I have Car Mode Ultra and I like it. However, if Bluetooth is on and my phone connects to my car it goes to Samsung's car mode and you can't exit the damn thing while connected to the car. I'm sure this isn't a huge issue, but how do I set this up so the built-in car mode doesn't trigger? I realize Samsung cares only for my safety while in a vehicle, but I don't like being forced.
Besides, if I also set it to recognize my wife's car, then I can't ride as a passenger and use my phone 'cause car mode takes over.
*shakes fist at Samsung*
So how do you escape from car mode and tell it to shut up.
thanks
settings - notification - click on car mode notification to exit car mode.
I put it in car mode using the notification panel icon and once it's in car mode I can no longer pull down the notification panel
try with two fingers or hit the apps button.
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try with two fingers or hit the apps button.
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2 fingers doesn't do it and.... app button?
If I hit the back button twice it exits car mode, but this is in the house and not actually connected to the car. I seem to recall being very frustrated in the car that I couldn't exit car mode I'll try tomorrow and actually connect it to the car and see if double tapping that back button gets me out. Still kinda ticks me off that I can't just say DON'T START.
I can't test this since my car doesn't have bluetooth (it's 14 years old ), but when you're in car mode, there is a menu in the top right corner (the three vertical dots). Select "settings", then "my cars" and disable both options "Auto open via Bluetooth" and "Auto close via Bluetooth".
I have no idea if that affects the operation of Car Mode Ultra, though, but it should prevent Samsung's car mode from starting at least.
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I can't test this since my car doesn't have bluetooth (it's 14 years old ), but when you're in car mode, there is a menu in the top right corner (the three vertical dots). Select "settings", then "my cars" and disable both options "Auto open via Bluetooth" and "Auto close via Bluetooth".
I have no idea if that affects the operation of Car Mode Ultra, though, but it should prevent Samsung's car mode from starting at least.
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Thanks, I'll give that one a try. It weird because I see options when I turn it on manually through pulling down the notification bar, that I DON'T see when it starts automagically when it connects to the car.... but I'll give your suggestion a try and see if I can disable the darn thing once and for all.
Thanks
I also wanted to permanently disable this on my Note 4 (because you can't get to any other screen other than car mode which is really annoying if you want to give your phone to say, the person in the passenger seat to look something up while on your way somewhere). I discovered that if you do this, it wipes all the data for Car Mode and will not automatically enable the next time your car is paired to your phone over wifi (because using 2 fingers to pull down the shortcut menu DOES NOT WORK in Car Mode!!!)...settings>application manager>all>Car Mode then select force stop, clear data, clear cache, clear defaults. This worked for me. I also cleared the pair for my car, then reset it, and the next time I turned on Bluetooth and my phone paired with my car, Car Mode DID NOT automatically come on! WOOHOO. Soooo annoying (great idea, but not being able to get out of it until the car is turned off, NOT a good idea).
I just run into the same problem. I have a Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 4. For me, the following steps worked:
Go to the Notification Panel and enable car mode; that will launch car mode.
After the Warning, on the main screen where it says, "HI Galaxy", select "MORE" from the upper right corner.
From the menu that opens, select "Settings"
Once on "Settings", go to "My cars".
Turn off the "Auto open via Bluetooth" and, if you want it, "Auto close via Bluetooth".
Also, to be extra sure, remove your car from the registered list. To do this, you tap in the settings of the car listed and in the next screen, you chose "Remove".
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This is my first pda so please forgive the stupid questions...
1. I am at a loss as to how i can switch off the xdaII completely. I can dim the screen, and switch off the screen, but not the entire xdaII. The bluetooth light and the green light flash continuously, unless i remove the battery catch down.
2. is there a way of getting a better battery indicator at the top, without having to go through the settings menu all the time. I can't seem to create shortcust of any kind.
3. ultra profiler... is it just me... i switch it to silent and it makes no difference.
