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Doesn't this phone have a LED notification feature??
Why should it have?
Isn't that obvious..?: To notify the user of missed calls and new text/email messages...
c-bone said:
Why should it have?
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The lock screen does a pretty good job of keeping you up to date on whats been happening. I didn't even realise any new smart phones had LED notifications.
That response is hilariously absurd. I have to actually pick my phone up and look to see if something is happening?
SWYPED from my SUPASONIC
I have to say - I had the HTC Diamond before my Omnia and this is the one feature I miss.
The Phone is a million times better in every other aspect, so I will oversee this flaw
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Doesn't this phone have a LED notification feature??
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No, it doesn't. Unfortunately, this is one of the features I miss from my HD2.
But there are dozens of things that are better, so I'll get along with it
Just noticed that. I've been adapting to the icons and never checked.
I like the icons it seems, with Txt, E-mail, Multiple accounts and apps with their own notifications. Wouldn't want to have to memorise each beep. dash. dot for what i missed in this day and age, the icon tells me in one glance what I've missed with a symbol, maybe coloured dots would be the same but, i did wonder how do you not look at the phone to see the LED notification?
That i wanna learn
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We're talking hardware design here. As far as I can see from inspecting the device, it DOES have LEDs under the buttons, which means that it is INDEED possible to implement a LED notification hack of some sort... like it's been done on the Samsung Galaxy Tab, for instance (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=830782)!
The advantage: A slow-blinking LED will enable the user to become notified of a new text/email message/missed call by just glancing at the phone from afar, ergo not having to pick the phone up AND turn on the screen.
It's an epic fail, in my opinion, that this cannot be found in the otherwise great hardware design of the Omnia 7, as all well-crafted smartphones these days incorporate such functionality (e.g. the HTC Hero).
mwako said:
Just noticed that. I've been adapting to the icons and never checked.
I like the icons it seems, with Txt, E-mail, Multiple accounts and apps with their own notifications. Wouldn't want to have to memorise each beep. dash. dot for what i missed in this day and age, the icon tells me in one glance what I've missed with a symbol, maybe coloured dots would be the same but, i did wonder how do you not look at the phone to see the LED notification?
That i wanna learn
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I get ya, Makes a nice feature for some phone users i guess, But i needed this as smart phone to keep on me at all times *my reason anyway*, if i miss a call/e-mail i have to call back asap anyway
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We're talking hardware design here. As far as I can see from inspecting the device, it DOES have LEDs under the buttons, which means that it is INDEED possible to implement a LED notification hack of some sort... like it's been done on the Samsung Galaxy Tab, for instance (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=830782)!
The advantage: A slow-blinking LED will enable the user to become notified of a new text/email message/missed call by just glancing at the phone from afar, ergo not having to pick the phone up AND turn on the screen.
It's an epic fail, in my opinion, that this cannot be found in the otherwise great hardware design of the Omnia 7, as all well-crafted smartphones these days incorporate such functionality (e.g. the HTC Hero).
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If someone writes such an app, and it does not consume much more power, it would be a reason for me to do the unlock...
I guess there is no chance that this app would be approved via the official way?
Just realized: Someone's actually made an app for submitting and voting for already submitted ideas for improvements to WP7. It's called "My WP7 Idea", and yes, it already contains my idea. USE IT! (and please, please, please VOTE for this)
Does anyone know if there's a LED under the middle touch navigation button (the one with the Windows logo)? Would be cool, if this could light up with notifications, wouldn't it...?
Theres not a LED. Only the other 2 buttons lighten up. I don't think that's a problem tough.
You could think of a procedure like back button enlightened when a new sms is there, search button when you have a missed call or something.
Close to the light sensor i saw another something,i dont know what is it for..but on a video on youtube..i saw it blinking in blue..when the user used bluetooth for calling...anyone noticed that?
we got 4" led display !
can notification led just be emulated by a small blinking square right in the center of the screen ?
conqu1stador said:
I have to actually pick my phone up and look to see if something is happening?
SWYPED from my SUPASONIC
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Yes. Ludicrous, isn't it.
I don't understand how this could bother you so much, unless you like people to notice that you are popular. You should have looked at the specs before you bought it - seems to be an ongoing problem people have with phones.
Spookidoodles said:
I don't understand how this could bother you so much, unless you like people to notice that you are popular. You should have looked at the specs before you bought it - seems to be an ongoing problem people have with phones.
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you can't be serious? since the dawn of man (ok,mobile), a phone has had a visual indicator that you have missed an event. This is like having an alarm clock with no alarm. you just have to keep waking up and switching the screen on!
I've recently got my hands on an Omnia 7 and today I realised I was missing emails,sms etc because there was no led flashing. I thought it was broken. Turns out it isn't... the logic of samsung is.
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you can't be serious? since the dawn of man (ok,mobile), a phone has had a visual indicator that you have missed an event. This is like having an alarm clock with no alarm. you just have to keep waking up and switching the screen on!
I've recently got my hands on an Omnia 7 and today I realised I was missing emails,sms etc because there was no led flashing. I thought it was broken. Turns out it isn't... the logic of samsung is.
