[Q] Unlock visual if a live wallpaper is being used - Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

I don't know how to quite explain myself with this question. Whenever I use a live wallpaper for my homescreen and lockscreen, the way to unlock the phone is to press and hold your finger on the screen. The unlocking visual is a lock that simulates an unlocking motion. The only time that I have seen this visual for unlocking the phone is when a live wallpaper is currently being used, My question is ... how can I use that same unlocking visual along with any wallpaper that I chose instead of only live wallpapers? Is that possible?
I'm sorry if I could not explain it well, its difficult to put into words
If you want to know how exactly how to see what I am talking about follow these steps:
- open up system settings
- go to display
- go to wallpaper
- select home and lock screen
- select the live wallpapers and choose beautiful widgets live or ripple wall
- after selecting it, just press the power button to make sure the power turns off
- press power button again to wake up the phone and you should see the unlocking visual that I mentioned when you press your finger to the screen.
Please let me know, thanks

Turn off ripple effect and use a static wallpaper image
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hopesrequiem said:
Turn off ripple effect and use a static wallpaper image
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Thank you. I actually just got the phone literally two days ago and was trying to figure it out.
I feel quite dumb now lol

AngryGibson said:
Thank you. I actually just got the phone literally two days ago and was trying to figure it out.
I feel quite dumb now lol
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Don't! It took me a couple days too. Same exact issue. I was like how the hell do I get the quicker lockscreen? Then felt dumb when I realized how simple it was. Haha but using the ripple effect on Jedi 14 because he made it so damn fast and smooth.
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hopesrequiem said:
Don't! It took me a couple days too. Same exact issue. I was like how the hell do I get the quicker lockscreen? Then felt dumb when I realized how simple it was. Haha but using the ripple effect on Jedi 14 because he made it so damn fast and smooth.
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Thanks for the information! Appreciate it again

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[Q] Upside Down Screen

So im running ICScrewed 1.6 rom, and if i hold the phone sideways and put it in sleepmode, when i wake it back up, the screen is upsidedown, and the words are mirrored. I already tried reflashing the rom. Anything I can do? Yes im a noob
In jkay in check the CRT TV animation on. Its buggy
sent from the Dark Obelisk.
just do a screen capture (hold home and press power button)
no need to reboot.
thats all i got for right now
It is my understanding that Fancy Rotations is causing this, but don't take my word for it. (read it in one of the ICS-themed ROM threads.)
Noz might be onto something because I notice my screen go upside-down real quick as it locks (CRT Animation on). It never gets stuck like the OP is describing but I do notice this happens for a quick second before my screen shuts off.
Noz85 said:
In jkay in check the CRT TV animation on. Its buggy
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This makes it worse.
In the ICScrewed thread there is a CWM flashable zip called "Remove Fancy Rotations". Install that using CWM and your problem will be gone. Its been brought up a lot in that thread.
Ment to say turn the CRT off.
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Noz85 said:
Ment to say turn the CRT off.
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Yea that does help, but I still got the upside down screen when using GOSMS and popup notifications. Pretty damn annoying. Removing fancy rotations does the trick though. Fancy rotations are nice and all, but nowhere near worth it for the screen bug.
I randomly got that yesterday. Took a screen shot and all is well
Strange issue though.
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Happened to me too. The best part about it is that while in the inverted and upside down state, you press the sane area on the screen to select things. Very tricky to reboot . But yes, after disabbling crt off anim it stopped occurring.
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Ashhong said:
This makes it worse.
In the ICScrewed thread there is a CWM flashable zip called "Remove Fancy Rotations". Install that using CWM and your problem will be gone. Its been brought up a lot in that thread.
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Removing Fancy Rotations is the only real way to prevent this from happening. Good post.
Hmm, my GF just called me about this.
Odd we are running the same everything and that has yet to happen to me.

Camera shutter click / noise disable & screenshots?

