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disable button backlight

Is there any way to disable the backlights behind the Dedicated touch buttons located at the bottom of the vibrant. ?
I am very annoyed by the way it lights on and off. I can easily navigate without it and im thinking that it would also consume less battery life.
Thanks

Blinding to you too huh?
I've found not. They "were" the quintessential "look" of uber tech awesomeness, but now I"m just going blind at night. Haha. Guess that comes with age.
I think it is a software modification as black night notification can be turned on. So as such, maybe it can be turned off as well.
So far, haven't heard anything about it's implementation though.
If I find something, I will report back.

I'd also love these turned off or ate least down. Adjbrightness can do this with other phones but not,apparently, the sgs line.
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JeremyNT said:
I'd also love these turned off or ate least down. Adjbrightness can do this with other phones but not,apparently, the sgs line.
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Short of opening up the phone and putting in a resistor, it currently isn't possible to reduce the brightness of the LEDs. That's because the interface for controlling the LEDs is too slow. Normally LEDs are dimmed by blinking them really fast, as other methods are hard on the lights.

What I suggested doesn't work. Edited accordingly.
"if you amplify everything, nothing is heard"

geoffcorey said:
Make a backup of the file first.
If you look in /system/lib/hw/ there is a file called lights.s5pc110.so. back this up, then delete the original file and see if this disabled you button back light.
(i honestly don't know if this will work or not)
"if you amplify everything, nothing is heard"
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Do not do this. The file doesn't do what you think it does and removing this file will cause a boot loop.

I'm also interested in this. Anyone know anything yet?

Notification LED

Hi, since the note lacks notification LEDs, is BLN ready for it now?

noled works.

I did try noled but sometimes in dark area the black around the icons seems to be not black as it is when it's in suspend mode. my conclusion is that it's consuming to much battery at that time.
power button to wake ain't working too.
what about your experiences at all using noled right now?
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Noled is working fine for me. Doesn't seem to use up too much juice. Leaving GPS and bluetooth on overnight however almost depleted the battery from full.

I love using NoLed, definitely my favourite application. I have it set to display my contacts picture and so whenever I have missed a call from a friend and receives a text from another, I am aware of this by a simple glance!
Battery life isn't significantly effected in my opinion (I have the icon size small/medium and brightness set low).
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Hi there newbie here, are these apps? so are downloaded from android or what?

My Motorola Flipout also don't have nonfiction light, but the capacitive buttons blinks when there is a miss call text/email. I wonder how difficult it is to implement it on our Note?

Bigmille said:
My Motorola Flipout also don't have nonfiction light, but the capacitive buttons blinks when there is a miss call text/email. I wonder how difficult it is to implement it on our Note?
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This is a great idea! I hope a capable developer reads your post and considers it.

stedj said:
Hi there newbie here, are these apps? so are downloaded from android or what?
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yes, it's an app available in the market.
- Frank

maxh said:
This is a great idea! I hope a capable developer reads your post and considers it.
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Seconded, this is such a simple and great idea

Well at least there's a sysfs to control the state. It's just a plain on and off leds though, nothing fancy like per-button lights and brightness as in Dell Streak. No big deal for some distracting blinks
Light it on with
# echo "1" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/brightness
Light off with
# echo "2" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/brightness
It won't be controllable when it's sleeping though, as usual. So either wake lock (battery drain), modify keyboard driver, or a *very top secret* other method

Can't it be done like in the Dell Streak 5?
App's name is Streak LED.
Isn't it possible to write something like that? Would be ideal.

surely this app not a battery hog? I already felt bad on my battery @@ but I also want a notification light.... tough choice.

i would love the capacitive touch led´s light up when a message arrive. My Dell Streak has an app for it, its just great!
@watch_mania
is it a big deal to write an app for it?
thanks in advance

breckbit said:
i would love the capacitive touch led´s light up when a message arrive. My Dell Streak has an app for it, its just great!
@watch_mania
is it a big deal to write an app for it?
thanks in advance
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There are several ways to implement the feature, each with their own weaknesses. I'll aim for the best solution, but I'll need to check on the melfas touchkey driver for it. Worse case is the wake lock with root access.
It's going to be implemented for sure, as I badly needs the feature as well. It's just a question of when..
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Yeah, I believe also the touch keys are the best solution for me to use them for notifications.

Have been running NoLED for a couple of days (ish useful) - however, checked the battery stats and it was awake a LONG time (15% of 13hrs?) and was around 10% of battery usage.
Have turned it off for now as I sit next to my phone for most of working day and therefore hear it as much as I see it.
Will re-evaluate once I've optimised the phone setup.
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koniakki said:
the touch keys are the best solution for me to use them for notifications.
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I donno why it will turn of itself suddenly, how to keep it always on?

