Ok so on my et4g, the proximity sensor is lit up. I've never seen or knew it could light up.. it's a dim orange. Yes I'm positive its the proximity sensor too. I've messed around with it and it is still working..
Attached is a pic of it... looks light purple but it's not..
Anyone know why this could be lit up and not go off?? I've never seen anything like it before
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Maybe the red led is screwed and if by any chance it is purple its just red+blue at the same time
I say reboot and if this keeps happening logcat and try a new rom
Your last hope would be going to the sprint store
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How about a picture in the dark without the flash?
Not calling bs or anything, just covering all variables here. The 'lighting up' could be light reflecting off of it. I've seen mine shine before in the right light. It's not an LED so if it's actually emitting any light, in case you didn't know - that's not good
Seriously though, no flash and a dark room or it didn't happen.
That was in a dark roon with no flash on the other camera. If flash was on the et4g screen would have a flare on it.
I figured out what caused it.
It was an app called -notification pro plus-
There is a setting under general settings to use the proximity sensor.
I guess it doesn't work well with out phones.
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gtuansdiamm said:
Maybe the red led is screwed and if by any chance it is purple its just red+blue at the same time
I say reboot and if this keeps happening logcat and try a new rom
Your last hope would be going to the sprint store
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Red and blue LEDs are on the left side of the phone, not the right.
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I used a LED test app to see what colors would work and the colors were all off. I press the blue button and my red LED turns on. Green turns on like a weird blue Magenta.
I'm curious if anyone else has this problem or if there's a better app out there for testing (I've tried light flow, blink, and LED test)
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Yeah, it's a known issue that all the color signal are screwed up. I believe this is an OS problem and using a non-touchwiz ROM like CM9 or CM10 would fix the issue.
Mine good.
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i can confirm after having the issue with the stock rom, once i flashed to cm10 the led colors corrected themselves.
The developer for light flow had already escalated this to Samsung engineering. Touchwhiz screwed up the codes used to change the LED colors. That's why flashing a non Touchwhiz rom fixes it. We just have to wait for Samsung to issue an update or for Light Flow to figure out a workaround.
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The lightflow Known Issues page has the best map of the color I have seen. It's about halfway down the page.
Thank you for that... i love how samsung always seems to jumble something lol
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I'm using cm10 and almost all the colors didn't work, whatever color I chose it showed up red except for magenta color and purple the rest showed up as red led's
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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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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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OK, might sound like a dumb question. I know the standard LED notification light location. But yesterday I noticed another faint red glowing from the circle close to the speaker (right). I was able to replicated when I opened the messaging app. If I selected I conversation it would glow faint red, and when I backed out to the message list it would disappear. What the hay is that light for?
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See pp. 16-17 of the current user manual.
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OK, might sound like a dumb question. I know the standard LED notification light location. But yesterday I noticed another faint red glowing from the circle close to the speaker (right). I was able to replicated when I opened the messaging app. If I selected I conversation it would glow faint red, and when I backed out to the message list it would disappear. What the hay is that light for?
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That's the phones proximity and light sensors, sir.
Dr. Evo said:
That's the phones proximity and light sensors, sir.
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Awesome. Thanks! Never noticed it on my S3, and Google provided me with no answer.
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White LED
I dont see the white LED glow either on my note 3 which used to happen on the note 2 is this a bug ??
This stupid and useless function when the phone turns on to show you any notifications+info when you pass your hand over the sensor is pissing me off. First, it seems to work and NOT work whenever it feels like it. Secondly, whenever I pass my hand over it (intentionally or accidentally), once the screen turns off -that's if it turns on to begin with- the stupid blue light starts blinking and doesn't stop until I unlock the screen. WTF is this about? This stupid blue light is supposed to blink only when there's a message or some other notification (supposedly) but it keeps coming on for the reason I mentioned (not just when there's a message....). This is pissing me off so much that I just smacked the phone and cracked the back cover. Any way I can turn off this crap ?
Yes, unset motion settings turn off quick glance.
Then seek anger management ASAP
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Ok. But why does the stupid blue light keep coming on and keeps blinking for no reason other than passing my hand over the sensors?
Electroman365 said:
Ok. But why does the stupid blue light keep coming on and keeps blinking for no reason other than passing my hand over the sensors?
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You need a chill pill my friend
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Electroman365 said:
Ok. But why does the stupid blue light keep coming on and keeps blinking for no reason other than passing my hand over the sensors?
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It means you're using a phone with a bag imei. That's the man tracking your current location
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You really need to calm down. The devices notification light is there to help you not hurt you... youre being angered by a flashing blue light... thats doing what its supposed to do...
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kintwofan said:
It means you're using a phone with a bag imei. That's the man tracking your current location
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Lmaooo
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Black electrical tape will solve your problem. Apply a small rhombus of tape over and covering the light. No need to thank me, I do this s*** for free.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement