Just a thought guys, if this isnt already out there which i cant seem to find.
Could anyone make a app that turns the flash light to on so it can
be used as a light?
Seen it done on other phones would just be a nice feature.
We need root for this.
Wait for root to go public, then this will probably follow (I doubt you need write access to /system for it).
Just a thought guys, if this isnt already out there which i cant seem to find.
Could anyone make a app that turns the flash light to on so it can
be used as a light?
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Personally I doubt it will be feasible. Too many symbian phones we messed around with for years trying to make it happen, unsuccessfully (in some way or another). Would've been excellent if it was accomplished though. Even just a method to blink the flash on a press would be excellent.
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With root it's possible for the Nexus so why not for the Desire. But we still have to wait for the Root acces. Damn waiting takes so long!
This function is built into the Quick Settings app you can get for free in the market isn't it?
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This function is built into the Quick Settings app you can get for free in the market isn't it?
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Its currently not supported. Just tried it.
Yeah, that option just enables a bright white screen for now.
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well it seems to be possible without root access, while I can active the flashlight led with a
echo 125 > /sys/devices/platform/flashlight.0/leds/flashlight/brightness
If I have time, I will make a little widget that will do it
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well it seems to be possible without root access, while I can active the flashlight led with a
echo 125 > /sys/devices/platform/flashlight.0/leds/flashlight/brightness
If I have time, I will make a little widget that will do it
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That would be awesome if it's possible, it's pretty much the only feature that I think is missing from the Desire as far as I'm concerned.
Ok I made some tests, it will not be a problem to develop a simple application (would be better than a widget ?) with a variable light power
Great news!
I think, that an application would be enough, since it isn't an often used feature (But VERY usefull when needed )
Looking forward to this!
File in attachment, this is just a "trash code" program, just for you to let me know if this is what you where looking for!
Feedback are welcome
Thanks for the work guys much appreciated.
App works fine
Don't want to sound picky and that, but basically what i was after was the flashlight to use as a light, so just a on / off would be fine! if could make the on as bright as the flash ?
Just wondering, im guessing a lot of this is done in shell script and c?
Just learning C at the moment , doing a forensic computer degree at uni.
Yay! It works On isnt as bright. Would prefer an on/off toggle only. Either a full screen button or starting the actual app will toggle it.
NICE !!! work fine. but ON is not as bright as Flash is ... do something with it, please...
really good, thank you for your work
Yeah cool, it is working great.
The light isn't that bright but it is a good start.
You just need to make it look nicer, add a widget and it is ready for the Market.
Also, I think there is a conflict with the Camera, I tried to take a clip with the light ON but it switched OFF as soon as I opened the camera app.
Possibly the most useful app out there... if only on was full power!!
Nice one though!!
Thx man.. App to use everyday/night ;P.. Do you think it can be little stronger without not burn the led?
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Hi HTC Desire users.
I develop a little and basic application that allows you to use your HTC Desire as a flashlight, using your LED Camera. This application is call "FlashApp" and is available on the Android Market (http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-damunix-android-flashapp-CDiD.aspx)
There is 2 mode :
- "flash": for a short time, but full power light.
- "on" : for a longer timer, but less power light.
It only works on the HTC Desire for the moment. I made some tests on the Nexus One, and My application will note work without rooting it.
If you have any questions, suggestions, idea, post it on this thread.
Note : this is the official thread of the app, the old one was : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667474
hey, thanks for the app! great use for it! It made it to the center of homescreens.
Can you make a on/off flash mode? So that it will last while on and will stop on closing/or pressing of?
Thanks
Great work, thanks. can you create a nice icon for it?
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Great work, thanks. can you create a nice icon for it?
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A new icon will be put in the next update
@ Damunix
Great app - I was following the other thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6374683#post6374683 and did a write up which should be on the front page later today... fyi it links to the original thread.
Thanks , but please add icon .
Great job Damunix!
At least someone gets it. Saves people having to read every thread which asked for such an app unsuccessfully as well as some rather vapid, churlish and irascible troll posts.
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Good work fella. Thanks
Great work mate, I'm glad you got it up as an official app. I don't actually have a Desire yet but it should be arriving on Wednesday and this was the only missing feature that I felt a bit let down about. Now it's there and I can't wait to receive my Desire and download it. Thanks for your work.
Very useful app for getting my gas & electric meter readings! TYVM
Awesome! thanks
I cooked your app posted in the previous thread into my rom and changed the icon. Maybe you like it, looks good on a Amoled screen, its attached
Did you change something with your app when you started this thread?
Regards!
Excellent app! It's only a little thing, but makes life so much easier when trying to find the right key!
