I've been looking for this for a while now but I couldn't find anything so I'm asking here: is there any widget to put on the home screen for enabling/disabling background data?
It seems such widget exists for other android versions and is actually a standard button in a default androind OS (meaning not customized like the SE one), infact I've got my gf an LG Optimus Net and she has such button when she pulls down the notification area with several other useful switches.
Is there a way to have such a button for the Xperia mini pro?
I found out that if there is low signal, background data is enabled and data traffic is DISABLED the battery only lasts a couple of hours; disabling background data allowed me to keep my phone up and running for over a day even in low signal areas.
kiavik said:
I've been looking for this for a while now but I couldn't find anything so I'm asking here: is there any widget to put on the home screen for enabling/disabling background data?
It seems such widget exists for other android versions and is actually a standard button in a default androind OS (meaning not customized like the SE one), infact I've got my gf an LG Optimus Net and she has such button when she pulls down the notification area with several other useful switches.
Is there a way to have such a button for the Xperia mini pro?
I found out that if there is low signal, background data is enabled and data traffic is DISABLED the battery only lasts a couple of hours; disabling background data allowed me to keep my phone up and running for over a day even in low signal areas.
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You might find this useful.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=978833
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I was using extended controls power bar and i believe it was responsible for breaking my data connection with AT&T. So I would advise anyone not currently using it not to install it. I got my data connection back by resetting my phone. There is a whole thread on the data conection problem here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=967125&page=14
The 4 power widgets that come with the Atrix work OK, but they are big and ugly for my screens. I am wondering if anyone is using a 3rd party power bar that works with no issues. thanks
I also have been looking for a mod or app to get the power toggles in the pull down notification bar. I tried Status Bar Settings and the buttons dont work at all.
Coming from the Captivate, I really miss these. I use the power widget right now, but would like it in the pull down.
I am using the free version of Toggle Settings. It allows me to set up multiple profiles and with that can control all power options except for gps. That can be assigned to the pull down and it can be accessed there to change power options.
Im using one of the free power control widgets and its also messing up my data connection. The stock android power control works fine.
i use switcherpro widget, very small transparent icons with no background and up to 8 controls that you can set. no problems with data connection.
neotekz said:
i use switcherpro widget, very small transparent icons with no background and up to 8 controls that you can set. no problems with data connection.
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I've been using Extended Controls with no problems so far, but I will monitor it for problems. The only thing I've experienced with it so far is a laggy led flashlight switch.
Putter said:
I've been using Extended Controls with no problems so far, but I will monitor it for problems. The only thing I've experienced with it so far is a laggy led flashlight switch.
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+1...Been using Extended Controls since I got the Atrix and no problems
Im interested in seeing what small helpful features everyone is finding buried in HC. Im also making sure there isn't any settings I'm not aware of that could be making my experience with HC even better. This may be helpful to many of us who just recently became acquainted to View 4G through numerous internet fire-sales.
I have 2 helpful tips, though they are small. I don't think these are specific to HC, but i think they help.
1. There is a slight screen animation when you exit an app and return to the home screen. It occurs on pretty much every screen change, its like its growing/expanding. Anyway this animation mixed with straining to see the smaller app icon text and smaller widgets of HC may make you nauseous after seeing it over and over again. Just go to Settings/Screen/Animation and set it to no animations. My stock weather widget still does its cool full screen animations, so i don't think i'm missing out on any good animations by changing this setting.
2. For better battery life:
a. use airplane mode.
b. use a wifi widget for quick, convenient on/off toggle. If i mostly keep wifi off my tablet lasts forever for reading, drawing etc.
c. set your screen to timeout after 1 minute or less. Settings/Screen/Timeout
d. set the brightness to low. I keep mine as low as it goes and turn automatic off. Settings/Screen/Brightness
[Q] if you could just tap the wifi icon in the new hc soft status bar to toggle on/off without it taking u all the way to the settings menu that would be amazing- Am i missing something? If its going to hog screen space it should be a super convenient status bar equipped with this feature-
Hi. Recent, happy convert to CM7.1 on my Nexus One.
Question, though. I use Widgetsoid, and now that I'm root, I'm using the root data toggle method. This works, but the widget provides no feedback about what state you're in. So when I click it, I need to wait several seconds until the notification bar icon appears (or disappears) to find out if the click took. Also, If I have WIFI up, the cell data notification icon goes away, so I don't know whether cell data is also enabled. Since I routinely turn off data to preserve the battery when I'm not using it, this is a frequent issue.
