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Disable the bluetooth light

Is there a reg hack to turn off the blue bluetooth light? I hate having 2 flashing lights on all the time (One blue and one green).
Thanks

I have installed Microsoft voice command 6.1 french and then the blue light turned off!
it is expensive to turn a light off but it works
(by the way if any body knows how to turn it one I'll be pleased to know...)

DXL007 said:
Is there a reg hack to turn off the blue bluetooth light? I hate having 2 flashing lights on all the time (One blue and one green).
Thanks
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I will be please to be able to turn the green flashing light off too. I know that the flashing light indicates that the phone is on, but still annoying specially at night (please do not tell me to turn the TC upsidedown)

LOL, that's funny... Any way there has to be a way to turn them both off

There is a way. You know how to do a soft reset - you put a small thing in the reset hole.
If you want to disable the lights, do the same thing, but instead of putting a small thing in the reset hole, you put it on the light. You need to press really really hard... ;-)
However, there is no way to get them turned on again...

johncj said:
There is a way. You know how to do a soft reset - you put a small thing in the reset hole.
If you want to disable the lights, do the same thing, but instead of putting a small thing in the reset hole, you put it on the light. You need to press really really hard... ;-)
However, there is no way to get them turned on again...
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Thanks for that awsome fix...lol however, I would like a little less violent solution....

This could be done in some devices with Tweaks2k2 .NET (http://www.tweaks2k2.com/portal/staticpages/index.php?page=20050224182009983). I don't know if this could work for Polaris too.

athanaso77 said:
This could be done in some devices with Tweaks2k2 .NET (http://www.tweaks2k2.com/portal/staticpages/index.php?page=20050224182009983). I don't know if this could work for Polaris too.
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No I have this program, tried this first. I doesn't work.

Anyone have an answer?

Try this
Try this one
It works great on my TC. It's written for the Kaiser but also works on the TC. I've turned off all my LED's except when I've missed a sms or call. It's in Dutch but the interface is pretty clear so I don't think you'll have any problem controlling it. If so let me know.
The only downside with this program is that you can't control the WLAN LED. If you turn off the Phone LED (green flickering) the WLAN LED also gets turned off. Another thing is that the orange LED doesn't light up anymore when you charge your device. Hopefully someone will write a similar program especially designed for the TC. But apart from that it's a neat little program.
Cheers.

Found a fix! This program is awsome. It is for the Tilt, but works great on my TC!

Thanks for this.
It seems to be written for the Kaiser and says that its freeware as it installs.
Seems to work fine on my Orbit2.
I've now turned off both my lights as default - they should illuminate if I miss a call / get mail etc.
I do some work with User Interfaces for avionics.
Cardinal rule - "flashing lights are an exception, not default mode of operation".

ALL flashing lights
Thanks for this, works a treat on my Touch Cruise / Orbit 2
Maybe this link deserves its own post... took a while to find it

tigerpower said:
I have installed Microsoft voice command 6.1 french and then the blue light turned off!
it is expensive to turn a light off but it works
(by the way if any body knows how to turn it one I'll be pleased to know...)
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Hmm! That explains why my BlueTooth LED stopped working - I recently installed M$ VC too... Weird.
Anyhow - while you've found a solution to turning off you LEDs, I thought I'd suggest another thing worth looking at for controlling them, for future reference - nueLED... It lets you redirect different LEDs. Still won't turn my BlueTooth LED back on though!

FlashLight - anybody knows sth?

In Hermes I loved one feature: possibility of turning on the LEDs (called boldly a flash) with one of Vijay's apps. Of course I could not resist to test in on our (beloved) Rapahael but... Yes, you guessed right: marche pas/does not work/nie działa (choose the one you prefer). Anybody tried to work on this "problem of a person moving often in the dark areas with keys that must be inserted in always-too-small hole in the door"?

Of course you could just go in to camera settings to turn it on or off, it is only 3 or 4 screen taps away...

