Has anyone been able to display the multimedia dock screen without the dock. I know you can display the car home screen but it would be nice to be able to display the multimedia dock screen without having to pay the 30 for the dock.
I assume it could be as simple as someone creating an app that just executes that application, no?
http://www.motorola.com/consumers/U...toid=e17133289d704210VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRD
Both docks can be triggered by magnets. That's what you're paying $30 for when you get the docks.
Paul Miller from Engadget made his own "dock" with just a piece of cardboard and some ball magnets..
You can see the video here
Code:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/how-to-hack-your-own-droid-dock-with-magnets-and-cardboard/
fr4nk13 said:
Both docks can be triggered by magnets. That's what you're paying $30 for when you get the docks.
Paul Miller from Engadget made his own "dock" with just a piece of cardboard and some ball magnets..
You can see the video here
Code:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/how-to-hack-your-own-droid-dock-with-magnets-and-cardboard/
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Ya I saw that, the magnets are just another form of input. Its the same as clicking an icon, it executes a piece of code to display that screen. There has to be a way to see what code is being executed when the magnets are used.
That is true, however according to Paul, the multimedia screen is not an app that is launched. Only the car mode has a true "app".
Look up Dockrunner in the market and I think you will find what you are looking for.
msucoleman said:
Look up Dockrunner in the market and I think you will find what you are looking for.
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Thanks!! Exactly what I was looking for.
Or you can just use Bedside, which has more features as the Multimedia Dock App, or maybe even more, except for weather (yet)... and I have had that app in the market since january.
It now works for the Droid and supports the Dock, and turns off notifications while its opened and lets you control all that stuff, check it out
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Thanks!! Exactly what I was looking for.
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Yeah it works pretty well, but I got up this morning and could not get it out of the program and landscape even after I shut down the app. I had to just restart the phone to get it back to normal. Other than that though.
crackertc - I took a look at it and I'm thinking that I might just have to try that out. Good job.
msucoleman said:
Yeah it works pretty well, but I got up this morning and could not get it out of the program and landscape even after I shut down the app. I had to just restart the phone to get it back to normal. Other than that though.
crackertc - I took a look at it and I'm thinking that I might just have to try that out. Good job.
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You have to open the app drawer and run dockrunner again to take it out of multimedia dock mode, as it says in the directions.
I read somewhere they were going to ship the phone with the dock, like as an included accessory when you purchased the phone from Verizon. Sadly.....Big Red must have seen a way to make a buck and done away with those plans just in time for launch date!
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Any devs out there wanna give this a go?
I would love to be able to rotate my phone in any direction and have the screen flip like on my omnia... I know sense doesn't flip to landscape, thats not a prob, what I really want is to be able to flip the phone upside down and still use it as the correct rotation.
Reason I want to be able to do this is so I can use my phone in the cup holder of my car again, and to do this it must be upside down because of the charger placement... (same as on my Omnia)
Seems a pretty simple request, would be nice if it could auto run and run in the background without using up to much resources to.
If anyone is able to do this, would be awesome.
Thanks
Seconded ... but
I too would like to be able to rotate at least the other way; when showing off the Incredible, people rotate to landscape the other way and nothing happens, so they figure it doesn't rotate. I have to say "no turn it the other way" but it would be great to just not have to think about it.
BUT ... regarding the OP ... I simply took a dremel to the dash mount I bought (the beanbag, since California law doesn't allow sticking to the window in the middle). Carved out enough for a charger, and am done with it
I'd also like to see this. Anyone know the reasoning behind only allowing landscape mode by rotating to the left, and not the right? Even my old BB storm could handle rotation in both directions.
Agreed. This would be useful.
mattwood2000 said:
I'd also like to see this. Anyone know the reasoning behind only allowing landscape mode by rotating to the left, and not the right? Even my old BB storm could handle rotation in both directions.
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I would think it's because the majority of the world is right-handed and by rotating to the left, the optical track button is on the right side. I could complain because I'm left-handed, but hey at least my phone still has a signal when I hold it in my left hand, unlike other phones out there
This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.
br125 said:
This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.
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I've been running this cyanogen ROM since it came out and this is the 2nd thing you have pointed out to me in the settings that i didn't know about. I need to look through all the settings much more thoroughly.
br125 said:
This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.
