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1. Why the ?%$& is the album art getting displayed in full screen in the lock screen? It looks like absolute ****. Can't seem to find a way to disable this disgusting feature.
2. Why isn't my preference of keeping the lights under the buttons constantly enabled? After a while they just don't turn on anymore.
3. Any way to get something resembling realistic colors on this god awful screen? Jesus christ the screen on my Xperia S was way better than this. The various screen modes don't seem to make any difference.
4. Any way to disable the shutter sound on camera? I mean what were they thinking, making it impossible to disable?
5. Can I get the Sony WALKMAN app and widgets on this phone and if yes, how?
6. What the hell is KNOX?
7. How do I get rid of S Voice once and for all? The stupid gimmick keeps popping up and talking and I don't know what the hell it wants from me.
There's more, but I'm done for today.
8. Suggestion on how to deal with buyer's remorse?
Thank you.
MarkMRL said:
1. Why the ?%$& is the album art getting displayed in full screen in the lock screen? It looks like absolute ****. Can't seem to find a way to disable this disgusting feature.
2. Why isn't my preference of keeping the lights under the buttons constantly enabled? After a while they just don't turn on anymore.
3. Any way to get something resembling realistic colors on this god awful screen? Jesus christ the screen on my Xperia S was way better than this. The various screen modes don't seem to make any difference.
4. Any way to disable the shutter sound on camera? I mean what were they thinking, making it impossible to disable?
5. Can I get the Sony WALKMAN app and widgets on this phone and if yes, how?
6. What the hell is KNOX?
7. How do I get rid of S Voice once and for all? The stupid gimmick keeps popping up and talking and I don't know what the hell it wants from me.
There's more, but I'm done for today.
8. Suggestion on how to deal with buyer's remorse?
Thank you.
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It seems to me that what you don't like about S4 is the software. Sure, it packs lots of crap wares. I too can't stand those so I have to rooted and customized those.
1. Album art is kitkat feature, it exist also in AOSP and no option to disable it.
2. Mine stay on if I chose "Always on"
3. You're used to LCD screen, granted LG G2, HTC One... screen are better, not sure about Xperia S. What I love about Amoled is true black, viewing angle, battery consumption... however color reproduction is slightly off, but far better that Amoled it replaced.
4. Mine; go to camera pp > Settings > 3rd tab > Shutter sound > off.
5. Not sure, it might just like installing app... you gotta search in this forum.
6. KNOX is some enterprise feature... not sure anyone use it. But flashing fw could lead to KNOX warranty void and make your phone lose warranty.
7. You can disable S Voice app.
8. I'm not sure.
Hope some one will give you clearer info on this.
Thanks for trying to help me. I'm sorry if I sound mad in my post but I expected a lot more and was pretty disappointed. And yeah, my main issue is the software, it looks bad and it's not as usable and refined as the Sony UI I was used to.
That being said
1. It's too bad you can't disable fullscreen album art, it looks so bad.
2. Mine also stay on for a while, then all of a sudden they're off and there's no way to turn them back on again unless I fiddle with the settings. What could be the problem?
3. Yeah, screen is just a matter of getting used to. I'm more used to a realistic color palette with lighter whites. This looks a bit off to me, and whites are slightly tinted but it seems there's no way to fix it (on Xperia there was a "white balance app", Samsung doesn't seem to have an equivalent).
4. Why is it not there on mine? I searched everywhere for it, it's nowhere to be found. Maybe it's because I have the stock Italian firmware? Which firmware are you using? On Xperia there were various variants of the same firmware, I flashed a "WORLD" one which had no third party bloat, is there a similar one for Samsung?
By the way, I rooted the phone by flashing some file from Odin, but I'm having issues: for example, I tried to apply the hosts patch with adaway, and it doesn't seem to work properly, also, I can't seem to get Android Commander to detect the phone no matter what, and I tried to install CWM using ROM Manager from Play Store, and that also doesn't work (I still have the stock Samsung recovery that's completely useless), even though ROM Manager says I installed CWM.
And one last question, how do you know if a new firmware is available? Since I rooted and tripped that Knox BS, it now says I'm not original anymore and I'm not going to receive any more updates. Is there a website I can check for firmware updates? My phone is an unbranded i9505.
