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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.
bigflavor said:
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
Hi everyone !
LG 2X/Black Notifications is an app that handles incoming notifications and uses the LED buttons on the device to notify the user of any missed notifications. LG Optimus 2X (P990/P999/SU660), LG Optimus Black (P970) and LG Optimus 3D (P920) is supported. It does not require root if the required files has the proper permissions, if they do not root is required to change them (currently the latest update for T-Mobile G2x and LG Optimus 3D). It should be usable on all ROMs (not tested though). CyanogenMod7 has its own LED-notifications which has to be disabled if you wish to use this app.
Features
Built-in support for Gmail/SMS/MMS/Missed calls
Support for any activity that generates notifications by using Accessibility
Configurable pulse and vibration for every notification
Set the default touch LED brightness
Charging indicator
How the app works
The app is in an idle state and will do nothing until the device receives a notification.
When an notification is received and the screen is on and not in lock-screen, the accelerometer sensors will be started and used as a way to detect user activity. If the sensor is triggered the feedback will be cancelled. If the sensor is not triggered and the screen is turned off the feedback will start.
If the screen is off the feedback will be delayed for 2 seconds. The reason for this is because some notifications might turn on the screen and in turn will cancel the feedback, so the delay will hopefully prevent this. If nothing happens during the delay the feedback starts at once.
The feedback will repeat until it is timed out or the screen is turned on.
If you have any questions and/or bugs to report about the app don't hesitate to post a reply to this thread or send me a message and I'll answer them as soon as possible. I'm also open for suggestions of features to implement. However due to limited time at the moment new features may take a while to be implemented.
Download
For more information and free download check it out on the Android Market.
/ Martin Börjesson
Changelog
0.9.3.2
9 July 2011
Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the feedback to start even though a notification has been read.
Fixed: Accidentally used the "Off time"-string for the "On time" in the sleep-settings.
0.9.3.1
23 June 2011
Fixed a bug which caused the accelerometer-sensor to not turn off when it should (should fix some battery drain issues)
Lowered disable feedback on low battery value to 15%
0.9.3
SMS/MMS-fix: Increased default delay to 4 seconds
Prepared app for translations
0.9.2
SMS/MMS problem: Reverted to old code in an attempt to fix the problem with SMS/MMS not working properly for everyone. Please tell me if problem still persist.
Added some checks to prevent the pulse from starting if SMS has been checked.
This is a great app, thanks!
where can I get it anyway?
pa64 said:
This is a great app, thanks!
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You're welcome !
lovemage said:
where can I get it anyway?
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It's at the bottom of the first post, I've clarified it a bit now.
Thanks!! I've been using this since beta 0.3
Just a request...
Can accelerometer be disabled ? Cos i may be picking up the phone but not looking at the screen at all.
And, can the App icon be reverted to have transparent background (like in the early betas)
Cheers
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA App
dohanin said:
Thanks!! I've been using this since beta 0.3
Just a request...
Can accelerometer be disabled ? Cos i may be picking up the phone but not looking at the screen at all.
And, can the App icon be reverted to have transparent background (like in the early betas)
Cheers
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA App
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An option to disable accelerometer could be added, but then you would get the pulse for every incoming notification even if you've looked at them (if you were using the phone when you got them). The accelerometer is disabled when the screen is off or in the lock-screen (if you use another lock-screen than the default this might not be true though) so that if you receive a notification and then move your phone around without unlocking it the pulse should still start. So generally the accelerometer shouldn't be a problem, but if you really want an option for it I could add one
I changed the appearance of the icon since it couldn't be seen on Market because it has a white background. I also preferred the old look But it might be possible to fix it somehow, I'll note it down and look at it when I have time.
Nice app man... has solved all problems with notifications led
Thanks
managed to work, would prefer a led like i had in my X10 =/, but its great
So far works great. Thanks for the share mate! I'll try it for a couple more days and I'll be sure to leave you a comment in the market.
Nice App!
Keep going!
thanks for the effort man!
hi
really nice app
After the most recently update of Handcent SMS it's possible to choose Handcent as the default messaging application, and by then disable the stock messaging application. But when you do so, LG 2X/Black Notifications doesn't work when you receive a message. Do you think you can fix this in a future update?
