Thoughts on possible Honeycomb enhancement - Xoom General

Has anyone else found it a bit cumbersome on the Xoom to change the audio volume all the time with the manual buttons or even use the hard buttons to trigger the volume slider to appear? I think it would be a huge perk if a volume slider would be included on the music app and even in the settings popup in the corner like the brightness? Thoughts / opinions from others? I wanted to see if others would see value in this to take it to google for an potential future enhancement.

Nvious1 said:
Has anyone else found it a bit cumbersome on the Xoom to change the audio volume all the time with the manual buttons or even use the hard buttons to trigger the volume slider to appear? I think it would be a huge perk if a volume slider would be included on the music app and even in the settings popup in the corner like the brightness? Thoughts / opinions from others? I wanted to see if others would see value in this to take it to google for an potential future enhancement.
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i agree! i'm using the motorola cover and changing the volume sucks. if it could be used as a slider in the notifications bar that would be awesome.

They should make it to where you can pick what shows up on the notification pop up. I would like to see toggles for bluetooth, wifi added a volume slide just like the display settings. If you could pick which settings showed there that would be a huge +1 And the ability to resize the widgets with out needing a new launcher installed (LP+ ADW).

There is a solution to the Volume issue mentioned in the OP.
There's an app for that!™
It appears you can also put it in the task bar.

I'm so used to having skins on top of android (sense, touchwiz) that I kind of feel the need of having one on top of honeycomb. I admit that HC the way it is looks so frigging naked. The media player is dull, and the widgets are boring. IMO.
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arrtoodeetoo said:
There is a solution to the Volume issue mentioned in the OP.
There's an app for that!™
It appears you can also put it in the task bar.
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Sweet diggs. I will swoop that up shortly!!

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lockscreen unlocker

Hello desire community,
I just though of an idea. I like the look of the lock screen on sense, but i miss the option to have two sliders (one to unlock, one to silence). What is someone could build a slider that can slide up and down, plus has a slider point in the middle that can slide either left or right. I have attached an example but I am not a good artist so I hope you can understand what it means.
+1, that would be neat
I thought so to but:
1) I don't know how to program that
2) I can't even draw it very well
Like WidgetLocker, perhaps?
http://www.appbrain.com/app/widgetlocker-lockscreen/com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker
Moved to themes and apps
I have widget locker. I was thinking like the rotory slider but with one "slider" in the middle and four directions to slide.
This is what he wants except the places where it fades he wants it to rotate, and i agree would be cool.
Edit: this as in dragging up, and down, and rotationg side to side, would give it 4 ways to move instead of just one, and would take full effect of the possibilities of the HTC design...
Exactly I could imagine using up for dailer, down unlock, left mms, and right ringer. If it is in widgetlocker they could be customized
That's a really nice idea, i'd love to see such a feature.
Nice idea but I can imagine the amount of unwanted actions in pocket etc.
blinde said:
Nice idea but I can imagine the amount of unwanted actions in pocket etc.
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None because you would have to touch the middlepoint of the slider to make it work and thats veeeery unlikely....
a better example would be Galaxy S Lockscreen i think
this style is what i like to have
noobandroid said:
a better example would be Galaxy S Lockscreen i think
this style is what i like to have
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that is just the vanilla android lockscreen :/
yeah,well can anyone make one, i love to have it, make sure it is in zip though, and "easy install" mode
Search widget locker on market. It has a vanilla lockscreen

