Hi all, anyone know of a way to maintain the Play Music app as an ongoing app? If for whatever reason the app closes, you must relaunch the app to regain the quick play features in the notification pulldown.
Coming from an iPhone, this is one feature I would love to get back.
Thanks
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Artood2s said:
Hi all, anyone know of a way to maintain the Play Music app as an ongoing app? If for whatever reason the app closes, you must relaunch the app to regain the quick play features in the notification pulldown.
Coming from an iPhone, this is one feature I would love to get back.
Thanks
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Not really sure how to make it ongoing, but you can put the Play Music widget on one your homescreens to quickly start it from where you left off if it closes.
Artood2s said:
Hi all, anyone know of a way to maintain the Play Music app as an ongoing app? If for whatever reason the app closes, you must relaunch the app to regain the quick play features in the notification pulldown.
Coming from an iPhone, this is one feature I would love to get back.
Thanks
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Try installing a music player that has a widget such as mxplayer so you can just resume the music from the home screen.
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Actually I found an halfway working solution. Using Notification Toggle, I set up a shortcut to play/pause music. Unfortunately is starts/stop the last music app used so it defaults to the stock app. Have to start Play Music first in order for it to work properly. At least it works anywhere
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I dont understand how HTC doesnt see an issue w/ this. I used mog and pandora and it stops multiple times during my work out. Its really annoying to have to stop, launch the app, and then hope it continues when i lock my phone again.
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IS there any app or a mod that will allow me to get a none intrusive pop up when I get a message or something? Kinda like how it in iOS 5?
I have having to stop my game, and go into the menu only to see I have a message from someone I wouldn't of bothered checking in the first place?
Usually I am playing a game, and my phone vibrates but without a way of knowing if its worth my time checking or not, I have to press the menu key, and then reload the game. In the case of Order & Chaos, having to resign into the account is a pain.
Hgaara said:
IS there any app or a mod that will allow me to get a none intrusive pop up when I get a message or something? Kinda like how it in iOS 5?
I have having to stop my game, and go into the menu only to see I have a message from someone I wouldn't of bothered checking in the first place?
Usually I am playing a game, and my phone vibrates but without a way of knowing if its worth my time checking or not, I have to press the menu key, and then reload the game. In the case of Order & Chaos, having to resign into the account is a pain.
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Miui roms have that type of messaging notifications. Its an awesome feature of miui.
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Any alternative for us Sense users? I love Sense, so I don't see myself switching to AOSP ROMs. Just my personal preference.
Hgaara said:
Any alternative for us Sense users? I love Sense, so I don't see myself switching to AOSP ROMs. Just my personal preference.
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I doubt it, I haven't seen anything come close to what your looking for.
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I think handcent sms app do it just use it for the pop up
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Sms popup in the market is very simple and very clean. Just pops your sms haha
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GoSMS also has good popup-system it even allows you to reply to the message from the popup.
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You might wanna check out Popup Notifier Lite and Popup Notifier Pro in market. Let's you decide what popup notifications you get (sms, email, gmail, calendar, missed calls) works extremely well. Even the Lite version does the job nicely
I use handcent for that exact reason... You can even allow the popup to overlay your lockscreen. This allows quick responses without unlocking the phone.
Popup 7.
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SMS popup
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Go sms pro does it and u can answer from the pop.up
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Isn't the iOS 5 notification style the way Android has been doing it for years?
if I'm playing a game, I drop down the notification bar and see a portion of the message and from who it was... if I'm not bothered, I just flip the notification bar back up and continue gaming.. I never leave the app that I'm in.. in case of full screen games putting them no pause or pressing the menu key will show the notification bar if they're coded correctly.
the last thing I want is a popup appearing in the middle of the screen when I'm gaming (or whatever I'm doing on the phone actually), just my 2 cts.
dipje said:
the last thing I want is a popup appearing in the middle of the screen when I'm gaming (or whatever I'm doing on the phone actually), just my 2 cts.
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Extractly.
Well I play Order and Chaos, and for some reason whenever I press the menu key, check the message app, upon loading O&C back, it freezes, and I have to manually remove the task,
This is true, but when we get a notification, it doesn't have a pop up like iOS 5. In the sense that, playing O&C it just plays the ringtone, and sometimes not even that. I have to go check the notification light.
I don't play, so the pop up doesn't bother me at all
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Go sms pro is my fav.
Second go sms pro phenomenal
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Ok I see that Polaris Office, Fm Radio etc are in the app section of settings. But how do you get them to work? It show 0.00mb as the file size.
Using a different launcher finds some, but still no FM radio.
I also have Soundhound preinstalled, but it doesn't show up on any launchers.
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Int HOX user, NFS Shi** is installed in the same way for me.
Good thing it's the only thing that does that at least.
pokemontrainer4life said:
I also have Soundhound preinstalled, but it doesn't show up on any launchers.