This app can "listen to" other application's notifications. Did you try to enable the "monitoring" for Handcent ? (notification > select monitored activities)
Great work!
lpn- said:
This app can "listen to" other application's notifications. Did you try to enable the "monitoring" for Handcent ? (notification > select monitored activities)
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Yes, it can..
It just much more better from it's beta version..
Now i can have notification on my Whatsapp chat while ringtone is turned off..
Hi,
first of all i would like to say a big thanks to the developer xigzil of this great app, it always worked reliably on my LG P990.
Now i have changed my device to Samsung Galaxy S2 and wanted to ask xigzil if is possible to make this app work with?
I would really appreciate it and with a high probability of many other too.
Thanks in advance.
Max One
For the charging monitoring can you make it so that as the charge gets closer to 100% more of the LEDs are on.
For example 0-30% the menu LED is on 31-60% Menu and Home LED on. 61-90% Menu Home and Back LED are on. And 91-100% all 4 LEDs on. Somthing like that.
OR even if they could even pulse kinda like the battery icon at the top of the screen does where it will fill in blocks (if that makes sense)
Suggestion
Hi,
I love this application. But I have a suggestion. I have Go SMS Pro and the screen turns on when I receive a message. After the screen turns on, the notifications stop, even if I turn the screen off!
Could you add an option to make the notification works until there aren't any notification left?
An example, I'm at work and I receive a message, I turn the screen on to see who send me a message, but I don't read it. It stays unread (the notification in the top bar stays there). And then I turn off the screen to see the message when I have the time. But the notification stops. I what the notification never stops until I read the message. I don't mind if the notification is working even if I using the phone.
Thanks
As I couldn't find any Daydream for my finally arrived Nexus 7 Dock which fulfills all my needs, I started developing my own one. I'm quite happy with the result and present you:
Lucid - DayDream Screensaver
The main screen of the screensaver is the clock view, which you can see in the 1st attached screenshot. Besides the moving clock & date it can also show:
battery level
weather
unread GMails
missed calls
new SMS texts
next alarm
Also, you get buttons at the bottom to:
toggle night-mode (dim the screen)
start RSS view (3rd screenshot)
start Slideshow view
play/pause music (not every music app is supported)
You can change nearly every color/text size from the configuration screen. On Android 4.2, you'll find the Daydream in the Android settings app -> Display -> Daydream. For older versions, there is a launcher icon in your app drawer and the app can automatically start when the device is connected to a power source or placed in a dock.
The app comes as a trial version, in which the use of the daydream is limited to 30 minutes. You can purchase the full version from an in-app option for a fair 0.50 EUR / 0.99 USD.
Download: Play Store
The screensaver should work with every 4.0+ device, however I could only test it on my Nexus 4 & 7. So if you have any issues, let me know
XDA:DevDB Information
Lucid - Daydream, App for the Paid Software Discussion
Contributors
j4velin
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2014-11-06
Last Updated 2014-11-06
Hi j4velin,
I purchased your app.
Just 2 things :
When i purchase, the only thing that changed is "Purchase App" disappeared.
Is this correct / ok ?
Secondly, if i want to change date format, can i make it into
dd.MMM, YYYY or something like that ?
thanks
greg
gregferns said:
When i purchase, the only thing that changed is "Purchase App" disappeared.
Is this correct / ok ?
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it also removed the 30 min limit on the daydream, but that's currently all. and i'll maybe implement some premium-only features in the future
gregferns said:
Secondly, if i want to change date format, can i make it into
dd.MMM, YYYY or something like that ?
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yes, but use small "y" for the year. you can find all available identifiers here: http://developer.android.com/reference/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
Great work will be awesome for my gnote 10.1 thanks for the hard work.
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Can you add option to add color to the modules and be able to use custom background img
Edit also when phone has finished charging it stops daydream doesn't happen with other daydream apps
Sent from my Nexus 4
new version - black screen
Hi,
just got update.
New feature "night-mode dims darker" is switching off display completely. (on nexus s - slcd display)
The same happens, when i want to go to the modules-Night_Mode
Please fix.
tomasi02 said:
Hi,
just got update.
