Android 4.4.2 on Samsung Galaxy Tab S
There is an app called CpuTemp. If you set there in the settings "Cpu Temp Overlay" what will show the CPU temperature in the status bar then the brightness adjustment of MX Player will not work anymore. Not really correct. It will work as long as you do not start it again. If you start the MX Player a 2 nd time then it will not work.
No idea which app is here to blame. Just want to report it. Took me a while to find it out..
It should be that overlay function in cpu temp.
Im sure that if you disable it, it wont give any problem.
It's as josuearisty said; CpuTemp's overlay is covering MX Player. I don't have any problems with CpuTemp overlays covering my touch controls on 5.0 Nexus 5, and my overlay is in the topleft corner when on landscape.
I sent a message already to the developer of the cpu app. At least people can see here why it might not work anymore. It is not so obvious that this app with the overlay creates the problem.
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Brightness slider on left screen swipe. Number indicates brightness is changing but screen brightness is unchanged. Main brightness control works on the player though. Tested on my Z1 Compact 5.1.1. I remembered that brightness slider worked for me when I was in 4.4.4 and 5.0.2. The same thing can also be seen in my brother's Android One running on 6.0. Can anyone else validate this? Thanks!
LEO-037 said:
Brightness slider on left screen swipe. Number indicates brightness is changing but screen brightness is unchanged. Main brightness control works on the player though. Tested on my Z1 Compact 5.1.1. I remembered that brightness slider worked for me when I was in 4.4.4 and 5.0.2. The same thing can also be seen in my brother's Android One running on 6.0. Can anyone else validate this? Thanks!
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It's not MX Player's fault. Android always uses the brightness settings of the top most windows. But, some applications like Floating widgets, Power savers, Display Filters & Brightness control will create a invisible window & will try to keep it on the top of all other apps. So, brightness settings of that particular app will be applied. Kindly find the app that always try to run foreground & disable it.
hmm. Come to think of it, both phones have Klock installed as floating widget. Will test it when I get home. Thank you very much.
ktsamy said:
It's not MX Player's fault. Android always uses the brightness settings of the top most windows. But, some applications like Floating widgets, Power savers, Display Filters & Brightness control will create a invisible window & will try to keep it on the top of all other apps. So, brightness settings of that particular app will be applied. Kindly find the app that always try to run foreground & disable it.
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Knock Lock really did cause the issue. I tried installing the app on another device with 5.0.2 and the brightness control also didn't work. Thanks again.
I'm not able to control brightness by swiping up and down in MX player.need help
dev2733 said:
I'm not able to control brightness by swiping up and down in MX player.need help
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Hi,
If the brightness gesture is not working, Probably you might have*disabled gestures on Settings » Player or Control. Kindly check the settings.
If you have it enabled, MX Player shows the new brightness value and there is no brightness change on the screen, then It may happen when some app runs on the top of MX Player invisibly. By default, Android*takes the*brightness*values from the topmost window. If any widget/floating icons/Invisible screen filters run on the top of MX Player surface it may happen. Kindly disable such apps & try again.
Problem solved!
Thanks man you got it right,i had downloaded a app called control centre because of that I was not able to control the brightness in MX player,when I disabled that app after that brightness control is working like a charm in MX player.
Thanks once again!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 that was running some version of Marshmallow until it was recently updated to Nougat (7.0). Around the same time, my ability to scroll the left side of the screen to change the brightness of a video stopped working. However, I feel like it worked for a little while after the update, but I can't be sure. I'm using MX Player Pro 1.9.17 (ARMv7 NEON).
However, during playback sometimes the screen will suddenly change and become much brighter for about 5 of 7 seconds, then return to whatever it was set at before. This happens without any touch input from me.
Is there anything I can do to return the brightness functionality back to the app rather than the OS? It's significantly more convenient to change it in the app.
If the brightness gesture is not working, Probably you might have disabled gestures on Settings » Player or Control. Kindly check the settings.
If MX Player shows the new brightness value and there is no brightness change on the screen, then It may happen when some app runs on the top of MX Player invisibly. By default, Android takes the brightness values from the topmost window. If any widget/floating icons/Invisible screen filters run on the top of MX Player surface it may happen. Kindly disable such apps & try again.
For the last couple days, whenever I do any action that would put MX Player in the background, the video has suddenly gone into Picture-in-Picture mode and started playing. This happens whenever I have a video up in the player, regardless of whether it's playing or paused, and whether background play is enabled or disabled.
This has happened when I've used the following "Dismiss App" actions:
- Swipe between apps
- Swipe to homepage
- View open apps
- Select different running app from notification menu
- Open full MX Player settings menu
- Open MX Player "About" page
Attached is my zipped bug report. I've also submitted this bug in an email. If there's something in the app settings that could explain this behaviour, I would like to know, because it's definitely not desirable to take up screen space and start playing when I've paused and tried to unfocus the player.
Just an update, this is still happening for me. The closest thing to a workaround is to disable PiP permissions in the settings. The app still tries to go to PiP every time I make it leave the foreground, resulting in a toast pop-up saying "MX Player needs Draw/Display over other apps permission to play the videos on the top of other apps."
Every time I return to the homepage from the app, it says that. If I enable that permission, it will always activate PiP mode when I'm trying to switch away. I haven't found any in-app setting that could be causing this.
As of 1.51.8 (ARMv8 NEON), the app is still going into PiP mode whenever I dismiss it. Even if my video's paused, going to my home screen will make the video appear in the corner and start playing if it has the Android permission to do so.
It should only do this when the PiP mode button is pressed, unless there's some new "automatic picture-in-picture" setting I've missed or something.
I just figured out the setting to disable this. Click on Menu > Local Player Settings > Player > Background/PiP mode and select Stop. The video will no longer go to PiP when you click/swipe for home while playback. If you want, you can manually select background play and/or PiP while playing the video using controls as usual.
gururoop said:
I just figured out the setting to disable this. Click on Menu > Local Player Settings > Player > Background/PiP mode and select Stop. The video will no longer go to PiP when you click/swipe for home while playback. If you want, you can manually select background play and/or PiP while playing the video using controls as usual.
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Thank you!
The video starts playing when I hit PiP even if it was paused before, I'd prefer if it kept the video's state and just shrunk down the player, but it's manageable. Going to mark the thread as Resolved.
How can I tell MX Player to ALWAYS show the controls? Currently they are automatically vanishing after 3 seconds.
Can I somehow distinguish between the controls at the bottom and on the top?
When you play a video you go on the top right, you find 3 dots after that you go to display setting, on the bottom you find interface auto hide you must uncheck it.
Ok, it works - for the current video only.
When I proceed to the next or even loop the current video the controls are automatically hidden again.
Is there a way to keep the control visible until I exit MX Player?
It's always visible for me until i press in the middle than it's hide.