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My phone aint even rooted yet, for some reason I've tried everything and won't allow me to get into adb recovery... anyways, if it's in another rom, it must be possible, if someone could make this an app!! it would be awesome.
Then we wouldn't have limits as to which rom we would have to use.
...just a thought...
JustinD2473 said:
I've been running this cyanogen ROM since it came out and this is the 2nd thing you have pointed out to me in the settings that i didn't know about. I need to look through all the settings much more thoroughly.
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Yeah you should hes got a lot of good stuff.
So will this be possible as an App?
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Thanks Mikey for re-opening this thread , you can delete the Why thread now if you like...
So anyone know if any of this is possible?
So, when plugging it into a monitor and only using the cable, the only options that pop up is the "Multimedia" interface where you can only listen to music or see pictures/videos stored on the phone. Has anyone found a way to do a real video out so you can display your browser or certain apps like Youtube? Or perhaps even enable Webtop so you can view it over just the simple HDMI cable. I hate to have to buy a dock just to use Webtop.
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So, when plugging it into a monitor and only using the cable, the only options that pop up is the "Multimedia" interface where you can only listen to music or see pictures/videos stored on the phone. Has anyone found a way to do a real video out so you can display your browser or certain apps like Youtube? Or perhaps even enable Webtop so you can view it over just the simple HDMI cable. I hate to have to buy a dock just to use Webtop.
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That's not possible at the moment.
legider said:
So, when plugging it into a monitor and only using the cable, the only options that pop up is the "Multimedia" interface where you can only listen to music or see pictures/videos stored on the phone. Has anyone found a way to do a real video out so you can display your browser or certain apps like Youtube? Or perhaps even enable Webtop so you can view it over just the simple HDMI cable. I hate to have to buy a dock just to use Webtop.
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There is some value in the build.prop file that might enable this.
Look for ro.hdmi.mirror.enable=false
Change to true and reboot the phone.
See if that helps.
you need to be root of course.
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There is some value in the build.prop file that might enable this.
Look for ro.hdmi.mirror.enable=false
Change to true and reboot the phone.
See if that helps.
you need to be root of course.
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Well that worked while the phone was booting. After it detects the HDMI cable it goes back to blank and then lets me choose between doing nothing and Entertainment Mode and none bring back the mirror. It was working fine tho. While it lasted...
clubtech said:
There is some value in the build.prop file that might enable this.
Look for ro.hdmi.mirror.enable=false
Change to true and reboot the phone.
See if that helps.
you need to be root of course.
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In the multimedia mode, is it popping up with the Windows Media Player like big icon's view on the monitor?
If so, there is a "Start Webtop" icon that should kick off the Linux webtop.
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In the multimedia mode, is it popping up with the Windows Media Player like big icon's view on the monitor?
If so, there is a "Start Webtop" icon that should kick off the Linux webtop.
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I can't do that. While you are in Entertainment mode you can change anything on the phone or it kicks out and the screen of blank.
AFAIK the Atrix doesnt have true HDMI Mirroring, only the LG Optimus 2X has got that. I might be wrong naturally.
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I can't do that. While you are in Entertainment mode you can change anything on the phone or it kicks out and the screen of blank.
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Right, you need to use the remote or a bt keyboard, I think.
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Right, you need to use the remote or a bt keyboard, I think.
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But the mirroring was working. Except that when it detected the HDMI quickly when I unlocked my phone it went blank and asked me what I wanted to do. Entertainment Mode or Do Nothing and none of them got me back to the mirroring. If anyone has a solution or idea, let me know. I'll test.
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But the mirroring was working. Except that when it detected the HDMI quickly when I unlocked my phone it went blank and asked me what I wanted to do. Entertainment Mode or Do Nothing and none of them got me back to the mirroring. If anyone has a solution or idea, let me know. I'll test.
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Maybe there is an option in to disable that popup message / feature...
I'll be getting the phone tomorrow and i'll take a look.
Mirroring is working - but something is overriding it in the settings.
clubtech said:
Maybe there is an option in to disable that popup message / feature...
I'll be getting the phone tomorrow and i'll take a look.
Mirroring is working - but something is overriding it in the settings.
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Yeah we need to write that down. It was working beautifully. I even so the Moto logo while it was booting and the unlock screen. As soon as I unlocked it OR it detected the HDMI cable, it kicked into another mode and overwrote that = true statement.
