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. ^_^
Hi,
A naive question for developers.
Can the LED light on the front be manipulated through an app
to function as a torch?
Regards,
Sam
The LED lights really aren't that bright (compared to the Droid1's or Droid2's "Flash" for the camera).
I think they were working on the LED manipulation, but ran into issues. May be resolved now... "Torch" will probably not be possible (as the LED is just a dim notification light), but possibly...
The only lights that can be used as a "torch" would be an LED flash, as that is the only light that is bright enough, however the Sidekick does not have an LED flash, and therefore does not have any LED to use for this.
Short answer: no.
thanks for this information mate
is it technically/physically/electronically possible that the LED camera Flash on the back on the Android phones be run at lower brightness intensity by software? - I mean as I understand it the 'flash' is not a xenon flash, its just an ordinary light emitting diode (LED) but just a very high brightness LED - but all the same like any other LED it should technically therefore support different brightness settings (even if only down to 10% of its full brightness) should it not? maybe by the software applying different lower voltages to the LED in the particular app?
The reason I ask is that I prefer to use flash call alert apps and these tend to use the rear camera flash (some use front screen display as well but I prefer to divert the alert to flash the camera flash light instead of the screen) so in all of these flash alert (for ringing/missed call/ unread SMS) that I have ever tried from Google Play not one of them has ever featured a way to lower the brightness of the LED Flash to a lower percentage of brightness - is this because there is no way technically to lower the brightness of the camera LED and that there is only 2 operational modes of Totally off or Totally on, full brightness of the LED state only or have app developers not realised that it would be a useful feature of their app? - I have my mobile phone in my shirt pocket most of the time, its a large 5.5" phone and the LED flash sits above the pocket and when the flash alert call goes off the LED flash 'blinds' the person standing across me because it flashes at full 100% brightness!
So does any technical person on XDA know if its technically possible to adjust the brightness of a rear camera flash LED? - or has anyone seen a flash alert app on Google Play where one of the features is that you can lower the brightness intensity of the flash? Thanks.
Yes
I have seen flashlight apps that allow the user to reduce the intensity of the flash LED. In fact, I used one for a while. But I'm not sure if this capability has been put into any notification apps. It also might depend on your phones hardware. My old phone was able to get that flashlight app from Google Play, but because it customizes the appstore to your phone's compatibilities, an app might not show up for you because of your phone's hardware's limitations. I'll keep my eye out for such an app though.
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.
Hi, there
8/256 GB
Display type: Tianma
I have some problem with light sensor in X3 Pro. Sensor shows very high values (x5-7 compare to other devices). Due to the overestimated values of the sensor, the brightness of the display is always at the maximum, and the colors are distorted (miui feature for better readability in bright light).
It happened after I update persist.img trying to avoid phantom touch.
After that i have repeatedly installed persists from different firmwares and did factory reset, install firmware via fastboot with clear user data.
I really don't now what i can do for returning right values of light sensor.
Does anyone have an idea to try it?
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there are light meter apps that can adjust brightness of your screen
u could try those, i nv use it though
Lu5ck said:
there are light meter apps that can adjust brightness of your screen
u could try those, i nv use it though
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Which application can do this?
Dim4ek said:
Which application can do this?
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Just go app store and search light meter
Lu5ck said:
Just go app store and search light meter
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This app (like every another app) can only calibrate value for itself. And can't affect to global values of brightness.
Dim4ek said:
This app (like every another app) can only calibrate value for itself. And can't affect to global values of brightness.
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There are a lot of light meter apps, I don't know which you are referring to but if none of those work then...I have no idea.
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I still have problem with light sensor.
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same here
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