1 yr. ago • 95%

Neat moto feature I wish to see in more phones

I was playing with a Motorola G72 and noticed this feature by accident: double-tap on the back of the phone to trigger a custom action.

Here is a video showing this feature

This is not the same as double tapping the fingerprint scanner. This phone has a front-facing under-display scanner.

It's very neat and handy, I hope other phones implement this too.

Update: See this comment for a link to an app that enables the feature on many phones.

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chop chop flashlight is the very best feature of the Moto series

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- Honorable mention to twist twist camera
  
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  And to twist for switching between main and selfie camera.
  
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- For real. I moved over to Samsung a while back and I miss choppy choppy light light.
  
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  And shake for camera
  
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- Should be noted it's fairly simple to do this on any Android phone with Tasker.
  
  Profile > Event > Sensor > Shake Left-Right > task=torch toggle
  
  Tasks > Alert > Torch > Set Toggle > task - torch toggle
  
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- It's been six years since I switched from an X2 to a pixel 2 and I still miss the flashlight chop
  
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  I still chop chop the Teracube I've had for a while and then go "oh yeah..."
  
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  I had two moto phones back to back and then switched to the pixel. Can't tell you how many times I tried to turn on the flashlight this way before realization kicks in.
  
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- I went to pixel because the last couple of moto phones were just meh, but chop chop flashlight was the greatest thing ever
  
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- Wow! I bet most iPhone users don't know this exists. This is more like a usability feature than an accessibility one. It even supports triple tap!
  
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Pixel phones also have this feature, called quick tap. Quite handy to turn on and off flashlight for example.

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- I use it for quick notifications
  
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Reading the comments, it looks like there are lots of other phones doing this.

Personally I use it to turn on the flashlight on my Pixel 6.

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The Pixel series have this. It's called Quick Tap.

Combined with Tasker, you can make it do anything -- if the existing options aren't enough.

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- Cool. It's incredibly useful. Didn't know Pixels had this too.
  
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- yep. have it on the fold. its not perfect but its pretty good!
  
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On other devices, you can use Tap, Tap but it may not work as well

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- Requires root or a compatible Pixel device..
  
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  I just got it working on a non-rooted Galaxy S10
  
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  it's not necessary anymore, I'm using it on a non-rooted phone
  
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Quite a few phones have similar features. Samsung users can use GoodLock to use the back tap too.

But when I tried in the past, I didn't like it, too many false triggers.

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Samsung has this as well as triple tap under RegiStar via Good Lock, but it randomly just stops working. It was great at first, but now I don't even try to use it because so often it just doesn't work.

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Back when I had my Mi A1, I used to run a Pixel 2XL GSI ROM that enabled the same feature.

I used that to take a screenshot, and later, show the accessibility menu when my power button and volume buttons stopped working.

CC: @ladfrombrad@lemdro.id who is the only person I know that still has their A1

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https://github.com/KieronQuinn/TapTap

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I miss my Motorola phones.

Had nothing but Motorolas since my very first Android. Absolutely loved the gestures and hands free interaction. Went through a series of Moto phones over the years until I accidentally destroyed my last one and needed a new device ASAP. Ended up with a Samsung S21 which is a perfectly fine phone,but it doesn't have the personality of any of my old Motos. It does have a much better camera though than any of my Motorolas.

I don't want to buy a new phone any time soon, but I definitely want to go back to Motorola.

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The two underneath it are lifesavers too.

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- Yeah both are brilliant design ideas. Only someone who has used a moto phone knows what we mean.
  
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Xiaomi has it also

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The ROM i'm using has it

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- Which rom and which phone?
  
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  Evolution X Poco X3 NFC
  
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Asus has some of these.

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This works on Pixels. I have mine set to flashlight.

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So if I flip it, will I have to DM or will the phone do it for me?

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