Hi there
There seem to be a small error with the lock screen.
See attached screenshot.
There is a slight, however clear, difference between the two lock screens.
Someone know how to fix it? Will the PA upgrade to beta work? (kinda hate betas, but also errors like this)
Thanks in advance!
It's an edit to the lock screen xml file, something like:
android:gravity="center" or
android:gravity="center_vertical"
This would be on the line that displays this. I won't be in front of my computer until later tonight (5 or 6 PM Central time) and I can take a look at it.
Have you edited apk files before, used apktool to compile and decompile apks?
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Okay, cool. Just tell me what to do, and I'll give it a go.
And no btw, haven't done any of what you mentioned. Only flashing some ROMS/kernels and stuff like that.
Furthermore, I would also like to mention, that I can either put the clock left, center or right. Whatever I choose, the clock on the lock screen with the Jelly Bean widget, is always a bit off to the right.. Compared to the screen where I press my pin code, of course.
Maybe that was useful info.
Btw, if you're in CST, and I am in UTC+1, I think that makes your 5-6pm, to my 12-01pm!
I can wait going to sleep until after we solve the problem, or I can wake up again, like, 7-8am UTC+1.. then it's 12-01pm CST
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This happens randomly or when you select center it's not quite centered?
I'll have to download the ROM then take a look at it later, test it, and see what/if I can fix it, so maybe I'll see what I can (or can't) do and I'll just reply here when I have an idea.
That way you're not waiting up all night for me to reply.
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Can you link me to 2.56? I see 2.99 beta 5...
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Well, in the ROM settings I can choose whether to have it left, right or centered. But it is not quite where it should be when I pick either of them.
When I choose the clock position to be:
Right, it is actually a little more to the right than the Pin-code screen;
Left, is actually a little below the Pin-code screen clock,
Center, it is a little to the right, compared to the Pin-code screen.
Do you see what I mean? Look at my screenshots closely, and you can see a small difference between them.
I can also post more from, say, the left and right position of the clock.
EDIT: To use your terminology, I guess the lock screen xml on the "Lock-screen-with-JellyBean-wiget" and the xml on the "Lock-screen-with-pincode" is different. I guess these should be similar? e.g. I would guess you define a "distance from right/left side of screen" when you make the xml, but apparently they have used different values for the two different lockscreens?
EDIT EDIT: suddently it appears to me, that I might not have expressed this the right way. I use two lockscreens at once. First, I pull to the right with the Jelly Bean widget to unlock the phone - then I've setup my nexus to demand a pincode, afterwards. That is why I've posted two SS. Hope you get what I mean!
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I see what you mean, and I d/l'd the ROM and tried a few things (it's actually in framework-res.apk, and the file is kind of an odd file name), but it didn't make any difference. I see what you mean for sure. It's actually to the right and up higher with the swipe than with the PIN unlock screen, which is strange.
I looked in a few other placed, and I could just flat out center that (I didn't try it, but I've done it before) clock, but then the selectability would become irrelevant. I don't have any real time right now/this weekend, as family emergency (funeral ) has been happening all week, so I'm taking some down time this weekend. I may be able to look at this Monday or so if I have time, but if anyone has another solution or if you find one that works in the meantime, by all means do whatever you gotta.
My OCD would drive me crazy with that, and I understand completely why you'd want to center it.
Okay cool. Then we're clear what it's all about.
Thanks for trying it out; you can just take a look at it when you get time. If you got a way to just make it centered all the time, that's fine. I don't need the left/right feature, even though it would be cool of course.
So, just get back to me when you can. I guess I have some OCD-like issues as well, so it annoys me pretty much
Thanks!
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Sv: [Q] How to get centered clock on lock screen. [PA 2.56]
Bump! Can someone help me?
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I hated my phone. I think that MS doesn’t know how to make a phone feel like a phone. That's my opinion and you know what they say about opinions... Anyway, thanks to the work of some fantastic programmers, I have gotten my phone to where it feels a little nicer. On to what I did.
I wanted to tackle making the phone prettier to use. I don’t like how the today screen background doesn't act as the background of the phone app. I think that's stupid. For fixing this, I downloaded a few dialer skins from Zombienexus. (http://www.zombienexus.net/portal/GH_ShowArticle.asp?HID=35&CATID=1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12) I'm not sure who this person is, but his dialer replacement is fantastic. I chose the "Springwood_BlackBars" theme. It's a dim picture taken of a rain forest. Looks really nice. Nice and professional. This took care of my today screen and my phone dialer. Now, both have a good (great) background.
