Seeing as that the Captivate does not have a notification LED, it sometimes becomes a problem noticing new notifications. I just want to know if there is some kind of application that would flash the screen for a few seconds or so when the phone receives a new notification. I remember my iPhone doing that and it would be cool to see Android phones doing the same.
Look in the development forum for captivate, there is a thread doing this exact thing
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No, I know about the red dot on the screen thing. I dont really need that and besides, I believe it kills battery. I just want some app to turn the screen on for a few seconds when I get a notification.
Maybe go to the noled thread and see if he'll add that feature
my screen does flash when I get a message. It pops up in the notification bar and shows two lines of the message then shuts off.
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my screen does flash when I get a message. It pops up in the notification bar and shows two lines of the message then shuts off.
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It does this when it is sleeping?
I just tested it. When its locked and the screen is off it revives itself when I get and MMS or SMS. For emails it does not.
handcent sms will do it when you adjust the settings for the popup menu
Oh, maybe it only works for SMS and MMS notifications only. I would like the screen to flash on for every notification (Gmail, Feedr, AIM, etc). Kind of like how the iPhone worked with push notifications.
Hello everyone,
has anyone had success using applications to customize the LED notification light with the stock ROM ?
The stock settings screen (Settings->LED settings) only allows to set notifications for SMS, missed calls and new emails with the email client (not gmail).
It works fine, at least for missed calls and SMS (the light turns on as expected).
I have tried a bunch of applications (Gmail notifier, blink, Lightflow, LED Tester) and could not get the notification LED to turn on with any of these apps.
Am I missing something ? Is the SK4G different than every other phone ?
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Hello everyone,
has anyone had success using applications to customize the LED notification light with the stock ROM ?
The stock settings screen (Settings->LED settings) only allows to set notifications for SMS, missed calls and new emails with the email client (not gmail).
It works fine, at least for missed calls and SMS (the light turns on as expected).
I have tried a bunch of applications (Gmail notifier, blink, Lightflow, LED Tester) and could not get the notification LED to turn on with any of these apps.
Am I missing something ? Is the SK4G different than every other phone ?
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It is different because there are actually 2 LEDs instead of one so that is probably what causes those apps to not work. I don't know how hard it would be to implement more LED options into a custom ROM but I have let AYOTEDDY know that would be a nice feature so hopefully we will see something in the future
Hey Fellow Galaxy S2 Skyrocket modders,
I am a rookie at this and definitely not a developer but like to mess around with my phones.
I have BLN running and currently it is only flashing for phone calls and emails.
I love the service but would really love it if it alerted me when I had a Text Message.
What should I be doing to enable that.
I am running 2.3.5 Stock w/ Rom Racers [KERNEL] AT&T Stock-ish 0.1 BLN/USB-OTG/NFS/FUSE/init.d/adb root/boot animation.
If anyone has any suggestions for me let me know please.
Thanks
msghockey said:
Hey Fellow Galaxy S2 Skyrocket modders,
I am a rookie at this and definitely not a developer but like to mess around with my phones.
I have BLN running and currently it is only flashing for phone calls and emails.
I love the service but would really love it if it alerted me when I had a Text Message.
What should I be doing to enable that.
I am running 2.3.5 Stock w/ Rom Racers [KERNEL] AT&T Stock-ish 0.1 BLN/USB-OTG/NFS/FUSE/init.d/adb root/boot animation.
If anyone has any suggestions for me let me know please.
Thanks
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Bln won't work with the stock messaging up due to the fact the phone "wakes" up when you get a text (the screen turns on). You need to tweak the service.jar for it to work or you can do what I did, replace the mms.apk with the cm7 version. You'll get bln notification for texts this way
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BLN works great if you use GOsms........
in GOsms settings, make sure you uncheck "screen wake"
Would anybody be able to elaborate on how exactly to tweak services.jar. I've actually been researching this very thing over the past few days but can only find different ROMs saying they include a patched services.jar. Is the services.jar a ROM/phone specific file? Like, could I just pull one from another ROM or no? Or what would be the process of tweaking it?
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The go sms solution worked very well. I am a go sms user anyway...
Using BLN with Stock SMS Application
This post is probably a little late, but I just would like to post a workaround that I found on another forum that allows you to use BLN LED notifications with the original Samsung SMS app.
