Ever since upgrading to CM6 Stable, LEDs Hack has not completely worked for me.
I have it set to disable all lights when plugged in, except the charging LED. It does this fine, however it is failing to intercept notifications (text/email/missed call/variosu app notifications) and just lets the trackball flash away.
This is incredibly annoying and distracting. It usually wakes me up because the trackball is so bright in darkness.
Is there an alternative app that can do a similar job and do it right?
I could always turn my phone face down but I don't want to do that!
In Froyo an app is able to disable LEDs, so being rooted and using LEDs Hack is no longer necessary; perhaps the developer stopped supporting it at that point?
I haven't used LEDs Hack since the developer added the same functionality into Bedside for Froyo, which faithfully disables all lights, LEDs included, on CM6 for me. It's 99 cents, but you get a great side-table clock along with it!
I'll look into Bedside, thanks - I suppose I can always refund it if it still doesn't work for whatever reason!
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Is it just me or are there too many blinking lights on this phone? I know it's working so I really don't care that it's talking to the network, or that bluetooth is enabled, I know it is and I really don't need to be reminded.
So, does anyone know of a program or just some registry hacks to turn off all the annoying LEDs??
Thanks!
-RT
not sure if it would work, but there's this http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-keylight-v1-03.html
Try this program here http://www.modaco.com/content/Smart...nload-Discussion/259413/Kaiser-Notifications/
I have it installed and it's pretty nice. It disables all the LEDs at once if you want, or you can change the LEDS to display different colors than the standard ones. Couple of quirks, like when you recharge it doesn't show a solid green LED, but that returns if you uninstall. I like the program.
Perfect!
I'll give it a shot!
Thanks a lot!
-RT
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Just FYI. LEDs are totally different on AT&T devices. The modaco app does work but there does not appear to be a clear nor 1 to 1 mapping of the programs over rides to the AT&T LEDs. It does work well though to simply turn all LEDs off. I would like to have the charging one still work, but the solution is good enough.
So I have spent the last 3 hours scouring the site and web looking for a theme that works like the Blackmod Enhanced theme for fascinate. Have not found a single thing to mod the backlight timer so maybe can't be done yet. Anyone tried that theme on the captivate?
I am rooted and tried cog 2.bv6 but it killed my wi-fi at home which was a deal breaker for me. This time trying to just tweak the stock eclair and really would love to have the 15 second extended backlight for the soft keys, the enhanced power button with reboot, recovery etc options, a battery percentage indicator (and full flash support, I realize that is more than just theme based and gets into full blown ROM's but doesn't hurt to throw it in, getting by with Skyfire browser for now)
Anyone know of a theme or very very very stable ROM that will give me these features? Backlight is the biggie as it's the only thing I can't stand on the phone.
Rob
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I flashed Assonance 4.3, disbled the lagfix, flashed SetiroN's 1200MHz 1.4.5 Kernal, followed by the gingerbread theme (I only got the theme to flash by renaming it to update.zip and flashing in recovery manually) and it is running very stable and has backlight notifications.
AFAIK there is nothing that currently extends the backlight to stay lit longer. I'm hoping someone figures this out soon because I'd like the keys to stay lit for as long as the screen is on. The only thing available is backlight notifications which are lit up when you have a new text, email, or missed call.
I would love to have them on while the screen is visible (Except for video watching) as well. I wonder why manufacturers don't use a technology similar to the screen like the nook for the buttons? It would just be backwards... have it be all dark with a bit of the lighter color showing through. It would be easy enough to see and not take hardly any battery power right?
So this looks to be possible right now; however, it would be exceedingly difficult to do this in a sane way. For example, how do you know when to turn the lights off? Should they just be kept on until the phone falls asleep? I'd have to dig into AOSP a lot more, but I'm thinking this isn't a cut and dry easy to implement feature by any means.
Was talking to someone about this in another thread and there was a misunderstanding. The point to extending the backlight for the soft keys, for me anyway, would be to keep them active thus eliminating the need to touch the screen to enable the back or home button (or pressing the button several times to get it to wake up). Just in case someone had the wrong impression of the goal here.
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So this looks to be possible right now; however, it would be exceedingly difficult to do this in a sane way. For example, how do you know when to turn the lights off? Should they just be kept on until the phone falls asleep? I'd have to dig into AOSP a lot more, but I'm thinking this isn't a cut and dry easy to implement feature by any means.
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I think just giving the option of the length of time someone wants them to stay on kind of solves this. I would love them to stay on for 15 seconds or so instead of the 3 seconds it is at now.
Ya I seriously would like this implemented. DEVS someone please try to do this. I would gladly be willing to donate for it.
So I wasn't clear before. I'll try again.
