hi,
my S3 and my colleagues's S3, when we receive sms or missed calls,
the LEDs does not have consistency,
mine is white but there are some background color like slightly orange and yellow but my colleagues is jus pure white
then for orange, mine always shows like a circle with 3 quadrants of different colors but my colleagues only show 1 color,
is my set fault or this is because of the way the phone displays color but if it is so, then both phones would be showing same instead of distinct difference, right ?
can anyone share their experience ?
v1hypersg said:
hi,
my S3 and my colleagues's S3, when we receive sms or missed calls,
the LEDs does not have consistency,
mine is white but there are some background color like slightly orange and yellow but my colleagues is jus pure white
then for orange, mine always shows like a circle with 3 quadrants of different colors but my colleagues only show 1 color,
is my set fault or this is because of the way the phone displays color but if it is so, then both phones would be showing same instead of distinct difference, right ?
can anyone share their experience ?
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You can download lightflow from the marker to test the LED. With that app you can test a variety of colours.
Afaik there is a revision 1 and revision 2 of the i9300 (international) around with revision-2 only having slight design changes to prevent some issues.
The phone has several distinct LED's which, when mixed together, display the color of your choice. However several colors which are not native (meaning which are not directly displayed by a single LED) mixing together doesn't really give the intended result but a confusing "mess" of colors.
My best guess is that, if your friend's S3 really only shows a single color-point, he got a revision where they either moved the LED's very close together or replaced them by multi-color LED's.
d4fseeker said:
Afaik there is a revision 1 and revision 2 of the i9300 (international) around with revision-2 only having slight design changes to prevent some issues.
The phone has several distinct LED's which, when mixed together, display the color of your choice. However several colors which are not native (meaning which are not directly displayed by a single LED) mixing together doesn't really give the intended result but a confusing "mess" of colors.
My best guess is that, if your friend's S3 really only shows a single color-point, he got a revision where they either moved the LED's very close together or replaced them by multi-color LED's.
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Really???? And how can you tell which revision you have?
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Is the notification LED on the power button red only? I've only had my phone for about two days, but I haven't seen it be any other color. I searched around and all I could find were statements about an RGB notification LED (on the Sprint and other versions?) alongside statements claiming the AT&T version doesn't have one and complaints about how rarely it flashes (which I do find annoying).
Just wondering if anyone has seen be another color. A bit annoying if LG went with red only.
Yea, I've noticed this on my AT&T version as well... Hopefully once the bootloader is unlocked and we can throw on CyanogenMod we can see if it has a true RGB one.
Up until last night I'd always thought that the Ascend Mate 2 (MT2-L03) had a simple dual color notification LED. That being green and red (the combination of which makes orange or amber). I've always been kind of annoyed by this, since it severely hinders the ability to define multiple custom notification colors like I've been used to with Nexus and Motorola devices amongst others.
Last night while trying to do the official Huawei 'downgrade' to Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) my phone showed that the notification LED is in fact a tri-color one - indeed it's capable of displaying the color blue! I was sort of taken aback, and this makes me wonder why Huawei wouldn't enable the blue segment of the LED in the kernel itself. I'd love to be able to have an unlimited pallete of possible notification colors like I had with my old Galaxy Nexus.
Just something curious that I wanted to share....
TheGeekRedneck said:
Up until last night I'd always thought that the Ascend Mate 2 (MT2-L03) had a simple dual color notification LED. That being green and red (the combination of which makes orange or amber). I've always been kind of annoyed by this, since it severely hinders the ability to define multiple custom notification colors like I've been used to with Nexus and Motorola devices amongst others.
Last night while trying to do the official Huawei 'downgrade' to Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) my phone showed that the notification LED is in fact a tri-color one - indeed it's capable of displaying the color blue! I was sort of taken aback, and this makes me wonder why Huawei wouldn't enable the blue segment of the LED in the kernel itself. I'd love to be able to have an unlimited pallete of possible notification colors like I had with my old Galaxy Nexus.
Just something curious that I wanted to share....
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If mate 2 gets CM I will add it if the dev doesn't.
Moody66 said:
If mate 2 gets CM I will add it if the dev doesn't.
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The Dev just said he isn't. lol. And to add to that said that it is unable to pulse. So now its just a blue LED that stays on when your screen is off? hahaha.
Did it not pulse with that boot error? I remember seeing it back when but don't remember if it was solid.
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The Dev just said he isn't. lol. And to add to that said that it is unable to pulse. So now its just a blue LED that stays on when your screen is off? hahaha.
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I will check into it in a few. Just got home. Never seen mine do blue. But I didn't bother looking at it while it was doing that. Lol.
Well after trying simple stuff mine doesn't seem to be able to display blue. May be hardware variation too. Or they may have used combo to get the blue effect. Sending Hex did nothing.
U-ra said it was an after thought possibly by Huawei and is wired different. (Maybe that's what he said) lol
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It definitely pulsed, as in blinked on and off. Maybe he was referring to full PWM control or something...
