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[APP] LED Me Know - app for LED notification !

Found out about this from the G2 forum
"LED Me Know" is a great app (available from the market) which you can use to make the LED blink for notification ! You can select if you want it to blink for new SMS, gmail, missed calls, etc. Also there's an option to make the trackpad light blink, though I've not tried that myself. Works great on my DZ with stock ROM

steviewevie said:
Found out about this from the G2 forum
"LED Me Know" is a great app (available from the market) which you can use to make the LED blink for notification ! You can select if you want it to blink for new SMS, gmail, missed calls, etc. Also there's an option to make the trackpad light blink, though I've not tried that myself. Works great on my DZ with stock ROM
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if you looking under running apps, this app is a resource hog. i uninstalled it because if uses up battery quite a bit. just my $.02.

jark99 said:
if you looking under running apps, this app is a resource hog. i uninstalled it because if uses up battery quite a bit. just my $.02.
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I can see it using a few MB of memory, but that's fine, I've got plenty of RAM. I haven't noticed any difference in my battery usage today since I installed it this morning, but I'll keep an eye on it, thanks.

steviewevie said:
I can see it using a few MB of memory, but that's fine, I've got plenty of RAM. I haven't noticed any difference in my battery usage today since I installed it this morning, but I'll keep an eye on it, thanks.
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No worries, i checked in that runnign services and found a few auto run apps...which was toying with my battery haha, i removed them so far so good. let me know how your battery is...i am going to reinstall this app sometime soon

jark99 said:
No worries, i checked in that runnign services and found a few auto run apps...which was toying with my battery haha, i removed them so far so good. let me know how your battery is...i am going to reinstall this app sometime soon
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I'm not seeing any evidence that it's draining my battery whatsoever.

steviewevie said:
I'm not seeing any evidence that it's draining my battery whatsoever.
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Nor did I, the only thing that I noticed was my LED would flash for no apparent reason even without any notifications. Had to uninstall

There was an update to the program yesterday, with some more new features.

steviewevie said:
There was an update to the program yesterday, with some more new features.
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thanks for the heads up, might need to give it another shot

had it for 1 day, and deleted, cuz when i receive sms or email while i sleep, the blink will either wake me up, or it will drain out the battery by the time i wake up (after it blinked for so many hours....)
good concept, good app to be use while i'm awake~

yellowmp5 said:
had it for 1 day, and deleted, cuz when i receive sms or email while i sleep, the blink will either wake me up, or it will drain out the battery by the time i wake up (after it blinked for so many hours....)
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ok, so why not put the phone face down, or in its case or something if you don't want to see the LED flashing ? Another alternative is to turn off the service when you want to go to sleep (just go into the app and select the option to turn it off).
And did you find it to really drain the battery overnight ?
Maybe it's not for you though.

Unfortunately I also had a problem with this app draining the battery. I installed it on my stock T-Mobile G2 and experienced less than a third of my typical battery life today while using it. Not sure if the app itself is causing this or the flashing LED is drawing that much current. I uninstalled it for now.

[Q] Does anyone know how to turn off the LED light?

I think the LED light drains my battery too much when the screen is off
any way to turn it off ?

Are you on ICS or JB? I thought on ICS there was a direct setting but can't remember what option under System Settings. Maybe "More Settings"?
If you're on JB, can you do it through Settings -> Blocking Mode?

I think "lightflow" from the playstore gives you the option to turn it off

Think it depends on what ROM. What do you have enabling the LED when screen is off? From what I have read around here it really doesnt drain battery.

jasvncnt1 said:
Think it depends on what ROM. What do you have enabling the LED when screen is off? From what I have read around here it really doesnt drain battery.
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having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol

I am running CM10 (stable) on Jelly Bean
anyone know how ?

Funkadelick said:
having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol
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Didn't realize people let the LED blink for hours. Relax dude
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MobileNick said:
If you're on JB, can you do it through Settings -> Blocking Mode?
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Should work. This way, you can disable all LED indicator all the time or for a selected period of time -- i.e. during the night.
More LED options are available in Settings -> Display -> LED Indicator, you can select which type(s) of LED indicator you want to activate or not (charging, low battery, notifications, and voice recording). It may then be interesting to configure these settings in conjuction with the blocking mode.
But that's on stock ROM. It might be different in CM10.

Funkadelick said:
having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol
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The S3's flashing led has negligible battery drain. (my experience)
I am using Light Manager app on a Stock ICS rom in normal mode blinking rapidly and have done the A/B tests to confirm that it is the least of your worries. I am a battery saving nut and have lots of experience with this.
But I would say, that some LED control apps have been known to cause heavy battery drain both to wakelocks and/or just the way they handle the switching.

themadproducer said:
The S3's flashing led has negligible battery drain. (my experience)
I am using Light Manager app on a Stock ICS rom in normal mode blinking rapidly and have done the A/B tests to confirm that it is the least of your worries. I am a battery saving nut and have lots of experience with this.
But I would say, that some LED control apps have been known to cause heavy battery drain both to wakelocks and/or just the way they handle the switching.
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Hi, you may be able to help me.
BBS indicates 100% awake while screen off. 90% of the times is the Kernel locks "leds wakelock"
What is it and how can I fix it?
Many thanks
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[Q] Turning a ZL into a mini WiFi-only tablet

