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[Q] Battery status app

Ok, I give up.
This is probably a nooby question, but I can't find the answer anywhere.
I have seen a battery usage screen on my Fascinate twice. It displays what device or program is using the most power. I can find how to get to that screen again.
It's probably right in front of me.
I have searched everywhere but I'm missing something.

Menu button from home screen, settings, about phone, battery use.
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"Spare Parts" by Android Apps (free in mrkt) has more in depth battery usage info.
good day.

Here is an ad-free version of SpareParts, courtesy of Adrynalyne

Jmjohnson1717 said:
Menu button from home screen, settings, about phone, battery use.
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That is so intuitive.
NOT.
Thanks everyone.
Now to find out why this dang thing blocks me from downloading applications.
Much to learn.

Go to menu-settings-applications and check the box on top by "allow installation of non-market apps" then it should work.
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ktez said:
Go to menu-settings-applications and check the box on top by "allow installation of non-market apps" then it should work.
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I had already done that. The browser just refuses to download it.

Use astro. In the settings check the 'enable browser downloader' option.
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Help with setting ADW as my default

I tried making ADW Launcher my default launcher I navigated to settings/applications/managed applications/installed apps/ADW. Once I get to that screen I can not select it as a default because the the option isn't highlighted to select so how I do it? Thanks for your input in advance!
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Try hitting the home hard button
Then the default home selection screen might show up
If it doesn't, there is a program in the DroidX forums called HomeSmack
You can use this to make ADW the default home app

And how do I get the Homesmack app? I'm trying the Homeswitcher app but after selecting adw as default and closing the app it doesn't save what I selected.
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Go to manage applications and find your stock launcher and hit "clear defaults." Then you can hit your home button and select it from there. Hope this helps!
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Also, with home switcher (which is what I use) are you selecting "set default" then "launch?" You're not supposed to close home switcher. When you hit launch it's supposed to close automatically and go to the launcher you selected.
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if you are rooted - use root explorer and navigate to your system files in
/system/app
and rename "blurhome.apk" to "blurhome.apk.bak"
You will still have the file - it will just not be recognized anymore by the system when you give it the "backup" extension.
If you aren't rooted (you should be) -did you try the other version of Home Switcher? last time I checked there was a seperate version for froyo. You can try that (if you haven't).
If you are not rooted and you want to be here is a link for an app. You put it on your phone. Open it. Press either
temporary root (if you are nervous)
or
permanent root
the app is called "Z4root". you can google around and do some research if you want. I used it. It's very easy. But of course I make no guarantees and rooting does void your warranty and you could screw up your phone.
Z4root.apk

Zwade I navigated to the stock home launcher and I didn't have the option hilighted to choose "clear default" so I chose force close and cleared the data instead.
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Zwade yes just as you described with homeswitcher that's what it does on my end but once I select adw via homeswitcher and the launcher opens I go back and open the homeswitcher app on the main screen it says I don't have a default selected shouldn't it save my prior setting?
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Access Car Dock and Desk Dock without dock accessories. Rooting not necessary.

Hi all, first time post! Hooray for newbs!
Here's a trick I found to access the built-in Car Dock app without the use of the car dock accessory.
Download and install ADW.Launcher from the Android Market - You'll need to download ADW Launcher, which is probably fine for most people who don't like using MotoBlur! The free version of ADW.Launcher will work fine for this tutorial. You will need to reorganize your widgets and favorite shortcuts, so be warned.
Long press an empty area on your home screen in ADW Launcher to bring up the "Add to Home screen" window
Select "Custom shortcut"
Select "Pick your activity"
Select "Activities"
Select "Car Dock"
Select "CarDock(.main.CardockMainActivity)"
Name the shortcut anything you wish, otherwise, select "OK"
Now you have a CarDock icon on your home screen! Select it and use it for safer phone browsing while on the road. Remember to practice safe driving habits!
Similarly, you can bring up the Desk Dock app without the use of the standard or HD home dock accessory.
Download and install ADW.Launcher
Long press an empty area on your home screen in ADW Launcher to bring up the "Add to Home screen" window
Select "Custom shortcut"
Select "Pick your activity"
Select "Activities"
Select "Desk Home"
Select "Desk Home (.DLauncher)"
Name the shortcut anything you wish, otherwise, select "OK"
Now you have a Desk Home icon on your home screen! Select it and enjoy the landscape eye candy in front of your eyes. At least until the screen times out, if you don't have it plugged into a power source.
I haven't found these tricks mentioned by anyone yet for the Atrix. I figured it out by mimicking a tutorial I found for enabling sideloading on an AT&T locked Dell Streak without rooting. I was hoping I could use the same technique to enable sideloading without rooting the Atrix.
There may be some other goodies in there using similar techniques. I haven't been able to get the Webtop working using this technique.
I hope I've posted this in the right section of the forum. Mods, feel free to move as you see fit. I figured to put it in the General section since there's no need for development to enable these features.

