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[new release] VJLumos II - SuperBrite screen

Guys,
I've finally updated VJLumos after about 6 months.
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It's Magician only for now. You can test it on your Universal but I haven't implemented disabling it for now, so you'll have to soft reset when you're finished. I'll finish this later. But it will give you a brighter Universal too
This software will give you a superbrite screen. That's brighter then normal maximum brightness.
It also has an option to be installed so that it's enabled on startup and automatically every time you switch on.
Let me know how you get on. And don't forget to donate if you find it helpful
Remember to disable it before starting the camera! It may cause a soft reset in these circumstances.
Check it out on my website.
V

Hi,
thanks, can you make it to have a white screen so that it can be brighter?
Thanks

Make it brighter then VJLumos II (superbrite)?
I don't think so.. at least I don't know how to
V

Brighter as in, a white screen is brighter than a screen with icons or dark background. So, if you are make the screen white (totally), it will definately be brighter.

So make the screen totally white, like a torch app?
Sure, I've done that by accident a million times! Doing it for an app would be an improvement.
I think on Modaco there's a free torch app that will do the same, but you could just keep a small (1x1 pixel) jpg on your phone, view it with a photo app and zoom in until it fills the screen.
Do you really need an app to just make the screen blank?
V

PS It appears that VJLumos II won't soft reset your phone even if you enter the camera, so it might be even happier then I described.. let me know how you get on.
V

vijay555 said:
So make the screen totally white, like a torch app?
Sure, I've done that by accident a million times! Doing it for an app would be an improvement.
I think on Modaco there's a free torch app that will do the same, but you could just keep a small (1x1 pixel) jpg on your phone, view it with a photo app and zoom in until it fills the screen.
Do you really need an app to just make the screen blank?
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I would prefer a instant ON, with white screen, rather than to have to expand the pixel. And yes, turning on the camera with your program on does not cause soft-reset.

@vijay555: Do you still use the camera app or have you IDA'd your own way?
I'm asking coz I don't have the camera (hardware) installed and are wondering whether it works now for me.

Chatty - it doesn't use the camera app anymore, but it does still use hardware tricks based in the camera hardware to make the screen brighter. I couldn't say if it works on your system, I'm not sure how much hardware you removed.
Try it and tell us. But I'm not optimistic
V

It does nothing. So there's room for improvement 8)

Anyone noticed any documented effects on battery life?
It's super bright, it must be draining juice quickly. But it's worth it I think
V

Definitely sucks up battery life.
Finds my mini screen display "shivering" too.
Using PocketLCD to convert screen to white before activating your program. Waiting for you to have the white screen function. :wink:

hi
thanks again for this app. For the camera it's ok even with vjlumos loaded but when you close the camera it close vjlumos. Not a problem for me but just to let you know. I have a magician
regards

ebliss said:
I would prefer a instant ON, with white screen, rather than to have to expand the pixel. And yes, turning on the camera with your program on does not cause soft-reset.
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I'm using a Charmer (very similar to Magician), its in the factory now getting the speaker repair, will test out your program. Anyway, in most cases, I find the brightness of the device is good enough for most conditions. As a matter of fact, I'm using the lowest possible brightness. However, I do want to sometimes, use the phone as a torchlight. To do so, I will need to
Start -> Setting -> Backlight -> Brightest -> Ok
Start -> Explorer -> Find my JPG file -> Zoom Zoom Zoom
So, it would be nice to have a little program called.. vjTorch? I can call up
Start -> vjTorch
which will give me a full white screen (or some other colours - via option settings) and automatically full brightness (for cases like mine that I like to have the screen on minimal brightness)

... and vjTorch even remembers the old setting, so that "vjTorch -off" switches back to them. Having said that I look forward to pressing Voice Command key and say "start torch on" and "start torch off" :lol:

You guys can already do that can't you?
VJLumos has an -on and -off command line.
ebliss has asked for the white screen thing, which is easy to implement but will chunk out the code a little. I am little concerned about bloating the app. but I will add this as an extra command line, eg -torch (toggle)
I use my Magician more then my Universal (for which there is VJCandela of course). But VJLumos can be a stand alone "torch" for the Magician, and I really like the extra brightness...
Chatty, any luck with your hardware?
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@vijay555: You probably missed this post further up.

