S22 Ultra, UK, with latest updates. I wish to create a routine (activated with a one-click widget on the home screen) that;
- turns off Bluetooth
- turns on airplane mode
- turns on power saving mode
This is straightforward to set up. The issue is that I cannot add the widget to the power-saving home screen.
This would allow me to turn this routine off with one click. It takes me multiple clicks to get out of that screen and then another one to turn off the routine. I see I can customize the icons on the power save home screen, but don't seem to be able to add my routine widget.
You can probably see that my desire to easily put the phone in and out of a low power mode. Anyone offer any suggestions or advice to achieve this? Back in the day I had a phone with a simple physical slide switch that would do just this task. Very handy!
What do you mean by 'power-saving home screen'?
The Modes and Routines app provides 2 types of widgets, and both can be added to your home screen.
Hi. When I select the 'Power Saving' option from the pull-down menu the phone switches to a simplified 'power-saving' home screen. That has a clock and 8 app icons. That is what I mean.
nickb99NZ said:
Hi. When I select the 'Power Saving' option from the pull-down menu the phone switches to a simplified 'power-saving' home screen. That has a clock and 8 app icons. That is what I mean.
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I have created a routine called Sleeping that does exactly what you want. Check it out.
Thanks for your efforts but unfortunately this is not really what I need.
- your phone is not seen to switch to a different home screen when power saving is activated. Mine does not.
- you have created a mode accessed via a shortcut from the standard home page but I run Nova launcher
I was able to figure out a two-click solution.
1. Modes and Routines>settings>Show Modes and Routines in the Apps screen to ON
2. This allowed me to add a shortcut to Modes and Routines (unfortunately not directly to the routine) to the Power Save home screen.
3. I configured a single widget routine for my Nova home page to turn the power save routine on.
4. When activated, this flips me to my power save home screen. But now I can select Modes and Routines from the icon list there (1st click) and then this takes me right to the Modes and Routines screen where I can deactivate the routine (2nd click).
nickb99NZ said:
I wish to create a routine (activated with a one-click widget on the home screen) that;
- turns off Bluetooth
- turns on airplane mode
- turns on power saving mode
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This was your requirement. The routine I created does exactly that. I use Nova Launcher too and the widget on the home screen is a direct shortcut to the routine itself. With one click I can turn it ON, and with a single click I can turn it OFF too.
The only thing it doesn't do is change the home screen. I don't know what the purpose of that is, and if that is supported in Modes and Routines, you can add that too.
>>"This is straightforward to set up. The issue is that I cannot add the widget to the power-saving home screen."
This was my requirement.
With further research, the change to a limited power save home page was an activated option in Power Saving settings. If I turn this option off then it does not switch home pages and the standard widget works one click on and off.
nickb99NZ said:
>>"This is straightforward to set up. The issue is that I cannot add the widget to the power-saving home screen."
This was my requirement.
With further research, the change to a limited power save home page was an activated option in Power Saving settings. If I turn this option off then it does not switch home pages and the standard widget works one click on and off.
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So is this resolved for you now?
I never played with that option in Power Saving settings, because once you turn on airplane mode and turn off wifi and bluetooth, there is no additional power savings to be gained with it.
I guess you keep your WiFi ON in that mode so your selected apps can still function with minimal power draw.
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Someone should build an app so that instead of getting a list of all home screens when you press home key, you are just taken to your default home screen, then holding the home key instead of showing recent apps will bring up a list of homescreens so you can switch to another without switching your default screen, but tapping and holding any of the home screens in the menu could give options to switch it to your default and hide from the menu (could be a restore button somewhere). This would not only be more efficient and very useful to people with multiple home screen apps but the hide options would be to those who have different home screens for personal and work, it would also be useful for people like me running the alpha desire rom because can switch easily between having sense enabled and disabled on home screen and menu.
Good morning everyone,
I am looking for a widget or tweak that makes it easy to put the phone to sleep other than having to tap the status bar twice. Something I can put down below to avoid having to mess with the status bar every time I want to shut off the screen. Let me know if you guys have any suggestions! Thanks guys.
Depending on whether your launcher has gestures, you can download Screen Off & Lock.
Screen Off & Lock
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock&hl=en
I'm using Nova Launcher with a double tap on home screen gesture to both Sleep the phone & Hibernate apps with Greenify.
Greenify
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify
If you are talking about the knock feature, you can just leave an empty shortcut spot anywhere on your screen and double tap that spot.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I just discovered over the weekend that if I hold down the Home button, it not only shuts off my screen, but also locks the phone so that it requires my swipe pattern to access it again.
CLKeenan said:
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I just discovered over the weekend that if I hold down the Home button, it not only shuts off my screen, but also locks the phone so that it requires my swipe pattern to access it again.
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Thanks. I did it and was given several options to choose as default (Google Search, nothing, Greenify+Lock, etc). I opted for the long press to Greenify option. This is great.