Thanks in advance.
Hi guys, I'm currently working on a Watch Face based on the fallout Pipboy HUD, I based the idea when I saw one for the Samsung Gear and after looking for one I couldn't find one for our Wear devices so here we are.
Currently the Watch Face is working fine on square devices (I have a Samsung Gear Live and is working like a charm). The only problem is that the square layout is not so good for a round device, so I made two different layouts, round and rect.
I tried to test it on a round emulator, but without GPU acceleration the Watch Faces won't paint up. And if you activated it, the round emulator breaks up. So here's my request: Can someone with a Moto360 be my guinea pig, the only thing that I need is a couple of screenshots.
Here's the source to the APK: PipBoyWear
Also I'm attaching some pictures how it looks in a Samsung Gear Live and how it should look like in a round device.
In case that the watch face crashes (I hope not), just remove the app from the Phone and the Watch Face will return to the default one.
Thanks in advance,
BTW the application is free and if everything goes fine, It should be available at the playstore in a couple of days.
Ninja Edit: Also I forgot to tell but the Pipboy health status is related with your battery status, e.g. if the battery is at 50% the Pipboy will have an arm and both legs crippled, also his face will change to an unhappy one.
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Ok guys thanks to Finagle69 the app is now up at the PlayStore and is free. Hope you like it. Peace.
Bless you for doing this. I LOVE the idea. It looks great in general, but you'll need to do some real tweaking to get it to fit right. See pic.
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Also, you'll get a lot more responses if you post this in the Moto 360 subforum.
Perfect thanks men, yeah the think is that the device is using the Rect layout instead of the circular one. I'll have to check my logic and see what's wrong. I'll keep posting about the changes.
And yes maybe I'll make other post in the Moto360 forum.
Ok I have uploaded a new application build, now I somehow manage to test it on the Round AVD so it should work fine in the Moto360 (in theory). Feel free to test it whenever you can.
And thanks in advance!
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Bless you for doing this. I LOVE the idea. It looks great in general, but you'll need to do some real tweaking to get it to fit right. See pic.
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I just uninstalled the old and installed the new APK build in your Drive folder. Unfortunately, no change to the face. It's still the same as I posted the pic of yesterday.
Ok, I have a good work around for the problem. Try to install it again, now two different watch faces will be available, one for the squared devices and another for round. Use the round.
Hope this is the good one.
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I just uninstalled the old and installed the new APK build in your Drive folder. Unfortunately, no change to the face. It's still the same as I posted the pic of yesterday.
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Works! There are three issues as I see them.
1) The time should be raised so as to not obscure the text at the bottom of the image.
2) The battery % is stuck at 100% (my batt is 62% at time of picture).
3) The dimmed mode is not black and white as in the square version. B&W would be much more preferable to the color dimmed that is has now due to the crap battery life of the moto 360 :\
I srsly need to try to take better pics.
EDIT: As a general request, can the date/time locations be swapped? I'm not sure how the square faced watches function with this face, but the Moto 360's time would be covered by any notification in this implementation.
Ok, I have fixed the 3 issues that you mentioned, so the screen should dim now.
Also I take into account your request and moved the date/time locations. And yes it makes more sense to have the time at the top.
The new APK is up and ready to install.
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Works! There are three issues as I see them.
1) The time should be raised so as to not obscure the text at the bottom of the image.
2) The battery % is stuck at 100% (my batt is 62% at time of picture).
3) The dimmed mode is not black and white as in the square version. B&W would be much more preferable to the color dimmed that is has now due to the crap battery life of the moto 360 :\
I srsly need to try to take better pics.
EDIT: As a general request, can the date/time locations be swapped? I'm not sure how the square faced watches function with this face, but the Moto 360's time would be covered by any notification in this implementation.
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It's a home run, man. Maybe some little tweaking of the date being a tad higher or something so it looks a little more even. But overall, it's now my favorite face for my watch. And I love you for it.
Better pics. Both on and dim. Really love the smiley face when lit and frown when dim. Great touch!
