pinning several recent apps on overview screen and other functions I miss - HTC U11 Life Questions & Answers

Hi All,
I've just started using this phone - previous one was an LG G4c so it is definitely a huge jump for me.
My question as the topic title suggest… is related more about application side than on the device itself, but you may still know the answer.?
So I got used to that feature on the LG phone that I can pin several recent apps on overview screen. This is something different from the "basic" Android feature "pin one app exclusively on top" setting.
I'm missing another clever thing too - namely the so called knock knock...to wake the screen.
I tried to find in the Google play store such apps but was unsuccessful...therefore asking here.
And the most annoying thing I came across: seems like the ring and notification alert sounds again linked?? Is it the phone or Oreo...?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Rob

brobi69 said:
Hi All,
I've just started using this phone - previous one was an LG G4c so it is definitely a huge jump for me.
My question as the topic title suggest… is related more about application side than on the device itself, but you may still know the answer.
So I got used to that feature on the LG phone that I can pin several recent apps on overview screen. This is something different from the "basic" Android feature "pin one app exclusively on top" setting.
I'm missing another clever thing too - namely the so called knock knock...to wake the screen.
I tried to find in the Google play store such apps but was unsuccessful...therefore asking here.
And the most annoying thing I came across: seems like the ring and notification alert sounds again linked?? Is it the phone or Oreo...?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Rob
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Hi, to your first question i cant say something because never heard of that feature (i think this was made by lg). What you call "knock knock" is called "double tap to wake" or short dt2w, depending on your version of the U11 life you could maybe get that feature. With the North American Sense Version of the U11 life you can use a custom kernel and thats the only way to get this working, but if you have the international Android One Version there is no way to get dt2w if you are no developer and you can do it by yourself ;p. For the last question, sure you can setup different sounds for notification and calls only the volume level is linked and i think this i oreo or htc related but i´m sure there is a xposed or magisk module which can give you seperated volume level control.

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Hi, to your first question i cant say something because never heard of that feature (i think this was made by lg). What you call "knock knock" is called "double tap to wake" or short dt2w, depending on your version of the U11 life you could maybe get that feature. With the North American Sense Version of the U11 life you can use a custom kernel and thats the only way to get this working, but if you have the international Android One Version there is no way to get dt2w if you are no developer and you can do it by yourself ;p. For the last question, sure you can setup different sounds for notification and calls only the volume level is linked and i think this i oreo or htc related but i´m sure there is a xposed or magisk module which can give you seperated volume level control.
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I am on stock sense version, stock kernel and have dt2w.
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[X1][5.0 transform]Knowledge Required and Ideas

Hello friends!
I need some ideas and help from your knowledge-full minds if you don't mind sharing some
My first one its a problem and it sounds like this:
I really need to see where this popup is located so I can disable it because its getting anoying. Everytime I send some big sms messages and I pass a number of sent mesagges/hour, this system popup appears and I have to dismiss it for every sms message.
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Translation: SMS Bomber (the app i used to simulate my daily use of sms messages) sends a big number of sms messages. Do you allow this app to send messages?
And the radio buttons are "deny" and "allow"
I used every popup blocker/finder and i can't seem to find it. I manualy searched for it in system files, I took almost every .xml file one by one and searched for a clue but i can't seem to find it at all. I made a logcat but i can't seem to understand what that big amount of data is telling me. Does anyone have a clue about this kind of system popup and how to disable it?
EDIT: i found out what's causing it, and that is the 100 sms limit generic on any android smartphone, but in my smartphone its ducking 20 msg/hour. I tried all the ways, with 3-party apps, sql editor and manual adding but it still shows up. Any ideas?
EDIT 2: I fixed it. Looks like that on 4.2 you have to add the entry in the global db
The second one its not a problem, i just need some advice. I want to customize my stock rom to the max (there isn't a custom rom for my smartphone and I want to make it just like Android 5.0 with only root acces and stock recovery/rom) and i managed to modify the status bar with exposed, I took a launcher that was just like lolipop, i modified the ppi, I tweaked the guI with some xposed plugins but that is not enought because my popups, power menu and settings menu are the same. I read something about framework res but i am not sure about it and what does it do. Do you have any info that can help me? Maybe i will publish the rom for my smartphone after I tweak it a little bit if i manage to do it well.
The third one is a problem that bothers me from when i bought the phone. Whenever i plug in my smartphone a usb cable, my telephony signal dies. I can't receive/send any calls or sms messages in that time. What could it be?
The forth and the last one is about a thing that I want on my phone and i can't seem to find nothing. I want to wake/unlock my phone without using the power button (i have a 5" smartphone and the power button is located in the upper side) with a double tap or a gesture. I heard that i need kernel-level permisions and that i need a super-amoled or amoled screen (because of the black pixels that don't light up when they are black) but nexus 4 has "Touch control" app that lets it do the knock wake but it has IPS display like mine so i guess it is possible. Any ideas?
EDIT: managed to use Tap Tap App and it's ok
Sorry for the long post, here is the cat-tax and the potato-tax
And sorry for my english, it's not my first language
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Bump. Nobody has a clue about these problems?
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[Idea] [Poll] Quick Settings in Android Wear!

