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Halo feature, paranoid android

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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andrewk7750 said:
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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Casper34 said:
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.

PeterGunz said:
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.

I can't stand it.

This lockscreen is annoying as crap... I'm sorry m venting, I hate the fact that I can't take my text messages off the lockscreen. Or in order to use dash clock I have to pull down.... Again just venting. But other than that, I love this phone
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Try widget locker.
ATT S4 Rooted. Beastin.
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You can't take your text messages off the lockscreen? You mean the checkbox in Message settings?
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plwalsh88 said:
You can't take your text messages off the lockscreen? You mean the checkbox in Message settings?
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He's referring to the checkbox next to "preview message" inside the settings of your messaging app.
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try widget locker... :laugh:

bhatbhai said:
He's referring to the checkbox next to "preview message" inside the settings of your messaging app.
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It doesn't get rid of it off the lock screen. Just doesn't tell me who it is, which is even more annoying
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yea, i dont like the new ls either... i prefer the aosp one...

Use the message center lock screen widget. Its a single communication screen for all messages. Does that help?

Guys the problem is this - when you enable ""Preview Message" it enables it on the lockscreen, which is nice I guess, whatever. But, this also enables you to see who sent the message in the notification shade.
Now, when you turn it OFF it still shows it in the lockscreen AND the notification shade but doesn't tell you who it is.
The big issue with this is, if you have a lock-pattern or other security turned on WITH "Preview Message" turned on, then anyone can see the contents of the SMS on the lockscreen - BAD SECURITY. On AOSP, this did not behave in this manner. On AOSP you would receive the notification, but that's all I need to see "Hey I have an sms!" - I don't need to preview this if I have enabled security on my phone for the very reason of keeping prying eyes off my phone.

I've never liked the new lockscreen of jellybean...I find lockscreen widgets annoying and pointless...then again I never really liked widgets in the first place haha
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I was JUST going to post about that. I have some nosy ass girls who look over at my huge screen whenever they hear a beep or a buzz and I REALLY can't believe they wouldn't include a seperate option to NOT see the message preview from the lock screen.
It's nice to be able to preview it WHEN you slide the notification bar yourself but I don't need prying eyes on my lock screen.
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Or how about we talk about the lag on the lock screen
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zachsx said:
This lockscreen is annoying as crap... I'm sorry m venting, I hate the fact that I can't take my text messages off the lockscreen. Or in order to use dash clock I have to pull down.... Again just venting. But other than that, I love this phone
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We are talking aka ....LOCKSCREEN IS FUGLY! it will change when the devs get further along.

It's just crazy that Samsung wouldn't make it where you could turn it off..... Blah
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mg2195 said:
I've never liked the new lockscreen of jellybean...I find lockscreen widgets annoying and pointless...then again I never really liked widgets in the first place haha
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+1 and they are battery hogs too. Worthless on the lockscreen.

TheAxman said:
+1 and they are battery hogs too. Worthless on the lockscreen.
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im running apex launcher pro and rooted but even when i enable all the options , i get no notifications on my lockscreen , does it work with apex or only tw ?

I hate this lock screen too! It's so frustrating because I have long fingers, and I very often hit the clock when trying to swipe which just "grabs" the clock instead of unlocking the phone..
I am completely missing the point of widgets on your lock screen. I don't want them at all and I want to turn them off, but that's not an option. Why?? I want the screen to unlock whether I swipe the clock or a blank part of the screen!
Opening messages directly from the lock screen now is also a chore. Who thought to themselves that sliding a puzzle piece across the screen (or dragging your finger across an icon) to look at a message was too hard, and then came up with the current implementation? Click the message, then swipe your finger in a very specific part of the screen. Because that's intuitive.
We can have many home pages that have all of the widgets and icons we want on them. Why do we need an extra layer of them on our lock screens? If the lock screen weren't cumbersome to use, then shortcuts on the lock screen wouldn't be necessary because they wouldn't be saving any time.
The way the lock screen works really irritates me, and I honestly thought about just keeping my GS III because of it (and a couple of other things that are OT).

As cheesy as the slider lock screen on the iPhone is, one thing I really like about it is the ability to open the camera app directly without having to input my (corporate IT mandated) PIN to use it. That extra second or two wasted putting in my PIN on the S4 could mean I might miss a neat shot. It needs some tweaking, for sure.

YoungAceAtlanta said:
Or how about we talk about the lag on the lock screen
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No....just no...I hope your joking there are already enough threads talking about lag (which I still haven't experienced on my s4)
But yeah...once we get some roms cooking I'm sure devs will give us some better lockscreens...and probably even port the s3 lockscreen over
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LOVE this phone except for one nit picky thing

I'm in awe of the beauty and speed, and love just about every single thing about it. But one little thing bugs me -- the "retro TV off" animation when the screen is blanked.
Is there any way to turn this off?
I don't see an option inside Developer options nor inside Nova Launcher (I'm using beta with the KitKat customizations).
I know it's nit picky. Please don't flame me.
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CatThief said:
I'm in awe of the beauty and speed, and love just about every single thing about it. But one little thing bugs me -- the "retro TV off" animation when the screen is blanked.
Is there any way to turn this off?
I don't see an option inside Developer options nor inside Nova Launcher (I'm using beta with the KitKat customizations).
I know it's nit picky. Please don't flame me.
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You need a custom ROM, most of them have the ability to edit or turn that off
Edit, this should be in QA
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Tom540 said:
You need a custom ROM, most of them have the ability to edit or turn that off
Edit, this should be in QA
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I was afraid of that. (Sorry about the location. Didn't think it was a troubleshooting issue.)
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[Q]Light Flow