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Soundhound shows up using ADW Launcher, but not Sense for me.
One thing I've just found that is really annoying (surprise! It's AT&T) is that while I can disable most of the AT&T bloatware, I can't disable the AT&T Ready2Go app that helps you set up your phone for the first time. A single use app that you can't get rid of? Why?
Soundhound is hidden away within the HTC music app I believe
cranch said:
Soundhound is hidden away within the HTC music app I believe
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Good call, it is indeed in the Music App!
jshahanii said:
Good call, it is indeed in the Music App!
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Soundhound was killing me. If you need quicker access, edit the homescreens and add a shortcut - you'll see "id now" there for soundhound. I've been pulling my hair out as I'm a big soundhound user.
Am I missing something or does the car dock app not integrate with Google music or Pandora? I don't use tunein or store music on my phone directly so this app loses appeal for me. Any ideas?
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I think there was a thread earlier today about this to. Im in the same boat but I use spotify. As far as I can tell theres no way to change the icons.
It's a shame that it cant be customized. I'd like to add Spotify and an app that detects speed cameras. I guess i will need to switch to the old car app that was abandoned by google.
This is my favorite car mode app on android https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwyLDEsInNwaW5uaW5naGVhZC5jYXJob21lIl0.
Car Home Ultra
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This is my favorite car mode app on android https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwyLDEsInNwaW5uaW5naGVhZC5jYXJob21lIl0.
Car Home Ultra
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Its functional, but doesnt look that nice imo. Too bad there are no skins.
It's ugly for sure but very customizable.
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Notnilc said:
Am I missing something or does the car dock app not integrate with Google music or Pandora? I don't use tunein or store music on my phone directly so this app loses appeal for me. Any ideas?
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Anyone figure out how to use Pandora for the car dock app?
since i'm on CM i'm using the original google car home. it can be customized fairly well. not sure if you can disable the htc version and use that one or not.
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since i'm on CM i'm using the original google car home. it can be customized fairly well. not sure if you can disable the htc version and use that one or not.
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the original car home doesn't have ICS support, has CM taken it and run with it?
I've been using Car Home Ultra for the last few days and while it works and you can add custom app shortcuts, it's really ugly. It's the equivalent of a Geocities website with blinking text and animated GIFs.
If I knew anything about creating an Android app and I had the time I could make some decent spare cash building a beautiful car app.
I found the Google one on XDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569027
Install both APK's works fine. Why HTC didn't allow there's to be customizable is beyond me.
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the original car home doesn't have ICS support, has CM taken it and run with it?
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(i see you found it) I just install the apk and have tasker (best app ever) launch it when it docks.
Does anyone know how to make the dialer go into landscape like it does in htc car mode?
You can use Rotation Locker from the play store, Gunny. Long press the Auto option to get the home screen and dialer to rotate.
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Perfect. Thanks.
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Anyone figure out how to use Pandora for the car dock app?
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Bit of a late reply but I've only started using the car app and encountered the same problem.
The solution is to go into the music app that comes with the phone. Here you'll see a couple of music related apps like tunein radio and soundhound. Click on the options icon up the top right and select 'add shortcut'. Add all the apps you want (pandora, spotify, music players).
Now when you enter the car mode the last app you added will appear on the bottom right. You can access all the media shortcuts you added by scrolling to the right twice.
Pressing the home button from any screen will take you back into the original screen so you can alter your music even when in navigation.
Hope this helps anyone using the car mode app.
No luck with that, either. TuneIn is always there.
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Maybe it doesn't recognise the app your using as a music app?? I did it with playerpro and it does appear as the bottom right icon automatically.
What happens if you scroll to the right twice from the car mode homescreen.
One scroll to the right takes me to the default music player and the second scroll takes me into all the shortcuts I added using the music app.
I tested this with a random, non-music related app and it didn't appear on the car mode homescreen but did still appear as an icon when I scrolled right twice.
You should be able to swipe to the right twice off of the main Car Home screen, and that should give you all of the shortcuts that are in the HTC Music app. The bottom right icon on the main screen should then reflect the last app you used.
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You should be able to swipe to the right twice off of the main Car Home screen, and that should give you all of the shortcuts that are in the HTC Music app. The bottom right icon on the main screen should then reflect the last app you used.
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Yeah just to confirm, even if its not a music app it will still appear in the bottom right if that was the last of you shortcuts to be opened.
I have been searching the Google/XDA world for an app or mod that would allow me to control the music play at the moment. That's my favorite hing about iOS. In the lock screen you can control Pandora, MOG, or iPod.
The notification bar is accessible from within almost any app so it would be ideal to have global controls there. If there is anything like this please feel free to chime in.
