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This phone is not my daily driver, and I'll do as much as I can, but I also have a day job
I would appreciate all discussion stay to this thread, and I'd love it if there were some community self-help.
State of the Union (for the Blaze 4G) (2012-11-05)
Current state of the ROM. This likely applies to any of the ROMs using the kernel sources coming from CyanogenMod for this device.
The device mostly works as it should. There are some problems currently people are having with this phone, and I will detail those here:
1) First and foremost, the Screen of Death. This is a problem that isn't only occuring to us. Just a couple of days ago I asked what the status was and the answer is that they have no idea. Some think it's specific to our platform (msm8660, which we share with a number of other phones), except that I've experienced it on other platforms, like my S3. Some think it's related to the display, except that not all the devices on this platform use the same display. Because of the randomness and lack of verbosity in the bug, they don't have a way of getting any useful data on it. dmesg and logcats are pointless. They are working hard trying to find it, but keep in mind that it isn't just us.
2) Saving pictures somewhere other than local storage. Yes, you should be able to save to your SD card. I think this is coming sooner rather than later. The following patch popped up over the weekend and adds in the functionality: http://review.cyanogenmod.com/25848. The Q&A responses to it look good. I suspect it'll go through a revision or two once they work out the bugs and then it'll get incorporated.
3) Saving app data somewhere other than the local storage. While I'm looking into it and talking to officials, I'm fairly confident that this behavior won't change in the official CM builds. Some of the other CM derived roms may allow this, and you should probably look there to solve this problem. The sad thing fact that our devices shipped with 1.2 GB of internal storage. I don't know why Samsung hates us so much, but they do. And therefore, the default behavior for CM is bad for those of us that want to game. Some users have reported success using an app called Directory Bind. I haven't used it and can't vouch for it, however it looks like it'd let you point specific directories from your internal storage to a space on your external storage. This is definitely safer than the mount swapping ideas that have been going around.
4) BLN isn't 100% unbuggy. Yes, BLN is buggy. BLN is the Button Lights Notifications. As of 11/10 we are on the official CM cypress-touchkey driver. However it seems there's still a bug there. Occasionally if you unlock during a notification, the lights won't come on. Sorry, that's just the way it is.
5) Camera Flash won't disable. This is unfortunate. Apparently if you tell the camera to disable flash, it simply won't do it. It's towards the bottom of my list, but it is definitely there.
The most important thing to keep in mind is that CyanogenMod version 10 is a moving target. Lots of stuff is happening, and until it's labeled as "stable" (and probably even for some time after that), we will continue to experience bugs.
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Won't boot. I'll try again...
Edit: Okay second boot worked.
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Boots fine for me been using it all morning so far so good.
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Won't boot. I'll try again...
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Make sure to check the MD5 sum of your download(s). Make sure you wipe dalvik, and do a factory/data reset from CWM. It might also help to format /system.
I used this ZIP in my last install and it has worked fin for me so far... I've actually found it to be fairly stable...
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Boots fine for me been using it all morning so far so good.
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How has the data seemed? The "regular" stuff seemed to work great for me, but since I don't use this phone on a regular basis I don't know how to judge the 3/4g performance.
Also, I'd love to hear about maps performance (GPS, compass, etc).
I know I'm opening a can of worms by asking about this stuff (everyone will be hyperaware of things that never bothered them before), but it's useful to know as feedback.
Data seems normal to me. GPS and compass seem to be working fine for me also.
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Do the nav bar buttons take much off of the screen?
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KrimsonChin said:
Do the nav bar buttons take much off of the screen?
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I almost think they look better. But I believe the screen just squishes up a little bit.. check out the attached.
So the regular touch buttons will not work anymore, mines doesn't, how do I fix tht
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badboy68 said:
So the regular touch buttons will not work anymore, mines doesn't, how do I fix tht
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I'm working on it. It wasn't a choice I made, it was a mistake I made and am trying to find it...
Not to be mean, I was jus wondering, this by far though, is hell a damn awesome
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Surprisingly this is actually more stable than CM9 lol. The camera is smoother and has more options and the Google account synching is easier. The transitions are fast and cool too.
