All I find is suggestions from a few years ago, so probably outdated or maybe there appeared some better tools in the meantime, there are some apps in the play store but I need something good privacy wise, no training demon, also small battery life impact would be nice
For your unfamiliar with moto gestures I’m talking about are chop for flashlight and twist for camera, they work irrespective of app you’re in or screen being on/off
Also changing songs with volume buttons was nice
I moved from a Moto X many years ago and I still miss the double flick to open the camera. I also miss how compact that phone was.
Double-pressing the power button to open the camera should be an option you can enable in Settings
It’s an option in my OnePlus too but Motorola’s gestures have the upside of working consistently everywhere, every time, while double press power works only when screen is off (on OnePlus at least) also it clashes with emergency menu in OnePlus (5x power button)
What is/are Moto Flashlight and Camera gestures?
I had a Moto G a long time ago, but if the gestures are still the same it’s a chopping motion twice to (de)activate the torch, and twisting your wrist twice for activating the camera.
Shake torch works faaairly well
Which phone did you move to? Different phones have their own OEM implementations for those things.
For instance, Samsung allows you to remap your power button to trigger both the camera and flashlight, whereas OnePlus uses screen-off gestures (eg draw a V for the flashlight) etc.
It’s OnePlus, I use v for
Fleshlightflashlight but it’s wonky (works like 60% times) and it needs screen to be off
Not sure what Moto’s camera gestures are, but if you’re now using a Samsung, you can say “smile” or “cheese” to take a picture when in camera mode. Super handy when you’re holding something in the other hand. As for flashlight, there are plenty of options, such as MacroDroid & Tasker. I currently have the flashlight on/off bound to double-clicking the Bixby button.
I don’t know what moto flashlight does. I just can recommend this app flashdim. Available on F-Droid.
Moto has a few gesture shortcuts, two of which are mentioned here: Chopping two times with the phone toggles the flashlight, twisting the wrist opens the camera and toggles front/back cam.
This, two display settings and gaming mode are the only customizations to the ROM, and as all of this is useful I’d argue it’s the best ROM by any manufacturer there is.
I have motorola phones for at least five years now amd didn’t know that the camera gesture can switch between front and back also. Thanks for that info!
Ok, those are some seriously neat gestures. Any way to get them to other phones? XD
Well, this post is currently only about those two features, and there are only a few OK suggestions. And to also get the display and gaming features, you’d need much more work. Extracting the Moto apps as APKs wouldn’t work, as they require many daemons and services running in the background. So the only way to get those features that I see is to install the Moto ROM directly. There are all ROMs available, though they aren’t from Moto themselves. I do not think flashing it on another Phone would really work tho. So the only way I see to get all features perfectly would be by actually buying a Moto Phone.
The only downside of Moto Phones is the Camera, really. The 700€ edge 40 Pro is only behind the Galaxy S23 Ultra in Camera, display resolution (though who really needs 4k?) and battery size, but has a higher Hz refresh rate, 4 GB more RAM and charges nearly 3 times as fast. I personally got the Edge 20, which is more than enough (except for the camera). The latest to fully support bootloader unlocking and therefore Lineage is the Edge 30 tho, afaik.
Thanks for the info. It is not the same but the camera you can at least start by pressing the power button twice.
You can do it with Tasker. I’ve used it in the past to run tasks when the phone is shaken or flipped. They’re under sensor events. Shake has its own event, for something like flip you have to use a generic “Gesture” and show it the move you want.
