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Dock Question

I recently purchased a nexus s and dock. I was under the impression if i used the dock only the time would show up and float around the screen. What i am getting is the dock turns on the clock app that shows the weather and the four buttons (alarm ,music etc). Do i need to download a different app to get just the time floating around? I am afraid of leaving it the way it is because I dont want to ruin the screen having the clock sit like that all night, besides that it is too bright.
I am using stock rooted 2.3.7.
Thanks.

Turns out I was being impatient. After I left it long enough it started working as expected

Evo_Shift said:
Turns out I was being impatient. After I left it long enough it started working as expected
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For what it's worth, I use Alarm Clock Plus (here) to customize many options of the alarm. You can have it for free (ads) or pay a small amount for it. Enables you to customize a lot of settings (including timeout of screensaver and colors), set mathematical solving alarms and plenty of crazy stuff. I've never looked back since I started using it, and what's awesome is that in appearance it is the same as the built-in alarm.

I also use Alarm Clock Plus and it is highly recommended. I love the "nap" feature to easily set an alarm for a short nap by just touching the onscreen clock and selecting the time you want to sleep. As mentioned above it has a bunch of settings and no attempts were made to look all flashy

I tried out Alarm Clock Plus and really like it, especially the ability to set the screensaver to only 1 minute and that I can adjust the color/brightness of time floating around.
One thing i have noticed is that the 4 capacitive buttons remain lit when it is in the dock. Is there a way to have them off?

Evo_Shift said:
I tried out Alarm Clock Plus and really like it, especially the ability to set the screensaver to only 1 minute and that I can adjust the color/brightness of time floating around.
One thing i have noticed is that the 4 capacitive buttons remain lit when it is in the dock. Is there a way to have them off?
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Absolutely, if you are using a kernel with one of Ezekeel mods (franco kernel, glados, trinity, steve garon stuff, mathkid's etc) and backlight dimmer you can set a timeout for the capacitive buttons to power down.

polobunny said:
Absolutely, if you are using a kernel with one of Ezekeel mods (franco kernel, glados, trinity, steve garon stuff, mathkid's etc) and backlight dimmer you can set a timeout for the capacitive buttons to power down.
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Which app did you mean? The buttons are not lit because of a notification, they just turn on for some reason when the phone is docked. The settings in the BLN app don't seem to do anything except time out when you have a notification. I need something that will allow the cap button to turn off when the phone is docked when there are no notifications present at all.

Evo_Shift said:
Which app did you mean? The buttons are not lit because of a notification, they just turn on for some reason when the phone is docked. The settings in the BLN app don't seem to do anything except time out when you have a notification. I need something that will allow the cap button to time out when the phone is docked when there are no notifications present at all.
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Exactly what I just told you.
If you are using a kernel with Backlight Dimmer from Ezekeel, you should be able to do this.
Kernels from Morfic, Franco, Ezekeel, Mathkid and Steve Garon all offer Ezekeel mods as far as I'm aware.
You can set the Backlight dimmer options manually or using NSTools (Tweak tab).

Ahh, yes. Right in front of my eyes. I was still thinking in my old LCD terms... I thought that meant back light as in the display... Still not used to the SAMOLED screen
Thank you again

No problem. There's a lot of made up terminology and very few guides so it can get confusing at some point.

app suggestion .. using back and menu buttons as noticication LED

coming from htc legend and xperia mini, the led notification lights was an important feature, now i really miss it in the note, and using noled app is not the same as having actual led lights.
so i was thinking if there is a possibility to use the menu and back buttons lights as notification light ? i found that they are separate from the screen light .. so can this be done by an app or a custom rom or it can't be done ?

This idea has already been implemented for many Samsung devices. Just find a custom kernel with "BLN" Support (BackLightNotification) and then download the app (info HERE) and away you go.
Hope that helps mate
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ages_devil said:
coming from htc legend and xperia mini, the led notification lights was an important feature, now i really miss it in the note, and using noled app is not the same as having actual led lights.
so i was thinking if there is a possibility to use the menu and back buttons lights as notification light ? i found that they are separate from the screen light .. so can this be done by an app or a custom rom or it can't be done ?
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check bLED

after i posted this i found out about bLED and bln kernel (i didn't know what bln means) thanks for your help

There is also noLED. Not one i use but you might aswell know all the options

I've read that they all hurt battery life

i tried noLED but i didn't like it
i know that bln might drain the battery faster but it's important for me, and maybe with further development some of the current problems might be fixed

NoLed is good, doesn't require root and only uses about 3% battery when enabled (and nothing if you switch it off). You can also customize the settings for additional power saving and I managed to get it down to 1% by setting the notification to flash on and off.
My only issue with NoLed is that from time to time it gives me the sleep of death. Disable it And my issues go away - haven't had time to test whether or not SoD is down to the power saving settings.

Disable BLN cm9

Hey forum It seems that I cannot disable BLN on cm9, I've tried with nstools and also the BLN control app and apparently I don't have the mod installed. I know i have it because when i get a text they stay lit....can anyone help I don't need it and rather save some battery power.

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[Q] Is there a way change Auto brightness behavior without 3rd party apps ?

I have tried several different apps (the one I currently have is Lux Lite) but they don't always work right, even when they are in the notification area (which I hate). So I'm wondering if I could manually override the auto brightness behavior without using an app.
I'm already running n3oHammer_v16 custom Kernel, so I'm open to kernel based solutions (any kernel with good battery life and S2W or D2W is fine). I had a HTC One X with a custom ROM which had support for overriding Auto brightness values, so I'm guessing Nexus 5 should have something similar. But a quick search didn't turn up anything, hence the post.

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Any Lollipop Kernel support Vibration Control?

Hello all
I have a OnePlus One running CM12 (unofficial). My haptic feedback for virtual button presses is very weak in comparison to my Nexus 5. In fact I can't really feel them at all - just hear them. I *may* have affected performance of the motor a when trying to solder a Qi receiver into the handset, as I accidentally touched the battery live to the motor causing it to run at full power for a few seconds. It is weak on both CM12 and Paranoid Android. Anyway, I just want to make the haptic feedback duration for virtual button presses a few milliseconds longer so it's more noticable.
I have managed to do this for Google Keyboard in the app settings and it works nicely.
Otherwise, vibration intensity is already set to maximum (in both the CM settings and system settings), which is fine for notifications, but I really need to increase the duration of haptic feedback, not the intensity.
I have read that Franco kernel offers this, but as far as I understand it doesn't support lollipop yet. Does anyone know of another kernel which supports haptic feedback adjust?
Thanks
Mike

If You Want Something like Vibrator Strength, as in the below screenshot, Ark Kernel has it

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If You Want Something like Vibrator Strength, as in the below screenshot, Ark Kernel has it
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Hi
Thanks, but this is intensity which is already set to 31 (100%) on my device. I need to increase the duration, not the intensity.

Hi Mike, I don't know about other ROMs but I used to run Liquidsmooth's Lollipop and it worked fine with Franco kernel, although it was a bit unoptimized that's nothing that can't be fixed in Synapse.

Which Franco kernel did you use? CM or AOSP?