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There are 2 features on this phone that are just so stupid that i've seen so far which I am suggesting be fixed with a custom rom. The first one has to do with the pattern lock. I don't understand why samsung does this but when you set the time for the lock to come on, it only works if the screen turns off by ITSELF. If you turn the screen off yourself like most people do the screen locks immediately regardless of the time you have it set for. My evo never did this. It would set the timer regardless of if you shut it off or if it turns itself off.
A second feature that is missing from this phone that the Evo has is the ability to set your notification volume to the same as your standard ringer volume. This feature should be in there. It's ridiculous that you have to turn down each one seperately. Phones from 8 years ago had this feature. Whenever custom roms are made for this phone can you guys please add these into the phone.
My 2 fix request,
Proximity sensor needs to be a little more sensitive & less wakeup delay when turning on device.
Ability to turn off camera sounds.
Ability to turn off that horrible notification when the phone is fully charged. You come home from a long day, plug in your phone, and then go to sleep, and then in the middle of the night it beeps with a notification to let you know it's charged. What an *sshole.
manekineko said:
Ability to turn off camera sounds.
Ability to turn off that horrible notification when the phone is fully charged. You come home from a long day, plug in your phone, and then go to sleep, and then in the middle of the night it beeps with a notification to let you know it's charged. What an *sshole.
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Oh god tell me they didn't keep that! Lol the devs got rid of it for the og epic and I am sure they will here. There is a app called silent sleep that can help with that.
I talk to my phone a lot using Google search. On my Evo it worked great all the time. On this phone it seems to listen to me talk..then just sit there for a long time...like it's still listening, but i'm way done talking. then eventually comes up and says "no audio heard". Not sure what's up with that. Seems to mostly happen when I'm driving.
love to see that cleared up.
re enabling USB Host would be nice
anubis13 said:
re enabling USB Host would be nice
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I hope this is one of the first things that is enabled after rooting.
Also, device and sd card encryption would be nice to have working.
allroy1975 said:
I talk to my phone a lot using Google search. On my Evo it worked great all the time. On this phone it seems to listen to me talk..then just sit there for a long time...like it's still listening, but i'm way done talking. then eventually comes up and says "no audio heard". Not sure what's up with that. Seems to mostly happen when I'm driving.
love to see that cleared up.
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Yea I just did about 10 tests and all worked perfectly Nd fast
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Welcome to Samsung former Evo users, all normal stuff.. pretty similar to Epic "features" from whats been said.. Old news nothing new to see here
darkpoe said:
Welcome to Samsung former Evo users, all normal stuff.. pretty similar to Epic "features" from whats been said.. Old news nothing new to see here
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Appreciate that, I'd probably still be on my EVO however, I dropped it and shattered the screen. Apparently, this warrants me to use my wife's upgrade
I'll pay a dev to mod the browser with a desktop setting!
First device I've ever seen that also disables this capacity with third party browsers.
Sure glad I got this FOUR POINT FIVE INCH SCREEN!
Dumbass Samsung .
could you explain exactly what is not happening here with the browser. i read this topic in the general section couple days ago also, and it seems like its wrong.
i use skyfire, and when in mobile mode, all websites load as mobile (that's the idea). and once i change it to desktop mode, all the websites load as they would on a desktop... if you are saying NO THEY DON'T, could you please tell me what website, cause i tried about 10-15, and they all loaded in the mode i chose
rockky said:
I'll pay a dev to mod the browser with a desktop setting!
First device I've ever seen that also disables this capacity with third party browsers.
Sure glad I got this FOUR POINT FIVE INCH SCREEN!
Dumbass Samsung .
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There are 2 features on this phone that are just so stupid that i've seen so far which I am suggesting be fixed with a custom rom. The first one has to do with the pattern lock. I don't understand why samsung does this but when you set the time for the lock to come on, it only works if the screen turns off by ITSELF. If you turn the screen off yourself like most people do the screen locks immediately regardless of the time you have it set for. My evo never did this. It would set the timer regardless of if you shut it off or if it turns itself off.
A second feature that is missing from this phone that the Evo has is the ability to set your notification volume to the same as your standard ringer volume. This feature should be in there. It's ridiculous that you have to turn down each one seperately. Phones from 8 years ago had this feature. Whenever custom roms are made for this phone can you guys please add these into the phone.
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Change the lock time to immediately and it will lock when you cut the power.
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rockky said:
I'll pay a dev to mod the browser with a desktop setting!
First device I've ever seen that also disables this capacity with third party browsers.