New feature "night-mode dims darker" is switching off display completely. (on nexus s - slcd display)
The same happens, when i want to go to the modules-Night_Mode
Please fix.
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can you test the attached version? please also test to enable the "darken to 0%" checkbox, thanks
new apk
j4velin said:
can i you test the attached version? please also test to enable the "darken to 0%" checkbox, thanks
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Hi, thanks for the build.
- first good news. After installing new apk, When going to the modules - night mode, everything is working fine.
- now the bad news - when i selected checkbox (checkbox was hidden behind text darken to 0%" ), screen went off. Now i'm not able to disable checkbox ;-(. When i'm going again to the night mode plugin - screen is going off.
- how to delete application settings without loosing license data?
tomasi02 said:
Hi, thanks for the build.
- first good news. After installing new apk, When going to the modules - night mode, everything is working fine.
- now the bad news - when i selected checkbox (checkbox was hidden behind text darken to 0%" ), screen went off. Now i'm not able to disable checkbox ;-(. When i'm going again to the night mode plugin - screen is going off.
- how to delete application settings without loosing license data?
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okay, i'll change that again in the next version. you should be able to delete the apps data in the Android settings, it should restore your license automatically
edit: attached another version which gives you a 3 seconds countdown before actually turning the brightness to 0%
j4velin said:
okay, i'll change that again in the next version. you should be able to delete the apps data in the Android settings, it should restore your license automatically
edit: attached another version which gives you a 3 seconds countdown before actually turning the brightness to 0%
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perfect. 3 seconds is quite short time.. but i can handle it.
Thanks very much for support.
T.
P.S. automatic dimming based on the light in Lux is nice feature. i like that.
P.S.S. When changing value of a Lux and i'll put 5.0 and after that delete, delete, delete (to have empty value). Application stops responding.
I just started using this last night. One thing I noticed is that it doesn't seem to update notifications when they come in while the daydream is opened. It only shows the one's it knows about when launched. Is it just me? If not, is there any way to change this?
i recently purchased your app and I love it but is there any way you would be able to have lucid daydream set as default action when it is docked, currently when i dock my phone i get a "Complete action using" pop-up before you app starts. It would be great if you added this to your app, I've added a picture to show what pops up.
imgur.com/yZs1aZP
As i have less than 10 posts im unable to insert the image into the post
Evildave3 said:
i recently purchased your app and I love it but is there any way you would be able to have lucid daydream set as default action when it is docked, currently when i dock my phone i get a "Complete action using" pop-up before you app starts. It would be great if you added this to your app, I've added a picture to show what pops up.
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what Android version do you use? does Lucid actually start when you dock your device? have you rebooted once?
Great app but the cpu usage is always used to its maximum. Also I'm missing one function . I don't want my phone to be turned on while night so it would be great if You would add some options to disable Your app between set time.
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Hi,
another request from me. On Slcd display it's setting brightness on maximum when Daydream is activated.
Can it not change brightness?
tomasi02 said:
Hi,
another request from me. On Slcd display it's setting brightness on maximum when Daydream is activated.
Can it not change brightness?
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when not using the "night-mode", the app should set the display brightness to 10% if it's not already darker. when using the night mode you can set it to 0% on supported devices
Thank you for this!
Seems nice, willing to take a try.
Please disable lockscreen as in the android clock day dream. One of my primary uses is as a screen saver where I don't have to unlock I can just swipe the screen. Why would you need screen lock if it's on a charger/docked.
Thanks. Best daydream app so far. Worth the money
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
Where is AM/PM?
So where exactly is the option for AM/PM? This is usually "t" or "tt" but I noticed that your App seems to have left this out, although not all of us are in the military NOR do we venture outside our "box" so we need to know if it is DAY or NIGHT without looking outside.
Can you please add this?
Thanks.
:fingers-crossed:
And get rid of a few annoyances in the mean time?
EDIT: SOLUTION it cost me half a sunday if not more.
I have a stock Moto X 2013, Europe version. I was very happy with it, apart from a few minor annoyances. Untill I received the Lollipop update months ago.
Missing features or new annoyances since Lollipop:
Wake display by waiving your hand. This was in my opinion a killer feature.