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I'm also looking for the same thing. I have a jailbroken app on iOS called JukeBox that let's me have a music widget and it controls any app playing music and shows artwork pretty cool.
Google Music?
Cm9 lets you add music controls to the notification panel.
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Cm9 lets you add music controls to the notification panel.
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Stock 4.0.4 also lets you pause/play and skip Google Play Music from the notification panel.. so, I'm not sure what more the OP is really wanting, unless you want a miniature version of Play Music to show up or something like that. The dev of the respective app (Pandora, etc) would have to support controls for their app from within the notification panel.
Miui Music and Playerpro both have notification music control too.
I use Pandora a lot and Mog. Google Play music is nice but I prefer MOG. I just wanted to know if there android could possible do what iOS does.
Sure I could go back to my iPhone but I enjoy Android. I was just curious if the option existed anywhere.
Cm9 does allow me to add those widgets, thanks foe the reminder. I will try that out...any suggestions for my first cm9 flash?
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I use Pandora a lot and Mog. Google Play music is nice but I prefer MOG. I just wanted to know if there android could possible do what iOS does.
Sure I could go back to my iPhone but I enjoy Android. I was just curious if the option existed anywhere.
Cm9 does allow me to add those widgets, thanks foe the reminder. I will try that out...any suggestions for my first cm9 flash?
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Download RC 2 from get.cm
Download gapps as well from get.cm
Reboot recovery
Wipe everything (data/cache, dalvik, system)
Flash rc2
Flash gapps
Reboot
Profit
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Another option is to use the MIUI rom; its idea is the same as iOS, any music app can be controlled from lockscreen controls..
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Go back to your iPhone. That's the best thing you can do!
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Most custom roms have this built in now. Google.music has it and so does poweramp. Try em out!
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I have been searching the Google/XDA world for an app or mod that would allow me to control the music play at the moment. That's my favorite hing about iOS. In the lock screen you can control Pandora, MOG, or iPod.
The notification bar is accessible from within almost any app so it would be ideal to have global controls there. If there is anything like this please feel free to chime in.
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I think I know what you are referring to. I too came from IOS and that is what I liked most. No matter what music player I was using I could control the music (pause, next, previous) from the lock screen. The default lock screen does not offer this, most custom lock screens do not either. However the AOSP lockscreen will, and so does MiLocker (provided the theme has music control built in). MiLocker should work with any ROM, the AOSP lockscreen may or may not depending on your ROM. If you need help let me know. :good:
Also many music players do have controls in the notification pull down. Grooveshark is the only music app that I use that does not give me controls in the notification pulldown. Hope this helps.
I made a tasker app to solve the music not starting using touchless control. At least it won't start for some of us.
I made it how I want it to work anyway. 
Install the app. It will be called "Shuffle".
Do your ok Google now or whatever you say to open touchless control.
Say "open shuffle"
The app will be opened. It opens Google music, starts playing music on shuffle mode. Then goes back to your home screen. Then I use Bluetooth to control it...like next track and whatever. Or you can drag down the status bar and control it that way.
Works great for me! Thought I'd share it with those interested.
Of course you don't need tasker, cause it's an app now. But you do need root and have to grant it root permission. Don't know why....tasker just makes it that way it seems.
Enjoy. 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hhpc1g062h1ckkf/lvk.pwk.gou-1.apk
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THANK YOU! Just downloaded this. I don't have Tasker and this works FANTASTIC! Very helpful.
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Hey,
I downloaded this and tried it out and it didn't work for me. It opens Google Play but it doesn't actually work from there. I live in Canada, could that be why?
EDIT: I got it to work once but it hasn't worked since.
Turbocom said:
Hey,
I downloaded this and tried it out and it didn't work for me. It opens Google Play but it doesn't actually work from there. I live in Canada, could that be why?
EDIT: I got it to work once but it hasn't worked since.
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I'm in Canada. Does Google music app see your songs? Its worked for me consistently.
When it doesn't work...what does it do...?
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What does the actual Tasker task look like? Tried making something similar, but was only able to clumsily pull something off using emulated screen touches.
Yeah, that's what I did. One down, one right, one press. Then home key...to go back to main screen.
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kj2112 said:
I'm in Canada. Does Google music app see your songs? Its worked for me consistently.
When it doesn't work...what does it do...?
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I have Google Play Music All Access in Canada so that might be the reason why it isn't working. Here's what happens when I open the application.
It opens Google Play Music, Opens the sidebar and that's basically it.
Turbocom said:
I have Google Play Music All Access in Canada so that might be the reason why it isn't working. Here's what happens when I open the application.
It opens Google Play Music, Opens the sidebar and that's basically it.
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If you have tasker....you probably need to pay around with the up down right..etc. dpad moves.
All mine does is open Google music and click the shuffle all "button"....nothing opens, music starts and Google just goes away and you are back to your home screen.
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