I would like to take the opportunity given by XDA forum and share with you my application, named "Total Screen Control".
I would be more than happy if I will receive through this thread opinions, features requests, bug fixes requests, new ideas, anything that could improve the application.
Thanks !
Total Screen Control
Total Screen Control is an application for setting the Brightness Level, Screen Filter, ScreenOn Lock and Rotation Lock preferences individually for any application installed on your phone.
Allows you to apply a filter that dims the brightness below minimum value so your eyes don't hurt during night viewing. Very useful in low light conditions especially on AMOLED screens where even the lowest brightness value is still bright. Also can save a lot of battery combined with ScreenOn Lock based on phone orientation!
More features:
- Screen Filter/Privacy with schedule and brightness slider for fine control !
- Dynamic Screen Filter based on phone's light sensor! Forget about classic auto-brightness, switch to Dynamic Screen Filter!
- Screen Filter Bar for easy and cool control of Filter dim
- ScreenOn Lock based on phone orientation! Keeps the screen on as long as you use your phone! SAVE BATTERY also!
- ScreenOn Lock, Brightness level and Rotation Lock individually for any app
- Option to disable softkey backlight (not working on all phones)
- Tasker/Locale plugins !
- Notification icon on Status bar with all needed information
- Up to 5 configurable Screen Filter Presets
- 3 Widgets for easy access
- Configurable preferences, alerts
- Start at boot
Does your eyes hurt you when reading or playing before bedtime ? Enable the Screen Filter
Tired to get the screen off while reading your eBook, browsing on Web or playing? Setup the ScreenOn Lock
Want to set the brightness or rotation individually? Configure them with Total Screen Control
For all these this application is for you!
Changes log:
12/04/2012 - Ver 2.4.2
- Added option to manually input a value for Light sensor when using Dynamic Screen Filter
- Increased the list for dynamic levels to 10 items (from 5)
10/04/2012 - Ver 2.4.1
- added option for changing text color in notification status bar
- few bug fixes
26/02/2012 - Ver 2.4
- Tasker/Locale plugin for ScreenOn Lock event !
22/02/2012 - Ver 2.3
- Tasker/Locale plugin for Screen Filter settings !
- "Install button fix" option. Enable it only if you can't press Install button when installing an aplication.
- To come: Tasker/Locale plugin for other Total Screen Control features (eg ScreenOn Lock)
28/01/2012 - Ver 2.1
- Enhanced Softkeys backlight module. Turn off softkeys when screen filter value reach a configurable preset value
- New Softkeys off detection method (Root devices)
- Fixed first detection method,now it will work on supported devices. If not,select another method or contact me.
19/01/2012 - Ver 2.0
- Added NEW FEATURE: Screen Filter Bar - Control Filter dim with a swipe of you finger in any application you're in!
If you like this feature check Total Screen Filter which allows more customizations !
Check video for demo of this new feature
- Redesign of the application interface
- ICS compatible
- Various code enhancements
02/12/2011 - Ver 1.9.3
-Redesigned Screen Filter Schedule to be more intuitive
-Better performance when using Dynamic Filter
-Fix bug in Screen Filter Presets
11/10/2011 - Ver 1.9.2
Added option to delay Screen Off after the ScreenOn Lock is released.
07/07/2011 - Ver 1.9.1
Added option to select the interval Total Screen Control checks what application is visible and apply configured options.
Useful for those who want a better response time in changing the configuration but also for those who don't use settings per individual application by increasing the checking interval and by this achieving a lower battery usage.
26/06/2011 - Ver 1.9
*** New feature ***
- Option to disable softkey backlight when Screen Filter is enabled (not working on all phones)
Changes:
- Removed brightness popup window when brightness is changed
18/06/2011 - Ver 1.8
*** New feature ***
Screen Filter Color - allows you to change the color of the Screen Filter !
20/05/2011 - Ver 1.7
New feature !!
*** Dynamic Screen Filter ***
With this option you can configure Screen Filter levels based on phone's light sensor! Assign for every light sensor value a value for the Screen Filter !
Forget about the inexact auto-brightness option of your phone and enable Dynamic Screen Filter for better control of your phone's brightness!
28/02/2011 - Ver 1.6
New feature:
"Bright Light Detection", automatically disable Screen Filter based on Light Sensor readings when bright light is detected.
Useful when Screen Filter is enabled and the phone is used under direct sun, this feature will temporally disable the Screen Filter if the light threshold is passed.
