Hello All,
New G2x user here, coming from vibrant world. One thing I noticed is it does not show the quick toggle icons when I pull down the notification bar. That was one very useful feature I am missing in this device. Is there any way to enable it?
Thanks for your attention.
You can flash cyanogen mod 7 that has it. Other than that I don't think you can.
Weapon G2x has it.
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Thanks Guys. Not yet comfortable flashing new rom on this. Need to learn a lot before trying.
Thats pretty much a touchwiz thing the g2x runs vanilla android best way to get that is putting a rom on your phone
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hold the screen then go to widgets, add power control to your screen, theres your toggle right there, wifi, bluetooth, gps etc...simple
pbcal said:
Hello All,
New G2x user here, coming from vibrant world. One thing I noticed is it does not show the quick toggle icons when I pull down the notification bar. That was one very useful feature I am missing in this device. Is there any way to enable it?
Thanks for your attention.
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There's a free Market app called Quick Settings that will work in the notification bar. Another similar one that I really like is Quick Desk. It doesn't work in the nav bar, but allows you set a long-press or double tap to open an overlay window from anywhere that holds anything you want, short cuts, widgets, etc. so it doesn't interfere with what you are currently doing.
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Hi I was watching a browser speed test video on androidcentral and they had a galaxy s phone and when they pulled down the notification bar at the top were a set of power buttons letting you turn on blue tooth, wifi or gps from any screen (really useful IMO)
So i ws wondering if this was part of touchwiz or an app or something we can port to the droid x. I find myself wantng to turn on wifi bt and gps alot in apps and ont want to go to the home screen to do it. i think this is so cool, anyone can elaborate?
thanks!
i believe it's part of touchwiz and it IS very handy. i don't use it all the time but it's a lot easier than finding the screen with the quick toggles.....if you're even using them.
Yea my friend has the one for T-mobile and i didnt' know it till i pulled down the notification bar, and I thought the same thing...sooo useful. I use my phone for navi a lot and it's annoying to go through screens to find the widget.
Quick Desk Beta
Check out the app Quick Desk Beta its essentially the same idea but instead of pulling your notification bar down you double press your home button and it pulls up a transparent screen that you can put any widgets on like wifi toggle or your music player. I used it all the time with my D1 when id be on a web page and forget to turn wifi on or want to listen to music while on the web but not want to go home and find the widgets then back to browser. I just got the DX and haven't tried it yet on it im still figuring out all these new moto blur things but i would think it should work with the DX. Hope that helps you out alittle
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i believe it's part of touchwiz and it IS very handy. i don't use it all the time but it's a lot easier than finding the screen with the quick toggles.....if you're even using them.
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Thank you.
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Yea my friend has the one for T-mobile and i didnt' know it till i pulled down the notification bar, and I thought the same thing...sooo useful. I use my phone for navi a lot and it's annoying to go through screens to find the widget.
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yes extremely useful indeed, i need to have this!
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Check out the app Quick Desk Beta its essentially the same idea but instead of pulling your notification bar down you double press your home button and it pulls up a transparent screen that you can put any widgets on like wifi toggle or your music player. I used it all the time with my D1 when id be on a web page and forget to turn wifi on or want to listen to music while on the web but not want to go home and find the widgets then back to browser. I just got the DX and haven't tried it yet on it im still figuring out all these new moto blur things but i would think it should work with the DX. Hope that helps you out alittle
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thanks i will check it out, but i do once in a while use the double tap of the home button for voice dial on my x, but that shouldnt b needed anymore once we get froyo and the new voice search app from google.
i still would like to have this in notification bar and wonder if it could be done as an app or as a theme mod or what. IF anyone has any ideas how this can be ported? maybe i can request a port in the DX android dev forum?
Yes a friend and my inlaws have the Galaxy and I would love to have something like this for the X.
Check out the app Quick Settings. Lets you put whatever settings in there you want. It's not as pretty, but really useful.
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Smart bar works pretty good.
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I would really love this too. I know the Galaxy S has it and certain ROMs have it but I'm not willing to root my DX quite yet.
i use quick settings as well, works really good.
Also you can download the app called Homesmack which can allow you to program the search hard button on the X to bring up the quick settings app. pretty convenient when i want to turn on wifi or bluetooth etc on the fly and saves space on home screens
amontem said:
I would really love this too. I know the Galaxy S has it and certain ROMs have it but I'm not willing to root my DX quite yet.