OTA Annoyances

Not sure whether I'm the only one but there are a few things that really bugging me with the OTA:
1) Auto-brightness now just always keeps me at the lowest brightness. I prefer the auto but not if its going to make my screen always dark.
2) The camera actually seems to take not as good pictures for some reason. Everything looks more washed out, especially in low light cases.
3) The default black background worked with all programs, and the white just doesn't. For example FPSE: when you are picking from a list of roms if the list doesn't go all the way to the bottom then where there are things to pick from its black and below it its white. Titanium Backup has the same thing below the list of schedules. It is frekin ugly and just doesn't look right like it did before.
4) The top bar icons just don't look as nice as the old ones.
5) Talking over the phone everyone sounds quiter and grainer
daneren2005 said:
Not sure whether I'm the only one but there are a few things that really bugging me with the OTA:
1) Auto-brightness now just always keeps me at the lowest brightness. I prefer the auto but not if its going to make my screen always dark.
2) The camera actually seems to take not as good pictures for some reason. Everything looks more washed out, especially in low light cases.
3) The default black background worked with all programs, and the white just doesn't. For example FPSE: when you are picking from a list of roms if the list doesn't go all the way to the bottom then where there are things to pick from its black and below it its white. Titanium Backup has the same thing below the list of schedules. It is frekin ugly and just doesn't look right like it did before.
4) The top bar icons just don't look as nice as the old ones.
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I've noticed that low light pictures suck now.
I'm not having the same low light picture issues.
Also, if some apps look bad because of the new theme, those app makers should fix their apps. If just one app inherits the new color-schemes, all apps can. Some programmers are not using "best practice" techniques in this case.
For example, they manually set the background color and font color, rather than inherit from the colors from the system. Should be a simple fix for them, if they care.
daneren2005 said:
Not sure whether I'm the only one but there are a few things that really bugging me with the OTA:
5) Talking over the phone everyone sounds quiter and grainer
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For those that don't mind using Bluetooth, I highly recommended the Motorola H720.
This headset isn't that expensive, and IMHO it greatly enhances the call quality on ALL of my Android phones.
I'm still on (Bell) Froyo, but the H720 might be worth a shot for anyone disappointed with call quality...
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Since upgrading to official Gingerbread, my Gmail icon no longer shows up in the messaging app. Gmail still works, but when I go into messaging all other accounts are listed except my Gmail app account. Gmail was always listed in the messaging app in Froyo. My wife hasn't upgraded yet and Gmail list listed in messaging on her Atrix. Is anyone else having this issue?
Daneren, I agree the new color theme is horrible. The color and symbols on the notification bar really bad.
low light pic sucks!!! Colors seem a little cheap on the menu bar.
Jonny Steele said:
low light pic sucks!!! Colors seem a little cheap on the menu bar.
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This is why I think Motorola should have put the new exposure setting onscreen instead of in the menu settings. That setting makes a huge difference in picture quality, and I have to adjust it way too much for it to be in menu setting.
I am disapointed with a few things also. Low light pics seem effected, I cant tether anymore, my quadrant standard score is 300-800 lower consistantly now, there is an annoying lag when I unlock with the slider, and I prefer the top bar icons with 2.2.2.
ssackett said:
I am disapointed with a few things also. Low light pics seem effected, I cant tether anymore, my quadrant standard score is 300-800 lower consistantly now, there is an annoying lag when I unlock with the slider, and I prefer the top bar icons with 2.2.2.
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Have you tried a 3rd party app like Barnicle Tethering?...
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If you're rooted wifi tether for root seems to work fine for me.
I'd rather do that than manually dig around sql files and possibly bork something (as per the mod in the dev section).
As a formed N1 user I miss my vanilla android sometimes
To add to that
-home screen seems to be less responsive
- battery indicator inaccurate
Haven't tested a lot. Will take time to test all the options and features.
However the new keyboard seems to be an improvement though.
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No bugs or issues here but new MOTOBLUR home looks and performs worse than its predecessor.
As far as picture and video quality I see no difference.
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the default music player seems to have shuffle turned on permanently and I can't turn it off!!!!
wintermute000 said:
the default music player seems to have shuffle turned on permanently and I can't turn it off!!!!
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Slide your finger to the left, you should then have an option to change that.
thx but slide where? tried everywhere lol
wintermute000 said:
thx but slide where? tried everywhere lol
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Should be on the album art, if that doesn't work... Idk.
thx doesn't work, over to winamp.
Would prefer stock (lockscreen features, less bloat/ram)
Car dock became atrocious. You now can only add 4 apps to it, the rest is either close button (two of that), and stupid music player functionalities (music player, internet radio, podcast player) or voice search.
I also have ran into the issue with the battery indicator.
wintermute000 said:
the default music player seems to have shuffle turned on permanently and I can't turn it off!!!!
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If you are looking for a player that's close to the previous, give PlayerPro a try. (Has trial but not free)
If you want a free player with even less permissions used than Winamp, give Zimly a try.
I currently have both players on my phone...
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volume control in notification bar?

