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SmartStay Ex App Review and How To (for Android)

2012-08-14
how's it going guys Davey here from foam bought calm and in this video I'm doing a review slash how to on the smart state X app available from Google Play for free that basically is the same thing as a smart stay app that you see on TouchWiz on the galaxy s3 which uses the front-facing camera to detect whether or not your face is looking at the phone and be able to decide whether or not to turn the screen off or keep it on past the regular system screen timeout as a result so anyway let's see if it actually works it's a great feature you know in theory I will go ahead and see if it works the way you do it is you first turn it on obviously when you open the app let's go ahead and check start on boot but you won't necessarily need to do that you can choose between a few options over here you can choose how many scan lives it has it defaults to two so I'll go ahead and leave it at that and if you tap on smart timeout you could actually go to the accessibility settings I believe it's only for phones with Ice Cream Sandwich and later basically just tap on this guy and turn it on so that way it takes the user actions to delay scanning when it's not required basically meaning if you touch the screen it won't actually scan because that will ultimately waste more battery life you know you don't there's no need for the phone to scan for your face if you're touching the screen so anyway I turned that guy on you could also detect the scan time out I'll just leave it as default at 3 seconds so anyways go ahead and see how it works I'm going to press home and show you guys these steps so I'm gonna go ahead and face it you know toward my face and see what happens actually first I gotta go into my system timeout so I'm going to display the sleep timeout I'm gonna set its 15 seconds so that way we can see if it's working out so I'm gonna face it towards me and see if it actually that's my face and I'm just gonna have to wait so he says scanning face detected and the screen staying on let's try to go for another cycle or so to make sure that the screen doesn't actually turn off so scanning face detected and it's working so obviously you know we went past the 15-second mark here and we'll wait one more time just to be sure and yeah seems like it works pretty well of course I'm on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus you know your results are your you know experience may be different depending your phone now it's not scanning my face obviously is facing the camcorder so I doubt that you know it will work and hopefully it doesn't work so that way it actually turns the screen off and looks like it did so so far so good I mean the app seems like it works for me obviously like I said I have the Samsung Galaxy Nexus definitely a feature that I really like I mean I think this is one of the coolest features that was on TouchWiz and to be able to download an app and actually have it on your phone whether you have TouchWiz or not you know use it on maybe the HTC One X HTC One S using on the Galaxy Nexus and even tablets like the Nexus 7 it's really cool to have it definitely you know something good I'm gonna go ahead and see if I can put it on my face now so it doesn't work as good I would say as a smart stay on the TouchWiz because you know touch was like you could be it could be just sitting here and all sudden you could turn it to your face and it'll detect it where this one's kind of gotta be looking at you beforehand and then it'll detect your face it's go ahead and scanning see face detected so um I mean honestly for a free app and you know for one that isn't a cert I mean it's still a work in progress I definitely give it a thumbs up I'm just wanted to make a quick video about it some of you guys requested it so that is that if you found this video helpful please hit the like button and subscribe I'll put the link to the application in the description box below if you want to download as well alright so from in this video thank you for watching
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