Does the Essential Phone have the necessary hardware to support this? If so, has anyone ported this function from another phone to the Ph-1? Thanks.
Double Tap to Wake?
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GuestK00177
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Does that mean it's only possible with a custom Rom?
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It's possible but the screen must stay on and cant be put to sleep.
This means it drains battery.
How does other LCD screen phone do it then? The OnePlus 1 had it, and it also had a LCD screen. I don't think it was always on.
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I think it's a combination of low power states enabled for the CPU & digitizer, and a kernel level wakelock. Essential's firmware probably doesn't have that included.
It's actually enabled by having the screen and its touch layer on a separate power rail to allow one to be powered on without sending power to another, this allows it to use very little power and work on some phones but use a considerable amount on others (like the PH-1)
Ok, thanks for the info. I'm guessing the PH-1 doesn't have separate power for the screen and touch layer, thus the high power consumption if we use tap to wake.
I guess a follow up question is does anyone make a battery case for the PH-1? I guess I would be ok with the power consumption if I can get a battery case with 5500mah, that should allow the phone to last a full day even with tap to wake.
Essential have "lift to check phone" menu, maybe for replace doble tap to wake menu ?
I guess if this menu is enabled will make more battery drain.
IMHO
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I guess if this menu is enabled will make more battery drain.
IMHO
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This thread is full of total BS. AoD has worked onall customm ROMs I've used on l lcd since 2012.
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Who is talking about AOD? That works fine if it is included in the source.. i missed that part..
This is actually the ONLY way double tap to wake works...
If you wake the phone into doze mode... With lift to wake... You can then double tap the screen to wake it up...
So I hypothesize that if you were to use one of the AoD hacks... If they even work on this device... You could probably have double tap to wake
There's a way to do things and then there's a hacked together way to do things. You can make a lot of crap work, doesn't mean it works the best way.
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GuestK00177
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I specifically asked @flar2 about this. Its totally possible if enabled in the kernel, but kills battery. Thats all.
No kidding... I get sick of idiotic apologists making up reasons for no tap to wake without real proven facts. First they come up with BS like "it uses too much power" waah waah! Then they come up with BS aboout how the hardware doesn't support it.
I don't have a PH-1 screen assembly, but just because there is one ribbon cable connecting it to the phone, doesn't mean that the screen and digitizer use the same power rail. Plenty of phones use tap to wake without any appreciable battery drain.
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Flar is one of the greats. I used to be fullofhell. I proposed the very thing .. heres what he said
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To quote a movie...
It's not an excuse not to have the feature available. I'm a big boy, I can decide how I want to drain my battery. Don't need anyone making choices for me.
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Haha nice quote, great film. Then i would say go for it, i would use uber toolchain to compile a kernel with the DT2W.
I don't think the amount of cables has anything to do with the power distribution for the screen. You want DT2W? Make it happen.
Edit: also nobody said it wasn't possible, this thread wasn't full of BS until people came in spouting nonsense about how someone else supposedly said it "doesn't support it" acting as if that's the reason it hasn't been done yet on this device.
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