I just found this in general software development, and since many of us seldom or never go there, i tought i'd share it here.
it is a blue bar battery meter, which i first came across in LordClockans ics and liked very much
all credits to pvyParts, none of this is my work, just sharing http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371330
Yes, it's a great little app, fantastic for those of us who came from WM
You can do quite a few things with it, like change the colour, have it vary according to the charge level, change the height/position of the bar...
Only for me animation during charging cause lags?
it has been mentioned in the original thread a few times... no real solution yet, turn it off...
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Hi I am new to android and am considering switching from my iphone 3gs to a nexus one (or possible samsung captivate) It would be great if yall could answer these questions and any other helpful information you have on the phone!
1. How are the touch sensitive buttons on the bottom of the phone? Do yall ever have any trouble activating them or anything?
2. How is the battery life on this phone? I use my phone for texting ALOT, probably 5000 messages a month. Will i still be able to get a good days use out of the phone? That's all i really need because i charge it at night anyway. Also does rooting the phone and installing different ROMs or kernels improve battery life, or any other improvements over stock android? If so, which ones would you recommend for this.
3. I've read about screen burn in and some touch screen issues, have yall experienced any of these first hand?
I would be very appreciative if you could answer these questions for me
1. How are the touch sensitive buttons on the bottom of the phone? Do yall ever have any trouble activating them or anything?
I don't but my wife does. However, she tends to mash the screen with the side of her thumb because she is a blackberry user and has long nails. As an iphone user I'd think you'd be fine. You'll LOVE Swype.
2. How is the battery life on this phone? I use my phone for texting ALOT, probably 5000 messages a month. Will i still be able to get a good days use out of the phone? That's all i really need because i charge it at night anyway. Also does rooting the phone and installing different ROMs or kernels improve battery life, or any other improvements over stock android? If so, which ones would you recommend for this.
My N1 lasts all day easily, unless I'm doing something crazy like wireless tethering without a charger. That said I have a 2nd battery on a home charger because I hate (or badly forget about) leaving my phone plugged in EVER. Mostly I swap the battery in the morning on my way out. Froyo boots up fast!
3. I've read about screen burn in and some touch screen issues, have yall experienced any of these first hand?
I would be very appreciative if you could answer these questions for me.
Have not noticed any burn in issues yet. The contrast on the N1 AMOLED is a gorgeous thing to behold. It has a nicer image than my LED backlit Samsung TV, which is no chump.
However, the phone's screen struggles terribly in direct sunlight.
1. Touch buttons have been improved and are more responsive after the Froyo update.
2. Can be be good, can be bad. Should last you the day, but with heavy texting i wouldn't know. If you unlock and root it you can experiment with different roms and kernels to improve it. When i got my phone with stock 2.1 -update1 the battery was average. But then i unlocked it and flashe Cyanogen ROM and the battery got way better. So it is up to you. Unlocking and rooting voids warranty, but HTC have been kind to fix/replace phone as long as you re-flash stock to it.
3. Has happened to some. Mostly i think is due to the white status-bar that with long use on highest brightness. It can happen because it is fixed on one place allowing the white and bright burn gradually into the screen. Like the old Tv's (pre-plasma) you know. Leave it on overnight with a still image actually burns the image on the screen when turning it off. Old news really . Again, rooting it will allow you to install a black status bar thus eliminate the threat of a screen burn.
Most phones like these struggles in sunlight. But when beefing brightness to MAX it actually is "OK" to use it in the sun.
i have the slight burn in. its very faint and you would not even notice it AT ALL its that minor. but the problem is google made the status bar all white, and it never moves from that position of the screen no matter what you are doing with the phone. so because its amoled screen, those pixels wore out slightly quicker.
there is an easy way to avoid this problem, change to an all black color status bar. problem solved however you need to root in order to do this. good news is that now you can root without unlocking the bootloader, so HTC can never tell the phone was rooted, in case you were worried about voiding the warranty.
How can you root without unlocking the bootloader? And how do you change the color of the notification bar? Is there a simple themeing application like there is on jailbroken iphones?
Look in Developers section for the non-unlocking rooting thread.
(personally - I don't live in US so warranty means nothing to me, my phone was rooted after ~2 hours I took to check intact parts functionality).
Look up "Metamorph" in Apps section.
Another question, my girlfriend recently got the mytouch 3g. It works pretty decent and everything, but it is quite noticeably choppy. I would assume the nexus one is very smooth due to the 1ghz processor?
legion21 said:
How can you root without unlocking the bootloader?
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Pretty easily: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=710842
Hey!
If you guys really really want the MOD, let's do something about it. AND I NEED ALL SUPPORT FROM EVERYONE.