Thanks...
Why would you want to turn it all the way off? This results in what is known as a "cold boot" - everythng in RAM (even the current date & time) is erased and the phone goes back to the way you bought it.
I don't know how to do it on the XDAII. On the XDA you press a piece of the stylus into a little hole on the bottom.
Fais, on the XDA 1, to switch off both phone and pda, first either hold down the red handset button for a while or tap the signal meter top right of screen and switch off radio/phone, then hit the power button once for a very short time. This will switch off phone and pda. I cant comment on xda2, dont you have a user guide?
Fais said:
1. I am at a loss as to how i can switch off the xdaII completely.
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2. is there a way of getting a better battery indicator at the top, without having to go through the settings menu all the time.
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Well, you must turn off the PDA part and the telephone part separately. For the PDA part, there's a hardware button (which I guess you knew already... ). To turn off the phone part, tap on the antenna indicator and select the first "link" in the bubble that appears. On an MDA I, the phone could also be turned off by holding the red "hang-up" hardware button for a few seconds. This does not work with the MDA II. It's not clear if this is a bug that will be corrected through a software update or if it's a feature.
Note that all that does not really turn your MDA II completely off. But you don't want that anyway, because you'd lose all your data and installed programs, as they are in RAM only.
There are many programs that can display battery and/or storage indicators on your "today" screen. Try searching for "battery" at Handango. The only program I found so far that indicates the battery status directly in the navigation bar is SmallMenu (http://tillanosoft.com/ce/smenu.html)
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1. Tap on the network indicator, on the right middle part of the Navigation Bar (at the top of the screen), then click on "Turn Wireless Off". Then click on the Bluetooth connection on the right side of the command bar (bottom bar), and select OFF. All your flashing lights will go off.
2. Download "BatMemTime" (find it on Google). It is a free today plug-in
3. I don't use ultra profiler. You may try "My Phone Profile" by JGUI, I think it has more features.
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1. Tap on the network indicator, on the right middle part of the Navigation Bar (at the top of the screen), then click on "Turn Wireless Off". Then click on the Bluetooth connection on the right side of the command bar (bottom bar), and select OFF. All your flashing lights will go off.
2. Download "BatMemTime" (find it on Google). It is a free today plug-in
3. I don't use ultra profiler. You may try "My Phone Profile" by JGUI, I think it has more features.
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Thanks everyone for the replies and links to batt indicators... that was a big help!! i've been so used to the p800 that all this is so new to me... The manual doesn't make it clear for a non-pda user about switching the xdaII off.... not to me anyway.
Tekflow thanks... i can switch off the bt quickly and switch on just as easily now... and more important sleep without having to cover the phone with by jacket at night :roll:
Friends,
I would like to start a collection of tips on actually USING the Tab as a phone (full time). I will start off with some very obvious tips, and hope for your input.
1. Use a Bluetooth headset (or something like the LG HBM-700 Style-i Bluetooth Headset Pen)
2. Add "Direct Dial" shortcuts to your home screen to connect you to specific contacts with one click (hold down on the home screen, select Shortcut, then select Direct Dial).
Desired: The ability to bring up the phone by simply pressing in a special combination one of the (very few!) hardware buttons on the device (such as the Volume button)
Desired: The ability to get rid of the lock screen all together, so that when I turn on the Tab right away I am at my home screen without needing to "slide to unlock".
Desired: The ability to make the Tab car-friendly... I would like to easily use it while driving (with a bluetooth headset) without purchasing a car mount. Does the Tab have "Car Mode" like other Android devices?
Your input is much appreciated!
