I have disabled my HOME button following the tip in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18473677#post18473677
Now the HOME button does nothing in most programs, but it acts as a SCROLL_TO_TOP button in my browser.
But it still keeps flashing - which is annoying when I'm reading in a darkened room.
I don't know why it flashes - maybe because there are unacknowledged notifications.
Is there any way to disable the flashing of the HOME button?
It flashes when you have an email notification. Just close that notification and it will stop flashing. But I really wish they provided an option to turn that off.
@jschall
If your A100 is rooted...
If you have something like RootExplorer...
Go to /system/lib/hw
Mount the dir as r/w
Now rename this file: lights.vangogh.so
to something like: lights.vangogh.so.bak
Reboot.
No more blinking notification light.
@donaldson:
Thank you for that tip. It worked, BUT...
while the home button no longer flashes, the screen is stuck at full brightness.
So, I renamed the file the way it was, I can live with the flashing HOME button.
i activated the screen buttons, but kept the menu button active... however the apps keep thinking i disabled it, so they give me a menu button IN the app... this is very anoying, specially in some stock apps that dont resize when another bar is added to acomodate the button and so the lists get cutt off... any way to tell the apps i have a menu button whilst keeping the buttons bar?
there are plenty of threads out there to do just the oposite, not this.
On .244, how do you clear this annoying notification? Thanks
stygian16 said:
On .244, how do you clear this annoying notification? Thanks
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Tap on it and it should appear a menu asking to continue using the phone or power off, tap on power off and your device should restart. after that the notification will be gone.
Thanks however touching the notification doesn't do anything. Thinking back on it, I probably saw this menu the very first time and did not choose Power Off. Hopefully there is a setting somewhere that can be adjusted?
every time i got that, i just rebooted my device and its gone.
I've been experiencing a strange system/UI/OS bug for the past couple of months, and I've finally decided to take the time to post about it and see if anyone else encounters this.
TL;DR version: Upon restarting the phone, the Home and Recents keys will not respond with the expected software functions, although haptic feedback still occurs. After opening any app, pressing the Home button doesn't bring up the home screen, repeatedly pressing the Home button will eventually result in a blank, black screen with only a notification bar being displayed (see screenshot), and once this state is reached, there is no way to return to any app or the home screen. Multitasking/recent apps menu doesn't display, and instead of the home screen, a plain black screen with only a notification bar exists. Upon rebooting, the phone returns to the initial state described above - the home screen is displayed immediately upon boot, but the Home and Recents keys do not work as expected, and after leaving the home screen, there is no way to return to it.
Detailed version:
Upon restarting the phone, the Home and Recents capacitative keys do not work as expected. The Back button works as usual. There is haptic feedback when pressed, but the Home key doesn't bring up the home screen again, and the Recents key does not bring up the recent apps multitasking menu. If I leave the home screen by launching an app, for example, there is no way to get back to the home screen again by pressing the Home button.
If the Home button is pressed several times in a row, the active app finally gets minimized but instead of the home screen, a completely blank, black screen is displayed, with no features apart from the notification bar (see attached screenshot). Only the notification shade works, and interacting with the present notifications works only to the extent of interacting with buttons and commands in the notification entries. eg. Toggling WiFi or Bluetooth on and off, or notification drawer controls for apps like Tasker, music players, etc. However, tapping on the notification entries for those apps DOES NOT open the respective app, but returns back to the blank black screen with only the notification shade working. Attempting to open Settings via the 'gear icon' at the top-right of the notification shade doesn't work, long-pressing Quick Settings entries like WiFi or Bluetooth to open their 'advanced configuration' windows doesn't work either. Only simple toggling.
However, Asus apps in the Quick Settings section launch and work normally - Calculator, Flashlight, Bluelight Filter, etc. Pressing Home from one of these apps takes you, again, to the blank black screen with the notification bar.
This is most probably NOT a hardware problem, because haptic feedback is produced upon pressing the key, and also because long-pressing the Recents key produces the expected result (as configured in Settings)- bringing up the active app's menu, and double pressing the Home key also produces the intended effect of toggling One-Handed Mode.
This seems to happen almost every time I restart the device. After 5 - 10 restarts in a row, the device will randomly behave normally, and will stay completely functional until the next restart, and the entire cycle will repeat again.
What I've already tried
I've tried using a different launcher (although this is clearly a system-level bug, not to do with a specific third-party app). No difference.
I've tried rebooting in Safe Mode, which just leaves me with Asus Launcher crashing ('Unfortunately Asus Launcher has stopped') in a loop. I usually use Nova Launcher, but in Safe Mode only pre-installed apps work, so Asus Launcher is active but crashes immediately upon boot, and immediately crashes again in a continuous loop each time I click 'OK'. The phone is unusable because you can't actually do anything before you the app crash dialog pops up again.
Does anyone else experience this, and any ideas as to what's going on? My hunch is that it's a system level UI/OS bug, not a hardware issue.
As above, I have to pick my phone up and press the power button to turn the screen on and see my notifications. Is there a way to see them automatically?
I have tried enabling "When device is locked: Show all notification content" and this does not fix the issue.