I mailed the author of the software, and he says that he will try to adapt to software as soon as he has some time, which would be in a few weeks. He says that there are people that already have modified his software to make it compatible with other devices. Anyone that can do this for the TP? I REALLY need that software too.

count me in on that one
i have been looking for it for 2 years now and it still dont look like there is gonna be an app for turning the flashlight on and off
as far as i know it is controlled by the cameradriver

Two years? It's been long available for wizard (vario) and hermes (vario 2). However, in case of my wizard I needed a rom update which included the correct htccamera1.dll (one that exports camera_flashlight method).
On a seperate note. I've been trying to get the flashlight to work on the touch pro, but no luck so far. Seems there is indeed (read it in diamond forums) at least one new parameter to the camera_init method. After debugging the dll it seems there may even be a lot more new parameters to the camera_init.
Anywayz, if I get anything to work I'll let it be known.

Waiting impatiently to test the results amd/or help in the process.

You could always try this:
http://www.artamata.com/pocketlight/

That doesn't work on the Raphael. It doesn't turn on the camera LED.
If you mean to use the screen blanker of that software, I sure hope you looked further, as there are other developers that made free versions, which are even more advanced (i.e. turning up backlight to full capacity at startup). Search the diamond forums for flashlight to find it.

Yay! I've just got it to work.
I'll build a small app for it to make it usable and post it on the forum.
Update:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2588623#post2588623

NetRipper said:
Two years? It's been long available for wizard (vario) and hermes (vario 2). However, in case of my wizard I needed a rom update which included the correct htccamera1.dll (one that exports camera_flashlight method).
On a seperate note. I've been trying to get the flashlight to work on the touch pro, but no luck so far. Seems there is indeed (read it in diamond forums) at least one new parameter to the camera_init method. After debugging the dll it seems there may even be a lot more new parameters to the camera_init.
Anywayz, if I get anything to work I'll let it be known.
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cheers mate ur the best
havent seen it for the vario only app i know off is vjay candela and that didnt work neither does all other applications for the flashlight..
and now i have a new phone and the flashlight application you just made ..
i cant be happier right now .. you made my miserable day a very illuminating one

flashlight
now that i've downloaded the code how do i implement the flash light?

jakubd said:
In Hermes I loved one feature: possibility of turning on the LEDs (called boldly a flash) with one of Vijay's apps. Of course I could not resist to test in on our (beloved) Rapahael but... Yes, you guessed right: marche pas/does not work/nie działa (choose the one you prefer). Anybody tried to work on this "problem of a person moving often in the dark areas with keys that must be inserted in always-too-small hole in the door"?
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you should try hTorch 3.2 as well,
which has a very elegant interface:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=440405

As I said in another thread; lately I have been using TourchButton in combination with G-Trigger, I'm really pleased with how well it works.
The G-Trigger program runs in the background all the time, so now I just shake my phone a bit and I get light, shake it again and the TorchButton program runs again (thus turning it off).
And in the event the light should somehow accedentaly turn itself on, it will turn off after 60 sec as per the TorchButton code.

[Updated] Android projects on HTC WM phones

I know that there are many projects going on porting Android to quite a few WinMo HTC phones out there. (I'm currently only following the TyTN2/Kaiser porting, since that's the phone I have).
At least for the Tytn 2, there's still quite a few limitations (camera, bluetooth, wifi not working), so I was wondering if anyone knows if other projects have made more progress?
Are other HTC (newer) devices getting more features to work?
I will start, and keep a running list of what works on what device, and do my best to keep it updated regularly.
If you have some news/info/changes that need to be made, please post it here.
UPDATE:
So far it seems that Kaiser and Raphael has the most usable version of Android.
Kaiser: [SOURCE]
LCD :yes: Some applications have resolution issues
Touch screen :yes:
Keyboard :yes: Some kernels include option for Tilt configuration
Ambient light sensor :not yet: Button backlights always on
Camera :?: Anyone know the status here??
LEDs :yes: Android is able to control them, but they are currently mostly used for diagnostic purposes
WiFi :not yet: Drivers from HTC Dream probably won't help
Bluetooth :not yet: Drivers from HTC Dream may help?
Radio/GSM :yes: Needs work - data works sporadically
SD controller :yes:
Power saving :yes: Power collapse recently added, still a work in progress
Rear speaker ? Pressing the Speaker button from the Dialer menu does nothing!
GPS ?
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Raphael [SOURCE]
What works...
:dialer
:incoming calls
utgoing calls
:messaging
:wallpapers changing
:affects
:touch screen
ictures
:music
:games
:icons
ower off(hold end key)
What doesn't work...
:camera
:sound
:sleep
:browser
:battery status
:some settings
:and many more!!
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The Xperia X1 status is currently stopped, but the progress so far is: [SOURCE]
It boots.
It start doing a test.
Touch screen colours are fu up.
On screen keyboard only works.
Screen Align Fu up.
So it basicly only boots and does a test.
Not much more!
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xmoo did some work for the xperia, but don't know how far he actually has come.
Here's the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=456595

