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.
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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!
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
DrAzzy said:
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
Last night I was watching a movie with a friend and afterwards she complained that my watch kept turning on and was distracting. Good point. You can make the watch silent with a fairly quick toggle, but you can't disable its display when a bright light would be inappropriate very easily without playing with one or two settings (i.e. not accessible from the quick settings display).
There is already a daylight setting, accessible from the power screen, but it would be nice if it offered several levels:
- Daylight for visibility in bright light
- Normal
- Dark - does not turn on automatically (must use physical button) and dimmest display when activated (Edit: no automatic display on notifications either)
- (and maybe also Dim for evening, dim light, but still has auto-on)
Workaround - long sleeves and/or removing the watch in dark settings. Even with sleeves, if you are in a situation where emitting light would be inappropriate (i.e. stage worker, waiter in a subdued lighting restaurant) it would be nice to be able to temporarily and independently disable the auto-on gesture/feature.
Another workaround - manually adjust the display intensity from the quick settings menu (you can also manually enable daylight mode this way as well), but this doesn't prevent the watch from turning on automatically and it doesn't allow quick switching between 2 or 3 common settings. Disabling the wake gesture involves fumbling with the phone.
While I'm at it - an ambient light sensor for auto-brightness like on most phones would have been nice...
I'm going to say that any back lit device is going to be bright in the dark, no matter how dim the display is. I don't really see any way other than to turn the watch off.
^^I do have to admit though. If it is dark I would rather have my phone fully dim than on auto brightness
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flarbear said:
Last night I was watching a movie with a friend and afterwards she complained that my watch kept turning on and was distracting. Good point. You can make the watch silent, but you can't disable its display when a bright light would be inappropriate.
There is already a daylight setting, accessible from the power screen, but it would be nice if it offered several levels:
- Daylight for visibility in bright light
- Normal
- Dark - does not turn on automatically (must use physical button) and dimmest display when activated
- (and maybe also Dim for evening, dim light, but still has auto-on)
Workaround - long sleeves and/or removing the watch in dark settings. Even with sleeves, if you are in a situation where emitting light would be inappropriate (i.e. stage worker, waiter in a subdued lighting restaurant) it would be nice to be able to temporarily and independently disable the auto-on gesture/feature.
Another workaround - manually adjust the display intensity from the quick settings menu (you can also manually enable daylight mode this way as well), but this doesn't prevent the watch from turning on automatically and it doesn't allow quick switching between 2 or 3 common settings. Disabling the wake gesture involves fumbling with the phone.
While I'm at it - an ambient light sensor for auto-brightness like on most phones would have been nice...
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You can disable the wake up gesture in settings on the watch. Simply create a shortcut if your rooted on your launcher screen, its a easy fix.
Sparky_za said:
I'm going to say that any back lit device is going to be bright in the dark, no matter how dim the display is. I don't really see any way other than to turn the watch off.
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Most back lit watches don't turn the back light on automatically. The few that I've had that had a way to turn the back light on without using a button required a significantly more deliberate gesture than simply changing the angle of your hand. The gear also (normally) turns on when you get a notification which has nothing to do with any user-initiated action (I forgot to list "no display on notification" as a component of the feature in my OP).
The dimmest setting is dim enough for cases where you would need to turn it on, and if you are deliberately turning it on to check the time, then you can choose an angle and cradle it in your hand to avoid disturbing others. The key ingredient is that you are aware of the light in that case as opposed to the watch quietly flashing of its own accord.
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You can disable the wake up gesture in settings on the watch. Simply create a shortcut if your rooted on your launcher screen, its a easy fix.
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I'm not rooted and there is no setting on the watch that can disable this, I would have to fumble with the phone and the gear manager to turn it off (and back on)...
flarbear said:
Most back lit watches don't turn the back light on automatically. The few that I've had that had a way to turn the back light on without using a button required a significantly more deliberate gesture than simply changing the angle of your hand. The gear also (normally) turns on when you get a notification which has nothing to do with any user-initiated action (I forgot to list "no display on notification" as a component of the feature in my OP).
The dimmest setting is dim enough for cases where you would need to turn it on, and if you are deliberately turning it on to check the time, then you can choose an angle and cradle it in your hand to avoid disturbing others. The key ingredient is that you are aware of the light in that case as opposed to the watch quietly flashing of its own accord.
I'm not rooted and there is no setting on the watch that can disable this, I would have to fumble with the phone and the gear manager to turn it off (and back on)...
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Open settings on your gear and go into motion settings.
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Open settings on your gear and go into motion settings.
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That must be new on the upcoming fw that isn't released in the US yet - no Motion category in my Settings. That will be nice to have when it arrives, but I would still think that adding a 3rd state for dark mode to the existing quick setting toggle for the brightness would be a nice addition even if there is a setting for this on the watch.
