Develop Bugs

Menu Lights on the Evo

The Home, Menu, Back and Search buttons are suppose to light up. But they aren't what gives?

It might only light up in dark places, I know mine isnt lighting up right now, but it has before.

Fixter said:
The Home, Menu, Back and Search buttons are suppose to light up. But they aren't what gives?
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There are some people who's don't light up, go into the closet and see if they go. Of course then you have to come out of the closet eventually

This happened to me. The lights stopped working all of the sudden... and then randomly started to work again. Don't know what the deal is.

They don't seem to light up when charging.

remailednet said:
They don't seem to light up when charging.
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I noticed this too. If you unplug the phone they should turn on.

I thought you had to be in a dark area cause mine works only in dark places. Sort of like ny work blackberry same thing they light up when its dark.
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Just confirmed it. There's an ambient light sensor on the right side of the HTC logo. If you angle your phone right in the light you can notice it....
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Hah, you're right... I just tested it too, I turned the corner lamp on in my room but the button lights kept lighting up when I waked the phone... I walked up to the lamp, waked the phone up while it's facing me, buttons light up, wake the phone up while it's facing the lamp, buttons don't light up. I'm not sure I would've noticed that if I hadn't read thru this thread, heh.

Anyone know a way to turn these off for good? It's a bit annoying/distracting when watching a movie in low light...

[Q]Light Flow - question thread

Hi..
I have set up Light flow for several applications,but, for instance, when i recieve sms , i get sound and vibrate both when screen is on and when screen is off, but i get notification light only when screen is off.. What to do folx.. I know it sounds a bit stupid, but i would like that notif light when screen is on also..
Thanks in advance

Nothing. The LED doesn't function when screen is on.

akellar said:
Nothing. The LED doesn't function when screen is on.
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Thanks mate .
One more question tho - i have set up the mod for charging battery : notif light lights up and stays on all the time while battery is charging.. Can this do any harm to led light or phone itself (heating etc)? Or it is intended so it can stay on for long time ?

I had light flow on my galaxy nexus. Although the features are nice, i uninstalled because it seemed very broken. The led would stay on evwn after i checked notifications and so forth. Yeah it was cool, but just didnt see the risk of burning out my led.

For me it works like charm .. But only think i want to know is this :
Can led stay up for longer time ? Like, for example, the HTC Sensations led is staying up for all time while you are charging (by default), and it doesnt burn out. So is GN led designed to stay up for long time, or no ? (Im asking this because i want to know if i can charge the phone whole night and have led turned up)
Thanks again folx

Yes it can! Start LightFlow, choose notifications"then pick the app of your choice. There you can able and enable (amongst many other options) the duration of how long you wish the led to stay on for that particular app.

Sweerts said:
Yes it can! Start LightFlow, choose notifications"then pick the app of your choice. There you can able and enable (amongst many other options) the duration of how long you wish the led to stay on for that particular app.
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Yes i know that .. But, will LED burn out if it stays on for all night while charging for example ?

Laynee1 said:
Yes i know that .. But, will LED burn out if it stays on for all night while charging for example ?
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LED's have a life of many thousands, if not, tens of thousands of hours. It's unlikely that the notification LED will ever burn out while you own that phone... Unless you keep the phone for six or seven years and keep the led on almost all the time!

If your led burns out consider it akin to winning the lottery.
Sent from my Nexus in Texas.

Thank you all. ! I really like multi colored led.. I liked it on n900 (back in the old days).. I like it again I simply like when im charging the phone to have my led on all the time
Thanks folx

Ive let mine to constantly show an orange light while i leave the phone on charge overnight and a green when it is charged. Led's wont die on you unless you keep your led on for like 6years straight, so nothing to worry about

jjzah said:
I had light flow on my galaxy nexus. Although the features are nice, i uninstalled because it seemed very broken. The led would stay on evwn after i checked notifications and so forth. Yeah it was cool, but just didnt see the risk of burning out my led.
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Yeh I found the same thing, seemed really broken to me, was so annoying to get rid of notifications and then still have the led going off.

Guys just a quick question. I think this led is three colors right? Red, blue, and green and to get other colors it just mixes them right?
If you guys use colors other than those three I mentioned do you guys kind of obviously see that theres more then one color shining?
Like for purple it looks like purple on top and redish on bottom. Clearly like two colors.