Just a little update,
new : Application icon, thanks to Pr0sper
this is because a lot of people ask for an icon as soon as possible
wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! works on my Desire ( Orange UK ) fab!!.. Infact I'm still seeing the light every time I close my eyes!!!!!!!!!.... Note: don't look direct at the light .. well done!"
I don't understand why, but in the last version it seems that there is a sign problem of the application.
Sorry about it, you need to uninstall and re-install it
works great! thnx!
I installed on my T Mob Desire - app works almost.
Light stays on - flash only flashes briefly. Can't get full brightness permanently on.
Is this the idea?
Yup, you can only have the full brightness (flash) on for a short time. There are some worries that leaving it on full brightness permanently could damage the LED.
I think the normal, lower brightness setting to be adequate in most situations.
@subharmonic
This thread might also help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667474
Any devs out there wanna give this a go?
I would love to be able to rotate my phone in any direction and have the screen flip like on my omnia... I know sense doesn't flip to landscape, thats not a prob, what I really want is to be able to flip the phone upside down and still use it as the correct rotation.
Reason I want to be able to do this is so I can use my phone in the cup holder of my car again, and to do this it must be upside down because of the charger placement... (same as on my Omnia)
Seems a pretty simple request, would be nice if it could auto run and run in the background without using up to much resources to.
If anyone is able to do this, would be awesome.
Thanks
Seconded ... but
I too would like to be able to rotate at least the other way; when showing off the Incredible, people rotate to landscape the other way and nothing happens, so they figure it doesn't rotate. I have to say "no turn it the other way" but it would be great to just not have to think about it.
BUT ... regarding the OP ... I simply took a dremel to the dash mount I bought (the beanbag, since California law doesn't allow sticking to the window in the middle). Carved out enough for a charger, and am done with it
I'd also like to see this. Anyone know the reasoning behind only allowing landscape mode by rotating to the left, and not the right? Even my old BB storm could handle rotation in both directions.
Agreed. This would be useful.
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I'd also like to see this. Anyone know the reasoning behind only allowing landscape mode by rotating to the left, and not the right? Even my old BB storm could handle rotation in both directions.
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I would think it's because the majority of the world is right-handed and by rotating to the left, the optical track button is on the right side. I could complain because I'm left-handed, but hey at least my phone still has a signal when I hold it in my left hand, unlike other phones out there
This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.
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This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.
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I've been running this cyanogen ROM since it came out and this is the 2nd thing you have pointed out to me in the settings that i didn't know about. I need to look through all the settings much more thoroughly.
br125 said:
This is an option in the cyanogen rom available in the rom manager. If you can look past the few bugs in the rom you can enjoy the 360 degree rotation you are looking for.
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My phone aint even rooted yet, for some reason I've tried everything and won't allow me to get into adb recovery... anyways, if it's in another rom, it must be possible, if someone could make this an app!! it would be awesome.
Then we wouldn't have limits as to which rom we would have to use.
...just a thought...
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I've been running this cyanogen ROM since it came out and this is the 2nd thing you have pointed out to me in the settings that i didn't know about. I need to look through all the settings much more thoroughly.
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Yeah you should hes got a lot of good stuff.
So will this be possible as an App?
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Thanks Mikey for re-opening this thread , you can delete the Why thread now if you like...
So anyone know if any of this is possible?
Im pretty sure we all agree that the EVO has sub-par notifications. It doesn't have alternative colors for the LED and when plugged in you get absolutely no notification, unless you use that app that I forgot the name of...
But anyways I was wondering if it would be possible to use the capacitive buttons as a Notification source.
Maybe we could have the home button blink for sms
the menu for calls, return for emails, etc. I don't know much about software development and all that crud, but I was just reading this idea on another phones forum and I figured it would be something extremely worthwhile for evo users, and in all honesty, its a pretty dam brilliant idea if we could just get it to work.
don't bash me if its not even possible. I was just simply trying to help my fellow EVO users by sharing a creative thought.
in the theme and app section there is apk that does this already well it flashes all of them for notifications
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in the theme and app section there is apk that does this already well it flashes all of them for notifications
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i tried looking for it and i dont see one. there is however a thread requesting a port of the moment for one...maybe im blind??? i could very well be...
i also just went through 6 pages..
anyone got the name/link?
thanks..
i coulda pulled the whole... WFFF deal.. but..
i want this too? hah
Thanks people
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jr - awesome thanks. in my defense, i didnt do a search.. i just felt id take a stroll through that section and didnt find it, cheers
found it in 2 seconds
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=697430&highlight=notification+light
look at post number 8 for the apk
That app was for the Samsung Moment, it doesnt work on the EVO.....