14/02/2011 - Ver 1.5.1
Fixed Android 1.6 compatibility
07/02/2011 - Ver 1.5
Added option to disable Global Screen Filter for certain applications (e.g. you want Global Filter enabled but for Video Player or Messaging you want it disabled).
Just go in Application Tab/Brightness Icon and configure this feature for what application you want!
29/01/2011 - Ver 1.4.2
Added No Movement Detection in ScreenOn Lock based on phone orientation feature. Allows to set the time after that the ScreenOn Lock will disable if the phone was not moved.
Various enhancements in phone orientation detection algorithm.
Download: trial version valid until 06.02.2012
you might wanna say if its for android or winmo in the thread title
Kameirus said:
you might wanna say if its for android or winmo in the thread title
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Thanks, I have only Android in my head, I didn't realize that it could be also for other platforms
Yeah, quite surprised that XDA hasnt created sub-forums for the different OS's aswell as mandatory topic titling.
Very nice idea though and thaks for posting info on your app bud
Really a good app , it could help me use lowest brightness value to save my battery.
But what i got a highly battery usaege on this app..... too bad~~~ Could some one tell me what's going on ?
My phone is idle , i even did not use it when i plug out the ac.
But ..
great app but it crashes everytime i try to change one of the settings :/
A great app, I like this.
Great app. working so far fine. No crashe....till now I can not confirm that battery problem.
serect said:
Really a good app , it could help me use lowest brightness value to save my battery.
But what i got a highly battery usaege on this app..... too bad~~~ Could some one tell me what's going on ?
My phone is idle , i even did not use it when i plug out the ac.
But ..
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Ok I have got an equal result like you. 82% usage for the last 1h 20 min....Gonna keep it for a while on my device and watch its usage with the monitoring function of the app "SystemPanel".
Here is a screen shot of the usage
Hi guys,
thanks for your feedback:
Regarding battery use, this is something it needs deeper investigations, I have also encountered this high battery use REPORT but not always and I have gathered the following info:
- This is related only to ScreenOn Lock based on Sensor Orientation feature. So anyone that doesn't need this function just disable it and 99% that this usage will not appear anymore
- For the others, who find this feature useful there are 2 remarks:
1. First is a quote from another, much known application who's users reported also this high usage report:
* Battery usage is an insanely misleading stat. Many people assume that it means "80% of my battery was consumed by ****", and consequently, "if ***** were not running, my battery would last 80% longer". This simply isn't true. It's not even close. I've tried to get clear answers from Google on what the stat actually means, but haven't gotten more than "the amount of power consumed by an app when it is running". ***** doesn't run much.
* Some phones appear to get confused and attribute nearly all system battery usage to *****. This problem is not unique ******, and in fact applications such as Locale have started providing disclaimers for certain devices to warn users of the issues.
* ***** still suspends itself whenever the screen is turned off. The ***** service puts all threads into a sleep state using Thread.sleep(99999999999). It's possible that the Service is still being attributed some kind of resource usage since it hasn't been terminated (even though the threads have been suspended). I'm looking into this. At this point from what I can tell, there are no running threads once the screen is turned off...
I'm continuing to look into this, as I'm getting absolutely hammered at this point from a ratings (and consequently sales perspective), but I'm not sure that there is much I'm going to be able to do about improving the battery usage stats on specific devices.
The bottom line is this: ***** either improves your phone's battery life or it doesn't, regardless of what the battery stats say. On my Nexus One, ***** averages around 2-3% on the stats list. Sometimes it goes higher, but will generally drift back down to around that level.
2. This occurs randomly, please try to reboot your phone and check if the usage is still high.
DirkStorck said:
Ok I have got an equal result like you. 82% usage for the last 1h 20 min....Gonna keep it for a while on my device and watch its usage with the monitoring function of the app "SystemPanel".
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I'm using also System Panel and there it could be clearly seen that Total CPU Time and Average Consumption for Total Screen are in limits.
reaperzero said:
great app but it crashes everytime i try to change one of the settings :/
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Please provide more details, when it crash, what setting you try to modify, phone model, Android OS version...
muntos said:
Hi guys,
thanks for your feedback:
Regarding battery use, this is something it needs deeper investigations, I have also encountered this high battery use REPORT but not always and I have gathered the following info:
- This is related only to ScreenOn Lock based on Sensor Orientation feature. So anyone that doesn't need this function just disable it and 99% that this usage will not appear anymore
- For the others, who find this feature useful there are 2 remarks:
1. First is a quote from another, much known application who's users reported also this high usage report:
* Battery usage is an insanely misleading stat. Many people assume that it means "80% of my battery was consumed by ****", and consequently, "if ***** were not running, my battery would last 80% longer". This simply isn't true. It's not even close. I've tried to get clear answers from Google on what the stat actually means, but haven't gotten more than "the amount of power consumed by an app when it is running". ***** doesn't run much.
