Tall and empty tiles on WP 8.1 Start screen - Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello everyone.
I'm spending some time with "Tiles Art"
I have 2 question today:
Do you know if it is possible to make TALL tiles?
You can only resize them as "square" (small or big) OR "wide" (as wide as 2 squares). I wanted to know if there is a way (or a app) to add a feature such as resize "tall" (as tall as 2 squares)... actually the best would be to ALSO a second feature whit resize as wide as 3 squares! when Start Screen shows 3 columns ninstead of 2.
I really misses this
The other question. Is it possible to make NON clickable empty Tiles ?!? Some apps allows to make empty transparent tiles, a tap on them brings me to the application itself... quite annoying. A better application like "Start Perfect" makes empty transparent tiles with a link to a black screen... it's better... indeed, but unclickable Tilles would be the definitive solution. :good: . Any idea how to get this ?!
Many thanks to you all for whatever kind of help.

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Can screen size be change'd

Hi,
i got a couple of app's "games" that are abit dodgy. one the whole right panel is "off" and the other the bottom and top are "off"
firstly deal or no deal game.
on the left side you see the "prizes" but on the right of the screen it is too small to show you the rest of the games "prizes"
you get a list of $0.1 to $750 and on the otherside your ment to be able to see $1000 upto 1mil. but screen too small
and the other's sheep launcher plus
on the bottom you cant select characters and on the top you cant "tap" the sheep also the calibrations abit off as you have to touch around 1.5cm under the actual launch icon to launch it .
All of this boil's down to one question really.
Is there a way of resizing "app's" for the X8
Thanks
Yes... in a kind of way but it is not work will all roms. It resize all your phone's screen.
It is called designity changer... our default is set to 160.
You can change it to 140 or 120
At 100 most launcher crash and all apps crash.
You will have problem typing on 120 as buttons are too small.
Best rom from my opinion for this is mini cm.
Some apps will not be resize and you may have layout problems, only on the look.
P.S root need, app is paid, can be found on market.
Just edit build.prop
ro.sf.lcd_density=160 <-- our default
you can change to
ro.sf.lcd_density=140 or ro.sf.lcd_density=120
Note: some rom have two build.prop
one in System/build.prop
two in System/Bin/build.prop
Warning:this will resize all app

Weather Flow background stopped moving

Hello, not sure if this is the right place to put this, the thing is my Weather Flow medium live tile has stopped moving (like photo live tile moves), have no idea what happened.
Tried all kind of solutions i could find on the web, unpined it, reinstalled it, deleted IE history, restarted the phone etc.. It's still not moving, and it looked damn fine when moving
Anyone got some solution? Thanks..
The images on third party live tiles cannot move.
The tiles can flip around and show different images/text, but they cannot move in the way that the Photos tile moves (the slow pan of the photo, and then a fast slide to the next photo).
Totally forgot about iconic since barely anyone uses it. XD
prjkthack said:
The images on third party live tiles cannot move.
The tiles can flip around and show different images/text, but they cannot move in the way that the Photos tile moves (the slow pan of the photo, and then a fast slide to the next photo).
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Actually, in WP8 (even in WP7.8 i believe) they can move.
It's called an iconic tile.
The reason it stops moving is because you probably exceeded the maximum number of live tile processes you can have running around in the background.
mcosmin222 said:
Actually, in WP8 (even in WP7.8 i believe) they can move.
It's called an iconic tile.
The reason it stops moving is because you probably exceeded the maximum number of live tile processes you can have running around in the background.
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Hey cheers for reply, actually i only have Weather Flow and Photos as a medium live tile, or the ones that move around and flip. I have Here Maps and Here Drive as medium but they don't do anything.. now i'm hearing that the Weather Flow never moved it's background, could it be that i've imagened it? Anyone willing to test this?
Boris Lozac said:
Hey cheers for reply, actually i only have Weather Flow and Photos as a medium live tile, or the ones that move around and flip. I have Here Maps and Here Drive as medium but they don't do anything.. now i'm hearing that the Weather Flow never moved it's background, could it be that i've imagened it? Anyone willing to test this?
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No. the actual number of tiles on the screen has little impact.
go to settings>slide to application>background tasks.
If too many are running, live tile processes may not be getting to run anymore, thus the live tiles will die.
You certainly did not imagine it, tiles like the pictures hub are available for third parties.
Just checked, disabled some like My notes, Here drive is allowed but i've made it a small tile. Atm only Here drive and Weather Flow are allowed, and it's still not moving..
I was thinking if someone can confirm to me that Weather Flow actually does move it's background
Boris Lozac said:
Just checked, disabled some like My notes, Here drive is allowed but i've made it a small tile. Atm only Here drive and Weather Flow are allowed, and it's still not moving..
I was thinking if someone can confirm to me that Weather Flow actually does move it's background
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Maybe there is a problem on their end.

