Is there any program or other way do turn off the screen LEDs for example when docked at night? LEDs Hack from the market has an option for Hero with Froyo. Have tried that and it works except the row of LEDs with the home menu back and search buttons. I emailed the developer, but didnt know if anyone here had any solutions. I'm running KF v35 btw.
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Why don't you just turn the face of the phone down? That's what I do and the lights don't bother me anymore. The speaker for the alarm is on the back of the phone anyway.
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That's what I do now, but I was looking at replacing my clock on my bedside table with a dock that would hold the phone upright so I could see the time. I can keep the display on, but wanted the bright lights on the front off. With the program I mentioned, I can turn off all LEDs except the white ones behind the keys mentioned.
http://www.amazon.com/Seidio-Innodo...UTF8&coliid=I3NXBLD8N3TSV9&colid=R3NHEZ8B3HKA
Oh. I didn't quite understand what you were trying to do. I'll look into it and see what I can find.
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I was trying to use this app with some success. I tried all the different phones. One of the first times I tried it, the LEDs all went out and would not come back on. Did a reboot and dalvk wipe which restored the LEDs. The Hero version can stop all LEDs except the leds i mentioned. Thanks for the help.\
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.net-geekherd-softbuttonshack-wmjD.aspx
please post if you find a solution, i have the same desire...
Still haven't heard back from the developer. I will let you know if i can find something else online.
also found this program: http://www.andbot.com/apps/tools/simple-led-toggle/com.squakmt.SimpleLedToggle but it states it will not work on verizon droid phones. :-(
my workaround. I can use http://www.androlib.com/android.application.net-geekherd-softbuttonshack-wmjD.aspx to turn off the leds except the lights as mentioned above. under settings->cm->userinterface->auto backlight->use custom to "on" ->edit other levels set all of the buttons column to "0". This will turn off the front lights i was referring to whenever the brightness is set to auto. I use the powercontrol widget and set brightness to auto when I want to have the lights off and to low when I want the brightness down but front lights on. It would be awesome to have an app like a toggle to turn the leds off combining the leds hack and the cm setting. unfortunately, i can only write code in html and some flash and java and even those skills are getting rusty...lol.
edit: with the program listed above, phone set to sprint hero, top led, bottom led, and trackball leds selected the leds will all go out. however, the trackball will not blink with this setting. when option to turn leds on is selected, the leds come on as they should after a few minutes.
I say save your $25 and prop that mofo up, with a sock or something covering the bottom lights.
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Well, the program is free, but my dock was about $25 and broke after the first day. Lets hear it for poorly made parts. I contacted the seller through amazon. We shall see what happens.
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I like to read in bed and often my wife falls asleep before I do. I can dim the screen without any trouble, but any time a physical control is activated (trackball, volume rocker, etc) the lights in the lower portion of the phone where the controls are light up REALLY bright.
Is there a setting or app to shut it off?
Are you talking about the keys?
kynetx said:
I like to read in bed and often my wife falls asleep before I do. I can dim the screen without any trouble, but any time a physical control is activated (trackball, volume rocker, etc) the lights in the lower portion of the phone where the controls are light up REALLY bright.
Is there a setting or app to shut it off?
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Hi,
Go to Settings > Sound and Display > Notification Flash.
You can disable the trackball flash for certain notifications or you can disable them all and have the trackball flash disabled completely.
thecastlefordkid said:
Hi,
Go to Settings > Sound and Display > Notification Flash.
You can disable the trackball flash for certain notifications or you can disable them all and have the trackball flash disabled completely.
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But he means the keys' lights. Will this also turn that off?? I know the title of the thread is a bit misleading
Turning the trackball notification off seems to stop the screen and button lights from coming on.
I've just disable the trackball notification for text messages, set my phone in standby and sent myself a text from another phone. The notification sound played but nothing at all lit up on the phone.
Disabling the notifications don't seem to have an effect. Every time I touch the trackball or any other button, the light right up
I also find the backlight of the keys on HTC hero pretty annoying. I can't believe that it's impossible to disable that damn light. There are only 6 buttons and trackball, are they really think that we aren't capable to use them properly?
