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Today I had a couple i777's taken apart that I was fiddling with while I replaced the screen on one, and noticed that there is a location (facing the screen, the top right hand corner) that is just a metal brick. Possibly a heat sink, that could easily be drilled out to install a LED light for notifications! Then I was thinking about the location for soldering the light on, and thought.. Why not solder in line with the camera LED? There are apps that use the camera LED for flash notifications, right?
The only thing is, the camera LED would flash when the notification LED flashed.. Also there could only be 1 color LED, and visa versa, so if you took a picture with flash, notification LED would blink. Not too big of a problem though right? There would not need to be any drilling of the screen either.
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You would need a current limiting resistor for the new notification led. If you make the same current available to that led as the high power flash led, you will release the magic smoke.
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jmgelba said:
You would need a current limiting resistor for the new notification led. If you make the same current available to that led as the high power flash led, you will release the magic smoke.
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Right of course! All LEDs need resisters, but some come in Little light sister packages
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Or you could use the softkeys for notifications like the rest of us
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You would need a current limiting resistor for the new notification led. If you make the same current available to that led as the high power flash led, you will release the magic smoke.
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Hahahaha
Where's the fun in that? Lol and they are shaped as weird objects.
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I'm sorry but this idea will never work
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I use an app called NoLED that works fine for me.
That's not really true. Lol
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Miami_Son said:
I use an app called NoLED that works fine for me.
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well stated
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Quick question. Does anyone find that their led doesn't blink with non stock apps? Like I have gosms and the led lights up and stays lite instead of blinking same with like yahoo mail. I also notice if I use say lightflow and pick say "blue" for an led color the color will show up "red" no matter what color I select it will show up a different color on the led. I just find this weird.
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I havn't had any issues with the Gmail app. But I do know that setting g custom LED settings in certain apps can sometimes make the LED act funny you may want to check settings in individual apps.
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Got the same in gosms and Facebook
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Uninstall Light Flow and you will be all set. It has some bugs with the S3 sadly. The dev knows about it and will fix it in the next update.
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Uninstall Light Flow and you will be all set. It has some bugs with the S3 sadly. The dev knows about it and will fix it in the next update.
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Yeah i did uninstall light flow already with no change. Its funny I have both the att and international version and things like go SMS pro led works properly on that one.
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Got the same in gosms and Facebook
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So ur led doesn't flash for notifications for those either. Good to know its not just my phone.
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I have read that it is a known bug. Hopefully it gets fixed in the next OTA update.
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glad I wasn't the only one and was able to check to see others are dealing with the same. I just got my verizon phone yesterday and it has been driving me bonkers tryingt o figure out why it wasn't working! I knew I wasn't that android ignorant!
Not sure if the latest light flow fixes this, but a brand, spanking new release is out!
hi. everytime i receive a notification, instead of the flashing blue status light.. i get a steady red light. any idea what could be causing this?
Do you have any led apps that change the color of your led? Or do you have the red charging led indicator notification on?
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no extra apps for the LED. and yes i do have the box checked so that it lights up when it's charging.. but my phone is not charging.
Is there a way to change the colors around? I would like to change my notification to green instead of blue
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BubZX said:
Is there a way to change the colors around? I would like to change my notification to green instead of blue
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Light flow on the play store, only bug with that is that a green led stays on when you turn off the screen, but I hear the dev is working on it.
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turns out the steady red led light happens when there's a facebook notification. is this the same for everyone?
I get blue for texts, red for everything else
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I've noticed the same thing. When I get a Facebook notification, it is a solid red light. Other notifications get a flashing blue light. I don't think I've gotten a single notification that uses a green light yet.
Light Flow doesn't work that well for me for some reason, though. I've uninstalled it for now, but it looks like they're working on it for both Jelly Bean and the US GSIII, so hopefully an upcoming update will get us set up.