There are several apps that eliminate the need for a lock screen. I use this free one and it works very well on the Tab. When you push the power button the home screen is displayed, no unlock to worry about.
http://market.android.com/details?id=org.jraf.android.nolock
The Tab does support Car mode without the dock, install the Car Home app from the posting below and add a shortcut to your home screen, when you are in the car just launch the Car Home app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922601
There are other third party car apps available in the Marketplace that are more customizable than the Samsung app, one of the more popular ones is Car Dock Home v3.
http://market.android.com/details?id=net.cwfk.ig88.carhome3
I'm not sure if this is in the spirit of the original post, but I've been using Skype quite successfully with my Sprint Galaxy Tab and a corded headset. Although it works without the headset, I prefer not to broadcast both sides of my conversation throughout the room.
I read somewhere (maybe here?) that Skype is working on being able to use the forward facing camera for two-way video but after seeing myself, I'd just as soon not.
I'm not sure why I need to be able to use my SGT as a phone, but hey, what are toys for, if not to play?
Unfortunately I have no experience with Skype on the Tab, but I'd like to thank the second poster for his links to the Car App and other useful stuff.
Keep it coming!
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I'm not sure if this is in the spirit of the original post, but I've been using Skype quite successfully with my Sprint Galaxy Tab and a corded headset. Although it works without the headset, I prefer not to broadcast both sides of my conversation throughout the room.
I read somewhere (maybe here?) that Skype is working on being able to use the forward facing camera for two-way video but after seeing myself, I'd just as soon not.
I'm not sure why I need to be able to use my SGT as a phone, but hey, what are toys for, if not to play?
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I also would like to figure out how to set the Tab into Silent mode so that when it rings it does not even vibrate... but selectively, without having to go into the Settings menu every time.
After using the Tab as my primary phone for one week I must admit defeat. I admin defeat probably not for a reason you could guess...
Carrying the Tab in a jeans pocket regularily causes BACKPAIN! It took me all of one week to realize that when I have the Tab in my jeans pocket my leg muscles seem to be pressured in a strange way which causes me to sit and walk a bit crooked... which quickly casues backpain! The problem seems the be the constant pressure against my leg.
I am sorry to admit defeat, I really wanted to use the Tab for all my tasks.
Get looser jeans :-} ????
Get a small messenger bag to hold the tab, it is not that difficult.
I have the problems of carrying the tab around as well. I ended up purchasing the blue tooth from samsung Modus 3500. I was amazed at how well the music quality is streamed, and the freedom of walking away from it up stair to down stair
is anyone else missing the "new PBX linked to my GV" button on the sipdroid home screen??
no my sipdriod app is still working ...i cant wait until 2.3 ....it adds voip to our tabs ..which will be nice ...
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I also would like to figure out how to set the Tab into Silent mode so that when it rings it does not even vibrate... but selectively, without having to go into the Settings menu every time.
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That is simple, if you swipe your finger from the notification bar downwards, it opens a slide out drawer where you can press the Silent button on top. That silences your phone until you go back and press the Silent button again.
Cheers,
its wierd, when i put sipdroid on my droid x the gv setup button is at the homescreen... but not on my tab?!
nvm it doesnt show up on my DX anymore either?!
I have the following issues:
1. I can't get GV to verify my number using sipdroid because of no DMTF! which makes it hard to be used as a phone these days with all automated screens you goo through before talking to a person
2. I have 3 old bluetooth headsets but none of them worked with my tab
nice, appreciate this
I have used the stock car mode that comes with android and car home v3 and they both suck. All they do is provide big buttons to launch apps that go to their normal size selves.
Key features car mode should have:
1. Everything gets played through the speaker (except for when something is hooked to headphone jack, or bluetooth)
2. Some hitting the home button goes to the car mode home, not home page. The way it is now you have to keep back until you realize you are drifting into oncoming traffic.
3. Disable the lockscreen when in car mode/Option to have the screen not timeout. Every time the screen turns off, I'm stuck unlocking the phone again.
Everyone else list what you think should be put in and maybe a nice dev will help out.
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3. Disable the lockscreen when in car mode/Option to have the screen not timeout. Every time the screen turns off, I'm stuck unlocking the phone again.
