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Just got my OPO - Cyanogen Android Questions

my first time using cyanogen...
double clicking the screen while on sleep/blank/standby mode wakes up the screen and turns it on - how do i disable this?
home buttons - is there anyway to switch or change the icons? i'm use to the left being back and right being multi-task

unknown00 said:
my first time using cyanogen...
double clicking the screen while on sleep/blank/standby mode wakes up the screen and turns it on - how do i disable this?
home buttons - is there anyway to switch or change the icons? i'm use to the left being back and right being multi-task
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1. Go to Settings, Display, and uncheck the Double-tap to wake option.
2. Go to Settings, Buttons. and make sure Enable on-screen nav bar is selected. After that go to Settings, Interface, then under Navigation Bar select the Buttons and layout option. from there you can customize the icons.

Just got my OPO too, upgrading from Cyanogen 10.2 on my last phone so I'll add a couple questions.
1. Where is the default Android browser? I only see Chrome (I like to use both for different purposes)
2. Where is Google Now? I thought it should show up on the left hand home screen by default but I don't see it.

Jubi Lee said:
Just got my OPO too, upgrading from Cyanogen 10.2 on my last phone so I'll add a couple questions.
1. Where is the default Android browser? I only see Chrome (I like to use both for different purposes)
2. Where is Google Now? I thought it should show up on the left hand home screen by default but I don't see it.
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1. Chrome is the default browser of kit kat. If your rooted u can install the AOSP browser with an app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mkrtchyan.aospinstaller
2. Google Now works off the on screen buttons as usual. For swipe left use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.launcher
Also check for a setting on stock launcher for it, I use Nova on mine and can't check my phone now.

truckroot said:
1. Chrome is the default browser of kit kat. If your rooted u can install the AOSP browser with an app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mkrtchyan.aospinstaller
2. Google Now works off the on screen buttons as usual. For swipe left use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.launcher
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Thanks, yeah I figured out the stock browser was dropped in KitKat after I posted that question. I like having a second browser so I may try Firefox, Next and/or UC Browser as an alternative to the AOSP one.

Jubi Lee said:
Thanks, yeah I figured out the stock browser was dropped in KitKat after I posted that question. I like having a second browser so I may try Firefox, Next and/or UC Browser as an alternative to the AOSP one.
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I do too. Thing is I'm always hitting "Just Once" because I never set a default browser for links?
Sent from my N5 or OnePlus One, I'll figure it out later

Problems in EMUI 9 Pie Update

Hi everyone,
I just updated my phone to EMUI 9.0 (Indian Variant) and i have a few concerns which i'm listing below.
Wifi and Mobile Network icons have been moved to left side. Is there a way to switch it back to right side?
The recent apps animation and placement(side by side like the iphone) is quite weird. Is there a way to make it stack like in EMUI 8?
When you open recent apps the screen sometimes turns blue. Is anyone else facing such issue?
The tips in new EMUI 9 is quite irritating already. Is there a way to disbale it?
How to access the subscription menu for magazine unlock in EMUI 9? Earlier there was a way to swipe up from the lock screen that opened it directly but now that option opens photos added by me instead of auto downloaded subscriptions.
When you use splitscreen Emui stop showing the recent apps list. I get empty screen with wallpaper. It seems the windows are there, because when I click in the empty space the apps switch, but they are invisible. (Credits Medard22)
Huawei and Honor have officially disabled support for Google camera in their latest EMUI 9. All who got the EMUI 9 will not get the taste of Google camera anymore until they will enable it again. (Credits Zenkilla, Irshad Wani)
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

1. The icons are moved to the left on the Android Pie, you can't move it back.
2. This is also normal on Pie and EMUI 9, and also can't revert. The 'blue screen' never happened to me, I don't know why is that happening to you.
3. The tips will stop appearing after some time. At least they did on my phone.
4. From the lock screen: swipe up, tap the settings button in the right bottom corner (the gear icon) and unlock the phone. It will open the Magazine subscriptions.
I hope I helped.

1. Wifi and Mobile Network icons have been moved to left side. Is there a way to switch it back to right side?
This is because most of the phone launching with notch and Honor has started moving that icon to left. No way to move back untill a working xposed module.
2. The recent apps animation and placement(side by side like the iphone) is quite weird. Is there a way to make it stack like in EMUI 8?
Not possible anymore unless on emui 8 or custom ROM.
3. When you open recent apps the screen sometimes turns blue. Is anyone else facing such issue?
Nope. May a theme you are using is causing this.
4. The tips in new EMUI 9 is quite irritating already. Is there a way to disbale it?
It was there for 2-3 days then stopped.
5. How to access the subscription menu for magazine unlock in EMUI 9? Earlier there was a way to swipe up from the lock screen that opened it directly but now that option opens photos added by me instead of auto downloaded subscriptions.
As mentioned in above comment but in my case, when i opened i found it opening gallery and that's blank.

