Always visible clock - Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other

Hi all,
it's been several days since I've started looking for some way how to make my Wings show clock while the backlight is off. I use a Smarttoolkit app, which is very usefull and handy. It has an automatic keylocker with a clock screensaver. I used to forget about the watches, so I would really appreciate this function..
Now the question (to which I haven't still been able to find the answer) is, whether:
1a) it is possible to make the phone to show anything (clock) while the backlight is off
and
1b) is there any app which provides this feature (free or paid)
or
2) is there a possibility to make Smarttoolkit not to switch the backlight off (even if in win control panel is the backlight set to indefinite). This solution would be of course worse but better than nothing.
Thanks for any tips!

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Backlit Automatic Brightness

Hello,
It is pretty annoying to adjust the Brightness of the Touch Cruise.
Is there a Program that adjust the Brightness automatically?
Or maybe by a Day / Night Schedule.
Or at least toggling the brightness by pushing a button (camera for example).
Maybe you deleted the icon from your launcher tab, but there is a shortcut you can add back that'll cycle through 4 different brighness levels. I don't see this as an option for actual assignment to a hardware button though...
There are applications out there that allow you to map brightness control to a button. MVBacklight or something like that. Try searching in the forums you'll find it.
Maybe combine it with those apps from tytnguy which are
able to start/toggle command line apps by cell location and/or
scheduled. But I think its a bit tricky...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1510083&postcount=7
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=49650&d=1189161026
Olioaglio

