Anyone have any tips to increase the start up time after a reset/boot up? It takes longer than usual to load HTC Touch Flo and get to the home screen with the clock etc. Just before the Touch Flo home screen loads, it hangs a bit and lags at the background that you usually see when you go to the Start Menu, and the silver HTC lettering is at the center of the screen. After the Touch Flo home screen loads and I see the clock etc. it still takes a while to start up because the task menu at the top right corner (to close programs) is still not present. Then it eventually does load
Any tips would be appreciated!
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I can tell you the answer, but I don't think you are going to like it. Turn off TouchFlo. IMO it is a very poor interface to begin with. And it eats up way too many resources for an always-on app. Which then leads to the obvious, spb Mobile Shell. This is a highly functional, fairly customizable interface with a definite sex appeal built in. But it is a memory hog like no other app. And the more you customize it the slower your startup will be. I ran it for about 4months and could not stand the slow startup and operational lags. Now I run spb Pocket Plus. And my device has no lags whatsoever and the startup time is easily half of Mobile Shell or Touchflo. My device is now highly customizable and as fast as can be...much more so than with either of the two aforementioned apps. Sure, it is not as sexy as Mobile Shell, but take these points into consideration.
Allows for 6 finger-friendly tabs to run across the top of the home screen. More tabs can be added but they get smaller and harder to click after the 6th tab. This gives much quicker access to the different tabs than the flick-scrolling left and right in mobile shell.
If you add a nice background image and change the Pocket Plus icon settings to "large" and to not "show label", you will get a good-looking interface. See below.
While displaying large icons you can get 36 icons/apps per tab. I choose to spread mine out so it is not so tight and still get 16 per tab, plenty enough for me.
You actually get some customization that you cannot get in Mobile Shell. For example, see my second pic below which shows my internet tab. I can have my different browsers as large icons at the top, and then have my shortcuts to actual web sites as smaller icons with descriptive text. This allows me to launch 20+ of my favorite sites from the home screen.
It gives you built in access to certain system settings as well as many plugins (but the plugins will slow down the interface, so I do not use any). See my third picture that shows my "Settings" tab.
You can add any program, file or shortcut that resides in your "My Documents" folder or "Start Menu" folder. Pocket Plus along with Rhodium Keyboard Controller allows me to get to anything on my device withing 2 or 3 seconds.
Also comes with an Alt-Tab program switch feature, a Safe mode as well as several other add-ins that may be worth your while.
You can spend half your life using all of the Mobile Shell tweaks to get your device to do exactly what you like or you can spend 30 minutes setting up Pocket Plus and getting twice the responsiveness as well. Now, understand that Mobile Shell users are as rabid as iPhone users. So they are going to follow up my post saying that Mobile Shell has no lag on their device and is just as fast operationally. It just isn't so. Run a process tool like MemMaid or dotFred while Touchflo is running, then Mobile Shell, then Pocket Plus. No comparison. Do yourself a favor and try Pocket Plus. If you own a TP2 device then you are really too old to be seduced by form over function, aren't you? Pocket Plus gives you a happy medium for both.
One last point. No matter what home screen or launcher app you use, you will always get hammered in the reboot time, responsiveness and battery life departments if you are using the gimmicky widgets that are contiuously pushing info and searching for updates. I quickly got over the novelty of Weather, Stock, Sports apps and the like after I realized how poorly they were making my device perform. With Pocket Plus and 3G I am only a click away and a 5 second wait from getting all of that same info without it being always on and dragging my system to a crawl. Be smart and your device will once again perform as good as any other on the market.
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ChasDun:
This might sound crazy, but I recently did a hard reset to get rid of a lot of junk and it worked fine. After I loaded TomTom Navigator 7 I started seeing this problem. Someone on the Tmobile forums said that another reason is that TouchFlo loads all the music & photos you have when it is loading at start up. They said to un check the music tab and photos tab on HTC touch flo. Do you think TomTom might have to do with it?
