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Screen resolution issue

Hi all,
My screen resolution become small out of sudden when I restart my note. Please see pic attached.
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Resolved, with these 2 app from market.
https://market.android.com/details?...wxLDEwNCwiY29tLmlubm9kcm9pZC5kcGljaGFuZ2VyIl0.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wemobs.android.lcdresolution

It can easily be remedied by using a custom lockscreen.

samgcw said:
Hi all,
My screen resolution become small out of sudden when I restart my note. Please see pic attached.
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Screen resolution issue??? WTF. The screen resolution on the Note is one of the main reasons people buy it because it is the best available.

I have the EXACT same problem, only the opposite. Not long ago I made a forum with regards to this problem but unfortunately there was no reply...
I have this strange issue that when closing a game or video for example or simply by turning off and on again the screen wallpaper seems to have zoomed in like crazy (200%) and it appears smeary/blocky...
It's really pissing me off I've still not been able to solve this problem.

kanej2006 said:
I have the EXACT same problem, only the opposite. Not long ago I made a forum with regards to this problem but unfortunately there was no reply...
I have this strange issue that when closing a game or video for example or simply by turning off and on again the screen wallpaper seems to have zoomed in like crazy (200%) and it appears smeary/blocky...
It's really pissing me off I've still not been able to solve this problem.
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This must be an individual problem. For if the Note was faulty as described then why isn't it a problem for every Note user?

Gaugerer said:
Screen resolution issue??? WTF. The screen resolution on the Note is one of the main reasons people buy it because it is the best available.
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did you actually read his post and look at the pic?
his note bugged out and cranked up the resolution, end result being that his icons look smaller and the grid is messed up.

Gaugerer said:
This must be an individual problem. For if the Note was faulty as described then why isn't it a problem for every Note user?
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Dude is this the line you have all time on your clip borad?
This is third post m seeing the same line you have put wrt every issue user is talking about.
Dont just try to increase your post count anyhow

Sorry to flooding post, as 1st time using XDA APP do posting. Anyway, as 3rd post mention,issue resolve with the 2 app from market.
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Here is my wallpaper issue, kinda like the opposite to the ops...
The first picture is how it looks normally and the other 2 is after, one is in landscape and one is in portrait view.
When I tilt my screen from portrait to landscape that's when it screws up my wallpaper.
Otherwise if I turn my phone off then on it will start up just like you will see in pictures 2 & 3.
The ONLY way to correct it is to switch launcher to the default touchwiz and then back to the launcher that had the stretched/zoomed in wallpaper.
This problem does NOT occur in touchwiz but pretty much EVERY other launcher has the same problem, 3 launchers including ADW, Go Launcher & even Launcher Pro all give me the same issue.
Enough talking from me. Here are some screens of my strange issue. Look carefully at screens 2 & 3 as they are zoomed in and quality is bad.
Screen 1 is how it should look!
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@kanej2006, hmm, not too sure, havent had that issue before, been using SPB launcher 3d for a while now as well.
just tried swapping SPB to landscape mode. it screws up the background whilst its in landscape mode (stretches/zooms image), but the lockscreen image is fine in portrait mode (ie. the way the picture is meant to look).
i normally just use my phone in portrait mode anyway, but have you tried seeing if theres an app or mod that would make the lockscreen appear in landscape mode instead? that way it will minimise bg image distortion? (im a nubb with modding)

This is interesting. Wonder if we abuse this "bug" and can change DPI dynamically depending on the app.

Souai said:
@kanej2006, hmm, not too sure, havent had that issue before, been using SPB launcher 3d for a while now as well.
just tried swapping SPB to landscape mode. it screws up the background whilst its in landscape mode (stretches/zooms image), but the lockscreen image is fine in portrait mode (ie. the way the picture is meant to look).
i normally just use my phone in portrait mode anyway, but have you tried seeing if theres an app or mod that would make the lockscreen appear in landscape mode instead? that way it will minimise bg image distortion? (im a nubb with modding)
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Hmm, no I have not tried an app that keeps the homescreen in landscape mode.
I was actually thinking of trying an app that LOCKS the homescreen, to keep it in portrait mode. This way it might not stretch/zoom.
This problem happened with most launchers, with touchwiz it never happened.
Any good apps to lock the homescreen? Thanks.

