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Some questions for SGS II experts

Hi All,
I just for the SGS II the other day and have some questions.
A few questions for the experts..
1. Can you change the widget that it comes with in the notification area? Meaning is there an option to add flight mode etc? I know I can get widgets after market but the one Samsung bundles is quite good.
2. Gmail icon, for me it doesnt have the number of emails notification. Anyone else have this? If so can you recommend another gmail icon that will notify and take me to the gmail app?
3. I also tried the Wifi Unlock (App from Market), but every time it goes to sleep I still get the enter the pin to get in. What am I doing wrong? The whole idea was not to type the pin when at home with wifi on?

nanohits said:
Hi All,
I just for the SGS II the other day and have some questions.
A few questions for the experts..
1. Can you change the widget that it comes with in the notification area? Meaning is there an option to add flight mode etc? I know I can get widgets after market but the one Samsung bundles is quite good.
2. Gmail icon, for me it doesnt have the number of emails notification. Anyone else have this? If so can you recommend another gmail icon that will notify and take me to the gmail app?
3. I also tried the Wifi Unlock (App from Market), but every time it goes to sleep I still get the enter the pin to get in. What am I doing wrong? The whole idea was not to type the pin when at home with wifi on?
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Hi,
As the upper sticky states : If your thread can be phrased as a question, it belongs in Galaxy S II Q&A
It's really the best way to share useful information. I bet you can understand that, 'cause if you had read all the threads, you would've found some of the info you're looking for; except that everyone that wants answers creates a thread... If we centralize all useful info and questions in one thread, it's easier to find it. Wouldn't you agree ?

My bad. Sorry. Hopefully a mod can move this.

Always on Display & Whatsapp

I just read that the always on display so far shows only text, Email and missed calls. I'm owning a moto x and the active display is one of my favorite features. Especially that it shows me a preview of the message and the sender. So I know whether it's worth to open the app or just dismiss it. For those who already got the phone, how do you deal with that? Any 3rd party apps that supports the always on display and whatsapp.

Hey,
Unfortunately, it is not like the active display, it only shows missed calls or messages no 3partyapps if need one like the moto active display u can download the app " Ac display its almost the same like the moto one here a link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.achep.acdisplay
And a screen from the always on options and possibilities
http://imgur.com/a/uzUfR
But in my opinion its a nice feature so u got always in time
Greetings Paddy-

Thanks Paddy,
I played a little bit with acdisplay the last days. Do you know how I can make as a always on display? It only pops up when I have notifications. I would like to use like samsungs active display for testing.

Just received my pre-ordered S7 EDGE. To cut it short, with no ROOT or other tweaks at the moment, the AOD only shows missed calls and text messages (not even e-mails). So although a nice attempt, if fails lamentably. It is only really useful if you want to check the time or battery power most of the time.
Also, off topic, the edge display is also nice, but not actually useful since it does not pop up when screen is off and a notification arrives.
Just my 2 cents.

ionutz6 said:
Just received my pre-ordered S7 EDGE. To cut it short, with no ROOT or other tweaks at the moment, the AOD only shows missed calls and text messages (not even e-mails). So although a nice attempt, if fails lamentably. It is only really useful if you want to check the time or battery power most of the time.
Also, off topic, the edge display is also nice, but not actually useful since it does not pop up when screen is off and a notification arrives.
Just my 2 cents.
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I agree is pretty useless atm - i think wish the clock would work with the green pines image combination - i hope they make it more useful otherwise much about nothing
I did have it on overnight and i noticed in 8h it only eat up 5% which is not bad at all
PS: where did you pre-ordered the phone from? are there any shops selling in on preorder in Romania??
thanks

Yeah it's really just a way to check the time. using a 3rd party text app (google messenger in my case) you don't even get the text. All i get is the missed calls and time and battery. I'm ok with that though. I get notifications on my Gear S. the time and battery are usually the only things I look for if screen is off. If I get a blinking LED i know i have a notification waiting anyways.

Agreed that it's a bit limiting at present, but looking at other areas of the phone (themes / camera) Samsung have added options to download additional functionality. They'll almost definitely do something similar to always on display!

