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[Q&A] PACman 4.3 Questions and Help thread

I didn't see this yet, figured I post it. Feel free to use it to ask questions too. This is in relations to this Rom and thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2141603
I just switched over to it from CM10.2 and I'm digging it, however, I'm confused with some of the settings. I was hoping someone can help answer the following:
1. Halo: How do I block certain apps from appearing in Halo? I have some persistent apps in the notification / status bar and at the moment they all appear in halo despite not choosing them / pin under the halo app.
2. my gmail force closes every now and then even though I installed fresh from the store. It says "blame tyler"?
3. Some apps, specifically Gmail, seems to be in a much lower dpi so it appears really small text. Anyway to change it to default settings? I looked under the hybrid settings but no luck. Is there another setting somewhere?
Thanks!

1. Go into Manage Apps, select the app you want to block from Halo, and check the blacklist from Halo box.
2. I can't remember exactly, but I think it's an in joke, it's been discussed in the ROM thread.
3. Go to hybrid settings, per app, and adjust the dpi settings.
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Thank you timmaaa!
1. If I blacklist from manage apps, do I still need to "pin" apps to the Halo app? Since this seems like by blacklisting from manage apps, it's in theory allowing all other apps to work in halo, so no need to pin them specifically?
2. oh, I see haha.
3. Thanks!!!!

You can either blacklist or whitelist, you can choose that in halo settings.
For example, if you only want messages and hangouts to notify via halo, you'd choose whitelist as it's going to be easier to select just those two apps to be whitelisted.
On the other hand, if you want every app apart from messages and hangouts to notify via halo you'd choose blacklist as it's easier to exclude just those two. No need to pin the rest, unless it's blacklisted it will notify via halo.
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timmaaa said:
You can either blacklist or whitelist, you can choose that in halo settings.
For example, if you only want messages and hangouts to notify via halo, you'd choose whitelist as it's going to be easier to select just those two apps to be whitelisted.
On the other hand, if you want every app apart from messages and hangouts to notify via halo you'd choose blacklist as it's easier to exclude just those two. No need to pin the rest, unless it's blacklisted it will notify via halo.
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Ahh thanks! Makes sense.

No problems
P.S. If someone here helps you, please hit the thanks button :thumbup:
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Hi everyone, sorry for these little questions, but I have one more. Attached is a screenshot of the "Recent Apps" screen. There's a sidebar with apps there, are there any way to remove or change them? Thanks.

[Q] I need a better clipboard functionality

One of the things that I loved about my ASUS Padfone 2 was the near stock UI.
The things that got changed by ASUS were mostly very useful, like the clipboard.
If I long pressed a textbox on my Padfone 2, the usual "paste" icon showed up accompanied by a second icon "clipboard".
When I clicked that icon, a panel slid up from where the keyboard normally is, which had the last copied elements as a small preview, with an additional button to edit the contents. In edit mode, I could delete elements or mark them as permanent (I guess the system would overwrite them when the cashe would be full at some point otherwise).
I miss that useful function on my Nexus 5.
Does anyone know a mod or custom ROM that does that?
I have looked into this on the play store, but the apps there require to run in the background or to switch to a third app to access the copied content.

You will have to look at the ROM feature list, but this is the first time that I have heard of this feature. If my memory is correct there aren't any ROMs with the feature but don't quote me. Third party app is your best alternative. This phone has 2GB of RAM it'll be ok in the background.
edit: You could also check xposed or make a request in the xposed thread.

I use clipper which is still a 3rd app but it works well for me. I use switchr to swipe in from the screen edge to access it.
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Thanks for the replies.
I am not worried about the RAM running full, but I don't like to have any more notification icons than necessary.
Looks like I'll have to compromise clean look for functionality.
I wish google implemented the way ASUS did it into AOSP. It was really perfect.
Maybe Cyanogenmod will do this.
Thanks again for your comments.

[Q] How to add a specific app to the multiwindow bar vs a random app

Ok, I apologize as I know the answer is somewhere in XDA (I saw it once), but for the life of me I cannot find it via XDA's search function or google. Apparently bad search fu today.
I'm running a custom ROM that has all apps enabled for multi-window use. Which is great. But the problem is when I choose an application that is not on the first screen of apps, it will choose one from the first page instead (in I think roughly the same location of the screen). The only "work around" I've been able to deduce is on the first screen (w/o scrolling), drag the bottom right app into the multiwindow bar. Then remove it fro there. This will shift the apps up by one spot. Then repeat this until you get the app you want.
This becomes annoying when the app you want is towards the bottom of the list.
Anyone know of a better way of doing this? I recall this same issue on my S2, but perhaps I didn't have any many apps installed so it wasn't such a big deal.
Thanks
John