I can't find a thread for this for the S3, how do I disable the damn camera shutter noise?
Also - the screenshots, anyone know how to make it how it used to be with the home and power buttons?
wizzbang3 said:
I can't find a thread for this for the S3, how do I disable the damn camera shutter noise?
Also - the screenshots, anyone know how to make it how it used to be with the home and power buttons?
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Yes there's a thread floating around, I can't remember exactly where it is. But use root explorer and edit the shutter.ogg file iirc
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Anyone else?, this little puppy had been out a few weeks now!
Wasn't this made not changeable *atleast within the default app* because of something that happened in Europe. About no spy camera shots or something.. They wanted the noise so you couldn't take hidden pictures. Or something along those lines..
So if thats for Europe chances are they will include the option to disable it in the US varient right?
Screenshot works for me just like the s2 did. Home + power. They need yo be pressed at exactly the same time and held for a second or two.
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sxi200 said:
Screenshot works for me just like the s2 did. Home + power. They need yo be pressed at exactly the same time and held for a second or two.
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I've tried /dozens/ of times - it simply doesn't work for me.
To disable the shutter noise you need to delete the audio files, which requires root access.
Is there a way without deleting the files? Just replacing the apk so I can have an option of sound out not sound?
you can use pretty much any of the other hundreds of camera apps in the market. most of them will correspond to the volume setting of your ringtone so if you set the system sound to silent they will have no shutter sound.
my least favourite thing in the whole world is shuttersound, except in burst modes.
CHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIK
so satisfying.
hefonthefjords said:
my least favourite thing in the whole world is shuttersound, except in burst modes.
CHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIK
so satisfying.
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Lol u madde me smile
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I've tried /dozens/ of times - it simply doesn't work for me.
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thats beacuse in s3 you have to hold both buttons one or two seconds.
you can do it too by dragging the side of your hand through the screen from left to right
The sad part is that because of a few people that deteriate the gene pool, we have to put up with that damnable shutter sound.
Thing is, if we replace the camera with another one on the market, which one would be better - the built in one or the market one? Does the built in camera app make those great shots or the hardware?
Open Root Explorer - Navigate to /system/media/audio/ui
Mount R/W
Rename shutter.ogg to shutter.ogg.bak or just delete it.
To undo, just rename it back
Source
emk2z said:
Lol u madde me smile
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My friend is a pro photographer and whenever we go to parties together he always hands me his camera (nutter like, handing a drunk sound guy a 5 grand camera setup) for the night and i make things like this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNUYO6NlvJ0
CHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIK
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To mute camera just mute the phone with your volume buttons.
Screen shot still works with Power and home button just push and hold them for a couple of seconds.
sxi200 said:
Screenshot works for me just like the s2 did. Home + power. They need yo be pressed at exactly the same time and held for a second or two.
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Thats why it wasnt working for me, I was just pressing them together..i didnt hold them down for the 1 second. Thanx for that hahaha I kept trying over and over and didnt know why it wasnt working
ozcr said:
To mute camera just mute the phone with your volume buttons.
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This solution is quite widespread online but many people say it doesn't work for them.
I can confirm it's working for me - 16GB, pebble blue, Vodafone, UK - but it seems different markets can't stop the shutter sound this way.
Is there really no way to disable it without root
You want part 2 of this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1722136

The touchwiz is slow? or it just me?

Hi everyone!!
5 days ago i bough a new galaxy s 3.
This is great device everything is perfect except one thing, the touchwiz 4.
Every time than I close an application it take some time (about 5-10 seconds) than everything comes back. So I decided to do an experiment. I downloaded Go launcher, made him default launcher and until now zero seconds of delay.
Am I the only one who expects that issue??
thanks all
touchwiz is just fine and fast enough. Is it faster compared to go, apex launcher and others? Definitely no but the for the functionality touchwiz gives it is fast on sgs3.
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that's strange, because i am very upset from the reaction of the touch wiz. I only have him 5 days.
I will give you an example.
I play "where's my water" for example and that i press the home button it exits the game but it shows me only background picture and after 5 seconds everything comes back but that i go to app tray it shows nothing for about 10 seconds and everything comes back.
IT's very very annoying.
Oh, you're talking about known issue, UI redrawing, there's already posted a solution for that.
Minoza said:
Oh, you're talking about known issue, UI redrawing, there's already posted a solution for that.
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Can you show me that thread?
tnx
You can disable S-Voice on Home Button double click -> increases Home Button reaction dramatically.
(Double Click Home Button - S-Voice opens, then hit the menu button, options, disable)
That was the first thing that I've done
That's for the home button lag, to fix the redraw set dalvik.vm.heapsize=256m to 192m at /system/build.prop.
You need to be rooted and have a root explorer that mounts system rw though.
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Some body else have that issue??
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Corsus said:
Some body else have that issue??
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Everyone has it, but the solution posted above fixes it.
For unrooted devices, just use another launcher!
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Corsus said:
Hi everyone!!
5 days ago i bough a new galaxy s 3.
This is great device everything is perfect except one thing, the touchwiz 4.
Every time than I close an application it take some time (about 5-10 seconds) than everything comes back. So I decided to do an experiment. I downloaded Go launcher, made him default launcher and until now zero seconds of delay.
Am I the only one who expects that issue??
thanks all
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It's not just that.
The overall responsivness is slow compared to a up2date Galaxy Nexus.
But seriously, that was expected. It's still touchwiz.
I'm sure there will be a solution in future. ;-)
Tnx guys.
You helped me.
What kind of root you suggest me to do?
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What's bothersome to me is once the phone is in sleep mode and u click the home or power button it takes sometimes 1 sec or 2 or even 3 secs and if you immediately try to scroll unlock the animation on the water is slowed as well. I didn't expect the phone to be slower to wake up then my N900 or LG O3D. Hope next update fixes this issue. BTW i've uninstalled s-voice and disabled any power saving features.
The slow lock-screen problem is linked to an apparent feature that Samsung have made to save battery, basically it puts the other cores to sleep for battery savings.

