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[Q]LED Notification apk or the like.

My Wife has the SGS2 and she just upgraded from a Moto CliqXT. The feature that she misses is the blinking LED. Is there some sort of app that can be used to make one of the leds on the bottom keys to flash when she gets a notification? Hers is not rooted btw. I did a search but only with Tapatalk and the search engine with that is pretty vague.
Thanks in advance.
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look for NoLED in Android Market
it's a homebrew App by local XDA devs

Thanks...but that's going to be a battery hog. I'm looking more into the led behind the hardware keys...making one of them blink when receiving a notificaton..
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AllGamer said:
look for NoLED in Android Market
it's a homebrew App by local XDA devs
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Wouldn't it drain her battery fast? The backlight would remain on for the duration of the notification, its not like the SGSII where it only illuminates the needed pixels.

Double0EK said:
My Wife has the SGS2 and she just upgraded from a Moto CliqXT. The feature that she misses is the blinking LED. Is there some sort of app that can be used to make one of the leds on the bottom keys to flash when she gets a notification? Hers is not rooted btw. I did a search but only with Tapatalk and the search engine with that is pretty vague.
Thanks in advance.
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You need a kernel that has BLN support.
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iLeopard said:
Wouldn't it drain her battery fast? The backlight would remain on for the duration of the notification, its not like the SGSII where it only illuminates the needed pixels.
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there's no back light in OLED displays
that's the beauty of it, and reason why that App was coded
so, no you are not really wasting that much battery as you think with other devices when the scree is ON
because OLED screens only turn on the pixel necessary, the rest remains Off
so if you enabled NoLED for alerts on email or missed calls
you will only be lining up X amount of pixels, the smaller the picture the less battery it uses, as it needs to light up less pixels
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That's why the DARK or BLACK themes for Galaxy S devices are so popular
every one that knows this is trying to light up the least pixel possible to make the battery last longer
it does makes a huge difference

Flash a kernel that supports BLN (most kernels that aren't stock support it, check the dev forum) and then download the BLN control app from the market. This will enable your touchkey lights to be used for notifications. The app allows you to configure things like blinking, duration, etc. Probably the most essential app I have on this phone
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Ok...so I got to root it...thanks for all the kind responses..
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Can any BLN users comment on its battery usage?
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Its still good
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Double0EK said:
My Wife has the SGS2 and she just upgraded from a Moto CliqXT. The feature that she misses is the blinking LED. Is there some sort of app that can be used to make one of the leds on the bottom keys to flash when she gets a notification? Hers is not rooted btw. I did a search but only with Tapatalk and the search engine with that is pretty vague.
Thanks in advance.
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{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
check this out.
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[TIP]- How to get custom notification toggles without root or flashing.

Hello peeps.. so I decided to share a nice trick that has been working amazingly well for me. If you want to add things like flash light.. mobile data...brightness control to your notification area head on over to the play store and get Notification Toggle. Let's you customize whichever toggles you'd like. Also let's you download and change the icons to each toggle.. really fresh and I have been rocking it for a while with no issues. For those who don't know about this app.. knock yourself out!!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.notificationToggle
Here is a screenie of my set up.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Brightness..flashlight...data...shortcut to battery stats.
All credit goes to j4velin for developing a very useful app. I am just supporting and sharing something dope
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Thanks. I'll try it
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Great find! Installed it and works great. How did you change the icon size to that small?
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rakeshchn said:
Great find! Installed it and works great. How did you change the icon size to that small?
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Within the app go to "download alternative icons" and download the icon Downloader app that it directs you to in the playstore. Download the ics icons and bam!
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Thanks for that heads up. They look great!
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I used to use this app before i rooted my galaxy nexus, and loved it,the sense icons pack are the best looking IMO
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downloading now, thanks!

Okay i noticed a small problem. You know for using notification toggle you need to enable it under accessibility settings. Some how this is partly turning on the talk back accessibility service. When you pinch to collapse home screens or apps in drawer, it starts talking. Anyone else having this problem?
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Turn talk back off. its right above the notification toggle on/off switch. You might have turned it on accidently.
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Talk back is turned off, that's the first thing i checked. The talk back happens only when pinching home screen and app drawer. If talk back is on it talks for every screen touch any where, which is not happening.
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I have the same problem. Turn off toggle notification in the accessibility section. It will still work just won't stay on top in the ongoing notification section. But all other notifications won't. Not a big deal to me...talk back was really irritating.
Check out my screen shot.
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Do you guys know if there's any hit to the battery using this?

gr4p3s said:
Do you guys know if there's any hit to the battery using this?
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You won't even notice it...
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Yes this will let u do battery icon with percentage with shortcut to battery stats.... also changing the icons and colors is easy to do. Glad you guys like this.
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Between this and FoxFi (free tethering w/o root) I'm beginning to think this might be the first phone I've had in a while that I don't feel compelled to root to fix its shortcomings.