What WE want in the next Community Build! Posted on 10/24/16

We begin with a premise. We are a facebook group that has as its object the OnePlus3 (The group name’s is OnePlus3/3T ITA). We decided to collect our ideas to suggest to you what OnePlus Developer should add to our device to make it perfect.
This is the suggestion list that we hope you will implement. Many of these requests want to be implemented as a possibility of choice. When you buy a OnePlus you want to have more liberty of customization.
HOME CUSTOMIZATION:
1- A better weather application:
- more information (such as Google Now or Windows 10 PC-style)
- a better widget on shelf bar*!
*I now that i can tap on the top to open weather application but it would be nice see a greater integration with more information.
2- Ability to have another swipe from right to left to access to the news of google now (after the shell).
3- Ability to access to the app drawer as the new Pixels Launcher with a swipe from bottom to top.
4- A package of circular icons.
5- Being able to change the display grid of apps in the app drawer and the home.
6- Ability to remove the drawer and leave all apps in the home (such as iOS or Miui).
HARDWARE BUTTON:
7- Ability to set the lateral slider as follows: ringer, vibrate, silent (Also this based on the choice of people. Just put a simple option in the settings).
8- One handed mode with a swipe on central button touch.
CAMERA:
9- Frontal Flash with the use of screen brightness. We need this feature for selfie during night or dark place.
10- Manual mode during video.
11- Ability to record video in HDR mode.
12- Slow Motion with audio.
13- A best correction of the white balance in manual mode with a slider (as LgG4 or LgG5).
OTHER REQUEST:
14- A Toggle for the pocket mode (switch on/off).
15- Enter to the clock app by clicking on the time in the bar of the expanded notifications.
16- Ability to personalize the night mode with different screen temperatures. Like “twilight” app.
18- Quick access to the battery from the notification bar as in the version 3.2.X.
19- Ability to set the background of the app and the notifications bar completely BLACK (not only dark grey. That is not nice).
20- Integration of an energy saving system that would limit the use of the CPU without affecting the application synchronization and data in the background.
Even an "ultra power saving mode" as on Galaxy s6/s7 would be very nice.
21- Ability to zoom the video in the playback phase (as on LgG4 and G5) with a simple "pinch to zoom". This is a COOL FEATURE.
22- Always On function.
All of us in the facebook group OnePlus3/3T ITA want to thank OnePlus and his team for the way they are working on our terminal. We also hope that these requirements listed above will be upheld in positve way.
THANK YOU
P.S: If you (that you're not part of the facebook group) share these ideas, copy them and put them in the last question ("Do you have any advice that we can use to improve the next beta builds? Please describe in detail") of the feedback of CB 3.5.4.
All I want is for oneplus to open up their camera to third party devs... CM14 is better than anything oneplus has been able to offer, but we need a better camera!
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This is a trascription of a Carl Pei's interview to XDA's community : "We want to, and we’ve been talking about internally. So there’s a challenge with the camera because if we want a blob, then there are two major challenges. The first one being, the code relating to the camera is on a lot of layers, so you have something related to the camera on the framework level, something on the Android level, something on a system level. So we’re gonna have to rewrite a lot of code to be able to separate it in a way that allows us to blob it. And the second reason is, if we were to blob it the result is that the speed will suffer, so the speed of the camera UX on custom ROMs will suffer. We’re still trying to figure out a way of how we can release something that will help people improve the camera in their custom ROMs without making the experience become too bad. And we don’t want something with our logo to have a poor experience either. So it is going to be a little bit harder than we thought, but we’ve been discussing this"
bludestiny said:
This is a trascription of a Carl Pei's interview to XDA's community...
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Looks like they should have made it more developer friendly from the beginning. Did they honestly think that nobody would be using custom ROMS?
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Also, notification badges in oxygen launcher. Not the nova launcher workaround.
X1.000.000
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haris0250 said:
Also, notification badges in oxygen launcher. Not the nova launcher workaround.
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X1.000.000 on this
Also, ability to have different sound level Calls and Notifications
Ability to hide apps in app drawer and make folders.
And private mode in gallery, working with fingerprint would be nice.
Different sound levels for calls and notifications.
Always on display which consumes just a little battery
For me the one trivial thing that really should be addressed are those awful accent colors. Especially for the dark theme.
The palette used is so pale! Except for the green and the sky blue I don't think anyone really likes the others. They really should change those to Material Design colors or atleast give the option to customize.
1. The most important !!! I want to be able to instal any rom without reflashing recovery, firmware or anyting else.
2. I want to set Finger print to lock/unlock screen without any pass or pattern, that means to work everytime.
3. Camera to make Macro photos.