NOLED doesn't work for me...
Well, mates, Noled is not working for me...
Just the option to see the recharge % on the lockscreen...
It worked just once for a sms notification and after that....oblivion
Someone else with the same issue? I am trying to find out a new app with similar options...

try putting the widget on your homescreen, i dont know why but it tends to randomly turn off

HTC One 4.2.2 update pros and cons

I updated my ONE to 4.2.2 around 3 days ago. Needless to say its a pretty cool and major update. Still some observations..
Mentioned in Update Changelog
DayDream
Improved menu button
Notification Bar
Quick settings
AE|AF lock
Back buton = start of Blinkfeed
Some of the good stuff which wasnt mentioned in the log
Gallery has removed the extra step to go to events,albums etc
App drawer animation is waaay smoother
Dynamic contrast now doesnt flicker the screen [I think]
If you have multiple types of numbers stored for a contact, it comes up in small just above the message from the type the message has come
Some of the Issues I found
Normal mode in camera produces a blue tinge in the view finder
BoomSound volume is a little lesser
Power saving mode has degraded. Or maybe the brightness level has been increased. Something has changed in that
One more - I got Wechat preinstalled after this update!
Any of you facing any issues?

I saw nothing wrong with the camera.
But i hav one priblem since 4.1.2 the keyboard flicker sometime, does anybody hav this also??
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Can someone who has 4.2.2 comment as to whether there is still a waiting period when sending group messages? What I mean is that when you send a group mms message, there is a small popup with a blue circle that says "Please wait..." Is that still the case? Thanks.

I can confirm too that boomsound sounds a little lesser. and the camera I tested In a bright sunny day, in the screen is something (better I think) and them the picture taken is a little warmer.
The sky quality even in sunny day have a very bad quality. its like 8bit blue color.

my sound isnt as loud anymore and i think my battery got worse, i get 1 hour less screen time -_-

Sound is down for sure but my guess is that some people blew their speakers with very loud files I assume this is a "fix"

Power saver mode doesn't work after update.... Seriously need to fix it soon
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cons:
- proximity issue
- crackling noise during call

dsymbol said:
cons:
- proximity issue
- crackling noise during call
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Yeah proximity issue. Once a call starts, suddenly the screen would go black and I have to toggle the power button to turn it on. And when you do that, it wont turn off i.e the proximity wont work.

I have no issues with the camera, seems very good still to me...I get the proximity issue though it seems intermittent, I don't really use the speakers to be fair so not sure about the difference there. They still kick the crap out of any other phone I've heard so can't complain! I also think my battery isn't as good as it was though I'm getting there with it. Think the settings are just a little different. I did notice that there seem to be two auto-brightness settings by default if you tap the brightness in quick settings there is a bright and a dim auto-brightness by the looks of it to me.....might be wrong (and I dont mean powersaver auto-brightness, that is lower again!)

Since the 4.2.2 update, my wifi takes between 2-4 attempts before it successfully connects to my d-link router, i also have an Huawei router and it`s the same, before the update it only took one attempt
Also the new drop down setting list, wifi, bluetooth ect. where is the GPS one.
John.

Videos didnt work after update
I have videos downloaded in my videos folder wich were running fine before ota 4.2.2 update. but after update video extension were not supported anymore.
i am running htc stock videoplayer only

Battery... battery took a hit, and not a small one.
I'd say 20% is just gone... and "Kernel (Android OS)" looks to be the bad guy who's ****ing things up.

battery life has gone down

Worth noting that I had massive wakelocks from 7 Digital so disabled that and my battery seems better already.....

djq said:
battery life has gone down
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Mine went down for the first couple of days but now seems to have settled down and if anything is slightly better.
Seems the battery needs to recalibrate over a few charge cycles.

15% and 100% battery level notification sound, wish i could disable it

NextNexus said:
Can someone who has 4.2.2 comment as to whether there is still a waiting period when sending group messages? What I mean is that when you send a group mms message, there is a small popup with a blue circle that says "Please wait..." Is that still the case? Thanks.
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Anyone?

Also i think it takes more time to charge now..
As people mentioned, battery might need 3-4 cycles to recalibrate...
And yes dynamic contrast flickering has stopped. Screen doesn't into an infinite loop trying to adjust the brightness on a white background screen. Need more confirmation though..
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Battery is horrible, I got my update about a week ago and no improvements. In fact, after first charge since 4.2.2 battery was EXCELLENT. But since then, it's awful. Power saving mode is not working, I had it on all the time because phone would overheat in these temperatures. (40+ degrees).
I am seriously thinking about rooting my phone and installing Paranoid Android on it, I love Sense but 4.2.2 just made the phone worse in my opinion
The only thing that's keeping me from moving it's the boom sound + beats audio.

LED notifier

Hi
Just over from the Z2 forum (was going to buy one) but there are LED problems when using LED manager or light flow. Only RGB, not easy to see, doesn't always work. Had the M8 for 2 days and returned it as LED notifier was shocking. Have an S3 and want to upgrade to something different so wondered how the G2 faired in this area as a problematic/basic/small LED notifier is a deal breaker for me.
Thanks for any thoughts

I am using Light Flow with my G2. Initially, I had to do a factory reset to get it working but I believe that was caused by restoration of data by google servers when I switched devices. I disabled that auto-backup and restore, reset, and Light Flow has worked perfectly ever since. BTW, do not worry that disabling backup/restore/sync with Google Servers means your contacts and calendar won't restore, this is something different). All you really lose when disabling the auto-backup and restore is stuff like Wi-Fi Connection info, a few preferences and such, which I hardly noticed.

