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Link to original thread in SGS forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692
Link to app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=363696&d=1279643523
madmack said:
I saw the idea posted somewhere previously that instead of getting the capacitive lights on, we really should be putting the phone's AMOLED screen to work ! specially that it doesn't consume any backlight energy when displaying a black screen. So I developed an app that does just that, upon receiving a notification, it will display a black screen with a red dot somewhere in the left top corner. Ok, i really should put these in bullet points..
the application does the following:
1. When your phone receives a notification, it switches the screen on and displays a red dot somewhere in the top left corner. The location of this dot is random every time you receive a new notification. This will guarantee using different LEDs so that the same ones won't be burned out ! The reason why I chose red is because it uses the least amount of energy to display.
2. The app runs as a service, after installing, you'll need to lock the screen once and unlock it for it to activate. After this, the application should run automatically after a reboot.
3. To get rid of the red dot, the only key you can use is the home key. Using the capacitive touch buttons will do nothing, and so as clicking anywhere on the screen. Once your screen turns on, the notifications disappear and will not come up until a new notification sound is received.
I have also logged the touch drivers and saw that although I'm displaying a black screen and setting flags to not respond to touch messages, android is still receiving touch messages when you touch any spot on the screen. This, I imagine, consumes resources! So I disabled the touch drivers when the black screen is active. Pressing on the Home button should reactivate it. If your screen is unresponsive to touch even after the notification screen is dismissed, a simple restart should take care of it. Once you've restarted, you can uninstall the app.
Now the touchscreen drivers were a lot easier to mess around with. The sourcecode given by samsung helped me achieve the activation/deactivation of the screen. Things are not the same with the capacitive buttons. You'll notice that when the black screen is on, if you touch any of the soft buttons, they'll light up (although am suppressing them programatically). Am still analyzing the drivers to see if there is an easy way to disable these drivers too when the notification is on.
One more note, make sure the notification sounds that you choose for your different apps (Calendar, Gmail, Gtalk.. etc) are the default samsung notifications or the ones you placed in /sdcard/sd/media/audio/notifications
Any other sound notifications will simply not trigger the program to display the notification screen.
I just want to let you guys know that this is a beta app. Install it at your own risk.
Enjoy ! Comments and feedback will be appreciated
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Thanks for the heads up, but after reading the thread I think I'll wait till it's been tweak a bit more.
That's a good idea, but if it's going to flash using the screen, why no take advantage of the fact that it's a SCREEN and flash an icon instead of just a little red dot?
For example, use the same system icons that appear in the notification bar when messages are received / calls missed, etc. And if you're worried about burning out pixels you could make it change location every minute or so.
Just my $.02
that was mentioned in the original thread... I think it is a good idea... I cant wait to see how this grows...
Does this require your GS to be rooted?
gravis86 said:
That's a good idea, but if it's going to flash using the screen, why no take advantage of the fact that it's a SCREEN and flash an icon instead of just a little red dot?
For example, use the same system icons that appear in the notification bar when messages are received / calls missed, etc. And if you're worried about burning out pixels you could make it change location every minute or so.
Just my $.02
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the idea of a full icon was mentioned, but just like a blinking led, the idea here is to keep the notification using as little power as possible. Not sure if the power usage would be more or less showing one pixel or a whole icon.
Obviously 100+ pixels would use more power than just one but the screen is very power conservative. I think it's at least worth a try to see if it really impacts the battery that much.
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Does this require your GS to be rooted?
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I have it on my phone atm, it's not rooted. Seems to be working fine.
doesnt work if you have No Lock installed too
Umm..i have nolock and it works fine. Try turning it off, then lock and unlock your phone, and turn it on again. Should work.
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How do you properly remove the app? It is screwing everything up on my phone.
hah2110 said:
How do you properly remove the app? It is screwing everything up on my phone.
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Just curious...How is it screwing up your phone?
ultra spikey said:
Just curious...How is it screwing up your phone?
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It was hurting battery leaving the screen on even though it was just red. I uninstalled it from manage applications and now my screen won't turn on once it is off, I have to pull the battery. Anyone know if doing a clear storage wipes the internal SD card?