I will be rooting it tomorrow so I can dive in and see about getting true mirroring to work. But if we can't get it to do it, this may be a deal breaker for me. I can only assume it is possible somehow.
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Yeah we need to write that down. It was working beautifully. I even so the Moto logo while it was booting and the unlock screen. As soon as I unlocked it OR it detected the HDMI cable, it kicked into another mode and overwrote that = true statement.
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You can try to delete the following two lines from build.prop:
ro.hdmi.default.app=
hw.overlay.path.config=
back it up first!
Let us know if that worked.
I hope it wont cause a boot up problem (it should not but you can never know).
legider said:
I will be rooting it tomorrow so I can dive in and see about getting true mirroring to work. But if we can't get it to do it, this may be a deal breaker for me. I can only assume it is possible somehow.
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It is, theres just something overwriting it. I'm taking one for the time and I'll start looking at everything now and start tinkering with it.
clubtech said:
You can try to delete the following two lines from build.prop:
ro.hdmi.default.app=
hw.overlay.path.config=
back it up first!
Let us know if that worked.
I hope it wont cause a boot up problem (it should not but you can never know).
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That actually made me loose data connection I think? The H+ dissapeared. I have no idea how that has to do with anything but I went back to the back up and everything was fine.
Fixter said:
That actually made me loose data connection I think? The H+ dissapeared. I have no idea how that has to do with anything but I went back to the back up and everything was fine.
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How about just removing:
ro.hdmi.default.app=
and keeping the other one.
any word on this? I would love to enable true mirroring!
how did the droid x do it with this app:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gmanapps.realhdmi&feature=search_result
andy2na said:
any word on this? I would love to enable true mirroring!
how did the droid x do it with this app:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gmanapps.realhdmi&feature=search_result
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Same here, I desperately want this feature for hdmi out on emulators. I hate Att for crippling features, the bionic has hdmi mirroring listed as a feature.
kenio8185 said:
How about just removing:
ro.hdmi.default.app=
and keeping the other one.
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That doesn't do anything different. I've got it happily mirroring through the boot sequence, drawing the lockscreen and my security pattern to the TV, but just as soon as it unlocks, Moto's crapware takes over and away it goes. It never comes back until it reboots.
Forgive my relative ignorance with Android-- this is only the second one I've ever owned. Is there a way to bypass the restriction and uninstall either the Entertainment Center or the DockProvider packages? I have a hunch that it's one of those getting in the way of things, but I can't be certain.
anyone know how to get in mirror mode
Not quite sure where to post this, so I'll try here. Mods, please move to the correct forum if it is in the wrong one.
Back when the OG Droid came out, the screen could rotate all 4 ways (up, landscape left, landscape right, upside down). Never had a need for it, but it was cool. I noticed that as Android evolved, being able to hold your device upside down disappeared. Again, never had a need for it, so IO didn't care.
Now, I need it. In my car, I put the phone in the cupholder of my armrest/center console. Because the charging and headphone jack is on the bottom, I have to operate everything upside down. Is this an Android or manufacturer *feature* that was removed? Can it be put back? Can a mod be made to make it work?
I don't want a dock for my phone, I've had them before, and don't like them. I also like to have full control of my phone, not just what the manufacturer wants me to control.
Thanks.
There seem to be a few apps in the Play store that may help, here is one that looks promising:
Edit: can't post links. Do a search for Screen Rotation Control
Klotar said:
There seem to be a few apps in the Play store that may help, here is one that looks promising:
Edit: can't post links. Do a search for Screen Rotation Control
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I never thought to look for an app. Thanks, I'll check it out right now.
EDIT: Turns out it's a no-go. It has the option for reverse portrait, but it doesn't work.
If you have rooted your phone look for Roms that support this.
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crashN2u said:
I never thought to look for an app. Thanks, I'll check it out right now.
EDIT: Turns out it's a no-go. It has the option for reverse portrait, but it doesn't work.
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Ultimate Rotation Control by FAMEIT *does* support reverse portrait or at least the licensed version does. But I did root, not sure if that matters.
Good luck!
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crashN2u said:
EDIT: Turns out it's a no-go. It has the option for reverse portrait, but it doesn't work.
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Dang. There were a few options but that one looked promising by the description.
