Music playback controls using volume rocker - doable? - Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I know that custom ROMs do this easy as pie, especially CM-based ROMs which tend to still be my favorite ones overall, but since the Active has a locked bootloader and apparently not enough serious interest so far to possibly ever get such a thing, does anyone have any idea of how to add such functionality to the stock AT&T ROM (SGH-i537 is my device, of course)?
I know PowerAMP claims to have such capability but I swear that I've tried that app on several devices and it's never worked even when I enable the option in the settings of the app so I'm not even going to try anymore with that one.
My GS4A is carrier unlocked and rooted as well (geohot's method) so I'm not sure if I need to install some root-required app to patch something, or just install a patch of some kind or whatever. If it's a kernel based thing then obviously I'm out of luck there, but if there's some way to enable that aspect it would be a great thing.
And yes I know about the torch functionality with a long press of Volume Up, but I don't have any real use for that so being able to control the music playback (Next/Previous with long presses) would be awesome.
If anybody has any info, I'd be grateful to hear it.

You need to install the Xposed framework and Wanam Xposed. There are a ton of options to tweak Touchwiz in addition to enabling volume rocker support for music apps. I use it and it works perfectly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44067239

Also check out the Wanam module. I use both this and Nottach.
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Devo7v said:
You need to install the Xposed framework and Wanam Xposed. There are a ton of options to tweak Touchwiz in addition to enabling volume rocker support for music apps. I use it and it works perfectly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44067239
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OUTSTANDING!!! Thanks for the info, will get on it when I get some free time today for tinkerin' around.
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Yep, it works exactly as noted, so thanks again. Funny though, it doesn't work for the native music app on GS4A (presumably a mod of the stock Android music player since it appears to be a bit modded, I don't know for sure). Works with Play Music which is fine, I still keep my tunes local on the microSD card anyway, no sense wasting bandwidth for nothing.
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Captivate Earphone/Mic Click Options

Hey guys,
One thing I really don't like about the Captivate is the earphone and mic that comes with it. The only options are single click options (play, stop, pick up, hang up), and none of other options like skip next track, skip previous track, activate voice control (long hold on the magnified glass). Is there an app that adds these functions or a way to enable the options? Or is that up to Cognition?
Thanks!
Hi,
Did I post this in the wrong section, or was this thread moved? I've never used an i9000 before, and not sure what the earphone/mic is like. I was in fact specifically speaking of the Captivate.
Thanks.
Will rectify the problem with your thread in a while. Closed temporarily wile we sort things out.
WB
Thanks for the rectification!
Hi, curious to know if you found an answer for your original question?
Which one in particular?
If you're on stock ROM, the click options are not available. That said, not all custom ROMs have it either, most do. I guess it has to be enabled within the kernel. I believe anything with Voodoo Sounds will have that. As far as my experience has shown.
As for voice control, I haven't found anything that worked. Can't say I've done much research into it though.
Just an fyi
If you long press the button, it skips to the next song
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[Q]Disabling lockscreen

Hello xda,
After a few weeks with my rooted nook touch, I have come to realize how annoying the DRAG TO UNLOCK screen is. Is there any way to skip this and go straight from screensaver to homescreen/book/whatever-you-were-doing? Already scoured the google and this forum and can't find anything.
Thanks in advanced!
yeah, that would be nice if the lockscreen/screensaver could be completely disabled!
I use No Lock by BoD http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.jraf.android.nolock It has a widget for toggling the lockscreen too. I use it on all my android devices that don't have a rom with it built in. I wasn't sure if it would work with the nook touch but it works like a charm. I'd be nice to have a custom rom for the touch that has it built in. Maybe if cm7 gets running on it.
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fatfishycell said:
I use No Lock by BoD http://www.appbrain.com/app/org.jraf.android.nolock It has a widget for toggling the lockscreen too. I use it on all my android devices that don't have a rom with it built in. I wasn't sure if it would work with the nook touch but it works like a charm. I'd be nice to have a custom rom for the touch that has it built in. Maybe if cm7 gets running on it.
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Thank you!
The problem of this utility is that it's always running as service and take some resources.
If I kill it from services keylock starting to work.
Think must be another ways - smth like disable lock in sys settings via adb.
If you're rooted with nook manager just use the nook touch mod manager and under the configure mod option you can disable the drag to unlock and also have a customized banner with your name and number below.
OB
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I know this is an old thread, and the Nook Touch Mod Manager fix DOES work if you have it installed, but as someone who just recently re-enabled the two part unlock, let me just mention that it is actually a useful feature. I don't know how many times I have pulled my Nook out to a random page, or random menu selection because the button got bumped whole it was in my pocket. Luckily, no random changes happened that were irreversible. It would really have sucked if I had managed to out it in black text on a black background, for example, and knowing my luck, it's amazing that I didn't.
So that's my two cents' worth. You can disable it, but it is actually quite useful, and speaking from experience, I recommend against doing it.