You know this idea isn't half bad and it may be possible through a combination of the kernel and an application. For reference there is a hack someone made for the G1 that allows you to use the leds under the buttons for notification of the sd card. Here's the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=685947
That said, maybe we could use this idea to help us with this hack.
i would be more than happy to donate if someone could get this working. missing this feature from my pre
danon.brown said:
i would be more than happy to donate if someone could get this working. missing this feature from my pre
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Would be awesome.
How are blinking buttons better than a blinking LED?
I think more convenient than flashing the capacitive buttons (which would probably use more battery too) is just flashing the LED for more than 5 minutes (indefinitely), and also flashing the LED even during charging, as I mentioned in this thread forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712803.
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I think more convenient than flashing the capacitive buttons (which would probably use more battery too) is just flashing the LED for more than 5 minutes (indefinitely), and also flashing the LED even during charging, as I mentioned in this thread forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712803.
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the buttons wouldn't have to flash continuously. It could be just for a few seconds and we can set up reminders like every 5 or 10 mins, that way hardly any battery life is consumed..
Since the LED is not on every android phone, i guess the adroid sdk doesn't have anything to support it. however, there are some apps on the market that support it, and i want to know how hard would it be to code something...
i currently use a blackberry and indeed the light is extremely useful. I bought a program that will let me assign a different color (even multiple colors) to almost all events , even particular contacts!
if some dev has some insight i would love to read about it
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Since the LED is not on every android phone, i guess the adroid sdk doesn't have anything to support it. however, there are some apps on the market that support it, and i want to know how hard would it be to code something...
i currently use a blackberry and indeed the light is extremely useful. I bought a program that will let me assign a different color (even multiple colors) to almost all events , even particular contacts!
if some dev has some insight i would love to read about it
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i am very interested in this as well as i see it has multi color support as i have seen red, blue, purple green etc already... first step will be to get logs of the led getting lit for all colors and compare .... i am working on a variety of projects so if you would start with obtaining that i will look at logs and see where to go from there
Check out general forum. Sounds like the app called blink is what you want. There's a whole post about led for notifications.
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i know there are apps for it, but the ones i have seen aren't open source therefore i can't learn from them unless the devs are friendly enough (haven't asked)
and for what i have read, most if not all aren't fully compatible with the atrix yet (mixed report on the blink one)
franciscojavierleon said:
Since the LED is not on every android phone, i guess the adroid sdk doesn't have anything to support it. however, there are some apps on the market that support it, and i want to know how hard would it be to code something...
i currently use a blackberry and indeed the light is extremely useful. I bought a program that will let me assign a different color (even multiple colors) to almost all events , even particular contacts!
if some dev has some insight i would love to read about it
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The android SDK certainly supports the notification LED, if the hardware doesn't support it then it just ignores what the program tries to tell it about the led.
See this: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.html#ledARGB
Light flow works with the Atrix and allows you to assign different colors to specific apps:
https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Rage+Consulting+Limited
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Light flow works with the Atrix and allows you to assign different colors to specific apps:
https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Rage+Consulting+Limited
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I would agree with that! I'm the author.
Yes the android sdk does support the notification color as s3gfault points out.
Motorola phones are one of the very few that actually implement the standard android notification method. It's all the other manufactureres that make general support difficult.
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I would agree with that! I'm the author.
Yes the android sdk does support the notification color as s3gfault points out.
Motorola phones are one of the very few that actually implement the standard android notification method. It's all the other manufactureres that make general support difficult.
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Very good app. Thank you!
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Very good app. Thank you!
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I agree.
I bought the full version and I am really happy with it.
No problems at all.
i think you all should try LEDme know.
it what we use on our HD2's
LED me know
sorry, jsut stopped by as im more than certainly getting a Atrix. so im reading up before i asked stupid questions lol
sal2708 said:
i think you all should try LEDme know.
it what we use on our HD2's
LED me know
sorry, jsut stopped by as im more than certainly getting a Atrix. so im reading up before i asked stupid questions lol
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last time i tried that it didnt actually work, only worked when you hit test.
regarding LED flow, is there a way to keep stock colour on apps and only change gmail?
reason is whatsapp has a nice light blue but colour option is led flow is different and there are loads of apps i dont have installed that are supported but would want allow system colour and not blue. ...if any of that made sense
This app does NOT work correctly on ATRIX it has problems with the LED, also, it cannot show a charging LED for the battery, it just fails. I have tried all I can find and guess what? none do what I want. If the battery is charging, it should be solid red, if its charged solid green, turn off when screen is ON unless its still plugged in. Also, low battery warning notification with sound you choose, when I did this the notification went off when the battery was fully charged and there was NO LED lit. I don't understand.