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which ROM has these????
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which ROM has these????
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It is not apart of any Droid X ROM or theme yet... it is likely that Fission may get this mod though.
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I use Power Control Plus - can't post a link yet, apparently, but it's easily googled.
It's awesome.
this is the only feature i miss from when i had my Captivate.....i can only hope the guys at team defuse can get this to work on the X!
I use MySettings. It works very well.
Hey all,
Does anyone know of an app that achieves the display of recently used apps in the notification dropdown area?
Essentially, performing the same function that a long press on the home button does, but obviously eliminating the need to press a button.
I've been looking for something like this for a good while, and was pleasantly surprised to see HTC had included this very function in their latest version of Sense.... when I went to the HTC London meet last week .
Unfortunately, the HTC guys demoing informed me there is currently no way to obtain this feature for current handsets.
To see what I am referring to, see the video below...
46sec <---> 51 sec
Is there an app that exists for this?
Thanks in advance,
c_man
I'm more impressed with the extremely quick startup.
FuryriderX said:
I'm more impressed with the extremely quick startup.
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I think that's discussed in another thread - I remember reading its not a 'proper' power down, that allows for such a quick start up.
Anyway, back on topic...
Actually I have been looking for something similar... My wife has a mytouch slide... And when you pull down notification tray it has recent 4 now I haven't tried scrolling sideways like that guy did... But that shows that it is possible cause the slide shows 4 recent...
Just have to find someone to port that I guess
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Rather than a port, which sounds like more effort, I thought an app to enable this functionality may exist.
It seems not?
its going to need a port i think, i would hope for a slightly modified version that would allow us to pin apps to it or even widgets a la galaxy s.
If you hold down the home button for a couple seconds you'll get a list of the eight last used apps.
smart bar does this an more. recent apps in drop down and/or favs and/or you can choose a certain app and/or many many more options, i cant remember. you have option to enable all or only recent apps via settings and checking off the check boxs.
i use on my a81e tablet and it works well. my long press of home button is buggy due to fw so this come in handy very much
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Does smartbar have a big footprint?
Would really love an app that does 'just' this.
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Does smartbar have a big footprint?
Would really love an app that does 'just' this.
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I don't really know, I still just starting out on android so I'm in learning process
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I don't really know, I still just starting out on android so I'm in learning process
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No worries
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Hey Guy's,
I'm currently on WolfBreaks GingerBread 2.3.3 Build v3.7.0, and i'm wondering if there are any compatible Notification bar power control widget mods that i can apply to this rom? His ROM is nearly perfect in my opinion, the only real thing i'm missing is the convenience of being able to turn things on or off from status bar like bluetooth, gps, etc.. like i did with Cyanogen based mods in the past.
This comes in super handy especially when my phone is docked in car mode. Saves me the trouble of having to fiddle with backing out of an app to turn these features on or off while driving.
I am aware that there are apps on the market that already provide this functionality like the Widgetsoid app, however what i'm looking for is a more elagent tightly integrated mod that fits in with the overall theme and does not look like a widget was simply placed on the pull down tray.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help! Also, my apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, i did search but could not find an answer to my question before posting.
I should also clarify what i mean by "tightly integrated", apps like Widgetsoid only "link" to a separate pop-up menu where the control is turned on or off. So it takes several clicks and various screens to turn something on or off. What i want is to be able to turn the various different options on or off with a single click right from the Notification bar, like you find in the Cynaogen mods.
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I should also clarify what i mean by "tightly integrated", apps like Widgetsoid only "link" to a separate pop-up menu where the control is turned on or off. So it takes several clicks and various screens to turn something on or off. What i want is to be able to turn the various different options on or off with a single click right from the Notification bar, like you find in the Cynaogen mods.
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Dude, I use widgetsoid2 since forever and no pop up windows to Turn things on or off........ even with apn.......but its not in the notification window....
Skeb, that's the problem though. When you do place Widgetsoid in the notification bar, it no longer works with a single click. I already have widgets placed on my desktop for for turning various things on or off, and they do work with a single click. However when driving with google navigation turned on for example, i want to be able to do the same by swiping down the notification tray to enable bluetooth with a single click, without having to go to the desktop to use the widget, then go back to navigation.
Try it yourself, when you place any of these widgets on your notifcation tray it will no longer work with a single click, it instead brings up a seperate pop up window.