While I'm not a fan of the navigation bar due to the smaller screen, I do love the easy access to the multitasking. It makes switching apps easier. Is this something that you could possibly port without the navigation bar when you fix the buttons? Like give an option in the settings to replace the search button for the multitasking action? I can access the searching from the top widget. Just throwing ideas out lol.
Also the UI sounds are not working, along with the keyboard sounds. I also get this message once in a while about the "CM updater stopped working" it's not a big deal. I haven't used the data much, so I'll report in a little while. Worked fine during the little moment I used it.
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UI sounds are working. Never mind. Let's see if it's consistent or not lol.
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Not to be mean, I was jus wondering, this by far though, is hell a damn awesome
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Oh, don't sweat it, first rom I've ever actually posted so this is a learning process for me... been working on this for ages, all I needed was the kernel source.
Please tell me you asked Google Now to "do a barrel roll"
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Surprisingly this is actually more stable than CM9 lol. The camera is smoother and has more options and the Google account synching is easier. The transitions are fast and cool too.
While I'm not a fan of the navigation bar due to the smaller screen, I do love the easy access to the multitasking. It makes switching apps easier. Is this something that you could possibly port without the navigation bar when you fix the buttons? Like give an option in the settings to replace the search button for the multitasking action? I can access the searching from the top widget. Just throwing ideas out lol.
Also the UI sounds are not working, along with the keyboard sounds. I also get this message once in a while about the "CM updater stopped working" it's not a big deal. I haven't used the data much, so I'll report in a little while. Worked fine during the little moment I used it.
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Glad to hear it's working out stable for you!
I'm not a Java/Android developer per se... I'm a bit of a self-taught hacker and the majority of my work for this was really about the kernel and forward porting the changes from 3.0.8 samsung sources to the 3.0.43 that CM uses. Adding things to the settings seems a bit daunting to me, but I'll look into it. Always wanted a reason to actually start developing for android
I can tell you that on my SGS3 (and I imagine on other phones as well), the home button, when as a long press, brings up the multitasking menu. This would probably be the immediate answer to your situation for this phone.
I could also possibly just offer up a flashable zip to remap the key and that would be much easier for me.
My long term goal really is to get this into github (and into the CM nightly cycle) and get my kernel changes into the cm kernel for msm8660 so I don't have to maintain the patches myself.
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UI sounds are working. Never mind. Let's see if it's consistent or not lol.
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I meant to mention that they start working after the first time you adjust the volume. This seems to be a general CM10 bug as I've had it (and seen people complain about it) on the SGS3.
dr4stic said:
I meant to mention that they start working after the first time you adjust the volume. This seems to be a general CM10 bug as I've had it (and seen people complain about it) on the SGS3.
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Thanks! I noticed it worked after I adjust it And that flahable zip for the action replacement on the search button would be AWESOME if you can pull it off, but let's focus on polishing what we have lol.
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Just flashed, its SO smooth. Can't wait for future updates. And I'm kind of liking the navbars lol
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Surprisingly smooth. No force closes. No major unlisted bugs that I've seen.
Incredible
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Is there any way I can change the location of camera photos to my SD card? Can't seem to find it
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i dont know if im the only one that find it annoying that you can press the back button on the phone with the s-pen. so i would love to see some Devs. add the a onscreen button profile that can be activated when the s-pen is in use.
like this you pull out the S-pen and you get the soft button navigation bar in the bottom of the screen. once you put the spen back in its place the nav bar disappears again. dont know if anyone have tought of this, but i think it would be a cool addition to any rom. you shuld ofcause have the option to disable / enable this feature.
Please let me know what you guys think.
And sorry if i posted this in the wrong section im not sure if i did or not
We have gestures right? Unless you're not really comfortable with it
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lagu805 said:
We have gestures right? Unless you're not really comfortable with it
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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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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.
Is there any widget that allows you to take hand written notes directly on home screen? I mean without opening the main app by pressing the widget.