SOLUTION: This website which presents a solution using TASKER. Untested
Shutdown menu - extremely annoying if you just want to reboot
Enable flight mode via Shutdown menu, since the menu is gone, you miss this option as well
Mute phone with 1 button, the volume down button. The alternative, selecting MUTE also disables screen or glow notifications. There is NO way to only mute sound/vibration a Moto X 2013 with Lollipop. You have a SMARTphone that cannot be muted like any other phone!
Bluetooth and mobile data toggles have been removed. OMG even Windows Phone 8 has it.
Lockscreen: swipe to right for camera. Gone.
White popup (general Lollipop annoyance): if you swipe it away, the notification is gone from the bar, you cannot read it/respond from the notification bar after swiping it away.
Minor but not dealbreaker features I would like to have: hide NFC and Bluetooth icon in the notification bar, be able to hide app icons and/or rearrange them in the app drawer.
What do I need to do to get all these features back? I want to stick to the stock experience as much as possible. Custom ROMs with tons of customisation features is not what I am waiting for. A custom ROM with near-stock experience and fixes for the issues mentioned above would be welcome.
But if it is possible to solve all of them with XPosed and/or Tasker, that would be fine. Unfortunately I searched these forums for 3 days now and I cannot find a dedicated Xposed topic with this info (there is 1 but it has little useful info). I hope others have a similar experience and found a solution!
zilexa said:
And get rid of a few annoyances in the mean time?
I have a stock Moto X 2013, Europe version. I was very happy with it, apart from a few minor annoyances. Untill I received the Lollipop update months ago.
Missing features or new annoyances since Lollipop:
Wake display by waiving your hand. This was in my opinion a killer feature.
SOLUTION: This website which presents a solution using TASKER. Untested
Shutdown menu - extremely annoying if you just want to reboot
Enable flight mode via Shutdown menu, since the menu is gone, you miss this option as well
Mute phone with 1 button, the volume down button. The alternative, selecting MUTE also disables screen or glow notifications. There is NO way to only mute sound/vibration a Moto X 2013 with Lollipop. You have a SMARTphone that cannot be muted like any other phone!
Bluetooth and mobile data toggles have been removed. OMG even Windows Phone 8 has it.
Lockscreen: swipe to right for camera. Gone.
White popup (general Lollipop annoyance): if you swipe it away, the notification is gone from the bar, you cannot read it/respond from the notification bar after swiping it away.
Minor but not dealbreaker features I would like to have: hide NFC and Bluetooth icon in the notification bar, be able to hide app icons and/or rearrange them in the app drawer.
What do I need to do to get all these features back? I want to stick to the stock experience as much as possible. Custom ROMs with tons of customisation features is not what I am waiting for. A custom ROM with near-stock experience and fixes for the issues mentioned above would be welcome.
But if it is possible to solve all of them with XPosed and/or Tasker, that would be fine. Unfortunately I searched these forums for 3 days now and I cannot find a dedicated Xposed topic with this info (there is 1 but it has little useful info). I hope others have a similar experience and found a solution!
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This is a question, shouldn't it be in the Q&A?
1) This can be restored by flashing the 4.4.4 firmware
2) Xposed -> GravityBox (Power)
3) Xposed -> GravityBox (Power)
4) Tasker?
5) Xposed -> GravityBox (QuickSettings), or if you mess with the settings for either of those they may pop up in the quick toggles after some time
6) Xposed -> GravityBox (QuickSettings)
7) Xposed -> GravityBox (Notification Ticker)
Status bar icons can be hidden in GravityBox (Statusbar)
The drawer changing can be done with XGELs (Google Experience Launcher)
If this information helped you get it working, be sure to pay it forward by donating if you can
I am definitely going to unlock bootloader, root and install Xposed, see if I can get all of this back. Saves me the risk of potentially unstable ROMs and saving a lot of time testing different ROMs. Thanks a lot!
And yes, I believe projects like Xposed absolutely deserve a donation. I just finished flashing my own HTC One M7, it will also have Xposed (first time going to use it). The Motorola is owned by the lady. I will definitely donate if it works for me.
