Is there an app available to turn the rear lcd on the nexus 4g into a notification light. I tried noled from the market but it is crap because it actual leaves your screen on the entire time. Battery waste!. O yeah I don't want to bother rooting my phone. Please help.
What do you mean by rear lcd? I know there is BLN, but that requires root I believe. Don't know of any others. Someone suggested making the LED flash into a notification light, but I don't think anyone has made one for the NS.
I would think the LCD is more of a battery waste then the screen running.
BLN is the way to go.
The screen uses the most battery on the phone constantly. There should be plenty of people who do not want to root their phone who would benefit from an app that uses the rear camera lcd as a notification lcd. This LCD blinking on/off would use far less power than the screen constantly being on with the noLED app. Can somebody who knows more than me write this simple app? Please Please?
tmorisol said:
The screen uses the most battery on the phone constantly. There should be plenty of people who do not want to root their phone who would benefit from an app that uses the rear camera lcd as a notification lcd. This LCD blinking on/off would use far less power than the screen constantly being on with the noLED app. Can somebody who knows more than me write this simple app? Please Please?
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It's an LED, not an LCD. I think that might be causing confusion between people.
protonguy said:
It's an LED, not an LCD. I think that might be causing confusion between people.
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Hmmm....I wonder how much juice the flash led would suck up?
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tmorisol said:
The screen uses the most battery on the phone constantly. There should be plenty of people who do not want to root their phone who would benefit from an app that uses the rear camera lcd as a notification lcd. This LCD blinking on/off would use far less power than the screen constantly being on with the noLED app. Can somebody who knows more than me write this simple app? Please Please?
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OP use BLN it uses the light source from the capacitive keys not the screen and you can customize
also using the camera LED you would have to have your phone face down to see IMO its un natural considering the phone has a curve to it and inconvenience not to mention the risk of scratching if you dont have a case
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also using the camera LED you would have to have your phone face down to see IMO its un natural considering the phone has a curve to it and inconvenience not to mention the risk of scratching if you dont have a case
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That hurts just thinking about it laying face down. Any way, @tmorisol I've been using noLed and haven't noticed a difference in battery consumption. I'm coming from an evo so I know what its like to try to conserve battery.
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You should only use NoLED if you have a Super AMOLED version of the Nexus S.
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I don't think we can ..... anyone know different? Maybe when there is the keyboard dock, does anyone have that yet?
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Could try something like noled until confirmation on dock leds?
good call, but I'm hoping for real led, like what I have gotten used to on the desire. its probably won't matter as I can't put the thing down.
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iamdarren said:
good call, but I'm hoping for real led, like what I have gotten used to on the desire. its probably won't matter as I can't put the thing down.
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Little O/T but after switching from N1 to NS, the lack of LED notifications was a bit wierd. BUT noLED is great and I actually prefer it over the LED blinking now.
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Could try something like noled until confirmation on dock leds?
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NoLED wouldn't be good for the Transformer. NoLED was designed around OLED devices, that can have most of the screen off, and only a few pixels on at a time, with very little battery drain.
An LCD on the other hand, would be fully on, and drain the battery like crazy.
I quite liked the vertically long LED on the Xoom. Not something I'll particularly miss, but it felt rather familiar.
This doesn't seem like much of a problem to me really. My N1 makes a noise/LED lights for a notification, I pick up the tablet and check it. I have a different notification tone for both text messages and general notifications, so this system works well for me.
Perhaps when the dock gets released, we can repurpose the caps lock LED to be a notifications LED... I'm not sure how well that would work, or even if it would be neccessary?
do any of you guys experience the issue where the capacitive buttons dont light up when theyre supposed to ? which is almost.... always ?
one really annoying thing for me :|
Yes, you're not the only one to have this but It's very intermittent for me.
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In my brief time with the DS, the buttons lit up just once. In anything other than full light, they were useless.