katyarevishal said:
Dude is this the line you have all time on your clip borad?
This is third post m seeing the same line you have put wrt every issue user is talking about.
Dont just try to increase your post count anyhow
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+ 1 too true
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kanej2006 said:
Hmm, no I have not tried an app that keeps the homescreen in landscape mode.
I was actually thinking of trying an app that LOCKS the homescreen, to keep it in portrait mode. This way it might not stretch/zoom.
This problem happened with most launchers, with touchwiz it never happened.
Any good apps to lock the homescreen? Thanks.
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have you tried pulling down the notification bar and disabling 'auto-rotate' and seeing if that fixes your dilemma?

Souai said:
have you tried pulling down the notification bar and disabling 'auto-rotate' and seeing if that fixes your dilemma?
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I've tried this but the problem when disabling 'auto-rotate' in the pull down notification bar is that when going through photos or browsing the internet the screen is stuck on portrait mode. There are times when I need to switch to landscape mode.
What would be useful to try would be to somehow lock ONLY the homescreen to portrait but not the rest of the menu. This may work but I'm unsure how to lock the homescreen only.

Guys I'd just like to say I've finally fixed my strange problem with the wallpaper stretching by iteself or when rotating the screen it would change and zoom in resulting in a bad quality image.
The one and only magical app called Wizardrii, wicked app & a life saver.
I simply downloaded & installed the app, ran it and when selecting my wallpaper I select 'scale image' which will then set your desired wallpaper in fullscreen mode and even when switching from portrait to landcape the wallpaper would remain unchanged, just what I wanted!

Lockscreen rotate help.

Hi guys, I was just wondering if there was a way to make the lockscreen stop auto-rotating? I know this is a feature in most ROMs, its just it feels real weird when I open my Portenzo case and the lock screen is off. I still would like the launcher to rotate, just not the lock screen.
I'm running ParanoidAndroid 1.98
Thanks:laugh:

Of course there is! Just swipe down from the top of the screen to bring up the notification tab. Then up the top of that you click the icon to the left of the settings button - its is an icon that looks like a device with two rotating arrows either side of it. This will toggle the lock on and off.
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jpbdrogheda said:
Of course there is! Just swipe down from the top of the screen to bring up the notification tab. Then up the top of that you click the icon to the left of the settings button - its is an icon that looks like a device with two rotating arrows either side of it. This will toggle the lock on and off.
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Heh, that disables rotation for everything. I'm looking for something that disables rotation for JUST the lock screen.

Weird, my lock screen has always been portrait-only on my N7, even though I have rotation turned on generally. On my Transformer TF101 on ICS, it rotates and drives me nuts.
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Mutnat said:
Weird, my lock screen has always been portrait-only on my N7, even though I have rotation turned on generally. On my Transformer TF101 on ICS, it rotates and drives me nuts.
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Same here.
I found a build.prop edit that could rotate the home screen but not the lock screen. I'd like to get my lock screen to rotate so please, OP, let us know how you got yours to do so. What ROM are you running?

dlaciv12 said:
Same here.
I found a build.prop edit that could rotate the home screen but not the lock screen. I'd like to get my lock screen to rotate so please, OP, let us know how you got yours to do so. What ROM are you running?
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I'm running stock, no rooted. I'm using Ultimate Rotation Control, it's free in GP.
It rotate home screen and locked screen too. Or you can set it alway locked in portrait or landscape. Very awesome app.

droidnext said:
I'm running stock, no rooted. I'm using Ultimate Rotation Control, it's free in GP.
It rotate home screen and locked screen too. Or you can set it alway locked in portrait or landscape. Very awesome app.
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What setting are you using to allow the "Lock Screen" to rotate with this app. I see no such setting even with the Paid version.

krelvinaz said:
What setting are you using to allow the "Lock Screen" to rotate with this app. I see no such setting even with the Paid version.
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Here is my setting, very simple.
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"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
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This is the results:

I've tried those settings... everything works fine, just the lock screen does not rotate.

Ultimate Rotation Control had an update (mine was yesterday) which allows for Lock Screen rotation. If you have the app installed, just update it and it will work.