Wave-to-wake is present in some roms, for example the modded stock rom
There is also the lockscreen with the swipe for the camera.
In order to modify the power menu, you can use APM+.
For the toggles use Gravity Box.
aledex said:
Wave-to-wake is present in some roms, for example the modded stock rom
There is also the lockscreen with the swipe for the camera.
In order to modify the power menu, you can use APM+.
For the toggles use Gravity Box.
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Good to know, but why would I go to all the trouble to install that ROM (which would include wiping my phone) if I can reach all those goals with XPosed/GravityBox
I have stock Lollipop 5.1 European version about:
5 - bluetooth toggle exists, IIRC it only appears if you use it; mobile data toggle also exists, just need two clicks - one on mobile data tile and one on toggle
6 - don't know about secure screen options but if you don't use password/pin/other you can swipe left for camera and right for dialer
7 - you can swipe that popup up to just hide it and without dismissing or use one of this app to remove/modify them "Heads-up Notifications" "HeadsOff - TickerOn" even without root
I believe that the Nexus Experience rom (NX ROM) offers most, if not all of the features that you're looking for, and it offers a very stock experience. The only reason that I don't run it is because I've grown accustom to tapping gently on my phones shoulder when it's sitting on my desk to activate the Active Display to see what time it is or what notifications I've been ignoring. With NX ROM, Active Display works great, but it's not as sensitive. So I have to tip my phone up, or sideways, to about 15 degrees before Active Display activates with. A very minor issue, but I'm very picky.
As far as I remember, it has the hand wave feature, power off/reboot/airplane mode menu, all kinds of toggles, and I believe volume down to mute as well. It doesn't do swipe right for camera, but you can swipe from bottom right corner, or from bottom left (customizable) to activate the camera. Not sure about the white popup thing because I didn't use it that long.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I am extremely annoyed by Google removing useful functionality, harming productivity and introducing new design which is clearly not meant for OLED screens (all white). But with all these suggestions I can hopefully stick with the Moto X for a long time, since no brand but Sony will bring us high end <5" phones.
Bomberlt said:
I have stock Lollipop 5.1 European version about:
5 - bluetooth toggle exists, IIRC it only appears if you use it; mobile data toggle also exists, just need two clicks - one on mobile data tile and one on toggle
6 - don't know about secure screen options but if you don't use password/pin/other you can swipe left for camera and right for dialer
7 - you can swipe that popup up to just hide it and without dismissing or use one of this app to remove/modify them "Heads-up Notifications" "HeadsOff - TickerOn" even without root
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Also have the European version, but I have a completely different experience. Swiping heads up notification always removes the notification from the statusbar (on all Lollipop phones, not just Motorola). On my HTC One M7 with GPE+ ROM I could lower the popup to 1sec allowing me to access the notification in the statusbar when needed. Works fine.
Another Lollipop bug (not even fixed in Android 6.0.1) is that the dialer shows ALL contacts of ALL your accounts (Google, Exchange, Outlook, Facebook, Skype etc) regardless if they have a phone number or not. The Contacts app does allow you to select specifically which contacts to show per group per account. In 4.4.4 this also applied to the dialer, since 5.0 it does not anymore. Google it and you will see people going nuts about this. A Google employee replying it will be "fixed" in M.. which is nuts since most phones with this issue will never receive an M upgrade.. also, now that M is available for Nexus, it's not fixed. The only solution: find a better dialer in Play Store.. this nums me completely... a phone OS should have at least a good dialer.. and apart from this issue the dialer works fine.
SOLVED
SOLVED:
Documentation + all links below in case anyone or myself ever need to do this again.
The most important part explained in detail:
- uninstall any phone drivers from other phones, uninstall Android SDK etc
- install Motorola USB drivers (Motorola Manager)
- install Minimal ADB & Fastboot in C:\adbfb and install mfastboot in that same folder, use mfastboot instead of fastboot. Scroll down in the Minimal topic to find the link to the Fastboot guide. It lists the command to flash recovery (TWRP): NOTE !!! unplug the phone from the PC right after flashing recovery and use the volume down button to scroll to Recovery in Bootloader, use VOLUME UP to select recovery after uplugging, not the shutdown button and do not reboot first (I used shutdown button and rebooted and spend 2 hours figuring this out)!
