My GF has the infuse 4g and if you hold the power button down a few seconds it pops up with the options to put it in plane mode, power off, etc. but it also allows you to shut off the data plan. I am being very cautious with my data plan and turn it off quite often when im not using the phone. I was hoping for a quicker means to toggle it off/on like via the power button, or the scrollbare at the top of the screen when you drag the top of the screen down.
Any way to add this capability so I dont need to keep hitting settings and data usage?
Thank you
if you flash a rom with 15 toggle mod it comes with it in the status bar.
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Or if you want a stock solution, use the widget Favorite Settings. It has the data usage button on there so you could just click it and take you straight to data usage to turn it off.
I haven ever flashed the roms or any of that before so I would need to go through and learn how to do it. but my main concern with those is that I would lose my tv-out functionality if I go to a different Rom from what I hear.
Thanks for the feedback
It would be cool to have it in the scroll bar if possible.
For now I have D/L'ed the "data enabler" app and put it on my home screen.
Or you can add the Settings widget 1x1 and select Data Usage. This gives you a 2 click solution to turn mobile data on/off.
I really hate the fact that the toggle isn't in the drop down menu. Makes me think ATT is resorting to methods of confusing is customers in order to nickel and dime us.
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guys, is there any point turning off WiFi when not in use, or does it do the decent thing and stop using power when not actively in use?
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I'd imagine it still scans for networks so it will still use battery - I just have the toggle on one of my home screens and turn it on when needed
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guys, is there any point turning off WiFi when not in use, or does it do the decent thing and stop using power when not actively in use?
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from Market, get WiFi Status from Andrew Schwimmer, one of the very best android app developers. It doesn't do exactly what you want but it's the smartest detection app out there for letting you know when there is no wifi signal to connect to, thus prompting you to toggle off wifi. It displays in the Notification Bar.
As for turning off wifi, I tried about 10 home screen widgets; they are all the same more or less. To me the far greater tool is Quick Settings, which gives you one-click access from anywhere via the Notification Bar, vs having to navigate to home screen and find the widget. But in addition it has toggles for sound, brightness, data, gps, bluetooth, etc -- all in on fast app.
I think it blows all these single-function widgets away as dumb.
So if my phone is on, screen off, in my pocket, it'll be constantly looking for wifi? If this is the case it's, well, dumb. Ta for tip about quick settings, just installed it and it's very nice.
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So if my phone is on, screen off, in my pocket, it'll be constantly looking for wifi? If this is the case it's, well, dumb. Ta for tip about quick settings, just installed it and it's very nice.
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then try wifinder -- i mused ti use that, but with quick setings i dont bothher any more
Add the widget 'Power Control' for one-touch bluetooth/wifi/gps/sync/brightness control....
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So if my phone is on, screen off, in my pocket, it'll be constantly looking for wifi? If this is the case it's, well, dumb. Ta for tip about quick settings, just installed it and it's very nice.
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Not sure it would be scanning for wifi when the screen is off. That would be daft. Ntework coverage yes, but wouldnt think wifi until you turn on the screen. Anyone confirm?
no, it stays on when the screen is off.
Seems so many people complained about it turning off in standby that google went ahead and changed it.
now it defaults to staying on forever until manually turned off.
Go to Settings> Wireless & Networks > Wi-Fi Settings > [Menu] > Advanced > Wi-Fi sleep policy. I set mine to 'after 15 mins'... if I understood this setting correctly then after 15 minutes of the phone being in Sleep mode it'd turn off the Wi-Fi. I don't use mobile data anyway so that's irrelevant. Wi-Fi will turn on again once I activate the screen.
blimey, that's well hidden.
what a stupid arrangement. WiFi should be on demand, and enabled only when data requests it, like the iPhone.
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I use "Y5 - Battery Saver" for my wireless shenanigans
I am using 'Y5 battery save'r. It turns on wifi if you are on a location where you had a wifi connection and turns it off if you go elsewhere. You can manage the locations in the program. It can use the GPS or radio for the locations. You will find it in the market place.
Mine in decreasing order of annoyance:
Decreased 3G/4G/WiFi reception comparing to previous phone (EVO 4G).
Touchwiz:
Full charge sound.
Contacts not prioritizing contact pictures from FB/Twitter/Skype over Google.
Dialpad is convoluted (too many steps to make a call) and fugly.
Lockscreen. Ewww.
Bottom touch buttons backlight shuts off 2-3 seconds after screen is touched (should be longer).
Power button on side of phone.
You know you can change the background on your lockscreen in settings. Still not the best lockscreen available but there are plenty of options in the market. you can change the duration of the backlight for the bottom buttons in display settings under "touch key light duration".
akarol said:
Mine in decreasing order of annoyance:
Decreased 3G/4G/WiFi reception comparing to previous phone (EVO 4G).
Touchwiz:
Full charge sound.
Contacts not prioritizing contact pictures from FB/Twitter/Skype over Google.
Dialpad is convoluted (too many steps to make a call) and fugly.
Lockscreen. Ewww.
Bottom touch buttons backlight shuts off 2-3 seconds after screen is touched (should be longer).
