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I've been looking for ways to boost my battery life. After getting some Tasker profiles set up to do this, one thing I've been focusing on is the screen since the AMOLEDs don't use any energy for black areas of the display. I use LP with a solid black background, and very minimal clock on my homescreen, widgets are on a screen to the left, apps I frequently use are on a screen the right, but my homescreen is almost entirely black. I also have Bionix 1.3 which has a nice, mostly black theme, and the new JAC kernel, so it's hard to say what the respective gain in battery for each change I've made is, but my battery has only dropped 30% after been unplugged for 13 hours, and which included a fair amount of use.
I was looking around for a way to invert the browser colors, so that text within the browser would be white on a black background (low energy cost) instead of black text on a white background (high energy cost). It turns out this is a feature in CM6 (browser invert color), so I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of where I'd have to look to try to do the exact same thing, while I wait patiently for CM6.1 to be released for the Vibrant. I know there was black theme for the Droid which even modded the Gmail app to be white on black, but given how much more I use the browser, I'd just be happy if I just got that.
If there's another way to go about doing this, by all means, let me know. I looked around for a theme for Dolphin HD but I couldn't find a way to do it with that either. I'm fairly comfortable with the command line, and if it's just a manner of editing a XML file or something, I'm sure I could manage that, I just don't know where to look, and I kind of just don't want to start editing config files on my phone without really knowing what I'm doing. Thanks.
My understanding is colors displayed on websites are property of the website and not the browser. I am sure you have seen black themed websites in the existing browser. I can be wrong though.
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I'm interested to know too. But just like what the guy above said, it's probably on the server side.
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I want third ability so bad. White chews the battery and I hate having white on my screen which is all the time when I am web browsing. And frankly that sucks
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If you're looking to increase your battery I highly recommend Juice Defender (ultimate), increased by batter life 1.8x.
juice defender its worthless as you lose functionality to gain battery that's not acceptable when having a browser with invert colors loses no functionality for the same our close battery life gain
rakeshchn said:
My understanding is colors displayed on websites are property of the website and not the browser. I am sure you have seen black themed websites in the existing browser. I can be wrong though.
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You might be right, I'm not really sure. I do know that there is a common function for inverting the browser colors in the existing CM 6.0 releases. And if it can be done across the board in CM6, maybe there's a way to get working on the Vibrant. That's all I'm trying to figure out...well, that or another way to accomplish the same thing. I could understand if the way it is implemented in CM6 is a FroYo only thing, but if it isn't, we should be able to do that on the vibrant.
SeanFloyd said:
If you're looking to increase your battery I highly recommend Juice Defender (ultimate), increased by batter life 1.8x.
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You can accomplish pretty much anything juice defender does with tasker instead.
No Steel had this option for like one version, night mode i believe it was called. It inverted text and bc color.
Vibrant vibrating nicely now,Kthx!
glitterballs said:
... I use LP with a solid black background, and very minimal clock on my homescreen, widgets are on a screen to the left, apps I frequently use are on a screen the right, but my homescreen is almost entirely black.
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Funny, I have the same setup
There must be a way to get the websites inverted, I had the Samsung Wave for a week and it HAD that option. I am also desperately looking for some solution for the Galaxy S (same as Vibrant?).
It drives me nuts that for example applications like the GMAIL one, do use black text on white background! WTF? We want to use the amoled properties!
Looking for a solution...
Cheers
I got in touch with the DolphinHD team, and feedback looks promising. Probably I will write the add-on myself so stay tuned!
I have downloaded like every Genie News + Weather widget .apk on XDA, it seems all of them still show the sun even at night time Does that widget not show the moon or night time setting ?
Anyone ?
Sprint Galaxy S2 w/ Calk's 1.5a + ICS 1.6
93 views and no one knows if the stock Android weather genie widget shows nighttime ?
This a huge F up by the Google development team overlooking that ? Displaying the sun at midnight WTF
Sprint Galaxy S2 w/ Calk's 1.5a + ICS 1.6
Hell. Mine always says sorry network unavailable. Dam it
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Nope, the genie app has never showed that kinda info. I really like Beautiful Widgets because of that.
