[Q] Where is the brightness shortcut? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Am I blind, did I overlook it or is it really just not there?
I am searching for a shortcut or widget to adjust the brightness like in the power widget on the SGS or the little nice trick where you could pull down the notification bar a little and slide to right or left to adjust brightness.
Where is it?
I'm on LE8.
Thanks

Doesn't exist so had to download 'brightness level' by Curvefish from Play. It has a widget which I actually prefer over how it worked on S1 & 2.
Still I can't believe SS haven't included a stock one.
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Brightness slider widget

Are there any apps out there that provide a brightness slider as a widget. For example a 4x1 widget that allows for quick adjustments as opposed to the 3 click button or the slider shortcut method.
Is this even possible?
Just thought I would ask, as this would be useful to many I imagine.
Thanks in advance for any answers.
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I don't know think it would be possible in a horizontal form, I think any horizontal swipe would only work as a homescreen swipe. I like using the brightness button on the Extended Controls widget. One tap brings up the slider (with an auto brightness toggle if you want) and once you take your finger off the slider it closes. I know you mentioned slider shortcuts, but this is the quickest form of adjustment I've seen in a widget, short of the touchwiz notification bar.
I recommend Brightness Level by CurveFish. It's not quite what you're looking for, but I honestly don't think you'll find what you're looking for unless there's a special widget for a home alternative like ADW or LP. Brightness Level is similar to the one mentioned above, in that fact you can tap it once and it goes away the second you're done sliding it. But what I like is that it has preset buttons too. It also helped me figure out that the system settings don't go below 8%. This widget will actually take you down to 0% (still brighter than I'd like, so sometimes I use Screen Filter too). It's only a 1 x 1, which in my opinion makes it better. Just something to try.
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Try Extended Controls from the market. I user the brightness control daily. The slider comes up when you press the brightness widget. Plus there are so many other options action the app.
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Definitely try Brightness Profiles by Craig G in the Market, its awesome and I keep it on my home page
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notification bar
hmmm I'm assuming you're talking about adjusting the brightness of the phone whenever so..
Did you know you can just change the brightness of the screen by gliding your finger across the notification bar left and right?
You have to turn off the auto-savings and auto brightness in the settings first though,
but after that just glide over the notifications bar and you're good to go!
Most amazing trick needs no widget.
All good options, thanks for the input. As far as the notification bar
Sliding, I can not get this to work. I am using adw launcher, not sure if perhaps this is a stock launcher option only.
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a400meter said:
All good options, thanks for the input. As far as the notification bar
Sliding, I can not get this to work. I am using adw launcher, not sure if perhaps this is a stock launcher option only.
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If your phone currently had auto brightness enabled I don't think you can use the notification slider. It takes practice with some ROMs, but I'm sure you'll figure it out.
On the froyo builds you have to hold your finger on the notification bar until it goes back up a second later, (dont let go!) THEN after that you can slide left and right to control brightness.
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sublimnl said:
On the froyo builds you have to hold your finger on the notification bar until it goes back up a second later, (dont let go!) THEN after that you can slide left and right to control brightness.
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Perfect, thanks for the explanation!
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[SOLVED] What is this symbol in my notification bar?

**EDIT** Figured out what it was! It was from the app "power control plus" which adds toggles to your notification pull down..
Sorry this might seem like a dumb question but, what is this symbol to the left on the top of my notification bar? The circle power looking symbol that the red arrow is obviously pointing to..
That I don't know; would assume it's an app that you've downloaded otherwise it would be on the right side, but can you please tell me how you got your lock screen to look so pretty-ful?
What does it say if you open notifications? For some reason, it makes me think think of a timer or stopwatch.
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That is almost identical to the universal power button icon, except with the power icon the line points at 12 o'clock.
I searched on a number of sites with legends of Android notification icons, and could not find this one. When did the icon appear, and what had you installed prior to that?
Looks like you have a timer enabled in the alarms menu.
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I have checked stock alarm, Gentle Alarm, and Alarm Clock Extreme.
None have this icon. Maybe the OP downloaded another 3rd party alarm app?
You've turned on the timer for a camera..
Ehhhh wrong... notification toggle... I think. I had to use this on my atrix.
Edit: looks like I was wrong too.. I can't remember what its called but I used to use this app. It had a full set of toggles in the notification bar.
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DarkRyoushii said:
That I don't know; would assume it's an app that you've downloaded otherwise it would be on the right side, but can you please tell me how you got your lock screen to look so pretty-ful?
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Its not my lockscreen, its my homescreen [:
Dang, nobody knows what it is :[. Its been there but it wasn't noticeable when i was running greyblurs stock theme. Now that i themed over it and the notification bar is now darker, its noticeable and annoying. I really don't like many icons on my notification bar at all -_- SOMEONE HELP PLEASE :]
ChongoDroid said:
Edit: looks like I was wrong too.. I can't remember what its called but I used to use this app. It had a full set of toggles in the notification bar.
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Found it.
It's Power Control Plus.
Power Control Plus Widget
Jogged my memory when you mentioned toggles ChongoDroid, so I looked through all my TiBu apps, restored a couple, and found it was this one.
ekidd14 said:
**EDIT** Figured out what it was! It was from the app "power control plus" which adds toggles to your notification pull down..
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OP, next time could you please update with a new post, or edit the subject with [SOLVED]. When you edit the OP it doesn't update and view that there is a new post/edit, so we typically don't look at the OP again. I just noticed I found what your problem was 2 hours after you posted you had fixed it. Could have saved me quite a bit of time if I knew you had resolved your problem. Cheers.

