Just a quick question, has anyone else had problems using Handcent on there incredible? Everthing works like it should, the only problem is that the LED notifications dont work so i never know if i have a new text or not without waking up the phone, it dosent matter what color i change the LED notification too, it dosent work on any setting, just seeing if others experienced this as well
Make sure you have led notifications off for the regular messaging app and turned on for handcent. Thus should work, I've been using it on my Incredible since the day I got it.
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Make sure you have led notifications off for the regular messaging app and turned on for handcent. Thus should work, I've been using it on my Incredible since the day I got it.
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dosent work... the stock messaging app has no settings for LED just sound and vibrate, and the stock messaging apps notifications in general are turned completely off, whereas handcents are on with LED blink checked and it does not work, ive tried every color and none work
My LED notifications work. The only thing that doesnt happen is the color change, no matter what color I set it to it just blinks green, but my stock messaging would blink as well so im not sure whats wrong with yours
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My LED notifications work. The only thing that doesnt happen is the color change, no matter what color I set it to it just blinks green, but my stock messaging would blink as well so im not sure whats wrong with yours
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I am seeing the exact same thing. Hoping we'll be able to change LED color after root, but if not...... I can live with that.
Yea while using handcent, mine only blinks green no matter what color i put it on.
One thing that bugs me about the Captivate is that I frequently miss notifications while my phone is locked and set to vibrate (the vibrate is very weak for notifications). What I would like is a way to force the phone to "wake up" when any notification is received. By wake up, I mean for the screen to turn on for the default screen time out.
Is there any way of making this happen with an app or a mod? The NoLED app is a good idea but a battery drain... I'd prefer something than only turns on the screen for a minute when the notification is received.
"SMS popup"
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"SMS popup"
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Isn't that just for text messages? I would prefer something that works for all notifications including GMail and Google voice.
Try searching for mmf in the Market. It doesn't do the exact thing that what you want, but it will turn on the backlighting and flash the screen on/off when it receives sms, voice and gmail.
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Try searching for mmf in the Market. It doesn't do the exact thing that what you want, but it will turn on the backlighting and flash the screen on/off when it receives sms, voice and gmail.
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Thanks! That is a good start... if he adds GVoice support, it would be almost perfect.
EDIT - Did not realize you were the author! If there is a way to add GVoice support it would be awesome.
I've looked around, but couldn't find a method like they did with Gmail. I'll see if I can figure out indirectly watching GV's notification tones though.
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I've looked around, but couldn't find a method like they did with Gmail. I'll see if I can figure out indirectly watching GV's notification tones though.
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Yeah I think the guy who wrote the NoLED app ran into similar issues with GV and other notifications... it not work in vibrate mode. Thanks for checking it out.
A blank/silent mp3 might work w/ vibrate... GV right now just doesn't seem to have a way of announcing that a new message is available like Gmail. I've put an updated version on the Market with notification tone monitoring. Seems to work fine with the limited testing I did with GVoice. It's disabled by default for now, so just toggle it on. hth
Don't know if it is a problem or what but when receiving a new text, the screen does not light up but rather just vibrates, make noise, and have the buttons lit up.
Is this a problem or is it a setting I can adjust so the screen lights up as well?
The AOSP mms app doesn't turn on the screen when messages are received (on this ROM). But you can probably try using something like SMS pop up to have the screen turn on and quick reply if you want. I haven't tried that myself, though.
Anyway to change that?
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The AOSP mms app doesn't turn on the screen when messages are received (on this ROM). But you can probably try using something like SMS pop up to have the screen turn on and quick reply if you want. I haven't tried that myself, though.
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SMS popup is definitely the way to go. allows you to use your preferred messaging app but gives you awesome functionality with the popup notifications. and quick reply is the best.
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Don't know if it is a problem or what but when receiving a new text, the screen does not light up but rather just vibrates, make noise, and have the buttons lit up.
Is this a problem or is it a setting I can adjust so the screen lights up as well?
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You can disable the bottom button lights in recovery...Advacned ULK..BLN and disable it.
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You can disable the bottom button lights in recovery...Advacned ULK..BLN and disable it.
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I want the screen to light up though, not the bottom button lights to go away. But good to know!
McLovin113 said:
I want the screen to light up though, not the bottom button lights to go away. But good to know!
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if you use the samsung mms.apk provided on the serendipity website, the screen will light up upon receiving a text message.
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if you use the samsung mms.apk provided on the serendipity website, the screen will light up upon receiving a text message.
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Ahh thank you! Finally what I was exactly looking for!
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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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
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Is there a mod to disable sms notification in status bar without disabling the notification sound and vibrate?
I prefer using the stock 4.1.2 sms app.
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Is there a mod to disable sms notification in status bar without disabling the notification sound and vibrate?
I prefer using the stock 4.1.2 sms app.
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Go to mms.apk info, there untick "show notification"
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Go to mms.apk info, there untick "show notification"
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did that. but it also disables sound and vibration.
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did that. but it also disables sound and vibration.
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I wouldnt know other way, sorry.
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anyone? :|
I don't believe that is possible.
ej8989 said:
Is there a mod to disable sms notification in status bar without disabling the notification sound and vibrate?
I prefer using the stock 4.1.2 sms app.
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I haven't seen that since my HTC hero days.
It was under privacy settings and it may be available with handcent or gosms, but i have not seen a mod for any jb SMS apks
Take a look
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i flashed about 4 custom ROMs the whole day but none has this feature. sad