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You can spend half your life using all of the Mobile Shell tweaks to get your device to do exactly what you like or you can spend 30 minutes setting up Pocket Plus and getting twice the responsiveness as well. Now, understand that Mobile Shell users are as rabid as iPhone users. So they are going to follow up my post saying that Mobile Shell has no lag on their device and is just as fast operationally. It just isn't so. Run a process tool like MemMaid or dotFred while Touchflo is running, then Mobile Shell, then Pocket Plus. No comparison. Do yourself a favor and try Pocket Plus. If you own a TP2 device then you are really too old to be seduced by form over function, aren't you? Pocket Plus gives you a happy medium for both.
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Actually, I have both MS and Plus. I use some of the components of Plus, but MS is my primary interface. I just prefer it. However you are correct about less memory; Plus is using only the stock WM 6 interface. The biggest issue I have with mine is how much CPU time the built in WM apps (messaging, word, excel) use, and how long it takes for the CPU to return off 100% once these apps are used. And don't get me started on how those apps leak memory...
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Without buttons, it makes most of them a bit useless.
I have mobipocket reader installed at the moment, and this will handle html and plain txt files, which are what most of the books I have are in, but I am wondering if there's anything better.
On the iPhone there's a really nice one that slides the pages up and down by tapping the top or bottom of the page, but I forget what it was called. I remember it cost about £5 though, but it was worth it.
Ideally something that displays full screen, will handle plain text and html, as well as other formats, and will turn the page by touching the screen.
The issue I have with mobipocket is the file and folder navigation seems really messed up, and you can't expand the column sizes when you want to look at the files in the open file window. With long book names you have no idea what they are
Any suggestions?
TIA
TRy these
I use mobibook too but have also tried these:
uBook: not bad but menu's a bit small.
Allreader+: pretty good but hard to figure out options
Tiny reader: poor
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Without buttons, it makes most of them a bit useless.
I have mobipocket reader installed at the moment, and this will handle html and plain txt files, which are what most of the books I have are in, but I am wondering if there's anything better.
On the iPhone there's a really nice one that slides the pages up and down by tapping the top or bottom of the page, but I forget what it was called. I remember it cost about £5 though, but it was worth it.
Ideally something that displays full screen, will handle plain text and html, as well as other formats, and will turn the page by touching the screen.
The issue I have with mobipocket is the file and folder navigation seems really messed up, and you can't expand the column sizes when you want to look at the files in the open file window. With long book names you have no idea what they are
Any suggestions?
TIA
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It's probably a good idea to use this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=449778&highlight=ebook
or maybe this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=466638&highlight=ebook
Mobipocket is great for the commercial books in PRC format. I can touch the screen on the bottom to turn a page.
I also have AEB+ to map the volume buttons to up/down and I use it to rotate the screen.
I have to say, I haven't kept up to date with the latest bells and whistles versions, but for years I've used, and am happy to entirely recommend iSilo.
It will read various text formats, but most conveniently comes with a converter for making your own custom ebooks - and helpfully, this can be fed a load of html files, so I often decompile ebooks distributed as chm files, and then convert them into isilo books that I can read on the road, which is excellent for massive reference works like Britanica etc. These are also highly compressed, and settings and last reading position is saved per book.
The version I'm using is probably old school, but as I said, it works perfectly and I've had no reason to upgrade. Helpfully on the Blackstone, it has user assignable buttons and screen regions, so eg clicking the top 25% of the screen will page up, or the middle 25% will auto scroll etc. This makes it ideal for the Blackstone with no usable buttons.
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I like mobipocket, I have used it for years, and even on my N95, but I find tapping the screen is very random, sometimes it works, sometimes it highlights some text, and sometimes I have to tap it several times to get it to change. If I use a styus, it's fine, if I use two hands, and ise my fingertip it's fine.
iSilo looks like it may do the trick though, although I didn't think it handled plain txt files?
Only problem I have with using the volume keys to change pages, is that they are not designed for repetitive use, I managed to break the switch on my N95 by using it for changing page.
