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Replace signal bars with dbm level?

Is there a way to replace the signal bars in the notification bar with a text based signal level showing the received level in dbm like it is in the status screen? Would be a lot more informative for me.
Thanks!

This sounds like a great idea, it doesnt seem like it would be too hard but I am really not sure.

Yes unfortunatly I couldn't find anything about it and do not know how.
I'd love to have the same thing for WiFi as well.

I agree, this would be far more meaningful than "bars."

just bought an incredible s. questions?

hi there. i bought this phone yesterday and it's great. i love it. best phone i've ever owned.
however i have a few niggling questions;
i find the touch buttons to be very difficult to see in sunlight. is there a way to brighten them? or are all the phones like this. my mother has a galaxy s and i feel her touch buttons are brighter.
is the power button meant to be so slim to the phone? i can find it hard to press sometimes.
secondly, how come my LED notification light only stays on for a short time when i receive a text? i would have thought it stayed on until the text was read, but when i get a text and don't notice for half an hour to an hour the LED isn't flashing. if i receive a text (and i'm there to notice it) the LED flashes. again, is this just my phone or everyones?
also, how safe is it to install the swype beta on your phone? and how safe is it downloading pdf's (accidentally, opened a link on a reputable train website) on to my phone over the 3G network?
and finally, not as important, but the standard version of angry birds seems to always lag/crash at startup. i don't know whether it's due to the ads, but i have to hit home before i am able to click 'start', and then the same again when the level loads up before i can move the birds. i've played rio and that seems fine.
OH, and one more thing. if i go from an area with good 3g reception to an area with poor 3g, and then back again, my phone takes a while to catch up, so i have to turn off mobile networks and then back on again to get 3g back. normal?
sorry for all the questions.
thanks. peace.

Hi there martyfly1990,
Congratulations on your purchase and I hope you'll enjoy your phone as much as everyone here!
I won't be able to answer all of your questions but I'll try to help you out the best I can:
i find the touch buttons to be very difficult to see in sunlight. is there a way to brighten them? or are all the phones like this. my mother has a galaxy s and i feel her touch buttons are brighter.
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The Incredible S's capacitive buttons have a unique feature compared to other devices, they get to turn when you put your phone in landscape mode (only in one direction). In order to achieve this, they use a different method of illumination. What you may also notice is a kind of ghost of the buttons secondary positions beneath what is displayed in a round border if looked at at the right angle. However, it also gives the possibility to have nothing at all showing up when the lights are off giving it a cool look (I find ). Compared to other phones I've seen, I'd say that it's normal for the IS to have slightly less bright touch buttons.
is the power button meant to be so slim to the phone? i can find it hard to press sometimes.
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The IS was given what some people call a very industrial look. Aside from the back cover, the phone is very minimal in the sense that nothing extrudes from it. The power as well as the volume rocker buttons are even the same colour as the body. All to give it that slab look. The volume rocker sticks close to the body too, and I'm sure your phone is perfectly fine. You'll get used to it
and how safe is it downloading pdf's (accidentally, opened a link on a reputable train website) on to my phone over the 3G network?
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If you trust the source (and are sure that the file is indeed a pdf, there is no problem at all.
and finally, not as important, but the standard version of angry birds seems to always lag/crash at startup. i don't know whether it's due to the ads, but i have to hit home before i am able to click 'start', and then the same again when the level loads up before i can move the birds. i've played rio and that seems fine.
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I will presume that your phone is still stock? I haven't had that problem with Angry Birds, but did you try uninstalling it and installing it back on? Worth giving a try.
OH, and one more thing. if i go from an area with good 3g reception to an area with poor 3g, and then back again, my phone takes a while to catch up, so i have to turn off mobile networks and then back on again to get 3g back. normal?
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The reaction time not being immediate is normal, but how long do mean by "a while"? 10 seconds or 10minutes? I could only think of a radio problem if it's really bad. Could you share what version of android and what's your baseband version on your phone?

martyfly1990 said:
secondly, how come my LED notification light only stays on for a short time when i receive a text? i would have thought it stayed on until the text was read, but when i get a text and don't notice for half an hour to an hour the LED isn't flashing. if i receive a text (and i'm there to notice it) the LED flashes. again, is this just my phone or everyones?
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I think that other question has been answered so i will skip it.
LED notification i will only last for 5 minutes, so far i haven found out any ways to stretch up the time until we read the message or any other notification.
I think they set it to only 5 minutes properly of the battery drain?
Hope its help.

