Hello, i just bought an S View smart cover and it does simple nothing.
I have tried google-ing this but no help at all, many people say that i need to go to settings - My Device and so on but my phone does not have that option.
Could this not work cause i have my phone root-ed with Resurrection Remix v5.2.8 - Android version 5.0.2 ?
I can see the cover unlocks the phone but the glass is useless it does not work, nothing shrinks, it does not post notifications or anythink.
S View cover was made with touchwiz and gpe roms in mind. I don't think aosp roms have support for it.
The phone unlocks due to the magnet inside the cover and the sensor inside the phone. It will unlock with any other cover which has a magnet inside, it happened on my phone with a cheap flip cover which had a magnet lock.
Yeah ok, is there any app that i could use ? or should i just change the ROM ? I had CM12.1 but it had some many problems that i had to change.
You could use GPE or maybe a touchwiz based custom rom. I know the GPE changes the screen with the cover since I've saw it myself. But I don't know how the other features work.
What is GPE ? is that a rom or ?
I thought this should work with everything no mater the ROM.
GPE or Google Play Edition is a rom based on the Google Play Edition S4. This is basically the same rom you find on a Nexus device. Pure android by Google. It's very basic. Of course, the GPE rom I'm talking about has a few customization options. Like center status bar clock, and battery text or circle icon, internet traffic in the status bar, and some others.
I think the S View cover function has to be implemented into the rom. I don't know. I haven't seen many posts about the S View cover.
Yeah ok that is interesting, yeah i tried onve the Google Play Edition, i think it was the Lite version and i had to many problems for me so i decide to change.
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I am starting to get tired of stock S4 without any extra features, and have been looking at all the roms. I have a limited choice since there are some only for the AT&T variant, and I have the Koodo(Is this telus?) variant.I want to be able to choose what toggles I have in the notification bar, and also get rid of the high volume warning, along with the clear defaults warning. From what I can see, the only ones that can do that are the ones source code based ones, which means I cannot use any S apps. I really only need S Planner, as everything is on my google calender, and S voice, since it's awesome.
Anyone have any ways to have the s apps on the Source code based roms or any alternatives?
If you find an answer to this, and/or find a ROM that has the air gestures (mostly hand wave over turned off screen to quick view stats, and hand wave to answer call), let me know!
Hi all,
I have owned my Nexus 4 for about 4 months now, and while I love the ability to customize my experience, I am always looking at ways of customizing that streamline things instead of adding more functionality. Rather than having 12 ways to do one thing at all times, I'd rather have the single best way to do 12 things at my disposal. I don't need HALO, the notification shade, and a notification widget all running at once to inform me about new notifications. When I look at the ROM scene on XDA, it seems like people are really interested in adding things to the standard android experience, but nobody seems to be working on trimming the unnecessary features away while adding things that work better/look and feel more elegant. I don't just mean debloated GApps packages, I mean ROMs that use Android's customizability do things better than Google intended.
To give a personal example, I am running stock Android on the Matr1x kernel with the Xposed framework installed to enable Pie Controls so I don't waste screen space, change the battery indicator to a circle/percentage, quick settings to get easy access to torch, settings, wifi, etc in the notification shade, and unicon to enable custom icons in the Google Experience Launcher so all my icons are uniform. This way I have as much information as possible easily accessible at all times, and my phone has a standardized look throughout. However, I feel like I am sticking it all together with tape and strings, and I am still stuck with some of stock android's bloat. It would be great if there were some people out there who shared a similar desire for streamlining the Android experience. Do any of you at XDA have any advice for me as I look for such a ROM, or is this about as good as it's going to get? If I could code I'd just do it myself .
Anyway, thanks for your time!
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Hi all,
I have owned my Nexus 4 for about 4 months now, and while I love the ability to customize my experience, I am always looking at ways of customizing that streamline things instead of adding more functionality. Rather than having 12 ways to do one thing at all times, I'd rather have the single best way to do 12 things at my disposal. I don't need HALO, the notification shade, and a notification widget all running at once to inform me about new notifications. When I look at the ROM scene on XDA, it seems like people are really interested in adding things to the standard android experience, but nobody seems to be working on trimming the unnecessary features away while adding things that work better/look and feel more elegant. I don't just mean debloated GApps packages, I mean ROMs that use Android's customizability do things better than Google intended.
To give a personal example, I am running stock Android on the Matr1x kernel with the Xposed framework installed to enable Pie Controls so I don't waste screen space, change the battery indicator to a circle/percentage, quick settings to get easy access to torch, settings, wifi, etc in the notification shade, and unicon to enable custom icons in the Google Experience Launcher so all my icons are uniform. This way I have as much information as possible easily accessible at all times, and my phone has a standardized look throughout. However, I feel like I am sticking it all together with tape and strings, and I am still stuck with some of stock android's bloat. It would be great if there were some people out there who shared a similar desire for streamlining the Android experience. Do any of you at XDA have any advice for me as I look for such a ROM, or is this about as good as it's going to get? If I could code I'd just do it myself .
Anyway, thanks for your time!
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Plus one for this. Are you running KitKat 4.4.2?
4.4.1 at the moment as I haven't found the time to flash the update manually. Glad to see someone else gets where I am coming from .
Hi guys,
Not sure what to search for(I've done a bit and couldn't find what I was after) so sorry if this has been answered before.
I'm wanting to make my device more nexusy/googly ie get the stock settings back etc. I've frozen most of the samsung apps and enabled softkeys through build.prob and a few other changes.
Couple of things I want would be the google home button circle gestures where you press and hold the soft home button and the ring pops up - at present this doesn't do anything at all.
I'd also like to either modify the settings to either appear less Samsungy or to replace with the stock settings.
Not sure if this is possible but just thought I'd throw it out there. I'm not keen on using a custom ROM that's touchwiz based as I don't really want to make any changes I don't know about and CM has some bugs that I'm not really happy to live with.
If anyone wonders why I'm asking(ie 'why didn't you just buy a nexus') I've recently fell out of love with Sammy due to some of their strategic decisions eg Tizen among other things so it's more recent - and since I rooted to improve battery power I thought I'd see what I could do.
illuzian said:
Hi guys,
Not sure what to search for(I've done a bit and couldn't find what I was after) so sorry if this has been answered before.
I'm wanting to make my device more nexusy/googly ie get the stock settings back etc. I've frozen most of the samsung apps and enabled softkeys through build.prob and a few other changes.
Couple of things I want would be the google home button circle gestures where you press and hold the soft home button and the ring pops up - at present this doesn't do anything at all.
I'd also like to either modify the settings to either appear less Samsungy or to replace with the stock settings.
Not sure if this is possible but just thought I'd throw it out there. I'm not keen on using a custom ROM that's touchwiz based as I don't really want to make any changes I don't know about and CM has some bugs that I'm not really happy to live with.
If anyone wonders why I'm asking(ie 'why didn't you just buy a nexus') I've recently fell out of love with Sammy due to some of their strategic decisions eg Tizen among other things so it's more recent - and since I rooted to improve battery power I thought I'd see what I could do.
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Uhh....flash an AOSP ROM?
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Uhh....flash an AOSP ROM?
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I haven't seen any bug free custom compiled ROMs for the Note 3 at all, kind of touched the topic of custom ROMs in my post above.
Only bug free ROMs I've seen are Samsung based ROMs.
I'm sure if working AOSP ROMs were all groovy and functionally, CM wouldn't have so many issues at this point and AOKP wouldn't be using CM as a base.
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I haven't seen any bug free custom compiled ROMs for the Note 3 at all, kind of touched the topic of custom ROMs in my post above.
Only bug free ROMs I've seen are Samsung based ROMs.
I'm sure if working AOSP ROMs were all groovy and functionally, CM wouldn't have so many issues at this point and AOKP wouldn't be using CM as a base.
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It depends. I've been using an AOSP base for a couple of months already and it's great.