EDIT: Now that i study it. When you first select the watch face and apply, it's got the smiley face and lit up. Then when it dims, it frowns. When you activate the watch either by bringing it to your face or pressing the button, it goes lit again, but stays with the frown. Like the only way to make it be smiley again is to change faces then back. I hope that makes sense?
Double EDIT: I just reread your OP. Seeing it now, my guy is crippled on purpose! LOL. Great job, don't change a think there.
Perfect, thanks yo tour help men!
About the first "problem" the changing faces of the PipBoy, at start the information of the battery is not available so that's why when the device is dimmed, the UI is redrawn to use low contrast colors, showing the correct values of the battery. Nevertheless I added a new condition to prevent that on the first time the WatchFace is shown.
Also I added a little more space to the date/hour, hope it looks better.
The new changes are up if you want to get it.
And again thanks for your help, I think now the App is ready for the playstore.
I'll keep you posted.
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It's a home run, man. Maybe some little tweaking of the date being a tad higher or something so it looks a little more even. But overall, it's now my favorite face for my watch. And I love you for it.
Better pics. Both on and dim. Really love the smiley face when lit and frown when dim. Great touch!
EDIT: Now that i study it. When you first select the watch face and apply, it's got the smiley face and lit up. Then when it dims, it frowns. When you activate the watch either by bringing it to your face or pressing the button, it goes lit again, but stays with the frown. Like the only way to make it be smiley again is to change faces then back. I hope that makes sense?
Double EDIT: I just reread your OP. Seeing it now, my guy is crippled on purpose! LOL. Great job, don't change a think there.
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Just updated to your latest. It displays perfectly right from the start of choosing the face, and the date looks much better. You've done a great job with this. Thanks again!
Yesterday, I found some time to try a retail demo G6 and compared to the Galaxy S6, however, the demo G6 I tried wasn't connected to Wi-Fi, so I couldn't test some things. out. Click "click to show content" below for my findings (taken from my Instagram post that I had copied before posting, since Instagram decided to screw up the formatting).
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(Go to my Instagram account via a link on my XDA profile and find the original photo there)
(I have a few questions for any of you who own a LG G6 or other LG phone running their version of Android 7.0 so expand the description if you want to see those questions)
I found a demo LG G6, and decided to try it out, to find out that...
LG actually uses the Google emoji from stock Android!!! Yes!!!!!
Unlike that Sam-suck Galaxy S8 that uses their crappy and hard to read emoji that I absolutely hate.
I also found that LG's version of Android also has custom font support. Hopefully it's actually using FlipFont, because if that's the case, I could load my custom Comic Neue font package that I have on my Galaxy Tab A and use that.
(Does LG's Android use FlipFont or another font system where I can easily create a custom font package to use there?)
LG's Android also has custom theme support, so hopefully there's a theme that can make it look like stock Android 7.0, but sadly, the demo G6 I tried wasn't connected to WiFi. I already know LG's custom launcher has 2 versions, one with an app drawer and one without.
(Is there a theme for LG phones that can make it look like stock Android?)
Another thing I didn't notice in reviews on YouTube is that the power button is combined with the fingerprint sensor. Nice!!
Plus, LG's Android does have user changeable DPI settings. Hopefully that setting doesn't only affect LG apps.
One thing I forgot to check is if LG's Android has a blue light filter, which CyanogenMod does have.
(Does LG's version of Android have some kind of blue light filter or "night mode"?)
Even then, I'm probably not gonna upgrade my phone this year, because I had already gone through so much trouble trying to sign back in to all my apps after transferring to the Galaxy Tab A WiFi+cellular, unless there is an Android app (that does not require root) that can actually preserve app data so I would be able to continue right where I left off after switching to a new phone.
With that, I am considering getting a G6 (in silver or black, 64GB) (either that, or I might wait for either the G7 or whatever the next OnePlus will be called) but want to ask some questions, mainly pertaining to the software experience, which is my main deciding factor when it comes to buying an Android device.
Anyway, just open the spoiler thing above if you don't understand why I'm asking the following questions.
Does LG's Android use FlipFont or another font system where I can easily create a custom font package to use there?
Is there a theme for LG phones that can make it look like stock Android?
