I've been using Martin Börjesson's LED Notifications app for a while and you can now find it on the market!
"LG O2X Touch LED Notifications"
By Martin Börjesson
I found it's light on battery. And you can simply disable the notification part if you just want to recall the setting of touch LED brightness after reboot. It's free
I can't make it work with cyanogen nighlty :/
Pierrot94200 said:
I can't make it work with cyanogen nighlty :/
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hmm..I can.
do i need to set any monitor app if i want it notice the miss call? if so, which?
Can't make it work with DocSlim
I tested all settings, i changed parameters in Accessibility, nothing happens...
Have you tried a reboot (though mine worked fine without on cm. Weird..)
Very nice, works on the G2x as well, with cm7
it works on su660 (korean version of o2X) too. thanks for good information.
Yep !
I've been using it since version 0.2 and it works really good. I just installed last version from market.
To emprize : no you don't need any app monitor for missed call. It's one of the 3 basics (Gmail, SMS/MMS, Missed call). Look into "notification" if "Missed call" is checked (should be by default).
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Yep !
I've been using it since version 0.2 and it works really good. I just installed last version from market.
To emprize : no you don't need any app monitor for missed call. It's one of the 3 basics (Gmail, SMS/MMS, Missed call). Look into "notification" if "Missed call" is checked (should be by default).
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thx mate! how come i cant see the "missed call", lol
What about battery drain?
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What about battery drain?
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I haven't noticed any as of yet but the way the program is set-up, it could be a battery guzzler. This app loops check for notifications as opposed to being built into the framework
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I haven't noticed any as of yet but the way the program is set-up, it could be a battery guzzler. This app loops check for notifications as opposed to being built into the framework
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Thanks for the reply. I think I'll just try it myself!
If anyone of you notices a serious battery drain I'd appreciate a post
anybody know what's the accelerometer tolerance for? i don't quite get it.
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problems is that as soon as you have a notification, your phone will not go to sleep. And then will drain battery until you check your phone
Yea that's what I mean but you didn't notice a serious drain because of that?
Just to be sure, the screen remains off and the buttons glow it is simply that the phone doesn't go into "sleep" mode (what somehow makes sense)?!
Did some testing
And my sleeping phone (no notification) consume 2-3% an hour
With the notification glowing (meaning no sleep) for an hour, I loose 10%
The phone does sleep, the app has zero wakelock according to spare parts.
well, the leds are still blinking, from what I know (I still may be wrong there's no LG routine for the blinking. It does mean it's done by the "LG O2X Touch LED Notifications" so no sleep...
well this is what I'm guessing, since we do not have the source code
Just cos an app does something doesn't mean it has to keep the phone awake to do it
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Just like the title says when I get a notification my BLN stays on even if the display is off.
I'm on SuckerPunch-Voodoo #6.
Never had the issue on #4.
Any ideas?
And also, how hard is it to remove it entirely? I'd rather do that considering I know where the buttons are anyways, lol
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Just like the title says when I get a notification my BLN stays on even if the display is off.
I'm on SuckerPunch-Voodoo #6.
Never had the issue on #4.
Any ideas?
And also, how hard is it to remove it entirely? I'd rather do that considering I know where the buttons are anyways, lol
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Existz said he enabled it by default in build 6. Download BLN Control from the market and disable the functionality.
It astounds me how many people think that BLN:
-Is a bug
-Is bad
-Drains battery
-Eats children
MikeyMike01 said:
It astounds me how many people think that BLN:
-Is a bug
-Is bad
-Drains battery
-Eats children
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Haha, what are you talking about? My back key looks just like a hungry mouth
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It astounds me how many people think that BLN:
-Is a bug
-Is bad
-Drains battery
-Eats children
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Never said it was bad or a bug... Read.
And it doesn't drain the battery at all? Sure about that?
And BLN is a broken application when it comes to disabling BL.
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BLN does two things for you
1) it keeps the capacitive buttons alive when you are using the phone, a very handy feature when using the phone in the dark. This feature works when BLN is installed, you turn it on or off in CWM.
2) it turns the capacitive buttons on when you get a notification. A very handy feature that takes the place of a blinking led that every other phone on the planet has, this way you do not have to wake up the phone to see if you missed a text, email, phone call etc. You turn this feature on or off in the BLN controll app - if you are missing the app, download it from the market and unselect "activate BLN." Your capacitive keys will still remain on when using the phone, but they wont light up when you missed a notification any more.
Look what I just received on my RSS feed:
Translated from Italian
I'm studying it to see how it works, can someone help me?
Why don't you just link to the official thread? http://www.swedroid.se/forum/showthread.php?t=38703
I can tell you it's working!
