playing around in twidroid pro today. i disable live preview mode, i just dont like it. so i turn the phone to landscape and twidroid is in a strange config. left pane are tweets, right pane empty. like the option for live preview is broken, no matter to me, i dont use it.
anyway i press home and rosie is all landscape. taskbar looks good, launcher adjusted, app drawer arrow adjusted, the app drawer and home screens adjusted, the phone key turned into the phone icon only. i was able to use it till i turned back portrait. it was nice and now i want it.
perhaps theres a way to make it happen with the stock.
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Hi ... does anyone know how to activate landscape mode on a XDA 2s? I went to Settings -- System -- Screen but could not find any controls there.
landscape mode
just press the O2 button on ur keyboard!
Yep it worked! I had to do a hard reset though before I got that button to work. Something must have messed up my registry settings. Thanks a pile!
Does anyone use landscape as default? What do you think the advantages are?
I'm too used to using portrait I guess, but I suppose browsing web pages might be better in landscape...
I think the today screen looks better in portrait, unless there is an app that lets you split things into two verticle columns? Quick start buttons and info down the left and appointments down the right or something?
When you double press the home button with you get the Sense UI overview of all homescreens. Its more useless than usefull and plain annoying if accidentally activated. How can we disable this specific feature without breaking Sense UI?
Easy: Get LauncherPro.
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Tried it and many others - Sense UI fits my needs and my taste better than all.
Simple: Don't do that then.
Also, a third press closes the preview.
I use an app called PreHome that is a great task switcher and launcher that works off the home button. When you press the home button it pops up, a second home press gives the SenseUI home screen. The preview home screen never pops up.
frifox said:
Tried it and many others - Sense UI fits my needs and my taste better than all.
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You know LauncherPro can be customized any way you want, right? It can have the same "taste" as Rosie with far more customization and options.
try adw.Launcher.
i swipe down on my screen to access my "wall of screens".
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You know LauncherPro can be customized any way you want, right? It can have the same "taste" as Rosie with far more customization and options.
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1. open app drawer, hit search key... no way to filter apps by whatever you typed
2. scrolling between home screens isnt intuitive. if scrolling fast, screen wiggles left/right but doesnt change.
3. app drawer opens up too slow, didnt find the setting for that in preferences either
4. no sense ui widgets
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I use an app called PreHome that is a great task switcher and launcher that works off the home button. When you press the home button it pops up, a second home press gives the SenseUI home screen. The preview home screen never pops up.
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1. app list loads slow. froyo sense ui's task switcher is much quicker/nicer
2. doesn't open sense ui first. having to extra-press home key is same as hitting it again to close previews.
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Simple: Don't do that then.
Also, a third press closes the preview.
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true, that's what i currently do... but hitting home button again before previews finished "zooming" simply re-does that zooming action, sometimes resulting in me pressing it 5 times before finally pausing and letting it finish zooming and then finally exiting the expose-wannabe.
stock evo's 30fps cap (33ms per frame) made me wanna throw this brick against the wall, but the fps uncap to 50fps (20ms per frame) saved me from murdering the phone. thats a mere 13ms difference. that being said, you now can probably imagine how those 2,000ms-just-wasted-for-previews are driving me nuts all i'm looking for is an app that would lock the homekey and put it through a simple filter:
Code:
if($homekey=='single_press' && $foreground='sense_ui' && $current_screen=='home'){
$key_press->ignore();
}else{
$key_press->do();
}
any ideas?
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1. open app drawer, hit search key... no way to filter apps by whatever you typed
2. scrolling between home screens isnt intuitive. if scrolling fast, screen wiggles left/right but doesnt change.
3. app drawer opens up too slow, didnt find the setting for that in preferences either
4. no sense ui widgets
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1. You don't even have to open the app drawer to search applications, at least on CM6. Just hit the quick search button and start typing away. You can also hide icons you don't want in LauncherPro.