Who knows, the only time I've ever seen it light was during a failed attempt at using the Huawei flash back to Jelly Bean.
He also said it wasn't very bright, which I definitely disagree with because it was quite bright - easily as bright as I've ever seen the green and red segments light during normal operation of the handset.
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It definitely pulsed, as in blinked on and off. Maybe he was referring to full PWM control or something...
Who knows, the only time I've ever seen it light was during a failed attempt at using the Huawei flash back to Jelly Bean.
He also said it wasn't very bright, which I definitely disagree with because it was quite bright - easily as bright as I've ever seen the green and red segments light during normal operation of the handset.
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Install lightflow led from play store. See if your will light up blue.
I only had it light up soild blue never flash.
Moody66 said:
Install lightflow led from play store. See if your will light up blue.
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I've used both LightFlow and Light Manager and red, green and yellow are the only options. No blue.
TheIgster said:
I've used both LightFlow and Light Manager and red, green and yellow are the only options. No blue.
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Same for me. However if it isn't I kernel it still wouldn't work. Without the information about the hardware its a moot point. I will keep checking into it though. My curiosity will see to that. Lol.
Yeah, I would love to have blue as an option as well.
Hi Guys and Gals,
I have a question and I am hoping someone with some electrical/software knowledge can chime in and help me out.
I have an RK3066 based android Mercedes Double din unit and the RED LED from the RGB will not work. Blue and Green work fine it is only Red that does not work.
It used to work fine and then all of a sudden I enter the car one day and it's green, (I use a green and red mix to create orange which is the default Mercedes color)
Yesterday it magicall started working again after having not worked for 2 weeks and today it is gone again.
Green slider works
Blue slider works
Red slider makes no color changes and if green and blue are all the way down and red is all the way up the lights are off.
Can this be a resistor or it it software based, I know the kernel can control the LEDs and so on but I am leaning towards hardware related. Maybe a broken SMD resistor these Chinese units are so poorly designed.
Anyways if anyone has some info, it will be greatly appreciated.
God Bless
Same thing here....blue and green work but not red. Stopped working...came back...then went out again. It started after updating in march. I had an older version and wanted the standby timer. RK3066 800x480 KLD unit. I've tried reverting the mcu. Switched to the newest mcu. Reflashed rom. Which actually controls the rgb's?
So far from what I can tell is that the GPIO pin goes to the led resistor then to the led itself and I believe it is controlled via a voltage difference. for example 3v red 3.15 blue, 3.25 green (not actual figures)
What is confusing is that it came back for me then went out again, the dash is extremely hard to pull apart for the Mercedes, not to mention I have a full blown system in here and will have to remove quite a bit of product before getting to the headunit. I was hoping someone with higher software and hardware knowledge would chime in, but it seems like we are on our own. A lot of people on these boards will says "open it and try on your own" I am not sure but I believe that it is 1 resistor for all three colors, unless it is 3 individul leds which would require 3 resistors.
Mine also went out in March (I made no Rom or MCU changes prior to it going out) which is odd then it came back in april, can some software based date cause it to not functions? or can it be that just the red led is failing (defective).
I doubt that it is a resistor since the other two colors work fine and from what i suspect it should be 1 led (RGB) and 1 resistor for the (RGB) led.
Hopefully someone will let us know if there is a remote possiblity that it could be software based, if I was 100% certain that it is hardware based I will and would have already pulled out the unit.
Sounds to me like an intermittent hardware issue - a bad connection somewhere. More likely to be on a connector than a bad PC board trace or cold solder joint.
mike.s said:
Sounds to me like an intermittent hardware issue - a bad connection somewhere. More likely to be on a connector than a bad PC board trace or cold solder joint.
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Do you know if the unit is individual LEDs or is it one rgb led
If it is one led then it should have 1 resistor per led and in which case none of the colors should work.
Could it possibly be kernel based or the rk3088 board/chip itself?
I will pull mine out tuesday night and take a look at the leds to see what the are and get some pics. I ordered a rk3188 SoM and will also be changing over to that rom.
Awesome, please keep me posted. I'm gonna try a few things software wise.
Well I opened it up and almost didn't get it working again. The rgb leds have four legs ground and power for each of the color. My camera sucks so no pics but when changing colors in the elements screen if I select red the blue leds light up. Selecting green does green. Selecting blue goes dark. So I'm really thinking that it's software related.
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Well I opened it up and almost didn't get it working again. The rgb leds have four legs ground and power for each of the color. My camera sucks so no pics but when changing colors in the elements screen if I select red the blue leds light up. Selecting green does green. Selecting blue goes dark. So I'm really thinking that it's software related.