hi for the last year or so i've been working on designing a custom environment for android, i just released a custom navigationbar app called arc lighting navigationbar on the playstore allthough it has been used and tested on galaxy devices such as the note 9 it works on any other phone too, this app will let you customize the navigationbar extensively, which includes changing each button back,home,recent apps to various icons both presets and icons from any iconpack, you can also place colored layers behind the icons, each color can also follow your wallpaper or app, you can customize it so much that you can turn it into a taskbar for desktop use meaning you can use any phone as a pc without a seperate environment such as samsung dex, the app is called arc lighting navigationbar, i couldn't possibly describe everything it can do so you'd have to test it i don't think theres anything you can think of that you can't do with when it comes to customization, whats left is the dockmenu for true desktop and mobile environment but the developer i am working with does not want to finish the work until this app gets traffic as i owe him too much money for the work he did.
here you can see it on a s9+ https://www.facebook.com/symetium/videos/441167859757603/
and here you can see it on a xperia 1 including it's desktop ui
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKuIKY2fvH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0BsPqgkDKc
zzcool said:
hi for the last year or so i've been working on designing a custom environment for android, i just released a custom navigationbar app called arc lighting navigationbar on the playstore allthough it has been used and tested on galaxy devices such as the note 9 it works on any other phone too, this app will let you customize the navigationbar extensively, which includes changing each button back,home,recent apps to various icons both presets and icons from any iconpack, you can also place colored layers behind the icons, each color can also follow your wallpaper or app, you can customize it so much that you can turn it into a taskbar for desktop use meaning you can use any phone as a pc without a seperate environment such as samsung dex, the app is called arc lighting navigationbar, i couldn't possibly describe everything it can do so you'd have to test it i don't think theres anything you can think of that you can't do with when it comes to customization, whats left is the dockmenu for true desktop and mobile environment but the developer i am working with does not want to finish the work until this app gets traffic as i owe him too much money for the work he did.
here you can see it on a s9+ https://www.facebook.com/symetium/videos/441167859757603/
and here you can see it on a xperia 1 including it's desktop ui
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in the beginning of the message you say you are developing the app and its in the play store and then at the end u speak about the actual dev is someone else and they dont want to finish the work for x reason.
sooo.. what are we to do with this?
is it available or not?
or is this just to monetize youtube links?
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in the beginning of the message you say you are developing the app and its in the play store and then at the end u speak about the actual dev is someone else and they dont want to finish the work for x reason.
sooo.. what are we to do with this?
is it available or not?
or is this just to monetize youtube links?
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i designed the app and he helped me develop it
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i designed the app and he helped me develop it
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oh ok thanks.
can you link to the app please?
bober10113 said:
oh ok thanks.
can you link to the app please?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.symetium.arclightingnavigationbar
remember that it's not perfect yet
This app is freaking cool. Very very hard to figure out. Having said that I'm good try cuz it's freaking cool.
lincolnsxda said:
This app is freaking cool. Very very hard to figure out. Having said that I'm good try cuz it's freaking cool.
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honestly it means a lot when someone truly appreciates my work i have to go through a lot of 1 star ratings for really weird reasons such as too complicated or uses too many permissions so it's nice when someone actually appreciates it thank you, and yes it is difficult to figure out as i wanted customization per button rather than all 3 at once, i could have made it simpler and had one light control for all buttons at once but each button has it's own full set of settings icon, color,light indicator,movement, layer etc i don't find it complicated as i designed it but i understand if other people do.
I'm impressed. To be able to do that without root is awesome since this thing is in root limbo. As soon as I have 6 bucks I'll donate. I'm on an N9... Can't get the advanced option to work... Any thoughts?
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I'm impressed. To be able to do that without root is awesome since this thing is in root limbo. As soon as I have 6 bucks I'll donate. I'm on an N9... Can't get the advanced option to work... Any thoughts?
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well i am really sorry to say but the advanced option does not work on galaxy phones for some reason so the app has been made to block the advanced option to function, we tried to get it to work but it crashes the phones ui theres something with oneui so you'd need to use the mode that requires no root or software, the difference between advanced and simple is simply no transparency theres no other difference so you get all the same features as advanced but instead of modifying the navigationbar it will place one ontop of the old one i recommend doing this with gesture navigation enabled as then you get a very thin navigationbar as well as the gesture navigation, but i am so sorry for this i should have been more clear on that, made me sad considering you liked the app.
Sounds great. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!
lincolnsxda said:
Sounds great. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!
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you're welcome let me know if you need any help, as mentioned i do recommend enabling gesture navigation first this makes the navigationbar much thinner than usual it also allows you to use gesture navigation or taps at the same time.
these are ugly navbars!
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these are ugly navbars!
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personally i like it but thats a matter of taste
Can't seems to enable permission from pc. 1st step it asked to connect my phone, after I vonnected my phone and press the 2nd step (enable), it asked me to connect my phone while my phone was still connected and my oc can read my phone. [emoji24]
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