Masinac85 said:
4. From the lock screen: swipe up, tap the settings button in the right bottom corner (the gear icon) and unlock the phone. It will open the Magazine subscriptions.
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Can you send me screen shot of the same?
Mine only shows added by me

shashank1320 said:
5. How to access the subscription menu for magazine unlock in EMUI 9? Earlier there was a way to swipe up from the lock screen that opened it directly but now that option opens photos added by me instead of auto downloaded subscriptions.
As mentioned in above comment but in my case, when i opened i found it opening gallery and that's blank.
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Same with mine....clicking the gear takes you to "images added by me" tab and not the original subscription tab

sbetatester said:
Can you send me screen shot of the same?
Mine only shows added by me
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Here it is

You can also try this way to get to the Magazine Subscriptions: go to Settings >> Home Screen & Wallpapers >> Magazine Unlock >> Subscriptions

Masinac85 said:
You can also try this way to get to the Magazine Subscriptions: go to Settings >> Home Screen & Wallpapers >> Magazine Unlock >> Subscriptions
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Tried this, see my screenshot. Very strange
Masinac85 said:
Here it is
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Also tried this method. See the gif

sbetatester said:
Tried this, see my screenshot. Very strange
Also tried this method. See the gif
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Looks like you don't have Magazine Unlock option at all. Here's how the Home Screen settings look on my phone. It is very strange...

Masinac85 said:
Looks like you don't have Magazine Unlock option at all. Here's how the Home Screen settings look on my phone. It is very strange...
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It looks like something is wrong with my v10. It shows magazine unlock in themes->Customize->Lock screen

My problem is I don't have the update yet

ozzfan1989 said:
My problem is I don't have the update yet
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Its being rolled out in batches. You'll get it soon.

Well my problem with he update is that function, where you could make the alarm ringtone grow louder over time is now gone. I always use very low alarm volume so that I would not get heart attack every morning. Got the update yesterday and the alarm was so quiet that I overslept. After years Google finally bundle it to the stock app and now huawei removes it. Now that´s a progress. Also having Honor View 10 I must say i don´t like the stock camera app. In EMUI 8 there were a handy swiping gestures bringing mode selection and settings, well they are gone now it´s now a bit more ... clunky.

How's your ram usage? I noticed before upgrade I usually have near 1.5~1.8gb free ram I think can't be sure I didn't screenshot it. Now I have 800+mb. Only diference between old android and new android is I add weather widget which didn't eat as much ram. Restart I get 3gb free.

I found a way to revert to the EMUI 8 vertically stacked recent apps, but it requires root. If you use Titanium Backup or something similar to freeze the Huawei Home app and switch to a different launcher, it will revert to the Android 8 style recent apps.
This is weird, because it's as if the Android 9 style horizontal recents is not part of the OS, but a component of the Huawei Home app.
I'm sticking with vertical for now because I was getting the same blue tint that you described on the horizontal recents.

Zenkilla said:
How's your ram usage? I noticed before upgrade I usually have near 1.5~1.8gb free ram I think can't be sure I didn't screenshot it. Now I have 800+mb. Only diference between old android and new android is I add weather widget which didn't eat as much ram. Restart I get 3gb free.
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That's quite strange, as mine is always 2gb free. See screen shot attached

Medard22 said:
Also having Honor View 10 I must say i don´t like the stock camera app. In EMUI 8 there were a handy swiping gestures bringing mode selection and settings, well they are gone now it´s now a bit more ... clunky.
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Even i feel the same way now, but give it time to get used to and you'll surely like it.
Also as you said huawei removed what google made default, i have experienced similar thing in the smart unlock tab. Google provides a lot of options to unlock by location, bluetooth etc but huawei trims it as per outs own liking.

Boo_urns said:
I found a way to revert to the EMUI 8 vertically stacked recent apps, but it requires root. If you use Titanium Backup or something similar to freeze the Huawei Home app and switch to a different launcher, it will revert to the Android 8 style recent apps.
This is weird, because it's as if the Android 9 style horizontal recents is not part of the OS, but a component of the Huawei Home app.
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Even i thought that's the part of OS update, never expected it to be launched related. Although, i'm not rooted but i use a different launcher, so maybe i think i'll just root.
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I'm sticking with vertical for now because I was getting the same blue tint that you described on the horizontal recents.
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This is issue faced by only some users, so i believe we should make a factory reset as i'm about to do in the coming days.
Since you are having issue similar to mine, can you also confirm if you have the magazine unlock tab in the home screen and wallpaper in settings?