There are technical issues with detecting when the user has stopped touching the screen. It isn't as simple as raising a timeout value, you'd have to create an application that was constantly monitoring all gestures, using a good bit of processing power and battery.
This appears to be controlled by hardware for the most part.
How about as a start the application can at least extend the time to 15 sec after any one of the bottom 4 buttons are pressed.
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I would be happy just having the lights lit. The key activity for the 2-3 seconds is fine.
I am getting old i guess and need to see where the keys are
On Di11igafs 2.5 they stay on at least 10 seconds so there must be a way..
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Despite whatever notifications I have and whatever ROM or kernel I use (even stock), the trackball won't flash. It simply lights up at random whenever I'm using the phone. I can also send an echo command to the correct directory and make the trackball light turn on or blink so I know it's working. What could possibly be wrong? It also won't come on at all if the display is off. Is that normal? I'd like to use that for notifications instead of the LED but it's no good if it only works with the screen on.
The trackball light isn't used for notifications. I think I have seen some apps for using the trackball for notification, but if not you will have to do some xml editing to use it for notifications. If the other lights come on but not the trackball it could be a problem with the rom. When porting a rom from one phone to another there has to be edits to files to make it work. If none of the lights come on, then it is because your phone deems it bright enough where you are at.
Ah alright. Out of curiosity, do you know which .xml file I'd have to edit? Or rather if it's even possible for it come on with the screen off in a Sense 2.1 rom?
Has anyone found an app that gives us better control over the hardware LED?
I'd like to have the notification light periodically blink when there's an SMS message or missed call, (and maybe some of the other important notifications), and the default settings offer so little control as to be useless. <rant> Seriously, why would I want a LED to tell me if the phone is charging, I can see damned well that it's charging, there's a cord attached! </rant>
There's the LEDBlinker app, which has all the options i'd want, but when I put it into test mode, it doesn't blink the leds.
Has anyone else tried to do this? Has anyone had any success? It's a cool hardware feature, that I think i'd really use - but it's hobbled by the crap configuration options Samsung gave us.
Thanks
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There's the LEDBlinker app, which has all the options i'd want, but when I put it into test mode, it doesn't blink the leds.
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Samsung prevents the LED notifications from working unless the screen is turned off. I'm using Light Manager (the dev participates on this forum), and so far it works fine in "alternate" mode. When you test the LED settings, a pop-up tells you to turn off the screen, and only then will the test work (and it does).
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Samsung prevents the LED notifications from working unless the screen is turned off. I'm using Light Manager (the dev participates on this forum), and so far it works fine in "alternate" mode. When you test the LED settings, a pop-up tells you to turn off the screen, and only then will the test work (and it does).
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Thanks - turns out I'd turned the LED off in settings (along with the options to use the LED to show charging status). /facepalm
Hi,
I have the phone charging next to me overnight and the bright lights are really annoying. I have setup Light Flow to dim the charging LED but cant get it's sleep mode to work correctly so that notifications don't make the led bright and flashing again (I have it enabled for a certain time period and set the light/LED to disabled).
I have also tried using an app called "Do Not Disturb" which allows you to stop Mobile Data and Wifi over it's sleep period to stop the notifications from turning up but that doesn't seem to stop them properly and they still show up (along with their very bright flashing light).
So, has anyone had any luck getting these apps to work or do you have an alternative that does these jobs successfully for you?
I already invested a lot of time in finding a proper solution for the Z3, but maybe here someone found a solution in the meantime?
(I can't root the device, as it's the device of my girl friend)
Thanks for any help.
I use tasker to shut down sync and mobile connections when charging. Without root there is no solution so far. You can turn of light notifications, but battery/charging notifications stay active and have priority above Lightflow settings.
w0mbat said:
Hi,
I have the phone charging next to me overnight and the bright lights are really annoying. I have setup Light Flow to dim the charging LED but cant get it's sleep mode to work correctly so that notifications don't make the led bright and flashing again (I have it enabled for a certain time period and set the light/LED to disabled).
I have also tried using an app called "Do Not Disturb" which allows you to stop Mobile Data and Wifi over it's sleep period to stop the notifications from turning up but that doesn't seem to stop them properly and they still show up (along with their very bright flashing light).
So, has anyone had any luck getting these apps to work or do you have an alternative that does these jobs successfully for you?
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Within Light Flow, make sure the charging/charged lights have priority above all other notifications and you should be set.
I, too, use Tasker to disable data at night, but sometimes some notification comes along anyway (like a birthday reminder or something). However, thanks to Light Flow suppressing other notifications than the charge related ones, I don't get blinded at night anymore.
Previously, I used Light Manager for the same job, but for me, LM couldn't really handle those other notifications, and instead started to switch between blinking the colour of the notification and the dimmed charge light.