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You could go to settings and set a sound for new emails (not set by default) and see if it's better, it vibrates too
just my 5 cent
Where might I try poking around if I wanted to have the trackball, and the call and end buttons light up with the screen turning on?
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on cm roms (like Froyoshedyo), i believe your question was how to make the buttons light up when your phone screen turns on. I dont know if there is a way to turn on the trackball light? probably a program in the market. as for the answer/end and soft keys, home screen->menu->settings.>cyanogenmod settings->user interface->automatic backlight->check use custom under light levels. then go to edit other levels. column on the right is buttons, 255 is on and 0 is off. set them all to 255 to have the front lights turn on whenever your phone screen is on. sorry I cant help with the trackball. also, please post questions in the q&a section in the future. thanks.
Thanks for the reply but my question is deeper than just the settings. I want to edit the system files which control these lights. I don't really like the softkey lights so I wont mess with them. If you've used kaos gingerbread you'll notice they don't light up. Just the answer and end keys do.
Im aware of covedesign from the market. I don't know if pulling it apart will show me where to look but I might try if no one else knows where to look.
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Thanks for the reply but my question is deeper than just the settings. I want to edit the system files which control these lights. I don't really like the softkey lights so I wont mess with them. If you've used kaos gingerbread you'll notice they don't light up. Just the answer and end keys do.
Im aware of covedesign from the market. I don't know if pulling it apart will show me where to look but I might try if no one else knows where to look.
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ah. sorry didn't realize. LEDs Hack is another program on the market that I use to kill my LEDs when my eris is plugged in. the eris is not officially supported but the "sprint htc hero" (not sprint htc hero android 2.2) works for the eris leds. it has an option for trackball led, but it doesnt seem to work for the eris. it can turn various leds on, off, and change state based on different circumstances such as plugging in or time ranges. perhaps the developer would have some idea where to point you. http://www.danvelazco.com
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If you've used kaos gingerbread you'll notice they don't light up.
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This could just be an unfixed bug ... KGB is still in the development stages, it's not an official release.
I am posting the timely reply to my email from the developer of the highly popular No Lock app, that many of us have been using for waking up our Nexus One with the trackball until we installed Gingerbread 2.3.3, for you wizards to possibly lend assistance to the developer . I questioned the developer as to getting a change done to the app so we could again enjoy the wonderful benefit of the app in waking up our phones with the trackball. Perhaps with the great knowledge base of our XDA members we can help him find a path to a fix of this most needed app. (especially those with a non functioning power button) He can be sent an email directly from the No Lock app in the Market. Let us all hope for a breakthru.
Here is his reply:
"Hi!
I wish I could do something. Unfortunately this is not in my hands
Normally my app is supposed to work exactly the same on all the devices,
and all the versions of Android. But in the real world, this is not the
case, and there is really nothing I can do about it.
On certain models, the app doesn't even work at all, and I have no idea why!
Have a nice day"
Trackball wake
I got the same formulaic reply. Obviously this developer isn't interested in fixing it on his own and perhaps we'll have to live with that. Trackball wake doesn't work with stock ROM on Anylock either, so it's a generic problem.
I also hope somebody can fix this (before my Vol key dies!)
The developer of widgetlocker commented on the trackball wake issue. It's something about pressing the trackball no longer dispatch event when the screen is off, therefore there is no way for an app to detect trackball press.
widgetlocker.teslacoilsw.com/general/trackball-wake-and-gingerbread-bad-news/
Loving GB - missing my wake on trackball!!
This is a behavior changing issue.
hope someone can make a trackball wake later..
No Lock app would be great to use with GB trackball! Hopefully it's developer will have a fix...in the meantime I'm using No Lock and the Volume button to wake my N1.
Am I missing something about trackball wake? I'm running CM7 nightly #7 and using Widget Locker with the "any hardware button unlock" feature enabled and my trackball wakes my phone just fine (even though I prefer to use the volume keys instead). Our is this an issue on stock 2.3.3?
sitinon327 said:
Am I missing something about trackball wake?....is this an issue on stock 2.3.3?
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Yes.
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sitinon327 said:
Am I missing something about trackball wake? I'm running CM7 nightly #7 and using Widget Locker with the "any hardware button unlock" feature enabled and my trackball wakes my phone just fine (even though I prefer to use the volume keys instead). Our is this an issue on stock 2.3.3?
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Yes. It used to be that you could just get an app to add this functionality, but now, you have to change it at the rom level. So sure CM7 will work, but it's over the top for people who just want trackball wake to install a new rom.
Yep, i also asked the widgetlock dev about this issue. Sadly there seems to be no real fix to this.
i really hate the fact that i cannot use trackball wake anymore, especially since the power button of the nexus seems to be quite fragile and can become defect easily. There are many threads about buggy power buttons in this forums.
Workaround for me is also to use the volume buttons for display wake, which is ok, but i preferred trackball wake...
missed my trackball wake..
I normally just use the clock app to prevent my phone from locking. With Gingerbread, I also can't use the trackball to wake the phone anymore. Good thing the volume buttons still work.
