Dots on the top of the screen? - Captivate General

Sorta feel silly for asking and posting this but its bothering me lol. The dots on the top that show what screen your on when you swipe left or right. Well i thought they faded out when you swiped to a screen and stoped. Mine sre there all the time. Did or do they fade out or am i losing it? I installed a home app and uninstalled because it messed things up. If the dots did fade how can i turn this back on? Also was looking around for away to do a factory reset but cant find where to go? Thanks for the help
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MagillaGorillaX said:
Sorta feel silly for asking and posting this but its bothering me lol. The dots on the top that show what screen your on when you swipe left or right. Well i thought they faded out when you swiped to a screen and stoped. Mine sre there all the time. Did or do they fade out or am i losing it? I installed a home app and uninstalled because it messed things up. If the dots did fade how can i turn this back on? Also was looking around for away to do a factory reset but cant find where to go? Thanks for the help
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This looks like a home app feature. Check the preferences of ur home app. Need not reset phone when tinkering with ur home app can do the trick. If ur home app, does not support it u may have to switch to a different home app that has this feature.

On stock touchwiz forthe captivate the dots do not disappear.
This is my captivate. There are many like it but this one is mine.

Have stock home not using an app. Its what came with phone. Someone doesnt know were i can find where to mess with home options? Thanks
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The dots don't disappear for a reason. You can tap on a dot and go directly to that page without having to swipe through them. That's why they remain visible.

You can't make them disappear, no matter how hard you try haha. If your looking for customization I would suggest ADW.launcher or launcherpro. Both are on the market and I really enjoy both. If you have other questions feel free to ask
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Just an FYI, if and when and depending on how the Froyo update comes for the Captivate, if you are running a non-stock launcher you may have issues getting the update.

bradleyG said:
You can't make them disappear, no matter how hard you try haha.
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Don't make blanket statements. When I close my eyes they disappear.

opcow said:
Don't make blanket statements. When I close my eyes they disappear.
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You just think they do. Just like the light in the refrigerator.

Miami_Son said:
You just think they do. Just like the light in the refrigerator.
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It works on you too. Goodbye! (and be glad I didn't crush your head between my thumb and forefinger)

opcow said:
It works on you too. Goodbye! (and be glad I didn't crush your head between my thumb and forefinger)
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No, no...not that!