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assuming you also have the phone plugged in while in your car, you can do this in the applications->development settings
dLo GSR said:
assuming you also have the phone plugged in while in your car, you can do this in the applications->development settings
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Yea but I prefer to have it no lockscreen with it timing out, I dont usually have it charging. I have it just plugged in to the 3.5mm headphone jack.
#3: I think Tasker should help you out there. Possibly with #1, too.
I use car dock home v3. It's ok. I have 3 audio widgets and I can put player control widgets on the home screen, i like that. I do notice tho that when I go into google navigation it sometimes can't find GPS even if I leave gps on all the time plus having car dock set to turn it on. In those cases I turn it on and off and then it's fine.
There also seem to be some problems with vlingo and google voice. For some apps it uses one then switches to the other. Also the vlingo in car safe reader doesnt always work, to be fair its still in beta and when it does work its awesome. Finally I dont know if I did something but I no longer hear calls through the car speakers. Maybe I have to turn auto speaker phone off?
My biggest annoyance is Acast, my podcast player, doesnt like Car dock. It will pause podcasts when i go to dock home screen. It sometimes restarts podcasts from beginning when unpausing. I use Acast alot, so that's my biggest gripe. Tho since the last update of Acast the whole thing has been slow.
downloaded the trial for tasker, going to see how that works. Though it is a solution, this is something the car dock apps should be doing on their own.
Wow tasker is amazing. Solved all the things I was looking for. Its such a powerful app.
I personally don't use it, but I know it is a powerful app and since it can be set up to do many things,, I was wondering what custom thing's users are doing with it.
I'll maybe jump on board as well.
List your favorite things you use Tasker for.
I use it to silence my phone whenever my calendar says i'm working. That's about it really. Some of the things I bought it for are built into Android now but I paid for it so I make myself use it lol
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I personally don't use it, but I know it is a powerful app and since it can be set up to do many things,, I was wondering what custom thing's users are doing with it.
I'll maybe jump on board as well.
List your favorite things you use Tasker for.
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I use it primarily to automate my phone's security.
When I'm home ---> phone connects to home wifi ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns bluetooth off and adjusts my volumes
When I leave home ---> phone disconnect from wifi ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; turns bluetooth on and adjusts my volumes
When I get in my car ---> phone connect to car's bluetooth ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns volumes all the way up
When I leave my car ---> phone disconnects from bluetooth ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; adjusts volume
When I get to work ---> phone connects to work wifi ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns bluetooth off and turns of vibration mode
When I leave work ---> phone disconnects from wifi ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; turns bluetooth back on
For me, this makes my phone secure when i need it to be and insecure when I know I'll be using it. At home, in my car and at work are all times that I have my phone on me and actively using it. I don't need a secure screen so I turn it off automatically with Tasker. When I'm away from any of these places I know I'll have a pattern lock in case I lose my phone. Piece of mind and very easy to set up.
I use tasker for a ton of other things (including quiet hours) but security is my most important use.
Here are some I have:
2 sound profiles to put the phone into silent mode at night and during work hours.
An auto off bluetooth profile that turns bluetooth off if it is disconnected for more than 15 minutes.'
3 music profiles all of which auto launch Google Music and auto play and set volumes depending on which bluetooth device or headset is connected. Line in headset also disables lockscreen, car bluetooth puts phone into landscape in the car dock, bluetooth headset disables lockscreen.
360 degree rotation when charging.
Overheating warning.
when it connects to my work wifi > adjust ringer volume to half
when i'm within 100m from the gym > turn BT on
when phone is docked/charging > turn BT on
that's all i've had a chance to dig into as of now. i know there are tons of other more advanced profiles to use/set up, but i haven't bothered with learning them.
