When I swipe down on the Notification Bar, I sometimes see a slider to control screen brightness. I would much rather see a slider to control volume, the hardware buttons being slow and cumbersome for me. Any way to achieve this?
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jventola said:
When I swipe down on the Notification Bar, I sometimes see a slider to control screen brightness. I would much rather see a slider to control volume, the hardware buttons being slow and cumbersome for me. Any way to achieve this?
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Not exactly a slider but still volume in notificationarea, found it here on XDA som time ago but never got around to use it myself.
[APP][3.0+] Status Bar Volume Panel Plus 2.1
plus questions do not go in General, they go in Q&A....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.VolumeControl
like to use this app it allows a volume slider on the edge of screen also has an auto hide feature so not intrusive
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If you start to slide the status bar down, and then slide your finger to the left or the right on the actual status bar, the screen brightness will adjust.
Sliding all the way to the right will give you brightest, and sliding all the way to the left will give you lowest setting for brightness, and there are some intermediate settings depending on how far to the left/right you go.
My i9000 does not have this feature.
Yes I have this and I use it often
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This phone gets more awesome every day!
is it really the status bar or a swype on either direction at the top part of the screen
i remember something about controlling screen brightness by a diagonal swype from the top of the screen
istnelane said:
My i9000 does not have this feature.
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I'm sure that your phone does have this feature, but you have to take the screen brightness out of automatic for it to work.
awesome....something new everyday!
you dont have to slide down, just swype across the notification bar, that is such a simple but cool feature
Lol im gonna start swiping everything on my screen next thing you know you swipe and a LED Flash shutter opens in the back
Ferdimage said:
Lol im gonna start swiping everything on my screen next thing you know you swipe and a LED Flash shutter opens in the back
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i lold
I'm surprised more people haven't noticed this feature, and Samsung has been so quiet about it.
It doesn't seem to work for me either. I've tried pulling the bar down just a little or all of the way.
You have to have it on manual brightness setting, and pull the status bar down just a few mm so that the grey part that would usually be the bottom edge of the status bar is fully exposed, but is right at the top of the screen, then swipe either left or right on the status bar.
I hope that makes sense
Has anyone else found it a bit cumbersome on the Xoom to change the audio volume all the time with the manual buttons or even use the hard buttons to trigger the volume slider to appear? I think it would be a huge perk if a volume slider would be included on the music app and even in the settings popup in the corner like the brightness? Thoughts / opinions from others? I wanted to see if others would see value in this to take it to google for an potential future enhancement.
Nvious1 said:
Has anyone else found it a bit cumbersome on the Xoom to change the audio volume all the time with the manual buttons or even use the hard buttons to trigger the volume slider to appear? I think it would be a huge perk if a volume slider would be included on the music app and even in the settings popup in the corner like the brightness? Thoughts / opinions from others? I wanted to see if others would see value in this to take it to google for an potential future enhancement.
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i agree! i'm using the motorola cover and changing the volume sucks. if it could be used as a slider in the notifications bar that would be awesome.
They should make it to where you can pick what shows up on the notification pop up. I would like to see toggles for bluetooth, wifi added a volume slide just like the display settings. If you could pick which settings showed there that would be a huge +1 And the ability to resize the widgets with out needing a new launcher installed (LP+ ADW).
There is a solution to the Volume issue mentioned in the OP.
There's an app for that!™
It appears you can also put it in the task bar.
I'm so used to having skins on top of android (sense, touchwiz) that I kind of feel the need of having one on top of honeycomb. I admit that HC the way it is looks so frigging naked. The media player is dull, and the widgets are boring. IMO.
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arrtoodeetoo said:
There is a solution to the Volume issue mentioned in the OP.
There's an app for that!™
It appears you can also put it in the task bar.
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Sweet diggs. I will swoop that up shortly!!
Hi all,
Just switched from CM to MIUI and so far quite liking the change. There are a couple of features from CM which I am missing a little and wondered whether there were any mods for them:
Ability to change brightness quickly by pulling top bar down slightly and adjusting left and right. Is there a patch around for this?
Abilitiy to tweak auto-brightness levels
Any other tips about MIUI worth knowing?
Cheers,
MIchael
try changing your toggle settings to page instead of compact. As for tweaking the auto settings..not sure about that
d88888b said:
try changing your toggle settings to page instead of compact. As for tweaking the auto settings..not sure about that
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cheers for the reply... should have been more specific. On CM (and my last phone - Galaxy S) it was possible to pull the notification bar down slightly and then drag left to right to adjust. Was always nice an easy to do when out and about in bright sunlight when you cant see anything on the screen.
a brightness slider in the notification bar? ive never seen this but im interested
i thought the button in the notification bar was the only option
grimey01 said:
a brightness slider in the notification bar? ive never seen this but im interested
i thought the button in the notification bar was the only option
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what I am talking about isnt a visible slider... its quite hard to explain but is demonstrated in this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgIaVNzwhjk . Its an option you can turn on somewhere in the CM settings
also, have found how to adjust auto-brightness levels in MIUI so ignore that request, just need to see if this brightness slider is possible.
