I wonder if there is a possibility to change the width of the drop down panel which contain the notifications as I think it will be more cool to look like drop down panel in ipad which extend from both sides of the screen
Is there is a way ?
Ya, I agree. It's full screen in portrait mode, but not in landscape.
That's the way it was in 4.3 and it looked goofy. Reviewers and users *****ed and it was changed in 4.4.
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The screen is 1280x800
The content displayed is 99% of the time going to be 1280x720
The content area in between the tablet bar and notifications bar is 1280x720
They did this to allow for a full 720p content area.
In portrait orientation, it's 800x1280 with a content area of 800x1200
Thanks for this information, but surely in portrait mode the bottom few rows of pixels will be taken up by buttons, so really it will be something along the lines of 800x1200, rather than 720x1280?
I would much rather 800x1200 than 720x1280, as few desktop backgrounds floating around the internet have more than 1200 pixels vertically.
I'm fairly certain jptech meant 800x1200 (leaving 40px for notification bar at top and 40px for nav bar at bottom) in portrait.
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Thanks for this information, but surely in portrait mode the bottom few rows of pixels will be taken up by buttons, so really it will be something along the lines of 800x1200, rather than 720x1280?
I would much rather 800x1200 than 720x1280, as few desktop backgrounds floating around the internet have more than 1200 pixels vertically.
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I'm fairly certain jptech meant 800x1200 (leaving 40px for notification bar at top and 40px for nav bar at bottom) in portrait.
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I think the smart thing to do, which I hope is what Google did. Is to remove the buttons on the bottom when playing video, only bringing them up when you tap the screen.
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I'm fairly certain jptech meant 800x1200 (leaving 40px for notification bar at top and 40px for nav bar at bottom) in portrait.
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Thanks, fu**ing math:good:
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I'm fairly certain jptech meant 800x1200 (leaving 40px for notification bar at top and 40px for nav bar at bottom) in portrait.
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Actually if you look at the screen shot here: MobileSyrup , you can see that they both disappear when playing video.
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Actually if you look at the screen shot here: MobileSyrup , you can see that they both disappear when playing video.
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They're supposed to disappear.
But that video looks like 2.35:1 so it's not a good judge. I'd like to see a photo of the n7 playing native 720p video.
I only say possible, as it doesn't work completely with the note 4.
Basically, someone who goes by 'aaah' on the OnePlus forums made an excellent app that let's you add a gradient anywhere on the screen that can even out any tinting etc. It worked very well, but obviously doesn't make up for the loss of brightness as OPO uses LCD screens
With our note 4s however, there is no brightness shift, so we can compensate with a different colour where it changes.
Unfortunately the app, at least on my exynos note 4, doesn't allow you to properly change transparency when a gradient is applied. It works fine for a solid block, but that isn't ideal as the pink patches aren't solid but instead fade gradually. Hence why a gradient would be great for it.
If any android wiz kids out there could possibly patch the apk so that the transparency settings work then it would certainly help lessen the degree at which the colour shifts are noticeable.
For mine, its mainly the bottom right where the pink patch is more prominent. So I will always have a left to right shift around the keyboard area no matter what, but it would at least reduce the top to bottom shift.
Original link to the screen filter app: https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/screen-filter-rewritten-yellow-band-software-fix.141167/
is it possible to disable the entire horizontal area with the front facing camera on it, so that you don't lose out on a portion of your viewing experience? kind of like the notch / no notch options in other phones
So to avoid losing a very small part of screen? You removen 3 times+ more screen? ? Seems counter intuitive
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is it possible to disable the entire horizontal area with the front facing camera on it, so that you don't lose out on a portion of your viewing experience? kind of like the notch / no notch options in other phones
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Like someone else mentioned I don't see the reasoning behind that, but you could possible use another launcher like Nova and have the permanent status bar across the top.
The justification is that one is more distracting than the other.
I'd rather take the hit and have a smaller screen (lose 0.2 of an inch) than have video gain 0.2 of an inch but be hampered by a pill sized cutout that obscures video. It is a massive distraction. Arguably worse than the notch because at least that was flush at the top.
The question is whether we have the opportunity to control placement in software. If so, is that native support in android or would that have to be a custom feature via different launchers?
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The justification is that one is more distracting than the other.
I'd rather take the hit and have a smaller screen (lose 0.2 of an inch) than have video gain 0.2 of an inch but be hampered by a pill sized cutout that obscures video. It is a massive distraction. Arguably worse than the notch because at least that was flush at the top.
The question is whether we have the opportunity to control placement in software. If so, is that native support in android or would that have to be a custom feature via different launchers?