[Q] Auto-Rotate not working for Android screens

I just started using my first Android phone 2 days ago, so this is probably a really dumb question, but I've figured almost everything else out and this one not so intuitive.
When I'm in the home screen or the alphabetical list of all apps, if I turn the phone horizontal it won't switch to landscape. It only rotates if I open the keyboard. The settings menu and most apps auto-rotate fine, so I know the phone can sense it right., it's just the basic Android screens that won't landscape unless the keyboard is open.
I'm using CM11 from 21-OCT-2014 and the only extras I've installed are gapps, k9 mail, firefox, google translate and google wallet. The "Auto-rotate screen" box is checked, as are the "0 degrees" and "90 degrees" rotation mode boxes.

enigma9o7 said:
I just started using my first Android phone 2 days ago, so this is probably a really dumb question, but I've figured almost everything else out and this one not so intuitive.
When I'm in the home screen or the alphabetical list of all apps, if I turn the phone horizontal it won't switch to landscape. It only rotates if I open the keyboard. The settings menu and most apps auto-rotate fine, so I know the phone can sense it right., it's just the basic Android screens that won't landscape unless the keyboard is open.
I'm using CM11 from 21-OCT-2014 and the only extras I've installed are gapps, k9 mail, firefox, google translate and google wallet. The "Auto-rotate screen" box is checked, as are the "0 degrees" and "90 degrees" rotation mode boxes.
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Probably depends on the launcher (home screens and app drawer is handled by launcher). Some have a setting to enable it, some don't...

I dunno if this is normal behavior, something I can change in a setting, or a bug in something, and if so what?
Not quite sure what a launcher is, but I only installed the stuff I mentioned before, so I assume my launcher is whatever comes with CM11 or Gapps.

enigma9o7 said:
I dunno if this is normal behavior, something I can change in a setting, or a bug in something, and if so what?
Not quite sure what a launcher is, but I only installed the stuff I mentioned before, so I assume my launcher is whatever comes with CM11 or Gapps.
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add this line to build.prop
log.tag.launcher_force_rotate=VERBOSE

palmbeach05 said:
add this line to build.prop
log.tag.launcher_force_rotate=VERBOSE
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Done, and it worked! Thanks much. Any explanation as to why editing a system file was necessary to do something that seems to me should be automatic? Will I have to do this again after updates or anything?
(Of course nothing is simple the first time; took me over an hour to do this; figured easiest way would be from terminal, but had to find the file without a whereis command, then didn't know how to hit "ESC" when trying to edit with VI since there's no ESC key on our keyboard, finally found it in a menu, then wasn't able to save cuz readonly... tried again after su but same result, considered changing permissions but since I really didn't know what I was doing, did a web search, found a tutorial for editing it with ES file manager, which I installed, but the 2-year old tutorial had different menu structure for putting ES into "root explorer" mode, but finally got it modifiedt, saved, rebooted).

And I still dunno what launcher I'm using. After posting I did some web searches earlier, seems CM has its own launcher (forgot name, something that sounded french), and GApps has a launcher, but I read the CM version of GApps (that I used) doesn't change the launcher, but I also read the launcher from GApps is the one that will pop up google now if you swipe on the side of the screen, and that keeps happening to me (by accident as I'm trying to figure out how to use this thing) so it seems I have the GApps launcher. I dunno.
My problem is solved as mentioned in previous post, just rambling as I'm trying to understand all this.

it's called trebuchet

palmbeach05 said:
add this line to build.prop
log.tag.launcher_force_rotate=VERBOSE
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Just upgraded CM to new version and had to do this again. Is there any way to make this more permanent?

enigma9o7 said:
Just upgraded CM to new version and had to do this again. Is there any way to make this more permanent?
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Use a different launcher? Nova, GoLauncher, Apex, Aviate, etc... most should have options for this.

Is there no way to fix it permanently in the default launcher? I'd just rather not use too many add-ons unless truly needed, but am getting tired of looking up this thread every time I update CM so I can find the text I need to re-insert. I'm happy to figure out how to submit a real bug report but dunno if it's a CM issue or google issue or what...

enigma9o7 said:
Is there no way to fix it permanently in the default launcher? I'd just rather not use too many add-ons unless truly needed, but am getting tired of looking up this thread every time I update CM so I can find the text I need to re-insert. I'm happy to figure out how to submit a real bug report but dunno if it's a CM issue or google issue or what...
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There's no bug. This is by design.
If you don't like it, you can change the launcher or keep doing the build.prop hack.

Curious... why do you think it would have been purposely designed this way? I just assumed it was one of those things that worked right for some phones but not others or something.... There's already settings to turn off rotation (and to select which specific orientation to allow rotation), so if someone wanted it off for some reason they should be able to turn it off that way...
Either way, if it's not a bug report, then it's a feature request, either way I'd like to at least *try* to get it changed before I give up and try an alternative. I'd imagine the developer or whatever wouldn't want people switching to alternative launchers if there's something he could easily fix fix anyway. And I imagine since it's so easy to fix by editing that file, it can't be that hard to fix in the program or whatever, and since supported in other launchers it's not some system limitation or something...
Anyway just my thoughts. I'm still very thankful for being told the workaround, and I'll probably figure out how to write a shell script that adds that line for me so I can just run that after each update (instead of looking up this thread and manually editing a file on an annoying little device). But that only helps me, be better to get it fixed for everyone.