Funny, it just updated. Works.

does ultimate rotation control still cause lag on the tablet? does it take the home screen a while to refresh when you rotate the tablet? i tried it a few weeks ago but used to find when i rotated the homescreen it would take a second or two for it to redraw and prior to that it would cause video to stutter when playing

dlaciv12 said:
Same here.
I found a build.prop edit that could rotate the home screen but not the lock screen. I'd like to get my lock screen to rotate so please, OP, let us know how you got yours to do so. What ROM are you running?
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My lockscreen started auto-rotating when i first flashed the BAMF ROM. I have moved on to ParanoidAndroid ROM but the rotate feature stayed

Running PA 1.98 in tablet small mode with apex and it rotates the lockscreen/homescreen natively without the need for any apps. It could be related to what mode you're running.

Ultimate Rotation Control is really cool! I've now got my lock screen forced to landscape, and my home screen rotates. Very cool. This was really the last piece to keep me on the Phablet UI instead of needing to root and change to the Tablet UI. I really like the pull down notifications and the centered soft buttons, I've grown to love them better than the honeycomb/ICS Tablet UI style.

Ultimate Rotation Control is cool, but it's always sitting in the background. Kinda extreme for such a simple task. Plus it doesn't really fix the problem. When I open my smart cover, if the lockscreen is in landscape, it forces it to portrait... which sounds ok but it shouldn't even be in landscape to begin with. So you're having to wait for it to do it's thing STILL before you can unlock it.
Ultimate Rotation Control DOES force the lockscreen to Portrait, but there is still a rotation delay there.
I'm looking for a way when I open my tab, it is just always in portrait and I can unlock without hesitating. At this point it seems a lockscreen replacement such as WidgetLocker or just disable the security screen altogether.
Anyone else know of a simpler method? Maybe a stock lockscreen replacement apk file that is forced to landscape. My phone is always locked to portrait but my tabs freely rotate.

droidnext said:
I'm running stock, no rooted. I'm using Ultimate Rotation Control, it's free in GP.
It rotate home screen and locked screen too. Or you can set it alway locked in portrait or landscape. Very awesome app.
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I'm on latest version5.7.7 of Ultimate Rotation Control with annoying Unlock screen rotation issue. I lock the screen. The screen is off. I put phone in pocket. I pull my phone off from pocket and press power button. The screen is on but THE UNLOCK THING JUMPS FROM PORTRAIT TO LANDSCAPE. How to solve this? .

Reason Why HTC Removed Drop Down Toggles

Pardon me if someone has posted this, but I didn't see it anywhere, and I thought it is an interesting view into the design concepts of the One.
I finally got my One, and after a day with it I realized why HTC removed the toggles that used to be in the drop down. The answer is that they intend us to use the "settings" button that is at the right edge of the notification bar. When I swipe down, I can hit that button and get toggles to airplane, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and mobile data. I suppose those are the main ones that are used.
Of course it is only a shortcut to the normal settings menu, but it basically performs the same function as some previous toggles. On my Amaze, the standard was to swipe down, select the toggles tab, the use the toggle. This has the same number of touches to accomplish those "toggle" tasks.
However, we are still missing the wide array of toggles that were available before.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc
There, i fixed it for you :thumbup:
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I think you are wrong. Drop down toggles were introduced with 4.2 and we have android 4.1.2. Patience
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mlodykaras said:
I think you are wrong. Drop down toggles were introduced with 4.2 and we have android 4.1.2. Patience
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I had them on my amaze with ICS, but then I only used stock for a couple of days before I went with NRG, who may have "enhanced" the notification bar.

Renzo4000 said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc
There, i fixed it for you :thumbup:
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Those are on the desktop, right? I'm speaking of ones on the bar that can be pulled down and accessed any time. Sense 5 comes with a number of toggles and toggle bars for desktop use.

stevedebi said:
Those are on the desktop, right? I'm speaking of ones on the bar that can be pulled down and accessed any time. Sense 5 comes with a number of toggles and toggle bars for desktop use.
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They are notification toggles not on your home screen. Im glad they are gone, ill wait for the 4.2.2 implementation otherwise you get a messy notification area like on touchwiz.

That may be the intention but I still think it is a poor implementation. I'm not sure there is anyone that would agree the current setup is easier than simply have notification toggles like stock 4.2.