Chatty, I know we had no luck like this, but I thought you were investigating another solution? I think I'd have to see similar hardware to yours to know how to trace it through the software. But have a look at the linux guys - in the VJCandela threads someone posted about the particular hardware used for the torch on the Universal. If you can obtain similar info on the camera hardware for the Magician, perhaps you can hack in at a very low level.
That's beyond me though. I reach my limits on the "copy and paste" tutorial on Welcome.exe. That had me stumped for quite a while...
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Tasker Profiles and Tasks for the Continuum?

Is anyone in the Samsung Continuum forum interested in tasker profiles specifically for the Continuum? I have several that I use and am willing to post. Over the last 60 days or so... (I've only have the Continuum for 60 days?!?!?! Damn!) I have used Tasker profiles almost since day one. The problem that I found, while reading the tasker wiki and other tasker posts, was that many of the tasks and profiles needed to be modified to work with the Continuum, and some would not work at all.
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So, I set about teaching myself how to tasker... I figured I have a rudimentary background in programming (although it is 20+ years old), and I do bash and perl and Windows command line scripting, so why not? It can't really be that difficult... (You know, every time I tell myself that, I should just walk away...) I am still learning and am interested in what others have as well...
1. WIFI on at home and work and off everywhere else. This uses WIFI Near and Cell Near contexts.
2. Sunrise/Sunset. This goes out and retrieves the sunrise and sunset times for the current day. It uses the HTTP Get context, GPS Location context, multiple variable sets and splits, and finally sets the variables %SUNRISE and %SUNSET with the time in 24 hour format. It also writes these times out to two separate files. It's not necessary, however, I thought that I might need the files for something... what, I don't know yet.
I have this run every day at 04:00 to set that day's sunrise and sunset times; primarily for the next profile.
3. Power profile. This uses the variables, %SUNRISE and %SUNSET, that were set in the previous profile. It then compares the current time to both. If the time is between sunrise and sunset, then it activates the Daytime profile. If it is from sunset to sunrise, then it activates the Nighttime profile. Exit task runs DisplayLockOn.
4. Daytime profile. Turns Auto Brightness off. Changes Display Brightness to 200. Stay On with AC or USB power. Never sleeps WIFI. Keyguard is OFF.
5. Nighttime profile. Sets Initial Brightness to 60 (I don't think this has any real effect with Auto Brightness on). Turns on Auto Brightness.
6. DisplayLockOn. Sets Auto Brightness to ON. Sets Stay On to NEVER. Turns Keyguard on. Sets WIFI Sleep to DEFAULT.
7. Incoming call during the day sets brightness to full. Uses the same Sunrise/Sunset context.
8. Locate phone by SMS. Send a keyword SMS to the phone and it replies with it's location on Google Maps.
9. Locate phone by Sound. Send a keyword SMS to the phone and it "screams" so I can locate it in the house.
10. ReadIncomingSMSMessage. If the volume is set to something other than vibrate or silent, it will read the incoming SMS message.
11 and more. I have other contexts that allow me to turn haptic feedback off by a widget, turn screen rotation on/off by a widget (which isn't really needed with the Froyo build because the button is in the status menu pull down). I have a couple of launcher menus that launch from a widget or a shortcut. I had one that announced the incoming caller ID, however, it doesn't quite work, and then I found the Accessibility setting that announces the caller, so haven't put any more work into the tasker task.
If there is interest in this thread , I willl post each of my tasker profiles and tasks for each of the ones I've listed (and probably add more
). If you would rather have "step-throughs", let me know that too. So, let's TASKER!

This sounds cool and awesome to preserve battery life.
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O-M-G what is a tasker? (LOL noob Q's with schoolgirl voice)
sent from my XDA phone - its more than a continuum

nodixe said:
O-M-G what is a tasker? (LOL noob Q's with schoolgirl voice)
sent from my XDA phone - its more than a continuum
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Tasker is a utility that allows you to "custom program" or "custom automation" your phone. Some people claim that Tasker extends your battery... Personal experience, it does not, however, I REALLY, REALLY like the automation thingy... I suffer from CRS, that is why I write most stuff down... I just can't remember, until I'm almost home, to turn my WIFI off, and by then it's too late, because I want my WIFI on for home. (It sucks getting old... Wait, I've always been this way! Damn!)
Check it out at http://tasker.dinglisch.net/. Also take a look at the tasker wiki... It's a bit outdated, however, the principles are the same for the current version: http://tasker.wikidot.com/.