[APP] NoLED v6.0.19 - Use the AMOLED screen for incoming notifications

Before asking questions, please read the FAQ.
Introduction:
I saw the idea posted somewhere previously that instead of getting the capacitive lights on, we really should be putting the phone's AMOLED screen to work ! specially that it doesn't consume any backlight energy when displaying a black screen. So I developed an app that does just that: upon receiving a notification, it will display a black screen with a dot or icon somewhere in the screen. I really should put these in bullet points..
Description:
the application does the following:
1. When your phone receives a notification, it switches the screen on and displays a notification. The notification bounces around every 3 seconds (changeable via an option). This will guarantee using different LEDs so that the same ones won't be burned out.
2. You can customize whether to have a dot or an icon for each type of supported notification. Users may also customize the colors of these icons/dots.
3. NoLED will work with SMS/MMS, Gtalk, Gmail, Missed calls, Voicemail, Calendar and K-9 (email client) without any additional permissions. Any other 3rd party software (e.g. Whatsapp, Email app, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) will need to be checked under Monitored Apps and will require granting Accessibility rights to NoLED.
4. The app runs as a service, after installing, you have two ways to activate the app. (a) by restarting. (b) by loading the widget into your home screen and clicking on it.
5. To get rid of the notification screen, you may use the home or the back key. You can enable dismissal via more keys in the Miscellaneous submenu. Once your notifications are dismissed, all notifications disappear and will not come back up.
I have also logged the touch drivers and saw that although I'm displaying a black screen and setting flags to not respond to touch messages, android is still receiving touch messages when you touch any spot on the screen. This, I imagine, consumes resources! So I disabled the touch drivers when the black screen is active. Dismissing the notifications should reactive the touch drivers. If your screen is unresponsive to touch even after the notification screen is dismissed, a simple restart should take care of it. There is also an option to completely disable that feature. The touch drivers are only disabled on the Samsung Galaxy S variants, all other devices are still receptive to touch events.
Now the touchscreen drivers were a lot easier to mess around with. The sourcecode given by samsung helped me achieve the activation/deactivation of the screen. Things are not the same with the capacitive buttons. You'll notice that when the black screen is on, if you touch any of the soft buttons, they'll light up (although am suppressing them programatically). On some other devices like the Nexus S, these backlights cannot be switched off once the screen is turned on programatically. This is a bug from Google and more info is in the FAQ.
Video review:
Thank you totallydubbedHD for giving us this neat preview of the app:
Themes:
Want to change the default icons that ship with NoLED?
Check out Themes:
http://www.devasque.com/noled/themes.php
Official web site:
http://www.devasque.com/noled/
Translations:
NoLED is translated into several languages thanks to our army of volunteers ! More details can be found at: http://www.devasque.com/noled/translations.php
If you think you can help expand that list, please see this link
I appreciate all the help we can get on this.
Enjoy ! Comments and feedback will be appreciated
Update 8/11/2010: Application is now on the Android Market.
If you like this work and want to motivate and encourage further development, please consider a donation
Thanks
Change log
v6.0.19 6/5/2013
Added Vietnamese, updated Italian and Ukranian (Thanks nhh1994, 4lex and Olex)
Support Gmail 4.5 and new tabbed inbox
NoLED will insert a .nomedia in the custom themes folder so as not to show these themes in your Gallery app
Please go to http://www.devasque.com/noled/change.php for the complete change log.
NoLED Weather
v0.8 10/23/2012
Weather should now reflect current city more accurately; it will choose the first returned search result.
v0.7 10/10/2012
Weather was not automatically updating after a restart. Now it does.
v0.5 9/13/2012
Fixed an issue where geolocator was causing auto-update to stop working.
v0.4 9/6/2012
Updated language files
Changed weather provider to MSN. Google just quietly killed their APIs
Changed geolocator timeout to 90 seconds (used to be 20 seconds)
v0.3 1/26/2012
Added Geolocation using Wireless networks (no physical GPS will be used).
-it will give up wireless location discovery after 20 seconds (will release all wakelocks).
-if timedout, weather will query the latest weather location on record.
Removed the noled weather icon from the app launcher (i personally found it so ugly and useless). Instead, you access the weather app/plug-in via the NoLED settings under toggle notifications (requires NoLED > v5.0.1b).
FAQ
Please go to http://www.devasque.com/noled/FAQ.php.
Can this dot be made to look like a mail icon for SMS ... "!" for missed call etc?
Perfect, BIG thanks. One less issue with SGS
this is a very clever idea.
I tried it out, but it isnt working for me on my Samsung Captivate
andy2na said:
this is a very clever idea.
I tried it out, but it isnt working for me on my Samsung Captivate
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Strange, it really should work.
Did you lock the screen and unlock once after installation ? Try sending a sms to yourself from another phone while the screen is off. Then wait for about 10 seconds (enough time for the whole screen to light up, go off, and then show a notification). Let me know if this still doesn't work, the captivate might have different screen timeouts than our galaxy S.
No working
Its now working on my SGS.
The reason could be > I have lost my default notifications after sd card fix. I do have a media folder on my sdcard/sd with default samsung tones which i copied before the fix on to my ext sd.
Any solutions ?
rkadve said:
Its now working on my SGS.
The reason could be > I have lost my default notifications after sd card fix. I do have a media folder on my sdcard/sd with default samsung tones which i copied before the fix on to my ext sd.
Any solutions ?
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I would say try to sms from another phone, or give yourself a missed call to see if the application is running. These should work regardless of where you placed your notification tones.
If these do work, then make sure you place your notification tones in /sdcard/sd/media/audio/notifications , playing any of them should trigger the notification.
Unfortunatly not working for me too. Using JG1 and modaco´s r2. All default ringtones selected.
Would love to get this working.
Bajo76 said:
Unfortunatly not working for me too. Using JG1 and modaco´s r2. All default ringtones selected.
Would love to get this working.
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Can you go to Settings > Applications > Running Services and see whether NoLED is listed there ?
suggestions that i don't think would consume too much power:
Have different images for different notifications, as suggested before: phone icon for call, mail icon for mail, sms icon for sms etc.
Also make possible to have all the different icons at once, so if i have missed a text message and a mail, there would be 2 icons on the screen at the same time.
Also have a number for how many of missed text's, mails i have missed on the corresponding icon.
Make the image jump to a different random spot every few second, so it won't just stay in one place and so be bad for the panel. (dunno if this would consume too much energy).
madmack said:
Can you go to Settings > Applications > Running Services and see whether NoLED is listed there ?
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yes it is listed
yep, locked and unlocked it. it is also listed in the running services
buddy01 said:
suggestions that i don't think would consume too much power:
Have different images for different notifications, as suggested before: phone icon for call, mail icon for mail, sms icon for sms etc.
Make the image jump to a different random spot every few second, so it won't just stay in one place and so be bad for the panel. (dunno if this would consume too much energy).
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I think these are two great ideas. I'll try to implement them if I get sometime. I will try to set a different icon/color for each notification, and make them move around every few seconds. This might have a hit on cpu utilization, but its well worth a try.
Bajo76 said:
yes it is listed
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With what are you testing the application btw ? Are you sending an email to yourself ? If you turn the screen off, send an email that has a default samsung ringtone, do you receive anything?
I tested it with my phone at home calling my mobile. And i´m getting emails all the way but unfortunatly no red dot on screen.
Is this app in the market? I can't see it in the op on the xda app.
Now it is working. Changed the ringtone (the old one selected was also a dtandard ringtone) and rebooted.
Now it works!
How come this method got so quickly made, but the other method still isn't functional? (talking about the other thread)
INeedYourHelp said:
How come this method got so quickly made, but the other method still isn't functional? (talking about the other thread)
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well, the android SDK allows for programs like this to exist, the SDK has no APIs to support lighting up the soft buttons. that's why.
also, the drivers for the backlight are disabled and enabled in ways that we don't fully understand yet.
Very impressed so far! Definitely something I'll donate to in the future if it gets a few more features.
What I'd like to see:
- Custom colours for different notifications/multiple notifications.
- The dot slightly higher up or have it configurable where the dot is/how big it is.
That's about all I can think of for now, great work .