+1 to Power Toggles, great way to bring back the notification toggles. Stock 4.2 notification toggle will probably be integrated but it's annoyingly an extra click. I would prefer it if it was just swipe down then press the toggle you want.

thunderdome116 said:
That may be the intention but I still think it is a poor implementation. I'm not sure there is anyone that would agree the current setup is easier than simply have notification toggles like stock 4.2.
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I don't particularly care for it either, since one has to back out of the settings menu.
Overall, I really think that I would prefer more control over the phone rather than having Sense 5 do things automatically.

They will be returned in the 4.2.2 update.

I'm betting we'll get them with the 4.2 update.

KidCarter93 said:
They will be returned in the 4.2.2 update.
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Good news, I miss the functionality.

Renzo4000 said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc
There, i fixed it for you :thumbup:
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I might sound like another entitled XDA-er, but power toggles uses a notification slot. :[ ew

KiraYahiroz said:
+1 to Power Toggles, great way to bring back the notification toggles. Stock 4.2 notification toggle will probably be integrated but it's annoyingly an extra click. I would prefer it if it was just swipe down then press the toggle you want.
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But there are drawbacks of using an app for toggles. If you force the toggles to always stay on top then you will have to manually expand every notification as only the top notification is expanded automatically. If toggles are built into the rom then they are not considered as a notification by the system hence no issue. If you want the toggles to always stay on top you have to live with a status bar icon as well. Then there are apps like poweramp and amazon app store which simply refuse to have a notification on top of their own. With amazon app store you will see a "fight" between power toggles and the download progress for the top spot. Needless to say its hugely annoying.
Now if you want automatically expanded notifications then the toggles can be set to low priority so other notifications will go on top of it but that again isnt a great solution as I want my toggles to be at one place all the time.
The best solution in my opinion is to keep your most used toggles in the notification drawer and keep the less frequently used toggles in the quick settings bar thats what I do in CM10.1. I really dont understand why OEMs cant get it right, there should be option to completely disable the toggles for those who dont want it and option to clutter your notification drawer with them if the user so pleases, its just all about options.

Looks like we may see notification toggles.

I like power toggles and all but man are those low res images ugly. >.< For being so popular I'd think they'd support 1080p displays.
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I don't care about the toggles, I just want the expandable notifications. :victory:

pdubcramp said:
I don't care about the toggles, I just want the expandable notifications. :victory:
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We have expandable, just have to use two fingers instead of one.

gtg465x said:
We have expandable, just have to use two fingers instead of one.
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:highfive: Whoa, can't believe I missed that. Two fingers is unnecessary though...

Gambler_3 said:
But there are drawbacks of using an app for toggles. If you force the toggles to always stay on top then you will have to manually expand every notification as only the top notification is expanded automatically. If toggles are built into the rom then they are not considered as a notification by the system hence no issue. If you want the toggles to always stay on top you have to live with a status bar icon as well. Then there are apps like poweramp and amazon app store which simply refuse to have a notification on top of their own. With amazon app store you will see a "fight" between power toggles and the download progress for the top spot. Needless to say its hugely annoying.
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Well, you can make the Power Toggle icon in the status bar invisible anyway. And I don't really use any other apps that fights for the top space. However it seems HTC is going to include this in their next big update, seems they got busy:
http://www.htcinside.de/htc-one-and...igen-verbesserungen-soll-vor-der-tuer-stehen/
Rough translation:
Earlier this week, has received a major update with the 230MB software number 1.29.401.12 the HTC one. Among other things, this update has improved the camera and fixed some bugs and improved performance. Now we reach about another update for the HTC one which is to be rolled out soon. This update is based on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and bring some small but nice improvements.
The information comes from Eastern Europe, the exact source but we can not name. But here we go ...
Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
The update as mentioned above are based on Android 4.2.2 and Jelly Bean brings with it ever the latest Android OS version with it. The software number jumps directly from 1.29.x up to 2.x.
Software menu button flashing feed, TV app
The first innovations that should there is a workaround for apps that still require the Menu button. Currently, the HTC one receives at the bottom of an additional bar with a menu button. In early versions of the software you could adjust the back button as on the One that calls this through a long press on the menu. HTC had to remove this feature but unfortunately. Now this problem is to be solved.
In addition, to obtain HTC Flashing feed new content. What does this mean, I can not tell you exactly, unfortunately. But I expect that we will have more opportunities for the stream. Currently, there are in addition to the news feeds so only Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, calendar, HTC share, Children mode and TV. I am almost sure that this list should still be extended. Also the app for the TV remote control to be improved. But no details are available for this purpose.
New Quick Settings menu
Many of you will certainly look forward to the next innovation. And that should be re-introduced the Quick Settings in the notification bar. The Chinese version of the HTC one, which was recently officially introduced already comes with a Quick Settings menu. See photo from Engadget China (already posted in #15)
More?
We do not know if those are the only improvements that await us. But I'm almost certain that HTC in a relatively big update (Android 4.1.2 => 4.2.2) will still pack a few other new features. We may get in the next few days still more. We are definitely excited and have been waiting for the update.
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[Q] lock my nexus into landscape