If you download "SMS Popup" from the market, you can actually force a workaround. Since SMS Popup isn't a standalone SMS app, you still use the original SMS app to write and read text messages. SMS Popup only extends the original SMS app by handling the notification process, and it has an option for LED notification. Here's a quick guide on the settings I'm using to make this work:
1) On the original SMS app go to "Settings" and scroll down to "Notifications" and uncheck it, since you don't want duplicate notifications which would result from having SMS Popup also handling your text notifications
2) Download "SMS Popup"
3) In SMS Popup, make sure it is enabled, then press "Notifications" then "Default Notifications"
4) Make sure "Enable Notifications" is checked then scroll down to "Blink LED" and check that (It says blink, but in my experience it doesn't matter what the following settings are for the color and duration of the blink, BLN controller overrides those settings. I.e., if you tell BLN to never activate blink, your notification will just be static LED lights. And obviously you can't change the color.)
5) You should be all set! Just make sure your settings within BLN controller are all set up and ready to go.
Since I much prefer the looks of the stock SMS app over GoSMS and Handcent, this is the ideal solution that meets my needs. The only quirk/upside (depending on your tastes) is that for some reason when the phone is locked and I receive a text, the screen no longer lights up offering me a shortcut to the message. This might be a necessity for BLN to function and I don't know if you can fix that, but coming from a Nokia N8 where the time and all notifications were displayed at all times on the OLED screen, a no button glance at my phone has to tell me if I've missed an event or not.
From my understanding of how BLN controller works (which admittedly is extremely shallow), BLN controller intercepts any signals that would route to the notification LED and sends it to the capacitive buttons at the bottom of the phone. So any application that has the capability of using notification LEDs should theoretically activate BLN but since on the skyrocket and the Tmobile T989 Galaxy SII (the phone I'm using) there is no built in LED, Samsung removed the notification option on the SMS app. So to circumvent it, all you need to do is use an app designed for universal access and isn't customized for a phone with no LED notification lights. This workaround should work with any phone so long as it's rooted, has a kernel that supports the BLN mod, and has installed the BLN controller from the market.
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This post is probably a little late, but I just would like to post a workaround that I found on another forum that allows you to use BLN LED notifications with the original Samsung SMS app.
If you download "SMS Popup" from the market, you can actually force a workaround. Since SMS Popup isn't a standalone SMS app, you still use the original SMS app to write and read text messages. SMS Popup only extends the original SMS app by handling the notification process, and it has an option for LED notification. Here's a quick guide on the settings I'm using to make this work:
1) On the original SMS app go to "Settings" and scroll down to "Notifications" and uncheck it, since you don't want duplicate notifications which would result from having SMS Popup also handling your text notifications
2) Download "SMS Popup"
3) In SMS Popup, make sure it is enabled, then press "Notifications" then "Default Notifications"
4) Make sure "Enable Notifications" is checked then scroll down to "Blink LED" and check that (It says blink, but in my experience it doesn't matter what the following settings are for the color and duration of the blink, BLN controller overrides those settings. I.e., if you tell BLN to never activate blink, your notification will just be static LED lights. And obviously you can't change the color.)
5) You should be all set! Just make sure your settings within BLN controller are all set up and ready to go.
Since I much prefer the looks of the stock SMS app over GoSMS and Handcent, this is the ideal solution that meets my needs. The only quirk/upside (depending on your tastes) is that for some reason when the phone is locked and I receive a text, the screen no longer lights up offering me a shortcut to the message. This might be a necessity for BLN to function and I don't know if you can fix that, but coming from a Nokia N8 where the time and all notifications were displayed at all times on the OLED screen, a no button glance at my phone has to tell me if I've missed an event or not.
From my understanding of how BLN controller works (which admittedly is extremely shallow), BLN controller intercepts any signals that would route to the notification LED and sends it to the capacitive buttons at the bottom of the phone. So any application that has the capability of using notification LEDs should theoretically activate BLN but since on the skyrocket and the Tmobile T989 Galaxy SII (the phone I'm using) there is no built in LED, Samsung removed the notification option on the SMS app. So to circumvent it, all you need to do is use an app designed for universal access and isn't customized for a phone with no LED notification lights. This workaround should work with any phone so long as it's rooted, has a kernel that supports the BLN mod, and has installed the BLN controller from the market.
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I tried yer steps and it didnt work for me.
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I found a screen to turn off the screen on popup, will that work too?
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I tried yer steps and it didnt work for me.
I found a screen to turn off the screen on popup, will that work too?
