now now don't flame me for posting in the Dream Android Development Section. Because I have an ideal I would like devs to see and maybe you know, develop.
So my ideal is cross platform/rom app/hack to change the colors of the leds when the phone is charging. I know I am getting tired of Red, Orange, Green. its so dull and boring.
What do you guys think?
P.S. Mods please forgive my foolishness if I have posted in the totally wrong section.
You mean cycle through the colours when it's charging? or just change the colour?
There's plenty of apps on the market that let you change the colour for incoming calls, messages, wifi, etc. but none that cycle through the colours.
That would be pretty sweet tbh.
cars1106 said:
now now don't flame me for posting in the Dream Android Development Section. Because I have an ideal I would like devs to see and maybe you know, develop.
So my ideal is cross platform/rom app/hack to change the colors of the leds when the phone is charging. I know I am getting tired of Red, Orange, Green. its so dull and boring.
What do you guys think?
P.S. Mods please forgive my foolishness if I have posted in the totally wrong section.
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you're in the right section, android development. since this would be a development idea, you're correct. although it can be debatable that it's just a question... I say YES. so who knows what to do?
I think when it is fully charged it should cycle through numerous colors. Charging should pulsate between red and orange
Or can we fix the notification while charging? there is only 1 app for that and its a payed! it's something that should be stock on the phone like SMS
LED Notification flashing while charging
I agree. It would be great to have the LED flash while charging when we get any kind of notification sms, email, alarm, tweet, gtalk etc. maybe the color changing option could be added to the settings menu too. This is a great idea.
In cyan's roms there is a great LED color/flash rate changing menu in the messaging settings. Could this be a good place to start from?
Found an app that does just that, flash notifications when charging. It's called "Always Flash for root users." It's paid, I might have it free. (sssssssshhh). I didn't like it because it runs as a background service and I despise background services, but definitely works well.
I do like the idea of pulsating colors while charging. However, I'm not quite sure how the electronics of the LED work in the G1. I haven't read anything about it being able to pulse. LED's can pulse, but I don't know if the G1 can do that.
Doesn't the myTouch's trackball pulse while charging?
I don't think what you guys are saying is what he wants.
I think he wants when it's charging
<15%=red
<90%=orange
>90%=Green
He wants to change those colors to blue or purple or yellow or something
JAguirre1231 said:
I don't think what you guys are saying is what he wants.
I think he wants when it's charging
<15%=red
<90%=orange
>90%=Green
He wants to change those colors to blue or purple or yellow or something
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Its all the same thing. If we can change the colors we can also make them pulsate
Abolfazl said:
Its all the same thing. If we can change the colors we can also make them pulsate
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Yeah, but it started to become one tree completely different of what he wanted, after the pulsate was mentioned
Hero LED
I remember Hero LED used to be able to change the LED's whilst charging, but when it got 'improved' it no longer interfered with the green charging LED.
Personally I am not concerned about gradiating LEDs whilst charging, but would like the LEDs to notify me when I have had an incoming e-mail or SMS whilst charging, and I dont want to have to pay £1 for the privelige!
Any kinda change is good though I do like the pulsating, Now thats sexy. Like when a mac is sleeping its lil light pulsates damn thats hot.
Yes all of your ideals are correct.
Always flash is a good start...
Okay, we are almost there, development-wise, if someone with some more expertise than me would get interested enough to the work... with Always Flash for Root, we know that it is very possible to get rid of the default charge light, and replace it with another app's notification. All we need is an app that detects a phone's charging state and battery level (can be done without root), and lights the led based on that (can also be done without root) in ways configurable by the user (a la "Missed Call" app).
Pulsing would be a nice effect, but whether that's possible or not, I think we should have it gradually shift colors from totally red, through the rainbow as it charges to orange, yellow, and finally green when fully charged. It is possible to light any custom color based on rgb values (there are apps that do this in the market), so this is all very doable with a normal app. All we are missing is a free version of "Always Flash" to get the default charge out of the way so the app can do its color changing thing. (once great Java dev creates it, that is)
hmmmm....
depending on the charge state of the battery the lights could cycle (or pulsate)from red to yellow to green...kinda like a traffic light
that would be awesome!
freaktractor said:
hmmmm....
depending on the charge state of the battery the lights could cycle (or pulsate)from red to yellow to green...kinda like a traffic light
that would be awesome!
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That's what I was saying, only have them fade gradually from one to the other. (say, have the color change slightly, unnoticeably, each time it pulses)
But, in any case, the point of this thread is not exactly how it should look (It should be largely user configurable, anyway), but how can we do it. In fact, I think we can see how to do it, if only someone can write the app...
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Okay, we are almost there, development-wise, if someone with some more expertise than me would get interested enough to the work... with Always Flash for Root, we know that it is very possible to get rid of the default charge light, and replace it with another app's notification. All we need is an app that detects a phone's charging state and battery level (can be done without root), and lights the led based on that (can also be done without root) in ways configurable by the user (a la "Missed Call" app).
Pulsing would be a nice effect, but whether that's possible or not, I think we should have it gradually shift colors from totally red, through the rainbow as it charges to orange, yellow, and finally green when fully charged. It is possible to light any custom color based on rgb values (there are apps that do this in the market), so this is all very doable with a normal app. All we are missing is a free version of "Always Flash" to get the default charge out of the way so the app can do its color changing thing. (once great Java dev creates it, that is)
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Yeah always flash is handy, but I sure as hell did not pay for it. RGB does work and dimming is possible, this is proven by the old hero roms and there dimly lit leds. and the RGB value config is great. Hopefully someone that knows more about this will develop an epic free app.