I will have to investigate more I think, I just wish there was one as nice as the iPhone reader I had.
(I just wish to point I used it on an iPod touch, not an iPhone, because I hate them lol)
iSilo certainly supports plain text, a couple of other ebook styles, HTML I think, and it's own format.
I really like using it - it also has autoscroll if your hands are otherwise "occupied"!
V
Well I won't be reading *those* kinds of books
OK I have had a more in depth play with isilo, and it does the job in a buggy kind of way.
Takes a bit of messing around, and looks as though once you go into full screen you cant get out without making it look a bit messed up, so you have to restart the app, but it's certainly better for page turning than mobipocket!
Doesn't have the bells and whistles of others, but it's a free reader, and it does the job effectively.
Cheers V
Regarding the bug coming from fullscreen, I noticed that but thought it was just my old version.
The way to get around this, is instead of pressing the "ok" (back arrow) button to get out of fullscreen, press hang up instead. This will revert it to a normal size window, without the bug.
V
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=449778
I have a ton of .lit so although i like Mobipocket it isnt of use. So I use TinyReader it's ok i suppose it definitely beats MS Lit reader. I wish someone would make a good reader for .lit files.
I need to present a Winmobile Twitter client, and have stumbled over PockeTwit http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/.
But how does one control it on the HD? There is no menu on the twits screen. FYI I read that with 5-minute updates set it generates around 5MB of mobile traffic per day.
Recommendations for any other client?
Update: Ah, I got it - the twits list needs to be finger dragged to left or right, and reveals the menu items. Of course, its a touch device
WindowsMobileCool has a nice Top 5 client review: http://bit.ly/IaFJ (thanks Techno-Freak)
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I need to present a Winmobile Twitter client, and have stumbled over PockeTwit http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/.
But how does one control it on the HD? There is no menu on the twits screen. FYI I read that with 5-minute updates set it generates around 5MB of mobile traffic per day.
Recommendations for any other client?
Update: Ah, I got it - the twits list needs to be finger dragged to left or right, and reveals the menu items. Of course, its a touch device
WindowsMobileCool has a nice Top 5 client review: http://bit.ly/IaFJ (thanks Techno-Freak)
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Hey mate, not sure if this is the sort of thing you are looking for, i use it, let me know if its of any help.
http://www.pocketpcfreeware.mobi/download-tiny-twitter.html
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Hello. I searched for a good twitter client for a while now but not found a client that runs smoothly. pocketwit works best of them I found, but im not satisfied with it. Is there anyone who found something better?
I used to use Pockettwit - loved the interface, found it a joy to use - but bloated
I use cetwit
Code:
http://www.kosertech.com/blog/?p=346
Works well on the HD, set the dpi to 67 under themes/notifications and activate avatars!
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I used to use Pockettwit - loved the interface, found it a joy to use - but bloated
I use cetwit
Code:
http://www.kosertech.com/blog/?p=346
Works well on the HD, set the dpi to 67 under themes/notifications and activate avatars!
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I use cetwit to. but its not so fingerfriendly....
having issues with Cetwit - have moved along to 'tiny twitter'
pocketwit seems like the best twitter of all on windows mobile right now. i tried tinytwitter but it doesn't update properly
Pockettwit is great. A flip to the left and you have lots of menu, a flip to the right, even more options. Great for twittering, and the bugs are being worked out as we speak.
New addition, now in Beta (free during beta):
http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Twikini/default.aspx
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using twikini also, seems solid and finger friendly
tried twickini - not impressed - even in small font the text for each twitter goes off screen so you have to choose that specific twitter to read the full text.
Also, fastest update setting is every 5mins, which doesnt feel anything like quick enough.
on the plus side, it loads quickly and doesnt appear to use much memory. i'll be sticking with pockettwit though.
List keeps growing, here's a nice home plugin for WM: TwitToday - twit directly from your home screen or Secondtoday (if you use no other GUI).
http://dalelane.co.uk/page.php?id=1047
+1 to Twikini. Just does what it says in the tin ! Perfect for me
and another for twikini. written in c it seems much more responsive and an update is out in the next couple of days.
