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Front Panel Lights

I've had my Incredible for a days now. I'm also new to Android. Can anyone tell me the logic with the front panel lights? I would like to have them on more often, including in low light situations. Is there a way to enable this? Thanks.

you mean the home menu etc buttons? aren't those always on as long as the screen is?

Those lights time out .
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On mine they sometimes are on and sometimes never come on. Since I got home they have been on constantly. I was in a coffee shop last several hours and they never came on. Just tried turning room lights off to bright but no change. makes no sense.

They should come on automatically when the lighting darkens to a certain point.

They should come on automatically when the lighting darkens to a certain point.
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Precisely. Pitch black room as I type and the lights haven't gone off since the screen has been on.
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They should come on automatically when the lighting darkens to a certain point.
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Precisely. Pitch black room as I type and the lights haven't gone off since the screen has been on.
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You can simulate this by putting your thumb over the sensor. There are two circles that can be seen on the left hand side of the Verizon logo at the top of the phone. Cover them with your thumb and it will turn them on.
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Is there a way to turn these off? They're annoyingly bright in dark rooms.

biscoradio said:
Is there a way to turn these off? They're annoyingly bright in dark rooms.
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You want to turn them completely off? Doesn't it turn off when the phone goes to sleep?

Yeah I want to be able to turn them off at will. I like using an ereader and at night I turn the screen brightness way down but the leds from the front panel lights are too bright to read in the dark comfortably.
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biscoradio said:
Yeah I want to be able to turn them off at will. I like using an ereader and at night I turn the screen brightness way down but the leds from the front panel lights are too bright to read in the dark comfortably.
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I'm with you on this one - would love to disable the lights when in a reading program ....

Maybe change the autobrightness settings off auto.

Autobrightness doesn't affect the front panel leds.
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I realize now they are activated by low ambient light. The label is set too low for my liking though. Would be nice if we could control this setting.

LED Color notifications

Is anyone running an app on their slide for changing the led colors when messages,calls, etc comes in( for non-rooted phones) or do you need root for this?

LED Notifications
I have tried many; all have been a epic failure showing only a green light no matter the color selected... And I'm not running root, not yet anyway...

Wonder if it has to be something like the trackball for nexus (trackball alert free) ill test that tomorrow and post back if it works
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Jrbourque said:
Wonder if it has to be something like the trackball for nexus (trackball alert free) ill test that tomorrow and post back if it works
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Tackball alert doesn't work, it requires custom ROM's not available to us, just tried it. no matter what colour I picked it flashed green

Wow that really sucks lol
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After looking at the LED real close while it was charging I noticed the orange is at the top of the spot and the green is at the bottom. If you look real close while it is lit up you'll notice there 2 LEDs on the chip, so it looks like orange and green are all we'll be able to get

LED

So there is no led light... but other then the front facing camera on the front of my phone, there is another light or something on the top left. What is that for? Or am I an idiot? Lol
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Could be the proximity sensory

Ambient light sensor for the auto-brightness.
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Both parts are for the proximity sensor?
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Left hole (circle) is for the proximity sensor. Right hole (oval kinda) is for ambient light sensor. Hope this helps!

The LED light is on the back of the phone next to the Camera. LOL

nxt said:
The LED light is on the back of the phone next to the Camera. LOL
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He's talking about a notification LED, not the camera flash.
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Led notifications

Hello!
Now that we have root, I'd like to know if we can in some way modify the notification light so that it uses the led on the homescreen led?
Would be so much better then the one on the side!
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Didnt even know we had one on the front
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hargibi said:
Hello!
Now that we have root, I'd like to know if we can in some way modify the notification light so that it uses the led on the homescreen led?
Would be so much better then the one on the side!
Regards hargibi
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Well it's gonna be pretty hard, since there's no LED on the front, only an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor....

I think maybe the OP means the lights between the buttons on the homescreen.

Cim_XII said:
Well it's gonna be pretty hard, since there's no LED on the front, only an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor....
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There is too a led light on the front.
There behind the home button!

I would LOVE THIS!!!

Yea lol I thought normally things see on the top yea the bottom lights would be amazing but camy see it been done really
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Im using the application "Light Flow" from the market on my play
although it only does the light on the top of the phone it is useful for it to flash different colours.

Don't beleve the ambient light is a multicolor led anyways...

SKIBBE said:
Don't beleve the ambient light is a multicolor led anyways...
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Pretty sure its not, but it would be so awsome if the led behind the homekey could just light up whenever something hapened. that way i could just have it in the dark at home and see if it lights up at all time without having to turn it the right way.

whatsapps does have the features to use different colour side led when a new notification arrived....

Blink - Just search on the Market for it =)

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whatsapps does have the features to use different colour side led when a new notification arrived....
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yup whatsapp can change the colour of the side LED for notification

I had BLN on my SGS Captivate. It would be awesome to find a way to do the same with the front button lights on the Arc.

Dim notification light

My notification light is quite dim, is this normal? Seen a YouTube video and their green light looks much brighter than mine.

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Seen a YouTube video and their green light looks much bigger than mine.
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sounds like a personal problem

Yeah I think it is normal.

Yes, I am pretty sure it is normal. If you look closely you can see that the light is under a pattern that sort of matches the Google Now launch pattern.

I think its because of the glass being polarized. It actually creates a nice glow effect for the notification light in my opinion.
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I actually prefer the dimmer light on the N4. Notifications were way too bright in my GNex IMHO.
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