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I prefer to disable the screen timeout when I have the phone plugged in.
Under Froyo, it was as easy changing the value from "0" to "1" in:
/dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.settings/settings.db -> system -> stay_on_while_plugged_in
Same setting exists in GB; however, it doesn't seem to work and something is resetting it to zero on every reboot. Anyone have any suggestions on either how to get this to work or if there is another way to get GB to behave this way? (Note: I would prefer to not use a third party app/service if at all possible...)
Raccroc said:
I prefer to disable the screen timeout when I have the phone plugged in.
Under Froyo, it was as easy changing the value from "0" to "1" in:
/dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.settings/settings.db -> system -> stay_on_while_plugged_in
Same setting exists in GB; however, it doesn't seem to work and something is resetting it to zero on every reboot. Anyone have any suggestions on either how to get this to work or if there is another way to get GB to behave this way? (Note: I would prefer to not use a third party app/service if at all possible...)
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This is the one I like to use:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gmail.developer.runks.enji&feature=search_result
I have also used this one:
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.leppoc.android.dashboard&feature=search_result
Thanks...I'll give them a shot.
Still would like to know which settings they are altering in order to work. The phone has the built in functionality and it irks me that Samsung decided to hide it and that I cannot get it to work w/o having yet another app.
The price we pay for cutting edge I guess
Coming from a long line of Sony phones, I recently bought a locally-made (PH) phone in hopes of getting more bang for the buck.
The device's name is STARMOBILE UP. It is relatively new so I can't seem to find answers to my problem. I also do not know what OEM device this is since local brands in the Philippines rebrand phones from Micromax, Karbonn, etc.
While I successfully (and painstakingly) rooted it and installed CWM, I can't seem to find the other (and mostly more important) options under Developer Options (please see attached photo). Among the options I am looking for is the ANIMATION SCALE. I want to lower these values in order to save the phone from unnecessary eye candy.
In the many phones I have used in the past, I have always turned these options off. I don't really need them.
Is there any way, then, to make these missing developer options appear? Or if not, just totally disable these animations via terminal?
If it will be of any help, my device runs 4.4.2. Please see attached image for more info.
Thanks in advance, awesome folks!
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Coming from a long line of Sony phones, I recently bought a locally-made (PH) phone in hopes of getting more bang for the buck.
The device's name is STARMOBILE UP. It is relatively new so I can't seem to find answers to my problem. I also do not know what OEM device this is since local brands in the Philippines rebrand phones from Micromax, Karbonn, etc.
While I successfully (and painstakingly) rooted it and installed CWM, I can't seem to find the other (and mostly more important) options under Developer Options (please see attached photo). Among the options I am looking for is the ANIMATION SCALE. I want to lower these values in order to save the phone from unnecessary eye candy.
In the many phones I have used in the past, I have always turned these options off. I don't really need them.
Is there any way, then, to make these missing developer options appear? Or if not, just totally disable these animations via terminal?
If it will be of any help, my device runs 4.4.2. Please see attached image for more info.
Thanks in advance, awesome folks!
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Open about phone and tap build number for seven times, then developer option will appear
Dickey Kid'deviel said:
Open about phone and tap build number for seven times, then developer option will appear
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I know that tapping the Build Number seven times should make the 'hidden' Developer Options appear. But as you can see, the Developer Options is NOT HIDDEN, it's incomplete.
Aside from that, this model has no Build Number as you can see on the screenshot posted above. Instead, it has Model Number, which, if tapped seven times, doesn't do anything.
Also, another problem, Notifications in Kitkat seem to make the screen wake up every time there is a notification. I fiddled with Notification and Messaging settings and there seems to be no way to turn this feature off. Any tips?
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I know that tapping the Build Number seven times should make the 'hidden' Developer Options appear. But as you can see, the Developer Options is NOT HIDDEN, it's incomplete.
Aside from that, this model has no Build Number as you can see on the screenshot posted above. Instead, it has Model Number, which, if tapped seven times, doesn't do anything.
Also, another problem, Notifications in Kitkat seem to make the screen wake up every time there is a notification. I fiddled with Notification and Messaging settings and there seems to be no way to turn this feature off. Any tips?
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Regarding missing options, it is probably a modification the OEM made.
About notification, I have a Nexus 5 and I've never seen something like that. Does it happen with every app?
CriGiu said:
Regarding missing options, it is probably a modification the OEM made.
About notification, I have a Nexus 5 and I've never seen something like that. Does it happen with every app?
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On point 1, it could be the case. God, I miss the animation scale option.
As for the notifications, I have notifications set to ON for Messaging only so I don't know the case for other apps.
narflynn619 said:
On point 1, it could be the case. God, I miss the animation scale option.
