[Q] ROMs... Which one has these? - G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
I've changed quite a few ROMs lately trying to find the one I like most. I'm using a Desire Z.
I'm running my Work email client (lotus notes traveler) that requires the phone to have a screen lock <=30min. It seems like that apart from Sense ROM that has a native lock screen timer any other market app to delay it gets overridden by Notes settings
I tested
Cyan: like the speed, not so much the GUI, also trieded it with LaucherPRO that i prefer to ADW this is not really my preferred one. Battery is average for me on this ROM
MIUI: love it, problem is I can't extend the lock-screen time to 30 minutes and I hate typing password every single time. (tried a few apps from the market but Lotus Notes for Android over-rides their settings)
Virtuous Glite: Love the lightness and speed and battery life, also like the clean minimalistic GUI, same problem as with MIUI.... lock screen
Virtuous Unity: Apart from battery life I love this ROM. Lock-Screen here works perfectly allowing me to apply 30min delay
Each one has things that I like and Unity is the one that gets closer to what I need apart from battery life.
So this is my shopping list, can you help me finding the perfect one?

Extended battery? How about stick an 1800mah from an evo in there ?

MacaronyMax said:
Extended battery? How about stick an 1800mah from an evo in there ?
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does an htc evo battery fits in a desireZ??? didn't know about it

Not sure if I'm following correctly, do you mean display timeout for 30 minutes on miui? If so u can set that in display settings
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Spastic909 said:
Not sure if I'm following correctly, do you mean display timeout for 30 minutes on miui? If so u can set that in display settings
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hi,
no i don't mean the display turn off time, but how long after from when the display is off it will ask you for the pw

isnt there a lockscreen app on market to fully customize? i had a paid lockscreen app that let me do pretty much anything i just forget the name....i wanna say "something locker"

Have you tried flashing your radio to the one recommended in the Unity thread (also in my sig)?
With Unity and the matching radio, I can get 48 hrs with fairly light usage. But if its truly a radio issue, this can be very locational dependent, of course.

smokeuout said:
isnt there a lockscreen app on market to fully customize? i had a paid lockscreen app that let me do pretty much anything i just forget the name....i wanna say "something locker"
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Widget Locker

not sure widgetlocker does override the settings.... anybody has ever tried it?

I reinstalled it and checked, didn't see anything for what you are looking for.

biohazrd51 said:
I reinstalled it and checked, didn't see anything for what you are looking for.
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thanks but back to square one then...

martinpescatore said:
thanks but back to square one then...
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I think there are other applications similar to widget locker. Do a search for widget locker on market and check similar apps. You can probably email them and see if they do what you need.

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[APP] NoLED v4.4.3 ( BLN Alternative ) Works :D

