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Ugh is there something wrong or am i just nitpicky?

When I turn the screen on, sometimes but not all the time, the screen turns on but the text at the bottom where it says swipe to unlock and Verizon wireless is not present and the screen is unresponsive but after a few seconds it appears and I can then unlock my device. I feel like I just keep having issues haha.

Happens on mine as well, but only for a second or so it seems. I tried turning the watercolor effect off to none but it still did it, I think its just the crappy samsung lockscreen wish I could get the stock AOSP one on there.

NeoMagus said:
Happens on mine as well, but only for a second or so it seems. I tried turning the watercolor effect off to none but it still did it, I think its just the crappy samsung lockscreen wish I could get the stock AOSP one on there.
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haha me too man it's probably because i'm so used to my rooted Note 2 where I fixed all these laggy issues. Damn Samsung needs to polish touchwiz badly. Thanks for responding again btw.

Happens to me too! very annoying because i have to swipe to unlock twice
I do use dashclock on my lockscreen

Well I ended up freezing the stock samsung clock with Titanium and taking the stock clock from 4.3 off my Galaxy Nexus and putting it in system/app and changed the permissions to match, its a little smaller I think because of the high resolution but it doesn't seem to lag out like the stock one did better than it was

Touchwiz is composed of lag. Every time I turn on or off my screen I am reminded. It helps if you are constantly using the task manager and clearing ram while closing apps but this should not be a necessity for the OS to run smoothly.
I may just have to become a de-hack-loper to get this unlocked bootloader going however even then knox is watching us.

NeoMagus said:
Well I ended up freezing the stock samsung clock with Titanium and taking the stock clock from 4.3 off my Galaxy Nexus and putting it in system/app and changed the permissions to match, its a little smaller I think because of the high resolution but it doesn't seem to lag out like the stock one did better than it was
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FYI that clock is chronus in the play store for people that arent rooted

Chronus looks much better perfect size. Now if only I could get the cyanogen lock and shortcuts close enough

Touchwiz with a small dpi

Hello there,
I'm looking for a real multi dpi touchwiz. I can't stand those big ass ugly buttons and use a dpi of 298. Broken are then Kamera, Dialer, Contacts, Incallui, clock and so on but these are the most essential. There are some roms out there that claim to be multi-dpi like X-Note. I tried V6 and its nothing like on the screenshots. Its better but far from being perfect.
Are there any tutorial or anything that i propably could mod the apks myself? For now i use Appsettings for those apps but this breaks the whole feeling. I was on AOSP but the CM roms are still to laggy.
Thanks!!!

Get nova launcher, xposed plugin, app settings and change dpi to any app that have problem. You can also don't change dpi to system (so everything, camera etc will work) and change through app settings dpi to launcher and every other application that you want.
I already do this with very good result. In Touchwiz even if you change dpi you still cant have many icons in a row so you just see smaller icons without any benefit.. Thats why you need nova.. This photo is without change dpi in system. Just with app settings.

sosimple said:
Get nova launcher, xposed plugin, app settings and change dpi to any app that have problem. You can also don't change dpi to system (so everything, camera etc will work) and change through app settings dpi to launcher and every other application that you want.
I already do this with very good result. In Touchwiz even if you change dpi you still cant have many icons in a row so you just see smaller icons without any benefit.. Thats why you need nova.. This photo is without change dpi in system. Just with app settings.
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yeah i knew of that practice but its not what i want, dpi scaling has to be across the whole system, everthing should be small so thats no solution for me sadly. I tried it that way but my "OCD" kills me when i see the big status bar. I propably will switch to another phone soon if i dont find a good solution to that. Sony did that great.

n3v3rm1nda said:
yeah i knew of that practice but its not what i want, dpi scaling has to be across the whole system, everthing should be small so thats no solution for me sadly. I tried it that way but my "OCD" kills me when i see the big status bar. I propably will switch to another phone soon if i dont find a good solution to that. Sony did that great.
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I would advise waiting until Android 5 is released as a source on AndroidTech said that Touchwiz will be multi DPI due to the number of different devices that samsung are releasing as they have rebased Touchwiz, unfortunatley i cannot post a link as i have not made enough posts yet.
The multi DPI ROM's are not normally very good and if you cant wait i would go with the nova launcher approach as advised above!