+1 for icon notifications
If we can't have a real led, lets look cooler than all the other phones and have little icons of e-mail, sms, and missed calls. It would be nice.
and make them loook purrrrdyyyyyyy iphone-esque
Installed this today and so far so good. Sure it would look better with actual icons but if it saves me from having to unlock my phone all the time to look for new messages then I'm happy.
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Not sure why this thread is not getting enough attention when there were so many people begging for a notification app to come out?
Thanks for making the app, will try it out soon. Will give feedback as soon as I get it.
Not working for me at all. Tried default sounds, custom sounds, with puzzle piece, without puzzle piece, etc. Even tried a reboot. Yes, the service is running.
Samsung Vibrant
EDIT: Just worked, but seriously took like 10 minutes before the screen flashed and the red LED started blinking.
I'm having a problem with it as well. I see it running, but it doesn't notify me except for the initial notification. Also it seems to just keep the screen on.
I'll keep playing with it to see off I can figured it out.
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Hey guys,
I just wanted to ask if you have the same problems with the lockscreen when you want to take a call? A few
minutes ago I received a phonecall and of course I had to unlock the phone first. Everytime it's a real adventure
to answer the telephone. I have to slide my finger two or three times over the screen to remove the lockscreen
and take the call. But who might think that would be enough... Often the slider hangs at the end after you slid your
finger over the screen. This would be ok, if it unlocks then. But it doesn't. So you wait two seconds and then you
slide your finger over the display again. And finally you can take the call
So my question is, do you have similar issues?
I don't want to make a call in an emergency with this lockscreen
ive found that if the slider hangs, just tap the top of the slide just above/past the slider and it will unlock
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Same here.slider hangs just above the bottom part of the screen.but no problems with taking calls...
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This happens all the time to me, plus that I have problem with the screen, the touch isn't always recognised at a specific area of the screen, ..not to mention the corners.... I have problem with the half bottom of the screen right in the middle of the unlock arrow..! It makes it hard for me to scroll the internet browser sometimes!
Different had any problems so far, but I have the same problem. I hope they give us the ability to use that custom lock screen security thing without this thing.
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Try to tap the home button when sliding is does difficult. Works for me fine than. Only never tried when someone is calling. Dont know why didnt try yet xD
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The lock slider on the x10 is a pita.
Thanks for your answers
Good to see that I am not the only one who has problems with this damned
thing. @assangflexx: I don't know if that is such a good idea. I know that
when you make a call and tab the homebutton, the screen switches to your
homescreen. That's exactly what it should do. But since the phone is working
to full capacity during a call it's a pain in the a** to get back to other screen,
where you can end the call...
im having the same problems. but i also have a problem with the thouch when im writing a sms. sometimes it wont press the "A" button and when i press "ALT" sometimes that dosent work and it just inserts a space instead.
Should the 4 bottom lights turn off eventually? I just never really paid attention on my other phones but if they dont turn off eventually its really annoying like watching a movie they stay on its just bugging me. I love the phone and just wondering if they do shut off eventually or do they stay on all the time
They normally have to shut off im pretty sure correct me if im wrong and for the moment flip the phone lol
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Nothing some electrical tape can't fix.
But on the real well need root and hopefully the led hack app will work.
Eric1985 said:
Should the 4 bottom lights turn off eventually? I just never really paid attention on my other phones but if they dont turn off eventually its really annoying like watching a movie they stay on its just bugging me. I love the phone and just wondering if they do shut off eventually or do they stay on all the time
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Same for me, as long as the screen is on those are on and its very annoying, especially when watching The Green Hornet lol
Download Screen Filter from the market. You can disable the button leds.
This was starting to get annoying. The thank you!
overclockxp said:
Download Screen Filter from the market. You can disable the button leds.
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Oh my god. Thank you for this. It works great with tasker. I have it set so that when I plug my phone in, tasker gives me 3 options. One is night mode. When I select that all my volumes but alarm turn way down and it turns Tue brightness down, but with the 3D it didn't seem dim enough, especially with the capacitive buttons beaming like lasers. But now it also starts screen filter at 45 percent and turns the buttons off. Also made is so when I launch certain games and all movies it'll turn off the buttons automatically. So helpful!
