How to make the phone black white. Monochrome screen (unknown areas) - developer mode. Allow saving to external drives

For the last two weeks, I go with a black and white smartphone. This, if you remember, I talked about the advice of one famous guy how to reduce the dependence on the smartphone. It is necessary to make a smartphone less attractive visually. And to do this to translate it into monochrome, that is, the black and white mode. What I did a couple of weeks ago. Today - impressions.

First, the transition to the black and white screen itself. This is a rather complicated process, but quite fulfilled. The instructions can be found below in the text or on a special Gogray.Today site. The problem is that everyone different versions Operations, even at the same Android, and some menu items can be very different. I have android 7.0 and the necessary item is called not "imitate an anomaly," as in the instructions, and "simulate the color space". And in it - "monochromatic mode". The screen became black and white. And the phone began to remind electronic book with e-ink. Colleague Anna Titova called it "All Tlen Mode", and I am "hopelessness mode."

At first it was hard to find applications necessary: It turns out, you are very used to not to the drawing, but it is to the colors of the icons. Because in this mode it is difficult to distinguish whatsapp from Telegram.

But one thing is black and white application icons. And completely different - black and white pictures. And especially - black and white photos and videos. Including made personally made. On the one hand, it is not very clear what kind of photography actually turned out when the colors do not disassemble. And on the other - black and white pictures look unusually stylish. That is, so cool that I'm thinking, and not to do all the pictures and further h / b, because it's great.

But the main goal was - to slide less in the smartphone. Here with a black and white screen really pulls much less. Still, I am also a little crow and pulls me on bright and brilliant, and black and white does not attract so. But stronger I felt another - how much the smartphone was better to keep the battery. That is, I began to look at the screen, well, maybe 20 percent less; But to charge the unit - once a half less often.

On the iPhone you need to go to Settings\u003e Basic\u003e Universal Access\u003e Display Adaptation\u003e Light filters. There to activate the "Light filters" clause, and in the drop-down menu, select "Shades of Gray". On Android is even more difficult. "Medusa" advises to open Settings\u003e System\u003e About Phone; Click on the "assembly number" several times. After that, go to the settings\u003e System\u003e for developers, scroll to the section Hardware acceleration Visualization, click on the "Mimic anomaly" and select the "Monochrome Mode" in the drop-down menu.

Google request Smartphone addiction and related topics have become noticeably popular over the past year. In the creation of technological products, knowledge of dependence mechanisms is increasingly used, and in the world appear, whose main proposal is to create addictive interaction experience.

Nevertheless, not all staff of the silicon valley support this practice. Last year, one of the first investors Facebook Sean Parker regrets that social network was originally created in order to develop dependence in users. Another opponent of the established methods of development was Tistan Harris, the former head of the Google Design Ethics Department. After dismissal from Google in 2016, Tristan founded the Non-Profit Organization Time Well Sport, the purpose of which is to fight uncontrolled use digital devices and attention crisis for users. Now Harris talks about how technology manipulates to our attention and how we can fight it.

One step by changing its interaction with devices is a conscious change in the screen of the smartphone. Harris advises to leave on the first screen only applications that perform one function, like Uber, and the rest - to group in the folder on the second screen. Another advice is to enable the monochrome screen operation mode. So, Dmitry Bilash wrote about his such experience in Facebook:

The black and white screen deprives us of the opportunity to focus on the usual colors and makes it carefully think about the goal with which we unlocked the screen. The lack of colors brings less pleasure from interaction with the smartphone, and therefore can reduce the time of using the phone. A similar experiment spent on himself and my girlfriend, and that's what she talks about it:

Tanya, student, 22 years old:

This experiment is inaccurate, because I did not block, how much time I spend with the phone in color mode, and how much in black and white, so I focus on your own sensations, emotions and vision.

Firstly, with a black and white mode, you will especially do not see pictures and stories in VKontakte and Instagram. Therefore, I listened to music (yes, through the phone, but I looked very rare on the screen).

Secondly, I'm still dependent on the contact and therefore read the news feed, but at the same time I quickly scroll through the picture, as they did not attract me, and more paid attention to text posts or read articles in Telegram.

Thirdly, in black and white it is difficult to watch the video. It was important for me to see one video in Youtube, and therefore I once crossed the color mode.

I did not play games, I did not watch the photo on the phone, did not go to Snapchat. I looked at the notice longer, I had to look at the icons: this is the message, and this is the mail. In VK, it was inconvenient to search in the people's dialogue, as usually I look at the photo and I define a person. In the correspondence, I did not particularly use Emodi, because they became more difficult to look for.

And in general, the phone in black and white has become sad, and I didn't really want to look at him. I will experiment on, I hope this will only lead to the best results.

I would like to add that the monochrome mode of using the smartphone not only eliminates such distracting factors as Instagram or YouTube, but also helps to be less distracted on the smartphone when working. It becomes really less pleasure from use, so I noticed not only a reduction in the time of use of the phone, but also the growth of productivity.

If you want to check the influence of the absence of colors on the screen, here's how you can do it:

iOS: Settings - Basic - Universal Access - Keyboard Keyboard - Light filters. After that, the black and white mode can be activated by triple click on the Home button.

Android: First you need to enable the settings for the developers. To do this, in the settings you need to open the item "On the phone", in which you will need to make seven rapid taps on the "assembly number" string. For smartphones with firmware from Xiaomi, the same needs to be done with a string " Miui version" You will be available settings for developers in which you will need to select "Mimic Anomaly", and install monochrome mode there.

