I tried NoLED from the app market but I can't get it to work on the Fascinate. Does anyone have any ideas or know of any apps to get either recurring visual or audio notifications?
lbmorgan said:
I tried NoLED from the app market but I can't get it to work on the Fascinate. Does anyone have any ideas or know of any apps to get either recurring visual or audio notifications?
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bln are built into all of our kernels these days
I've used NoLed since I purchased my phone in Sept with no problem. In fact, the wife and I both use it. Uninstall and reinstall and see if that works. Also, you should add the NoLed widget to your home screen and then tap it, colored dots should appear inside the box. At that point it's activated. If you reboot your phone I believe it does it for you.
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HAHA .. I am such a twit .. I didn't have the app activated .. sigh
lbmorgan said:
HAHA .. I am such a twit .. I didn't have the app activated .. sigh
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lol happens to all of us noobs though I'm not admitting anything lol
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NoLED was a great option prior to the popularity of "BackLight Notification" or BLN.
If you have a compatible kernel, I think it's a better way to go. It doesn't differentiate between different "kinds" of messages like NoLED does, but it's cleaner, and doesn't use the LED screen at all, potentially saving battery and protecting your screen from potential burnin/out.
exnihilo said:
NoLED was a great option prior to the popularity of "BackLight Notification" or BLN.
If you have a compatible kernel, I think it's a better way to go. It doesn't differentiate between different "kinds" of messages like NoLED does, but it's cleaner, and doesn't use the LED screen at all, potentially saving battery and protecting your screen from potential burnin/out.
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Oh wow, never realized what that app was. Just downloaded it thanks. How long do the buttons stay lit? And why aren't they blinking? lol
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There is an app I use that was originally developed for the captivate called blinky. Its in the marketplace now.
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Grimis said:
Oh wow, never realized what that app was. Just downloaded it thanks. How long do the buttons stay lit? And why aren't they blinking? lol
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I never could get that app to work right on the Fasc. It used to be the bees knees, till people started realizing that the lights never turn off until the message has been cleared. In other words, the 10 sec, 15, 30 second versions all stay on till the notification is cleared, despite supposedly having a timer. Newer versions of the BLN app have come and gone, yet I have heard nothing positive about them in the Fasc forum.
mindtrip1016 said:
I never could get that app to work right on the Fasc. It used to be the bees knees, till people started realizing that the lights never turn off until the message has been cleared. In other words, the 10 sec, 15, 30 second versions all stay on till the notification is cleared, despite supposedly having a timer. Newer versions of the BLN app have come and gone, yet I have heard nothing positive about them in the Fasc forum.
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BLN does not have a timer unless it is set on blink mode, and there are no working kernels with BLN 2.3, which is required for blinking for the Fascinate. The "timer" you are likely referring to is probably for the timeout for the buttons when the screen is on. Since DJ05/DL09, the buttons stay lit as long as the screen is on.
To control the blinking rate, use "blinky" from market
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Blinky 2.3 (download zip from thread, flash in Clockwork) works on the Fascinate. Blinky 2.4 (Market version, no flashing) works to turn BLN on/off, but doesn't actualy blink stuff.
Try sms popup, works like the handcent pop up, but works for the stock messaging app which is what i use
so fresh and so superclean.
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BLN does not have a timer unless it is set on blink mode, and there are no working kernels with BLN 2.3, which is required for blinking for the Fascinate. The "timer" you are likely referring to is probably for the timeout for the buttons when the screen is on. Since DJ05/DL09, the buttons stay lit as long as the screen is on.
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Really? Do you recall the release of BLN? Now it appears the developer has added internal settings. However, the releases in October-November could be downloaded via XDA and came in .zip format with an option in increments of 5-10 seconds up to 30 seconds. Despite the option, the light never turned off until the notification was cleared, even with a supportive kernel, resulting in rapid battery drain in my case. This was a turn off for me and I have not reviewed the product since. Now it appears that the lights blink instead of constantly glowing. I will have to check out the newer version.
didn't know of these apps til i read this thread. thanx everyone.
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Anyone come across any fixes for the fact that (a) there is no LED indicator telling you that you have a message; and (b) there is no pointer/curser/trackball?
I tried NOLED app from the market, but thought it was useless.
NOLED is probably the only "fix" you are going to find for notifications. Android is a touch screen OS, why on earth would you need a pointer?
The trackball on the N1, for instance, is super helpful when typing.
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The trackball on the N1, for instance, is super helpful when typing.
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So you didn't notice your phone didn't have a pointing device when you bought it?
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So you didn't notice your phone didn't have a pointing device when you bought it?
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Haha maybe he thought it it had some weird gesture area like the crappy Pre or something.
