Database Users

Clock is truly missing (how about this in Chrome?)!

Hi,
I do not know how about you but I am missing simple/constant/bulit in clock in Modern UI mode.
In desktop mode (unless you hide taskbar) clock is always there for you in the right bottom corner...
In Modern UI we can add Clock Tile but it is not the same. As soon as you start an app it is gone .
I know there are many apps (like games) that (as in full screen desktop) will not display and should not display such an information. However apps like Mail, browser, etc. , let say all productivity ones should.
Any chances to get extension (perhaps one of you can write it?? ) that will display clock in Chrome when fired up in Modern UI mode as show on the picture:
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/i30qleogizcebjv/Chrome clock.png
This space in Chrome is not used for anything so it could nice display time What do you think?

I fully agree...!

If you bring up the charms bar the time is displayed

I know - but there is (in most cases) so much unused space on the screen that it should be there all the time.
Space on the tiles themselves could be used better as well

>I know - but there is (in most cases) so much unused space on the screen that it should be there all the time.
It's Metro's design language--having an ascetic interface with as little "chrome" as possible for a clean look. Having an on-screen clock would go against that.
There are a number of issues with Metro--one is the lack of visual hints that impedes discoverability, thereby decreasing user-friendliness. Constant-updating Live Tiles also run counter to the clean UI that ostensibly was for minimizing distractions.
One major complaint with Metro of course is that it's incomplete, and needs to invoke the desktop for many functions. The other biggie is the "business decision" of forcing Metro on users, and not allowing boot-to-desktop.
My personal beef against the Metro design is its use of horizontal scrolling for the main UI elements, notably the Start Screen and many of the Bing apps. Ergonomically, horizontal scroll is less efficient than vertical scroll, especially for text. Secondly, it limits the tablet to landscape mode, which is probably the intent, as all (16:9) Windows tablets work poorly in portrait. Fine for media, poor for readers or web surfing, or any use that involves long text.
Getting back to your point, Metro is as mentioned an incomplete implementation, and hopefully the next rev will expand on its functionality. I don't think a clock on the start screen is in the cards, however.
More intriguing is the possibility of a 3rd-party shell that can replace Metro at some point down the road. Assuming this touch UI thing doesn't flop completely on Win, I think that'll happen.

[TouchAnyway]Most powerful Wintablet App,Virtual Mouse,Gamepad,NightMode,power-save

A new cool way to play your windows tablet[Introducing Touch Anyway]
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Introducing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWWk47l_Lks
Virtual Gamepad
https://www.youtube.com/embed/bvWmEMKOuyo
This feature lets you configure and layout your own Virtual Controller. You can move and re-size buttons, configure a joystick or gamepad and label your controls. It supports most of games and software in windowed mode by simulating different kinds of keyboard operations like shortcuts, joysticks and mouse click, etc.
Therefore, you can use it to play FPS games like Call of Duty, Minecraft or other Emulator games including PPSSPP.
Virtual Mouse
https://www.youtube.com/embed/rEeYTdbYoq4
Users can precisely control the mouse pointer on touch screen, just like using the touchpad on laptop. So it is so convenient that you control the windows program by touching the screen without real mouse, like doing efficient document work.
Video Assistant
https://www.youtube.com/embed/JTFOIUFp_wc
This function can let users control most of the video players by providing fast forward, backward, screen lock and light control and volume control with simple gestures, etc.
Night Mode
https://www.youtube.com/embed/y_F4D91CR5U
This feature provides users with customized transparent keyboard. And it can allow users to navigate IE browser in night mode and lower the lightness of the screen beyond the system Configuration.
(We do really care about your eyes health)
Others
https://www.youtube.com/embed/m5NJCQAXaTU
Besides, Touch Anyway support Mem-cleaner with simple click and Efficient sleep, which can automatically turn off WIFI to save your tablet’s power and re-open the WIFI when you wake it up.
This APP is free,you can try for free forever even trial period is end,you just cannot get update and setting configuration.
getlink:http://saen.weipaifan.com/

I already have a premium app that I use.
This is an awesome app: D
Many thanks for permission to use

It is cool...Can this app be applied on Windows 8.1 platform?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/windows-8-rt/general/tutorial-onsceen-gamepad-touchpad-t3104501
china version no trial period limit , only can't support 8-axis

Does it works in RT?

Hello,
have someone any information about this software? I was blind and just buyied, but its not working anymore - cant download engine, page is offline. Or have someone any similar software?
I tryed instal china version, but it always redirect me to microsoft "EU" store...
Thanks for response, I have Onda V919 dual boot, with W10 home last version...

cant seem to download from baidu...

EMUI Tips and Tricks

EMUI On Honor 8
For those of you getting an Honor 8, this will probably be your first experience with EMUI. EMUI is the UX that will ship on your phone, similar to Touchwiz on Samsung. There are a bunch of features in EMUI that I'm going to be going over in this thread.
Schedule Power On and Off
Scheduling a power on and off for your phone is an interesting idea that I've never thought too much about. I've seen quiet times and night modes but turning it on and off makes more sense to me. This will also save some battery power because your phone isn't syncing your data at night.
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Motion Control
The motion gestures is something I've never found useful but more and more phones are implementing it, so someone must be using it. You'll have all of your basic motion gestures like flip to mute and all that. What's really interesting is the knuckles gestures. Somehow the scientists in China have figured out how to differentiate knocks from touches. This lets you use knocks for stuff like screenshots or screen records.
Floating Dock
The floating dock will put your navigation bar in a it a little circle menu off to the side. You've seen stuff like this before so there's not much to say about it. Features like this are usually found in custom ROMs. You might find that with all of the cool features in EMUI, you could be satisfied staying with stock.
Smart Key
Smart Key turns your fingerprint sensor into a physical button. Assign custom actions or apps to press, double press or long press. This is by far my favorite feature of EMUI.
As I'm finishing up this post, my Honor 8 has been scheduled to shut down lol. That means it's my bed time, but there are plenty of other cool things in EMUI. If you own an Honor 8, please share your favorites in the comments.

