volume control in notification bar? - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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.

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Screen Brightness Changes by itself

I have a problem where the screen brightness varies by itself without any input from me. I have turned off automatic brightness and set the screen brightness at the lowest level in an attempt to save battery life. However, when I use the phone at a later time I would recognize a difference in the screen brightness. When I go to check it in settings, the screen brightness level is set at a different level.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Go into settings sound and brightness and uncheck the power saving option at the bottom and ofcourse make sure u uncheck auto brightness.
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also i read in another post that the TouchWiz user interface has a built in feature that will adjust brightness when you swip your finger at the top of the screen, making it brighter when you swipe left to right and dimming the screen when you swipe right to left.
b1indsided said:
Go into settings sound and brightness and uncheck the power saving option at the bottom and ofcourse make sure u uncheck auto brightness.
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Yeah I've done both of those things.
Gagstr said:
also i read in another post that the TouchWiz user interface has a built in feature that will adjust brightness when you swip your finger at the top of the screen, making it brighter when you swipe left to right and dimming the screen when you swipe right to left.
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That must be it! Thanks! I must have swiped left/right on the top of the screen without realizing it. Kind of annoying for them to sneak in a feature like that. I can see it being useful but I prefer the power control widget. Any idea how I can disable that feature of touchwiz?
getting ridd of touchwiz was the first thing i did when i got my epic so i dont really know much about it .
Gagstr said:
getting ridd of touchwiz was the first thing i did when i got my epic so i dont really know much about it .
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How did you get rid of touchwiz? I installed Launcherpro over it but that doesn't do away with touchwiz.
There was a thread on here for that from what i can remember, i cant look for it right at this moment because im at work but you should be able to find it yourself. Search for "removing touchwiz UI" if you cant find it go to google (it might have been a diff forum/Blog it was a few days ago).
You guys can change your home screen launcher, but you won't be able to get rid of TouchWiz until a vanilla ROM comes out. The ability to adjust adjust your brightness via swipe on the notification bar is - for better or worse (better imho) - not dependant on you using the TW launcher.
mesasone said:
You guys can change your home screen launcher, but you won't be able to get rid of TouchWiz until a vanilla ROM comes out. The ability to adjust adjust your brightness via swipe on the notification bar is - for better or worse (better imho) - not dependant on you using the TW launcher.
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If you root the epic, you CAN manually uninstall all touchwiz packqages to remove the ui...
That notification taskbar swipe is pretty handy tho... thanks to whoever shared it... I like to keep my screen dim for the most part... but that is soooo much easier to use when, say I go outside and need to adjust quickly! It even works in landscape mode! Nice!
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bojackson63044 said:
How did you get rid of touchwiz? I installed Launcherpro over it but that doesn't do away with touchwiz.
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Root your Epic, download Root Explorer from market (worth the price), make sure you already have Launcher PRO running, then go to running applications and force close TouchWiz30Launcher then go to root explorer > system > app (make sure you mount it as r/w) > and delete TouchWiz30Launcher.apk and .odex, then reboot and that's it.
You can also use terminal app if you're familiar with commands.
Gagstr said:
also i read in another post that the TouchWiz user interface has a built in feature that will adjust brightness when you swip your finger at the top of the screen, making it brighter when you swipe left to right and dimming the screen when you swipe right to left.
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That... is... awesome! Did not know that. Guess I can get rid of the brightness app since adjusting the brightness through the menu on the fly was painfully boring.

Thoughts on possible Honeycomb enhancement

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!!

Quik question (or two) for any MIUI users

Hi all,
Just switched from CM to MIUI and so far quite liking the change. There are a couple of features from CM which I am missing a little and wondered whether there were any mods for them:
Ability to change brightness quickly by pulling top bar down slightly and adjusting left and right. Is there a patch around for this?
Abilitiy to tweak auto-brightness levels
Any other tips about MIUI worth knowing?
Cheers,
MIchael
try changing your toggle settings to page instead of compact. As for tweaking the auto settings..not sure about that
d88888b said:
try changing your toggle settings to page instead of compact. As for tweaking the auto settings..not sure about that
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cheers for the reply... should have been more specific. On CM (and my last phone - Galaxy S) it was possible to pull the notification bar down slightly and then drag left to right to adjust. Was always nice an easy to do when out and about in bright sunlight when you cant see anything on the screen.
a brightness slider in the notification bar? ive never seen this but im interested
i thought the button in the notification bar was the only option
grimey01 said:
a brightness slider in the notification bar? ive never seen this but im interested
i thought the button in the notification bar was the only option
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what I am talking about isnt a visible slider... its quite hard to explain but is demonstrated in this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgIaVNzwhjk . Its an option you can turn on somewhere in the CM settings
also, have found how to adjust auto-brightness levels in MIUI so ignore that request, just need to see if this brightness slider is possible.
Pull down the notification shade. If it is in page view, hit the backlight button. Once you hit the backlight button, a slider will appear on the bottom of the shade and you can adjust the brightness. It will be there any time you adjust the shade.
If your shade is in toggle view, put it in page view by hitting Settings>personal>toggle>page
Hope that helps
U can set max brightness by pressing together menu button and volume up
understand what you are asking for since I use CM a lot
but not available that way in MIUI yet
Actually, cyber, my slider don't even work

[Q] Can the software keys bar be made slim?

I have tried to search on Google, but could only find mods to change the icons.
Is it possible to make the software keys bar (back, home, multitask) more narrow? I would not mind if it could be made 2/3 of the current size and just had smaller icons.
Rooted & unlocked with stock 4.2.1.
Martiiin said:
I have tried to search on Google, but could only find mods to change the icons.
Is it possible to make the software keys bar (back, home, multitask) more narrow? I would not mind if it could be made 2/3 of the current size and just had smaller icons.
Rooted & unlocked with stock 4.2.1.
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I would like to know this too, so bumping thread!
It would be sweet too to embed buttons for Track back/forward so it's possible to control music when using fullscreen apps like Sygic Nav. - I would kill for that feature.
// Per.
Bump?
edit framework-res not sure and dont ask me how cause i dont know
Paranoid Android will do it, and let you change the navigation bar button colors, too.
I'm not the lowest of the low, but I am the slowest of the slow.

[Q] Volume Control in Notification Bar?

When I swipe down on the Notification Bar, I sometimes see a slider to control screen brightness. I would much rather see a slider to control volume, the hardware buttons being slow and cumbersome for me. Any way to achieve this?
Status Bar Volume Panel Plus
jventola said:
When I swipe down on the Notification Bar, I sometimes see a slider to control screen brightness. I would much rather see a slider to control volume, the hardware buttons being slow and cumbersome for me. Any way to achieve this?
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Not exactly a slider but still volume in notificationarea, found it here on XDA som time ago but never got around to use it myself.
[APP][3.0+] Status Bar Volume Panel Plus 2.1
plus questions do not go in General, they go in Q&A....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.VolumeControl
like to use this app it allows a volume slider on the edge of screen also has an auto hide feature so not intrusive

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