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Cool apps for Evo! LED Flashlight and more :D

Hi there,
I found a couple cool apps for our Evo, and wanted to pass them along in case someone else was looking but hadn't found them yet.
LED Light - picolyl - This app turns on our led lights by the camera, and has a widget so you can place it beside your sense widgets for connections, etc.
Mirror for HTC EVO 4G - NeatoFun - This uses the front facing camera and shows the image full screen, so you can check out how awesome you look, or if you've got some boogies hanging out of your nose
Dolphin Browser HD - I used Dolphin Browser on my Hero, but this is a completely different app, it has been totally revamped and has themes and add-ins. It has fantastic multitouch performance also. I'm seriously considering replacing this as my default browser, which I would have never said before.
Google Earth - We can finally use this, Yay! Not so much on the Hero.
Quick Profiles - I've used this since the Hero came out, and it's a great app to manage and create system sound profiles, similar to the ones the old school nokia phones had. I have several set up, from vibrate, silent, loud, nighttime, quiet, normal, etc. It's a great app, I wish something like this was included by default.
there you go, some new ones for me and some favorites too. Enjoy!

Didnt know about that mirror app. Thanks!

what's so much better about dolphin, explicitly? I didn't see anything that made me want to use it when I had my moment at all.

agent0014 said:
what's so much better about dolphin, explicitly? I didn't see anything that made me want to use it when I had my moment at all.
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did you use the HD version on your moment? It feels like a totally different app to me, and there's lots of improvements. but, to each his own.
Here's some more info, a video, and a small list of the new improvements.

led desire light is a better flashlight app

thorpe24 said:
led desire light is a better flashlight app
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I like the brightness options, but still think led light is a better app due to the widget. Good stuff though, keep it coming!

Mirror 4 Evo keeps giving me ads for Proactive.
I lol'd!
Great post man! Thanks.

kmartburrito said:
I like the brightness options, but still think led light is a better app due to the widget. Good stuff though, keep it coming!
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I am wondering if one of my LEDs is burned out or broken. When using LED Light app, only the top led lights up. Same when taking pictures. Do both LEDs light up for those of you using the program?
Ceger

Ceger said:
I am wondering if one of my LEDs is burned out or broken. When using LED Light app, only the top led lights up. Same when taking pictures. Do both LEDs light up for those of you using the program?
Ceger
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both of my lights do...

Ceger said:
I am wondering if one of my LEDs is burned out or broken. When using LED Light app, only the top led lights up. Same when taking pictures. Do both LEDs light up for those of you using the program?
Ceger
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Ouch, both of mine light up also. Sounds like you've got a bad LED. Bummer! At least it's under warranty though.

kmartburrito said:
Ouch, both of mine light up also. Sounds like you've got a bad LED. Bummer! At least it's under warranty though.
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turn the camera flash to on and check if they both light up when you take a picture

My local Sprint store replaced it out. Nice and easy, and having rooted and having all of my setups in Titanium Backup made it all the easier.
Thanks for all your feedback.
Ceger

Great find!! I'm enjoying these apps.

what are the things next to the samsung logo? camera? led?

i'm confused. for some reason I had assumed that this phone (my Rogers Captivate) had a front facing camera, even though it wasn't enabled at the moment. now I'm reading and it seems that it doesn't. i was also surprised to hear that it doesn't have a notification LED. i mean, WTF?
anyway, what particularly confuses me is that there are three little circles clearly visible behind the glass... just above the Samsung logo and to the left - one of them looks like the lens for a small camera, and the other two look like LEDs.
what are these, if not a camera? are all three just for the proximity sensor?

Ambient light sensor and proximity sensor in no particular order.

thanks!!
in conclusion:
it is stupid that this phone does not have an LED notification.
front facing camera, I really couldn't care less about.

apockalupsis said:
thanks!!
in conclusion:
it is stupid that this phone does not have an LED notification.
front facing camera, I really couldn't care less about.
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I came from the blackberry world, and really missed the LED indicator at first, but now I actually prefer no LED. It does get annoying to have a blinking light on your phone all the time, so one starts to ignore it anyway thus it becomes useless.
You can use a 3rd party tool like BLN however, if you just need a little light.

apockalupsis said:
thanks!!
in conclusion:
it is stupid that this phone does not have an LED notification.
front facing camera, I really couldn't care less about.
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BLN will turn the Seach, Back, Home, and Menu key on (and keep them on... or even blink) when you get a notification. So in essence we have one.

