Hi mates..
Currently I own an HTC Flyer, been an HTC fan and would like to try this beast as it seems amazing, one thing though:
Is it possible to use the capacitive buttons as a notification LED? Thats the only thing why I would prefer the Galaxy Nexus over this as in every other aspect I think this beast wins easily..
Much appreciated, thanks..
Good question. If you could flash the capacitive buttons when you have a pending message that would be cool. But I don't know sorry. Just supporting this question.
I'm thinking though that those lights aren't as efficient as a normal LED? Too much battery usage?
I have a Samsung captivate, which has similar buttons. certain kernels would include this feature with an app called BLN. Had to be baked into the kernel to work though
The streak had an app called streakled which worked as long as the phone was rooted.
kirkla79 said:
The streak had an app called streakled which worked as long as the phone was rooted.
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Just only root? cause the post above you says it has to be in the kernel..
Thanks for the reply mate
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It is possible use the NoLed app for notification on the amoled display.
yes, just root. But there may have been differences in the way the captivate and the streak handled capacitive buttons which would allow the streak to have just root access but require kernel changes for the captivate. However, I dont know enough about such things to say what.
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Just only root? cause the post above you says it has to be in the kernel..
Thanks for the reply mate
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matius44 said:
Is it possible to use the capacitive buttons as a notification LED?
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Hi, generally, it's possible using app called BLN control. However, that app requires a kernel support which is not yet stable for Note AFAIK.
I'm currently using NoLED which I do recommend - it works very well apart from a few glitches here and there (sometimes, the power button will not activate lock screen when NoLED notification is active - it would turn NoLED notification on/off. In that case I just have to use home button instead).
I would probably prefer BLN as it's simpler and should offer some battery saving against NoLED (possibly negligible) so I hope somebody makes a stable BLN patch for kernel. OTOH NoLED displays differently coloured icons for various events which is nice.
Pete
piit79 said:
Hi, generally, it's possible using app called BLN control. However, that app requires a kernel support which is not yet stable for Note AFAIK.
Pete
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Hi mate thanks for the reply
Do you know if BLN works with CF-Root kernel?as that might be the only kernel I would flash on my Note when I have it..
EDIT: a quick question: does BLN work with lock replacements apps eg. WidgetLocker? I noticed that NoLED only work with stock lock..
Thanks again
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matius44 said:
Hi mate thanks for the reply
Do you know if BLN works with CF-Root kernel?as that might be the only kernel I would flash on my Note when I have it..
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As I said, one of the devs tried the BLN patches but said the kernel was then unstable so they are not included in any of the currently available kernels AFAIK.
I'm currently on Abyss 1.2 kernel and I can so far highly recommend it. Let's see in a few days.
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EDIT: a quick question: does BLN work with lock replacements apps eg. WidgetLocker? I noticed that NoLED only work with stock lock..
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I can't confirm that. I'm using WidgetLocker and my NoLED notifications work fine (just tested with a missed call). The only slight hiccup is that after you wake up the screen with the notification the stock lock screen is shown instead of WidgetLocker. I've got a feeling there is probably a way around this - spotted a HomeHelper in the WidgetLocker settings that should handle the Home button in certain situations (presumably like this one). Haven't been bothered enough to mess with these settings yet
Pete
Thanks alot mate, really appreciate it
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Is it possible to get the BackLightNotification mod for i9000 to o2x?
Or do we need the kernelsource?
will NoLED work with Optimus 2X or is it only for i9000/Nexus S? would be nice if it worked
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will NoLED work with Optimus 2X or is it only for i9000/Nexus S? would be nice if it worked
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noled would work but drain the battery as 2X does not have amoled and thus does use full power lighting the screen. there was a post on the forum already.
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[email protected] said:
will NoLED work with Optimus 2X or is it only for i9000/Nexus S? would be nice if it worked
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NoLED works very bad on o2x due to LCD... doesn't look good at all and drains battery
damn then I'm out of options :/ damn those who don't use any form of LED notification...
Someone get this working!! Possibly with no flashing..on the future G2X?
maybe we can use the backlight of the capacitive buttons instead?