2. Do you have Parkinson's or something?
3. Preferences -> Avanced Settings -> Opening speed. You can also find all of the other speed and scrolling settings here.
4. LauncherPro Plus has identical copies of the bookmarks, calendar, and contacts widgets with more on the way. There are also superior widgets on the Market that more than replace the HTC widgets.
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1. You don't even have to open the app drawer to search applications, at least on CM6. Just hit the quick search button and start typing away. You can also hide icons you don't want in LauncherPro.
2. Do you have Parkinson's or something?
3. Preferences -> Avanced Settings -> Opening speed. You can also find all of the other speed and scrolling settings here.
4. LauncherPro Plus has identical copies of the bookmarks, calendar, and contacts widgets with more on the way. There are also superior widgets on the Market that more than replace the HTC widgets.
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1. yup, i'm aware of that feature, but it searches more than just the apps... its more than i need but does the job i guess
2. i navigate ui VERY fast, and many times apps (mobile & PC) have hard time keeping up. i prefer apps/os's to adapt to my style or modify them to what i prefer, not the other way around
3. hmm, paid version? didn't see that in the free one, or i just didn't look hard enough
4. i'm looking for the clock. aka, the flip clock + weather + onscreen animations
You get plus by buying it from the dev's website for $3. Then you just enter the activation code in the app. Beautiful Widgets is the perfect clock replacement, in my opinion. Not only does it have a TON of skins, but you can assign different shortcuts to it. No full screen weather animation, but that's just useless eye candy that lasts 2 seconds when you aren't even using your phone.
Anyone else having this issue? New 8.9 with 8.3.0 root. I've tried Apex, Nova, Holo and when I try to move shortcuts around, requiring long press on the icon, the screen flips upside down. Then the icon I was doing the long press has the submenu but I can't really choose the settings.
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Anyone else having this issue? New 8.9 with 8.3.0 root. I've tried Apex, Nova, Holo and when I try to move shortcuts around, requiring long press on the icon, the screen flips upside down. Then the icon I was doing the long press has the submenu but I can't really choose the settings.
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It will only let you move things in portrait mode. Go to play store and get rotation control then in the app enable per app settings and set your launcher to forced auto
Thanks! Installed the rotation control now it's working properly.
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https://www.facebook.com/Huaweiemui
You can only send feedback once from one device, so makes sure you add everything in one go.
I made the following suggestions. Post yours too. So that its sparks better ideas for the coming Emotion UI 2.0.
Fixes:
- A fix for the profile changer app. There is supposed to be five default profiles built into it but only four shows up, with the car profile being missing. When a new profile is created with the name "Car", it shows up as already used. Hence this needs to be fixed.
- Fix for keypad. On the browser, the address bar also functions as a search bar. The problem is that when one starts to type into that bar, the keypad automatically switches the "space" key to ".com" key, and hence there is no space key option available. Now the space is alternatively available if i was to switch to the numbers key pad section, but i would actually want the space key on the mainpad itself as it is a frequently used key for an internet search. Maybe give the ".com" key the same swipe down function as space key or vice versa.
- Fix for ME widget. The problem is that if i was to reduce the number of widgets that are packed into that widget box, the size of the box does not reduce. So lets say i want to use only the 1x2 size weather widget while removed the rest of the widgets. But what happens is that the widget still takes up the whole big original space and leads to un-usable space on the home screen. The space cannot be used for other widgets or apps. So basically now i am having to search for third party apps to use as a weather/world clock widget. Neither can i use that small music player widget as a stand alone.
- Fix for email widget (not the gmail widget) allows only emails of one email ID (that too the email ID added first) to show up on the email widget. While within the app there is a feature for combined viewing of all mails from all the different email ID's. So this same combined view option should be available for the widget too.
Changes/Additions:
- Make the navigation bar opaque glassy color throughout the system. At present it remains opaque only on the home screen, while turns grey everywhere else. And there is a lot of complains about this grey color.