Sure glad I got this FOUR POINT FIVE INCH SCREEN!
Dumbass Samsung .
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You couldnt be more wrong about the desktop view being disabled in all browsers. Yes its not a feature in the default browser...which is fine seeing as how most sites have the option at the botton to "Load Standard Page View". But most ANY browser Including Opera Mobile (The Best Browser IMHO Anyway) Dolphin HD Etc. For Opera Mobile go to Settings>Advanced>UserAgent>Desktop. And no you dont have to set this everytime you close the browser, it keeps those settings.
Yeah I'm perplexed when some say it works for them.
Haven't tried skyfire but all the rest I usually test nytimes, engadget.com, gizmodo.com for example.
Do those open in.desktop for you?
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could you explain exactly what is not happening here with the browser. i read this topic in the general section couple days ago also, and it seems like its wrong.
i use skyfire, and when in mobile mode, all websites load as mobile (that's the idea). and once i change it to desktop mode, all the websites load as they would on a desktop... if you are saying NO THEY DON'T, could you please tell me what website, cause i tried about 10-15, and they all loaded in the mode i chose
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So ...just tried those sites on skyfire and same results: mobile pages.
Stupid Samsung-Sprint!
Re-enable the FM radio receiver......
rockky said:
Yeah I'm perplexed when some say it works for them.
Haven't tried skyfire but all the rest I usually test nytimes, engadget.com, gizmodo.com for example.
Do those open in.desktop for you?
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So ...just tried those sites on skyfire and same results: mobile pages.
Stupid Samsung-Sprint!
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Desktop mode works fine for me in Dolphin and Xscope.
Originally Posted by wings9130 View Post
There are 2 features on this phone that are just so stupid that i've seen so far which I am suggesting be fixed with a custom rom. The first one has to do with the pattern lock. I don't understand why samsung does this but when you set the time for the lock to come on, it only works if the screen turns off by ITSELF. If you turn the screen off yourself like most people do the screen locks immediately regardless of the time you have it set for. My evo never did this. It would set the timer regardless of if you shut it off or if it turns itself off.
A second feature that is missing from this phone that the Evo has is the ability to set your notification volume to the same as your standard ringer volume. This feature should be in there. It's ridiculous that you have to turn down each one seperately. Phones from 8 years ago had this feature. Whenever custom roms are made for this phone can you guys please add these into the phone.
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Change the lock time to immediately and it will lock when you cut the power.
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No i'm saying I don't want it to be immediate. I set it to 10 minutes and it will only wait the 10 minutes if I don't turn off the screen and wait and let it shut off by itself after one minute which is the absolutely the dumbest thing i've seen. Who actually waits for the screen to turn off all the time? You won't have akeyguard in your pocket and it wastes battery if you wait.
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So far htc sense seems much better than the samsung touchwiz interface. Hopefully they can add some features from sense to this phone.
rockky said:
I'll pay a dev to mod the browser with a desktop setting!
First device I've ever seen that also disables this capacity with third party browsers.
Sure glad I got this FOUR POINT FIVE INCH SCREEN!
Dumbass Samsung .
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All you have to do in the stock browser is in the url box type About:UserAgent and you can select what mode you want.
On most Android phones in the Development section you can set the screen to stay on when charging, but that's missing on this one. Any idea where it went, or how I can approximate the same function?
Trying to figure this one out too. "Screen On" in the market allows you to set this as an option, however I seemed to get the loss of signal problem much more frequently when I use this app. I haven't tested extensively so I could be wrong, but I hope this gets added through a custom ROM soon. Listening to Spotify at work is annoying when I have to wake up my phone and unlock each time I want to change tracks.
it was taken off of the galaxy I and II familys because super amoled screens suffer from burn in super easy
urinsane said:
Trying to figure this one out too. "Screen On" in the market allows you to set this as an option, however I seemed to get the loss of signal problem much more frequently when I use this app. I haven't tested extensively so I could be wrong, but I hope this gets added through a custom ROM soon. Listening to Spotify at work is annoying when I have to wake up my phone and unlock each time I want to change tracks.
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I installed ScreenTimeoutSwitch and I'm pretty happy with it. The most it will do is 240 minutes of on-time, but that's not bad.
Success100 said:
it was taken off of the galaxy I and II familys because super amoled screens suffer from burn in super easy
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Galaxy S 1 had it, since I'm coming from an Epic and used to having the feature. Hadn't heard about there being an issue before. That's a problem on car rides, when the point is not to have to reach over and turn on the screen. Also, as far as I'm aware their desk docks and car docks override this and keep it on, so that doesn't jive...