hi, i have rooted my tablet and use rom tool box to change the dpi to 175, effectively give me full tablet UI.
which is very nice.
the notification bar at the lower left, when i swipe it upwards,
there is a brightness control.
i seldom use this slider because the auto brightness works so well.
i'm thinking it will be more useful if it can become a volume control.
is it possible? is there an app for it?
or is there any mod i can flash to make a volume control appear there.
hope to hear some feed back. thank you
mtxx1 said:
hi, i have rooted my tablet and use rom tool box to change the dpi to 175, effectively give me full tablet UI.
which is very nice.
the notification bar at the lower left, when i swipe it upwards,
there is a brightness control.
i seldom use this slider because the auto brightness works so well.
i'm thinking it will be more useful if it can become a volume control.
is it possible? is there an app for it?
or is there any mod i can flash to make a volume control appear there.
hope to hear some feed back. thank you
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Yeah, this custom ROM has it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1796668
'Volume in Notification' app
Also, from the conversations I've read, the best setting for tablet UI is 160.
kwarner666 said:
'Volume in Notification' app
Also, from the conversations I've read, the best setting for tablet UI is 160.
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Thanks for the app recomemdation
160 DPI? I've been using 175 for the last 5 days. No force close or hang. What kind of issue is expected?
Why is 160 the best? The font is smaller in 160.
If you use a strange dpi, then some apps might not appear in the Play Store because they have dpi requirements.
Just curious about the DPI. I have not rooted, but was "thinking" that the font would get larger if set to 160 dpi. I have a 5" Galaxy Player and the N7, and everything on the N7 is smaller (except the screen). Music Widgets are much smaller with a much smaller albumart. I was hoping if I rooted icons and text could be made larger. I have settings set to largest.... and I don't consider myself blind... just old
I'm kind of curious.... I had a kindle fire which had no volume buttons so a notification volume slider was crucial but the N7 has volume buttons so I don't understand why you would need a slider. Please understand I'm not trying to say you're wrong for wanting one, just curious why.
neilrl79 said:
I'm kind of curious.... I had a kindle fire which had no volume buttons so a notification volume slider was crucial but the N7 has volume buttons so I don't understand why you would need a slider. Please understand I'm not trying to say you're wrong for wanting one, just curious why.
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No problem. Here's an example,
Open a YouTube video.
The volume is too loud, find the volume rocker,top right,
Nope not there. Rotate tablet and check all sides to find it.
After a few seconds looking, found it.
If there is a volume control at notification bar,
Just swipe it down, and control from it.
Much faster, no need fiddle with the tablet looking for it.