- Allow scroll option for the bottom tray so that more number of apps can be located there.
- Allow the swipe down gesture on any part of the home screen to bring down the notification panel. At present one has to extend finger all over to the top to bring it down which is laborious when using with one hand. By allowing swipe down anywhere on home screen, this can be solved.
- Regarding the navigation bar hide option. At present this is done by an additional small arrow at the left end of the navigation bar. To me that is a constrictive and inconsistent. I would say that they make the "back/return" key of the navigation bar itself for this purpose by letting the long press of the back key to initiate the hiding of the navigation bar.
- The Huawei ascend Mate got an additional option of "suspend button" but this is not present in the Ascend P6. I would say that this shortcut feature should be added to the P6 too, but rather than have an annoying dot/point on the screen and the problem of having it move about often to prevent it from blocking the screen, the long press of the multitask navigation key should instead be used for activating the shortcut menu. Also the theme of this shortcut should be much improved and great looking with included option of customization. Also there needs to be the toggle options, power off/ restart/ screen turnoff, etc controls, included in this shortcut. The app available on google play called "Toucher Pro" can be seen as an example of design and features.
- Allowing the creation of folders within folders or other options that would allow users who want to have an app drawer, the ability to use and feel the folder as an app drawer itself.
- Option for the lock screen to allow the guest login mode.
- Knock knock phone awaken feature or the active display feature.
- Lock screen should have more detailed notification/message/calls reading option.
- Option to search and download theme from the theme app itself, and of course releasing more themes in a consistent period of time and allowing other users to advertise their themes and make it available for all users. There should be some organized space for public creative development of themes by users.
- More Huawei exclusive live widgets and floating apps.
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warea said:
I made the following suggestions. Post yours too. So that its sparks better ideas for the coming Emotion UI 2.0.
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Good u have given all the super suggestions of which i could thought. Hope EMUI 2.0 comes fast.
Better weather widget with more animations and addition of night....
I have sent the following more:
Additions/Changes:
1) Add timer option for the EMUI Huawei Lock screen.
2) Allow vibration turn off/on option for the unlocking of lock screen. At present the vibration is enabled and cannot be disabled.
3) Allow timer option for switching profiles.
4) The incoming call screen ID picture should be bigger in size.
Fixes:
1) Grey navigation bar stays over third party apps even when third party apps ask for full screen.
2) Screen light abruptly changes at random even if the back light wasn't in auto detect mode. In fact, at times even when the screen light is kept in auto mode, it later abruptly switches to other modes and does not remain in auto mode.
3) The wifi automatically turns off under weak connectivity, even though this battery saving option was disabled.
4) When the permission manager is made to block any app, a notification popups every time the app functions. Maybe a separate section should be created within the permission manager, that mentions all apps that have some of their access blocked rather than through a popup.
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More issues:
Fix battery calibration :
The battery % at times become inconsistent, sometimes not charging beyong 90 or 95%, sometimes jumping to 100 after long time on 95. Also when using battery it jumps from below 10% to 4% etc.
Fix Browser:**
1) when using quick controls of the default browser, the top browser control bar that was supposed to be hidden instead gets distorted by appearing as black or some broken image of the website visited.
2) when using the translate option on long press, it goes to google china rather than google english.
Wallpaper controls:
When applying a picture from gallery as wallpaper, the option to apply it as scrollable wallpaper does not exist. The scrollable wallpaper option exists only for the preloaded wallpapers in system.
Some more really important**suggestions
Quick shortcut bar:
A quickshort cut panel that triggers by swiping up the multitask icon. Design: The panel should be 3/4 the height of the screen so that it does not make the thumb stretch too much for single hand users. The apps to pin to quick panel should be left to users to decide. The apps should be properly spaced in stacks such that one quickly memorizes the distance to swipe to trigger each app. So for example, if one pins a screen turn off/lock screen app on bottom of the stacked panel, a mere small swipe from multitask key to just above the navigation bar would trigger the screen to turn off. This design of shortcut to my knowledge would be the quickest and simplest shortcut taking swipe to its best use. Bring it first on Huawei.