Adding features the one plus 5!

The purpose of this thread is simple...
To discuss anything that will truly add features to our phone... As we know this is a light skinned version of stock Android
And here I will be presenting links to apps and threads and everyone can contribute... Which add features to Op5...
Not just ui customizations..... Features...
Definition of a feature...
Something which your phone does which it couldn't do before that app..
So come on guys.. Lets start...
Though I did hate the laggy TouchWiz. I did live the s pen and S note...
And honestly speaking you wll too...
Let's try and customize our Op5.. To the extent that we want to...
This thread will present a series of apps and threads links etc..
Which will help the user to truly add whatever features they want from whatever skin htc sense Samsung TouchWiz to their op5
And I am no developer so please help me out here...
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1.fooview
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooview.android.fooview
Thai all add the air command and scrapboom like features to the phone ..
What it does....
Allows you to take custom screen shots and save content like scrapbook for later use...
It is also a over screen float like air view...
It kinda blows samsung air view out of the box... But ya note devices do have bigger screens...
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2.featured I am looking for
An action memo like on screen memo taking app..
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MacroDroid - Device Automation
MacroDroid is a powerful task automation and configuration app that focuses heavily on usability with a simple UI and logical step by step process.
Amazing UI. In my experience better than Tasker.
How about Always On AMOLED - BETA?
It's a simple app which keeps your screen on always (like MOTO devices). Nice and cool. If you pay a small amount you get an unlocked version with customization...
Loved the suggestions guys... Specially the always on amoled
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I have two minor additions I'd want added:
1. More customizable theme colors (or honestly I just want red back!)
2. Invertable color option for the system tray
TL;DR add automatic rules
I had a note 5 I loved it, unfortunately it didn't like the hot tub.. TBH I never used the pen much, but when I did it was handy, perfect for field work; snap a pic, doodle on it, send it off. Awesome! I was torn between buying a note FE or the OP5, I'm glad I stuck with OP from a 2 to a 3 to a 5. I've become a flash-a-holic.
The feature I'd love to see is "automatic rules" you can actually get access to the setting on OOS if you have nova launcher, but it just doesn't work. I'm using "#1 profile" to automatically set the phone to priority only at bed time, this shouldn't be a difficult thing for OP to add/activate to OOS.
I'd also like the old dialer, or for that matter any other dialer, swipe down to answer for me is counter intuitive. Like thumbs up thumbs down, swipe up to answer, or swipe down to reject a call.
I wish you could choose the text bubble colour in the default sms app. Like textra or Google messages (too bad they don't have a dark theme for Google messages).
A setting to switch the wireless data indicator from 4g to LTE, I'm not sure why this bugs me, but it does.
How about Tiles? Also, Virtual Hosts is excellent for setting up a root free ad block. Just download one of Steven Black's host files from GitHub and point the app to it.
Would love for buttons and gestures (especially screen off) to be able to invoke app shortcuts. Just imagine the possibilities for Tasker.
Always on display.
Notification badges on the stock launcher so I can enjoy the shelf.
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murali.tk said:
How about Always On AMOLED - BETA?