stir fry a lot said:
Between this and FoxFi (free tethering w/o root) I'm beginning to think this might be the first phone I've had in a while that I don't feel compelled to root to fix its shortcomings.
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I'm in the same boat... I've had the phone for two weeks now and haven't even considered rooting it. My wife even told me last night, "I'm surprised you haven't rooted your phone." nova takes care of touchwiz and the bloat doesn't even bother me.
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Anyone know how to get rid of the battery icon in this app
Edit: never mind I figured it out
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Hidden diagnostic menu built into phone

{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
My apologies ahead of time if this topics been touch on already, but theres a hidden diagnostic mode on the sgs3. You go into the phone app and dial *#0*# and you'll get this cool diagnostic tool to help ensure you device is running normal. I've returned 2 sgs3's due to faulty sub key touch buttons and dead pixels using this and I just thought I'd share.
*update*
Just tried on cm 10 and Aokp and it doesnt work. Must be stock base.
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Nice find! How'd you discover the dead pixels?

tekknogenius said:
Nice find! How'd you discover the dead pixels?
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There is a red blue green test where it shows solid colors so you can easily detect them. I hadn't noticed them before hand, so it definitely came in handy.
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Weird, but *#0*# does nothing on my phone

ingenious247 said:
Weird, but *#0*# does nothing on my phone
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That is weird..?? *#0*# definitely opens it for me, you don't even have to hit call it automatically opens.
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Don't hit receiver

Hey neat find!
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ingenious247 said:
Weird, but *#0*# does nothing on my phone
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Are you on CM10 or Aokp?
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psykhotic said:
Don't hit receiver
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I know, nearly went deaf on my bluetooth
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nice find! I pressed something that has to do with gyroscope on diagnostic screen, but then i could not ext and had to restart.

keinam.ty said:
nice find! I pressed something that has to do with gyroscope on diagnostic screen, but then i could not ext and had to restart.
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Yea home button seems like its disabled once in diagnostic mode, but you can hit back 2 times to get out. Dont have to reboot.
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This is a great find! No dead pixels here. What does touch option do? I just tried the colors and led and vibration.
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Illusion81 said:
Are you on CM10 or Aokp?
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Stock T999UVALH2
But I think I figured it out. I freeze a ton of functions I don't use/want running and I believe either "factory test" or "factory mode" is probably the enabler, both of which I have frozen.

chrisram88 said:
This is a great find! No dead pixels here. What does touch option do? I just tried the colors and led and vibration.
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Touch option is pretty cool, it fills the screen with all these boxes and you follow them all around your screen with your finger to detect any non responsive areas of your screen. Dead zones you can say. My 1st s3 failed that test.
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Nice find. Only works with default phone app. Glad to know I have a good working unit.

aznmode said:
Nice find. Only works with default phone app. Glad to know I have a good working unit.
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I second that
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This is a great find. Great tool to have. Thank you for sharing.
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Illusion81 said:
Are you on CM10 or Aokp?
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It shouldn't matter these are all the Test***.apk that are on the stock. I know I launched a few of them manually, didn't know there was a menu for them all. You should be able to add the apk back in from stock.

joederp said:
It shouldn't matter these are all the Test***.apk that are on the stock. I know I launched a few of them manually, didn't know there was a menu for them all. You should be able to add the apk back in from stock.
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Good point i didnt know that
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Awesome find I was playing around with it a lil
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Red light... IR or Proximity Sensor?

I have an AT&T Galaxy S3, the I747, which is currently running the 5/10 build of PAC-Man, the 5/9 build of the KT747 kernel, and task650's 5/8 gapps. I dropped it about a month and a half ago, shattered the screen, and had to replace it. A quirk to this is that I had to replace it with a screen from a Sprint Galaxy S3, the L710. After I replaced the screen, on Friday, I flashed to the stuff I'm running right now. Yesterday (Sunday), I noticed that the sensor directly to the right of the front-facing speaker is lit up with a very faint red color at all times while my phone is on. I have done a little searching, and from what I can find, everyone is attributing this to Viber, which I don't use.
It's this one:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
My proximity sensor and light sensor are working fine still, but my main concerns are battery life and longevity. Is this light being on going to either hurt my sensor in the long run or create unnecessary drain on my battery, and if either is the case, what do I do about it?

