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Is there some way to get the SGS3 to have the LED on even when the screen is on?. Either officially or through some form of mod, because I always liked how the HTC Desire back in the day always had light in the LED even when the screen was on.
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Theres a minority of us with the N1 who use Desire rom ports and the soft key lights dont turn on. It appears to have always been this way with no one atempting to fix it, other than the gscript which doesnt work with 2.2. I have an AT&T N1 and kinda think it effects other att versions but dont know for sure, if you have this problem speak up. it would be much appreciated if an intelligent developer could look into this issue. The desire ports are great but not having the lights in dark rooms is rather frustrating and annoying.
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I think this may have something to do with the phone's light sensor. My capacitive buttons (using eVil's latest desire 1.06t) kinda flickers sometimes but most of the time, it's off... Basically, the screen seems to light up pretty bright even in pitch dark and since the screen thinks it's in a 'bright' (since screen turns bright in the sun etc.) setting, it turns off the capacitive key lights... Can anyone confirm and maybe have a fix for this??? This is just my opinion and not sure if what I'm saying is true or makes any sense at all...
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Picked up a Thunderbolt and tonight while making a call at night I noticed the alert LED glows dim red and kinda flickers whenever I'm on a call. Can anyone verify that this is normal behaviour or do I have a defective phone?
The only thing that changes color is my notification bar. Is your phone plugged in?
no, not plugged in- i first noticed it while taking a walk. on second look it's a dim, somewhat flickery orange.
yeah i see that too. maybe thats the proximity sensor? idk.
I went to the Verizon store and Best Buy also and looked at the demo models- all 3 appeared to behave the same as mine with the faint orange/red LED on while on a call, so I'm guessing that's normal behavior. The salesman thought it was the screen that was lighting up the LED, but I turned off the screen and you could still see the LED was on.
Anyone tried this yet? I gave it a go, not really sure what to expect. Installed fine, both the front and back lights kept blinking green until I swiped down the notification bar to clear them, even though I didn't have any notifications. I was messing around with the settings, and it is able to recognize the back light independently, so that's good.
Then I let the screen lock, when I went to unlock it nothing would happen, just stay black, im not sure if it turned off, or the screen was just staying off. Thinking it turned off I tried to boot it up, but nothing would happen. So next I tried to get into bootloader mode, which did work. So from there I went into twrp fixed permissions for a good measure and rebooted fine. Then I promptly uninstalled lightflow, until I get some other input from someone else.
So if you are worried about trying I don't think you should be, just give it a go and let me know your results. Just keep in mind you might have to do something to get it to boot if you have a problem, wasn't really a big deal though.
rhettnis said:
Anyone tried this yet? I gave it a go, not really sure what to expect. Installed fine, both the front and back lights kept blinking green until I swiped down the notification bar to clear them, even though I didn't have any notifications. I was messing around with the settings, and it is able to recognize the back light independently, so that's good.
Then I let the screen lock, when I went to unlock it nothing would happen, just stay black, im not sure if it turned off, or the screen was just staying off. Thinking it turned off I tried to boot it up, but nothing would happen. So next I tried to get into bootloader mode, which did work. So from there I went into twrp fixed permissions for a good measure and rebooted fine. Then I promptly uninstalled lightflow, until I get some other input from someone else.
So if you are worried about trying I don't think you should be, just give it a go and let me know your results. Just keep in mind you might have to do something to get it to boot if you have a problem, wasn't really a big deal though.
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I sent diagnostic information to the developer last week. His reply didn't sound too hopeful. HTC uses different hardware than most companies when it comes to the led mapping. I hope we will see an update that will provide further support for our device.
I wouldn't count on it, unlike the Nexus's notification light the Droid DNA (and most other HTC Phones) do not have multicolored notification lights. The light can effectively be 3 colors I think, which are red, green, and maybe orange/yellow at most (one of those might not even exist I cant remember) but that's it. Now if you just wanted to map those colors to individual actions I guess that could totally be feasible, but new colors outside of those like blue, purple, white, etc just isn't capable with the hardware in our phones.
It kinda sucks if your into that kinda thing, but what can ya do?
I agree that not having the multi-colored leds that my S3 had is an annoyance, but if LightFlow would just work so I could have dark orange for gmail and green for sms, I could live with that...
Unfortunately, I got the black screen at some point... I think after enabling the back led. And add to that I get the green led and it will not shut off no matter what. Sucks.
I'm starting to think that developer support will never get to an acceptable point for the DNA and I will need to go back...
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I agree that not having the multi-colored leds that my S3 had is an annoyance, but if LightFlow would just work so I could have dark orange for gmail and green for sms, I could live with that...
Unfortunately, I got the black screen at some point... I think after enabling the back led. And add to that I get the green led and it will not shut off no matter what. Sucks.
I'm starting to think that developer support will never get to an acceptable point for the DNA and I will need to go back...
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yeah, when I started messing around with LED's I had problems. So in lightflow I just setup my different notifications like normal, but without the LED, and just use the repeating function instead. Yes, the LED would have been nice, but honestly I used lightflow for the custom repeating notifications and the LED was just an added bonus for me and isn't really necessary.
Has anyone else had issues with their back light faulting? I've searched and have seen that other sprint evo lte users have had issues with screen flickering, but my problem seems to be more serious that that. when i wake up in the morning the screen is blank. thank god i have a custrom rom installed and can manually mess with the status bar slider to get the backlight to turn back on. It just needs to be tweaked here and there. the backlight seems to only like to work on full brightness, if not, it will flicker like crazy. if i press with more pressure on certain parts of the screen the backlight turns off completely until i remove my finger. I dont think its a proximity issue since it'll just flicker sitting on a desk. Do I need to replace the screen? is this worth it? i havent dropped to phone or anything for this to default. I can upload a video later. gonna use my OG evo for that which is still kicken by the way
I realize this thread is incredibly old, but did you ever find a solution to the flickering problem? I just started seeing the exact same behavior, including the screen going dark when putting pressure on certain areas of the screen.
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I have a PJ75100 doing this, but the screen does not function at all. I get the orange/green light while charging, and if I power it on it acts as if it's doing it's regular startup, but nothing shows on screen.
I did update the stock firmware with the latest release ruu, but still no screen.
I'd really like to get this one going as it's not the normal Jewel, it's the white and silver one, and my girlfriend wants it to replace her iPhone 5c.
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I have the AT&T H900 V10 and I can't figure out how to keep the second screen from dimming when the main screen is off. It's so dim that I can't see it unless it's directory in front of my face, and no buttons seem to brighten it without during the main screen on. Is this something that can be changed? I'm not worried about battery life since it stays plugged in 99% of the time.
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So far there doesnt seem to be any way to control this, other than covering the light sensor until the second screen goes off, then letting it come back on at greater brightness for 3 seconds or so until it dims again. Maybe LG is trying to make sure it doesn't drain battery but maybe they will adjust it with updates or give us control over it.
It pretty much makes the second screen useless as I can't see any notification without turning on the main screen.... and no LED light so this kind of makes me want to rage.