Wow. Listen. I have bought a brand new HTC Touch HD, which I'm starting to like.... But 2 major problems:
1) ActiveSync suddenly wasn't working anymore.
2) I couldn't open my attachments when receiving e-mails.
3) Twikini wasn't updating properly anmore.
Alright, point 3 is an easy fix:
After uninstalling Twikini, point 1 and 2 are both resolved!
How sick is that? Wow. Hate Twikini from now on (it was the latest version). Alright, i know what Beta means, but hey, don't mess with my other applications!
Did you try a hard reset before start using the device?
Twikini runs well on my numerous times flashed TouchHD and Treo Pro.
Giving feedback to developer would give better results rather than just hate an application while the problem lays probably somewhere else
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i go with pocketwit as twikini doesn't have a search feature. Also you have to pay for twikini yes i know its dirt cheap, but they aint having my cc details.
However since flashing the latest energy 6.5 rom pocke twit will not work. Anybody know any solutions?
Twikini as well for me.
PocketTwit is ok but a bit heavy in terms of footprint. TinyTwitter is good but it doesn't close the process when the app is closed which is painful. Bit annoying..twikini is my shout!
Twikini....
Hi guys,
Ive been using Twikini for a while now, and have tried others.
I highly recomend this app, and is very easy to use.
Do you guys just not like the SPB Mobile Shell or is there another reason that I haven't seen this in any roms anymore? I run it on my Kaiser on PDA Corner Ultimate and I love it! My TP2 should be here soon so maybe a few features (like the 3d coral) from SPB will be incorporated (which it looks like it will with the music albums) but we will see!!
Sorry if I should have posted this somewhere else.
It costs money so it can't be included in ROMs. Manila and CHome are free/built-in to the OS.
I just looked at Mobile Shell again after having tried it a while ago, and I can see they really changed it up so I will check it out again. But Manila is free which is hard to beat
I use Spb Mobile Shell 3.0.1 on my Fuze and should be getting my AT&T Tilt2 in a day or two. Mobile Shell 3.0.1 is very customizable and rules as far productivity, I can get to over 32 Apps with one swipe and many more with a couple of swipes.
Mobile Shell 3.5 just came out, but there are many complaints about stability, battery life and performance. Check the Spb Forums.
http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=48
Also check Mskip here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=575162
So just include the trial versions. We all have been using PPC for years and we have all paid for the apps. We all have the registration numbers for the good stuff any way so lets make a rom without those programs being excluded.
I have been looking for the past 36 hours (to much coffee) for a stable rom loaded with all the essential apps, all the tweaks, all the none essential apps, games, NO Manila or CHome maybe 6.1 Pro its old enough to be fixed all ready. I want it to come with mobile shell or I can install it my self. Or I'll just use pocket plus. Manila and CHome Suck. Ya they look great but darn they are not that easy to get around.
We pay a lot for are phone whats $30 for Spb mobile shell and or Spb pocket plus. They are so customizable I can launch anything from one screen. And I can pack a lot of things on one screen for very fast access. I don't care about eye candy. I want functionality. I hate the spinning thing in spb mobile shell and stuff like that. I have 1400 contacts. Try fitting that in the contact carousel, useless. I have flashed 3 buggy roms to my touch pro 2 tMobile including the new 6.5.1. I like 6.5.1 but its not ready yet. And the apps arent ready for it yet ether so that relly sucks. It will be great when they are and its ready but by that time Microsoft will just skip to version 7 I bet. rant rant rant...
A better idea is to cook in the latest Xperia X2 Panel Manager (or the newer X1 one) and include the SPB Mobile Shell panel which is a free panel - i.e no problems to use it.
I´m running the SPB Mobile Shell 2 Xperia Panel on my Rhodium and it works great. (I´m coming from the X1 and uses the Blackstone Panel Manager).
