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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.
Hey guys... I'm wondering if there is a way to turn off the system messages that pop up on the home screen, such as "message sent" "connected to wifi", etc... I would like to turn them all off, if possible.
Thanks.
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I dont think theres a way to turn those off. As to I havent seen an option to do so and have checked everywhere of the "option". sorry man
Hello all. I just decided to retire my Vibrant yesterday and got an S3. I haven't changed much on it. I'll run it stock for quite a while. I am using a custom launcher, etc.
My battery life is horrible though! It's not even noon and I'm already down to 35%. I've made sure S Voice is not set to wake up when I talk to it. My weather was set to update every 15 minutes by default, but I've changed it to every hour. I charged it in the van on the way to take kiddos to school, and it was at 80ish percent. So that's quite a drop in not a long time. Granted, it's new, so I'm playing with it.
What tips can you give me to get the best battery life I can out of it? Besides custom ROMs. I'm not even rooted. Yet.
Well how long has your screen been on? That will be the determining factor in your battery life. Like you said, it is new and you are playing with it so I am willing to bet that probably has something to do with it.
Otherwise, turn data off when you aren't using it and keep the screen brightness as low as possible.
Here's what I do with a freshly flashed rom. I pretty much drill down through every setting turning off what I dont need.
WiFi - turn off network notification.
More Settings - Everything off
Sound - turn off everything below "System"
Display - Auto brightness off. Timeout 1min. Smart Stay off. Touch key always on or off. Auto Adj Screen Tone off. Battery% on.
Power Saving - Off.
Accounts and Sync - Off
Location Svcs - Off
Language and Input - Voice Cmd off. Voice Recognizer (all off for google and Samsung). Voice Search all off. TTS driving mode off.
Backup and Reset - can't remember what its listed under but below carrier data press to open and uncheck collect data (this is carrier iq, so I removed it asap once rooted)
Accessory - all off
Developer Options - set animation scales to 0.5x.
Hope that helps. I keep a lot off and only turn stuff on when I need it. There's some pretty cool features but for me it doesn't hurt my experiance with the phone to not use a lot of them.
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joshnichols189 said:
Well how long has your screen been on? That will be the determining factor in your battery life. Like you said, it is new and you are playing with it so I am willing to bet that probably has something to do with it.
Otherwise, turn data off when you aren't using it and keep the screen brightness as low as possible.
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Ah. My screen was set to stay on for 10 minutes. That, I would imagine, was a large part of my problem. At least according to my battery stats. Why do they set that as default??
My screen brightness is now set to low. What is this with the data? Doesn't that mean I would not receive email, google talk messages, etc?
DocHoliday77 said:
Here's what I do with a freshly flashed rom. I pretty much drill down through every setting turning off what I dont need.
WiFi - turn off network notification.
More Settings - Everything off
Sound - turn off everything below "System"
Display - Auto brightness off. Timeout 1min. Smart Stay off. Touch key always on or off. Auto Adj Screen Tone off. Battery% on.
Power Saving - Off.
Accounts and Sync - Off
Location Svcs - Off
Language and Input - Voice Cmd off. Voice Recognizer (all off for google and Samsung). Voice Search all off. TTS driving mode off.
Backup and Reset - can't remember what its listed under but below carrier data press to open and uncheck collect data (this is carrier iq, so I removed it asap once rooted)
Accessory - all off
Developer Options - set animation scales to 0.5x.
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I just did almost all of these. With the WiFi detection off, will I need to manually find my home network each time I get back home?
Also, if I turn Voice Command off, I won't be able to push the button and say "Listen to blah blah blah" or "Navigate to ....." correct?
The_MamaBee said:
Ah. My screen was set to stay on for 10 minutes. That, I would imagine, was a large part of my problem. At least according to my battery stats. Why do they set that as default??
My screen brightness is now set to low. What is this with the data? Doesn't that mean I would not receive email, google talk messages, etc?
I just did almost all of these. With the WiFi detection off, will I need to manually find my home network each time I get back home?
Also, if I turn Voice Command off, I won't be able to push the button and say "Listen to blah blah blah" or "Navigate to ....." correct?
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I am on CM10 so I am not sure where it is for stock Touchwiz, but I would assume you could go to settings > display > screen timeout and change it there.