It shows a really nice animation like the htc clock widget and also shows the sunrise/sunset too.
Dataslycer said:
Nope, the genie app has never showed that kinda info. I really like Beautiful Widgets because of that.
It shows a really nice animation like the htc clock widget and also shows the sunrise/sunset too.
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True but I like the built in one cause its built in and simple
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So I looked around a little and didn't find a lot about this. What the hell was ASUS thinking when they decided the sizes of their widgets. Their mail widget for starters, the one that shows the about of unread mail, graphically takes up a 2x1 space, yet in actuality, its a 3x1 widget. The same goes for their date and weather widget, they take up more room than the actually widget does. Why? It's a waste of space. Has anyone gotten their hands dirty with this enough to trim the fat off them and put up the .apk for a download? Don't get me wrong they are some of they best looking widgets I've seen on any device, but with every step forward ASUS seems to be on on this tablet, they seem to have hit a brick wall so hard that it rebounds them 10 steps back from the competition.
Another thing, Myzine or whatever they call that behemoth of a widget doesn't work at all, It can be placed but as soon as I touch it, it crashes. WTF bro?
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good points. I don't even use the ASUS battery widget anymore. I use the battery widget a person came up with here. it looks and performs way better than stock. plus you have a few options on how you want it to look. its in the themes and apps section. title is like modded Asus battery widget or something.
as for myzine, I don't use it. it looks like it will drain extra battery n use up ram in the background..lol. looks cool though. I wish it was customizable.
I will definitely look into that thank you. Has anyone gotten the Asus task app to play well with ADW launcher? Mine only shows the top 3 tasks.
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So I looked around a little and didn't find a lot about this. What the hell was ASUS thinking when they decided the sizes of their widgets. Their mail widget for starters, the one that shows the about of unread mail, graphically takes up a 2x1 space, yet in actuality, its a 3x1 widget. The same goes for their date and weather widget, they take up more room than the actually widget does. Why? It's a waste of space. Has anyone gotten their hands dirty with this enough to trim the fat off them and put up the .apk for a download? Don't get me wrong they are some of they best looking widgets I've seen on any device, but with every step forward ASUS seems to be on on this tablet, they seem to have hit a brick wall so hard that it rebounds them 10 steps back from the competition.
Another thing, Myzine or whatever they call that behemoth of a widget doesn't work at all, It can be placed but as soon as I touch it, it crashes. WTF bro?
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That killed me too because I always use the Asus time/date, email, battery, and task manager widgets. I use Nova Launcher (Prime paid version) and I accidentally found a check box in Nova settings under the "check for updates" section. By default it only checks for the newest stable version ( the version in the Play Store ) but if you check the box, there's a newer beta version you can get and man is it sweet
The 2 major differences are the " jump to page x " ( like ADW/ hubs ) and the best thing ever...you can now overlap any and every widget with another widget. On top of that, if you overlap 2 widgets you can select " bring to front" or "send to back" for each widget so you can have either one on top or bottom. Basically, you can put a widget wherever you want, no matter how many other widgets you already have:laugh:
It's one of the coolest new features I've seen in a long time, and never really thought it was possible. Nova Prime is definitely worth the couple bucks, but I'm not sure if you need the paid version to get the newer "hidden" beta version. That feature changes everything, and should help with your problem:good
demandarin said:
good points. I don't even use the ASUS battery widget anymore. I use the battery widget a person came up with here. it looks and performs way better than stock. plus you have a few options on how you want it to look. its in the themes and apps section. title is like modded Asus battery widget or something.
as for myzine, I don't use it. it looks like it will drain extra battery n use up ram in the background..lol. looks cool though. I wish it was customizable.
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where did u find that, i cant find that anywhere?
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Hawke84 said:
where did u find that, i cant find that anywhere?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1453951
2nd on nova prime pro. Overlapping widgets is pretty boss esp when it comes to stock widgets.