Does LG's version of Android have some kind of blue light filter or "night mode"?
kbhasi said:
Yesterday, I found some time to try a retail demo G6 and compared to the Galaxy S6, however, the demo G6 I tried wasn't connected to Wi-Fi, so I couldn't test some things. out. Click "click to show content" below for my findings (taken from my Instagram post that I had copied before posting, since Instagram decided to screw up the formatting).
(Go to my Instagram account via a link on my XDA profile and find the original photo there)
(I have a few questions for any of you who own a LG G6 or other LG phone running their version of Android 7.0 so expand the description if you want to see those questions)
I found a demo LG G6, and decided to try it out, to find out that...
LG actually uses the Google emoji from stock Android!!! Yes!!!!!
Unlike that Sam-suck Galaxy S8 that uses their crappy and hard to read emoji that I absolutely hate.
I also found that LG's version of Android also has custom font support. Hopefully it's actually using FlipFont, because if that's the case, I could load my custom Comic Neue font package that I have on my Galaxy Tab A and use that.
(Does LG's Android use FlipFont or another font system where I can easily create a custom font package to use there?)
LG's Android also has custom theme support, so hopefully there's a theme that can make it look like stock Android 7.0, but sadly, the demo G6 I tried wasn't connected to WiFi. I already know LG's custom launcher has 2 versions, one with an app drawer and one without.
(Is there a theme for LG phones that can make it look like stock Android?)
Another thing I didn't notice in reviews on YouTube is that the power button is combined with the fingerprint sensor. Nice!!
Plus, LG's Android does have user changeable DPI settings. Hopefully that setting doesn't only affect LG apps.
One thing I forgot to check is if LG's Android has a blue light filter, which CyanogenMod does have.
(Does LG's version of Android have some kind of blue light filter or "night mode"?)
Even then, I'm probably not gonna upgrade my phone this year, because I had already gone through so much trouble trying to sign back in to all my apps after transferring to the Galaxy Tab A WiFi+cellular, unless there is an Android app (that does not require root) that can actually preserve app data so I would be able to continue right where I left off after switching to a new phone.
With that, I am considering getting a G6 (in silver or black, 64GB) (either that, or I might wait for either the G7 or whatever the next OnePlus will be called) but want to ask some questions, mainly pertaining to the software experience, which is my main deciding factor when it comes to buying an Android device.
Anyway, just open the spoiler thing above if you don't understand why I'm asking the following questions.
Does LG's Android use FlipFont or another font system where I can easily create a custom font package to use there?
Is there a theme for LG phones that can make it look like stock Android?
Does LG's version of Android have some kind of blue light filter or "night mode"?
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1: No idea
2: kind of, but apparently the text color in the settings is tied to to the one in the notification shade so you tend to get both of them either with a dark or a light color. Check the themes forum.
2: Yes
Obscure Reference said:
1: No idea
2: kind of, but apparently the text color in the settings is tied to to the one in the notification shade so you tend to get both of them either with a dark or a light color. Check the themes forum.
2: Yes
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I tried, but I couldn't find it.
Closest I found was a "Pixel" theme, but I think I might be able to combine that with Nova Launcher + one of those stock Android icon packs for 3rd party launchers + Google Gboard + a bunch of stock Android apps that Google has uploaded to the Play Store, to get as close to stock Android as possible, or I might wait for LineageOS or another custom rom with the stock Android UI to be released for the G6.
(I do like using Nova Launcher Prime because one of the things it allows me to do is to hide a number of the Samsung apps and bloatware on my Galaxy Tab A, plus I can hide the app drawer behind a double tap gesture)
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I tried, but I couldn't find it.
Closest I found was a "Pixel" theme, but I think I might be able to combine that with Nova Launcher + one of those stock Android icon packs for 3rd party launchers + Google Gboard + a bunch of stock Android apps that Google has uploaded to the Play Store, to get as close to stock Android as possible, or I might wait for LineageOS or another custom rom with the stock Android UI to be released for the G6.
(I do like using Nova Launcher Prime because one of the things it allows me to do is to hide a number of the Samsung apps and bloatware on my Galaxy Tab A, plus I can hide the app drawer behind a double tap gesture)
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You can actually hide apps in the stock launchers too.
