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Miscellaneous Tools

The Miscellaneous suite brings together essential device tweaks, display modifiers, UI inspector controls, developer toggles, and system shortcuts into an easy one-tap interface.

1. App & Process Actions

  • Kill Foreground App:
    • Automatically queries the active window manager on the target device to find the currently focused foreground package and force-stops it instantly.
  • Clear Active App Data (pm clear):
    • Prompts for confirmation and resets all application storage, cache, and database logins for the active foreground app.

2. Display & Orientation

  • Set Screen Orientation:
    • Overrides the display orientation to 0° (Portrait), 90° (Landscape Right), 180° (Inverted Portrait), or 270° (Landscape Left).
  • Toggle Auto-Rotate:
    • Toggles the accelerometer-based display rotation on or off.
  • Screen Density (DPI):
    • Inspects the current display density. Allows selecting from preset values or entering a custom DPI between 72 and 1200. Includes a Reset Default button to restore factory settings (wm density reset).
  • Screen Resolution:
    • Queries active screen dimensions and lets you apply custom Width × Height resolutions or reset to device defaults (wm size reset).
  • Keep Screen Awake (Stay Awake):
    • Forces the target device’s display to remain awake while connected over USB.

3. System UI & Notifications

  • Expand Notifications:
    • Pulls down the notification shade.
  • Expand Quick Settings:
    • Pulls down the full Quick Settings tile panel.
  • Collapse Status Bar:
    • Dismisses any open notification or Quick Settings shades.

4. Developer & UI Tweaks

  • Demo Mode (Clean Status Bar):
    • Puts the target device into Android Demo Mode with 100% battery indicator, a clean 12:00 clock, full Wi-Fi/mobile signal bars, and hidden notification icons. Perfect for clean screenshots and recordings.
  • Toggle Show Touches:
    • Enables or disables the visual white touch circle indicator under finger taps (show_touches).
  • Toggle Pointer Location:
    • Overlays touch coordinates, pressure rulers, and finger path crosshairs on top of the screen (pointer_location).
  • Window Animation Speed:
    • Adjusts window animation scale, transition animation scale, and animator duration scale between 0.0x (instant/disabled), 0.5x, 1.0x (default), 1.5x, and 2.0x.

5. Battery Emulation

  • Simulate Battery State:
    • Set custom simulated battery charge percentages (0% to 100%).
    • Toggle simulated AC/USB charging or discharging states.
    • Includes a Reset Simulation button (dumpsys battery reset) to restore real hardware battery monitoring.

6. Intent & Deep Links

  • Open URL / Deep Link:
    • Launches any HTTP/HTTPS URL, deep link URI, or custom scheme directly in the target device’s default web browser or assigned handler application.