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Camera LED as notification

Is there any way (app, reg hack) to make rear LEDs blink on missed call or message? Front green/amber LED is too small and often hard to see. Battery consumption may be a problem, but rear LED doesn't have to blink as often; quick flash (e.g. 100ms) every 30s would be ok.

The developer of TorchButton might be able to help you.
Search the forums on that name and send him a PM.

the idea is wicked
how come no one ever thought of this

That´d be totally cool. And worth a donation.
"Whoa, your mobile´s cam got insane....! -No, I just got a text "

Can see it being a big battery drain if your not around to dismiss it.

+1 for this
Great idea!
Camera light or maybe light of hardware buttons..? Would be cool!
-Juha

Light of hardware buttons would be very cool too..

Yes, hardware buttons light would also be nice. PMed TorchButton dev, hope he can help...

+1 to this idea! and the hardware button for the light although making it one of your quick links is fine

d4v0r said:
Yes, hardware buttons light would also be nice. PMed TorchButton dev, hope he can help...
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I got your PM.
I'm sure this is possible, but it would probably create a battery drain while notifications are busy. This is because the device must be in unattended mode (not in standby, display off). Unattended mode is required as the flashlight and the keypad light don't stay enabled if the device is in standby. Let alone be able to make it blink with an interval.
So, while there is a notification (i.e. missed call or unread text), battery drain would go up like at least 50%.

NetRipper said:
I got your PM.
I'm sure this is possible, but it would probably create a battery drain while notifications are busy. This is because the device must be in unattended mode (not in standby, display off). Unattended mode is required as the flashlight and the keypad light don't stay enabled if the device is in standby. Let alone be able to make it blink with an interval.
So, while there is a notification (i.e. missed call or unread text), battery drain would go up like at least 50%.
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Thank you for research on the topic, and your reply. Too bad it can't work in standby.

[Q] avoid start up vibration

low battery consumption/quick power reducing is a big issue of all htc users. is there any way to avoid the vibration on our ppc startup? if there is, we can have some extra battery life & it would be a great achievement.

Stopping the S4 (i9505) from lowering screen brightness at 5% battery?

I have a 7500mAh extended battery for my S4 (i9505) and even the final 5% of battery lasts for a long time.
However, the default behavior for the i9505 is to dim the screen (to the lowest setting it appears) when the battery reaches 5%.
The volume bar disappears from the notification tray and you can no longer adjust the brightness in Settings.
How can I stop this behavior?

King Mustard said:
I have a 7500mAh extended battery for my S4 (i9505) and even the final 5% of battery lasts for a long time.
However, the default behavior for the i9505 is to dim the screen (to the lowest setting it appears) when the battery reaches 5%.
The volume bar disappears from the notification tray and you can no longer adjust the brightness in Settings.
How can I stop this behavior?
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Did you find a Solution to this problem?
I have a zerolemon battery and i'm facing the same problem
All I can find is your question asked on many sites,
And a lot of ignorant responses.
But no solution (yet)

Disable low screen brightness under 5% battery

Huge annoyance.. Anyonr know how to turn off the feature that lowers phone brightness to unusable levels once under 5%?

Light Flow Battery Drain

Is anyone else noticing high battery consumption with Light Flow? My last charge screen used 12% and Light Flow used 11%. CPU Total for Light Flow - 4h 32m and it used 371 mAh. Compared to 412mAh for the screen.

I have lightflow installed and do not have this problem. Try looking further into the settings?

I have it installed and no issues

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My battery drain isn't THAT bad where Light Flow has almost the same battery drain as the screen but I did notice through the first three days that it always seems to be the second biggest culprit of battery drain next to the screen. I'm using the Lite version. Not sure if others are or not and if that has anything to do with it but I never saw Light Flow near the top of battery drain ever on my Nexus 5.

hmm, light flow isn't showing up in my battery usage and i've receive multiple notifications using light flow

Same here. Using the full version, and noticing hardly any battery drain on it. In fact, it's never shown above 0% yet.

I used it in my S3, device never went to sleep while Light Flow WAS running. I had wake lock issues with Light Flow

I haven't been using it enough yet to see any actual stats, but the persistent notification does seem to constantly make the active display light up which I'm sure will cause an impact

I have the paid version of Light Flow with tons of notifications setup in it... no battery drain issues here. Battery life has actually been incredible.

if you don't install LightFlow, will the Nexus 6P still flash the LED notification light for things like emails, or missed call, or text, etc?

slickromeo said:
if you don't install LightFlow, will the Nexus 6P still flash the LED notification light for things like emails, or missed call, or text, etc?
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Yes it should, but you have to check "pulse notification light" under sound and notifications in the system options.

CrimsonKnight said:
Yes it should, but you have to check "pulse notification light" under sound and notifications in the system options.
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only 1 color i'm assuming?

kchao1213 said:
only 1 color i'm assuming?
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Right, that's what LightFlow gives you, the ability to recognize the type of notification just by blinking LED without waking the phone.