[NOOB] Everything BLN - Galaxy S II General

In an effort to clear up every other thread that you are all ruining with stupid unrelated to roms or kernel BLN questions I have created a magical thread for you all to use instead.
So if you have any BLN questions or issues or advice to give then put it here not in other threads!
Thanks

What is BLN?
BLN stands for Back Light Notifications
Why do we need it?
Well if you are prudent enough you will have noticed that unlike the majority of android phones, Samsung don't see a need to have a LED on the phone to flash to warn you that you have a notification. So some bright spark invtented a way to enable the menu and back keys to flash when you get a notification.
How do I use it?
You need 3 things:
- Modified Liblights.so (this might come in a rom or kernel, it might not)
- Modified BLN compatible kernel
- BLN Control App (free or pro on market)
Stock Samsung SMS app is not generating notifications?
No, this is because Samsung are not stupid, they knew the app was for a phone without an LED so they did not use any light flags at all. You have 3 options, hack the stock sms app to use a Lights flag, use a third party sms app like Handcent SMS or GoSMS or finally use tasker.
If you want SMS to work with stock Messaging app then flash on of these - http://goo.gl/DXlyn beware they are only for KG6 using on other roms may cause undesirable effects (or could be fine )
I want it to work for missed calls
Well then you need to get the Pro app from the market where it has an option to turn on the missed calls feature (and don't listen to some fools, this does work!)
But I am a cheapskate who doesn't buy paid for apps
TOUGH!

Awesome thread mate. Should clear it up for most people I do hope that more people release ROMs with a hacked SMS app for BLN

KaliKot said:
Awesome thread mate. Should clear it up for most people I do hope that more people release ROMs with a hacked SMS app for BLN
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As soon as someone manages to make the app I am sure most custom roms with BLN would use it.

Lennyuk said:
Stock Samsung SMS app is not generating notifications?
No, this is because Samsung are not stupid, they knew the app was for a phone without an LED so they did not use any light flags at all. You have 3 options, hack the stock sms app to use a Lights flag, use a third party sms app like Handcent SMS or GoSMS or finally use tasker.
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Well it worked with the stock sms on the S1, so I would suppose they can make it work for the S2.
Someone will eventually post this so let me be the one to do it instead
Why not hack the mms.apk for us so that the BLN can work with the stock sms app.

EarlZ said:
Well it worked with the stock sms on the S1, so I would suppose they can make it work for the S2.
Someone will eventually post this so let me be the one to do it instead
Why not hack the mms.apk for us so that the BLN can work with the stock sms app.
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That's actually being discussed in another thread.

So.... what rom or kernels are bln enabled?
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Ninphetamine kernel is, villain rom 2.4.2 is, other roms that say in there thread title are.
Most roms are now as its the big new thing, also most custom kernels built from source are now but check there threads.
CF root isn't bln enabled as its a repackaged stock Kernel, stock roms are not unless modified with a custom kernel with it enabled and a updated liblights
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Awesome idea OP!!!

Good idea, now let's see if people can keep the questions in this thread...
I've had BLN Pro since SGS(1), and with Criskelo and Ninphetamine it works great.
Only thing I've done differently, is install Handcent, to get BLN working with SMS and MMS.
To get calls working BUY THE PRO! and tick off "call notification" in "BLN for Android-OS apps"

Since this the appropriate thread, are there any major disadvantages for BLN to be on all the time apart from battery? Have S1 users ever faced BL issues, stop working completely or something?
Great thread!
Cheers

huzz said:
Since this the appropriate thread, are there any major disadvantages for BLN to be on all the time apart from battery? Have S1 users ever faced BL issues, stop working completely or something?
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It's only battery AFAIK.
And with appropriate settings you can even keep the drain low enough.
I set mine to 30min blink and 45min static - if I haven't picked up the phone by then I wont in a longer time anyways so more blinkage is not required IMO and for the meantime I got all the notifications I want.
Drain on battery is totally OK for me with those settings.

huzz said:
Since this the appropriate thread, are there any major disadvantages for BLN to be on all the time apart from battery? Have S1 users ever faced BL issues, stop working completely or something?
Great thread!
Cheers
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yeah it basically is just the negative battery impact
your phone will not deep sleep while BLN is active so the longer you have it showing the longer your phone stays "awake" which therefore increases your battery drain
I have mine set up to blink for 5 minutes then be static for 30.