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ON topic, mate a lot of keyboard apps for android include a d-pad option which will let you accurately simulate a cursor/trackball.
No LED notifications is a bummer. Strange how people with iphones are not annoyed by that! Something like sms popup can be set to periodically vibrate to remind you etc. No real solution there Im afraid!
There was some dev work on getting the backlight touch buttons to blink but work seems to have hit a dead end.
Ozy: thanks for the helpful reply!!
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Ozy: thanks for the helpful reply!!
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No worries. For now, look for updates to these two links (I appreciate youve already tried NOLED but it can only get better )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692 - NOLED
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706426 - Use button backlight
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No worries. For now, look for updates to these two links (I appreciate youve already tried NOLED but it can only get better )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692 - NOLED
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706426 - Use button backlight
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Thanks! It's weird. I can't get NOLED to work on the Captivate. In any event, the backlight option is brilliant!
ozy944 said:
No LED notifications is a bummer. Strange how people with iphones are not annoyed by that!
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Meh. I was always irritated by the notification LED on my MT3G. I love that my Vibrant doesn't have any blinkenlites.
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Anyone come across any fixes for the fact that (a) there is no LED indicator telling you that you have a message; and (b) there is no pointer/curser/trackball?
I tried NOLED app from the market, but thought it was useless.
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There is a dpad on the Samsung and swype keyboards. Hole the 123 key on S. And drag between the two bottom left keys in swype.
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No worries. For now, look for updates to these two links (I appreciate youve already tried NOLED but it can only get better )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692 - NOLED
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706426 - Use button backlight
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This second link is exactly what ive been looking,
I think the LEDs at the bottom would make perfect notification lights,
Is there any more news on this?
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Heh, its the ideal solution, except theres not really a solution at the moment. Drivers have now been made public (or so Im led to believe). so Im hoping to see it come along side Cyanogen Mod.
Theres an online petiotion that can be signed regarding some dev work for this. At the moment, theres like 350+ signatories....now if everyone chipped in $5 ......
for the D-pad just slide from the "S" sybmbol in the lowwer left of the keyboard to the "sym" key directly next to it (using swype, not the samsung keyboard). a directional pad pops up and it has backspace, backspace by full word, delete, cut, copy, paste, select all, page up, page down, home and end, and a "tab" key, though i don't know if it works like tab of if it is just a large space for starting paragraphs.
samsungs keyboard also has something similar if you hold the key to the numbers/symbols for three seconds.
micro2112 said:
There is a dpad on the Samsung and swype keyboards. Hole the 123 key on S. And drag between the two bottom left keys in swype.
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Wow. Thanks! Dolphin HD, LiveJournal, and text entry don't get along so well for some reason; it never puts the cursor where I tap when I want to go back and edit text. So I'm extremely happy to hear there are arrows on the Swype keyboard! The trackpad and GPS were the only two things I was still missing from my Aria, and you just remedied the former.
Though now I feel silly for not figuring it out myself!
Too be honest I only knew about it from a review I read but they didn't explain how to do it, after a few days of messing with it I found it in the swype tutorials
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Does anyone know how to make the lower buttons, back, menu, search, and home buttons not light up when I receive a message our missed call while using the NoLED app?
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I don't believe there is that option within the NoLED app. The BLN has to be built into the Kernel I believe.... I'm sure there will soon enough be a supporting Kernel for this as there is much support for the Galaxy series phones and this sort of thing. As I am not a dev I have no idea how easy/hard it would be but I cant wait
The op was trying to turn the lights off not on. As far as I know it just needs to be updated for gingerbread/ns so that the bottom lights don't turn on. You can follow the original app thread here. It looks like the dev won't be working on it til after the holidays.
Why not to use the flash led as in the desire?
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Why not to use the flash led as in the desire?
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As in the camera flash? Well if your phone is laying on it, that probably doesn't work too well
Plus that LED is bright. Not sure what it's power requirements are compared to using NoLED.
Could someone just blink the menu buttons as a notifier?
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rodneygoff said:
Could someone just blink the menu buttons as a notifier?
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That's what Back Light Notification (BLN) is and it needs a supporting kernel to be ported over.
Didn't want to start a whole new thread just to ask a question, but for whatever reason, NoLED doesn't work for me. I'm on Android 2.3.1 running stock (not LP or AWD). I've read the FAQ and I believe I have everything set up correctly. I call myself and miss it and I've emailed myself (different accounts) to test it, but I don't get anything on my black screen.
SOS?
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Didn't want to start a whole new thread just to ask a question, but for whatever reason, NoLED doesn't work for me. I'm on Android 2.3.1 running stock (not LP or AWD). I've read the FAQ and I believe I have everything set up correctly. I call myself and miss it and I've emailed myself (different accounts) to test it, but I don't get anything on my black screen.
