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A way to turn on my tablets screen when walking past it?

Hey guys, I've an Advent Vega, and would love if I could find a way to use the front camera to activate the screen when passing?
I'd leave it plugged in by the door, so as I'm leaving/coming home I can see the weather forecast and any tasks or emails waiting for me.
Any ideas guys n gals?
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Use smart screen on/off app.. It uses proximity sensor to lock or unlock device.. you can probably Swype your hand at the sensor n unlock it..
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That's aaalmost what would be ideal... just... i'd like it to be from the camera... for instance when I turn the coridor light on when I get home, or walk past it, so I can take a quick look passively without having to interact.
Anybody else got a suggestion? Maybe something paired with Tasker somehow?

vodzurk said:
That's aaalmost what would be ideal... just... i'd like it to be from the camera... for instance when I turn the coridor light on when I get home, or walk past it, so I can take a quick look passively without having to interact.
Anybody else got a suggestion? Maybe something paired with Tasker somehow?
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One thing you must know if that your front camera cannot sense your motion or anything.. no hardware support for it.. It's just like how your eyes cannot detect smell..
At the max you can make use of your proximity sensor for that purpose..
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kishankpadiyar said:
One thing you must know if that your front camera cannot sense your motion or anything.. no hardware support for it.. It's just like how your eyes cannot detect smell..
At the max you can make use of your proximity sensor for that purpose..
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Yes, I'm just wondering if there's a way to do it with a 3rd party app. Something that would keep the front camera turned on or take photos every second, and then continually process images for motion detection. Once detected, it would then activate the screen.

vodzurk said:
Yes, I'm just wondering if there's a way to do it with a 3rd party app. Something that would keep the front camera turned on or take photos every second, and then continually process images for motion detection. Once detected, it would then activate the screen.
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Sounds rele interesting.. But no such app as of now.. ;-)
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vodzurk said:
Yes, I'm just wondering if there's a way to do it with a 3rd party app. Something that would keep the front camera turned on or take photos every second, and then continually process images for motion detection. Once detected, it would then activate the screen.
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Dude here is what you are looking for.. Still a beta version app..
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708012
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kishankpadiyar said:
Dude here is what you are looking for.. Still a beta version app..
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708012
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Awesome!
That's almost exactly what I'm looking for!
Coolness... now my old tablet can sit by the door and remind my pathetic brain of what I need to do (or what my gf has added to the calendar more than likely), give me a quick glance of recent emails, and show me the weather forecast so I don't get soaked .
Thanks for finding that!

vodzurk said:
Hey guys, I've an Advent Vega, and would love if I could find a way to use the front camera to activate the screen when passing?
I'd leave it plugged in by the door, so as I'm leaving/coming home I can see the weather forecast and any tasks or emails waiting for me.
Any ideas guys n gals?
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA
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Hey dude, did you ever find an app? I want to do the exact same thing with an old tablet ☺

vodzurk said:
Awesome!
That's almost exactly what I'm looking for!
Coolness... now my old tablet can sit by the door and remind my pathetic brain of what I need to do (or what my gf has added to the calendar more than likely), give me a quick glance of recent emails, and show me the weather forecast so I don't get soaked .
Thanks for finding that!
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You could also keep another smartphone on your person and have the two devices paired and set the phone left at home to wake up when the paired device comes within range.

Myk61088 said:
Hey dude, did you ever find an app? I want to do the exact same thing with an old tablet ☺
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You could keep another smartphone on your person and have the two devices paired and set the phone left at home to wake up when the paired device comes within range.

Droidriven said:
You could keep another smartphone on your person and have the two devices paired and set the phone left at home to wake up when the paired device comes within range.
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Interesting Would this be done with tasker?

Myk61088 said:
Interesting Would this be done with tasker?
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I'm not certain, regardless of the setup you use, you need to be aware that nothing will work to do this if the device that you want to wake is in sleep mode or if the device has a screen lock enabled, no matter what you do. You'd have to permanently disable your pass/pin/pattern lock on the device that you want to wake remotely so that the device can stay in a state where it can detect the paired device when it approaches. You would still need to unlock the "normal" lockscreen that would normally require you to swipe the screen, but there is an option that automatically unlocks the screen when a paired "trusted device" is detected.
There are some options available that can wake the device when a paired device is detected, provided that the device to be woken is not in deep sleep or has a pass/pin/pattern lock enabled. Combine that with the "trusted device" option and it should do what you want and none of it should require root.
There is also a more complicated method to have the device set to wake when the paired device comes in range, but it requires writing some code and implementing the code on the device. But I think there is a way to do this with just enabling/disabling some settings, pairing the devices and setting the paired device that you will keep with you as the "trusted device", either via built in settings(if the device has them) or by installing an app that lets you connect the device as a "trusted device".
What is the android version on the device that you want to wake up remotely?