Related

HiddenMenu

For those that aren't aware, kinda cool thing I found when researching what com.lge.hiddenmenu was. From the Optimus 2x thread located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-991449.html
I'd like to stress the following that was mentioned -
Enjoy the vast amount of options and tests in there, and be careful as some are destructive.
I love the torch flashlight and dimming the capacitive buttons..
Well this one isn't so difficult but I though I'd share for those that have not worked it out yet.
The LG Device Test "HiddenMenu" is apparently on all shipping phones and it's simply disabled via removing the menu entry.
To activate you need to create a shortcut to this hidden menu. You can do this with most replacement launchers and apps like BetterCut.
Example using LauncherPro (others will use a similar method):
Long press on home screen
Select Shortcuts
Select Activities
Scroll down to and expand com.lge.hiddenmenu
Select HiddenMenu (first entry)
Enter Shortcut name
Click on shortcut to launch
Hit 'Thanks' below
Also now Logcat app:
As above
Scroll down to and expand LG Debug
Select LG Debug (first entry)
Enter Shortcut name
Click on shortcut to launch
Hit 'Thanks' below
Enjoy the vast amount of options and tests in there, and be careful as some are destructive.
Perhaps Useful:
Dim Capacitive Buttons: Device Test | Touch LED Brightness
Turn on Camera LED: Device Test | Camera Test | Torch Flashlight Preview
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Thanks for this. Was aware of the hidden menu, but hadn't looked into actually finding it until I saw your post. Appreciate it.
Cheers
Raudi119 said:
Thanks for this. Was aware of the hidden menu, but hadn't looked into actually finding it until I saw your post. Appreciate it.
Cheers
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Np. There's a lot of stuff in there! I love reducing battery usage with the menu lights. Got it turned all the way down. Every little bit helps!
For ADW Launcher, it is as follows:
Long press on homescreen
Select "Custom shortcut"
Select "Pick your activity"
Select "Activites"
Then it's the same as the OP described above. Seems to be a bit more menu work to get to it through ADW lol
himmelhauk said:
For ADW Launcher, it is as follows:
Long press on homescreen
Select "Custom shortcut"
Select "Pick your activity"
Select "Activites"
Then it's the same as the OP described above. Seems to be a bit more menu work to get to it through ADW lol
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find anything in there worth changin/tweaking/messin with?
You are awesome for bringing this to my attention. I've been searching for a way to dim the hard-key backlights! Only wish this was available on the Vibrant. The G2x isn't nearly as bad but it certain wasn't much better stock! =)
schmit said:
find anything in there worth changin/tweaking/messin with?
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I reduced Led light brightness
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That's pretty sweet!
Do you know what the "destructive" menus are? There are a ton of menus/sub-folders in that hidden menu... I would hate to mess with the wrong thing.
Have any of you heard of more tech-y, back end stuff that might be worth tweaking with this? Most of the sub-folders are just acronyms that I have no clue about. It would be cool if an engineer checked it out and looked for some diamonds in the rough!
Anyone tweak with the speaker settings? My ringtones are really soft compared to my mt4g, I practically have to turn it up all the way..
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S0NiX0928 said:
You are awesome for bringing this to my attention. I've been searching for a way to dim the hard-key backlights!
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Heh, np man. Kinda funny cuz I used my phone in a dark room the other day and those menu lights killed my eyes. I remember thinking.. "man, I really like to dim these." And then I stumbled across this. Praise God.
kirdroid said:
I reduced Led light brightness
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Yep, same here. Found that to be the numeral uno benefit of this thing so far.
lobsterhead said:
That's pretty sweet!
Do you know what the "destructive" menus are? There are a ton of menus/sub-folders in that hidden menu... I would hate to mess with the wrong thing. Have any of you heard of more tech-y, back end stuff that might be worth tweaking with this? Most of the sub-folders are just acronyms that I have no clue about. It would be cool if an engineer checked it out and looked for some diamonds in the rough!
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Nope, no idea. I don't take too many chances until after I read up on the experiences from others. Google is a good place to start..
nebody try adjusting the speaker output options in the audio Cal menu? it would appear you can increase the output of the speaker but I'm a little nervous to do so because I don't want to blow the speaker.
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nebody try adjusting the speaker output options in the audio Cal menu? it would appear you can increase the output of the speaker but I'm a little nervous to do so because I don't want to blow the speaker.
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ya, that would suck.. I'm surprised that you want to turn it up.. I'm hard of hearing WHAT?! and I can hear it just fine.
schmit said:
ya, that would suck.. I'm surprised that you want to turn it up.. I'm hard of hearing WHAT?! and I can hear it just fine.
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are you talking about the earpiece speaker? because I was referring to the speakerphone...come to think of it I'm not sure if the option affects the earpiece or speakerphone? I agree the earpiece speaker is fine but actually the speakerphone is very low, many reviews have pointed this out. I used to be able to play music on my blackberry bold 9700 and listen while I was in the shower but this phone is far from loud enough to do that
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What was the code to dial to get to the hidden menu?
Thanks
msage said:
are you talking about the earpiece speaker? because I was referring to the speakerphone...come to think of it I'm not sure if the option affects the earpiece or speakerphone? I agree the earpiece speaker is fine but actually the speakerphone is very low, many reviews have pointed this out. I used to be able to play music on my blackberry bold 9700 and listen while I was in the shower but this phone is far from loud enough to do that
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I suggest following this thread The OP is seeking out the same thing - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058510&page=2
Pecata said:
What was the code to dial to get to the hidden menu?
Thanks
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This post may help you - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1065686
thanks schmit! I've noticed that the touch led brightness reverts to default after locking the phone, is neone else having this problem?
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msage said:
thanks schmit! I've noticed that the touch led brightness reverts to default after locking the phone, is neone else having this problem?
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nope, I have it set very low.. a nice little dim.. enough to just see where they are. i like it. It has stayed there since i changed it. Lemme try a reboot.. well I'll be a SOB.. Yep, reverted back. tried it twice. It doesn't when the phone locks though, only on reboot. O'well.. I don't reboot often and it takes 2secs to change it.
msage said:
thanks schmit! I've noticed that the touch led brightness reverts to default after locking the phone, is neone else having this problem?
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Happens to me too.
I installed the capacitive touch notification app and changed the brightness there instead, don't know why it was giving me trouble lol
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Screenshots in shutdown?

