up button. Go to the Market and look for Widgetlocker. It costs a a dollar and well worth the convenience. There's a ton of features and from testing doesn't seem to impact battery usage. Small footprint in memory and the only app I could find that did what I needed: Wakeup the phone when clicking on the trackball

Where have you been?

Big_O said:
All you guys coming from an iphone or blackberry can finally get the phone woke up by clicking the trackball. No more fumbling around with a case on the N1 trying to look for the wake up button. Go to the Market and look for Widgetlocker. It costs a a dollar and well worth the convenience. There's a ton of features and from testing doesn't seem to impact battery usage. Small footprint in memory and the only app I could find that did what I needed: Wakeup the phone when clicking on the trackball
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Thanks for the heads up, although, its been available in custom ROMs on this very site for some time.

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JupiterDroid said:
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Big_O said:
All you guys coming from an iphone or blackberry can finally get the phone woke up by clicking the trackball. No more fumbling around with a case on the N1 trying to look for the wake up button. Go to the Market and look for Widgetlocker. It costs a a dollar and well worth the convenience. There's a ton of features and from testing doesn't seem to impact battery usage. Small footprint in memory and the only app I could find that did what I needed: Wakeup the phone when clicking on the trackball
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Senior Member, lollollol
JD

what is this a Widgetlocker hustle???

Guys, come on. We all can't read every single forum post or download every single app in the market. Not everybody is running a custom rom. I had a hard time looking for this type of program and nobody bothered to post a solution only a stupid comment. Forums are for helping people not insulting them. If this helps some people then it was worth the post.

If you had asked here, we would have hooked you up straight away... You must take it as a bit of fun. To us it looks funny because trackball wake has been around for ages. We didn't mean no harm, just a little fun...
Come to any of the forums here with questions and we are more than happy to help you out, but to start a thread about how this is a 2.2 thing is funny to us. As we have been using track wake since 2.1.
If you have anymore questions, jump on to a ROM post in the dev section, and ask away
Good luck fella,
Sent from my Google Nexus Beast

There's an app called No Lock. Which wakes and unlocks your phone with volume buttons and trackball.
Oh and it's free.

Big_O said:
All you guys coming from an iphone or blackberry can finally get the phone woke up by clicking the trackball. No more fumbling around with a case on the N1 trying to look for the wake up button. Go to the Market and look for Widgetlocker. It costs a a dollar and well worth the convenience. There's a ton of features and from testing doesn't seem to impact battery usage. Small footprint in memory and the only app I could find that did what I needed: Wakeup the phone when clicking on the trackball
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welcome to june 2010!

Big_O said:
All you guys coming from an iphone or blackberry can finally get the phone woke up by clicking the trackball. No more fumbling around with a case on the N1 trying to look for the wake up button. Go to the Market and look for Widgetlocker. It costs a a dollar and well worth the convenience. There's a ton of features and from testing doesn't seem to impact battery usage. Small footprint in memory and the only app I could find that did what I needed: Wakeup the phone when clicking on the trackball
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Thanks, dude. I'm not rooted and have no desire to root, so this is useful information. When you press the track ball, does it take you to the lock screen or does pressing also unlock the phone. I would frankly prefer it be the former like on the iphone.
musashiken said:
There's an app called No Lock. Which wakes and unlocks your phone with volume buttons and trackball.
Oh and it's free.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't No Lock completely unlock the phone when you press the trackball, volume buttons, etc.? I would prefer that pressing take you to the lock screen.

On widgetlocker it takes you to the lock screen, upon clicking the trackball. No lock which I've also tried skips the lock screen. Like I said earlier, I'm rooted but not running a custom rom (which has the trackball wakeup built in) which is why this app does the job exactly as described.
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

Big_O said:
Guys, come on. We all can't read every single forum post or download every single app in the market. Not everybody is running a custom rom. I had a hard time looking for this type of program and nobody bothered to post a solution only a stupid comment. Forums are for helping people not insulting them. If this helps some people then it was worth the post.
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agree 100%
so there IS a trackball wake avail for non-rooted 2.2 users.
Is the no lock (free) working for froyo 2.2?