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I doubt it will be native support and it will require another launcher.
further to this, https://www.sammobile.com/2019/02/22/galaxy-s10-hide-notch-front-camera-cutout
brilliant, we can sleep easy now.
mrpops2ko said:
further to this, https://www.sammobile.com/2019/02/22/galaxy-s10-hide-notch-front-camera-cutout
brilliant, we can sleep easy now.
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LOL, Thanks, good to know. That surprises me since that cutout was a Samsung feature and Samsung isn't big on hiding their features.
Hey,
This is my first phone with a notch despite all those times I said I would never get a phone with a notch I don't want to miss out top phones for the next years until the fad goes away.
Anyway as I feared the notch is a pain in the arse no matter what the tech press have said for the last few years how they don't interfere blah blah.
Several games I tried have the notch obscuring vital parts of the game exactly where the notch is.
I thought I would try the hide the notch option in settings, stupidly I thought that this would not only hide the notch but adjust the screen size so the app was in the visible area only.
NO.
Using this setting the black bar to hide the notch actually goes over the app and obscures a whole line now instead of just the notch area.
Seriously how do people survive a notch?
Is it poor implementation on Huawei's end?
How can I make this better for myself?
Arguably I'd say that's the fault of the games at this point.
Huawei has/had some API related to notch position and size, but Google integrated an official way to query for these (called Cutouts in the SDK) in Android 9.
I'd expect applications that are aware of 9/aren't old games never to be updated for a while to be notch aware at this point. They could
* test for a notch and not go full screen and scale the game accordingly (leaving the notch 'bar' out - you lose some pixels but nothing is hidden).
* (arguably harder) test for a notch and avoid that area if that's possible for the game UI
> Seriously how do people survive a notch?
Honestly, the P20 Pro notch is a pain in the ass. It's unbearable. It's the worst idea ever.
But the P30 Pro? It's tiny and I never noticed it, neither in normal usage nor for gaming.
First phone with a notch for me too. Have absolutely no problems with it whatsoever. Doesn't bother me at all.
Trying to embrace it and in general is fine but for a couple of games it is in the way.
I could live with the black bar if the screen scaled instead - this should be done by Huawei for sure in the screen management, why give you an option to black bar and hide notch if it hides more of the visible image. It makes no sense when they could scale the image so you see it all.
I'm considering picking one of these up (refurb) and I've never had a phone with notch or with cameras in the screen area. Front camera has been in the bezel area right above the screen. It looks like the two front cameras on this device are essentially embedded into the screen. Does that mean there is less display areas for notification icons or does the device allow for two rows of notification icons + time/battery display up top?
jazee said:
I'm considering picking one of these up (refurb) and I've never had a phone with notch or with cameras in the screen area. Front camera has been in the bezel area right above the screen. It looks like the two front cameras on this device are essentially embedded into the screen. Does that mean there is less display areas for notification icons or does the device allow for two rows of notification icons + time/battery display up top?
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It may seen that it would be e problem, i've owned mine for about 4 months bow and its not an issue. The notification bar is thin but still very readable. If you want to customize the notification panel further for space, you'll be able to download (GoodLock and NiceLock depending on your region) to help with that.
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It may seen that it would be e problem, i've owned mine for about 4 months bow and its not an issue. The notification bar is thin but still very readable. If you want to customize the notification panel further for space, you'll be able to download (GoodLock and NiceLock depending on your region) to help with that.
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I took a peak at the descriptions of those apps and screen shots and can GoodLock actually modify the top notification status bar on top? I didn't think any app could control the look of that? Those apps seems to have quite a bit of overlap with built-in functions of latest Android 10 + One UI 2.x ? Still might give them a whirl.
SO I've had my S10 5G for about a week now. Right away, I tried the virtual bezel setting that basically black out the top of the screen next to the cameras. I didn't like the look. On my LG V30 the camera was in the bezel and the bezel was very thin so the screen display still appeared to take up most of the glass. With this setting on the Samsung, it's too heavy handed, blacks out a little too much height off the top of the screen so it looks odd with a very tall black bezel on top.
So far, I don't think the reduced space has caused my notification icon bar up top to get overloaded. What I ended up doing though was selecting a wallpaper that the top right corner is dark or almost black. It effectively "hides the cameras" while utilizing the full screen. Of course with apps open that aren't black on top, you see the large camera cutout but it's not really that distracting/terrible looking.
I like that Samsung got a little smarter on the S20 and has a very small single camera cutout in the middle of the screen now. Looks MUCH better. But still, it's only looks. Some may prefer having the dual front cameras, which I think is a nice trade off to having the larger camera cutout on the side instead of the a small single camera in the middle.