Having a G4 since a few weeks now, I got a Quick Circle cover and decided to take advantage of that to get some battery information and quick controls without turning on the G4 or opening the cover, two things my apps (3C Toolbox and co) deliver in various ways, from the home screen as shortcuts or widgets or from within the app.
So I used the existing gauge widget (which fits the quick circle perfectly) to get all kind of information displayed within the quick circle and also the quick control popup to get instant controls on various device settings (WiFi, APN, Flashlight, etc).
1- Download the main app
To take advantage of those, you will need to install one of the following apps:
- 3C Toolbox to display any information within the gauge and have quick controls.
- System Tuner to display only system information (no quick controls)
- Battery Monitor Widget to display battery information (no quick controls)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=3c
2- Activate the desired quick app
a) Open Android settings, General tab, QuickCircle configuration, App selection.
b) Enable Quick Gauge and/or Quick Controls
3- Configuring the Quick Gauge
To access the quick gauge configuration, you need to display it within the Quick Circle cover, and simply open the cover. This will show the configuration as if it was a widget.
Widget Content to define what to show (the gauge and the central data can show two different things).
Widget Look'n'feel to define how to show it, coloring and optional icons.
4- Configuring the Quick Controls
There is no configuration for the Quick Controls, it's a scrolling list of 3 toggles per row.
However you can define the app theme, dark or light, 3D blue / flat icons, in app settings, UI / Theme. Those settings apply to the quick control and the whole app.
Light theme makes the app look very Material-designed, while the dark theme looks old'ish, even though those are the same
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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.
Hi everybody and thanks for a lot of awesome work on Themer.
Two things really bother me so far:
1.
A lot of themes do have standard buttons in the dock: Phone, Messages, Apps, Email and Camera.
Let's say, I want to have my Browser there instead of the email button. Is there any way to get a standart
icon for (in this example but not limited to) the browser, which integrates nicely into the theme or must the
designer provide this button? On the same note, I feel it's difficult to find these standart icons in the first place,
where are they saved?
2.
Pulldown menu. I managed to switch off my standard pulldown menu (in my case CM 11). But the Themer
Pulldown menu lacks a lot of features like switching my mobile data on/off, toggling my position or vibrate mode.
Is there any way to extend or modify the possibilities in the pulldown menu?
Thanks from my side.
When you hand your phone to granny to take a photo of you, can she get the job done? Rate this thread to express how you deem the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4's camera software. A higher rating indicates that the software is easy to use, fast, uncluttered, and inclusive of advanced features for when you need them.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
In terms of software part she can easily find the camera and able to capture the shot....
But when capturing, she must keep her hands stable......
Otherwise your picture will be blurred.....
Maybe not if you have a super granny...
I didnt find manual focus option.
Xiaomi, if you're reading this, these are the things I don't like:
-Can't swipe lockscreen notifications to the left.
-No expandable lockscreen notifications so I can preview emails, messages, etc. and do a quick reply.
-No expandable notifications in notifications drawer.
-When I pull down the notifications drawer it would be good if I could have multiple pages for the toggles. So for example, on the 1st page I have toggles that I use the most. But, when i swipe to the right, the 2nd page appears with the rest of the toogles. That would be good.
- I don't like duplicate things in Settings. For example, App Permissions are available under Settings but it's also available in Security app. The same thing is for battery usage etc. I don't like that. It should all be in only one place and thus it would be more cleaner.
-Notification icons in the top are too small. There should be an option to choose between smaller and larger.
-When I pull down the notification drawer I don't like that weather details and the color of it changes frequently. It would be good if it would be possible to choose some color (dark grey?)and to remove the weather info from notification drawer.
-RAM management isn't too good. If I open 10 apps and switch between them, when I come to e.g. 5th app it refreshes itself.
-Having manual focus in camera would be good.
If I think of anything else I'll add.
Aziz_T said:
Xiaomi, if you're reading this, these are the things I don't like:
-Can't swipe lockscreen notifications to the left.
-No expandable lockscreen notifications so I can preview emails, messages, etc. and do a quick reply.
-No expandable notifications in notifications drawer.