Latest nightlies break Gravity Box Quick Settings

Don't know if this has been reported, but the last couple of nightlies cause certain GB QS tiles to be blank (e.g. data, location), and the battery tile to register 0%.
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bruce7373 said:
Don't know if this has been reported, but the last couple of nightlies cause certain GB QS tiles to be blank (e.g. data, location), and the battery tile to register 0%.
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Installed GravityBox on 2013-12-08, worked nicely. Upgraded to 20131210 nightly via OpenDelta today, having to reinstall Xposed framework now.
husky69 said:
Installed GravityBox on 2013-12-08, worked nicely. Upgraded to 20131210 nightly via OpenDelta today, having to reinstall Xposed framework now.
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Reinstalling the Xposed framework didn't help.
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bruce7373 said:
Reinstalling the Xposed framework didn't help.
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It helped for me. I had to open Xposed framework app again and to reinstall the framework parts, reboot- and it looks like GG works again.
It's always been the case that the framework had to be reinstalled and it does reactivate GB, but the QS tiles are still messed up. Are you saying you're not having this problem?
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GB/XPosed also say explicitly not to use them with custom ROMs, or at your own risk.
dibblebill said:
GB/XPosed also say explicitly not to use them with custom ROMs, or at your own risk.
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True that. It was working on N4 up until the 12/9 update. I tried reinstalling GB and restored data from a Titanium backup and it seemed to work... until I rebooted again. Ah well, I can live without those tiles if everything else is working.
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GB/XPosed also say explicitly not to use them with custom ROMs, or at your own risk.
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Yup. While I am a big fan of Xposed, and GravityBox is awesome on devices without custom firmwares, use of either of them is an unsupported configuration that is invalid for bug reports.
Entropy512 said:
Yup. While I am a big fan of Xposed, and GravityBox is awesome on devices without custom firmwares, use of either of them is an unsupported configuration that is invalid for bug reports.
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Is there anything that comes close to being a viable alternative?
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I read somewhere that 4.4.1 broke GB.
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The main reason I installed Gravity Box is because of the customizable QS tiles and the lockscreen shortcuts. I believe sooner or later these features will be implemented on OmniROM. Then I won't have the need for it.
If your tiles are messed up after restarting / updating, try to disable Gravity Box from Xposed framework app, clear the Gravity Box settings, reboot, re-enable Gravity Box, reboot again, customize Gravity Box and try not to restart the phone again because you will face the problem again.
Quick Settings
Omni will have Quick Settings customization ?
timbalong said:
Omni will have Quick Settings customization ?
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I'd be very surprised if it didn't. But I doubt it's up high on priority list...
Another reason to use GB is their circular battery has the correct kitkat color (not always 100% white) and it's vertically aligned with the rest of the icons.
I noticed that toggles, that mess up are "flippable" ones. I don't use that exclusive feature of omnirom, so it would be very nice if developers added checkmark in settings that would disable this feature.
p.s. Hoped that new 4.2.2 omni update will fix this problem, but it didn't.
p.s. 2. If you want to use other features of GG, just don't touch quick toggle settings, or they will mess up after reboot
I noticed this also and it was asked about in the t-mobile note II omnirom thread. Someone said that if you disable the module, reboot, clear app data, re-enable the module, reboot, then just leave all the tiles as is (for example, don't modify anything) then the tiles survive a reboot. Kinda defeats the purpose, since you can change anything but at the very least all the tiles still work and you can still flip them without it breaking. Hopefully it gets fixed soon
The title of this thread is not entirely correct. Omni didn't break GB; KitKat is moving forward, 4.4.2 is progressing and GB is an xposed module that's not keeping up the pace for now (not that it should, thought).
Native customization will be coming soon, I believe. Omni devs are working on the foundations, we can't ask from them to drop that to get their hands on customization right now. But it's on the roadmap, and considering how fast they brought us a clean code and stable KitKat, that will probable come fast.
For now, we got other options too. For example, there are apps that bring toggles to the notification drawer without needing xposed.
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Title for this thread should be "Latest nightlies doesnt work with a mod that is recommended not to be used with omniRom"
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I've been trying to fix this the past few days, glad to know it's not user error but lack of official current support. GB should definitely take the opportunity to merge or stand out as a reliable module very soon. Once someone else takes what they have and can keep up, who knows.
Let me join this discussion to make things more clear.
I don't intend to write too many lines about GB's history, its main goal and policy but I'd like to mention one important thing.
GB is basically a non-flashing custom ROM which primary goal is to bring custom-rom like experience to closed-source platforms (like MediaTek) which currently don't have opportunity to have custom ROMs built from source.
Later while evolved, the secondary goal was established - to bring custom-rom like experience to devices running stock Android.
What I see happening around Xposed Framework recently is that people are basically often turn to using it to "patch" what they can't find in a custom ROM. However, Xposed modules (especially the complex ones) should not be used to supplement missing features in custom ROMs built from source. The best option for a user is to go ask devs of the custom ROM he uses and request those missing features. (This is also clearly mentioned in GB's official thread). People don't combine two ROMs in one device to get more features, neither (thanks god it's not possible!)
GB is not here to keep track of what's changing in all custom ROMs available out there. It is simply unmanageable. GB is here to extend the stock Android experience just like any other custom ROM does.
And words like "GB can't keep up pace with KitKat" sound funny. Actually, it keeps up with stock KitKat pretty well.
I understand these words come from people who have zero experience with GB, but anyway.
GB is currently fully compatible with the latest stock KitKat and is even bringing Dialer tweaks in upcoming version which none of custom ROMs have to this day (flip actions, call vibrations, etc.).