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I use Spb Mobile Shell 3.0.1 on my Fuze and should be getting my AT&T Tilt2 in a day or two. Mobile Shell 3.0.1 is very customizable and rules as far productivity, I can get to over 32 Apps with one swipe and many more with a couple of swipes.
Mobile Shell 3.5 just came out, but there are many complaints about stability, battery life and performance. Check the Spb Forums.
http://www.spbclub.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=48
Also check Mskip here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=575162
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I found Shell 3.5 on Fuze drained battery pretty quick, but much better on the Tilt 2. Still need to close programs in task manager though.
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A better idea is to cook in the latest Xperia X2 Panel Manager (or the newer X1 one) and include the SPB Mobile Shell panel which is a free panel - i.e no problems to use it.
I´m running the SPB Mobile Shell 2 Xperia Panel on my Rhodium and it works great. (I´m coming from the X1 and uses the Blackstone Panel Manager).
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I like this idea!! I hadn't seen the Xperia X2 Panels before but I researched it and it looked pretty cool. Can you post some screen shots of your device? I'd like to see what it looks like running the SPB Mobile Shell.
Here comes two screenshots from my Rhodium running the official Sony Ericsson SPB Mobile Shell 2 Panel.
This is the today screen with this Panel.
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Sony Ericsson Korea has released a Mobile Shell 3.0.1 Panel which works good (but the carousel view takes longer time to load for the first time compared to the stand alone app). Other regions has the Mobile Shell 2 Panel shown on my screenshots.
The biggest difference between the Panel and the standalone app is the design (metallic theme) and the fact it doesn´t takes over the original today screen.
On a device such as Rhodium the Panels are very handy. I like them better here than on the X1 - you map the back/end key to the Panel Manager and then you can use Mobile Shell and Second Today (for example) without any problems for TF3D/Sense. And it´s easy to switch between them.
Instead of using Mobile Shell Toggler the Panel is more trouble free.
The Panel Manager I use on the Rhodium is the ported Blackstone one. It´s working good but there´s a problem: it´s the R1 edition from the X1 and because of that the SPB MS 3 Panel don´t work. It requires a newer manager.
I think a good development for the future is to cook in the Xperia X2 Panel Manager in some ROMs (and provide it as a cab) so we can use the latest panels.
Very Nice! I agree, those integrations would be nice. I'm still running the Kaiser until I get the TP2 so I am running PDACorner Ultimate ROM with the Spb Mobile Shell. Fortunately for me, I'm not having any problems with M2D and set one of the soft keys from M2D to the spb corral so that I can switch between 3 different home screens (Spb Lifestyle, Spb Professional or M2D) and can switch back to Windows Default through the Today Settings but who uses that anymore???? haha. I LOVE it! I'm probably going a little overboard but it keeps me from flashing a different ROM every day by allowing my to change things up as often as I'd like.
Is there some way to remove the Honeycomb effect (offset fonts) from the Start menu?
Also, I'd like to have more control over the order of things in the Start menu. Are there any tweaks that provide this control?
i really wish microsoft would do something about the start menu. its not honeycomb anymore without the honeycomb. its just staggered and it doesnt make sense anymore. if you want to place icons in certain order you have to press and hold and move up and down. its tedious but thats the way it works. switch to htcs manila start menu if you want it different.
This article actually suggests the staggered layout is more finger friendly than a regular grid. Not sure I buy it. Like most people, I think it makes the menu look jumbled.
http://onlygizmos.com/windows-mobile-65-honeycomb-menu-is-more-than-just-looks/2009/03/
Its true that the lack of sorting and re-organizing features for the Start Menu is annoying and a bit puzzling.
Don't know of any hacks for changing the staggered layout.
But reStart and Icon Changer are XDA user-developed programs that allow you to re-order icons, or change them. I've tried reStart with limited success. For some reason, the icons don't always end up where you put them on the list. I haven't tried Icon Changer yet, but intend to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=481379
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567080
Seriously, this is the best Microsoft could do with a start menu? This is what was supposed to compete with the fluid cleanliness of iPhone's home screen? Ridiculous.