Try a search in the app store for "Reverse Portrait" and give the free ones a shot...? Some seem to have a "force" option for when it doesn't happen automatically (or lock in reverse portrait). If they can be invoked with one click, it wouldn't seem too much of an inconvenience.
Edit: Rotation Control Lite was the one I was looking at, might try that myself.
So if anybody else like me is coming from the G2 and 3 you might be missing smart screen.. That little feature that detects your face while looking at the screen to keep the screen awake instead of fading out. I personally felt it a real convenience. I would like to get it back, I pulled the app from my G3 titled wise screen. I installed it like a normal app with success. I used activity launcher to try and launch it, but it fc's. So I'm guessing we'll need root to get it functional. When we do get root is there anyone else interested in joining me on this quest? I would really like to get this one up and running. I can't for the life of me understand why they left it off. I feel like I'm back on ics or jb with out it..
Try kinScreen from the playstore
It works great
whiskeybro said:
Try kinScreen from the playstore
It works great
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Well on that note... Thanks lol
Swizzle82 said:
So if anybody else like me is coming from the G2 and 3 you might be missing smart screen.. That little feature that detects your face while looking at the screen to keep the screen awake instead of fading out. I personally felt it a real convenience. I would like to get it back, I pulled the app from my G3 titled wise screen. I installed it like a normal app with success. I used activity launcher to try and launch it, but it fc's. So I'm guessing we'll need root to get it functional. When we do get root is there anyone else interested in joining me on this quest? I would really like to get this one up and running. I can't for the life of me understand why they left it off. I feel like I'm back on ics or jb with out it..
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I have to agree with you. I am so surprised they took it out. I spent 30 min on the phone trying to find it. I tried the app the other post recommended, not as good, it will never turn the phone off in the car when the phone is mounted and the car is moving.
I, too, was looking for the smartscreen settings. Was surprised that LG decided to remove it. Will try the above mentioned kinscreen later
Anyone know if Samsung removed it from the S6? They started the feature and it was one of the more useful features they added to Touchwiz. I was glad when LG copied it. Most of the other stuff was junk, but that was actually useful.
That sucks. I wonder if they removed smart screen to keep the screen from running down the battery.
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You can try Smart Screen from the play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vjt.app.magicscreen
And iseeyou
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iseeyoulite
What's really weird is that the Smart Screen app is installed on the phone. Go to app manager, and check out the "All" list and there's Smart Screen. There's just no way to activate it.
ED2O9 said:
What's really weird is that the Smart Screen app is installed on the phone. Go to app manager, and check out the "All" list and there's Smart Screen. There's just no way to activate it.
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I don't have the app at all on mine.. 811.
I don't show it listed on my sprint version.
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Here it is on the Verizon variant. Wow... this is the first time the Verizon version actually has something the others don't!
It's on the phone but doesn't seem to work. I don't see any place to enable it and creating an activity to open the app causes it to crash.
Never really worked for me on G2/3.
I miss this and have found an app on the play store that mimics it. It worked well for me on the G3.
Verizon has this. I disabled it though. It worked great on my G2 for the time I tested it. For me, I am typically using my phone while in the middle of doing something else. So it is a waste.
ED2O9 said:
What's really weird is that the Smart Screen app is installed on the phone. Go to app manager, and check out the "All" list and there's Smart Screen. There's just no way to activate it.
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Not on mine H810. I am wondering if maybe they built something into the package? As since I have had mine, and if I'm using it or just looking at it the screen doesn't shut off.
ED2O9 said:
Here it is on the Verizon variant. Wow... this is the first time the Verizon version actually has something the others don't!
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It's on the phone but doesn't seem to work. I don't see any place to enable it and creating an activity to open the app causes it to crash.
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player911 said:
Verizon has this. I disabled it though. It worked great on my G2 for the time I tested it. For me, I am typically using my phone while in the middle of doing something else. So it is a waste.
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On Verizon, you can see the service - it is not an app - BUT there are no Settings I can find or know of that actually allow you to activate it or interact with it in anyway. So it is "there" but seems to do nothing and cannot be setup.
EDIT: I used the hidden Verizon menu and found this "smart screen" but when you click on it, it forecloses and crashes. So, it is as if that first part of the services is there BUT the actual functionality is not as using the hidden Verizon menu I cannot activate it and access settings or turn it on to work - and I would think from that hidden menu, we should.
