topic Re: Ideas for a new Update? double tap to wake and close? Screen Recorder and other things... in XZ Series

Ideas for a new Update? double tap to wake and close? Screen Recorder and other things...

marquez — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:37:03 GMT

I have ideas for a new update. Hope the Sony developers see this topic.

1. What about the Screen Recorder? I miss this feature from the z3 compact. Very usefull.

2. double tap to wake and doube tap to close. Why this feature dont exits? Because Battery drain ore difficult because android oreo ?

3. The mini Apps. Its usefull tu use the mini apps. I hope they will come back.

4. A smoothly Brightness regulator? Because its change to aggressive the Brightness.

5. Contact Widget to choose the Favorite Contacts directly , saw it on the older compact phones.

Thanks in advance for answering.

Re: Ideas for a new Update? double tap to wake and close? Screen Recorder and other things...

Strampke — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:51:56 GMT

I agree, DTTW and DTTS are perfect.

Z3C had some fine features.

Small apps are my personal favorite.

Notes and Calc are Paramount.

Contact widgets can be found everywhere and screen recording can be substituted with AZ screen recorder.

There is one more wish you didn't mention or know of.

That is night light where the colors turn a bit yellowish to soften your sight.

Good old Z3C Compact (sigh)

Re: Ideas for a new Update? double tap to wake and close? Screen Recorder and other things...

SenXEK — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 07:44:43 GMT

@marquez wrote:
I have ideas for a new update. Hope the Sony developers see this topic.

1. What about the Screen Recorder? I miss this feature from the z3 compact. Very usefull.

2. double tap to wake and doube tap to close. Why this feature dont exits? Because Battery drain ore difficult because android oreo ?

3. The mini Apps. Its usefull tu use the mini apps. I hope they will come back.

4. A smoothly Brightness regulator? Because its change to aggressive the Brightness.

5. Contact Widget to choose the Favorite Contacts directly , saw it on the older compact phones.

Thanks in advance for answering.

How about adding the following to the list?

6. Shutdown Alarm. Meaning that the alarm clock will still goes off even if the device is power off

7. Scheduled Power On/Off. Meaning that we can set a daily schedule to automatically power on or power off the device

Re: Ideas for a new Update? double tap to wake and close? Screen Recorder and other things...

istres — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 12:34:26 GMT

To improve the light sensor, it changes constantly when there is indirect light and abruptly in addition to taking several seconds. It is annoying and did not happen to the z5 compact

Re: Ideas for a new Update? double tap to wake and close? Screen Recorder and other things...

Strampke — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 13:30:44 GMT

@SenXEK

Screen recorder, you can use AZ screen recorder.

DTTW and DTTS, one of my favorites.

Small apps, my favorite, it's a pity that Sone dropped it.

Your idea about automatic shutdown is very clever. However a real switch off is never possible, there must be something that is on standby. Same goes for scheduled on/off.

Maybe a standby mode? Or airplane mode?

What about night mode?

A yellowish screen that doesn't blind you in the night when you watch the screen?

It exists, even on some Xperia distributions. (Concept and Omni ROM)

Re: Ideas for a new Update? double tap to wake and close? Screen Recorder and other things...

Aleale74 — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:34:32 GMT

Timeshift burst forever!

Re: Ideas for a new Update? double tap to wake and close? Screen Recorder and other things...

Xz1c — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:36:17 GMT

About double tap I wonder if it is even possible to be done.

This is the z3c.

Z3 compact

And the xz1c doesnt look like it has this kind of a sensor. Xz1 compact

Xz1 compact

Why No Ambient Display and Double Tap to wake?

Yekollu — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:52:14 GMT

I got this phone 3 days back and initially was impressed . Once i was at work (I work in a clean room most of the time and wear gloves) and realized that this phone has neither Ambient Display (or a similar Notification system) . Is there anyway to activate these two or at least one of the two features?

It is rather annoying to remove my gloves and unlock the phone to check if have any notifications! If there is no fix, i guess i will have no other choice than return this phone

Re: Why No Ambient Display and Double Tap to wake?

Xz1c — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:20:24 GMT

It has LED notification in the top left corner. The color of it hints from which app the notification is.

Go in Settings - Apps & notifications - Cofigure notifications and check if "Blink light" is enabled.

You also should have notifications enabled for the App you want to see notifications from.

Re: Why No Ambient Display and Double Tap to wake?

Yekollu — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 19:59:12 GMT

Blinking LEDs are not a very elegant solution, i see it as a step backward compared to other phone manufaturers.

I have quite a few messaging apps and mails, the colours supported by the LED are not really enough plus the Blinking LED does not show who has sent the message I do not understand why disable something that is supported by both the chipset and the OS

Oh well, i guess it is back to Motorola for me. A shame, this is such a good phone otherwise

Re: Why No Ambient Display and Double Tap to wake?

Strampke — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:10:48 GMT

@Yekollu

The people that work for me are not allowed to use their phone at work except at coffee/tea break and lunchtime.

Most apps allow you to set a different color led.

There is glove mode on your device.

Re: Why No Ambient Display and Double Tap to wake?

Yekollu — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:32:53 GMT

@Strampke Good for you and your company

We are a small company and being reachable to our clients (80% are in different time zones) are importatnt to us. At my previous company we were not allowed cell phones but i see that the productivity and motivation in my present company is much higher than the previous company.

Back to the Topic, the LED supports only a set of colors and they cannot be really used to identify who has sent the message in a particular app. The glove mode does not work the Gloves that you use in a Laboratory

Again, why would Sony want to remove something that is supported both by the OS and chipset

Re: Why No Ambient Display and Double Tap to wake?

Xz1c — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:49:03 GMT

Well you can simply press the power button with your gloves on and it will show the lock screen and your notifications...you can see who they are from, what they say.. and all you need. Cant you?

You dont need to take them off and unlock it.