Red light... IR or Proximity Sensor? - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

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:
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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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Is this good battery life?

Help me out people ....i'm not sure if this is good or not. And is there anyway to improve it without juice defender
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Screen on time?
Yeah..screen ontime would help. I usually last like 14 hours with 5 hours screen on time. I don't hold back since I have a spare on the external charger lol.
Its ok if you're a hard core user like having your face stuck on the screen all day long
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Flipnfr3ak said:
Help me out people ....i'm not sure if this is good or not. And is there anyway to improve it without juice defender
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You should give undervolting a shot if your kernel supports it. That helps with reducing power consumption while in use, while juice defender helps with reducing power consumption while not in use.
Heres an update no charging
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That's not very good, even given the fact that you're on 4g the whole day.
You need something like JD. The 4g looks like it's killing you.
2hvy4grvty said:
That's not very good, even given the fact that you're on 4g the whole day.
You need something like JD. The 4g looks like it's killing you.
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Jd??? What's jd?? Oh juice defender lol.As of right now i'm running slickmod 3.1 nothing else added
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I dont know what's going on but I never had a battery drain like this...and I have the galaxy nexus extended battery in!!!
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yeah that's rather bad. i would put on average that our phone would last 4+ hours display on screen without the use of JD and other stuff.
I would say voice uses more battery than display on.. but barely... like 1.3 : 1 ratio in use voice : display.
Your android system looks a bit high too. Maybe a fresh wipe and install would help things.
Teo032 said:
yeah that's rather bad. i would put on average that our phone would last 4+ hours display on screen without the use of JD and other stuff.
I would say voice uses more battery than display on.. but barely... like 1.3 : 1 ratio in use voice : display.
Your android system looks a bit high too. Maybe a fresh wipe and install would help things.
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I was thinking that but i've done it two times already
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Flipnfr3ak said:
I was thinking that but i've done it two times already
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I would try another ROM. Which one are you using atm?
Maybe it's your bad signal dude....
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Ok so most likely its my signal.....just really took notice that in Hawaii 4g is really unstable
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xxKamikazexx said:
Its ok if you're a hard core user like having your face stuck on the screen all day long
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Dude.. 22hrs? I need your current setup lol that's a decent battery life i would be happy with that!
it's not your signal, your signal is mostly green when in use. and as you can see the cell standby and stuff is a small %. but yeah try a different rom.

Light flow issues

I simply can't get this thing to work consistently..
It will only work if i open the Light flow app and go to notifications, then I can press home button and go back to my home screen but as long as the light flow app is still in the 'multi task' it will work, once I'll swipe it from there it stops working.
Also - when I check for 'Light flow' in the 'running services' under 'apps', it is still there, even after I've swiped it from the multi task , saying '1 process and 1 service', but it will not work unless I open the app itself and go into notifications...
Info -
It only started after the JB update..
I am not running any task managers etc..
I am rooted, stock 4.1.1 JB
I tested it with Gmail, charging etc..
This really sucks.. Am I the only one??....
Since the update that was meant to fix Jelly Bean issues, I've had no issues. Its working well for me.
martonikaj said:
Since the update that was meant to fix Jelly Bean issues, I've had no issues. Its working well for me.
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I'm also running the version with the fix, 3.0.4 lite, reinstalled, rebooted, set in settings, nothing..
I have the same issue, I learned not to swipe it away.
PeritoX said:
I have the same issue, I learned not to swipe it away.
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That sucks.. I'll try sending a message to the devs
Got a responce from the dev:
"Hi
At the moment for some reason in jelly bean swiping away the app causes the app to stop working. It'll show in the services as android restarts it on the crash, but it's lost its state until you re-enter the app to initialise it.
I'm looking into a fix for that.
I've sent a simple test case over to one of the top android framework*designers as they picked up on a post I placed into their support forums about it.*
Andrew"
So, patience it is..
omricn said:
Got a responce from the dev:
"Hi
At the moment for some reason in jelly bean swiping away the app causes the app to stop working. It'll show in the services as android restarts it on the crash, but it's lost its state until you re-enter the app to initialise it.
I'm looking into a fix for that.
I've sent a simple test case over to one of the top android framework*designers as they picked up on a post I placed into their support forums about it.*
Andrew"
So, patience it is..
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Any news ?
I have the same issue with stock 4.1.1
I have found setting up light flow then restarting the phone keeps it working. As long as you don't open the app again it works fine.
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LF works great with BAMF Paradigm!
I just make sure it's in my recently used apps list, I don't swipe it away or end task. And it works perfectly, I don't know how much battery if using but I love the different colors on the l e d light
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I personally can care less about leaving one app on app tray
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Blue for SMS and purple for MMS. Lol
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An update by the developer. Looks like there is now a beta version, at least for AT&T rooted users that seems to be working alrifght.
http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/1826
fuego77 said:
Blue for SMS and purple for MMS. Lol
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what kind of case is that. i love how it covers the volume rocker. can u send me a link to the case please. thanks
qman66 said:
what kind of case is that. i love how it covers the volume rocker. can u send me a link to the case please. thanks
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I'm pretty sure he has an albino GNex!
qman66 said:
what kind of case is that. i love how it covers the volume rocker. can u send me a link to the case please. thanks
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Its the white phone actually, no case on it lol ^_^
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philowneus said:
I have found setting up light flow then restarting the phone keeps it working. As long as you don't open the app again it works fine.
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thanks, now it work !

