Just rooted my phone and installed Cyanogenmod 7.0.3. Now for some odd reason, when I lock/turn the screen off on the phone the light around the optical trackpad keeps flashing every 10 seconds or so. I thought it was a signal light telling you that you have reception, but no even when I have zero bars it still flashes. Any suggestions on how I might make it stop flashing?
Bharakrama said:
Just rooted my phone and installed Cyanogenmod 7.0.3. Now for some odd reason, when I lock/turn the screen off on the phone the light around the optical trackpad keeps flashing every 10 seconds or so. I thought it was a signal light telling you that you have reception, but no even when I have zero bars it still flashes. Any suggestions on how I might make it stop flashing?
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trackpad flash is for notifications, you may have an email, missed call, sms, mms, poke or tweet waiting to be read.
cjward23 said:
trackpad flash is for notifications, you may have an email, missed call, sms, mms, poke or tweet waiting to be read.
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Your comment sort of traced the issue. I turned off "Pulse notification light" under Sound Settings -> Notifications and that stopped the light from blinking. However I want it to blink if I have something in need of attention, but I don't. I've checked Gmail, Email, K-9 Email, Google+, SMS, and Voicemail and there isn't anything.
It's also weird that the touch keys (home, menu, back, search) are always on when using the phone, I think before they didn't turn on unless I touched them but that's another thing.
Bharakrama said:
Your comment sort of traced the issue. I turned off "Pulse notification light" under Sound Settings -> Notifications and that stopped the light from blinking. However I want it to blink if I have something in need of attention, but I don't. I've checked Gmail, Email, K-9 Email, Google+, SMS, and Voicemail and there isn't anything.
It's also weird that the touch keys (home, menu, back, search) are always on when using the phone, I think before they didn't turn on unless I touched them but that's another thing.
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Sometimes the light will bug out if you've had a lot of notifications and you've cleared them all at once or quickly. A reboot will fix it.
The touch keys lighting up are usually based on the ambient light sensor, which chooses whether or not its bright enough to warrant lighting up the keys to be easier seen.
Okay this is weird. The blinking stops after 10 minutes. I assume that's the threshold for the normal notification blinky otherwise it'll continue blinking if you don't check whatever was unread. For some reason its as if it thinks there is something unread everytime I unlock the phone and then lock it.
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Hey there,
I'm having the same issue but never really tracked it down because I didn't care too much. But after reading this thread, I gave it another shot. Pulling down the status bar, it was the AlarmDroid-Entry (categorized as "Notifications", not as "Ongoing") that struck my eye. The way AlarmDroid (by default, see below) tells you about an active alarm is that it kind of posts a non-removable notification. I'd guess it keeps reposting it every few miliseconds via a service or something.
Turning the active alarms off does indeed eliminate the trackpad-flashing in my case, so I think this is more of an AlarmDroid and possibly other apps using similar status notifications issue than actually a cyanogenmod one.
Edit: just in case anyone reads this and wonders: AlarmDroid actually gives you the option to disable the notification behavior either by disabling the status symbol altogether or by putting it in the right side part of the status bar. See "General Preferences" -> "Display Settings" -> "Status bar symbol" for possible configurations.
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alturiak
Thanks for the reply ... I fixed it by installing Cyanogenmod 7.1 RC1. It was weird, I knew it was the ROM when I installed MIUI and then back to Cyanogenmod 7.0.3 and the flashing started happening again.
Also I don't use Alarm Droid ... either way, thanks for the reply.
Hi all, one thing that I cant understand is the lack of proper notifications on some Android devices like the Samsung Galaxy series (I & II), we dont have a small led light like other phones (or blackberry) so u have to turn on the screen in order to check for missing calls or SMS.
So I made this small app for that, is free (without Ads ) and simple, u can setup the frequency of notifications, use vibration and/or sound and/or turn on the screen for just a second (that means almost no battery usage).
Well thats all, I hope u can find it useful, please feel free to send any comment/suggestion/bugs
The app name is "No Led Notifications" u can find it in the market.
I realised that when there's a notification, eg SMS, the LED notification goes off after a few seconds. This is horrible, cause most of the time I will glance at the LED to check if there are notifications for me before turning it on, and now I can't do that. Is there any way to make the notifications stay on permanently until you have cleared it?
I'm pretty sure there's apps in the Play Store that will fix this for you
I use mysms and that one can change LED color and time. But then you use mysms instead of LGs sms app. Mysms is like a sms cloud app so you can read and send your sms from computer or tablet.
Hi,
Im looking for any way to set phone flashlight notification for unread sms/ call, etc. I really like flashlight notification but i would like also for unread. Very often im no able too see/hear phone ringing. Front LED notification is too small too see from distance and flashlight would be perfect. I tried to find option in stock sms which is best for me but cant find. Also tried few sms apps which doesnt have this option.
Do you know any way to set flashlight notification for unread .. ?
You could try Tasker to turn on the camera flash when you get a notification.
I generally have vibration off and sound on for my notifications. There's different alerts for sms, email1 and email2. All work relatively well with the screen off (usually received withing 5-60 seconds of sending, depending on time of day).
The issue is when the screen is on. In this state, I don't need to hear any sounds. Really all that's needed is headsup and/or status bar notifications.
How do I make this happen?
Apps in question: Google voice (for sms and vm) and aquamail.