Is there any official feedback thread? I found some more bugs. Some webpages have problem rendering their mobile versions on Pie. Also the 3D panorama in gallery doesn't work. After you click on the 3d button it constructs the mesh then freezes Right now I'm not very excited about the update unfortunately.

So I'm the only one that wants to use gestures but can't because my case cover the Sides?

What happened to split screen?

Just upgraded to new OS. On the front screen, I used to tap & hold the recent app button which would split the screen with an App on top and the home screen below it. Used this feature multiple times a day. Now it doesn't work or I'm forgetting which option I need to enable to make it work... any ideas/ suggestions? I'll roll back if it isn't an option any more. I can still open 2 apps (although they changed the way that works now too and it takes too many steps), but that's not what I'm referring to. I want to access the home screen in 1 of the 2 windows. Also, can't find how to change the layout of the recent apps list (previous version had multiple options: stacked, bubbles, tiles, etc). All help/ comments appreciated. Thank you

Did you upgraded to the new Android version? May I ask you if you still have Mobile hot spots/ Tethering active?

Yes I upgraded to the new android os. Mobile hotspotworks fine. I haven't tried tethering (via cable) bc I seldom use it that way

RE: my question, figured out this option was part of GoodLock MultiStar app and the option is no longer available after the new update. Many folks have commented about this being one of the PRIMARY uses of this app. I also sent an email, so we'll see if they bring it back or allow roll back to the previous version.

Multistar has been updated to work with android 11/,one ui 3...

njan_ivide said:
Multistar has been updated to work with android 11/,one ui 3...
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Great Thanks. I loaded the update but still don't see the Quick Launch Multi Window option which in my opinion is the whole problem w/ the new OS (MULTIPLE split screen related issues) and point of this app. If they could not get the split screen to work in this system update then they should NOT have rolled out the update OneUI3 is a total step backwards. I'm about ready to reset my phone to factory default & start all over or find the previous OS and undo the whole system update. In fact the notes now reference that quick launch is no longer an option. I'll be rolling back over the weekend

+1 Same. Despite the new Good Lock/MultiStar update, Split Screen still requires the crazy finger gymnastics. I hope they fix it soon.

Same. Task Changer would notify me the app was no longer compatible with my software update. I Uninstalled the module, reinstalled it to no avail. I actually deleted Good lock itself and reinstalled it only to find Task Changer was no longer available as a module Just a waiting game at the moment...

The release notes on MutiStar say no more quick launch as of OneUI 3 and based on all the other problems I'm having in split screen, it appears to me that the new OS really has a problem with it which is stupid since that was the BEST PART

I remember having this same issue with my N20U. I'm sure it's only a matter of time

Question Nova Launcher or Android 13 OS problem?

I'm rooted and have mods installed, so they could be part of the problem too.
Anyone else seeing this? Every once in awhile, I'll press the "home" button on the navbar.
And instead of showing me my home screen with icons & such, it only shows my background.
I have to press the home button a second time before my icons and folders show up.

CZ Eddie said:
I'm rooted and have mods installed, so they could be part of the problem too.
Anyone else seeing this? Every once in awhile, I'll press the "home" button on the navbar.
And instead of showing me my home screen with icons & such, it only shows my background.
I have to press the home button a second time before my icons and folders show up.
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Plenty of people have this issue, some launchers don't work properly, I'm getting others issues as well like folders showing up in recents.
There's no real fix at the moment, you either change launcher or keep the issues.

Darn. Okay, thanks for letting me know that it's not just me.

I haven't had any issues with Nova Launcher. I'm using the Prime version. Perhaps that makes a difference?
Have you changed the settings within the config utility?

Yep, I've had Prime Nova for many years.
I change a TON of settings in the Nova settings.
It doesn't happen often enough to make troubleshooting easy.
I guess I could try resetting it back to factory defaults for a week or so.

CZ Eddie said:
I'm rooted and have mods installed, so they could be part of the problem too.
Anyone else seeing this? Every once in awhile, I'll press the "home" button on the navbar.
And instead of showing me my home screen with icons & such, it only shows my background.
I have to press the home button a second time before my icons and folders show up.
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You mention that you're rooted and have mods installed...I would definitely look there first. I say this because I use Nova Prime on my 7 Pro and have zero issues. In fact I have been using Nova Prime on all my phones for years without any problems. YMMV

Every single third party launcher and device has this issue (and more) ever since Android 10 came out and tied Recents and Launchers together, it's worse with gesutres but can happen with navbar too.
Those who claim to not have it either ignore it, don't use their device fast or don't mind lag

Lawnchair alpha 4, no issues

Not rooted, qp beta, nova prime, no issues like that on mine.

