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Help Does HTC M8 with 5.X update have "L-Call" notification style?

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Yukicore

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Couldn't find an answer on the internet, maybe some M8 user can help me here.

After the Android L update on my (soon to be dead) Nexus 4 with this feature, I wouldn't want to live without it.
Often when using the phone and getting the call, I would have to wait out until the caller stops calling, if I don't want to pick up, as the home button wouldn't respond. Blocking me from doing anything with my phone... you get the point

Here's an example of this feature : http://i0.wp.com/cdn.bgr.com/2014/07/android-l-notifications.jpg?w=952
 
Are you asking if HTC Sense lets you decline a call and move on?

That's always been a Sense feature. :confused:

OK, pretty sure that you're asking something else then...

Edit, I get it, you're asking how the buttons are different -

From the lock screen you swipe up on the decline or accept button.

From a normally running phone, the screen is slightly different, you either tap decline or accept.

It goes to voice mail for them the instant you decline and you get your phone back immediately, plus or minus any pop-up if you have something unspecified in the dialer or People (HTC contacts) if declined while running (not locked).

And yeah - you're immediately free to unlock if locked, or go elsewhere including using the home button if that's what you to press.

Does that help? Was that the question?
 
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Honestly, I've never seen a phone without a decline feature in the incoming call screen. Are those the droids you are looking for?
 
Does the op maybe mean the new popup at top of screen (instead of the full screen showing that someone is calling) while using the phone?
 
... Maybe he wants to ignore the call but not reject it (I do it to my mum all the time lol) but wants to continue using the phone while it rings?
 
OK the picture comes from -

http://bgr.com/2014/07/02/android-l-release-features-how-to-get-notifications/

"Included among all of the nifty new features in Android L is a tweaked notification system thatborrows some elements from Apple’s iOS platform. Apple borrowed Android’s notification system in iOS’s Notification Center, so why not return the favor?

In Android L, new notifications display in a pop-up at the top of the screen instead of just being dumped into the menu bar, and users can interact with them or dismiss them as they appear. It’s a fantastic upgrade for Android, and you don’t have to wait another minute to get it on your phone."

Aside from BGR being blithering Apple idiots, did Nexus users actually have to use the menu bar to deal with a call?

I assume the moron at BGR meant navbar btw, so that would explain the thing about the home key - I guess.

Here's Android up to Gingerbread on the left, ICS on the right -

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I remember the call screen being almost identical to the one on the left in Cupcake and Donut.

And what you could do with the call in ICS -

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Ignore, answer, or reply with quick text.

HTC Sense 1 had a decline button -

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Later a ring to match up with in Sense 3 -

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Then came line up the red or green phone to the lock icon, and finally the swipe up buttons.

OK, so, if the question is, decline call with little button from notification bar, the answer is no.

Although to be honest, I still have zero clue about what BGR was on about.

Let's ask @codesplice or @lunatic59 they've used Nexii for a while. :confused:
 
Is this about removing lock screen widgets in standard KitKat and then replacing them with notification actions in Lollipop?

Standard Android is so gimped it's hard to understand what's missing on a Nexus. :(
 
Jessica Alba never calls me. :(

I haven't read the linked article, but yeah, call notifications have always popped up in front of everything. They look exactly like the screenshots from AP.

L's heads-up notifications (little card that slides in from the top rather than being restricted to the notification/status bar) is a nice touch for all other notifications, but call handling wasn't really changed.
 
funkylogik said:
Does the op maybe mean the new popup at top of screen (instead of the full screen showing that someone is calling) while using the phone?
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Yes that was what I was asking, sorry for any confusion, I thought I made it clear with the picture and all.
codesplice said:
Jessica Alba never calls me. :(

I haven't read the linked article, but yeah, call notifications have always popped up in front of everything. They look exactly like the screenshots from AP.

L's heads-up notifications (little card that slides in from the top rather than being restricted to the notification/status bar) is a nice touch for all other notifications, but call handling wasn't really changed.
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That is too bad, I guess I will have to look elsewhere, maybe there is a dismiss button for the incoming call? Like without rejecting minimizing the caller application.
 
Yukicore said:
That is too bad, I guess I will have to look elsewhere, maybe there is a dismiss button for the incoming call? Like without rejecting minimizing the caller application.
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I'm sorry I was unclear in my original answer -

You dismiss an incoming call with the Decline button.

