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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.

Front Facing Camera?

I know that the droid 2 doesn't have a front facing camera, but what are all those circles up top? I know one is the led, ambient light, and proximity sensor, but what is that fourth one? It kinda looks like one, has anyone tried a modified software with video chat?
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I know the two circles on the left are the ambient light and proximity sensors but I'm not sure what the little one is bellow the led

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 =)

superlimau said:
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.

Weird light being emitted from proximity sensor? [Video]

http://youtu.be/8qKYJVnUzwI
I noticed a weird light being emitted from proximity sensor when I entered the stock Samsung messaging app. It looks like it could be an infrared light coming from the sensor, but it's faintly visible to the naked eye. I thought I would take a video of it to show what I'm talking about. It's more apparent in the video than what you actually see. You can see it yourself in a dark room.
Has this been addressed? Does anybody know why this is happening?

isnt it looking to see if you move the phone to your ear in the messaging app so it can do the call feature?

I noticed this on mine last night. It's not like that right now though

I have the Motorola Atrix and when I use the proximity sensor, it does the same thing, glows a very very dim red, only visible in a dark room. Guessing that's how that sensor works in a generic way.
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You have the eye tracking on? I just assumed it was that.
SwiftKeyed on my Sprint Galaxy SIII...

Mine does the same thing. It's for the direct call feature for texting. If you turn direct call off in your motion settings you won't see it anymore.
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Doh... I feel silly for posting this now... Well, at least we have some sort of visual proof of it?

Haha no worries dude. Really easy to over look the little things! I was curious when I first saw it on mine as well.
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Wow I have never noticed this before, haha pretty cool
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I don't think mine's ever done this before and I've enabled smart stay before.

i have that as well...noticed it a few days ago..didn't think much of it

It's direct call for texting. Really it's anything that uses the proximity sensor. Smart stay uses the front facing camera.
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Turning off screen when you close the cover.

I saw a cover for the nexus 7 that said it turns the screen off and on with the closing and opening of the screen. I assume it's done with the light sensor. Is there any way to dk it with the gt?
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those use the proximity sensor, and we don't have one so unfortunately no there is no way to set that up.

Its not the proximity sensor, its some sort of magnetic sensor. It does it if you have a small magnet in the right place on the case. As we do not have such a sensor on the tab, we cannot do the same thing.
In theory, you could write an app that turns off screen depending on what the light sensor senses
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daniel644 said:
those use the proximity sensor, and we don't have one so unfortunately no there is no way to set that up.
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Yes we do, theres 2 other things at the top of your tab aside from camera and phone speaker. They are the light and proximity sensorsl
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OptimusLove said:
Yes we do, theres 2 other things at the top of your tab aside from camera and phone speaker. They are the light and proximity sensorsl
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maybe on your 3100 but I installed this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5vbWQuYXV0b3NjcmVlbm9uIl0. that uses the proximity sensor to wake the screen and it said there wasn't one on my 3113. All I have is the camera and a light sensor.

suggestion
daniel644 said:
maybe on your 3100 but I installed this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5vbWQuYXV0b3NjcmVlbm9uIl0. that uses the proximity sensor to wake the screen and it said there wasn't one on my 3113. All I have is the camera and a light sensor.
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instead of auto screen on u can use
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dragonnis.intellicover&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5kcmFnb25uaXMuaW50ZWxsaWNvdmVyIl0.
know as intellicover as it use much less battery as auto screen off
No Offense ,
just suggestion

hemantshah3 said:
instead of auto screen on u can use
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dragonnis.intellicover&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5kcmFnb25uaXMuaW50ZWxsaWNvdmVyIl0.
know as intellicover as it use much less battery as auto screen off
No Offense ,
just suggestion
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ok, cool, auto screen on was just the first I had found and it worked on the device I tested it on so I never looked for any others. still no use on my 3113, it says no proximity sensor.

hemantshah3 said:
instead of auto screen on u can use
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dragonnis.intellicover&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5kcmFnb25uaXMuaW50ZWxsaWNvdmVyIl0.
know as intellicover as it use much less battery as auto screen off
No Offense ,
just suggestion
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This works, however if you are using screen timeout, its not saving you much since it just turns the screen off, it does not put the device to sleep. It does function as an auto on / off for the screen. I found it very quirky , sometimes it works when I close the cover, sometimes it does not. Unfortunately there is no sensor calibration. I want to test it to see if it actually uses extra battery in order to keep the sensor alive. Also, its a bit flaky if you use some of the advanced features like turning on and off airplane mode.

Thanks. I didn't know about the magnet.
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uberNoobZA said:
In theory, you could write an app that turns off screen depending on what the light sensor senses
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No need to write such an app. There are several on the play store that do exactly that.
However I've tried them all and I can' get any to work properly using CM10. Others may have better luck.

Use smartcover from android market. It works very well.