[Q] Xperia P - Disable soft key backlight - Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go

I´ve been trying do disable the soft keys backlight.
Right now i'm using the Soft Buttons Light app to permanently disable the leds, but i rather change the led brightness values on the files, than using an app that consumes ram.
Changing the values is possible, and after an extensive search for a solution for xperia p, i've only found a solution here on the forum for other xperia phones, because on the xperia p the files are a bit different.
Still, i've tried to change the values, but i can't. I've figured out that there are 3 folders that control the 3 leds on the transparent bar, so i have to change the values on all of them. Those folders are "so34-led0", "so34-led1" and "so34-led2", on "/sys/class/leds/".On the max_brightness file, using ES File Explorer, after changing the value, while saving, an error ocurs, i save it anyway, but when i check it, the previous value is still there. Using Root Explorer, a .bak file is saved (and i don't know where, because i can't find it) and the original file remains with the original value.
Has anyone did it? Or knows how to do it?

Take a look at this thread
Control Led Brightness
That is the correct way to go about it, in my opinion Modifying the value during boottime itself is the best way to go

Min3r said:
Take a look at this thread
Control Led Brightness
That is the correct way to go about it, in my opinion Modifying the value during boottime itself is the best way to go
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Thanks, but i've already seen that thread, and a solution for the xperia p wasn't found there, only for other xperia phones. The lines on the xperia p are quite different.
They are:
echo 0,51,251,511,851 >$dev/button_min_vals
echo 50,250,510,850,5000 >$dev/button_max_vals
And i don't have a clue how to change them =/

Anyone?

So if I read correctly, you want to permanently disable your led bar? If so, using root explorer and go to
System/lib/hw and rename lights.st-ericsson.so like add an extra o or something. Then reboot
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ilumination bar
i was having the same issue, and the best way to disable the led, was with the app "ilumination bar", go to theme led, set all values to the left and save, its consume very low ram, and is the best aplication to control leds, you can disable theme led, but it can stay enable to notify missed calls, sms, etc..give it a try.

*boy*racer* said:
So if I read correctly, you want to permanently disable your led bar? If so, using root explorer and go to
System/lib/hw and rename lights.st-ericsson.so like add an extra o or something. Then reboot
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Thanks, that finally worked Sadly, it REALLY diasables all the lights, even the notification led on the top of the phone. I would like to keep the green light when it's charged, but maybe it is for the best, less lights to consume the battery. Its just leds, they wouldn't consume much i think, but it still does some battery consumption.
Thanks a lot mate
pedromms86 said:
i was having the same issue, and the best way to disable the led, was with the app "ilumination bar", go to theme led, set all values to the left and save, its consume very low ram, and is the best aplication to control leds, you can disable theme led, but it can stay enable to notify missed calls, sms, etc..give it a try.
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It might be a great app, but the idea was to avoid the need of an app. I already have one that does it, but i prefer to deal wih the issue on the source instead of having to depend on an unnecessary application.

Bangalter89 said:
Thanks, that finally worked Sadly, it REALLY diasables all the lights, even the notification led on the top of the phone. I would like to keep the green light when it's charged, but maybe it is for the best, less lights to consume the battery. Its just leds, they wouldn't consume much i think, but it still does some battery consumption.
Thanks a lot mate
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No worries mate. Glad I helped sort of lol:thumbup:
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UPDATE:
This is not the right thing to do. It solved the leds problem but created another.
It is not noticible on daylight, only on low-light. The screen does not become fully off when the phone is locked!
It can be seen that the screen is still lit. Like it's displaying a full black image. I reversed it by renaming the file as it was before.
Now i'm back at square one.

Bump.
I'm also looking for a way to do this. Any solutions? The apps simply don't work for me

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Why need to spam @WizaJ
Scared to get no answer?
You have JB and init.d ?
:::[ Pandemic ..:: JB MoonBreakers® 4 Ever !!:..
Sent From The Moon With My Xperia P !