Ia it in system/ Apps?
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Great find. I sid the same in launcherpro.
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Nice!
Works with Launcher Pro too... Just select Shortcuts - Activities and add the links as shown above.

Awesome find man. I can confirm it also works in Launcher Pro.

You're welcome! Thanks for confirming that it works in Launcher Pro as well. Cheers!

Car dock works, desk dock no...
atrix 2.3.4 anyone?

joberman said:
Car dock works, desk dock no...
atrix 2.3.4 anyone?
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same, and thats without freezing any blur stuff
This is using LP btw...

How do you kill a running app

On my Samsung Gingerbread /Touchwiz Galaxy Phone long touch of the home button brings up recent applications with a task killer button that lists running apps with an exit button each.
The recent apps button on the Nexus doesn't seem to lead to a kill option.
I guess I could go to settings/apps/running and select an app and pick the stop from its page, but thats a lot more complicated.
Is there an easier way?

Press the right button (looks like two windows) then swipe to kill
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rowanparker said:
Press the right button (looks like two windows) then swipe to kill
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Thanks, I had the right button, but I was trying to kill with a long press instead of a swipe. I thought kill/delete with Swipes was an Apple thing, while Android used long press.
Maybe Apple will sue

Nah, in the iPod touch and iPad it's long press which brings up close buttons

According to the manual the only way to kill a task is in the settings / apps section. "Force Stop"
Swiping away the "recent apps" simply removes it from "recent apps"
Jellybean manages apps / memory automatically. You should never be short on memory.

Hemidroids said:
According to the manual the only way to kill a task is in the settings / apps section. "Force Stop"
Swiping away the "recent apps" simply removes it from "recent apps"
Jellybean manages apps / memory automatically. You should never be short on memory.
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Yea, that isn't killing an app.
You don't need to kill apps as a matter of routine although people always seem to think so. Sometimes it is necessary if the app is behaving badly and there a lots of task-killers available that will do that.
I like "system panel" as it has other uses too.
The "recent apps" button is supposed to be there for your convenience so you can easily go from one app to another, if you are swiping them away you are just nullifying the point of the button.

Actually swiping away from the recent apps does indeed kill the app. You can verify the behavior on apps by swiping them away and opening them again. They will load from the beginning instead of where you left off.
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ok thanks, didn't know that. I think some of the other stuff I said is still kinda valid tho. There is no real need to kill apps.
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kangxi said:
Actually swiping away from the recent apps does indeed kill the app. You can verify the behavior on apps by swiping them away and opening them again. They will load from the beginning instead of where you left off.
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I would hardly call that proof. It could simply be a signal to refresh instead of "pick up where you left off". After all, if you swipe it away you dont really have an urgent need to go right "back where you left off".

Hemidroids said:
I would hardly call that proof. It could simply be a signal to refresh instead of "pick up where you left off". After all, if you swipe it away you dont really have an urgent need to go right "back where you left off".
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The proof is already out there. I just simplified it. There was a huge debate about it when the Gnex came out and I believe a Googler posted about it on Google+ as well.
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Don't most people put a task manager widget (Application Manager) on their home screens anyway for this so you can quit all active apps and clear your RAM? It was a standard app on my Samsung Captivate Glide, and I keep it next to my battery widget so maybe between the two I can make the battery last more than 8 hours.
-Ara

is there a way to delete all the runnings apps at once? It's tiring to swipe them out one by one..
sometimes after a long use you have more than 10 apps running, it would be easier if i can simply swipe them all out with one button

thunder9111 said:
is there a way to delete all the runnings apps at once? It's tiring to swipe them out one by one..
sometimes after a long use you have more than 10 apps running, it would be easier if i can simply swipe them all out with one button
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Again, that's why I like my App Manager widget, you have the option to kill everything in one click (at least until I get the ics update, then it's two clicks for that damn confirmation screen).
-Ara

