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Power Switch is a tool for devices with cases - somewhat like the SmartCover, it will turn off the screen when you shut the case. If you have a device with poor battery life, Power Switch can save tons of juice by switching it off entirely after a given amount of time asleep.
The app works best on phones using the proximity sensor. On tablets, the light sensor is the most efficient method of knowing that the case has been closed.
Features:
- Sleep seconds after shutting case
- Automatic shutdown (rooted devices only)
- Set up a schedule using Night Mode
- Configure sensor sensitivity
- Facedown to turn screen off
- Persistent notification
- Plays sound to let you know that the screen has turned off
The app has gone through an extensive testing process here at XDA under another name. Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen, you're the best!
However, this testing showed that some features of that app were not all that useful, and some were conspicuously absent. To save both you and us a lot of grief, we made the second-generation Killswitch.
Remember to adjust the light sensor sensitivity settings in a light environment for best performance, and use Night Mode if you are on a tablet with a poor ambient light sensor.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please use this thread or the in-app feedback tool. Please be aware that we ignore logs without descriptions.
Power Switch Lite
https://market.android.com/details?id=fahrbot.apps.powerswitch.demo
The Lite version of the app is exactly the same as the Pro, only the timers are restricted to a minimum of twelve seconds.
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Oh WOW! Ill give this a try
Let me know how it goes...
I have tried this on Galaxy note, it works fine when i test it with finger, but galaxy Note have cover, if i close with it, it doesn't work. I have marked also if there is white paper i keep over cover(black) it works. Does this bug? or sensor have problem to use dark color? itz really weired but true.
If you have a Note, you should be using the PROXIMITY SENSOR, which works regardless of color or density.
Thats the great thing abount my new Tab 7.7 - its the first real tablet with a proximity sensor! Works like magic
I have used proximity sensor. I have uninstalled it, anyway reinstalling n will put review again
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Set as tablet,
Used proximity + light then worked
Not worked with proximity only.( that i did y'day)
Thnx, had nice talk after long time, when u have launched root call blocker, participated lot on that thread, still using it on note too.
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Does running the proximity sensor all the time when the screen is on reduce battery life?
edit: Just tested it on my Note, it works with Proximity only. It'd be great if it could turn the screen on as well when i flip open the cover, without affecting battery life too much!
eug said:
Does running the proximity sensor all the time when the screen is on reduce battery life?
edit: Just tested it on my Note, it works with Proximity only. It'd be great if it could turn the screen on as well when i flip open the cover, without affecting battery life too much!
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Indeed dr.k good to see you back in action!
As for battery life, no, the sensor is on all the time anyway.
This is working with my black, light absorbant cover, where others have not. I now have my screen timeout up to 2 mins. Kudos!
I am also having to use both light and proximity in tablet mode.
beestee said:
This is working with my black, light absorbant cover, where others have not. I now have my screen timeout up to 2 mins. Kudos!
I am also having to use both light and proximity in tablet mode.
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Please try using just proximity, then try both, then send some logs through "Write to us". Be sure to leave a description like "light and proximity works" or something so we know what to look for.
1.1.4
Added option to disable in landscape
Fixed issue with switching Night mode
Fixed many device specific bugs (Tab 7.7, 8.9, 10.1)
seems to be only working with the light sensor on my galaxy tab 7.7.
how do i calibrate the proximity sensitivity?
Using the sensor sensitivity...
set it to 50. still not working :-(
neonlite said:
set it to 50. still not working :-(
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Hi. Im the dev and i have the 7.7. I also know that there are two roms only atm and it works fine for me at 50% just by putting my hand 3 inches away from the sensor.
Maybe your setting something wrong?
Anything to report?
Guys have a look at our new app META WIDGET:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26094380
Anything to report?
Hmm, seems to work really well with my Transformer Prime, light sensor at 10% with a "Mini Suit" case.
Will buy the full version if this works reliably for the next few days.
Does the full version support "silent sleep" without a dialogue box if timers are set to 0 sec?
[UPDATE]
Hi guys, after my account was banned from Play Store, I decided to move all apps on Amazon App Shop for free. :good:
Here you can download last version of Smart Screen OFF PRO.