Title says it all anyone know how to get a screenshot option in the shutdown menu.. Holding back then hitting home always takes pic of home screen
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Nope. Try again.
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Bear55 said:
Nope. Try again.
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I meant an option 4 screenshots in menu .. Not a screenshot of shutdown memu
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ace5198 said:
I meant an option 4 screenshots in menu .. Not a screenshot of shutdown memu
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Sorry, can't help you there. There are some apps on the Market that take screen shots but I can't recommend any since I never have problems with the built in one.
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Try shootme. Its not in the market any more, but i've found the apk before here on xda.
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I don't think the previous responders get your question. Some roms do support custom boot animations, there are a few threads on the site that explain how to do this. Feel free to look some up.
I think he wants a button in the shut down menu that will take a screenshot of whatever is under the menu. Haha not sure ...
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Similar to what is available in CM7? Don't know how that is integrated, but it would require a decent amount of smali work to get it accomplished.
Obviously the title doesn't say it all. Haha
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Similar to what is available in CM7? Don't know how that is integrated, but it would require a decent amount of smali work to get it accomplished.
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Precisly.. And I guess the title didn't say it all... When I hold the power button.. I get a menu with a couple options.. airplane mode/power phone off ect.. I want an option for a screenshot button in this menu ... Lol.. 2 clear up the confusion.. And than you all 4 your responses
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ace5198 said:
Precisly.. And I guess the title didn't say it all... When I hold the power button.. I get a menu with a couple options.. airplane mode/power phone off ect.. I want an option for a screenshot button in this menu ... Lol.. 2 clear up the confusion.. And than you all 4 your responses
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i know its late bute Drocap2 (probably have to get the apk from a search as it was pulled from the market) will let you have a notification bar trigger, map screenshotting to the search button, and has a shake trigger if that helps
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
ace5198 said:
Title says it all anyone know how to get a screenshot option in the shutdown menu.. Holding back then hitting home always takes pic of home screen
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Honestly, it's a timing issue... I used to have a hard time getting shots by holding Back and then hitting Home, but I've gotten MUCH better at it. It's all in the timing of how you do it, the best way i can explain it is to press back and kind of say "one one-thousand" to yourself then tap Home without moving your finger off of Back. You'll here the camera shutter sound and it'll be saved to your SD card in a folder for screen shots.
This is the only way I take my shots and it works fine, provided you've got the timing down (also, I've only used Froyo ROMs).
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Honestly, it's a timing issue... I used to have a hard time getting shots by holding Back and then hitting Home, but I've gotten MUCH better at it. It's all in the timing of how you do it, the best way i can explain it is to press back and kind of say "one one-thousand" to yourself then tap Home without moving your finger off of Back. You'll here the camera shutter sound and it'll be saved to your SD card in a folder for screen shots.
This is the only way I take my shots and it works fine, provided you've got the timing down (also, I've only used Froyo ROMs).
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There are still some things you'll never get a screenshot with. Why not just use one of the screen capture apps like DroCap or Shootme? There are likely hundreds more that do the same thing as well.
imnuts said:
There are still some things you'll never get a screenshot with. Why not just use one of the screen capture apps like DroCap or Shootme? There are likely hundreds more that do the same thing as well.
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i will def give them a shot... thank you!!!

