Moto Display/Approach Issue - Moto Z Play Questions & Answers

Does anyone else have an issue with moto display/the approach feature?
This wouldn't work for me out of the box. I even tried a factory reset.
I tested the IR sensors and they work. So I don't know what it could be.

Check with Motorola customer support. It works perfectly for me.

I had an Moto X Style and moto display was easier to trigger.
On Moto Z Play it is a little harder but I found it is best to wave your hand on the top part of phone and a little closer, like 2 or 3 inches from it.

Do you have the Animator Duration setting in Developer Options set to 0? I think it needs to be at .5 or higher as it governs the duration of the Moto Display appearance time.

ladera said:
Do you have the Animator Duration setting in Developer Options set to 0? I think it needs to be at .5 or higher as it governs the duration of the Moto Display appearance time.
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Thanks for this! I always set all the animation options to 0.5x to make the software seem faster, but had always thought that Moto Display didn't stay on long enough when I activated it. This fixed it.

nininhocovre said:
I had an Moto X Style and moto display was easier to trigger.
On Moto Z Play it is a little harder
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I guess that's because the play uses the proximity sensor instead of the infrared sensor used in the X.

FIXED!
ladera said:
Do you have the Animator Duration setting in Developer Options set to 0? I think it needs to be at .5 or higher as it governs the duration of the Moto Display appearance time.
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This worked like a charm.
I can't thank you enough!

ladera said:
Do you have the Animator Duration setting in Developer Options set to 0? I think it needs to be at .5 or higher as it governs the duration of the Moto Display appearance time.
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That just did it! I don't have to give up the Developer Options and have all the unnecessary animations (at least for me) eventually lagging the device!
Thanks a lot!!

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Moto 360 Screen Always On - how to setup and use it / also some examples of duration

here you go!
http://youtu.be/3cSWpLeGT1s
Link for StayLit app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phonephreak.extendedlight
Enjoy
suadsecure said:
here you go!
http://youtu.be/3cSWpLeGT1s
Link for StayLit app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phonephreak.extendedlight
Enjoy
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Looks like a great idea. One suggestion, though. How about a second setting for ambient mode? So that way we have the regular display on for X amount of time (maybe 5 minutes) then it switches to ambient display and that remains on for the selected duration. In any event, thanks!
Rodeojones said:
Looks like a great idea. One suggestion, though. How about a second setting for ambient mode? So that way we have the regular display on for X amount of time (maybe 5 minutes) then it switches to ambient display and that remains on for the selected duration. In any event, thanks!
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Yup...I am testing out the G watch and 360, and having the G on all the time is nice...it's making it a tough call. The G has NO trouble getting through the day with the battery either...

display fades out and other unnecessary effects

I recently reset my LG G3. Since it rebooted, the display seems to be too clever for it's own good with its effects. The display fades out or shoots up from the bottom; when I enter a lock code, each letter seems to appear from underneath like a bubble etc etc.
I don't like it, but I can't find anywhere to turn all the effects. Anyone got a clue to help me?
cheers
Alan
alan sh said:
I recently reset my LG G3. Since it rebooted, the display seems to be too clever for it's own good with its effects. The display fades out or shoots up from the bottom; when I enter a lock code, each letter seems to appear from underneath like a bubble etc etc.
I don't like it, but I can't find anywhere to turn all the effects. Anyone got a clue to help me?
cheers
Alan
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You can turn off (or change speed of) animations in Settings - Developer options: Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animation duration scale.
cile1977 said:
You can turn off (or change speed of) animations in Settings - Developer options: Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animation duration scale.
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AGGHH _ Developer option - of course. Silly me.
Many thanks and Happy Christmas
Alan

