Has anyone else noticed the powersave feature on the Null rom?
I discovered it by accident and never saw anything about it elsewhere.
1. Long press on empty space in Nova Launcher and select "Shortcuts" from the pop up menu.
2. Select the "Activities" shortcut and scroll down to "Settings" (the Gears settings, not the blue system settings)
3. Select it and scroll through and find the one that says "PowerSaving"
This new shortcut will bring up the powersaving toggle that i have not seen or been able to access anywhere else. It does seem to help the battery life and the only noticable thing it seems to do is turn off haptic feedback.
Thank you very much for this tip! It's unbelievable! After 2 days (of very light use) 70% left !!!
After some testing - 5-6 days of light use.
Awesome find!
Edit: after a day of use (from 100% battery) I've used 9% battery total. This time 2 days ago I would have used 50% or more. I'm a heavy user as the voice commands with the timer are integral for my job (chef). Once again, awesome find!
Great tip,
Thanks for sharing
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Hi everybody,
I already tried this with no answer in Smartphone genereal discussion. I will try it here, because it is thing which really pisses me off. I want to have clock (with date, unread sms or answered calls) on my screen all the time. Ideally without backlight.
An example can be seen on attached image on some bloody Nokia. Is there any way how to achieve this or similar? Thank you!
No sir. Windows Moble doesn't handle the display like that. If it's on, and displays the click piece, the display is on. If you lock the phone (hold the red/end button for 3 seconds), if you tap a button the display will turn on half-lit and will display the time.
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No sir. Windows Moble doesn't handle the display like that. If it's on, and displays the click piece, the display is on. If you lock the phone (hold the red/end button for 3 seconds), if you tap a button the display will turn on half-lit and will display the time.
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OK, I can't say I'm surprised. But wouldn't it be possible to let the display on just without backlight? Or with backlight on minimal power?
That type of display (image) is a little different from whats used now, so they work differently. My first phone the screen was always on displaying the clock and such.
I am sure theres a way to write or find a program (havent looked) that just uses the backlight at its minimal power setting like when things time out before the screen goes off again. It will eat battery though.
yes you can! ...but u need adding extra software, e.g. "automatic keylock" that you download from http://maniac.fschreiner.de.
from their web:
With Automatic Keylock, you can add an automatic keypad lock and an idle screen saver like on most other mobiles phones to your Windows Mobile powered smartphone.
Features include:
The timeout for keypad lock and screen saver can be configured seperately for applications and homescreen.
You can exclude applications of your choice from the automatic keylock.
Either use keypad lock or device lock.
On profile changes to several profiles (Headset/Car/Handsfree/Charging), several actions can by taken.
Additionally, the screen saver has some nice features:
The screen saver lines can be configured in respect to content and font size.
It can show the current time, date, the amount of missed calls and messages, information from CellProfileSwitcher and a phone status line which contains information about the battery charge level, the signal strength level and the current profile.
A line with status icons for the most important information can be displayed.
Upon a missed call or a missed message, the screen saver can be configured to do some action (backlight blink).
vrolok71 said:
yes you can! ...but u need adding extra software, e.g. "automatic keylock" that you download from http://maniac.fschreiner.de.
from their web:
With Automatic Keylock, you can add an automatic keypad lock and an idle screen saver like on most other mobiles phones to your Windows Mobile powered smartphone.
Features include:
The timeout for keypad lock and screen saver can be configured seperately for applications and homescreen.
You can exclude applications of your choice from the automatic keylock.
Either use keypad lock or device lock.
On profile changes to several profiles (Headset/Car/Handsfree/Charging), several actions can by taken.
Additionally, the screen saver has some nice features:
The screen saver lines can be configured in respect to content and font size.
It can show the current time, date, the amount of missed calls and messages, information from CellProfileSwitcher and a phone status line which contains information about the battery charge level, the signal strength level and the current profile.
A line with status icons for the most important information can be displayed.
Upon a missed call or a missed message, the screen saver can be configured to do some action (backlight blink).