It is very similar to the fact that "sound, vibrate, silent" modes are all accessible via the same quick toggle on phones - sure you can achieve everything that those sound settings provide through other means, but given the number of times when you want to switch sound modes they typically have a very accessible toggle - as I think they should do with light settings on the Gear...
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Open settings on your gear and go into motion settings.
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Also, that setting does not disable the display coming on when you get a notification. You can modify your notifications as well, but that gets a bit complicated compared to just having one easily accessible toggle that tells the watch that you want more control over when the display turns on in a particular situation...
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Also, that setting does not disable the display coming on when you get a notification. You can modify your notifications as well, but that gets a bit complicated compared to just having one easily accessible toggle that tells the watch that you want more control over when the display turns on in a particular situation...
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I am in the US and can disable wake-up gesture and turn off notifications from Gear Manager. So yesterday before going to the movies myself I knew it would be too bright even at the lowest setting. So while waiting to get popcorn, I switched both off and enjoyed the movie. Two settings in one app very quick. After the movie before getting up I turned them back on.
Edit: Of course if you don't have Gear Manager this might not be possible.
Xirix12 said:
I am in the US and can disable wake-up gesture and turn off notifications from Gear Manager. So yesterday before going to the movies myself I knew it would be too bright even at the lowest setting. So while waiting to get popcorn, I switched both off and enjoyed the movie. Two settings in one app very quick. After the movie before getting up I turned them back on.
Edit: Of course if you don't have Gear Manager this might not be possible.
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I do have Gear Manager.
My point is not "this can't be done" or "this is so hard" as it is - there is already an easy to access convenience setting for dealing with the watch's brightness and it is right next to the watch's easily accessible toggle for various levels of sound abatement. It seems like a natural extension to have those same display-related settings choices from Gear Manager be simultaneously and trivially activated from the same convenience menu that you would use to put the watch in vibrate or silent mode. A one-stop shop for both sound and light abatement (or enhancement as is the case for the current daylight setting).
With respect to "long press on power, tap on [Display] once or twice", these alternate methods are not so convenient...
If there was a way to get screen filter on the gear you could make the screen extremely dark. I use it on my phone in the theater.
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Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to turn of the nofication LED light with blocking mode like the Note 3, at night i have blocking mode so that the phone does not wake me up, but the Led light is going on and off like crazy and i want to disable it, but only at night , i know that there is a setting to disable the led but i use it a lot during the day, i remember that the note 3 had an option in blocking mode to disable the led only at a certain time, does anyone know if there is a way to do this on the note 4?
azteca452 said:
Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to turn of the nofication LED light with blocking mode like the Note 3, at night i have blocking mode so that the phone does not wake me up, but the Led light is going on and off like crazy and i want to disable it, but only at night , i know that there is a setting to disable the led but i use it a lot during the day, i remember that the note 3 had an option in blocking mode to disable the led only at a certain time, does anyone know if there is a way to do this on the note 4?
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Light Flow in the Play store has an option for sleep settings.
I've got an issue with my camera flash LED. Sometimes after being in my pocket for a while, I'll notice heat or see the light shining through my pants, and find the LED is on. Not flashing, just constantly on.
The "flashlight" in the G4's settings is not toggled, and when I try to toggle it, it says that I can't use the flashlight while the LED is in use. I can't find any other running apps that would cause this or even use the LED, so I'm stumped, and my battery gets drained pretty quick!
Also, if anyone knows how to turn KnockOn off, I would love to know how. That could actually solve the LED issue too, if the screen is getting turned on and manipulated by my thigh while the phone is in my pocket.
Thanks!
auglove3rd said:
I've got an issue with my camera flash LED. Sometimes after being in my pocket for a while, I'll notice heat or see the light shining through my pants, and find the LED is on. Not flashing, just constantly on.
The "flashlight" in the G4's settings is not toggled, and when I try to toggle it, it says that I can't use the flashlight while the LED is in use. I can't find any other running apps that would cause this or even use the LED, so I'm stumped, and my battery gets drained pretty quick!
Also, if anyone knows how to turn KnockOn off, I would love to know how. That could actually solve the LED issue too, if the screen is getting turned on and manipulated by my thigh while the phone is in my pocket.
Thanks!
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I personally never experienced the LED turning on by itself. Also - Reading your comment, looks like you set the "knock code" and want to turn it off?
Charkatak said:
I personally never experienced the LED turning on by itself. Also - Reading your comment, looks like you set the "knock code" and want to turn it off?
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No, just the double-tap to wake. I think it's getting randomly activated in my pocket, and I don't use it much, so I'd rather disable it.