anyone have info on which colors the led will display and is there only one?
Maybe a dev could get something like the Wimax notifier working for the 3d.
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anyone have info on which colors the led will display and is there only one?
Maybe a dev could get something like the Wimax notifier working for the 3d.
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not 100% sure but i think there is only one led in our e3d's
Cool, gotta see which colors it has. I discovered the led on the opposite side of my EVO by putting an extended tp2 battery in it. It lit up to tell me I screwed up and wasted 50 bucks ...LOL...
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Just shined a flashlight through the grill and it looks like there's one on the other side.
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Well it displays red and green for charging and someone told me it does blue as well, so it's probably a multicolored LED and will be able to do any color.
I'm wondering too. All I want is blue lol. But now it uses the right led and its much brighter is this the Wimax led? But there's also another led across from it, what that for? And the sensor thing on the left side, is that the brightness sensor? I'm all confused lol!
EDIT: I just tried Chomp, blue light won't work just flashes green. Tried Handcent and it doesn't even have color options.
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The online sprint evo 3d users guide just mentions solid green & red and flashing green & red. There might be a way to light them both at the same time to get yellow.
Are you sure that other is an LED or the front facing camera? I have a Evo 3D and I only see one LED.
Take a flashlight and look in the left corner of the speaker grill, there looks like another led.
Also I've tried GO sms and when changing the les color to blue, when you test it, the les very quickly flashes blue then just green. Potential??
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The other LED you are seeing is the infrared emitter/sensor combo that detects when your face is close to the headset to shut off the screen.
Tried blink and it works but only in green.
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darkflame said:
The other LED you are seeing is the infrared emitter/sensor combo that detects when your face is close to the headset to shut off the screen.
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Ahh I see O_O
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well if it can display R B and G then I don't see any issues with getting more colors down the line?
but I may be an idiot.
on second thought, I am an idiot...
but am i wrong? haha
Alanmw86 said:
well if it can display R B and G then I don't see any issues with getting more colors down the line?
but I may be an idiot.
on second thought, I am an idiot...
but am i wrong? haha
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I really hate to say it but I think so I've tried everything for a blue light and can't get one
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Not sure how to explain this but will try. On the front of the Photon at the top just above the "motorola" word there is a center speaker. On the right of the speaker is the led cirlce. But on the left of the "motorola" word there are two other openings.
Does anyone know what these are for? I am almost possitive that I saw one of them flash a red quickly but I don't know why or remember what I was doing in order to duplicate it.
I am just curious. On a side note...download "light flow" and you can control your led lights to alert you in different colors for different notifications.
Thanks..
I believe you are talking about the light sensor and the proximity sensor. The one that detects how bright to keep the LCD and the one that detects whether to black the screen when you're in a call...
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Not sure how to explain this but will try. On the front of the Photon at the top just above the "motorola" word there is a center speaker. On the right of the speaker is the led cirlce. But on the left of the "motorola" word there are two other openings.
Does anyone know what these are for? I am almost possitive that I saw one of them flash a red quickly but I don't know why or remember what I was doing in order to duplicate it.
I am just curious. On a side note...download "light flow" and you can control your led lights to alert you in different colors for different notifications.
Thanks..
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One is a light sensor, and the other is a proximity sensor (tells the phone your cheek is close so it turns the screen off when you're on a phone call)
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21productionz said:
One is a light sensor, and the other is a proximity sensor (tells the phone your cheek is close so it turns the screen off when you're on a phone call)
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Ok, now that makes perfict sense to me. This is my first android phone ever so I have been trying to figure out all the ends and out of this thing.
I can confirm that at certain times of the day the light sensor shows a faint red light.
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Ok, now that makes perfict sense to me. This is my first android phone ever so I have been trying to figure out all the ends and out of this thing.
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You picked a good device for your first android phone. Have fun =D
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I can confirm that at certain times of the day the light sensor shows a faint red light.
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I can confirm that at certain times of the day the light sensor shows a faint red light.
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That's the proximity sensor, light sensors don't emit light. When it detects a reflection, it knows something is close to the phone such as a face or pocket.