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Works like this:
When screen is off the app checks every 30 sec to see if there is any new incoming email, sms/mms, calls. If it's returned as true the lights of your touch buttons light up. It lights up every 10 sec for 3 hours. If the phone is not wakened withing that time, it stops.
The first time you have to press "start" to start the process. If you tick the "start service on boot", it's not necessarily to press start.
Test it with the "test" key.
You can also set the default value of the brightness of the buttons with this app
Think that's about what is important from that post.
Very nice, thanks for the hint.
I was watching the fact that is fulfilled by Log messages, is it normal?
Perfect Thnx a lot for the link.
Missed this feature since my change from Desire
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Why don't you just link to the official thread? http://www.swedroid.se/forum/showthread.php?t=38703
I can tell you it's working!
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Works like this:
When screen is off the app checks every 30 sec to see if there is any new incoming email, sms/mms, calls. If it's returned as true the lights of your touch buttons light up. It lights up every 10 sec for 3 hours. If the phone is not wakened withing that time, it stops.
The first time you have to press "start" to start the process. If you tick the "start service on boot", it's not necessarily to press start.
Test it with the "test" key.
You can also set the default value of the brightness of the buttons with this app
Think that's about what is important from that post.
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checks every 30 sec? is it possible a battery drain issue or let the phone never sleep?
that was my thoughts too... Will check it out for a day and see.
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Wow, looks&works nice.. What about battery life impact?
I'm afraid it will drain terribly the battery... if someone can help me understand where is the code that controls the leds, I can try to set it up so that it's activated by notifications, instead of checking for them... we might need Paul's help here!!!
OK that's very nice and handy indeed, but i also wanna know about the battery drainage, on the otherhand using the app (or hidding menu) to reduce the output power of the leds you can conserve lot's of energy tho .
Yeah I'm not sure that's the way it's supposed to be done. While I am grateful for the dev of this app, I think the goal is to have these LEDS tied in to the Android Notification system itself, because any other way will be a drain on the battery.
Tegra2 is awesome because it takes up so little power in idle. If we have an app checking every 30s, the SoC is no longer idle, per say. If we increase the timer to let it idle, it's no longer a real notification system. Hence, this is probably not the way to go.
No I'm not sure where this is handled in Android though. If i'm not mistaken, a setting activated or not on the ROM, to tell the OS wether the phone has or not a LED for notifications. If so, we just need to rerout those acceses to the button LEDs. Then again, wtf do I know lol.
If anyone wants to point me in the right direction I'd love to look into that more closely (I dev C++, Java so should be able to work something out) Pm me.
There could be some push notification that goes to the notification bar, that may be used to also trig this software?
I guess it doesn‘t wake up the machine but runs as a background process.
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I've used it for a day now, fr6, 1200mhz overclock. After a lot of texting, and intense music playing I still have 30% battery. At the bottomline, I haven't noticed any impact on the battery life.
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I'm having a go at writing my own version that can do both brightness settings and notifications. So far I've caught up to Paul's app feature-wise, and will tackle notifications in a bit (hopefully in a more battery friendly way).
If I'm first done then I might put it on the market, but otherwise it's a great learning exercise for me!
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My fix is a 80$ liveview but I'm sure that's a little out of context.. still wish this phone came with an led notification. :/
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thank you for the app,but there some problems with the app.the phone will reboot when you got some calls and messages.
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tiwiz said:
I'm afraid it will drain terribly the battery... if someone can help me understand where is the code that controls the leds, I can try to set it up so that it's activated by notifications, instead of checking for them... we might need Paul's help here!!!
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Code:
echo 20 > /sys/devices/platform/star_touch_led/wled
20 is the brightness value i think.
I've used mine for 7 hours now, 50% left.
I've used wimp for music, wifi hotspot and xda/web. That's prof it's good enough for me...
Nice app! Just what I was looking for!
anyone know if galaxy note has notfication light..i keep missing messages and missed calls
The Note doesn't have a notification light. For me it's the worst thing about the phone.
There is a mod (here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389394&highlight=+mod+) that lights up the menu and back buttons when you have a notification. I've not tried it though...
Nope, there's none out of the box, which is a pity, you'll need something like
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389394
If you want to go withut mod, this one also nice
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.led.notify&feature=search_result
Audio + visual reminder, supports almost applications you need to have notifications.
My Best app for this in 3 Android phones so far is NoLed
thank u all..noled is a cool app. thanks
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My Best app for this in 3 Android phones so far is NoLed
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I got high battery drain with NoLED. And you should know that not only the shown pixels are on, the whole Display is. And with "black" the red and green AMOLED-Pixels are on as well. In summary an AMOLED-display itself supports a single lit pixel but the Android framework does'nt. So display notifications are useless in this form...
