Develop Bugs

Some Tips & Tricks

I stumbled across these and thought I would share. Feel free to add anything you might have found:
If you turn off auto-brightness, you can brighten the screen with a swipe of the finger. Just press the notifications area and move your finger left or right.
On both the homescreen and the apps menu you will see a row of dots indicating which page you are on. Hold the dot and scroll left or right. The pages will quickly scroll until you see the page you want.
You can focus your camera on a specific thing by touching that area on your screen.
In the camera app you can use the volume buttons to zoom in and out. OR you can pinch to zoom in and out.
Mute the Battery Notification (using Tasker) Directions are here.
Swipe left on contact name from the contact list and you'll automatically be able to send a text.
Swipe right on a contact name from the contact list and you'll automatically be able to call them.
Press your home button and lock screen button (power button) at the same time to save a screenshot.
You can scroll much faster on some apps such as YouTube, Astro File Manager and Market by using 3 fingers and if you scroll with 2 fingers you get precise scrolling (no scroll momentum).
Hold down the home button to access recent programs and the task manager.

Good stuff. Thanks!

Very useful tips, thanks!
But aren't these two basically the same thing?
Vegasden said:
On both the homescreen and the apps menu you will see a row of dots indicating which page you are on. Hold the dot and scroll left or right. The pages will quickly scroll until you see the page you want.
The homescreen identifier dots double as a slider to scroll through your homescreens.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

Holding the power button will activate a pop up menu that has 'airplane mode' as an option.

Loved the swipe left/right on contacts to txt/call. That's awesome. Another nuissance of mine gone.
BTW, you repeated abour 2 tips.

Fixed the duplication. I'll see what else I can find later.
....

Any way to change the docked apps on the homescreen? I prefer Handcent over the default messaging app.

rockstar1o9 said:
Any way to change the docked apps on the homescreen? I prefer Handcent over the default messaging app.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Click on applications, then menu, click view type, select customizable grid, click menu again, then select edit, and bam you can change the docked apps.

rockstar1o9 said:
Any way to change the docked apps on the homescreen? I prefer Handcent over the default messaging app.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'll still never understand the logic of having a WHITE background in a messaging app... Talk about a battery killer!
That's one thing I'm going to miss about the Moment. Black background in the STOCK app, rather than having to install a 3rd party app.
All though, if I'm forced to, Go SMS is my preference.

awesome stuff
so many tricks

Dalmus said:
I'll still never understand the logic of having a WHITE background in a messaging app... Talk about a battery killer!
That's one thing I'm going to miss about the Moment. Black background in the STOCK app, rather than having to install a 3rd party app.
All though, if I'm forced to, Go SMS is my preference.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
With Handcent you can pick either a dark or light theme. Default is light. There's even other skins you can apply.

The brightness adjust trick doesnt work for me.

fastfreddy7 said:
The brightness adjust trick doesnt work for me.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you turn off auto brightness in Settings/display/brightness?
....

Another cool one:
Testing Mode: *#0*# in the dialer enters the LCD test mode, useful if you are hunting for dead pixels or a few other things.
....

you posted twice about the screenshot tip, just pointing it out....

m_reyna_16 said:
you posted twice about the screenshot tip, just pointing it out....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The problem of being old: bad eyesight and memory. Thanks for catching it... whatever it was
....

Nyq83 said:
Click on applications, then menu, click view type, select customizable grid, click menu again, then select edit, and bam you can change the docked apps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the tip! It worked but now I have a followup question. Is there anyway to use the Handcent Icon widget in my dock? One of the reasons I love Handcent is the widget that shows how many unread messages I have.
FYI, other reasons I like Handcent: the lockscreen popup, it allows me to use my own sounds/mp3s as ringtones and alarms, Emoji pack allows me to send and receive emoji icons with my iPhone friends

U can hold 2 points on the screen like with ur thumbs for example. Then tilt ur phone forward or back to zoom. Just like that 10.1 tablet
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium

geolemon said:
With Handcent you can pick either a dark or light theme. Default is light. There's even other skins you can apply.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can you turn off the silly "bubble" chat with Handcent yet? Last time I tried it (a year ago) I couldn't stand the comic book look.
I'll probably use Go SMS until a dev over at SDX reverse releases a black version of the stock SMS.apk.
I'm also hoping the old version of GMail works so I can copy it over and use it with LauncherPro with working mail counts.

U dont have to have to have the bubble look. Handcent gives us different options. Android style is included if u r curious
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium

[Q] The 'nice feature's thread.

Just got my One X and had a quick glance before tea. You guys found any cool features or tips/tricks? Decent apps maybe?
Share the wealth.