W18WAR said:
I would advise waiting until Android 5 is released as a source on AndroidTech said that Touchwiz will be multi DPI due to the number of different devices that samsung are releasing as they have rebased Touchwiz, unfortunatley i cannot post a link as i have not made enough posts yet.
The multi DPI ROM's are not normally very good and if you cant wait i would go with the nova launcher approach as advised above!
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I don't believe that Touchwiz will become multidpi the way the friend above wants.. Almost all Touchwiz version have the same rows and columns, so i dont believe that this will change.. Anyway we will wait and see..
The big ui is a problem, this is true..
I would change dpi to ui AND use nova. This was what i did in every phone and i was perfect. Here my problem is that I also want the finger scanner, and if i change dpi to ui, the indicator of finger scanner is out of correct position..
Noone has solve this, and i didn't expected either when i bought s5.
The truth is that after knox, the xda community support is not as in past..
I hope Samsung change this, otherwise sails will drop more (there are already 60% down..)

sosimple said:
I don't believe that Touchwiz will become multidpi the way the friend above wants.. Almost all Touchwiz version have the same rows and columns, so i dont believe that this will change.. Anyway we will wait and see..
The big ui is a problem, this is true..
I would change dpi to ui AND use nova. This was what i did in every phone and i was perfect. Here my problem is that I also want the finger scanner, and if i change dpi to ui, the indicator of finger scanner is out of correct position..
Noone has solve this, and i didn't expected either when i bought s5.
The truth is that after knox, the xda community support is not as in past..
I hope Samsung change this, otherwise sails will drop more (there are already 60% down..)
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had i known that i would have so much grief with this samsung phone i hadn't swapped it with my Z2. The phone was nice but just too heavy. Camera wasn't the best too, but the software it came with is awesome. Sony and HTC made a good Slowmo software where you could choose to start the slowmo. Samsung doesn't has it. Their whole software packet is just kinda buggy. Look at the animations while opening the gallery and camera. Completely broken.
I hope Android 5 and their will to bake something good will reverse my anti samsung feelings right now. One fact that i love about the Galaxy series : Swapable battery. Thats just awesome!
I don't know why the standard dpi is 480 on almost all phones today. Like they think I'm 100 years old and my glasses are thick as glass bottoms .. i don't know. What where they thinking?
Had CM running for some time but the battery and smoothness is just not there. There i could use 298 perfectly fine but its just to laggy to use it right now. I don't know. Debating with myself right now to switch back but i will miss the good battery life and camera probably horribly ....

visual mods

Hi all,
In the past a few mods have caught my eye, over time they've slowed stopped being available on all devices, mostly because of changes made to android.
Here's a list of the ones I liked most.
1. Screen off animation, the CRT on /off it just looked amazing.
2. List view animations, not completely gone but not exactly something you can just flash.
3. Halo, I know this was paranoid androids, but it never got ported over quite as much as I thought it would..
My question is are these available anywhere ? Any idea how to flash them ? Or even if anyone misses them like I do?
I know that CRT and list view can be obtained by flashing two Xposed modules called
Screen off animation and xui mod.
Halo I've never seen outside of PA.
But these mods used to be flash able as standalone without Xposed.
Personally I'd like to avoid Xposed as it breaks so much and I don't like it to be honest, although its a great bit of software.
Any ideas ?

whaaat? jelly scoll aint enuf?