I don't see what the problem is.
And my trackball doesn't actually light up unless I get a notification of some sort.
Just pressing any button doesn't make it light up at all.
So what exactly is the problem?
rdgut said:
Just pressing any button doesn't make it light up at all.
So what exactly is the problem?
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I don't know about European Hero, but on the Sprint's one, any time you're pressing a key or the trackball, backlight lightens up. It's damn annoying, and I don't know how to get rid of it.
First of all, I'm not a vampire. I don't often use my phone in the dark. And besides, there is always enough of ambient light from the screen.
So. My questions to HTC guys.
- Why the damn, stupid light?
- How could we disable it?
- And where is our firmware update?
The light is extremly nice :-D I love it, when you are in some loud places and your phone is not in your pocket you can see it light up :-D
If you don´t want that, just downgrade to a 1.8 firmware; there is a bug that the trackball won´t light up, well the firmware is freaking slow though.
BTW: An option to disable the light would be cool (there could be some scenarios where it´s not good to light up).
BB.
iRobert said:
If you don´t want that, just downgrade to a 1.8 firmware; there is a bug that the trackball won´t light up, well the firmware is freaking slow though.
BTW: An option to disable the light would be cool (there could be some scenarios where it´s not good to light up).
BB.
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So, I'd have assumed that this is the software issue not hardware.
Now I'm sure. So it could be disabled somehow.
But how?
plotnick said:
I don't know about European Hero, but on the Sprint's one, any time you're pressing a key or the trackball, backlight lightens up. It's damn annoying, and I don't know how to get rid of it.
First of all, I'm not a vampire. I don't often use my phone in the dark. And besides, there is always enough of ambient light from the screen.
So. My questions to HTC guys.
- Why the damn, stupid light?
- How could we disable it?
- And where is our firmware update?
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Thats one of the things I like about the Sprint Hero. I wish my Telus Hero Trackball would light up every time it was touched. It is an easy way to light up the buttons in the dark.
I really wish the Vibrant had hard buttons like the G1. To make matters worse, the soft buttons turn off the backlight very quickly. In the dark, it's impossible to hit the right button. I have had the phone for 6 weeks now and I still don't hit the right button. I have looked all over to see if there was some setting that I can use to at least keep it lit while the phone is on. But I haven't found one. I saw someone mention that this is possible on another site. I'd love to know how if it really is possible.
I believe that I read somewhere that there isnt a way to keep softbutton backlight lit without someone making a custom kernel for it.
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Yup. Goto settings > sound&display > keyboard timeout and change it to "Same as Screen timeout"
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Went there, there is no keyboard timeout selection.
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Right, no keyboard timeout option.
I kinda have the OPPOSITE request. I'd like to keep the bottom buttons from lighting up at all. I use my phone a lot to read ebooks in the dark, with the screen set to black and the font set to a dim white, screen brightness all the way down. The soft buttons do not match screen brightness, so every time I scroll the page while reading, the four buttons at the bottom light back up and are blindingly bright! I HATE IT! If they weren't so bright it wouldn't be a problem, but I'd like to see a way to disable them completely so they never come on. I know where the buttons are (c'mon it's not that hard) and so I really don't need to be blinded like that.
I Have A Question For Dev's to see if this could get implemented into the Rom's.
I have noticed that the hardware or softkeys (home,menu,back,search) the backlight is always on, and its very distracting and I imagine it consumes battery.
Is there any way for this to get shut off, like on the Evo 4G that when pressed they would turn on for a couple of seconds then shut off again..
I've noticed this only happening when in dark rooms or night. I think its a light sensor tweak that should be the culprit.
Yes there should be. I use a program called Screen Filter and it turns off the soft keys. If that program can than I am sure there is a way to mod your rom to do so as well. Try downloading it and playing around with it. Reverse engineer the .apk if you have to I guess lol.