Developer Options + Battery Saver = Moto Display Working

This might be a glitch I just stumbled upon by chance, or just the way the system is supposed to work, but it's kinda interesting:
For those, like me, who enabled Developer Options and turned all the animations ( Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animator duration scale) to Off, started noticing that Moto Display stopped working, and waving the hand above the Moto Z Play to turn on the display wouldn't work anymore.
To solve that you should either turn off Developer Options (if you want to get radical, and have all the animations back) or simply go to the Animator duration scale and change it from Off to .5x, and your Moto Display will be back and you won't have to give up Developer Options (thanks to @ladera for the tip! =)
Now the interesting part is you can also have the Moto Display functions back, still with all the Animations in Developer Options at the Off mark.
Just go to the battery and enable Battery Saving. Then turn your screen off and wave your hand above the phone, and the Moto Display will work. I don't know why or how this works, but it just does.
I know not everyone uses the battery saver all the time, just when needed and I don't think that setting Animator duration scale to .5x is gonna be a battery drainer or will lag the phone (if it makes that big difference, please tell me), but just know that Developer Options + Battery Saver = Moto Display Working =)
Thank you for this...i even thought it was my screen protector that made it not work I can't use the battery saver option it toggles off its cause I have the moto mod battery psck on but thanks a million...I just use .5x animation
Greedy242 said:
Thank you for this...i even thought it was my screen protector that made it not work I can't use the battery saver option it toggles off its cause I have the moto mod battery psck on but thanks a million...I just use .5x animation
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You're welcome! Glad I could help! At first I also thought I did something wrong, because the Moto Display just stopped working!
You can't use the Battery Saver option because you're using the Battery Mod? I didn't expect that. I'm planning on getting one soon, do you think it's worth it?
Yea I highly recommend it with it three days off the charge easily without I get two days charge around 30 percent love this phone an coming from a nexus 6
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I got the Tumi wireless battery mod by the way I can charge both with wireless or just the battery mod on the wireless if need be

LiveDisplay or Color Calibration

Cyanogenmod has a feature called LiveDisplay which automatically adjusts LCD color temperature according to time of day. Has anyone gotten this to work on the builds provided by Transi1? I'm in love with this old tablet after installing crdroid and am interested in figuring out how to get live display or color calibration working. I get some flickering and temporary display corruption when i try to adjust color calibration in the same display menu as LiveDisplay.
It Iooks like support may have been added in a pacman ROM a few years back, I wonder if that change was ever incorporated into Transi1's builds
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Cyanogenmod has a feature called LiveDisplay which automatically adjusts LCD color temperature according to time of day. Has anyone gotten this to work on the builds provided by Transi1? I'm in love with this old tablet after installing crdroid and am interested in figuring out how to get live display or color calibration working. I get some flickering and temporary display corruption when i try to adjust color calibration in the same display menu as LiveDisplay.
It Iooks like support may have been added in a pacman ROM a few years back, I wonder if that change was ever incorporated into Transi1's builds
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In my experience, do not use this feature on the Kindle 8.9. If I would make a guess, I'd say the tablet doesn't support this feature and on any of the 4 or 5 ROMs I have tried, will either severely pixilate the screen, or throw the tablet into reboot. I was having a lot of trouble figuring out what was causing the issues until I turned the options off. I only figured it out because after the event happened, usually on first boot of the newly installed ROM, a notice would appear in status bar asking if I want to configure LiveDisplay. This option could very well damage the device if enabled.
cyobane said:
Cyanogenmod has a feature called LiveDisplay which automatically adjusts LCD color temperature according to time of day. Has anyone gotten this to work on the builds provided by Transi1? I'm in love with this old tablet after installing crdroid and am interested in figuring out how to get live display or color calibration working. I get some flickering and temporary display corruption when i try to adjust color calibration in the same display menu as LiveDisplay.
It Iooks like support may have been added in a pacman ROM a few years back, I wonder if that change was ever incorporated into Transi1's builds
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I have done some experimenting with this feature. The 8.9 doesn't have the ability to adapt the display. So turn that off. Set the live display mode to 'night only'. Surprisingly this works pretty well.
DragonFire1024 said:
I have done some experimenting with this feature. The 8.9 doesn't have the ability to adapt the display. So turn that off. Set the live display mode to 'night only'. Surprisingly this works pretty well.
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Interesting, I wish it worked for me, all I get is some flickering garbage on screen when i set to 'night only'. Are you also using transi1's latest crdroid build from December? Maybe there's another setting I have that is interfering
cyobane said:
Interesting, I wish it worked for me, all I get is some flickering garbage on screen when i set to 'night only'. Are you also using transi1's latest crdroid build from December? Maybe there's another setting I have that is interfering
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Temaseks build. CM 13.
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notification panel size (HUGE) after EMUI 10 update