Yes, turning off data would mean no push email or Google Talk messages. You could download an app that turns off your data when you turn the screen off, then on when you turn the screen on and your emails and messages would come through then.
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I am on CM10 so I am not sure where it is for stock Touchwiz, but I would assume you could go to settings > display > screen timeout and change it there.
Yes, turning off data would mean no push email or Google Talk messages. You could download an app that turns off your data when you turn the screen off, then on when you turn the screen on and your emails and messages would come through then.
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Aah. Okay. Thank you! Yes, I fixed the screen timeout.
The_MamaBee said:
I just did almost all of these. With the WiFi detection off, will I need to manually find my home network each time I get back home?
Also, if I turn Voice Command off, I won't be able to push the button and say "Listen to blah blah blah" or "Navigate to ....." correct?
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I should have also mentioned I turn off wifi and data when I don't need it to, which is rare but it happens at times!
By turning off the wifi notification, the only change is it won't give you a notification in status bar that there's an open network nearby that you could connect to. Itll still auto connect to any network you've already got configured.
For voice cmd, it won't let svoice open apps for you. But for example in navigation you can still hit the mic button on keyboard and speak your destination.
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Can you upload a Screenshot of your battery screen... It will make it a lot easier to look at
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On the Wifi issue. What I do with regards to wifi, is if I know that I am not going to be near an open connection, I turn it off. When I am at work, there is no wifi nearby that I can connect to. So I use Mobile Data instead. Why you ask? It is because when you have your wifi on, in the back ground it is always scanning for a signal. Turn that off and no scan, then no drain for something that you are not using at moment.
I know that this is a bit deeper than you wanted to go, but in the Build.Prop you can put a setting [wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=] and you can set that out. The time in there is the time duration on scanning intervals based on seconds. So the setting wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=180 means that it scans for wifi and doesn't find one, then counts off 180seconds and scans again.<--This is what I have mine set too, btw.
Disable the wifi when your not using it.
I'm currently out of my coverage area so the "searching for available network?" alert keeps popping up every 10-30 seconds. This is driving me craxy, I've tried disabling all alerts and even enabling airplane mode. I can't seem to find anyone with this problem, so I'm assuming I'm just missing a simple solution. I'm currently rooted with stock rom on 4.1.2.
If there is no way to disable this pop up, is there some way I can at least make it think there is signal so it stops popping up? The alert has increased to every second. I can't even manage to type 2 words before the pop up blocks the screen and disables the keyboard.
That sounds annoying! Try this..
-Go to phone dialer and dial #*#*4636*#*#
-Select "Device Information"
-Scroll down and press the button "Turn off Radio"
Does that do the trick?
lmike6453 said:
That sounds annoying! Try this..
-Go to phone dialer and dial #*#*4636*#*#
-Select "Device Information"
-Scroll down and press the button "Turn off Radio"
Does that do the trick?
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When I dial that I just get a pop up that says "emergency calls only"
Saiyan26 said:
When I dial that I just get a pop up that says "emergency calls only"
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It was just a lil off that's why you didn't get the menu. But he was right! It's input this way *#*#4636#*#*
Most codes start with the star* first.
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Bajanman said:
It was just a lil off that's why you didn't get the menu. But he was right! It's input this way *#*#4636#*#*
Most codes start with the star* first.
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Thanks that works, but turning off the radio doesn't disable the pop up. I just connected to Rogers (I'm in CAN atm) and disabled roaming. So there's no pop ups while I'm their coverage. I still can't believe there's no way to disable that pop up.
Remove the Sim card! this will fix the problem
Saiyan26 said:
I'm currently out of my coverage area so the "searching for available network?" alert keeps popping up every 10-30 seconds. This is driving me craxy, I've tried disabling all alerts and even enabling airplane mode. I can't seem to find anyone with this problem, so I'm assuming I'm just missing a simple solution. I'm currently rooted with stock rom on 4.1.2.
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Simply remove the Sim card! This will fix the problem. When there is no sim card, the phone will not search for network, hence you will not get this error.
I simply removed the sim card, rebooted the phone, and tada, when I am flying on airplanes, and ofcourse there is not network coverage there, I can finally use the phone for games, music, etc, without this annoying message poping up every 30 seconds or so.