I noticed mine was on one day while i was in bed, just rebooted and haven't had it since. I don't see why it would need to read data from the proximity sensor unless your on a call or so it shouldn't drain battery . if your in the SMS app then it might be using it for direct dial but I'm not sure if you have that feature in pacman
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Makoers said:
I noticed mine was on one day while i was in bed, just rebooted and haven't had it since. I don't see why it would need to read data from the proximity sensor unless your on a call or so it shouldn't drain battery . if your in the SMS app then it might be using it for direct dial but I'm not sure if you have that feature in pacman
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I don't have that feature, but it doesn't matter which app I'm in, or even if my screen is on or not. The red light is on all the time if my phone is on at all.
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drinfernoo said:
I don't have that feature, but it doesn't matter which app I'm in, or even if my screen is on or not. The red light is on all the time if my phone is on at all.
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Something is wrong. Probably one of your installed apps is keeping it on
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diablo009 said:
Something is wrong. Probably one of your installed apps is keeping it on
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Any ideas for a probable culprit?
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Try a program called greenify. It will tell you which programs are causing wake locks and what is using the most battery.

Hi, I used to have Viber installed, until I noticed that dot I didn't relate it. It made me panic so I went through my apps 1 by 1 and found viber to be the one keeping it always on even when its not running. If you don't have Viber, go to your installed apps page, go to downloaded tab and force close each one. If the red dot is persistent then its another app. Keep going until its gone and you'll find the culprit.
Have a good day.
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egyptshun said:
Hi, I used to have Viber installed, until I noticed that dot I didn't relate it. It made me panic so I went through my apps 1 by 1 and found viber to be the one keeping it always on even when its not running. If you don't have Viber, go to your installed apps page, go to downloaded tab and force close each one. If the red dot is persistent then its another app. Keep going until its gone and you'll find the culprit.
Have a good day.
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Found it!!! It was NiLS, which I use in my WidgetLocker set up
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drinfernoo said:
Found it!!! It was NiLS, which I use in my WidgetLocker set up
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Nice man, glad to hear you caught the bugger! Aha better now than never!
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[GUIDE] Use Volume Key For Flashlight with Screen Off

How to activate the flashlight on the lock screen.
1. You will need to install either Nova or Apex launcher. You don't need to keep this as your launcher in the future, but just to activate this trick.
2. Once running, press & hold an empty spot on your home screen. You will get this window, and choose 'shortcuts'
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
3. Then select activities.
4. Once this loads (can take a bit if you have many things installed), select settings.
5. Now scroll down to Torch light and select either of the two.
6. It will now add the shortcut to your home screen. Tap on this icon.
7. Check the torch light option and then the time-out amount.
You can now switch back to the launcher of your choice and have the working flashlight. Just hold the power up for a short time and it will come on or tap to volume down to turn off.
Enjoy!

Amazing find!
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+1, howd you find this lol.

Did this work for anyone? Can't seem to get it functioning. :-\
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negerhab said:
Did this work for anyone? Can't seem to get it functioning. :-\
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Yeah same here. Wouldve been a great find if it worked :/

xXchrizhurtyXx said:
Yeah same here. Wouldve been a great find if it worked :/
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Working fine here. Do you have any frameworks installed or mods that would interfere with it?
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dannyben said:
Working fine here. Do you have any frameworks installed or mods that would interfere with it?
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Not that i know of.
Im running Frosty v3 though.

Not working here, stock rom root

atagilbert said:
Not working here, stock rom root
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Not that i know of.
Im running Frosty v3 though.
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Kernel?
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Deviant kernel
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xXchrizhurtyXx said:
Deviant kernel
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Ktoonsez Kernel.

Awesome Thanks!
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Did not work for me. I'm on wicked v3 and ktoonzes kernel. No other mods other than nav bar.

I'm on Wicked ROM v3 with Faux Kernel and also using Nottach Xposed.
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awesome find.. i know ill be using this!

Is this working for anyone? If so can you please check to see if this exists:
/sys/devices/virtual/torch/torch/torch_ctl
then tell me what ROM/Kernel combination you are running, then attach said file to your reply? Thanks!

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Nope.Does not work on stock Rom, rooted.

I don't know about the above method, but I am using "Tiny Flashlight" and that provides an option to toggle the light on the lock screen by shaking the phone. Works well enough for me.
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Not sure why you guys are having problems with it, but Nottach also got it running & will include it in his next update (allowing you to map it to your home button instead of you prefer). So if you are running Xposed with his mod should be easier to setup/work.
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Nottach Xposed v10 now available and includes trick for torch. Can set to home button too if you prefer over volume up.

Using the Nova Launcher and followed the steps...
Tried with each of the types and still no joy.
Every time I manually press the volume up and power there is no flashlight, just the 4 way power menu...
When ever I press and hold the icon itself, it gives the settings for the touch light menu to enable the touch light and with the time amount.
I have seen this short cut work with the AnyShortCut app...... maybe there was a step that was overlooked?
If someone figures this out, wonderful!