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Thank you, looks great! Now I just have to explore what'll that do with battery
phailo said:
Thank you, looks great! Now I just have to explore what'll that do with battery
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Just the results of my experiments with this always-on screen saver:
- Using Auto KeyLock - works fine, is free
- Battery life didn't change much. Altough I don't switch-off the phone in the night, it takes approx. 2 days to discharge the battery (what is not important to me, because I charge it every day). Before this it was about 2.5 days
- The only disadvantage I realised is that I can't use keylock. Now keys are "unlocked" by pressing home button (every other just switch the backlight to "full-on")
So I would recommend this time & missed screensaver to everyone who doesn't like to wear watches
phailo said:
- The only disadvantage I realised is that I can't use keylock. Now keys are "unlocked" by pressing home button (every other just switch the backlight to "full-on")
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well.. actually i dont use the clock-screensaver option. i simply use it for auto-key-locking and to say it works just flawless. i then unlock by the standard two-button combination. anyhow... nice application!
vrolok71 said:
well.. actually i dont use the clock-screensaver option. i simply use it for auto-key-locking and to say it works just flawless. i then unlock by the standard two-button combination. anyhow... nice application!
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Yup, but if you use classic keylock, backlight (and also the display) goes off
I have both an iphone and a G1. Now people slate the iphone for not being open source, but in terms of productivity it seems the iphone still wins out for me, and it is almost entirely down to two apps which I feel the G1 could REALLY do with: sbsettings and irealquicksms. I am trying to use my g1 everyday as I'm considering selling my iphone and hope someone can point me in the direction of something similar, or the same. Best to look on YouTube for a full understanding of these apps, but in shorts....
Irealsms allows you to send an sms from within ANY application, simply by pressing the volume button followed by a tap on the volume icon that appears, or by doubletapping the homekey. This saves swapping between applications if a text needs to be sent, and also facillitates replying. This is invaluable if you are watching a movie clip and really speeds up the texting process...it is the one application I truly miss from the iphone more than any other.
SBsettings allows you to change almost ANY setting from within ANY application simply by swiping a finger across the status bar on iphone. This means, for example, that if one is watching a film, or browsing the web, one can change the brightness, turn on/off wifi, bluetooth, 3g, gps or any number of other functions by simply swiping the top of the screen, upon which a toggle board slides down the screen. A press of the menu key slides it back up again. I am amazed that this app hasn't been developed for android as it is much more efficient than silly toggle switch widgets which clutter the home screen and are far less practical if one is already inside an application
well Toggle Settings by cooolmagic places the application icon in the status bar for quick access, I find that a good replacement for SBsettings
Toggle Settings is definitely an awesome app and sounds like it would be a good replacement for that Iphone app.
I use ChompSMS and they are constantly improving their app. I'll get onto their website and request they add on a shortcut ability. Say double press on the camera button?
Or, another option is "Bar Control" to add a shortcut for ANYTHING to your notification bar.
Keyboard shortcuts are great, too.
I would suggest looking into sms popup. It makes the text msg pop up and you can just hit the reply button after you respond just hold down the home button and go back to the program you were using last.
Why not use the quick launch keyboard shortcuts for messaging (Search button + S) and Settings (no default)?
You can set shortcuts for up to 36 different apps and the shortcuts will work from any application. Just go to Settings > Application Settings > Quick Launch.
You could also just hold [HOME] and select Messaging/ChompSMS to send texts without having to drop back to the home screen (If it was one of your last 6 apps used anyways...)
Fandango would also be awesome.
mianosm said:
Fandango would also be awesome.
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Random hijack much? Get your own thread.
Bar control allows you to put any app in the notification bar for easy access within most apps. So you could put your messaging app and a setting app (or any other app you may want) in the bar for easy access. The only exception would be apps that take up the full screen and hide the notification bar. Not many of those though.
So I am now making Launcher Pro my new Home application. The only issue with this is every so often my icons and widgets on my screen will disappear and re appear. Also maybe like twice a day I get a force close while using the phone. My question to all that use Launcher Pro on the Hero, does any of this happen to you? Also is there a way to fix this?
Rom - NfiniteX45 deoxed.
OC - HoneyBunV3
Did other mods like 270 Degree rotation.
Just putting what I have done on my phone because I do not know if this is the reason why this is happening. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Hit menu > preferences > advanced settings > memory usage settings
there are a lot of settings here to tweak for you problem. first, try the bottom setting "prevent force-closes".
Read these 2 posts to understand what the settings mean:
http://www.launcherpro.com/?p=74
http://www.launcherpro.com/?p=93
Also make sure you save launcher pro as your default home. If you're not sure how, download home switcher from the market.
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Thank you both on your advice. I already had prevent force closing on. As for setting it as my default home, I made sure that was the first thing that I did. I will try to tweak the settings to a lower memory usage. After reading the 2 links it seems like it may help on a lower setting. This whole time I thought leaving it at a moderate setting would make it perform better. I will let you know my results after a day or so on my new settings. If you guys don't mind, can you give me your memory settings since we all have the same device? I know each device can vary but just to give myself a heads up on the scenarios.