-When I pull down the notifications drawer it would be good if I could have multiple pages for the toggles. So for example, on the 1st page I have toggles that I use the most. But, when i swipe to the right, the 2nd page appears with the rest of the toogles. That would be good.
- I don't like duplicate things in Settings. For example, App Permissions are available under Settings but it's also available in Security app. The same thing is for battery usage etc. I don't like that. It should all be in only one place and thus it would be more cleaner.
-Notification icons in the top are too small. There should be an option to choose between smaller and larger.
-When I pull down the notification drawer I don't like that weather details and the color of it changes frequently. It would be good if it would be possible to choose some color (dark grey?)and to remove the weather info from notification drawer.
-RAM management isn't too good. If I open 10 apps and switch between them, when I come to e.g. 5th app it refreshes itself.
-Having manual focus in camera would be good.
If I think of anything else I'll add.
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First, why are you posting it here?
Second, why are you using MIUI if you have these issues? Every single thing you just mentioned can be solved by using AEX, RR or Lineage.
Easy to use and navigate.
I've been using AOSP roms on various phones for quite some time and have gotten hooked on using my phone in full screen while using PIE to navigate. Especially on a large phone i find this so so so much easier. Here are some tips i found out through trial and error to what i've found is an awesome experience. I'm using a rooted NF50F which makes doing this easier, though it still can be accomplished unrooted
1. To navigate around your phone use the best Pie application out there imo which is supported on these forums as well LMT
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330150
this app is so great because of how you can customize it. there are other non root alternatives in the play store but this is the best imo if you have root.
2. fully hide the navigation bar so it never pops up - this is the only way you can use LMT on the bottom of your phone which is excellent for one handed browsing. to do this you need to add the following line to the build.prop and the nav bar is gone forever even after reboots
qemu.hw.mainkeys=1
add this line to the bottom of your build prop and save. if you ever want the keys back change the number to 0.
3. use the app SystemUI Tuner to hide the status bar. go under the immersive mode tab and select status bar. Note - you can also hide the nav bar with this app, but it is not fully hidden as it still appears with any upward swipe.
4. I turn edge lighting on so i see notifications when my phone is on. i don't want the entire message shown on my screen so edge lighting works great for me and is a great feature of this phone. you can even get edge lighting working with gmail. i also use textra pro for texting.
there are different ways to make your phone truly immersive including Xposed but if you don't want to used Xposed this is the best solution IMO.
other recommended apps:
Light Flow - to customize your led notification light
bx actions - https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...-bxactions-remap-bixby-button-double-t3673372
material notification shade - can auto expand all notifications and get dark notifications
autonotifications - you can add more buttons to gmail like mark as read, spam, etc
I'm running Nougat crDroid with Magisk & TWRP for reference.
Are there things that let me:
Automize Notifications(i.e. dismiss 'Google Play has installed x' notifications after 5 seconds)
Let me swipe away any notification there is
Enable a very slight palm rejection at the edge of the phone(disable every 3rd pixel on the edge from input, for e.g.)
Have systemwide Vibration control(a list of all vibration strengths/patterns for each thing)
Have a Notification Center(similar to iOS, a place to 'store' all your notifications, but an app for e.g.)
Customize the Network & WiFi Statusbar/Shade icons(I don't like how turning off celullar data makes an 'X' appear, for e.g.)
Customize my Statusbar
Have a full screen notification shade(the notification shade isn't fullscreen in landscape)
Have a statusbar at the bottom
Control how the power button locks the phone(I'd prefer to have it lock 2 minutes after turning it off, rather than instantly, but still go to the lock screen.)
Control animations systemwide(turn off/change speed of particular animations)
Have my battery bar below the statusbar
Always have a black Status Bar
Have better control over auto-rotate
Remove the scroll bounce/reflection
Customize the Lock Screen
Customize the Notification Shade
Make the Notification Shade(and notifications in general) more compact
Have better control over when quick settings and the whole notification shade appear when swiping down
Customize CPU clocks and enabled cores using profiles(like SetCPU)
And if there are any other things I can use to customize, or any app lists please tell me(preferably not Xposed).
i haven't read all of your needs nut im pretty much sure that you can find good hope in Tasker