Are you comfortable in your own skin? Is your phone comfortable in its skin? Rate this thread to express how you deem the skin on the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. A higher rating indicates that you love it: it adds just the right amount of features, it's visually pleasing, and overall it's additive to the experience. If this is a Nexus phone (you didn't think we hand-wrote all of these prompts, did you?) then use this rating to indicate how the latest version of Android looks to you.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
10.0.11.0 - Global
I can't believe how bad the MIUI 10 global firmware is...
I had heard the MIUI might not be to everyone's tastes, so I was prepared for a little bit of disruption...
However it's much worse I expected.
Firstly, a few positive points:
The hardware is top notch. It's a bit heavy and thick, but it's a very comfortable device to hold. I LOVE the hardware.
Visually it's actually quite appealing. The settings screen has a nice "slinky" effect when scrolling hits the top and bottom. There's also some nice animated when apps open and close from the launcher.
That's about all the good things I can say about it.
The worst things:
Notifications are just plain broken. By default, all installed apps only show notification badges. They don't show icons in the status bar and they don't show on the lock screen.
I can't imagine what MIUI designer thought this was a good design choice. Notifications is the one thing that Android does WAY better than iOS, so why MI would nerf notifications to be almost useless is unfathomable.
So after figuring out why notifications weren't working, I went through every app and for every category of each app enabled notifications in the status bar AND lock screen.
Really annoying, but I thought "hey, you only have to do this once, right? Stop complaining..."
But even then the notifications on the don't work right. They show once... when you unlock the phone they all disappear off the lockscreen forever. Consider this example, I set a reminder to for 12pm. It shows on the lockscreen at 12:01, but I'm not ready to deal with it yet. At 12:02 I unlock the phone to make a phone call. Boom notification disappears. Next time I look at my lockscreen, nothing to do. Complete and utter bollocks!
There's lots of bloat apps on the device. Why would I want to use the MI Messenger when I can use the awesome Google Messages?
So I install Google Messages... and guess what... notifications don't work. I changed all the stupid defaults to enable everything, still no notifications.
That's probably due to the very aggressive power management on the phone. Obviously MI disable this for their own apps (so they run correctly), but for every other app the defaults are set very aggressively. Why MI felt they had to rewrite the, already very competent, power management built into Android 9 I don't know... but they did and it' bad. Great you made my battery last a few hours longer, but you also made my phone completely useless...
Back to the bloat, you can't remove OR hide any of the built in schlock, also very annoying.
The iOS like launcher with no app drawer and ALL icons on the home screen, also very annoying.
I could go on and on... The Mi Mix 3 is a beautiful piece of hardware that it completely and utterly let down by abysmal software.
I'm going to try putting the "Unofficial Pixel Experience" ROM on it. If that doesn't perform well I will be selling this baby at a loss, because MIUI 10 is completely unusable.
pm-2019 said:
10.0.11.0 - Global
I can't believe how bad the MIUI 10 global firmware is...
I had heard the MIUI might not be to everyone's tastes, so I was prepared for a little bit of disruption...
However it's much worse I expected.
Firstly, a few positive points:
The hardware is top notch. It's a bit heavy and thick, but it's a very comfortable device to hold. I LOVE the hardware.
Visually it's actually quite appealing. The settings screen has a nice "slinky" effect when scrolling hits the top and bottom. There's also some nice animated when apps open and close from the launcher.
That's about all the good things I can say about it.
The worst things:
Notifications are just plain broken. By default, all installed apps only show notification badges. They don't show icons in the status bar and they don't show on the lock screen.
I can't imagine what MIUI designer thought this was a good design choice. Notifications is the one thing that Android does WAY better than iOS, so why MI would nerf notifications to be almost useless is unfathomable.
So after figuring out why notifications weren't working, I went through every app and for every category of each app enabled notifications in the status bar AND lock screen.
Really annoying, but I thought "hey, you only have to do this once, right? Stop complaining..."
But even then the notifications on the don't work right. They show once... when you unlock the phone they all disappear off the lockscreen forever. Consider this example, I set a reminder to for 12pm. It shows on the lockscreen at 12:01, but I'm not ready to deal with it yet. At 12:02 I unlock the phone to make a phone call. Boom notification disappears. Next time I look at my lockscreen, nothing to do. Complete and utter bollocks!