enigma9o7 said:
Curious... why do you think it would have been purposely designed this way? I just assumed it was one of those things that worked right for some phones but not others or something.... There's already settings to turn off rotation (and to select which specific orientation to allow rotation), so if someone wanted it off for some reason they should be able to turn it off that way...
Either way, if it's not a bug report, then it's a feature request, either way I'd like to at least *try* to get it changed before I give up and try an alternative. I'd imagine the developer or whatever wouldn't want people switching to alternative launchers if there's something he could easily fix fix anyway. And I imagine since it's so easy to fix by editing that file, it can't be that hard to fix in the program or whatever, and since supported in other launchers it's not some system limitation or something...
Anyway just my thoughts. I'm still very thankful for being told the workaround, and I'll probably figure out how to write a shell script that adds that line for me so I can just run that after each update (instead of looking up this thread and manually editing a file on an annoying little device). But that only helps me, be better to get it fixed for everyone.
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Android is all about choice, you've been given several workarounds which fix the problem.
Other than that, this is how the stock launcher in CM is designed. A lot of people don't want the home screen to rotate when the phone rotates, I'm one of them.

[Q] favorite apps panel issues

Every time I try to edit the apps on my favorites panel I just get an error after a few minutes saying favorite apps panel has stopped. Anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
Thanks

Sk8DevL411 said:
Every time I try to edit the apps on my favorites panel I just get an error after a few minutes saying favorite apps panel has stopped. Anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
Thanks
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Me too every one to teach me how to fix it．now my note edge can not edit panel apps.

i try any solution but now This unfortunately has stopped messaging when i edit application panel not yet fix it too.
who can fix this messaging to teach me please. Thank very much.

Sk8DevL411 said:
Every time I try to edit the apps on my favorites panel I just get an error after a few minutes saying favorite apps panel has stopped. Anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
Thanks
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I'm seeing this too. I was able to remove all the shortcuts except contacts and camera. When I try to remove those, I get the app panel has stopped error.
In trying to troubleshoot, I did a factory reset. With a clean boot, the favorites panel works fine and I was able to remove all the shortcuts. This means that it has to do with possibly one of the following:
1) The number of apps I have installed (I have a lot)
2) Xposed and modules
3) Apps I've frozen
4) Another app that is causing a problem
Is your ROM rooted? Any similarities?

I am ussing ntt docomo carrier one. Rom is offical
I tryed do factory reset them install left than 100 apps it ok. But more than 100 apps it got error has stopped.

nhattuong said:
I am ussing ntt docomo carrier one. Rom is offical
I tryed do factory reset them install left than 100 apps it ok. But more than 100 apps it got error has stopped.
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Well I guess we got our answer. Hopefully they will fix this limitation soon.

I do not have this issue (I have the Sprint version) even tough I have quite a few apps. The only thing that bugs me is wanting to put an app in the favorite panel that is already in a folder. can't seem to do it unless I take it out of the folder first. But that's for another thread.
TS

twospirits said:
I do not have this issue (I have the Sprint version) even tough I have quite a few apps. The only thing that bugs me is wanting to put an app in the favorite panel that is already in a folder. can't seem to do it unless I take it out of the folder first. But that's for another thread.
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What is "quite a few"? More than 100 or less (user apps, not system apps)?

148 at last count.

twospirits said:
148 at last count.
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Well, guess that debunks the >100 app theory. To confirm, are you able to remove *all* of the shortcuts including camera and contacts with no problems?

No, don't want you to get the wrong idea. I read it wrong. (I was reading too many threads at once) I was referring to total number of apps on my device. My bad.
On the Edit favorite app selection screen, there are 84 apps and on the panel itself there are 16. So yeah that 100 limit still stands. And you can only add 20 apps to that panel. Although, if you group them in folders all 100 can go in here.
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I can now report that >100 apps it not true. I first experienced this problem on my T-Mo Edge with 200+ apps. I just started to setup my Sprint Edge with the same collection of apps. It works just fine. I am able to add/remove any apps with no FC.
For those who have problems, let's try to figure out the commonalities:
1) Have you frozen/disabled any apps? If yes, what?
2) Have you used Autostarts or similar apps to stop apps from being triggered? If yes, what?
3) Do you have Xposed installed?
4) Do you use Wanam or other modules? What others?

I solved my problem. Not directly, but it worked.
I TiBu'ed the data from my Sprint Edge (Favorite Apps panel) and restored it on the T-Mo Edge. Viola, the two apps I couldn't remove are gone and I was able to fully utilize the Favorite Apps panel.

same problem
I'm also experiencing the issue. It won't even let me get to the page for editing either favorites panel. And I only have 84 apps!

Less than 100 apps here too and I can't remove gallery without the force close. All other apps can be removed with no problem.

A way to fix this error is to boot the phone with volume down pressed (safe mode). This way you can enter Favorite Apps Panel to edit (add/remove) some app links (those originally in rom I think).
PD: I would like to know where the current settings of Favorite Apps Panel are stored to make a backup of the file or try to edit it externally.