Has anyone else noticed how large the icons and notification cards are on the pull down screen? I am on the smallest display size and everything still seems huge.
I have tried using developer options and setting smallest width to 424 (default is 423) but that reduces it too much in my opinion.
Any way around this?
Yes ofc, but to be honest, after 1 week or something, i didn't notice it at all.
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mcall_r said:
Has anyone else noticed how large the icons and notification cards are on the pull down screen? I am on the smallest display size and everything still seems huge.
I have tried using developer options and setting smallest width to 424 (default is 423) but that reduces it too much in my opinion.
Any way around this?
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try playing around with the dpi in dev options a bit more, im sure ull find a good size to your liking
i have mine set to 550 and it looks awesome
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jbmc83 said:
try playing around with the dpi in dec options a bit more, im sure ull find a good size to your liking
i have mine set to 550 and it look awesome
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I could live with it as 424 but the problem is that the setting is not remembered, it resets upon reboot.
Why 424? Well the default is 423, and even one point more makes a significant difference. There seems to be no middle ground between 423 and 424 settings.
Any way to remember upon reboot? Or does this need root?
mcall_r said:
I could live with it as 424 but the problem is that the setting is not remembered, it resets upon reboot.
Why 424? Well the default is 423, and even one point more makes a significant difference. There seems to be no middle ground between 423 and 424 settings.
Any way to remember upon reboot? Or does this need root?
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it resets, really? huh
mine only resets when i go to dev settings and open the dpi settings, then it resets. otherwise nope, it sticks.
so just to be sure, have u actually tried anything else than 423 and 424? be sure to try other numbers further apart from stock and see how that suits you.
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I have mine set to 390 in developer settings. To me it looks just right for this screen size and resolution. It doesn't reset when the phone restarted.
Sorry my bad, in EMUI 9 the settings didn't stay upon reboot, from my experience.
mcall_r said:
Sorry my bad, in EMUI 9 the settings didn't stay upon reboot, from my experience.
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Are you still experiencing this problem in emui 10?
mcall_r said:
Has anyone else noticed how large the icons and notification cards are on the pull down screen? I am on the smallest display size and everything still seems huge.
I have tried using developer options and setting smallest width to 424 (default is 423) but that reduces it too much in my opinion.
Any way around this?
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So the icons are big but the contact photo in call ui and contacts are super small...lol...upside down design....IUME not EMUI
mac231us said:
So the icons are big but the contact photo in call ui and contacts are super small...lol...upside down design....IUME not EMUI
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I dont think he mentioned small call photos and contacts.
deloj said:
I dont think he mentioned small call photos and contacts.
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I mentioned it to emphasize the problem with the ui design (agree that the notification icons are too big)
Updated to EMUI 10 on my P20 Pro, but can't seem to get the notifications to work. I used to get Watsapp notifications, and preview of messages in my notification panel, anyone else had same issue, please help
mcall_r said:
Has anyone else noticed how large the icons and notification cards are on the pull down screen? I am on the smallest display size and everything still seems huge.
I have tried using developer options and setting smallest width to 424 (default is 423) but that reduces it too much in my opinion.
Any way around this?
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I could not agree more. It looks terrible.
Notifications are huge.
Pull down Quick Launch icons are also huge.
Had to try and make things smaller, but icons on Wallpaper are now too small.
It's a mess
Was there any fix?
I have DPI set to 430, makes a big - but smaller - difference.
And the settings always stick after cache clearing / reboots.

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