Read Carefully.
I'm not sure if you've heard of PSX emulator or not. The author, zodttd, has started the project because he saw
there was a petition ( Here ) to have me bring PSX, N64, and the VLC media player to the Android platform. With over 1800 signatures I started work on PSX a few days ago.
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So what I am thinking is, we should do the same thing too!
I have begun a petition. Now all I need is you guys to sign it. It's a really simple process.
Once we have enough signatures, we can show it to mods from other communities.
Petition
Thanks,
Clay
have you sent any emails to app developers or anything like that before you post a petition? I think you may be jumping the ball a little bit here... go ask a few developers first.. Im pretty sure someone might have the time (or knowledge to help you learn how to implement your idea...
doesnt seem like it should be that hard to link the led notification and a button backlight... they have done it with trackballs...
As soon as I get my vibrant I shall start work on this.. Someone will probably get it working before me but I shall give it a shot..
Petition is a nice idea, but no need for it. Im pretty sure once the vibrant (galaxy s) gains more popularity, the programs an mods will start to come.
wow making the button backlight as notifications is actually a really good idea.
Lieu10ant said:
wow making the button backlight as notifications is actually a really good idea.
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Second that! Actually seems like a pretty simple mod as well.
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Second that! Actually seems like a pretty simple mod as well.
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Thirded. Great idea.
This would be fantastic. Good idea.
can't wait to see progress.. also, is there a charging light? if not can there be a mod to have one of the buttons (i rather see the search icon as a charging LED)
Thinking about getting a Vibrant, and this mod would make the purchase that much easier.
All for it!!!
Make it happen
Im still on the fence if i should buy this phone because im so used to my g1's hardware keyboard and the lack of an led notification is kind of turning me away from this awesome beast. i spent maybe half an hour playing with one today at t-mobile...if this gets done maybe ill get a vibrant and overcome my attachment to hardware keyboards lol.
a cool idea would be to have someone make the backlight for the buttons light up sequentially left to right!
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Im still on the fence if i should buy this phone because im so used to my g1's hardware keyboard and the lack of an led notification is kind of turning me away from this awesome beast. i spent maybe half an hour playing with one today at t-mobile...if this gets done maybe ill get a vibrant and overcome my attachment to hardware keyboards lol.
a cool idea would be to have someone make the backlight for the buttons light up sequentially left to right!
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Even in stock form you will not regret the purchase of this device I love this device
Agreed. This thing is amazing. Came from a G1 and the lack of hw keyboard isn't a big deal for me (and I used the hw kb constantly!). No led notification is odd, but if we can do this button backlight mod....
What about AMOLED?
I don't get it-
Why are we looking for workarounds like lighting the menu buttons when there's a Super AMOLED screen to play with? Since there's no backlight to lose precious mWh's from the battery every time you want to show a light pixel, shouldn't a simple white text/pattern/indicator drawn on the screen with the rest of it black/off work as needed? Make it flash, make it off most of the time like a normal indicator, make sure that notification is bright, perhaps make it customizable, and bingo!
It might even be more efficient than some silly LED somewhere...
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Even in stock form you will not regret the purchase of this device I love this device
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thanks i think ima go for it!
and whoever mentioned the screen idea, its deff not bad either imo but idk how thatd compare to the backlight idea battery-wise...i mean maybe youre right it might take less battery to flash the screen rather than the menu buttons
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I don't get it-
Why are we looking for workarounds like lighting the menu buttons when there's a Super AMOLED screen to play with? Since there's no backlight to lose precious mWh's from the battery every time you want to show a light pixel, shouldn't a simple white text/pattern/indicator drawn on the screen with the rest of it black/off work as needed? Make it flash, make it off most of the time like a normal indicator, make sure that notification is bright, perhaps make it customizable, and bingo!
It might even be more efficient than some silly LED somewhere...
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that doesn't sound bad at all, something like the battery icon that the screen shows when the phone is powered off but is charging. have a notification icon show on the screen and have it blink at certain values
yes sir. i'm all for it as well!
That sounds like a great idea. And different buttons could be set for different notifications. Like say the Menu button could light up if you have a new text, the Home button if you have a new E-mail, and so on.
I used to do a lot of Java coding, but am pretty rusty. Tomorrow I'm going to start looking into implementing any of the ideas mentioned here. Already installed the android sdk, just need to learn how to write android applications
Hello programmers, love this forum since i know it 3 years ago...
the BIG question i have is;
i switched a broken s3mini screen to a new one.
everything working fine till i slide the brightness tab down.
every click it slides down, the screen turns into a color, as if absence of color calibration, or intense of certain colors making the only brightness option i can choose to see accurate colors is on max.
i updated the firmware to latest, still no results. its an original never rooted 8190.
thanks in advance and great work!