Disable Screen Capture?

I have searched xda and Google but haven't found an answer. Does anyone know how to disable or remove screen capture? I tried freezing screen capture.apk in TB but that didn't help. I'm really tired of my pocket taking screen shots of my lock screen whenever I get a text. :-/
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Maybe your pants are too tight.
Never heard of this issue before...
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Is that your Note taking a screen shot or are you just glad to see me?
Well it definitely wasn't my Note. Lol.
redman9 said:
Is that your Note taking a screen shot or are you just glad to see me?
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Uh, you could flash an aosp Rom...they don't have swipe screen shot feature, which is what iimagine is happening right?
On aosp it's volume down and power only, no swipe, or s-pen shot at all.
Not sure how to remove it though
Yeah that's what's happening. It didn't start doing that until I flashed the last ics leak and now it's doing it on the official release. It only does it if I'm walking around with my phone in my pocket and I get a text and only about 75% of the time then. I would use an aosp rom but I like having the spen functionality.
studacris said:
Uh, you could flash an aosp Rom...they don't have swipe screen shot feature, which is what iimagine is happening right?
On aosp it's volume down and power only, no swipe, or s-pen shot at all.
Not sure how to remove it though
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DHorrors said:
Yeah that's what's happening. It didn't start doing that until I flashed the last ics leak and now it's doing it on the official release. It only does it if I'm walking around with my phone in my pocket and I get a text and only about 75% of the time then. I would use an aosp rom but I like having the spen functionality.
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Do you want screenshots completely disabled or just the swipe screenshot disabled?
Completely disabled is much easier, as I just did a quick test and completely disabled screenshots.
What ROM are you using?
EDIT: Spoke too soon. I'm partially there...it doesn't take screenshots anymore, but it crashes SystemUI when you try to. I'll keep looking into it.
Since it happens on screen wake with texts, why not use SMS pop up from the market and disable notifications in the native messaging app. At least it won't wake in your pocket.
Honestly either way is fine with me, I don't ever take screen shots so I really wouldn't miss the feature.
I'm on the official att ics stock rom rooted and cwm.
lactardjosh said:
Do you want screenshots completely disabled or just the swipe screenshot disabled?
Completely disabled is much easier, as I just did a quick test and completely disabled screenshots.
What ROM are you using?
EDIT: Spoke too soon. I'm partially there...it doesn't take screenshots anymore, but it crashes SystemUI when you try to. I'll keep looking into it.
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I would try that but I do like the screen wake when my phone's not in my pocket.
froidroid said:
Since it happens on screen wake with texts, why not use SMS pop up from the market and disable notifications in the native messaging app. At least it won't wake in your pocket.
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Proving a little more difficult than expected. I'm still working on it, but won't be able to do any more on it tonight probably.
I appreciate the effort. I tried a couple of things that I thought might work but none did.
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Proving a little more difficult than expected. I'm still working on it, but won't be able to do any more on it tonight probably.
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I've been digging around in SystemUI and can disable just the swipe screenshot, but it crashes SystemUI most of the time.
This may be a dumb question but did you freeze or remove screen capture.apk when you were trying that?
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I've been digging around in SystemUI and can disable just the swipe screenshot, but it crashes SystemUI most of the time.
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Not a dumb question at all. Freezing the screen capture apk doesn't stop the screen shot from being taken, which is a little bizarre.
I should get some more time to work on this tomorrow. Might take someone better than me though.
Yeah I thought it was weird that freezing it didn't do anything. I was thinking maybe that apk is what is causing the crashes when fooling with the system UI.
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I worked on this some more today and its still crashing when I try to prevent the screenshot from being taken. I think another way would be to stop the phone from using the palm sweep gesture. That might be easier to figure out and I think is in framework.
That would work too. :thumbup:
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G2 Bugs/Problems/Issues Thread *VIDEOS INSIDE*