While we all have the same device, I doubt we share the same number of homescreens, active widgets, large sized widgets, and shortcuts on the homescreen, if we use the scrollable dock, and if we choose a dock background... all of these affect how much memory LauncherPro takes up, and the more memory it takes up the more likely it is to force-closing / having to reload all icons.
I have 3 homescreens and the following widgets: calendar, music control, digi clock, weather channel (small), some dazzle control widgets, some Apps Organizer widgets, and a few shortcuts to apps. About 50-55% of my availalbe home screen area is full.
I also don't have a scrollable dock or dock background, and I don't use scrollable widgets.
Memory usage preset: medium
Checked: Use homescreen caches and Build caches as needed
Homescreen cache type: normal
I'm running a pretty minimal setup with 3 screens and only 4 widgets, with 1 dock, and sometimes I do get the thing with the screen refresh. I don't see force closes but occasionally do have to tell it to wait for launcherpro. Probably only happens a couple times a week though. I'm currently on the latest nightly 2.2 build, and previously on dd 2.8, and saw this on each. The refresh does seem to occur after closing out of memory intensive things, but comes back quick enough that it doesn't bother me.
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I'm running a pretty minimal setup with 3 screens and only 4 widgets, with 1 dock, and sometimes I do get the thing with the screen refresh. I don't see force closes but occasionally do have to tell it to wait for launcherpro. Probably only happens a couple times a week though. I'm currently on the latest nightly 2.2 build, and previously on dd 2.8, and saw this on each. The refresh does seem to occur after closing out of memory intensive things, but comes back quick enough that it doesn't bother me.
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Thanks for the reply trying all diffrent settings now. I am thinking about making the jump to 2.2 now that I have launcher pro as my home. I was just waiting for it to have everything working before going to 2.2.
Ever since installing 2.2 I don't get any of the issues I was explaining.
I'm on 2.2, have all the memory settings on launcher pro at maximum performance, with 5 home screens, lots of widgets, etc., with autokiller at strict, and I always have 40-50mb of ram free and no slowdowns/force closes. Just so ya can compare.
I just started using Tasker on my Droid X running Liberty GB and am loving it. Last night I installed tasker on my gtab running CalkClem V6 and was wondering if anyone has any gtab/tablet specific profiles or tips?
So far I have only used Tasker on the gtab to automatically turn off the screen when the case closes. The profile activates when the light sensor is at zero. The corresponding actions are wait 4 seconds and then lock device. I'm betting I will have trouble with this profile when using the gtab in a very dark room, so I might have to restrict this profile to only daylight hours.
I'm also considering using tasker to shut down the gtab automatically every night at around 2AM just in case I left it running and it's not plugged in.
Anyone doing anything interesting with tasker and the gtab?
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I just started using Tasker on my Droid X running Liberty GB and am loving it. Last night I installed tasker on my gtab running CalkClem V6 and was wondering if anyone has any gtab/tablet specific profiles or tips?
So far I have only used Tasker on the gtab to automatically turn off the screen when the case closes. The profile activates when the light sensor is at zero. The corresponding actions are wait 4 seconds and then lock device. I'm betting I will have trouble with this profile when using the gtab in a very dark room, so I might have to restrict this profile to only daylight hours.
I'm also considering using tasker to shut down the gtab automatically every night at around 2AM just in case I left it running and it's not plugged in.
Anyone doing anything interesting with tasker and the gtab?
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That's actually REALLY useful! I'm going to go find it on the market in a little bit...
Tasker is $6.42 in the marketplace, which seems a bit expensive for an automation app... until you've tried it. The dev's site has a 7 day trial apk if you want to give it a spin. You can backup all profiles from the trial and restore them to the purchased app if you like it.
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/
I just created a profile on my droid x that plays beyondpod and sets the media volume to a specific level every time my Bluetooth headphones are connected.
sorry if I sound like a shill, but it's just so awesome...
Oh, its a paid app.
I like the idea, but not enough to spend that much on it. Maybe if it were a 99 cent app.
I'm almost certain there is a free app to do just the case close screen off portion. I remember seeing it here on the forum a while back.
That would be clutch, as I just got my case today and would love to make that happen!
To the op, could you post instruction on how to do what you did with locking screen when light sensor is zero? I'm struggling. With it.