I second that
I was thinking the same, i rather want a nice little touch button SHOW, I was thinking that some blinking would b nice.
But I read somewhere on the forum, that we need the source code and something else to be able to control the led in the buttons.
think you need a kernel tweak to change the lights on the buttons like the galaxy kernel mod ..
NoLED is for amoled screens and not standard LCD
Missed Message Flasher, when set to flashing less than every 250ms, flashes the buttons and not the screen on the LG Optimus S/T/V/One. So, this is a step in the right direction - and it doesn't require root or flashing new kernels.
BLN Control
Install this from the market .
Name : ( BLN Control )
Let us know if it works.
medo18 said:
Install this from the market .
Name : ( BLN Control )
Let us know if it works.
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Doesn't work. Says it needs a different kernel
michael2041 said:
Missed Message Flasher, when set to flashing less than every 250ms, flashes the buttons and not the screen on the LG Optimus S/T/V/One. So, this is a step in the right direction - and it doesn't require root or flashing new kernels.
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i set flashing on 200 and the screens flashes , the buttons not :s
Missed Message Flasher
Is good enough for me
I have set it to flash the screen a quick on and of and then vibrate once in a while.
davjan said:
i set flashing on 200 and the screens flashes , the buttons not :s
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Try like 50
I even tried 25, but screens still turn on.
Hmm...what about like 5ms?
Do a search for this on google...
Touch LED Notifications (BETA) 0.3 for LG Optimus 2x
I'm a new user so I can't post new links yet...on you tube you can find an example of it lighting up the capacitive buttons...
Stephen
That touch led app works great. I just wish it worked with google voice.
Hello,
Yesterday i got my galaxy tab. The first what i 've done was to update to Gingerbread + overcome 2.01. Everything works fine expect one thingM; the shiny Softkeys. When i am watching movies (at the lowest brightness) the softkeys suck. It causes bleeding and it's mutch brighter then the backlights.
Is it possible to deactivate them after 15 secs?
Thanks.
download BLN from the market and choose Disable
Unfortunately it is not working.
Got it:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/button-backlight-widget/net.beshkenadze.android.buttonbacklightwidget
go to development thread and download the "button backlight like they used to be" file
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DaReDa said:
Unfortunately it is not working.
Got it:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/button-backlight-widget/net.beshkenadze.android.buttonbacklightwidget
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this is not the app ? ? the app in the market
http://www.appbrain.com/app/bln-control-free/neldar.bln.control.free
this is the right app
This tweak is no longer supported, use Touch Wake instead!
For notebook/netbook computers switching off the screen after a certain timeout is a simple yet effective way of saving battery life and such a feature is integrated into every OS. Android also has a screen timeout feature, however this suspend function also disables the touchscreen controls (and touchkey buttons) and you have to press the power button to re-enable the screen (plus, if you did not disable the lockscreen, you also have to unlock it again).
Since this is kinda annoying I tried to find an app which could disable the screen after a timeout and re-enable it on touch, however I could not find one. After some digging I found out that there is no way with the current Android API to disable the screen without simultaneously disabling the touchscreen controls.
So I took a look at the kernel source and after some trial and error it seems I have found a stable way to implement such a screen off feature.
To enable (disable) the screen dimmer pass 1 (0) to 'enabled' in /sys/class/misc/screendimmer. Pass the delay in ms (this is milliseconds; 1000ms = 1s) to 'delay'. The default state is disabled and a delay of 15000 = 15s.
Changes to the source (based on kernel with BLD 3; apply patches in exactly this order):
http://www.pastie.org/2408247
http://www.pastie.org/2408254
http://www.pastie.org/2408257
http://www.pastie.org/2408259
http://www.pastie.org/2408260
BUGFIX:
I already have the first bug fix for you. The kernel was not compiling anymore without the screen dimmer activated in the .config. Besides that nothing has changed, so if you already have a compiled kernel with the screen dimmer running this will not change anything.
Bug fix: http://www.pastie.org/2408688
BUGFIX #2:
Fixed the auto brightness not working anymore.
