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How to create a shortcut to activate wifi

Hi there,
I would know if someone know how to create a shortcut for toggle wifi (activate and desactivate)
Thanks

I've read several threads/posts in these forums and it seems no-one has been able to come up with a way to do it. At the moment, ONLY the comm manager can turn wifi on/off.

pocketAlarm, has a today plugin which toggles wifi from a press of a single button on the Today screen, with some of its newest skins.
However, the feature does not work on all devices, but the list is expanding, so you might want to check it out.
Cheers.

Whats wrong with just clicking on the gprs icon and then turn on wifi ?

knowsleyroader said:
Whats wrong with just clicking on the gprs icon and then turn on wifi ?
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That still translate to four taps, not just one.
1. Click GPRS
2. Click Comm Manager
3. Click on WIFI toggle
4. Close Comm Manager (optional)

Rayan said:
knowsleyroader said:
Whats wrong with just clicking on the gprs icon and then turn on wifi ?
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That still translate to four taps, not just one.
1. Click GPRS
2. Click Comm Manager
3. Click on WIFI toggle
4. Close Comm Manager (optional)
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2 Clicks on mine.
Click GPRS icon on top menu bar.
Click on Turn on wifi.
Thats it !

In my T-Mobile 2.24 Extended Rom there are 2 executables, one to turn Wifi on and one turn Wifi off.
I will look them up for you tomorrow, I will post them in this thread.

Well molski can you upload the two executables please !!!
I will look if is work on my wizard

Here you go Kheops.
I tried both files and they both work perfect on my Wizard.

Thanks a lot mister Molski

have you a toggler?

Damn, those apps do nothing on mine (8125 w/Molski 2.26 ROM).
Sigh.
//Adam F

but there is still a problem that you must turn WIFI on for the first time after reboot, or no link will work, right? that was a problem on 2.3 i know, but the new os maybe got that fixed...
P.

check out vijay's app
Vijay555 has an app called VJVolubilis.exe which does pretty much what your looking for, as well as toggling bluetooth, etc. It has a wifi toggle feature, but unfortunatly doesn't seem to work on Wizards. However, the "wifi on" and "wifi off" work fine. Some people have reported not being able to use the "wifi on" feature after a soft reset until they manually turned on their wifi at least once. This can be fixed with a registry tweak that I'm too lazy to look up right now, however I found it previously on this forum with a search. If I have time I'll look it up and post in the morning (almost bedtime here in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone). The trick to this app is to create a shortcut with command line parameters to either turn on or turn off. I use claunch on my today screen where I have a wifi on, wifi off, blutooth toggle, and "make bluetooth discoverable" icons. These are on my "wireless" tab in claunch. Totally rocks.

Easy with SKSchema
SKSchema comes with a wifitoggle program. Of course it only works if you have skschema installed.

I couldn;t find one that worked the way I wanted, so I ended up using PhoneAlarm.

[Q] Removing recommended shortcuts from drop down menu

Is it possible to remove the recommended earphone shortcuts that appear in the drop down notification when headphone are connected?

cwalkec said:
Is it possible to remove the recommended earphone shortcuts that appear in the drop down notification when headphone are connected?
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I would like to know the same thing. On my S2 (JB4.1) there is a menu option to disable this (System / Accessory / Audio Applications). They seem to have removed this option on the S4 - it's not on the Accessory options screen...

Could someone explain to me what the "recommended shortcuts (earphones)" actually is and where can I configure it? I like the idea, yet I'd like to configure it.
But I can't seem to find a setting or app. Is it really connected to a "Page buddy" app? I have no such app on my SGS4.

knowledgeworker said:
Could someone explain to me what the "recommended shortcuts (earphones)" actually is and where can I configure it? I like the idea, yet I'd like to configure it.
But I can't seem to find a setting or app. Is it really connected to a "Page buddy" app? I have no such app on my SGS4.
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when you plug in earphones to ur galaxy u get a set of recommanded apps to run in the status bar i have it on my galaxy s2 but on my s3 can't find it

OK, I've worked out how to disable this.
The notification comes from com.android.pagebuddynotisvc, which is called PageBuddyNotiSvc in the application manager ('All' tab). You can disable this service, and the notification + shortcut icons in the dropdown menu will now not appear.