Thank you for the thread. Before that I had to figure out all that by myself. Time saving

Alright, I think I won't get banned by asking my 'noobish' queries 'here'. So here it goes,
► I flashed Ninphetamine 2.0.5 kernel and Flashed Liblights.zip from Jame Bond thread and installed BLN Control Pro. Now the thing is, Missed Call notification DOES work. Now the thing is everyone is saying that BLN drains battery, I mean how could it drain if it's not in use?
► Also, I'd like to know what is Static LED timeout? I have it Disabled. What does it do?
► Schedule BLN? Why should I turn it on when it works with it Disabled?
I am using it from yesterday and I don't see there is any extra battery drainage or something like that other than two extra services, w|FileObserver & w|LedObserver is there under Wakelocks for a minute or two, and usually that short period didn't make any difference on battery backup. So why is that everyone keeps saying BLN drains battery if it does nothing?
Thanks in advance.
Regards.

When the buttons lights up continually can the phone sleep? When they blink it's pretty clear why the phone does not sleep...you need an active timer to switch the buttons states.

mdalacu said:
When the buttons lights up continually can the phone sleep? When they blink it's pretty clear why the phone does not sleep...you need an active timer to switch the buttons states.
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Of course, when the buttons glow the phone will not sleep but that state won't be forever as a normal person does check his/her cell phone at an interval of 15-30 mins, least I do, I didn't ask for that. What I asked was, How does BLN drain battery when it's not in use, and by that I mean when you have NO new/unread notifications?
I hope I made myself clear enough.
Regards.

From my experience on my phone, BLN does NOT drain the battery when there are no notifications blinking.
Phones enters deepsleep and stays there.
ithehappy said:
► I flashed Ninphetamine 2.0.5 kernel and Flashed Liblights.zip from Jame Bond thread and installed BLN Control Pro. Now the thing is, Missed Call notification DOES work. Now the thing is everyone is saying that BLN drains battery, I mean how could it drain if it's not in use?
► Also, I'd like to know what is Static LED timeout? I have it Disabled. What does it do?
► Schedule BLN? Why should I turn it on when it works with it Disabled?
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1: see above, it's not
2: when the LEDs are on constantly-on / nonblinking (=static) this timeout controlls when they will go OFF again - as long as the LEDs are on it drains the battery more, so set this to a sensible value to allow the phone to go back to deepsleep
3: if disabled BLN does it's job 24h a day, if enabled you can set times when BLN should NOT do any LED notifications, for whatever reasons you might have.

I presume that there is no way to use BLN with an unmoded galaxy 2?

Robafet said:
I presume that there is no way to use BLN with an unmoded galaxy 2?
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Correct.
You need a custom kernel that supports BLN.

Related

A Great Idea!!!

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
jrdejavux said:
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.
r546 said:
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..

