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Double tap screen off like g3 with nova.

Not sure if anyone using nova knows this or anyone interested or anyone wants to get nova or whatever reason just likes to have this feature.
First step is install nova and prime (I think it requires this because we need the gesture)
Go to app store and download Screen off and lock by katecca. (You might wanna activate the app first) .
Once downloaded go to nova setting. Go under gesture and buttons. Select double tap. On the top tab select app. Scroll down to screen off (under s). When you first select it. It will have to activate the app first and just hit yes/activate it. (Unless you activated it first)
Once done..
You can now double tap anywhere to get screen off instead of the status bar.

Awesome! Thanks for the tip!
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Thanks dadster! This is something I've been looking for. I've been holding off on rooting and all that fun jazz and you just made my experience that much better!

YankInDaSouth said:
Awesome! Thanks for the tip!
Sent from my Nexus 6
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Gorjira said:
Thanks dadster! This is something I've been looking for. I've been holding off on rooting and all that fun jazz and you just made my experience that much better!
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Cool! Glad I could help.

This is awesome finding!
Sent from my Nexus 6

Thanks! Good find till a dev can get the wake/sleep working without issues!

Now if only the back button was on the right hand side so when I use the phone in my right hand I can reach it.

If you have greenify you can link doubletap to that also.

That's what I've been doing for a while myself... Double tap will Hibernate + Lock phone aka Sleep.
Works very well

how about the other way?
Mistertac said:
That's what I've been doing for a while myself... Double tap will Hibernate + Lock phone aka Sleep.
Works very well
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G3 allows you to open and unlock phone? with tap patterns. Would love❤ to see that on this phone?.

Works but really does lock the phone so Smart Lock doesn't function when you're in a trusted location.. anyone know of a workaround or an app similar that will work with Lollipop?

Validus ROM has double table status bar to sleep. You can download it on their google + page.

I know this thread is a little old. Is this still the best double tap to sleep method through Nova?

Is there a way to see recent apps and switch between them?

Is there a way to see recently launched apps and switch between them?

This function should be definitely included in default system. So useful!

Can't test it now but try it with long pressing the home button

Huberer said:
Can't test it now but try it with long pressing the home button
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that goes to the twitch thingy unfortunately.

xd4d3v said:
that goes to the twitch thingy unfortunately.
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Ok, didn't know. Thank you

I had the same idea but did not work lol.

I am not sure what you are looking for exactly, but the list of apps on the original launcher is always reorganized to show the most recently used apps first. Or are you using a different launcher?
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The best way of doing this is with LMT Launcher using it's Pie feature. Install it, and set up an item as Activity -> System UI -> com.android.systemui.recent.RecentsActivity. This gives you the recent apps, which is normally non-accessible on the shield. You can then add a few others as you see fit. I've added the power menu for example, which gives you the full power off, reboot and sleep options. Not found that anywhere else. All works best with a mouse, so you're best using an alternative launcher like HALauncher. But I suspect most people are doing that anyway given how restricted and awful Leanback is.
It can be downloaded here.

this is like the third or fourth thread about this

MIUI notes/tips

I don't know about anyone else, but this is my first MIUI phone.
I thought it would be useful to start a thread regarding MIUI notes/tips/etc that are specific to MIUI.
The first big one of course - how to fix push notifications:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/...ions-on-xiaomis-miui-8-for-real/#11f834174e1b

I was about to start this very thread
I found a cool feature
You can select several photos for deleting by simply gliding your fingers over the photos
Another cool feature
You can orient that device do that it's upside
The top bezel-less becomes downwards.
The phone is also programmed to rotate it to the standard orientation during a phone call because of Mic location.

One thing I quite like is how specific WIFI connects can be disabled without having to remove them.
Our work WIFI blocks certain things, so it's nice to be able to disable it but not have
to totally remove it (and then reenter all the passwords when I re-enter it).

ChodTheWacko said:
One thing I quite like is how specific WIFI connects can be disabled without having to remove them.
Our work WIFI blocks certain things, so it's nice to be able to disable it but not have
to totally remove it (and then reenter all the passwords when I re-enter it).
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What do you mean

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What do you mean
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For each WIFI connection, there is a little > to the right of it.
If you touch that you go into another menu, and one option is 'auto connect on/off'.
Turning off autoconnect helps in situations where there are multiple WIFI signals, but you only want it autoconnecting to a specific one.
- Frank

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2 finger swipe on notifications displays their details (or what is called Peek)

ChodTheWacko said:
For each WIFI connection, there is a little > to the right of it.
If you touch that you go into another menu, and one option is 'auto connect on/off'.
Turning off autoconnect helps in situations where there are multiple WIFI signals, but you only want it autoconnecting to a specific one.
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Thanks for clarifying.
What if I'm in the range of two networks that I've saved the passwords for.
Which does the mi mix connect to when I enter range?
Looks like the last one I've connected to.
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2 finger swipe on notifications displays their details (or what is called Peek)
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That's actually a primitive way of doing it.
Samsung did it better by letting you 'peek' one-handedly with a simple swipe down of the notification.
With mi mix, I have to use two hands. I can do it with one hand but it's tough.

