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I have two simple wishes from the Mango devolopers)
1- Double tab to lock screen wake ( like MeeGo OS , nokia)
2- Different colours for the answer / call - end button's background ( maybe red or orange for END)
I know it is too late but I think these two makes my Focus very happy maybe in later updates.
Sadly, mango won't be enough to make me keep my focus. Trading it in for an Atrix tomorrow. I just need a real file system, more dev support, custom kernels, WiFi tether, a real maps app, no zune, and customization.
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I used to have all of them ; ios, android, symbian ; yes when you had them you got all flexibility but I like the Winmo 7's simple , elegant and conservative design . They can easly add these kind of minor changes to the new firmwares. I hope one of the Microsoft's windows mobile 7 devoloper reading this forum
It's too late for Mango since it's already RTM, but there will be updates in the future, we can hope some of MS's developers browse these forums.
I really wish they would allow us to pin settings (e.g. WiFi, etc) to the home screen.
wifi tether guys..
1. A timer, to allow the locksreen to require a password after a set amount of time.
2. A way to change the SMS notification so it doesn't just display on the screen (maybe when the device needs a password to enter). Or make it so you change stop when certain programs are running, Ex. Netflix
barrychon said:
1. A timer, to allow the locksreen to require a password after a set amount of time.
2. A way to change the SMS notification so it doesn't just display on the screen (maybe when the device needs a password to enter). Or make it so you change stop when certain programs are running, Ex. Netflix
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The first one is in Mango.
cj_133 said:
The first one is in Mango.
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Thanks, but isn't that the same option as before. That the Lockscreen comes on after a set amount of time? what I'm referring to, is for a timer to make needing a password activate.
EX. I lock my screen (turn the screen off) step away for like an hour, when I come back the password is required to acess the phone. So, basically a way to set the password for 60 minutes. *60 minutes is just an example*
****EDIT**** I see the option now after you enter a pw. Thanks for the help!!!
WiFi calling.
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1. show two appointment in calendar tile.
2. create reccuring appoint on first tuesday of every month.
3. call duration in call list.
This whole Mango thing has turned out to be too little, too late, all features are just propaganda, first dont offer them and than add them as if you have improvised and added 500 features.
Battery Percentage on the title bar.
Disabling vibrator on Back, Home and Search buttons (Samsung Focus)
WiFi and 3G toggle, on the home screen perhaps ?
barrychon said:
1. A timer, to allow the locksreen to require a password after a set amount of time.
2. A way to change the SMS notification so it doesn't just display on the screen (maybe when the device needs a password to enter). Or make it so you change stop when certain programs are running, Ex. Netflix
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1. OH YES!
We need a notification centre, like swipe right from the homescreen to get it or something.
sk8erboystijn said:
wifi tether guys..
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+1. Yes please!!!
slum_dawg said:
Battery Percentage on the title bar.
Disabling vibrator on Back, Home and Search buttons (Samsung Focus)
WiFi and 3G toggle, on the home screen perhaps ?
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+1 to Wifi and 3g toggle. It'd be cool to toggle it based on your location as well, such as turn off wifi and turn on 3g when I leave certain areas.
1. Have a "Send SMS" option when ignoring calls. The old "I am unable to answer your call but will return it as soon as possible" text option available on WM6 and Android.
2. Make Bluetooth sound routing configurable. For instance, I don't want my Alarms going through my Bluetooth headset. I use this phone as an alarm clock when I travel an if I happen to leave my Bluetooth headset on at night the "Alarm" rings through the Bluetooth headset only. I am not wearing it while sleeping so I don't hear it.
3. Add more space between talk/end key and move them down away from the mute key. Way too much empty space below talk/end and they are crammed right up the mute key's butt. I have hung up many a call just trying to mute it.
4. Colorize the phone keypad. It is just blank outline and looks terrible. Worse looking keypad on any phone I have ever seen.
5. Make the icons at the top bar interactive, so when I tap the battery icon, I can see the percentage of battery left, or tap the wifi icon I can see where I am connected, etc.
6. Make the square tiles resizable, especially if they are not live tiles. I don't need such a huge icon for IE, Marketplace, Zune. I could condense these into the same space as one tile currently.
7. Make the ability to add sub tiles to a single tile. For instance have a double wide tile, let me add in all the messaging tiles, so I can have Outlook, text, hotmail, gmail, etc. notifications all on one double wide tile rather than take 5 normal tiles and the space these require.