I avoid the "Start" screen at all costs and use Manilla whenever possible.
I organize the Start menu into folders and then alphabetize the icons with re/Start.
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As I always say, QuickMenu. You can make the individual items as large as you want to make it increasingly touch-friendly, and it makes sense, includes the ability to end programs, recent launched, links to settings, etc..
I've been using an app called Panoramic Launchpad downloaded from Microsoft Marketplace for a few bucks. It's been working great, you can reorganize any icon you want on the fly by hold and drag. The only downside is it takes up about 8MB of RAM the last time I looked.
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I've been using an app called Panoramic Launchpad downloaded from Microsoft Marketplace for a few bucks. It's been working great, you can reorganize any icon you want on the fly by hold and drag. The only downside is it takes up about 8MB of RAM the last time I looked.
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8 megs!?!?! Hahahahah, refund.
i actually wasnt a fan of the old start menu. the drop down didnt make sense. going straight into all programs did so microsoft threw you in there. and the honeycomb prototype design was super snazzy. http://stevewiilliams.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/win-mo-6-5.jpg i think htc did a good job at replacing that through the manila start menu in tf3d 2.0. but it doesnt really fit in with sense 2.5 so rather than updating it, they just dropped that all together. seems no one can make a good looking cohesive start menu.
Are you saying that Sense doesn't have a Programs tab?
i was actaully saying it didnt have manila start menu but yeah it doesnt look like it has a programs tab either.
Looks like the original question hasn't been answered yet - how do you get rid of the honeycomb? I tried the Showaco start menu program (from the folks that did REstart) but it did not work on my Sprint TP2 with 6.5.
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That's what I use, it creates a drop down listing which you can scroll through, if you tap and hold you can set to the top or down. I think if you pair this with ReStart you can get a pretty workable start menu.
I first found the cab on xda, but cannot remember which thread, so I apologize to the dev.
Hope this helps.
Awesome Start shows a list rather than icons. That still doesn't answer the question in this thread. How do we show the start menu with icons like normal, just not honeycombed?
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Awesome Start removes the Honeycomb effect
vogelap said:
Also, I'd like to have more control over the order of things in the Start menu. Are there any tweaks that provide this control?
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ReStart provides more control over the order of things in the Start menu
►@Madmartian, I do not know for sure how to fix the honeycomb effect (perhaps the Cookies tweak, but I do not know for sure), but I think the OP was answered.
Re: Default Windows Start Menu Alternative: Winstart
Many users in the NRG Rhodium thread recently recommended Winstart for WM 6.x. The paid version ($5) offers more RAM savings & tweaks vs the free version. And it works w/ or w/o Sense.
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G'day all, just wanted to share some custom tasks that operate in the background to supercharge your experience.
These work in tasker and macrodroid. I use macrodroid as I prefer the layout and setup of tasks.
I won't go into too much detail because each automation app has different implementations and layouts.
Some need root, others don't. I have my Fold 4 rooted so I'm unsure what doesn't actually require it.
My favourite is dismissing the lockscreen. I don't need a lockscreen because the way I see it is, when I pick up my phone, I intend to use it, so I find it utterly pointless having a lockscreen and time wasting to swipe it away everything I use my phone. I simply pick it up, double tap the screen or hit the power button, and it unlock instantly for me.
The task is simple... the trigger is when the screen turns on. The task itself is to activate the shell/terminal and use the following command: wm dismiss-keyguard. It's that simple.
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The next is maps location. The only thing I used my location for is when using maps. The task is simple... when my maps app is launched, the location/gps is automatically turned on... and when I close the app, the location/gps is automatically turned off.
Doing this saves the battery by not having the location on all the time, and adds the convenience of turning the location/gps on/off so you don't have to.
Another is silent mode. I create a task to automatically put my phone on silent at 9pm and turns it off at 7am. You can set it to whatever you like. I know this can be done with things like Do Not Disturb but I like having all background tasks in one place, as opposed to some in macrodroid, others in Modes and Routines and others in Do Not Disturb.
