I like to read in bed and often my wife falls asleep before I do. I can dim the screen without any trouble, but any time a physical control is activated (trackball, volume rocker, etc) the lights in the lower portion of the phone where the controls are light up REALLY bright.
Is there a setting or app to shut it off?
Are you talking about the keys?
kynetx said:
I like to read in bed and often my wife falls asleep before I do. I can dim the screen without any trouble, but any time a physical control is activated (trackball, volume rocker, etc) the lights in the lower portion of the phone where the controls are light up REALLY bright.
Is there a setting or app to shut it off?
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Hi,
Go to Settings > Sound and Display > Notification Flash.
You can disable the trackball flash for certain notifications or you can disable them all and have the trackball flash disabled completely.
thecastlefordkid said:
Hi,
Go to Settings > Sound and Display > Notification Flash.
You can disable the trackball flash for certain notifications or you can disable them all and have the trackball flash disabled completely.
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But he means the keys' lights. Will this also turn that off?? I know the title of the thread is a bit misleading
Turning the trackball notification off seems to stop the screen and button lights from coming on.
I've just disable the trackball notification for text messages, set my phone in standby and sent myself a text from another phone. The notification sound played but nothing at all lit up on the phone.
Disabling the notifications don't seem to have an effect. Every time I touch the trackball or any other button, the light right up
I also find the backlight of the keys on HTC hero pretty annoying. I can't believe that it's impossible to disable that damn light. There are only 6 buttons and trackball, are they really think that we aren't capable to use them properly?
I don't see what the problem is.
And my trackball doesn't actually light up unless I get a notification of some sort.
Just pressing any button doesn't make it light up at all.
So what exactly is the problem?
rdgut said:
Just pressing any button doesn't make it light up at all.
So what exactly is the problem?
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I don't know about European Hero, but on the Sprint's one, any time you're pressing a key or the trackball, backlight lightens up. It's damn annoying, and I don't know how to get rid of it.
First of all, I'm not a vampire. I don't often use my phone in the dark. And besides, there is always enough of ambient light from the screen.
So. My questions to HTC guys.
- Why the damn, stupid light?
- How could we disable it?
- And where is our firmware update?
The light is extremly nice :-D I love it, when you are in some loud places and your phone is not in your pocket you can see it light up :-D
If you don´t want that, just downgrade to a 1.8 firmware; there is a bug that the trackball won´t light up, well the firmware is freaking slow though.
BTW: An option to disable the light would be cool (there could be some scenarios where it´s not good to light up).
BB.
iRobert said:
If you don´t want that, just downgrade to a 1.8 firmware; there is a bug that the trackball won´t light up, well the firmware is freaking slow though.
BTW: An option to disable the light would be cool (there could be some scenarios where it´s not good to light up).
BB.
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So, I'd have assumed that this is the software issue not hardware.
Now I'm sure. So it could be disabled somehow.
But how?
plotnick said:
I don't know about European Hero, but on the Sprint's one, any time you're pressing a key or the trackball, backlight lightens up. It's damn annoying, and I don't know how to get rid of it.
First of all, I'm not a vampire. I don't often use my phone in the dark. And besides, there is always enough of ambient light from the screen.
So. My questions to HTC guys.
- Why the damn, stupid light?
- How could we disable it?
- And where is our firmware update?
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Thats one of the things I like about the Sprint Hero. I wish my Telus Hero Trackball would light up every time it was touched. It is an easy way to light up the buttons in the dark.
Not sure what's causing this one -- any help appreciated. When my DNA's lockscreen kicks in and my phone's in vibrate mode, it switches to silent. End result -- I miss calls. Nothing fancy or different about this DNA. I'm running it completely stock, never been rooted, never been unlocked. I did, however, encrypt storage. I tried using Ring Guard to stop the change, but it had no effect.
Found my own answer
jldeitch said:
Not sure what's causing this one -- any help appreciated. When my DNA's lockscreen kicks in and my phone's in vibrate mode, it switches to silent. End result -- I miss calls. Nothing fancy or different about this DNA. I'm running it completely stock, never been rooted, never been unlocked. I did, however, encrypt storage. I tried using Ring Guard to stop the change, but it had no effect.
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Turns out, if the interval between screen off and lockscreen engage is "immediate," then the phone gots to silent mode. I changed the time interval to 3 minutes, and it seems to be working as intended -- locks requiring a PIN, but stays in vibrate mode. Interesting.
Hey guys, firstly I want to say, that I have absolutely no clue about developing, or compiling and such.
I know a lot about computers and smartphones (especially Android) but I´ve never developed anything before.
And I do not speak any programming language.
So, what I need, is a way to turn the notifications LED off, via doubletapping the screen. (This should only happen, if the screen is turned off)
Basically I want a "double tap too temporarily disable the notifications LED, until the screen is turned on and off again" function.
I have literally no idea how to start this, and I need some help on this.
My plan would be, to make a kernel-module which kinda reacts to doubletapping the screen.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm trying to think of a creative solution to my issues with double-tap to wake. My phone has the tendency to wake up in my pocket and do weird stuff (it once sent a text message full of random gibberish to my dentist.) Even if I set some security to prevent it from going wild in my pocket, it still runs down the battery since the screen is on the whole time.
So, are there any good tricks to make it realize it's in a pocket and calm its tits?
I keep my phone on silent at night because I have a super jealous partner that freaks out if my phone dings or vibrates late at night. This isn't a problem when my screen is turned off, since the notification light comes on, but I use my phone for gaming, reading and watching movies/tv shows so the screen is on quite often and unless my notification bar is visible (which is usually not the case), I have no idea when I get a text/tweet/game notification/etc. So my question is this: Is there a trick or app out there that will make my notification light work even when the screen is turned on?
I'm still running the stock OS that came on the phone (4.3 I believe?) and I'm unrooted, however I'm not opposed to manually upgrading to 5.1 and/or rooting if necessary
Thanks in advance XD
I actually returned the Moto X Play because the LED notification light didn't work at all even though it's present on the phone. Motorola are a bunch of greedy assholes who want you to buy their "smart watch" just to get notifications now apparently, but that's a whole other topic. During my quest for an on-screen notification I found Light Flow, and I'm almost positive you'll find help with that.