Optimus 3d notification led idea

Maybe this belongs in the development area but...
The evo3d got a notification led wich i like...what about if we can make the capacitive button led's blink or something when we have a mail and sms...
Maybe more guys have this idea but well....tell me if its possible and a good idea

It is probably possible and I think developers will have a hand on it if they havent yet.

It will be eventually supported.

this idea is awesome. i think it is possible

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this idea is awesome. i think it is possible
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Glad someone's liking it

This would be a nice to have for sure. If can light up those "buttons" to use for notification, it will be great.

This is already done with O2X, so it is definitely on the way for us

My previous phone was GalaxyS which had no led aswell.
I used a programmed called NoLed on the Galaxy. Installed on Optimus 3d and seems to work fine.
Link to developer - http://www.devasque.com/noled/index.php

HTCtouchuk said:
My previous phone was GalaxyS which had no led aswell.
I used a programmed called NoLed on the Galaxy. Installed on Optimus 3d and seems to work fine.
Link to developer - http://www.devasque.com/noled/index.php
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It doesnt support the capacitive button led's.

Sorry i was only suggesting this as a temporary alternative until further developments.

I really like this idea!
But is it possible to expand on it further?
Since there's 4 capacitive buttons on the phone, are we able to make them blink individually?
For example... home button blinks when we have a missed call, menu button blinks when we have a message, back button blinks when we have an email, and etc?

Noled seems to be working fine for me...

gismo918 said:
Noled seems to be working fine for me...
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Yeah works fine for letting the SCREEN blink?
Were talking about the buttons

HTCtouchuk said:
Sorry i was only suggesting this as a temporary alternative until further developments.
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Unfortunately not. As the app page states, AMOLED uses no power displaying a fully black pixel so displaying alerts on the screen takes very little power.
Now as the O3D has an old fashioned LCD, it consumes potentially a ton of power just to turn the screen on at all, because it has to light the whole screen just to start. Plus, it uses the MOST power displaying black (least displaying all white), so it would need the opposite behaviour.
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Ah I see you can make the screen blink, I didn't notice that at first. Might actually be useful then.

i've tested it with the developer of the LG notification app. it seems, that the files which have to be used are'nt writeable. so without root it won't work
perhaps we should send tons of mails to LG, that they make it possible.

Alex Atkin UK said:
[UPDATE]
Ah I see you can make the screen blink, I didn't notice that at first. Might actually be useful then.
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Also the notifications can have a time limit, i have set at 15mins and haven't noticed any battery drain.

Modified 2X/Black touch led notification app
Hi guys,
I've modified Martin Börjesson's app and now it works on ROOTed O3D and I'll upload it soon.
To-do:
1) fading doesn't work
2) change of brightness doesn't work
What will never work
1) separate LEDs - I don't think there's a way to control each of them, only all 4 LEDs

ztracenyDen said:
Hi guys,
I've modified Martin Börjesson's app and now it works on ROOTed O3D and I'll upload it soon.
To-do:
1) fading doesn't work
2) change of brightness doesn't work
What will never work
1) separate LEDs - I don't think there's a way to control each of them, only all 4 LEDs
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i am checking every 15 minutes for an update to this

Here it is!
I'm new to android, so I hope the "apk" file is enough for installation:
Fileserve: http://www.fileserve.com/file/qqFjsfS/Optimus3Dnotifications.apk
Mirror: http://home.zcu.cz/~chylek/Optimus3Dnotifications.apk
Source code:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/YvbqKbk/optimus3DnotificationsSRC.zip

Hi
I have a problem with downloading app
Cane you upload to other server
Megaupload or rapid
Thankyou
Sent from my LG-P920 using XDA App