There's lots of bloat apps on the device. Why would I want to use the MI Messenger when I can use the awesome Google Messages?
So I install Google Messages... and guess what... notifications don't work. I changed all the stupid defaults to enable everything, still no notifications.
That's probably due to the very aggressive power management on the phone. Obviously MI disable this for their own apps (so they run correctly), but for every other app the defaults are set very aggressively. Why MI felt they had to rewrite the, already very competent, power management built into Android 9 I don't know... but they did and it' bad. Great you made my battery last a few hours longer, but you also made my phone completely useless...
Back to the bloat, you can't remove OR hide any of the built in schlock, also very annoying.
The iOS like launcher with no app drawer and ALL icons on the home screen, also very annoying.
I could go on and on... The Mi Mix 3 is a beautiful piece of hardware that it completely and utterly let down by abysmal software.
I'm going to try putting the "Unofficial Pixel Experience" ROM on it. If that doesn't perform well I will be selling this baby at a loss, because MIUI 10 is completely unusable.
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Xiaomi phone has Xiaomi apps, you sound surprised.... Should of just got a pixel phone
I don't recognize any of these criticisms of MIUI 10. This is my first MIUI phone, I've previously run mostly ROMs based on Lineage, which is pretty close to stock Android. Notifications work fine for me, with the exception of Google Messages which is borked, Textra is a perfectly good substitute and works. The native messaging app does have problems, but with group texts not notifications. I've had no difficulties because of apps being killed in the background, quite the contrary compared to my previous phone with its pitiful RAM, multitasking on the Mix3 is, as I expected, significantly improved, and returning to apps much later almost always results in state preservation rather than a restart. Stock launcher?? Who the hell ever runs a stock launcher anyway? There are a million-and-one alternatives, including the Pixel launcher if you prefer, this being one of the biggest (and multitudinous) advantages of Android over crApple.
I love the phone but can agree that MIUI10 notifications are ****. Totally broken. Over aggressive battery management. I heard they are working on that.
I also think MIUI is... err... not my favourite flavour of Android (to be polite).
Thank goodness for Pixel Experience.
To be fair, I think their ROM is highly geared towards China. That's why they need all the custom non-Google apps.
However that's no excuse for the notifications issue. That's just bad. However I don't think this is a Mi Mix 3 issue... Its a MIUI issue and if you Google "MIUI notifications" you will see people complaining about it in MIUI 8.
Here's Android Police (a really reputable site in my opinion) complaining about it for the POCO F1
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/...g-miui-poco-f1/#The_notification_icon_tragedy
Basically notifications are bad on MIUI and they have been for a while. And Xiaomi don't seem able or willing to fix it...
mmm_ok said:
I also think MIUI is... err... not my favourite flavour of Android (to be polite).
Thank goodness for Pixel Experience.
To be fair, I think their ROM is highly geared towards China. That's why they need all the custom non-Google apps.
However that's no excuse for the notifications issue. That's just bad. However I don't think this is a Mi Mix 3 issue... Its a MIUI issue and if you Google "MIUI notifications" you will see people complaining about it in MIUI 8.
Here's Android Police (a really reputable site in my opinion) complaining about it for the POCO F1
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/...g-miui-poco-f1/#The_notification_icon_tragedy
Basically notifications are bad on MIUI and they have been for a while. And Xiaomi don't seem able or willing to fix it...
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Of course it's highly geared towards China, it's a Chinese manufacturer who's main customer base is China lol
Only bad in Chinese ROM but that's for the Chinese market.
in Developer Settings, scroll to bottom and disable "MIUI Optimization" and it will work
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in Developer Settings, scroll to bottom and disable "MIUI Optimization" and it will work
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Mmm have you a proofs? I mean, i already did it and no positive results.
So just some perspective here, I have a Pixel XL of all 3 generations, and multiple other devices that run stock or close to stock Android. I bought this device BECAUSE I wanted to check out MIUI in more detail. I invested several hundred hours trying to get MIUI to boot on my Pixel XL. I was never able to get it to boot all the way into setup. There are a lot of cool things MIUI does, and there are some annoyances. However, I think we can both agree that the build quality and price of the Xiaomi devices are second to none at the moment. I haven't seen build quality like this since my Droid X and Droid Rzr.