it's possible to root your phone, without unlocking the bootloader. i did it for a while, then decided to go ahead and unlock. (shrug) i bought it, it's mine. ;-)
soooooo, on to kangorama (cyanogen bits with lots of wonderfulness from other devs) and it has a 'cyanogen settings' that allows to unlock (as in, wake) the phone compeltely with the trackball. then go on with trackball notification colors, dark title bar, hide title bar, etc and you've got a really nice phone.
(shug again) i like it purdy alright.

some of us don't want to root the phone though, hearing of other issues (and possible future issues) in regard to the choice to root.
froyo 2.2 is just fine for my purposes.

musashiken said:
There's an app called No Lock. Which wakes and unlocks your phone with volume buttons and trackball.
Oh and it's free.
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I'm not seeing a feature offering wake with trackball or vol buttons with no lock (free). No settings for it other than unlock on or off.

Turn OFF the phone using the trackball
What about an app which also turns off the phone via the trackball?
(due to power button dysfunction)

elio said:
What about an app which also turns off the phone via the trackball?
(due to power button dysfunction)
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I guess turning it off via the trackball could cause some confusion, i.e some of us use the trackball to select stuff instead of tapping.
Anyway one alternate option is to use 'screenoff'. It only cost a buck on the market. I bought it cos HTC is being anal in my country to those with unlocked bootloaders.
More info on it here
http://android.konreu.com/applications/screen-off/

If you already got WidgetLocker for your Trackball wakeup "needs" you could always launch it and have it set to a low timeout period, say 15s. Then you'd launch it and it'd then turn off in 15s. I think it'll go as low as 10.

Kies froyo 2.2 update status bar backlight + root questions

I'm an android noob, but I'm trying to figure this system out.
I just did the 2.2 froyo update on my stock rogers captivate, and after some worrying because of a boot screen lock up, I have my phone running. One thing i noticed was the status bar won't adjust my screen brightness any more. Before, swiping left to right would decrease brightness, and right to left vice versa. It doesn't do that any more.. is this because of froyo? Can i have this option back?
The book sequence is messed up. First the rogers logo comes, then it goes to the S, sits for about 15 seconds and then proceeds to the phone menu. During this, I have a couple random vibrations. Is this anything to be concerned about? I rely heavily on phone reliability.
I've never rooted because I'm overwhelmed with the process and I'm afraid of bricking my only phone.. Should I be overly worried about bricking?
Will rooting grant me access to some killer apps?
Thanks for your patience,
Mike

I've never heard of the notification slide brightness thing your talking about. Never had it on my cappy or any roms I've used. And your boot sequence sounds about right, I wouldn't worry about it vibrating unless you blatently see it causing problems.
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ninjuh said:
I've never heard of the notification slide brightness thing your talking about. Never had it on my cappy or any roms I've used. And your boot sequence sounds about right, I wouldn't worry about it vibrating unless you blatently see it causing problems.
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the notification brightness slide is there, even in stock. turn off automatic brightness to activate the functionality

Pirateghost said:
the notification brightness slide is there, even in stock. turn off automatic brightness to activate the functionality
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in 2.2? i tried that..

freerider_4life said:
in 2.2? i tried that..
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workin just fine here on Andromeda

I figured it out, I have to slide my finger really slow and it will register.
Back to my rooting question. I'm a mostly a weekend tweaker, not an all-out hacker. Should I consider rooting? I'm mostly content with my android, other than some browsing issues and lag from time to time. Would rooting grant me more benefit? I'm just concerned with damaging my phone as it is my only handset, so if I wreck it.. it's over until i get another phone or this one fixed.. whats your opinion gentlemen?

