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Feel free to suggest other hidden things you discover in the Sk4G's new UI.
1) You can remove pages or home screens after pinching! No need to have 7
2)*#*#4636#*#* Some hidden phone settings mostly network related
3)You can pinch/zoom while app drawer is open for better viewing/faster navigation!
4)Not really hidden but air sync/doubletwist is on the shipped 2GB sd card, use myfiles to get your free copy!
5)Holding back button returns you to home
6) Holding down Home will open the notification panel
7)In status bar press the small arrow for toggle options
8)drag your finger right/left over the menu bar it will adjust the brightness (if you have auto brightness turned off)
9)Second clicking on the profile picture in the notification bar gives you some options, including editing your profile, and Account Sync Settings (Background/Automatic Data sync,
Contributors:
*ZachLL88
*Moonrock
*OP(ace42)
*chaostic_2k1
Well This is it for now
Hold down the back button takes you to the home screen. Nice feature
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Everyday im finding out maybe samsung didnt do too bad on this phone.. i have a vibrant and swore to never get another samsung phone.. but im ordering this next week i hated the button layout cause in portrait hitting home at the top is kinda funky but with the holding back button feature im feeling okay about this phone. Thanks a ton
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Ya that was my one thing I didn't like. But once I figured out the back button I don't have any problems with the phone at the moment. Samsung did a really nice job on this phone
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Holding down Home will open the notification panel (good I guess if you are using apps in full screen?)
Make sure you set up your jump shortcuts! They are awesome to have
Something I missed at first: There is a small arrow on the right side of the universal composer in the notification panel (where you'd update your twitter/fb) -- if you click the arrw, you'll get toggles for wifi, bluetooth, gps, silent, and auto rotation.
JUMP + R!
My favorite feature! The JUMP + R combo! If you haven't tried it, check it out. I don't know what it will do for you, but it frustrated ME!
Kennamer said:
My favorite feature! The JUMP + R combo! If you haven't tried it, check it out. I don't know what it will do for you, but it frustrated ME!
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Jump + R opens up the Jump menu screen for me because "R" isn't a previously assigned shortcut.... ?
Did you try assigning JUMP + R to anything? ;-)
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Did you try assigning JUMP + R to anything? ;-)
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Thats what I am saying, I dont have anything assigned to it, so it doesn't do anything. You made it sound like it was going to do something hidden!
Since you don't get my humor, and obvioulsy haven't tried it yourself, I'll spell it out for you... there is NO JUMP + R. They forgot the 'R' in the jump menu list. I guess you can say it IS hidden.
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Since you don't get my humor, and obvioulsy haven't tried it yourself, I'll spell it out for you... there is NO JUMP + R. They forgot the 'R' in the jump menu list.
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LMAO, sorry. Too much vodka? Too little sleep? I'm just like "seriously it wont do anything until I actually assign it, geez!"
But you're right - how weird. I wonder if they did that intentionally?!
Hope I'm not ruining a joke or anything, but when I hit Jump + R, my phone reboots. And I definitely didn't set it up to do that.
More specifically, it vibrates, then does 2 quick vibrations after a moment, and then after a few more seconds reboots.
I have a similar problem but mines not with JUMP +R it just randomly does the vibrate and reboot thing.
Haven't set jump keys yet. But just found the toggle switches on the notification bar. Haven't found ay other "hidden" features yet.
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Ace42 said:
1) You can remove pages or home screens after pinching! No need to have 7
2)*#*#4636#*#* Some hidden phone settings mostly network related
4)Not really hidden but air sync/doubletwist is on the shipped 2GB sd card, use myfiles to get your free copy!
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Those aren't really SK4G specific
GazaIan said:
Those aren't really SK4G specific
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Yes, i am aware of that I some are general android features
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One that carries over from the Galaxy line: if you drag your finger right/left over the menu bar it will adjust the brightness (if you have auto brightness turned off)
not sure if this is a feature or an issue. haha.. but when i open the browser my screen automatically brightens all teh way.. not that great at night but during the day kinda nice.
syph0r said:
not sure if this is a feature or an issue. haha.. but when i open the browser my screen automatically brightens all teh way.. not that great at night but during the day kinda nice.
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The brower has it's own brightness setting - go into the browser, hit menu, choose brightness.
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The brower has it's own brightness setting - go into the browser, hit menu, choose brightness.
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sweet. thanks man. i will check that when i get back on it.
not sure if this is a samsung deal or a sk thing but i love the fact you can change the font using settings-display-font style. cool jazz is pretty sweet.
I read that CM7 will supposedly let you turn off the button lights (back, menu, search, and home), but is there a way to turn them off without it? Thanks.
Are you using a custom kernel with backlight notifications? Or do you just want the lights off all the time? If you are using a custom kernel with BLN you can use BLN Control from the market to disable backlight notifications.