CM9 ICS battery life saving's tips with Advanced CMSettings.apk

Hello to everyone.
I know that there are some similar threads in this forum, but no one is strictly related to the CM9 alpha IML74K.
I know as well that this could be part of the CM9 user discussion thread, but I'd like to share the best settings to get a good battery life with our S2 in a clean thread.
So, please:
no trolls, no dumb questions.
Just share your own experience (with a battery screenshot should be better).
Thanks a lot.
Here we go:
Developer options:
Debug usb off
Allow mock locations off
Force GPU rendering off
Windows animation scale off
Transition animation scale off
Don't keep activities on
Background process limit on
Kill app back button on
Display:
Automatic brightness off (I'm using Brightness Level widget)
Black wallpaper (search for solid black.png from wikipedia)
Sleep after 1 minute of inactivity.
Pulse notification light off.
Trebuchet options:
Scroll wallpaper off
Sync settings:
Google account
Sync calendar on
Sync Contacts on
Sync Gmail on
Whattsapp account:
Sync Contacts on
Sound Settings:
Touch sounds off
Screen lock sounds off
Vibrate on touch off
Location services:
Google's location service on
Location & Google search on
(Gps satellites on only when using Sygic or Maps)
Date and time:
Automatic date & time off
Automatic time zone off
CyanogenMod Settings app v1.0:
Interface Settings/Expanded view widget
Toggle 2G/3G checked
Toggle Mobile data checked
For a quick switch to 2G mode and save more battery.
Testing "twek levels and filtering" in automatic backlight settings.
With Titanium Backup:
Frozen all live wallpapers, tts services and uninstalled Gtalk and mail.
P.S. Be careful, you need debug usb on when using Titanium Backup
Data on all the day. I turn it off when I go to bed.
Wireless on when I'm home and need to use dropbox or download a big file from my Gmail account.
I'm using CM9 01062012 (I know, there's a new one, but I've reached a very stable daily rom, no FC, no random reboots, fast and smooth).
Modem XXKL1
Now my battery lasts two days.
Well, when my girlfriend tells me stories about her life, it lasts one day and a half.
Important:
I've uninstalled Facebook app which was causing a battery drain. I'm using the mobile web page instead and I've to tell that it is faster.
Other apps installed:
Twitter, Maps, Sygic, Whattsapp, Beatiful widgets (with manual weather update), Xda premium, ...
2012-01-14 Added CyanogenMod Settings Apk v1.0 (from SGS forums)
How to install:
Download it to your internal SD card
Enter into Recovery mode;
Wipe cache;
Advanced settings, wipe dalvik cache;
Flash zip from Sdcard,
Choose CMSettings.zip and flash it.
Reboot system
2011-01-18 Update:
I've been trying few modems and I've found the best one for me: (Vodafone Spain, data on almost all the time, good signal quality, great battery life)
NEKD5 Modem Zip package.
Flash from recovery. Follow cmsettings instructions.
Nice post. Going to try some your suggestions.
I'm sure loads of other xdaers are going find this useful too.
So many posts in the cm9 discussion thread about battery life and how to achieve optimum performance good to have a thread about it.
Big props
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I also agree on removing the Facebook app ATM its killing of battery life.
We have similar settings besides using Facebook let me see if things improve tmr
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BTW what's ur android os % at? I'm.constantly at 40+ % while idling
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lckuok said:
BTW what's ur android os % at? I'm.constantly at 40+ % while idling
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Apparently its a bug. It makes the OS look like its working over time but actually it won't be. Its somewhere in the cm discussion thread if you want to see the posts about it. As far as aware its not fixed yet with any of the builds.
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lckuok said:
BTW what's ur android os % at? I'm.constantly at 40+ % while idling
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The same here. But I've noticed that using Fastreboot app, it seems to kill/restart stuck apps/processes.
Anyway, rebooting the system before the night helps a lot.
Unless you're not a modern vampire...
Agree with others - excellent thread. There seem to be so many battery challenges with CM9 that a separate thread will lessen clutter in the discussion thread.
I've tried a number of your settings and have also flashed the KL1 modem. I had high hopes for KP4 at first, but it seems to have slipped back into old habits!