Would be interesting if it didn't, since the AOD clock moves up and down and horizontally to avoid burning in. With all this done to avoid the clock burning in, it would be odd for Samsung to add a button icon that's always enabled by default, and doesn't move at all.
As far as I can tell it doesn't ever move, however, you can turn of the AOD home button icon portion without disabling the rest of the AOD.
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As far as I can tell it doesn't ever move, however, you can turn of the AOD home button icon portion without disabling the rest of the AOD.
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Very strange that it's enabled by default... Samsung made all the effort to not make the clock burn in by even having it move to the sides a bit, but doesn't care about the home button. 90% of customers will have the virtual AOD home button on because they don't know how to disable it
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Would be interesting if it didn't, since the AOD clock moves up and down and horizontally to avoid burning in. With all this done to avoid the clock burning in, it would be odd for Samsung to add a button icon that's always enabled by default, and doesn't move at all.
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See my message:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8+/how-to/home-button-aod-screen-burn-t3595932
As a note, specifically the AOD home button can be disabled without turning off the "long press home to unlock" function. you just press the area where the home button would normally be. Throwing this in here to clarify for any interweb travelers that stumble in .
I'm playing s8+ for over a week. Slowly the first dust settles down and I start thinking about the phone in a more reasonable way. One day I was using an app that allows rotating screen 180° (*). My first thought was: what will happen with the home button when it will be on the other side of the screen?
Will the force touch work?
It doesn't of course.
So will I be able to launch the assistant app? Yes. It launches when you keep your finger on the home button a bit longer.
Ok then. So I asked the question myself:
What this force touch is made for?
The only use I find is: enable use of Home button in immersive mode (On the AOD screen you need to double click to "turn on" the screen so I can't say that the force touch is necessary there).
Any other use you find for this sophisticated tech?
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* the app is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
It's just to show off when the screen is off, and Always on Display is off (I don't use it due to it being a waste of battery) and allows someone to turn on the screen without using the power button.
Is just f'n awesome straight up bragging rights when you tell your friends that I can turn my phone on by touching the invisible button lol that's my only reason for needing it
I love the feature.... no screwing around with power button or anything just press and hold to unlock:good:
The only uses are turning on your screen from a screen-off state, and to return to home straight away when the buttons are gone. You can force-touch the place where the home button would be when the home buttons aren't there to go straight to your home screen, pretty useful when playing full-screen games. And it's super easy to unlock your phone when you set the touch sensitivity to the highest, just a small touch unlocks the screen easily
Heres a tip: If you leave the home button on with the always on display, you can also double tap it to have it open the lock screen instead of unlocking.
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I love the feature.... no screwing around with power button or anything just press and hold to unlock:good:
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Why do people keep saying this? Is there some feature I'm not aware of? It's a hard-press or, in the alternative, a double tap if the home button is showing. I've never seen any option to "press and hold" (a/k/a "long-press") like you and others keep saying. What am I missing?
eyc said:
Why do people keep saying this? Is there some feature I'm not aware of? It's a hard-press or, in the alternative, a double tap if the home button is showing. I've never seen any option to "press and hold" (a/k/a "long-press") like you and others keep saying. What am I missing?
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go to display settings then to navigation bar settings then there is option for unlock with home button, once that is on, with AOD on you just touch and hold the button and it will go right to your home screen or you can shut off AOD and with the screen off you can still press and hold in the same area where the home button would be and it will unlock the phone and take you to your home screen:good:
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go to display settings then to navigation bar settings then there is option for unlock with home button, once that is on, with AOD on you just touch and hold the button and it will go right to your home screen or you can shut off AOD and with the screen off you can still press and hold in the same area where the home button would be and it will unlock the phone and take you to your home screen:good:
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Strange. That doesn't work for me. I enabled "Unlock with Home Button," and when my screen is on AOD, I touch-and-hold on the home button, and nothing happens. Only double-touching or hard-pressing do anything. I'm on Verizon S8+.
Main use is for AOD. You wouldnt want your phone turning on simply be the home button screen area being rub.
But outside of that. There isnt a need for it. There had been phones with on screen home buttons before. This thing here is that they disapper when using full screen on the s8
As we all know, the camera app opens in Auto mode by default. There's no option to select it to use Pro Mode by default. We can put a shortcut on the homescreen to open Pro Mode, but there's not way to set that shortcut on the lockscreen or activate via double-press power. Sometimes if the camera is still in memory, it'll open from the lockscreen still in Pro Mode, but not reliably. So I'm wondering what we can figure out to "hack" this a bit to make Pro Mode open automatically when the camera app opens.
1. Tasker is my first inclination. But we need the Pro Mode setting/toggle/switch/activity/whatever to be exposed for Tasker to use. It's not, as far as I can tell.
2. Actually what's weird is there are no activities within the camera app to start Pro Mode. But without that activity, how is the homescreen shortcut created?