Next up. I hate my contacts. I can't mash a letter corresponding to my contact's last name with my finger. My fingers are too fat. I don't like using the stylus for doing this because phones don’t' require stylus.... enter Contact Manager v0.10 (http://www.pocketcm.com). The guy that created this is freaking awesome. It's a contact app that pulls from your list of contacts and puts them into a list that makes them easy to select with a finger. If you drag your finger down, the list will spring down and continue scrolling with this elastic effect. If you drag your finger down one side of the screen or the other, a little tab will pop up following your finger from top to bottom with each letter of the alphabet in it starting with "a" at the top and "Z" at the bottom. Where you stop is where the list scrolls to, nice animation and all.
Now, this contacts manager is kind of plain looking off the bat. But, the creator gives you an ini file to customize. After thoroughly tweaking the ini, I now have my today screen background (the springwood) as the background behind my contacts. Though, in words this may not sound like much, but in practice, the phone is freaking sweet now. the only other thing I did, was use a softkey tweak (http://www.pocketpctweaks.com/pocketpc_tweaks/change_softkey_buttons.html) so that my contacts softkey invokes the new contactmanager app.
I wish I had screen shots of what my phone looks like. Showing it to friends has convinced them that wm5 phones CAN look like ... phones.
I'd love to see somebody "can" all three of these things together. I think a program that allows you to set the background for all three places would be very nice... What's best, all of the pieces I used are free (but, be sure and donate, these guys really out did themselves with this stuff).
Hope this helps somebody else make their phone a little more friendly.
Jason
NOTE: Contacts manager is a little funky when in landscape mode. It works, but display is a bit "off" and "tabs" no longer work. (but, who uses their phone in Landscape mode?)
Link to contact manager shows page not found. can you post fixed? Sounds interesting.
Sorry about that:
Links updated
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Link to contact manager shows page not found. can you post fixed? Sounds interesting.
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hey Contact Manager v0.10 is made by one of our members @ xda developers, check out updates in the development and hacking forum.
Did'nt even know that. THat's cool... Great job Tene: ... here's link to that thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=314048&highlight=contactsmanager
Someone needs to develop a new home screen manager. One that instead of just moving left to right moves up and down as well. This way screens are always just one flick away instead of 2 or more depending on where you are at. It would be like a cube where the main homescreen is in the middle and the other 4 screens would each be in a direction (up, down, left, right). Moving from one of those screens in a direction (up, down, left, right) would result like moving from the home screen. So more than just a cube. A little more complex. I'll develop it if someone can help me along. Just an idea i had when looking at the linear movement of the ui.
Unfortunately I don't have any of the required skills or time to match even 1% of the ability of the Android development community but I'd definitely second this request. A very unique idea and I really like it.
BTW, a big thanks to the devel community. Without you guys fulfilling my gadget whore needs, I'd be buying a new device every week!
This is cool..maybe even an option in the notification bar to switch screens while in an app? Like the Linux desktop cube?
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Rather than write something from scratch, maybe you could try to contribute this as an option in ADW.Launcher?
This has already been done before on a certain rom. I remember it being ported to the vogue android. I cant remember the phone it was ported from though. Blur or something.
Gde home had exactly this feature
~ The Nameless Creator
Actually there were a few Windows CE based home mangers that had this feature. I also would love to have this. I asked a while back and got no response as to if there is anthing out there that did this.
wouldnt it be kinda hard to keep track of which screen is in which direction? like it seems orientation would feel very complex. but maybe not, i dunno
SLOflatlander said:
wouldnt it be kinda hard to keep track of which screen is in which direction? like it seems orientation would feel very complex. but maybe not, i dunno
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I could see something like dots on the edge of the screen kinda like how launcher pro does it.
SLOflatlander said:
wouldnt it be kinda hard to keep track of which screen is in which direction? like it seems orientation would feel very complex. but maybe not, i dunno
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Wait'll you see the home screen replacer I'm building based on a tesseract.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract
You just need to turn your head sideways to keep track of what face you're on.
Who doesn't want 24 home screens?
For a 4 or 5 way slide/cube desktop, look at Dx Top. It has not been updated for a while but is stable and can use themes built for many of the other desktop replacements.
I have been running it over many ROMs and it works on all so far. Was a little funny with the app drawer on SkyRaider, it kept rebuilding the icons for some reason, that might have been due to installing too many icon packs.
Thanks for the support on this guys and the answers. i'm going to do some research and see what can be done/ported or if needed then created. Just trying to do like most people and think outside the box. Its what makes android 1000x better than the iphone/ipod scene. They are so restricted. i mean come on. 1 button. But keeping on topic, i really appreciate no flaming on the topic.
I apologize if this has already been covered. If it has, I wasn't able to find it.