Pandemic said:
Why need to spam @WizaJ
Scared to get no answer?
You have JB and init.d ?
:::[ Pandemic ..:: JB MoonBreakers® 4 Ever !!:..
Sent From The Moon With My Xperia P !
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I'm not spamming mate, I'm bumping up the post so that more people can see it.
I have JB and what do you mean init.d? The file? Or like an application?
Is there a way to do it with init.d?

I'm running MIUI and the soft button lights are disabled by default.. I need them back on, how do I do that?

xperia u disable softkey illumination?
bump!
i have xperia u on jb, with this fix applied: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-u/general/xu-illumination-bar-fix-t2457954
i want to disable softkey illuminaton but keep notification illumination - is this possible?
thanks!

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[Needed] Notification Led Light

When we re GB, tha led light works but doesnt on ICS 4.0.4!!!! i know most of us cant wait to have dis feature back on our Mobile... Someone should please help us out on dis!
thanks in advance...
whalesplaho said:
When we re GB, tha led light works but doesnt on ICS 4.0.4!!!! i know most of us cant wait to have dis feature back on our Mobile... Someone should please help us out on dis!
thanks in advance...
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The LED light works for me?
EDIT : It doesn't work for me lol...I think it works for normal notification
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UchihaDareNial said:
The LED light works for me?
EDIT : It doesn't work for me lol...I think it works for normal notification
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Yeah shows when charging... but doesnt show on startup!!!!
don't works either with app that control the led like Light Flow :\ wait for the update from SE
Its better bcoz less battery drain..
Curtis7990 said:
don't works either with app that control the led like Light Flow :\ wait for the update from SE
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The same... Light Flow doesnt solve the problem
light flow - please, come back!
unfortunatelly got the same on ARC S afther update to ICS (4.0.4) - light flow stoped working correct
Big disappointment - this great application make my phone complete, It's almost impossible for me to lose it
any hints?
greatings from Poland!
Tomek
tejot said:
unfortunatelly got the same on ARC S afther update to ICS (4.0.4) - light flow stoped working correct
Big disappointment - this great application make my phone complete, It's almost impossible for me to lose it
any hints?
greatings from Poland!
Tomek
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Currently using it on my device.... Mini pro!!!! still working brov, am on .431 FW [ICS 4.0.4]!
With the update to 4.0.4, on the MP at least, the led works for everything but sms notify and startup notify, as far as i have seen those are the only times when it doesnt work.
To who ever said "doesnt matter, it saves battery", well your are wrong. well not wrong just not right haha It is an led light, it doesnt waste battery, i mean the most it would waste is 0.1% per hour, but it has to be on, and flashing, constantly for that to happen, so really it doesnt waste any at all. by the way i have no source to prove this, it is just my opinion from how much i know about led lights, especially very small ones like in phones.
Cheers,
Evil.

[U/P][Root] U-Disco - Entertaining Lights in the Illumination Bar - now also for P