Has anyone looked into the FB-app? Why its causing battery problems?
DaddyCool08 said:
Has anyone looked into the FB-app? Why its causing battery problems?
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The app and the process are still running after you close them.
I have tried to logout, but it's still there. I think the process keeps going for notifications and photo uploading.
I've tried to kill it, but it comes back after few seconds.
Finally I gave up and used the mobile web page.
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ciccio83q said:
The app and the process are still running after you close it.
I have tried to logout, but it's still there. I think the process keeps going for notifications and photo uploading.
I've tried to kill it, but it comes back after few seconds.
Finally I gave up and used the mobile web page.
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But that isn't related to CM9, i had the same issues on gingerbread.
Yes, sir.
I knew it.
But it seems to me that Facebook app is eating more battery on ICS.
Checked my battery info and found out FB app percentage was 15% in 6 hours and I've used it just to read few messages. Then I've logged out.
I could be wrong, but I think it needs an update to control battery drain.
Indeed. I'll bet there are a host of apps that will need subtle tweaks and optimisations for ICS. Another reason not to expect too much from CM9 in terms of performance as yet...although access to kernal sources is obviously the big one!
CM settings
Trying right now CyanogenMod Settings app.
Flashable zip from recovery. The apk goes to /system.
It comes from GTi9000 forum and as I can see, it works perfectly on my S2.
It doesn't have so many options, but few are very important.
Let's have a look...
I'd be very interested on your feedback on this app.
On a different subject, I seem to have my battery back behaving reasonably well again with KP1 modem. In my tons of testing it seems like Nova Launcher - as much as I like it - is a significant contributor to my battery drain issues.
This could be because I have installed a bunch more stuff on Nova than I have with Trebuchet, so my next tactic is to gradually reintroduce some of my favourite widgets to Trebuchet to see if one of them suddenly starts killing my battery.
On the down side it may mean that I can't use one of my widgets for a while but on the plus side it may eliminate Nova as a battery drain meaning that I can go back to using it.
Have you tried FBM for facebook?
Basically the same look as the facebook app. But supposedly a lot cleaner!
Gustopher said:
I'd be very interested on your feedback on this app.
On a different subject, I seem to have my battery back behaving reasonably well again with KP1 modem. In my tons of testing it seems like Nova Launcher - as much as I like it - is a significant contributor to my battery drain issues.
This could be because I have installed a bunch more stuff on Nova than I have with Trebuchet, so my next tactic is to gradually reintroduce some of my favourite widgets to Trebuchet to see if one of them suddenly starts killing my battery.
On the down side it may mean that I can't use one of my widgets for a while but on the plus side it may eliminate Nova as a battery drain meaning that I can go back to using it.
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As I said before, don't expect a very useful app. It's the 1.0 version, and hopefully it will be a great app. But for now I've tried only some settings in the automatic backlight and modified the notification power widget.
At the moment, that's all we have. Anyway, give it a try, if you'd like.
Screenshots added in the first post.
Anyone able to disable button's backlight? Its still on even though i set it to "0" in the custom settings..
Another thing,is it possible to the haptic feedback tweaks like in cm7 settings?
Back from some modem testings, I'd like to say that NEKD5 has surprised me.
Never loosing data at all, best battery life and no problem with sms and sync.
Here you've got it.
Flash from CWM recovery
xeigen said:
Anyone able to disable button's backlight? Its still on even though i set it to "0" in the custom settings..
Another thing,is it possible to the haptic feedback tweaks like in cm7 settings?
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+1
Not working
But I think had the same problem under gingerbread till the devs optimized the kernel...
What can be the cause of not having cm settings working correctly? I only have tabs like these:
Thanks in advance!