..certainly no one can have accessibility function for gestures in nova launcher, this is due to google - android 13 security,
double tap would be a bless, so i don't understand why google is providing double tap on the back of the phone, but only strange single tap (lock screen) on the front of the device.. ?

I ran into a similar issue with Android 12 & 13 - it's a little tricky to get the gestures for Nova to work on the lock screen and provided a couple of screen shots to make things easier for you.

mikebb00 said:
I ran into a similar issue with Android 12 & 13 - it's a little tricky to get the gestures for Nova to work on the lock screen and provided a couple of screen shots to make things easier for you.
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..got latest 13 7pro + nova prime beta, except notifications, accessibility (nova launcher) is unavailable for security reasons - as google kindly prompting this in the settings..

gubik7 said:
..got latest 13 7pro + nova prime beta, except notifications, accessibility (nova launcher) is unavailable for security reasons - as google kindly prompting this in the settings..
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To enable accessibility, go to 3 dot menu in app info and bypass the restriction there.

Lughnasadh said:
To enable accessibility, go to 3 dot menu in app info and bypass the restriction there.
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spot-on thanks!

I followed this advice and Nova is still broken. Oh well. I guess I could try another Rom, but how do we launch the default launcher?

No problem with Nova 8.0.3 here. But i dont use navbar.
And accessibility is working as well. I use it for double tap to sleep.

akhenax said:
I followed this advice and Nova is still broken. Oh well. I guess I could try another Rom, but how do we launch the default launcher?
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Search default home in settings

CZ Eddie said:
I'm rooted and have mods installed, so they could be part of the problem too.
Anyone else seeing this? Every once in awhile, I'll press the "home" button on the navbar.
And instead of showing me my home screen with icons & such, it only shows my background.
I have to press the home button a second time before my icons and folders show up.
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I only have that occasional issue if I have a **** ton of memory hungry apps running. And I think it started with the January update

Using total launcher and something similar happens to me. When I use gestures to pull up recent apps, I'll just see my homescreen instead of the apps themselves. Very weird but the behavior still works in that I can press the screen and it goes to the last app, which is what I want majority of the time.

Nova gestures work for me via Accessibility - but only for a few hours. Then, I can't see a note in Accessibility menu for Nova non-malfunctioning. Turning the Allow toggle off and on resolves the problem, temporarily.

Question Anyone using nova launcher 7.0.57 have split screen working?

I'm using this nova launcher, and whenever I attempt to use split screen I receive the error "pixel launcher has crashed." Nova is set as my default launcher though. I'm on a p7p latest update.

Yeah, I'm on Nova 7 and split screen is working just fine for me.

It's working fine on my P7Pro as well...

Schroeder09 said:
I'm using this nova launcher, and whenever I attempt to use split screen I receive the error "pixel launcher has crashed." Nova is set as my default launcher though. I'm on a p7p latest update.
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Works fine as we speak

I really loved split screen when we had the three button navigation. You could double tap the recents button and then split your screen immediately. I wish Google would make it easier than it currently is. I really wish if you went into recents by swiping up to your right from the bottom and it was an option below like screenshot. This is one of the things that drives me nuts with Google and there horrible human factors

Here's the log.

rester555 said:
I really loved split screen when we had the three button navigation. You could double tap the recents button and then split your screen immediately. I wish Google would make it easier than it currently is. I really wish if you went into recents by swiping up to your right from the bottom and it was an option below like screenshot. This is one of the things that drives me nuts with Google and there horrible human factors
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I agree. I've wondered for a long time how Split Screen went from being so easy to no longer anything I think about anymore

I just went back to the pixel launcher to see if it would do split screen. It does. Whenever I go back to nova it crashes and split screen doesn't work. What are the motions/ gestures to get it to work on a13 on a p7p? I've read on some older threads where people had the same issue that they had to find a way to make it work with seemingly "secret" gestures.