CorruptedSanity said:
That's actually a primitive way of doing it.
Samsung did it better by letting you 'peek' one-handedly with a simple swipe down of the notification.
With mi mix, I have to use two hands. I can do it with one hand but it's tough.
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And just found out, we can't "swipe away" the notifications from the lockscreen directly. Need to pull down the shade and clear from there. Would this not be considered a stupid decision?!

saurabhsun said:
And just found out, we can't "swipe away" the notifications from the lockscreen directly. Need to pull down the shade and clear from there. Would this not be considered a stupid decision?!
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Perhaps there's a solution if you root/install Xposed & a module is available for lockscreen options.
I'm rooted,but, haven't used Xposed in ages, considering trying it again......
On Samsung devices,(non-root) Ad Blocking apps have a persistent notification on the lockscreen that cannot be swiped away,.The only remedy for this was to turn off the ad blocking.
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How to always have mobile data allow to download app from playstore ? Have disable only wifi in playstore settings but always prompt to have wifi
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mobile88 said:
How to always have mobile data allow to download app from playstore ? Have disable only wifi in playstore settings but always prompt to have wifi
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Open Downloads app, Triple Dot, Settings, Set unlimited download limit for mobile. This resolves that issue.

TQ very much for that tip
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youtube /watch?v=NG7GmbVGBlA
A guide to uninstall a few of the system apps such as Chinese Keyboard, Messaging app etc.

saurabhsun said:
youtube /watch?v=NG7GmbVGBlA
A guide to uninstall a few of the system apps such as Chinese Keyboard, Messaging app etc.
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I followed all the steps.
I understood that there are several instances of settings and installed apps.
I went through all of them but still could not disable or uninstall pre-loaded apps like Mi Credit, Mi Cloud and all those Mi nonsense apps.

CorruptedSanity said:
I followed all the steps.
I understood that there are several instances of settings and installed apps.
I went through all of them but still could not disable or uninstall pre-loaded apps like Mi Credit, Mi Cloud and all those Mi nonsense apps.
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Those are uninstallable I guess (as Mi earns from these apps and not selling the phone), few rubbish were uninstalled using this method.

I should be able to disable them though
Apparently not

Some more MIUI notes:
menu + volume down = screenshot
hardware test: dial *#*#6484#*#*
More phone info: dial *#*#4636#*#*
There is a toggle to disable the navigation buttons (double tap them to re-enable)
handy if you keep accidentally hitting them.
in 'buttons' can auto disable for any particular app (games)
In accessibility there is a magnification mode - triple tap to allow/disable zooming of screen. (EDIT: it's bugged - it isn't supposed to trigger during keyboard typing,but it does, effectively making it useless)
wake with volume buttons is in lockscreen menu, not "button"

There are some apps that just won't stay uninstalled. Anyone got idea how to remove them? PPTV for example

Kildras said:
There are some apps that just won't stay uninstalled. Anyone got idea how to remove them? PPTV for example
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Needs to be rooted to remove system app

Screen Off?

Maybe I'm just overlooking something obvious - but is there a way (other than the button on the back) to turn off the primary display??
I have figured out that i can double tap to wake. But haven't figured out bow to turn off.

Disregard. Found out that i can double tap status bar for knock on feature to turn off.

You should be able to double tap home screen as well to turn off
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LuRock said:
You should be able to double tap home screen as well to turn off
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I think this has to be an empty spot on home screen. I use 5x5 and keep it pretty packed - so that doesn't work for me. But you are correct

Smidgers said:
I think this has to be an empty spot on home screen. I use 5x5 and keep it pretty packed - so that doesn't work for me. But you are correct
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Keep in mind you can also double tap the notification bar if space is at a premium... I'm using Nova Launcher so only the notification bar works, which is good enough for me...

dimm0k said:
Keep in mind you can also double tap the notification bar if space is at a premium... I'm using Nova Launcher so only the notification bar works, which is good enough for me...
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Yes - this is what i use now. Will take some getting used to, but seems easy enough to adjust to.

I'm using Nova Prime and double tap on and off work fine. No need to use notification bar to tap off here. I can double tap any empty spot on any screen and it will turn off.
If it doesn't work like that for you - must be something else.
1. Do you have Nova Prime, or Free?
2. Do you use live wallpaper?

midmadn said:
I'm using Nova Prime and double tap on and off work fine. No need to use notification bar to tap off here. I can double tap any empty spot on any screen and it will turn off.
If it doesn't work like that for you - must be something else.
1. Do you have Nova Prime, or Free?
2. Do you use live wallpaper?
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This does work. I use the stock launcher. There's just not a lot of open real estate on my home screen. Also doesnt work outside of home screen (that I've noticed). So status bar has been OK.

When XPOSED eventually comes to Nougat there was an option in some of the old G3/G4 Tweakboxes (which ran on the G5, V10, etc) to double tap the navigation bar as well as the status bar.
I got very accustom to that so hopefully that will become an option in the future as well.
For now, I am using Nova Prime Double tap to run a tasker task that executes a shell command (as root) to emulate the power button press. This will turn off the display and still allow you to wake it back up with the fingerprint sensor since other methods make use of the device administrator and require a pin/password/knock-code to unlock.

Artimis said:
When XPOSED eventually comes to Nougat there was an option in some of the old G3/G4 Tweakboxes (which ran on the G5, V10, etc) to double tap the navigation bar as well as the status bar.
I got very accustom to that so hopefully that will become an option in the future as well.
For now, I am using Nova Prime Double tap to run a tasker task that executes a shell command (as root) to emulate the power button press. This will turn off the display and still allow you to wake it back up with the fingerprint sensor since other methods make use of the device administrator and require a pin/password/knock-code to unlock.
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Unfortunately our work email app (maas360) does not play nice with root. So i don't think that is in my future

Double tap to off is not working on LG v20 while using Google launcher
If I'm using Google launcher on my LG v20.... Double tap to off is not working instead of enabling it on setting.
I like stock experience in any phone plz suggest me a way

Look for the Microsoft launcher, tap to wake and sleep works with it

Double tap to off is not working on LG v20 while using Google launcher
Smidgers said:
This does work. I use the stock launcher. There's just not a lot of open real estate on my home screen. Also doesnt work outside of home screen (that I've noticed). So status bar has been OK.
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I like to have stock experience on my phone so I downloaded Google launcher on my LG v20 and my* double tap to off the screen is not working ... Is there any suggestions...??

Sai.virinchi said:
I like to have stock experience on my phone so I downloaded Google launcher on my LG v20 and my* double tap to off the screen is not working ... Is there any suggestions...??
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I use the stock LG V20 launcher. But I'm thinking that you could still use the knock feature by double tapping the status bar

Alternative launcher can't lock screen ?

Hi everyone!
I found this very annoying problem with my LG G6 when I use an alternative launcher and I activate the gesture double tap to lock screen the phone show me a message with write that this option is not allowed !
Nova launcher have a smart solutions like turn the stand by at 5 sec after the double tap ...it's work but not best solution in addition not all launcher have this options...
LG G6 have in stock the options double tap to awake/sleep ... Why launcher can't works with this ?
I really want fix this annoying problem I hope without root ...
Thanks in advance

I don't have root and use Nova and can unlock my phone with a double tab.
Have you made Nova a system administrator?

Well I think no ... If you don't have this problem.. could you please tell me how do this? Thanks in advance

G4sta1apple said:
Well I think no ... If you don't have this problem.. could you please tell me how do this? Thanks in advance
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I wish I could, but I've never had this problem - I've used Nova for a few years, starting on my G4 and it has always just allowed the double tap function, and no different on my G6.
I'd start though by going into the Phone Settings screen > Fingerprints and Security > Phone Administrators and enabling Nova Launcher as admin. If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas.

I tried your solution but now there's another kind of problem if I activate permission I can't unlock the phone with the sensor finger print ! It's unlock only with pin
Do you have the same ?

Do you use free or paid version of Nova Launcher?

I use the pay version but I have the same problem with all alternative launcher tsf shell for example...
I'm really the only one ?

G4sta1apple said:
I tried your solution but now there's another kind of problem if I activate permission I can't unlock the phone with the sensor finger print ! It's unlock only with pin
Do you have the same ?
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Are you sure it isn't just asking you to unlock with a PIN for the first time?

I found this post, don't know if it will work not using Nova right now Quote: Go to gestures and click double tap to lockscreen and then choose root. It does work. If your having problems or dont have root, choose to set it as an administrator.

I already set like an administrator but it doesn't work ...

kingdave82 said:
Are you sure it isn't just asking you to unlock with a PIN for the first time?
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No it ask me everytime I lock with double tap

I found another strange thing .... When I lock phone with double tap on status bar all works perfectly..when I lock it doing double tap in other point of screen it doesn't work ...

Only remaining ideas I have then are to clear the data and the cache of Nova, then uninstall it (as well as any other Nova related apps you have like Tesla, Nova Prime etc). Reboot the phone, then reinstall Nova from the Play Store, then (if you have it) reinstall Nova Prime from the Play Store too.
Press the Home button (circle on the bottom of the screen) and when it asks you which launcher you want to use, select Nova and open it to then go through all the settings. Make sure you allow any permissions it asks for, and follow through with the set up. Then, once that's all done, make sure you make Nova an administrator as per my earlier post.
Hopefully that'll work!

Here is workaround for Tasker users:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=73462212

I read on the web that this annoying problem it's made because a security level introduced nougat that not allow to app to lock the screen ...
Anyway thanks to kulvetti now I solved this problem ! The solution using tasker it's perfect!!
Many many thanks!

Give a try to cm launcher and lockscreen. They provide better lockscreen and more customizations.