Official ICS Firmwares - Bugs List

Hi
Use this thread to list bugs you have found in Stock Note ICS 'LPY' firmware, and work-arounds you have discovered for them.
Feel free to include bugs in Apps that don't work quite as intended in ICS but did work fine in GB.
Nigel
1) Facebook (uses ICS Sync Mechanism). Sync's ALL facebook friends and not just those already in contacts even when option to 'Sync with existing contacts' is selected. Result is a load of contacts with photo/name only where folks have not included contacts info in their FB profile. Solution is not to sync contacts with FB!! Not syncing means you don't get the contacts pics (the main reason why I want to sync). There are some 3rd party FB pic sync apps, but I have not tried any of these with ICS as yet.
2) Font size used for name of apps under icons for apps is bigger than in GB. This results in app names wrapping mid word where the same app name fitted on a single line in GB. This can result in the final 1 or more letters in the name of an app appearing on a second line under the icon. It looks ugly.
3) The 'Select Input Method' prompt appears as a notification under 'ongoing tasks' randomly.
Email widgets can fail to update, lose their assigned accounts and lose the option to switch accounts. The only fix for the first problem is to scroll rapidly down the email list to force an update, the assigned account can usually be reset on the widget, but occasionally the widgets get locked and have to be deleted and regenerated.
Also, not sure if this qualifies as a bug or change in behaviour, but the way audio output is dealt with when bluetooth audio devices disconnect has changed. Whereas in GB, switching off eg. a bluetooth headset would stop any streaming audio, with ICS the audio continues, but is switched to the Note speaker.
ICS is rather a large jump isn't it? We only have one build. You should make this specific to LPY if you want, but having it just be for ICS bugs isn't very specific or logical. It's like saying: Bugs for GB! That's A LOT of builds. If you want this thread to be useful, make it more specific.
Experiencing Random screen flickers and pixel salad. Resolves by resetting or lockscreen. Not sure if it's Kernel related like custom kernels experienced in GB roms i.e. franco kernel v9. pls help to shed light on this?
S Planner
I have found a bug in my ICS LPY S planner package. I use it with exchange and the status is not properly synced with Exchange:
Note-----------------------Exchange
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Free-----------------------Tentative
Tentative------------------Busy
Busy-----------------------Out of Office
Not nice...
When the phone is connected to car dock and kept in horizontal position, if you recieve a call, the phone app force closes and you cant answer it.
Solution: Keep the phone in vertical position in the dock!!
blitzkriegh said:
Experiencing Random screen flickers and pixel salad. Resolves by resetting or lockscreen. Not sure if it's Kernel related like custom kernels experienced in GB roms i.e. franco kernel v9. pls help to shed light on this?
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Hi
I got this while playing with the face unlock stuff after the initial update. I did a hard reset to get shot of any left over junk, and have not re-enabled the face unlock, and have not seen the pixel-fest since. I suspect it was not using face unlock rather than the hard reset that sorted.
Nigel
Bugs I have found so far :
Phone does not connect to computer via KIES.
Many bugs using original car dock - phone app closes when dialing, calls dropped when using Bluetooth - I did not try vertical mode yet
Phone randomly stops entering deep sleep mode , BetterBatteryStats lists a kernel wakelock called : l2_hsic . This does not impact battery time by much, but still annoying
Phone randomly reboots while screen is off - but I had this in gingerbread too
In call log , when I clicked a number it used to show me all the times that number called, now it does not.
Sometimes the phone forgets the personal ring tone assigned to a contact and uses default ring tone
... that's all I can think of right now, the good side is the ROM is MUCH FASTER in touchwiz and other apps..
rigor.m said:
Phone randomly stops entering deep sleep mode , BetterBatteryStats lists a kernel wakelock called : l2_hsic . This does not impact battery time by much, but still annoying
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L2_HSIC does affect battery had 6hours kernel wakelocks from it.
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To those with sleep issues, have you tried full wipe then reinstall Apps? I had issues with not sleeping and battery life, but since hard resetting, thee phone sleeps fine. Its not as painful to do this with ics since it will auto reinstall apps. (Configure backup and restore in settings before reset). Its supposed to backup app configs as well, but I found this did not work (many apps have their own mechanism to backup their config)
Currently irritated to death by the random reboots while in sleep. Sometimes 18 hours apart... Sometimes 18 minutes apart.
blitzkriegh said:
Experiencing Random screen flickers and pixel salad. Resolves by resetting or lockscreen. Not sure if it's Kernel related like custom kernels experienced in GB roms i.e. franco kernel v9. pls help to shed light on this?
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On LPY stock but rooted.
By "Pixel salad" you mean multi coloured horizontal lines filling the screen up?
I got this when I woke my phone up and was about to unlock it (pattern lock) when I received a call...
I decided to swipe answer to see if it still functioned and it did...
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3) Keyboard config icon appears randomly in notifications for no apparent reason.
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It appears when the keyboard is displayed so that you can change keyboard if you wish, as opposed to using long press in GB.
Regards,
Dave
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senectus said:
On LPY stock but rooted.
By "Pixel salad"
Phone randomly reboots while screen is off - but I had this in gingerbread too
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having frequently used apps moved to SD card may cause random reboot. nothing to do with 'screen off' but worth checking.
I have no complaint about ICS except that the battery life is abysmal and the audio hiccup all the time.
I am currently on LPY. Wondering if you guys have the same issues. The audio hiccup is the most annoying. Don't know how to describe it. It's like music skipping while playing. It happened even on zPlayer and Poweramp so it's not stock music player dependent. At first I thought that my sd card is failing but when I tried to play it on my PC, all the music files played normal without any hiccups.
In my case I cannot use skype and I keep getting this error message "you cannot be signed in at this time. Please try again later". So far I have tried clearing app data, force closing, reinstalling and installing modded and older versions of skype and no luck still. Skype is running just fine on my laptop.
I am on rooted LPY.
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I use "voice talk" when driving and often launch it by double clicking the home button. However I notice that every 2nd or 3rd time i launch it, the microphone doesn't respond (the blue concentric circles indicating sound don't move). Clicking done makes it ask to try again and the microphone works normally.
zkyevolved said:
ICS is rather a large jump isn't it? We only have one build. You should make this specific to LPY if you want, but having it just be for ICS bugs isn't very specific or logical. It's like saying: Bugs for GB! That's A LOT of builds. If you want this thread to be useful, make it more specific.
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He did make it specific....he said "stock Note ICS 'LPY' firmware". Did you not read his original post? Before you try to sound clever, read before you post!
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Use the widget and adjust brightness to very low. Now Open stock browser and set there the brightness to automatic. Go to a app like Facebook, tapatalk and open a Page where you get directed to the browser to open it. Press home button now. Go to the widget and press synchronization button on or off doesn't matter now you will see the brightness button that was black to jump from alone to auto. I guess that's the automatization process of Samsung.
LPY stock rom
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LED for notifications won't blink after missed call