I have been using tasker to set this. Just made a profile that set the screen timeout to the highest when plugged in and then back to 30sec when not plugged in.
Success100 said:
it was taken off of the galaxy I and II familys because super amoled screens suffer from burn in super easy
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+1 QFT
Do not set your screen to stay on unless you want to be annoyed by ghosting in about a month. I suggest you use the 15second screen timer and avoid displaying static images.
My OG Epic had some visible burn-in due to my music player staying dimly lit while driving. I could see the player controls in yellow on any white screen displayed.
walord said:
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Do not set your screen to stay on unless you want to be annoyed by ghosting in about a month. I suggest you use the 15second screen timer and avoid displaying static images.
My OG Epic had some visible burn-in due to my music player staying dimly lit while driving. I could see the player controls in yellow on any white screen displayed.
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Odd, my OG Epic has no such problem. And a 15-second screen timer makes the phone next to useless. I find anything under a minute incredibly frustrating to use.
Sorry, these descriptions sound like an unusable device. 15 second timeout, and avoid displaying static images? Sounds excessively fragile. Also doesn't jive with anything I've heard about the device or my own experience with the previous one. I feel like people are being overly-cautious here. As well, if this is true, where's the public outcry? Those limitations are unreasonable and should have prevented this from being a popular technology.
TurboFool said:
Odd, my OG Epic has no such problem. And a 15-second screen timer makes the phone next to useless. I find anything under a minute incredibly frustrating to use.
Sorry, these descriptions sound like an unusable device. 15 second timeout, and avoid displaying static images? Sounds excessively fragile. Also doesn't jive with anything I've heard about the device or my own experience with the previous one. I feel like people are being overly-cautious here. As well, if this is true, where's the public outcry? Those limitations are unreasonable and should have prevented this from being a popular technology.
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well, alot of the galaxy phones had it disabled. For example, I had the Samsung Galaxy S 4G from Tmobile and it did not have this option with the most recent software update.
Screen burn in is an issue on any amoled display. its not that bad, but if you do get it, it shows up on gray and blue images.
Thats the reason its been disabled on alot of them to prevent burn-in.
Now, if you choose to use a hack or app to keep it on just keep in mind that static images on full brightness after about a few minutes will cause ghosting from screen burn in
Success100 said:
well, alot of the galaxy phones had it disabled. For example, I had the Samsung Galaxy S 4G from Tmobile and it did not have this option with the most recent software update.
Screen burn in is an issue on any amoled display. its not that bad, but if you do get it, it shows up on gray and blue images.
Thats the reason its been disabled on alot of them to prevent burn-in.
Now, if you choose to use a hack or app to keep it on just keep in mind that static images on full brightness after about a few minutes will cause ghosting from screen burn in
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Interesting. Well, I will keep that in mind. I've been doing it for a while now with this one with no problem, and obviously when I'm driving the navigation stays on the whole time. Still, it hasn't been very long. I figure if I have issues by the time we're closing in on a year I can always get a warranty replacement to hold me for the next eight months.
I mainly want screen on while I'm driving to reduce distractions/interactions when changing music tracks. I have the car home app and if I use car home when plugged in, the screen will never turn off.
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Gilbot said:
I mainly want screen on while I'm driving to reduce distractions/interactions when changing music tracks. I have the car home app and if I use car home when plugged in, the screen will never turn off.
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That's exactly how I got the burn in, using pandora and other music apps while driving allowed the controls to burn into the screen.
Now I have a bluetooth enabled car stereo and I can control pandora and my music player through it so the screen can just stay off.
The burn in issue is due to the fact that the blue led will start dimming before the other two. When that happens, the areas where the blues start dying get discolored since the blue subpixels aren't at 100%. I'm not sure if this was resolved with SAMOLED+, but it's probably still an issue. Again, as long as you don't leave a static image that drives the blue high, it won't be an issue.
Does burn in occur when the screen brightness is %100? Or will it also happen when the brightness its turned all the way down?
I installed cm9 after using cm7 and cant get the four buttons on the phone to light up. They are accessible but not illuminated. has anyone else encountered this problem.
Also I was wondering if the Cm7 uses more battery than cm9
You have to use auto brightness.
cm9 illumination
If you mean display auto brightness ok but when I'm outside I can't see the screen...guess ibhave to toggle back and forth. I had switched back to cm7. In your opinion is 9 worth changing to. It seems like in 7 everything is working pretty well.