Thanks pennas, I also noticed the "PageBuddy" app meanwhile, should've looked more carefully in the first place.
It's not that annoying to me, but I just still don't understand what the benefit is, when I can't configure it. Because the apps showing also seem to change. Meh.

pennas said:
OK, I've worked out how to disable this.
The notification comes from com.android.pagebuddynotisvc, which is called PageBuddyNotiSvc in the application manager ('All' tab). You can disable this service, and the notification + shortcut icons in the dropdown menu will now not appear.
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yuo are the man!!!!!!!!!!

pennas said:
OK, I've worked out how to disable this.
The notification comes from com.android.pagebuddynotisvc, which is called PageBuddyNotiSvc in the application manager ('All' tab). You can disable this service, and the notification + shortcut icons in the dropdown menu will now not appear.
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Thank you for this :victory:

Its not a bug, it just shows your most frequently used apps.

[psa] [google edition] disabling button lights

Hey guys
I was trying to make my S4 look like the Nexus.
Got the soft nav bar but couldn't find a way to disable the button lights.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43256528
Use this app to disable button lights (lights only). Be sure to thank the Original Poster!!

jhong91 said:
Hey guys
I was trying to make my S4 look like the Nexus.
Got the soft nav bar but couldn't find a way to disable the button lights.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43256528
Use this app to disable button lights (lights only). Be sure to thank the Original Poster!!
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I have probably the same setup. Would be nice if we had the Touch Key Light Duration option in Settings like the S3 had (or maybe it's part of TouchWiz). That would be far easier than running another app just to turn the lights off.
I also use SoftKeyZ from the Play Store to customize the on screen buttons.

Nav bar
Can you help with how you got the nav bar? I found some links on xda, but looking for more.
Thanks
Matt
jhong91 said:
Hey guys
I was trying to make my S4 look like the Nexus.
Got the soft nav bar but couldn't find a way to disable the button lights.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43256528
Use this app to disable button lights (lights only). Be sure to thank the Original Poster!!
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mattalter said:
Can you help with how you got the nav bar? I found some links on xda, but looking for more.
Thanks
Matt
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Make sure you're rooted.
go to a file manager that can edit text files ( I used root manager),
go to system/ and find build.prop. open it with an editor,
add the line
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
at the bottom of your build prop, save/exit, reboot.

jhong91 said:
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Make sure you're rooted.
go to a file manager that can edit text files ( I used root manager),
go to system/ and find build.prop. open it with an editor,
add the line
qemu.hw.mainkeys=0
at the bottom of your build prop, save/exit, reboot.
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Yup. This is also what I did. I just used Root Explorer. A long press on the file lets you edit in a text editor.

Getting Hotspot on notification bar

Can someone help please. A simple thing but annoying the hell out of me. I've enabled System UI Tuner. But still can't customise the bar. At quick settings. I can see the hotspot button but it won't let me turn it on or anything. I can't see it in my notification bar.Its definitely not hidden in the status bar. So unsure what the problem is. Can someone help. Thanks

have you tried to use it? i've found in the past that hotspot does not show in settings until you've used it at least once.

640k said:
have you tried to use it? i've found in the past that hotspot does not show in settings until you've used it at least once.
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yup...this is exactly how this works for the hotspot.

Yeah, i discovered this on the weekend after i used it. lol. Thanks for the help

How To: Use Tasker to assign flashlight toggle to Active Key on S7 Active

Quick how to for any other S7 Active owners who like me were disappointed that the Active Key could not be used as a dedicated flashlight button.
I used the Tasker app with the free App Factory plugin to create an app that toggles the flashlight state.
1. Open Tasker and create a new task (I called mine Flashlight Toggle)
2. Click the Add action button (the + at the bottom) and the Select Action Category window will pop up
3. Type Torch into the filter at the bottom of the Select Action Category window
4. In the Action Edit screen select Toggle from the dropdown in Set
5. Press back to return to the Task Edit screen
6. In the lower right press and hold the icon button and assign the task an icon
7. Press back to return to main Tasker screen - press and hold on the Flashlight Toggle task (or whatever you called it) task to highlight it
8. Select Export from the menu button in the upper right and export as an app.
8a. You may need to install the apk you just created manually depending on permssion settings with tasker (thanks for heads up 78c10)
9. Now open Settings and Navigate to the Active Key settings
10. You should have an app named Flashlight Toggle that you can now assign to the Active Key
Congratulations, you now have a dedicated flashlight button on your S7 Active.

I don't mean to sound critical, so please forgive me, but wouldn't it have been easier to download a flashlight app, and set it to the button?

I personally can't believe you didn't get more feedback on this. What a beautiful, elegant solution.
I was shocked to find that there was no option available to bind a long press of the action key to flashlight, how stupid. You fixed it, and you fixed it in a beautiful way! Thanks.

@Chr0nos77 I had done this previously, but was plagued with either apps that would then open and not turn off the torch by holding it, or having ads emblazoned across my device.
Smooth solution. The only thing that differed from the instructions is that after I exported the app, I had to install it before I could use it. So, I guess don't miss out on that step.
For some reason, I had to factory reset my phone to get the app factory to install. Oh well.