If you ask me, I think Samsung quickly implemented the Always-On screen after their "spies" found out that LG will have it, or maybe seeing the V10 success with the second screen. Otherwise I really can't understand why would you bother to implement such a useful feature in such a horrible manner. Who uses SMS these days ? Almost no one. Yet missed SMS messages are are part of the feature while missing any other useful notification. Even their own email application doesn't use the feature. I really hope that the next update brings huge improvements on this.

I remember in my S6 edge there was the Edge display which could be always on with ROOT and Mods.. And laso it would show new notifications. Hopefully development will start soon as we have Root

Cst79 said:
If you ask me, I think Samsung quickly implemented the Always-On screen after their "spies" found out that LG will have it, or maybe seeing the V10 success with the second screen. Otherwise I really can't understand why would you bother to implement such a useful feature in such a horrible manner. Who uses SMS these days ? Almost no one. Yet missed SMS messages are are part of the feature while missing any other useful notification. Even their own email application doesn't use the feature. I really hope that the next update brings huge improvements on this.
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Careful about your assumptions, there are plenty of people that still use SMS (such as myself and most of my friends/family/coworkers). That being said, I agree the implementation of this basically misses the point, unless you just want a desk clock.

Root for the S7/ s7 edge is not looking good
varun.gid said:
I remember in my S6 edge there was the Edge display which could be always on with ROOT and Mods.. And laso it would show new notifications. Hopefully development will start soon as we have Root
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I was reading on another thread in here I forget which, but the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, refuse to flash anything not digitally signed by samsung.
even the stock firmware if uncompressed and re-compressed it looses the samsung signature and fails to flash to the system partition

Cst79 said:
If you ask me, I think Samsung quickly implemented the Always-On screen after their "spies" found out that LG will have it, or maybe seeing the V10 success with the second screen. Otherwise I really can't understand why would you bother to implement such a useful feature in such a horrible manner. Who uses SMS these days ? Almost no one. Yet missed SMS messages are are part of the feature while missing any other useful notification. Even their own email application doesn't use the feature. I really hope that the next update brings huge improvements on this.
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This is funny. I don't know anyone that does NOT use text messaging. I guess it's the circles you run in but I've never heard one single person in my life mention giving up SMS.

SMS is so 2014! I only use whatsapp as do all of the people i know. Texting sucks.

Surrylic said:
This is funny. I don't know anyone that does NOT use text messaging. I guess it's the circles you run in but I've never heard one single person in my life mention giving up SMS.
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The problem is that you missed the point of my post. There are tons of applications delivering notifications, and if the always-on screen is to fulfill its promise, all the notifications should be displayed in some way.

Cst79 said:
Who uses SMS these days ? Almost no one.
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LOL?? Every person I know uses SMS.

brunobits said:
I was reading on another thread in here I forget which, but the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, refuse to flash anything not digitally signed by samsung.
even the stock firmware if uncompressed and re-compressed it looses the samsung signature and fails to flash to the system partition
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CF Auto Root is here Already so i dont see issues now.. its matter of time we get the MODs

ydoucare said:
LOL?? Every person I know uses SMS.
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in the US most of the guys are using text messages... asked my cousin couple of weeks ago if he could give me his number, that i can write to him via whatsapp ... answer: what is whatsapp, we use text...

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tim2london said:
I agree is pretty useless atm - i think wish the clock would work with the green pines image combination - i hope they make it more useful otherwise much about nothing
I did have it on overnight and i noticed in 8h it only eat up 5% which is not bad at all
PS: where did you pre-ordered the phone from? are there any shops selling in on preorder in Romania??
thanks
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All major retailers in Romania offered pre-orders. I've got mine with the gear vr for a really good price. Mine arrived on the 9th of March as well.

My question is: can be the what's app, facebook, gmail ecc notifications on AOD implemented by software in the future?

i use the always on feature all the time ,but like the rest of us, i wished it showed part of sms message if not all and the email message who the call was from etc , would be good if could just reply as well ,i think i am getting ahead of myself there lol

How Can I Get Notification's On Lock Screen

Hi,Guys how can i get notification on my lock-screen i have them enabled etc but they do not show on the lock-screen any ideas will be really appreciated

Notifications only work with magazine block screen
Sent from my ALE-L21 using XDA-Developers mobile app

Fedroid said:
Notifications only work with magazine block screen
Sent from my ALE-L21 using XDA-Developers mobile app
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is it a theme?how do i enable it ?