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I don't have "Show a Popup" enabled. Depending on your setting under "Additional Settings" in the main menu where it says "Screen On for Popup", your phone might turn on when you receive a text message and show that popup, which would, in turn, disable BLN. BLN has to have the screen off to work so anything that results in the screen turning on after receiving a text message will disable BLN. If you receive a text and your screen doesn't light up and you still can't get BLN to work, double check your BLN is turned on under BLN controller.
BLN works pretty good with sms on Alien 5.5 (with "- Stock-ish kernel with custom ramdisk and BLN (disables ro.secure) ").
But the bln control app only keeps LED notification on for "one screen on". So, if you get frequent texts the light won't stay on except for the first one.
Anyone know if the paid version lets it stay on for more than one text? I've tried some of the "market app solutions" but nothing has helped.
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BLN works pretty good with sms on Alien 5.5 (with "- Stock-ish kernel with custom ramdisk and BLN (disables ro.secure) ").
But the bln control app only keeps LED notification on for "one screen on". So, if you get frequent texts the light won't stay on except for the first one.
Anyone know if the paid version lets it stay on for more than one text? I've tried some of the "market app solutions" but nothing has helped.
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I think what you're referring to is the test section of BLN which only means you can test the BLN notification setup you have and it will last until the next time you turn on your screen (which is what you want a test to do, right?). I don't think it's really a feature thing that you're thinking of because BLN only lasts until the next time the screen is turned on. Anyways, I have the paid version and there's no option along those lines.
I've been trying to figure this out for weeks and gave up. Tried your method and works perfect. Thanks for the instructions and heads up.
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I don't have "Show a Popup" enabled. Depending on your setting under "Additional Settings" in the main menu where it says "Screen On for Popup", your phone might turn on when you receive a text message and show that popup, which would, in turn, disable BLN. BLN has to have the screen off to work so anything that results in the screen turning on after receiving a text message will disable BLN. If you receive a text and your screen doesn't light up and you still can't get BLN to work, double check your BLN is turned on under BLN controller.
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yeah i found the issue, untick "Screen On for Popup" that resolved the issue and bln kicked on for me.
yoft1 said:
I think what you're referring to is the test section of BLN which only means you can test the BLN notification setup you have and it will last until the next time you turn on your screen (which is what you want a test to do, right?). I don't think it's really a feature thing that you're thinking of because BLN only lasts until the next time the screen is turned on. Anyways, I have the paid version and there's no option along those lines.
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Ah. Thank you for the correction, I've only recently realized the value of bln so I'm new at it (I'll hit the button when I'm back on my desktop). I realize it's a test function but I was hoping there was a connection to it doing the exact same thing in reality (comes on for first sms, but turns off and stays off after any following msgs, after screen notification pops up).
I'd love to be able to rely on bln--would keep me from being that person in the office with the loud annoying ring tone (or loud vibrate). My wife is a prolific texter. If she sends one message when I'm at the office and I see it, all is well. But if I turn the screen on and she's sent 6 messages that I haven't replied to, they usually escalate very quickly into "Why are you ignoring me?!...Answer me!!!".
I'd like bln to just stay on for multiple msgs and hold my marriage together. Is that too much to ask??
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yeah i found the issue, untick "Screen On for Popup" that resolved the issue and bln kicked on for me.
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skrambled said:
Ah. Thank you for the correction, I've only recently realized the value of bln so I'm new at it (I'll hit the button when I'm back on my desktop). I realize it's a test function but I was hoping there was a connection to it doing the exact same thing in reality (comes on for first sms, but turns off and stays off after any following msgs, after screen notification pops up).
I'd love to be able to rely on bln--would keep me from being that person in the office with the loud annoying ring tone (or loud vibrate). My wife is a prolific texter. If she sends one message when I'm at the office and I see it, all is well. But if I turn the screen on and she's sent 6 messages that I haven't replied to, they usually escalate very quickly into "Why are you ignoring me?!...Answer me!!!".
I'd like bln to just stay on for multiple msgs and hold my marriage together. Is that too much to ask??
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I'm not quite sure how the functionality that you're asking for is different than the functionality that BLN provides? How BLN works for me is if my phone is on my desk and I receive a text, the soft keys light up and stay lit up until I unlock my screen, at which point the LED notification turns off and whether the soft keys are lit or not depends on your system settings. When I lock my screen again, the notification is off because turning on the screen resets BLN. If I don't touch my phone after receiving a text, the soft keys stay on indefinitely (how I have the settings on BLN control app) until the next time I unlock my screen.
Isn't that what you're asking for? That the notification remains until you turn on your screen (check your phone)?