I have this EXACT same problem. I first noticed it after I turned on WiFi calling. This is not a mild annoyance. It's happening so often that it's rendering my phone nearly unusable. If anybody has any ideas I'd love to hear them. It also only started happening after I updated to Android 9.
I hated this so much on the S10, because it would interrupt games, apps, everything (and my network coverage sometimes flipped from 1 bar to 0, so I was seeing this 20-30 times a minute) but I found a solution that has worked for me so far (I've definitely seen my network transition to Emergency calls only without popping this up). Fair warning, I don't know what other consequences this had, but basically, I went to Settings -> Apps -> triple dot menu -> Special access -> Appear on top -> Show system apps -> (then I went through a bunch of apps that I thought could be the culprit, and turned them off. That included the phone apps). I've tested to make sure that if someone calls me I still get notifications (audio if phone volume isn't vibrate/mute, and full screen popup if I'm in another app). For completeness, I also went through the system apps in Settings-> Apps and turned all their notifications to silent and minimized, but as far as I can tell, that didn't help. I haven't gone back and turned stuff back on, because I never want to have this happen again.
Is there a way to disable the annoying notification for connection lost between the Galaxy watch 42mm LTE (without esim for now) and Phone (SG S9).
If i walk 5-7 meters away from phone the watch pings and vibrates, and when coming back in BT range it is the same.
The function I think it should have is to jump over to wifi seamless and then back to BT. Is this possible?
Cheers
kalle99 said:
it should have is to jump over to wifi seamless and then back to BT. Is this possible?
Cheers
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This is theory. In practice this does not happen so seamless
In Samsung App on the phone: connection settings you can set if you want to get notifications upon watch connection/disconnection
Yes, but is it possible to disable the notification?
on the watch, go to settings --> Connections. There should be a setting called ALERTS, toggle that off.
pabgar said:
In Samsung App on the phone: connection settings you can set if you want to get notifications upon watch connection/disconnection
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I was wrong
pabgar said:
Are you capable to read with understanding ? I wrote you how to do it:
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it took me a minute as well, he means to stop the notifications on the *watch* , the setting you supplied is for the phone.
On the watch SETTINGS --> CONNECTIONS --> ALERTS (turn off)
wattsja said:
it took me a minute as well, he means to stop the notifications on the *watch* , the setting you supplied is for the phone.
On the watch SETTINGS --> CONNECTIONS --> ALERTS (turn off)
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Indeed. My bad. Sorry
wattsja said:
it took me a minute as well, he means to stop the notifications on the *watch* , the setting you supplied is for the phone.
On the watch SETTINGS --> CONNECTIONS --> ALERTS (turn off)
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Thanks for your answers.
To clarify. I want to disable the "connection lost" and "connected to phone" alert on the watch.
NOT to turn off all alerts. There is a toggle for "connection" in the watch settings, but the watch still vibrates.
kalle99 said:
Thanks for your answers.
To clarify. I want to disable the "connection lost" and "connected to phone" alert on the watch.
NOT to turn off all alerts. There is a toggle for "connection" in the watch settings, but the watch still vibrates.
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I guess I do not understand what you are looking for.
That setting has NOTHING to do with *other* alerts. The setting specifically says "ALERTS: Get BLUETOOTH disconnection alerts". This is for BLUETOOTH disconnection alerts and Bluetooth disconnection alerts ONLY. If you disable it, you will get NOTHING about Bluetooth disconnects, no sound, no vibrations, no screen notifications (aside from the small "watch" icon that appears at the top of the screen (near the 12 o'clock marker) that signifies "stand alone" mode. (I know because I use it).
wattsja said:
I guess I do not understand what you are looking for.
That setting has NOTHING to do with *other* alerts. The setting specifically says "ALERTS: Get BLUETOOTH disconnection alerts". This is for BLUETOOTH disconnection alerts and Bluetooth disconnection alerts ONLY. If you disable it, you will get NOTHING about Bluetooth disconnects, no sound, no vibrations, no screen notifications (aside from the small "watch" icon that appears at the top of the screen (near the 12 o'clock marker) that signifies "stand alone" mode. (I know because I use it).
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Thanks, got it to work as supposed now.
cheers
kalle99 said:
Thanks, got it to work as supposed now.
cheers
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Glad you got it!