Tasker Goodness
You have created some interesting Tasker profiles: nice work. I got into Tasker about a month ago to automate as much as I could. I used to use Easyprofiles but the problem with that program is if you operat outside of the defined profiles you create it would cause more problems than it was worth.
One question: what kind of scripting, 3rd party programs, or events did you use to have Tasker read your incoming texts? I would love something like that for my car bluetooth rule.
Thanks in advance!

iamryfly said:
You have created some interesting Tasker profiles: nice work. I got into Tasker about a month ago to automate as much as I could. I used to use Easyprofiles but the problem with that program is if you operat outside of the defined profiles you create it would cause more problems than it was worth.
One question: what kind of scripting, 3rd party programs, or events did you use to have Tasker read your incoming texts? I would love something like that for my car bluetooth rule.
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks, however, I just posted the profiles I have modified and currently use. I didn't actually post anything substantial. Anyhow...
To answer your question, I use the Say context. Here is the extract from my ReadIncomingSMS profile:
Say
Text: %SMSRN %SMSRB
Engine Voice: default:en_dict
Stream: Media
(Although I could use call and have it read through my bluetooth headset.)
Pitch: 7
Speed: 5
This is just an excerpt from the whole profile. If you want the whole profile, I can either make it available on a link, or do a step through guide here. Just ask!

Inside Android 4.2: Notifications and quick settings

COURTESY OF ANDROIDCENTRAL!!
Now we have all waited to see the much anticipated quick settings be incoperated into android and now it is and i must say it looks amazing and overall a amazing feature androidcentral has brought us a quick preview before android 4.2 is released
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Finally, Google has added quick settings to the notification pulldown in Android 4.2. That's a feature many have wanted in stock Android since, well, forever. Enthusiast ROMs have added them. The manufacturers have added them. You can download apps that add them. And now, Google's added them in the latest version of Jelly Bean.
Only, Google did it different. Whereas quick settings generally serve as toggles in the notification pulldown, Google's gone a different route. Crazy, or crazy like a fox? Let's take a look.
The gist is this: Pull down the notification bar, and you see your notifications, just like always. Only, where there used to be a Settings button is now ... something else. The icon shows a person, with five thumbnails below and to the right of it. It's actually a preview of what's to come.
Press that button, and the notifications section flips over to the quick settings. (And the icon in the top right of the screen switches from the quick settings icon back to a notification icon.) The settings listed are:
Your Google+ profile: If you're signed in to Google+, your name and profile picture will appear. Tap it, and you're asked if you want to view your Google+ profile. (Not sure why I'd ever want to get to my G+ profile that quickly, but chances are Google will tweak that at some point.)
Brightness: Tap this, and you get a little popup that lets you adjust the display brightness. This is different (and better) than the full-screen brightness notification. I use this a lot already.
Settings: Ah, there it is. A shortcut to the full settings menu.
Wifi: Shows the network you're own. Tap, and it takes you to the Wifi settings.
Mobile data: Shows which carrier you're on, and signal strength (in bars).
Battery: There's a visual indicator and percentage remaining. (Numbers FTW!) Tap and you get the battery section in the settings menu.
Airplane mode: Shuts off the radios for when you're on an airplane. (Or if you want to pretend you're on an airplane.)
Bluetooth: Takes you to the Bluetooth settings menu. (The quick setting will show on if on, off if off.)
One finger for notifications, two for settings
Here's the really cool part -- Google's given a way to quickly access the quick settings side for of the pulldown. Here's how it works.
Pull down from the top of the screen with one finger and you get the notifications area.
Pull down with two fingers and you immediately get the quick settings.
Presumably this will work just fine on all smartphones. (The worrier in us, however, is slightly concerned about strange touch panels behaving weirdly, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.) In practice, we got the hang on the two-finger swipe just fine, though we're not quite at 100 percent in practice. Most of the time it works, sometimes it doesn't. Chalk that up to prerelease software, perhaps, or (more likely) operator error.
Quick settings and tablets
Things are pretty much the same on tablets in Android 4.2. You have the same quick setting buttons -- with auto rotate swapped in here for the cellular connection button. (Presumably the mobile network button will remain on any tablet that has a data connection.)
The other difference for tablets is in how you access the notifications and quick settings pulldowns. You still drag from the top of the display (in either portrait or landscape orientation). But notifications are on the left, and quick settings are on the right. There's no one- or two-finger swiping. (And you can't full both down at the same time. We've 'shopped that picture for sake of example.)
It's not yet known if applications will be able to add items to the notification menu, or how they'd be able to do that without breaking the iconography. As of now, there's no way to add or remove settings.
Be that as it may, quick settings are a welcome addition in Android 4.2, and Google's implemented them in a smart manner.

