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Power Toggles

Power Toggles

Painless Death

500,000 - 1,000,000 downloads

Pros

  • Lots of toggle buttons
  • Highly customizable
  • Automatic integration in the status bar

Cons

  • Missing icons for launching apps.
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Expert's Review

3/5
Worthy

"What a setting widget must be"

Reviewed by: Emmanuel Lund / Jun 05, 2012

Power Controls allows you to created a customized widget to control all kind of settings

Widget can contains between 2 and 8 customized toggle buttons, including WiFi, Screen brightness, Bluetooth, data connection, GPS or even tethering. Add as many toggle as you want (there are up to 14). You can set default button color, busy/unknown color and active color. Once done, enable it and it will be automatically add to your status bar.

You can choose not to display power controls icon in the status bar. However, when you roll down the blind, there will be the toggle buttons you've set.

From Home, you can see and customize brightness, screen timeout and icon for GPRS Toggle. The app is set in a good-looking layout, easy to use and highly configurable. No ads, no complaints, recommendable.

Developer's original description available here
An advanced power control widget. FREE and No ADDS

** Fixed the notification widget issue on most of the devices. If the issue still persists, I have added an option to disable notification styles, which will use the old notification functionality.

This is a temporary fix, a permanent fix will be coming soon.

(****** Note: Do not install on SD card ******)
**Call phone permission is required for adding direct call shortcuts on the widget.

Contains 40+ toggles including
Wifi
Mobile Data (3G/4G)
Bluetooth (toggle, discovery and tether),
Flashlight
Custom application shortcut
Custom system shortcuts
And many more...

Supports homescreen widgets and notification widget. Also supports expandable notification widget on Jelly Beans.
Lockscreen widgets on android 4.2
Many customization options like changing color theme and icons for individual toggles.

Advanced functionality control in preferences:
Double Click - double click the toggle to get to the corresponding system settings page.
Haptic feedback
Motorola 1% battery hack
Customize various brightness, volume and screen timeout levels
and many more

Backup and share widget settings from the widget configure screen (Menu > Import / Export) as well as various themes for multi-icon toggles and battery toggle.

Permissions:
android.permission.CAMERA: Required for the flashlight to work.
android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW: required to display a toggle choice popup when using notification widget (Only on gingerbread)
Full internet access: Used for showing help

Note: on gingerbread, direct notification toggle is not possible. The clicking the notification widget, it displays a popup to choose an action.

FAQ
1) Can the GPS toggle be single click instead of a shortcut to system settings?
No. Direct GPS toggle is not possible due to security restrictions on android.

2) Where is the 4G toggle button or the 2G toggle button?
There is an unified mobile data toggle button, which should work for all networks (2G/3G/4G). On some mobiles Wimax toggle would also work.
Simply add this toggle and change the icon on the global settings screen. The icon is only for the display purpose and serve no functionality changes.

3) The flashlight is not working on my device.
Flashlight is only supported on a limited number of devices. I am not able to support many devices as I don’t have access to those.

4) Can the notification widget icon be removed.
No. Current android API does not support a notification without an icon. You can instead use a transparent icon or a battery icon.

5) The notification widget is pushed to the bottom when a new notification arrives.
Android currently does not support adding a notification which is always on the top. You can enable an accessibility service which pushes the widget on the top whenever a new notification arrives.
On the main application screen, click the pin icon in the notification section, and enable the “Power Controls” accessibility service to make the widget pin to the top of the notification area.

Feel free to suggest more toggle button ideas.
Please go through the Help and FAQ section in the app (fully searchable) twice before reporting a bug, most likely it is already answered there.
It is difficult for me to reply to each email individually, some of the emails may get lost in the huge list of unread mails. If you do not get a reply within a week, ping me again.

Recently changed in this version:

Version 4.6.1
Some crash fixes

Version 4.6.5
Added 2 SIP related toggles
Added home & recent apps shortcut toggle
Added an color picker and flashlight control in screen light
Improved and added more translations

Version 4.6.3:
Added pulse notification light
Fixed an issue with direct call shortcuts on some devices
Other minor fixes


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Comments and ratings for Power Toggles

  • (75)

    by Pruthav Abhyankar on 09/05/2013

    very useful and handy thank you for creating such app...

  • (75)

    by Ted Ockels on 09/05/2013

    Works as intended. Couldn't be happier.

  • (75)

    by Clayton Coburn on 09/05/2013

    I've tried everything, but I can't get all of the toggles to be the color I choose. Two on the far left and one on the far right are correct, but the middle toggles stay blue. Otherwise great app, but I'm going to purchase a better quality one that works

  • (75)

    by Tapan Jain on 09/05/2013

    Music switches not working but overall good

  • (75)

    by kris dow on 09/05/2013

    No more cluttered homescreen! So much nicer than the power bar widget and individual toggles that came w/ my phone. Luv it because I can customize one power bar to have only the specific settings that I need and want on my desktop. I'm so happy I found t

  • (75)

    by Danesh Mistry on 09/05/2013

    Have it as a widget or in your notification bar. Have just the toggle switches you want. Move them around and place them where you want exactly. Change their colours for the different states of operation to suit your theme. On top of all this customizatio

  • (75)

    by Tverdyy Znak on 09/05/2013

    Just for the ability to delete toggles I don't use =)