Thank you for the reply
pmpic said:
I installed cm9 after using cm7 and cant get the four buttons on the phone to light up. They are accessible but not illuminated. has anyone else encountered this problem.
Also I was wondering if the Cm7 uses more battery than cm9
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Toggling auto brightness on and off solves it. Just tinker with it..
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Menu keys...
Ive been using the dinc2 since last July and I got used to the buttons to the point that I noticed they didn't light up, but until I saw this post, I never considered it a "problem". Since I knew where they were and didn't need to see them to use them. If they ever do "fix" this issue I hope they allow for a settings option to keep them turned off. I actually enjoy them off, in my mind its just one more security feature. I know when my wife tries to use my phone she needs to see them, and since recently rooting to CM9 I don't want her bricking my phone. Because of the unlit buttons she has stopped using my phone (she uses some cheap AT&T phone, refuses to switch to Verizon). Just throwing my opinion in the mix. Thanks for the post as well I wasn't sure it was intentional or not.
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Ive been using the dinc2 since last July and I got used to the buttons to the point that I noticed they didn't light up, but until I saw this post, I never considered it a "problem". Since I knew where they were and didn't need to see them to use them. If they ever do "fix" this issue I hope they allow for a settings option to keep them turned off. I actually enjoy them off, in my mind its just one more security feature. I know when my wife tries to use my phone she needs to see them, and since recently rooting to CM9 I don't want her bricking my phone. Because of the unlit buttons she has stopped using my phone (she uses some cheap AT&T phone, refuses to switch to Verizon). Just throwing my opinion in the mix. Thanks for the post as well I wasn't sure it was intentional or not.
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I believe in the advanced brightness settings under CMSettings you can do just that. Whenever I run a CM rom, I always go to the brightness settings under edit Other Levels and set all the softkey values on the far right column to 255 so they're always the same brightness and look nice. I like the sheen they have, but I can only see it when they're close to full brightness.
If you did the opposite, set all the values to 0 and then click Save and Apply Values at the top of that screen, they should, theoretically, never turn on.
Thank you ....as I am new to a rooted phone and this forum I didn't know those adjustments were available...learn something new everyday ......
Does cm9 drain the battery alot quicker or is it unnoticeable
pmpic said:
Thank you ....as I am new to a rooted phone and this forum I didn't know those adjustments were available...learn something new everyday ......
Does cm9 drain the battery alot quicker or is it unnoticeable
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Unfortunately, I can't answer that question for you, as my phone doesn't like our ICS builds. Until we get a leaked official kernel and some source, I'm SOL.
RegnierD said:
I believe in the advanced brightness settings under CMSettings you can do just that. Whenever I run a CM rom, I always go to the brightness settings under edit Other Levels and set all the softkey values on the far right column to 255 so they're always the same brightness and look nice. I like the sheen they have, but I can only see it when they're close to full brightness.
If you did the opposite, set all the values to 0 and then click Save and Apply Values at the top of that screen, they should, theoretically, never turn on.
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Where exactly are these settings? Running CM7 with the same problem as the OP and can't find it anywhere. Edit: found the settings and putting them all at 255 didn't do anything. Any other ideas?
When I'm in a very bright environment (eg outdoors, sunny day), I can't manually adjust the brightness if auto brightness is on. But I can do it if the brightness slider is not on "red' (if it's not too bright outside). On manual everything works ok, if it's not too bright outside everything works ok.
It wasn't like this on my S7. It bothers me when using Waze: I would like to manually override the auto brightness and adjust it by just moving the slider, not having to turn auto brightness off.
Anyone else having this problem?
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I am having problems with my SM-G965F. My brightness auto adjusts with auto brightness turned off! There is definitely something screwy going on with the auto brightness. After a while, it gets so I can't adjust it at all. That is, I can move the slider full left and right and nothing changes. It doesn't matter is auto brightness is turned on or not. No change.
I have done a factory reset once to clear it but the problem came back. They have this usage memory feature and that may be part of the problem. I found this post on re-calibration of the brightness sensor to be helpful:
www_megebyte_com/auto-brightness-not-working-on-galaxy-note-8-s8-plu
(as a new member of this forum, I am not allowed to post links. replace "_" with "." )
I did this and I got the display brightness back into a reasonable range. However, I can no longer turn auto brightness off at all. very weird.
raducanmihai said:
When I'm in a very bright environment (eg outdoors, sunny day), I can't manually adjust the brightness if auto brightness is on. But I can do it if the brightness slider is not on "red' (if it's not too bright outside). On manual everything works ok, if it's not too bright outside everything works ok.