Klotar said:
I am using Light Flow with my G2. Initially, I had to do a factory reset to get it working but I believe that was caused by restoration of data by google servers when I switched devices. I disabled that auto-backup and restore, reset, and Light Flow has worked perfectly ever since. BTW, do not worry that disabling backup/restore/sync with Google Servers means your contacts and calendar won't restore, this is something different). All you really lose when disabling the auto-backup and restore is stuff like Wi-Fi Connection info, a few preferences and such, which I hardly noticed.
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Thanks. Do you get all the colours. Is the LED bright and easily noticeable?

Yes, it's bright and noticeable. Same brightness to me (as the Samsung GS3 which was my previous device, too). Not as bright as on my older BlackBerry devices but on those devices, the LED aperature wasn't round, it was more oval/oblong, so it emitted more light.
Definitely not a wishy-washy dim light though, but also does not completely light up a dark room at night. I feel that it's just right (subjective, of course).
Edit/Add: if you do get a G2 and install Light Flow, just get it working first before installing any other apps (other than at least one 3rd party app) JUST to make sure it's working. That way, if you do need to reset, you haven't installed all your other apps yet.
Also, I forgot to mention the colours. It supports the usual range of colours, you can also set custom colours I assume by RGB (I have never tried, as there seem to be enough colours for my use). 13 presets plus custom.

Klotar said:
Yes, it's bright and noticeable. Same brightness to me (as the Samsung GS3 which was my previous device, too). Not as bright as on my older BlackBerry devices but on those devices, the LED aperature wasn't round, it was more oval/oblong, so it emitted more light.
Definitely not a wishy-washy dim light though, but also does not completely light up a dark room at night. I feel that it's just right (subjective, of course).
Edit/Add: if you do get a G2 and install Light Flow, just get it working first before installing any other apps (other than at least one 3rd party app) JUST to make sure it's working. That way, if you do need to reset, you haven't installed all your other apps yet.
Also, I forgot to mention the colours. It supports the usual range of colours, you can also set custom colours I assume by RGB (I have never tried, as there seem to be enough colours for my use). 13 presets plus custom.
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This is great especially as you had an S3 so can properly compare. I'm going to get one. Are the buttons on the back really as annoying as some reviewers make out?

jamesbond_28_007 said:
This is great especially as you had an S3 so can properly compare. I'm going to get one. Are the buttons on the back really as annoying as some reviewers make out?
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The buttons on the back are great. And you'll hardly use them anyway as knock on turns the phone on and off. So I've hardly even touched the power button.

ksc6000 said:
The buttons on the back are great. And you'll hardly use them anyway as knock on turns the phone on and off. So I've hardly even touched the power button.
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Took the words right out of my mouth.

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Took the words right out of my mouth.
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Guys you've been awesome. Have a great weekend.

Light Flow

hi friends. how can remove light flow notification from status bar

settings/apps/lightflow/notifications - block all

mbonus said:
settings/apps/lightflow/notifications - block all
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i think if i blocked the notifiations led not work ? .. i will try thanks

You can disable from within Light Flow, same as I have done:
Settings > Persistant Icon > Run in Foreground (disable)

Don't seem to have this option in the latest paid version

Screen shot below

It's not possible in the latest version. The developer explained why in a blog post: http://www.reactle.com/2015/10/changes-for-android-6-marshmallow.html

Frank_Murphy said:
It's not possible in the latest version. The developer explained why in a blog post: http://www.reactle.com/2015/10/changes-for-android-6-marshmallow.html
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This explanation makes it seem like using lightflow will effectively prevent your phone from dozing properly.

nonnasmyladie said:
This explanation makes it seem like using lightflow will effectively prevent your phone from dozing properly.
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Based on my experience, it looks like that is indeed the case. If you have an active notification with an LED pulsing, the battery will drain significantly even while the screen is off. Yesterday, I had a couple of active notifications with rotating LED patterns and I decided not to clear them and let the phone sit to test the effect on the battery. It went from 40% to 27% in a little over an hour.

It's not clear to me from the developers explanation above if Lightfoot prevents dozing from working at all. But I have light flow installed and running and haven't seen doze mode yet.

Frank_Murphy said:
Based on my experience, it looks like that is indeed the case. If you have an active notification with an LED pulsing, the battery will drain significantly even while the screen is off. Yesterday, I had a couple of active notifications with rotating LED patterns and I decided not to clear them and let the phone sit to test the effect on the battery. It went from 40% to 27% in a little over an hour.
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The exact same thing happened to me, except i have Light Manager. I thought it was the LED too but wasn't sure. So i'm gonna uninstall or disable it. A real shame since this app is awesome.