I m fully agree for battery n full screen notification. But here two more nice function help to reduce problem. Sleep time - i just do noled off for my sleep time, so no more notification reminder, as well disturbance
Another is audio reminder, if phone is in pocket even it remind you with audio. So chances to remain screen on/miss event is minimal.
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Some custom kernels are compatible with BLN app (free in the market).
Search "BLN" with google, it's the best notification app (for me)
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I got high battery drain with NoLED. And you should know that not only the shown pixels are on, the whole Display is. And with "black" the red and green AMOLED-Pixels are on as well. In summary an AMOLED-display itself supports a single lit pixel but the Android framework does'nt. So display notifications are useless in this form...
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Yes it drain the battery but some times not missing a call is more important
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I m fully agree for battery n full screen notification. But here two more nice function help to reduce problem. Sleep time - i just do noled off for my sleep time, so no more notification reminder, as well disturbance
Another is audio reminder, if phone is in pocket even it remind you with audio. So chances to remain screen on/miss event is minimal.
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iam using v 5.1.2, do you mean Sleep time: is time settings--> time and sleep , where you adjust NoLed off at sleeping time?
Never tried the audio reminder, how it sound? would it be like someone keep telling you (you got a missed call)?
Ah yeah I forgot: The high battery drain is partially caused by the fact that the CPU cannot be in deep sleep while the display is on. Another "feature" of the Android framework...
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Yes it drain the battery but some times not missing a call is more important
iam using v 5.1.2, do you mean Sleep time: is time settings--> time and sleep , where you adjust NoLed off at sleeping time?
Never tried the audio reminder, how it sound? would it be like someone keep telling you (you got a missed call)?
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Yes sleeping time means, noled remains disabled for given scheduled time.
For audio reminder you can set repeat time of it like how frequent it give reminder for missed event, n also selection of ring tone for audio reminder.
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I tried to use this app but, didn't worked for me...
Looks great, can someone test it please?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmtub2NrLmtub2NrLmRlbW8iXQ..
Thanks in advance
RuedasLocas said:
I tried to use this app but, didn't worked for me...
Looks great, can someone test it please?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmtub2NrLmtub2NrLmRlbW8iXQ..
Thanks in advance
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it looks nice indeed but sadly this causes the screen to be always on after recieving a message and with our phone having a screen on time of max 5.5 hours you dont really want this kind of behaviour.
say you get a message late at night before your going to bed and you just charged your phone your gonna wake up to a dead phone as overnight the battery will be drained empty.
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it looks nice indeed but sadly this causes the screen to be always on after recieving a message and with our phone having a screen on time of max 5.5 hours you dont really want this kind of behaviour.
say you get a message late at night before your going to bed and you just charged your phone your gonna wake up to a dead phone as overnight the battery will be drained empty.
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The app have battery saving option. We can set the time for it to be off.
The worst is that I activate but, nothing happend... Once that I have a lot of
stuff frozen/uninstalled, I though the problem might be because of that.
That's why I ask if someone else can try it and report if it works, to see if
the issue is from the app or from my settings.
Working for me
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Working for me
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Need to see what's wrong with mine...
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Works for me too. I use the batterysaver option at night for not draining my battery..
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It doesnt work for me too... What could be the problem?
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It doesnt work for me too... What could be the problem?
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In applications we need to activate "messages", "Facebook", or other...
I miss that part...
I dont understand..What do you mean activate and where exactly? I dont have facebook..
brunek said:
I dont understand..What do you mean activate and where exactly? I dont have facebook..
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Open Knock²+ app, go to the tab "APPLICATIONS", you'll see several apps and in front of the app icon you need to activate.
If you don't have Facebook it won't appear there, only apps that you have installed, and messages you have
All of my app are activated. I tryed it out by sending an e-mail but it doesnt work..:banghead:
Edit:all of my apps where deactivated! I am an idiot!
It works great!
Is the battery drain significant?
poslano s ubojitog LG 4X HD
brunek said:
All of my app are activated. I tryed it out by sending an e-mail but it doesnt work..:banghead:
Edit:all of my apps where deactivated! I am an idiot!
It works great!
Is the battery drain significant?
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Don't worry, I was an idiot too...
I don't notice a big drain but, also didn't had a lot of "messages".
During the night (or other period) you select it to be OFF.