We know?

Nice

Nearly wet myself when I read title as thought someone had ported this, wishful thinking on my part anyway thanks op.

LED Notification and AOD on/off programmatically?

Does anyone have any clue as to what activity or intent to send to turn on/off LED Notification and Always On Display on the S7 Edge?
I make extensive use of AutoMagic Premium (http://automagic4android.com) and Lightning Launcher Pro (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pierrox.lightning_launcher_extreme) and their collective abilities allow me to automatically change home screens (like when I connect to the Bluetooth in my car) and start activities and such. I'd really prefer not to load yet another app to do these things but, instead, just send an intent that turns on or off LED Notification at the appropriate times and turn on/off AOD. I've been through the list of activities in quite a few apps including those in Settings and the Samsung apps (via Activity Launcher, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.szalkowski.activitylauncher, and a few other such apps) haven't found anything that will actually do the job.
I've tried searching for help but haven't found a good set of search terms that'll yield useful results -- everything directs me to Settings or a review of the S7 Edge and what AOD is or what color the LED flashes

For the LED, you can use Tasker with the Samsung LED controller plug in:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinyroar.galaxys3ledcontroller
There are some other apps that support Tasker plug-ins, but I don't know if the ones you mention do or not.

meyerweb said:
For the LED, you can use Tasker with the Samsung LED controller plug in:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinyroar.galaxys3ledcontroller
There are some other apps that support Tasker plug-ins, but I don't know if the ones you mention do or not.
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Thanks, works great! Automagic works with Tasker plug-ins and Lightning Launcher can be driven by Tasker (and compatible) programs so I've set up a little task driven by time-of-day to automatically have LL display my Night home screen and turn off the notification LEDs. I've also set up another task that gets triggered when I long press the Back key on my Night home screen in LL that sets "Day" mode and turns the notification LEDs back on.
Samsung LED controller doesn't seem to affect Always On Display. Does anyone know of anything I can use to set/reset this without going to Settings? I'm using Good Lock and AOD isn't currently available in the quick settings.

short/y said:
Thanks, works great! Automagic works with Tasker plug-ins and Lightning Launcher can be driven by Tasker (and compatible) programs so I've set up a little task driven by time-of-day to automatically have LL display my Night home screen and turn off the notification LEDs. I've also set up another task that gets triggered when I long press the Back key on my Night home screen in LL that sets "Day" mode and turns the notification LEDs back on.
Samsung LED controller doesn't seem to affect Always On Display. Does anyone know of anything I can use to set/reset this without going to Settings? I'm using Good Lock and AOD isn't currently available in the quick settings.
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I use Tasker to turn off AOD at night but you have to have the Secure Settings Plugin and to be able to access the setting for AOD you have to have the paid version.
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neezy13 said:
I use Tasker to turn off AOD at night but you have to have the Secure Settings Plugin and to be able to access the setting for AOD you have to have the paid version.
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I had completely forgotten about Secure Settings, thank you! The plugin works with Automagic, too.
I bought Tasker back when it first came out and used it then but Tasker's UI and lack of decent documentation finally got the better of me and I haven't used it nor any of the plugins i used/bought for it for a couple of years. Automagic has its own quirks but I guess I'm used to themm Maybe I should take another look at Tasker? Hmmm...
Anyway, thank you for the Secure Settings pointer! Work great and, with that, my quest is over. Well, almost Just wondering if anyone else has any other suggestions? Development seems to have stopped on Secure Settings and, while it does everything I need it to do, I'd like to have another option, just in case.