This thread has been opened with the permissions from the original developer madmack, for everyone who has Galaxy S2, since he has mentioned that the orginal development be sticked to the Galaxy S forums i have also added the download link to his thread.
ALL CREDIT GOES TO ::::
madmack
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The application does the following:
1. When your phone receives a notification, it switches the screen on and displays a notification. The notification bounces around every 3 seconds. This will guarantee using different LEDs so that the same ones won't be burned out.
2. You can customize whether to have a dot or an icon for each type of supported notification. Users may also customize the colors of these icons/dots.
3. NoLED will work with SMS/MMS, Gtalk, Gmail, Missed calls, Voicemail, Calendar and K-9 (email client) without any additional permissions. Any other 3rd party software (e.g. Whatsapp, Email app, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) will need to be checked under Monitored Apps and will require granting Accessibility rights to NoLED.
4. The app runs as a service, after installing, you have two ways to activate the app. (a) by restarting. (b) by loading the widget into your home screen and clicking on it.
5. To get rid of the notification screen, you may use the home or the back key. You can enable dismissal via more keys in the Miscellaneous submenu. Once your notifications are dismissed, all notifications disappear and will not come back up.
I have also logged the touch drivers and saw that although I'm displaying a black screen and setting flags to not respond to touch messages, android is still receiving touch messages when you touch any spot on the screen. This, I imagine, consumes resources! So I disabled the touch drivers when the black screen is active. Dismissing the notifications should reactive the touch drivers. If your screen is unresponsive to touch even after the notification screen is dismissed, a simple restart should take care of it. There is also an option to completely disable that feature. The touch drivers are only disabled on the Samsung Galaxy S variants, all other devices are still receptive to touch events.
Now the touchscreen drivers were a lot easier to mess around with. The sourcecode given by samsung helped me achieve the activation/deactivation of the screen. Things are not the same with the capacitive buttons. You'll notice that when the black screen is on, if you touch any of the soft buttons, they'll light up (although am suppressing them programatically). On some other devices like the Nexus S, these backlights cannot be switched off once the screen is turned on programatically. This is a bug from Google and more info is in the FAQ.
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Link : Download NoLED v4.4.3
沙发?有木有???有木有!!!
Is there an option to turn off the bouncing? Makes it look ugly imo
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adudele said:
沙发?有木有???有木有!!!
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Doing a google translate this is what i got !
沙发?有木有???有木有!!! --> Sofa? There are wood? ? ? There are wood! ! !
What are you asking man ?
KaliKot said:
Is there an option to turn off the bouncing? Makes it look ugly imo
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I think you are referring to Blink option, untick or unselect it and see if that helps !
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Doing a google translate this is what i got !
沙发?有木有???有木有!!! --> Sofa? There are wood? ? ? There are wood! ! !
What are you asking man ?
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LMAO.......
how is this app on the battery? does it cause alot of drain?
tids2k said:
Doing a google translate this is what i got !
沙发?有木有???有木有!!! --> Sofa? There are wood? ? ? There are wood! ! !
What are you asking man ?
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I speak and read chinese and also have no idea what he's talking about....
aly19 said:
how is this app on the battery? does it cause alot of drain?
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When I used NoLED with the NS it was kind of tough on the battery. That being said, this version has been updated from the one I used so really there is only one way to find out.
I've been using NoLED since I got my s2 nearly 2 months ago. I've never had a problem and my battery life is fine, usually over 50% after a full days usage (which for me is moderate). Love it!
BTW I run cognition ROM so that helps with the battery life.
i want that ringtone
jwonga said:
I've been using NoLED since I got my s2 nearly 2 months ago. I've never had a problem and my battery life is fine, usually over 50% after a full days usage (which for me is moderate). Love it!
BTW I run cognition ROM so that helps with the battery life.
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really ? i have tried on VillainROM, it kept the phone awake and drain lots of battery
tids2k said:
Doing a google translate this is what i got !
沙发?有木有???有木有!!! --> Sofa? There are wood? ? ? There are wood! ! !
What are you asking man ?
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what he is saying is:
Sofa? Is there wood? Is there wood!
Yes I speak mandarin you have a good translation there. Makes as much sense to you as it does to me
adudele said:
沙发?有木有???有木有!!!
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what do you mean "there are woods"? the phone is made of plastic not wood.
man, you are so cute
jwonga said:
I've been using NoLED since I got my s2 nearly 2 months ago. I've never had a problem and my battery life is fine, usually over 50% after a full days usage (which for me is moderate). Love it!
BTW I run cognition ROM so that helps with the battery life.
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This will cost alot of your battery. If you receive a message and noled stay on like for 1 hour, i believe you lose more then 10% per hour.
I'll will turn my screen on from time to time, thats much better for the battery
kin24173493 said:
what do you mean "there are woods"? the phone is made of plastic not wood.
man, you are so cute
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He just want to say : 有沒有 (木sound like沒)
"China Internet buzzwords"
tids2k said:
Doing a google translate this is what i got !
沙发?有木有???有木有!!! --> Sofa? There are wood? ? ? There are wood! ! !
What are you asking man ?
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You just made me crack a LOL in the middle of a quite office.
hktony said:
really ? i have tried on VillainROM, it kept the phone awake and drain lots of battery
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Correct, it drains like crazy. Only way to minimize the drain is to check the phone what message/call you just missed soon after it occured. When you leave it with a NoLED notification active there's a lot of drain.
So it's only handy for people who check their phones regularly.
Been using NoLED for a long time as well. Haven't noticed any excessive drain. Using official KF3 (NEE) and it lasts for two days easily with my standard use and NoLED active.
I've used NoLED on my previous phone (Samsung Galaxy Spica), and I did notice extra battery drain.
For me this is not really an alternative to BLN. OK, it does show notifications when your screen would normally be off, but NoLED still activates the whole screen, whereas BLN only lights up the 'buttons' below the screen. Somehow this has to be more energy consuming.

What do YOU want in a ROM?