It's a simple app which keeps your screen on always (like MOTO devices). Nice and cool. If you pay a small amount you get an unlocked version with customization...
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This is a nice app and I have paid to support but the battery hit is just too much right now compared to what you get using LG or Samsung's version
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I don't understand why not a single stock ROM has long-press volume to skip track. Its such a simple feature. Its baked into every single custom ROM out there. It was there on Sony Ericsson phones (Walkman and K series). I need to get the damn phone out of the pocket, turn the screen on, unlock, open notifications shade, and press to skip a god damn song. (Not all headphones come with buttons, and not all headphones support skipping songs by multi-pressing the buttons.)
2 features I'd love added:
1. Long press back to kill app
2. Brightness slider in notification drop down. I know there is one, but you have to fully extend it to change it. My S7 had the option to place it in the first drop down.
Yeah I agree with most of you, some useful additions:
1. Badges on the Stock OP Launcher! I love it from my iPhone and sometimes forget to answer because I swyped the notification away and no badges to know there are still unread messages
2. Always On or something similar, but only if it doesn't use too much battery and no burn-in
3. Kill all apps in background with one button gesture
I'd love to see OMS commits get to OOS and probably experiment with the Kernel a bit (I know you can flash a custom, but if you'd like to stay complete stock, without unlocking). Maybe improve audio libs similar to ARISE....
How about a one-handed mode feature? That would be pretty helpful.
- Options to block QS & Power menu on secured lockscreen. (Smart Lockscreen protector app does the job, but it's service doesn't start at boot until the first unlock...)
- Skip music tracks using volume keys
- Built in Caffeine tile (the one from play store works well, but doesn't reset when turning screen off).
- Launch torch using power button long press when screen is off
- One-handed mode
- Center status bar clock
Hi guys,
1- badges for notifications. All my previous phones had this function.
2- more functions in auto mode for camera app, it's too basic for me. And in pro mode, I cannot set up the luminosity if the speed is in manual.
3- ultra power saving mode, like Samsung does, very useful when no more battery and we know no access to electricity for several hours.
4- Resize several pictures at the same time. Sometimes I need to send some pictures but the weight is too big.
1. Badges for unread msg or any notification
2. Always on
3. Camera should have more modes
4. Blurred wallpaper on lock screen
Always on clock
Ability to have status bar icons anywhere ie: signal on left
Ability to use dual cameras for wide angle
Ability to use normal USB-C to HDMI cables (not displaylink, Chromecast and wireless solutions are not fit for gaming, one of the 1+5s strongest points)
Screen off/on animation
List view animations
Full halo support
I'll think of more but that's my list of wants

AA Make Clock Larger like this example?

Hi everyone,
I'm new here and am trying to figure out how to get a clock to display on my AA like in the example image.
The clock on my AA is very very tiny and in the upper left hand corner at all times.
I would really love to be able to display a clock and date like in the example image, but I can only get secondary apps like Spotify to display in the split screen.
I just can't find any info or figure out how to get a clock to display there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Best,
Jason
I guess the right part of the screen is from the car itself...
The UI of Android Auto on this picture does not look like Coolwalk. Therefore there is no split screen possible with Android Auto.

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