Is your new screen a Samsung genuine? Or is it 3rd party? It could be incompatibility. If you never changed the firmware and it was working before the new screen, but not now, it's probably the new screen.
Good luck!
Why does Samsung have to change something thats beautiful from pure Android
Status bar: Whats with the stupid up/down arrows under the WiFi icon and the broadcast lines on the data icon. Does anyone care? It makes the icons look smaller and the status bar look really weird. Are the UI folks all blind? Why does the font on the status bar huge? If I enable battery percentage, thats half the width of the bar. On second thought, maybe they are blind. My N5 status bar looks absolutely beautiful.
Tweaks are nice...but: Its nice they provide some tweaks. I like the fact the phone call notification has mute ,vol, and end buttons. Nice touch but can't Samsung keep the material design in tact and add these features?
And for ****s sake, its Back, Home, and Task Viewer. Not the other way around. Sheesh.
Occasional heating of the phone (almost never happens with Nexus 5).
Horrendous battery. I think the battery life is same as my 1.5 year-old Nexus 5.
Great screen and awesome camera.
I wish they offer this phone in two flavors. Pure Android and Samsung Crap.
Sorry, had to vent.
I like the way the wifi icon is set up. And since I'm a right, the back on left is nice for me. Heating is much of a problem i noticed and battery lasts well for me. Have you cleared the cache partition?
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I like the way the wifi icon is set up. And since I'm a right, the back on left is nice for me. Heating is much of a problem i noticed and battery lasts well for me. Have you cleared the cache partition?
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Yes, that was one of the first things I did. Also, brightness is usually set between and 5 and 10%. The screen is very bright. So you actually find the up/down data arrows under the WiFi icon useful? How? All I always ever cared was whether I had a WiFi connection or how strong the signal was. Both were well represented in the Lollipop/Marshmallow implementations (filled in white with no discreet bars).
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Yes, that was one of the first things I did. Also, brightness is usually set between and 5 and 10%. The screen is very bright. So you actually find the up/down data arrows under the WiFi icon useful? How? All I always ever cared was whether I had a WiFi connection or how strong the signal was. Both were well represented in the Lollipop/Marshmallow implementations (filled in white with no discreet bars).
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Yeah I've found it useful sometimes. When apps or webpages get stuck or slow, the indicater is useful to me in telling my phone's network usage.
I use the data symbols as well. Especially when uploading files to Google drive etc... Sometimes the uploads stop and the indicators help determine if it's the case. Hope they leave them there.
I love the arrows, as well. When I don't see them, I know it's time to kick my kids' tablets of the network...
I am very concerned with the heating issue. Something is drawing on my battery hardcore, which obviously increases heat. I have to power off, then back on to stop it. A standard reboot doesn't solve it.
Then get a nexus
Well, forgot my wall charger and laptop charger while I was visiting my parents for a few days. Ended up putting my Note 8 in maximum power save mode. Normally not an issue. Went to it just fine and I replied to one last message before going to sleep.
Apparently my substratum didn't like this mode and crashed my system ui even in safe mode. Because I didn't have my laptop cable it was dead to and I couldn't run the adb codes to turn substratum off. Now I'm factory reset and up and running a single now that I am home. Nothing lost die to cloud usage.
My main question has anyone else run into this issue? I don't use this setting often and can easily avoid it. Searching everywhere has had little success in getting information on this subject.
Anyone willing to be my Guinea pig and test some things out for me? I run a business off of my phone and can't keep reseting it as my M8 can't handle making ads like this baby can.
I just read another post regarding a problem with sungstratum and the nav bar, I myself used it and did not like the inconsistency of the results, and then there is the issue when updating firmware, it is mandatory to uninstall ALL the layers before updating, if you leave updating in auto mode, that is problematic, seeing all these inconveniences (and some more) I consider the benefit/trouble ratio very poor, but that is my opinion
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I just read another post regarding a problem with sungstratum and the nav bar, I myself used it and did not like the inconsistency of the results, and then there is the issue when updating firmware, it is mandatory to uninstall ALL the layers before updating, if you leave updating in auto mode, that is problematic, seeing all these inconveniences (and some more) I consider the benefit/trouble ratio very poor, but that is my opinion
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That nav bar problem being the black fixed navbar ? Anything white static over a black amoled is calling for screen burn. I have a black navbar but it auto hides, as much as I hate the auto hid function. Wife has her navbar fixed on white stock color theme.