Two questions that I have yet to find an answer to:
1) Has anyone tried or found a way to integrate a third-party media player (i.e. PowerAmp, Winamp, Music Mod, etc.) with the HTC Sense lockscreen controls?
2) Has anyone tried or found a way to put application shortcuts into the notification bar, similar to the Recent Apps function in some ROMs? To explain further, this would be custom app shortcuts, user-defined, in an interface like the shortcuts found in Skyraider 3.5.
Thanks for the help!
mikeyasuragi said:
Two questions that I have yet to find an answer to:
1) Has anyone tried or found a way to integrate a third-party media player (i.e. PowerAmp, Winamp, Music Mod, etc.) with the HTC Sense lockscreen controls?
2) Has anyone tried or found a way to put application shortcuts into the notification bar, similar to the Recent Apps function in some ROMs? To explain further, this would be custom app shortcuts, user-defined, in an interface like the shortcuts found in Skyraider 3.5.
Thanks for the help!
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Bump on music controls
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I must say, I'm very surprised that no one has anything to say on these subjects...
I sure would like the leaked Honeycomb player with lock screen controls, OR even the Z player with lock screen controls would be great. I even downloaded the motorola (yeah I know sorry) music player and tried it but no lock screen controls. You'd figure with all the mods available some dev could do this, I WOULD PAY YOU FOR IT! Honeycomb with lock screen $____.__ you name the price.
As for the recent apps in notifi bar, I think, but not 100% sure, the Z roms have that.
TokedUp said:
As for the recent apps in notifi bar, I think, but not 100% sure, the Z roms have that.
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mikeyasuragi said:
2) Has anyone tried or found a way to put application shortcuts into the notification bar, similar to the Recent Apps function in some ROMs? To explain further, this would be custom app shortcuts, user-defined, in an interface like the shortcuts found in Skyraider 3.5.
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Not looking for Recent apps, but user-defined apps.
For example, I find myself wanting to be able to access the following apps the quickest: Twidroyd, Google Reader, Miren Browser, and Google Voice. They may or may not be in my recent apps, but with a permanent shortcut in the notification bar I can access them from (almost) any screen. I've used Bar Control and Bartender Lite, and they get the job done for the most part. But they also take up quite a bit of room in the notification panel.
The way that Skyraider implements the recent apps into the header of the notification panel would be great for custom shortcuts, if only someone knows how to do it.
Right now my clock (beautiful widgets) is stuck at 8:58, when it's actually 18:36. My agenda widget and calendar widgets won't update if I add tasks, and I can't refresh them. The clock in the taskbar at the top of the screen is correct.
The widgets get stuck like this once or twice a week, and a restart fixes it.
Anybody else had this issue, or knows what the cause may be?
not had this issue or read about anybody else experiencing this.
My gmail widget does this all the time. Keeps showing old unread messages which I actually have read. Apps is fine.
Clock has never got stuck though.
Btw do we have a fix yet for laggy scrolling on android widgets
do you often end all tasks in task manager? if yes ,that could be the problem
shadehh said:
do you often end all tasks in task manager? if yes ,that could be the problem
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^^One possibility
I have had my Poweramp widget fail to do anything from time to time. The task manager must be ending the task required for it to run. Some apps have an option to stop task managers closing them.
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do you often end all tasks in task manager? if yes ,that could be the problem
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I do, yes. Could that be doing me more harm than good? I'll lay off it for a while and see if the problem is less regular.
Disable the WinAmp widget and restart your device, don't kill the tasks for a while.
I think that's the best you can do for test.
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I do, yes. Could that be doing me more harm than good? I'll lay off it for a while and see if the problem is less regular.
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I can reproduce this at will on my HOX. I've opened a case with HTC on it too. It *appears* that this is being caused by HTC's super-duper agressive task killing (it's a feature, not a bug), killing off sleeping processes that keeps widgets with live data updated. After a reboot, facebook widget legs me gleefully scroll through posts, beweather can be updated by clicking "update", and the power control widget will change the "light" under the button based on the state of that which the button drives, however after using the phone for awhile, loading/unloading apps and whatnot, the memory falls below the threshold and the in-built task killer goes to town and hangs up a good deal of apps and then the widgets are frozen until the next reboot. I know the interface isn't frozen because any widget with a shortcut (touch and run something) still works, and the facebook widget registers a scroll "touch" by the arrow highlighting, but the data never changes, so it has to be something behind the scenes that went away and shouldn't have.
If anyone has any other suggestions as to a cause, let me know, I'll happily pass on to HTC in my case with them.
Stuck widgets on CM9 for HOX
wilkomints said:
Right now my clock (beautiful widgets) is stuck at 8:58, when it's actually 18:36. My agenda widget and calendar widgets won't update if I add tasks, and I can't refresh them. The clock in the taskbar at the top of the screen is correct.
The widgets get stuck like this once or twice a week, and a restart fixes it.
Anybody else had this issue, or knows what the cause may be?
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I got the exact same problem, but only on the CM9.1 (which according to the development thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1706001 has been incorrectly tagged as Alpha 8 on the Cyanogenmod download site). The widgets are frozen, but are interactive - if I touch my frozen Beautiful Widget the weather page appears. If I touch the buttons on my frozen Apollo music player widget, it plays/pause/skips music tracks etc but the widget itself doesn't get updated. A restart of the launcher (Settings --> Launcher --> Homescreen, and then exit the Settings app by pressing back back back) fixes the issue... for a while, before the widgets eventually get stuck again. See screenshot (note actual time vs Beautiful Widgets time).