Power manger upgrade:
At present there are 3 modes of power manger. Normal, smart and endurance. Although the smart mode conserves battery yet its not used by many as it disconnects the internet when screen locked. To make up for these users, there should a fourth option for those users who want to receive their chat messages or email notifications. They dont want as power hungry as games yet not as low as to be disconnected from internet.
Power manager combined with profile switch toggle:
Setting the power plan for different profiles would also be a great advancement. One could hence then switch their power plan with profile rotation key. So for example, one could switch to chat profile or game profile.
Smart minimizing of video & music:
There is a video minimizing feature on the ascend mate that allows one to watch video in minimized form while multitasking. This feature should be on the Ascend p6 but with certain advances. It should function with swipes similar to the new youtube mobile app. A swipe down/up from video or music play should minimize it to a small screen and then swipe left if one needs to close it or swipe back up/down to maximize it.
Switching browser windows:
Allow the Huawei browser to switch between different opened browser windows by a swipe left or right from the very ends of the screen. The trigger/hotspot being on the ends like an ubuntu side bar being opened but in this case, switching windows.
Other small changes/adds:
- On the default Huawei browser, the long press on text does not contain the "select all" option. Only the copy, share, translate and search option exists.
- There should be a unique sound or led notification to know the battery is full/completely charged.
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Is there a way to add quick buttons to the notification drawer (the one you open by just swiping down on the screen, I mean), instead of tapping the upper-right button first?
There are very few options I use very often (like wifi on/off, plane mode on/off, rotation on/off) and I wish I could have those buttons directly in the notification drawer, instead of doing one more tap on the related button.
Any idea?
I've looked over the Internet but I can mainly find either apps that include other apps in the drawer or development explanations. I would just like to have a "widget" at the top of the drawer.
Thanks
sbiricuda said:
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Is there a way to add quick buttons to the notification drawer (the one you open by just swiping down on the screen, I mean), instead of tapping the upper-right button first?
There are very few options I use very often (like wifi on/off, phone mode on/off, rotation on/off) and I wish I could have those buttons directly in the notification drawer, instead of doing one more tap on the related button.
Any idea?
I've looked over the Internet but I can mainly find either apps that include other apps in the drawer or development explanations. I would just like to have a "widget" at the top of the drawer.
Thanks
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This doesn't really answer your question, and you probably know this, but there are certainly widgets or mini-apps or something that would let you put something on your home screen (or a different screen) to control those things.
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This doesn't really answer your question, and you probably know this, but there are certainly widgets or mini-apps or something that would let you put something on your home screen (or a different screen) to control those things.
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Yeah there's a native widget doing this, thank you.
Yet I'm looking for the same thing in the notification drawer.
In the meantime, if you know a widget that I could freely customize, plese feel free to tell
Nova Launcher might make things easier
sbiricuda said:
Hi
Is there a way to add quick buttons to the notification drawer (the one you open by just swiping down on the screen, I mean), instead of tapping the upper-right button first?
There are very few options I use very often (like wifi on/off, plane mode on/off, rotation on/off) and I wish I could have those buttons directly in the notification drawer, instead of doing one more tap on the related button.
Any idea?
I've looked over the Internet but I can mainly find either apps that include other apps in the drawer or development explanations. I would just like to have a "widget" at the top of the drawer.
Thanks
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So this is not a complete solution, but it will get you closer to what you are looking for. The pre condition is that you have to be using Nova launcher or any other launcher that supports gestures. So in case of Nova, you change the swipe down gesture to "Expand Quick Settings". This way at least when you are on the home screen, you can quickly get to your settings by swiping down or whatever other gesture you use.