ElwOOd_CbGp said:
whaaat? jelly scoll aint enuf?
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Lool i don't have jelle mate

There was an Xposed module that had halo working on marshmallow.

dladz said:
Hi all,
In the past a few mods have caught my eye, over time they've slowed stopped being available on all devices, mostly because of changes made to android.
Here's a list of the ones I liked most.
1. Screen off animation, the CRT on /off it just looked amazing.
2. List view animations, not completely gone but not exactly something you can just flash.
3. Halo, I know this was paranoid androids, but it never got ported over quite as much as I thought it would..
My question is are these available anywhere ? Any idea how to flash them ? Or even if anyone misses them like I do?
I know that CRT and list view can be obtained by flashing two Xposed modules called
Screen off animation and xui mod.
Halo I've never seen outside of PA.
But these mods used to be flash able as standalone without Xposed.
Personally I'd like to avoid Xposed as it breaks so much and I don't like it to be honest, although its a great bit of software.
Any ideas ?
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You can use Screen Off and Lock ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock&hl=en ) to achieve your desired screen lock effect. I too LOVE the CRT T.V. off look that Moto put on their phones some time ago. I use this app all the time in conjunction with Nova Launcher's ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher&hl=en ) double tap action just to make everything super fluid. As for the list animations, I am not too sure what you mean but they may be found in Nova settings too. I know it has an option for something like that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As far as the Halo type things you may want there is an app called Unique Controls and does not require root. Hope this helps!
Unique Controls: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ivianuu.halo

ADGill0926 said:
You can use Screen Off and Lock ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock&hl=en ) to achieve your desired screen lock effect. I too LOVE the CRT T.V. off look that Moto put on their phones some time ago. I use this app all the time in conjunction with Nova Launcher's ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher&hl=en ) double tap action just to make everything super fluid. As for the list animations, I am not too sure what you mean but they may be found in Nova settings too. I know it has an option for something like that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As far as the Halo type things you may want there is an app called Unique Controls and does not require root. Hope this helps!
Unique Controls: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ivianuu.halo
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This is one of my old HTC devices the list view animations can be seen here as can the screen off animation,. The CRT animation was changed from not existing to CRT to fade which it is now, the Nexus devices had it originally then vanilla type phones like Moto followed suit.
I've seen the application and it's not quite the same, although it wasn't last I tried it, I'll give it a whirl and see how it is.
Same with unique contrails, sorry I probably should have mentioned this too, they aren't quite the same as the originals.
Appreciate you taking the time to answer though, thanks.
From what i remember it was something to do with surface flinger but I remember that that has now changed although could be wrong (screen off animation that is)
Any other ideas?

Ok so that app has come a long way, by all accounts it doesn't allow for the actual power button to show the screen animation and fingerprint didn't work, probably a way to map a key to it.
Will check it out tomorrow
Cheers

Ok so tried a few of them apps and none of them allow you to use fingerprint thereafter

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There was an Xposed module that had halo working on marshmallow.
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Yep there was, however back in the day it wasn't required.

J Touch app for navigation rocks

Hey friends
I really don't like the navbar which is reducing the screen to much, so I decided to install J Touch app from playstore.
Loaded a nice looking home button jpeg picture from the web. Give the button a one hit back function, a long press home function and a swipe up for recents.
Please see attached pictures navigating is nice and I whish I could even eliminate the navbar on the homescreen

FridrufHau said:
Hey friends
I really don't like the navbar which is reducing the screen to much, so I decided to install J Touch app from playstore.
Loaded a nice looking home button jpeg picture from the web. Give the button a one hit back function, a long press home function and a swipe up for recents.
Please see attached pictures navigating is nice and I whish I could even eliminate the navbar on the homescreen
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Keeping one icon appear on the screen all the time may cause burn in I'd be worried about that

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Keeping one icon appear on the screen all the time may cause burn in I'd be worried about that
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No I don't think so. There is transparency setted, the button is popping if hitted and it is shifting up on home screen. You could be as scared or even more about a status bar burn in...
and look how much time is needed:
"Test Results
The iPhone X displayed burn-ins before the Galaxy Note 8 at 17 hours. However, it took 510 hours for the images to become permanently etched on its display which also marked the end of the test.
Compared to that, the Note 8 took 62 hours to show first signs of display burn-in, which is impressive. However, it had permanent marks way before the end of the test. The Galaxy S7 Edge showed signs of burn-in sooner than the iPhone X, however, it showed permanent burn-ins much later than the Note 8 and almost at iPhone X’s 510 hour mark."
From page:
https://propakistani.pk/2018/01/05/iphone-xs-screen-shows-burn-marks-just-17-hours-test/

