Hi,
I recently noticed that my LED light is on all of the time. I have tried turning it off by enteering the camera and turning it on and off and also by using deep thoughts H torch program but whatever I do it stays dimly lit!!
Reboot or removing the battery doessn't help.
As soon as you insert the battery the LED comes on even before you boot the phone... Does that mean that it is aa hardware fault?
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Alex
There are many threads about this issue. Use search .
I did a search for LED and got 0 results...
Having looked a bit more I guess the LED glue has moved and caused a short circuit.
The LED is always on dimly now but I am not sure what this will do in the long run.
I have moved from the UK to Sierra Leone so there is no chance of sending it back to SE!
I will let you know what happens after 12 months of having the LED on low constantly!!
Thanks
Search a little better because the search does not work with 3 letter words.
Found a thread about this-apparantly it is caused by corrosion Here
same problem
i got the same problem with my xperia, the led is always on dimly. I'm guessing is a hardware problem, the problem started 2 days ago and i don't know what to do. Did you ever solve this problem? how? thanks
When I go to whatsapp settings and change the led light to green it doesn't really seem to work. What happens instead is when the phone screen is off and someone sends me a message, a white led light comes on instead (must be default light set by Sony) and when I switch the screen on the led finally flashes green. Some times both colours flash when screen is off
Anyone else have this issue? I tried light manager and when I did the led test the same problem occurs but this time it flashes green once and then back to white light...any way to solve this? A white light is pretty rubbish imo
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Are you running under Stamina Mode? If you turn off Stamina, then you would find the LED works well.
It seems SONY didn't get LED issue under Stamina really resolved, SONY just gives LED White light ONLY and Fixed frequency ONLY under Stamina, and customerized light&frequency still not working under Stamina mode.
kevinkoo said:
Are you running under Stamina Mode? If you turn off Stamina, then you would find the LED works well.
It seems SONY didn't get LED issue under Stamina really resolved, SONY just gives LED White light ONLY and Fixed frequency ONLY under Stamina, and customerized light&frequency still not working under Stamina mode.
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Ah that makes sense, Sony seem to always be a step behind...fixing one bug and another appears or in this case partially fixing it. This probably be my last Sony handset tbh
Xperia Z Vanilla
dreamville said:
Ah that makes sense, Sony seem to always be a step behind...fixing one bug and another appears or in this case partially fixing it. This probably be my last Sony handset tbh
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I think this is an Android related stuff: Fix one thing, break tons of others.
You can see it on CM, AOKP, AOSP. One fix, one bug.
"So I added this thing to have a smoother experience... Oh, it causes battery drain/wakelocks/breaks NFC, etc".
How many times have I seen stuff like that on Development section.
DrKrFfXx said:
I think this is an Android related stuff: Fix one thing, break tons of others.
You can see it on CM, AOKP, AOSP. One fix, one bug.
"So I added this thing to have a smoother experience... Oh, it causes battery drain/wakelocks/breaks NFC, etc".
How many times have I seen stuff like that on Development section.
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Haha true
Xperia Z Vanilla
Hi all,
I'm wondering if anybody has experienced this issue.
Yesterday i charged my phone up after the the battery drained. The phone booted up normally until the display dimmed slightly??? The display is now as though its in power save mode lacking the lovely vivid appearance. Greens and reds seem dull??? Any ideas. I am considering trying to reload official firmware. But before i do i would like to see if anybody else has experienced this issue.
Regards
Joe
joebit said:
Hi all,
I'm wondering if anybody has experienced this issue.
Yesterday i charged my phone up after the the battery drained. The phone booted up normally until the display dimmed slightly??? The display is now as though its in power save mode lacking the lovely vivid appearance. Greens and reds seem dull??? Any ideas. I am considering trying to reload official firmware. But before i do i would like to see if anybody else has experienced this issue.
Regards
Joe
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never seen this issue i´ve never had that ! hmm but i don´t know what the issue is
sorry
So. Recently got my second transformer. After a few hours use it switched off and refused to turn on at full brightness - in the dark i could just just see icons on the homescreen. After a while it seemed to tun on again. Crazy. So i updated to and used latest 4.4.2 stock for a day, the screen was working perfectly at all brightness levels, uniform, no light bleed. Then i flashed a few of the available CM based roms. This morning, a few days in, i notice that the backlight is much much stronger on the right.
At low brightness it was completely ridiculous. Its like one of the rows of leds wasnt on at all. So i reflashed a backup i had from install day and now everything is just fine - uniform brightness, working perfectly. It seems to be a driver bug. But how did it survive me going from kernel to kernel?
So now im wondering if its a hardware issue... any thoughts?
Ive now noticed this happening on a number of occasions to different rows of the backlight - sometimes at bootom, sometimes at bottom and right. Anyone else seeing something like this?
Sounds like hardware to me...
berndblb said:
Sounds like hardware to me...
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I flashed the latest cm and this seems to have stopped happening so looks like driver issues. However, the screen continues turn off sometimes, and when it does it needs two presses of the power button to turn back on. Its a crazy thing asus - i had the last infinity too, sold it after a few months because it just wasnt as good as my nexus 10. And now this... pretty amusing.
Dunno why i keep buying asus. Must be my good experience with their motherboards or something... usually they also have excellent support and firmware updates.
I found that ambient display is useless.
I was thinking that whenever I got notification, the ambient display will lit the screen and then OFF ... then lit ... then OFF.
You know, kind of asking attention.
