How can I keep the navigation keys lit whenever the phone is unlocked and the screen is on? It would help me hit the right one the first time! Pretty new to all of this but I've searched and was unsuccesfull. I've just installed LauncherPro. On Eclair.
I don't think there is a way to that. However, if the phone is not lock, touch anyway on the screen will light up those buttons.
thanks for the reply. I suspected as much after searching turned up nothing. At least now I know. A little behaviour modification on my part and I'm good to go.
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This one aspect of my phone has been really bugging me. We don't have the option to disable the automatic locking of our phones. You could enable an infinite screen timeout, but that doesn't really solve the problem as it introduces a new problem (increased drain on the battery due to the display being on the whole time).
It'd be nice if we could control those two settings independently. One is to be able to control screen timeout, the other would be to enable/disable autolocking our phones.
The reason this is useful for someone like me is that I usually leave my phone on the desk when I'm not using it. In my situation the auto-locking is just a huge pain because I'm not worried about accidentally hitting any buttons while the phone is on the desk nor am I worried about security/privacy issues.
Anyone see a need?
I think lockbot gives you an option of how long before the lock screen goes into affect if you'd be willing to use an app for a lock screen...
erikikaz said:
This one aspect of my phone has been really bugging me. We don't have the option to disable the automatic locking of our phones. You could enable an infinite screen timeout, but that doesn't really solve the problem as it introduces a new problem (increased drain on the battery due to the display being on the whole time).
It'd be nice if we could control those two settings independently. One is to be able to control screen timeout, the other would be to enable/disable autolocking our phones.
The reason this is useful for someone like me is that I usually leave my phone on the desk when I'm not using it. In my situation the auto-locking is just a huge pain because I'm not worried about accidentally hitting any buttons while the phone is on the desk nor am I worried about security/privacy issues.
Anyone see a need?
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Well... I'll answer your question... But this won't be helpful (Just a warning )
A need? No.. I honestly don't find it troublesome to swipe my finger across the screen after pressing the trackball (or Power button if you're not rooted/haven't setup Trackball Wake)
So, I don't really see a need. But good luck finding someone to accomplish your request. Just seems like it'd be a fair amount of work, to remedy 1 seconds time... Just my $.02
Try ScreenModeWidget at market, free.
choose awake stay.
Try ScreenModeWidget at market, free.
choose awake stay.
Look in the market for "curvefish" he's a developer of widgets and has a lock screen on off widget that will let you turn it off then back on without having to reset the pattern. Hope that helps!
Keyguard disabler on the market. It works for me. I set it after a reboot and it works. It has a option to start on start but I just do it manually with the shortcut.
actually, i've been looking for the same solution as you are looking for! even i find it highly anoying when i keep the fone on my desk and have to sweep the screen each time i want to check it.
ideally, i'm looking for something likr what u get in the 5800.... the screen comes back on (after timning out) when you tap on the screen, unless u lock it explicitly via the hardware button...
neways, u kud try "no luck" which simply disables the lock screen. when the screen times out, pressing the hardware "home' or "lock/unlock" buttons brings the screen back on without having to go thru the unlock procedure...
Cheers,
I've been using touchscreen smartphones since the Omnia came out and never once have i needed a lock screen. I can't for the life of me work out why anyone would need anything more than a screen off/screen on button.
I'm using No Lock from the market now. It has a handy toggle widget/icon for enabling or disabling the lock function. As a bonus it allows screen wake on Trackball and volume buttons.
+1 for No Lock! It's the best way to get around that swipe pain.
I have searched this forum up and down looking for someone experciencing the same problem, but could not find anything. I am currently running myms warm donut, but this has happened to me on every build. When I lock the screen and then unlock, I get a quick flash of black linux text similar to when first booting up the phone. The text is instant, maybe a half a second. It flashes, then adroid gui comes back. I have tried different methods and can not resolve this isue (I find it pretty annoying). Does anyone have any info on this? Has anyone experienced this or is familier with what im talking about? Thanks for any help that anyone has. You guys do great work, keep it up!
Happens to me all the time. I just deal with it.
Yea, happens to me... not a big deal...
you're just seeing the kernel log, nothing to worry about.
I was afraid that this might be the case, there is no way around this, so the kernal log does not flash? Its not a big deal, I just find it annoying. Maybe instead of having text flash, maybe having a black screen flash, is that possible? Or this just common for everyone and deal with it?
I'm pretty sure this is a universal thing...never really bothered me that much.
I think it has to do with the order in which we power up the screen and relay the wake-up button press to Android.
[I think] In a standard Android configuration, the power button starts Android, which then powers up the screen.
However, we have the screen power directly tied to the power on button, in addition to waking up Android. The screen powers up before the android display manager does, causing you to see the command line.
Without re-designing the Vogue part of the kernel, there's no way around it.
This is also (I believe) why the screen is all-white when you first press it. There's no data.
Hello, would it be possible for someone to write or modify _code to allow the four buttons to either stay on longer when activated or even always on when the screen is.
Thanks
Matt
People have been working on that since release to no avail :-(
Hmmm that's really disappointing. Thanks for your fast re
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Np, the best advice I can give you and its what most people have done is just learn where the buttons are in the dark. After a week or so it won't be such a problem I promise
I'm not sure how useful this is, but Sprint told one of the tech blogs (I forget which) in correspendence that on the Epic 4G that the setting that controls the backlighting on the slide out QWERTY will also affect the soft buttons. So maybe once those start making it into our hands we'll find out how it's done and implement it on the other Galaxy S handsets.
i would want them lit for as long as the screen was on, having it on longer wouldnt be good enough.
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i would want them lit for as long as the screen was on, having it on longer wouldnt be good enough.
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Yes. Same here! I can't stand when I use gps at night and I can't see the buttons.
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i would want them lit for as long as the screen was on, having it on longer wouldnt be good enough.
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QFT... It's stupid having them on a different timer than the "backlight".
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QFT... It's stupid having them on a different timer than the "backlight".
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Apparently the Samsung Epic's button lights stay on for the duration that the screen is on. Once the Epic firmware is released I'm sure the devs will find the files.
i usually just touch any where/move finger on the screen and the buttons just light up
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i usually just touch any where/move finger on the screen and the buttons just light up
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That and you memorize where they are at after some time. I 100% understand, it's not a huge deal after awhile but it's still a short sight.
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That and you memorize where they are at after some time. I 100% understand, it's not a huge deal after awhile but it's still a short sight.
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The Samsung guy demoing Media Hub even has trouble hitting one of the soft keys - though it does look like the keys stay lit longer on the Epic.
At about 1:35 he tries a couple times, and then has to tilt the phone to see the button.
http://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-demos-samsungs-galaxy-s-media-hub
Man, I wish this problem was solved. For me, it's the most annoying thing (really the only annoying thing) about this phone. Yeah, by now I've pretty much memorized where the buttons are, but 1 in 5 times I miss-hit one of the bottom buttons because they don't stay lit. If they were lit as long as the screen was lit, I would never miss-hit them.
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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Hey guys
My phones power\wake button is starting to be kinda annoying, it doesn't always click and doesn't work great.
Is there any way to make another button have the same function as it?
I have tried making the G-button do it as it would be perfect for the job, but while it does lock the screen, it does not unlock it when the phone is sleeping, rendering it kind of useless in my taste.
also didn't find an option to make a power-rocker button(volume wakes screen).
I am afraid at some point my button will stop working, so in order to prolong its life I'd love to find a way to replace it when it comes to locking and unlocking the screen.
please help ? :laugh:
CM7 doesn't support wake with G Button, but other ROMs support, like CM10.