You can give this a try - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2641557
The app hasn't been updated by the dev in ages but it still works, even with marshmallow.

bumjrah said:
You can give this a try - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2641557
The app hasn't been updated by the dev in ages but it still works, even with marshmallow.
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Did you get the marshmallow on the p8 lite ?I will try the app really sorry for the trouble caused

Bilal_Habib said:
is it a theme?how do i enable it ?
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Execute themes app and choose default theme.
That is all.

Fedroid said:
Execute themes app and choose default theme.
That is all.
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I use default theme and nothing Changers on lock screen plus I have. No theme by the name or even saying magazine and other help will be appreciated

I don't know if you are on MM yet but I noticed that there is a thing under App's (on MM) in settings where you can set what apps draw over e.g.. facebook chat bubbles. I think if you enable your apps that you want notifying you on lock-screen to draw over mode then it may show on lock-screen. Its working so far for my weather updates from google app... I could be entirely wrong and I am using a fairly wonky build of MM but I just thought I would offer my insight Best of luck bud.

Horacio55555 said:
I don't know if you are on MM yet but I noticed that there is a thing under App's (on MM) in settings where you can set what apps draw over e.g.. facebook chat bubbles. I think if you enable your apps that you want notifying you on lock-screen to draw over mode then it may show on lock-screen. Its working so far for my weather updates from google app... I could be entirely wrong and I am using a fairly wonky build of MM but I just thought I would offer my insight Best of luck bud.
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I am not on marshmallow as yet waiting for the Ota

I'm sure MM will fix that for you bud!
I do know the struggle, waiting on OTA's for us in New Zealand is painful. On top of the fact that before I went MM I wasn't getting notifications at all, calls missed cause it wasn't bringing the call screen up...all sorts of havoc.
Worst comes to worst you could try factory restore, then do the theme thing that other guy mentioned. You should technically have a default, it's weird you are missing it.

Horacio55555 said:
I'm sure MM will fix that for you bud!
I do know the struggle, waiting on OTA's for us in New Zealand is painful. On top of the fact that before I went MM I wasn't getting notifications at all, calls missed cause it wasn't bringing the call screen up...all sorts of havoc.
Worst comes to worst you could try factory restore, then do the theme thing that other guy mentioned. You should technically have a default, it's weird you are missing it.
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Let's hope I tried all that never work the phone is basically brand-new confused why!I managed to find under themes to download but when I download .Same thing lol

Try Next Lock screen from microsoft:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.next

Edge screen - high battery use

Hi all.
New S7 Edge owner, coming from the Edge+. On that phone I had a major overheating problem after making a theme with Samsung Theme Editor - I posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=69298488
When trying my themes on my new phone, I'm not getting the same heat, but very high battery use - Edge screen currently 34% of the last 5+ hours.
I think my themes must be guilty, but no idea why - they're very simple, solid black backgrounds, a few icon changes and font colouring. All themes from the Theme Store behave fine.
Any advice? I really want to use the edge apps screen, don't need people or tasks edge. Obviously I can't greenify it. Just about to see what I can do with Amplify, but otherwise I don't know how to get that %age down.
Thanks in advance. 935F and the very wonderful Superman ROM.

Try 3rd party battery saving app. Some works

Ajshal said:
Try 3rd party battery saving app. Some works
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And some don't. Which app, and how would that help? I know you mean well, but that doesn't address my problem.
This is a specific problem that can't be solved by any one-size-fits-all "battery saver".
I'm not a noob, I know that somehow the edge screen - aka cocktail bar service - isn't behaving. What I don't know is how to isolate and limit it while keeping full functionality - hence looking at Amplify.

If anyone is interested and/or has the same problem, the solution:
Don't install the theme directly to your phone (the "install to device" tab in Theme Editor.). Make the apk, transfer it to the phone and install from there. I used the M version, everything fine, no more edge screen wakelocks.
All credit to my new hero @envy~ for the fix?

try custom kernel, u can also try this new thing: http://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/how-to/guide-double-battery-timing-t3491185

B3311 said:
If anyone is interested and/or has the same problem, the solution:
Don't install the theme directly to your phone (the "install to device" tab in Theme Editor.). Make the apk, transfer it to the phone and install from there. I used the M version, everything fine, no more edge screen wakelocks.
All credit to my new hero @envy~ for the fix
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glad I helped, it's not really a fix, upon inspecting the apk of different resolutions I can confirm that the M version is for us s7egde users, because FHD resolution has some assests only for note7.