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That's the proximity sensor, light sensors don't emit light. When it detects a reflection, it knows something is close to the phone such as a face or pocket.
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Right, and normally it only comes on (i.e. you can see the faint red light) when you're in a call.
Hopefully we can disable the red key backlighting with the kernel source. As of right now, I am not too keen on it.
I don't think we can. The keys are red even when the phone is turned off.
I mean the backlighting. The red isn't as bad until they were lit up. I wish they could make a phone with blue stuff instead of red.
I like the red. And it wont mess with night vision as bad as the white ones on my incredible do.
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teookie said:
I like the red. And it wont mess with night vision as bad as the white ones on my incredible do.
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That's what I'm thinking, and liking. The white ones on my Incredible are too bright sometimes, especially at night and/or when watching videos. The red ones seem to be less bright, which would be nicer
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That's what I'm thinking, and liking. The white ones on my Incredible are too bright sometimes, especially at night and/or when watching videos. The red ones seem to be less bright, which would be nicer
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agreed, the red ones are going to be great. At night it won't blind me so that I can actually see my autobrightly dimmed screen, not to mention it looks sweeeet.
White ones could be argued you could see better in daylight.. but then you don't need backlights in daylight?
but with all that said, I'm sure after development ramps up it'll be able to be turned off.
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agreed, the red ones are going to be great. At night it won't blind me so that I can actually see my autobrightly dimmed screen, not to mention it looks sweeeet.
White ones could be argued you could see better in daylight.. but then you don't need backlights in daylight?
but with all that said, I'm sure after development ramps up it'll be able to be turned off.
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I'm kinda confused on that though, like if you see it while it's turned off, the buttons are still painted on as red.. err not painted, but you know what I mean. You can see it in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rtCXb9Qays&feature=player_embedded
Have a look over here - > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20497776#post20497776
Would be cool if we could make something like the wimax notifier from the evo 4g on the 3d using this.
Thank you for your sharing.
Dude that would be amazinggggg! I loved wimax notifier on my og evo
Since this is device specific and doable with software it is more appropriate in the E3D section.
Have you checked the init scripts to see if anything is mentioned in there about it?
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its an infared led, unless you can change your dna and grow new eyes you wouldn't be able to see it
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its an infared led, unless you can change your dna and grow new eyes you wouldn't be able to see it
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Then how did all of us see the glow? And infrared is a red and you can only see it in really dark conditions.
take ANY infrared remote control,turn on you camera and aim it at the camera and press a button.Ive been testing remotes like this for years.
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take ANY infrared remote control,turn on you camera and aim it at the camera and press a button.Ive been testing remotes like this for years.
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+1 ive shown that trick to allot of people!!
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Most of the color cameras I have seen show infrared as blue. Having said that though those cheap infrared leds aren't purely all in the non visible wavelength.
IMO it's pretty obviously the infrared LED used for the proximity sensor. Notice how it is NOT red in the picture taken with the camera - it's purple just like infrared shows up on camera.
The user could have certainly seen it glowing, it may be broken, defective or he has slightly more spectrum-sensitive eyes.
You can try this out if you want. Download Proximity Sensor Finder and it will activate the proximity sensor when you open the app. The light is visible in dark conditions. If you look at the light through the camera, it will be purple and much brighter.
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IMO it's pretty obviously the infrared LED used for the proximity sensor. Notice how it is NOT red in the picture taken with the camera - it's purple just like infrared shows up on camera.
The user could have certainly seen it glowing, it may be broken, defective or he has slightly more spectrum-sensitive eyes.
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I
have an old video camera with night vision and it shows infared leds and I didn't see anything on my device....
Swyped from mah 3vo!
alainater said:
I
have an old video camera with night vision and it shows infared leds and I didn't see anything on my device....
Swyped from mah 3vo!
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You have to activate the proximity sensor first which can be done through this app: https://market.android.com/details?...xLDEsImNvbS50aWdlcm1vbnN0ZXIucHJveGZpbmRlciJd
or look up "Proximity Sensor Finder" in the android market.