8. Make a "Favorite People" tile on the home screen so I can list out 5 or 6 people in a single double wide tile. People I call every day. Reduce the space it takes to have favorite people on the homepage.
9. Make the default tiles interesting. All of the default tiles are just plain white text. really MS couldn't have made a better looking messaging or IE tile? Just looks plain and boring, not what I want on my phone's homescreen.
10. A mute option for sound. It only goes to vibrate, sometime I just need to be sure my phone is not going to vibrate or ring or make any noise whatsoever, and I cannot be sure of this with these volume controls. Also separate the phone volume from the system sound volume. Never should these be integrated.
11. Add the ability to synchronize contact info across platforms. Today i can "link" them on the phone, but if the phone gets the picture for a contact from Linkedin or Facebook, it doesn't actually update the contact in Outlook. It just links them on the phone. I want this same info synchronized across outlook, google voice, hotmail, etc. not just linked on the phone. WM6 did this.
12. Ability to see what mode wifi is operating in, maybe some speed details. Such as b/g/n, 48mbps, 120mbs, etc.
13. Make Bluetooth work with my Motorola carkit.
14. The ability to backup SMS.
15. The ability to forward SMS. Many things I want to forward, but can't.
16. The ability to delete a single SMS without deleting the whole conversation. Someone sends an inappropriate picture or text I want to delete just that text or forward that text, not the whole 6 months worth of conversation strings.
17. Autodownload images in email. Don't make me tap "Download images" every single time.
Enough requests for today....
-Paul
Paul
8: Contact grouping is supported in mango, you can pin that group to your home screen. It is a single wide tile, though I don't think that makes much of a difference
15: I don't know that this is new in Mango, I thought we could do this along time ago?
16: This is in Mango
No. 16 is in Nodo too.. just tap and hold the single SMS in the whole convo which you want to delete and select delete from dropdown menu.. it will only delete that particular message and not the whole convo..
you are right, 15 and 16 are in Mango... scratch those.
As for 8, it places a single group box on the home screen, which then takes you to a sub group. I want the subgroup on the homescreen, just each item much smaller in a wide box. but the grouping is better than nothing for sure.
Additionally, I need to be able to get contacts from my Company Outlook Address Book. (GAL) I can only send email to individuals in my local Address book. I need to be able to pull up company contacts that are not in my address book also.
-Paul
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As for 8, it places a single group box on the home screen, which then takes you to a sub group. I want the subgroup on the homescreen, just each item much smaller in a wide box. but the grouping is better than nothing for sure.
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So you want the ability to click on a portion of the tile and for it to access the specific contact that you clicked on?
Alright, so I was setting up my ls990 and during the setup of everything (apps/widgets/screens/you know) I managed, or perhaps my phone managed, to simply stop displaying lock screen shortcuts. I know what you may be thinking, no, there are no passwords, knock codes, pins, locks, mods, extras, or anything that *could* cause this.
It's a simple swipe to unlock, that's it, there are shortcuts 'set' in the lock screen settings as you'd expect, but no matter what fiddling, swiping, or press-and-holding I try will bring them back. Every last combination of settings and lock screen fidgeting and 'oops I deleted the default circle lock screen widget thingy but found out how to bring it back and also learned how to set the default lock screen page that will show when I turn the screen on'-ing will make them show again... So after on and off and mostly on playing around with it over the last 10 hours or so, and seeing how it is now 5 am where I live, and certainly the tunnel vision has set in or I'm just plain ol' dumb and/or incapable of swiping my own buttons, I'd figure that somewhere in the population of LG g3 owning & xda browsing intelligental(wo)mens there could be somebody to set my plain ol' dumb button pushing straight.
Any ideas?
Posting on the chrome browser from my nifty ls990 via my Wi-Fi connection, tanks.
Well anything? Need smart people please, I'll consider this a bump.
Do you see the Emergency Call box at the bottom? I just had that same issue, and it appeared to be triggered by a lack of signal or going into roaming mode. Setting the device into Airplane Mode brought the shortcuts back for me. Here's exactly what I did:
1. Set the device into Airplane Mode (I used the shortcut from the notification shade).
2. Lock the device.
3. Hit the power button to bring up the lock screen. Verified shortcuts were there.
4. Shut off Airplane Mode (once again, used shortcut).
Let me know if that works...