Just picked up a 2012 Nexus for $150. When I first got it, I believe I was able to go into landscape mode and lock it down - so no matter how i spun the device, it would remain in landscape. I can't seem to lock it down anymore; it will rotate but not stay locked. I upgraded OS the other day to 4.3 - only have had the device about 2 weeks. I swear it was working before. One thing I know has changed is my notification shade no longer shows the rotation icon; it did before. However, I seem to recall I had to do something special to lock it down to remain in landscape. Getting old....can't remember a thing anymore.
I really don't want to use an app just to do something so simple. What gives???

Nexus 7 (2012) updated to 4.3 here — Auto Rotate toggle present and functional in the settings shade so it should be there and you should be able to lock rotation in landscape/portrait. Unless any brighter suggestions present themselves, have you considered a Factory Reset?

TellTenPeople said:
Nexus 7 (2012) updated to 4.3 here — Auto Rotate toggle present and functional in the settings shade so it should be there and you should be able to lock rotation in landscape/portrait. Unless any brighter suggestions present themselves, have you considered a Factory Reset?
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I was going to root my Nexus anyway so maybe I'll just go ahead and do the the reset that way. Just a question though ....
When you say 'settings' shade did you mean 'notifications' shade?
I can enable rotation via checking the box in Settings->Accessibilty.....but I lost the rotate option in the 'notification' shade.
Thanks

I'm not sure what the proper nomenclature is but the Notification Shade is pulled down from the left-ward half of the top screen edge and the Settings Shade is pulled down from the right-ward half where the Wifi strength, battery level and time live.

TellTenPeople said:
I'm not sure what the proper nomenclature is but the Notification Shade is pulled down from the left-ward half of the top screen edge and the Settings Shade is pulled down from the right-ward half where the Wifi strength, battery level and time live.
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The 'notifications' shade is what pops up, as you say on the upper left, whenever something happens. Like on my phone (S2) - I'll swipe down on that shade I can do all sorts of things - turn off volume, wifi etc - now maybe that is because I am running a custom ROM. In any event....I did the factory reset and have the same issue. The Setting->Accessibility allows rotation of screen from portrait to landscape but my 'notification' shade is blank on top - no icons at all.
Question - when you want to lock in landscape - what do you do? Do you do it through the pull down 'notification' shade and the icon that you see on the top or do you - do it through the 'settings' menu?
By the way - are you running 4.3? I am - I swear I had it locked down before but maybe I am dreaming.....thanks for help. Peter

Stackman1 said:
The 'notifications' shade is what pops up, as you say on the upper left, whenever something happens. Like on my phone (S2) - I'll swipe down on that shade I can do all sorts of things - turn off volume, wifi etc - now maybe that is because I am running a custom ROM. In any event....I did the factory reset and have the same issue. The Setting->Accessibility allows rotation of screen from portrait to landscape but my 'notification' shade is blank on top - no icons at all.
Question - when you want to lock in landscape - what do you do? Do you do it through the pull down 'notification' shade and the icon that you see on the top or do you - do it through the 'settings' menu?
By the way - are you running 4.3? I am - I swear I had it locked down before but maybe I am dreaming.....thanks for help. Peter
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Sorry - I see you already said you were on 4.3!!
But it would be helpful to know how you 'lock' landscape - that way I know for sure - if I am missing some icon or not.