Bug fix: http://www.pastie.org/2418667
BUGFIX #3:
The user space access to the framebuffer is closed down before the screen is dimmed which makes sense and took care of one oddity I did notice. Also it should save some more battery.
Bug fix: http://www.pastie.org/2420744
BUG FIX #4:
Patch to avoid race conditions.
Bug fix: http://www.pastie.org/2441551
Get Jonathon Grigg's 'Spark Mod Manager' GUI for controlling Screen Dimmer: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17291034
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This tweak is no longer supported, use Touch Wake instead!
good...thanks!!
You are the GOD ...
Amazing... can't wait one of the kernel dev have this on their kernel. So I can easly flash it.
I already have the first bug fix for you. The kernel was not compiling anymore without the screen dimmer activated in the .config. Besides that nothing has changed, so if you already have a compiled kernel with the screen dimmer running this will not change anything.
Bug fix: http://www.pastie.org/2408688
Nice job, looks like a cool mod.
I'll release it under a experimental version of my kernel enabled by default to see how people like it.
One question, does the screen go off while I'm watching a video such as YouTube?
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reddv1 said:
Nice job, looks like a cool mod.
I'll release it under a experimental version of my kernel enabled by default to see how people like it.
One question, does the screen go off while I'm watching a video such as YouTube?
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Yes, unfortunately the screen always gets dimmed even if the app has the FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON set. I took a look at the kernel source and it seems this flag is not passed on to the kernel and handled only by the Android OS; so the kernel does not know whether currently an app is open which has this flag set. Maybe I can think of something, but most likely this is a limitation which I cannot remove.
This will be amazing.
I have always wanted a way to wake up the phone without reaching over to the power button. I remapped my power button to the soft search key just so I didn't have to reach over to push the power button but it obviously didn't work to wake the phone. This is something I've dreamed of, to just touch the screen or the touch keys and it would wake.
Couple questions:
1) Is it possible that only touching the 4 soft keys will wake the screen (instead of the screen)?
2) How does this affect battery? Is a wake lock held? Does the phone sleep correctly to go into power saving? I'm assuming if the screen is touchable that the phone isn't sleeping and as such, this will be a battery drainer.
Enhanced said:
This will be amazing.
I have always wanted a way to wake up the phone without reaching over to the power button. I remapped my power button to the soft search key just so I didn't have to reach over to push the power button but it obviously didn't work to wake the phone. This is something I've dreamed of, to just touch the screen or the touch keys and it would wake.
Couple questions:
1) Is it possible that only touching the 4 soft keys will wake the screen (instead of the screen)?
2) How does this affect battery? Is a wake lock held? Does the phone sleep correctly to go into power saving? I'm assuming if the screen is touchable that the phone isn't sleeping and as such, this will be a battery drainer.
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1) Currently the screen is re-enabled both when touching the screen and the touchkeys. I think that makes the most sense. However, one could easily modify the code to limit this to the touchkeys.
2) The phone is not put to sleep, only the screen is disabled. So compared to the normal screen lock this will drain the battery much quicker. This tweak is not intended as a replacement for the stock screen lock, but as an addition. You can set the screen lock to a value like one or two minutes, so it will properly lock the phone for example if put it in your pocket, while having the screen dimmer set to a lower timeout like 15sec, so the screen will be disabled and some battery saved if you just pause for some time for example because you wait for a download to finish or talk to somebody. So, if you use it right, you should save some amount of battery.
I found a bug after running this mod for about a couple hours. The screen would not turn on after leaving the phone for about half an hour. The touchkeys would light up and the when I clicked the volume keys I could hear the volume settings changing.
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Ezekeel said:
1) Currently the screen is re-enabled both when touching the screen and the touchkeys. I think that makes the most sense. However, one could easily modify the code to limit this to the touchkeys.
2) The phone is not put to sleep, only the screen is disabled. So compared to the normal screen lock this will drain the battery much quicker. This tweak is not intended as a replacement for the stock screen lock, but as an addition. You can set the screen lock to a value like one or two minutes, so it will properly lock the phone for example if put it in your pocket, while having the screen dimmer set to a lower timeout like 15sec, so the screen will be disabled and some battery saved if you just pause for some time for example because you wait for a download to finish or talk to somebody. So, if you use it right, you should save some amount of battery.
