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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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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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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**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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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 :]
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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.
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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is there a way to do that? only problem with this app.
Sorry for the late reply
....but you can go to system app manager and theres a disable notifications from this app checkbox at least there is one on my Sony Neo V with Super Jellybean 5 custom rom and Fusion 5.4 kernel.
However, if you do this, you will not be able to change the dimming level when you click the icon, only toggle it. I tried to find a permission on Lucky Patcher... no such luck. but i found an appropriate dimness and disable the notification in app manager and just click the app icon on my homescreen to toggle between 40% and full.
There are other apps that serve the same feature individually and bundled with other tweaks but i havent tried them since i've used it for a bit and love how little CPU the app uses. its so little its not logged on my battery screen. and my screen doesn't use half my battery now. System Tuner says it has .03-.04% of cpu use
Good Luck Out There
Sincerely a fellow tweakfreak,
Ok, I have experienced both 4.4.4 and 4.4.2 now.
Other than the usual changes (useful ones like (probable) radio improvement - though I can't personally vouch for it, and useless ones like new and updated bundled apps), there are a few interesting changes which I did not read about online.
For the benefit of everyone, I wanted to document the interesting changes that I have noticed. I am running 4.4.2 KOT49H.N900VVRUCNC4.
1. Switching to 4.4.4 removes the "Shutter sound" option from your camera app. So you can no longer switch it off, however, if you switch to silent mode before taking a picture then the camera will not sound.
2. Sticky icons are removed in 4.4.4.
a) Smart stay- In 4.4.2, a grayed out eye icon will always remain if you have enabled smart stay. In 4.4.4, the icon only comes during every time-out, when the phone is deciding whether to stay, and disappears within half a sec.
b) 4G icon - In 4.4.2, even when Wifi is connected, 4G icon is displayed grayed without the up/down arrows. (There doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of this, Wanam options don't work.) In 4.4.4 either Wifi or 4G icon is shown, not both together.
Edit: The following happened only because of Wanam as pointed out below.
3. In 4.4.2, if you set your display to auto brightness there will be a slider which you can adjust. In 4.4.4, auto brightness is not adjustable - there the normal brightness slider is shown, and if you change the slider it switches off auto brightness.
hirak99 said:
3. In 4.4.2, if you set your display to auto brightness there will be a slider which you can adjust. In 4.4.4, auto brightness is not adjustable - there the normal brightness slider is shown, and if you change the slider it switches off auto brightness.
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That actually shows up once Wanam Xposed is installed. The +5/-5 slider is not there on stock 4.4.2.
SirBindy said:
That actually shows up once Wanam Xposed is installed. The +5/-5 slider is not there on stock 4.4.2.
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Thanks! Edited. I did not realize it is from Wanam theme as I didn't explicitly turn it on.
Just noticed it doesn't do that hover thing over the lock screen. Not sure what it's called but when you hover your finger over the screen it detects where your finger is and shows ripples. Also there is a different color effect on the ink effect but I can't get it working yet, maybe after a reboot
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MACHEK said:
Just noticed it doesn't do that hover thing over the lock screen. Not sure what it's called but when you hover your finger over the screen it detects where your finger is and shows ripples. Also there is a different color effect on the ink effect but I can't get it working yet, maybe after a reboot
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that only works with air view enabled
AndroidGreg said:
that only works with air view enabled
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Even with it enabled this doesn't work anymore for me
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Calendar Location
Prior to the update, The location in calendar events was clickable and would take you to google maps.
For me, that no longer is the case, has anyone else seen this?
HUH. After the Update new events have the Location Link...
Maybe that was a fix on the NK1 release?