Sophie LaBüf

  • Home
  • Recommended Apps
  • XDA
  • Facebook
  • About

Little Known Jelly Bean Features

Posted by Eric Gingell on July 9, 2013
Posted in: Android.

jb-bannerLittle Known Jelly Bean Features

Here are some features in Jelly Bean 4.1.2 and up that I’ve discovered that you may or may not be aware of:

  • Two-finger swipe down on a notification: If it’s expandable it will expand giving you more options. Two-finger swipe up will collapse it.
  • Swip a notification left or right to dismiss it. This does not work on persistent notifications.
  • Long-tap a notification to get a link to “App info” which takes you directly to the app’s info screen where you can uninstall, force-stop, or clear its cache, data, or defaults. Also handy for determining which app put it there.
  • Long-tap the app on the “Recent apps” dialog for the same “App info” link.
  • You can turn off notifications for spammy apps (or any app) from its app info screen. You cannot turn off notifications for some system apps.
  • Long-tap a toggle on the top of the notification pull-down for direct access to that item’s settings screen.
  • Press either volume button to show the volume scale and tap the grey gear to expand it.
  • Tap the grey gear above the toggles on the notification pull-down to access the system settings.
  • Tap the grey clock above the toggles on the notification pull-down to access the world clock.
  • If you have no Search soft-key, you You can long-tap the Menu soft-key to access Search. This only works from the home/launcher screen. May not work in all apps.
  • You can add contacts to the Emergency Dialer by adding them to the “ICE – emergency contacts” contacts group then tap the “+” on the Emergency Dialer. You can add as many contacts as you want to the group; however, you can only add four to the Emergency Dialer at a time (only JB 4.2.2 and up).
  • Easter egg: Jelly Bean Bag. Execute the following from the command line. Root required. This is actually one of the Daydream modes (BeanFlinger) – still cool, though.
    su -c am start com.android.systemui.BeanBag

Note: I have not confirmed that these features are not available on older Android OS’s, they could very well be.

Posts navigation

← Random Boot Sound Using Notification Sounds
Make ADB localhost Work on Your Jelly Bean 4.2.2 Device →
  • Latest

    • World of Final Fantasy June 5, 2022
    • Final Fantasy VI May 11, 2022
    • Android 8 Notifications July 2, 2019
    • Scopophobia February 13, 2018
    • How to spot clickbait and sharebait August 20, 2017
    • Supernatural quotes read by Google Text-To-Speech August 20, 2017
    • I found a thing in my phone August 17, 2017
    • Moto G5 Plus August 17, 2017
    • Netflix on a Nubia June 29, 2017
    • Nubia Z11 Mini June 17, 2017
  • Archives

    • June 2022 (1)
    • May 2022 (1)
    • July 2019 (1)
    • February 2018 (1)
    • August 2017 (4)
    • June 2017 (2)
    • January 2017 (1)
    • September 2016 (1)
    • August 2016 (2)
    • July 2016 (1)
    • June 2016 (1)
    • May 2016 (1)
    • February 2016 (2)
    • October 2015 (1)
    • August 2015 (1)
    • July 2015 (1)
    • May 2015 (4)
    • July 2014 (2)
    • June 2014 (1)
    • May 2014 (2)
    • January 2014 (2)
    • November 2013 (1)
    • October 2013 (1)
    • September 2013 (1)
    • August 2013 (2)
    • July 2013 (5)
    • June 2013 (3)
    • May 2013 (1)
  • Categories

    • Android (29)
    • Gaming (7)
    • Social Networking (1)
    • Sophie (9)
    • Weird Things Nerds Do (3)
  • Tools

    • Log in
    • Entries feed
    • Comments feed
    • WordPress.org
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Parament by Automattic.