It's not exactly a deal breaker, but if i can get the same functionality that i had using Cyanogen mod's, then i would be really happy!
Agreed, I would love that feature too!
To those who care about this feature. I just wanted to post an update that WolfBreaks's GB rom will now be introducing Cyanogen style status bar control widgets in his v4.0 rom which will be released very shortly. I also noticed that EWJet CM7 port also includes this. Nice to know i did not have to wait long to see this feature!
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To those who care about this feature. I just wanted to post an update that WolfBreaks's GB rom will now be introducing Cyanogen style status bar control widgets in his v4.0 rom which will be released very shortly. I also noticed that EWJet CM7 port also includes this. Nice to know i did not have to wait long to see this feature!
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There is no such thing as "EWJet CM7 port",
it's still stock SE ROM, tweaked!
Just to clear out the confusion!
But yes, statubar toggles are finally here for stock ROMs!
You can use widgetsoid, its an app that adds this functionality
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You can use widgetsoid, its an app that adds this functionality
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God damn....you heard the man....READ first...."tightly integrated"........noobs..
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There is no such thing as "EWJet CM7 port",
it's still stock SE ROM, tweaked!
Just to clear out the confusion!
But yes, statubar toggles are finally here for stock ROMs!
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Lol.. yes your right, thanks for clarifying.
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God damn....you heard the man....READ first...."tightly integrated"........noobs..
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walidhiphop thanks, you would think people could take a second to read when the thread is still just a single page long. Not that i'm trying to diss anyone for trying to help and provide advise, but it doesn't take much effort to read a page of text either.
i wan a status bar with a feature that can adjust the screen off time..
This app is developed by the same Dev who makes the popular Android Apps Button Savior, Smart Taskbar, and Everywhere Clipboard.
Smart Statusbar is the first and only statusbar enabler for full screen apps on android devices. No more lose track of time or important info on statusbar when you are reading, playing, or watching movie.
To enable statusbar, just do a simple top down swipe from top of screen. By default, statusbar will shows 5 seconds. You can also adjust the timeout to your preference in settings.
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jerryfan2000 thanks for bring another amazing tool for us. This app is simply amazing. wow!
By the way, is it possible to disable statusbar by gesture instead of timeout?
This feature is already in my mind. I will for sure add it.
wow! really, really great app! I'm going to do a review on this for my YouTube channel. My viewers are going to LOVE this!
Great job! awesome settings, easy to use and understand. Great beginning tutorial!
Very very well done simple app.
cheers
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wow! really, really great app! I'm going to do a review on this for my YouTube channel. My viewers are going to LOVE this!
Great job! awesome settings, easy to use and understand. Great beginning tutorial!
Very very well done simple app.
cheers
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I thought my setting was too few too simple. Great that you likes the simple setting design.
Hello,
Is that possible to add a mod in order to make all the applications in full screen ?
Great app, I've got a handfull of requests/observations but please don't think I'm complaning at all, the app does exactly what it's supposed to, I've just got a lot of idea's. I second Prockkaii's post about making all apps full screen, I would love to see that added to this. I know in CM7 there's you can make holding menu hide the statusbar but you have to do that for every app and I don't believe it sticks after a reboot. Also a bottom statusbar option would be nice and just so you know when I tried using the bottom statusbar in cyanogen I couldn't bring the statusbar up with the top gesture either. It would also be nice to be pulling the shade down from the gesture instead of swiping once to bring up the statusbar and then a second time to slide down the shade. It would also be nice if the bar would pop up automaticaly on a notification.
In reply the request from IvanNCase and Prockkaii. I indeed had plan to add this feature but i am still trying. It is not easy. So maybe will never make it at all. But I will try my best to introduce this feature.
Request: try to make it use less Ram if you can
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In reply the request from IvanNCase and Prockkaii. I indeed had plan to add this feature but i am still trying. It is not easy. So maybe will never make it at all. But I will try my best to introduce this feature.
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Thanks for the feedback.
In fact, my fear is that I'd used my Galaxy s2 for about 6 months, and during this period I'd never activate the rotation and all my applications are showing the status bar.
And now on a white screen, I see that there is a mark of the status bar. On right side, I can even see the mark of the battery.
So that's why I would like to have this feature and not remove the status bar.
But again thanks for you apps.
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Thanks for the feedback.