Alcatel OT-995 development

This thread is meant for (technical) discussion of OT-995, notably ICS-based (e.g. CM9 and AOKP) OS and kernel development.
Any non-technical questions/discussion belong in the general OT-995 thread.
Status quo
There's an ongoing effort bring CM9 and AOKP to the OT-995. Although neither is anywhere near complete, basic functionality (graphics/audio/gsm (non-data)/wifi/sensors) is present.
Both iuss and fonix232 currently maintain Android repositories related to OT-995. A common kernel is maintained by iuss, based on the 2.6.35.11 release by Alcatel.
Updates will likely be posted in this thread, but this topic start may not be fully up-to-date.
Source repositories
kernel: https://github.com/ius/tct_cocktail_kernel
android/bootable/recovery: https://github.com/ius/android_bootable_recovery
android/device/tct/cocktail: https://github.com/ius/android_device_tct_cocktail
(on top of the CM 'ics' branch)
android/device/alcatel/cocktail: https://github.com/fonix232/android_device_alcatel_cocktail
android/vendor/alcatel/cocktail: https://github.com/fonix232/android_vendor_alcatel_cocktail
Flashable releases
fonix232 has provided flashable builds of CM9 and AOKP: http://goo.im/devs/fonix232/OT995/ICS
(Be aware that these might not always be up to date with the repositories listed above)
Other bits of interest
iuss' slightly outdated README for his repositories.

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Possibly, couldn't really boot yours though :\
Also, some more info about liblights. The tempfix works (keyboard lights up with screen), but apparently when the keyboard file is set in liblights, it won't call the keyboard function. If I set it to e.g. the notification LED, it is called, but bails out with error 13 (no access to notification LED control).
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I just found some spare minutes and had a look at it as well (had to run & was working on writing the topic start for this thread, so I didn't get to posting about it).
It suddenly struck me that there's both a buttons and keyboard light; our virtual keys are buttons, I suppose keyboard is reserved for the backlight of a hardware keyboard.
Alcatel/TCT labeled the buttons backlight 'keyboard-backlight' in kernel, which it isn't.. I've fixed this; now the backlight works as expected. The notification light doesn't work with the CAF/AOSP liblights (different device paths), for now the stock (binary) liblights should work - it probably requires a chmod of the sysfs files in init.rc.

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I just found some spare minutes and had a look at it as well (had to run & was working on writing the topic start for this thread, so I didn't get to posting about it).
It suddenly struck me that there's both a buttons and keyboard light; our virtual keys are buttons, I suppose keyboard is reserved for the backlight of a hardware keyboard.
Alcatel/TCT labeled the buttons backlight 'keyboard-backlight' in kernel, which it isn't.. I've fixed this; now the backlight works as expected. The notification light doesn't work with the CAF/AOSP liblights (different device paths), for now the stock (binary) liblights should work - it probably requires a chmod of the sysfs files in init.rc.
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That makes sense - however, if you check my files, I've clearly made it so even if it there's a keyboard or buttons device, both calls the keyboard code - what never happens. I've logged it, every device open, every call of write_int, every device light setting, everything, and keyboard only showed up when:
a, Not the proper keyboard brightness path was given (in my case, it was the notification LED)
b, Moved the keyboard control to the lcd-backlight controller function - as it is currently.
And apparently yes, I've forgot to chown the whole LED folder's content to system
Also, our biggest problem is: this LED acts like as a battery/attention/notification LED, while keeping the modes of a trackball - slow pulse, fast pulse, constant on, constant off, and breathe. What would be the best way to approach?
(Just a sidenote: setting the notification LED's brightness to 0 will lead to the crash and reboot of the phone)

handy tool for making logs...
This app runs the following commands:
dmesg
logcat -v time -d
logcat -v time -b radio -d
getprop
uname -a
ps
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Download : dl.dropbox.com/u/2889810/apps/getlogs_v1.1.apk
Thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1123129

I do it by hand, but thanks ;D

maby its a good thing to copy the apk to system/app
there will be a lot of people installing the build and then complain here that some stuff dont work (also bugs u didnt even realize they where there cuz u cannot test alone)
and when u ask them for logs some of them dont even know how to do it..