Hi,
I have created a new app for the Xperia U, that will give you "disco lights" in the illumination bar.
Now also works for Xperia P.
So far it only has a few modes. It does both plain blinks and also blinks that are driven by the music you play.
Pro version has more colors and can run in the background.
It only works on Xperia U or Xperia P, and it also requires ROOT to get individual access to the LEDs.
On anything but a rooted XU or rooted XP i'm sure it will do absolutely nothing...
It's called U-Disco and you can find it at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rundgong.udisco
Pro version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rundgong.udiscopro
Try it out and let me know what you think.
If you have suggestions for fun blink patterns, let me know and I'll try to include it in upcoming releases.
Hi,
I have tested the application and what I think is great! But I wish that the lights are activated only when you make a pressure on the touchscreen buttons. Is what you know to do that?
Loved the crazy discos...
Great idea, and nicely implemented. :thumbup:
Possible to add an option to turn off the LED?
Regards.
Sent from my ST25i using Tapatalk 2
Great App!
Thanks
viirus6200 said:
Hi,
I have tested the application and what I think is great! But I wish that the lights are activated only when you make a pressure on the touchscreen buttons. Is what you know to do that?
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That is not the intention with this app.
babu.rajiv2007 said:
Possible to add an option to turn off the LED?
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The LEDs should go off when you change the selection on either drop down list.
Sometimes you may need to toggle audio source on and off before it really goes off
It's cool. Haha, I feel like little child playing with his torches.
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Nice! I see you've finally made it public. cool!
Need to toggle first to make it works
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great app and great idea..!! Request :- please add more options for light patterns with music... they look really cool with the music!!
Simply awesome............ make it more smooth if you can... great app by the way....
Nice app will use it alot..
Confirming that this app works fcking seXy on Xperia U with CM9 (fxp145) ALso, love the rainbow thing Gr8 job And hell the music thing works toooo seXy on CM9 also ..............
But why the LEDs are back to normal if i am back to home screen by pressing back button its nt permanent .
But the left led is stable ..dont do anything
Btw, Made a Quick Review http://youtu.be/6Tn-tZPzAxE
Good job, thanks!
Too bad Android closes it when I play a memory intensive game, such as Dead Trigger... It'd be cool to have the light effects while shooting
Can you do a root version and make it stay in the memory of the phone?
Could you make it turn of when the screen does and turn on when the screen does cause that'd be perfect
jitin02 said:
But why the LEDs are back to normal if i am back to home screen by pressing back button its nt permanent .
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The default behavior for an app is to shut down when you press the back button. If you want to keep it running in the background you can press the home button instead.
martin255 said:
Good job, thanks!
Too bad Android closes it when I play a memory intensive game, such as Dead Trigger... It'd be cool to have the light effects while shooting
Can you do a root version and make it stay in the memory of the phone?
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I don't know how it works with high prio processes on android, but I can look into it.
I also don't really know how good android is at deciding when to kill apps.
It is supposed to only kill apps when other apps need the memory, but I guess it is possible that it kills apps earlier than it really needs to.
Anyone know how good this works?
I don't want to change the app so it makes the rest of the system run poorly by holding on to memory that really should have been released.
rundgong said:
The default behavior for an app is to shut down when you press the back button. If you want to keep it running in the background you can press the home button instead.
I don't know how it works with high prio processes on android, but I can look into it.
I also don't really know how good android is at deciding when to kill apps.
It is supposed to only kill apps when other apps need the memory, but I guess it is possible that it kills apps earlier than it really needs to.
Anyone know how good this works?
I don't want to change the app so it makes the rest of the system run poorly by holding on to memory that really should have been released.
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Well, it works with apps which are not very ram hungry, such as Jetpack Joyride and others.
WOW i love you *_* miss function for perma on
martin255 said:
Well, it works with apps which are not very ram hungry, such as Jetpack Joyride and others.
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Yes, but if the android framework is doing a good job it means your game really need the ram, so if my app stays active the game may not work so well any more.
rundgong said:
Yes, but if the android framework is doing a good job it means your game really need the ram, so if my app stays active the game may not work so well any more.
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Yeah I understand this. A few MBs can mean a lot in some games...
cool app reminds me of my old SE W830 that has this orange walkman button that also lights up according to the beat of the music. is it possible for you to include another color?