* Some phones appear to get confused and attribute nearly all system battery usage to *****. This problem is not unique ******, and in fact applications such as Locale have started providing disclaimers for certain devices to warn users of the issues.
* ***** still suspends itself whenever the screen is turned off. The ***** service puts all threads into a sleep state using Thread.sleep(99999999999). It's possible that the Service is still being attributed some kind of resource usage since it hasn't been terminated (even though the threads have been suspended). I'm looking into this. At this point from what I can tell, there are no running threads once the screen is turned off...
I'm continuing to look into this, as I'm getting absolutely hammered at this point from a ratings (and consequently sales perspective), but I'm not sure that there is much I'm going to be able to do about improving the battery usage stats on specific devices.
The bottom line is this: ***** either improves your phone's battery life or it doesn't, regardless of what the battery stats say. On my Nexus One, ***** averages around 2-3% on the stats list. Sometimes it goes higher, but will generally drift back down to around that level.
2. This occurs randomly, please try to reboot your phone and check if the usage is still high.
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Thanks muntos. I like this app because the function on it equal to Screebl + Screen Filter .And I only need to use one app.
The "ScreenOn Lock" is same as Screebl. But i notice that when i use screebl it only have about 2~3% battery useage.
Hope you could find out the root cause about the heavily battery usage.
FYI , my phone is Galaxy S I9000.
BTW , How many days for trial version?
serect said:
Thanks muntos. I like this app because the function on it equal to Screebl + Screen Filter .And I only need to use one app.
The "ScreenOn Lock" is same as Screebl. But i notice that when i use screebl it only have about 2~3% battery useage.
Hope you could find out the root cause about the heavily battery usage.
FYI , my phone is Galaxy S I9000.
BTW , How many days for trial version?
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My Phone it's also Galaxy S I9000. Please, could you do a phone reboot and then check if the same high values are shown in Battery use ?
Regarding trial version, as this moment you can check when the version expires by going to menu->about, but check in the Market when an update appears, this will extend the trial period.
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My Phone it's also Galaxy S I9000. Please, could you do a phone reboot and then check if the same high values are shown in Battery use ?
Regarding trial version, as this moment you can check when the version expires by going to menu->about, but check in the Market when an update appears, this will extend the trial period.
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yep~~ I had do a phone reboot. The picture which i posted before is a result after phone reboot.
Anyway , much appreciated your instant reply ,I will do a phone reboot again and observe if any change on battery usage.
Thanks Serect!
Anyone who uses this application please provide feedback regarding Battery Use Information in Settings->About Phone->Battery Use.
Thank you !
serect said:
yep~~ I had do a phone reboot. The picture which i posted before is a result after phone reboot.
Anyway , much appreciated your instant reply ,I will do a phone reboot again and observe if any change on battery usage.
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It is a pity that i got a trial expire after my phone reboot .
It seems the battery usage has improve after reboot. But I only power on 37min~~lol...
serect said:
It is a pity that i got a trial expire after my phone reboot .
It seems the battery usage has improve after reboot. But I only power on 37min~~lol...
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Well I believe that at least until you would recharge your phone you would not see anymore that high usage report...
Please check the Market for an update, trial period extended
muntos said:
Well I believe that at least until you would recharge your phone you would not see anymore that high usage report...
Please check the Market for an update, trial period extended
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...I found when my trial expire , the "screen on lock" function automatically been disable , that's why I got a lower battery useage.
And I have a suggestion when the trial expire , I hope I have a chance to disable the Total Screen Control service , everytime I only been stick on "buy" or "close" option , but the service is still been enable there and i have no chance to disable it.
...It make me only have one option to uninstall it , too bad...
Hello All,
The new update is really smooth but it seems to have affected my favorite feature Moto Display with some weird issues.
1) DND doesn't automatically deactivate the sensors like Moto Assist used to keep the screen dark and the phone still flashes notifications at night. Does that consumer battery and affect Doze?