Apex seems pretty similar i just liked nova better. Check both out, either is better than stock >.<
Hey guys found this cool little app and found out that ultimate custom clock widget was killing my battery. It has a feature called app sucker that breaks down what is using your battery. I know there are other apps that do this but this one works and is super easy to understand. Check it out!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
Just wondering was jellybean worth updating to I have yet to update because I cannot see loosing foxfi, plus I have thoughts of rooting but really don't care to root because I am still on ice and foxfi is alive and well.
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If you want any new roms to work, i guess yes.
My opinion is YES, i am on euRETAIL jellybean unrooted stock (couse i lost root), but it is better than ics stock.
Battery is about the same as ics hard to say (i think on idle battery is same and on use it drains little faster but its becouse stock settings 1.2ghz cpu and project butter)
Perfomance is superb becouse of project butter mainly.
The only bad thing as always is software and things like programs and new stuff that not all will like and ofcourse some old stuff got removes like usb mass storage (dont know why ), but is a pain in the ass.
It's like night and day. ICS on the RAZR was a disaster and the JB OTA makes up for it entirely.
I wouldn't say night and day, but for sure the interface is smoother, and much more polished. Battery ... Can't say yet ... Updated yesterday and I keep waking the screen up every few minutes just to make sure that the new font is still looking good
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I wouldn't say night and day, but for sure the interface is smoother, and much more polished. Battery ... Can't say yet ... Updated yesterday and I keep waking the screen up every few minutes just to make sure that the new font is still looking good
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LOL the font part cracked me up for 5 mins laugh.
Yes I am sure jb is better then ics but it will not run foxfi thats the only thing keeping me on ics, and besides I am trying hard not to root until I am forced to. :beer:
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Well if you are on ics plus supercharger script, no need to go jb i think, because jb still lags here and there, only less. But with moto's ics quite a fluid experience, only memory tweak needed to be added.
I myself is using jb though, and because my wifi tethering is working fine, no need for foxfi though, and if you're into the camera mode, the panorama one is fantastic in jb.
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Lost a couple things
Where is my increase volume alarm setting? Also, I lost my sleep mode. Anyone else lose this? Maybe even care that they are gone?
In my opinion Jb is laggier.
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For me it was really worth it!! (I was using D-wiz 3.0.2, and ICS EU Stock both laggy as hell)
Now I'm on Eu leak (retail)
I've managed to restore root after update. I've noticed I'm one of the few lucky ones.
I'm quite impatient person.
Laggy phones fly against the wall. ]:->
For me JB is blessing. It's fast as hell,
Especially camera app now starts a lot faster, Overall responsiveness of the UI is much better.
Performance is higher, but not by much. I've got above 75MFLOPS in Linpack, and 7700+ points in AnTuTu. (stock JB vs. stock ICS)
I've noticed no battery life improvement (but I think it needs few days to settle)
First charge was 21h30min with 3h10min screen usage.
Much better GPS fix and sattelites are now visible!
What's more: I'm quite sure that the sound quality both in calls and music is much better now! (I have good earphones and my ears are quite discriminating too)
I've checked what version of Radio is used: it almost identical to the "old" and "new" U.04.10.00R, and completely differrent to U_04.12.00R and U_04.11.01P. (i've compared them with WinMerge).
So I'd call it U.04.10.00R ver.3.0 ;P
Now I need only 1% battery mod (wich won;t disable my root) and I'll be perfectly happy with my RAZR
What's pissing me off:
*ugly Contacts (Thank God I'm using Go Contacts!)
*laggy start of IM+ (might by connected to some FB problem, because Facebook app also starts VERY long (like 30seconds?).
*screen rotation speed also leaves a lot to be desired.
No more sleep mode, mp3's gone from alarm clock. Anyone know how to fix?
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about sleep mode I can't tell you,
but alarms you can put in /sdcard/media/audio/alarms/ folder (or /ext_card/... if you wish)...