Would it be so hard for Google devs to include in stock ROM an option which allowed trackball to wake up screen now that everybody knows how buggy power button is and making a good ROM even closer to perfect?
I know. I'm asking for far too much... Google listening to its customers...
decodecoding said:
Would it be so hard for Google devs to include in stock ROM an option which allowed trackball to wake up screen now that everybody knows how buggy power button is and making a good ROM even closer to perfect?
I know. I'm asking for far too much... Google listening to its customers...
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yep. this will never happen. there are like a trillion bugs/tasks which are probably more important for Google than this very specific thing...
*Hope this is a right tag*
Anyway what the Galaxy S2 is missing is notification for missed calls, email. sms etc. Many of you might know of lilHermit who made the awesome Trackball Alert Pro for the Nexus One. https://market.android.com/details?...droid.TrackballAlertPro&feature=search_result
Well he has made a similar app for the LG Optimus 2X which flashes the led buttons for notification and he is willing to bring it to the Galaxy S2
Once its done and working on the LG2X I'll work on adding SGS2 support. I've written it modular so adding support for extra phones will not mean a major rewrite.
Although I don't think the SGS2 will be easy looking at the kernel.
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I'm looking to get ROM "chefs" to include my mod. So if you want to get the "chef" to contact me I'll happy provide them with the smali code.
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Well Rom devs, please contact him to add this
His profile: http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=1753833
Cool stuff although there is an app called 'Flashnotify' on the market which does this already and works with SGS2.
But what is he going to work on ? I mean there is no led or track ball in G S2 for him to work on.
Or am i missing something big
touch key backlight
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touch key backlight
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Damn forgot about it.
there was an app for dell streak.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.StreakLEDFREE&feature=search_result
Update : tested . does not work for s gs2
good to hear and nice to know
Since the screen is AMOLED and since you can turn on red/blue pixels individually and they take very little power. A better idea might be to actually put something on the screen instead.
That would be NoLED
More promising imho would be to change the management of the capacitive buttons to be lit while phone is sleeping. Lighting them when phone is on is easy so patterns could be used for notifications.
I'm a fan of the NoLED app for notifications but I would certainly like to see a capacitive button notification like on the LG2X (I had one a couple of months back but sent it back as faulty and got my SGS2)
You want BLN, which was being worked on by neldar.
Akent started putting it to SGS2, but it's not fully (at all?) working.
https://github.com/akent/samsung-kernel-galaxysii
some stuff is disabled when the phone is not connected to usb thus the led don't turn on when the phone is off / stuff don't work (did check in that git and it doesnt fix it)
til someone has time to figure it out, no bln. i think neldar has been busy, and so am i, these days at least
englefield said:
Cool stuff although there is an app called 'Flashnotify' on the market which does this already and works with SGS2.
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that's only for display backlight, not for button backlight, isn't it?
chalid said:
that's only for display backlight, not for button backlight, isn't it?
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Lights up the back light and both hardware buttons. Check it out on the market, its free.
englefield said:
Lights up the back light and both hardware buttons. Check it out on the market, its free.
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Turns on the whole screen. Utterly useless also.
Still nothing? I really miss this and we're waiting for ages – is anyone still working on BLN or are there any problems/is it impossible?
I'd be more than happy to donate a beer or coffee to whoever gets BLN working on the SGS2
Too bad the central hardware button doesn't have a light, it would have been like the N1 TB, but hey it will be sufficiant to have the left and right lights working already
are you working on it?? I will buy it with pleasure from market, donate your work would be pleasure for this notification light!!! I'm waiting for the result....??????????????
Hi Guys and especially Developers,
my further Device, Dell Streak, came out without an notification-LED - just like the Galaxy Note. But the Streak had also the touch-buttons lighted up by LED´s. Someone wrote an APP, which used this touch-button-led´s for notification. I was able to set up the "Back-Button" blinking everytime, when a message arrived.
Is this possible for the SGN?
NoLED. Instead of a LED a single Pixel on the screen lights up. You can customize it though, you can have different colors for calls, texts and it can even handle app notifications.
You can also only have the buttons light up, but as far as I know you can only have both buttons light up.
breckbit said:
Hi Guys and especially Developers,
my further Device, Dell Streak, came out without an notification-LED - just like the Galaxy Note. But the Streak had also the touch-buttons lighted up by LED´s. Someone wrote an APP, which used this touch-button-led´s for notification. I was able to set up the "Back-Button" blinking everytime, when a message arrived.
Is this possible for the SGN?
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Chances are BLN will work on the note, but requires the support for it in the Kernel, it was the same thing with the Galaxy S2 it'll just be a matter of time before a dev integrates the support.
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NoLED. Instead of a LED a single Pixel on the screen lights up. You can customize it though, you can have different colors for calls, texts and it can even handle app notifications.
You can also only have the buttons light up, but as far as I know you can only have both buttons light up.
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hi, how to use noled to light up the button led? many thanks
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hi, how to use noled to light up the button led? many thanks
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Just download the app from the market .Its easy to configure it..!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389394