2) We cand choose the screen to go dark from 11pm-6am in Moto Display, but they removed the option to define custom timings. So now its either 11pm-6am or have the phone flash notification all night?
3) The flashing interval for Moto Display also seems to have been reduced and it flashes too often now, which becomes a little annoying if the phone is in front of you.
Are these issues for everyone or am I missing something? Any comments or workarounds would be helpful.
KRN03 said:
Hello All,
The new update is really smooth but it seems to have affected my favorite feature Moto Display with some weird issues.
1) DND doesn't automatically deactivate the sensors like Moto Assist used to keep the screen dark and the phone still flashes notifications at night. Does that consumer battery and affect Doze?
2) We cand choose the screen to go dark from 11pm-6am in Moto Display, but they removed the option to define custom timings. So now its either 11pm-6am or have the phone flash notification all night?
3) The flashing interval for Moto Display also seems to have been reduced and it flashes too often now, which becomes a little annoying if the phone is in front of you.
Are these issues for everyone or am I missing something? Any comments or workarounds would be helpful.
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I own Moto X 2014, but still Lollipop, not receive Marshmallow yet. But i find some changlog on Motorola, I see :
Sleeping and Meeting - to keep your phone quiet while you are sleeping or while you are busy in a meeting you may wish to consider using the Do not disturb feature from Android. To set it up, swipe the status bar down with two fingers and tap the gear icon at the top right corner of your screen. Once in the Settings menu, scroll down and tap Sound & notification, then go to Do not disturb. To keep your screen dark while you are sleeping, open the Moto app, tap the icon on the top right corner of your screen, then go to Display and set the time under Keep screen dark.
KRN03 said:
Hello All,
The new update is really smooth but it seems to have affected my favorite feature Moto Display with some weird issues.
1) DND doesn't automatically deactivate the sensors like Moto Assist used to keep the screen dark and the phone still flashes notifications at night. Does that consumer battery and affect Doze?
2) We cand choose the screen to go dark from 11pm-6am in Moto Display, but they removed the option to define custom timings. So now its either 11pm-6am or have the phone flash notification all night?
3) The flashing interval for Moto Display also seems to have been reduced and it flashes too often now, which becomes a little annoying if the phone is in front of you.
Are these issues for everyone or am I missing something? Any comments or workarounds would be helpful.
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Tap the time in Moto display settings to choose what hours you would like the display to be off. The features in Marshmallow just have been relocated from what they were in Lollipop.
Ok, sorry. I got it. I tried hitting the numbers earlier but it just got deselected. Trying to tap those ain't easy with your thumb I guess. Worked now. Thanks guys!
Sent from my Moto X 2014.
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Tap the time in Moto display settings to choose what hours you would like the display to be off. The features in Marshmallow just have been relocated from what they were in Lollipop.
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But the Moto Display assist doesn't work with Marshmallow.... At least the icons don't appear....
So...i was not keep to upgrading but i had no choice as i could/t shot off the pop-up so i had to upgrade....now, there are the following issues:
1. MESSAGING - using the built in messaging app - after attaching a photo to the text message, it is being SENT automatically - i cannot add text to it or be able to review to photo and other info... all photos are being send immediately after attachment as it/s own entity... B4 update, I could write a message and attach a photo in the SAME text message
2. LOCK SCREEN - notifications ( for a new message or email, etc) now appears as a wide band across lock screen - you can choose to see content,hide content or not see at all - there fore, not able to see the clock +weather on the lock screen, as when the notifications pop-up, the clock is being squished out of the way and pushed up and shank to a tiny little thing you can barely see if you look up close - I try to disable the notifications on the lock screen, but all that did was to not notify me at all about anything - B$ the upgrade, all notifications appeared ad small icons on the upper left side of the notification panel ... can i fix this?
3. EMAIL - a) - using default email app - i am not able to download attachments ( vary in size from 60KB to much higher) when not connected to Wi-Fi ( through the data connection ) - B4 upgrade this was possible with no problems
b) - i would like to be able to download the attachments automatically ( when the email is synched, then the attachment s/b downloaded as well, without me having to download manually) - can I set this somewhere?
4. CALLS - noticing it is now hard to hear people calling me, i get an echo, or interruptions or pinging sound and call quality it not that clear anymore - B$ update, it was CRYSTAL CLEAR !!!