1)
After a call, when I pull the phone away, the notification bar gets stuck "slightly" pulled down and touches to the screen are unresponsive. I have to pull the notification bar down all the way, then put it back up to make it go away. Otherwise, the bar just stays at about a half inch (or less) from the top of the screen. I'm using the SuperDark rom, but I don't think it's an issue with that since I remember the same thing happening with one of the first calls I made on the phone. It seems to happen about 1 out of 4 calls I make. I'm pretty used to it now and I usually just end the call using the notification bar when it happens, but I wanted to know if anyone is experiencing this and how it can be avoided/fixed.
2)
Animated GIFs. I saw the post of annoyances saying how the browser doesn't support them. But I couldn't find anything about the Gallery app not supporting them, either. I can deal with the browser, but I use Chandroid for 4chan and such, and it would be nice to view the animated GIFs I save from Chandroid in the Gallery. Is there a fix for this? Or possibly an alternate Gallery app I can use?
Thanks in advance
1. Don't press phone against ear until the proximity sensor turns the backlight off.
2. Don't have a specific answer. But I bet 2.2 wouldn't hurt.
good day
Looks like there was a discussion about the gif thing back in April.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=660914
I have seen conflicting information about this, though, on the web. I have a phone with 2.2 at home, so I will give it a test tonight and let you know, unless someone replies sooner.
Hello.
I've been using this certain ROM for quite a while now, and today I decided to try other roms for my HD2, while not making backup of this one that I had used. Not being satisfied with any of the roms I tried, I decided to go back to the old one, just to realize I have no backup of it, nor I know the name. So I need help finding it. I've tried a lot and this one was the most responsive/fastest/most stable one for me, so help is greatly appreciated.
Now, to the things I remember about it, hopefully someone will recognize which rom I'm talking about. It was pretty minimalistic, it was nothing fancy like most of the popular roms now. Came with a greyish stone wall like home wallpaper, there was no google search widget at the top of the screen by default (most roms have that, as far as I noticed), had 5 icons (shortcuts) in the very bottom of the screen, all grayish/whitish. There was 3 home screens you could scroll around with by default, and also the same way you could've scrolled those 5 shortcuts. When nothing was assigned to the shortcut, like when you first scrolled to the next screen, there was a plus sign (+) of the same color as all other. I'm not sure but I think the internet browser shortcut had something like a detective's head silhouette (like a side shot). Could've been a globe, too, looked like a head to me.
The battery levels showed in percentages in the upper right of the screen (without the % sign), with white dots around the white number (percentage) matching the percentage showed. The messaging was set up so it was divided in threads, and each thread looked the simplest it actually could. It said "Me: <my message>" for my sms and had the same format for the other person in thread (in new row, of course), all went left to right, no fancy iphone ballons showing me on the right side, them on left. And it had time stamps underneat the messages. By default only time for today, and date (without timestamp) for any other day.
If I can provide any more information, please let me know. Thanks for reading, hopefully someone knows what rom this is about. I'm not sure how I got to that rom, but I'm guessing it was popular at some time (maybe still is) since it worked flawlessly. Even if it reminds you of some rom that isn't this one for sure, let me know.
Edit: Remembered something, it's big I think. On boot, that animated screen containted while we wait to boot looked like a cube, rotating and disappearing, as if it was made of water, like spilling in the air, or sprinkling. Also not sure, I think it had a letter H on each side of the cube. Also, I'm willing to bet it was gingerbread build.
Edit2: Solved. It's the latest hyperdroid, sandy scorpion.
I accidentally stumbled upon this today, wasn't sure how I did it, kept tapping and swiping till it happened again. In addition to this, I've also found that swiping up from on or below the nav bar hides QS and/or notifications with just one swipe. However, I can't seem to reproduce this 100% of the time.
Edit: 2 short rapid fire tap-swipes(down) on the status bar will produce the same outcome as "double-tap + swipe-down". Thanks to nednednerb
cptkian said:
I accidentally stumbled upon this today, wasn't sure how I did it, kept tapping and swiping till it happened again. In addition to this, I've also found that swiping up from on or below the nav bar hides QS and/or notifications with just one swipe. However, I can't seem to reproduce this 100% of the time.
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The double tap isn't actually doing anything. The first tap opens the 6 toggles, the second tap and swipe opens QS as they normally would. You can just swipe down with 2 fingers to open the QS directly.
airmaxx23 said:
The double tap isn't actually doing anything. The first tap opens the 6 toggles, the second tap and swipe opens QS as they normally would. You can just swipe down with 2 fingers to open the QS directly.