You have to swipe from the bottom up to the right to access your recent apps. Press the app icon you are currently using in recents. A selection menu will pull down and you select split screen. The current app will move to the top of the screen and allow you to select another app to split screen with.
With split screen in the past, you would have a three-button navigation at the bottom. The button on the right was recents. If you double pressed the reasons button, the app you are currently on would go to the top of the screen and allow you to select another app to split screen. It was easy and one of the best functions of Android. When they move to gestures, they took the function away and now it takes three more touches to get to split screen.
At the same time, Android has not worked on this function and over time it has become bug laden mess. I find it crashes often.

Have you tried nova launcher 8 beta? Split screen works fine with that build. Also the prime if you have paid from it works too.

lil_kujo said:
Have you tried nova launcher 8 beta? Split screen works fine with that build. Also the prime if you have paid from it works too.
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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I updated to 8.0.3 last night and I still have the same issue. I think aosp mods through lsposed is causing me trouble. I'm asking for help in that tread. Others have similar setups to mine, so idk what's going on. Anyone here in a13 with nova launcher on a p70 and have split screen working?

I use nova on a13 but I'm fully stock and there is no issues. So it might be the some mod. Typically if searching for the culprit of a bug you would first disable all the mods and go from there testing one mod at a time. It's very hard to find a solution when you have a modded environment. Basically since on stock android with no mods it's not having issues most likely it's one of the mods you are using that is perhaps causing the issue.

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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I updated to 8.0.3 last night and I still have the same issue. I think aosp mods through lsposed is causing me trouble. I'm asking for help in that tread. Others have similar setups to mine, so idk what's going on. Anyone here in a13 with nova launcher on a p70 and have split screen working?
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I also use Nova 8.xx beta with AOSP Mods and have no issue with split screen

Split screen breaks when you disable animations in developer options
Specifically you can't turn off Animator duration scale

dr.wtf said:
Split screen breaks when you disable animations in developer options
Specifically you can't turn off Animator duration scale
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Wow. You got it. This was it. I DESPISE animations though. They make the phone feel slow like an iphone. Disabling animations is always the very first thing I do with a new phone. So is this a nova launcher problem? If I go back to the pixel launcher with animations totally disabled there is no issue.
I typically use split screen at least once a week, and sometimes it's more or less. I've been using nova for almost a month it seems. Maybe I really hadn't tried split screen prior to making this post, but that seems odd. What I'm getting at here is that it seems even nova had to have functioning split screen while animations were totally disabled. I have all animations disabled except for the "animator scale." Now I have animations when swiping back from apps to go home. Popping a new app open still doesn't have an animation.
The lowest animation scale I have is . 5x. On past phones and older android versions I think there were even smaller options. Anyone know of a root or Xposed module to give me more options? If I can cut this down to .1x or even . 25x I will deal with it.
At . 5x animations and only using split screen 1x/week or I might just deal with not having split screen. I despise animations.
Edit: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/animations-set-scale-set-to-25.4365695/
Will those adb commands through my on-device terminal work? Can I use other scales like . 1 instead of just . 25x? Will this add animations for everything? Currently I only set the animator duration scale to . 5x. All the other animation options are still toggled off.
I also found a scaleR magisk module, but the last activity in the thread was in 2020, and I don't wanna message round with bootloops, wiping, and restoring my phone this weekend.
EDIT 2: I issued the command "settings put global animator_duration_scale 0.01" in terminal (had to use SU /root command) and the command itself works, but anything below the menu options of . 5x makes the nova launcher behave as if you have animations off, ie split screen doesn't work.

I also turn animations off first thing. I'll rather pass on the dual screen feature than turn animations on.

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I also turn animations off first thing. I'll rather pass on the dual screen feature than turn animations on.
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So the limitation is on the nova side? The feature still works on the pixel launcher with animations off. Any suggestions on overcoming this? So I just need to email the nova team or report it as a bug? I would consider it a a bug- flip a switch (animations) that has nothing to do with the functionality and that functionality then works? That's a bug. I wonder if a magisk module could do this or if through tasker the animations could be toggled on only when the split screen option was selected. Whenever split screen was exited another shell command ran through tasker would turn animations back off.

Guess a bug report is always good. For Tasker I think autoinput can do this

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Guess a bug report is always good. For Tasker I think autoinput can do this
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Collect a bug report through android system?
I have autoinput, but have never used it a single time. I was understanding that it actually had to do its tasks in the foreground. If I use it to toggle the animation scale does that mean I'm going gto see the settings app flash to the foreground, an automated button click on the animation scale toggle, and then have things revert back to where I was in trying to split screen something?

I don't know how Nova launcher devs can receive bug reports. They probably have some support link somewhere.
My idea was sending the command via Tasker as soon as you open the recents view which can be recognized with autoinput. And then you can come up with an idea for an exit task condition. Just play around with it.