Hey everyone! I just got an XZ1C myself a few days ago, and I'd like to share a few of the little quality of life changes I personally use to make the everyday experience with this phone more to how I like it. I figured maybe everyone could contribute a few ideas here and there to help other users deal with things they might be frustrated with, but not know a solution for.
A couple of notes - I gave up the root life a while ago, so all of these solutions are non-root! Also, some of these apps are paid apps (though they might have lite or free versions). Sorry! But as a software developer myself, I have the obligation to pay it forward when I find a nice app.
So here goes!
Making the volume keys default to Media Volume:
Having owned a Samsung phone before, this is one of the things I miss most in almost any other Android phone. But, as they say, there's an app for that! There's a very simple app called Media Volume Only (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=catchpower.gogo.mediavolumeonly&hl=en), which binds your volume keys to Media by default. It asks for Call permissions to see if you're in a call, where it will then bind the volume keys to call volume. Otherwise, it will always be Media, which is great!
However, that means there isn't a super easy way to changing your ring volume, unless you first press the volume key to bring up the sliders and hitting the down arrow to show the rest of the sliders....which brought me to:
Re-adding the missing Ring/Vibrate Mode switch to quick switches:
I am using Central Europe .374 + US oem file to get Fingerprint+VoLTE on T-mobile; I'm not sure if it's because of the CE1 region or whatever else, but I couldn't find any button in the quick settings that would just toggle the phone to ring mode, vibrate mode or silent.
To remedy this, I use Shortcutter (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leedroid.shortcutter&hl=en). This allows you to enable a ton of different switches in the quick settings dropdown, though some of them may not work properly without root and only with other phones. After installing Shortcutter, swipe over to the "Pull-Down" tab, then hit "System Setting Tiles". In this list, scroll down and you'll find "Ring Mode". Turning this switch on will put the Ring Mode icon into the box of icons you can edit your quick settings with. Finally, pull down your quick settings, click the pencil icon to modify the quick settings and scroll down to find Ring Mode.
This way, it's easy to switch the phone to silent before going into a movie, or a meeting at work.
Fixing the crazy stock backlight control:
The stock backlight is a little crazy right now. It jumps around when the room is dark and it does not transition smoothly. A great app for controlling backlight is Lux (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux&hl=en). It even allows you to keep different profiles and define exactly how bright you want the screen to be in any lighting situation, and it will keep a map of your selections for you! You can control all sorts of variables, like how quickly it will transition, if it should only transition given what % of lighting change, so on and so forth. It's really very powerful and useful. I haven't had any trouble with the XZ1C display since installing Lux, which I've used on previous phones as well. Highly recommend this one! There's a free version called Lux Lite (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitocassisi.luxlite&hl=en), but I've never tried it so YMMV.
Alternative for No Double Tap to Wake (or not having Ambient Display):
This is another one I have almost always used on phones that aren't Nexii/Pixel or Motorola. Gravity Screen (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexnor.gravityscreenofffree&hl=en) gives you a ton of different ways to automatically wake up the phone to the lockscreen. I find that using ONLY the Proximity Sensor setting to turn ON the screen (and turning everything else off) has negligible effect on the battery, and maintains extreme usefulness. With just that setting, when my phone is on the desk I can poke the phone where the proximity sensor is (as if I one-tap it) and it will wake up. If I take the phone out of my pocket, the phone turns on and is already waiting for me by the time I look at it. Super convenient!
UPDATE: Another user (quack3d) mentioned the app WaveUp(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jarsilio.android.waveup) which does exactly how I have Gravity Screen set up. If you want just that, this seems to be a great and simpler alternative! Thanks!
If you want more options, it has all sorts of other things like turn on by motion, etc. etc....I personally don't use those though, so I can't vouch for how well they work.
Double Tap to Sleep
I'm pretty sure you have to pay for this one, but Nova Launcher Prime (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher.prime&hl=en) is an incredible launcher, and it allows you to specify custom gestures on the desktop. The gestures can trigger all sorts of things, one of which is Screen Lock. If you select the Time-Out method of locking the screen, it will work with fingerprint unlocking.
