Develop Bugs

Light Sensor

Is there a way to force keyobard lights to stay on when you slide it out?
My ambient light sensor doesnt always stay on even in complete darkness
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Are you stock? Or rooted with custom rom?
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I am rooted

Is there a way to make my phone light up the whole house so I can save on electric? You know how the economy is right?
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You can try this app LEDs HACK
Not completely sure if it has the option your looking for but give it a go

daboy00 said:
Is there a way to make my phone light up the whole house so I can save on electric? You know how the economy is right?
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But then you have to charge the phone more

I have a problem with my rooted G2's light sensor as well. I check sensor values using either an app or Cyanogen's light level editor and it's permanently stuck at 219. I guess that's what I get for upgrading my radio. :/

I'm not sure it's the radio, but my light sensor needs calibrating or something. Even in a pitched black room, it jumps up to 320lx, making it shut off the keyboard when I need it. Ugh, ugh, ugh. It still works though -- just not on the low end of the spectrum.

LiquidRain said:
I have a problem with my rooted G2's light sensor as well. I check sensor values using either an app or Cyanogen's light level editor and it's permanently stuck at 219. I guess that's what I get for upgrading my radio. :/
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In the virtuose sense 2.0 thread, they have made some flashable zip that adjust the proximity sensor and light sensor... I don't know if they will work on that rom...but if you want to try..
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This thing lights up....is it suppose to??

Hi all,
Please look at this picture ,sorry for the darkness, but it's the only way I can show these.
There are two lights here....left is my notification light....the right one is a red light which is the second circle or lenses look like thingy to the left of the front camera lense....and can only be seen easily in the dark, but I'm pretty sure it stay lit in the light too.
My question is: is that lense suppose to be lit up with red light the whole time? Is it the approximity sensor? Does it use that red light to work?
SORRY...THIS MIGHT BE A STUPID QUESTION AFTER ALL...BUT I'M A VERY CURIOUS PERSON.
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A guess is its a (near)infrared light that helps the front facing camera with face detection. Anyone know for sure?
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It's the infrared of the proximity sensor. It probably stays on all the time because you have 'quick glance' enabled under settings > motion.
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[Q] LED always on Note 2 ?

my note 2 always has a slight amber led always on
I have checked this in totally complete dark room and seen that the amber les always on
Has anybody else has seen the same ?

niketkumar said:
my note 2 always has a slight amber led always on
I have checked this in totally complete dark room and seen that the amber les always on
Has anybody else has seen the same ?
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when you are in well lighted room, led is brighter, when you are in dark room- led is less bright. Same technique as for auto brightness

But that led is constantly on Strange

Is that not the proximity sensor? I'm guessing it uses some forms of IR for detection so will always be on. .. is normal, don't worry

I just wanna confirm that do everybody has git that or is that only me with that ?

Proximity sensor. Disable 'quick glance' and it won't stay on all the time.
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Is it true that the notification led becomes brighter with more room lite and dimmer in darker rooms?
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gofwar said:
Is it true that the notification led becomes brighter with more room lite and dimmer in darker rooms?
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Well yes, post #2 just mentioned that.

Notification LED?

Doesn't this device have a notification/charging LED? On the left of the speaker grill, there are two lenses or whatever they are, one I'm sure is the proximity sensor, the camera is further to the side, but what is the other?
Just found it curious that the GS3 has a notification light, the Galaxy Nexus had one, but this doesn't?

Light and proximity sensor. One of them is a two piece.
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Well, I have the new Steel Gray GS2, and I have no light coming out of that area while charging or any other situation.

stevew84 said:
Well, I have the new Steel Gray GS2, and I have no light coming out of that area while charging or any other situation.
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You have to have notification light in settings like the rom I am using now liquid smooth even then only messages will blink in status bar. The notification lights used are the capcitive lights at bottom of phone you can set it to blink fast , slow etc. Also you could try BLN from the market and see if it works for you.
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I just downloaded NoLED, pretty cool little program, I don't like the phone button LED's to show charging and notifications so this is a good alternative.

stevew84 said:
I just downloaded NoLED, pretty cool little program, I don't like the phone button LED's to show charging and notifications so this is a good alternative.
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Yupp one of the downsides to this phone but we have found ways around it. I use bln pro and have the hard keys blink when I have a text or notification
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style154 said:
Yupp one of the downsides to this phone but we have found ways around it. I use bln pro and have the hard keys blink when I have a text or notification
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Yup! I recently just purchased BLN Pro because I'm now back on TW based ROMs and wanted the blink feature. Awesome little app.
If you're on an AOSP based ROM like CM, it does this natively and the app isn't needed.
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stevew84 said:
Well, I have the new Steel Gray GS2, and I have no light coming out of that area while charging or any other situation.
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Lol no, light isn't supposed to come out of there. The light sensor there measures how much light there is outside so it could change the screen brightness accordingly... sorry for the misunderstanding though. The only thing we have as notification lights is the bottom row of capacitive buttons.
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LED brightness

I'm stock rooted. I've noticed that my red charge light randomly gets dimmer until I wake the phone. I put it back to sleep and it's normal. Has anyone else seen this.

metalfan78 said:
I'm stock rooted. I've noticed that my red charge light randomly gets dimmer until I wake the phone. I put it back to sleep and it's normal. Has anyone else seen this.
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If your in a bright area the led will be brighter and vice versa, I believe it uses 1 of the sensors to detect how bright it is.
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Even with auto-brightness off?

metalfan78 said:
Even with auto-brightness off?
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Yes it just changes the led not the screen brightness.
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Interesting, thanks

metalfan78 said:
Interesting, thanks
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no problem
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I have blazer 2.1 and it does the same thing
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I guess I thought it was a problem with my phone, but I shined a flash light on and off at the light sensor and the charge light changed with it. Thanks for the input.