The nice thing is that we should get full TWRP support and once we have a working device tree (I won't lie, I've been working on that and a TWRP build) we can get some open source goodness with a full ROM. If you hate MIUI that much why would you purchase the device? Also as far as manufacturers go, Xiaomi is far from worst about updates and ongoing device support from what I'm seeing. Especially with these "halo" devices.
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If you hate MIUI that much why would you purchase the device?
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There seems to be an undercurrent of "Why did you buy it if you hate it so much?" and "If you don't want MIUI apps, you should have just bought a Pixel", so let's just clear a few things up...
This is NOT me:
I really hate MIUI... but I'm going to buy a Xiaomi phone anyway and complain about it.
This is me:
Huh, that Mi Mix 3 looks really cool... Never owned a Xiaomi phone before... I wonder if I should take a chance...
Oh crap I'm not getting ANY notifications. Wow, this MIUI is really broken.
As I said in my first post, I love the hardware. Unfortunately, in my opinion, MIUI, on the global version of this device at least, is busted. I just can't believe that they would have released something so half baked.
Fortunately, I've installed a custom ROM and waved goodbye to that MIUI nightmare.
pm-2019 said:
There seems to be an undercurrent of "Why did you buy it if you hate it so much?" and "If you don't want MIUI apps, you should have just bought a Pixel", so let's just clear a few things up...
This is NOT me:
I really hate MIUI... but I'm going to buy a Xiaomi phone anyway and complain about it.
This is me:
Huh, that Mi Mix 3 looks really cool... Never owned a Xiaomi phone before... I wonder if I should take a chance...
Oh crap I'm not getting ANY notifications. Wow, this MIUI is really broken.
As I said in my first post, I love the hardware. Unfortunately, in my opinion, MIUI, on the global version of this device at least, is busted. I just can't believe that they would have released something so half baked.
Fortunately, I've installed a custom ROM and waved goodbye to that MIUI nightmare.
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Well, that makes more sense. I haven't had notification problems on the global room, but it's flashed on the Chinese device in my case and it was dirty flashed over the EU rom without wiping data. I'm sure given what I saw with the Mix 2s there I had very briefly that they will sort out the issues on the global rom.
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Almost all of the issues I've had with notifications were down to the combination of Pie/MIUI, and the multitude of confusing notification settings. Once I'd got all the permissions sorted out, notifications worked perfectly with the exception of Google Messages, and the solution to that was to switch to another message provider then switch back again, I don't know why that works but it does (I have to do it each time I update, apparently). The developer option thing doesn't work, all that does is reset all the notification permissions, leading to the tedious task of setting them back again. MIUI does have a learning curve, but it's certainly not a nightmare.
invisiblewave said:
Almost all of the issues I've had with notifications were down to the combination of Pie/MIUI, and the multitude of confusing notification settings. Once I'd got all the permissions sorted out, notifications worked perfectly with the exception of Google Messages, and the solution to that was to switch to another message provider then switch back again, I don't know why that works but it does (I have to do it each time I update, apparently). The developer option thing doesn't work, all that does is reset all the notification permissions, leading to the tedious task of setting them back again. MIUI does have a learning curve, but it's certainly not a nightmare.
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I can't use Google Messages because I'm on Verizon and they limit mms to 30kb unless you are using an "approved" device or using their Messages+ app. I gave up and just went to that instead. Getting notifications working on that just required setting allow change system settings for the app, enabling notifications in the app permissions thing from MIUI.
gonna echo everything said so far about miui notification settings. every other phone manufacturer i've ever used has ALL notifications enabled by default. it's a much faster task of just disabling any apps you don't want to see notifications from as they pop up. why in the hell would they do the reverse?
other than that, everything about it is top notch. but the notification system. that is my ONE and only complaint about the entire experience. so far. i've only had the phone for three days. let's see what else pops up (or doesn't, in this case)
ps. the only app i have any issue with notification wise after the tedious setup is hangouts, but from what i understand that's been a google issue for a long long time, and not an android issue.