I can't recommend the xda app enough
I've changed my keyboard to swiftkey x and love it more compared to stock. Just feels easier to type with all this screen space. Only thing I can really recommend so far, I haven't entirely got it all setup how I'd like yet as I've been switching between my sg2.
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA

One nice touch is pinch / zoom in the message app. Sometimes if I go out without my glasses, under certain lights I struggle. Just being able to resize text on the fly without messing with setting options is great.

Although it's a little bit old now, I love quick controls on stock browser. Enough to make me stick with it over chrome....for now anyway.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Definitely replace the browser! I like Smart Keyboard Pro but there are many good ones.
Neat tricks in sense... in the gallery there is a dropdown box to browse your/other peoples facebook galleries without having to use that steaming pile of a facebook app. Soundhound integration into radio app/widget is nice. Love the lockscreen when you get an sms/email etc.
M.

"guest mode"
anybody knows how to enable it? cannot seem to find it
some valuable 3rd party apps:
1tap cleaner - configurable to auto clean cache as frequent as every hour
screen off & lock - i personally put it on the dock so i don't have to always reach the power button
wifi file explorer - wireless data transfer
screebl - even you set your screen timeout to 15seconds, the screen won't time out as long as you handle your phone to the angle/axis you set on the configuration, good for reading on internet or books

I love the fact you can take pic from recorded video, brilliant.

Screenshot power+home...
Lovely as we had to struggle to take a Screenshot back in my IncS days
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Two finger scrolls on Phonebook / gallery / music list to fast jump on the indexes

williamyi said:
Two finger scrolls on Phonebook / gallery / music list to fast jump on the indexes
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i didnt know about this!!

yup I think its what they call HTC gestures, wish they ate detailed somewhere
but one thing I suspect gestures mode seems to confuse the browser

OK, here's are two cool ones for you:
1. Quick Uninstall: from the app drawer, tap & hold on any "un-installable" app, you'll see the the bar at the top of the screen change to Cancel and Uninstall. Drag to Uninstall, confirm.... DONE. Compare this to Android's default behaviour!
2. Go to the Gallery app, pick a pitcure, tap Edit->Effects. Apply any effect, first, then tap Edit at the top right corner. You get to adjust Exposure, Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation, Vignette, add and combine MORE filters etc... and when you're done, you can save your adjustments as a NEW PRESET!
Awesome, yes?
---------- Post added at 10:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:43 AM ----------
williamyi said:
Two finger scrolls on Phonebook / gallery / music list to fast jump on the indexes
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This one has been around since Sense 3.0. You don't even need to scroll, just tap with two fingers at the relevant spot on the screen (tap on the bottom will take you to bottom entries, top to top entries!). You can also use it in:
- People - Scrolls by letter
- Dialer - Scrolls by letter
- Most other apps scroll by Date: Gallery, Messaging, Mail...
Cheers

hamdir said:
yup I think its what they call HTC gestures, wish they ate detailed somewhere
but one thing I suspect gestures mode seems to confuse the browser
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
what type of confusion you are referring to mate?

Don't forget to change the Keyboard to Swiftkey!
If you don't want to buy the app : there is currently a free beta running for Swiftkey 3.0 -> http://vip.swiftkey.net

shirreer said:
OK, here's are two cool ones for you:
1. Quick Uninstall: from the app drawer, tap & hold on any "un-installable" app, you'll see the the bar at the top of the screen change to Cancel and Uninstall. Drag to Uninstall, confirm.... DONE. Compare this to Android's default behaviour!
2. Go to the Gallery app, pick a pitcure, tap Edit->Effects. Apply any effect, first, then tap Edit at the top right corner. You get to adjust Exposure, Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation, Vignette, add and combine MORE filters etc... and when you're done, you can save your adjustments as a NEW PRESET!
Awesome, yes?
---------- Post added at 10:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:43 AM ----------
This one has been around since Sense 3.0. You don't even need to scroll, just tap with two fingers at the relevant spot on the screen (tap on the bottom will take you to bottom entries, top to top entries!). You can also use it in:
- People - Scrolls by letter
- Dialer - Scrolls by letter
- Most other apps scroll by Date: Gallery, Messaging, Mail...
Cheers
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
wow I did not know about that too!! Love such small nifty functions

I know ICS added the data usage feature where you can track and set limits for mobile data, but it seems HTC have extended on that to include a minute monitor and also SMS/MMS.
Very handy for people that don't want to be hit with a big bill

H-Cim said:
Don't forget to change the Keyboard to Swiftkey!
If you don't want to buy the app : there is currently a free beta running for Swiftkey 3.0 -> http://vip.swiftkey.net
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Surely its swipe all the way. It's the best keyboard out there

