[ROOT][PIE] Night Light for XZ Premium (and many others)

[Sebi673]

Hey guys,

Rooted recently, got on Pie and found myself missing the Night Light - such a little thing that makes all the difference at night. Tried redoing the steps I did to enable it on Oreo but failed.
Anyway, long story short, after a few xda threads I installed Pix3lify, which is a hit n miss - and I already had Digital Wellbeing port. So I extracted the apks responsible for night light only and put them in a zip.

The apk had a lot of lines reporting to Ambient display and other functionalities which have been removed - the apk has 2kb and enables night light - just that.

Install: Copy nightLight.apk to system > vendor > overlay (set 644/-rw-r--r-- permissions). Best to use MIXplorer

OR

Flash the zip via TWRP/Magisk Installer (Nightlight_v1)- Thanks to @alagga for the Magisk Module

Since the port is from Pixel, it goes hand in hand with Digital Wellbeing port (magisk module).
Night Light settings in Display > Advanced > Night Light. Quick settings tile present in the dropdown customization area.


Have a good Night(Light)

 

[basikerton]

Thank you very much, it's an excellent job, it works perfectly

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[TheArt.]

Hey guys,

Rooted recently, got on Pie and found myself missing the Night Light - such a little thing that makes all the difference at night. Tried redoing the steps I did to enable it on Oreo but failed.
Anyway, long story short, after a few xda threads I installed Pix3lify, which is a hit n miss - and I already had Digital Wellbeing port. So I extracted the apks responsible for night light only and put them in a zip.

The apk had a lot of lines reporting to Ambient display and other functionalities which have been removed - the apk has 2kb and enables night light - just that.

Install: Flash the zip or copy the apk to system > vendor > overlay (+644 permissions).

Since the port is from Pixel, it goes hand in hand with Digital Wellbeing port (magisk module).

Have a good Night(Light)

Are there any chances to make it work using adb, just like the old Oreo apk? Because I am on stock unrooted

Sent from my XZ1 Compact using XDA Labs

 

[karrouma]

found in another thread more than mounth ago


https://forum.xda-developers.com/cr...mes-apps/9-0-enable-night-light-tile-t3868086

 

[Sebi673]

Are there any chances to make it work using adb, just like the old Oreo apk? Because I am on stock unrooted

Sent from my XZ1 Compact using XDA Labs

Not that I know of. Tried the old adb line but that won't work. Anyway, if you plan on rooting, make sure you do the DRM backup - totally worth the effort.

 

[TheArt.]

Not that I know of. Tried the old adb line but that won't work. Anyway, if you plan on rooting, make sure you do the DRM backup - totally worth the effort.

I will enjoy stock as much as I feel to, then my plan is to switch to LineageOs or other Rom, with nogapps

Sent from my XZ1 Compact using XDA Labs

 

[ricardo99831390]

it doesn't work for me. I flashed through twrp and I also flashed the digital well-being through magisk.
Edit:you need to install the pixelify module.
Edit2:it crashes system UI with pixelify and it doesn't work just flashing the zip.

 

[sam_2776]

it doesn't work for me !

 

[sam_2776]

I reinstall and now it works
Thanks ???

 

[Sebi673]

it doesn't work for me. I flashed through twrp and I also flashed the digital well-being through magisk.
Edit:you need to install the pixelify module.
Edit2:it crashes system UI with pixelify and it doesn't work just flashing the zip.

I found pixelify a bit buggy for xzp, that's why I took out only the apk for ambient display/night light, modified the lines so it only enables night light. I only use the digital well-being. If the zip doesn't work try manually putting it in overlays and set permissions.
So no pixelify plugin, just that zip (tested on my xzp single sim on android pie).
Tell me how it goes

 

[yashau]

Flashing the ZIP didn't work for me. Copying the apk manually did though. Thanks!

 

[steso90]

Zip worked after a Little bit of flashing and copying. Dom anyone else havet worse screen respondnes?

Thank you for your work

 

[Sebi673]

Flashing the ZIP didn't work for me. Copying the apk manually did though. Thanks!

@steso90

Thanks for the feedback! I've did the modifications very late at night so I recycled a zip I had in handy. There was a lot of copy/paste of the apk and not so much twrp flashing. Updated description.
And I didn't notice any screen sluggishness. I'll keep an eye out tho

Thanks again!

 

[ricardo99831390]

I can't modify the system partition and I'm running mixplorer with root. That's strange

 

[RedJHoN]

Followed your instructions everything is working well

 

[Sebi673]

I can't modify the system partition and I'm running mixplorer with root. That's strange

Double check the root permissions in magisk root section - perhaps you denied them by mistake. mixplorer has no issues manipulating root files - as long as it has the permission granted
[update]Strange. I can't seem to modify root folder structure - for example, adding a new folder in priv-app does nothing - tried with two file explorers. Best bet is to use a flashable zip for such apps or TWRP's file explorer which has plenty of manipulation options.

Cheers!

 

[SGH-i200]

Install: Copy nightLight.apk to system > vendor > overlay (set 644/-rw-r--r-- permissions). Best to use MIXplorer

Night Light settings in Display > Advanced > Night Light. Quick settings tile present in the dropdown customization area.

This night light port is running without problems on latest Pie firmware for the XZ1. Thank you very much! :good:

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The apk had a lot of lines reporting to Ambient display[...]

Could you do a port for the Ambient display feature, too? Its the only thing I'm missing: "Ambient display: Wake screen when you receive a notification" - Without this feature the notification light hints at the notification, but I have to press a button to see the notification.

 

[Sebi673]

This night light port is running without problems on latest Pie firmware for the XZ1. Thank you very much! :good:

---------- Post added at 10:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:24 PM ----------


Could you do a port for the Ambient display feature, too? Its the only thing I'm missing: "Ambient display: Wake screen when you receive a notification" - Without this feature the notification light hints at the notification, but I have to press a button to see the notification.

In its original form, there were lines calling the ambient display. But it felt buggy and since the screen is LCD, I found it very inconvenient since my goal was the night light. I'll send the original overlay tomorrow.
Cheers

 

[SGH-i200]

In its original form, there were lines calling the ambient display. [...] I'll send the original overlay tomorrow.

Would be nice, but no hurry! :good:

 

[-=W1S3=-]

The original mod for Oreo worked also just installing the apk without root... do I need root for this one to work on Pie?