Just like in topic. I have latest PA3+ (Halo8) + kernel from franco, also newest (r142). Led working on all other app, gmail, sms, etc. but not on missed calls. I tried set up it in settings (display > flashing LED), but it creates "contacts" instead of "phone".
Where's the problem? On ROM or kernel site?
Cheers!
Same here, with older releases it was same(everything work except calls).
Try this app works great https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite
I don't know why really, but I'm trying keep away from this app
I read too much negative opinions about it (especially battery drain). I thought is a easy to repair bug, but if isn't, I'm forced to wait for fix for this.
Thanks for advice anyway!
Colourkey said:
I don't know why really, but I'm trying keep away from this app
I read too much negative opinions about it (especially battery drain). I thought is a easy to repair bug, but if isn't, I'm forced to wait for fix for this.
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There is no noticeable battery drain from LightFlow on the N4. Have a look at the thread on the app in the apps sub-forum - no complaints about battery there.
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[ROM][Official][4.3JSS15Q][PA3.97][AOKP][CM10.2]P.A.C True All in 1 ROM[IR NIGHTLIES]​
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[ROM][Official][4.3JSS15Q][PA3.97][AOKP][CM10.2]P.A.C True All in 1 ROM[IR NIGHTLIES]
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Please, do not clutter the Development thread with non related development chatter
****-ATTENTION- Read This First And Don't Beg For Help Later**** ​
Backup all your data before flashing this ROM
This ROM has to be flashed either with latest CWM or latest TWRP
Many thanks to the maker of the thread that inspired me:
Pretoriano80
How to flash
First you have to be rooted
If your device is not rooted I recommend you to take a look here: [GT-I9505] CF-Auto-Root
Flash the recovery of your choice
Touch CWM, Normal CWM or TWRP use SGS4 Flasher to flash the one you prefer, it's very easy.
Download the ROM and the recommended Gapps. Put everything in your SD card
Reboot into recovery
Wipe data*, wipe cache and dalvik cache
*If you're coming from another ROM, even PACman 4.2.2
Install zips from SD card
Enjoy the ROM
FAQs
Q. Don't have bootanimation, why?
A. Because you didn't use CWM or TWRP.
Q. My baseband version it's unknown, why?
A. Read the first answer.
How do I make the status bar transparent?
A. In your homescreen, open quick settings panel and choose Hybrid Properties (the one with the name of the launcher on it, there, slide to the right and set the status bar color to transparent.
Can I use a custom kernel with this ROM?
A. Yes, you can. Just make sure that the kernel is for AOSP.
This ROM bricked my phone
A. No, you did it. Because you were too stubborn to read.
Ask for help instead of blaming.
I have two issues -
Google Now/Google Voice Search seems to trigger quite often and I don't know why. Surely it should only trigger when I press the home button?
When I swipe in a ribbon from the right, two ribbons appear. One I can scroll, I see the other behind it, not moving, which then falls away (I have 3 second fade away)
Any ideas on either of these? Thanks.
AndyCr15 said:
I have two issues -
Google Now/Google Voice Search seems to trigger quite often and I don't know why. Surely it should only trigger when I press the home button?
When I swipe in a ribbon from the right, two ribbons appear. One I can scroll, I see the other behind it, not moving, which then falls away (I have 3 second fade away)
Any ideas on either of these? Thanks.
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About the Google Now activation, in AOSP it activates with the menu button, maybe that's why you don't feel when it presses, I was having sort of the same issue but I assigned new custom actions.
With the ribbons, I really don't use them.
Regards.
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Yeah, I see I can hold menu down to launch voice search. It's definitely not that.
At one point yesterday I double taped my screen to open my app drawer and two seconds after the drawer opened, Google voice searching opened!?
I've even been looking to see if there's voice /sound activation of something... It's really annoying.
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Actually, here's a related question that someone might be able to help with.
I use the home button to wake my phone, but half the time it wakes AND does the home button action. If in cycling, it wakes and drops to the home screen instead of Strava. If in at the gym, it closes Jefit. If i was on the home screen, it asks and launched voice search!
Any ideas?
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I think some app is messing with the home button actions.
Have yo set any app as a device administrator?