From the lock screen, it uses a small swipe gesture so you're not fat fingering it while getting to your phone. (Hence the move away from a simple button on the lock screen years ago.)

On an active screen (app or home screen) it's just a simple button.

The caller is sent to voice mail immediately.

That's the end of it, except on an active screen with an unknown caller and you not having the default action to take with your contact list. That's a one time dialog if you stop and check off your preference.

Once a call is declined the window doesn't minimize - it closes - the call is over, they've been sent to voice mail.

Your main screen is left as it was when the interruption occurred.

A missed call icon then appears in the status bar, in the form of an og handset with a marker above it - V - to indicate that the call came in and bounced out.

You finish what you're doing, however long you like, pull down the notifications, and the rejected call is there. You can either tap to call back or swipe to remove from notifications.

There's no waiting for the call to ring through.

If your phone is on your desk or in your pocket, doing nothing, and a call comes through - you check it and decide that you can't be bothered and don't even want to push a button or swipe anything - put the phone face down on the desk - it goes silent and only then does the incoming call screen stay active. Which, you don't care, it's face down. During the ring through time you can pick it back up and change your mind.

The accept/answer button is a complete redundancy unless you're using a headset.

With an incoming call on an HTC you simply put the phone to your ear and it automatically answers.
 
I believe the call answering dialogue box in your screenshot came with lollipop (it lets you continue using the phone while it rings) (but I'm running a custom-type os) so the question is will the m8 get it with lollipop ?
 
funkylogik said:
I believe the call answering dialogue box in your screenshot came with lollipop (but I'm running a custom-type os) so the question is will the m8 get it?
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No, the M8 has a better way to do the same thing based on customer feedback.

That's not to say that they won't take a step backwards and do it the Google way in the future for popularity in the press - where the distorted reality is that Google invents features that have always existed or borrows them from Apple. Because you know.
 
I have to believe that this is all fallout from Google's KitKat decision to remove lock screen widgets - and that's what the old method was - a floating widget.

To fix their shooting themselves in the foot, they came upon the Lollipop "call notification" - no longer a floating widget because it slides in, and no longer a lock screen widget because it's sitting over the status/notification bar. It's still a transient widget on the lock screen but now it's not really because it's a new feature with the genius loophole of being with notifications (not really but it's at the top of the screen) - where widgets are OK.
 
As I mentioned above though, sometimes I want to ignore the call instead of declining it, usually calls from my mum and hurting her feelings so she just thinks I'm asleep or haven't heard the phone lol so I just let it ring out.
With the new popup I can still use the phone while it rings out. Know what I mean?
 
funkylogik said:
As I mentioned above though, sometimes I want to ignore the call instead of declining it, usually calls from my mum and hurting her feelings so she just thinks I'm asleep or haven't heard the phone lol so I just let it ring out.
With the new popup I can still use the phone while it rings out. Know what I mean?
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Yep I know what you mean.

No it won't go away while it rings out.

Unfortunately, they decided that your mom is entitled to know when you're avoiding her. :D ;)
 
Doesn't the turn the phone over or covering the screen work on all Androids? AFAIK Sony and Samsung has it. You just turn tge the phone over or cover the sensor, then the call is silenced and let to ring out.
 
chanchan05 said:
Doesn't the turn the phone over or covering the screen work on all Androids? AFAIK Sony and Samsung has it. You just turn tge the phone over or cover the sensor, then the call is silenced and let to ring out.
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It's been a Sense feature for a very long time, pretty sure that they had it first - could be wrong. Doesn't matter.

Either way - like how to answer or decline from the lock screen - probably common.
My goal was to show how the M8 on Sense 6/Lollipop worked today. I'm assuming only Nexus experience for the OP for some time now.
 
EarlyMon said:
It's been a Sense feature for a very long time, pretty sure that they had it first - could be wrong. Doesn't matter.

Either way - like how to answer or decline from the lock screen - probably common.
My goal was to show how the M8 on Sense 6/Lollipop worked today. I'm assuming only Nexus experience for the OP for some time now.
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I think the OP was asking about the non intrusive "headsup" answer/decline feature while in another app...then again I may have misread the OP.
 
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