Stackman1 said:
The 'notifications' shade is what pops up, as you say on the upper left, whenever something happens. Like on my phone (S2) - I'll swipe down on that shade I can do all sorts of things - turn off volume, wifi etc - now maybe that is because I am running a custom ROM.
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I think you have your answer. I'm running factory pure 4.3 — all the
settings shortcuts and toggles are in a separate right shade (Brightness, Volume, Wifi, Auto Rotate, etc.). Perhaps you should revert to a less custom ROM (or one that has quick Auto Rotate access) if you want that feature.

TellTenPeople said:
I think you have your answer. I'm running factory pure 4.3 — all the
settings shortcuts and toggles are in a separate right shade (Brightness, Volume, Wifi, Auto Rotate, etc.). Perhaps you should revert to a less custom ROM (or one that has quick Auto Rotate access) if you want that feature.
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No - I guess I wasn't clear.....the custom ROM was just a reference to my phone. I too am running pure google. I got the device about 10 days ago and then I got the notice to upgrade to 4.3 - I went ahead and that is when I lost the ability to lock my screen into landscape. I have since - based on your advice - done a factory reset - which was logical and not an issue - but still nothing. No way to lock my screen.
You have been very patient but can you tell me - when you 'lock' your display into landscape, do you do it by touching an icon - present on your 'notification' shade or do you go through the 'setting' menu and check a box or something? It would really help - I normally blame myself for stuff - but I just don't see how I can lock my screen using my 'pure 4.3' experience.
Thanks
Again

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I lock my rotation with a button (technically a toggle) called AUTO ROTATE in my settings shade which you seem to have lost — it was there in 4.2 and unchanged in 4.3. Since you've gone this far, and want to root anyway, you might want to flash a fresh factory image of 4.3.
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I lock my rotation with a button (technically a toggle) called AUTO ROTATE in my settings shade which you seem to have lost — it was there in 4.2 and unchanged in 4.3. Since you've gone this far, and want to root anyway, you might want to flash a fresh factory image of 4.3.
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Thanks for your help. At this point - I don't want to root it because - should I need to return it - don't want to have to worry about it.
I don't have a shade at all for my settings. Just the notification shade which remains empty. I can allow rotation by 'checking the box' after navigating through the Settings icon to Accessibility but nothing appears that specifies the ability to 'lock' the screen.
Guess I'll just wait to see if someone else has a similar issue - I suppose I can download an app but I hate adding junk that I should not need. Really appreciate your help....patience is a virtue

You're welcome, I had time to kill
As a native workaround, you could give yourself a Settings widget and set it to be a shortcut to Accessibility.

Are you able to use Edge Lightning for ALL installed apps?

Hello everybody, I'm struggling with this problem from the day I bought my S8. The fact is: how the hell are you getting Edge Lightning works with ALL apps while screen is off? Everything is set fine in the edge lightning menu, I've tried several times, but Edge Nofitications work only while screen is ON. Also tried with Always On display, nothing. With screen off, nothing. I'm going mad since I find several users with this setting working great. Anyway can help? Thanks!
EDIT: with screen off it only works with the stock Samsung SMS app. Any other app doesn't work at all

It's never worked right for me even with stock apps. Oreo doesn't seem to fix anything even though they added new styles for it.

Same here.. but it's really incredible that some people got it fully working out of the box and some others got it broken and were never able to get it working..

No one gets it out of the box for all apps. The problem with edge lighting is that it works for apps that can turn on the screen when a notification is received (viber, messages). Whatsapp can only trigger edge lighting if U turn pop-up messages on.
So - samsung made a great app once again with VERY bad implementation. They should have let us to set edge lighting to glow instead notification light. Just to give us a pulse of light every few seconds. That would be an amazing feature!
I love edge lighting and hate samsung for crippling a great feature once again.

no, just few apps work

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No one gets it out of the box for all apps. The problem with edge lighting is that it works for apps that can turn on the screen when a notification is received (viber, messages). Whatsapp can only trigger edge lighting if U turn pop-up messages on.
So - samsung made a great app once again with VERY bad implementation. They should have let us to set edge lighting to glow instead notification light. Just to give us a pulse of light every few seconds. That would be an amazing feature!
I love edge lighting and hate samsung for crippling a great feature once again.
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Yes I found that on the internet, also from a discussion on the official Samsung forum. It's really frustrating, that would have been a killer feature to me. I think they'll never solve this problem since it's about a year and two OS versions in which this feature is completely broken, Nougat and Oreo. What a shame

Samsung did not cripple any features, I found that when notifications for apps aren't set to important, edge lighting does not work for those notifications... check it out and you'll see the difference... peace ✌?

jaymoore1222321425311 said:
Samsung did not cripple any features, I found that when notifications for apps aren't set to important, edge lighting does not work for those notifications... check it out and you'll see the difference... peace ?
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How can i do that?

