Hey guys I just wanted to start a thread and see what sort of tricks people have discovered on their Nexus One. This may also help future N1 owner.
If you hold down the menu button anywhere it pulls up the keyboard and hold it down again to hide the keyboard.
You can use the trackball as a dedicated camera button.
edit: by "use the trackball," i mean pushing down on it.
Hold down home button u get a list of the most used applications
elio said:
Hold down home button u get a list of the most used applications
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+latest
Thx, I had seen that pop up now & again & couldn't work out how I'd made it happen.
efeltee said:
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right my mistake
wrapping it in a heating pad works better than a hair drier. (for the clicking screen thing)
lol, I guess this is a flaw fix
Typing *#*#4636#*#* into the phone will bring up a screen titled "Testing", with four other child screens:
Phone Information: details on the phone radio, data status and ip address, and options to turn on/off 3g.
Battery Information: the current status of the battery; level, health etc
Battery History: battery/cpu/network usage stats
Usage Statistics: Stats on usage time/launch count/application name
Pressing and holding the "Grey Dots" brings up all of the home screens for you to select...instead of scrolling to them.
Oh, thanks for the tip on holding the menu key to show/hide the keyboard.
I used to use the swipe from the T down to space bar to hide the keyboard, but this is much quicker and easier to do.
For folks that want to verify if they've properly unlocked their bootloaders, and also how to verify you have root access to your phone.
Unlocked Bootloader Check:
1. On initially booting your N1, there'll be the normal 'X' logo, but right under it there's an icon of an unlocked padlock.
2. Alternately, you could hold down the trackball during boot up (this will put you directly in bootloader mode) and at the top of the screen you'll see a notification that it's unlocked.
Root Access Check:
Install the 'Nexus One Torch' app (free market app). This program requires root access in order to control the LED. So if it works, you'd got root.
Pressing Power + Volume Down + Trackball at the same time will restart the phone.
Holding down trackball AFTER the non animated splash logo shows up will boot your phone into SAFE MODE.
Any application to reboot without going thru the button combination?
elio said:
Any application to reboot without going thru the button combination?
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well you can always just type the command adb reboot
Long press on the circles in to either side of the applications grid and it will bring up thumbnails of all 5 of your home screens.
Tap the menu button while on home screen will give you shortcut to settings
Raymond77 said:
Typing *#*#4630#*#* into the phone will bring up a screen titled "Testing", with four other child screens:
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This didn't work for me
Tried typing it into the dialer and the keyboard on the home screen. Any idea what I did wrong?
didn't work for me either
Raymond77 said:
Typing *#*#4630#*#* into the phone will bring up a screen titled "Testing", with four other child screens:
Phone Information: details on the phone radio, data status and ip address, and options to turn on/off 3g.
Battery Information: the current status of the battery; level, health etc
Battery History: battery/cpu/network usage stats
Usage Statistics: Stats on usage time/launch count/application name
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Easier to just use AnyCut from the Market (free), Activities -> Battery History etc.
Something I haven't seen posted anywhere else:
If you're using Dolphin Browser, kinetic screen scrolling is additive, meaning scrolling multiple times (while moving) makes it scroll faster and faster.
I have flashed the Dorimanx's new ROM and seen the soft key at the left top conner.
Link to Dorimanx's new ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1166948
How can I accomplish this for other ROMs? An App? or some Setting?
Thanks in advance.
You can try Button Savior, you can find it in the Android Market but you have to be rooted to use it. The app puts a icon on your screen that stays on top of everything. You touch the icon and it opens up more buttons on your screen that will stay for the amount of time you select or permenently if you choose. It gives you a exit button a plus button ( this expands to more buttons being a phone, camera, and search buttons), a menu button, a home button, and a lock screen button. I used it all the time as it really saves wear and tear on your external hardware buttons and it is so easy to use and always available on your screen.
thanks for the quick reply. i ll give it a try
If the "other" rom is based on CM7, you can simply enable a setting in (Settings > CM7 Settings > Tablet Tweeks > Enable Soft Keys & set your own)
Otherwise, follow the post above yours
thats exactly i am looking for
Looking for a flashable zip for the power notifications in the pulldown menu. Not the standard one, but the one where you can tap the settings and it will bring down options, but long pressing brings up the full options screen. Not sure if this is available or even what it's called.
Anyone?
I have cm7.2 with tablet tweaks for soft buttons on the status bar. I want the status bar always on. The hide button (far right) pops up and disappears intermittently.
Is there any way to turn off the hide button permanently? When it pops up, it shifts all of :he other status bar content to the left, which is distracting. Also sometimes it pops up suddenly right as I go to press the notification button and then I accidentally hide the status bar because the hide button suddenly appears where the notification button was.
Can't find anything in cyanogenmod settings. Someone help?
Is there no way to do this?
There's no way to do this. There are some applications that expect true full screen. In Honeycomb and ICS the OS itself removes the status bar/soft key area from the available screen real estate and "dims" the contents of the status bar when an application requests full screen.
In Gingerbread (the basis for CM7), this isn't available in the core OS, so Mad Murdock (the developer of TabletTweaks) implemented the best solution he could...basically the ability to suppress full screen for apps that can adapt that that and otherwise to give the user a chance to enter and leave full screen.
There are still bugs in this implementation because of the limited hooks for intercepting these full screen requests and switches in and out of full screen. As a result, you'll see some apps that don't look quite right when this feature is enabled even when you go full screen, and you'll also see that sometimes the full screen soft key gets into a confused state and displays when it shouldn't and vice-versa. This can ultimately lead to an FC in the StatusBar process.
What I do is turn off the "Disable full screen" feature under CM7 and use either Button Savior or the extended Power Menu buttons (mostly Button Savior these days) to provide access to Home/Back/Menu when an app runs full screen. It's not a perfect solution, but it's more stable and still gives me non-intrusive access to soft keys.
That's a fair enough solution. I do see the FCs often for statusbar. Thanks for the input.
When I select "do not disturb" icon, the options do not show any longer: gotta slide down fully notification bar and click on small arrow next to icon to choose the three different modes.
Also when using volume keys, the do not disturb options are not shown, even if enabled from settings (see attachment).
Thanks