Possible to unroot a custom rom for the 4x HD?

I'm getting sick of the lag on my 4x. Camera tags so long the moment has past, messaging crashes 50% of the time, needing the recent tasks to be brought up and cleared before it will work again, browser is infuriating, and whenever anyone calls, the phone will ring and vibrate, but the screen will take so long in bringing up the 'answer/reject' options that sometimes the caller has rung off before I've even had a chance to answer!
This is on the most recent official 4.1.2
I know there's loads of roms available to me, but I need an un-rooted one, as I use the barclays banking app a lot for my business and it won't work on a rooted device.
Is it simple to just turn off the root mode on a custom rom?
Are most of them quite stable nowadays?
Ben-B said:
I'm getting sick of the lag on my 4x. Camera tags so long the moment has past, messaging crashes 50% of the time, needing the recent tasks to be brought up and cleared before it will work again, browser is infuriating, and whenever anyone calls, the phone will ring and vibrate, but the screen will take so long in bringing up the 'answer/reject' options that sometimes the caller has rung off before I've even had a chance to answer!
This is on the most recent official 4.1.2
I know there's loads of roms available to me, but I need an un-rooted one, as I use the barclays banking app a lot for my business and it won't work on a rooted device.
Is it simple to just turn off the root mode on a custom rom?
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i'm almost sure you can't have a custom rom without root. try using some launcher to get your phone smoother like nova or adw and some task killers like clean master.
AFAIK, Omni is not rooted. You have to install SuperSU separately.
Also OP, this isn't the adequate section of the forum and the title of the thread is confusing too.
Even if you flash a rooted rom, the su app should give you an option to unroot (deleting the su binaries).. However, by doing this you'll lose some rom's features, which work with su permissions.. BTW, @laufersteppenwolf, maybe it's better to move this thread in Q&A section
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you can also check out this nifty app here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2574647
cheers & gl
and this is an original android development thread? Sounds legit.
Have you tried to use superSU and check temporarily unroot option btw?
Ben-B said:
I'm getting sick of the lag on my 4x. Camera tags so long the moment has past, messaging crashes 50% of the time, needing the recent tasks to be brought up and cleared before it will work again, browser is infuriating, and whenever anyone calls, the phone will ring and vibrate, but the screen will take so long in bringing up the 'answer/reject' options that sometimes the caller has rung off before I've even had a chance to answer!
This is on the most recent official 4.1.2
I know there's loads of roms available to me, but I need an un-rooted one, as I use the barclays banking app a lot for my business and it won't work on a rooted device.
Is it simple to just turn off the root mode on a custom rom?
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We can help you how to unroot a ROM, but asking for "the best ROM" is against xda rules, so please rename your thread title, or else I have to close this thread. Also, I will move it into the Q&A section as soon as I'm home
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Thanks all,
I'll have a look at the custom roms and choose a new one I reckon!
RootCloak looks a great idea! Exactly what I need!
I'm assuming most users (those of you who replied) don't find your phones as unusable as mine with your custom roms installed?
Ben-B said:
Thanks all,
I'll have a look at the custom roms and choose a new one I reckon!
RootCloak looks a great idea! Exactly what I need!
I'm assuming most users (those of you who replied) don't find your phones as unusable as mine with your custom roms installed?
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Personally, I have to say that my phone is smoother, faster and more battery friendly since from when I'm using a custom rom..I really prefer custom instead of stock
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Marshmallow with Kitkat's Output Power