So. Is there a way to get Widgetsoid to light up the data toggle widget when data is enabled? Doesn't seem to be - which is funny, because I used to use the old 2g/3g toggle, which did light up to indicate whether data was enabled, even though the widget itself was only a shortcut to the data settings.
Or... is there another widget that works the way I want?
Hi all,
I have several other Android devices at home, all of them runing CM7 or CM9. While I appreciate some of the things the Motorola ROM (GSM here) delivers, I'm missing quite a bit as well:
- grid size on home screen - having 3 widgets fills out completely a screen; I'm looking for a 50% or 100% increase in rows and columns. DPI changer is not able to provide that
- battery reporting is only done in 10% increments; I'm using Circle Battery Widget as a workaround
- no way to toggle 2G/3G with a switch. Using notification toggle because I cannot live without status bar toggles
- provider name is too long in the status bar
- no way to tweak auto light levels
- lock screen does not display any info about missed calls or messages
- notification led does not have any settings
- cannot assign custom shortcuts or wakeups - like pressing both volume buttons to open camera from lock
- no way to change the number of screens in home
- widgets do not get updated after an install, I need to kill the launcher first
- stock gallery looks really sad and performs slowly on zoom
- there is no "charge only" option beneath the usb/mtp/ptp
- no color themes for home screen, so I can use darker colors for power saving
- no themes for email widget, same reason
- email widget uses a lot of power (partial wake) even though the accounts are set to sync once per hour
- I don't see any way to take HDRs with the stock camera app. I thought this was default in ICS
- cannot use any other external sound equalizer - tried mostly with DSPManager
- stock music app does not wake on bluetooth control; if it's paused for more than 30 seconds I need to open it again to be able to resume music
- stock equalizer messes up the volume of the music pretty bad and it compresses the sound
- cannot assign a long press on the back button to kill the current app
On the other hand there are some new custom features which I really like, like the 'disable' application button, smart actions, detailed data usage and data limits, disabling background data, ...
So my question is, how can I enable some of the stuff above without losing a lot of battery life, money or UI integration (I'm thinking metro-like simplistic looks).
I'm also missing the option to disable individual permissions for apps, but the "disable background data" built-in feature fulfills 80% of this. I would have loved to be able to disable location awareness for some apps.
Right now the biggest gripe is the 10% step on battery reporting, I cannot get accurate battery stats. Still, that part is in part filled by BetterBatteryStats.
Please where is this function? And battery optimization permission.... Are same things ? Thank
From what I've been able to determine, there is no 'protected apps' menu option on Emui 8.
The place to adjust them is in - Settings - Battery - Launch. Personally I find Huawei's management way too agressive, so I turned off managing all automatically. Then in batch manually set everything to allowed and let Android sort it out. It doesn't seem to have made any difference to my battery life, but at least most notifications seem to work now. You could manually set only the ones you want to allow to run in the background though and it might help.
From settings - battery I also went into the settings icon top right and turned off the 'power intensive prompt' option because it was annoying - Google maps is SUPPOSED to be using frequent positioning, and my podcast app isn't much use if it isn't running in the background!
The whole power management seems to be designed for a phone with a tiny battery, where micro management is needed - but on a phone with the largest battery out of any flagship it seems needlessly aggressive....
Edit: It is also possible in the running apps/recent apps screen to click the lock icon on a program which is supposed to prevent Android from closing that app - but not sure how effective that is on EMUI.
Hello to all. I have installed in huawei mate 10 pro and I would like to use an application to notify gmail emails and whatsapp messages on always on display. use led blinker application that works properly when the phone is charging, while when it is without cable the notifications arrive only when I turn on the screen. I can think that it is a protection of consumption but I have activated all possibilities. could someone tell me what I could activate to solve this problem? thank you
This does exist. It's in the recent apps page (bottom left/right button, depending on your settings).
If you press the lock icon on an app it should "lock" the app from automatically closing.
It also prevents that app closing when you tap the recycle bin icon in the recent apps page.
This is exactly what I need, but I am running EMUI 9 on mate 10 pro and I cannot find this "lock"!! Yet I am sure I have seen it at some point in time... X-(
I just got the Android Pie/EMUI 9 upgrade last week and I found the lock by accident. When viewing your apps in the recents view, find the app you want to lock and drag it down towards the trash icon. You should now see the lock icon for that app at the top, and it should be protected from clearing recents. Clicking the lock or dragging it down again should toggle the lock.
On recent apps list, slide down the app window to lock - lock pad on top. Slide again to unlock