I'm using it stock and want the 4 cap. button lights to turn off after a few seconds so I can watch videos in the dark (or have an app that I start that turns off the lights before I watch a movie).
Does BLN also disable capacitivte button lights (not just backlight notifications)? Are there other non custom rom solutions?
Backlight dimmer (BLD), one of Ezekeel's mods does this. It disables the capacitive buttons after x amount of time (variable you can set freely). But you need a custom kernel for this to work, not a custom rom. Check the developer section, most new kernel versions support BLD. Then, you can download NSTools from the market to set and configure the functionality.
BLN is only for notifications and blinking normally so it's not what you're looking for.
Greetz
edit: Check this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1141233
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Backlight dimmer (BLD), one of Ezekeel's mods does this. It disables the capacitive buttons after x amount of time (variable you can set freely). But you need a custom kernel for this to work, not a custom rom. Check the developer section, most new kernel versions support BLD. Then, you can download NSTools from the market to set and configure the functionality.
BLN is only for notifications and blinking normally so it's not what you're looking for.
Greetz
edit: Check this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1141233
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Awesome, that's actually even better. One question though, once the buttons/lights are disabled how are they re-enabled? Simply touching the screen? Thanks.
nope they'll stay off if you touch the screen. you have to touch the buttons themselves to get them to relight
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nope they'll stay off if you touch the screen. you have to touch the buttons themselves to get them to relight
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Oh ok, perfect. thanks
Can someone point me to the correct file to download here for installing BLD:
https://github.com/Ezekeel/GLaDOS-nexus-s
Thanks
edit: the newest CM7 has the feature built in!! Thanks everyone
i've been looking for a way to disable the lights too! thanks!
drleospaceman said:
edit: the newest CM7 has the feature built in!! Thanks everyone
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As a clarification, the feature is not available on 7.1.0.1 but only in the nightly later nightly builds. However, if you're running the stable mod, a workaround is to use Spark Mod Manager.
Hello everyone
is there anyway to turn on the backlight keyboard in any situation?no matter in the light or in the dark..
any app ?
Ehsan021 said:
Hello everyone
is there anyway to turn on the backlight keyboard in any situation?no matter in the light or in the dark..
any app ?
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same question,any app cant wake up phone by volume button ?
i used LightLock to light on htc chacha proximity sensor,but it's not convenient.
Good question that, my keyboard is always going dark just when I don't want it to/when I'm typing.
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I found Keyboard Backlight Controller on market but it doesn't work on chacha
nobody care about using another key to wake up htc chacha ????????
Solution~
you can just hit the app icon to switch keypad backlight between
off mode
and
system control mode
The application works!
I'm always a bit suspicious of these kind of things coupled with Chinese writing when it's run-but avg was happy and when it asks for root I've allowed but not "remembered" the permission. Yet.
Thanks
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Wrong thread nvm
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thanx
fashionci said:
you can just hit the app icon to switch keypad backlight between
off mode
and
system control mode
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works, thanx!:good:
Ehsan021 said:
Hello everyone
is there anyway to turn on the backlight keyboard in any situation?no matter in the light or in the dark..
any app ?
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the best way is holding finger on sensor... :laugh::cyclops::good:
The best way is to decompile framework-res.apk and edit /res/values/arrays.xml
There are stored backlight settings and you can edit them to stay on all the time, or on any level you want.
And then compile apk and push it to system/framework
hi, there is an app or a mod\tweaks that allow to turn on the screen (without unlock) when a notification arrives and when the screen turns off (after 5/6 seconds) the led continue to blink until the notification will read?? I use ROM based on 4.2.2. I found SCREEN NOTIFICATION (on play store) works but... when the screen turns off the LED stop to blink!!!!:crying:
thanks for the advice! :fingers-crossed:
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hi, there is an app or a mod\tweaks that allow to turn on the screen (without unlock) when a notification arrives and when the screen turns off (after 5/6 seconds) the led continue to blink until the notification will read?? I use ROM based on 4.2.2. I found SCREEN NOTIFICATION (on play store) works but... when the screen turns off the LED stop to blink!!!!:crying:
thanks for the advice! :fingers-crossed:
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I know there's options in Tweaks when you have a custom ROM on a rooted phone. However, give this a whirl! It's completely free from the play store: look up SMS WakeUp it sounds like what you're looking for, not sure if it does the notification light like you wanted, but i'd imagine it would. I haven't posted more than 10 posts here, otherwise I'd post the link here.
Let me know if it works.
With Tasker you can do that, I think, in Secure Settings plugin there is an option to wake up the screen, and as I remember, there is also a function to let the led blink.
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With Tasker you can do that, I think, in Secure Settings plugin there is an option to wake up the screen, and as I remember, there is also a function to let the led blink.