How is always on display working for you guys? In my case, it just shows the clock and date, and incoming notifications are not highlighted or anything
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gonna echo everything said so far about miui notification settings. every other phone manufacturer i've ever used has ALL notifications enabled by default. it's a much faster task of just disabling any apps you don't want to see notifications from as they pop up. why in the hell would they do the reverse?
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Because everyone wants notifications right. Other than for calls and texts, having to manually disable notifications for all my apps is annoying and a waste of time.
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Because everyone wants notifications right. Other than for calls and texts, having to manually disable notifications for all my apps is annoying and a waste of time.
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i find it a waste of time to have to do the reverse. OH and not to mention that if you go into an apps notification settings to adjust something small and unrelated like the sound the app makes or something like that, all of the system notifications get erased, causing you to have to go into the system notification settings fort hat specific app and have to re-enable everything over and over again. this happens with textra, hangouts, pretty much any sms or messaging app. it's literally backwards, the way they do it, and makes less sense than how literally every other manufacturer does it. i don't appreciate difference for the sake of it. there should be some logic behind it, and quite frankly that logic is broken.
with all due respect, of course.
I think that MIUI's idea regarding notification default settings is related with improving battery duration. I agree that notifications is the weak point here. But the fact that the notificacion settings go back to default when running the security application, or sometimes you don't know why, is worst and annoying, because you won't know it untill you miss an important notification because of it.
I came from a Mi Mix 1, and it was all the same...
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How is always on display working for you guys? In my case, it just shows the clock and date, and incoming notifications are not highlighted or anything
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Same problem here! I have my phone since yesterday and comes from a Galaxy S7 edge where i got all notifications on my AOD. But on the MIx 3 i just can see the time and the date and no notifications at all. Is this normal, or do i have to set something in the settings. (MIUI 10.0.11.0 Stabel)
Thanks for any hints!
Philipp
Question guys. Possibly brought up months ago, idr. Im on CPT right now.
Thats Coronavirus People Time
Not....not the other one.
Anyway back when, i remember adjusting some build.props in busybox to where stock camera utilised all 3 rear lenses simultaneously. It looked great. This was regular photo mode and whatever reason cleared up that red/dark tint plenty people had with ultra wide nightscape in particular. I got ahold of a more recent kali linux for personal reasons unrelated but it came with apktool. Curious if anyone has experience with this at all as im not the biggest gcam fan (it is what it is, chill) for a couple reasons but the biggest being long exposure. For example stock camera at 30 seconds will collect light and data before the shutter click whereas gcam does the shutter click first, followed by collection. So unless i got starcam mod (that worked) my night sky photos would be entirely too dark. No i dont want to excessively up the iso and wait forever for processing. A nice 30 seconds and 320 with farthest focus works awesome on stock followed by minimal lightroom adjustments. Point is i DO want to use either superwide or the combo that i mentioned earlier in pro mode. Inb4 search forums, i honestly dont have the time so if already mentioned in a way, a link would be appreciated. Any other advice with anything else like buildprops or what latest apk is that works with this device would be awesome. If anyone has modded a newer UI to work for this, id like to know as well if possible. Thanks frens
If you are unable to simply google what you are looking for, & you know what terms to use since you seem like a photographer:
Then you'll have to probably make this. I hate the stock camera apps and all the google play store stuff too.
I just wish we could have a Canon quality camera on a phone and PC webcam.
Is it really that hard ???
Good luck. I hope you get into programming and I get to use your camera app!
Im not, just been a while since messing with anything. Had bookmarks etc from hours and hours of searching where to find the files to edit (using the phone, rooted magisk) various strings and found some stuff thatd work some that wouldnt and crash the app but its like
All im saying is for example with gcam (and others)
You can have exposure time of 60 seconds where op stock is limited to 30. So its not a hardware thing rooted or not. Definitely software. Apkstudio is basically above but gui. I know some people find things easier unix/linux related (like android) to do from linux in the first place instead of cross platform. Some things are just easier. Wasnt really sure how active anyone is on this device anymore. An easier goal would really just be getting the newer UI, pre android 11 betas, to work but idk nothing about that either. And if i did this shutdown stuff past 6 months really got everything throwed off.