[Q] Samsung Focus S Charging Indicator Light?

Hello,
Just made the switch to AT&T today after 10 years with Sprint due to slow internet and the MAJOR lack of Window Phones. I was on their only HTC Arrive and now went to Samsungs Focus S.
Issue i'm seeing right away, which might not even be an issue or an option is I have no LED red/blue or green charging indicator light? The only charging indicator is the battery in the OS itself ofcourse. Anyone else have a light? Or is this just the way Sammy chose to do things.
Thanks

purian23 said:
Hello,
Just made the switch to AT&T today after 10 years with Sprint due to slow internet and the MAJOR lack of Window Phones. I was on their only HTC Arrive and now went to Samsungs Focus S.
Issue i'm seeing right away, which might not even be an issue or an option is I have no LED red/blue or green charging indicator light? The only charging indicator is the battery in the OS itself ofcourse. Anyone else have a light? Or is this just the way Sammy chose to do things.
Thanks
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I don't think any of the versions of the Focus S have a charging light. I know mine doesn't -- but it's AT&T as well.

drtolson said:
I don't think any of the versions of the Focus S have a charging light. I know mine doesn't -- but it's AT&T as well.
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I was guessing that was going to be my answer., but thank you very much for your reply.!

Baffling...
purian23 said:
Anyone else have a light? Or is this just the way Sammy chose to do things.
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There's no external LED at all. This also means no notification of missed calls or messages. The Focus had no LED. This is just dumb. You'll learn to live with it, though - just keep checking your phone every 10 minutes or so...
Definitely my biggest gripe about this otherwise excellent model.

That's it. Couldn't take it any more. Its going back.

Why does Samsung have to change something thats beautiful from pure Android
Status bar: Whats with the stupid up/down arrows under the WiFi icon and the broadcast lines on the data icon. Does anyone care? It makes the icons look smaller and the status bar look really weird. Are the UI folks all blind? Why does the font on the status bar huge? If I enable battery percentage, thats half the width of the bar. On second thought, maybe they are blind. My N5 status bar looks absolutely beautiful.
Tweaks are nice...but: Its nice they provide some tweaks. I like the fact the phone call notification has mute ,vol, and end buttons. Nice touch but can't Samsung keep the material design in tact and add these features?
And for ****s sake, its Back, Home, and Task Viewer. Not the other way around. Sheesh.
Occasional heating of the phone (almost never happens with Nexus 5).
Horrendous battery. I think the battery life is same as my 1.5 year-old Nexus 5.
Great screen and awesome camera.
I wish they offer this phone in two flavors. Pure Android and Samsung Crap.
Sorry, had to vent.

I like the way the wifi icon is set up. And since I'm a right, the back on left is nice for me. Heating is much of a problem i noticed and battery lasts well for me. Have you cleared the cache partition?

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I like the way the wifi icon is set up. And since I'm a right, the back on left is nice for me. Heating is much of a problem i noticed and battery lasts well for me. Have you cleared the cache partition?
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Yes, that was one of the first things I did. Also, brightness is usually set between and 5 and 10%. The screen is very bright. So you actually find the up/down data arrows under the WiFi icon useful? How? All I always ever cared was whether I had a WiFi connection or how strong the signal was. Both were well represented in the Lollipop/Marshmallow implementations (filled in white with no discreet bars).

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Yes, that was one of the first things I did. Also, brightness is usually set between and 5 and 10%. The screen is very bright. So you actually find the up/down data arrows under the WiFi icon useful? How? All I always ever cared was whether I had a WiFi connection or how strong the signal was. Both were well represented in the Lollipop/Marshmallow implementations (filled in white with no discreet bars).
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Yeah I've found it useful sometimes. When apps or webpages get stuck or slow, the indicater is useful to me in telling my phone's network usage.

I use the data symbols as well. Especially when uploading files to Google drive etc... Sometimes the uploads stop and the indicators help determine if it's the case. Hope they leave them there.