FYI - if you have a notification light that won't stop flashing when the screen is off and you have no notifications showing, take the Motorola World Clock widget off your homescreen (if you have put it there). Sprint ended up replacing my phone because of this and when the new phone started doing the same thing I began killing everything until it stopped and found the culprit. No number of wipes, hard resets or sbf flashes would cure this for me. Perhaps it only acts up in conjunction with another app or widget I have, but it did this with no apps installed and something to try if you have this problem.
Or just download the LEDs hack from the market (free) and turn all leds off. Could save you battery. I always keep all leds off during the day especially the soft keys as they are bright as ****! If you download LEDs hack choose your phone as the "Droid x".
kennypow3rs said:
Or just download the LEDs hack from the market (free) and turn all leds off. Could save you battery. I always keep all leds off during the day especially the soft keys as they are bright as ****! If you download LEDs hack choose your phone as the "Droid x".
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Good to know. Light Flow works pretty well also. I was using that as a fix but don't like having to hack around a fault that shouldn't exist to begin with.
Fellow Rezounders;
I am rooted, and running Stock GB.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious (or did something stupid). I've installed a few of the 'Flashlight' or 'Torch' application onto my Rezound (Nexus Torch, TeslaLED, etc). I do like using my phone as a flashlight in many situations.
However I've noticed that when the screen itself turns off (either by timing out, or manually), the flashlight turns off too. This is very bothersome as I then need to keep turning it back on and/or I accidentally keep hitting icons on my home page(s).
Now with my old D1 this didn't happen. I don't know if maybe I've installed something, or changed a setting that's causing this to happen, or if its a Rezound issue or not.
I could have sworn this didn't happen when I first got my phone (about two months ago), but since then I've wiped it twice (I had that silly reboot loop/4G issue until I learned to remove the back or change the connect to 4G on boot setting).
I would appreciate your thoughts/suggestions
Thanks in Advance;
A (in the dark) Bug
tiny flashlight +LED
by Nikolay Ananiev works great for me
I use the stock flashlight app on Nils' Business ICS and it doesn't do that to me. Just tested Tesla and that works fine too.
Maybe you should try a wipe/reflash.
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mine turns off with the screen but then turns back on... and there is no way around this from what i have heard
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408341
[APP] Stock HTC Flashlight App - fixed
I use that, but it behaves the same.
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When I got my Rezound, the HTC Flashlight didn't exist for it.... so I looked and ended up using
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devuni.flashlight
When used as a widget, I use the round icon and if I click it the light goes on and I can turn the screen off and it will stay on.
I use it a lot, especially at night. Putting the phone into the dock at night can be hard in the dark, so it turn the light on, turn off the screen so I can hold it by the screen as I put it in the dock. turn the screen back on, and turn the light off. Note that i am using the widget, not the app itself which is a squarish looking icon with a round icon on it. if you use the app, it will turn off when you turn off the screen
It has other modes, but I don't use them. I kind of like it better than the HTC flashlight now as it is just on and off without it pulling the app up.
I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock to turn the screen off when I set the phone down. 1) to conserve power and 2) prevents me activating something as I pickup and set down the phone.
I am GB stock rooted S-Off, so I would think it would work for you.
This maybe what your looking for. It the HTC flashlight that works on the rezound.
http://db.tt/faYwFyGj
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That's the one that works for me. Works in stock GB and CleanROM ICS 4.3
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droid.pr.coolflashlightfree
I figured it Out (Kinda)
Thanks everyone for their help and advice on this minor (yet annoying) issue.
I'm not sure how exactly I fixed it but I did. I think I may have had a 'battery saving' program installed that was inhibiting the flashlight function when the screen was off.
I removed a few programs and checked my settings in the the one(s) I had left. I also tried tiny flashlight +LED (per RoryHe suggestion), and found it works perfectly.
I did find like most of you mentioned that it does turn off for a second when you turn the screen off, but then comes back on (much better than before). I can live with this, and I love the 'shake to turn on in Lock mode' that tiny flashlight has. . . except when I'm playing with my 2 1/2 yearold twin boys and the light randomly turns on. But it doesn't happen often.
Anyway, I'm all good, and thanks again for helping me resolve this issue.
What would I do with out my Rezouding Friends.
A (lit) Bug