As for the notifications, I have notifications set to ON for Messaging only so I don't know the case for other apps.
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So whenever you receive a message, the screen wakes up. Have you tried changing the messaging app?
dial this *#*#7827#*#*
No animation scale in Developer Options
I have a THL T11 and the animation scales (window, transition) are also missing in the Developer Options. It seem that it is common many chinese phones have incomplete Developer Options menu.
I tried "Spare Parts" app which has options to modify animation, but it does not work.
I searched a long time for an answer on how to change the animation scale settings in this situation and finally found it!
NOTE: since every phone is different, it may not work on your phone. You also need a rooted phone (which you already have) to make the mod.
(1) install "Dev Tools" by Dipesh Rathod from Google Play store
find "Settings.Global" under "Device" menu
click "Settings.Global" - > look for (i) animator_duration_scale (ii) transition_animation_scale (iii) window_animation_scale
@@ If you DO NOT have "Settings.Global" or any of the above animation scale entries, sorry you cannot use this method to change the scale @@
If you have the above items on the list, continue ...
(2) press "back" button on your phone to return the main menu of Dev Tools -> see if you have "SQlite".
If you don't, you need to install it from Google Play store (app is called "sqlite installer")
(3) YOUR PHONE NEEDS TO BE ROOTED ALREADY. Install "Terminal Emulator" from Google Play Store
(4) open Terminal Emulator and follow this procedure:
a) type "su" (without quotation marks) and press <Enter> - to gain root access
b) type "chmod -R 777 /data" (without quotation marks) and press <Enter> - to allow read/write in /data folder and subfolders
c) type the following to change window animation scale and press <Enter>:
Code:
sqlite3 "/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db" "update global set value = '0' where name = 'window_animation_scale';"
d) type the following to change transition animation scale and press <Enter>:
Code:
sqlite3 "/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db" "update global set value = '0' where name = 'transition_animation_scale';"
e) type the following to change animator duration scale and press <Enter>:
Code:
sqlite3 "/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db" "update global set value = '0' where name = 'animator_duration_scale';"
(this is already off on my phone, therefore I did not make this change myself)
NOTE: Use '0' to turn the animation off completely. I use '0.5' on my phone because I find that this is smoothly than turning it off completely, and faster than '1' (default on my phone).
f) you can close Terminal Emulator now (top right "X" button and choose OK)
(5) REBOOT THE PHONE to apply these changes.
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Just for curiosity, I used Dev Tools to look at my Galaxy Note 2 - there is NO "Settings.Global" or "Settings.System", and I cannot find any entries for animation scale. Therefore, I made a disclaimer this method may not work on all phones.
"Settings.Global" overrides "Settings.System" therefore you don't need to use this method to change the System setting (eg. "... update system set value ..."). Making changes to "Settings.System" only affect the Android system UI transitions but not the app transitions.
Does anyone else have issues with the separate app sound setting getting turned off? It's pretty damn annoying to have to turn it back on every time I reboot my S8+
On the note of annoying things at reboot, why does the phone require a password instead of your finger print, retina, or pattern if you have them set up? It doesn't make any sense to me, especially when it seems like either of the bio-metric options are much more secure than just a password.
Thanks.
For me it's secure boot that turns itself off. What's more interesting that you usually need to type in your password to confirm disabling secure boot but it doesn't ask for it.
Just wondering if anyone discovered a method to automatically enable this feature after reboot? Maybe something Tasker could trigger?
Hi,
i´m a little confused. I tried to change the dpi settings on my new mediapad t5 under system -> developer options -> smallest width to 800 (and i tried 700,that was changed to 702) but when i reboot it is resetted to 566.
I also tried to chage it with the tool "minimal_adb_fastboot_1.4.3_portable" and used the command adb shell wm density 800 && adb reboot the device does a reboot but the value is not changed. i dont want to root the device right now. how can i change the dpi without rooting, what did i wrong?
That's "normal" I can't keep it when I reboot too.
for my end I'm ok rooting but I didn't found a way to make it stay after a reboot.
I'm really waiting for custom rom... Really good tablet but not-so-good EMUI8...
is it possible to have a start script that will set the dpi to 700 on every boot? does someone know how to implement a startscript without root?
Also trying to achieve this now. But get the same problem.
It's set to normall again after rebooting.
From the other side, USB debugging is also not holding it's settings. So don't know if it's related to each other somehow.
I also noticed that the left side icons in the settings menu dissapear when changing dpi setting above 640?
So far rebooting is the only way to get them back (resetting dpi) for me.
Annyone found a sollution already for this? Or can someone confirm rooting will help (keeping the stock ROM)?