Rooting is almost painless and has next to 0 for error factors.
You have two options. You can either a search for OneClickRoot, or you can DL the file that I've attached to the post and rename it to Update.Zip on the BASE of your internal SD card. Reboot into recovery mode. Then "Reinstall Packages".
Let me know how it goes for you

Pick up the phone, swipe down to unlock, didnt register

You ever finding yourself picking up the phone, swiping down to unlock and the actual ring doesn't show up till AFTER you swiped? It's starting to be really annoying. Usually happens after a long standby as opposed to having used the phone recently. Sometimes even though the ring shows up it doesn't register my swipe the first time at all, even if done firmly.
How the hell can you develop muscle memory with a device that doesn't always react the same way to your input?
I hate having to slow down to cater to my device's (special) needs... It's driving me nuts
I'll be putting it up on swappa tomorrow if I can't find a solution.. if anyone wants, XT1058 bootloader and carrier unlocked
I switch phones a lot so nbd. I hate android's lack of consistency. Plagued every single android flagship device I've ever had in various ways. I think it's time I try WP8 =)
I'm less then 24 hours after a fresh wipe (RSD lite). Running very little apps. Nothing frozen in titanium, just rooted with TWRP recovery.

scorpion667 said:
You ever finding yourself picking up the phone, swiping down to unlock and the actual ring doesn't show up till AFTER you swiped? It's starting to be really annoying. Usually happens after a long standby as opposed to having used the phone recently. Sometimes even though the ring shows up it doesn't register my swipe the first time at all, even if done firmly.
How the hell can you develop muscle memory with a device that doesn't always react the same way to your input?
I hate having to slow down to cater to my device's (special) needs... It's driving me nuts
I'll be putting it up on swappa tomorrow if I can't find a solution.. if anyone wants, XT1058 bootloader and carrier unlocked
I switch phones a lot so nbd. I hate android's lack of consistency. Plagued every single android flagship device I've ever had in various ways. I think it's time I try WP8 =)
I'm less then 24 hours after a fresh wipe (RSD lite). Running very little apps. Nothing frozen in titanium, just rooted with TWRP recovery.
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never had this issue unless you are referencing the active notifications which has nothing to do with android. If you are talking about pressing the unlock button then the unlock icon appearing and swiping that down (which is the only part that is part of android, then I have never seen this happen. If you are talking about active notification (which i assume you are because it swipes down while the android unlock screen swipes to the right i believe) then yes sometimes it doesn't appear for me but not in a lagging since. In that it just doesn't recognize i want active notifications to pop up. But its typically not when it has been in standby for a while but when i have been moving it a lot like in my hand. Either way, it typically pops up for me before i can even see the screen.
edit: android lockscreen unlocks in all directions not just down.

jayboyyyy said:
never had this issue unless you are referencing the active notifications which has nothing to do with android. If you are talking about pressing the unlock button then the unlock icon appearing and swiping that down (which is the only part that is part of android, then I have never seen this happen. If you are talking about active notification (which i assume you are because it swipes down while the android unlock screen swipes to the right i believe) then yes sometimes it doesn't appear for me but not in a lagging since. In that it just doesn't recognize i want active notifications to pop up. But its typically not when it has been in standby for a while but when i have been moving it a lot like in my hand. Either way, it typically pops up for me before i can even see the screen.
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When you pick up the phone, the unlock ring appears. I'm saying the time it takes for it to appear is not consistent. This makes it impossible to develop the muscle memory needed to consistently unlock your device fast. It makes me feel like my phone can't keep up with me, something I've never had a problem with on the...dark side.
I wasn't referring to this as this as the sole reason as why I think android is consistent, but just one example out of many. Inconsistent scrolling, dropped frames during transition animations, app open times varying wildly even if precached, etc. I just don't think I'm an android guy, I can't ignore the crappy UI handling. Some people don't even perceive it as lag but for me it just jumps in my face every time. BUT that's subject matter for a different topic.