The tablet is TB-X606F on android 10 and my phone is on 12. I have disabled all kinds of screen lock, even the swip, so as soon and you press the unlock button you are presented straight away with the desktop. I can't though see any options around unlocking when paired, I'm going to put Tasker on the tablet and see if there is any options for screen unlock when in range and screen off when not in range. Failing that whole idea, all I can think of is using Flux to dim the screen to 0 when I turn the living room lights off at night effectively rendering the screen off at nighttimes?

[Q] customis the smart cover lock screen

Hi all,
I am using smart cover for my mate 7, my question is how can I customis or edit the smart cover lock screen to add for example extra page or open, dial, send SMS, open the open the call log or change the background!
Thanks

I had same question , tried many times but couldnt change smart cover picture . also i am unable to find smart lock ? having problem connecting bluetooth to my win 10 vaio, it is connected but i cant send data from phone to pc ! it fails . but i can receive from pc to phone.

Same problem for me with Lollipop on me MT7-LT10
I have upgrade my phone (in local) with the official B324 and i can't change the smartcover background, even when i try to change it by the theme menu, its always the picture with a bridge.
@ sabkt : the smart lock is for me in the "locksreen" menu in "other" section

One more here how we can change this ????

Same. I am done with Huawei. First they take years to update, we'll probably never even see Android 6. Their build quality equals total ****. I have had a replaced display by service center 2 TIMES NOW for screen bleed of whites and other lighter colors (in the middle of the screen, random places, etc. And then they manage to screw up one of the things they got right. The old clock and music player were amazing.

Same problem ... no solution???

Same problem here, and the impossibility to change the background it's very annoying

Whilst I wish I could change the picture, I don't miss music from the lock screen. I use PlayerPro and the built-in Music would override it on the lock screen plus it was forever randomly starting (Presumably I was catching the lock screen accidentally).

I having the Same problem too. After the update, I only can see miss call and message notification. I not able to see other than that to notification. Does anyone know how to configure this?

Same problems with me.
Is there some third party app which can to change default bridge picture theme on lolipop?

Also annoyed by this new lock. Want to at least be able to change wallpaper there.
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Maybe new B331 have solved this???
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This seems to be a general problem for Huawei/Honor phones.
I can not adjust anything on my Huawei G8 smart cover screen either. It's not the background picture that annoyes me, but that no notifications are display (except that the phone is ringing). Luckily I can switch off the smart cover screen. This way I can see the notification bar at least. Since I have enabled to show the notifications with a swipe over the fingerprint sensor I can view the top most notifications w/o opening the cover.

gabry3795 said:
Same problem here, and the impossibility to change the background it's very annoying
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RomanLeonH501 said:
Same problem ... no solution???
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Extornia said:
Same. I am done with Huawei. First they take years to update, we'll probably never even see Android 6. Their build quality equals total ****. I have had a replaced display by service center 2 TIMES NOW for screen bleed of whites and other lighter colors (in the middle of the screen, random places, etc. And then they manage to screw up one of the things they got right. The old clock and music player were amazing.
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yaser250 said:
One more here how we can change this ????
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elringer said:
Same problem for me with Lollipop on me MT7-LT10
I have upgrade my phone (in local) with the official B324 and i can't change the smartcover background, even when i try to change it by the theme menu, its always the picture with a bridge.
@ sabkt : the smart lock is for me in the "locksreen" menu in "other" section
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netvlada said:
Same problems with me.
Is there some third party app which can to change default bridge picture theme on lolipop?
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Chilli71 said:
This seems to be a general problem for Huawei/Honor phones.
I can not adjust anything on my Huawei G8 smart cover screen either. It's not the background picture that annoyes me, but that no notifications are display (except that the phone is ringing). Luckily I can switch off the smart cover screen. This way I can see the notification bar at least. Since I have enabled to show the notifications with a swipe over the fingerprint sensor I can view the top most notifications w/o opening the cover.
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Hi all,
Try the EMUI Theme Editor app on google play - i havent used it myself for the SmartCover, but it has got an option to change Smart Cover background. Has alot of other useful tools to change EMUI.