This community has already greatly contributed to Whitehawkx and I. In return we'd like to offer you the same.
We have LOTS of ideas for the ROM we are working on and are implementing all of them as time permits. In the 24-48 hours him and I have had this phone we've already made a huge amount of progress.
So, be realistic, be creative, and tell us what you'd like to see in a custom ROM.
Small preview of what's been accomplished so far (more under the hood ):
CM 7 and MIUI!!!!
rUsTyRuSs said:
MIUI!!!!
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+1
Or vanilla or something.
Do some ics porting!
Notification menu like on WeaponG2X. That was one of my favorite implementation of that rom.
Hercules, Hercules!!
I do agree with the guys above me with having CM7 or MIUI, but I would also like the running apps carousel like the one from ics. I think that's what it's called. I have to double check on that. I know when you long press the home button, you get to see most recent apps, but I sure do like the look of the app carousel from ics. That'd be nice to have but I'm still looking forward to yours and WhiteHawkx's roms either way.
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i want my phone to cook bacon,u think thats possible?
jk jk
but bro u think u could fix the screen with a rom? u kno how most of us are getting them vertical lines and blobs.. u think that would be a possible fix?
EDT tweaks (hawks) I'm sure it's already in there. dsexton's as. Speed and battery tweaks. And whatever else you guys can cook up I'm sure you accomplish what most want without any ideas!!!
Sent from my HercuBEAST!!!
rUsTyRuSs said:
CM 7 and MIUI!!!!
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The_Biz said:
+1
Or vanilla or something.
Do some ics porting!
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htc2364 said:
Notification menu like on WeaponG2X. That was one of my favorite implementation of that rom.
Hercules, Hercules!!
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Nivek91 said:
I do agree with the guys above me with having CM7 or MIUI, but I would also like the running apps carousel like the one from ics. I think that's what it's called. I have to double check on that. I know when you long press the home button, you get to see most recent apps, but I sure do like the look of the app carousel from ics. That'd be nice to have but I'm still looking forward to yours and WhiteHawkx's roms either way.
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I guess I should have clarified. This will be based off Samsung software/firmware.
We won't be "porting" a ROM or working on CM7 for this phone. We will be extending the functionality/feature base of the Sammy ROM. It only makes sense to do it like this. You get the best combination of speed, stability, and features.
HRodMusic said:
i want my phone to cook bacon,u think thats possible?
jk jk
but bro u think u could fix the screen with a rom? u kno how most of us are getting them vertical lines and blobs.. u think that would be a possible fix?
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That looks to be a hardware issue.
Babyj303 said:
EDT tweaks (hawks) I'm sure it's already in there. dsexton's as. Speed and battery tweaks. And whatever else you guys can cook up I'm sure you accomplish what most want without any ideas!!!
Sent from my HercuBEAST!!!
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Of course those will be there.
The_Biz said:
+1
Or vanilla or something.
Do some ics porting!
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Lol but sdk ports suck.
Full ext 4 support in the rom.
Google talk with video chat
All bloatware removed
Overclock/Undervolt kernel with ext 4 support with overclocked gpu
Fancy Transition animations.
Dark Theme For battery life
Can we get download to say Make me a hot pocket i like that option.
V6 supercharger memory fix and the universal shot already built in !!
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btw does your phone have that issue to roman? just wondering.
Hi.
I would like my phone to comb my hair. Would it take alot of .Smali? .xml? Maybe? Lolol
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Disable battery full notification
Stay awake while charging
and is it possible to add more notification pulldown toggles??
Option to not make brightness go down lower than 30% so people would stop complaining about the lines.
Samsung orginal galaxy s2 SMS
Remove gesture controls
Swap support
Killbynature said:
Lol but sdk ports suck.
Full ext 4 support in the rom.
Google talk with video chat
All bloatware removed
Overclock/Undervolt kernel with ext 4 support with overclocked gpu
Fancy Transition animations.
Dark Theme For battery life
Can we get download to say Make me a hot pocket i like that option.
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+1
10 char
HRodMusic said:
btw does your phone have that issue to roman? just wondering.
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Doesn't seem to be too bad on my phone, maybe I'm not looking in the right places though.
|Melvin| said:
Hi.
I would like my phone to comb my hair. Would it take alot of .Smali? .xml? Maybe? Lolol
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Yes
concac858 said:
Disable battery full notification
Stay awake while charging
and is it possible to add more notification pulldown toggles??
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Stay awake - yes. More notification toggles - yes.
Killbynature said:
Option to not make brightness go down lower than 30% so people would stop complaining about the lines.
Samsung orginal galaxy s2 SMS
Remove gesture controls
Swap support
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30% - Haven't looked into it, will try
Original SGS Sms - Should work now I think. Maybe we'll have that as an addon if everything works properly.
Gesture controls you can disable from Settings menu, no?
Swap support like RAM swap? Why? There a ridiculous amount of RAM on this phone.
After all the great experiences with your guys work on the Vibrant Im excited to see what you bring here.
I would like the see the usual stuff. Multiple lockscreens, improved battery life, smoothed out UI, NO BATTERY PERCENTAGE IN THE BATTERY please or at least an option to turn it off. Voodoo color( I know that isnt on your end but I still want it.) A theme engine like in cm7 would be cool to.
Killbynature said:
Lol but sdk ports suck.
Full ext 4 support in the rom.
Google talk with video chat
All bloatware removed
Overclock/Undervolt kernel with ext 4 support with overclocked gpu
Fancy Transition animations.
Dark Theme For battery life
Can we get download to say Make me a hot pocket i like that option.
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^^THIS^^... And an advanced power menu, maybe extended quick settings in the pulldown, CRT on/off, And definitely some OC/UV and OC'd GPU would be awesome....
Dark themed.
Get rid of the home button delay if possible.
Performance and battery tweaks.
Nuke the bloat.
Nuke the startup/shutdown sounds.
Crt animations.
Power menu.
Camera power button as shutter button hack.
Your usual awesomeness
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Built in battery calibration
Lower wifi voltages in the kernel
ZipAlign on boot
Built-in ad blocking