Also, wich build are you running?
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Yeah, I think it was Nova messing with my home button. I turned off home = Voice search and it seems okay now.
AndyCr15 said:
Yeah, I think it was Nova messing with my home button. I turned off home = Voice search and it seems okay now.
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How is your experience so far with this ROM?
It seems that the nightlies were broken somehow.
Fast Dormancy
Does this rom have a toggle for turning off Fast Dormancy? I noticed that the FastDormancy Toggle app does not work with these ROMS. the nwk_info.db does not even exists! Please help!
runningdeer said:
Does this rom have a toggle for turning off Fast Dormancy? I noticed that the FastDormancy Toggle app does not work with these ROMS. the nwk_info.db does not even exists! Please help!
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Some guys stated in the main thread that fast dormancy only worked with Samsung's TouchWiz.
By the way, why is useful to turn off Fast Dormancy?
Regards.
soyusado said:
Some guys stated in the main thread that fast dormancy only worked with Samsung's TouchWiz.
By the way, why is useful to turn off Fast Dormancy?
Regards.
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Fast Dormancy will save battery life if your carrier supports it. I won't go into the details. However, if your carrier does not support it, and your phone has fast dormancy on, it will drain the battery as the process keeps trying to look for the carrier-side fast dormancy feature.
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!
I guess it might be back to the touchwiz bs...
runningdeer said:
Fast Dormancy will save battery life if your carrier supports it. I won't go into the details. However, if your carrier does not support it, and your phone has fast dormancy on, it will drain the battery as the process keeps trying to look for the carrier-side fast dormancy feature.
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!
I guess it might be back to the touchwiz bs...
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You can always try different apps, like Greenify or Better Battery Stats, also, KT kernel is very battery friendly but I prefer the stock kernel with that apps and the battery is always good.
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soyusado said:
How is your experience so far with this ROM?
It seems that the nightlies were broken somehow.
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Seems good to me. The only two things pushing me back to a Samsung based ROM are the battery life and I find the camera unreliable. (Often opens but with a blank black screen)
AndyCr15 said:
Seems good to me. The only two things pushing me back to a Samsung based ROM are the battery life and I find the camera unreliable. (Often opens but with a blank black screen)
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You can try with KT kernel, it improves the battery life considerably, reduces the heat but you may lose some smoothness compare to the stock kernel.
The camera seems an unresolved issue at the moment, but all the cons that the ROM currently have, for me, are very depreciable against the features.
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ok, i reflashed the rom without wipe and gallery is back to normal, also videos. ill try to flash KT kernel 08/28 version, and see if it will bring back the problem.
tomy2590 said:
ok, i reflashed the rom without wipe and gallery is back to normal, also videos. ill try to flash KT kernel 08/28 version, and see if it will bring back the problem.
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In only use KT because of the battery life, that was very poor with the latest build, but if you're experiencing a decent battery life my suggestion is to be in the stock kernel.
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soyusado said:
In only use KT because of the battery life, that was very poor with the latest build, but if you're experiencing a decent battery life my suggestion is to be in the stock kernel.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 4
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ow ok, can i use ausdim kernel?
EDIT: what settings on KT are you using?
what happened to the nice power widgets in notification centre on the 06/09 rc build?
it looks hideous now
tomy2590 said:
ow ok, can i use ausdim kernel?
EDIT: what settings on KT are you using?
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No, you can't use that kernel because it's not labeled for AOSP ROMs, you have to be careful when you flash kernels because them can really brick your device.
Here are my KT settings: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x2kr251rhg3kqqu/Settings

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