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That happens if you have MCU 2.55 with the sound enhancement MCU version 2.22 works correctly.
if your headunit is still open, is there anyway you can send me the picture of the board and resistors, even if it a horrible picture, its still better than nothing
thanks
Sorry didn't save them. There weren't resistors next to each led but there was a group of them on the other side of each board so a bit of tracing would need to be done to track each one down. For the mcu my unit is KLD and i've tried every version listed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61291848&postcount=14139 and none changed the way the elements act
It's probably already known by everyone that this phone packs an RG notification light (damn you, ZTE!) What's more, blinking seems to be fixed to solid and slow blinking, and it can only display RED , ORANGE and GREEN.
But, at least on ResurrectionRemix, there seems to be a way to turn on the two LEDs that we actually have with the console, and with a desired brightness:
su
echo 255 >/sys/class/leds/red/brightness
255 is the maximum brightness, but it ranges from 0 to 255.
Also, we can do a very nice shade of yellow using:
echo 255 >/sys/class/leds/green/brightness
echo 64 >/sys/class/leds/red/brightness
There are also a bunch of other parameters inside, but brightness is the only one I tested so far. I think we could use this to control the LEDs via a root-enabled app like LightFlow. Is it possible? It would improve a lot the LED quality.
Yellow would be nice. Maybe if you contact the Appflow dev he could make it work. However i'm not sure I want to install an app just to add 1 color
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Yellow would be nice. Maybe if you contact the Appflow dev he could make it work. However i'm not sure I want to install an app just to add 1 color
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not just colors, in theory... Blinking speed is theoretically changeable, but it is somehow hard-coded and only blinks slowly for some reason. I'm not even sure if it can be just solid when triggered by a notification
There are a bunch of files inside the red and green led folders, and I guess they are what controls the LEDs flashing speed and all. I say "guess" because maybe they are simply ignored and the blinking speed is hard-coded. But whatever the case is, it seems possible to at least turn the LEDs on via shell scripts
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not just colors, in theory... Blinking speed is theoretically changeable, but it is somehow hard-coded and only blinks slowly for some reason. I'm not even sure if it can be just solid when triggered by a notification
There are a bunch of files inside the red and blue led folders, and I guess they are what controls the LEDs flashing speed and all. I say "guess" because maybe they are simply ignored and the blinking speed is hard-coded. But whatever the case is, it seems possible to at least turn the LEDs on via shell scripts
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Files inside the folder:
I found it extremely disappointing that ZTE gave us only RG lights on the non-Chinese version (I heard the Chinese version has RGB?). For diodes so cheap, I am only led to believe it must have been a manufacturing error on their part. Don't get me wrong, we get more than enough for the price and specs of this beast of a device, but how hard could it be to get RGB LEDs on this device? I really miss multicolour notification lights. This green-red-orange thing gets boring rather quickly.
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I found it extremely disappointing that ZTE gave us only RG lights on the non-Chinese version (I heard the Chinese version has RGB?). For diodes so cheap, I am only led to believe it must have been a manufacturing error on their part. Don't get me wrong, we get more than enough for the price and specs of this beast of a device, but how hard could it be to get RGB LEDs on this device? I really miss multicolour notification lights. This green-red-orange thing gets boring rather quickly.
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I really miss the RGB led too. I never know when my notification is important or not.
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I really miss the RGB led too. I never know when my notification is important or not.
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Yeah, bro. Coming from a One M8 with the same RG lights (used for about 2 years, previously a Nexus 5 which was RGB), you would understand
So I've bought this used Oneplus X ( Age unknown ) and it has burn-in on the status bar. I only just noticed this after re-flashing the phone where the white theme was as default. A ton of Facebook notifications, different battery and reception is burned in. I'm wondering, is it the "Always on" feature that contributed to this, or is it just general use?
I got this phone for 100 euros, switching over from a Oneplus One with rampant 3G issues, when switching to the black theme it isn't noticeable luckily so there's that!
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So I've bought this used Oneplus X ( Age unknown ) and it has burn-in on the status bar. I only just noticed this after re-flashing the phone where the white theme was as default. A ton of Facebook notifications, different battery and reception is burned in. I'm wondering, is it the "Always on" feature that contributed to this, or is it just general use?
I got this phone for 100 euros, switching over from a Oneplus One with rampant 3G issues, when switching to the black theme it isn't noticeable luckily so there's that!
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1. Why did you get a used Oneplus X at 100 euros , where you could have bought other new phone.?
2. Always on display shows the date, time and notification.... Even when the screens off.( So I don't think it's that.)
3. Burn in rarely happens on an AMOLED and if it has happened, you need to replace the screen.
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It can happen from general use. On my phone it's quite noticeable.
I've got a bit of burn in on mine, from the notification bar, but I can only ever see it if I'm looking for it AND have the brightness down all the way AND have the area around where the notification is a grey colour. At that point, I can start clearly making out icons, but otherwise general use has not left any marks. I could probably even make it a bit better by switching my notification bar icons to black and using that for a long while, but I don't really care enough since it's so minor.