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I have an old video camera with night vision and it shows infared leds and I didn't see anything on my device....
Swyped from mah 3vo!
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You have to make a call and then you'll see it. When I tried it seemed like a strobe, it was not a steady light.
I would LOVE it if the 3D had a second LED like was found on the 4G. As it is I think the fact that you can't see a notification while charging is a huge oversight.
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You have to make a call and then you'll see it. When I tried it seemed like a strobe, it was not a steady light.
I would LOVE it if the 3D had a second LED like was found on the 4G. As it is I think the fact that you can't see a notification while charging is a huge oversight.
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Its steady if you use the app I posted
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Does any one know if the main front notification light is RGB? just wanted to know because I love light flow to set different notification for different things.
I believe droid life stated it isn't. It's the same green/orange light used on the thunderbolt.
Every review I've read says both LEDs are red/green only.
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Does any one know if the main front notification light is RGB? just wanted to know because I love light flow to set different notification for different things.
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sorry but it's just the usual green/orange
So the same as on my HTC One X then... I can live with that.
Bit miffed that there's apparently one on the back of the handset too...
In some Reviews, it shows that the dna features two notification leds one in the back near the camera and one in the front
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In some Reviews, it shows that the dna features two notification leds one in the back near the camera and one in the front
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The question was whether or not it's RGB or just green/orange, we all know it has two.
Found other similar posts in Q&A. I have to cover the light sensor or be in pitch black to get the buttons to light up. Anyone else? One guy already swapped for a new phone but same problem.
Yep its pretty much hit and miss with this phone. I had to exchange my first one for a different issue, but the capacitive buttons on both don't light up unless in really low light. Personally I like this as I would turn button backlights off with CM based Roms on other phones. I know where the buttons are, don't need them to light up.
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I was wondering the same thing. Mine only light up in very low light or dark. Unless there is a control for it, it is a bug
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I'm not so sure it is a bug. It seems equally possible that they only turn on in extremely low light by design. HTC might assume (and rightfully) that you know where the buttons are after a while and don't need them illuminated unless it is dark enough to not see the phone very well or at all.
Personally, I'm glad they don't light up a lot. I know where they are, I can see them fine in low light and I don't like when capacitive buttons are always shinning at me when I don't need them.
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I think it is a battery saving feature. Why would you need them on in the light anyway. They are not invisible like on the note 2.
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I think it is a battery saving feature. Why would you need them on in the light anyway. They are not invisible like on the note 2.
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I agree but I have still wondered about it. Sometimes mine won't light up at all in dark. But not bothering enough to take it back lol
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Found other similar posts in Q&A. I have to cover the light sensor or be in pitch black to get the buttons to light up. Anyone else? One guy already swapped for a new phone but same problem.
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I've got the same problem. The phone has a problem. I installed AndroSensor on the dna and my razr. The dna consistently gives me false readings. If there's any light at all it gives a 200 lux reading. If you are in total darkness it will reset. That's why your work around works. The phone has a light sensor that, either by design or defect, doesn't differentiate light levels between 2 to 200 lux. It defaults to the higher figure and the cpu apparently uses this figure to shut the lights down.
Personally, I find this to be a little too convoluted to be an energy saving design. I believe it's a bug that a future update will deal with.
Same here. Also.........they arent bright enough!! Lol we need a mod for this. Ill get right on it.
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Mine light up all the time no matter how dark or light it is. They always seem to work on my end.
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Mine light up all the time no matter how dark or light it is. They always seem to work on my end.
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Well mine work, just has to b pretty dark. Btw, theres an app in the one xl forums to dim, or turn off completely that works for our DNA. Ill link u guys to it.
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Anyone who consistently uses the phone in a dimly lit room will want it fixed. I watch movies with a single low-watt lamp on, and I like to use the phone periodically. Having the lights off means that every third button press doesn't land exactly on the capacitive part. If I force the lights on by covering the sensor, I never miss. There's very little play on the sensor area, so you either land perfectly or not at all. Definitely looking forward to a fix. I just hope it's not a hardware glitch that can't detect 2 to 200 lux.