I have found that you can find some good Tasker solutions by searching on Reddit. I agree that there should be more documentation for Tasker.
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neezy13 said:
I have found that you can find some good Tasker solutions by searching on Reddit. I agree that there should be more documentation for Tasker.
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There are good solutions on Reddit and there are a lot of good solutions here on XDA...there's even a Tasker Tips and Tricks forum at http://forum.xda-developers.com/u/tasker-tips-tricks! My problem is I just don't have the time anymore to do that much reading! Learning new container architectures and new language (GO, anyone?) and new (to me) delivery facilities (Chef, ANT) are taking up most of my time nowadays

Well, thanks to the pointers and apps given to me by the contributors to this thread, I've managed to accomplish everything with just Automagic! I'll document what I did in case anyone else is looking for a solution. I have no doubt that I could accomplish the same thing with Tasker but I'm using Automagic so that's what I'll document.
I can (un)set the system setting LED Indicator by using Automagic's "Set System Settings" action and manipulating 4 settings in the System category: led_indicator_missed_event, led_indicator_low_battery, ed_indicator_voice_recording, and led_indicator_charing (note, no "g" -- it's not charging, it's charing!).
I can (un)set Always On Display by using Automagic's "Set System Settings" action and manipulating a single setting in the System category: aod_mode.
Thanks, everyone, for your help!

neezy13 said:
I use Tasker to turn off AOD at night but you have to have the Secure Settings Plugin and to be able to access the setting for AOD you have to have the paid version.
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Thanks for this. I hadn't found that option in Secure Settings. It would be nice if they listed all the options alphabetically, instead of randomly.

Tried to switch AOD on and off on my S7 using macrodroid and secure settings but the AOD doesn't turn on when I use 1 or off when I use 0.
Any help please?
Thank you!
EDIT: Ok, got it working now as described above!

Brightness app for Xtrons-unit, Accessability-service deactivates all the time.

So I have a Xtrons TB700L (PX5)
It works really good, except for one thing.
Brightness, it is way to bright at night.
So I have been testing 20+ Brightness apps.
I like My Screen Dimmer and Darker.
Both can dim the entire screen and has good widgets to toggle.
But every time I switch the ignition off and the unit goes to sleep the Accessibility service deactivates, and I have to toggle it every time I start the car.
How can I solve this?
It is not only brightness apps, all apps using this will have the service deactivated.
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Not Android Auto, requested move.
Post MCU type from system info to identify your unit.

MCU version
MTCE_GS_V3.56_3

SirMacke said:
So I have a Xtrons TB700L (PX5)
It works really good, except for one thing.
Brightness, it is way to bright at night.
So I have been testing 20+ Brightness apps.
I like My Screen Dimmer and Darker.
Both can dim the entire screen and has good widgets to toggle.
But every time I switch the ignition off and the unit goes to sleep the Accessibility service deactivates, and I have to toggle it every time I start the car.
How can I solve this?
It is not only brightness apps, all apps using this will have the service deactivated.
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I use Automagic (similar to tasker) to enable accessibility services at boot and any time system makes change to those settings. But I also have root, you could do without root but would need added permissions via adb.

SirMacke said:
So I have a Xtrons TB700L (PX5)
It works really good, except for one thing.
Brightness, it is way to bright at night.
So I have been testing 20+ Brightness apps.
I like My Screen Dimmer and Darker.
Both can dim the entire screen and has good widgets to toggle.
But every time I switch the ignition off and the unit goes to sleep the Accessibility service deactivates, and I have to toggle it every time I start the car.
How can I solve this?
It is not only brightness apps, all apps using this will have the service deactivated.
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Or use an Automate flow:
Use SWC to switch between Navi and Radio
Attached app FlowStarter.apk allows to start an Automate flow (https://llamalab.com/automate/) which has to be defined in file flowstarter.cfg Required steps: 1. Install the apk. 2. Extract the file flowstarter.cfg to the internal storage (root...
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