Explore the settings :good:
Yes i saw it has a lot of options. It can be off during the night,its off in your pocket and you can set the after what period it turns off!:good: Great app!
for me, the only problem is that the flash isn't used, even when i set it to double or single. it simply doesnt fire up ^^
looks nice, but how about battery?
guilherme.sa said:
looks nice, but how about battery?
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Depends on the user, settings and of course if you receive 20 or 200 messages a day don't drain more than a normal app.
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For me it use 15-20% overnight, when sleep mode is on. And from 37 to 15% in 6 hours is too much, turned off..
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I just installed it yesterday, so far work OK. During the night I use "Sleep mode" and battery drain as usually, but I will check today how it's work during day time.
Really like the setup of the app and giving it also a try. Only thing that have noticed is tht phonecalls are shown only when another notification has come up. Will see if theres a way to controll it fro msettings.
Battery is still normal for me, lets see what longer usage period is showing.
the same for me ,it only start working when sms notification comes,after that calls notification works fine,led down t work ,and poked mode down t work ,it down t give a dam is the phone in your pocked or not ,im on stock JB ,rooted ,BL unlocked .
As most of us know our beloved Note (1) doesn't have the "notifications LED" present in so many dumber and older phones.
After completely breaking the power button from just checking if there's any notification I've got a new phone and I'm on a quest for finding some alternative notification.
So, it seems that in order to actually GET that there's some notification you need to have talkback enabled and that's buggy (you get this spooky voice when doing certain tasks). FINE, I disabled (freeze) both samsung and google TTS (although I didn't really wanted, but OK). Then I get a hand icon in the notification area with "talkback activated". Ok, FINE. I'm using Flashlight Notifier (which flashes the camera LED) and it seems to be somehow working, except that it leaves the (camera) LED turned on continuously!!!
I seems that there's some other option to flash the soft buttons backlight but it needs some very old (I think GB) ROM and I'm not going there. For what is worth I'm on a stock new JB with speedmod kernel.
In short, any solution that "just works", getting extremely frustrated with all the stupid problems I run into? I need notification for gmail, hangouts, sms, missed calls, nothing fancy.
Whats wrong with vibrate and message/ring tone?
This is question. So should be in Q and A thread
a. vibrate/ring disturbs people around (especially when there are at least 10-20+ notifications coming every day)
b. you might step out briefly and you might not take the phone (all the time...) with you to WC and such. Yes, some applications allow for repeat rings (like the default SMS app) but that only makes (a.) worse
I think it is good to be able to just look at the phone and see that you don't want to turn the screen on as opposed to turning the screen on, see you don't need anything from there, turn it off.
If a mod wants to move the thread please and thank you.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itsme4ucz.screenoff
Thanks, interesting but not at all what I want. Just want something to blink reliably ...
There's a whole cohort of software that does that but is usually geared towards making the "real" notification LED blink in various colours and also it usually shares the talkback (samsung) bug (but I'm willing to work around it).
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Thanks, interesting but not at all what I want. Just want something to blink reliably ...
There's a whole cohort of software that does that but is usually geared towards making the "real" notification LED blink in various colours and also it usually shares the talkback (samsung) bug (but I'm willing to work around it).
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try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
d210 said:
Just want something to blink reliably ...
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Fork this, modify it any way you like, compile and bob's your uncle.
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try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
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Thanks. Is it a warlock...
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Thanks. Is it a warlock...
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did not get you. warlock (literal meaning?, some user?).
none that dont cause severe wakelock lol
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Typo error. Sorry.
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NoLED seems to be fine (I was thinking for a long time that on OLED it might be a good idea to have some "few pixel" notifications, although I understand there is still significant power consumption even with OLED and few pixels on).
The device still deep sleeps (at least without notification) but of course this is the type of thing liable to kill the battery overnight.
Still, it works great and for most notifications I need it doesn't even need talkback (that's a big plus because I don't have to freeze TTS). And it looks great! Will report later or tomorrow how things go, with my luck I'll run into some issues in no time.
wow
treacherous_hawk said:
try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
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I was looking something like this. (It has many options / choices).
Thanks.
baz77 said:
none that dont cause severe wakelock lol
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The battery drain was extra 2-3% while me and the phone were sleep from 10pm to 6am. Acceptable. Good. With setting - noled always on and battery % while charging on.
Thanks.
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lol, maybe they obtimized it, that is good news if true. The wakelock occurs when not charging btw.
Thank you everyone!
NoLED is great for now, battery life is good, it catching all I want (maybe except hangouts) without enabling accessibility and is better than I dreamt.
Maybe, maybe a little concerned with display life now (it looks like there is still some kind of backlight, not only the small icons) but overall it looks good!
Maybe some option to blink the camera LED would still be good but you can't have everything.