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Log in to the menu for developers, choose the item to mimic anomaly, select monochrome mode

In order to write detailed instructions to use all the capabilities of mobile operating iOS systems It would be necessary to publish a thick multi-page book. In a miniature box, even impressive in size iPhone 6 Plus. Places for such a brochure is clearly not provided. However, who reads official instructions In 2015? That is why it periodically detect the functions that were so close, but even after a few years of using Apple smartphones, you hear about them for the first time. Let's talk about Universal access and opportunities troplete keystroke HOME.

So, go to Settings - Main - Universal Access. Here we are waiting for a whole storehouse of various additional settingsBut we are interested in the possibility of reacting a smartphone to the triple press of the Home key.

In black and white tones

A little more than a month ago, a smartphone was announced. Feature of the device - the presence of two screens: traditional and E Ink based on electronic ink. In addition to the fact that the E Ink screen is very economically spending the battery, it looks stylish. It is possible to achieve the same black and white effect on the iPhone (about electronic ink, alas, we are not talking).

On the menu Universal access leaf at the bottom and open item Keyboard shortcuts. Before us, several points:

Put a tick On the contrary Shades of gray And we can safely return to the dock iPhone. Now three times in a row Press the key HOME.

Voila, I. screen iPhone He became gray. Re-triple pressing will return the color scheme to normal state.

Fast brightness to minimum

Many of us love to check the mail, to extract your favorite site or read right before bedtime. The bright light emitted by the smartphone in complete darkness, negatively affects our eyes. It is even painful to look at the bright screen, so the swipe is from the bottom up and the displacement of the brightness slider to a minimum is the usual surgery, which is accounted for every night. Thanks Universal access There is more fast way Installations minimum brightness.

Go to the already familiar route: Settings - Basic - Universal Access - Keyboard Keyboard. Nothing that can be associated with the screen brightness settings. But who is looking for - he finds:

1. We put a tick opposite item Increase.
2. Three times Press key HOME.
3. Three fingers tapat three times on the screen (not by the HOME key and it is three fingers).

Opens menus Zoom settings - This is exactly what we need.

Select item Choose Filter. (Choose a filter). Among the proposed options choose Low Light (Low brightness). Return to Dock, press the Home key three times. Brightness sharply moves to minimal value.

Using a reduced brightness allows not only to quickly change the settings, but also Reduce power consumption iPhone battery . The fact is that using a reduction in brightness through universal access together with standard brightness settings from the control point (swipe from bottom to up), you can achieve the minimum allowable screen backlight level. With standard settings, the minimum brightness level will be significantly higher. Less screen brightness is less battery consumption. It is possible to use such a minimum level in the dark. Clear day to see anything on the screen will be impossible.

Important! If when the filter is applied, part of the screen (as a rule, the upper part) it remains light, follow these steps:

1. Return to the settings Keyboard shortcuts.
2. Turn on Increase triple Press HOME key.
3. Three fingers three times tap the screen.
4. Select Resize Lens..
5. Stretch filter borders in full screen.

Two in one

It is possible and simultaneously using a black and white filter and a minimum brightness level. By completing the settings listed in the second point ( Increase - Low Light), on the menu Universal access - keyboard shortcut Put a tick and opposite Shades of gray. Triple Clicking HOME Keys will cause such a menu:

Now you have the opportunity to choose which filter you want to leave (both), and in which necessity now is not.

The universal access menu has a lot of other settings that allow you to adjust the level of screen increase, color inversion and voiceOver functionsBut this is a completely different story.

Attention! The article uses screenshots and options from the operating system. android systems 7.1. Although most of the elements described must be present in other Android versions, the author does not guarantee this.

How to activate options for developers

Despite the fact that the article will go about settings for developers, you should not be afraid of this name. Some of the options presented in this section will be useful and regular users. By default, they are not displayed in the settings, but it is easy to correct.

1. Open android settings And go to the "About Phone" section.
2. Dog into the bottom. Find the line of the "assembly number".
3. Make in a row seven fast taps on this element. As a result, a notification should be displayed that now you have become a developer, and the corresponding partition appears in the settings menu.

Now let's get acquainted with some of the opportunities that have discovered.

Some developers are specifically disconnected in their applications the ability to install on an SD card. With the "Allow saving to external drives" switch, you can resolve it regardless of the developer's desire.

Note that the developer can have a good reason for banning the installation on an external card. Some programs are tightly tied to a certain place and will not work if they are not installed where the developer planned. Therefore, it is necessary to use this function with caution.

Multi-color mode is a chip recent versions Operating systems OT. google companies. However, this function requires not only the correct android versionBut the support in the applications themselves, about what, unfortunately, not all developers took care of.

Using the "Resize in multi-zone mode" option, you can use any applications in this mode.

Usually smartphones turn off the screen during inactivity to save battery charges. However, in some cases this function is not needed. For example, if you want to use old smartphone as desk hour Or in a car as a navigator.

The option "Do not turn off the screen" will allow the smartphone to be in active mode all the time is connected to the charger.

This is one of the most useful options to achieve a significant visual acceleration. android works. The fact is that some manufacturers in pursuit of wow effects overload too much operating system Beautiful animation.

In this section of options for the developer, you can independently set the time of displaying or disconnecting. As a result, it will seem that the system began to just fly.

If an amoled screen is used in your device, the number of displayed colors really matters to save the battery. To stretch even more on charge balances, simply activate the monochrome mode. This option is also hidden in the settings for the developer and is called "imitate anomaly".

And what useful options for developers do you use?