Missing tweaks

Hello Everyone,
I'm fresh owner (bouth a week ago) of Honor 9 and I'm very happy with the choise I've made. The phone is incredible fast (comparing from my previous Galaxy S6) and EMUI is well optimised. But, ehm let's complain a bit . I'm courious what kind of feature you're missing on your Honor 9 phone/EMUI. For me the complaining list would look like:
- Missing ability to control notification light - different freq. and color for different apps
- Gesture for home button - there would be nice if "scroll up/down" would trigger to enroll notification arean
- Dim clock as screensaver while charging (very usefull as I'm charging my phone while sleeping, and so could be use as night clock)
- Knock Knock feature on locked phone - to see notification when phone is on the table (I know there is notification LED for it)
Ok that's my complaining list. If you have any idea to overcome such a limitation feel free to suggest. Also don't hesitate to complain a bit as well
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I don't think there is a way to over come your complaints without rooting your device. Even rooting your device won't allow you to use the features you want on the home button.

iceepyon said:
I don't think there is a way to over come your complaints without rooting your device. Even rooting your device won't allow you to use the features you want on the home button.
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Hi iceepyon,
yes I believe you're right, there the missing feature about home button won't be most probably overcome without ROOTing the device and use custome KERNEL. To by honest with you I'd rather to not use the feature as some application I'm using won't run on ROOTed phones (based on official statements).
Hovewer I believe some of missing feature could be added by some app?Any recommendation?
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[email protected] said:
Hello Everyone,
I'm fresh owner (bouth a week ago) of Honor 9 and I'm very happy with the choise I've made. The phone is incredible fast (comparing from my previous Galaxy S6) and EMUI is well optimised. But, ehm let's complain a bit . I'm courious what kind of feature you're missing on your Honor 9 phone/EMUI. For me the complaining list would look like:
- Missing ability to control notification light - different freq. and color for different apps
- Gesture for home button - there would be nice if "scroll up/down" would trigger to enroll notification arean
- Dim clock as screensaver while charging (very usefull as I'm charging my phone while sleeping, and so could be use as night clock)
- Knock Knock feature on locked phone - to see notification when phone is on the table (I know there is notification LED for it)
Ok that's my complaining list. If you have any idea to overcome such a limitation feel free to suggest. Also don't hesitate to complain a bit as well
z4nD4R
Y
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- most phones nowadays don't have notification light. Probably because the phone spend most of its time in our hands
- I agree with this one. The fingerprint scanner supports swiping gesture
- honor 9 uses ips lcd screen, even if its dimmed, the whole screen still light up. This will heavily drain the battery
- you can use wave on proximity sensor app to turn the screen on

pijes said:
- most phones nowadays don't have notification light. Probably because the phone spend most of its time in our hands
- I agree with this one. The fingerprint scanner supports swiping gesture
- honor 9 uses ips lcd screen, even if its dimmed, the whole screen still light up. This will heavily drain the battery
- you can use wave on proximity sensor app to turn the screen on
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@pijes,
1. Maybe most of the phones doesn't have notification LED (wouldn't be so sure about this one), but Honor 9 does, so ability to control it would be usefull
2. Yeah would be nice, but dunno if if is possible withou kernel upgrading
3. Yes, could be battery dainer, but I'm speaking about situation when the phone is charging actually
4. Can you explain a bit deeper the statement, about to using "waze on proximity sensor app"?
Thx
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[email protected] said:
@pijes,
1. Maybe most of the phones doesn't have notification LED (wouldn't be so sure about this one), but Honor 9 does, so ability to control it would be usefull
2. Yeah would be nice, but dunno if if is possible withou kernel upgrading
3. Yes, could be battery dainer, but I'm speaking about situation when the phone is charging actually
4. Can you explain a bit deeper the statement, about to using "waze on proximity sensor app"?
Thx
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3. Charging and discharging simultaneously can be harmful to the battery health
4. There are a few apps out there that try to simulate the wake screen using gestures and usually they implement it by making use of the proximity sensor. AcDisplay, WaveUp and Glance Plus are among them

[email protected] said:
Hovewer I believe some of missing feature could be added by some app?Any recommendation?
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Well, there is honestly nothing much which can be done if you want to add the knock on wake feature. Same can be said of the notification LED as those are built into the device's official stock OS. The only thing you can do is install a 3rd party OS and hope that it has some of the features you want. However be warned that most if not all 3rd party OSes do not have the best post image processing software so your pictures won't turn out as good as if you have taken them using the stock OS that came with your device.

