love the gmail app but hate the over powering vibrate it has, is there anyway to shorten the vibrate?
Not that I've ever seen. I believe vibrate controls would have to be written into the program.
Might be possible to adjust vibration intensity system wide. I'll have to see what I can find.
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The most I've read is people downloading apps to change the length of vibration (longer, shorter, or combinations)
A few said to take the phone apart and add epoxy onto the empty half of the weighted shaft that spins from the vibration motor. With it more balanced it won't vibrate as hard.
A bit extreme but it would work.
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I was wondering if someone could create (or if there already is) an app that will dim the screen a lot more than just setting it to 0. I work late hours and come home, just wanting to unwind and play some solitaire. I'm blinded by the screen. I know that there are night/clock apps that can do this. Thanks!
I second this request. The screen is quite blinding in a dark room. A night mode would be nice too have.
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I would pay for this app, blows my mind how they could make a phone that can't dim lower. Even when setting brightness to 10 with Dimmer it's a real pain using this phone in the dark.
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shznit said:
I would pay for this app, blows my mind how they could make a phone that can't dim lower. Even when setting brightness to 10 with Dimmer it's a real pain using this phone in the dark.
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I would also throw down some of my hard earned dollars for something like this, i want to preserve my battery and the dimmest setting isnt making me feel happy about things
Why not just slide your finger across the task bar from right to left and it would lower the brightness to the lowest setting. To brighten go the other way.
Way easier than another app.
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Why not just slide your finger across the task bar from right to left and it would lower the brightness to the lowest setting. To brighten go the other way.
Way easier than another app.
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Thanks, but not what I was talking about. I'm talking about lowering the brightness past that for nighttime usage. I know it's possible; I have a bedside app that lowers it way past the default.
BTW, that trick only works with Auto Brightness off.
yeah this would be nice. also, having those cool filters like on CM6 would be nice too. the red filter is great for checking your phone in a dark movie theater.
Is there a way to change the intensity of the vibration? I'm running on cm7. The vibration for text messages are really short (about half a second) and you can barely feel it. My old phone, a mytouch slide vibrated much harder.
Go to messaging/settings/notification settings/vibrate pattern. Doesnt change intensity.
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I've notice that lately the vibration on the phone and keyboard just stops it seems to do it when im typing I have to either re start the phone or go to setting under sound and vibrate and put it on never back on to always ....is there any fix for this?
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Same problem here.
Any ideas?
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Try a 3rd party keyboard. A lot of them are much better and don't seem to lose their vibration settings.
My two suggestions: Better Keyboard 8 or Smart Keyboard Pro. Either along with the Rapid skin to make it look similar to the stock keyboard, but nicer.
I've been looking for the notification lights on my device.... I can't seem to find anything that has triggered them... I don't even know even it has any..?
I had the S2 and it would have notification lights...
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Da_G's kernel and DAGr8's ROM supports BLN (back light notification) which uses your capacitive lights as a notification light.
What zer0ninesaid above plus there is NoLED, which I prefer over BLN. It uses icons to idicate what is notifying you so you don't need to invoke a pavlovian response to a blinking button, lol. Plus it has some additional tools like Proximity Sensor so the screen won't turn on when in your pocket.
Somewhat related, I just stumbled onto this notification app, iphone notifications, from the market and it was just the ticket. One of the problems with Google talk, Gmail is that there is no pop-up to notify you which is what this app does. Now my wife, an iphone-convert, can't complain about not getting the text pop-ups she's used to.
BTW, this could be a stretch but I couldn't get BLN to work together with Iphone Notifications.
What if you stay stock? Is there anything out there?
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As kimocal said, NoLED is awesome. I have used it for over a year on my Vibrant (same screen technology). It pops a moving icon up on your screen when it is turned off, you hit the power button again to turn it back off completely, otherwise the appropriate (email, gmail, txt, and other) icons move around on the screen. You can set individual app icons and their color. Worth checking out. Used very little juice since black is displayed as off on our screen, only the small portion with the colored icon is actually on.
Just tried the NoLED, but think I'll stick with Missed Message Flasher.
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What zer0ninesaid above plus there is NoLED, which I prefer over BLN. It uses icons to idicate what is notifying you so you don't need to invoke a pavlovian response to a blinking button, lol. Plus it has some additional tools like Proximity Sensor so the screen won't turn on when in your pocket.
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Maybe I'm paranoid, but I just can't see how NoLED doesn't decimate battery life. The device is on, running, screen is on (I'm sure OLED doesn't use zero power when on, regardless of pixels shown), etc. I assume it's only on when there's an un-acknowledged notification, but even at that...
Even just running the proximity sensor all the time is a drain. I dunno, I'd assume it wouldn't be popular if it killed your battery, perhaps I should give it another try..
Is this normal behavior, or did I get a setting somewhere. It's very distracting, especially reading a book at night. Every time I turn a page the lights on the 4 buttons light up!
inside display is a option called "touch key duration".....theres 6 settings including always on always off...or certain number of delays as well...turn it completly off...that will help so when u touch the screen..the bottom lights don't kick on.....hit thanks...if I helped ya bro...
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didn't realize those options were there. currently 'in the dark'
touch the notification bar just barley to open it a little bit..and slide your finger to the left to lower brightness and right to raise it....have to do it at the right time...try it...lol
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touch the notification bar just barley to open it a little bit..and slide your finger to the left to lower brightness and right to raise it....have to do it at the right time...try it...lol
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I hit that one by accident last night but didn't realize you could slide left & right. Might not need the Brightness Control app anymore (lets you shake device then use volume controls to increase/decrease brightness). That would mean I could look for a different app to do something when I shake my device! Nice find!