Hi. Feel free to move this thread if it's in the wrong section.
So here's the deal. I have a Note 3 with S-cover. And I love it. But I miss the LED-notifications. So I poked a hole in the cover, where the LED should be. But it seems the phone registers that I have a S-cover, and tries to save battery, by disabling LED when it is closed.
Is there any way to force the phone to display LED while the cover is closed?
Thank you.
Also, I'm on 4.4.2, Omega rom v23. I need to use a TW based rom in order for S-View to work properly.
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My flash is keep on or sometimes flashing. I don't know how to turn it off..when I take the battery out, it will off, but once I put the battery back, the light is on..
Anyone can help me? Thanks
Camera Flash on all time
I am facing the same problem... the flash keeps flickering n does not switch off.
It only switches off when turned on/off using the camera. Still after some time it switches on again...
I was told on on forum that it is a hardware problem. I am considering opening it and breaking the flash LED so it is gone
In any case the flash is quite useless as it does not make much difference to the quality of the picture :|
I had this problem as well. I called warranty service and they replaced my device
same here flashlight flashing like a disco
even when the device is off, and this is lame, any solutions?? seems only 1 of the 3 leds does that. please anyone can guide us on this? its a wizard
I too had this problem on one of my wizards. It is the camera flash board itself that is bad, not the main motherboard. I simply removed my flash, it was useless anyways. But now I know if I want to fix it I need to find a broken wizard and harvest its flash board. I was able to test this by putting a known working flash into the phone that was previously giving me problems and it work flawlessly.
To remove the flash:
1. Take off back battery cover.
2. Using a small flathead screwdriver carefully pry off the camera cover, it just clips into place.
3. Carefully pry up black housing around camera flash and camera lens.
4. Remove flash board from black housing.
5. Put it all back together.
Jeff
Of course, I am not responsible for whatever you do to your phone.
Hey guys!
first of all I did a search in all sub-forums and honestly it didn't help. so I'm asking here
I tried to find an original quickwindow cover in my city, but no success. so I went for a replica
It's working fine, but has a really annoying problem. when I flip the cover and fold it to the back of the phone (which is kinda necessary to use it with one hand). this leads to quickwindow widgets enabled and screen become useless.
I'm using Cloudyflex rom. I need to know if this is normal? or it's because of higher than standard magnet in this fake cover that make the sensor activated even from back! or perhaps rom related (which I doubted, based on my search)
thanks in advance
pooyab said:
Hey guys!
first of all I did a search in all sub-forums and honestly it didn't help. so I'm asking here
I tried to find an original quickwindow cover in my city, but no success. so I went for a replica
It's working fine, but has a really annoying problem. when I flip the cover and fold it to the back of the phone (which is kinda necessary to use it with one hand). this leads to quickwindow widgets enabled and screen become useless.
I'm using Cloudyflex rom. I need to know if this is normal? or it's because of higher than standard magnet in this fake cover that make the sensor activated even from back! or perhaps rom related (which I doubted, based on my search)
thanks in advance
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Hey,
I think is your case,
it's work perfect with Cloudyflex or CloudyPro !
Hello again
So i got a i9505 s4 dirt cheap (20euros), the screen was broken, last owner said it stopped working when he tried installing cyanogenmod.
I ordered new screen(original), installed stock rom and it got stuck in sview, i tried everything and nothing worked.
Next i tried rom called aosb (i don't remember if its the correct name, similar to cyanogenmod) it got me to home screen, for 15sec it worked great but then screen went black, phone was still going but everytime i tried to unlock it went black again.
Next i took phone apart, maybe i missed something or frogot to connect, but everything looked good. I googeled for possible problems and found that the proximity sensor(next to the top speaker) maybe broken, disconnected it and still same result. For testing purpose i disconnected front camera and phone worked, but only for 20min when the android tried to update gapps and then i was stuck at not able to unlock again.
Took phone apart third time, cleaned all the contacts etc, installed cyanogenmod and it works, but without front camera.
So my questions are
1. Has anyone ever seen anything like this?
2. Is there a way to use back camera without front one being connected? i can live without front camera
3. Why it goes to sview with stock rom?
Sorry for my english.
I hope somebody can help me.
Sir Tox said:
So my questions are
1. Has anyone ever seen anything like this?
2. Is there a way to use back camera without front one being connected? i can live without front camera
3. Why it goes to sview with stock rom?
Sorry for my english.
I hope somebody can help me.
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Well try changing the ear piece module..its something in it maybe.. the proximity sensors are with the earpiece module..
1. Sview random appearances have been noted by many, there must be more to the mystery of this broken S4. A possible magnet sensor error..try disabling it via the xposed modules..anyhow.
2. Well you disconnect the font cam and everything works fine? Eh..never heard something like that..
3. Maybe because of a broken/weird magnetic sensor. As i said..
Plus are you sure without breaking rhe flex you removed and replaced and removed..
Your front cam not working could be because of a bad connection too..
Best is to try *#0*# in the phone menu and try testing the front cam and everything to check whether everything works fine
All the best
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more and more often my wife's S4 will turn into a black screen with the time at the top of screen...this will happen at random times she says, checking texts or looking at gallery pic's.
she has a generic phone case with a magnet to close the full cover (not a windowed cover.) BUT, like me, she leaves this full cover open (bent backwards and the magnet holds it that way) ALL of the time. i'm thinking the phone decides to go into Sview mode or something?? is there a way i can turn this feature off, or fix this problem another way??
BTW, she is running Android 4.4.4
thanks for any insight! --- art
bump?
Seems like you should be able to turn it off somehow. However, it might be a software issue in the case a data factory reset should fix it. If it's a hardware issue then I would take it to my provider or Best Buy to look at it.
i removed the case yesterday and it hasn't happened ... yet! hopefully that fixed it. thanks for the reply Stoney!
I have had a Samsung LED case since I first bought the S7E back in 2016. It still works well but only with official Samsung firmware versions.
I can understand that their is some proprietary code in there to detect the cover, but on the custom ROM I'm currently using, not even the open and close function switches the screen on and off.
I was wondering how difficult it might be to incorporate the relevant Samsung routines into a custom ROM to give either
a) Screen on /off when the cover is opened and closed
or
b) the above plus full LED functionality as experienced in Samsung firmware.
I'm not a dev, but it may assist others to implement such features.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks