On my Nexus 4, I used to be able to click on the voice search icon on the home screen and in the "listening" window that came up, it would have an icon to listen/search for music in the bottom right hand corner. On the OP3, this music search icon is missing. The screenshot shows how the OP3 looks with the circle in red showing where the music search icon used to be on the Nexus 4. This may be a feature of stock Android only but I want to make sure. I know there are alternatives out there but this was the simplest method to search for music w/out any additional installations.
Edit: It turns out music has to be playing in the background for the music search icon to show up.
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I convinced my dad to get a waterproof smartphone for the free wifi calling.
Its his first smartphone and he wants me to lock down the phone so he doesnt mess anything up. Hes quite talented that way.
This thread says some of the roms dont have tmobile uma wifi calling
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931972&page=3
I dont have the post count for that forum.
In new to android and dont know which rom to use? Motorblur has to go lol.
Phone has a red lens.
He doesnt have a data plan only wifi. He will mostly use wifi for calling but might read email and check weather once in a while but wont be surfing the web or playing games or anything.
If i could i would like a launcher with a single home screen with only about 10 apps and they would be locked from moving. There would be a largish call dock icon on the bottom and a clock widget near the top. The notification bar would have the date and a longer battery icon.
While on the home screen, the menu button would turn a flashlight on and off and the search button would launch the music player. Hitting the home button five times and entering a password would bring up the list of all the installed apps so i could go to the settings or market etc to change things.
The notification bar woud have slightly bigger icon and when swiped down would also show wifi and bluetooth controls like on my moms samsung galaxy. Also liker hers the lock screen would change to the puzzle piece swipe when theres a new message.
Get a custom launcher like Go Launcher EX and hide all the apps you dont want to use from the launcher
Stuff like browser I is a bad idea to remove, just hide the icon to launch it.
For WiFi intensive, I'd suggest going with a stock Blurless Froyo, since CM7 could have some issues when using WiFi.
Adw ex has an option to lock the homescreen so nothing moves. You can set it to be one page and lock it.
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adw launcher works pretty good! I was able to remove all but the one main desktop screen and then lock it. Had to set desktop overshoot to 0 to stop screen from bouncing when flicked.
Where would i ask for the following requests.
-Wider dock bar icons. having 3 or 5 dialer icons on the dock looks crappy lol.
-taller dock bar icon.
-menu button turns a flashlight app on and off
-search button launches a music player app
-home button works normally and goes home, if pressed 30 times in a row then brings up menu for me to get to settings/wallpaper/unlock/app drawer.
I am not sure on ADW EX but Go Launcher EX have the option of changing the dock background. Just use a picture with just 2 or 3 icons as back ground and use transparent icons. I set this way to mimic original DEFY launcher home with just Phone and Contacts in the dock bar. Attached the files here. Got it from here only but forgot the original post.
*** Note sure if I have explained it properly here
Try Launcher 7. You can lock the screen so icons can't be moved, and hide the rest from the app list. MIUI it's simple and easy to use, was great for my wife to learn Android, CM7 can get kind of confusing for some people.
Swyped from my MIUI 1.9.23 Defy
Angelus47 I dont like launcher 7 cant put enough icons/tiles on one screen.
Does MIUI have tmobile wifi calling app?
pprakash Is it better to have button image on the dock background and transparent icons over or is it better to cut the button image across several icon sized wide pieces.
In adw launcher the dock background is set by the theme. Im not sure how to create a theme. On the other hand if i didnt scale the split icons pieces to the right size there would be gaps between them I think.
Right now i have one visual voicemail on the left, one messaging on the right and three dialers in the middle.
perhaps i could find where the images for themes are stored and replace the dock backround image for the default theme.
tmiket said:
pprakash Is it better to have button image on the dock background and transparent icons over or is it better to cut the button image across several icon sized wide pieces.
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With Go Launcher EX I find having the single image as background provided slightly bigger images rather than using individual icons. But I have attached individual icons as well here hopefully it helps you ..