It wasn't like this on my S7. It bothers me when using Waze: I would like to manually override the auto brightness and adjust it by just moving the slider, not having to turn auto brightness off.
Anyone else having this problem?
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UPDATE: Today Samsung released an update to the Samsung Experience Service that seems to have completely solved my auto-brightness issues. Prior to that, I was using Lux Lite and that was working well. If problems come back, I will use that again.
kdpainter said:
I am having problems with my SM-G965F. My brightness auto adjusts with auto brightness turned off! There is definitely something screwy going on with the auto brightness. After a while, it gets so I can't adjust it at all. That is, I can move the slider full left and right and nothing changes. It doesn't matter is auto brightness is turned on or not. No change.
I have done a factory reset once to clear it but the problem came back. They have this usage memory feature and that may be part of the problem. I found this post on re-calibration of the brightness sensor to be helpful:
www_megebyte_com/auto-brightness-not-working-on-galaxy-note-8-s8-plu
(as a new member of this forum, I am not allowed to post links. replace "_" with "." )
I did this and I got the display brightness back into a reasonable range. However, I can no longer turn auto brightness off at all. very weird.
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kdpainter said:
UPDATE: Today Samsung released an update to the Samsung Experience Service that seems to have completely solved my auto-brightness issues. Prior to that, I was using Lux Lite and that was working well. If problems come back, I will use that again.
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How'd you get this update? I don't see any updates with this title in the Play Store or Galaxy Apps update section... Thanks!
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How'd you get this update? I don't see any updates with this title in the Play Store or Galaxy Apps update section... Thanks!
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I got it via the notification screen. Here is a thread discussing it.
forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s9-s9-plus/888535-samsung-experience-update.html
(I can't post links yet)
Not sure if they are doing a slow rollout or if it is region based. There are some posters who say that when they search the galaxy store, nothing comes up. When I search it, nothing comes up. I have an international version (unlocked). This device was apparently destined to go to Thailand. But one thing is for sure, Samsung fixed the brightness bug but maybe your carrier is holding it up?
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I got it via the notification screen. Here is a thread discussing it.
forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s9-s9-plus/888535-samsung-experience-update.html
(I can't post links yet)
Not sure if they are doing a slow rollout or if it is region based. There are some posters who say that when they search the galaxy store, nothing comes up. When I search it, nothing comes up. I have an international version (unlocked). This device was apparently destined to go to Thailand. But one thing is for sure, Samsung fixed the brightness bug but maybe your carrier is holding it up?
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Well, it was working fine until I rebooted. Now the auto-brightness doesn't work again just like before. So, unfortunately, back to Lux Lite. I have to say, that the auto-brightness issue and the battery life of this phone suck.
Hey, has anyone, by chance, found a way to prevent Spotify from automatically changing lock screen wallpaper into a hideous low res thumbnail of whatever is playing at the moment? It's really annoying.
yeah it's obnoxious! I don't use Spotify that much so I froze it in Titanium!
I've been searching everywhere for a method to disable this and the only thing I've found that works is disabling all notifications which means we lose lock screen music controls and drop down menu music controls.
andyx1985 said:
I've been searching everywhere for a method to disable this and the only thing I've found that works is disabling all notifications which means we lose lock screen music controls and drop down menu music controls.
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Yeah, I found that too but that isn't a fix for me.. It sucks they don't give us an option to turn this off.
andyx1985 said:
I've been searching everywhere for a method to disable this and the only thing I've found that works is disabling all notifications which means we lose lock screen music controls and drop down menu music controls.
DashDashCZ said:
Yeah, I found that too but that isn't a fix for me.. It sucks they don't give us an option to turn this off.
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Yeah, Spotify needs to give an option to disable this. Even I find this annoying.
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I used GravityBox to do that, using LSposed
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I eventually used GravityBox as someone above you suggested. Works like a charm.
Ok this is kinda old but the problem still exists. There's a thread on the Spotify Ideas community which suggests a toggle for this feature but it hasn't gotten enough upvotes to be reviewed by Spotify staff. I think it needs like 500 and it has 126 now so It'd be great if everyone facing this issue could go there and upvote it.
Here's the link: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Cl...reen-album-covers-on-lockscreen/idi-p/5206266
It says closed idea but I don't think it matters as long as it hits 500 upvotes. Hopefully it gets there soon. This is very annoying..