B3311 said:
If anyone is interested and/or has the same problem, the solution:
Don't install the theme directly to your phone (the "install to device" tab in Theme Editor.). Make the apk, transfer it to the phone and install from there. I used the M version, everything fine, no more edge screen wakelocks.
All credit to my new hero @envy~ for the fix
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What do you mean by, "make the apk?"

moSess said:
What do you mean by, "make the apk?"
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Menu>Export and upload APK file

Mobile Data shortcut, updates.

Hi.
I don't know if I'm in the right place because I'm in canada and have the 900w8 (with Wind/Freedom) but anyway, just bought my Note 3 recently and I see no Mobile Data shortcut on the Notification panel and it seems this was a common problem after some update and I couldn't find any fixes for this. Also, the phone has Android version 5, which I know isn't the latest version but looks like there will be no updates for us.
So, any way I can get the Data shortcut, or maybe the android 6 version? My phone is stock everything.
Thanks.

Electroman365 said:
Hi.
I don't know if I'm in the right place because I'm in canada and have the 900w8 (with Wind/Freedom) but anyway, just bought my Note 3 recently and I see no Mobile Data shortcut on the Notification panel and it seems this was a common problem after some update and I couldn't find any fixes for this. Also, the phone has Android version 5, which I know isn't the latest version but looks like there will be no updates for us.
So, any way I can get the Data shortcut, or maybe the android 6 version? My phone is stock everything.
Thanks.
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Can you post a screenshot of the tiles you are getting on your phone?

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Can you post a screenshot of the tiles you are getting on your phone?
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Thanks for the reply, Shadisnx.
Screen shots showing no Mobile Data shortcut exist.

Electroman365 said:
Thanks for the reply, Shadisnx.
Screen shots showing no Mobile Data shortcut exist.
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I am surprised that it does not show
I found a screenshot of Lollipop and it does show the mobile data shortcut.
Best I can tell you is to flash with Odin stock 5.0, but other than that, I do not know how you could fix it. Or just root it and try a custom ROM if that is something so important to you.

Thanks again for the reply and the suggestions, man. Yeah I don't know why this is happening with the Note 3s but like I said this was a common problem after some update. I've never rooted or flashed any phone and I don't know if I want to do this. So, looks like I have to live with this inconvenience. It also looks like I won't be able to swipe down to access shortcuts unless I unlock the screen. On my Moto E (Android 6) I'm able to do that without having to unlock the screen. That's another inconvenience.

Electroman365 said:
Thanks again for the reply and the suggestions, man. Yeah I don't know why this is happening with the Note 3s but like I said this was a common problem after some update. I've never rooted or flashed any phone and I don't know if I want to do this. So, looks like I have to live with this inconvenience. It also looks like I won't be able to swipe down to access shortcuts unless I unlock the screen. On my Moto E (Android 6) I'm able to do that without having to unlock the screen. That's another inconvenience.
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Is that the case? I am not on stock anymore, but I think I remember it was possible if I just had the lockscreen to "swipe".
But then again, it could be a difference between Android 5 and 6
Flashing is an intimidating task and requires a lot of research but not as much as you may think.
Anyway, I'm not going to grind on that suggestion. Best I can tell you now is, enjoy your Note 3 experience

ShaDisNX255 said:
Is that the case? I am not on stock anymore, but I think I remember it was possible if I just had the lockscreen to "swipe".
But then again, it could be a difference between Android 5 and 6
Flashing is an intimidating task and requires a lot of research but not as much as you may think.
Anyway, I'm not going to grind on that suggestion. Best I can tell you now is, enjoy your Note 3 experience
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Yeah I guess I'm stuck with what I have for now (no Data shortcut and no swiping with locked screen) but I don't know why I can't get an update (Android 6) for the Note 3.
Thanks anyways for the reply.