[Q] How to turn off the LED bar of the Xperia U ST25i

Hello,
I've searched for a solution to turn off the LED bar for quite some time, but all the solutions via apps like LEDs-U-CTRL or uninstalling the sony.illumination.service package or removing the /system/apps/SemcIllumination.apk or the terminal commands from this thread don't work for me. Maybe because I've flashed the FXP152... The two packages don't exist.
Is there any other way to disable the LEDs? What versions of FXP support disabling the LEDs?
Thanks in advance!
yes u can disable ..
hakaishi said:
Hello,
I've searched for a solution to turn off the LED bar for quite some time, but all the solutions via apps like LEDs-U-CTRL or uninstalling the sony.illumination.service package or removing the /system/apps/SemcIllumination.apk or the terminal commands from this thread don't work for me. Maybe because I've flashed the FXP152... The two packages don't exist.
Is there any other way to disable the LEDs? What versions of FXP support disabling the LEDs?
Thanks in advance!
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use SCREEN FILTER https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor&hl=en app from google pay store and install it thn run it .then uncheck enable soft key backlight then click enable screen filter ..you can adjust your bightness to too low as u want..
reply me if it doesnt work..
I can't believe it! It really works!
Thanks!
In FXP 210a the LED bar is finally completely off. Thanks to that my phone used only 2% of battery in the last 11 hours. Well... without using the phone much (sleeping for about 7 hours) and Wifi off. The Governor at "on demand" set to 200-400 MHz. :cyclops:
(of cause the LED bar will still blink at a custom frequency with a custom color when I get a message.)
btw: When the LED was always on the percentage went down every few minutes... It almost halves the duration of the battery when using the phone all day.
*Don't mind me reporting how things were progressing*
hakaishi said:
Hello,
I've searched for a solution to turn off the LED bar for quite some time, but all the solutions via apps like LEDs-U-CTRL or uninstalling the sony.illumination.service package or removing the /system/apps/SemcIllumination.apk or the terminal commands from this thread don't work for me. Maybe because I've flashed the FXP152... The two packages don't exist.
Is there any other way to disable the LEDs? What versions of FXP support disabling the LEDs?
Thanks in advance!
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bro you know how turn off illumination bar of xperia u permanent, without apps? please tell me
Use illumination bar notification app (search urself) and on choosing the color of the theme of that app, don't slide non of the red, green and blue and then, save it. That's how.
P.S: That app didn't even use root access so you better give it a try
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nerak11111 said:
bro you know how turn off illumination bar of xperia u permanent, without apps? please tell me
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I don't know... I have something in mind, but it also could cause, that no led works at all or even that the phone won't boot anymore... So I don't even want to try it. (deleting the file /system/lib/hw/lights.montblanc.so)
As Little Zed said, you should try it with an app like screenfilter or the illumination bar notification app.
If you try out newer Roms like KitKat, then you also have an option to disable the LED but, I don't know if it will both disable the small LED on the top right and the LED bar... But this is something you might want to test.
ps: in the current KitKat Rom the LED bar won't work, you'd have to replace the above mentioned file with the one from CM10.1.
hakaishi said:
I don't know... I have something in mind, but it also could cause, that no led works at all or even that the phone won't boot anymore... So I don't even want to try it. (deleting the file /system/lib/hw/lights.montblanc.so)
As Little Zed said, you should try it with an app like screenfilter or the illumination bar notification app.
If you try out newer Roms like KitKat, then you also have an option to disable the LED but, I don't know if it will both disable the small LED on the top right and the LED bar... But this is something you might want to test.
ps: in the current KitKat Rom the LED bar won't work, you'd have to replace the above mentioned file with the one from CM10.1.
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The pulse notification light in settings refers to the top right light and not to the LED bar However yuo can enable it flashing a package.
Read the second post of brigio345 in this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...28466&page=120 .
i have cm9 and the LED Bar ist just lighting up, when my battery is almost dead. and the top LED is lighting excactly like the Bar, but i just want the top LED to work. is there any possible way?