I have an Xperia ZL 6506 that I have left over when I bought my Z1.
It no longer is going to be used, and in my area, they're going for less than $200 used, and is not worth my time to sell and have to deal with all of that business. I've decided to turn it into a mini-media player / Internet SIP ad VoIP/Skype device. No cell service or cell related services (911, SMS, etc) will be active on this device any more.
I'm going to root it and TiBu away any services and applications I'll no longer require, so I'm looking for a comprehensive list of things that are safe to remove that I can get rid of, that wont compromise the stability of the device (meaning FCs and what not). Things like contacts and GMail are to be removed, and I plan to install QuickPic for the media player. Keeping Facebook, etc as well as the Camera functional are requirements.
Thoughts / Help is appreciated

"they're going for less than $200 used, and is not worth my time to sell and have to deal with all of that business."
Well, if your time is that valuable, the easies way would be to just remove the sim card and let the device like it is

feydakin said:
"remove the sim card and let the device like it is
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I'm more so wanting to give it better battery life and what not, with Greenify of course, but why have the service trying to poll network requests or see if a SIM is there when it never will be?

Hmm, what about enabling the flight mode and turn on wlan after?

feydakin said:
Hmm, what about enabling the flight mode and turn on wlan after?
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Device is currently being restored via companion software so I can't test this right now.
Can you confirm that airplane mode survives a full device reboot?

Im not sure if its the same with stock rom, but with cyanogenmod 11 the airplane mode survive a reboot.

feydakin said:
Im not sure if its the same with stock rom, but with cyanogenmod 11 the airplane mode survive a reboot.
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My stock 4.2 C6502 airplane mode survives a reboot and a full shutdown turn on cycle. Should not be a problem, I did something similiar with my xperia play, no sim card, airplane mode, battery standby is weeks. wifi only when needed.

I can confirm that Airplane mode survives reboot/shut down on 6506 stock 4.2.2 rooted.
Also, battery life is amazing. After a full hour of screen on time, functioning as a remote, as well as additional time being on while I flashed, rooted and debloated some apps in TiBu, I dropped a whopping 3%.

Wiltron said:
I can confirm that Airplane mode survives reboot/shut down on 6506 stock 4.2.2 rooted.
Also, battery life is amazing. After a full hour of screen on time, functioning as a remote, as well as additional time being on while I flashed, rooted and debloated some apps in TiBu, I dropped a whopping 3%.
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I'm surprised since normally your screen consumes the most power while in use...
I know that network polling for various applications can also devastate your battery... would be interesting to see what average use time looks like when you're running it this way - not necessarily useful for a phone user... but interesting none the less.

[Q] what level for stamina mode?

100%, 50%, 20% ?? What do you use?

unikum said:
100%, 50%, 20% ?? What do you use?
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I have mine on 100% (a.k.a. Always On) at the moment, with Gmail, hello (for text messages) and Talon (for Twitter) set as Active on Standby. That's all I use heavily now anyway, as I don't have a Facebook account and I neglected my Google plus for some time now (plus it generates a huge amount of data transfer in the background).

Never used it on my Z and don't use it on this either, so long as I can get a good days use out of the Phone I'm happy.

XperienceD said:
Never used it on my Z and don't use it on this either, so long as I can get a good days use out of the Phone I'm happy.
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how do you avoid the notification telling you to turn on stamina mode? i get it at least once a day.

steanne said:
how do you avoid the notification telling you to turn on stamina mode? i get it at least once a day.
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Not too sure, I have had it but not once a day.

Always on, exceptions set for camera, WhatsApp (will be gone soon) and threema.
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[Q] Does Stamina icon appear always regardless of activation setting

Just wanted to confirm if this is normal or a bug... I have Stamina mode kicking in at 40% only, but the Stamina icon is always showing. In fact, I think Stamina mode for my phone is always on regardless of my activation setting because the estimated battery life is always in terms of days.
Is anyone else seeing the same behavior as I?

blue_quartz said:
Is anyone else seeing the same behavior as I?
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If it's activated then obviously it will show all the time to show that is activated.

XperienceD said:
If it's activated then obviously it will show all the time to show that is activated.
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The problem lies with the activation level being ignored.... guess there's a bug here then?

blue_quartz said:
The problem lies with the activation level being ignored.... guess there's a bug here then?
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I don't think so, again, if stamina mode needs to be activated for it to kick in whatever the level you set it at, it's going to display the icon.

XperienceD said:
I don't think so, again, if stamina mode needs to be activated for it to kick in whatever the level you set it at, it's going to display the icon.
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This isn't how it works with JB, however - the old icon only appears when battery reaches the set level and the Stamina mode actually kicks in.
So yes, we can regard this as a bug in KK, or at least an oversight, like many half-baked features of this update from Sony.

ghtop said:
This isn't how it works with JB, however - the old icon only appears when battery reaches the set level and the Stamina mode actually kicks in.
So yes, we can regard this as a bug in KK, or at least an oversight, like many half-baked features of this update from Sony.
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Right, JB on my ZR only shows the Stamina icon when it's actually on, not when it's merely enabled. Unless the activation percentage level is actually completely broken, so enabling Stamina always means it's on in KK.
Hence my original question.

If that icon is bothering you so much, why don;t you just hide it ?
I personally keep stamina mode ON all the time and I created a white list with apps that are allowed to sync while the device is dormant.
The stamina icon is hidden from the statusbar.

ghtop said:
This isn't how it works with JB, however - the old icon only appears when battery reaches the set level and the Stamina mode actually kicks in.
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Oh right, that answers that then. It's not something I've ever used tbh as I see it as a bit gimmikie.