[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.
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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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[APP] Serious Button Light Control[root]

Herro.
I made for you today, a nice nifty wittle app to better control your buttons lights. Simply set an ambient light value that you wish to have the lights come on. When you turn on your screen, the app will read the ambient light levels and compare it to what you have entered.
If the value that you entered is lower than the value being read, it will turn off the lights for you are in a bright enough area where they arent needed.
Once you go into a place that has a darker area where the light levels are lower than your entered level. They will come on for you and stay on until you turn off the screen.
Required:
1. YOU MUST HAVE ROOT
2. A beautiful Galaxy S 3 <3 (May work on other devices if the kernel supports is)
3. A finger which likes to click the like button. (not really)
Simply download attached apk to your phone and use any file manager to install it. Enjoy.
PLEASE DO NOT SHARE, LINK TO THIS THREAD INSTEAD
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This is awesome. It works. Although it FC's but still works. Thanks a lot for this
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Rom: Xquizt N2 v6+Kitchen Aroma v6
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Very useful app, thanks Mate..
Actionx1 said:
This is awesome. It works. Although it FC's but still works. Thanks a lot for this
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I know I had a couple as well.I think I need to bind the service to the activity to keep androids from destroying it.(That's what I believe is the issue) but you just have to restart it if it force closes.
It's definitely something with the screen monitoring service.I made one that just monitors screen of and on broadcasts and that one still force closes on me and there is nothing obvious in the logcat.
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About the force closes, I've only had them happen right after waking my device. (And then it would crash again because android is trying to start it again) but I noticed it robot crashed on screen wake
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On my device it FC's but it keeps working. It's odd but working fine besides that. It takes about a minute for it to take effect after I first draft the app.
I must say it does make my S3 look a lot sleeker with those lights off.
Thanks so much for it.
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Ok so what is the max value ? I want my buttons to have very bright light ...
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shahkam said:
Ok so what is the max value ? I want my buttons to have very bright light ...
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It's either on or off. I too wish I could have an "in-between" level
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elesbb said:
It's either on or off. I too wish I could have an "in-between" level
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Ohh i thought we could adjust the brightness of it sorry..
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shahkam said:
Ohh i thought we could adjust the brightness of it sorry..
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Yeah the app doesn't control the brightness of the button lights, it just shuts them off when you are in an area that is brighter then your entered value and turns them on again when you go to a dark area. No need to be sorry man!
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When I saved this file, it was saved as a zip not apk. When I went into recovery it won't flash the zip. How do I install this then?
Nevermmind, I just renamed it to apk .
I figured out what's causing the force close. Will have update shortly
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[Q] Tasker Help

So I'm relatively new to Tasker and have been generally just searching for write ups on certain tasks/profiles I'm interested in but am running into a wall. Basically, I want to create a task that turns my screen brightness up to 70% when I'm driving, then back down to 25% when I've reached a destination (which will not always be predetermined). For now I just have it so when I'm at home my screen brightness is 25%.
Any advice?
Thanks.
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Do you connect to bluetooth or is there something you always do in your car?
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Hmm... Not that in can think of. I don't use blue tooth that often.
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sirdowski said:
Hmm... Not that in can think of. I don't use blue tooth that often.
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Darn, I'll think about it then. I have driving profiles, but I always connect to my blue tooth in my car so that's the trigger for me
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Thanks, I appreciate that.
Is there anyway to adjust the gps from updating once every 3 minutes to see if I'm at home? Killing my battery.
Edit: The best solutions I have found are A) Using Net instead of GPS . It's accurate enough for my needs and doesn't really effect the battery. B) setting my brightness to dim when at home and brighten when leaving home. This allows it to brighten any time I'm on the road but dim when returning home. Any other locations -such as work or other places I frequent- will have to be added in a similar manner to my solution for home.
Thanks for the input!
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I have a new issue. If someone wouldn't mind chiming in I'd appreciate it.
I have a profile set up in Tasker to turn on gps when I open maps and turn gps off when I close maps. I installed secure settings, the secure settings plug in and have tested it and have confirmed it is working well. The issue is, when I turn off the screen or switch to another app, despite the fact that maps is running in the background, gps still shuts off. I'm still very new to Tasker and only have a vague understanding of variables, but I can't help but think there's a solution involving a variable.
Thanks for any input!
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sirdowski said:
Is there anyway to adjust the gps from updating once every 3 minutes to see if I'm at home? Killing my battery.
Edit: The best solutions I have found are A) Using Net instead of GPS . It's accurate enough for my needs and doesn't really effect the battery.
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My tasker "AtHome" task uses a combo of the cell towers and my home wifi. It only starts looking for the wifi when in the cell tower area.
The tasker wiki has some examples and recipes that make it easier to get the hang of it.
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Use an nfc tag in the car which toggles between 70 and 25%.
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moabizzi said:
Use an nfc tag in the car which toggles between 70 and 25%.
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Very interesting. I'm going to have to look into this.
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fratermus said:
My tasker "AtHome" task uses a combo of the cell towers and my home wifi. It only starts looking for the wifi when in the cell tower area.
The tasker wiki has some examples and recipes that make it easier to get the hang of it.
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Yep, this was the route that I took.
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I don't understand what I'm missing. I'm trying to set up a task that sends a text if I'm still at work and it's a certain time.
I'm testing it with the context being the gps location of "home" and am not having any luck.
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Normally the green bar that the arrow is pointing to is red, but since the time specified in the variable matches the time in the status bar it turns green. So something is happening, it's just not sending the message.
I've also tried this way with no luck:
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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