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On Verizon, you can see the service - it is not an app - BUT there are no Settings I can find or know of that actually allow you to activate it or interact with it in anyway. So it is "there" but seems to do nothing and cannot be setup.
EDIT: I used the hidden Verizon menu and found this "smart screen" but when you click on it, it forecloses and crashes. So, it is as if that first part of the services is there BUT the actual functionality is not as using the hidden Verizon menu I cannot activate it and access settings or turn it on to work - and I would think from that hidden menu, we should.
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So is there no smart screen setting under display settings on verizon?
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So is there no smart screen setting under display settings on verizon?
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There is not
Has anyone seen this before or more importantly tried it on these head units?
Looks really good
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.autolauncher.motorcar
pants001 said:
Has anyone seen this before or more importantly tried it on these head units?
Looks really good
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Thanks for removing bad link.
No one?....I might bite the bullet and buy it.
I'm assuming if no good i can just uninstall
pants001 said:
No one?....I might bite the bullet and buy it.
I'm assuming if no good i can just uninstall
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There is a trial version of it. Just look at the devs other apps.
Geekybiker said:
There is a trial version of it. Just look at the devs other apps.
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I installed it yesterday to give it a go. Really nice clean interface, im liking it a lot.
Some benefits.
Simple interface, clean...Shows speed and time and shortcuts to some apps (I only use music, digital radio and spotify so this is perfect for me)
Installs as an App and you can start it from shortcut, once happy you can have it start automatically on boot as your default launcher.
Has in built screen dimming which works (All other auto dimmers have never worked for me)
3 different launcher themes, im using the one in the photo.
Easy to remove if not happy
pants001 said:
I installed it yesterday to give it a go. Really nice clean interface, im liking it a lot.
Some benefits.
Simple interface, clean...Shows speed and time and shortcuts to some apps (I only use music, digital radio and spotify so this is perfect for me)
Installs as an App and you can start it from shortcut, once happy you can have it start automatically on boot as your default launcher.
Has in built screen dimming which works (All other auto dimmers have never worked for me)
3 different launcher themes, im using the one in the photo.
Easy to remove if not happy
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Does it work with your hard buttons?
Geekybiker said:
Does it work with your hard buttons?
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Yes all hard buttons function the same, Back exits apps and Home takes you back to desktop.
Really its just a choice of 3 new launchers in an App rather than playing around with system files
This looks really clean!
I gave it a shot on mine. Looks really nice. I wish the app buttons were a bit larger though. Looks much more like a OEM type interface.
Geekybiker said:
I gave it a shot on mine. Looks really nice. I wish the app buttons were a bit larger though. Looks much more like a OEM type interface.
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Ye thats what i thought, looks similar to WinCE radio launchers
One thing i found to be a pain was that android by default, launches apps you had previously running (Which includes this Launcher)
So its already loaded when your device boots up, but as you open up your music, the Self boot of the app kicks in as well and you go back to desktop.
Im sure easy to get over somehow
So you have it set to autoplay off usb? Mine was playing the music as soon as it booted. If you disable the autoplay it doesn't launch the music app on startup.
I have it and love it! Originally downloaded it because it uses power amp as the default music player, I downloaded pro because with pro I can make it as my default home screen launcher. I've been very pleased with the results so far. And I've been running its for about a month.
Does it help with the ridiculous connectivity issues that I experience with AA? (i.e is it more reliable?)
jonboyuk said:
Does it help with the ridiculous connectivity issues that I experience with AA? (i.e is it more reliable?)
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Yes, a 1 device solution is generally always more reliable than a 2 device.
I'm a bit confused by this app. Can someone help please? I bought a car with AndroidAuto built in and I made the assumption (probably wrongly) that this is a replacement launcher for my car dash. But - I'm not sure how to get it to mirror into my vehicle. Do I need AA installed, or do I use Mirror Link? Confused!
Hard Buttons
How did you connect the head unit to your hard button controls?
How to add activity shortcuts to Car Launcher app?
How to deactivate speed in statusbar?
I used the Trial for about 5 minutes before I purchased the full version. This is exactly what I needed Now, Unfortunately im going to have to purchase poweramp i think
Using it for a few weeks now. Very happy with it.