[Q] 3-page wallpaper resolution?

So, if you have only 2 pages on your main screen on the HOX, and use wallpapers like these, you'll see that each word will fit each screen (so, on screen 1 you'll have the word "FAVS", and on the 2nd screen you'll have "HOME").
Is there any way to do this for 3 pages? I wanted a "FAVS", "GAMES" and "HOME" wallpaper, but every way I put it, the words keep overlapping to other pages (for instance, in the middle "GAMES" page, you would see the S from "FAVS").
Thanks in advance.
Guess making 4 isn't an option?
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Guess making 4 isn't an option?
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Make it 4, then. How would I do it? Without having the words overlap the other pages, what would the resolution and disposition of the words be?
Is this actually do-able?
You could try to make a widget on every page you need which says "favs" or whatever using uccw.
That way the wallpaper would onmy be a background.
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PNGC said:
So, if you have only 2 pages on your main screen on the HOX, and use wallpapers like these, you'll see that each word will fit each screen (so, on screen 1 you'll have the word "FAVS", and on the 2nd screen you'll have "HOME").
Is there any way to do this for 3 pages? I wanted a "FAVS", "GAMES" and "HOME" wallpaper, but every way I put it, the words keep overlapping to other pages (for instance, in the middle "GAMES" page, you would see the S from "FAVS").
Thanks in advance.
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i saw how to do this the other day. check this youtube video out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUwpoDmvUe8 -
the thing he uses to do it is called multipicture live wallpaper, the link for it is here - http://goo.gl/9buhd
im pretty sure thats what you mean, sorry if it isnt
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You could try to make a widget on every page you need which says "favs" or whatever using uccw.
That way the wallpaper would onmy be a background.
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Heh I thought of that just as I refreshed the page to read your comment.
But still, would be nice to be able to do stuff like that in the wallpaper.
For now I'll stick with the widgets then, but if someone actually knows how to do a wallpaper with any number of pages (except 2, that one's easy) that don't overlap each other, please share!
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i saw how to do this the other day. check this youtube video out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUwpoDmvUe8 -
the thing he uses to do it is called multipicture live wallpaper, the link for it is here - http://goo.gl/9buhd
im pretty sure thats what you mean, sorry if it isnt
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So I just tried that, and that's EXACTLY what I wanted. Thing is, it's laggy when moving between pages.
I've even changed the "Maximum Memory Usage" setting to "Unlimited", to no avail.
Any non-laggy alternatives?
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So I just tried that, and that's EXACTLY what I wanted. Thing is, it's laggy when moving between pages.
I've even changed the "Maximum Memory Usage" setting to "Unlimited", to no avail.
Any non-laggy alternatives?
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sorry bud thats the only thing that does that wich i know of, really not too sure how to make it stop lagging...perhaps kill some other processes you have running?
cleancorekiller said:
sorry bud thats the only thing that does that wich i know of, really not too sure how to make it stop lagging...perhaps kill some other processes you have running?
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Changed the animation to "Crossfade", not exactly what I wanted but looks okay.
Anwyay, if anyone has any other suggestions, I'm stil open.