double post delete pls

scorpion667 said:
When you pick up the phone, the unlock ring appears. I'm saying the time it takes for it to appear is not consistent. This makes it impossible to develop the muscle memory needed to consistently unlock your device fast. It makes me feel like my phone can't keep up with me, something I've never had a problem with on the...dark side.
I wasn't referring to this as this as the sole reason as why I think android is inconsistent, but just one example out of many. Inconsistent scrolling, dropped frames during transition animations, app open times varying wildly even if precached, etc. I just don't think I'm an android guy, I can't ignore the crappy UI handling. Some people are used to it and don't even perceive it as lag but for me it jumps in my face every time. BUT that's subject matter for a different topic.
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if you want to keep up with muscle memory then click the unlock button on the right and then unlock by swiping the lock on the screen like all the other phones on the market. It will work every time all the time with 100% accuracy/consistency. If you don't like the active notifications that Motorola built into the phone then don't use it. The inconsistency you are describing here is Motorolas fault, but it is their first shot at active notifications so I expect more bugs than I have seen so far.
But as i said before, mine either doesn't pop up or pops up before i can even look at the screen so I don't have the problem you do. And when it doens't pop up its typically because Im playing with in my hand then decide i want to use it and I have been tossing it all around. If it is sitting still or in my pocket and i pick it up it pops up the ring faster than I look at the screen. I doubt it but maybe it has to do with the twrp rooting method.

If I have to resort to that, 95% of what moto X brings to the table for me, is gone. At that point I might as well be using a nexus for the awesome dev support.
I would rather try to troubleshoot the issue since it IS software. It is evident because the method which you described brings up the phone instantly anytime anywhere so the hardware capability is there... i guess... lol.

No issues on mine, active notifications with and without notifications works every time, before the phone is completely flipped or out of my pocket, the pixels are fully lit. I'm stock non rooted though, but it works every time as it is intended.
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No issue for me either. When I pickup the phone or take it out of my pocket, the ring is there. And I've experienced zero lag either in UI transitions or opening apps.

I've never experienced anything like this before. The performance of my X has been flawless.

I tested it a little bit more and I found you are right. I didn't notice it because I don't grab my phone and instantly try to unlock. When I did let it sit for 10 minutes or so and had the screen not flipped over so I could watch it there was a noticeable 1 second time difference as opposed to when I laid it down let the screen go dark then pick it back up. But for me I really had to grab my phone and try to unlock it before bringing it to my face for it to not pop up in time for my unlock swipe.
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Moved to Note 3 from Note - a few customization questions

Last night I picked up the Note 3 to replace my original Note i717. I’ve rooted it with designgears’ root. So I’m currently running into a few issues that I’m hoping some of you might have some suggestions on.
1) The note 1 had five icons per row in the home screen, now despite about a third more horizontal pixels, we have 4, and it looks like fewer vertically too. This needs to change. It sounds like there is no way to do this without hacking around...
Should this work? It's for the S3 though, and I worry that things may have changed since then.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2221124
Solved, using modified T-Mo SecLauncher4.apk installed per: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46635711&postcount=26
2) On the note, it would show that I had text messages or missed calls on the lock screen, and I could swipe to unlock starting from those to go strait to the new message or missed calls. Now I see that I have messages, but I can't seem go directly to it like I could before. How can I get that feature back? From what I've seen so far, I liked the old lock screen better. I don't really know what it's doing with that top part of the lock screen - I may be missing some key insight here.
3) The notification bar is cluttered up with a keyboard icon, "select input method". How do I get rid of this? I know how to select a keyboard, thankyouverymuch.
Wanam/Xposed does it
4) WTF is my magazine? What does it do? Do I want it?
Samsung bloat, but said to cause problems when disabled.
5) How can I make it stop connecting to AT&T Wi-Fi "hotspots", without turning off Wi-Fi entirely? It automatically connects to them, using them instead of the perfectly good 4G signal. This would be fine if they worked, but unfortunately most of them have no connectivity behind them, so internet access just stops when in range if one with Wi-Fi enabled. I know I fixed this before in the note, but I forget how.
Settings -> Wifi -> Advanced, uncheck the obvious option
6) There is an eye in the notification bar. Sometimes it is white, other times it's dimmed. What is this conveying to me? Is this the samsung eye-tracking thing to make it not turn off the screen while looking at it? If so, does it only think i'm looking at it when the eye is white? If so, it's not doing a very good job, because i've seen the white eye only a couple of times for a few seconds at a times.
I was right, and it can be disabled, or Wanam can hide the notification
7) Has anyone had any luck removing the AT&T logo from the back cover without trashing the finish? Maybe acetone? What kind of plastic is it, anyway? It feels like polyethylene or polypropylene from the outside, but the inside feels like something harder than that, so I don’t know.
8) The stupid physical home button activates the screen! Is there a way to wipe the bottom of the screen with the phone on without accidentally unlocking it, short of carrying q-tips around to neatly clean around the stupid physical home button?
Wanam/Xposed can disable unlock on home.
New Question:
9) That really annoying bug where it gets stuck in EDGE mode is still here. If you try to use the internet at exactly the wrong time while leaving a dead-spot (happens a lot with subways in boston), your data connection gets stuck in EDGE, and stays there, potentially for a long time. Rebooting or toggling airplane mode fixes it... but isn't this a pain for everyone who lives around a subway system? How do others deal with this?
10) The package contained a small plastic baggie, containing a small tool made from a strip of metal, about 1 inch long, and an even smaller bag with 5 thin black rods about 3/4ths of an inch long. What are these?
Replacement S-Pen tips, and a tool for replacing them.
Thanks