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This is exactly what I'm lookin for. i will set 1 minute for screen dimmer and 2 minute for screen lock.
Ezekeel said:
For notebook/netbook computers switching off the screen after a certain timeout is a simple yet effective way of saving battery life and such a feature is integrated into every OS. Android also has a screen timeout feature, however this suspend function also disables the touchscreen controls (and touchkey buttons) and you have to press the power button to re-enable the screen (plus, if you did not disable the lockscreen, you also have to unlock it again).
Since this is kinda annoying I tried to find an app which could disable the screen after a timeout and re-enable it on touch, however I could not find one. After some digging I found out that there is no way with the current Android API to disable the screen without simultaneously disabling the touchscreen controls.
So I took a look at the kernel source and after some trial and error it seems I have found a stable way to implement such a screen off feature.
To enable (disable) the screen dimmer pass 1 (0) to 'enabled' in /sys/class/misc/screendimmer. Pass the delay in ms (this is milliseconds; 1000ms = 1s) to 'delay'. The default state is disabled and a delay of 15000 = 15s.
Changes to the source (based on kernel with BLD 3; apply patches in exactly this order):
http://www.pastie.org/2408247
http://www.pastie.org/2408254
http://www.pastie.org/2408257
http://www.pastie.org/2408259
http://www.pastie.org/2408260
BUGFIX:
I already have the first bug fix for you. The kernel was not compiling anymore without the screen dimmer activated in the .config. Besides that nothing has changed, so if you already have a compiled kernel with the screen dimmer running this will not change anything.
Bug fix: http://www.pastie.org/2408688
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I have send Netarchy, reddv1 and mathkid a notice (could not reach morfic) about this update, so they aware of this change. As soon as the new version is implemented I will update the list below. Be patient.
Kernels including these modifications:
none yet
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it works great in trinity with the cm7 nightlies.. thank you.
I don't understand the instruction. what I have to do?
reddv1 said:
I found a bug after running this mod for about a couple hours. The screen would not turn on after leaving the phone for about half an hour. The touchkeys would light up and the when I clicked the volume keys I could hear the volume settings changing.
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Hmm. Yeah, that sounds like a bug. Did any error messages appear in the log? Could you reproduce the error?
simms22 said:
it works great in trinity with the cm7 nightlies.. thank you.
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Great. If you run into any problems please let me know. I am glad we have such a thorough tester on board.
tonno16 said:
I don't understand the instruction. what I have to do?
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Wait for the kernel devs to implement this tweak. Then follow their instructions to activate the dimmer; they probably will supply you with some init.d scripts for convenience.
simms22 said:
it works great in trinity with the cm7 nightlies.. thank you.
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Can I have your kernel please.
Can't hardly wait till u released it for public. I will realy appreciate it.
If I could give a try for your kernel, would please send me by email at [email protected]
Many thx before.
rejanmanis said:
Can I have your kernel please.
Can't hardly wait till u released it for public. I will realy appreciate it.
If I could give a try for your kernel, would please send me by email at [email protected]
Many thx before.
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Here lucid blue kernel with the screen dimmer: http://goo.gl/nBHir
The screen dimmer is enabled and set at 30 seconds. Post any issue you have here.
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rejanmanis said:
Can I have your kernel please.
Can't hardly wait till u released it for public. I will realy appreciate it.
If I could give a try for your kernel, would please send me by email at [email protected]
Many thx before.
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it should be out soon, maybe today or tomorrow. you dont want the one im using, its really a raw test kernel.
Found another bug, the auto brightness doesn't work anymore.
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reddv1 said:
Found another bug, the auto brightness doesn't work anymore.
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i can confirm it
reddv1 said:
Here lucid blue kernel with the screen dimmer: http://goo.gl/nBHir
The screen dimmer is enabled and set at 30 seconds. Post any issue you have here.
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grate thx men. i love u
it should be out soon, maybe today or tomorrow. you dont want the one im using, its really a raw test kernel.
