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[Q] Notification Bar Broken (looking for workaround)

Well, I have a weird problem I have never seen before. My notification bar area has lost touchability. I know, this sounds weird. In other terms, I have lost the touch function of the top ~1 cm of the screen.
I have tried wiping everything possible, changing roms, kernels, recoverys; nothing helps. I have officially given up on making the top bar work. Oh and I might note that I am out of warranty and Sprint will not help.
So now, here comes my question: Is there any app that lets me perform a gesture while inside any app to open my notification bar? Something similar to wave launcher but for opening the notification bar.

If you are on CM7, you can use the Tablet Tweaks under Cyanogenmod Settings to move the status bar to the bottom -- then you can swipe it from there.
abiezer said:
Well, I have a weird problem I have never seen before. My notification bar area has lost touchability. I know, this sounds weird. In other terms, I have lost the touch function of the top ~1 cm of the screen.
I have tried wiping everything possible, changing roms, kernels, recoverys; nothing helps. I have officially given up on making the top bar work. Oh and I might note that I am out of warranty and Sprint will not help.
So now, here comes my question: Is there any app that lets me perform a gesture while inside any app to open my notification bar? Something similar to wave launcher but for opening the notification bar.
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So part of your screen failed...get it fixed... better than a workaround

Why are you out of warranty? They know you're rooted? You should have a 1-year manufacturer warranty from HTC.
Also, if you use 3rd party launchers such as ADW and LauncherPro, you can change your swype down gesture. For example, you can make a swype down on the homescreen open the notification drawer.
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If you've taken it to Sprint & they've refused to fix it, try a different store. Unroot first, of course.
You could always flip the phone to landscape and pull it down from there. I hate auto-rotate, but that's just me.
Also, in slightly older versions of MIUI, the "recent apps" window was part of the notification area. I really liked being able to long-press the home button, then swipe left/right to get to notifications/toggles. It was especially handy in an app where the notification bar is automatically hidden. I believe the last build to include this was 1.4.8, everything since has a separate window for recent apps. If you like MIUI, you could try 1.4.8 or before.
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Cool honeycomb ui idea

So this has happened to me a couple of times where the notification bar would crash and I'd be left with a full screen app so I wonder what if when the source code drops you could set it to where a gesture could bring up the bar and just run everything full screen until the bars was needed

So like the Playbook?
Lets say your playing a game and you want to bring the bar up but the game keeps reacting to the gesture that your doing and the bar isn't popping up?
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msavic6 said:
So like the Playbook?
Lets say your playing a game and you want to bring the bar up but the game keeps reacting to the gesture that your doing and the bar isn't popping up?
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In fact isn't this exactly what ADW does? I used to use this all the time in CM6 on my nexus one, swipe up hide the notification bar, swipe up brought it back.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the issue with the be the fact you are hiding the main operation buttons. I realize you could just drag it back up, but if the app were to crash and say freeze up the system, you wouldn't have a shot and getting out to the home screen. Just a thought. Otherwise, yeah sounds like a cool idea.

D1cey said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the issue with the be the fact you are hiding the main operation buttons. I realize you could just drag it back up, but if the app were to crash and say freeze up the system, you wouldn't have a shot and getting out to the home screen. Just a thought. Otherwise, yeah sounds like a cool idea.
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If the system freezes the nav buttons go with it.... in any case where the system actually freezes, you'll have to do a reboot, which is with the physical buttons anyway
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I'll admit, I'm not thrilled with the persistent nav/notification bar either. I get the reasoning (ever-present soft buttons), but there are graceful ways to hide this area when it isn't necessary.
Personally, I'm a big fan of gestures originating off-screen, like the Playbook and WebOS before that. Add bezel swipes to control OS functions and I'd be a happy camper.

Slightly off topic but I'd love to see a 'dual column' mode, wherein you can have 2 separate apps running side-by-side on the screen. These would be running in phone mode to accommodate the smaller screen estate, but would give productivity a massive boost I feel. Perhaps each side could utilise one of the two cores. Would be a neat UI change.
PS. Think Notion Ink Adam leaves, just native Honeycomb.

