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how many of you use this program? i mean ive seen some cool themes for it but does it truly replace your lockscreen? does it prevent the phone from sleeping at all?
I use it off and on. I never used a theme for it though, but yes it does fully replace your lock screen. You can use a diff image for lock screen as well, drop apps on it, even widgets! Cool app Not sure if it prevents from sleeping, but screen will time out, that is adjustable as well...
decided against it, i heard it really drains the battery.
i dont have any battery draining issues with widget locker. only issue i have with it is i cant use a passcode with it
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I use it on CM7, no battery drain issues (my battery life hasn't been impacted noticeably at all) and it fully replaces the lockscreen. Every now and then I'll see the stock one for a second though.
I've used it on Myn's Rls5, Warm Z, and now Kings R3. I haven't noticed any battery drain either.
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have used it since release in june. battery drain stories are a complete crock lol
Same here no drain
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There is another app that is sort of the same called LockBot. I dont think you can add apps and widgets to your lockscreen like you can with widgetlocker, though I may be wrong about that
edit...I never noticed any battery drain from either of the two apps
I use it on CM7 doesn't drain my battery anymore than when its not in use.
If someone could point me to a widget for music controllable that hides when no music is being played (like the cm7 lock screen) this would be my lock screen for good.
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I use winamp which has its own full screen Lockscreen controls. It disables when not in use to my standard widgetlocker screen.
I use widgetlocker with no battery issues on Fresh3.5.0.1 and CM7rc2. I like it for the customization factor without flashing lockscreen mods and screwing with frameworks.
whats i like about it is works on an odex rom. currently running Miks 4.6b2 odex
Mad06STi said:
If someone could point me to a widget for music controllable that hides when no music is being played (like the cm7 lock screen) this would be my lock screen for good.
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Phantom Music Control in the market. Only works with stock players though, including the one in CM7.
http://dnbr.org/other****/batterybar%20widget.png
Hi guys.
Back when I was using my Desire HD I'd rooted my phone and installed Miui. My favourite feature was the battery bar that ran across the top of the notification bar (see http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/222/f/b/wip__by_chrisbanks2-d464k4m.png)
Anyway, now I'm on GNex and I totally miss this feature. I was wondering if something like a 4x1 widget that could display a battery line along the top of the widget to be placed on the top of a page as I've photoshopped above. The first image shows a 100% battery and the second 40%.
Anyway, just an idea someone might wanna follow up I certainly wouldn't mind paying a couple of quid for this and I'm sure other people would agree.
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http://dnbr.org/other****/batterybar%20widget.png
Hi guys.
Back when I was using my Desire HD I'd rooted my phone and installed Miui. My favourite feature was the battery bar that ran across the top of the notification bar (see http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/222/f/b/wip__by_chrisbanks2-d464k4m.png)
Anyway, now I'm on GNex and I totally miss this feature. I was wondering if something like a 4x1 widget that could display a battery line along the top of the widget to be placed on the top of a page as I've photoshopped above. The first image shows a 100% battery and the second 40%.
Anyway, just an idea someone might wanna follow up I certainly wouldn't mind paying a couple of quid for this and I'm sure other people would agree.
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You can use it on cm7 builds too. If that's any help.
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Look at chronotopia app... You can make battery bar widget with it (custom colors) its nice app but you need to read some guides in the topic about how to make this widget. Hope this helps
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Just found an app from a Japanese developer that works similarly.
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https://market.android.com/details?...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tYXRzdW1vLmJhYmFyIl0.
Hope this helps
jusada said:
You can use it on cm7 builds too. If that's any help.
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How?
Please give us more info.
dancer_69 said:
How?
Please give us more info.
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If your running a kang its implemented in battery options. It won't be in a official cm build
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Gnaver said:
Look at chronotopia app... You can make battery bar widget with it (custom colors) its nice app but you need to read some guides in the topic about how to make this widget. Hope this helps
Slide(it)d from my crappy galaxy mini
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I had done this before when I switched from miui back to CM7 on my Incredible, but it gave my phone a lot of problems. I would love if an app like the OP mentioned were made, I really miss this from miui.
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Just found an app from a Japanese developer that works similarly.
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https://market.android.com/details?...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tYXRzdW1vLmJhYmFyIl0.
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Ah just tried this. It works well though the colour scheme is a bit iffy. Wasn't aware that something like this was possible as a standalone app
noranyan said:
Just found an app from a Japanese developer that works similarly.