Hello,
I have a Samsung Galaxy A5 2015 (SM-A500G) and I have a custom rom installed on it (Viper OS Android 9). The rom is amazing but I have put an official S View Cover on it and clearly, as it is a different rom, the cover does not bring up any windows and it makes the cover basically useless :crying:. Is there anyway that someone can port the Samsung Galaxy A5 2015 S View cover service or app for a custom rom or updated android? I tried many app like s view cover pro from google play store but all of these apps do not function properly and used proximity sensor which is really annoying as every time you put your hand over the proximity sensor (say if you are gaming in landscape mode) the window pops up. I would be really happy if someone is able to give me a port or a working s view app that does not use the proximity sensor but rather magnetic sensor like in the official stock rom.
Thank you and Regards.
Request one of our many gracious and wonderful developers to port a Samsung Nougat ROM for our beloved P905. I understand that porting a One UI based ROM would be very tough because of the deep changes. I hope porting a Nougat ROM from one of the many Samsung Nougat tablets would be a tad more do-able.
I once again acknowledge that our developers have their own lives to lead and priorities in life and are doing us a favor by spending their valuable time to develop ports and Lineage OS based latest android builds for our aging dinosaur.
A Samsung Nougat based ROM would be wonderful for the P905.
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Request one of our many gracious and wonderful developers to port a Samsung Nougat ROM for our beloved P905. I understand that porting a One UI based ROM would be very tough because of the deep changes. I hope porting a Nougat ROM from one of the many Samsung Nougat tablets would be a tad more do-able.
I once again acknowledge that our developers have their own lives to lead and priorities in life and are doing us a favor by spending their valuable time to develop ports and Lineage OS based latest android builds for our aging dinosaur.
A Samsung Nougat based ROM would be wonderful for the P905.
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Hi Chudu.
What are the Samsung specific features that you're looking for when it comes to One UI or Touchwiz?
Hi shardsx,
By Samsung specific features, I mean mainly the Samsung Touchwiz/Grace UI and the myriad of settings and customization features unique to Samsung firmware.
And as a possible bonus, if the ported ROM is from another S-pen supported tablet/phone, then the included S-pen features would be the icing on the cake.
Developers like Valeria1978 have developed Lineage0S for this aging tablet based on Android 10 and it feels so much lighter on the resources. But inevitably, I find myself going back to the Note 7 ported ROM because I miss the stock Samsung firmware look and features.
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Hi shardsx,
By Samsung specific features, I mean mainly the Samsung Touchwiz/Grace UI and the myriad of settings and customization features unique to Samsung firmware.
And as a possible bonus, if the ported ROM is from another S-pen supported tablet/phone, then the included S-pen features would be the icing on the cake.
Developers like Valeria1978 have developed Lineage0S for this aging tablet based on Android 10 and it feels so much lighter on the resources. But inevitably, I find myself going back to the Note 7 ported ROM because I miss the stock Samsung firmware look and features.
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Unfortunately it appears that the best path forward is to go with the Lineage OS builds from Valera1978. There hasn't been any other developers taking up the mantle with the P905, so we're only here at Android 10 by the good graces of Valera and his work. This is why I was curious to see if there was something specific to Touchwiz ROMs that appeal to you which could be mimicked in software but allow you to continue using the latest Lineage builds. For example, there's online praise of SPenCommand which is a 3rd party app (outside of Google Play) that recreates TouchWiz's S-Pen functionality for Lineage and AOSP ROMs, (note that I haven't personally purchased or used this software). LectureNotes, which I do use, is a very good note-taking alternative to S-Notes.
Since knowledge emerged on how to fix the S-Pen palm rejection that has been broken since Lineage 15.1, Lineage 17.1 has been my daily driver and working pretty well. I would have liked to stick to Lineage 16.1 as I find it more stable and polished than 17.1 but I cannot get a successful compile of Valera's 16.1 ROM to boot on my tablet.