Anyone? Just wanna know if its how others have it or just me??
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

akellar said:
Nothing. The LED doesn't function when screen is on.
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Sure it does
I have Light Flow set up to show a solid yellow color while charging. When I plug in my phone, the LED blinks on then off. If I turn the screen off, the yellow light cones on like it should. If I then turn the screen on without unlocking the phone, the light remains.
Only after I unlock the phone does the LED not function.

thereddog said:
Sure it does
I have Light Flow set up to show a solid yellow color while charging. When I plug in my phone, the LED blinks on then off. If I turn the screen off, the yellow light cones on like it should. If I then turn the screen on without unlocking the phone, the light remains.
Only after I unlock the phone does the LED not function.
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You are right.. It doesnt works when you unlock the phone If you dont, its on

case0 said:
Yeh I found the same thing, seemed really broken to me, was so annoying to get rid of notifications and then still have the led going off.
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I found that problem was because of the ROM I was on. Some ROMS would need me to launch the lightflow app to clear the notification, but I use CND and it works exactly like it is supposed to. I could flash AOKP and it would work how you describe.

Does it have any kind of effect on battery life? Seems like it would keep the phone awake.

Laynee1 said:
You are right.. It doesnt works when you unlock the phone If you dont, its on
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So I wonder if the dev will be able to update the app so the LED will work at all times...

williamthegoat said:
Does it have any kind of effect on battery life? Seems like it would keep the phone awake.
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My phone deep sleeps just fine with lightflow.

[q] bottom 3 lights issue

hey guys i just noticed the bottom 3 buttons,well the home and menu buttons light up in low light,a bluish tint to them but the far left one (back button) is a lot dimmer than the other 2,hardware issue? because iv only just had it back from repair
regards,
BATFINK

Could you post a pic?

BATFINK74 said:
hey guys i just noticed the bottom 3 buttons,well the home and menu buttons light up in low light,a bluish tint to them but the far left one (back button) is a lot dimmer than the other 2,hardware issue? because iv only just had it back from repair
regards,
BATFINK
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just tested mine (finger over sensor) and they are all the same brightness.

prime_225 said:
Could you post a pic?
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i`ll try and post a pic later on,its what i thought tho,the same are the same colour and brightness,(back button on mine isnt iv ran the functionality test *#*#3424#*#* ran the button and led test,its still dimmer than the other 2,do you think it could be corrupted software or deffo hardware?

BATFINK74 said:
i`ll try and post a pic later on,its what i thought tho,the same are the same colour and brightness,(back button on mine isnt iv ran the functionality test *#*#3424#*#* ran the button and led test,its still dimmer than the other 2,do you think it could be corrupted software or deffo hardware?
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I would think that there is only one light source, probably an LED. Typically with these things a clear plastic part routes light to the three buttons from a single source. I would guess that's a hardware issue and if it bothers you (it would me) send it back again.

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farnsbarns said:
I would think that there is only one light source, probably an LED. Typically with these things a clear plastic part routes light to the three buttons from a single source. I would guess that's a hardware issue and if it bothers you (it would me) send it back again.
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Spot on. There is a YouTube video somewhere of how to replace the LCD screen, and there is a complicated task of lining up the light guides used for the three buttons, I suspect they just haven't done it very well.
It will not be a software issue.
Regards
Phil

if youre using a custom rom, it may be the rom?

thanks guys,iv only just had it back from being repaired,they put a new lcd and bezel,also new internal battery,they couldnt have lined it up properly as 2 of the buttons light up,just one doesnt and it is annoying,whats even more annoying is having to send it back again? could i play hell and demand a new phone for my inconvenience and being messed about?

BATFINK74 said:
thanks guys,iv only just had it back from being repaired,they put a new lcd and bezel,also new internal battery,they couldnt have lined it up properly as 2 of the buttons light up,just one doesnt and it is annoying,whats even more annoying is having to send it back again? could i play hell and demand a new phone for my inconvenience and being messed about?
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i demanded a replacement, they agreed, but i had to send it off anyway, and wait for the replacement to be sent
they didn't send a replacement after all of that , they just repaired it again (properly though)

[Q] Charging indicator

Is there a way to disable the charging indicator light? It is BLINDING in the dark. The green is a lot worse than the orange too. I know you can change when the light is enabled for notifications like mail/calendar/etc, but I can't find a setting for the charging.
I've got a status bar and a battery widget to see if it's charging. I don't need an LED that blinds me.
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basschica said:
Is there a way to disable the charging indicator light? It is BLINDING in the dark. The green is a lot worse than the orange too. I know you can change when the light is enabled for notifications like mail/calendar/etc, but I can't find a setting for the charging.
I've got a status bar and a battery widget to see if it's charging. I don't need an LED that blinds me.
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I don't know what to tell you, but if that light blinds you, you must have the night vision of a cat. I can't imagine driving down the road at night with your eyes. On that note, good luck to you.

mzrdisi said:
I don't know what to tell you, but if that light blinds you, you must have the night vision of a cat. I can't imagine driving down the road at night with your eyes. On that note, good luck to you.
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Haha I had an EVO I think it was at one point that was the same way. I have great night vision...and I don't eat *that* many carrots, so I'm not sure. I'm not usually overly sensitive, but I swear that little pin sized light is ridiculous bright.

basschica said:
Is there a way to disable the charging indicator light? It is BLINDING in the dark. The green is a lot worse than the orange too. I know you can change when the light is enabled for notifications like mail/calendar/etc, but I can't find a setting for the charging.
I've got a status bar and a battery widget to see if it's charging. I don't need an LED that blinds me.
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You're correct, that light is extremely bright, especially as green. I put my phone on the charger last night, and it finished charging while I was laying in bed but not asleep, and when the green came on, it was like night turned into day. The ceiling lit up like a flashlight was aimed at it. When I get a notification and don't feel/hear the vibrate/noise, the light is quite capable of letting me know I get one.