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That makes sense - however, if you check my files, I've clearly made it so even if it there's a keyboard or buttons device, both calls the keyboard code - what never happens.
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If I interpreted things right, you mean neither was ever called? If you had wired buttons-to-keyboard it should've worked, the reason why set_keyboard_light was never called is because TCT hacked the Java framework (by making the turn-on-screen-backlight-and-buttons event turn on the keyboard light as well).
Also, our biggest problem is: this LED acts like as a battery/attention/notification LED, while keeping the modes of a trackball - slow pulse, fast pulse, constant on, constant off, and breathe. What would be the best way to approach?
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The monkey approach - I checked out the code for Nexus; it doesn't provide a battery light at all (which is probably only useful if you have a green/red led); attention and notification are routed to the same led.
The stock liblights seems to work quite well, e.g. notification (sms/mail) causes a blink, attention (USB inserted) a constant light.
Let's just copy stock liblights for now, we can rewrite/reverse it later.
(Just a sidenote: setting the notification LED's brightness to 0 will lead to the crash and reboot of the phone)
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Good catch. Fixed in my kernel tree (no-op instead of a null fptr call)

iuss, I understand your concerns, and most probably will stick to it, but I've already began writing liblights Actually, it's like, around the fifth revision, fifth try, and still no worky. Just finished up my test-package (ultimate AOKP-CM9 with GApps installer, will post it separately), will test that and check back.
EDIT:
Tried your new kernel, but somehow, wifi fails to connect. DHCP timeouts, etcetera.

Works fine here (and I didn't touch anything related). For reference, a built zImage.

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Works fine here (and I didn't touch anything related). For reference, a built zImage.
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Egh, turns out it was my fault, something frikked up with my installer. Still working on the small quirks tho
Also an idea about BT - why not use the same module that the Galaxy Tab P4 series used? They are all BCM4330, so theoretically it should work!

question is it possible to make 3 point multitouch? (or more?)

The controller appears to be able to detect > 2 fingers, but doesn't return data for more than two.
In other news, I pushed a fix to make the ts driver once again support 2 fingers.

iuss said:
The controller appears to be able to detect > 2 fingers, but doesn't return data for more than two.
In other news, I pushed a fix to make the ts driver once again support 2 fingers.
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The 5306 can detect up to 5 distinct touches, but apparently either the chip was locked down to two (or via baseband, and might be unlocked in ICS), or just the communication signal is processed in a wrong way.
But nice addition with the multitouch support!
EDIT:
First drawback of the stock liblights: the buttons light won't come alive after unlocking the screen, but needs to set the brightness manually. Does not occur if brightness is set to auto.

fonix232 said:
EDIT:
First drawback of the stock liblights: the buttons light won't come alive after unlocking the screen, but needs to set the brightness manually. Does not occur if brightness is set to auto.
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Odd. Works just fine for me. I don't see how it's related to brightness either.. (what brightness? screen? I didn't touch it, nor have I any auto-brightness-control related overlay, if that's relevant).

iuss said:
Odd. Works just fine for me. I don't see how it's related to brightness either.. (what brightness? screen? I didn't touch it, nor have I any auto-brightness-control related overlay, if that's relevant).
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I don't see either, but when brightness is on manual, I have to modify the value for the keyboard lights to show up.

Performance issue
I know, my question is maybe premature.
But what about the performance. Do you feel it could be faster than the stock rom?
Maybe some quadrant test would give us some idea?

it feels amazing

I think I might know a way to have 5-point touch, but it won't be easy...
Looking at the source code of the ft5306, you can see that in the firmware upgrade part, it points to a header file: FTS0094P430_CockTail_V1d_20111123_app.h
This header is nothing else, but an actual FT5306 firmware file, dissected into bytes. Basically, they took the hexa code of a binary firmware, and pasted it into a text file byte by byte! Sounds stupid, but actually a good way to integrate a firmware into the kernel.
However, the function can be overwritten so instead it reads bytes from an actual binary firmware file, located on the filesystem. Doing that, plus acquiring a 800*480 FT5306 firmware image (so far I've only found an 1024*600 one) would result in unlocking the whole capacity of the panel!
Also gave a try at the camera HAL. I can't make it work sadly :\

What happens if you write bogus firmware to ft5306, though? :x

The panel will most probably won't work, although the firmwares are pretty similar in all the ft5x06 series.
Aaaalthough, if you reflash a proper firmware, it should work again