Tasker isn't the most intuitive tool in the world, so here is how I achieved the case close, screen off profile:
Open tasker
tap "New" to create a new profile and name it anything
tap "State"
tap "Light Level"
set top slider at 0 and set bottom slider between 1 and 4 (higher number will help if your case doesn't block all the light)
tap "Done"
tap "New Task" and name it anything
tap "+"
tap "Tasker"
tap "Wait"
The second slider is seconds. This will determine how long the delay is between when you close your case and when the screen turns off. I selected 4 seconds to avoid accidentally covering the sensor with my finger.
scroll down and tap "done"
tap "+" again
tap "Display"
tap "System Lock"
tap "Done"
Tasker will need to gain a new permission from the OS at this point. Be sure to read the warnings that will pop up.
tap "Done"
tap "Apply" and make sure the "On" check box is selected in the bottom right
That should do it. If this doesn't work you may want to confirm that your light sensor is functioning properly (I've only tested this on CalkClem V6). To do that I downloaded one of the "phone sensor" apps from the marketplace.
Nvm, I'm an idiot.
goodintentions said:
Nvm, I'm an idiot.
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I prefer "dummy" myself
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I prefer "dummy" myself
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Haha, my original problem was I couldn't find "system lock". But in the back of my mind I was trying to look for "lock system". Only saw "lock" but no "lock system". I was like "wtf?"
Then after going on a rampage through my kitchen, I went back to the gtab and found "system lock".
May be I should get my eyes checked soon. Been a few years since last time.
By the way, thank you for recommending this app for me. I'm waiting for my clip case to arrive. Man, it will be slick. Has tested it a dozen times now. The screen shut off every time.
The thing is too bad the other way around doesn't work. I tried to set up the reverse to turn it on when there's light and the gtab wouldn't turn on.
Any idea how to restrict this to daytime hours? Nevermind. My dumbass found it.
You can restrict it to daylight hours by tapping the left side of the profile and selecting "add." From there you can set the hours in which this profile can be activated.
Just in case any onlookers were interested.
Check out gestures in tasker too. You can do things like mute the tab by rotating it left then right.
http://tasker.dinglisch.net/userguide/en/gestures.html
I've been rolling round the net for a few days now trying to solve this but no fully successful result.
It seems the stock launcher has this bug were if u have anything active in the accessibility services such as NoLED then tallback (TB) kicks in.
I tried the disable TB suggestion for NoLED but it always seems to start again. However I have stooped the voice by uninstalling it + the 2 TTS engines. However a hand is displayed in the notification bar (& it ignores my colour thyme) and an ongoing notification is displayed as well U can get rid of this but it reappears at reboot.
So I've tried the used a different launcher idea for NoLED, I think this worked (lots of launchers & playing going on) TB voice wise but I still get the hand
Also the splanner 'full screen' widget does not seem to work with other launchers I've had a look at a few other calendar widgets but they are not as good as they did not display any text only a marker for events unlike the splanner widget.
But even if I could find a good 'full screen' calendar widget I would still have the TB hand problem so I might as well stick with the stock launcher as I have figured out how to shut it up - But I don't want the hand!
I was thinking of trying [KERNEL][TW]Forest-HelloWorld-Make-II kernel for JB N7000 as v1.73 has BLN support but this is an old version and the new version does not support it. Also it looks like v1.73 does not have phils touchwiz recovery; which I currently have and don't wish to loose. Also the BLN in 1.73 is based on wakelock, so would this mean bad battery life?
I cannot ask about the kernel in it's thread yet, so can anybody comment.
Last night I found the LEDBlinker Lite app & that looked interesting but the way in which it works (which I have not looked at yet) means the back & menu buttons are permanently illuminated (this will be because I have them set to be on when the screen is on as I have 360 degree rotation enabled) and the activation icon for button savior is displayed. So this is no go due to battery consumption and screen burn.
Can anybody suggest a way out of this catch 22 hell, so I have some sort of message notification with the screen 'off', with no TB voice, no TB hand in notification, 'full screen' splanner widget or similar which displays text for events, does not cause the prob with button savior and the back/menu keys and has philz touch?
If a new launcher is needed it needs to support folders in the apps draw and ideally be free. I'm def not paying anything till I get it all working due to the catch 22 nature of this.
Any suggestions muchly appreciated as I've been messing around with this for days.
I'm using sweet rom v11.1 with a philz touch v5.
Thanks