I love the arrows, as well. When I don't see them, I know it's time to kick my kids' tablets of the network...
I am very concerned with the heating issue. Something is drawing on my battery hardcore, which obviously increases heat. I have to power off, then back on to stop it. A standard reboot doesn't solve it.

Then get a nexus

Question Edge Lighting Not Working?

My faithful Samsung S5 Mini finally died and still getting head around quite a lot of things as I've only had the phone for a few days but for the life of me I cant seem to get the edge lighting to work...
The phone was on Color OS 11 but auto updated to 12 (CPH2173_11_C.46), unfortunately I never got the chance to test it on Color OS 11 so don't know if it ever has / did work.
If I go Settings > Personalisations > Edge Lighting there is the option to pick one of three colours, this shows an animation of a simulated effect but doesn't demo it on the actual screen.
Found a few guides online but they seem to be for Color OS 11, the menus are different and many options don't exist any more - I have reset the phone phone as recomented when upgrading to a new Android version but this has made no difference.
Pretty sure It's something simple I've missed like some obscure notification setting but compared to the S5 Mini its a whole new level of complex lol
Rather randomly the AoD works fine, just not the edge lighting.
Thanks in advance

Do you have "wake screen when a notification is received" on? This might disable edge lighting.
The edge lighting is poor anyway, it only flashes twice so blink and you'll miss it.
Plus they massively reduced the options in 12 so it's pretty hard to see. Big backwards step IMO.

Thanks for the reply. Checked the settings and got the mrs to send an SMS whilst i hand the phone in front of me, as you said it flashed twice and that was it - looks like a typical case of operator error as I was expecting it to work in a similar way to a good old fashioned notification LED and flash until the notification had been cleared
Will have a look around for a half decent app that offers something close enough to how I was thinking it worked.

MrGluggy said:
Thanks for the reply. Checked the settings and got the mrs to send an SMS whilst i hand the phone in front of me, as you said it flashed twice and that was it - looks like a typical case of operator error as I was expecting it to work in a similar way to a good old fashioned notification LED and flash until the notification had been cleared
Will have a look around for a half decent app that offers something close enough to how I was thinking it worked.
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Oh no they don't work like that, in my Samsung S10, the edge lighting worked in similar fashion as the Oppo. I would imagine it would take too much energy if it were flashing until you cleared it (say if you get a message while you are sleeping). Maybe AOD is the better alternatives as you can glance your screen and see any incoming messages or missed calls, and even that, they figured it would drain battery too as now they have a setting to turn off AOD after prolonged period of idle.
I wish LED notification make a come back, but I'm not holding my breath for it.

I cant even get the Oppo to edge light. I have an app Always On Edge (or AOE) from playstore. This is worth the effort.
Fully cutomisable. Try it out.

MrGluggy said:
My faithful Samsung S5 Mini finally died and still getting head around quite a lot of things as I've only had the phone for a few days but for the life of me I cant seem to get the edge lighting to work...
The phone was on Color OS 11 but auto updated to 12 (CPH2173_11_C.46), unfortunately I never got the chance to test it on Color OS 11 so don't know if it ever has / did work.
If I go Settings > Personalisations > Edge Lighting there is the option to pick one of three colours, this shows an animation of a simulated effect but doesn't demo it on the actual screen.
Found a few guides online but they seem to be for Color OS 11, the menus are different and many options don't exist any more - I have reset the phone phone as recomented when upgrading to a new Android version but this has made no difference.
Pretty sure It's something simple I've missed like some obscure notification setting but compared to the S5 Mini its a whole new level of complex lol
Rather randomly the AoD works fine, just not the edge lighting.
Thanks in advance
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You didn't miss anything. I've been on Oppo for years, Edge Lighting always worked until Android 12. Now it straight up doesn't do anything and it's very frustrating.

TobiTella said:
You didn't miss anything. I've been on Oppo for years, Edge Lighting always worked until Android 12. Now it straight up doesn't do anything and it's very frustrating.
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I'm facing the same issue after Android 12 update on my Oppo Reno6. I have already tried out all methods, but nothing worked. it's frustrating me.