Does this phone have double tap to wake?

madgalaxy said:
Does this phone have double tap to wake?
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It does not (not that I have found)
Another Feature to mention is the ability to have your alarms come on, even though the phone is off.
While playing with the bootloader yesterday I saw you have the option to enable the device to sound if alarms are schedule.

madgalaxy said:
Does this phone have double tap to wake?
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yes.
usually not enabled by default. need to be enable in the settings under motion control

Detailed Guide on Honor EMUI - Basic Accessibility settings

Accessibility options are designed to make your device easier to use — while normally associated with making Android more approachable for the elderly or for helping the physically disabled, anyone can benefit from checking out some of these lesser-known settings. Let’s check out what Android has been hiding.
1. Services
1.1 Talkback: Google Talkback will give you verbal, audio, and vibration cues by acting as a built-in screen reader. It's perfect for the visually impaired.
Steps to enable feature:
- Go to settings >Accessibility .
- Select Talkback .
- Click on Talkback settings to set volume , keyboard echo , touch exploration etc.
- After you enable this feature it will give you verbal cues for each action.
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Steps to disable feature:
- long press on power button then to disable this feature touch and hold the screen with fingers for more than 3 seconds
1.2 Switch Access: It allows you to configure hard buttons to perform certain tasks to enable better navigation for the visually impaired and makes a pretty powerful tool when paired up with Talkback.
Users can assign hard keys for different tasks.
2. System
2.1 Captions: Enables the system wide closed caption system for videos. It allows videos to display captions based on the parameters decided upon here, and you can change the text size and color within set parameters.
2.2 Magnification Gestures: Magnifies the entire system UI. Activate by triple-tapping on the display inside any apps on the device, pan around using a two-finger drag and zoom in/out further using pinch-to-zoom.
2.3 Power button ends call: When this setting is enabled, you can simply press your device's power button to end a call. This setting can make it faster and easier to hang up
2.4 Speak Passwords: Exactly what it says it does. Use only if you really, really need to use it and please use it with caution even then.
2.5 Accessibility shortcut: This will allow you to quickly enable accessibility features, even while the device is locked.
Step 1: press and hold the power button until you hear a sound or feel a vibration.
Step 2: Touch and hold two fingers until you hear audio confirmation
2.6 Text to Speech: This allows you to choose the text-to-speech engine of your choice, where Google's is the default. Even then you've got languages to choose from and the quality of sound you want to hear.
2.7 Touch and Hold Delays: For those with dexterity issues, how long you need to press and hold to complete actions could be an issue. This allows you to alter the duration required to three different settings.
3. Display
3.1 Color Inversion: This feature flip the entire device color scheme to the inverse. It works across the whole system UI and inside all applications.
3.2 Color Correction: There are options to change the display mode based on different types of color blindness:
Deuteranomaly (red-green)
Protanaomaly (red-green)
Tritanomaly (blue-yellow)
Screenshots taken and shared in any of these display modes will not reflect the changes you've made, so anyone else will be able to view them without any changes.
To enable or disable the abovesettings, follow these steps:
1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
2. Select any Option you want from the above .
I hope I've sparked your interest enough to encourage you to check them out for yourself because there's some truly great stuff in there, whether you think you need it or not.

[Tips] What is Always on Display and How you can Enable it?

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Hey EMUI Users,
If you are a Smartphone enthusiast, you might already have known the mechanism behind "Always on Display" and why it is used but if you don't really know about it, let me explain:
"Always on Display is a feature that comes mostly with Premium range Smartphones (including Huawei Smartphones) which enables you to keep your screen on all the time"
Now the question is: "Why would anyone want to turn on their Smartphone Screen all the time? Won't it empty your battery very quickly?"
There are 2 Parts of this questions, the first one is Why would anyone want to Turn on their Smartphone Screen all the time?
The answer to this question is fairly simple, some people don't like to pickup and activate their Smartphone screens to check if they received any new messages, emails and Missed Calls.
Having a screen that let's you know all this information but not too much information is a good thing right?
That is the reason where Always on Display or AOD comes to the rescue as it enables you to see if you have any new notifications so that you might not get distracted all the time by turning on your screen again and again.
Now comes the second part "Turning on the Always on Display can drain your batter very quickly?"
The answer to this question is a bit tricky as although turning on your Smartphone screen for long periods of time does consumes lot of battery but if your Smartphone has an OLED display, it really brings down the battery usages down because it specifically turns on the pixels that are required and the Always On Display takes benefit of this scenario and therefore only turns on essential pixel on your Screen instead of the whole screen to minimize battery usage
How to enable Always on Display on your Smartphone?
First of all you have to make sure that your Huawei Smartphone does contain this feature and contains and OLED display as well.
After confirming these 2 things:
On EMUI 10.0
Go to Settings-> Home screen & wallpaper -> Always On Display