Power button on side of phone.
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Can't help you with most. But in settings/ display you can adjust the display timing for what Samsung refers to as Touch Keys.
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Devi0124 said:
You know you can change the background on your lockscreen in settings. Still not the best lockscreen available but there are plenty of options in the market. you can change the duration of the backlight for the bottom buttons in display settings under "touch key light duration".
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Also, the location of the power button will be updated in new roms...
"1. Decreased 3G/4G/WiFi reception comparing to previous phone (EVO 4G)."
Can this be fixed with updates? I really hope so, that is my only issue with the phone currently.
Mine in decreasing order of annoyance:
Decreased 3G/4G/WiFi reception comparing to previous phone (MoPho).
LED is blue or red, thats it (tried diferent options incl. apk's... all to no avail).
No landscape mode for TW
Speaker full volume / clarity at said full volume is good, but speaker does strain infrequently and is not as loud as MoPho's (barely but still noticeable)
Wow, thanks for the bottom key tweak. Overlooked that one.
My complaint about the lockscreen is the plainess and lack of features it possesses. Sense simply blows TW away at the moment.
Yeah, Sense is plenty better, but TW isn't that bad, other than the lock screen.....and the way they have it set up to select your widgets.....but it's okay.
DITTO tho on the data, that's a biggie. I'm returning mine because of this. I need data, I use it more than the phone, lol
1. The vibration when I received a text was insanely too long, but I can't figure out how to adjust the pattern.
2. 4G keeps going to sleep while I'm streaming music with the display off, and I have to wake the phone to get the music to start streaming again.
Nothing else is really bothering me right now. Except I'd like a better lock screen.
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Wow, thanks for the bottom key tweak. Overlooked that one.
My complaint about the lockscreen is the plainess and lack of features it possesses. Sense simply blows TW away at the moment.
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Yeah but bloated down the RAM.... Wait till a port or AOSP or use.a launcher... I never use touchwiz or sense or blurr on any of the phones I have
My only nuisance is your avatar
Lost quite.a bit of money on yesterdays game
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akarol said:
Wow, thanks for the bottom key tweak. Overlooked that one.
My complaint about the lockscreen is the plainess and lack of features it possesses. Sense simply blows TW away at the moment.
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I suppose if you like 1gb+ roms, sure.
Touchwiz is incredibly easy to theme. I'm sure there will be an 8 lockscreen mod port soon.
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Lack of airplane mode in the shade pull-down. My office has zero reception, so need to rely on Google voice during office hours.
Will probably use anycut to put an airplane-mode shortcut on the homescreen.
Biggest ones for me right now concern the dialer:
- No instant-call button on the dialer's Favorites or Contacts tabs - you have to tap the name, then call on the second screen. On stock Android it has a phone icon right there at the right side of each name's field. No clue why they'd go and remove that, it's extremely useful.
- No way to turn off the huge photos next to people's names - I always turned those off on stock to make it just a list of names with the phone icon on the right - it showed a lot more names per screen that way. Again, no idea why a feature like that gets removed.
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Biggest ones for me right now concern the dialer:
- No instant-call button on the dialer's Favorites or Contacts tabs - you have to tap the name, then call on the second screen. On stock Android it has a phone icon right there at the right side of each name's field. No clue why they'd go and remove that, it's extremely useful.
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If you swipe your finger right to left over their name it calls them. If you swipe left to right it brings you into messaging. I actually like it more than the stock call buttons. Keeps the contacts menu more clean imo.
First. I am rooted so there is a possibility it is the rooted Kernel that is doing this... but maybe not as it is radio related.
Twice today lost signal on the golf course (and in addition to phone signal lost data so my GPS Golf App wasn't usable when I needed it for distance to the green)... but couldn't get the phone to trigger signal back on even if I put the phone in Airplane Mode (both times) and back out. Also tried turning roaming off and on.
Both times I HAD to turn the phone completely off and then back on. When it came back on I had 4 bars (but had previously been unable to connect).
Not good...
When I was playing with the phone @ the sprint store I noticed that airplane mode option pop up if i hit the power switch while in phone mode.
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Lack of airplane mode in the shade pull-down. My office has zero reception, so need to rely on Google voice during office hours.
Will probably use anycut to put an airplane-mode shortcut on the homescreen.
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If you swipe your finger right to left over their name it calls them. If you swipe left to right it brings you into messaging. I actually like it more than the stock call buttons. Keeps the contacts menu more clean imo.
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No biggie, as I'm sure all that try will find out, but he means your "other left" and "other right" (as my father used to say as I was growing up), i.e. the swipe directions described are actually the opposite directions.
Cheers!
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When I was playing with the phone @ the sprint store I noticed that airplane mode option pop up if i hit the power switch while in phone mode.
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AWESOME, thanks. Don't know how I forgot that!
When I'm texting with Swype, the language switches to Espanol all the time because the language button is right next to the comma button.
It's really annoying, any way to turn it off?
I can't for the life of me figure out how to keep the screen from turning off while the phone is plugged in. Its usually under settings>applications> development> keep screen on while charging..
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Mobile data button state doesn't show actual state is mobile data enabled or disabled.