so i figured starting a general thread for bugs and issues would be a better idea to consolidate everything into one thread!
I've got the Verizon G2, so it would be interesting to see if other carriers have the same issue. These are all, for the most part, software issues.
for me, its:
1.) Launcher Redraw.
video example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpn-hZnEPqg (ending shows homescreen launcher lag too)
I've posted a video yesterday, and will be posting another today showing how after almost every app, the launcher is redrawing, and therefore causes lag if you goto switch screens after hitting home. doesn't always do it, but does for the majority of the time. it does it enough that it warranted me rooting the phone to try to fix it, so I'm going to give v6 supercharger a go soon and do the bulletproof launcher. I'm apprehensive though because we don't have recovery to make a nandroid...
2.) *solved*Lag on notification drop down on lock screen
video example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLWUXOu68d8
did you set your wallpaper to non scrolling? if you didn't know you can do this, you can. if you goto gallery and select a custom wallpaper, at the top it gives the option of non scroll or scroll, which is awesome. however, beware.. when you do non scroll, for some weird reason your notification drop down will lag in the home screen. setting it back to scrolling wallpaper alleviates this. very weird
3.) Audio during video recording.
video example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU6Sp5V5Hv0 (also shown is the "breathing" auto focus we all experience.)
The audio during video recording uses noise cancelling mics, which can be good as we've seen in other flagship phones. however, on the g2, they sound identical to the htc rezound from 2011. that phone had really bad wishy washy underwater sounding audio when the source was remotely loud. the g2 does the same thing sadly. other phones, such as the htc dna (shows that htc learned their lesson..) and the gs3/gs4 do not have this issue.. hell, even the galaxy nexus didn't.
I'm hoping that once we get developers on it, they'll make a modified camera that can allow for either the reduction in gain from the microphones, or to be able to cancel the noise cancellation to stop the underwater sound. on the rezound, htc somewhat fixed it with the ics update. here's hoping LG will do the same.
4.) Speaker has built in limiter/compression.
this is most annoying because i like listening to music on the speaker. sounds good but the thing is its being compressed and limited at a certain level, so you don't actually hear the best quality of the song. for example if the drums get really loud, it compresses and limits them down to your volume level, which takes away intensity of the song and just doesn't make it sound even. hoping to find a setting to turn this off...
5.) screen brightness changes with Auto brightness off depending on what's on the screen.
video example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slwkFhpiYbs&feature=youtu.be
this is that content adaptive brightness crap that they forced on the phone. it changes based on more whites or more blacks on the screen, then dims and brightens accordingly. it's incredibly annoying and there's currently no way to turn it off. in titanium i found an app called content adaptive back light and then i removed it.. it still does it.
what issues are you having with it?
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my wallpaper doesn't scroll and when I pull the notification bar down I don't have any lag.
I'm gonna post the video when i get home from work. it does it every single time I have non scrolling on the stock launcher, and once I switch to scrolling, it's smooth again. remember, this is on the lockscreen.
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- Knock knock works 70-80% on the 1st try. Being a huge selling point of this device and something I use ALL the time I would like this to work 100%
1. There is a headphone CPU noise issue when charging. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448854
2. Transparency for status bar/soft buttons only seems to work for stock wallpapers.
I will remember a few more little ones in time.
BaronInkjet said:
2. Transparency for status bar/soft buttons only seems to work for stock wallpapers.
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I noticed that. I wonder if you could locate the stock wallpaper folder and just put your wallpapers in there. Would it work somehow..
SysAdmNj said:
I noticed that. I wonder if you could locate the stock wallpaper folder and just put your wallpapers in there. Would it work somehow..
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Really? when i was playing with the verizon version. the homescreen/app drawer was still transparent with a wallpaper i had downloaded from goodfon.com. when you went to apps it went away. but kept at transparent on the ones i stated. i guess i'll find out tomorrow when my G2 arrives.
jmill75 said:
- Knock knock works 70-80% on the 1st try. Being a huge selling point of this device and something I use ALL the time I would like this to work 100%