The Fold 4 has 12GB of RAM on my 512GB model (I think the smaller storage options has less RAM, I could be wrong).
So there's 2 mods here. They help speed up the device by preventing continual compression and decompression on areas in RAM as well as faster app usage by disabling slow storage space that gets used as RAM instead of the much faster RAM itself.
The first one is by going to Settings>Battery and Device Care>Memory and turning off "RAM Plus".
What this is used for is when you have so much running, that your device uses part of your actual device storage as RAM. Doing this is much, much slower than only using RAM. The only case you'd need this enabled is if you're running a breathtaking amount of apps at once. I can be running a VPN, torrent downloads, cloud storage uploads, call of duty and a movie at the same time, all on Samsung DeX and only get to about 8 out of the 12GB used, so I know I'll never need RAM Plus.
The second one I know requires root. I flashed a Magisk root module called zRAM Swap Manager. Theres a shell command I have set up on macrodroid to run when the device boots up: zsm -f
What this does is disable RAM using compressed spaces to run apps. It speeds up usage and multitasking (most likely unnoticeably, but I like knowing it's disabled for performance sake).
Another 2 tasks I love is for VPN use. A lot of VPNs don't automatically reconnect when a connection is lost. I use IPVanish which is one that doesn't. I've also noticed that the VPN disconnects when starting and ending Samsung DeX.
I have two tasks set up. One is a series of UI interactions to take place upon VPN disconnect. It detects the VPN status then automatically launches my VPN app, clicks the connect button, then waits for it to connect before returning to the previous app I was in. If the screen is off at the time of disconnect, the task will turn the screen on, launch the app and connect, then go to the homescreen before turning the screen back off.
The second task is set up to run the above task whenever Samsung Dex is started or ended, as well as when the device boots up.
Another task I have set up is detect when a Bluetooth device is disconnected, wait 30 seconds, then turn the Bluetooth off. I have it set up to wait 30 seconds in case of the situation where I put my earbuds in their case, then want to connect to another device. It just saves me having to turn my Bluetooth back on after putting my earbuds away and that 30 seconds gives me time to take my time getting my phone out of my pocket, turning another Bluetooth device on then going to settings and connecting to it.
Another one is intruder selfies and location. If I have a pass code on and someone tries to get into my phone, it will take a photo of them then upload it to my online cloud, then also turn the location on and continually send coordinates to my best mate and my parents.
The one thing I hate about android is not being able to choose where media is saved. Like if I download photos from Reddit, Signal or my Web browser, I want to be able to have all my downloaded photos, videos and documents organised throughout my device. Same goes for camera videos/photos and screenshots/recordings.
I have tasks set up to run when certain apps are closed. For example, when I close my camera, the task will automatically move all photos and videos (if I've taken any) from the DCIM folder to a folder called Camera in either the Videos folder or the Pictures folder (depending if it's a photo or video being moved).
Same goes for screenshots and recordings. The app used on Samsung for screenshots and recordings is called Samsung Capture... so I have a task to run when Samsung Capture is closed that moves all screenshots and recordings from the DCIM folder to a folder in Pictures called Screenshots or a folder in Videos called Screen recordings.
Hope this is all of some interest to atleast someone
Thank you for sharing your tweaks ; )
1st test was disabling lockscreen : seems not working without root (but we can disable it through stock settings and i revert back cause it's not safe ... Google send popup to risolve problem etc...
2nd test was disabling ram plus : i tested since yesterday all was fine until i received a call and it was terrible (lags and impossible to answer lol so back to zram+ (F936B 256go has also 12go ram)
I'm searching how to enable icons on status bar (NFC or netspeed indicators)... BTW i don't want to root so it will not be easy.
Thanks again forbyour tips
Hi mate, thanks for this excellent write-up. Could you let me know how to add actions within an action? For example, how did you add the App Foreground sub-action within the Location Service On action?
Edit: Figured it out. It's a Constraint and not a sub-action!
Is there any significant difference between your MacroDroid script for location based services and a Bixby routine?