Pull down the notification shade. If it is in page view, hit the backlight button. Once you hit the backlight button, a slider will appear on the bottom of the shade and you can adjust the brightness. It will be there any time you adjust the shade.
If your shade is in toggle view, put it in page view by hitting Settings>personal>toggle>page
Hope that helps
U can set max brightness by pressing together menu button and volume up
understand what you are asking for since I use CM a lot
but not available that way in MIUI yet
Actually, cyber, my slider don't even work
hi, i have rooted my tablet and use rom tool box to change the dpi to 175, effectively give me full tablet UI.
which is very nice.
the notification bar at the lower left, when i swipe it upwards,
there is a brightness control.
i seldom use this slider because the auto brightness works so well.
i'm thinking it will be more useful if it can become a volume control.
is it possible? is there an app for it?
or is there any mod i can flash to make a volume control appear there.
hope to hear some feed back. thank you
mtxx1 said:
hi, i have rooted my tablet and use rom tool box to change the dpi to 175, effectively give me full tablet UI.
which is very nice.
the notification bar at the lower left, when i swipe it upwards,
there is a brightness control.
i seldom use this slider because the auto brightness works so well.
i'm thinking it will be more useful if it can become a volume control.
is it possible? is there an app for it?
or is there any mod i can flash to make a volume control appear there.
hope to hear some feed back. thank you
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Yeah, this custom ROM has it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1796668
'Volume in Notification' app
Also, from the conversations I've read, the best setting for tablet UI is 160.
kwarner666 said:
'Volume in Notification' app
Also, from the conversations I've read, the best setting for tablet UI is 160.
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Thanks for the app recomemdation
160 DPI? I've been using 175 for the last 5 days. No force close or hang. What kind of issue is expected?
Why is 160 the best? The font is smaller in 160.
If you use a strange dpi, then some apps might not appear in the Play Store because they have dpi requirements.
Just curious about the DPI. I have not rooted, but was "thinking" that the font would get larger if set to 160 dpi. I have a 5" Galaxy Player and the N7, and everything on the N7 is smaller (except the screen). Music Widgets are much smaller with a much smaller albumart. I was hoping if I rooted icons and text could be made larger. I have settings set to largest.... and I don't consider myself blind... just old
I'm kind of curious.... I had a kindle fire which had no volume buttons so a notification volume slider was crucial but the N7 has volume buttons so I don't understand why you would need a slider. Please understand I'm not trying to say you're wrong for wanting one, just curious why.
neilrl79 said:
I'm kind of curious.... I had a kindle fire which had no volume buttons so a notification volume slider was crucial but the N7 has volume buttons so I don't understand why you would need a slider. Please understand I'm not trying to say you're wrong for wanting one, just curious why.
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No problem. Here's an example,
Open a YouTube video.
The volume is too loud, find the volume rocker,top right,
Nope not there. Rotate tablet and check all sides to find it.
After a few seconds looking, found it.
If there is a volume control at notification bar,
Just swipe it down, and control from it.
Much faster, no need fiddle with the tablet looking for it.
Hi,
is there a way to access the quick settings in any app instead just on the home screen or something similar that shows volume, brightness and wifi? I tested "Sidebar" but it doesn't show whether wifi is on and also changes volume and brightness on touch instead of just showing the bar.
Basically i am looking for something like the "Slider Controls" small app for the Xperia Z plus the ability to turn wifi on/off.
Thank you
ArrowHood said:
Hi,
is there a way to access the quick settings in any app instead just on the home screen or something similar that shows volume, brightness and wifi? I tested "Sidebar" but it doesn't show whether wifi is on and also changes volume and brightness on touch instead of just showing the bar.
Basically i am looking for something like the "Slider Controls" small app for the Xperia Z plus the ability to turn wifi on/off.
Thank you
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Two products you could try "GMD GestureControl" and/or "LMT".
With GMD I defined a customized gesture to bring up the volume overlay while in apps like MX Player allowing me to adjust the volume during playback. With LMT's PIE (see video) , I assigned a toggle to turn autobrightness on/off (Auto Brightness Switch) and a number of notification bar activities. So far with LMT I've only used the PIE overlay feature but it does a heck of a lot more as you can see in the video link.
Give them a test run, between the two products I think you can get what you need. They also work perfectly well with SideBar if you have already purchased that.
Good Luck