In fact, my fear is that I'd used my Galaxy s2 for about 6 months, and during this period I'd never activate the rotation and all my applications are showing the status bar.
And now on a white screen, I see that there is a mark of the status bar. On right side, I can even see the mark of the battery.
So that's why I would like to have this feature and not remove the status bar.
But again thanks for you apps.
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I noticed that during the development phase too and I don't understand why SB is slightly visible. I will investigate this issue continously.
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I noticed that during the development phase too and I don't understand why SB is slightly visible. I will investigate this issue continously.
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I think you have a screen issue like me.
I'm currently using the pixel fixer in order to fix that. I'm running it for about 2 or 3h per day, let's see what happens in 2 weeks.
Awesome!
Working like a charm so far! HTC Inspire 4G, LordClockan ICS 4.0.3. Keep up the good work! Exactly what I was looking for.
tried this out on my Galaxy Nexus and it worked perfectly as described. However, there is some lag that it particularly noticeable when scrolling through home screens and the app drawer. Once this lag is fixed/eliminated then this app will be perfect!
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change http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiumiu.ca.statusbar.free" with http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiumiu.ca.statusbar.free the " can't open the link to the market
Cool man.. its a very useful app..
Great application.
I wanted something like this on Android since i've tested iOS 5 on one of my friends iPhone 4 that i've been asked to jailbreak.
Thanks. Works great on Desire HD with ICS.
great feature, but there seems to be small lag between swiping and popping up..maybe you can find a way to remove this lag..but i really like it!
3l3ctr0 said:
great feature, but there seems to be small lag between swiping and popping up..maybe you can find a way to remove this lag..but i really like it!
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No lag here. The status bar appears instant as soon as I get the finger off the screen.
Thanks man!
Wondering if anyone knew a way to add other functions to the stock Google Now shortcut (swipe up from home button)??
I've searched and found similar threads(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1799208), but none were answering my specific question.
I've also looked into LMT and the pie feature. I just don't like the way the pie looks. It's too bulky and doesn't have that OEM look/feel to it.
What I want is to go from this:
to something like this:
or
I whipped this up on photoshop real quick just to give you guys an idea of what I'm looking for. Let me know if anyone has any insight on this or any recomendations.
Thanks!
Nexus 5
Android 4.4.2 Stock
T-Mobile
Well, first off what you're referring to is called Quick Launch. And there are ROMs out there that have Quick Launch built in. I don't know of any that have those specific functions like the Settings toggle or Menu toggle. That said, it's definitely possible to add it in. The question is though, will developers?
I'll give you my opinion. I don't feel that the Settings toggle, back button, or Menu button are necessary there because they are right under it. It wouldn't make sense really. The point if those buttons are for quick access to applications or other functions such as Screen Off, take a Screenshot, toggle Torch, etc.
You don't have to agree with my opinion at all and can request developers to add this feature.
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Well, first off what you're referring to is called Quick Launch. And there are ROMs out there that have Quick Launch built in. I don't know of any that have those specific functions like the Settings toggle or Menu toggle. That said, it's definitely possible to add it in. The question is though, will developers?
I'll give you my opinion. I don't feel that the Settings toggle, back button, or Menu button are necessary there because they are right under it. It wouldn't make sense really. The point if those buttons are for quick access to applications or other functions such as Screen Off, take a Screenshot, toggle Torch, etc.
You don't have to agree with my opinion at all and can request developers to add this feature.
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Thanks! I didn't know that was called Quick Launch. I'll look around again to try and find some more information on it.
As far as the soft keys underneath, I'm using a Nexus 5 and it has the back button (left), home (middle), and recent apps (right) on my translucent nav bar (as seen in pictures). Not sure what Settings toggle, back button, or Menu button underneath you were talking about, but I do agree with you that they would be redundant to have if they are also available below the Quick Launch. Not sure if you were thinking of another phone, maybe you can clarify for me.
As far as installing a ROM, I'm not trying to do that. Did it in the past but never found one I wanted to stick with. I really like the KitKat stock ROM but it's still missing a few things. So I have the xposed framework installed and am just trying to find a module that will do what I'm looking for.
Thanks again for the help.
Nevermind on this thread. I just found this module:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2554049
GravityBox has these features(among many others):
--- Navigation bar tweaks including cursor control keys
--- Navigation bar ring targets
I think this is what I was looking for. I'm going to install the module tomorrow and see if it solves my problem.