[Bug Report] Changes do not take effect

[AgentGibbz]

Description

If I change various settings too much, the app stops recognizing changes. At that point, it doesn't seem to matter what changes I make in settings; the changes will not take effect. The more I try to make settings adjustments, the more the app breaks. The only way the app will work is if I uninstall / reinstall the app, and then try to make only a couple changes in the settings. It's a bit of a vague problem because I don't know exactly what changes are causing things to break. So for now, to make the app useful, I did a fresh install of the app, and only made 2-3 changes, leaving the rest at their defaults.

Here's an example:
When I go into the Settings and try to set different things like change the color of the Edge Glow, or show/hide the clock, date, battery level... most of the time, the changes I set do not take effect. For example, I've tried multiple times to set the Edge Glow to be red color, but doing so seems to break Edge Glow altogether because Edge Glow simply stops working. But the clock will still show. If I go set the Edge Glow color back to white, it doesn't start working again. Edge Glow just stops working altogether. The only way to "fix" the app is to uninstall / reinstall it, and then it seems that as long as I only make a couple small changes, as to not deviate too much from the default settings, then the app works according to the settings I have set.

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Additional information

• Android version: 11
• AlwaysOn version: 3.8.4
• Installation source: F-Droid

[Domi04151309]

This is strange. Do you use double tap or the power button to exit the AOD?

[AgentGibbz]

Sometimes I double tap, and sometimes I use the power button to exit the AOD. Should I try exclusively using one or the other?

Not sure if it matters, but my phone is a Pixel 3. If there's any more info I can provide to help, please let me know. This is a very helpful app for any phone that doesn't have a front LED for notifications. I love that you made it, so I can set the app to activate the AOD when a notification is received.

[AgentGibbz]

I'm also running CalyxOS (which currently uses Android 11). Thanks for the quick response.

[Domi04151309]

Try using double tapping at least once after you changed a setting and tell me if this still happens.

[AgentGibbz]

So here's what I just tried:

Mind you that before I made any change, Edge Glow was working and it was white.

I went into settings and changed the Edge Glow color to red. I then backed out of the app settings. I also have it set to activate when upon a notification showing up. So in order to make a notification happen, I opened NewPipe and started a video. While the video was playing I pressed Power to turn off the display. NewPipe activates some playback controls in a notification, which AlwaysOn sees as a notification and activates AOD.

When the AOD activated, Edge Glow is no longer there. I double tap to exit AOD. Swiped up to unlock. Then pressed Power again, and AOD activates but still no Edge Glow. I double tap again to quit AOD. So I went into settings and changed the Edge Glow color back to white. Backed out of the app, checked the AOD screen again and Edge Glow doesn't activate (the other elements are still there such as Clock and Date).

[Domi04151309]

This might be an issue with the app detecting the notification. It ignores some notifications like permanent ones.

[AgentGibbz]

But the AOD is activating, which means AlwaysOn is working. For this reason I do believe the app is detecting the notification.

Now for my test, I used the EdgeGlow setting. But if I try changing other settings I can almost guarantee problems with those settings will happen. I was just using Edge Glow as an example.

[Domi04151309]

This is really strange because it seems like you are the only one having that problem. Sadly, I was not able to reproduce the behavior described by you.

[Domi04151309]

Are you rooted?

[AgentGibbz]

Are there any app logs that I can send?

Would it help if I made a video? I'd also be up for having a video chat if that helps. I would really like to help fix the issue, and then I want to donate if you have a way of accepting donations because this could be a very useful app for me if we can work this out.

[AgentGibbz]

I'm not rooted.

[Domi04151309]

You can try sending me the actual values of the preferences using this adb pull /data/data/io.github.domi04151309.alwayson/shared_prefs/io.github.domi04151309.alwayson_preferences.xml %HOME%\Desktop\prefs.xml but I don't know whether this works without root (this command is for windows using the android debug bridge)

[Domi04151309]

I have currently not set up a way for donating but I will likely in a month or so.

[AgentGibbz]

Interestingly, I just got a notification and AOD turned on, and Edge Glow is working again. So weird.

I'll be home later and will try using ADB to pull the prefs.xml

I've used adb a lot in the past for rooting / flashing roms so no problem there. As you said, it's just a matter of whether it will be able to, given that it's not rooted. I'll follow up later.

Also if you have Venmo I can send over a little tip that way :)

[AgentGibbz]

Looks like it's unable to see the file path. I'm guessing because the phone isn't rooted.

[Domi04151309]

No the problem is that it doesn't know where to put the file on your PC. It doesn't know where %home% is. Try using a direct path instead.

[AgentGibbz]

Ha, woops. I'll try again when I have some time.

[Domi04151309]

Any news on this one?