Hello guys. I had posted some months ago my question but all I was suggested was installing mods that I already had tried.
So, my 'problem' is that I find Stock Marshmallow's output(volume and bass) on headphones (3.5 jack) pretty low compared to Stock Kitkat. Especially the bass, it is really, really louder/heavier on Kitkat.
Is there any way to get/move Kitkat's sound enhancements right into Marshmallow?
Thanks in advance, have a happy new year!
The only way to try this would be decrypting the original KitKat files and recode them into MM, though you need some knowledge about how it works for it. As for now, I do not know any way to get back that feature from KK.
Mods are really great in this sort of situation, I myself use the A.R.I.S.E. mod and configured it for my in-ears.
devil188 said:
The only way to try this would be decrypting the original KitKat files and recode them into MM, though you need some knowledge about how it works for it. As for now, I do not know any way to get back that feature from KK.
Mods are really great in this sort of situation, I myself use the A.R.I.S.E. mod and configured it for my in-ears.
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Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of coding etc.. I had tried arise sound mod but the sound was completely distorted(maybe I had installed something wrong,but all I did was install a .zip file and nothing more.)
Edit: could you message me and redirect me to the things you did and worked for you? I think I'll give a try tonight or tomorrow night! Thanks!
kwstas 13 said:
Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of coding etc.. I had tried arise sound mod but the sound was completely distorted(maybe I had installed something wrong,but all I did was install a .zip file and nothing more.)
Edit: could you message me and redirect me to the things you did and worked for you? I think I'll give a try tonight or tomorrow night! Thanks!
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Well, installing the .zip is fine, but you ... gotta turn it on, too. When you flashed the zip, a new tool called Viper4Arise pops up in your app list. Open that and configure how you like to. In the app, you can change everything you like (and there's tons of stuff, trust me) but keep in mind to check if the module is active ( [≡] > Driver Status).
As of the settings I've done, I made the for my personal in-earphones (SoundMagic E10). There are things like ViPER-DDC which makes the sound of your head/earphones pretty nice if they're supported, if not, well then you gotta tune it yourself. Might plan to listen to a lot of different music and testing all the settings for your own preferences
devil188 said:
Well, installing the .zip is fine, but you ... gotta turn it on, too. When you flashed the zip, a new tool called Viper4Arise pops up in your app list. Open that and configure how you like to. In the app, you can change everything you like (and there's tons of stuff, trust me) but keep in mind to check if the module is active ( [≡] > Driver Status).
As of the settings I've done, I made the for my personal in-earphones (SoundMagic E10). There are things like ViPER-DDC which makes the sound of your head/earphones pretty nice if they're supported, if not, well then you gotta tune it yourself. Might plan to listen to a lot of different music and testing all the settings for your own preferences
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Well, I'll maybe give a try and write you back... I didn't really understand whay you said there ' check if the module is active ( [≡] > Driver Status). '
Also, which one of these folders should I open and then,which version(file name) should I download?
I'm on Stock 6.0.1 with any other mod installed.
(yes,i'll make a nandroid backup before installing it)
Thanks in advance
Edit: I installed ViPER4Arise+2.5.0.5 and it worked fine,but still,the sound is quite,compared to Stock KitKat... Even after raising Master Gate (Limiter) to the max (6dB)... I don't know what to do
kwstas 13 said:
Well, I'll maybe give a try and write you back... I didn't really understand whay you said there ' check if the module is active ( [≡] > Driver Status). '
Also, which one of these folders should I open and then,which version(file name) should I download?
I'm on Stock 6.0.1 with any other mod installed.
(yes,i'll make a nandroid backup before installing it)
Thanks in advance
Edit: I installed ViPER4Arise+2.5.0.5 and it worked fine,but still,the sound is quite,compared to Stock KitKat... Even after raising Master Gate (Limiter) to the max (6dB)... I don't know what to do
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Then it is probably limited by the ROM itself.. Well you can look up how to create your own custom rom with higher output at the audio jack, but aside from that, I don't have any other ideas how to raise it other than going back to kitkat.
Well the volume is loud enough for me, so sadly I can't help you with this
devil188 said:
Then it is probably limited by the ROM itself.. Well you can look up how to create your own custom rom with higher output at the audio jack, but aside from that, I don't have any other ideas how to raise it other than going back to kitkat.
Well the volume is loud enough for me, so sadly I can't help you with this
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Exactly, KitKat allowed more output volume than Marshmallow does, I guess....I wish I knew how to increase the output levels and set them just as high as the Stock Kikat are.
kwstas 13 said:
Exactly, KitKat allowed more output volume than Marshmallow does, I guess....I wish I knew how to increase the output levels and set them just as high as the Stock Kikat are.
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I might just randomly found a way to set the volume gain, but you need a unlocked bootloader + elitekernel (or any other) for that.
devil188 said:
I might just randomly found a way to set the volume gain, but you need a unlocked bootloader + elitekernel (or any other) for that.
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Ah yeah, I found that too some months ago,forgot to mention that...but i don't want to unlock bootloader for now...thank you man!

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