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I'm not quite sure how the functionality that you're asking for is different than the functionality that BLN provides? How BLN works for me is if my phone is on my desk and I receive a text, the soft keys light up and stay lit up until I unlock my screen, at which point the LED notification turns off and whether the soft keys are lit or not depends on your system settings. When I lock my screen again, the notification is off because turning on the screen resets BLN. If I don't touch my phone after receiving a text, the soft keys stay on indefinitely (how I have the settings on BLN control app) until the next time I unlock my screen.
Isn't that what you're asking for? That the notification remains until you turn on your screen (check your phone)?
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It lights up when the first text comes in. But when the second text comes the lights go out, even if I haven't touched the phone.
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skrambled said:
It lights up when the first text comes in. But when the second text comes the lights go out, even if I haven't touched the phone.
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Ah I see, thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to replicate your problem. I had the same person text me multiple times and I had different people text me and I didn't touch my phone in between texts and the LED stayed on. I'm inclined to think that it's an issue with your ROM solution (you're running Alien right?). This workaround is for kernels that have the BLN functionality unlocked but otherwise haven't made any modifications to allow it to work with the stock SMS app. It sounds like (from what you said) that Alien has a workaround cooked in to allow BLN to work with the stock SMS app but it seems like Alien's solution doesn't quite work as it's supposed to if it turns off upon receiving a second text.
If BLN is very important to you (it is for me), I would suggest a different ROM/kernel solution that doesn't have a built in way to allow stock SMS to access BLN. If that's the case, and all it does is unlock BLN functionality, then this workaround should work for you.
Found a fix to get BLN working with SMS Pop. Just enable reminders after 1 minute, and under advanced disable screen on with reminders. Might also want to set notification sound to silent and have the stock sms handle the sound. After the first popup BLN won't work but after one minute BLN will blink.
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It lights up when the first text comes in. But when the second text comes the lights go out, even if I haven't touched the phone.
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Must be one of your settings is wrong. Mine always lights up again no matter how many texts I get one after another.
kurrier said:
Found a fix to get BLN working with SMS Pop. Just enable reminders after 1 minute, and under advanced disable screen on with reminders. Might also want to set notification sound to silent and have the stock sms handle the sound. After the first popup BLN won't work but after one minute BLN will blink.
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I'm not sure if you read the thread or not but I posted a solution that doesn't require a one minute delay. Although it only works for ROMs that don't have a cooked in solution, also as stated in the thread
[q][how to] active bln led lighter on samsung (galaxy mini 2)
how to active led bln on my samsung??
It is a well known performance in Android OS
that after a notification popup is shown
-if the screen lightens and the phone gets unlocked-
every bln lights (blinking or not) turn off once the screen turns off.
On GB, once I obtained -don't remember through which means-
the effect of lights staying on after the screen turned off.
I cannot repeat the experience in any means, nor on ICS neither in JB.
So to sum up, I need to have the screen on and unlocked
in order eventually to read notifications and/or popups texts (sms, whatsapp, etc.)
and notwithstanding this I would the lights to turn off ONLY when i remove manually the notification from the status bar, and not when the screen goes dark.
Any hint?
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I almost think that's how it worked on gb. That's all I have.
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sperelli said:
It is a well known performance in Android OS
that after a notification popup is shown
-if the screen lightens and the phone gets unlocked-
every bln lights (blinking or not) turn off once the screen turns off.
On GB, once I obtained -don't remember through which means-
the effect of lights staying on after the screen turned off.
I cannot repeat the experience in any means, nor on ICS neither in JB.
So to sum up, I need to have the screen on and unlocked
in order eventually to read notifications and/or popups texts (sms, whatsapp, etc.)
and notwithstanding this I would the lights to turn off ONLY when i remove manually the notification from the status bar, and not when the screen goes dark.
Any hint?
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I gave up and choose not to let the popup unlock the phone.
So I expected the lights to stay on .
I've just discovered that
notwithstanding the fact I set BLN static led to on (or its timeout to on for 23 hs),
after some minutes lights turn off.
Once again: anybody has any idea how to have infinite static lights notification?
EDIT 2: for the lights themselves to stay always on (no popup), try last Bedalus... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34006635&postcount=5244
You can't have both.
madd0g said:
You can't have both.
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Clear. Even if on GB I could.
Who can think about a turnaround?
And what about the lights turning off after a while even if options are set to the opposite?
As i remember, bedalus explained that there are some codes in ics and Jelly bean that prevents that bln is on until you dismiss or read notif. It cant be changed. So, deal with it or go back to gb.
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