@home said:
Surely its swipe all the way. It's the best keyboard out there
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
NO WAY MAN ... swift key all the way
v3 is even better

knightrocker said:
NO WAY MAN ... swift key all the way
v3 is even better
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Lol - I'll stick to swyping

knightrocker said:
NO WAY MAN ... swift key all the way
v3 is even better
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm with you on that. Been using SwiftKey for a long time, and the new beta has somehow managed to improve on an already amazing keyboard. Plus the new Cobalt theme looks gorgeous on the One X's screen.
[quote="home]Surely its swipe all the way. It's the best keyboard out there
[/quote]
I can't really get away with swiping to write. I used to use Swype back on Symbian/S60, but I much prefer SwiftKey's predictive text. Once you've used it for a little while (and it's learned from your emails/texts/social networking), you only really have to type the first couple of letters of a word for it to supply what you want. And if you're really predictable (or boring?) like me, once you've got the first word or two you can get through the bulk of a sentence with only one tap for each subsequent word. I struggle without it now, because it removes so much thought from typing on the phone keyboard.
Although we are kind of straying away from the 'nice features of the phone' discussion

Gallery app keeps scrolling back to top

When viewing my photos in "album" view, I try scrolling down to see more albums but in about half a second the screen scrolls back up to the top.. I've tried deleting cache/data but nothing helps. Any ideas?
Edit: also happens in other modes
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium

Since nobody seems to know how to fix this I'll post the solution I found:
When opening the gallery app, it looks like AllShare is scanning for media around the phone, I discovered this when looking at my battery stats and seeing a lot of activity from the allshare service, and I knew it was coming from the network since when setting the view option to "phone content only" everything was fine. After stopping the app the auto-scroll goes away for a while but comes back later.
My solution was to freeze the allshare service using TB (needs root), now the gallery app works perfectly and is much faster! Hope I helped someone with a similar problem

Found another solution. You dont need to freeze via TB. Just remove autorization for the Note 2 within the allshare app. For me it works. Gallery is scrolling now like charm..
Отправлено с моего GT-N7100 через Tapatalk

I only noticed it doing it on mine when dropbox was syncing alot of photos, each time the gallery detected a change it would scroll to the top.

Auto-scrolling to the top
Thanks Gabster.
I was pulling my hair out! My Samsung galaxy s3 was autoscrolling to the top whenever I looked at anything that required scrolling down such as the internet, mail, gallary etc. After half a second it zooms back up to the top of the page which is highly annoying when your trying to read stuff. Disabling the allshare apps (there was three on mt s3) worked and I no longer get the annoying auto scroll!!!! Thank you!!!! Instructions for any S3 users:
1. Click on your settings app
2. Click on 'Application's Manager'
3. Scroll right so you can see 'all' your apps
4. Click on all of your 'Allshare' apps one by one and hit force stop & disable
5. Enjoy no more auto-scrolling to the top

gabster21 said:
When viewing my photos in "album" view, I try scrolling down to see more albums but in about half a second the screen scrolls back up to the top.. I've tried deleting cache/data but nothing helps. Any ideas?
Edit: also happens in other modes
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Little late but might be tap to top.
Settings> Motion> Double Tap to Top
Mine does it all the time when I'm scrolling one handed through contacts and when I'm about to click someone it will go to the top.

[Q] A few newbie questions.

Okay so I got my Note two and I've only just had today to have a play about with it.
I have a few questions if anyone (or more) can nudge me in the right direction.
Firstly is there an app that allows me more control over the track I'm playing? If I remember correctly but I could double click the volume button on my iPod Touch and skip forward or back depending on if it was volume up or down.
Is there anyway of changing the colours of the notification icons at the top of the screen or hiding them?
Is there anyway of setting the buddypage to an app. I like the music one but it always reverts to the stock player.
Last but not least it's the one that I find most annoying. I have a small tab light blue in colour which seems to come and go of it's own choosing. You can add different apps to it and move it to any side of the screen you want to. Is there any way of disabling it so it stops getting on my nerves?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Zumber,
Zumber said:
Okay so I got my Note two and I've only just had today to have a play about with it.
I have a few questions if anyone (or more) can nudge me in the right direction.
Firstly is there an app that allows me more control over the track I'm playing? If I remember correctly but I could double click the volume button on my iPod Touch and skip forward or back depending on if it was volume up or down.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You might take a look at an alternate music player like PowerAmp. I recall it having options to use hardware buttons to control playback.
Zumber said:
Is there anyway of changing the colours of the notification icons at the top of the screen or hiding them?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not that I know of in the stock ROM. I can't say about other ROMS, I haven't tried them.
Zumber said:
Is there anyway of setting the buddypage to an app. I like the music one but it always reverts to the stock player.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not that I know of in the stock ROM. I can't say about other ROMS, I haven't tried them.
Zumber said:
Last but not least it's the one that I find most annoying. I have a small tab light blue in colour which seems to come and go of it's own choosing. You can add different apps to it and move it to any side of the screen you want to. Is there any way of disabling it so it stops getting on my nerves?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think you're noticing the Multi-Window tab. You can either long-press the back button to hide the tab, or disable Multi-Window completely using the notification toggle.