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okay mr simms. i can wait.
Hi, I have almost eveything set the way I want but my last issue is the vibration intensity is too low. In gingerbread & foyo there was an intensity slider bar under Settings/Sound but no where to be found on ICS. I even installed an app to set custom vibration patterns to vibrate longer but I can't feel it in my pocket.
Does anyone know know how to increase the intensity for calls & notifications?
Thanks!
I didn't even realize that. I came from CM7 to ICS, and CM7's haptic feedback setting were amazing. Though in ICS. The Vibration seems powerful enough for me. My issue is not having the ringer, and notification volumes seperated.
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I didn't even realize that. I came from CM7 to ICS, and CM7's haptic feedback setting were amazing. Though in ICS. The Vibration seems powerful enough for me. My issue is not having the ringer, and notification volumes seperated.
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under sound/volumes you need to deselect link volumes.
not found.
I'm using Team Hacksung's ROM. I can't find the option you mentioned anywhere. I'm guessing it's not implemented yet? I'll go ask over there. Thanks.
Yeah the vibration intensity is low on ICS. But I found out the only way to get normal vibration (like in Gingerbread) for Message Notification was to use a different Message app, like "GO SMS Pro" which gives me the normal vibration when I get incoming messages. So try using "GO SMS Pro" and see if it works for you.
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App to control this
Do you know if there's an app or something to control this in ICS? The default haptic feedback is much to weak for my tastes.
Semaphore kernel allows vibration intensity control in v 1.0.0, and with that you can use NStools
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I checked NSTools, and it doesn't mention being able to change vibration intensity.
Is it the kernel itself that allows this to be set? If so, is it a compiled option in the kernel, or what?
I'm not sure I understand how this tool works in conjunction with this kernel to allow setting this.
jevring said:
I checked NSTools, and it doesn't mention being able to change vibration intensity.
Is it the kernel itself that allows this to be set? If so, is it a compiled option in the kernel, or what?
I'm not sure I understand how this tool works in conjunction with this kernel to allow setting this.
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Pretty sure you need a kernel that supports it
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Ok, thanks a lot. Going to see what they did, and see if it can be applied to the HTC Desire Z...
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Hi guys,
I was thinking about the possibility to make (for example) the home button of the OPO on the bottom blink for notifications in stead of the notification led at the top.
Does someone know an app that can make this happen?
Sorry if this question is already asked elsewhere but I didn't find it up till now.
Grtz
It's more than possible, it's called back-light notifications (BLN) search the playstore and you should see some apps. Though I don't understand why you'd want it, seeing how there's a notification led (that'd consume less battery), but I suppose to each their own?
Edit: Sorry had a brainfart, and forgot to mention you most likely need a kernel which supports BLN and to my knowledge no one has included it, since it's a bit redundant, and taxes the cpu and impacts battery life for no reason. It's extremely useful on phones without a notification led, and more common. But I suppose it can be easily ported to the 1+ if there's an oppo find7a kernel that supports it, if you wanted to tackle it.
Edit 2: Looked around, and apparently an app called 'LightFlow' might not need a custom kernel (?) Worth checking out.
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It's more than possible, it's called back-light notifications (BLN) search the playstore and you should see some apps. Though I don't understand why you'd want it, seeing how there's a notification led (that'd consume less battery), but I suppose to each their own?
Edit: Sorry had a brainfart, and forgot to mention you most likely need a kernel which supports BLN and to my knowledge no one has included it, since it's a bit redundant, and taxes the cpu and impacts battery life for no reason. It's extremely useful on phones without a notification led, and more common. But I suppose it can be easily ported to the 1+ if there's an oppo find7a kernel that supports it, if you wanted to tackle it.
Edit 2: Looked around, and apparently an app called 'LightFlow' might not need a custom kernel (?) Worth checking out.
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Just wanted to thank you for helping someone out. You are awesome ?
Oneplus Nexus 5
I like the idea. But unless the capacitive buttons are bright enough to actually see... I just can't see this working all that well. Really wish the buttons were brighter so that this would be possible.
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