3. Is there a macro that can be created to turn on Pro Mode when camera is launched?
4. How can we put that Pro Mode shortcut on the lockscreen?
5. Is there a way to build a very basic app that does what the Pro Mode homescreen shortcut does? Then we could set it as a lockscreen shortcut. Ideally this would not require root. Basically an app that triggers the shortcut that launches the camera in Pro Mode.
Any other ideas?
Tagging @zeroprobe since he is our most knowledgeable contributor for the S7 camera.
It would be nice if Samsung made a proper shortcut but this seems to work in a convoluted kind of way.
Okay, so we’ll need a few things to make this work.
Tasker - paid app
Tasker plugin Autoshortcut – paid app with a 7 day trial
I made a task that uses Autoshortcut to click a place on my home screen. This place is the physical location of the Pro Mode Camera shortcut I made from the camera app. The most reliable way to determine the on screen location was to turn on “Show Pointer Location” in Developer Options. With that option turned on I was able to find out the X/Y coordinates for the physical location of the Pro Mode Camera shortcut on my screen. I am aware that If I move my shortcut to another spot this whole thing will fall apart.
With the X/Y coordinates in hand I continued with the Autoinput task. Manual mode worked best for me:
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Type: Point
Value: 1000,730 (the X/Y coordinates of the shortcut on my screen)
Nearby text: Pro (this is the name of the pro mode shortcut)
Action: Click
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When I tested my task I found that it wasn’t reliable because the shortcut wasn’t pressed every time. To fix this I added a delay task to my task of 66 ms (I was going for 50 but got lazy).
I also thought that I needed to ensure I was at the right screen before doing all this. In my case the shortcut is placed on my “main” home screen.
My task now looks like this:
1) Go Home, page 0
2) Wait 66 ms (not sure if this step is actually needed)
3) AutoInput Action,
Type: Point
Value: 1000,730
Nearby text: Pro
Action: Click
Then I found a premade profile, "AutoInput Multi-Press", and task, "Key Press Timer", written by /u/Ratchet_Guy (a Mod on /r/tasker) that addressed the double, triple, quadruple, etc clicking of buttons. This profile and task is great and also needs the plugin AutoInput. I imported the profile and task and added my camera task with AutoInput Action at the end of the “Key Press Timer”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tasker/comments/5hkelp/how_to_trigger_tasks_on_hardware_button/
So now when I double click the volume down button it launches my pro mode camera shortcut.
Then I thought of your requirement to add this to a shortcut on the lockscreen. I downloaded the Tasker App Factory app and generated an app from my pro camera task. I put this app on the lockscreen and it works 90 % of the time. Sometimes it gets confused and launches the regular camera.
saj222 said:
It would be nice if Samsung made a proper shortcut but this seems to work in a convoluted kind of way.
Okay, so we’ll need a few things to make this work.
Tasker - paid app
Tasker plugin Autoshortcut – paid app with a 7 day trial
I made a task that uses Autoshortcut to click a place on my home screen. This place is the physical location of the Pro Mode Camera shortcut I made from the camera app. The most reliable way to determine the on screen location was to turn on “Show Pointer Location” in Developer Options. With that option turned on I was able to find out the X/Y coordinates for the physical location of the Pro Mode Camera shortcut on my screen. I am aware that If I move my shortcut to another spot this whole thing will fall apart.
With the X/Y coordinates in hand I continued with the Autoinput task. Manual mode worked best for me:
--
Type: Point
Value: 1000,730 (the X/Y coordinates of the shortcut on my screen)
Nearby text: Pro (this is the name of the pro mode shortcut)
Action: Click
--
When I tested my task I found that it wasn’t reliable because the shortcut wasn’t pressed every time. To fix this I added a delay task to my task of 66 ms (I was going for 50 but got lazy).
I also thought that I needed to ensure I was at the right screen before doing all this. In my case the shortcut is placed on my “main” home screen.
My task now looks like this:
1) Go Home, page 0
2) Wait 66 ms (not sure if this step is actually needed)
3) AutoInput Action,
Type: Point
Value: 1000,730
Nearby text: Pro
Action: Click
Then I found a premade profile, "AutoInput Multi-Press", and task, "Key Press Timer", written by /u/Ratchet_Guy (a Mod on /r/tasker) that addressed the double, triple, quadruple, etc clicking of buttons. This profile and task is great and also needs the plugin AutoInput. I imported the profile and task and added my camera task with AutoInput Action at the end of the “Key Press Timer”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tasker/comments/5hkelp
So now when I double click the volume down button it launches my pro mode camera shortcut.
Then I thought of your requirement to add this to a shortcut on the lockscreen. I downloaded the Tasker App Factory app and generated an app from my pro camera task. I put this app on the lockscreen and it works 90 % of the time. Sometimes it gets confused and launches the regular camera.
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I will 250% try this on my phone. But out of curiosity, is it possible to do the same with other software? Perhaps Automate?