Smart Screen OFF PRO
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014TKA9VQ
I'll add other apps I developed in the next few weeks.
Download Smart screen off PRO User Guide
DESCRIPTION
Smart Screen Off it's a simple and light app which uses the Proximity Sensor built in your Android smartphone to turn the screen off and on automatically
REASON
I decided to code this app when I bought my Galaxy Nexus: this device doesn't have any physical button on the front screen. Being a quite huge phone, it's quite difficult to press the "turn off" button every time I wanted to turn it off and on. So I needed a way to turn the screen off every time I put it into the pockets and off when removed.
HOW IT WORKS
The app itself is a toggle button, to switch it on just press the App Icon. Then every time you put the phone into your pockets the screen turns off.
If you put the smartphone upside down on the table, the screen turns automatically off.
NOTE: It doesn't lock the screen (just like in a call)
REQUIREMENTS
In order to use Smart Screen Off, you need to have a phone with Proximity Sensor (nowadays every smartphone incorporates one).
Nice APP
Even though I don't need this app...(I prefer manually clicking),
it seems really useful for whom use flip cases.
Such as "planner styled" Galaxy Note
Just installed and it does what it promises. Will be useful for me when at the gym I want to skip songs, I won´t have to unlock the phone a hundred times. Obviously the proximity sensor will be working all the time, did you notice a significant battery drain?. And the app name in the spanish version of the market is badly translated. It says "Fuera de pantalla inteligente" where it should say "Apagado de pantalla inteligente".
This is like screebl?
Good app, great idea. I think you should not only use proximity sensor, but things like orientation. I probably wont use this just because it doesn't seem too useful... I sometimes have my hand on top of my phone (near the sensor) and a finger movement can just keep making it blink on and off etc. Use orientation with this, it'd be better.
GREAT APP!
Works flawlessly, thanks alot.
Just installed V1.1 free from the market and it's a bit too sensitive! I hold my phone in my right hand and when I curl my hand over to touch or make gestures on the screen, the display turns off. Is there any way to adjust the sensitivity? I'm running on a Galaxy Nexus running GummyNex 0.7.6 based on AOSP 4.0.3.
UI is useless for lite so remove it, and as long as it has a notification in status bar i will not use this app, can i get v1 back!
2/5 stars
also in v1.2 there is NO way to turn it off :/
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check this
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.itsme4ucz.screenoff&feature=search_result
Also quit good..using it allready more than a year
so the phone won't go into sleep if I use it, right?
liljom said:
so the phone won't go into sleep if I use it, right?
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It won't go sleep, the device screen will only turn off and on
Nice application.
possible to make it work on galaxy tab? it doesnt have a proximity sensor but i believe it has a light sensor and magnatron. maybe make it detect a strong magnetic source to turn it on or off?
Night mode?
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Vilcek said:
check this
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.itsme4ucz.screenoff&feature=search_result
Also quit good..using it allready more than a year
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Proximity Screen Off never worked properly for me on the HD2 with several different versions of Android (both Honeycomb and ICS). It was quite prone to locking up my phone with the display off and locked.
Can you not trigger it to go to deep sleep. Screen should lock, that would be more appropriate imo.
If u turn off the display only,will deep sleep work?
EDIT:Saw the post up^^
akromatic said:
possible to make it work on galaxy tab? it doesnt have a proximity sensor but i believe it has a light sensor and magnatron. maybe make it detect a strong magnetic source to turn it on or off?
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This one should work on Galaxy tab
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.itsme4ucz.screenoff&feature=search_result
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
thanks i will try it
Hey guys, I got two phones here. The Galaxy S7 and a iPhone 6s. Both Fingerprint Scanners are quite fast. The 6s one is a little bit more reliable in my opinion and the s7 is a bit faster.
However, it is only faster when both screens are active. I can tap on it as fast as I can and it will unlock the phone. But when the phone is asleep and I wake it up by pressing the homebutton my finger has to rest as long as the screen-on animation plays and then the sensor seems to start reading my fingerprint. On the iPhone side the fingerprintreader reads my fingerprint immediately after i pressed the button (before/during screen-on animation).