I don't know all the answers but ill try
1)I think that's a DPI issue at least partially. Root it,install Xposed and the App Settings app.
2)go to settings, device, lock screen to enable lock screen widgets
3)not sure. Xposed might be your friend here
4)more Samsung bloatware. I don't use it.
5)I believe you can turn this off in the wifi settings
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DrAzzy said:
Last night I picked up the Note 3 to replace my original Note i717.
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Me, too. I think you're really gonna like this device!
1) The note 1 had five icons per row in the home screen, now despite about a third more horizontal pixels, we have 4, and it looks like fewer vertically too. This needs to change. It sounds like there is no way to do this without hacking around...
Should this work? It's for the S3 though, and I worry that things may have changed since then.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2221124
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Don't know if that will work, but one alternative is to use a custom launcher.
4) WTF is my magazine? What does it do? Do I want it?
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Probably not, but from what I've read, freezing it causes problems with email. One thing you can do is to go into the app, press menu, select settings, and uncheck the box that says "open using the home key." That will at least stop that annoyance.
5) How can I make it stop connecting to AT&T Wi-Fi "hotspots", without turning off Wi-Fi entirely? It automatically connects to them, using them instead of the perfectly good 4G signal. This would be fine if they worked, but unfortunately most of them have no connectivity behind them, so internet access just stops when in range if one with Wi-Fi enabled. I know I fixed this before in the note, but I forget how.
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Under settings, wifi, advanced, you uncheck the box that says connect automatically to AT&T wifi.
6) There is an eye in the notification bar. Sometimes it is white, other times it's dimmed. What is this conveying to me? Is this the samsung eye-tracking thing to make it not turn off the screen while looking at it? If so, does it only think i'm looking at it when the eye is white? If so, it's not doing a very good job, because i've seen the white eye only a couple of times for a few seconds at a times.
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Correct. I find this feature worthless and have disabled it on my various Galaxy devices.

(Questions not resolved highlighted in orange)
1) Thanks - I have Xposed + Wanam, but it doesn't seem that they allow me to change the number of icons in the grids. I'm studying the dimens.xml and integers.xml - Trying to figure out what everything there means. I think i'm gonna be able to get 6 decently sized vertical rows in... but I need to make sure I know what I'm doing, and don't screw something up.
There is a SecLauncher4.apk and SecLauncher4.odex in the /system/app directory - I've decompiled the .apk, and know how to recompile it - but I'm a little unsure of what the presence of the odex file means in terms of where to go from there.
2) The issue isn't that there's no widget, it's that the widget that's there sucks. Before (on the original note), I could in one motion swipe (in any direction) from the message icon or widget or whatever you'd call it on the lock screen, and land at the new message. Now it seems like I have to tap the messages notification and then swipe in the box beneath it, which requires considerably more dexterity to do with one hand than just swiping away from the widget like I could do before.
3) Wanam does it.
4) Got it! sounds worthless. Actually, might be possible to defang in SecLauncher4.apk - it's got a lot of options related to the magazine.
5) Thanks, got it.
6) Okay, cool. It actually seems to be better than useless, so I'm gonna leave it on for now (until it does something that pisses me off, at least). Wanam can hide the eye if I tell it to, which I probably will.
8) Wanam can fix this.
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9) That really annoying bug where it gets stuck in EDGE mode is still here. If you try to use the internet at exactly the wrong time while leaving a dead-spot (happens a lot with subways in boston), your data connection gets stuck in EDGE, and stays there, potentially for a long time. Rebooting or toggling airplane mode fixes it... but isn't this a pain for everyone who lives around a subway system? How do others deal with this?
10) The package contained a small plastic baggie, containing a small tool made from a strip of metal, about 1 inch long, and an even smaller bag with 5 thin black rods about 3/4ths of an inch long. What are these?

