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control panel in notification drawer.

hey guys, ive had my nexus for a while, but i switched over from an iphone and on the iphone there was a plug in called sb settings which allowed you to swipe your finger across the status bar and a small control panel would drop down giving you options to dim your screen, turn wifi and other toggles on and off, and gave you your system info all without having to leave the current app you were on. i was wondering if there is such a thing for android, where you have a control panel in the notification drawer.?
looked like this on iphone
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carbonfiber1 said:
hey guys, ive had my nexus for a while, but i switched over from an iphone and on the iphone there was a plug in called sb settings which allowed you to swipe your finger across the status bar and a small control panel would drop down giving you options to dim your screen, turn wifi and other toggles on and off, and gave you your system info all without having to leave the current app you were on. i was wondering if there is such a thing for android, where you have a control panel in the notification drawer.?
looked like this on iphone
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A free app called 'Bar Control' will let you put shortcuts in the notification bar.
I use this with 'Switches', a paid toggling app, and a free app 'Wifi Status' (that warns you if you have wifi on but no connection to a network).
HTH

Quick Settings free on the market will also do this. Nice little program I use it every day.

mjwatmough said:
Quick Settings free on the market will also do this. Nice little program I use it every day.
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+1, works great (although it could do with a UI uplift).

mjwatmough said:
Quick Settings free on the market will also do this. Nice little program I use it every day.
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exactly what i was looking for. works great. thankss. itd be cool if the led flash was supported for nexus. but it gets the job done.

It would be good, I'm stock so not sure if LED torch works with root.

the led torch app for the N1 defenitely requires root

[Q] Help using tasker for car docking and undocking

I'd like to stop using Ibolt dock-n-drive for various reasons, so I'm trying to use Tasker to set the volume, keep the screen on, etc when my S 4 goes into dock mode. However, even with Dock No-Op, whenever I undock, the media volume goes to 0 and Bluetooth turns off. I'd like these settings to be restored to their pre-dock state which is what Tasker is supposed to do AFAIK. Is there an easy way to prevent these settings from being adjusted (by the OS?)? I'm sure I can eventually figure out how to make tasker save and restore these settings with brute force, but if somebody has already done this, please let me know the trick or the Tasker code.

I'm using iBolt xProDock. It has a fairly rigid cable that makes it easy to plug in with one hand, so I'd like to keep using this cable. This cable also forces the S4 into dock mode - which was good when I was using iBolt's software. As I feared, the timing between tasker's Dock "end task" and whatever it is turning the Bluetooth off and media volume to 0 is indeterminate. Sometimes the Dock end task comes first, so whatever I do there gets overwritten. My kludge so far is for my Dock end task to wait until Bluetooth is off, and then turn it back on and set the media volume. This will likely be annoying when I undock while sitting in my car but with the Bluetooth still on because the media player will stop and I'll have to restart it manually. (I'm an applications engineer and spend a lot of time sitting in my car when I get to meetings early.)
I've seen other people ask "what is turning off Bluetooth when I undock my S4", but I've never seen an answer. It would be really nice to just stop that behavior.
I've only been using Tasker for a day, so let me know if there is a better workaround.
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Trick I use to save battery

I know some people won't want to do this, but it's something I do that I personally find helps with battery life. Nothing revolutionary, and some people won't want to but... different strokes for different folks. It's very tempting with this beautiful screen of ours to blast the brightness and get the most out of the Super AMOLED (or whatever they're calling it these days) but I've found if I'm in the same environment reading/watching videos/whatever to turn the brightness ALL the way down. Struggle with that for a few minutes while your eyes try to adjust, then turning the brightness up just a tiny bit will be (or at least seem) plenty bright. Anyway, combining that along with having rooted with Scott's CleanROM (I'm on Verizon) and my battery life has been golden! [emoji2]

Here's a screenshot of where I'll often have my brightness after doing this.
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Seems really low, but I have no problem reading or doing anything at this brightness, unless I'm out in direct sunlight or something. Anyway, just my .02

Nvm
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This is not a trick.

Suggestion then

I use the slider on the left to turn down the brightness in mxplayer which is my de facto movie watching app.... Turn it to 15 in bright day time environments and down to 5 indoors or in dark scenarios. Otherwise the system wide default is +5 on the notification slider and auto. Able to cross 5.5 SOT easily with this much.