ICS on Nexus S Complaints, Dissapointed, Downgrade

To be clear, I am liking ICS a lot, and am happy to see where Android is progressing. Here are a few complaints, however:
-I can't believe they disabled the search capacity button from the home screen. If you remove the search bar, there's no way to search from the home screen. Still hate the fact that the top bar is unusable space.
-Limited items in folders. This is one area which I don't understand why they back-peddled. It's very iOS-like, and it's one of the worst things to copy. Max 16 apps in a folder now. My understanding was that it was unlimited before. This will require adjustment.
-The icons look childish. Wish Google would truly allow customization and let us change the icons like other launchers do.
-Still no ability to add custom shortcuts to the home screen (like ADW Launcher can). Unless I'm mistaken? How do I make a direct dial icon?
-Long pressing Home button for the app switcher feels slow and clunky. It takes a while for the list of apps to show up.
Well, that's all I can think of for now. Still getting the hang of it. Again, overall, I'm really enjoying ICS. The UI is so modern and sleek looking.

You can add direct dial shortcuts through the widget section dude
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Search cap. button works here

I noticed that the quality of the panorama pictures is terrible. It looks like a Polaroid.

sashajovicic said:
Search cap. button works here
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On the main home screen? Pressing it once brings up search? It doesn't for me.

onthecouchagain said:
On the main home screen? Pressing it once brings up search? It doesn't for me.
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Yes it does for me.
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onthecouchagain said:
On the main home screen? Pressing it once brings up search? It doesn't for me.
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i can confirm the button also works for me

I'm loving ICS on the Nexus S, too. However, my battery life is atrocious since the upgrade today. I went from 100% to 4% in less than 6 hours. It wasn't that I was using it or playing with it that much, either. All the settings were similar to what they were on 2.3.6, e.g., low backlight, GPS/WiFi/Bluetooth off, push email on, account sync on. I was getting 12+ hours with up to 20% left on Gingerbread with these settings. According to the battery app, it looks like "Android OS" might be the culprit, as "keep awake" is listed as the highest-ranked battery usage over everything else, including screen, voice calls, cell standby, etc. I've read on other forums about a possible Android OS bug with the SGS II. I'm thinking it might be so with ICS on the NS. Anyone else have this issue? How do we report it to Google so we can get a bug fix?

onthecouchagain said:
-The icons look childish. Wish Google would truly allow customization and let us change the icons like other launchers do.
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icons are still customizable, as they are with any rom. The launcher my not let you do it as easily as other launcher aps from within android.. but you can still do it externally by editing the icon files from the flash able rom file.

One small issue I found: Lock sound never plays even when the option is checked. Besides that, I'm really liking ICS. I wish the default widgets were more customizable. (e.g., calendar widget is one row too long, GMail widget is one column too wide) As a person with a severe visual impairment, I find the "Larger" text option a nice touch.

sir topas said:
I'm loving ICS on the Nexus S, too. However, my battery life is atrocious since the upgrade today. I went from 100% to 4% in less than 6 hours.
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This couldn't be a battery calibration issue with the upgrade could it? I'm experiencing the same at the minute. I seem to recall there is a way to clear the battery stats but I can't remember where I read it.
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BlindWolf8 said:
One small issue I found: Lock sound never plays even when the option is checked. Besides that, I'm really liking ICS. I wish the default widgets were more customizable. (e.g., calendar widget is one row too long, GMail widget is one column too wide) As a person with a severe visual impairment, I find the "Larger" text option a nice touch.
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You can easily resize them by a long press on a widget without delete it, you will see the widget outline get blue with diamond which you can hold too resize.

pepours said:
You can easily resize them by a long press on a widget without delete it, you will see the widget outline get blue with diamond which you can hold too resize.
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Oh wow, thanks! By the way, I found my issue for the lock screen: it got switched to None. I guess I forgot to switch it back after looking for the Face Unlock feature.
Speaking if which, looking at other threads it seems this feature was dropped for the Nexus S due to poor front-facing camera resolution. Oh well.
PS: I wish the custom message you can put on the lockscreen was more customizable than one scrolling line.

mofunzone said:
i can confirm the button also works for me
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search button working for me too
and you can hide search bar In preference
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How about you guys give it about a week and then start complaining BC now you just sound like some whiney brats.
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One thing I noticed is it gets rather sluggish at times. UI is smooth but there are very bad lags. Noticeable with even just the a live wallpaper, you can see it stutters every ten seconds or so.
Also, some apps won't work, Viber for example. It installs but it doesn't work, it just won't start. Black screen.
Maybe I should wait until the official OTA comes available for me, in Italy, through Software Update, and see if things are better? I have an i9020T, though- isn't the update going to be the same exact file?

if your battery life is really bad try turning off NFC and see if that makes a difference. From the Alpha I managed to get about 25 hours (once..) but cannot remember what I changed to get that.

the two complains I have : auto brightness doesn't work as well as it used too.
and google talk signs me out after a while without telling me.