- copy all required files (the ROM plus its addons) to c:\adbfb.
- Flash using TWRP, first the ROM, then the addons, then factory reset via TWRP.
Short overall steps:
1. bootloader unlocked via the Motorola site (official method)
2. installed TWRP 2.8.6.0 (the newer one has an issue)
3. installed the modded/debloated stock ROM
4. also installed all the addons for that ROM, listed in that same first post.
5. After first boot and initial setup, Copied Xposed Installer, AdAway and installed them via Amaze File Manager (Play Store).
6. Installed the Xposed modules: GravityBox, Moto Checkbox, Sensify, BTAudio. Used GravityBox and Moto CheckBox to get most features back and personalise Quicksettings and some other great tweaks.
7. Used Sensify to install the HTC Sense Launcher (read the first post to install the correct version!!) which is basically stock launcher WITHOUT persistant Google Search Bar WITH ability to rearrange/group/hide apps in the app drawer and with black background, good for our OLED screen. No free launcher in the Play Store is as simple and plain as this one with these features (Nova Prime can do it but it costs €5 and adds a huge load of features I never need).
8. Wave-to-Wake is still not present in the debloated ROM but I will use the Tasker workaround. Haven't tested this yet.
9. To get the maximum out of your battery and have apps that are easier on the eyes, create a backup using TWRP and carefully follow the instructions of Team Blackout (Black Chrome, Black Calendar, Black Hangouts, Black Keep, Black Whatsapp etc). Haven't tested this yet.
10. Play Store > Settings: disable auto-update in Play Store, also disable the notification of updates.
Device Settings Menu Guide, Tips & Discussions
Part 3 - Display, Lock screen, Biometrics and security
If you're new to this series or want to see the index, please read the Introductory Post first.
Display
Auto brightness: When you change brightness in Auto mode, your device is smart enough to learn your usage patterns to determine the best level according to the environment as per your preferences. 'Reset usage patterns' in case you think your phone is drunk when in Auto mode.
Blue light filter: Learn why you should use it here. I've set it to 'Turn on as scheduled' > 'Sunset to sunrise'. You can toggle it from the notification panel as well.
Night Mode: (Pie update) Enable it to make use of true blacks on your AMOLED screen, save battery and put less strain on eyes. I know you want it to only enable at night, so hop up to developer mode and set 'Night mode' to Automatic. I don't know why Samsung has put up such a useful mode here.
Screen mode: I've set it to 'Adaptive Display'. Do play with other modes and toggle them when needed. Customize 'Full screen colour balance' (and Advanced) when 'Adaptive Display' is enabled in case you don't like the default setup.
Font size and style; Screen zoom: I've set 'Screen Zoom' to 'Small' and 'Font Size' to Level 2 in order to get more content in a screen view. Please tell if there's any better font on Galaxy Apps.
Screen resolution: By default, you don't get the resolution enabled what your Note9 is capable of. I've changed it WQHD+ for getting the most out of the best display in the market. I've the resolution set to HD+ in Medium Battery Saver mode in case I'm on Survival mode.
Full screen apps: I customize it when needed for an app.
Screen timeout: Mine is set to 10 minutes. You know, pro users!
Home screen: Self-explanatory and I use Nova Launcher. Do enable 'Quick-open' notification panel.
Edge screen: Do you need a seperate guide for this? Or can anyone provide a link to one. If you use it right, this can make your life much simpler.
Edge panels: You can set a maximum of 9 panels. Explore options of each panel and try more of them from the Store. I've enabled Apps edge (also make app pair and folders), People edge (upto 10), Smart select (take portion screenshots, make screen GIFs, pin a screen's content), Clipboard edge (auto-categorizes items), Reminder, Device maintenance (useful to review device performance OTG), Tasks edge (explore all available tasks), Quick tools (must have), Calendar. Tap Menu and 'Reorder' the panels as per your needs. In 'Edge panel handle', I've set the Transparency to highest and Size to smallest. I've dragged the handle to Right near power button so that I can always guess where the handle is.