[Q] Notification LED

Does anyone know how to use the front key lights as notification led's on our L9 since we don't have one? I found out how to use the camera flash as one but that's the back of the phone and i don't like facing the phone screen face down on anything in fear of scratching the screen.
If there is not a method already around somewhere to do this, how hard would it be to get this working? I think it would be a great asset to our L9s!
R: [Q] Notification LED
Use LG Notifications from Playstore. It's free but requires root.
Sent from my LG-P760 using xda app-developers app
I tried that before posting and it didnt work :/
mjb1994 said:
Does anyone know how to use the front key lights as notification led's on our L9 since we don't have one? I found out how to use the camera flash as one but that's the back of the phone and i don't like facing the phone screen face down on anything in fear of scratching the screen.
If there is not a method already around somewhere to do this, how hard would it be to get this working? I think it would be a great asset to our L9s!
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How do you use the flash for notifications?
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Juanito216 said:
How do you use the flash for notifications?
Please try the NOLED app. Probably a better option. Tried on my HTC Glacier. Works.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.led.notify&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5sZWQubm90aWZ5Il0.
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mjb1994 said:
I tried that before posting and it didnt work :/
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Works for me.
How does it behave for you? On my L9 nothing changed at all once installed and enabled :/ What settings did you choose? Do they flash after the screen turns off for awhile after the notification, and stay flashing until they are read??
mjb1994 said:
How does it behave for you? On my L9 nothing changed at all once installed and enabled :/ What settings did you choose? Do they flash after the screen turns off for awhile after the notification, and stay flashing until they are read??
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I just chose the default settings, and it flashes the front key lights till the message is read. Maybe cause I'm using P760 V10h on my P765.
The app is a battery drainer since it wakes the cpu up each time the buttons light up.
Im hoping they can program this feature into future roms for the L9 where it just causes the LED's to blink until the screen is turned back up when a notification is received. Not sure if its possible to program the blinking to run without waking the cpu?
That was another concern of mine, but if it was integrated into the rom in such a way to not wake the cpu then battery life would not be affected as much.

[Q] Changind Leds Manually?

Hi.
I read on a tread that I can change the colors of my Leds on Sony Xperia U manually. That way I could have diferente colors, like blue-red-blue, instead of a color only (e.g blue-blue-blue).
So, when I go to sys/class/leds, and adjust the brightness, as I was told, it works (I can see that the Led changes), but after the Leds go off, when I turn them on again, they're back to default. If I go to the brightness again, all changes I made are gone.
How can I do what I want and why is this happening?
PS: I'm using Root Explorer and I do have r/w mounted. I also tried with ES File Explorer
Thanks!
tykey said:
Hi.
I read on a tread that I can change the colors of my Leds on Sony Xperia U manually. That way I could have diferente colors, like blue-red-blue, instead of a color only (e.g blue-blue-blue).
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The apps U-Disco and Leds-U-Ctrl seem to solve the purpose. Original xda threads of the apps:
U-Disco here and Leds-U_Ctrl here
Imperial_Raj said:
Couldn't get you, sorry! Do you mean you want one LED to light up in blue, the second one in red and then the third one in blue in one go?
Or did you mean one illumination in blue, the successive one in red and the next one in blue?
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Sorry for confusion.
I want the LED bar on the bottom to have a certain color in the left side, another color in the middle, and another color on the right side.
Thanks for response!
tykey said:
Sorry for confusion.
I want the LED bar on the bottom to have a certain color in the left side, another color in the middle, and another color on the right side.
Thanks for response!
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Got you now! Previous post edited. Do check it out, and also the original threads of the apps and make out which of the two suits you best.
And, don't say thanks, hit Thanks!
Imperial_Raj said:
Got you now! Previous post edited. Do check it out, and also the original threads of the apps and make out which of the two suits you best.
And, don't say thanks, hit Thanks!
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U-Disco looks neat... I'm definitely going to keep it. But not quite what I'm looking for. Led's-u-ctrl is cool, I already knew about it. And it does almost what I want. You see, when you touch the BACK/HOME/OPTIONS in the bottom, or press the volume buttons, the Leds Bar illuminate. Leds-u-ctrl allows you the customize the color of the illumination (because there's really few colors by default).
What I want, I don't care if I have to do it manually, is to customize that illumination so it has 2 or 3 colors. Because Xperia U has (of course) 3 diferente LEDs
tykey said:
U-Disco looks neat... I'm definitely going to keep it. But not quite what I'm looking for. Led's-u-ctrl is cool, I already knew about it. And it does almost what I want. You see, when you touch the BACK/HOME/OPTIONS in the bottom, or press the volume buttons, the Leds Bar illuminate. Leds-u-ctrl allows you the customize the color of the illumination (because there's really few colors by default).
What I want, I don't care if I have to do it manually, is to customize that illumination so it has 2 or 3 colors. Because Xperia U has (of course) 3 diferente LEDs
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In that case, I guess best would be that you talk to the developers of these apps. I'm sure they know best. So you may PM them if you want to.

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