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Not on my phone. a single tap drops the toggles and they instantly fold right back up (they wont stay down). but a double tap drops the toggles and they stay down, then with an additional swipe down QS expands further. and finally with the double-tap+swipe down (or single tap+single tap&swipe down i get the QS right off the bat. i've tried several different ways to make this work and this has always been the final outcome...for me at least.
fyi im running stock rom (x-ota)
franco
root
twrp
and substratum (not sure this would have any affect or not)
cptkian said:
Not on my phone. a single tap drops the toggles and they instantly fold right back up (they wont stay down). but a double tap drops the toggles and they stay down, then with an additional swipe down QS expands further. and finally with the double-tap+swipe down (or single tap+single tap&swipe down i get the QS right off the bat. i've tried several different ways to make this work and this has always been the final outcome...for me at least.
fyi im running stock rom (x-ota)
franco
root
twrp
and substratum (not sure this would have any affect or not)
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The first tap slightly open the QS (it's registering as a partial swipe) and the second tap grabs them, then you're pulling them down.
airmaxx23 said:
The first tap slightly open the QS (it's registering as a partial swipe) and the second tap grabs them, then you're pulling them down.
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I feel we are starting to split hairs here, and maybe we are because perhaps it acts differently with different folks. But with my phone (pixel quite black 128 w/ all the goods mentioned above (forgot to mention viper 2.5.0.5 which i cant imagine would have any affect, but who knows, it is a mod afterall)).
So for me it goes as follows -
one-tap = toggles peek
double-tap = toggles stay down and notifications roll down with it
and then if i do an additional swipe down i get QS, obviously
but as mentioned in OP
one-tap, instantly followed by swipe-down (or double-tap+swipe down) i get QS instantly that way.
I would like to add that i say double-tap+swipe-down because i've seen it worded that way over the years i.e. Nova, Root Essentials, etc.
I would ALSO like to add that the entire reason for this post was because over the past 2-3 years (around the end of KitKat, maybe) I've seen the question asked a handful of times how can QS be accessed with one swipe and one finger (or thumb) while being on a stock rom. and yesterday when i did it by accident, it was like discovering a really tiny piece of gold that you weren't even looking for. I smirked when it happened, smirked again when i reproduced it, then came here and shared the wealth.
Seems like allot of extra steps
Smallsmx3 said:
Seems like allot of extra steps
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That's just language tricking the thinker.
The doer.... Flicks the QS open so fast you need a red pill or slow motion camera to catch it.
Steps? I'm there.
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Two down swipes is how you're supposed to open QS, you can do it fast or slow. I'm sorry but this is not a hidden feature. The tap is irrelevant since you have to touch the screen to do the swipe.
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Two down swipes is how you're supposed to open QS, you can do it fast or slow. I'm sorry but this is not a hidden feature. The tap is irrelevant since you have to touch the screen to do the swipe.
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You should see how my 54 year old friend uses his brand new cell phone, which is also his first computer. His first email addy... I don't think he even aware of notifications as a concept though he is stumbling haphazardly. Wow! Every tap is like a huge sliding long press.
The OP did in first line state "stumbled upon".
LOTS of people value from times and brief reports like this because they learn about device. Cos no one told them "this is how you're supposed go do it, and also this is how many ways you can do it!"
I found this useful. How people understand with language is never irrelevant.
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Two down swipes is how you're supposed to open QS, you can do it fast or slow. I'm sorry but this is not a hidden feature. The tap is irrelevant since you have to touch the screen to do the swipe.
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nednednerb said:
You should see how my 54 year old friend uses his brand new cell phone, which is also his first computer. His first email addy... I don't think he even aware of notifications as a concept though he is stumbling haphazardly. Wow! Every tap is like a huge sliding long press.
The OP did in first line state "stumbled upon".
LOTS of people value from times and brief reports like this because they learn about device. Cos no one told them "this is how you're supposed go do it, and also this is how many ways you can do it!"
I found this useful. How people understand with language is never irrelevant.
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--Typed most of this up yesterday and got sidetracked, glad i waited. nednednerb is right, no point in getting butthurt over something as trivial as this. however the more i think about it, the more i'm starting to think i've been had--
What was supposed to be yesterday's reply:
You seem pretty determined to let us all know how wrong this is, and that's ok with me really, I could care less. But what you need to remember is that there are a lot of inexperienced folks here who are new to Android and/or modding, etc. And if they're here, there's a solid 50/50 chance they're learning or discovering something new for the first time That said, you should really try to focus your energy on encouraging and helping others. You never know man, that one guy/gal may have the answer you've been searching for, but they may decide not to share because their last post embarrassed them. However, if they're completely wrong and they're nearly ready to blow up their device, then by all means step in and stop them.
Also -
"Two down swipes is how you're supposed to open QS" cool new hidden feature is quicker, easier, and there's less hand movement.
"you can do it fast or slow. " hidden feature doesn't do slow, will update as soon as we gather more data
"I'm sorry but this is not a hidden feature." never claimed it was a hidden feature, but if it is, I win
"The tap is irrelevant since you have to touch the screen to do the swipe." double-tap + swipe-down has been around for some time which makes what you said kind of irrelevant