So while I was longboarding on this beautiful day and listening to music an idea can to mind. What if you could grab the navigation bar and drag it up to reveal the album art of the song your currently listening to along with a bar to drag around and skip thought the song and then regular music controls play, pause, skip. I imagine it to be dragged up about half the screen or the size of the stock keyboard. When dragged up the keys would disappear leaving a small arrow at the top letting you know drag back down to get them back and all the controls there. It sounds complicated and I'm not sure if it would even be possible but let's be honest, how cool would this be?
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So while I was longboarding on this beautiful day and listening to music an idea can to mind. What if you could grab the navigation bar and drag it up to reveal the album art of the song your currently listening to along with a bar to drag around and skip thought the song and then regular music controls play, pause, skip. I imagine it to be dragged up about half the screen or the size of the stock keyboard. When dragged up the keys would disappear leaving a small arrow at the top letting you know drag back down to get them back and all the controls there. It sounds complicated and I'm not sure if it would even be possible but let's be honest, how cool would this be?
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Yes, either dragged or even a scrollable nav bar (left or right) for music controls would be really neat.
If we could hold in the home to activate this, it'd be cool since it has no true function for when its held in anyway.
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More things with the navigation bar would be welcomed. I always thought that it had such great potential for customization when the Galaxy Nexus was announced. With several months into development and not much in the way of navbar changes (yes, I know we can change the color, and add a menu button), I'm beginning to think that it's hard coded to be limited. Just a guess though.
Damn, that would be amazing. Hopefully a dev will make this happen
mohitrocks said:
Damn, that would be amazing. Hopefully a dev will make this happen
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Wouldnt it be amazing if Google made it happen themselves! they seem so lazy to me, so half a job. I think they are really wasting an opportunity with ICS.
Lucky for us we dont mind playing about with mods and lucky for us there are very clever devs on this site that can make things happen.
aardvark502 said:
So while I was longboarding on this beautiful day and listening to music an idea can to mind. What if you could grab the navigation bar and drag it up to reveal the album art of the song your currently listening to along with a bar to drag around and skip thought the song and then regular music controls play, pause, skip. I imagine it to be dragged up about half the screen or the size of the stock keyboard. When dragged up the keys would disappear leaving a small arrow at the top letting you know drag back down to get them back and all the controls there. It sounds complicated and I'm not sure if it would even be possible but let's be honest, how cool would this be?
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This would be so cool!
Oh, and +1 for longboarding!
In the tablet version, the status bar has music controls... and I assume it does in the status bar of the phone version if I remember correctly.
But I do like the idea of a quick menu or the option of dragging up.
I don't like the idea of sliding left to right though, I don't like that option in launchers either. Just a hidden "folder"/area for toggles/etc.
You'd probably like the "Tablet" version of ICS on your Nexus. It throws the status bar and nav controls on 1 bar at the bottom. Works pretty well actually.
This would be so insane - I wil look into it.
It would be even better if swiping up from the navbar would bring up power controls and music player controls meaning they'd always be available since statusbar is hidden in some apps.
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i just installed paranoid android on my galaxy s2 i9100 (android ver 4.3, paranoid ver 3.99)
when i get a new notification (lets say whatsapp message for example)
and i slide down from the top to watch it
i get instead of the message this default menu
and i need to switch it manually in order to watch it
is there any option to change it?
thanks
tal
talavi said:
hi
i just installed paranoid android on my galaxy s2 i9100 (android ver 4.3, paranoid ver 3.99)
when i get a new notification (lets say whatsapp message for example)
and i slide down from the top to watch it
i get instead of the message this default menu
and i need to switch it manually in order to watch it
is there any option to change it?
thanks
tal
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The notification panel should act like stock.
A screenshot would be useful as i'm not quite sure what you are referring to
i took two photos
when i get a message (facebook, whatsapp, etc)
and slide down from the top to open what i call the notification bar
i get this control panel (like you can see in the picture)
when i press the icon on the top right of the screen
it switches to the notifications (as you can see on the second pic)
now my question is if there a way to cancel the control panel and leave it just for notifications?
keep it simple you know
thanks for the help
talavi said:
i took two photos
when i get a message (facebook, whatsapp, etc)
and slide down from the top to open what i call the notification bar
i get this control panel (like you can see in the picture)
when i press the icon on the top right of the screen
it switches to the notifications (as you can see on the second pic)
now my question is if there a way to cancel the control panel and leave it just for notifications?
keep it simple you know
thanks for the help
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In Settings - Toolbars there should be an option "Quick pulldown" which allows the right edge of the status bar to pull down the quick settings.