Only problem I'm having with this is that even though I have the app in my whitelist, if the phone is in deep doze the button does not reliably launch the flashlight. Have to press unlock button first then the active key. Still good but would be good if I could somehow force it to work with aggressive doze.

Is there a way to set the flashlight to full brightness? When you turn on the flashlight in the notification panel, it's only set to 30% of it's brightness, but when you open the Activity Zone, you can turn it all the way up to 100%, is there some way to make the 100% setting standard?

Hello. Tasker cannot support Torch in Android 5.0.1. Is there some other way to do it?

akran said:
Hello. Tasker cannot support Torch in Android 5.0.1. Is there some other way to do it?
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I'm not sure in 5.0.1 - I used this with my S7A which was Android 6 out of the box.

gotta say.. works VERY well

Thank you for this, I've been looking for a way to be able to skip tracks with the active key and found a way to do it using the same logic you described here (made an app for next track and on for previous). If anyone is interested let me know and I'll put instructions for how I did it.

miniminus said:
gotta say.. works VERY well
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kuaka said:
Quick how to for any other S7 Active owners who like me were disappointed that the Active Key could not be used as a dedicated flashlight button.
I used the Tasker app with the free App Factory plugin to create an app that toggles the flashlight state.
1. Open Tasker and create a new task (I called mine Flashlight Toggle)
2. Click the Add action button (the + at the bottom) and the Select Action Category window will pop up
3. Type Torch into the filter at the bottom of the Select Action Category window
4. In the Action Edit screen select Toggle from the dropdown in Set
5. Press back to return to the Task Edit screen
6. In the lower right press and hold the icon button and assign the task an icon
7. Press back to return to main Tasker screen - press and hold on the Flashlight Toggle task (or whatever you called it) task to highlight it
8. Select Export from the menu button in the upper right and export as an app.
8a. You may need to install the apk you just created manually depending on permssion settings with tasker (thanks for heads up 78c10)
9. Now open Settings and Navigate to the Active Key settings
10. You should have an app named Flashlight Toggle that you can now assign to the Active Key
Congratulations, you now have a dedicated flashlight button on your S7 Active.
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bandario said:
I personally can't believe you didn't get more feedback on this. What a beautiful, elegant solution.
I was shocked to find that there was no option available to bind a long press of the action key to flashlight, how stupid. You fixed it, and you fixed it in a beautiful way! Thanks.
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78c10 said:
@Chr0nos77 I had done this previously, but was plagued with either apps that would then open and not turn off the torch by holding it, or having ads emblazoned across my device.
Smooth solution. The only thing that differed from the instructions is that after I exported the app, I had to install it before I could use it. So, I guess don't miss out on that step.
For some reason, I had to factory reset my phone to get the app factory to install. Oh well.
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can anyone give me the apk that the app creator made?

muneebrocks said:
can anyone give me the apk that the app creator made?
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Yes!
Here is a link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw15QUNVlpHoMjdqdWVJbXh2YjA
All credits to Kuaka! Thanks for this nice tweak!

Arteush said:
Yes!
Here is a link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw15QUNVlpHoMjdqdWVJbXh2YjA
All credits to Kuaka! Thanks for this nice tweak!
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thank you so much

i made a bixbybutton app using this method,
to enable our activity button, to be a bixby button
(i included it into the Ufrim modder

Is it possible to use this Tasker and create mobile data button/apk to toggle on/off data for Oreo?

dedicha said:
Is it possible to use this Tasker and create mobile data button/apk to toggle on/off data for Oreo?
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https://www.xda-developers.com/how-...ttings-tile-toggle-on-samsung-galaxy-devices/

patzyalex said:
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-...ttings-tile-toggle-on-samsung-galaxy-devices/
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Unfortunately, not working on my phone, maybe because of oreo update.

dedicha said:
Unfortunately, not working on my phone, maybe because of oreo update.
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It does work on Oreo and not only for me, other users report it as well.

patzyalex said:
It does work on Oreo and not only for me, other users report it as well.
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I have tried it, it just reordered the position of the icons, no mobile data toggle
Finally, success!
I read another command in the posts, that did the job!
Just put that command in the adb shell:
settings put secure sysui_qs_tiles "$(settings get secure sysui_qs_tiles),MobileData,Hotspot"
I have no idea why the first one did not do it and what exactly is the difference, but this command did it !

I DLed this
https://apkpure.com/flashlight-toggle-simple-and-minimalist/com.nomadicratio.flashlighttoggle
its quick... a bit of a screen white for a split second but then it turns on and off just fine