Again with the knowledge sharing. It has to be my favorite part of the Android community. The willingness to share what they have discovered freely in an effort to make every ones lives a little bit easier. After all, there is no ‘instruction manuel’ for custom builds. To tell you the truth, even the manufacturer manuals lack a lot of information. Could you imagine how much it would cost to ship a dictionary sized manual with a device?
In all reality, the CM7 builds have so many features and settings that I think only a handful of people even know what it is truly capable of providing for you. Rootzwiki member tb110895 took some time out of his busy day to share a little bit of his knowledge with everyone. Below is just a little preview of his post.
Holding a Notification Power Widget Button– Holding one of the power widget options in the status bar will take you to more options for that button. For example, holding the wifi button will take you to wifi settings, bluetooth button to bluetooth settings, etc.
Swiping Away Certain Notifications– One option I always liked in the Gingerblur ROMS was the ability to clear certain notifications while leaving others. On CyanogenMod, you can hold your you finger on a notification and swipe it left or right to clear it from the notification bar.
Using the Menu Button to Unlock the Phone– If you go into Settings-> CyanogenMod settings-> Lockscreen-> Unlock Options, and check menu unlock, you can set it so that when your at the lockscreen you only have to tap the menu button to unlock as opposed to sliding the tab
Built-In Screen Shots In RevNumber’s Newest Nightly– If you are using nightlies from Rev’s site, you can take screenshots by using the built in option (Only available in the newest build) If you hold the power button, there will be a new screenshot option. This may also be available in the official nightlies but I’m not sure. Rev’s Nightlies also include 1% battery increments
Viewing Previews of Pictures Inside an Album– This feature is available on any AOSP ROM, but I figured I’d post it anyway. If you pinch and zoom your fingers on an album in the gallery, it will flow through a few of the pics and give you little previews of the first couple pictures
Making the Keyboard Pop-Up by Holding Menu– One feature of android I love is the ability to hold the menu button and make the keyboard jump up and down. However, CM does not come with this enabled. To re-enable it, go to settings > CM settings > Input > Long press menu settings > and set it to soft keyboard. There are also other options for it if you so choose.
He lists these as tips for CM7 for the Motorola Droid 2, although most, if not all of them, will work on other devices as well. I checked a few of these out on my Vibrant and was pleasantly surprised to find the added functionality that I was not aware of.
If you want to catch the rest of his tips and tricks, head on over to Rootzwiki and sign up on the site to view the post.
Source: RootzWiki