[Q] SILENT LOCKSCREEN (feature from Moto x)

I love the new feature from new Google-Motorola phone "Moto X". The new "Silent Lockscreen Notification" feature is so neat, nice, useful...
I just love it
Unfortunately I am not a developer, so I don't have the skills to port it to our HOX but, wouldn't it be a great feature to have?
Youtube /watch?v=lbGmfk8yaZU, sorry i am not allowed to post external links as a newbie in XDA
The lockscreen feature is presented at 2 minute 30s mark.
:fingers-crossed:
What do you think? Would you like to see this feature in your Custom ROM?
Cheers
Active display
Better example of this awesome feature review
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=5P5_yAA9xTE
Totally useless on the One X because we don't have an OLED screen.
blackalice said:
Totally useless on the One X because we don't have an OLED screen.
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Not totally useless, only a bit more power consuming because the whole display would have to be activated instead only of part of it.
But screen would only glow in intervals (you could slow down the interval) when new notification arrives and when you take it out of pocket or flip it downside up with use of proximity sensor.
Bu yes, i agree, our battery is already a bit week.. :/
Seems pretty neat
Porting it to sense is impossible duo to sense framework work.
How ever its possible to port it to aosp if the necessary sources are out....
IMO its useless because its a battery sucker
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there is an app called NoLED from the play store that does something somewhat similar. its not the same thing but it does give you a floating notification on the screen and tells you what app its from.
And yeah, LCD screens will use more power and will prevent the phone from properly sleeping. You can tune it to only turn on the screen if you flip it over.
Or you can use Active Notifications,it's verry verry similar to the Moto X:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications
jeyml said:
Or you can use Active Notifications,it's verry verry similar to the Moto X:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications
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Only Works on Devices with Android 4.3 for now
Edit. Looks like its experimental on 4.1.2 and 4.2.2. Anyone tried it yet?
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Only Works on Devices with Android 4.3 for now.
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Works on my HOX...
jeyml said:
Works on my HOX...
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Posted without reading the app description. When this app came out it only worked on 4.3 devices but now it works on the One X. Best to use with Low brightness.
Or you can create a Tasker profile that will make your screen pulse every few minutes until you dismiss the notification...
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The app use a lot of battery. But it looks great!

Moto X Smart screen notifications

I found this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2395549
Thx to Niko001
It is a app that give you the smart notifications from the moto x :victory:
And it works great.
Is have tested it.
Works only on Google play edtion 4.3
But mabey on sens rom to. But thit not test that
Insctructions
Install like every other APK file
Any pics on what it looks like when up and running?
Since we don't have super AMOLED, wouldn't this be a huge battery drain?
jabza said:
Since we don't have super AMOLED, wouldn't this be a huge battery drain?
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not realy screen is on for a 10 or 15 sec.
this is how it looks like. When you push the icon of the notification you see from it is
The whole screen would light up as black instead of being off like Amoled. I don't think LCD's can take full advantage of this feature
I think notifierpro is the best app for this task. The free lite version works awesome.
All they need is a setting to set a timeout. I use Knock² currently and its set to 30seconds. I use it mainly at work to see if a message is worth grabbing my phone for.
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altimax98 said:
All they need is a setting to set a timeout. I use Knock² currently and its set to 30seconds. I use it mainly at work to see if a message is worth grabbing my phone for.
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does it work properly on HTC one as I've read a lot of negative reviews about not working properly on HTC one
ahmed4never said:
does it work properly on HTC one as I've read a lot of negative reviews about not working properly on HTC one
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Yeah worked fine... but it is 4.3 and above only. Meaning it only will work on the GE ROM or phone.
He needs to change his target API to hide it from those not 4.3
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I'm using knock2 and it works like a charm.
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ryanfsdf said:
The whole screen would light up as black instead of being off like Amoled. I don't think LCD's can take full advantage of this feature
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It can, the battery drain is significantly higher than an AMOLED screen.
I'm fine with keeping the extra battery life and having the LED. (Dashclock helps on the lock screen).
The Moto X benefits the most by far from this because of a few reasons.
1.) Contextual low-power processor
2.) AMOLED screen
3.) It doesn't have a notification LED to begin with.
i think it is what you personal perfer or like. I thougt nice app let's share. For those ho want it.
Just had a training for my Samsung care point to maintain my license. And had the same explanation of diferents beteween AMOLED, Super AMOLED and LCD.
I hope to get a re traing for HTC to.
I have installed it on my viper Rom. Works perfect. But then I am getting force closes error on gmail. When I disable it. Gmail works fine. But when I enable it. It gives me force close error. Any solution?
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