I'm on the Vodafone EU leak now (from Germany) and it's way more usable then the ME Retail ICS ROM I had before, but the battery life isn't the same, it's a little worse. Then again, the ICS ROM was ****ty, it had a lot of bugs and sometimes I would get frustrated because of them. But I would immediately remember how long the battery lasted and everything was fine
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Yes I am sure jb is better then ics but it will not run foxfi thats the only thing keeping me on ics, and besides I am trying hard not to root until I am forced to. :beer:
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Doesn't the Bluetooth tethering still work on FoxFi?
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geske001 said:
Where is my increase volume alarm setting? Also, I lost my sleep mode. Anyone else lose this? Maybe even care that they are gone?
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Both features were removed in 4.1.2. I did use the increasing volume alarm setting.
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Jhall8 said:
Both features were removed in 4.1.2. I did use the increasing volume alarm setting.
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I got Alarm Clock Extreme on the Amazon App Store as one of their free featured apps. It has a feature you can turn on to enable the crescendoing alarm (increasing volume). Highly recommend the app!
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How about main things?
BAD: The contacts "people app", is WHITE (UGLY) backgroud, while in ICS it was in black (NICE), as everything else in RAZR. Now when you switch between "people" and "dialer" menus it looks UGLY, because its day ant night. Impression is that "people" is ripped from another phone with white theme, and thrown into RAZR - I dont understand how they let it slip through?? Especialy when You are in your bed at night, its so cool to have black themes, and now Your eyes are blinded, because EVERYTHING in RAZR is BLACK, except people app. WTF? SOOO BAD. And "Dialer's" favourites does not populate with all contacts - SOO STUPID, because I used to use only "Dialer" as it contained everything (recent calls,favourites, and all contacts), now I have to use both apps all the time, and as I said, its even more furstrating, because they use different themes, and its impossible to change them. Also messages app is now UGLY compared to ICS. Toggle widgets removed - if I want to switch data, I have to go into data usage menus - SOOO stupid. When I hit "Switch off phone" it asks if I reaaly want to do that - ANNOYING/STUPID. When I want to tur on gps, it also asks again - ANNOYING/STUPID.
GOOD: Works way more smoother, gallery app now is normal - not lagging when zooming, browser (not chrome) works better, smoother. Some more transition effects between all menus. Camera shutter is a tiny bit faster.
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How about main things?
BAD: The contacts "people app", is WHITE (UGLY) backgroud, while in ICS it was in black (NICE), as everything else in RAZR. Now when you switch between "people" and "dialer" menus it looks UGLY, because its day ant night. Impression is that "people" is ripped from another phone with white theme, and thrown into RAZR - I dont understand how they let it slip through?? Especialy when You are in your bed at night, its so cool to have black themes, and now Your eyes are blinded, because EVERYTHING in RAZR is BLACK, except people app. WTF? SOOO BAD. And "Dialer's" favourites does not populate with all contacts - SOO STUPID, because I used to use only "Dialer" as it contained everything (recent calls,favourites, and all contacts), now I have to use both apps all the time, and as I said, its even more furstrating, because they use different themes, and its impossible to change them. Also messages app is now UGLY compared to ICS. Toggle widgets removed - if I want to switch data, I have to go into data usage menus - SOOO stupid. When I hit "Switch off phone" it asks if I reaaly want to do that - ANNOYING/STUPID. When I want to tur on gps, it also asks again - ANNOYING/STUPID.
GOOD: Works way more smoother, gallery app now is normal - not lagging when zooming, browser (not chrome) works better, smoother. Some more transition effects between all menus. Camera shutter is a tiny bit faster.
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About the White, if you use the Verizon one, it is black. so it's different between ROMs. actually just Contacts.apk styling if you're willing to mod
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About the White, if you use the Verizon one, it is black. so it's different between ROMs. actually just Contacts.apk styling if you're willing to mod
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Hi, thanks for answer. So, when the root will be available (I lost root), will it be possible to just copy in the Verizon's black "people" and "dialer" in to the system? Or maybe now it would be possible to disable existing contacts app, and install Verizons contacts.apk from storage? In that case maybe someone could be so kind and rip that verizons .apk for me to download, would be veeery nice.
Thanks!