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I know this was posted in other phone forums, but I decided to throw it out to all the Incredible 4g users specifically...can anyone tell me exactly how the LED is supposed to function? I know where and how to set up exactly when it's supposed to turn on, but how long does it blink? I sometimes think its not working, but now I think that it blinks for awhile and then stops...then starts up again, seemingly at random...and what causes it to stop blinking? On swiping the notification? On opening the notification? Just unlocking your phone and seeing the notification? I've done some tests, but not exhaustive yet...wondering how it's SUPPOSED to work.
aram12 said:
I know this was posted in other phone forums, but I decided to throw it out to all the Incredible 4g users specifically...can anyone tell me exactly how the LED is supposed to function? I know where and how to set up exactly when it's supposed to turn on, but how long does it blink? I sometimes think its not working, but now I think that it blinks for awhile and then stops...then starts up again, seemingly at random...and what causes it to stop blinking? On swiping the notification? On opening the notification? Just unlocking your phone and seeing the notification? I've done some tests, but not exhaustive yet...wondering how it's SUPPOSED to work.
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the notification light should blink until you unlock you phone.. once coming out of sleep you will see the notification , whether on the lock screen, the lock screen bubble shortcut, the status bar notification pull down, just as soon as u turn that screen on and come out of sleep, the LED will STOP blinking since it see you have seen the notification since you awoke the phone.
I hope this helps.
there is a chance that the blinking light does stop after awhile, like say 15 min, i cant say for this phone yet, but will post back once find out..
but IMO i don't think it would stop until you awake the phone.
i think i have the right idea here. i installed the helly bean rom a couple days ago and absolutely love it so far, however the home, search, menu, back buttons all stay lit if a notification for txt or email happens while its sleeping. for further clarification in case some dont understand what i mean, say i hit the power button to go into sleep mode and someone send me a txt the phone plays the sound and lights the bottom 4 buttons like normal but once done the bottom buttons remain lit and dont turn off until i wake the phone and put it back to sleep.
any ideas on where to change this? or is it part of the rom
mavicious said:
i think i have the right idea here. i installed the helly bean rom a couple days ago and absolutely love it so far, however the home, search, menu, back buttons all stay lit if a notification for txt or email happens while its sleeping. for further clarification in case some dont understand what i mean, say i hit the power button to go into sleep mode and someone send me a txt the phone plays the sound and lights the bottom 4 buttons like normal but once done the bottom buttons remain lit and dont turn off until i wake the phone and put it back to sleep.
any ideas on where to change this? or is it part of the rom
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It is part of the ROM. It functions as a notification LED to let you know that you have a text/missed a call/etc. You shouldn't worry about it, it doesn't affect battery life.
You can turn off Notification Light in settings.
hongzhou94 said:
It is part of the ROM. It functions as a notification LED to let you know that you have a text/missed a call/etc. You shouldn't worry about it, it doesn't affect battery life.
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ah ok, works for me then i wasnt to concerned about the battery as its just led so its such a minimal draw. just makin sure its not a bug of some sort
thx
Capative Hardware keys not lit until u press in captivate key area in Helly Bean
Hi There,
I just flashed my cappy to the HellyBean ROM, and everything works great! Thanks for such a nice ROM.
While using it I found one small issue,It could be a setting issue which I'm unable to figure so please help me out.
When i'm using the phone, in gingerbeard, it used to light the bottom 4 capacitive keys(Setting,HOME,BACK,SEARCH) all the time so that I can press them when i'm using the phone in dark. But in Hellybean, those 4 LEDs are not lit when the touch screen is used, those 4 buttons are lit only when I press in the Bottom area.
Please let me know how to make them ON even when i'm using the touchscreen area?
Thanks,
Raj
This is the vibrant section not captivate but I think there is a setting in devil kernel configuration app. Don't know for sure which exact setting controls that but I think there's another setting in display, try both. I don't use any bln because of battery use, plus I'm no longer running HB on my vibe or cappy.
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