I know this is really a small problem, but I'd really like to give it a try and hope someone has a tweak for it. Is there any chance to tweak the time when the fingerprint reader starts recognizing the fingerprint?
Does someone know a Thirdparty App, Built.prop, custom rom or anything else that could work for me?
Hello everyone,
I received my OnePlus 6 today and I am very happy. It's the 6/64 model. I come from a Galaxy S7 Edge and a Galaxy A3 2017.
Here are my thoughts about it:
- Build quality is exemplary, I played with Huawei Mate 10 Pro and P20 and the OP6 is way better built, very close if not identical quality to Samsung's best phones. For me, a phone needs to look "professional", not plasticky or gimmicky. This one delivers !
- The case that comes with the phone is very high quality, I am amazed. It's not a simple case, it has many interesting features: sides are matte finished and provide high grip, it has raised corners, the corner protection is exemplary. Plus, it fits like a glove. Don't waste your money on another case until you try the stock one (I unfortunately did - I have the Nylon Bumper case on the way).
- Screen is gorgeous and perfectly calibrated, I have a Surface Pro 4 and a Surface Pro 5 (perfectly calibrated screens) and the calibration of the OP6 is almost identical. Colors are exactly as they should be, whites are perfectly balanced. And I love notched screens, I want as little bezel as possible, really no complaints !
- The speed of the phone is incredible, I have never used a phone so fast, much faster than the S8 and S9 that I have used for a few minutes. Web browsing speed is in another league compared to everything I used before.
- It came charged at 50%, and I got 3h of SOT and 9h of total usage from the factory 50% charge (with app installations, updates, a lot of web browsing, 1 hour of music playing to bluetooth headset, etc.)
- Pictures in low light are way over my expectations, on par with the S7 Edge (which has a great camera setup).
- Software is really great, light and customizable.
- The double-tap to wake is a great feature and very reliable.
- Everything works as expected, no quirks. At this price, I was expecting something to be really off, but no, everything is great !
- I have never used a SD card (ok, used once), wireless charging, and always protected my phone from water, so I consider the lack of those features a non-issue for me.
Now for the less good parts:
- (Biggest issue if you come from Samsung or LG phones): Always-On display is missing and this is a significant issue (although it was present in the firmware before the updates, hopefully they bring it back !), I also like the LED notifications even more especially with the Light Flow app, but the problem is that this phone's LED is a little dim and small. However, it does the job.
- Phone is a little bigger than I would like, but really, it's nitpicking, it fits very well in my front pocket and I am already used to it
- Rear-placed fingerprint sensor makes it unusable for me, basically I will never use it, I can't use it in the car, I can't use it when the phone is on the table
- Face unlock is incredibly fast, but it doesn't work at an angle, when the phone is on the table and you glance at it, you can't use it when the phone is on the table.
- Your best bet for unlocking this phone reliably in the car or on the table is to wear a smartwatch and enable Smart Lock (I have a Pebble 2 - great smartwatch that wipes the floor with any Wear OS watch - think always-on screen and 8 days of battery life and great notification management - enough said).
- If you enable gestures instead of buttons (gestures are incredibly easy and intuitive on the OP6) you can't double tap to lock screen...that's a big issue for me, I don't want to press the power button a lot for durability reasons. For now I have left the navigation buttons in place (double tap home will lock the screen) but I hope a solution will be provided eventually. EDIT: a very recent OnePlus Launcher release just added "double-tap anywhere on the home screen to lock", so you can count this issue out
- The bottom-firing speaker is not ideal, many times I used the phone in portrait mode in bed and I cover the speaker with my finger. Samsung has a smarter placement on the side. Of course, dual front speakers would be nice but I don't use the speakers a lot and I much prefer the small bezels instead.
Conclusion: all in all, I consider the OnePlus 6 the most "balanced" flagship of the current generation of flagships. For me, aside from the lack of AOD (which will hopefully be reintroduced), it has almost no flaws. And the price is just...fair to the customer, most of the others have ripoff prices for phones that are missing critical features like decent battery life, for example.
This was my quick review.
Thanks !
I have gestures enabled and I can still use DT2W. Maybe because I enabled DT2W after enabling gestures. Can you try re-enabling DT2W?
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Nice little review though.
GizmoFreak said:
I have gestures enabled and I can still use DT2W. Maybe because I enabled DT2W after enabling gestures. Can you try re-enabling DT2W?
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Nice little review though.
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My problem was about double-tap to lock/sleep (I assume DT2W = double tap to wake), since there were no buttons you couldn't double-tap on the home button to lock. However, a very recent update to the OnePlus launcher just enabled double-tap anywhere on the home screen to lock, so my problem is solved. For those interested, the setting is in the launcher settings (long-press on home screen), not in the regular settings. So I can now use gestures !
Here are my first battery drain stats. Things look very good until now, with 4h SOT and 16h total stand-by and still 55% left. This is on the very first charge of the phone ! Very surprising to me. My usage consists of mostly web browsing, email, some music and some occasional video, I don't play games and I don't have any social media apps installed (I use Facebook from the browser when needed).
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My problem was about double-tap to lock/sleep (I assume DT2W = double tap to wake), since there were no buttons you couldn't double-tap on the home button to lock. However, a very recent update to the OnePlus launcher just enabled double-tap anywhere on the home screen to lock, so my problem is solved. For those interested, the setting is in the launcher settings (long-press on home screen), not in the regular settings. So I can now use gestures !
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Oops my bad. I meant double tap to sleep. Yeah may be then I enabled from the launcher settings so it was working for me.
Cst79 said:
My problem was about double-tap to lock/sleep (I assume DT2W = double tap to wake), since there were no buttons you couldn't double-tap on the home button to lock. However, a very recent update to the OnePlus launcher just enabled double-tap anywhere on the home screen to lock, so my problem is solved. For those interested, the setting is in the launcher settings (long-press on home screen), not in the regular settings. So I can now use gestures !
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with the following tools you can easily and cross device implement the features you're missing:
a) double tab to sleep works with a shortcut and an single tap icon on home screen and/or implemented into either swapps and/or LMT
. further nova launcher as well as the launcher you already mentioned have gestures to lock the screen, hence no problem to get that.
b) always on display can be had with a combo of screensaver clock plus (or another less nice watch LOL) and "auto screen saver" all in playstore.
need more info, simply send pm cause i won't follow this thread further, just came here once to hear what others think and found out.
magnamentis said:
with the following tools you can easily and cross device implement the features you're missing:
a) double tab to sleep works with a shortcut and an single tap icon on home screen and/or implemented into either swapps and/or LMT
. further nova launcher as well as the launcher you already mentioned have gestures to lock the screen, hence no problem to get that.
b) always on display can be had with a combo of screensaver clock plus (or another less nice watch LOL) and "auto screen saver" all in playstore.
need more info, simply send pm cause i won't follow this thread further, just came here once to hear what others think and found out.
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Double-tap to lock screen is an incredibly useful gesture but it requires deep OS support for proper functioning.
Any application-level double-tap to lock screen results in requiring the PIN when unlocking next time (try it...). This is a stupid Google "security" issue, present since Android 7 if I'm not mistaken.
Some launchers like Nova and Microsoft Launcher (also mentioned by you) use a hack and do not actually lock the screen on double-tap but make it black and set the screen timeout to a low value like 5 seconds. However, this approach is also bad, because if you put it in a pocket or touch the screen immediately after you "lock" the screen, the phone will unlock immediately because it was not yet really locked.
So "real" double-tap to lock is a plus for OnePlus, and I'm glad it's properly implemented ! Until now I have only seen it properly implemented in LG phones.
I there!
I can't find a way to make gesture works on my pixel 3.
Screen do not open when I take my device, it didn't open the screen when I double tap on it.
Even sometime, I need to reboot to make the fingerprint sensor being able to open the screen...
I have Magisk installed with january patch.
The fingerprint problem is more present since the last update.
AlwaysOn is disabled, however I installed Led Blinker Pro (even if I froze it, the problems are still there.)
The battery saving is disabled
I frozed the Wellbeing apps and the battery optimiser .
Any idea what's going on?