Thanks for the speedy response mate.
Yeah that got rid of the annoying tab thanks very much.
Not sure what you mean by disabling it with the notification toggle.
But at least I know how to get rid of it when it pops up.
So thanks again. It was doing my head in.

Zumber said:
Thanks for the speedy response mate.
Yeah that got rid of the annoying tab thanks very much.
Not sure what you mean by disabling it with the notification toggle.
But at least I know how to get rid of it when it pops up.
So thanks again. It was doing my head in.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
LOL. You hate the one feature that everyone was dying to have.
Pull down your notification bar on the top of the screen.
You will see your toggle buttons up top for various settings, such as Wifi,GPS, bluetooth etc.
Slide that toggle panel all the way across. On the far right end you will see the toggle for Multi Window. Just click it and the setting is turned off.
Sent from my Galaxy Note II using XDA Premium.

If you download and use another launcher, such as Nova, you can have full screen. That will hide the notifications, battery and clock…and everything else that shows at the top of your screen.
---------- Post added at 07:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:03 PM ----------
I have the international Note II and this does not have a toggle for the multi-window menu bar in the notifications pull-down.

Good mention about Nova launcher. I use Apex launcher, and use two-finger swipe up to hide the notifications bar. I forgot that was in there.

Thanks for the answers guys it's very much appreciated.
I can confirm the back button works to get rid of the multiscreen.
A special thanks to mcphail for the pointers especially to Poweramp. What a hell of a player. I had given the note up as a decent music player. I thought also of replacing the earphones.
But the bass is great on poweramp. Fantastic program.

Camera in 4.2

Hi all.
I have some questions regarding the new camera app in 4.2.
Why is there a difference between the camera I open from the lock screen widget and the actual camera out of the menu? For example when I take a picture with the widget camera, swipe to the left so have a look at the picture, I can only "delete" it. There are not the regular options like "share" or anything. I first have to go back, unlock, open gallery, find picture and then "share". Why is this??
Also, when I take a picture and afterwards have a look at it in the gallery, it actually captured more of the thing I wanted to take a picture of (I think about 10% at top, bottom, left, right). Has anybody else this issue?
And of course, the very frustrating lag when turning the device from landscape into portrait or vice versa, but like I read in other topics this is everybody's issue.
Thanks all!
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app

tonidadon said:
Hi all.
I have some questions regarding the new camera app in 4.2.
Why is there a difference between the camera I open from the lock screen widget and the actual camera out of the menu? For example when I take a picture with the widget camera, swipe to the left so have a look at the picture, I can only "delete" it. There are not the regular options like "share" or anything. I first have to go back, unlock, open gallery, find picture and then "share". Why is this??
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That is for security reasons. Otherwise anybody who gets a hold of your phone could share your pictures anywhere he wants. If you disable your unlocking option (or set it to "move finger") you'll get the full menu including the icons for sharing.

MiDiANx360 said:
That is for security reasons.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This was most likely the reason.
But, correct me if I'm wrong, the camera can only be accessed via the 'Slide' screen lock, which isn't secure at all.

jocalderone said:
But, correct me if I'm wrong, the camera can only be accessed via the 'Slide' screen lock, which isn't secure at all.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah you're wrong. There is a huge camera icon sitting on the first page of the menu. I don't think anyone will miss that.

Why have the real time face effects in video recording been removed?

wuodland said:
Yeah you're wrong. There is a huge camera icon sitting on the first page of the menu. I don't think anyone will miss that.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ahh must be 4.2 thing i've missed

There is one in 4.2
Just not for the Gnex
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

The camera actually take more than what we view on screen. That's annoying when I take a close up picture, it become farther view than what we seen on screen

wuodland said:
Yeah you're wrong. There is a huge camera icon sitting on the first page of the menu. I don't think anyone will miss that.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
you can also acces the camera using a lock pin. i didn't try with other security means (pattern, faceunlck, etc..) but i guess it's the same thing. personally, i like this feature a lot.