[ROM] or [MOD] for [VZW] Humble Requests

First off...many thanks to ALL you devs who have already contributed and will contribute in the future. Your work is necessary as phone manufacturers ship less than perfect handsets. You guys truly make these products sooooo much better.
From what I've been gathering...a number of folks would like some of these ideas listed added to this wonderful phone. Donations shall be in order of course for all the hard work.
- The ability to hide the ever present location "bullseye" Icon
- Replace the battey icon with a custom one (I always thought that multicolored round one with the percent in the middle was coooooollll), or shrinking the stock percentage and placing it on top the battery.
- Bottom speaker gain control
- knock off works if you tap the empty area of the home-screen in a 3rd party launcher (the stock ui sees it as one big app, which is why it won't work unless you double tap the top status bar.)
- Keeping the top status bar and the lower nav buttons transparent in 3rd party launchers (the stock ui again sees it as one big app, rendering the bars opaque)
- Black or gray theme for settings menu....the white is a bit harsh.
- Double tapping the home nav button brings up LG Voice Mate...or that voice control LG app thingy.
Hide the brightness and volume sliders in the notification panel please!
Geekybiker said:
Hide the brightness and volume sliders in the notification panel please!
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Hmmm...I have this done already on my stock unrooted verizon handset.
I forgot how I did it lol
IB4TL
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Rinzler said:
Hmmm...I have this done already on my stock unrooted verizon handset.
I forgot how I did it lol
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The VZW model never had them in the first place.
This is a request thread and should go in Q/A or general.
Thank you!
Namtaru said:
The VZW model never had them in the first place.
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Ahhhh
scrosler said:
This is a request thread and should go in Q/A or general.
Thank you!
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Apologies...can a mod make the appropriate move.
Rinzler said:
Ahhhh
Apologies...can a mod make the appropriate move.
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They will soon.
No worries.
I'm working on these atm..
but I have F320 Systemui..
no one sent me the Verizon of At&t systemui.apk..
And for the 1% Battery MOD, Framework.res & Lge.res is also required..
EDIT: My friend here, djkinetic sent me those files.. I cannot see or test anything..so i will send it to him for testing. But not everything at once, one by one slowly..
How about removal of the AM/PM please and location icon (as was mentioned)
What kind of bottom speaker control are you asking for?
I support the dark settings theme.
At least you can change the navbar to be black instead of white, and the settings menu to be tabbed instead of one gigantic list. I was worried during initial reviews when they said you couldn't change those.
I'd like to add - ability to customize navbar to add other button types, or at least the customization of the navbar hold-n-drag options (currently holds voice search, Google Now, and something else).
spitzaf said:
What kind of bottom speaker control are you asking for?
I support the dark settings theme.
At least you can change the navbar to be black instead of white, and the settings menu to be tabbed instead of one gigantic list. I was worried during initial reviews when they said you couldn't change those.
I'd like to add - ability to customize navbar to add other button types, or at least the customization of the navbar hold-n-drag options (currently holds voice search, Google Now, and something else).
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I want to be able to turn up the speaker volume.
Certainly donations are in order
Here are a few requests....
- white or ICS blue status bar with no gps icon, add center clock, battery with percentage in the middle
- recents button in the nav bar - remove menu
- no more wifi connected to in notification drop down
- louder notification sounds
OR CM10 with knock knock
jmill75 said:
OR CM10 with knock knock
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+1
All in good time. The beauty of a flagship device is very highly likely CM support.
AOSP please
How about a permanent Back, Home, Multitask, Menu button layout in AOSP style with a semi transparent background on the homescreen...
Of course, I'd prefer complete AOSP.
jmill75 said:
Certainly donations are in order
Here are a few requests....
- white or ICS blue status bar with no gps icon, add center clock, battery with percentage in the middle
- recents button in the nav bar - remove menu
- no more wifi connected to in notification drop down
- louder notification sounds
OR CM10 with knock knock
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Sitting here streaming Slacker radio, dawned on me:
customizable knock patterns! like 2 knocks for skipping a track, change wake up to 3 knocks, etc.
- knock off works if you tap the empty area of the home-screen in a 3rd party launcher (the stock ui sees it as one big app, which is why it won't work unless you double tap the top status bar.)
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Just use Nova gesture double tap + tasker task to lock the screen.
Viper76269 said:
AOSP please
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Why buy the G2 if all you want is AOSP? You might as well have waited for the N5.. I don't understand why people buy a phone that has some pretty cool features, only to flash AOSP and lose most of it... I get that a lot of what the G2 does can be built into AOSP with different apps but i guess I'm the only one who buys the phone for the experience that was intended by the manufacturer.
Ok guys, was able to make many things and tested them too! Need to fix a few things. Its 4 am here,by 11am i will make a new thread in themes section