Hello guys ,
As youmay understand ,I'm new on Nexus devices.I wanted to use the Notification Light to inform me if there's something new or not.
I saw the Light Manager App which works perfectly . But the Light Flow (lite~premium) doesn't work .I just can't go with it , it looks promising but it doesn't work ,as it doesn't inform me for a notification ,nor if I press the test button ,it Simply doesn't work .
It looks great but it seems that I can't do it .Please someone out there help me or if you could give me your backup it'd be great thanks anyway
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Do you have pulsing notifications on?
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dicecuber said:
Do you have pulsing notifications on?
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Sorry but ...Where is it? :what:
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blinqipa said:
Hello guys ,
As youmay understand ,I'm new on Nexus devices.I wanted to use the Notification Light to inform me if there's something new or not.
I saw the Light Manager App which works perfectly . But the Light Flow (lite~premium) doesn't work .I just can't go with it , it looks promising but it doesn't work ,as it doesn't inform me for a notification ,nor if I press the test button ,it Simply doesn't work .
It looks great but it seems that I can't do it .Please someone out there help me or if you could give me your backup it'd be great thanks anyway
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If LightManager works perfectly then what are you looking for in Light Flow? I'm using LightManager to control what color the notification light is for each different type of notification. If that's all you want to do then stick with what works.

blinqipa said:
Sorry but ...Where is it? :what:
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Settings > display > pulsing notification lights
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dicecuber said:
Settings > display > pulsing notification lights
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It is turned on
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marleyfan61 said:
If LightManager works perfectly then what are you looking for in Light Flow? I'm using LightManager to control what color the notification light is for each different type of notification. If that's all you want to do then stick with what works.
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Because Light Flow looks better and it has many more features ,one of them was Mixing the colours Red,Blue,Green (forgive me if I made a mistake on these colors)
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Light Flow works for me but it has bugs. View the help website in the app and go to Nexus 5 page.
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Light Flow works for the most part for me.
Only sometimes after SMS gets dismissed, notification seems to keep blinking, though may be a GO SMS thing, not reproduced it consistently enough yet.
I use this to set it up http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/2349

Lightflow worked perfectly on my Nexus 4 but on my 5 it's a little buggy. With the last update a couple days ago it's running much better though. I know the dev is working hard on getting all the bugs worked out and he's getting close. I'm using the paid version and I would recommend it because the developer is very responsive on a few of these threads and is actively working on making it better.
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Ok Google Now ..

Can we talk or speak out "ok google now" without touching or press the power button on our Nexus 5..?? Like the way Motorola X can do? I tried to talk while the phone screen off but nothing happen..the phone remain sleep..
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farsight73 said:
Can we talk or speak out "ok google now" without touching or press the power button on our Nexus 5..?? Like the way Motorola X can do? I tried to talk while the phone screen off but nothing happen..the phone remain sleep..
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Enable Hot Word detection in Google Now Voice settings.
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PhilipTD said:
Enable Hot Word detection in Google Now Voice settings.
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In the US English yes, no other version yet (unless you go custom and hack it yourself)

Everything is ON now and setting in US English too but saying the magic words won't wake up the phone. Any other idea?
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farsight73 said:
Everything is ON now and setting in US English too but saying the magic words won't wake up the phone. Any other idea?
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Does it work if you tap the Microphone? Also, the screen has to be on. Sorry I didn't read your first post carefully.
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Yea I know it work when the screen is on. What I want is it still hear me even when the screen is off.. Oh well I guess Nexus 5 can be disturb when he is sleeping... Thanks..
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If the mic icon in the search bar is an outline it's not working, if it's a solid icon then it should be working

EddyOS said:
If the mic icon in the search bar is an outline it's not working, if it's a solid icon then it should be working
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He said it works with screen on but not with screen off. Which of course doesn't work because it's not supposed to
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Ok Google only works from the home screen on 4.4.x versions of android, the moto x has a special always listening function built by moto as well a chip that has low battery usages that allows for the active listening function anytime. Its probably possible for the nexus 5 to do the same but it would drain the $h1t out of the battery.

In moto x it called the "active display".. In which the phone always listening thru its mic. If somehow our nexus 5 can have this feature would be awesome..
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No, this is not possible as we do not have the same chipset as the Moto X.

utter! has "always listening even when screen is off" functionality (and much more).

farsight73 said:
In moto x it called the "active display".. In which the phone always listening thru its mic. If somehow our nexus 5 can have this feature would be awesome..
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Active Display is actually a notification feature that shows you what notifications you have while you're screen is off. It powers on your screen while you're phone is locked to show you notifications periodically. This feature was developed for the amoled screen that the moto x has since that type of display can light up individual pixels and not the whole screen to save battery. But active display has been ported by a few different custom roms now like Omni.
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Wubbz said:
Active Display is actually a notification feature that shows you what notifications you have while you're screen is off. It powers on your screen while you're phone is locked to show you notifications periodically. This feature was developed for the amoled screen that the moto x has since that type of display can light up individual pixels and not the whole screen to save battery. But active display has been ported by a few different custom roms now like Omni.
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OmniROMs is still a bit buggy but it should be stable soon
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farsight73 said:
Can we talk or speak out "ok google now" without touching or press the power button on our Nexus 5..?? Like the way Motorola X can do? I tried to talk while the phone screen off but nothing happen..the phone remain sleep..
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Without installing an App with the "always listening" feature it is not possible.
There are Apps for that.
Open Mic+ is a good one. Use it myself.