Uncheck the option
I am using Media Ultilties which gives a 0 or 1 conditional if music is playing or not. What I am trying to do is show a zooper music control widget if music is playing and to show a weather widget in the same place if there is no music playing.
I did see the trick to show the pause button or show the play button using this conditional. However, I am not sure how to apply that to an entire widget. Also, the trick I saw only moves the button off the widget screen (changes the X value to 1000), it doesn't actually hide it. So my questions are:
1) Is there a better command to hide elements on a conditional, or is changing the X value (or y value) the only option?
2) How do I apply this conditional to 2 entire widgets, so one shows if music is playing and the other if music is not playing. I have and know how to use tasker, if that is involved anywhere.
3) If I move an entire widget off the space by changing the X coordinates, does it still consume resources? By that I mean, is the widget still loaded and, for example, would the weather data continue to update?
Thanks!
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I am using Media Ultilties which gives a 0 or 1 conditional if music is playing or not. What I am trying to do is show a zooper music control widget if music is playing and to show a weather widget in the same place if there is no music playing.
I did see the trick to show the pause button or show the play button using this conditional. However, I am not sure how to apply that to an entire widget. Also, the trick I saw only moves the button off the widget screen (changes the X value to 1000), it doesn't actually hide it. So my questions are:
1) Is there a better command to hide elements on a conditional, or is changing the X value (or y value) the only option?
2) How do I apply this conditional to 2 entire widgets, so one shows if music is playing and the other if music is not playing. I have and know how to use tasker, if that is involved anywhere.
3) If I move an entire widget off the space by changing the X coordinates, does it still consume resources? By that I mean, is the widget still loaded and, for example, would the weather data continue to update?
Thanks!
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Use that same one that you use to show and hide the play/pause button to hide every element you dont want seen or show the ones you do. I've done it and hidden over half of the widget once the music is playing and show the music controls.
Totally makes sense, I should've figured on that. Thank you so much for helping me out!
silkshadow said:
Totally makes sense, I should've figured on that. Thank you so much for helping me out!
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always use opacity to show and hide if you can.
What is the command line to make the widget relocate when music is playing. ?
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What is the command line to make the widget relocate when music is playing. ?
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Relocate? How so? Explain what you want to do and maybe I can help.
Hide icons of running apps on the status bar? Is it possible to do this without rooting? I hate having to look at the spotify icon / whatsapp desktop and other apps icons on my status bar all the time, it looks so cluttered , I KNOW spotify it's running since the music is playing google, I'm not that stupid to know it's running in the background , if I want to look at my notifications, let's say I get an email, I'll slide down the notification bar , I don't need notifications being thrown at me all the time...
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Hide icons of running apps on the status bar? Is it possible to do this without rooting? I hate having to look at the spotify icon / whatsapp desktop and other apps icons on my status bar all the time, it looks so cluttered , I KNOW spotify it's running since the music is playing google, I'm not that stupid to know it's running in the background , if I want to look at my notifications, let's say I get an email, I'll slide down the notification bar , I don't need notifications being thrown at me all the time...
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Does long pressing the notification in question not allow you to shut it off? Or am I misunderstanding your interpretation?
Press and hold the Settings icon Quick Settings for a while. You'll see a new section System UI Tuner, from. There you can turn on or off icon in the status bar area. You'll also now notice a wrench next to your settings icon in your quick setting area.
I hope this is what you're referring to.
You can also swipe right slowly and it will reveal a settings icon, tap there and turn off notification from just that app
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Does long pressing the notification in question not allow you to shut it off? Or am I misunderstanding your interpretation?
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If you do that you then silence all the notifications for that app , don't get me wrong I don't want to eliminate the notifications , I just want to eliminate the icons on the status bar .
Take a look at the picture I uploaded , see how the bar gets crowded with all those app icons from Spotify , the new York times apps etc ?
For what you're wanting, you'll need root.