lost-xposed: a module that brings back Android's hidden settings

⚡ The gist in 5 seconds - The point: the open-source module lost-xposed unlocks Android settings that the system usually hides: status bar, notifications, interface density, and more. - Where to get it: the project is on GitHub, built locally via ./gradlew test assembleDebug. - Limitation: everything has been tested on only one phone — Nothing AIN065, Nothing OS 4, Android 16 (SDK 36), under Vector 2.2. LSPosed itself was not tested. ### 🔍 What was found The uraniam9/lost-xposed repository describes a module that intercepts notifications before they are posted. This is fundamentally important: a regular notification listener sees a notification only after it has appeared, whereas here blocking happens earlier. Among the features marked working is Clock Studio: a fully custom clock layout made of time, "floating" time, date, day of the week, and battery level, with choices of size, color, weight, and font. Notifications can be blocked per app or by keyword. Hardware keys let you, with the screen off, hold the volume key to switch tracks or the power button for the flashlight. Power inspector counts wakelocks and alarm requests per app, but read-only. Per-app display — density, font scale, and refresh rate for each app individually — and Text engine with cursor control and two-finger text selection on any keyboard are marked partly tested. Not ready yet: clipboard history, AppOps, spoof profiles with a Shizuku backend, and a motion stabilizer — for now it's just measurement. The author emphasizes that a working status means the feature was actually seen working on a phone, not that it should work based on the code. ### 💡 Why it matters The project shows that Android's limitations are decisions made on the user's behalf, not technical limits. One density for all apps, "just a clock," notifications that are simply on/off with nothing finer — all of this can be changed. The module provides control that isn't available in standard settings: your own clock in the status bar, blocking messages by content before they're shown, separate display settings for each app. For geeks who love digging into the system, it's a way to take back the settings Android kept for itself. ### 🧩 Context The author states that all the code was written specifically for this project. If an idea previously appeared in another module, the source is credited by name and license in NOTICE — nothing was copied. At the same time, a number of older modules are deliberately not brought back: over time Android gained its own settings for their functions, and such features won't appear here. There are important caveats: if a process isn't marked in the framework's scope, the module silently does nothing and doesn't complain. SystemUI features are applied after a SystemUI restart, app and keyboard features on the next launch of the process, and system ones only at device boot. The issue with hooks disappearing after a real reboot due to Direct Boot has been fixed, but after a cold start, system settings…

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