Running beans 9 ROM, WTF IS THIS BUBBLE???

I've provided pics but this mysterious buuble keeps appearing at random, at the bottom of the screen yo. its some sort of pull up app drawer. I can't figure out how it keeps popping up or how to tremove it hahaha not trying to be funny anymore! its annoying. gets In the way of the keyboard and whatnot.
this must be a feature of beans ROM, I'm thinking. I dunno tho, a Google search came up with nothing.
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rybednarski said:
I've provided pics but this mysterious buuble keeps appearing at random, at the bottom of the screen yo. its some sort of pull up app drawer. I can't figure out how it keeps popping up or how to tremove it hahaha not trying to be funny anymore! its annoying. gets In the way of the keyboard and whatnot.
this must be a feature of beans ROM, I'm thinking. I dunno tho, a Google search came up with nothing.
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Is it your multiwindow tab?
sbreen94 said:
Is it your multiwindow tab?
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Bingo! Tap that bubble and move an app to either the top or bottom of the screen and use two apps at once.
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It can be moved around too. It doesn't have to stay on the bottom.
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rybednarski said:
I've provided pics but this mysterious buuble keeps appearing at random, at the bottom of the screen yo. its some sort of pull up app drawer. I can't figure out how it keeps popping up or how to tremove it hahaha not trying to be funny anymore! its annoying. gets In the way of the keyboard and whatnot.
this must be a feature of beans ROM, I'm thinking. I dunno tho, a Google search came up with nothing.
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hold back to get rid of it.
it's multiwindows ported from the note2, I find it completely useless and hate it as I use longpress back to kill apps, I can use menu button instead, but i will NEVER use the "feature" on this phone.
it sucks that rom devs are including it in ROMs, I'd much rather not see it at all or just have it as an add-on instead of forcing it on us.
I honestly never feel the need to have 2 apps open taking up half the screen each, I can just do one at a time, but I can see how it could be nice on the note II with the s-pen.
I did order a bunch of cheapy pens that work on the phone its pretty cool, but the multiwindow feature, garbage.