HTC One 4.3 list of features

Guys don't crucify me if there is a list out there I just couldn't find it using the xda app
Is there a distinct list of new features for this update. I know it will differ from the gpe 4.3 but I'd like to know evergthing that HTC has thrown in to coalesce with 4.3
If anyone has the official thread for this then please post it and maybe it could go in the sticky with some other links such as 4.1 ,4.2 updates etc
Cheers
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unque1 said:
Guys don't crucify me if there is a list out there I just couldn't find it using the xda app
Is there a distinct list of new features for this update. I know it will differ from the gpe 4.3 but I'd like to know evergthing that HTC has thrown in to coalesce with 4.3
If anyone has the official thread for this then please post it and maybe it could go in the sticky with some other links such as 4.1 ,4.2 updates etc
Cheers
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Widget lockscreen, added security, camera fix, lowered sound to prevent speaker malfunction.
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Android The Greek said:
Widget lockscreen, added security, camera fix, lowered sound to prevent speaker malfunction.
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Actually, lockscreen widget and lowered sound volume (as well as toggles in the notification panel) were part of the 4.2 already.
Camerafix is also a very doubtful topic.
Android 4.3 in HTC One incarnation doesn't bring that much to the table, sure always better to have the newest one if possible. But nothing to go crazy about.
Lowered sound volume? That better not be part of the update. That will ruin a good thing IMO
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Actually, lockscreen widget and lowered sound volume (as well as toggles in the notification panel) were part of the 4.2 already.
Camerafix is also a very doubtful topic.
Android 4.3 in HTC One incarnation doesn't bring that much to the table, sure always better to have the newest one if possible. But nothing to go crazy about.
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I think from those in the states that hot left behind with 4.1.2 jumping to 4.3 is a big upgrade .
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ingenious247 said:
Lowered sound volume? That better not be part of the update. That will ruin a good thing IMO
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im glad thats just your opinion
Well, there's the TRIM thing that Google finally implemented. Will help stop the phone from becoming slow over time.
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all changes are in the 4.2.2 already !
CheesyNutz said:
im glad thats just your opinion
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you can always turn down the volume as it is now.. if they permanently lower the volume they're just hand holding the people who don't have any common sense..
From 4.1.2 to 4.3, I've noted:
-Long press Home for menu (no more 3 dot bar at the bottom), swipe up from Home for Google Now (enabled in Display, Gestures and Buttons)
-Quick Settings in Notification
-Autobrightness is better balanced (IMO, but definitely changed)
-Notification vibration pulses longer than before
-Camera shutter seems faster
-Better integration of features in Notification. For example, phone call notification has call back and text options.
-Google hangouts message preview in Notification.
-Better battery life, I would say about 15% based on how much juice I now have left at the end of the day.
Others?
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From 4.1.2 to 4.3, I've noted:
-Long press Home for menu (no more 3 dot bar at the bottom), swipe up from Home for Google Now (enabled in Display, Gestures and Buttons)
-Quick Settings in Notification
-Autobrightness is better balanced (IMO, but definitely changed)
-Notification vibration pulses longer than before
-Camera shutter seems faster
-Better integration of features in Notification. For example, phone call notification has call back and text options.
-Google hangouts message preview in Notification.
-Better battery life, I would say about 15% based on how much juice I now have left at the end of the day.
Others?
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Here are a few minor ones I picked up after the update (in addition to what you contributed).
-Soft buttons fade in and fade out
-TV App updated (so much better imo, but missing still missing some basic intuitive tasks [you can't delete a room..?])
-Power Saver quick toggle removed from notification swipedown
-Can show battery % level after enabling it from settings
-Headphone output decreased (I swear, it used to be louder at max settings)
Those are pretty much what i picked up in addition to what was mentioned above.
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Here are a few minor ones I picked up after the update (in addition to what you contributed).
-Soft buttons fade in and fade out
-TV App updated (so much better imo, but missing still missing some basic intuitive tasks [you can't delete a room..?])
-Power Saver quick toggle removed from notification swipedown
-Can show battery % level after enabling it from settings
-Headphone output decreased (I swear, it used to be louder at max settings)
Those are pretty much what i picked up in addition to what was mentioned above.
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Also, you now have to turn the TV app off in Notifications. Used to be able to back out if using the Back button.
I wish they made the battery percentage a new battery icon instead of an additional item in the notification tray.
I've actually noticed a better battery life too
I'm starting to prefer sense over stock for some strange reason aswell
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Would not call it a feature, but there is a new icon in the notification bar when NFC is turned on. Kinda annoying.
Telus for those on TT that can't easily read signatures.
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Power saver notification
WolfDale7 said:
Here are a few minor ones I picked up after the update (in addition to what you contributed).
-Soft buttons fade in and fade out
-TV App updated (so much better imo, but missing still missing some basic intuitive tasks [you can't delete a room..?])
-Power Saver quick toggle removed from notification swipedown
-Can show battery % level after enabling it from settings
-Headphone output decreased (I swear, it used to be louder at max settings)
Those are pretty much what i picked up in addition to what was mentioned above.
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I noticed you wrote "Power Saver quick toggle removed from notification swipedown". How do you do that without disabling power saver mode?
Hsiang-Fu said:
I noticed you wrote "Power Saver quick toggle removed from notification swipedown". How do you do that without disabling power saver mode?
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Power Saver mode toggle is now in Quick Settings.
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Power Saver mode toggle is now in Quick Settings.
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I think he's referring to the annoying space it takes up in the notification shade
I've posted about this as its now baked in and you can disable the notification in the apps option and still have power saver running
#FixitHTC
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2460599
ingenious247 said:
Lowered sound volume? That better not be part of the update. That will ruin a good thing IMO
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I also hope volume will not be lower on my 4.2.2 it it's definitely too low.
CheesyNutz said:
im glad thats just your opinion
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Don't understand how people can complain about too loud sound having an option to turn it down?
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skwieradee said:
Don't understand how people can complain about too loud sound having an option to turn it down?
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Because the lowest volume setting is still too loud. So it's left between obnoxiously loud, really loud, loud and mute.

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