I am up for an upgrade and I was desperately waiting for the note 5 - I was hopping for a bigger screen and some more better/nicer issues - so...note to SAMSUNG !!!!! - come up with something better, otherwise "IF IT AIN'T BROKE,DON'T FIX IT !!!!!!!!! - make a bigger screen !!!! ( forget about the EDGE...THAT'S kinda stupid !!!!) make more, nicer color choices... AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY... BRING BACK THE REMOVABLE BATTERY
UNTIL THEN, I WILL BE STICKING WITH MY NOTE 4....lost a good customer... !!!
Freshly installed Pie.
There is alarm clock setup and two hours before there is icon in the notification area and random sounds (like new message received).
Also found out those random notification sounds even when there is no notification or if there is viber message notification - few random sounds will repeat after.
I did not face those issues previously when Pie was installed as upgrade on top of Oreo, but newly installed creates problem.
p.s. I'm still pissed off from Novatek bad display so I hope I can get rid of this device
+1 also got random notifications without there beeing one.
I think it could be related to the option display ambient with the option turn on periodically
@Rubens95 - true.Amazing to put it in Display-Ambient-New notifications - repeat every 2 minutes.
Thanks.
Now one issue is left - random notifications without any even, but they are rare and not so annoying.
Cheers
It seems HMD Global finally found the killer app, but unfortunately it is killing oth
It seems HMD Global finally found the killer app, but unfortunately it is killing other apps!
https://dontkillmyapp.com/nokia?1
Nokia on Android P kills any background process including sleep tracking (or any other sport tracking) after 20 minutes if the screen is off. Also when killed all alarms are stopped which renders for example any alarm clock apps useless.
This is not my work...
Found this from a AdroidPolice article
DontKillMyApp.com shames OEMs that needlessly kill useful background processes to save battery life
After killing this app, now Google Fit and all other notifications and alarms work again. Yeeeee!
That's bad reputation from their side. Disappointing.
But my issue was the 'Ambient Display' - anyway thanks for sharing.
My phone is Global ROM PFGMIXM 10.3.5.0.
Model M1901F7G. Bootloader locked. Many apps were removed using SAKI program.
I mainly use my phone for gaming, listening to music, messagings, and browsing internet. I experience no lag at all even when I play pubg.
Overall I'm more than satisfied with this phone, especially when compared to my previous phone, Samsung J7. Below are my random thoughts/nitpickings/wish on the phone and things I noticed through my daily usage. It's really subjective opinion of mine, but could be more intriguing than most of those same boring reviews you can find on YouTube. If anybody knows how to fix or can suggest for workaround for my complaints, please let me know.
Pros:
Bluetooth headphones' remaining battery % can be checked in bluetooth connected device inside settings.
Removing app vault and Google app using SAKI program seem to have noticeably extended the battery life.
Unlocking with finger print really is responsive.
Because battery lasts really long time and it charges super fast with Q3 charger, I don't even charge it over 70% these days. Q4 charger is overkill too.
Headphone sound quality is surprisingly good. Comes with many presets you can choose from. Also LDAC audio codes is supported. Great for Sony headphones.
Available RAM increased by 0.1GB after uninstalling app vault and disabling it inside Home screen & Recents setting.
Cons:
When I set timer in clock, it doesn't show how many minutes left in notification bar, instead it shows what time the timer will go off. I wish it showed countdown time.
When I receive WhatsApp message, it doesn't give notification although I didn't disable it. This is pretty bad.
Golf clash app suddenly shut it self down. Happens once in 3 days or so, pisses me off when I go out of time because of this. I've reinstalled the app after the last crash and that might have solved it, didn't crash for 2, 3 days now.
When I play pubg for long time, sometimes the phone gets quite hot.
I've seen MI shopping/payment icon showing up in notification bar while browsing internet with chrome. This was very strange because I've removed all the MI apps through saki already 10 days ago. It's the icon that looks like shopping bag with "M" in the bag.
After uninstalling Google app, if I swipe up from home button, screen is covered with blank Google app remainder. This can only be solved if I changed launcher as I understand because there is an integration of Google app in MIUI launcher. Something minor and I'm not changing the launcher just for this.
Stock weather app update only once a day. This really bothers me. If I install 3rd party weather and time app and its widget, I can choose to update hourly. But then the time in notification bar shows up when in home screen. I don't need 2 times shown in home screen.
Stock camera can't be removed.
Can't choose gcam as default app to launch it by pressing volume down button twice.