10. Replacement spen tips and the removal tool.
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Mad383Max said:
10. Replacement spen tips and the removal tool.
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Well I'll be damned. Is the removable tip new? Or
did I never even see the tips for my note one?
Still really need help on that first question about modifying the Sec Launcher

DrAzzy said:
Well I'll be damned. Is the removable tip new? Or
did I never even see the tips for my note one?
Still really need help on that first question about modifying the Sec Launcher
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Go to the tmob note 3 board. I thought I saw someone mention of a mod for your grid size.
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Mad383Max said:
Go to the tmob note 3 board. I thought I saw someone mention of a mod for your grid size.
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Thanks, found info on using the T-Mo files on AT&T Note 3 - see link in OP.

To update to MM or to not

Well the update finally hit and now I'm looking for anybody who is using it to share their experience(s). I'm scarred by the G3 update to Lollipop which basically broke the phone but that's another story. Does anybody know of a known bug list or anything like that which is being compiled?
Cheers

I like it. Haven't ran into any problems yet. I didn't OTA. I downloaded the firmware, factory reset my phone, then flashed via Odin.

Im running it for 2 days now, rooted and viper4android working. I love it. Battery life is good, Deep sleeps like it should. Very snappy and they made some minor changes to the UI. Just waiting on a fully compatible kernel now
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I like it. Haven't ran into any problems yet. I didn't OTA. I downloaded the firmware, factory reset my phone, then flashed via Odin.
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I did the same, some say dont but i like change and this one is a good change

I just flashed the stock T-Mobile 6.0 firmware this morning. One change that annoys me is the swipe to unlock screen. I use pattern to unlock my phone. On 6.0 I get this screen before I can input my pattern, so it is an unnecessary extra step to unlock my phone. Very annoying.

I updated about two days ago, so far I like it a lot. My device seems to be running a lot smoother than before. Feels much better to me.
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HKSpeed said:
I just flashed the stock T-Mobile 6.0 firmware this morning. One change that annoys me is the swipe to unlock screen. I use pattern to unlock my phone. On 6.0 I get this screen before I can input my pattern, so it is an unnecessary extra step to unlock my phone. Very annoying.
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Wait till you use fingerprints to unlock the device, they have updated some security policy so they need secondary unlock method along with fingerprint to unlock the phone, that's very very annoying.. thinking of replacing fingerprint lock all together

soumik shah said:
Wait till you use fingerprints to unlock the device, they have updated some security policy so they need secondary unlock method along with fingerprint to unlock the phone, that's very very annoying.. thinking of replacing fingerprint lock all together
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Ummm...no. The secondary unlock is a backup for the fingerprints. You don't have to do both to unlock the phone. Just verified, turned the screen on, and held my finger in place...boom, unlocked.

Just when you restart the phone you need to put the secondary unlock method.
Phone is very fluid and I love it, best update i had in a phone in a long time.

Just 1 thing and I bet you'll like it.
No more laggy.
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Wow first time I've seen a SW push on a phone that everybody seems to be pretty satisfied with lol. I took the plunge this morning and noticed the secondary password for fingerprints as well. However I know that's always been there as a back up and for whatever reason it had to be reset on the first boot but it's gone away now and is only a back up when it doesn't recognize my fingerprint more than three times. So far so good, I'm curious to see if there is any improvement on the battery life or not.
Thanks for the info everybody!