1) turn pattern lock off when on home wifi
2) take a photo of anyone putting pattern lock in wrong (twice) and email me the photo
3) when closing the camera app,.look for all photos less than 15 minutes old and upload them using foldersync to my NAS via sftp
4) Schedule Nandroid backup every 4am on Saturday morning (ensure previous nandroid backup has been uploaded to NAS)
5) backup /sdcard every night to NAS
6) (Task only) - homescreen shortcut to flash all zips in alphabetical order in folder /sdcard/AFlash/zips
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I use a profile to turn off the lock when I'm home, and turn it back on when I'm away.
One to turn off the Wi-Fi when not home and back on when I get back home
And another to download the national geographic photo of the day and set it as the wallpaper every morning.
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Launch car mode when plugged in and connected to my car's Bluetooth
Pattern lock when not home or in car
Quiet hours with emergency contact exceptions
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AndrasLOHF said:
Here are some I have:
2 sound profiles to put the phone into silent mode at night and during work hours.
An auto off bluetooth profile that turns bluetooth off if it is disconnected for more than 15 minutes.'
3 music profiles all of which auto launch Google Music and auto play and set volumes depending on which bluetooth device or headset is connected. Line in headset also disables lockscreen, car bluetooth puts phone into landscape in the car dock, bluetooth headset disables lockscreen.
360 degree rotation when charging.
Overheating warning.
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Do you mind sharing those so I can use them?
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For those with Tasks relative to being in the car, how are you determining that location?
I've been using the invert of my Home location, but that's not quite refined enough.
Can Tasker detect the uConnect BT in my Jeep? Or maybe by detecting accelerometer motions?
Curious.
markp99 said:
For those with Tasks relative to being in the car, how are you determining that location?
I've been using the invert of my Home location, but that's not quite refined enough.
Can Tasker detect the uConnect BT in my Jeep? Or maybe by detecting accelerometer motions?
Curious.
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Tasker can use your connect to BT to trigger actions.
You can have your device turn on BT (for a set number of minutes) when you disconnect from your Wifi. Then when it connects to your car via BT, it can turn off Wifi and/or open up your music player and increase the volume. Or do any number of things.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23301459&postcount=3
That list is a bit old list but I'm always adding or trying differnet things. Starting to use Scenes more now. Like the Sleepy Time one is now a Notification that pops up only during certain time then when I click it there is a small Scene with simple buttons, see attached images.
Also use Tasker to give me info in DashClock. Using OpenMic+ to launch Tasker stuff will make for some fun stuff too.
i use nfc tags associated with my car and home stuff. a tag has a tasker task linked to it. I also use a gym task/profile where when i get within 300m of the gym it turns bluetooth on adjusts volumes etc.
sbenson1226 said:
I use it primarily to automate my phone's security.
When I'm home ---> phone connects to home wifi ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns bluetooth off and adjusts my volumes
When I leave home ---> phone disconnect from wifi ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; turns bluetooth on and adjusts my volumes
When I get in my car ---> phone connect to car's bluetooth ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns volumes all the way up
When I leave my car ---> phone disconnects from bluetooth ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; adjusts volume
When I get to work ---> phone connects to work wifi ---> tasker + secure settings turns off my pattern lock; turns bluetooth off and turns of vibration mode
When I leave work ---> phone disconnects from wifi ---> tasker turns my pattern lock back on; turns bluetooth back on
For me, this makes my phone secure when i need it to be and insecure when I know I'll be using it. At home, in my car and at work are all times that I have my phone on me and actively using it. I don't need a secure screen so I turn it off automatically with Tasker. When I'm away from any of these places I know I'll have a pattern lock in case I lose my phone. Piece of mind and very easy to set up.
I use tasker for a ton of other things (including quiet hours) but security is my most important use.
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Hi,
how do you trigger the "quiet hours" setting with tasker? I want to have different startiing/ending times for quiet hours - including white list for calling. So I thought I try to find a way to trigger it from tasker.