Changing the Dual LEDS

Has anyone thought of changing the leds to brighter ones?
Wondering if someone tried that(and failed? ..no seriously I'm just wondering if someone tried to replace these smd leds to better ones)
Led technology evolves quite fast so they should be better leds out there by now, or having the same brighness but better power consumption(less heat)

just use an external LED gadget.

evronetwork said:
Has anyone thought of changing the leds to brighter ones?
Wondering if someone tried that(and failed? ..no seriously I'm just wondering if someone tried to replace these smd leds to better ones)
Led technology evolves quite fast so they should be better leds out there by now, or having the same brighness but better power consumption(less heat)
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do you want Led with more colours? cuz brightness is already fine.

chenrp said:
just use an external LED gadget.
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Mr.Ak said:
do you want Led with more colours? cuz brightness is already fine.
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This is small talk about mods and curiosity guys, @chenrp no need to do such thing just wondering
@Mr.Ak far from perfect, if it was Xenon flash brightness that would be true but it's not ..especially outdoor the "flash" is next to useless

evronetwork said:
This is small talk about mods and curiosity guys, @chenrp no need to do such thing just wondering
@Mr.Ak far from perfect, if it was Xenon flash brightness that would be true but it's not ..especially outdoor the "flash" is next to useless
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Hmm,it's pretty much fine here on outdoor too.I don't recall even any custom kernel having " Notification Led Brightness" feature,though there are many color changing features.
Well,you can use ambient display too or you can set the camera flashlight as a notification light,then it would be bright,lol.It would be similar to S Light feature introduced on Note devices, there's an app on PS which does all that.

Mr.Ak said:
Hmm,it's pretty much fine here on outdoor too.I don't recall even any custom kernel having " Notification Led Brightness" feature,though there are many color changing features.
Well,you can use ambient display too or you can set the camera flashlight as a notification light,then it would be bright,lol.It would be similar to S Light feature introduced on Note devices, there's an app on PS which does all that.
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He's talking about the LED flash bro (used by camera), not notification LED.

Gawd said:
He's talking about the LED flash bro (used by camera), not notification LED.
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Ohh,I see..at first I thought its notification led because,who will use flash light in outdoor?

Gawd said:
He's talking about the LED flash bro (used by camera), not notification LED.
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exactly
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Ohh,I see..at first I thought its notification led because,who will use flash light in outdoor?
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Led notification has no purpose of changing heh (who uses flash? hmm why not be able to use it?)
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Others leds that NEEDS to be changed are the hardware button leds, these are VERY dim(can't see them unless completely darkness. I could try such changes myself if I has a spare 1+1 that I didn't care if it dies in my hands(anyone care to donate a phone for the greater good? ahhahhaah) ...I'm good with my hands but I'd never try to mod such things in my daily driver, it would be great for the hardware buttons to use "proper" leds there

IR I frared beacon/sensor always active?

I noticed the other night as I was using my pixel 2 and viewing a security camera monitor when it's infra-red/night vision was active that the IR beacon on the front of my phone pulses regularly even when I am not using the front camera of my phone, and don't have a camera app running at the time. Does anyone know why the phone is using the IR light and sensor when I'm not using the phones front camera?

I don't think the pixel 2 has an ir on it.

leveleyed said:
I noticed the other night as I was using my pixel 2 and viewing a security camera monitor when it's infra-red/night vision was active that the IR beacon on the front of my phone pulses regularly even when I am not using the front camera of my phone, and don't have a camera app running at the time. Does anyone know why the phone is using the IR light and sensor when I'm not using the phones front camera?
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Are you talking about the notification LED that sits in the top left hand corner or the camera LED flash? Your confusing me with this infrared/IR business. The pixel 2 doesnt have infrared.

enzyne said:
Are you talking about the notification LED that sits in the top left hand corner or the camera LED flash? Your confusing me with this infrared/IR business. The pixel 2 doesnt have infrared.
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No, I am certain it is not the notification LED. That is visible in normal lighting conditions. What I am referring to is only visible in night vision, which uses an infrared light and sensor. So this is clearly a blinking infrared light on the top of the front/face of the phone. I believe it is normally used to detect the distance of subject matter to help adjust the front camera focus depth.
Also, I don't know how the "n" in infrared got deleted after I finished typing in the rest of the title for this post, but I assure you that when I typed the word it showed up as "infrared" not "I frared". And now I can't seem to figure out how to edit the title of the post, so I guess it's stuck like this.
I'm starting to wonder if I've stumbled upon something that may be evidence that the phone is always using the front-facing camera - even when the user isn't using the camera or any app that uses the camera. I had my fiancée also come into the room so I could see if the same happened with her iPhone 6. On hers, no light on the front was active until she unlocked the phone. But as soon as she did, an infrared light on the face of it stayed illuminated *constantly*, whereas the one on my pixel 2 just flashes periodically.
My inner conspiracy theorist is starting to wonder WTF is going on here, and why these sensor arrays are active even when the front camera isn't in use.
I'm hoping a well-informed Android or Pixel 2 developer will see this and respond to address these concerns.

leveleyed said:
No, I am certain it is not the notification LED. That is visible in normal lighting conditions. What I am referring to is only visible in night vision, which uses an infrared light and sensor. So this is clearly a blinking infrared light on the top of the front/face of the phone. I believe it is normally used to detect the distance of subject matter to help adjust the front camera focus depth.
Also, I don't know how the "n" in infrared got deleted after I finished typing in the rest of the title for this post, but I assure you that when I typed the word it showed up as "infrared" not "I frared". And now I can't seem to figure out how to edit the title of the post, so I guess it's stuck like this.
I'm starting to wonder if I've stumbled upon something that may be evidence that the phone is always using the front-facing camera - even when the user isn't using the camera or any app that uses the camera. I had my fiancée also come into the room so I could see if the same happened with her iPhone 6. On hers, no light on the front was active until she unlocked the phone. But as soon as she did, an infrared light on the face of it stayed illuminated *constantly*, whereas the one on my pixel 2 just flashes periodically.
My inner conspiracy theorist is starting to wonder WTF is going on here, and why these sensor arrays are active even when the front camera isn't in use.
I'm hoping a well-informed Android or Pixel 2 developer will see this and respond to address these concerns.
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That's interesting. I will try with my phone and nest camera and see if it acts the same on mine.