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well tbh i dont have DS ...yet. im thinking if i should buy this or incredible S :| had optimus 2x in mind.... but its got issues lol.
any1 tried to play dungeon defenders on this phone ? if so ,does it work smoothly enough ? and btw, hows the loudspeaker ? good quality or still crappy -.- ?
My experience is that buttons backlighting simply doesn't work. Sometimes they light up (no matter if environment is dark or bright) but most of the time they don't. Completely sporadic behavior. Makes it difficult to use device in the dark. Engadget has highlighted this problem in their review of Desire S http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/10/htc-desire-s-review/
hm... looks like it works for me okay
Swapped the DS for an Incredible S, backlit buttons work perfectly. So suspect DS software issue?
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I haven't noticed any problems either, they are lit when they are supposed to.
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do any of you guys experience the issue where the capacitive buttons dont light up when theyre supposed to ?|
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Works fine here.
Seems ok here.
Very bizarre - got rid of the DS after a day mostly for the wifi issue, but to a degree also because I could not see the buttons in anything other than full light! They literally came on once and that was when I connected it with my PC.
How can that be so when other folks don't have that issue. Different software versions?
Everything ok here.
DS S-OFF with superuser and BusyBox installed. (ROOT)
Maybe a hard reset would had helped.
There are well reported software issues with the buttons, basically the phone detects the background ambient light levels and decides whether our not to light up the buttons
Sometimes in a dark room the presence of a bright light source such as a window or a bright Tv stop them from lighting
unfortunately there us nothing we can do.
Although considering that the buttons don't change positions I always know where they are and which one is which so I can't see what the real problem is?
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Ive had to get used to guessing where the buttons are as well.
As an aside you can force them on by putting your thumb over the front camera.
Not a solution but useful when your stuck.
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As an aside you can force them on by putting your thumb over the front camera.
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Covering front camera doesn't help in my case IE buttons don't light up.
if you cover sensors on the top left of the screen (one cm to the left from HTC logo) the light should turn on after 2-3 seconds.
Its not the front camera that performs the light sensing it's another sensor thats located on the front face of the phone just to the left of the word hTC under the glass.
you can test this by covering the top left of your phone with your left finger/thumb and after 2-3 seconds the buttons should light up.
edit: sorry just realised that I said same as post above.
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funny htc with all their adjustments ...
Haven't had any probe.. work on light sensor,so if there's light shining on phone then won't work,if in dim lit room then they light up..
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It lacks brightness and is hidden behind the speaker grill, I can barely see it light up most of the time. What a waste.
It is duller than I'd like but unless it is in direct sunlight, I have no problem seeing it. I wish it wads a little brighter though.
At least is has one. A lot of android phones don't.
I want to know if anyone has figured out how to make it stay on longer than 5 minutes
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I want to know if anyone has figured out how to make it stay on longer than 5 minutes
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Also how to change the color to orange? This green is so useless .
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Also how to change the color to orange? This green is pro much useless .
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Green has been HTC's standard notification color since the g1 first came out. Once the device is rooted you'll be able to use LED color changing apps.
I was wondering, there is another whole on the opposite side of the front reading facing camera and the notification led. I wonder why htc put that there it seems to have no purpose. That probably could have been a nice place to put the notification led.
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ayvecs said:
I was wondering, there is another whole on the opposite side of the front reading facing camera and the notification led. I wonder why htc put that there it seems to have no purpose. That probably could have been a nice place to put the notification led.
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It's most likely the ambient light sensor, or the motion sensor that shuts the screen off when you place the phone by your face.
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It's most likely the ambient light sensor, or the motion sensor that shuts the screen off when you place the phone by your face.
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That is correct. It is the light sensor.
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Green has been HTC's standard notification color since the g1 first came out. Once the device is rooted you'll be able to use LED color changing apps.
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If rooting will allow me to change the LED to something a little more noticeable (red might work well I would think), that might be ideal.
So far, the green barely stands out, especially since my desk is next to a window with ambient sunlight.
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If rooting will allow me to change the LED to something a little more noticeable (red might work well I would think), that might be ideal.