Extended Controls on notification bar

Question for anyone using Extended Controls on the Atrix. I want to be able to place Extended Controls in my notification bar, but to also be able to eliminate having the widget on my Home screen. I find that if I remove the widget, it also no longer shows up when I bring the notification area down and tap on the EC. Anyone know how to do this, or is it necessary to have the widget on the Home screen, in which case, it seems like a waste of time to put it in the Notification Bar.
Thanks.
I'm not sure about EC, but if you use Widgetsoid you can add them to the notification bar and then set the widget that's on the homescreen to invisible, so that it's ONLY in the notification bar...I believe. There's a free widgetsoid, so you could always try that out!
thebeardedchild said:
I'm not sure about EC, but if you use Widgetsoid you can add them to the notification bar and then set the widget that's on the homescreen to invisible, so that it's ONLY in the notification bar...I believe. There's a free widgetsoid, so you could always try that out!
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I'll try it out. Thanks for the suggestion!
Another work around for not having buttons on the notification bar is if you use
swipePad + mySettings
just swipe on the corners to mySettings and change your settings through there. IMO best way.
darkamikaze said:
Another work around for not having buttons on the notification bar is if you use
swipePad + mySettings
just swipe on the corners to mySettings and change your settings through there. IMO best way.
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Sounds like a novel approach. I'll try that too. Thanks!
Widgetsoid blows because..
if you click on a toggle it is not truly a toggle(in notification area) because it launches another toggle window and you cannot toggle directly from notification area
dldennis76 said:
if you click on a toggle it is not truly a toggle(in notification area) because it launches another toggle window and you cannot toggle directly from notification area
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That's true. I guess it depends on the phone. I'm trying the Swipe Pad + My Settings suggestion and finding that I'm liking those apps a lot. The Swipe Pad seems to add a lot of additional functionality. Thanks.
dldennis76 said:
if you click on a toggle it is not truly a toggle(in notification area) because it launches another toggle window and you cannot toggle directly from notification area
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That's true. If EC does it better while still hiding the home screen widget, then by all means use that! Just offering other ideas in case it doesn't.
May not be what you're looking for/more work than you want to do, but CM7 pre beta2 has notification bar controls built in with a bevy of other new features that make day to day use more convenient. I've been using it as my daily driver since pre beta 1 was posted and love it. Minus the few addressed issues that are being worked on now it's the best rom available IMHO.

Themer v1.7 Adds Gesture Support

Make sure you apply today's update...it has support for gestures. :highfive:
Works ok
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Yay!
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Is it possible to bring down the notifications shade with a gesture, if the bar is hidden?
I've got a two finger swipe set for that, but it only works if the bar is not hidden.
warlock257 said:
Is it possible to bring down the notifications shade with a gesture, if the bar is hidden?
I've got a two finger swipe set for that, but it only works if the bar is not hidden.
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How did you get it to work? I can't seem to find that action.
Swipe down to display the notification bar
sebastianraven said:
How did you get it to work? I can't seem to find that action.
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In order to find the gestures, go into: Themer Settings > Themer > Gestures. From here you can assign a gesture, for example swipe down to show the notification bar, or swipe up to hide it. Make sure you have the latest update, as this includes gesture support.
If you go into Themer Settings > Advanced > Desktop, you can whether to display the notification bar or to hide it.
Hope this helps
What's happening in v1.8 . Can we get any sneak peeks?
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warlock257 said:
Is it possible to bring down the notifications shade with a gesture, if the bar is hidden?
I've got a two finger swipe set for that, but it only works if the bar is not hidden.
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i'd like to second this - not just to show or hide the notification bar, but a gesture to fully pull down the notification shade. For example other launchers let me swipe down anywhere on the screen to bring down the notification shade, but with themer i must pull down from the top of the screen. Once you get used to swiping down from anywhere, you really miss it
@ThemerSupport I love this app and as you can see in the screen shots and .zip section I've been making some matching lock screens using uccw and widget locker.
What I would like is to be able to use the everything widget in widget locker for the lock screen but cant. But can use the other themer widgets please can you fix or add. So I can use themer and widget locker together
Thanks
all the best
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Brightness slider in notifications

I really liked the brightness slider in the notification pull down on the default ROM. I have searched for a replacement app, but I could not find any that could be directly controlled from the pull down. Any suggestions?
edroit said:
I really liked the brightness slider in the notification pull down on the default ROM. I have searched for a replacement app, but I could not find any that could be directly controlled from the pull down. Any suggestions?
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I think several of the custom ROMs have this as an option. I'm not completely sure how widespread it is, because I don't use it (always use auto brightness). In Beanstalk it actually uses the status bar itself... Just slide your finger left or right across the status bar, while on a home screen, to adjust brightness.
Also you can add this feature via xposed framework and gravity box.
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Lux is also a very good brightness control app. It has a persistent notification that allows you to control the brightness, although I found that it did a good job on its own.
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bobdallama said:
Lux is also a very good brightness control app. It has a persistent notification that allows you to control the brightness, although I found that it did a good job on its own.
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I tried Lux, but it only has buttons in the notication area, not a slider for brightness control.

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