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https://market.android.com/details?...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tYXRzdW1vLmJhYmFyIl0.
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Big THANK to you noranyan for giving us this link !
I was looking for a MIUI-like Battery Bar for days, and now, it's done !
So thank you !
@kaineshutler : you're right, the color sheme is a bit iffy, but stay tuned because perhaps the dev will implement a color selection in the future...
Recently, he added the ability to put the bar on bottom.
So it means that the dev is still working on it !
Thanks for pointing this battery app out. Probably would have never found it. Hope the dev keeps updating it.
On thing I noticed good or bad is that the battery bar is always shown in any app so far, even games. I like it because some games do not show battery, and this is pretty unobtrusive.
How to remove battery from status bar now? Is the only way a smali edit?
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How to remove battery from status bar now? Is the only way a smali edit?
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Sorry not sure, I use a ROM that has the option built in.
He just released a new version with custom colours
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.matsumo.onibabar
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Just found another similar app.
T.E.A.M. Battery Bar
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pvy.batterybar
xda post for the app:
[APP] or [MOD] Battery Bar for All ROMs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19878267
You can customize the height, location and color of the bar with this.
Cheers.
What's this live wallpaper. Can anyone tell me?
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Call it the animated wallpaper, beautiful but waste much of battery
It´s similar to the so called Nexus Live-Wallpaper. In my opinion the nexus Wallpaper looks better.
its really a waste of battery
ditto on that, really nice but ****ty battery life
Well, i disagree, on my previous phone who was Android based (2.1, then Cyanogen 7) the battery life stayed the same whether i did or did not use an animated wallpaper, it was an Optimus Boston (z71 variant, the design changes but the hardware is the exact same)
Dang, I really like it.. Too bad. Ha thanks guys!
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Battery life
My battery life on the dell streak 5 stays the same with any of the live wallpapers i have tried, Good old dell
yeah its not good
Most of the ones I use do not seem to make a significant difference to battery life, but then again I am a light-medium daily user of my phone.
live wallpapers are cool in concept but not practical for battery life.
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I prefer no wallpaper at all
find a wallpaper confusing and eye-tiring when you have a lot of apps and spend much time using your phone and looking at the screen.
Hi there. Lot's of words already said about it. But the main question is still the same - why don't you use live wallpapers?
As for me, any scene's beauty just destroyed on the phone, because it's just too small. But i use lwps for tablets for sure, they are really make it more fascinating.
So, my friends and i desided to make some lwp for those users who do not actually use lwps at all.
The work took about 2 months and resulted in our new app Coloring Screen.
The idea is simple. We took photoshop color filters and photo effects and applied them to the current wallpaper (i mean static picture). The only way to do this was to create live wallpaper so this app is lwp.
We cared a lot about battery use and as a result Coloring Screen has almost no battery drain.
Also we added auto-pan feature for those devices that do not support wallpaper scrolling by default like SGS3.
We added more than 20 photo filters and color effects to easily adjust wallpaper:
Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange filters
Day time,Night time effects
Autumn, Winter, Sprint and Summer adjustments
Classik black&white, Sepia, Neon, Negative and more
We also added interactive animations:
Time of the day (darker, desaturated and more constrast at night, brighter at day)
Seasons (at autumn time wallpaper will look orange, at winter time - white, etc)
Weather (simple and beautiful rain, snow, sun, clouds, thunder and frost animations)
Dynamic/Random/Interactive coloring (for example, swiping the screen will change wallpaper colors)
Already available in Google Play
Please give me your sign and tell me what are you thinking about this app? Do you find it useful/cool/boring/etc.
Thanks!
Battery consumption. There you have your answer. No other reason behind it. Oh and memory consumption. There two good and viable answers.
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performance. even with a so called 'beast' specs, my atrix can't handle a lwp without too much lag everywhere...
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Definitely battery/performance as said above.
It's just sad that many android phones supports Live Wallpapers, but the end-user always complain about battery drain and performance issues as well. I really like the idea of moving wallpapers wherever you go (Desktop & App Drawer), it's really an eye candy for anyone! Well I hope someday, someone might fix this. This is one of Android's most unique feature!
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I love live wallpaper, so does evrybody, but nobody uses it daily, only one major reason, battery,bcoz android itself is a battery drainer,so i use multi wallpaper,app from the market,i gives me multi wallpapers, for different screen,n the big plus is it doesn't even drain ur battery,until i get note 2 with bigger battery,i hv to be contended with static wallpaper,im giving ur app a try will report later
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Drains the battery down
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Battery life? I really dont understand.