Ok so would you recommend the app over navigation gesture? The gesture is not polished at the moment I'll give the app a go

big_b0sss said:
Ok so would you recommend the app over navigation gesture? The gesture is not polished at the moment I'll give the app a go
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I think so, you can also activate temporary move, which is helpful is s.th. is hided by the button. So you can move the button away for two seconds. You can hide button always in landscape, it is hiding when you are keyboard typing... it is perfect for 18:9 displays.
If navbar would have a one button control too, I wouldn't use J Touch.
You can also give it an iPhone look but ok I guess everybody is hating apple .
Edit: Ah ok you mean gesture. Sorry I didn't have this option until now.... don't know what is better

Looks like a nice app. I prefer LMT Launcher though as you can set it to do almost any task and only comes on the screen when you activate it so creates a really clean look with extra functionality.

Or you could try Gesture Control from Conena.. I'm very happy with the way the gestures work

es0tericcha0s said:
Looks like a nice app. I prefer LMT Launcher though as you can set it to do almost any task and only comes on the screen when you activate it so creates a really clean look with extra functionality.
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Have you been able to use lmt with stock os? If so, I'd like to know the secret for getting rid of the nav bar

Not sure. Not really a fan of stock. From other forum members, it's possible to disable it with the joneplustool app. Both that and LMT require root.

I've been using Swipe Navigation. It even has long press functionality. Loving it so far.

That looks bat **** ugly, why don't you just download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.suphi.swipenavigation&hl=en ?

In my kg g6 its eating battery like elephant ??

Xposed Edge anyone?

My Android P DP2 Experience

Just wanted to add my 2 cents on the DP2 of Android P.
So far my favorite thing is how fluid it is and how nice the animations are (it's more fluid than Oreo in every way -- animations, scrolling, opening apps, switching windows, etc.) . The animations are especially nice when using the Pixel launcher. You lose certain animations when using 3rd party launchers. I've always used third party launchers since 2011 because stock ones never have the features I want but The Pixel launcher on Android P is pretty dang cool. I still miss options like no widget padding, icon packs, icon and folder resizing, gestures, custom desktop and app drawer spaces, but even losing all that is worth it with how amazing Android P runs with the Pixel launcher.
My battery life was terrible the first 2 days and I was considering going back to Oreo but it seems to have settle down now. I still feel I was getting slightly better battery life on Oreo but I can't say for sure. I know others have said they are getting better battery life on P but so far that hasn't been my experience.
I haven't run into any major bugs and have only experienced a couple minor issues like brief freezing (1-2 seconds and has only happened a few times), and had recent apps freeze up twice but hitting the home button fixes it. I know some have reported a lot of apps crashing but I don't use many apps and haven't had any issues there.
For me it's a DD. Wi-Fi Tethering, calling, texting, bluetooth, and GPS all work with no issues.
I'm not a fan of some of the new UI changes but overall it definitely seems like a good step up from Oreo. I can't wait to see how it develops over the next 6 months.

Nice write up! Agree this P is getting better and better!

I know Facebook isn't the best app in the world, and I'm a beta tester for the official app. I cannot get it to install for the life of me. Very odd errors.. keeps throwing error 504

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I know Facebook isn't the best app in the world, and I'm a beta tester for the official app. I cannot get it to install for the life of me. Very odd errors.. keeps throwing error 504
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I don't personally use facebook but I just checked it out because of your post and it installed fine. I also logged in and scrolled through it a bit and it worked fine. Not sure why it's giving you issues :/

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I don't personally use facebook but I just checked it out because of your post and it installed fine. I also logged in and scrolled through it a bit and it worked fine. Not sure why it's giving you issues :/
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Could be an issue with the beta... I never thought much about it.

I beta test FB as well, and had issues trying to get the app to install too. I have it installed on my s9+, but couldn't get that one to update, so I found the apk for the version that's on the s9+, and it was able to install on the Pixel 2xl DP2. This leads me to believe it's the FB app itself, and not the phone.