With the Notification channel in Andriod O, you can only change application importance or priority level of they are optimized for it....not a lot of applications are optimized for notification channels, that why edge lightening doesn't work with certain applications....
Go to application, select the app and select notification and you'll know whether or not it has notification channels...
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How can i do that?
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jaymoore1222321425311 said:
With the Notification channel in Andriod O, you can only change application importance or priority level of they are optimized for it....not a lot of applications are optimized for notification channels, that why edge lightening doesn't work with certain applications....
Go to application, select the app and select notification and you'll know whether or not it has notification channels...
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That simply doesn't work.. Tried with WhatsApp, it has notification channels I think, since it lets you configure every type of notification like single message, grup message etc.. and the notifications are already set with the highest priority.. But Edge Lightning doesn't work at all with screen off.

That seems really strange though... did you set your edge lightening setting to always? Try setting it to always and test WhatsApp with the screen off, because it does work for me...
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That simply doesn't work.. Tried with WhatsApp, it has notification channels I think, since it lets you configure every type of notification like single message, grup message etc.. and the notifications are already set with the highest priority.. But Edge Lightning doesn't work at all with screen off.
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jaymoore1222321425311 said:
That seems really strange though... did you set your edge lightening setting to always? Try setting it to always and test WhatsApp with the screen off, because it does work for me...
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Already did that.. It doesn't work at all, only with screen on

You have to activate whats app pop up it s works

Yes but that doesn't solve the problem since as soon as you unlock the screen you have the annoying popup to close. And, it isn't the way it's meant to be since it should work without workarounds with every app since there's built-in support in the edge lightning options.

Hello. I've got solution. This app translates old style notifications to new style notifications so all the apps have edge notifications enabled. You can customize color for any application and turn on/off edge notifications. Very good application, not like the others, which creates fakes color effects around display. It even works on AOD display, which is perfect. Ofc it has few bugs, like if you enable notification and scroll up than back, it shows like it didn't save your settings, but it did. Just set all your apps, turn off app and on and you can see, that it remembered all your settings. I've reported that bug, so I hope it get fixed. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.movisoft.edgelighting&rdid=com.movi soft.edgelighting

IvanVSk said:
Hello. I've got solution. This app translates old style notifications to new style notifications so all the apps have edge notifications enabled. You can customize color for any application and turn on/off edge notifications. Very good application, not like the others, which creates fakes color effects around display. It even works on AOD display, which is perfect. Ofc it has few bugs, like if you enable notification and scroll up than back, it shows like it didn't save your settings, but it did. Just set all your apps, turn off app and on and you can see, that it remembered all your settings. I've reported that bug, so I hope it get fixed. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.movisoft.edgelighting&rdid=com.movi soft.edgelighting
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hi,
i use galaxy s9, however the edge lightning issue is the same for all new galaxy phones. i was told to submit a report via the samsung members app, still waiting for the answer.
the advertised app from the play store did work really well for some time. now however, it simply doesn't (i'm after the Pie upgrade). such a shame, cause the notification style is why i bought this phone, and it doesn't work as advertised.

The problem with edge lighting is that it needs apps to turn on the screen, and they rarely have that function since most android phones have notification lights instead of turning on the screen. For example, viber has the option to turn on the screen, hence the edge lighting works well with viber when the screen is turned off. Samsung messages do this as well. Other apps just turn on edge lighting when the screen is already on.
Samsung didn't think much about the functionality of the edge lighting feature if you ask me. Turned out to be a gimmick instead of a good feature, which sucks, because many people love it.

Yeah, I got it working through this app. There is a caviat, one color shines for all apps. That means there's no color change depending on the app that pushed a notification
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.movisoft.edgelighting

We really need to find a workaround for pie. I heard the app (edge lighting) isn't working on pie sadly