Hi, where else can I upload this image to illustrate what I mean?
This is UI on my nothing phone. I see a major benefit for my everyday mental wellbeing to not have my phone shooting at me with all colors, and instead being “just a good interface”.
There might be some issues with icon recognition and speed of access, but since that’s your device and your icon placement, you eventually getting used to it. In exchange you receive a clean UI which doesn’t overload your receptors, which is a very important thing for the device you look at often.
Weather widget in the middle often shows calendar events, but I don’t discolse that for privacy.
Thanks for listening to my TED talk.
Nothing to see here, folks…
Looks like Nothing.
Fine, Dad, take my upvote.
And my Axe!
Let’s have an obscure reference fight!
Good fight, good night!
In the same vein, I use Niagara launcher a monochrome theme - I find it helps with the phone addiction.
Yeah, the same principle. And they UI also done as some custom application you install.
Phone didn’t come with it installed by default, maybe it is now.
Why two clocks and weather-widgets?
Why two clocks and weather-widgets?
Is there a way to bring back colorful icons without changing the launcher ? The phones and the launcher look solid but these icons make it pretty dull
There’s a setting for it yeah
Yeah, IIRC you can choose between monochrome and colorful options, but it immediately loses that touch and looks like any other Android phone, which is not a bad thing, Android has a good design overall.
How is notification center and phone?
Is it the one you see when you slide down?
That one is still bombarded by notifications from applications, so I simply have “Do Not Disturb” mode on almost all the time.
It also allows to disable notification by holding it, but it is like that on all phones, I assume.
It has support for silent notifications also, but I kinda just nuke whatever new thing pop ups there.
And also it has customizable buttons for features with the ability to change size and placement. Quite neat.
You should be able to long press unwanted notifications and stop the system showing that class of notification or all notifications from some app
“Turn off” stops that class of notification from that app
Settings gear takes you to the notification section of the app that threw the notification and toggle any or all of that apps notifications
You can also get to the notification a couple of other ways:
- Settings/apps go to whatever app’s settings including notification settings
- In your switch application view tap the icon above the app’s card
Nice! I have Bern struggleing to get a clean UI. But my notification area is always cluttered 😅
And it’s like constantly 50 notifications you never asked for stacked in the endless columns of meaningless information, regardless how often you disable them :D
But I simply nuke whatever pop ups. Keep sms, and emails.
I also thought that’s standard, but that UI also allows to customize and disable them per category when you hold your finger on the notification. So I can disable everything, but keep direct messages, for example.
As far as I can tell they’re stock from Android
Why not gesture navigation?
Honestly, that’s too hard for me to figure out how to setup without knowing the outcome.
Is it good and worth to dig in?
You can do the same monochromatic thing with nova launcher and whicons
Awesome! I am glad I have your comment in my history. If I ever change phone to another android, I will come back to it, so I know how to swap to monochrome :3
Look it doesn’t look as good as your UI, but it’s as close as I could get to the monochrome look that I wanted, The widgets still have full colour:
That looks neat, what is the launcher name?
It’s nova launcher, paid, but worth it. Also has the nice side effect that when you move to a different phone tour UI remains the same
Why two clocks and weather-widgets?
Why three comments? 😜
I got a CloudFlare page telling me I was blocked.
Does the phone have a built in battery charge limiter or do you need to root for that? I leave my phone plugged in all day/night running stuff and I really don’t need it at 100% 24/7. I think that’s the only thing I need root for at this point. Nothing else I want to run needs it anymore after android 13 finally added the ability to toggle airplane mode on and off WITHOUT root.
Yeah, I checked now. Recently learned about this feature from reddit, and just checked it to find that it is activated already on my phone.
It has “smart charge mode” to gradually charge overnight, and “Custom charging mode” to not charge it to 100%. Maybe I should activate it.
Thank god. Whoever decided that “smart battery charging” should only ever be automatic, and can’t be hard capped should be quartered. Thank god more companies are finally giving people the option. Especially since it apparently goes all the way down to 70%. This might be what gets me to finally retire this poor phone.
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I’ve been using T-UI for probably 8+ years now. It hasn’t been updated in ages, but it really doesn’t need to be.
I’ve even built it out by creating a tui folder with empty files in it. Tasker has tasks set to execute when the files are modified, and T-UI has aliases set to touch specific files if commands are entered.
Can you use something like the kiss launcher to make it text based and no icons
No idea, that’s android, so probably. That view is their official launcher, but my phone came with default android looks.
Sorry this is the only thing I can think of when looking at those icons