I have a trick to open the phone. I use the power button on the side or the home button on the front of the phone.

BehelitOutlaw said:
I have a trick to open the phone. I use the power button on the side or the home button on the front of the phone.
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I've been wondering how to open the phone, thanks!

You should try out adaway! It's much more powerful than adblockplus, it actually modifies the host file. Also, try out lux if you haven't. It's seriously my favorite and most essential app. I don't know how I survived without it all these years.

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I have a trick to open the phone. I use the power button on the side or the home button on the front of the phone.
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Thanks mate, now I finally know how to operate this phone

I use this as my lockscreen image to save battery

Need to go in
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Auto Brightness Will Not Dim

I cannot get my screen to dim when in a dark environment when on auto brightness. When I go into a bright environment it will get brighter, but once I return to a darker environment it will not dim. Only way it will dim is if I uncheck the auto box in the notification shade and then recheck it or if I turn the screen off and then back on. I've waited for up to a minute for it to dim and nadda! I've tried disabling auto brightness and rebooting/powering off & on without success. Any ideas before I try a FDR?
(I'm on the T-Mobile variant and only disabled some apps with the built-in application manager ...)
FYI - I am well aware of Lux and similar apps that "are better" than the built in setting, however, I am trying to figure out why mine will not work with the stock setting.
Thanks!
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Safe mode resulted in same results ... looks like I am FDR bound ?
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I am experiencing this as well. I drive a lot in the dark and this is a daily annoyance.

After doing further research I found that this might be as Samsung intended it to be. I found a thread here on xda (sorry, can't find it again) where someone looked at the code for the S6 (I think) and saw it had something to do with the devices orientation. If it's flat, the device would dim if not it wouldn't - as if Sammy doesn't want it to dim while you're holding it (I assume so if your hands accidentally cover the sensor while gaming/video watching it would not dim??). Sure enough I laid my S7E on the counter and turned off the light it dims fine. Turn on the light, pick up the device, turn the light off and nadda ... screen won't dim until it's cycled off/on or the auto box is unchecked/checked. Quite a stupid "feature" IMO
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Samsung just like doing stupid things to tick its users off. So many little things with this device that are stupid.

Glad I found this thread. Lux is nice, never used it before. Much better than samsung auto brightness.

Lux is great. Once you start linking the brightness to your reference, it just works.
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No reason why we can't have a working auto bright built in. My damn S4 and Note 4 works flawlessly.

Hawkhell said:
No reason why we can't have a working auto bright built in. My damn S4 and Note 4 works flawlessly.
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I agree... while I like Lux the default auto brightness should function normally
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Auto on, on charge

I want to use a Samsung Galaxy S10E as a motorcycle dashboard.
I was wondering if it is possible for a rooted S10E to:
1.) Auto turn on device when it is charging
2.) Auto turn off the screen when charging stops
And is there a "How To" somewhere within this forum?

You may need to root to do this. Play with this.
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nils 6l said:
I want to use a Samsung Galaxy S10E as a motorcycle dashboard.
I was wondering if it is possible for a rooted S10E to:
1.) Auto turn on device when it is charging
2.) Auto turn off the screen when charging stops
And is there a "How To" somewhere within this forum?
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I used an app call'd Tasker, because I wanted more than your 2 steps, which you can very likely accomplish if you play around with settings as @blackhawk suggests.
My setup uses an old S4mini for the music player in my VW buggy:
Turning my accessory switch ON starts phone charger which turns on the phone and then opens the music player app which shows a list of songs. I choose a song by tapping its icon on screen. This starts the song playing rotation from that song. Next song will be whatever is in playlist queue (unless I choose to press the Shuffle button, which I do very rarely). List plays till last listed song is done, and then starts playing first listed song in queue (if my drive is that long, usually not).
Turning my accessory switch OFF cuts off phone charger which causes Tasker to close the player app, bringing up homescreen launcher, which shows for 5 seconds (because it lets me see the time, battery level, etc.) and then Tasker's last task is to run a little app that puts the phone to sleep.

Thanks, I know Tasker, but I thought it would only work when the phone is on.
Will try that first then.