Screen Timeout Settings On MTCD Android 6.0

Hello.
I have GS MTCD device with Android 6.0. I have the following problem both with stock rom and with Malaysk's one.
I want to set a screen timeout so that after 1 min for example the screen turns off and an app starts as screensaver like Glance Plus. Just like on any phone, but on this device there is no Screen Timeout settings. I tried different apps for timeout settings, but after I save the new setting, the system restores the default one immediately which is Infinity (always on).
Is there a way to overwrite this setting so I can turn off the screen? I searched for solution but no luck.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Perhaps you can find a launcher which does the same thing for you. If I am correct Car Launcher Pro has some sort of screensaver feature. But not sure if you can chose the app to be launched.
I personally would like to be able to specify the screen to go completely off. My KLD unit has a button in the notification bar which turns off the screen completely (including backlight) but didn't find a way to trigger this either by tasker or any other tool yet. Also it looks like changing the volume brings up this useless volume-bar on screen which wakes the screen (might be an issue also with other types of screensaver).
Yes, I'm using exactly Car Launcher Pro. Unfortunatelly its screensaver does not autostart for the moment. Hopefully the developer will add this feature
I found this in another discusion : https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...tcd-device-t3598908/post72445250#post72445250
This file has a sleep_timeout setting but it is disabled. I have no idea how to enable it though.
I don't understand why these devices lack screen off feature
SkyBeam2048 said:
Perhaps you can find a launcher which does the same thing for you. If I am correct Car Launcher Pro has some sort of screensaver feature. But not sure if you can chose the app to be launched.
I personally would like to be able to specify the screen to go completely off. My KLD unit has a button in the notification bar which turns off the screen completely (including backlight) but didn't find a way to trigger this either by tasker or any other tool yet. Also it looks like changing the volume brings up this useless volume-bar on screen which wakes the screen (might be an issue also with other types of screensaver).
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Did you find a way to doesn't wake up the screen when press the volume button?

Permanent nuisance: Missing notification LED - SIMPLE solution?

Hi there, fearless Huawei rebels!
You know the problem: No notification LED - and NO really working and/or reliable solution; I tried quite some.
But there's that built-in Alway On Display feature showing time, battery level - and notifications in standby in a real reliable way!
And there's MASSES of different additional AOD choices to download, some for free, some for a fistful of cents.
But NOTHING just showing the notifications, ALWAYS accompanied with some time display.
I would be quite happy if I had an AOD showing the notifications only, I don't wish to see the time of day or date, I don't wish to see my battery level, I don't need music control (that's the job of the player app), I don't need weather forecasts - just the tiny symbols notifying me of new messages, just like the traditional LED. And if there's no notifications, just a plain black screen with no power drain and distraction at all. Life could be that easy.
Thus my quite obvious questions:
1) Is there any AOD contents to download showing just the notifications and nothing else?
2) Does anyone know how to create your own AOD contents? - As there are masses of downloadable styles, there obviously must be a way.
I would like the AOD to:
a) continue to display notifications after unlocking then relocking back to the AOD (like every other non-Huawei android phone)
b) add weather (as per Pixel)
c) add music control (as per Samsung)
d) remove battery %

Question notification light

Hi all,
I recently got a Xiaomi 12 and noticed that a notification light is missing. I've tried a couple of alternatives that I found on Google Play (including Always on Edge or NotifyBuddy), but I couldn't make either to work: the former was far too complex and the latter worked just for one time but then stopped.
Do you have any other alternative to offer which is guaranteed to work for Xiaomi 12 on Miui 13.2.4 and is simple enough to set up? It'd be great, if there are instructions that can accompany the setting up (although not necessary). By the way, I tried the instructions laid out here:
https://www.thecorrectblogger.com/2022/02/xiaomi-12-notification-led-light.html, but they didn't work for me (the settings seem to have changed in the app).
Thanks in advance!
I use the app "LED Blinker". I'm happy with it.
I use AOD XPath for my Xiaomi phone. Select "Receiving Notification" on "Activate Display Mode". It allows you to select which apps notification (e.g phone miss call, instant message app) to trigger display AOD screen with notification icon and message.

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