It is NOT.
It lit ONCE, then OFF forever, until I pick up the phone (of course).
The problem with this, if I leave the phone on my desk for quite long, I won't know if there was notification arrived, unless I pick up the phone.
So, what's the use of this ambient display?
Damn, LED notification would be much useful!
gogol said:
I found that ambient display is useless.
I was thinking that whenever I got notification, the ambient display will lit the screen and then OFF ... then lit ... then OFF.
You know, kind of asking attention.
It is NOT.
It lit ONCE, then OFF forever, until I pick up the phone (of course).
The problem with this, if I leave the phone on my desk for quite long, I won't know if there was notification arrived, unless I pick up the phone.
So, what's the use of this ambient display?
Damn, LED notification would be much useful!
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So you can either see the notification come in first time when it lights up. Or you can quickly pick the phone up to see if there are any notifications without it fully waking up.
LED is easier though!
I prefer they don't lit it on and off constantly because it is distracting when you are in a meeting and it drains your battery. Though having an option would be nice
Yeah, I agree it is a useless battery wasting feature (though the impact to battery is minimal). Thankfully the LED can be enabled with Light Flow even though that is flawed as well since the app will randomly get killed and the light won't work.
Ambient Display would be perfect if it flashed continuously until you check it and if it worked in priority mode, which it doesn't if you have priority mode set up like the old silent mode. If you don't want your phone making noise or vibrating but still need to see notifications it is pretty worthless.
you are dead on sir.
gogol said:
I found that ambient display is useless.
I was thinking that whenever I got notification, the ambient display will lit the screen and then OFF ... then lit ... then OFF.
You know, kind of asking attention.
It is NOT.
It lit ONCE, then OFF forever, until I pick up the phone (of course).
The problem with this, if I leave the phone on my desk for quite long, I won't know if there was notification arrived, unless I pick up the phone.
So, what's the use of this ambient display?
Damn, LED notification would be much useful!
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I was told Google is moving away from using led notification, but yet they designed a phone? with one built in but totally useless at this point. Hopefully the next update will address this.
Mine flashes continually until I check things... Every ten seconds or so. It is wonderful... Not sure what is up with your guys' one time notifications...
ambient display is alrite.... It doesn't work that well though. It does not consistently work when you pick up the phone. I would much rather have them activate the LED since it's already there.
you. me. and many more
tsy87 said:
ambient display is alrite.... It doesn't work that well though. It does not consistently work when you pick up the phone. I would much rather have them activate the LED since it's already there.
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I'm setting this gripe in many circles outside of xda hopefully they will address it in the next update. Lots of corporate people want that portion which was always a part of android and even non android phones of the past.
EmperorX said:
Mine flashes continually until I check things... Every ten seconds or so. It is wonderful... Not sure what is up with your guys' one time notifications...
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So does mine
vvveith said:
I was told Google is moving away from using led notification, but yet they designed a phone? with one built in but totally useless at this point. Hopefully the next update will address this.
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in all fairness, Moto made the phone, whether for Android Silver or whatever other reason, it wasnt designed ground up with Google or originally planned as a Nexus.
I like ambient. Works great for me. and being an Amoled display, only the pixels being used light up, so battery is minimal
users report otherwise.
CraigP17 said:
in all fairness, Moto made the phone, whether for Android Silver or whatever other reason, it wasnt designed ground up with Google or originally planned as a Nexus.
I like ambient. Works great for me. and being an Amoled display, only the pixels being used light up, so battery is minimal
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Acording to the battery threads I've read, ambient display sucks battery.
mzimand said:
So does mine
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What are you guys using? Lightflow?
vvveith said:
Acording to the battery threads I've read, ambient display sucks battery.
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Does the device wake up from deep sleep for it? If yes it sure does suck a lot of battery. Especially if it is supposed to flash up in intervals to remind you of the notification.
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What are you guys using? Lightflow?
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I just tested it... it flashes up every 30 seconds or so. As soon as as you click on it the screen is on without any delay. So I guess it screws your battery hard by making it wake up each time? It would mean that as soon as you have a notification your device would wake up every 30 seconds.
I can't get Lightflow to work at all. Do you need a kernel that has LED support?
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What are you guys using? Lightflow?
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I am just using the regular ambient feature built into the stock rom. I am encrypted, rooted with stock kernel on stock 5.0.1. I have not messed with any AOSP roms .
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I can't get Lightflow to work at all. Do you need a kernel that has LED support?
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Rooted and use root access for the LED activated in Lightflow.
Lightflow screws up ambient tough. It constantly flashes as if it has an notification, even if it only shows the clock. This WILL kill your battery in my opinion...
Led notification will drain batttery fast?
Via my NeXus™ 7FHD on XDA Premium app
I actually like it more than Active Display. Active was much more sensitive to movements which for really annoying.
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Alienfreak said:
Rooted and use root access for the LED activated in Lightflow.
Lightflow screws up ambient tough. It constantly flashes as if it has an notification, even if it only shows the clock. This WILL kill your battery in my opinion...
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I don't know what settings you set to make it do that.
Light Flow doesn't do that here. Cooperates fine with Ambient.
I know there are people (Lightflow Dev) who are working on getting the built-in led working, and I think that's great. I wonder if there are any devs working on making Ambient Display more useful...? I'm going to shut off the Ambient Display today and mess around with an app I used to use on the Galaxy S called NoLed. It puts dots or icons on the screen and could notify me of anything... might be the ticket here.