Any ideas here?
cheers,
Tom
All,
Any thoughts on preventing car mode from resizing the screen to accommodate the enlarged soft keys and re-enable the Recents button again? I need car mode to keep the screen on while driving, but not being able to quickly transition from Maps to Google Play Music with a double tap of the Recents button, as well as the reduced screen size, is beyond annoying. Saying "don't use car mode" without a solution to keep the screen on while driving (read: not just "while charging" like the developer option allows) isn't a valid solution.
I've attached a screenshot of the issue. Thanks in advance!
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Have you tried Android Auto. Google just updated it so you can run it stand alone on a phone. It would give you a simplified car friendly screen with quick access to music and maps.
nicholb said:
Have you tried Android Auto. Google just updated it so you can run it stand alone on a phone. It would give you a simplified car friendly screen with quick access to music and maps.
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I like the concept, I just don't like being limited to only accessing those select apps, I use lots of other things to search for addresses I travel to for work, driving 50K miles per year, so I'm in the car working (yes, stopped when accessing emails) and I hate having to disable car mode every time I need to multitask
Good suggestion, I am interested in the direction of Android Auto, just not for my main device at this time
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Now car mode prevents me from seeing that a call is currently active, nothing on the notification bar, nothing on the second screen, can't hang up unless I use the controls on the car steering wheel. Need to find another solution using Tasker or otherwise. Screen on while charging in developer's options dims the screen beyond usefulness.
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you're having strange issues, are you connecting to a head unit or using the phone alone? Im not having any problems, but i dont need to switch between apps. Also now that Android Auto works over Bluetooth its i can choose between wired connection(which doesn't let me change apps) or wireless is i want to use an app while stopped. As for the call issue sounds like something is triggering the proximity sensor, i had the same issue when i had a screen protector for a different device on at the beginning?
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Now car mode prevents me from seeing that a call is currently active, nothing on the notification bar, nothing on the second screen, can't hang up unless I use the controls on the car steering wheel. Need to find another solution using Tasker or otherwise. Screen on while charging in developer's options dims the screen beyond usefulness.
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I just ordered the V20 today and intend on using it in Landscape mode while driving and using Google Maps or Waze. My previous phone Note 4, the screen would always stay on as long as i had Google Maps running. I never used the car mode feature and always had it plugged in while driving. Do you really need to use Car mode? Couldnt you just keep Google Maps active and access other apps as needed?
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I just ordered the V20 today and intend on using it in Landscape mode while driving and using Google Maps or Waze. My previous phone Note 4, the screen would always stay on as long as i had Google Maps running. I never used the car mode feature and always had it plugged in while driving. Do you really need to use Car mode? Couldnt you just keep Google Maps active and access other apps as needed?
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That would be fine for the times I'm ONLY using Maps, but not Music or anything else that keeps screen on while in foreground. If I switch to anything other than Maps, I have to switch back before the screen times out - and considering the power button is almost impossible to get to when mounted, that isn't a viable solution for me, unfortunately.
KryptosXLayer2 said:
That would be fine for the times I'm ONLY using Maps, but not Music or anything else that keeps screen on while in foreground. If I switch to anything other than Maps, I have to switch back before the screen times out - and considering the power button is almost impossible to get to when mounted, that isn't a viable solution for me, unfortunately.
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Yeah, this was the first thing I noticed\hated with either the V20 or 7.0, I hate that the nav buttons increase in car\dock mode. I use CarHome Ultra as my docking app and the only way I have found around it is to Auto hide the Navbar when I'm running CarHome Ultra and my Navigation GPS app. I auto-hide just those two apps from within the "Home Touch Button" tab in the Display settings. I can add shortcuts within CarHome Ultra to the apps I my use while driving: Etc...Nav, Messenger, phone app.
Hope this helps some.
That actually did help me! Thanks. I also use Car Home Ultra, which I love, but I had switched from 8 buttons to 6 because they were too squashed due to the nav buttons at the bottom.