Hi everyone!
Today I've created a mockup of my own idea: A Quick Settings interface for Wear!
As lots of other users out there, I hate to scroll 5-6 times to finally turn on airplane mode when I want to use my smartwatch as a watch only. This would be a much better and of course, faster option to turn settings on- and off quickly with only one slide...
Maybe we could add Location and theather mode to the bottom line, but as I see, three icons would do the job.
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I hope if we create a bit of a hype Google will consider creating something like this in the M edition of Android Wear...
Anyway... Do you like the idea?
Looks cool. Doesnt 5.1.1 already have something similar?
No, it does not. This is especially annoying because you cannot use WiFi directly without putting the device in airplane mode first.
This is awesome and would be incredibly useful for me.
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This is awesome and would be incredibly useful for me.
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Thanks! Feel free to repost on other forums! I hope if we reach out enough users Google would implement it in the next update
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No, it does not. This is especially annoying because you cannot use WiFi directly without putting the device in airplane mode first.
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Why would you want to do this? Airplane mode disables interaction in the google apps. If you want to force wifi, better to turn bluetooth off on your phone.
The reason is if you want to use an app online. For instance, if you need a web browser or es file explorer on your watch. Bluetooth has no bearing. The system does not allow user apps to go online. There are two solutions (not one like I said before).
1, enable airplane mode, and then enable and connect to WiFi.
2, Put the app you want to have WiFi access in the system folder (I think both priv-app and app work).
Of course both have drawbacks, but that is the way it is right?
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The system does not allow user apps to go online.
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Apparently, like a lot of other solutions that have been found in android wear, there's an unofficial way to do things.
See web browser for a.w.
Looks awesome, maybe I'm slowly considering to get one of these petting watches
Yes please.
I like it ? should really be in it
yes please! I don't understand why google insists on coming up with a more "watch specific" interface for Wear, when scaling down vanilla android would have been a more familiar experience: pull down for toggles, swipe left/right to access your screens where you can deploy icons for quick launch apps, or one screen dedicated to notifications ala samsungs' touchwiz widgets page? I would pay for a mini version of Nova launcher on my watch.

Questions Coming to Google from Microsoft

Greetings,
Long time contributer to XDA here for Windows development. Since the windows phone is essentially dead I had to move over to Google. I picked up the Pixel 2 from VZW and I have a pile of questions about this phone. Hoping you can answer me as may friends with Droids, Galaxys, and Essential phones tell me this is the Google phone so their version of Android is different.
1. Can you customize the screensaver with something better? Just the clock and icons sucks. It plain sucks. My wifes Droid has circles you hold down to view at a glance. It's there other apps that make the screensaver show weather and calendar info etc. My windows phone had that and it was awesome.
2. I was able to respond to texts outside the pin or device lock. If I wanted to do anything else with message I had to unlock it. Is there a way to do this on the Pixel 2?
3. Going through the Play Store shows the same home screen apps over and over that just customize the background and make the same overall look of the Android OS. Are there home screen apps that tear that down and make it look completely different that are customizable? I used to live the Manilla UI of the late 2000s. Does anyone do that? Android has the ability not sure why noone though of bringing it back. It was clean a d smooth and highly functional.
Thanks in advance for helping me out. Currently running a home screen app toake it look like the windows phone but it VASTLY lacks the ability to show information, make it look clean, and all around is not as good as the metro style live tiles are. Also repsonding to messages and having to unlock all the time is so infuriating.
Phone info attached. Thanks!
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Since you bought the VZW version instead of buying from the Google Store, root might be hard to acquire if that's something that you want. Some of the apps that I'm recommending give you more flexibility and control if you have root access.
1) Take a look at "Widget Locker."
I'm not sure how well it works on the pixel 2. I just use the stock lock screen. Though I used it on my HTC M8 for a long time and it worked very well.
2) You could probably just turn off your lock screen, or find an app that lets you bypass it. Though your disabling part of the security of your phone if you choose to go that way.
3) Check out Nova Launcher, and Zooper Widget. There's also YouTube videos of a reviewer that goes over custom phone setups. When I get to my computer I will try to find them and post the link to their page.
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3) try Nova launcher (prime) and/or Klwp. Klwp let's you do practically anything you can or can't imagine, including windows-phone-like setups.
There are also some launchers like smart launcher, using a different approach then the standard launchers, although I don't use smart launcher some people really seem to like it
Try Microsoft launcher app. It will make your Android system have some windows phone behavior. But still not windows phone and I don't like it.