So far, the green barely stands out, especially since my desk is next to a window with ambient sunlight.
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I believe that we only have 2 colors to choose from, the green and the abmer, the one that comes up when charging phone. I always had the amber on my HD2 and it was always visible. Hope we could do the same on this phone later.
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I believe that we only have 2 colors to choose from, the green and the abmer, the one that comes up when charging phone. I always had the amber on my HD2 and it was always visible. Hope we could do the same on this phone later.
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The LED light can actually produce multiple colors but like someone said. It's not possible until it's rooted unless the application your using gives you the option.
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Green has been HTC's standard notification color since the g1 first came out. Once the device is rooted you'll be able to use LED color changing apps.
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Maybe the free market app 'Blink' which doesn't require root will work...
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If rooting will allow me to change the LED to something a little more noticeable (red might work well I would think), that might be ideal.
So far, the green barely stands out, especially since my desk is next to a window with ambient sunlight.
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If you use a 3rd part text messaging application like Chomp or Hancent it gives you the option to make your LED multiple colors plus the option of how long you want it to stay on.
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The LED light can actually produce multiple colors but like someone said. It's not possible until it's rooted unless the application your using gives you the option.
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The G2 LED could only turn orange or green.. I'm assuming most new HTC phones are set up like this.
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Maybe the free market app 'Blink' which doesn't require root will work...
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Just tried it. Only Green & Red work
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The G2 LED could only turn orange or green.. I'm assuming most new HTC phones are set up like this.
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I hope this isn't the case. The Thunderbolt can do Red, Green, Pink, Blue and White.
i like having a notification led, as opposed to the Vibrant, which didn't have one. I just wish it lasted longer than 5 minutes.
There is an app for the g2x that pulses the four bottom buttons for notifications. its pretty spiffy...i wrote the developer he said it's possible it could work on the sensation but he doesn't have one to try it out.
It would be a pretty nice option to have because I agree, the led as is is pretty much invisible
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Profondo_Rosso said:
There is an app for the g2x that pulses the four bottom buttons for notifications. its pretty spiffy...i wrote the developer he said it's possible it could work on the sensation but he doesn't have one to try it out.
It would be a pretty nice option to have because I agree, the led as is is pretty much invisible
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I used it on my G2X and it sucked the battery big time.
Has anyone used the "Blink" feature of NoLED?
It seems that when I enable the "Blink" feature, the screen never turns off for notifications. It just stays on wasting away battery, which defeats the purpose of the feature.
Has anyone been able to use this feature successfully?
Doh, the app developer has confirmed that it looks like it's caused by Sense 3.0:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15044056&postcount=2657
Does anyone have a NoLED alternative?
Just looking for something that will continue to vibrate/make sounds if a notification hasn't been looked at, but without keeping the screen on permanently.
Missed Call Deluxe? I believe its working fine for me...
Wouldn't recommend this app on anything besides an amoled screen.
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Wouldn't recommend this app on anything besides an amoled screen.
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Why?
Not sure if you knew this but you can set it to turn off the screen via proximity sensor (when in your pocket/bags/etc) so it doesn't waste battery.
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Why?
Not sure if you knew this but you can set it to turn off the screen via proximity sensor (when in your pocket/bags/etc) so it doesn't waste battery.
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Amoled will only turn on a few pixels for the icon rather than the whole screen. Even if it's off for proximity sensor you'll likely still run into sleep issues due partial wakelock to activate the sensor.
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Amoled will only turn on a few pixels for the icon rather than the whole screen. Even if it's off for proximity sensor you'll likely still run into sleep issues due partial wakelock to activate the sensor.
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I've been using it for 2 weeks, zero wakelock issues.
Try using an app first before trashing it
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Amoled will only turn on a few pixels for the icon rather than the whole screen. Even if it's off for proximity sensor you'll likely still run into sleep issues due partial wakelock to activate the sensor.
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I would have thought the same thing. Only rather than wake lock issues, the screen will show a lot of battery usage if it's constantly turned on. I guess I'm saying I was also under the impression that it was only for AMOLED screens.
