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Okay, so I rooted and installed Cyanogen earlier; what cool things can I do with root?
Also, wow. My phone feels so much more responsive now. Just an aside.
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cyanogen rom when I had played with it, I like the custom live wallpaper! as for things to do....trackball colors app, superuser, rooted apps....and have some fun with rooting.....
custom roms, rooted apps, themes etc...
osugsxr said:
cyanogen rom when I had played with it, I like the custom live wallpaper! as for things to do....trackball colors app, superuser, rooted apps....and have some fun with rooting.....
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Currently using Cyanogen. There a list of apps for root or anything? That's really what I'm looking for.
Quick post: themes. Where do I get them? Are they the morphs in the themes and apps section?
Go to the themes section and read the morphs threads. Install metamorph from the market and go to town. I spent days with new black status bars, battery icons, etc. Check for black matte, or desire icons, its so nice.
RogerPodacter said:
Go to the themes section and read the morphs threads. Install metamorph from the market and go to town. I spent days with new black status bars, battery icons, etc. Check for black matte, or desire icons, its so nice.
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Gotcha. Thanks!
to the OP
you know you will have a much shorter list if you refraised the title "list of things that you CANT do when rooted". being rooted lets you do anything you could want on a android phone.
to the OP
you know you will have a much shorter list if you refraised the title "list of things that you CANT do when rooted". being rooted lets you do anything you could want on a android phone.
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True. I'm just wondering if there's a list of apps, common things to do, etc.
Also: Metamorph doesn't seem to be working for me? Trying to apply BlackMatte and it has been sitting on res-framework.apk for hours now.
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You know the first time I tried to apply with metamorph it sat there forever, and I thought I did something wrong. I forced it closed, reboot, and then tried again and it worked.
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True. I'm just wondering if there's a list of apps, common things to do, etc.
Also: Metamorph doesn't seem to be working for me? Trying to apply BlackMatte and it has been sitting on res-framework.apk for hours now.
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This ought to get you started
http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=root
Ah, should've thought of that. One more question: what app is it that puts a notification with battery temp, health, etc in the tray?
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Well battery life widget is what many use, which puts temp, voltage, and percentage on a widget. Make sure you enable extended info in its settings.
I don't like the battery running in notification bar. I like a clean running status bar, so a home screen widget is better for me.
If you use cyanogen, percentage goes right over top of the battery icon itself.
Well battery life widget is what many use, which puts temp, voltage, and percentage on a widget. Make sure you enable extended info in its settings.
I don't like the battery running in notification bar. I like a clean running status bar, so a home screen widget is better for me.
If you use cyanogen, percentage goes right over top of the battery icon itself.
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I found the notification one, which I like except it places a second battery icon in the notification bar, instead of just the tray. I like the info in the tray though. Anything similar to that out there?
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yeah well there is one that will put it in your notification bar, but i forget the name. and cyanogen puts the percentage on the actual batery icon. its in spare parts in the cyanogen ROM.
Is there any way easily to get rid of the clock and the battery icon in the top status bar? Those are the only two i'd like to hide, because of Beautiful Widgets and BattStat there's no reason to have them up there anymore.
Thanks!
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Is there any way easily to get rid of the clock and the battery icon in the top status bar? Those are the only two i'd like to hide, because of Beautiful Widgets and BattStat there's no reason to have them up there anymore.
Thanks!
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If you're using LauncherPro, you can hide the whole top taskbar. I don't know about just the clock and battery icons
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If you're using LauncherPro, you can hide the whole top taskbar. I don't know about just the clock and battery icons
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I am using LaunchPro, but I do not want to hide the whole taskbar. Just the battery icon and time.
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I am using LaunchPro, but I do not want to hide the whole taskbar. Just the battery icon and time.
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haven't seen anything that does that yet!, but what if your in app and you need the time you gotta exit out.....?
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haven't seen anything that does that yet!, but what if your in app and you need the time you gotta exit out.....?
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then tough luck for me then?
never mind
bump for any ideas..
I'd like to know this as well. It seems like it's a trivial thing to do with CyanogenMod + Spare Parts, and also supposedly easier with 2.2 (and who knows when we'll get that....).
I've seen a few hacks that basically move its position off the screen, but I was hoping for something a little more elegant than that.
For the battery icon, I just replaced it with one that's actually useful.
My googlefu seems to be failing me at the moment so I can't link you to that hack. It's somewhere on these forums though.
i find so many of them, but jest wonder who is the best apps that show the current battery percent, in the task bar or widget...
I actually use extended controls. It's a widget that looks like the standard android Power Control widget. You can customize it to have loads of controls and the battery percentage. I can't remember how much it is in the market, but its definitely worth it.
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Tnx for the tip. Will try it!
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Tnx for the tip. Will try it!
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If there's a full root we could modify the framework-res.apk and get a modified battery icon in the notification bar. Way better..
