Patch:AdvancedSystemPrefs

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Overview

The Advanced System Prefs patches are a handful of highly customizable patches for webOS 2.x and later.

The Advanced System Prefs patches have been designed to give you many more options and preference in each corresponding app that can be customized to your liking. Having all of the Advanced System Prefs patches installed will give the best overall experience; however, you can choose to install just the patch you want. Utilizing all or some of the patches and their functionality will not affect the performance of your device.

The Advanced System Prefs patches consist of the following set of individual patches:

REQUIRED:

Advanced System Prefs - Framework: Provides the foundation for the Advanced System Prefs patches. This patch is required for the other Advanced Systems Prefs patches to function properly.

OPTIONAL:

Advanced System Prefs - Calendar Prefs: Extends the functionality of the Calendar App by giving you more customizable options and preferences. This patch adds default view selection into calendar preferences with additional default event preferences such as snooze time configuration. Also this patch adds additional preferences for configuring the event reminder with support for blink notification. Advanced System Prefs - Email Prefs: Extends the functionality of the Email App by giving you more customizable options and preferences. This patch adds additional email notification preferences such as blink toggle and notification repeat preferences. All notification preferences are also modified to be account specific. Advanced System Prefs - Messaging Prefs: Extends the functionality of the Messaging App by giving you more customizable options and preferences. This patch adds additional messaging notification preferences such as blink toggle and notification repeat preferences. All notification preferences are also modified to be account specific. Advanced System Menus - Phone Prefs: Extends the functionality of the Phone App by giving you more customizable options and preferences. This patch adds various configuration items for the phone application. Also adds notification repeat preferences. Advanced System Menus - System Prefs: Extends the functionality of the Phone App by giving you more customizable options and preferences. This patch adds more sound preferences into sound preferences application. Also adds haptic feedback into screen & lock preferences.

Installation

The following information will help with installing the Advanced Systems Prefs patches.

Method

The following method can be used to install the Advanced System Prefs patches.

Preware

1. Open Preware
2. Start typing “Advanced System” (no quotes)
3. Tap the corresponding patch from the list
4. Tap the Install button
5. Tap the Ok button to restart Luna

Or

1. Open Preware
2. Tap Available Packages
3. Tap Patch > Advanced > Patch name (e.g. Advanced System Prefs - Calendar Prefs)
4. Tap the Install button
5. Tap the Ok button to restart Luna

Updating

webOS OTA Updates

The Advanced System Prefs patches are not OTA (over-the-air) update safe. When there is an OTA update to a newer version of webOS from your carrier, you must remove these patches before updating. If you do not remove them prior to running the OTA update, you most likely will need to run the Emergency Patch Recovery tool from Preware.

Patch Updates

Updated versions of the Advanced System Prefs patches can be applied via Preware.

Troubleshooting/FAQs

Q: What version of webOS are these patches available for?
A: The Advanced System Prefs patches are available for webOS 2.x and later.

Usage

Each Advanced System Prefs patch is listed below with information on how you access and configure the preferences added by that patch for the correspond app.
Items that have the strike-through have not been implemented/completed yet.

Advanced System Prefs - Email Prefs

Accessing The Prefs:

1. Launch the Email App.
2. Tap or Swipe down the app menu and select Preferences and Accounts.
3. Tap an account listed in the Accounts group.
4. Tap Preferences (bottom of screen).

Configuring The Prefs:

New Message

Blink Notification: [On | Off]
This setting determines whether or not the blink notification will be on or off when you have received an email.

Show Notification: [On | Off]
This setting determines whether or not the additional Notification options are available and whether or not the notification banner is used to notify about the received email.

Notifications

Alert: [Vibrate | System Sound | Ringtone | Mute]
This setting determines how you will be alerted when an email message is received. If you select Ringtone, you will be presented with another field to tap; in which you can select a custom alert sound.

Vibration: [Short (0.5s) | Medium (1.0s) | Long (1.5s)]
This setting determines the duration of the vibration when an email message is received.

Repeat: [Disabled | Every 2m | 5m | 15m | 30m | 60m]
This setting determines the frequency that the missed email notification repeats.

Repeat Times: [Infinite | 3 times | 5 times | 10 times | 15 times | 30 times]
This setting determines how long the email notification repeat will run until cleared.

Advanced System Prefs - Messaging Prefs

Advanced System Prefs - Phone Prefs

Advanced System Prefs - System Prefs

Resources

Official Forum

• Official PreCentral Forum Thread

Donation to Developer

• Please see the official PreCentral Forum thread opening post for the donation link.

Status

Changelog

Advanced System Prefs - Framework

x.x.x-xx - Current Release - (Released Month. Day, Year)

• Initial release

Advanced System Prefs - Calendar Prefs

x.x.x-xx - Current Release - (Released Month. Day, Year)

• Initial release

Advanced System Prefs - Email Prefs

x.x.x-xx - Current Release - (Released Month. Day, Year)

• Initial release

Advanced System Prefs - Messaging Prefs

x.x.x-xx - Current Release - (Released Month. Day, Year)

• Initial release

Advanced System Prefs - Phone Prefs

x.x.x-xx - Current Release - (Released Month. Day, Year)

• Initial release

Advanced System Prefs - System Prefs

x.x.x-xx - Current Release - (Released Month. Day, Year)

• Initial release

Future Releases