I've always heard it likened to the backing out of an app with the back button. If I go into G+, go into a room in messenger and skip to home, I can resume the app right where I left off (provided it's soon, hasn't been killed). But if I exit home, swipe the app out, it acts as if I've closed it but it's kept in memory. If I do the same but long press the app in the recent apps list, go to app info and kill the app, then it is forced out of memory. It's essentially killing the app. A good example is a music app; the app continues to play when you've backed out of the app via the back button, even when you swipe the app away as it is still in use. Force stopping the app has a definite result.
Guess it is time for the obligatory "why you shouldn't don't need to use a task killer" with Android. This is an old article, but this was true then and is even more so now. Killing all apps isn't necessary and can have negative effects.
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Probably should have linked the mentioned article;
http://geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/

AraDreamer said:
Again, that's why I like my App Manager widget, you have the option to kill everything in one click (at least until I get the ics update, then it's two clicks for that damn confirmation screen).
-Ara
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There's no need for task killers. This has been confirmed over and over, even by Google. That's why they made them stop working in Froyo I believe'
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Hemidroids said:
According to the manual the only way to kill a task is in the settings / apps section. "Force Stop"
Swiping away the "recent apps" simply removes it from "recent apps"
Jellybean manages apps / memory automatically. You should never be short on memory.
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Well, actually i use Cool Tool to monitor my available ram, and when I swipe away apps from the recent apps view, i free up lots of ram.

AraDreamer said:
Again, that's why I like my App Manager widget, you have the option to kill everything in one click (at least until I get the ics update, then it's two clicks for that damn confirmation screen).
-Ara
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It works, but it ruins the the running tasks page. After you killed everything, bring up the running apps, and they are all still there. It doesn't get rid of the apps there, so that's still annoying

Lollipop hidden power management menu

To enable the hidden power menu follow belowmentioned instructions
go to homescreen
long press - click on widgets
drag settings widget (you will see diff options)
scroll down to find power saving
and there you will have all power saving settings including nvidia's custom settings.
Hope this helps.

I think you might mean:
Long tap on home screen, then tap Shortcuts.
(not widgets)

jaredmorgs said:
I do not have the settings widget in my collection of widgets on the LTE US ROM.
I am using Nova Launcher.
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Try using stock launcher. It ought to be there.

Yep, it's a settings shortcut. Great find though, @kukuthejak.

how change dpi in hidden power management ? dolphin emulator android not is theare

i had a problem with my tablet turning off every night even after a factory reset and changing the sleep option found under the battery settings menu. I assumed it just crashed a lot. In this menu the option was set to turn off after 6 hours.. this hidden menu was causing the problems.

Is this the same set of power options found at the top left of the battery stats when pressing the 3 dots?

yes. Look at the screenshot

No because it misses the app settings on th the raw above.
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I can't find settings-->power settings in either widgets or shortcuts??

Choose the widget power settings itself, drag it to one of your home screens and open it. You will find a tab above related to app power settings.
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on6hp said:
Choose the widget power settings itself, drag it to one of your home screens and open it. You will find a tab above related to app power settings.
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That's just it.. I don't have a power settings widget that can be selected or dragged...

ailima said:
That's just it.. I don't have a power settings widget that can be selected or dragged...
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Are you using stock launcher

mcord11758 said:
Are you using stock launcher
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Nova, but I reverted just to try this and no power settings widget there either.
No "Power Settings" widget
When I drag "Settings", there is no Power Settings option
Thanks for your help!

Hah! Figured it out. I just really need to listen to directions. The screen doesn't look like it scrolls further but it does. The original instructions said to SCROLL to the option. Lol.
Thanks for your help, everybody.

Thanks for the tip