When pressed very shortly it stays off and data icon (left of signal indicator) lit up and data is enabled. On second press data icon dissapears and data is disabled but power widget button is then lit up. This is just one cycle, if pressed again it could happen that state is corresponding to data state or not, no rules.
When pressed longer it sometimes behaves normally, but it is hard to get it how long it should be pressed, sometimes it is short and it is like I wrote above, and sometimes I trigger widget homescreen options.
It isn't functional bug but it is annoying. Any ideas for solution?
Not really
It's not a real bug. Actually my girlfriend's (not jailbreaked) iPhone does the same. When i turn data of and on it sometimes lag or does not understand the command. Have to try again, reboot.
I like to press the icon harder, firm (smth. like that). Because i keep my phone on 2G i usually switch that one as well. Usually i turn 2g> 3G wait fot the change to to happen than press the mobile data and wait. << I do this from the notification bar. You can get the 2g>3G widget from the market. It will send you to the Network setting with one click. you just have to get used to it.
With Widgetzoid you can create all kinds of toggles and indicators. Including a mobile data one.
I dont think I've used mobile data more than to test that works since I installed this a little over a week ago.
(ETA: Not using CM7 (yet), but the plain unrooted Froyo my phone came with. Don't think it matters in this case.)
Thanks bro! Widgezoid is superb! It has all I need and more.
After playing for some time with power widget I found that if state of mobile data isn't displayed correctly in widget if I for example switch GPS on or off it refreshes mobile data button so it displays right state. So it must be that it is refreshing bug on button press.
But that isn't important now when I have Widgezoid
My coworker bought the Galaxy-Nexus last week from Verizon, and says the battery life just sucks so bad, he said dead by mid day, battery is lucky to get 6 hours. He wants to know if there is a way to turn off LTE ? I thought you could turn it off like Sprint's 4G ? I never use the 4G on my Galaxy SII, I get 10 hours battery life on super heavy use weekdays, and get like 30+ hours on weekend light use.
I told him the 4G settings should be in; Settings-Wireless and Network-?
Thanks
What other tips would you recommend for settings to conserve battery life on the Verizon Nexus ? I am sure the standard stuff I do on my Galaxy SII; Location settings turned off, watch the sync times, no LTE, no auto brightness, etc... ?
Settings -> Wireless & Networds select More ... -> Moblie Networks ->Network Mode -> select CDMA
Is there a way to make that into a shortcut? So you can either switch it on off from home screen, or at least make a shortcut to get straight there?
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Is there a way to make that into a shortcut? So you can either switch it on off from home screen, or at least make a shortcut to get straight there?
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Good question. I still do not understand why Google does not add widget toggles up in the notification bar to stock Android ? They should have the most used widget toggles up there; WiFi...Bluetooth...GPS...Sound...4G...
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Is there a way to make that into a shortcut? So you can either switch it on off from home screen, or at least make a shortcut to get straight there?
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Best temp solution that I have seen is LTE Switch. I'll admit though, the icon is pretty ugly.
I tried Widgetsoid, which adds CM-like toggles to the notification menu... but no 4G icon.
Honestly I don't use 4G that often so I just leave it disabled. I can go from 8am~9pm on a charge with some pretty heavy usage (including an hour of XDA reading, games, etc)
Beautiful widgets had a 4G button you could add, I remember seeing it when I had my Fascinate but of course it wasn't 4G. I'll add the button on my Nexus and report back if it works.
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Says it only works with HTC devices, oh well!!
I just bought by Note 10+ was confused when I could not find a quick shortcut at the top to turn on/off my Mobile data. In the notification drop we can turn on/off the WiFi, Locations, Bluetooth and much more but is there a way to get Mobile toggle in there? Any recommendations would be really appreciated.
Thanks.
Pull all the way down the notifications,for this you might have to swipe down 2 times, in the top most right part, there will be a 3 dot icon, press it and a menu will appear, there yoy select button order, now you can put the toggles you want in the order you like
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I just bought by Note 10+ was confused when I could not find a quick shortcut at the top to turn on/off my Mobile data. In the notification drop we can turn on/off the WiFi, Locations, Bluetooth and much more but is there a way to get Mobile toggle in there? Any recommendations would be really appreciated.
Thanks.
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That's should work... You can reorder and add toggles in the way you want... Hope it's gonna help you...
winol said:
Pull all the way down the notifications,for this you might have to swipe down 2 times, in the top most right part, there will be a 3 dot icon, press it and a menu will appear, there yoy select button order, now you can put the toggles you want in the order you like
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Thanks for your response. I did that but there is no option for Mobile Data and I think this is an issue with a lot of samsung devices. Not sure how to get "Mobile data" in the notification bar. I could have changed the button order only if I could find "Mobile data" in it
Do you have a carrier device? Some of the US carriers dont have the mobile data quick toggle in their firmware. Flash the US XAA firmware and you'll have that toggle available. I believe you can also active it through ADB CMD prompt but I do know the correct prompts to do so. You maybe be able to find a guide in the s10 threads.
Here you go
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-...gs-tile-toggle-on-samsung-galaxy-devices/amp/