My favorite: BattStatt. It's a widget for your screen. Has various sizes, and shows your battery in words.
Try BatteryIndicator
SwitchPro also does it, and worth getting anyway.
try this,
press screen or enter personalize,
chooseshortcut
then
settings
then
battery use
basic but good
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My favorite: BattStatt. It's a widget for your screen. Has various sizes, and shows your battery in words.
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I second this. Very simplistic and nice. Customizable so you can choose a color that suits your current background. Along with Tajm you'll have a nice clean setup on home screen or lock screen (Widgetlocker ($1.99) allows you to put widgets on the lockscreen along with custom sliders. I recommend a looksy).
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If there's a full root we could modify the framework-res.apk and get a modified battery icon in the notification bar. Way better..
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No need to root or modify anything
just the apk you'll find there : Circular battery Indicator with % (No root required)
Works great on my DHD
Wow that is great, will use it for now!
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No need to root or modify anything
just the apk you'll find there : Circular battery Indicator with % (No root required)
Works great on my DHD
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RushaPoiL said:
No need to root or modify anything
just the apk you'll find there : Circular battery Indicator with % (No root required)
Works great on my DHD
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Thanks from me too, it's great, just what I wanted!
BTW, as I said on the other thread, I just wonder if this (kind of) software could shorten battery life, having to do its duties to refresh all the time?
ErMeglio said:
Thanks from me too, it's great, just what I wanted!
BTW, as I said on the other thread, I just wonder if this (kind of) software could shorten battery life, having to do its duties to refresh all the time?
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From the linked topic:
- the Circular Battery Indicator does not use a lot of battery resources, the device broadcasts a message when the battery status changes, the app catches this broadcast and update itself to show the right percentage, it is as simple as that, so it is extremely light weight on the CPU.
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Oops, thanks, seems like I was a bit too lazy
I had read about the existence of this 'broadcast' system elsewhere, but I was worried because before of this app I used a widget (BatteryIcon if I remember) that had a 'refresh time' to choose in the settings and so I thought (that) app had to 'ask' the system the actual battery level every time. Seems like this one is much better developed so, good to be known, I like it very much, also the ability to have the 'battery use' page open in a bunch of seconds is just all I need
turkification said:
My favorite: BattStatt. It's a widget for your screen. Has various sizes, and shows your battery in words.
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Snatched
Minimalistic = So cool!
turkification said:
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+1 have used it works fine
turkification said:
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+1 I use BattStat too and like it. Very simple and nice.
I like extended controls, it shows battery percentage, too.
i got all 3 - circular batt, extended power widget and batt stat
Hey Guys,
I jusr recently received my Xperia Z from O2, the phone is beautiful. Something I ran across was that I found was that the stock icons seemed to be very sensative in where and how you tap them. It got to the point where I honestly thought there was something wrong with my phone and requested a replacement, until I decided to sit down and really go through all the icons and mess around with them.
I had enabled the "see where you touch" feature on the phone to help assist with my experiment and found the stock icons where very stubborn to open at times! But after installing apex launcher and getting new icons, the problem is gone. Has anyone else noticed this?
Have you changed the 'animation scale' settings under 'Developer options'?
If so, there have been a few posts that state that it can make the icons hard to select for some reason.
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Currently all the animation scale settings are turned off, it was suggested this to be done as it helps with battery life. Is it best to change it? Again, I dont seem to have any icon response issues after they were changed with Apex.
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Currently all the animation scale settings are turned off, it was suggested this to be done as it helps with battery life. Is it best to change it? Again, I dont seem to have any icon response issues after they were changed with Apex.
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It seems that if you turn them off it makes the icons hard to select but only on the stock launcher.
If you're sticking with Apex, then leave them off
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Thanks for the replies kingvortex, much appreciated.
Anyone figured out how to get it to show the battery percentage? The ADB command for KitKat doesn't seem to do anything.
Have you tried battery percent for kit kat in play store?
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Have you tried battery percent for kit kat in play store?
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My understanding was that it was essentially a front-end on the adb command, but I'll try it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.edavid93.kitkat_battery_percentage
You can try This.
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Ah, the description for the app points out that the text is white on a white background when the battery is full. I just hadn't waited long enough, it was in fact working.
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Ah, the description for the app points out that the text is white on a white background when the battery is full. I just hadn't waited long enough, it was in fact working.
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Nice
Thanks for the app suggestion. Any other apps that can do the same but with colored text instead of white?
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Thanks for the app suggestion. Any other apps that can do the same but with colored text instead of white?
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"Power toggles" gives a few different options/colors, as well as giving toggles in the notification shade
I use battery bt pro it works great uses only three permissions and you can change the color
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I use battery bt pro it works great uses only three permissions and you can change the color
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I wish this would be built in - show the % inside the icon with it horizontal like HTC sense. Kind of ridiculous to run a widget to show %! Ditto for signal, should be a way to display dBm too!