IceDragon59 said:
You're correct, that light is extremely bright, especially as green. I put my phone on the charger last night, and it finished charging while I was laying in bed but not asleep, and when the green came on, it was like night turned into day. The ceiling lit up like a flashlight was aimed at it. When I get a notification and don't feel/hear the vibrate/noise, the light is quite capable of letting me know I get one.
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I just submitted a "support" e-mail to HTC and I'm sure they'll say that you can't disable it because people need to know if their phone/charger aren't working. Yeah, that's what the notification bar and widgets are for if you want them. I had to root an EVO to disable the light on that one too, which is entirely lame. I mentioned that the e911 GPS indicator is both unnessary and annoying as well. This is the kind of stuff that drives me to root a phone (not that I can unlock it at the moment because I didnt' get my phone before they locked down the htc dev site), but once there's a root option for me and if I can configure these...I'll do it for that sole purpose.
Ugh.

basschica said:
I just submitted a "support" e-mail to HTC and I'm sure they'll say that you can't disable it because people need to know if their phone/charger aren't working. Yeah, that's what the notification bar and widgets are for if you want them. I had to root an EVO to disable the light on that one too, which is entirely lame. I mentioned that the e911 GPS indicator is both unnessary and annoying as well. This is the kind of stuff that drives me to root a phone (not that I can unlock it at the moment because I didnt' get my phone before they locked down the htc dev site), but once there's a root option for me and if I can configure these...I'll do it for that sole purpose.
Ugh.
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Ok, so their response from support was to use "Light Manager" which doesn't work (at least non-rooted) as far as I can tell.
Response from them:
I totally understand where you are coming from on this, as I know how important is to have a phone that fully meets your needs.
In this case, you can use a 3rd party application, which will disable this feature from your device. You can check them at google play store.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=light manager
I recommend you verify other user’s comments and rating, that way you choose the best option for your requirement. Please keep in mind that HTC does not support or warranty 3rd party hardware or software and its usage is at your discretion.
I apologize for any inconveniences you may have experience, our main goal is to provide you with the greatest devices and an spectacular HTC experience. I will address your suggestions to the proper department; I can not assure you it will be implemented however we take them to account and appreciate the time you took to contact us.
I look forward to assist you further in case it is needed.

Do you guys face these display issues in your devices?

A70's display treats dark pixels as if they were completely black, and turns them off instead of dimming them. Which leads to difficulty and inability to see dark things properly + distortion of the displayed thing (especially on the lock screen) because a lot of pixels are turned off.
The device has already been updated to the latest software version in Samsung's customer service center.
Here are some pictures and a video showcasing the issue: http://imgur.com/a/w9tLNAJ
Test your device at night or in a place with dim lighting.

SniperLolz said:
A70's display treats dark pixels as if they were completely black, and turns them off instead of dimming them. Which leads to difficulty and inability to see dark things properly + distortion of the displayed thing (especially on the lock screen) because a lot of pixels are turned off.
The device has already been updated to the latest software version in Samsung's customer service center.
Here are some pictures and a video showcasing the issue: http://imgur.com/a/w9tLNAJ
Test your device at night or in a place with dim lighting.
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Yeah, that's how AMOLED works. And no, I can completely see properly dark things.

ekin_strops said:
Yeah, that's how AMOLED works. And no, I can completely see properly dark things.
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I know how AMOLED works, it's just that it's not working correctly. Check out the pics in the link, the screen changes the colors, and turns off way too many pixels.

You have more issues besides pixels turning off. Looks like posterization as well.
I don't have those issues with mine.

SniperLolz said:
I know how AMOLED works, it's just that it's not working correctly. Check out the pics in the link, the screen changes the colors, and turns off way too many pixels.
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If you know how it works, then take your phone to the service centre as probably you have the warranty.

ekin_strops said:
If you know how it works, then take your phone to the service centre as probably you have the warranty.
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They told me there was nothing to worry about, so I guess that's that.

yes i have these problems too on the lock screen majorly i think its a step by the software to save battery. I had these problems on my old note 5 too.

Happens to me too.. Dark grey colour turn pinkish on lockscreen..