@iceepyon, yes I can imagine that most 3rd party OS won't have such a camera software optimalization. Btw, I've read some post about how to enable 3rd party clock as screensaver. I can't understand why Honor/Huawei disabled this feature, which is present in stcok android.
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@iceepyon, yes I can imagine that most 3rd party OS won't have such a camera software optimalization. Btw, I've read some post about how to enable 3rd party clock as screensaver. I can't understand why Honor/Huawei disabled this feature, which is present in stcok android.
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Probably due to security issues. As Huawei has been focusing quite allot on making and keeping their devices secure.

@iceepyon, I really don't know how "clock" screensaver would expose the security more than "image slideshow" screensaver
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[email protected] said:
@iceepyon, I really don't know how "clock" screensaver would expose the security more than "image slideshow" screensaver
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If you are using a 3rd party widget. There is a possibility that the widget may have certain permissions that could cause a issue.

iceepyon said:
If you are using a 3rd party widget. There is a possibility that the widget may have certain permissions that could cause a issue.
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@iceepyon, I believe that's problem with all 3rd party applications Its matter of trust in Google Play. I found this tutorial to set custom screensaver on Huawei devices: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-...ver-on-huawei-and-honor-devices-running-emui/
What do you think, would it work for Honor 9?
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[email protected] said:
@iceepyon, I believe that's problem with all 3rd party applications Its matter of trust in Google Play. I found this tutorial to set custom screensaver on Huawei devices: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-...ver-on-huawei-and-honor-devices-running-emui/
What do you think, would it work for Honor 9?
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Ummmm. Probably. Personally I wouldn't as you could easily mess up the settings on your device.

iceepyon said:
Ummmm. Probably. Personally I wouldn't as you could easily mess up the settings on your device.
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That's right, but with 90% of advices/topic here on `xda` you can easily mess up your device settings, isn't that true? Anyway thank you for your opinion.
Is there anybody esle whou'd like to complain a bit?
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Is there anybody esle whou'd like to complain a bit?
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That is certainly true of rooting or installing custom OSes onto your mobile device. As there are so many things which can go wrong. However current versions of android are now at a point where unless you need to have your device rooted for work purposes. There really isn't a point for the average user to do so.

force touch always on display simulator

Hi guys, I have a question Can you simulate the Force touch on the always in the display instead of the double tap to wake up the device?

andrea2004 said:
Hi guys, I have a question Can you simulate the Force touch on the always in the display instead of the double tap to wake up the device?
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How can you simulate something that is hw related? Lol

BlackMesa123 said:
How can you simulate something that is hw related? Lol
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I also ask for it, but I had a s5 with a rom port s8 and I was always on dysplay with the force touch.

andrea2004 said:
I also ask for it, but I had a s5 with a rom port s8 and I was always on dysplay with the force touch.
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Force touch? You maybe mean AOD Touch port by NX Team and it wasn't a "Force touch emulation" but a workaround to make touch to work without Doze panel drivers in kernel

BlackMesa123 said:
Force touch? You maybe mean AOD Touch port by NX Team and it wasn't a "Force touch emulation" but a workaround to make touch to work without Doze panel drivers in kernel
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yes, something like that. is there a way to port it on a8?

andrea2004 said:
yes, something like that. is there a way to port it on a8?
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A8 has native AOD so it has AOD touch and Doze drivers itself lol..

BlackMesa123 said:
A8 has native AOD so it has AOD touch and Doze drivers itself lol..
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ok, I understand, thank you

[SOLVED]Add functionality to fingerprint sensor

Hello,
We already can use the fingerprint sensor to open and close the notification panel and I would know if it is possible to use it for others utilities like for example touch the sensor to come Bach to the home screen.

jacquesallet said:
Hello,
We already can use the fingerprint sensor to open and close the notification panel and I would know if it is possible to use it for others utilities like for example touch the sensor to come Bach to the home screen.
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Yes, we can. But we need an app like fingerprint gestures to do it. It's better with root.

absvini said:
Yes, we can. But we need an app like fingerprint gestures to do it. It's better with root.
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Thanks!