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I beta test FB as well, and had issues trying to get the app to install too. I have it installed on my s9+, but couldn't get that one to update, so I found the apk for the version that's on the s9+, and it was able to install on the Pixel 2xl DP2. This leads me to believe it's the FB app itself, and not the phone.
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Perfect! Now to hunt down the latest beta APK .. looks like 172.0.0.51.93 is the latest version.

I went back to Oreo the same day I flashed P DP2. This was the same day DP2 was released. I don't remember every detail but here are the things that made me go back:
- A handful of apps would simply not work/open. I forgot which ones they were.
- I don't like the way the Quick Settings look.
- I don't like it that the Quick Settings wont open a quick detailed view and instead just open the settings app. Seems minor, but is a step-back if you ask me.
- QS icons in landscape mode are out of place.
EDIT: - Accessing the settings app via notification drawer now requires you to pull down the drawer completely. That's because the gear icon becomes only visible/accessible when it's fully expanded, while in previous Android versions, like O, the gear icon was visible even on a collapsed notification drawer.
I reeeeally love the new sound controls!

very ugly LTE icon

Literally the only thing I don't like is that the gesture bar is still eating up screen space like the nav bar did and WTF on the LTE font/icon. There is no reason to not expand displayed content all the way to the edge of the display and have the pill hover over the content. Also I see no reason for the back button. If swiping in one direction takes you back to the last used app, make swiping the other direction the back button inside an app. Other than that, I much prefer the roundness of the UI seeing the the display corners of my Pixel 2XL are rounded. It just looks more cohesive. I was a huge fan of Flux Ui, so P taking on that styling cue is another plus to me. Also the animations are much better. I haven't tested a full day of usage for screen on time yet without my phone touching a charger at some point, but the fact that I'm consistently getting a 1 to 2 percentage battery drop overnight is already better than any android version I've been on.

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I went back to Oreo the same day I flashed P DP2. This was the same day DP2 was released. I don't remember every detail but here are the things that made me go back:
- A handful of apps would simply not work/open. I forgot which ones they were.
- I don't like the way the Quick Settings look.
- I don't like it that the Quick Settings wont open a quick detailed view and instead just open the settings app. Seems minor, but is a step-back if you ask me.
- QS icons in landscape mode are out of place.
EDIT: - Accessing the settings app via notification drawer now requires you to pull down the drawer completely. That's because the gear icon becomes only visible/accessible when it's fully expanded, while in previous Android versions, like O, the gear icon was visible even on a collapsed notification drawer.
I reeeeally love the new sound controls!
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I agree on all your points but for me the fluidity and animations more than make up for it. Hopefully some of those things you mentioned get addressed. I definitely do not like the new QS style.
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very ugly LTE icon
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Agreed. That's is one of the new ui changes I'm not a fan of at all. It looks like it belongs on a phone from 6 years ago. Perhaps they did for people who are far sighted but it would be nice to have the option to use the old little LTE and 3g icons.
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Literally the only thing I don't like is that the gesture bar is still eating up screen space like the nav bar did and WTF on the LTE font/icon. There is no reason to not expand displayed content all the way to the edge of the display and have the pill hover over the content. Also I see no reason for the back button. If swiping in one direction takes you back to the last used app, make swiping the other direction the back button inside an app. Other than that, I much prefer the roundness of the UI seeing the the display corners of my Pixel 2XL are rounded. It just looks more cohesive. I was a huge fan of Flux Ui, so P taking on that styling cue is another plus to me. Also the animations are much better. I haven't tested a full day of usage for screen on time yet without my phone touching a charger at some point, but the fact that I'm consistently getting a 1 to 2 percentage battery drop overnight is already better than any android version I've been on.
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The gesture bar needs some refinement. I hate the back button as well. They need to at least make it have rounded corners and solid to match the rest of the ui. The sharp corners and hollow look really doesn't match and looks awful.
LTE and 3G icons are awful.
For some reason my battery just isn't performing as well on P as it did on Oreo. Especially the AOD -- it chews my battery up. It still easily get through the day with plenty of juice to spare and I work at home and always have a charger handy so it's not a problem.