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Yes this is unfortunate and unreliable. I wonder if an update can fix this. They may worried about it being too sensitve.
On another matter, my Verizon version is prone to turning on the camera or note pad when in my pocket via the rear buttons. Even prone to turning on the phone when sitting on a table off because of the sensitivity of the rear buttons. Not sure if it is just the verizon model or both.
BaronInkjet said:
1. There is a headphone CPU noise issue when charging. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448854
2. Transparency for status bar/soft buttons only seems to work for stock wallpapers.
I will remember a few more little ones in time.
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Mine are transparent with a custom wallpaper.
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
Mine are transparent with a custom wallpaper.
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Your pic shows status bar shaded darker. I see truly transparent on stock wallpaper. There is a slight shading on bottom soft keys, but otherwise transparent.
Another thing I see -- transparent forces soft keys to be white regardless of what you select.
I got intermittent distortion with my Icon HD bluetooth headset during calls. Doesnt matter if the phone is in my pocket or just sitting on a desk next to me. This didnt happen with any of my previous phones (S4, One, Nexus)
Lock Screen Camera App Image?
Is this supposed to happen? If I start a swipe to unlock, the camera app image goes away, but then comes back...
Is this a shortcut to the camera? Usually if I swipe from an app on the bottom that is my shortcut.
yeah man swipe to the left to bring up camera like on stock android.
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You can turn off content adaptive mode. And no more screen issues!!! There are so many hidden settings on this phone!
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craigbailey1986 said:
You can turn off content adaptive mode. And no more screen issues!!! There are so many hidden settings on this phone!
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nope. doesn't work. I turned it off, it still did it.. and then i deleted that exact app you're in, and it still does it.
I have a feeling it's a kernel issue.
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You can turn off content adaptive mode. And no more screen issues!!! There are so many hidden settings on this phone!
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Where is that located?!?!?!?!? I keep seeing the an icon on the task bar that is a box with an eye in the corner and generally the brightness changes when it comes on, but I can't find any info on the icon. I think it might be that, not sure.
The issue I notice is when I get a text and click on it to go to the convo about 25% of the time it goes to the top of the thread and not the bottom where the most recent text is.....
jayochs said:
yeah man swipe to the left to bring up camera like on stock android.
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I appreciate the reply but please check out a quick video I made. It seems like the camera is getting "trapped" on the screen after loading it, then the normal shortcut way doesn't work.
youtube dot com/watch?v=bI5ZBsI_RNE < I can't post links... someone or a mod please embed or link me please! Just replace " dot " with "." to see the behavior I'm experiencing.
mouf32 said:
Where is that located?!?!?!?!? I keep seeing the an icon on the task bar that is a box with an eye in the corner and generally the brightness changes when it comes on, but I can't find any info on the icon. I think it might be that, not sure.
The issue I notice is when I get a text and click on it to go to the convo about 25% of the time it goes to the top of the thread and not the bottom where the most recent text is.....
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I found it in nova launcher gesture setting under aactivities. I also changed the screen mode. Which is similar to Samsung screen mode. Changed minds to natural
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jmill75 said:
- Knock knock works 70-80% on the 1st try. Being a huge selling point of this device and something I use ALL the time I would like this to work 100%
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Agree with this. Knock off works 100% of the time for me. Knock on not so much.
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mouf32 said:
Where is that located?!?!?!?!? I keep seeing the an icon on the task bar that is a box with an eye in the corner and generally the brightness changes when it comes on, but I can't find any info on the icon. I think it might be that, not sure.
The issue I notice is when I get a text and click on it to go to the convo about 25% of the time it goes to the top of the thread and not the bottom where the most recent text is.....
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get quick shortcut maker and type in content adaptive.. and it'll come up. make a shortcut open the app, and turn it off.. tell me if you notice. because I turned it off, and it STILL did the annoying brightness change. then I deleted the app in titanium and it still does it anyway.
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