Custom Auto-Rotation Switching:
Normally, I don't like auto-rotation. I use my phone a lot in bed (lying sideways), but I still want to use it in portrait. So, I prefer to have my phone default to NO auto-rotation. That being said, it's annoying when you pull up a funny gif or the photo album or youtube and you want to just flip your phone over to watch a video. Sure, you can drag down the quicksettings and flip that switch, but there's a better way! That's where Automate (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.llamalab.automate&hl=en) comes in! Automate allows you to program your phone to do just about anything (especially if you have root) based on custom triggers.
In Automate, if first select "More flows..." and search for a script called "Auto Enable Rotation" by the author Anthony Beaumont. Once you download this script and run it, it will present you with 2 options, either to "start" the script service, or to "modify" the list of apps. You'll want to "modify" the list of apps and start a new one. To this, you can add apps such as Album, Youtube, Twitch and whatever else you want to watch in landscape mode. Finally, once that's done, stop the script and start it again, but this time select "start". (You can also select in the 3 dot menu to have this script run at start-up. Highly recommended!) Now, when you open Album/Youtube/Twitch etc. the phone should automatically flip to auto-rotation.
Enter all your app and website passwords automatically with fingerprint:
For better or for worse, I keep all of my online passwords saved in Lastpass. It turns out that once you have an account and saved passwords, Lastpass has an incredible app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lastpass.lpandroid&hl=en) that can pop up over Chrome and just about any other app on your phone that can fill in the username/password fields for you using your fingerprint! It doesn't work for all the different browsers out there (I just use Chrome), and there may have been a pay wall for the in-app password filling, I forgot (sorry!). That said, it's super convenient to head to any site and just tap the fingerprint to log in.
Additionally, if you're a Lastpass user already, they also have a Lastpass Authenticator (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lastpass.authenticator&hl=en) that works in place of the Google Authenticator (you can add Google Authenticator 2factor sites to the LastPass one), which is IMHO superior because the keys are linked to your account rather than to the physical phone. Also, if you have LP Authenticator + the Chrome addon on your PC/Mac, on some sites you don't even have to enter the Authenticator number, you can just press "approve" on your phone to get into the website on your PC. Awesome!
Send links from your PC to phone or phone to PC
Ever read something on your PC and wish you could link it to your phone super quickly and not have to go through emailing it to yourself? I use Pushbullet (Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pushbullet.android&hl=en PC: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pushbullet/chlffgpmiacpedhhbkiomidkjlcfhogd?hl=en), which allows you to directly link webpages from PC to phone and vice versa. Additionally, if you give it the permissions, it can hook up your phone's notifications to your Windows notifications (not sure about mac), including allowing you to read and send SMS from your PC. I believe it also has file transfer capabilities, but I don't use it.
I think that's it for now...I'll add more when I think of them. These are just a few of the mods I run which makes using the phone more effortless and enjoyable; please, feel free to add more and I'll add them to the list if there's something you want to share! Hope this helps someone out there!:highfive:
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Re-adding the missing Ring/Vibrate Mode switch to quick switches:
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Alternative implementation that I use: Add a toggle on the home screen to quickly switch between Ring/Vibrate/Silent modes
First install Media-Mute [free & ad-free]. What this app does is automatically mute the media volume whenever the ringer volume is also muted, which applies to both Vibrate mode and Silent mode.
For some reason, since Android 4.x Google has decided that Silent mode should only apply to the ringer, instead of silencing everything that can make sounds out of the speaker. Media-Mute fixes that.
Next, install Silent Mode Toggle [free & ad-free], then add the widget on the home screen. Switching modes is now super easy, just tap on the toggle.
What I really appreciate about this app is that it allows customization to the toggle order. For example, I never use the vibrate mode, so I can set it to toggle between Ringer > Silent only.
As a bonus, it also lets you use your own custom icons for the toggle, super cool and makes it possible to perfectly complement your home screen layout.
Hide the annoying "running in the background" notification that comes with Android 8.0
With Android 8.0 Oreo, Google thought it would be a great idea to permanently remind you of any background processing currently running in the form of an impossible to dismiss notification.
While the intention was well meaning, the execution leaves a lot to be desired.
Thankfully, there's an app for that! Just install this cleverly named app Hide "running in the background" Notification [free & ad-free], problem solved!
Vibrate phone when call connects, ends
Yet another app to the rescue! VibCall [free & ad-free] brings this useful feature found on some OEM phones to any compatible Android device.