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When I got my device I had an idea to use a picture of an old blackboard as a wallpaper and somehow be able to draw on the blackboard itself preferably with pressure sensitive and chalk (I think is the correct word for blackboard "pens") like pens. Combined with custom, old school icons and widgets I think it would be awesome.
However, without a root it's not possible and I'm note sure if it is even with root. And more importantly, I haven't found anything close to similar so I assume that I have to learn java or whatever one are using for such features again to implement this if I'm rooting my device in the future.
The closest thing I got though, even though I didn't try it is this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mattm.whiteboard that seems to do basically what you're looking for.
Edit: Actually, the pro version seems to be more what you're searching for now. It's been a while since I actually checked myself.
Hope that helped
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Thanks for your suggestion. I tried that one and didn't like it. Any other suggestions?
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When I got my device I had an idea to use a picture of an old blackboard as a wallpaper and somehow be able to draw on the blackboard itself preferably with pressure sensitive and chalk (I think is the correct word for blackboard "pens") like pens. Combined with custom, old school icons and widgets I think it would be awesome.
However, without a root it's not possible and I'm note sure if it is even with root. And more importantly, I haven't found anything close to similar so I assume that I have to learn java or whatever one are using for such features again to implement this if I'm rooting my device in the future.
The closest thing I got though, even though I didn't try it is this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mattm.whiteboard that seems to do basically what you're looking for.
Edit: Actually, the pro version seems to be more what you're searching for now. It's been a while since I actually checked myself.
Hope that helped
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TheSanitarium said:
Thanks for your suggestion. I tried that one and didn't like it. Any other suggestions?
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Yes, actually!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aksoft.sticky
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Hold spen button and double tap screen, that will bring up pop up note.
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prenedo said:
Hold spen button and double tap screen, that will bring up pop up note.
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It won't display the note at the screen though, which can be quite useful sometimes. But sure, that combined with an SNote widget kinda works.
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Is there any widget that allows you to take hand written notes directly on home screen? I mean without opening the main app by pressing the widget.
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sphere314 said:
I'd suggest using (or trying) Snap Pad (free or ad-free).
It's not a floating note but rather a pad that comes out when you drag the snap region (that normally stays invisible).
So it can be opened and resized anytime (without having to launch it) and also while using other apps. It's also possible to adjust the pad's opacity and make it semi-transparent.
Pros
It's designed for the S-Pen (so supports pressure sensitivity and changing from pen to eraser with the button)
It's very simple
Cons
No Undo-Redo function
You have a single page to use
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See if there is anything interesting for you here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995238
+1 for snap pad Cannot live without it, even on my note phone Perfect for people like me who suffer short term memory loss
Tried snap pad... It used 59mb of ram... I'll stick with whiteboard...with a transparent BG...its perfect for me.
bjbinc said:
Tried snap pad... It used 59mb of ram... I'll stick with whiteboard...with a transparent BG...its perfect for me.
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That's quite strange. I've checked my application manager and my Snap Pad (v. 1.1) takes 6.48MB of which 4.65MB are for the app and 1.83MB for data (a simple written note).
(But surely, if you have painted the whole Sistine Chapel on the pad, your data memory would be greater than mine... )
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That's quite strange. I've checked my application manager and my Snap Pad (v. 1.1) takes 6.48MB of which 4.65MB are for the app and 1.83MB for data (a simple written note).
(But surely, if you have painted the whole Sistine Chapel on the pad, your data memory would be greater than mine... )
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Think he meant ram not rom memory. Seems like there would be lots of options for this type of widget.
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Ink Over Apps
I've just found out Ink Over Apps, that can be potentially interesting for the GNote 10.1.
There's no free version but the price (€0.76 or about $1) is affordable.
It supports the S-Pen and can be used to make quick annotations in the home screen or to make annotations inside some other app (browser, documents).
I hope the developer will improve this app because, after a quick testing, I think there's still something to do.
Anyway, it's a very interesting idea.
A fre app that does it
I posted it on write anywhere at anytime. forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2144366
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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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.
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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.
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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.