I am also looking for solution but no clue !
The only solution is Polished Custom Rom and it's not available yet!
I am using this tab for Netflix and Prime only. So, right now I am happy with EMUI 8.
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Hey guys, this has already been asked in this forum somewhere.. I've changed my dpi to a usable setting although I'm not sure what it's actually set to!
Use Quickshortcutmaker, grab it from play store. You can create a home screen icon to open vision settings. Open the settings and set everything to small.
I've done this and it persists through a reboot. I can't tell you if it's 700 but it's way better than the insane huge stock settings
Hi,
I just bought a joying UIS7862, 6GB+128GB,10.1" 1920x1200 head unit. I am not sure what type this unit is, is it a TS10?
The problem is that in third party applications everything is very small, small fonts, small details. This applies to apps like tidal, google maps, chrome etc. It is basically impossible to use these apps comfortably.
There is no "font size" or "display size" option in the device settings.
I solved the problem by changing the "smallest width" setting in the developer options from 1200 to 700. The apps look good now. the built-in apps also look good, except for the EQ app and the built-in launcher.
The launcher is not displayed at all, however, this problem can be easily solved by installing another launcher such as car web guru, which works great.
The real problem is with the EQ application which does not scale well. Some controls are out of screen, others are displayed incorrectly.
Is there an alternative application that supports dsp functions (dsp version of this device is dsp55) and will be displayed correctly?
Maybe someone has another way to solve the problem I described.
Marek.
I've done the same change on my 11.6 version. Did you do a full system reboot after changing the dpi setting? I had the same issue until I did a full reboot, then the system apps changed to the appropriate dpi scaling. You may want to change the dpi in small increments as well until everything looks correct.
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I've done the same change on my 11.6 version. Did you do a full system reboot after changing the dpi setting? I had the same issue until I did a full reboot, then the system apps changed to the appropriate dpi scaling. You may want to change the dpi in small increments as well until everything looks correct.
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What do you mean by 'full reboot"? All other system aps scale well, only eq app doesn't.
Just the Reboot from the top drop down menu. I guess I had not noticed if the EQ app was significantly larger in scale after the dpi change.
You missed the FYT forum listing your device....
Yet another.
Requested mod moves to FYT.
marchnz said:
You missed the FYT forum listing your device....
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Sorry, I was not aware that my device is FYT. I am new to this...
WestonWW said:
Just the Reboot from the top drop down menu. I guess I had not noticed if the EQ app was significantly larger in scale after the dpi change.
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I think I did it before, but to be sure I did a reboot today few times. It didn't help.
This happened on my 10 inch joying (airmont sc9853i). I hated it so much. Here's what I did. Should work for you.
Enable ADB by.... (or using Termux app)
- going to settings > system > developer options > 3368 > confirm
- at the top of the screen on right, tap three dots overflow menu icon > USB computer connection > pick the 2nd one (usually the one not selected on restarts)
- under where it says developer option, inline where it says "On", make sure that toggle switch is "ON"
- scroll down to, USB debugging, enable
Find the OTG port on the back of your unit. plug in a laptop with adb installed properly so you can 'adb shell'
From that shell, type enter the command 'wm' to being up its help.
what you are looking for is the correct "wm overscan [LEFT,TOP,RIGHT,BOTTOM]"
"wm overscan 10,0,0,0" worked great for me
dont worry about any white bars, they will go away after the screen redraws (switch apps or something)
I never adjusted any fonts or dpi in the system
hths
Thank you. And what about smallest width setting? Should it go back to 1200 as it was originally?
yegolebi said:
Thank you. And what about smallest width setting? Should it go back to 1200 as it was originally?
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Yea. See if it makes any weird apps better. If not, leave it.
It turned out that the overscan setting didn't solve my problem, however Your answer pointed me in right direction. Thank you.
What was that right direction, post what you learnt so others may prosper
I mean that I started to experiment with adb and wm command, which I was not aware of before. Then I had the idea that I will use tasker to change DPI each time the eq app started and change it back on the exit. But this didn't work. Tasker can not change DPI in my case. I get error 1 message. So when I want to use this app I manually change DPI. The truth is I don't mess much with those settings once I've sett it to my liking....
WestonWW said:
I've done the same change on my 11.6 version. Did you do a full system reboot after changing the dpi setting? I had the same issue until I did a full reboot, then the system apps changed to the appropriate dpi scaling. You may want to change the dpi in small increments as well until everything looks correct.
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Hi may I know what do you changed to ? I
I believe I set it to 720p (1280x720), common resolutions seem to work the best. I've since exchanged this unit for the new 11.6 slim so I can't say for sure.