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yes with the tasker, ok, but... the passage to set the right profile to do that? tasker isn't simple to use, i'm not able, I've arleady try, unsuccessful :crying:
can you show me the complete passage?
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I know there's options in Tweaks when you have a custom ROM on a rooted phone. However, give this a whirl! It's completely free from the play store: look up SMS WakeUp it sounds like what you're looking for, not sure if it does the notification light like you wanted, but i'd imagine it would. I haven't posted more than 10 posts here, otherwise I'd post the link here.
Let me know if it works.
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There isn t any ROM tweaks. And SMS wakeup doesn t let the led blinking when the screen turn off.
Profile is activated when notification comes in, then if Screen is off -> Secure Settings Screen on, wait 5 seconds and Notify LED. Maybe you can add something that the Notification will be deleted when read. This is just created on my mind, if I knew how to export a profile I will try to do one for you
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Thanks!
Hi all It might not sound wise but I just got myself an second hand Infuse 4G for a nice price, and like every device I've owned, got CM running on it in hours. However, there's something that bugs me for a bit, and that is the touch key backlight.
On other devices I have, CM's Settings-Buttons part controls touch key backlight well, leaving it on for whatever duration or turning it off. But on all ROMs I've tried till now (CM10, CM10.2, CM11), either this option is absent (CM10's Infuse Settings is incomplete), or the option doesn't work properly:
1) When I set the keys to light up, they don't light up automatically when I wake the phone up from sleep, I'll have to press the keys to activate them.
2) When I turn the light off, the light indeed goes off immediately, but when I press any of the keys, they come back to life again and simply stay on, ignoring the settings.
I remembered that on many HTC phones there was a way to manually control button backlight behavior by altering values of a certain file in /sys/class/..., so after some work, I found the file: /sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/brightness, and indeed, setting it to 0 will make the light go off. The thing that doesn't work out is that it won't persist - pressing any of the keys still make the light come back. I've set the permission to 0444 and even made a init.d script for that, and I can guarantee that the script itself is working properly, but still it can't keep the light under control... And now I'm stuck.
1) Is there a way to make the option in Infuse Settings or Settings-Buttons work as they should?
2) Any separate app that could also do this?
3) Why won't my manual adjustment persist?
Answering any of these questions would be of help, thank you in advance!
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Hi all It might not sound wise but I just got myself an second hand Infuse 4G for a nice price, and like every device I've owned, got CM running on it in hours. However, there's something that bugs me for a bit, and that is the touch key backlight.
On other devices I have, CM's Settings-Buttons part controls touch key backlight well, leaving it on for whatever duration or turning it off. But on all ROMs I've tried till now (CM10, CM10.2, CM11), either this option is absent (CM10's Infuse Settings is incomplete), or the option doesn't work properly:
1) When I set the keys to light up, they don't light up automatically when I wake the phone up from sleep, I'll have to press the keys to activate them.
2) When I turn the light off, the light indeed goes off immediately, but when I press any of the keys, they come back to life again and simply stay on, ignoring the settings.
I remembered that on many HTC phones there was a way to manually control button backlight behavior by altering values of a certain file in /sys/class/..., so after some work, I found the file: /sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/brightness, and indeed, setting it to 0 will make the light go off. The thing that doesn't work out is that it won't persist - pressing any of the keys still make the light come back. I've set the permission to 0444 and even made a init.d script for that, and I can guarantee that the script itself is working properly, but still it can't keep the light under control... And now I'm stuck.
1) Is there a way to make the option in Infuse Settings or Settings-Buttons work as they should?
2) Any separate app that could also do this?
3) Why won't my manual adjustment persist?
Answering any of these questions would be of help, thank you in advance!
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As far as I know, the Infuse hasn't had effective backlight control since Gingerbread. If you wanna go back to that, it should work fine. Otherwise, all of the newer ROMs are using an outdated kernel that doesn't support backlight control. I highly doubt we will see it working again since very few people are still using the Infuse.
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As far as I know, the Infuse hasn't had effective backlight control since Gingerbread. If you wanna go back to that, it should work fine. Otherwise, all of the newer ROMs are using an outdated kernel that doesn't support backlight control. I highly doubt we will see it working again since very few people are still using the Infuse.
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I can bear returning to GB and I did, but I've tried both stock UCLB3 and CM7, and neither contains any settings about button backlight...
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AndyYan said:
I can bear returning to GB and I did, but I've tried both stock UCLB3 and CM7, and neither contains any settings about button backlight...
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The Infuse supports backlight control in gingerbread. In order to use it, you'll have to download a third party app in the play store. I don't think CM7 will support it either.
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The Infuse supports backlight control in gingerbread. In order to use it, you'll have to download a third party app in the play store. I don't think CM7 will support it either.
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Not even CM7? No dice then, I guess... Thanks for the tip anyway.
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