SOS?
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did you use the widget to turn it on or restart the phone? personally i don't like it, i had my phone fully charged and had about 4 notifications bouncing around, not sure if thats a lot but it drained my battery to 16% in about 3 hours.
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Didn't want to start a whole new thread just to ask a question, but for whatever reason, NoLED doesn't work for me. I'm on Android 2.3.1 running stock (not LP or AWD). I've read the FAQ and I believe I have everything set up correctly. I call myself and miss it and I've emailed myself (different accounts) to test it, but I don't get anything on my black screen.
SOS?
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Did you go into NoLed settings and under "Toggle Settings" checked off the notifications you want?
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did you use the widget to turn it on or restart the phone? personally i don't like it, i had my phone fully charged and had about 4 notifications bouncing around, not sure if thats a lot but it drained my battery to 16% in about 3 hours.
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Yeah my battery also feels like it's draining quickly put I never thought our was because if this, since they say it's good for these types of screens, but note I'm thinking it may be this app. What other alternatives exist to get some sort if notifications for the nexus s?
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Yeah my battery also feels like it's draining quickly put I never thought our was because if this, since they say it's good for these types of screens, but note I'm thinking it may be this app. What other alternatives exist to get some sort if notifications for the nexus s?
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I honestly doubt its the app. Blacks on SAMOLED consume nearly 0 power.
Check your apps power consumption under Menu > Settings > About Phone > Battery Use.
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unremarked said:
I honestly doubt its the app. Blacks on SAMOLED consume nearly 0 power.
Check your apps power consumption under Menu > Settings > About Phone > Battery Use.
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My phone says 53% display. It can't ber because I haven't even used my phone the whole day, yet I know I had some notifications with noled.
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Display will always be the highest under almost every circumstance, regardless if you had the app or not.
If anything is higher than display, I'd be super concerned.
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I use noled on my Nexus S and it works fine for all notifications except twitter for some reason,no noticeable drain on battery with this app!
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did you use the widget to turn it on or restart the phone?
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Did you go into NoLed settings and under "Toggle Settings" checked off the notifications you want?
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Yes to both. I have the widget set to "on," restarted my phone, and before, made sure all the settings were correct.
Still, nothing shows up after sending myself emails and giving myself calls (didnt' pick up, of course).
Doesn't seem to work; I'm running 2.3.1 with stock launcher.
Just read the FAQ. It's the "No Lock" app that's preventing NoLED from functioning. That's a shame because sometimes when I'm at home, I dislike having to swipe or enter my pattern key to unlock the phone.
NoLED works fine now. Thanks y'all.
NoLED keeps force-closing on me! So annoying. Anything else similar that works entirely on NS?
redhatyellow said:
NoLED keeps force-closing on me! So annoying. Anything else similar that works entirely on NS?
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It's forced closed on me a few times as well.
I'm finding I don't really need NoLED. I prefer having No Lock capabilities. Oh well.
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It's forced closed on me a few times as well.
I'm finding I don't really need NoLED. I prefer having No Lock capabilities. Oh well.
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No lock capabilities?
Edit : ignore that, just read up the page!
Anyone else having trouble with their trackball light not working on non-google apps?
non google apps? as in some 3rd party chat client or something?
if so then it depends on the app if it features the trackball light..
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i'm not getting the notification sound for emails, either?
edit: relating to the thread topic, trackball light for sms popup isn't going off like it was with froyo. unrooted stock here.
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Well it would be like for chompSMS or SMS Popup, it just wouldn't work.
Same with me, i think Google disabled the trackball light in 2.3.
More likely that the app devs just need to update their apps to work better with GB.
Mine seems to have stopped working altogether.
ya.. now mine is gone too..
edit: I just reinstalled sms popup.. and now everything works just like it was..
idk what's happening.!
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More likely that the app devs just need to update their apps to work better with GB.
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I agree, I think the developers of certains apps just haven't updated to gingerbread yet, including Blink.
I've also noticed the flashlight widgets/apps don't work now either
Edit: oh, I'm also stock. Will this finally be the thing that forces me to root? Nah, I'm too big of a wuss (and lazy
Found a solution. Look for "Light Flow" in the Market, works like a charm.
I d/l the free app and it covers a lot, the paid app ($1 ish) allows even more (social apps, etc.).
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I agree, I think the developers of certains apps just haven't updated to gingerbread yet, including Blink.
I've also noticed the flashlight widgets/apps don't work now either
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The "Torch" flashlight widget works fine for me.
Been using Light Flow app for a week for trackball alerts with no issues, but you want the latest market version for GB.
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Mine seems to have stopped working altogether.
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Same.