Basically, your phone will vibrate once to let you know that a call has connected, and twice when a call has ended. It's something that once you've used, you wonder why it's not baked into the Android system as a default option.
Add a fingerprint (Smart Lock) compatible screen lock toggle on the home screen
So Sony has unilaterally decided to remove double tap to sleep feature with no sign of bring it back. But I still want to turn off the screen and lock the device by tapping on the screen instead of waiting for the system to hibernate or hitting the power button.
The OP listed a paid solution which brings back double tap to sleep, but for those looking for a free alternative, this is the solution I'm currently using - Smart Screen Lock Pro [free & ad-free].
It's not a double tap anywhere convenience, but a toggle that is better than nothing, and most importantly it's compatible with fingerprint unlock. I've tried numerous screen off apps in the Play store, and this is the only one that I was satisfied with.
IMPORTANT: Take the time to carefully read and follow setup instructions, it's necessary for it to work properly due to OS restrictions. Once it's setup correctly, simply add a shortcut on the home screen and tap it to lock.
It's worth mentioning that it's not a true "instant" screen off and lock, but without root this is probably the best solution we'll get.
Non-root ad blocking
Ads are a necessary evil for the current economics of the Internet, but aside from the annoyance factor, they eat up precious mobile data, plus there's also very real security risks with ad networks, potentially hogging your phone's resources and draining the battery.
Whatever the argument, if you do decide to block ads, there are quite a lot of ad blockers to choose from.
Personally, I use dns66 [free & ad-free]. In my experience, it's very lightweight, and I haven't seen any ads in my browser or apps.
It does have its quirks though, sometimes downloads fail, such as OTA update or file in browser, for one reason or another (the author says it's a bug with the Android OS itself, see linked post).
But it's easy to workaround, just temporarily disable dns66 by tapping pause on the notification, and download again. After download has completed, tap the notification again to resume.
By the way, this is also the main reason I installed the hide background notification app.
I have recently bought A50 in India, for very few hours it is quite a wonderful experience but after a few updates, it has become very annoying. I am using pin lock and FP as my security option along Always on Display.
whenever i am trying to unlock the cell, Slide to Unlock option automatically comes up with annoying advertisements. max time it comes once i pick the phone, i have to slide to get fingerprint option or post FP it comes automatically and many times it leads to open up playstore due to touch on the ad.
Is there any option to shut it off? i have tried thru no secutiry setting and all but it keep exists.
Thanks very much
Im not sure what you're talking about but I'm guessing is it lockscreen stories?? If yes you can turn it off from here
You cannot turn it off but set a new wallpaper and then
I also do not have any idea from where these coming, this is very annoying.
i am attaching the two scsht of lock screen and settings. by the way, while taking scsht it comes with an extension name as daily fit.
i am thinking it is something related to One UI.
Update:
Issue identified and solved. This is not related to One UI or updates. there is an app "Daily Fit" which automatically got downloaded via Galaxy App. while taking the screenshot, i found "DailyFit" is mentioned as like "Settings". have uninstalled the app and it is working properly without "Slide to Unlock" screen with annoying ads.
Thanks very much for your quick replies
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Hi all. I have CN rom (Tencent Games label). I previously had a Galaxy S21.
I have discovered that many of the frequent apps I use don't notify me well on this RM6. For messaging, I expect a sound, a screen wakeup, and a badge on the lockscreen for apps like FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Outlook Email, etc. How can I get this happening on the RM6?
I also note that when I am in a voice-call on Whatsapp, that after the lockscreen timeout ends, the headphones (speakers and mic) stop working through the lockscreen. But if I unlock, the app (and open voice call) are still there.
I feel like the lockscreen is main issue, but I cannot see any suitable options to change the settings.
Help?
Regards, Sirdiver
i've the same issue in EU Rom, it's a software problem and for sure it will be fixed in the upcoming updates.
Same issue here.
Has this been fixed ?
The biggest issue i am facing right now with this lockscreen is not able to see who is calling me through normal phone call and WhatsApp call. The screen does not showing any details of the caller & keep blank until i unlock the screen. The notification settings on redmagic is so confusing with so unnecessary options. The worst part, after cracking my head configured with so many settings only for the notifications, it doesn't working as expected. Waste of time
Do any of you guys face not having notification icons on the Always-On Display? Not able to fix this issue after tweaking most of the settings and the phone has already been updated to the latest version.