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How many LED's and what for?

Can you please tell me how many LED's are on Trinity and what kind of missing calls, messages notifications are present, hopefuly via LED which rapidly changing colors?

In the manual it says:
Left LED:
This LED shows the following:
• A blinking Blue light for Bluetooth system
notification of powered-up and ready to transmit
radio frequency signal.
• A blinking Green light for Wi-Fi status.
• When both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are enabled, their
lights blink alternately.
Right LED:
This (bi-color) LED shows Green and Amber lights
for UMTS/GSM standby, UMTS/GSM message,
UMTS/GSM network status, notification, and battery
charging status.
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so, when I miss phonecall or sms this right LED will notify me by changing lights all the time until I confirm event, how visible it is? It is very important to me that just by looking at phone I know I have something to check.

Took me a while to check, but here it is:
When charging, the right LED will show a steady amber light, it turns steady green when fully charged. When not charging, the right LED will blink green to indicate GSM reception.
When you have recived a sms, or a call, which you didn't answer, the right LED will, whether it is charging or not, start to blink amber until you have read the sms, or have seen the incoming number.
So in short, blinking amber right LED is either a missed call, or sms.(probably mms too)

That's it, I'm planing to buy this wonder and your input is very helpful, thank you very much!

Solution to LED notifications

While browsing this, I discovered a possible solution to replace LED notifications. I believe a little more than 9 pixels would be fine however, maybe it pongs around the screen like a screensaver.
The good thing about AMOLED screens is that when a pixels display a true black color (#000000) it's actually completely turned off that pixel, in fact displaying true 480x800 black image on the SGS screen resemble turning the screen off. so i was thinking what if the screen was completely black except for few pixels in the coroner that are green to indicate miss calls, the screen will only consume power to keep these few pixels on, the rest of pixels will not consume any power.
To demo this, i made this 480x800 image with all pixels black except for 9 green pixels on the top left corner, you can save it and try it in your SGS full screen, as for the power consumption, the screen have a total of 480x800=384000 pixels, of which only 9 is on, so 9/384000=0.002% of the screen power only consumed to keep these 9 pixels on.
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brilliant! thats so smart, how do you set this to show up tho? is there a setting for this? or would it require mods?

Sounds great but I guess it'll require mods.
But he's wrong when saying "black is like display off" since there's still the backlight which uses battery
Edit // or am I wrong? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=706640

I think u r wrong. .. I remember. Reading that old have no backlight. That is why they save power over conventional displays.

AMOLED doesn't have a back light.
It has True blacks. I.E. when displaying the black color, it just doesn't turn on.
LCD's, to be visible, need a backlight/sidelight.

Yea but in that case would'nt it need a back light to illuminate the 9 bright pixels??

OLED displays are made up of tiny organic LEDs (light-emitting diodes), so each subpixel emits its own light - the display is black when they're off. Different amounts of light emitted from the different colour subpixels gives a pixel with an overall colour. So if only 9 pixels are lit, only those 9 pixels are consuming power. This also means that brighter and whiter images use more power.
This is in contrast to a LCD, where there's a backlight that makes the entire display white when all the subpixels are off. Liquid crystal subpixels block the light to varying degrees in order to produce the image; each subpixel has a red, green or blue filter to produce colour. Therefore the image is subtractive from a white background. The power consumption doesn't really vary depending on the image being displayed, because the backlight is always on over the whole screen.
However, I don't know if the CPU would be able to sleep with the display "on", even if the display itself isn't consuming much power.

Nope. Only the nine pixels will be switched on. No backlight involved.

Mithent said:
However, I don't know if the CPU would be able to sleep with the display "on", even if the display itself isn't consuming much power.
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Hmmmm good point. Maybe in slo-mo power saving mode ;p

I prefer if the menu and back buttons would flash

Will.1 said:
Hmmmm good point. Maybe in slo-mo power saving mode ;p
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Well, lets see if it does. Besides a few circuits keeping the screen ready, I don't think the display will use much power. To test we can try this and note the battery change with this on and find the delta battery percentage over time ratio and again with the screen off. I think the CPU will go idle if the display is not doing anything.
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I prefer if the menu and back buttons would flash
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Me too, but this is just another way if that fails. I don't know if anyone has tried to do this yet.

Red LED appears

A friend who just got an EVO a few weeks ago suddenly has a red LED lit continuously when the phone is on. Everything seems to be working correctly. The LED does occasionally blink off, but is on most of the time. Tried rebooting and changing a few settings. His EVO is completely stock, no root (yet).
Anyone know what this is about?

Couldn't honestly say. Probably its a bug in the stock Rom. Once he root and flash a custom Rom , it may go away
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if its on the right side of the earpiece speaker then thats the 4G notification led
let me know what side

When looking at the front of the phone, it's on the left side of the earpiece. It's the same (or very close to) the green/amber Power LED.