If anyone can figure that out, I can probably provide a Lineage 16.1 build that:
- enables S-Pen palm rejection
- enables Bluetooth pairing of PS4 DualShock4 controller without the associated nasty input lag
I fully agree with you. I have not tried the Spencommand software, but now that you have mentioned it, I will try to find it and use it.
Apart from the comparative lack of customizability, there are 3 reasons which I find irksome about the 17.1 build.
First is the rotation bug. After a while, the tablet simply gets stuck in portrait mode and only a reboot gets the landscape mode working again.
Secondly, I need to swipe at least 3 or 4 times in order to pull down the quick settings and notification shade and it is extremely slow while it opens out.
Thirdly, I use my P905 a lot for making calls and in spite of trying everything, I'm unable to hear the voice of the person on the other line when on voice calls. I'm forced to use a Bluetooth speaker which is not always convenient.
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I fully agree with you. I have not tried the Spencommand software, but now that you have mentioned it, I will try to find it and use it.
Apart from the comparative lack of customizability, there are 3 reasons which I find irksome about the 17.1 build.
First is the rotation bug. After a while, the tablet simply gets stuck in portrait mode and only a reboot gets the landscape mode working again.
Secondly, I need to swipe at least 3 or 4 times in order to pull down the quick settings and notification shade and it is extremely slow while it opens out.
Thirdly, I use my P905 a lot for making calls and in spite of trying everything, I'm unable to hear the voice of the person on the other line when on voice calls. I'm forced to use a Bluetooth speaker which is not always convenient.
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The telephony aspect of this tablet is something that I am unable to provide any alternatives. My carrier appears to be incompatible with my tablet so I never looked into this at all.
In terms of the rotation bug, I use an app called Ultimate Rotation Control and manually rotate using its Notification widget. This bug exists with all versions of Lineage OS and this was the only workaround I've found which consistently works.
For the notification shade, this is one area that I think Lineage 16.1 offers a smoother experience. I found that certain apps like Youtube, TunedIn Radio, or any apps that utilizes a background image for its notification card will cause the notification shade to lag. Once an affecting app generates a notification card that causes the stuttering behavior, there's no way to recover other than to reboot. Even if the affecting app is closed, the notification shade continues to be slow and stuttery. The only workaround I've found is to disable all notifications for the affecting apps and then reboot.
In terms of quickly pulling down the notification shade with everything expanded in one go, there is an option in Lineage OS in the Settings app, under System > Status Bar -> Quick Pulldown. Enabling this option will allow a single swipe from the status bar to display a fully expanded notification shade with all the toggles and cards expanded.
I know the biggest problem for you is the telephony and call volume. Unfortunately nothing I have said is going to help with that. I hope perhaps Valera or a new developer may be able to help you. At least I hope my words would help anyone else with similar problems who happens to stumble upon this post.
Lastly, I'd like to share that to get the experience of a fullsize keyboard similar to Touchwiz, Hacker's Keyboard is probably as close as you can get with so little developers producing keyboards that are appropriate for tablets of this size.
Thank you so much for all this information. I will definitely try out the spencommand apk and hacker's keyboard.
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Thank you so much for all this information. I will definitely try out the spencommand apk and hacker's keyboard.
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Hi Chudu,
I'm afraid to report bad news. I tried SPenCommand downloaded from the developer's page but it doesn't seem to launch on my device using Lineage OS 17.1. If you are going to try and switch ROMs to try this software, please be aware of this potential snag.
Hi shardsx,
Can you provide me a link to the download page? I'll try it out on my weekly off and see if I'm able to launch it.
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Hi shardsx,
Can you provide me a link to the download page? I'll try it out on my weekly off and see if I'm able to launch it.
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The developer of this app is called @emandt. He had a thread about this app here at XDA.
His website is http://www.emandt.net/Android/SPenCommand/Website/. On this page you can find the download links. This is a paid app hosted outside the Google Store and relies on an in-app purchase to unlock. As I mentioned, this app seems to instantaneously close on me so it seems to do nothing. The author seems to have last updated this app to support Android Oreo or Lineage 15.