Face unlock didn't seem to make the cut on the Nexus S.

Posted this in the ICS link section... this seems like a better place for it.
Anyone seeing any issues with the completely stock ICS on the TMo version of the nexus S?
Issues I am seeing so far:
Delayed scrolling when I swipe in the web browser. Seems as if the browser is trying to determine if I meant to click a link or scroll and the delay for the OS to decide is MUCH longer than it was on GB. (Maybe that was intended but maybe they over compensated).
The browser exits (doesn't even force close), just exits on certain websites when trying to scroll.
I hear reports of it being "buttery smooth" and honestly mine feels like it is slower than GB.. maybe that is because of my perception that the scrolling is slower...
Curious to see if this is happening to anyone else...

J Touch app for navigation rocks

Hey friends
I really don't like the navbar which is reducing the screen to much, so I decided to install J Touch app from playstore.
Loaded a nice looking home button jpeg picture from the web. Give the button a one hit back function, a long press home function and a swipe up for recents.
Please see attached pictures navigating is nice and I whish I could even eliminate the navbar on the homescreen

FridrufHau said:
Hey friends
I really don't like the navbar which is reducing the screen to much, so I decided to install J Touch app from playstore.
Loaded a nice looking home button jpeg picture from the web. Give the button a one hit back function, a long press home function and a swipe up for recents.
Please see attached pictures navigating is nice and I whish I could even eliminate the navbar on the homescreen
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Keeping one icon appear on the screen all the time may cause burn in I'd be worried about that

big_b0sss said:
Keeping one icon appear on the screen all the time may cause burn in I'd be worried about that
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No I don't think so. There is transparency setted, the button is popping if hitted and it is shifting up on home screen. You could be as scared or even more about a status bar burn in...
and look how much time is needed:
"Test Results
The iPhone X displayed burn-ins before the Galaxy Note 8 at 17 hours. However, it took 510 hours for the images to become permanently etched on its display which also marked the end of the test.
Compared to that, the Note 8 took 62 hours to show first signs of display burn-in, which is impressive. However, it had permanent marks way before the end of the test. The Galaxy S7 Edge showed signs of burn-in sooner than the iPhone X, however, it showed permanent burn-ins much later than the Note 8 and almost at iPhone X’s 510 hour mark."
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https://propakistani.pk/2018/01/05/iphone-xs-screen-shows-burn-marks-just-17-hours-test/

Ok so would you recommend the app over navigation gesture? The gesture is not polished at the moment I'll give the app a go

big_b0sss said:
Ok so would you recommend the app over navigation gesture? The gesture is not polished at the moment I'll give the app a go
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I think so, you can also activate temporary move, which is helpful is s.th. is hided by the button. So you can move the button away for two seconds. You can hide button always in landscape, it is hiding when you are keyboard typing... it is perfect for 18:9 displays.
If navbar would have a one button control too, I wouldn't use J Touch.
You can also give it an iPhone look but ok I guess everybody is hating apple .
Edit: Ah ok you mean gesture. Sorry I didn't have this option until now.... don't know what is better

Looks like a nice app. I prefer LMT Launcher though as you can set it to do almost any task and only comes on the screen when you activate it so creates a really clean look with extra functionality.

Or you could try Gesture Control from Conena.. I'm very happy with the way the gestures work

es0tericcha0s said:
Looks like a nice app. I prefer LMT Launcher though as you can set it to do almost any task and only comes on the screen when you activate it so creates a really clean look with extra functionality.
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Have you been able to use lmt with stock os? If so, I'd like to know the secret for getting rid of the nav bar

Not sure. Not really a fan of stock. From other forum members, it's possible to disable it with the joneplustool app. Both that and LMT require root.

I've been using Swipe Navigation. It even has long press functionality. Loving it so far.

That looks bat **** ugly, why don't you just download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.suphi.swipenavigation&hl=en ?

In my kg g6 its eating battery like elephant ??

Xposed Edge anyone?

curved display corners blocking app content

Since the four corners of the screen are not square as with my old phone, it appears certain apps are not taking that into account and as a result, information is being cut off from view. See attached screenshot... does anyone have any suggestions or do I need to consider returning this phone because that is just crazy
To be more clear particularly the bottom left corner(in this example) nearly half of the time information is blocked from view

Yeah, I see that as well in apps that try to use the whole screen

Is it because you are using navigation gestures?

rmaathuis said:
Is it because you are using navigation gestures?
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In that specific example, I suppose yes. But even with nav bar enabled, watching a video in landscape the same thing happens.. it's pretty annoying