Searched the forums, the CM9 thread and on Google elsewhere but no one else seem to have the same issue. Very puzzling. One guy has a similar issue but it got solved when he switches off "Forced GPU rendering", which didn't work for me. Would appreciate any help!
Cheers,
Kelvin
iCantRememberMyUsername said:
I got the exact same problem, but only on the CM9.1 (which according to the development thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1706001 has been incorrectly tagged as Alpha 8 on the Cyanogenmod download site). The widgets are frozen, but are interactive - if I touch my frozen Beautiful Widget the weather page appears. If I touch the buttons on my frozen Apollo music player widget, it plays/pause/skips music tracks etc but the widget itself doesn't get updated. A restart of the launcher (Settings --> Launcher --> Homescreen, and then exit the Settings app by pressing back back back) fixes the issue... for a while, before the widgets eventually get stuck again. See screenshot (note actual time vs Beautiful Widgets time).
Searched the forums, the CM9 thread and on Google elsewhere but no one else seem to have the same issue. Very puzzling. One guy has a similar issue but it got solved when he switches off "Forced GPU rendering", which didn't work for me. Would appreciate any help!
Cheers,
Kelvin
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had same prob a while ago, installed ROM Toolbox and under 'performance overview' clicked on auto memory manager/presets/...>mild<... ticked apply on boot and apply, rebooted and bingo no more freezing widgets.
it may be that simple for you (or maybe not) give it a shot why not?.. hehe
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.liberty.toolbox&hl=en
Thank you! It did help greatly in minimising the problem, but it hasn't stopped it totally. In the last 12 hours since implementing your suggestion, the widgets had frozen once, and I noticed it after I was streaming some videos. I'm guessing the video streaming triggered the "OMG we need more RAM, KILL THE WIDGETS!" response of the OS but other than that the widgets are ticking along happily.
Would be great if there's a more permanent solution to this, but I'm guessing this would require the CM developers looking into it.
Cheers! :good:
Ah. Well, after web browsing (which strangely causes the HTC One X to heat up more than I'd expect it to), the widgets are back to being stuck. I guess the ROM is not quite ready, but being a new user I can't feedback to the development thread on my experience with the ROM.
Perhaps I'll head back to a Sense-based ROM. (The Jellybean ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1763240 is excellent, but MX Player on s/w decoding doesn't have audio, and Beautiful Widgets disappear upon reboot or USB connect...)
Cheers again for your help, beanbean50.
Have same issue with multiple widgets. Anyone close to finding a solution? Or do we have to wait for the next OTA update?
drewsky208 said:
I can reproduce this at will on my HOX. I've opened a case with HTC on it too. It *appears* that this is being caused by HTC's super-duper agressive task killing (it's a feature, not a bug), killing off sleeping processes that keeps widgets with live data updated. After a reboot, facebook widget legs me gleefully scroll through posts, beweather can be updated by clicking "update", and the power control widget will change the "light" under the button based on the state of that which the button drives, however after using the phone for awhile, loading/unloading apps and whatnot, the memory falls below the threshold and the in-built task killer goes to town and hangs up a good deal of apps and then the widgets are frozen until the next reboot. I know the interface isn't frozen because any widget with a shortcut (touch and run something) still works, and the facebook widget registers a scroll "touch" by the arrow highlighting, but the data never changes, so it has to be something behind the scenes that went away and shouldn't have.
If anyone has any other suggestions as to a cause, let me know, I'll happily pass on to HTC in my case with them.
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I'm using a Motorola Atrix 2(ICS) and have the same issue , it's not just task killer i guess , when you uninstal /freeze some system apps this can happen , and if you're using a custom launcher (nova prime to me) , just restart the launcher and they'll start working again , sometimes you have to restart the launcher twice , you can't do this if you're using a stock launcher obvious
Would it be possible to get widgets like power amps to be placed in the notification area so that I could have the music controls there rather than pressing through to the main app or having the widget on a page? Is there already something like this?
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not sure what your current status is, but if you run AOSP roms, you can get the music controls on the lock screen...same goes if you have widget locker or other apps of that style from the play store.
yeah i've got widget locker and have music controls on there. Just wondered if there was some way to get it into notifications like 3.0.
Found a thread which recommends the app quick desk. Not quite what I want, as its not as fast or convenient as having something in the notifications, but close enough and does a job.
Hello,
I am on Stock OS version 3.2.4, did not touch anything from the staryt, with Nova Launcher installed. My widgets that tell time from different parts of the world and a countdown is not updating regularly.
Is this a one plus 3 problem? Anyone encountering the same issue? Is it a connection issue?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
Do you have any battery saver type of apps installed. Sometimes they can be aggressive and interfere with widgets. Double check widget settings too.
SysAdmNj said:
Do you have any battery saver type of apps installed. Sometimes they can be aggressive and interfere with widgets. Double check widget settings too.
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Did not install any battery saving app on my phone. Stock as is. Updated to 3.2.4 OTA.
Also checked app settings and nothing seems to be about updating of widget frequency.
I tried to keep my desktop unlocked but the problem persists.
The 2 apps are Countdown and Perfect World Clock. And both of these are displayed on my main home screen. Is this an app issue? Are you guys not experiencing any of this? I have a calendar widget displayed, but not on main screen and it seems to update with no problem.