Edge lighting: For me, it feels great to have it for some very important notifications that too 'when screen is off'. Do note that if you enable it for screen on as well, it will disable heads-up notifications. Play with 'Edge lighting style' as it shows the effect generated as you customize one. For me, {effect=basic, color=app_color, transparency=low, width=narrow} works. You can customize the lighting color for each app separately as well. In 'Manage notifications', you can define those apps for which you want this effect enabled.
Menu > Quick reply: Do define a reply because it can be useful in cases where you can't or don't prefer to type or check messages.
Navigation bar: I've enabled 'Hard press Home button' (great alternative to physical home button) and set the pressure to lightest (since I don't want to hurt my screen). With Pie, you can enjoy the immersive display by setting 'Navigation type' to 'Full screen gestures' and disabling 'Gesture hints'. I eventually got used to this. You can use Nav bar button on Quick Settings by dragging down the notification panel to toggle showing navbar then.
Accidental touch protection: Really useful because I keep my phone screen faced to my leg side when inside pocket so that it's protected from the outside cruel world.
Screensaver: In case phone is your life even when it wants to get charged peacefully.
Lock screen
Screen lock type: I use Pattern with Biometrics (Intelligent Scan and Fingerprints or sometimes Fingerprints only). Fingerprints remain the best security and battery-efficient method till date atleast for me. Use Iris for more security than regular face recognition. Also, with Iris, your device won't get unlocked while you're sleeping or with your photo. Use 'Intelligent Scan' for bit more ease (read about it here).
Smart Lock: It's a Google feature that can unlock your phone via On-body detection, Trusted places/devices and Voice Match. I used it once with On-body detection but couldn't impress me. Read about it here.
Secure lock settings: Disabled 'Make pattern visible'. Set 'Lock automatically' to 15 seconds in case I want to turn on the screen immediately without unlocking it. Anyways, 'Lock instantly with power key ' is enabled when I explicitly want it to get locked. Use 'Auto factory reset' carefully as someone could initiate this by simply making incorrect attempts. I've enabled 'Lock network and security' especially for theft use-case.
Always On Display: For customizing it, go to 'Clock style' below. Guide on AOD here and video here. With Pie, you now have new display mode as 'Tap to show' AOD for 30 seconds. I've set it to 'show as scheduled' such it doesn't glow when I sleep. Also, I get an idea that it's time to get to bed when AOD stops showing up (same for wakeup).
Content to show: 'Home button and clock' feel elegant for me.
Double tap Home button: Changed to 'Quick launch Camera' since I want it more often and I can turn on the screen by hard pressing anyways.
Auto brightness: Enabled. If you are okay with manually controlling this brightness less often by double tapping the AOD clock, disabling can save you some battery.
Show always; Set schedule: If you often check clock at night, you can enable the former. I've disabled AOD during my night sleep schedule so that I additionally get a hint when it's already time to go to bed and whether it's time to get up or not.
Turn off to save battery: Enabled. Do you need AOD in survival mode too?
Clock style: You can customize AOD with different clock styles, pictures, GIFs, Calendar and roaming clocks. Blue 'colour' gives a soothing effect every time I look at the clock for me. Similarly, you can customize your Lock Screen clock style here.
Roaming clock: I had to disable it as every operator in India puts SIM to Roaming mode when you're out of your circle (mostly defined to a state) and I get two identical clocks whenever I travel out of state.
FaceWidgets: Enabled all available choices and will decide about the reordering or need of each of them after I arrive at the use-cases. Same goes for you maybe.
Contact information: Do fill it. I've include my name and number on it. Can be useful when stolen, lost or misplaced. You can include email or alternative mobile number as well since the primary number would probably be in the device itself.
Notifications: I've kept the defaults. 'Hide content' if you don't want people to read your notifications. I rather do this on per-app basis (like messages for OTPs, sensitive apps). 'Notifications icons only' makes it similar to AOD style notifications and I want description of notifications once I go over my AOD screen. Toggle 'Transparency' if you find it difficult to read notification over the wallpaper or want your wallpaper to expose. 'Auto-reverse text colour' makes it easier to adapt with the wallpaper. You can define 'Where to show' your notifications here (AOD or Lock screen or both).