I was looking at my friend's EVO again tonight- I noticed that the red LED that's appearing is right below the green/amber POWER LED. It's hard to see the actual colors, but I took the picture to show location. The LED on top is amber [charging]. The one immediately below it goes off when the screen is off, but is otherwise on all the time.
Has anyone ever seen this before?
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I was looking at my friend's EVO again tonight- I noticed that the red LED that's appearing is right below the green/amber POWER LED. It's hard to see the actual colors, but I took the picture to show location. The LED on top is amber [charging]. The one immediately below it goes off when the screen is off, but is otherwise on all the time.
Has anyone ever seen this before?
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Thats the light sensor when you make a call and you put it to the face it turns off your screen when your talking that phone maybe came defective

Weird red led to the right of the speaker

Edit: it's the infrared proximity sensor... Never been so disappointed...
I have a 4G model, europe, xt1039, running stock 4.4.4, and I noticed something while chatting on hangouts in the dark: there is a red led to the right of our speaker!!!
What is weird is that it doesn't light up unless I am in a hangouts conversation (not conversation list or the app, you need to enter a conversation).
Can someone else try and confirm? Note, it is very dim, make sure you are in complete darkness and brightness is minimum.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Go in a dark, black room and set brightness to minimum.
2. Go in hangouts and open a conversation, a red dim light should show up to the right of the speaker (the other side from the led light)
Edit, got pictures. (But it's actually dimmer than in the pictures)
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I invite you to read these tips from @matmutant to go further.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=57006196
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vlt96 said:
I have a 4G model, europe, xt1039, running stock 4.4.4, and I noticed something while chatting on hangouts in the dark: there is a red led to the right of our speaker!!!
What is weird is that it doesn't light up unless I am in a hangouts conversation (not conversation list or the app, you need to enter a conversation).
Can someone else try and confirm? Note, it is very dim, make sure you are in complete darkness and brightness is minimum.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Go in a dark, black room and set brightness to minimum.
2. Go in hangouts and open a conversation, a red dim light should show up to the right of the speaker (the other side from the led light)
Edit, got pictures. (But it's actually dimmer than in the pictures)
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I believe that's the proximity sensor. Used to sense when you put the phone to your ear so the phone can turn the screen off. Why you are seeing it - I don't know - it's infrared.

vlt96 said:
I have a 4G model, europe, xt1039, running stock 4.4.4, and I noticed something while chatting on hangouts in the dark: there is a red led to the right of our speaker!!!
What is weird is that it doesn't light up unless I am in a hangouts conversation (not conversation list or the app, you need to enter a conversation).
Can someone else try and confirm? Note, it is very dim, make sure you are in complete darkness and brightness is minimum.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Go in a dark, black room and set brightness to minimum.
2. Go in hangouts and open a conversation, a red dim light should show up to the right of the speaker (the other side from the led light)
Edit, got pictures. (But it's actually dimmer than in the pictures)
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To what i've seen about this, this is the proximity sensor that is on (I head previously seen it when using AcDisplay and its active mode that uses proximity sensor to wake the screen)
To reproduce screen off: use AcDisplay and enable active mode

Yep I see it on mine too - nothing to worry about

dominati said:
I believe that's the proximity sensor. Used to sense when you put the phone to your ear so the phone can turn the screen off. Why you are seeing it - I don't know - it's infrared.
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This is mostly infra red, but in our case there are some deep red leaking too, that we can (hardly) see

Oh, it goes on in CPU Z too, but why is it there in hangouts?

vlt96 said:
Oh, it goes on in CPU Z too, but why is it there in hangouts?
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hangouts allows you to make voip calls, so of course it uses the sensor
don't know if it's normal for it to be active in a SMS/message.

LOL OP!
That's your proximity sensor.

Anon321 said:
LOL OP!
That's your proximity sensor.
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When my other 2 phones don't do that, I got surprised (checked my S3 mini, it doesn't have the infrared visible)

Yup even on my moto e...i noticed red light quite often..
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vlt96 said:
When my other 2 phones don't do that, I got surprised (checked my S3 mini, it doesn't have the infrared visible)
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Don't compare apples to oranges.
Mine is Moto G 4G. I can see it too. As for Samsung I don't know, nor do I like their phones.

Blue tint on the edge on s10+ is it normal or faulthy device?

I can only see it on white background normally when i hold the device and is more noticible when slide the phone:
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Same here

I can notice it always on white or very light background while i normally hold it its barely visible but as i slide om one side it dissapiers and it shows more on the other side can anyone tell me is this normal or defect..

I also noticed a pink hue with white background if screen is tilted more than
30 degrees...

Normal. Been this way since S8/N8. You won't notice the effect with dark themes.

Could it be the pre-installed screen protector?

Modern AMOLEDs will shift colours when not at optimal angles, they're intended to be used perfectly parallel to your view, that's perfectly normal and won't be fixed until MicroLED becomes real on mobile.
Besides that, I suggest you to enable vivid mode and choose a white temperature of your taste, you'll find the ideal white being closer to the blue end, but that works directly against the embedded blue-light filter of this generation and can disturb your health.

Seems normal...

Just 1 reason why the curves are useless and annoying

This is normal. I remember on my S8 there was an option to adjust the hue/color of the screen edge areas... I cannot seem to find it on my S10+ though.

I thought all of this was normal as well until I did an exchange. I had the purple/pink shift at even the slightest angle and the discolored edges. I exchanged my phone for a later production date model and my screen is as perfectly balanced as it gets. I highly suggest an exchange if you can notice the shift

TheAnarchist1 said:
I thought all of this was normal as well until I did an exchange. I had the purple/pink shift at even the slightest angle and the discolored edges. I exchanged my phone for a later production date model and my screen is as perfectly balanced as it gets. I highly suggest an exchange if you can notice the shift
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I have tested all phones at our restores and they also shifted a bit to a tint of grey-green color. Wouldn't say blue, but sometimes can our eyes see it as that. However, purple/pink tint as it happened to you its completely different than what the guy here asked for. And if it occurs, then yes. Change your phone. Otherwise it's all normal. I've been tested like 11 phones and every one of them including mine has that.
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its the angle at which the edge falls down to. its like a prism instead of white light your getting the next color on the color wheel white blue cyan green yellow orange and red. if you look at the edge without looking at the phone straight down you see the change from blue to white as you move the phone to the edges

SO long as it's not green you're good to go.
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