The system alarm app that comes with Android will open a screen to snooze or swipe to stop the alarm. There is an option to use a physical side button to stop it. But this opens the homescreen, and if I stop it in my pocket, all sorts of evil things will happen. (Locking the screen isn't practical for me.)
So: are there apps that don't activate the screen when they sound the alarm or when they're stopped?
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When I am on a phone call my ear hits the notification bar and because I am holding the phone the way that I am the screen orients for landscape. When I finish the call I have to chase the "Close" button from the left edge to the bottom (because I have now moved the phone back to portrait position), or tap the bottom of the phone to get the screen to re-orienate so I can close "Notifications" before I hit "End" to end the call. I like having the ability to tap and get notifications but I hate that when on a call I initiate it. Is there a way to make the notifications bar inactive when I am on a call? Now that I think about it...I use Co0kies Home Tabs so I actually get my notifications there. Maybe there is a way to turn of notifications all together? I realize there is probably already another thread for that and since I would prefer to have both I'll stick with my original thought.
There is an app out there called Toddler Lock that my daughter likes to play with. It makes shapes and colors on the screen, but does not respond when the menu, home, back and search buttons are touched. When this app is open, it requires a touch pattern to exit the app. Simply touching each of the 4 screen corners going clockwise exits the app.
Is there a video player that has any kind of feature like this? Is there any standalone app that disables the touch screen with the long press of a softkey or gesture?
duckredbeard said:
There is an app out there called Toddler Lock that my daughter likes to play with. It makes shapes and colors on the screen, but does not respond when the menu, home, back and search buttons are touched. When this app is open, it requires a touch pattern to exit the app. Simply touching each of the 4 screen corners going clockwise exits the app.
Is there a video player that has any kind of feature like this? Is there any standalone app that disables the touch screen with the long press of a softkey or gesture?
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Act 1 Video Player (paid app)
It can lock the screen at the press of "L" or TrackBall/TrackPad/OJ
mVideoPlayer also has this feature when you press the camera button it locks the touchscreen and all softkey buttons (except Home).
Unfortunately neither of those will play .avi files. Most of my library is in .avi.
I'll start to convert them to mp4 since they seem to be the more popular forrmat.
There was one time I controlled the snooze button from the side panel. But that just happened once. It's kinda tedious to open the flip case just to snooze you're phone.
Hope someone can help me
If i rotate the bezel i switch over to weather updates or news or other apps...
I wanted to replace this functionality and control the brightness level by simply rotating the bezel.
I use the "I am Awake" app to always keep my watvh face on.... only thing i want now is a some app which makes the bezel rotation control the brightness. I dont want to go to brightness setting and then use bezel rotation to lower or raise brightness... its too long process and cant do it everytime..
Any such app exists ?
The closest ive come to doing this is by setting double tap of home button to "open last app" option...
So i go to brightness option.. then press home button... then whenever i wanna change brightness... i simply double tap home button and the brightness menu opens and i can rotate bezel to increase or decrease brightness......
But i want to remove this requirement of double tapping home button also...... simply rotate the bezel and brightness goes up or down....
Fyi... auto low brightness option is not so good.... its not so responsive.... it is slow.... sometimes it does not reduce the brightness only...
So thats why i was looking for the manual quick option to inc or dec brightness by just rotating bezel
I know and completely get what you're talking about, it would be nice to be able to modify the bezel actions.
The problem is that the bezel action is programmed into the OS, and Samsung / Tizen doesn't allow a program to override the base actions when you are out of the specific program.
I looked into this before, but with music instead of brightness. Long story short, my car stereo had an AUX input, and instead of looking at my phone to change songs, I usually just take my Gear S2 and put it on the steering wheel.
Now to change songs, I can use the bezel rotation. But, I would have to have the home double press go to the Music Player. If the screen was off for. More than 10 seconds, the bezel would go back to the normal actions.
I looked into it more, and it just seems that you really can't override the default behavior....long story short.
Tapatalk for Android - Works awesome on my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge
I use the S7 Edge stock Oreo clock app alarm to get me up etc. When the alarm sounds. If the phone moves even slightly or I attempt to open the flip cover, the sensor turns off / snoozes the alarm. This is extremely annoying as I then have to open the flip cover, unlock the screen, try to expand the notification and hit dismiss! I want the alarm to sound until I swipe the red dot on the screen to dismiss the alarm or select snooze should I wish!
Please can anyone advise how I stop this overly sensitive and highly irritating feature! I don't want any sounds on my phone stopped/muted/snoozed by opening the Samsung flip case, rolling the phone over, placing my hand over the screen. What is so hard about pressing a button or swiping the screen!
Thanks.
Turn off hand gestures in settings