Halo feature, paranoid android

What do you guys think about the new paranoid android halo feature? I think it's gonna be fantastic with PIE. The whole reason why i never switched to using PIE is because i couldn't keep track of notifactions easily.
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Here's a video for those of you that don't know what it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vlrgCteDac&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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What do you guys think about the new paranoid android halo feature? I think it's gonna be fantastic with PIE. The whole reason why i never switched to using PIE is because i couldn't keep track of notifactions easily.
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I had the same experience with PIE. I never use it because I can't see my notifications when I turn my screen on quickly and turn it off, but Halo might solve that problem. However, I do have issues with PIE because it gives me issues with things at the very bottom of my screen like the space key. Sometimes I hit the key and it activates PIE instead of space (or whatever else I have down there are the moment).
PeterGunz said:
I had the same experience with PIE. I never use it because I can't see my notifications when I turn my screen on quickly and turn it off, but Halo might solve that problem. However, I do have issues with PIE because it gives me issues with things at the very bottom of my screen like the space key. Sometimes I hit the key and it activates PIE instead of space (or whatever else I have down there are the moment).
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You can move the trigger area to the left, right, or top for using pie.
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Casper34 said:
You can move the trigger area to the left, right, or top for using pie.
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Yes, but it creates the same issue for me. If I want to swipe the screen from right to left in an app it pulls out pie.
It's a minor issue and one I would surely get used to if I used it more, but it has still kept me from using it.
been impatiently waiting for this feature. hopefully it gets ported over to our build with the quickness. it looks great.
PeterGunz said:
Yes, but it creates the same issue for me. If I want to swipe the screen from right to left in an app it pulls out pie.
It's a minor issue and one I would surely get used to if I used it more, but it has still kept me from using it.
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I know... thats why I wont use pie. Its a great feature, but it interferes with swipes. I just didn't know if you knew that you could change the trigger location.
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PeterGunz said:
I had the same experience with PIE. I never use it because I can't see my notifications when I turn my screen on quickly and turn it off, but Halo might solve that problem. However, I do have issues with PIE because it gives me issues with things at the very bottom of my screen like the space key. Sometimes I hit the key and it activates PIE instead of space (or whatever else I have down there are the moment).
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Yeah, I too find pie more annoying than anything.
Maybe I'm just doing it wrong but I don't really see the need for pie. Maybe halo will change my mind
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Casper34 said:
I know... thats why I wont use pie. Its a great feature, but it interferes with swipes. I just didn't know if you knew that you could change the trigger location.
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No worries. Thanks for looking out.
Halo looks to be a useful enough feature to get me to try Pie again.
Maphack said:
Yeah, I too find pie more annoying than anything.
Maybe I'm just doing it wrong but I don't really see the need for pie.
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Me either, it makes a lot of sense on phones with on-screen softkeys, like the Nexus, but on a phone with dedicated hardware buttons like the GS3, it's totally unnecessary.
Jacquestrapp said:
Me either, it makes a lot of sense on phones with on-screen softkeys, like the Nexus, but on a phone with dedicated hardware buttons like the GS3, it's totally unnecessary.
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unless youre like me and dont use hardware buttons.
Ive always used pie or the navigation bar.
I hate using the buttons.
Pie is useful for shortcuts to activities or apps you use often.
Example: I may want to look at the weather or messaging app, or maybe even battery stats. But I'm in the middle of a different app. No need to close it and find the app on my home screen. I can just use pie.
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Master chief will be rolling over in his grave on this development
I like the idea of HALO, but I haven't found a ROM yet where the blacklist function works as advertised. I'd like to have HALO not show me Tasker or Clipper (my clipboard manger), and blacklisting and whitelisting never work.
On the PIE tangent, it's nice to be able to do things like sticking in a shortcut to a Tasker task to the app drawer, so you can get to your app drawer without having to go to the home screen first. Having 2 rows available as in some ROMs gives lots of quick options.
waitting for the apk
I love the lmt launcher I hope they make halo a apk file so I can install it like lmt on my moar ROM
Could someone explain the pie feature to me? I don't get the point when we have physical buttons. It makes sense on a nexus 4 since it only has on screen buttons.
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I like floating notifications app. Works perfectly for me.
damnyouwaffles said:
Could someone explain the pie feature to me? I don't get the point when we have physical buttons. It makes sense on a nexus 4 since it only has on screen buttons.
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not everyone likes to use those buttons.
hvent used mine in 11 months.
ddurandSGS3 said:
not everyone likes to use those buttons.
hvent used mine in 11 months.
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Huh. Just seems weird to me. I always bring out pie when I don't want it and it gets annoying but that's just me.
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damnyouwaffles said:
Huh. Just seems weird to me. I always bring out pie when I don't want it and it gets annoying but that's just me.
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just personal preference. I just dont like using the buttons. once you get teh gestures down its quick and responsive. it also adds some real estate to the screen over the nav bar. that with halo allows for full screen use which i like.
you can turn it off in every rom ive ever used.

Notification bottom of pull-down

Looking for a way to have notifications display from bottom to top instead of top to bottom of the pull down menu. Does anyone know how to get this option either by messing with the system or xposed? Trying to minimize the long stretch to the top of the screen with my thumb.
You can see by reset.
andrewnelson said:
You can see by reset.
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Huh...what?
I have seen it before on a few phones, I'm not sure which add-on as I never really used exposed. At least you know it's out there
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filkbomb said:
Huh...what?
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This guy just posts to keep his numbers up it seems... As for the notification thing? Check out xposed... There might be something there. Personally, I've never seen or tried to do that.
M8, nuff said.
You need to trick your phone into tablet mode. Not sure how exactly without a custom rom maybe perapp hacking with xposed
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