Even if wallpaper drains battery, it's just about 1% of total power consumption (especially in compare with display or wifi/gps/internet usage). It means you are able to use your device for 5 minutes longer a day. It's completely ridiculous.
Btw, as i sad, Coloring Screen does not render anything in background if no weather animation. So battery usage is completely zero. It's behavior as like as regular wallpaper - render to buffer once then do nothing.
But its still 1% same reason why I use zero Widgets. I keep my phone as simple as it gets. Minimum.
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WP8 solves this even better, no graphics, no widgets, no animations
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Battery life? I really dont understand.
Even if wallpaper drains battery, it's just about 1% of total power consumption (especially in compare with display or wifi/gps/internet usage). It means you are able to use your device for 5 minutes longer a day. It's completely ridiculous.
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Battery life? I really dont understand.
Even if wallpaper drains battery, it's just about 1% of total power consumption (especially in compare with display or wifi/gps/internet usage). It means you are able to use your device for 5 minutes longer a day. It's completely ridiculous.
Btw, as i sad, Coloring Screen does not render anything in background if no weather animation. So battery usage is completely zero. It's behavior as like as regular wallpaper - render to buffer once then do nothing.
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Ecg is the live wallpaper
I don't think it's 1% D:
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I love how everyone is simply answering the OP's rhetorical question...
I'm using the cosmic flow (default on SXS) and it doesn't even appear on my battery list
Yoy know i can create lwp for you. It will kill your battery in an hour. Want it?) Do not use bad coded lwps, thats all.
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Its not. Here i promote my app )) (Coloring Screen). I think it may really become useful for those who hate lwps.
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But its still 1% same reason why I use zero Widgets. I keep my phone as simple as it gets. Minimum.
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bet your phone looks sweet and exciting to look at.......:laugh:....but im only messing about, each to their own an all that. i on the other hand dont really give a rats about battery drain, mines maxed out with widgets, shortcuts, folders, clocks, everything....as well as lwp (sometimes). as long as i get 8 hours while im at work, im happy....cant wait to try this app, it looks right up my street.:good:
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Its not. Here i promote my app )) (Coloring Screen). I think it may really become useful for those who hate lwps.
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First of all congratulations for your applications(like panoramic screen )
Let me give it a try
I hate lwp because of battery consumption but i agree with your statement that if its bad coded it can kill your battery easily
update :Woooow.fantastic.hope to not kill battery and memory
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Coloring Screen is different and may be kinda nice but I'm not one to sit and stare at the screen, therefore I don't really care what the background looks like.
I don't use them because of the lag they normally bring. It's not a lot but noticeable.
My next phone will probably be a quad core, so hopefully I can start using them again
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First of all congratulations for your applications(like panoramic screen )
Let me give it a try
I hate lwp because of battery consumption but i agree with your statement that if its bad coded it can kill your battery easily
update :Woooow.fantastic.hope to not kill battery and memory
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Thanks! Battery almost not affected. In advanced preferences category you can even find Battery Usage options that is set to 0.00% by default :laugh:
Memory depends on your current available memory. It requires over 11Mb for java and opengl contexts. But so far as android manages memory usage itself you can see much more in task manager because android do not kill apps immidiately. For example, when you have lwp on background and open our preview widget, memory usage doubles. In task manager they both called Coloring Screen so you see incorrect memory usage by the app.
If you'll have troubles just let me know!
Hey all... Brand new TF700 owner here -upgraded from a TF101. Loving it so far.
I sprung for the keyboard dock for the new tablet, and I seem to remember a screenshot somewhere a while back that showed someone with a dock that had a battery widget that had two different battery levels - one for the dock and one for the tablet. It looked like "circle battery" widget, but I tried that one and couldn't seem to find any setting to show the level for a secondary (dock) battery.
Anyone know of a decent battery widget that will show both levels?
Thanks in advance
Doesn't the stock battery widget do what you want?
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The stock ASUS Battery widget does the job well... if you are on stock launcher. When connected to the dock a second battery meter will appear below the usual one.
An alternative I've used since my days with the Prime is a modded ASUS battery widget, presented on XDA forums itself:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515959
Looks great on all launchers I've tried (stock, apex, nova, adw) and works great on Infinity too.
I like "dual battery widget" the best, the icon is only 1x1
it's on the market
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