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I would have thought the same thing. Only rather than wake lock issues, the screen will show a lot of battery usage if it's constantly turned on. I guess I'm saying I was also under the impression that it was only for AMOLED screens.
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Nope. Aside from the "Blink" feature, it works amazingly well!
The screen feature isn't even what I find the most useful part.
The best thing is that I can set it to re-vibrate and make a sound every 10 minutes if I have a notification I haven't looked at.
If you get a notification and you're not in the room, well, you'll never EVER know with the Sensation just by looking at it since the LED turns off after 5 minutes (seriously, who the hell made that decision????).
But with NoLED, the re-vibrate and periodic sounds are just downright amazing, even if you choose to not use the screen-on feature.
Even better, you can customize the re-vibration strength/pattern. I'll rarely ever feel the vibration in my pocket of normal app notifications. But I have NoLED set to 3-vibrations which I'll definitely feel in my pocket (or even hear!).
By the way, is there an app that does *just* the periodic vibration/sound?
I hope we get BLN later on.
Been using NoLED for a month without any issues.
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Been using NoLED for a month without any issues.
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Have you been using the Blink feature?
I haven't tried the Blink feature.
Is that feature working for you?
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I haven't tried the Blink feature.
Is that feature working for you?
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Did you even read the first post at all?
Auhhh... Sorry Paul22000 for any noob confusion on my part.
I had just read 286 pages from:
[APP] NoLED v4.4.3 - Use the AMOLED screen for incoming notifications
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692
I got a bit brain dead and a bit tired. Didn't realize how brain dead till I read your last post.
Can a Senior user forgive the shortcoming of a noob homegirl
blink feature works great with "LED me know" app in the market.
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Auhhh... Sorry Paul22000 for any noob confusion on my part.
I had just read 286 pages from:
[APP] NoLED v4.4.3 - Use the AMOLED screen for incoming notifications
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692
I got a bit brain dead and a bit tired. Didn't realize how brain dead till I read your last post.
Can a Senior user forgive the shortcoming of a noob homegirl
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Haha of course Just read the OP next time haha
I absolutely love NoLED and think it's pretty much a necessity for Sensation users given the notification LED stops blinking after 5 minutes.
I just wish that the NoLED Blink feature worked. If I'm away from my phone for a while (ie when working out) and I get a notification, the screen will stay on and kill the battery. Even if I leave the phone face down, I find that the battery still gets totally destroyed, not sure why.
Is there not a notification LED for the Charge? You know, when you get a message or something? My Droid X had an LED indicator light that would flash until the phone was checked. For the life of me I can't seem to find where to enable/disable this? Please help.
It does not have a notification LED, quite disappointing for such a high priced phone. Just like the galaxy S2, even with its insane specs and high praises they still couldn't manage to put a notification LED, I'd rather have that then a front facing camera
You can use the free app NoLED if you would like a way to simulate having a notification LED
The led not being there has been a big con for me but if that's the worst I guess I can live with it. I would not reccomend using led "simulated" apps as your battery life is killed by them because of the screen being in the on state
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The led not being there has been a big con for me but if that's the worst I guess I can live with it. I would not reccomend using led "simulated" apps as your battery life is killed by them because of the screen being in the on state
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Ya that is true, I'm also pretty sure it keeps your phone from sleeping since the screen is on which of course means even more battery drain. Just recommending a way to simulate the LED though I'm hoping someone makes an app to just have your back LED(for your camera) do a small flash every 15ish seconds, sure most people set their phones face down but still!
Missed Message Flasher works for me with few complaints.
NOLED I didn't care for.
What are the small circles up at the top of the phone on the right for? Photo sensors of some kind?
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What are the small circles up at the top of the phone on the right for? Photo sensors of some kind?
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I'm thinking they are sensors to detect light and adjust your screen brightness and I know one of them detects when your face is in front of the phone while on a call to prevent the screen from staying on..