App shortcuts: Define the two shortcuts you see on the bottom screen corners while on lock screen. You can choose any app though default (phone and camera) works for me.
Biometrics and security
Biometrics: You can remove biometrics data and configure 'Samsung Pass' to use these here. You can enable 'Screen-on' scan for making the device scan for your face/iris as soon as screen turns on. This increases brightness immediately while it's scanning (can be annoying) and will drain some battery. 'Samsung Pay' works only with 'Fingerprint' and 'Iris Scanner'. Try different ' preview screen mask' for 'Iris Scanner'. In 'Fingerprint Scanner', you can add as many as 4 fingerprints (reserve one for Secure Folder). Put your finger on the reader and you can see the detected one highlited.
Screen transition effect: Disabled as I want things at fastest.
Google Play Protect: Enabled. Read more here.
Find My Mobile: 'Remote controls', 'Google location service' and 'Send last location' enabled. This should be the first things to review once you buy the device. Prepare yourself with a demo on findmymobile.samsung.com.
Security update: Shows the patch level and gets updated with 'Software Update'.
Samsung Pass: Similar to 'Google Smart Lock' for passwords but with biometrics and less support as of now.
Install Unknown Apps: Allow/Disallow existing apps to install apps from APK.
Secure Folder: The replacement for Samsunh My Knox. Must use feature to serparate your very private and confidential part of the phone. Guide here and video here.
Secure startup: Disabled for me. Should be enabled if you want your SIM, notifications, alarms and anything related to device startup not to start without passing the lock screen after the device boots up. For the kind of short-term memory loss I have, I want to call my phone or want it recieve inputs if in any case it gets misplaced with maybe low battery.
Encrypt SD card: Okay, so your phone is secured by Knox or 'Device encryption'. What about your SD card? Anyone can take it out and access your data, right? Encrypt it here and it won't be accessible to any device beside yours. Be careful to decrypt it in case you want to use it somewhere else or even when you are going to format your device.
Other security settings: 'Set up SIM card lock' disabled (same reason as in 'Secure startup'), 'Make passwords visible' disabled, 'Security policy updates' auto update enabled (Here is what are these), 'Send security reports' enabled. Set 'Device admin apps' with care (Learn about them here in case you haven't). You need to remove an app from here before uninstalling it. 'Creditial Storage' for CAs and user certificates (Learn more about CAs here). 'Pin windows' is a very useful feature for me. In cases where you need to give your device to someone (for like watching a movie or seeing the gallery), if this is enabled with 'ask for pattern before unpinning', when you 'pin' that app (video player or gallery), people will have to pass the lock method to get out of that app. Configure which apps can have 'Usage data access', 'Notification access' and 'Do not disturb permission'.
Location:
Allow apps and sites to detect your device's location. I've enabled it since I use too much location-specific content. You can turn it off if you suspect your dad working in NSA (approx locality can still be tracked through IP, use VPN).
Locating method: Change the method as per your requirements. I use 'High accuracy' while you can use 'Battery saving' to save a significant amount of battery that GPS uses. I simply turn off 'Location' from the notification bar when not needed or during survival mode.
Improve Accuracy: You can turn this off for WiFi and BT in case you don't want apps to override your decision of not making them search for WiFi or BT when you have explicitly turned them off!
Recent Location Requests; Location Services: Do review the apps that your girlfriend may have installed in your phone; Do review Google Location History and Sharing settings.
App permissions; Permission usage monitor: You can review the 'Permission History' here and enable/disable notifications for permission access on per-app per-permission basis. You suspect an app tracking your location occasionally and want to prove this instead of not granting it the permission? You can do it here.
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Why are you posting this??
There's a very good "USER MANUAL" on the "Samsung"-site available:
User Manual Samsung Galaxy Note9
henklbr said:
Why are you posting this??
There's a very good "USER MANUAL" on the "Samsung"-site available:
User Manual Samsung Galaxy Note9
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You have commented the same query on each of my parts. I have already answered you here where the similar discussion is already going on. Let's discuss there and keep this thread clean. Also, the 'why am I posting this' is already described in the Introductory Post.
thanks, op for the posts, very useful