Confused by notification sounds under vibration mode

Hi, my Pixel 3a is making a sound whenever there is a notification, although I have set the phone to vibrate (even in the do-not-disturb mode!). I have used Android phones for the past eight years, so I think I am pretty familiar with all the little things with Android, but I am just confused to hell about what is going on. I checked a few settings, and they look okay to me (which means that it would behave "normally" on my old phone). I have media volume set to non zero, but that should not matter as I understand.
I think if I turn off app notification sound in individual app's notification settings it should work, but obviously it is a daunting task that I do not want to bother.
I wonder if you can offer some advice. Thank you.
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Yeah this confuses me as well. The only way i found was to tap the notifcation symbol again so it turns to the bell with the line through it. But then theres no vibrate either
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Yeah this confuses me as well. The only way i found was to tap the notifcation symbol again so it turns to the bell with the line through it. But then theres no vibrate either
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I still have the notification sounds under the mute mode (and was again waken by a sound at 5am this morning). I suspected this may have something to do with Google Assistant, and while I am not 100% sure about it, I tried something and it worked for me: I turned off "notification access" (Apps & notifications > special app access, or via search) of "Google" and some other apps, tried to trigger notifications, and the phone vibrated/stayed silent as expected. I turned them back on, and everything still works fine. Hope they do not com back.
You may want to give that a try.
EDIT: DO NOT turn the access back on -- it may fail after you reconnect to your Bluetooth headset.
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Yeah this confuses me as well. The only way i found was to tap the notifcation symbol again so it turns to the bell with the line through it. But then theres no vibrate either
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There is a thread for it now:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixe..._bug/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Since these notification channels were implemented, the whole way of the notifications being served got upside down and confusing. R&D forgot at 7.0 already that android is a phone os, some people don't have time to granularly tune each and every app and set the sound and vibrate and other bs.
Same here, Facebook's notifications can come with a weird sound even if I cut off any sound...

Split Screen won't work

I cant get split screen to work on this phone which is really bothering me..
The button to turn it on is greyed out and if I press it it shows a message saying "This function is not available in the current mode" - I have no idea what current mode tf they be talking about?! Anyone facing the same issue or knows a workaround pls?
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EDIT:
I just found out from someone in the realme X2 forum who's having the same problem that the reason you can't use split screen are 3rd party launchers. Oppo/realme software won't let you use split screen function when you've activated a launcher as your standard home app. This is f*cking ridiculous smh -.-
I've not used a button to do a split screen but I've just tested it and swiping three fingers up towards the top of the screen takes the current screen up towards the top of the screen and then I have to select another app and it goes on to split screen mode.
Have you tried that?
Ian
I've noticed it works but is locked at what it would seem 60hz
Same problem over here. Not available in current mode. Brand New install only using Nova launcher, but I've tried ColorOS launcher as well. Tried switching to 60Hz as someone suggests but no way to activate the split screen option.
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Correction I've tried again and indeed it works with ColorOS launcher. How stupid is that, this is basic Android functionality and should be implemented that way.
Work around for the moment is using a launcher switching app but of course that means you won't be able to use split screen on the fly.
I would suggest you to contact oppo customer support and request them to fix this issue.
I did, mentioning the ColorOS 7.2 development and Android 11 beta opportunities to fix that bug. I had to insist, but they finally answered they would forward the request to Devs.
I also talked about the third party music players not receiving media control commands, as there is no setting to choose the default music player.
Hopefully they will fix both issues
I wrote them.
Split screen and screen off audio controls for my 3rd party audio player are the biggest issues for me at the moment.
Got this response today :
Thank you for contacting OPPO.
We understand that you would like the split screen and the screen off gestures to control audio playback to be available using a third-party launcher.
Regarding your concern, please be advised that we are unable to guarantee that all OPPO built-in features will be compatible to all third-party launcher, thus we only advised customer to use the ColorOS launcher.
We will take this as feedback for future product enhancement.

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