Gets pretty annoyin when im goin thru menus and those buttons are not visible
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Gets pretty annoyin when im goin thru menus and those buttons are not visible
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as far as i know the only rom that has the option is in venom. inside venom tweaks. that is a option ..."always on"but that will kill your battery fast. is your light sensor not functioning correctly? mine come on and off depending on the room lighting conditions.
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as far as i know the only rom that has the option is in venom. inside venom tweaks. that is a option ..."always on"but that will kill your battery fast. is your light sensor not functioning correctly? mine come on and off depending on the room lighting conditions.
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I didnt notice it until i put the otterbox defender on
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Hi all.
Can somebody please explain me why Super AMOLED display uses so much power when displaying white image?
I can surf the web only 4 hours on max brightness.
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Fycola123 said:
Hi all.
Can somebody please explain me why Super AMOLED display uses so much power when displaying white image?
I can surf the web only 4 hours on max brightness.
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Its not just the screen its the 3g/wifi the screen and everything but the screen is bit so it needs more power than a smaller screen. That's just one reason.
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I am surfing on wi-fi. Also i have 3G turned off
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It's science! Literally.
White light is suppose to be the brightest light while black is its opposite. The way these phones work is that the black pixels, pure black, are just pixels turned off. Now apply the opposite logic with white.
But for the phones, I'm not sure exactly. But I think red is the least power consuming, I forget.
SlimJ87D said:
It's science! Literally.
White light is suppose to be the brightest light while black is its opposite. The way these phones work is that the black pixels, pure black, are just pixels turned off. Now apply the opposite logic with white.
But for the phones, I'm not sure exactly. But I think red is the least power consuming, I forget.
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Yea your right black is least consuming
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I believe it's the way standard screen and amoled screens work.
Amoled: imagine the individual pixel, it has its own colour and light. When displaying black as mentioned before all the pixels are literally switched off which is why blacks look so deep with amoled. For whatever colour only a few pixels are on. Which controls what colour you see. However for white all the pixels have to be on as you can imagine the amount of power spent for a white screen is much higher.
Standard LCD screens generally work where all the pixxels are white and they are behind tiny pixel filters each having Their own colour (RGB like amoled) they can easily lets say switch the filters off and remove them so that it only displays white. Black is more difficult to display I'm not sure why I could be wrong but I think it's because the light from the other pixels comes in causing blacks to be less deep this is the same with colours they look more washed out
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So amoled is like having loads of little light bulbs of different colour that are on at different intensities to create whatever colour. Standard LCD is like loads of white bulbs or a big white bulb and the colour is controlled by holding filters over it of different colour infront of it which needs less power.
That's my understand ing but please correct me if I'm wrong! I read about one years ago but cant remember properly
Hope it helps!
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because the AMOLED, unlike the normal LCD, uses three LED RBG. to have the color white needs to turn on the three LEDs and then spend more energy. In fact, the websites often have the white background.
try putting the color reversed so as to have the black background (you save energy because it does not need to turn the usual LED)
Can't you use Google? Or Bing? Or any search engine?
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Fycola123 said:
Hi all.
Can somebody please explain me why Super AMOLED display uses so much power when displaying white image?
I can surf the web only 4 hours on max brightness.
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I have searched, but i found nothing.
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I have searched, but i found nothing.
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First Google result
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOLED
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One of the best features of Samsung is their use of RGB LED's for notifications. I was sad to see that there is not customization of the LED and was wondering what my options are? I have ROOT access with locked bootloader and found a few apps (LightFlow is one) in the play store but they seem not compatible with the Note 2. Does anyone have any tips or methods to get custom LED notifications going? I know I am not the only one who wants a color other than blue for all notifications.
Light Manager.
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Its TwiX said:
Light Manager.
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Nice works pretty well, thanks! The LED is not that great at making colors but it at least open it up to a few more options for personalization.
Light Flow that I purchased when I had my GNex also works, though the colors are a little off from the Gnex, at least for me. Orange is showing up as yellow.