The LED would blink on boot so I knew it wasn't the LED.
I restored and now my notifications blink repeatedly only if the screen is off. Once I turn my screen on (doesn't matter is I unlock the phone or not, dismiss the notification or not- literally just turn the screen on) the notification LED stops blinking. If my phone screen was on when I get the notification, the LED doesn't blink at all...
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Hi Everyone!
I'm wondering whether there's an alternative to noLED? Unfortunately I don't have an AMOLED Screen so the battery will drain way too fast and it doesn't look particularly good. Still, I like how noLED supports basically all applications.
I would like to have timed reminder for certain chat apps (Kakao Talk) and maybe the EMail Client K-9. This should be a vibration or sound-altert.
I have been looking around but I can't really find an application that does exactly that. It seems like noLED could do it as well but it will also use the Screen?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
I hope for your input.
Thanks!
Well if you use a kernel that supports bln, youu get the lights for the back home tc buttons to light up or flash, saving battery. Try netarchy kernel for example.
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Ahh, thank you!
I've been crazy after going from my HTC Desire with LED notification to the Nexus S with no LED notfication. Have been using NOled, but don't like it.
Is there any ROM that support that "lights for the back home tc buttons to light up or flash" ?
As stone mentioned, you would just have to check if your kernel, or the kernel packaged in whichever rom supports BLN. For nexus s 4G, netarchy's is the only one I know of.
Get Tasker. If you have basic programming experiance, or can at least figure out stuff, you can make all kinds of stuff with it.
I made something that repeats the notification sound every 10 seconds until the screen is woken. You can make it for specific notifications. I have one for google voice, and gmail.
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Get Tasker. If you have basic programming experiance, or can at least figure out stuff, you can make all kinds of stuff with it.
I made something that repeats the notification sound every 10 seconds until the screen is woken. You can make it for specific notifications. I have one for google voice, and gmail.
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Are u on regular nexus s or the 4G? I have a tasker profile set up for GV, but doesn't work that well. Mind sharing your profile?
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Cyanogenmod 7, the 4 capacitive buttons light up
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decalex said:
As stone mentioned, you would just have to check if your kernel, or the kernel packaged in whichever rom supports BLN. For nexus s 4G, netarchy's is the only one I know of.
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So once I have flashed netarchy's kernel, how do I enable the home button notifications on the stock rom? Or should it just work?
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So once I have flashed netarchy's kernel, how do I enable the home button notifications on the stock rom? Or should it just work?
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Use this https://market.android.com/details?id=neldar.bln.control.free&feature=search_result
Is there a way to have the screen turn on when I get a notification? More specifically an email. I did notice in the Roms section there are tweaks to have SMS screen on.
There are apps in the play store that will allow this but they all require the accessibility settings to be turned on which affects how the lock screen works so looking for a way to do this without using an app.
Thanks
fibrousman said:
Is there a way to have the screen turn on when I get a notification? More specifically an email. I did notice in the Roms section there are tweaks to have SMS screen on.
There are apps in the play store that will allow this but they all require the accessibility settings to be turned on which affects how the lock screen works so looking for a way to do this without using an app.
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You'll either need a different rom or an app, it might be added by an HTC update at some point but I haven't read anything about it. I think HTC thought the notification light was good enough...
I use sms popup for texts. There is an app called notify me in the play store, that if you purchase the pro version you can set up different apps to have the screen turn on. The free version only allows sms.
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born_fisherman said:
I use sms popup for texts. There is an app called notify me in the play store, that if you purchase the pro version you can set up different apps to have the screen turn on. The free version only allows sms.
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Thanks, Ive tried that one but as I mentioned earlier it has to be enabled in Accessibility Settings which makes the locksceen not work correctly.
BableMan said:
You'll either need a different rom or an app, it might be added by an HTC update at some point but I haven't read anything about it. I think HTC thought the notification light was good enough...
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Hopefully it has been noticed by HTC and it will get updated. The light whilst good is sometimes hard to see.
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fibrousman said:
Hopefully it has been noticed by HTC and it will get updated. The light whilst good is sometimes hard to see.
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Trickdroid is pretty sweet and stable plus they have wake on sms and you'll get the update that hasn't come to a lot of stateside folks yet. That was a weird feature not to get though, I came from IOS and thought all phones integrated it these days
BableMan said:
Trickdroid is pretty sweet and stable plus they have wake on sms and you'll get the update that hasn't come to a lot of stateside folks yet. That was a weird feature not to get though, I came from IOS and thought all phones integrated it these days
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Yes I've put Trickdroid on it and allows a lot of customization which is great. I too came from iOS as that was just getting a bit dull and samey!! However I do miss how good it was at the notifications...
I do like this HTC One phone though...:good:
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