Sorry for the double post but I forgot to mention there is a free app on the market called "LED Tester" check it out.
It would be great if a dev can find a use for it. ^_^
Hello,
I am looking for a app or script that will run on my phone and notify me when a particular task is consuming CPU higher than a threshold i define..
i believe there are Apps that can do what I am asking for but they require a white list creating.. i my case I am looking for an exactly 1 system task/process
yes I am talking about suspend task..i have completely understood how to it start in that bad state but there is no way I know to fix it.. so i would rather know when its consuming more than 10% CPU...
all i need the app to do is either have a blinking notification (LED) .. anyone know of anything like that..
watchdog cam close but it cannot monitor just 1 task and I am always busy adding stuff to its whitelist!
yeah I have to say Watchdog would be best, but since youve already used it and tried it out...I dunno what to tell you someone should be able to shed some light and help you out soon
I want to mount my old galaxy tab on the wall, keep it plugged in and awake, and use it as an information display from wifi. I specifically want to show the outdoor temp, expected high temp, and time. In other words a wall display I can control from my always-on PC.
I am a programmer so I can write PC software but I would prefer to not write android software. I'm hoping some existing app could show text or probably an image and remotely change the text or image.
I doubt such a thing already exists but I'm hoping someone can help me come up with a clever (kludge) solution.
Recently I have been digging all about my LED in Moto X Force (for those who do not know, Motorola did install a LED on the front panel, but didn't enable it for anything usable - some people state that it's on when battery is very low, and then phone does not start, but I have never seen it). This very strange decision of Motorola encouraged me to look how to use it anyways. I have found a few apps that supposedly were in control of it, but none seemed to be nor well written nor even working. So I decided not to use those. But one app did occur to be usable. And only option I liked there was LED blinking every time any IO operation on the SD Card occured. Yet, the app is in two versions. One (free) disallows to "start at boot" so everytime i reboot the phone, I have to manually run it to "blink again".
As I'm a dev, I did little digging and found out that it's really simple to make such functionality by just one command as root (it's basically telling the linux kernel when to trigger the LED - thanks kernel.org people ):
echo mmc0 > /sys/class/leds/charging/trigger
Just one command.
As this applies to ANY device, it's for everybody to see.
Moreover, if you type:
cat /sys/class/leds/charging/trigger
You will see the response like this:
none fg_adc-online MOTOSH-ANTCAP-PSY-DRIVER-online usb-online flash0_trigger torch0_trigger usb-parallel-online wireless-online bms-online battery-charging-or-full battery-charging battery-full battery-charging-blink-full-solid dc-online rfkill0 mmc0 [mmc1] backlight default-on bcl-online rfkill13
You can guess that for example:
- battery-full will light your LED when battery is full
- wireless-online will light when WiFi is on (and possibly have the internet connection - just guessing, test by yourself, it's not the point of this post)
- and so on
The one in square brackets is "active" trigger (in this case mmc1 - external sd card)
If you type:
ls -1 /sys/class/leds/
(or even: ls -1r /sys/class/leds/ for more details)
You will see all the LEDs you can use.
When you use /sys/class/leds/*/trigger the kernel will do all the job for you. If you want to do the job yourself from within your app, you may use /sys/class/leds/*/brightness
To be honest, I really regret I have rooted my phone so late (after warranty) .
Have fun guys
PS. If you are not a dev, you still can use above in tools like Automate or Tasker.
PS2. WARNING: for Moto X Force fiddling with lcd-backlight "LED" can cause reboots (if done at boot, bootloops). Only two "trigger happy" working LEDs are charging and torch-light0 for my phone. Still, lcd-backlight possibly can be done "manually" (brightness)
Hey, this is already years old. But how to undo the changes?
I rarely use my phone and don't obsessively check it. If something needs my attention it flashes the coloured led on an every 1-second cycle. I have colours set up for email, sms and whatsapp.
I can see it at a glance on my desk/couch without needing to pick up the phone, I also know a notification is waiting for me if I was far away from the phone to hear the notification sound or vibration. I'm also deaf so I don't take voice calls, so anything that is an emergency will be in text form and has to grab my attention.
This is why I had to skip buying the OnePlus 6T - it has no LED. Other alternatives such as the Xiaomi Pocophone F1 has only 1 colour on its LED. I don't know what other alternatives there are. I've always stuck with phones that are easily unlockable and has good ROM support (Nexus 4 to OPO to OP3 currently), so I can finetune the LED colours and timing frequency on a per app basis.
p.s. I'm aware there are third-party tools such as Always on Amoled on Google Play. But I have no idea if it's any good, development may stop at any time, and they're usually battery drainers.
I'm totally same boat with you and we are sinking.
WHY in Earth notification led is removed now days?
It was probably best thing Android had starting day 1. when I started use it (2008)
I'm also using OnePlus 5T still because led removed after this model....
It doesn't have the LED, but it does light up the left side of the screen instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B9cJeF0x8Q
If this can be properly customized (make this the only trace of ambient display, set colors for individual apps and ideally shift the light strip to the top side instead of the left side to use a litte bit less battery) I'd be fine with that
Wow! This sounds awesome if can customize!
Normal 7 don't have nothing I think?
Villelj said:
Wow! This sounds awesome if can customize!
Normal 7 don't have nothing I think?
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The guy presenting this review says that both the pro and non-pro have the feature https://youtu.be/_e5Imvxw8kk?t=204
However, I'd like to see a video of it working on the non-pro variant just to be sure it really does have the feature. Would also like to know whether it can be set to keep lighting intermittently until the notification is manually dismissed, just like a LED notification light works.