After I updated my phone to 6.0.1, I did a factory reset. I couldn't be happier. I use fingerprint unlock and have my phone encrypted. Since the release (4/11), I haven't had any issues with battery or performance. I did notice that the auto-brightness seems to be more aggressive than Lollipop. One issue I didn't like was that when I used All-In-One-Gesture to enable double-tap to sleep, I had to manually type my password every time to unlock the phone. I think because of my security settings (allowing an app to have permission to lock the screen), I wasn't able to fingerprint unlock unless I manually turned off the screen using the power button. Otherwise, I don't mind entering a long password every time I turn on the phone.
In standby, my phone would drain 15%-20% over 8 hours each night while I slept. With MM, my phone drains less than 5% each night now.

Anyone having problems with LED notifcations not working? It works when I'm charging, but not any other time. It is turned on in settings>display. I also made sure notifications settings for my apps were not blocked. Weird. So far I'm unimpressed by MM. Alot of things don't work right, like LED notifications The battery improvement is negligible. I was getting 5% battery loss overnight anyway. I didn't do a factory reset before/after upgrading. Maybe that will fix my problems.
Update: I fixed the LED notification by doing a factory reset in recovery. Now I have to reinstall everything . My phone is stock by the way.

it works pretty good all around ui is smooth it has a refined feel compared to the older updates
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Battery life has been MUCH better for me.
Rooted+ Xposed. I even disabled the location wakelock module I HAD to use in LP, and it's still much better. SOT isn't really effected much, but screen off + listening to streaming music has more than halves battery usage for me, along with idle time.
Tthe phone is much smoother, and I have not experienced any lagging (have animations turned off, though). Plus, finger print unlock is tons faster. LP always lagged hard for me there, now it's almost as fast as the wife's 6s+.

I got a small issue with unlock function.
If I made screen of my hard button, I could use fingerprint to unlock the screen, but if I used 3rd-app to make screen off, I need to use back up method - PIN to unlock the screen.
Does anyone face the same issue?

Received the OTA update. I'm on stock.
Battery life is *slightly* better, but it's nothing to write home about.
The auto-brightness has been updated, and I feel it's not for the better. It seems to dim/brighten aggressively, and/or not work at all. It's been irritating.

trungctu said:
I got a small issue with unlock function.
If I made screen of my hard button, I could use fingerprint to unlock the screen, but if I used 3rd-app to make screen off, I need to use back up method - PIN to unlock the screen.
Does anyone face the same issue?
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I have that problem too. I forget which security setting it is, but basically it requires you to enter your password whenever an app locks the screen. I don't think there is any way around it. I uninstalled all my apps that lock the screen, except greenify, for that reason.

drbongles44 said:
I have that problem too. I forget which security setting it is, but basically it requires you to enter your password whenever an app locks the screen. I don't think there is any way around it. I uninstalled all my apps that lock the screen, except greenify, for that reason.
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Me too... back to stock "easy touch" and wait for next update...
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Great update
If you stick with the stock marshmallow update I think you will be happy. You are able to root it also without a problem.
If you make sure NFC and WiFi are turned off (When you're not using them) I personally have seen better battery usage than Lollipop.
I'm running the stock rooted marshmallow and it really is a beautiful update with a bunch of enhanced features. I would recommend.
As a bonus, it also gives your phone a radio update (which allows it to better contact T-mobile's towers).
If you really want a boost in speed, you should lookup changing your APN settings to force your phone into IPv4, because currently your phone will default to IPv6 which (at least for me) is a tad slower than IPv4.
Good luck and have fun messing around with the new update

HKSpeed said:
I just flashed the stock T-Mobile 6.0 firmware this morning. One change that annoys me is the swipe to unlock screen. I use pattern to unlock my phone. On 6.0 I get this screen before I can input my pattern, so it is an unnecessary extra step to unlock my phone. Very annoying.
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yeah I'm with you on that.
Another thing that is annoying me, and maybe there is a setting to turn this off (if so please tell me as I've not yet found or really looked into it yet)...
It used to be that when I opened a link it would prompt me which browser or or program I wanted it to open with. I actually like being prompted each time because sometimes I want this a bit more secure and so would open with Orweb vs. Google.
Now it seems that once I select and option it becomes the default option until I go in and change it.
Otherwise, I'm enjoying it. I'm rooted running xposed and viper etc.
I really do want my gradient status bar back though...