I just tested it again, holding the phone at varying angles from the security camera, activating and deactivating its night vision/IR mode to see the difference. I recorded a video of it and will post a link tomorrow. When infrared is active, there is a clearly visible blinking light located in the center of the top of the phone just above the speaker bar (the one to the right of the front camera).
I'm really curious to get to the bottom of this so that I can dismiss the paranoia that big brother is constantly watching me through my phone's camera.

leveleyed said:
I just tested it again, holding the phone at varying angles from the security camera, activating and deactivating its night vision/IR mode to see the difference. I recorded a video of it and will post a link tomorrow. When infrared is active, there is a clearly visible blinking light located in the center of the top of the phone just above the speaker bar (the one to the right of the front camera).
I'm really curious to get to the bottom of this so that I can dismiss the paranoia that big brother is constantly watching me through my phone's camera.
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?It's the proximity sensor.

ajrty33 said:
?It's the proximity sensor.
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Exactly!!
But why is the proximity sensory active all the time? Is it so the Ambient display doesn't turn on when face down?

oSandmaNo said:
Exactly!!
But why is the proximity sensory active all the time? Is it so the Ambient display doesn't turn on when face down?
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Its constantly trying to see if your phone is up to your ear or not.

I'm also wondering why the phone would need to have the proximity sensor active when I'm not using Ambient mode, and not currently engaged in a call. There's no need for it to be using the proximity sensor when I'm just browsing my home screen or using some other app. My phone isn't configured to turn off the screen if I set it face down for awhile or anything like that. So there shouldn't be anything using the proximity sensor.

This is common in modern phones, it's checking if you're holding it, if it if is by your face, in your pocket it allows gestures like wave to wake
Get used to it, it's not going away.

mrkhigh said:
This is common in modern phones, it's checking if you're holding it, if it if is by your face, in your pocket it allows gestures like wave to wake
Get used to it, it's not going away.
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But the pixel doesn't have any of those features.

if u want to turn the sensor, disable all option in ambient display.

koax88 said:
if u want to turn the sensor, disable all option in ambient display.
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Nope. I tested that a few months ago (this isn't the first time this has been spotted). You can turn the ambient display off completely and the sensor is still active.
Unless of course they've realised in the meanwhile that this is pointless and fixed it in a software update - I've not retested it recently.

Large Hadron said:
Nope. I tested that a few months ago (this isn't the first time this has been spotted). You can turn the ambient display off completely and the sensor is still active.
Unless of course they've realised in the meanwhile that this is pointless and fixed it in a software update - I've not retested it recently.
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I Just tested my phone, the sensor did not blink at all if u turn off all setting in the ambient Display section. Even double tap to wake will make the sensor blink. I noticed this since 8.0 tho.
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oSandmaNo said:
But the pixel doesn't have any of those features.
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It certainly does. I use it to keep the screen off when my phone, in an Otterbox Defender, is in the holster, or when I lay it down face down. Both the front and rear cameras can see into the infrared. Just aim a TV remote at them when any camera app is running and press a button and you'll see the remote's IR LED going. (It has no IR output, though.)

Camera on screen looks like refracted air and phone shakes and lens whirring noise

I have read that the Pixel 3a has these issue of shaking phone and blurry photos with a whirring sound (happens when taking video too). When the camera is on before taking pic the screen looks wavy like refractive air on the road on a hot day. Well, this is happening with my new Pixel 4a that it 2 days old. Customer service put me through the ringer with uninstalling and reinstalling camera app (didn't help), restarting phone (didn't help), clearing cache (didn't help). My 3a never had this issue even though it was a known issue. I can't find anywhere online that this is was ever resolved.
Any suggestions? Anyone else have this issue?

For me it only happens with certain lighting. The light from one of my displays causes it, but not the others. If I focus on the display, it goes away.

johnwaynegacy said:
For me it only happens with certain lighting. The light from one of my displays causes it, but not the others. If I focus on the display, it goes away.
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What do you mean "other displays"?

tmkincali said:
What do you mean "other displays"?
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Other monitors in the room. Only a samsung tv causes it when I see it happening.

johnwaynegacy said:
Other monitors in the room. Only a samsung tv causes it when I see it happening.
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Hm, I was just trying to take a photo of friends outdoors in natural light.

tmkincali said:
Hm, I was just trying to take a photo of friends outdoors in natural light.
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That I haven't had. But come to think of it, I was trying to take a picture of something solid blue in natural light. There was purple spots flashing on it in the viewfinder.