Develop Bugs

[Q] Make the Galaxy Nexus notification LED pulse faster?

The notification LED was a great improvement to the Galaxy Nexus over the Nexus S, however, the default settings in Android 4.0 blink the light very, very slowly, so slowly in fact that I often don't notice I have a message waiting even though the LED is blinking.
Is there any way to force the LED to blink faster? At about the rate that HTC notification LEDs blink?

Download Light Flow Lite, it is a Free app that lets you customize:
SMS, G-mail, E-mail, Charging, and more.
You can choose intervals of: very slow, slow, normal, fast, very fast. And how long you want it to blink.
Great app, and used it since Day 1.
Light Flow Lite - LINK

AOKP has this feature as part of the ROM. It has flash on time and flash off time, from 0.5 to 10 seconds.

synaesthetic said:
The notification LED was a great improvement to the Galaxy Nexus over the Nexus S, however, the default settings in Android 4.0 blink the light very, very slowly, so slowly in fact that I often don't notice I have a message waiting even though the LED is blinking.
Is there any way to force the LED to blink faster? At about the rate that HTC notification LEDs blink?
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AOKP rom is your saviour
Enough said!
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I need this too, can I have it without installing an app? I'd like something that I can flash directly.

Light flow is good, but it is a battery destroyer. Upwards of a hundred alarms and wakelocks over a 3 hour sleep period, and this is without receiving any notifications!
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exactly, and the roms that have it built-in don't drain as much battery. thats why I need a better solution than lightflow

Here's more on LightFlow:
If you use LED color cycling it will destroy your battery because LightFLow needs to keep a thread alive.
<rant>
You can thank some stupid designer and/or use-case engineer at Google who clearly either doesn't use an android phone or is just plain clueless.
</rant>
The problem is that the phone never really goes into deep sleep when you are using color cycling because the wake-lock by a thread which needs to continuously change the colors keeps running and kills your battery.
Ideally, the way the notification module should have been designed is that an app should be able to specify a sequence and a blink rate to the LED chip, which should then handle LED lighting, independent of any future CPU intervention/dependence for minimal battery hit.
But since this is not the case: I have LightFlow setup with 'show latest/last color' on battery and fast cycling on charging only. This is a good balance with literally no perceptible impact to battery life. If you don't mind a little more battery drain then set priority-based notification colors on battery.

[Q] FB17 - Battery Percentage option?

On ICS on the ET4G, there is an option for Show Battery Percentage on Indicator. What does that do? I've checked it and unchecked it and noticed that absolutely nothing changed on any form of battery indicator that comes with the phone (battery indicator in the notification bar and on the lock screen). Has anyone figured out how to get this to work yet?

+1 for me. I would like to know also.

Yep, wondering the same thing.
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it might be broken, but try to check it and then reboot your phone to check if it works or not.

The battery percentage shows up (sometimes) on the left side in the status bar, only when charging? Not all the time.

Charging LED overrides notification LED?

Hey guys,
Ever since ICS update, the charging LED completely overrides all notification LEDs.
I used to have k9mail LED color set to white which results in the LED blinking red whenever a new email arrives. This works perfectly fine if the phone is not being charged and this also worked before ICS but this no longer works.
Anyone else notice this with their E4GT?
Thanks

My notification light has never worked except while charging it glows red, blue when full then unplug and sometimes it stays red
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Try blink or light flow in the market.

Ravaged Pheonix said:
Try blink or light flow in the market.
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Neither fix it
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Yeah this beg has been there since the early leaks, Samsung screwed us on that one and I guess Sprint never made it a priority to fix. This works in aokp though so I figure it also works in cm9 and other aosp roms.

I don't even use the leds they just blink and drain the battery. I have them disabled for everything including charging. You can't see it blink in your pocket so all its doing is wasting your battery as it blinks away unattended and it has notifications and vibration to alert you to an incoming message. No real point in having sound, vibration, an icon and a light for a notification. Plus ICS doesn't handle the LEDs properly and they keep the SoC from going into deepsleep causing excessive battery drain. You use less battery to click the screen on and look for an icon than you do with the LED blinking til you check it anyways.
We are legion, for we are many.
Sent from the DarkSide of the GalaXy with a MEK device

Wireless Charging Notification

i am using wireless charger which makes my s3 pop up notification and sound when it starts charging or when battery is full, can someone point me where the notification sound is located in the system or how to disable, the only thing that stops from beeping is turning notification volume to off, which stops all of my notification sounds, any ideas?

amorek13 said:
i am using wireless charger which makes my s3 pop up notification and sound when it starts charging or when battery is full, can someone point me where the notification sound is located in the system or how to disable, the only thing that stops from beeping is turning notification volume to off, which stops all of my notification sounds, any ideas?
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Are you rooted? And the sound that it makes, is it the same sound as all your other notifications make?
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yeah i am rooted, it makes a beep when put on charger and when battery full, only solution i found is to put phone into vibration mode or turn notification volume all the way down

I had the same frustration...
I recently came across the XPosed framework and have developed a module for it that:
Prevents the screen from turning on when a charger is connected
Disables the wireless charging popup
Disables the beep when a charger is connected
Prevents the screen from turning on when the battery is full
I will post a module once I've got past the min 10 post limit on dev threads.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2012770

Nx5 charging indicator

Hello.
Is there supposed to be a light for when the device is charged?
Mine shows no notification of either plugged in and charging, or when at 100%?
Cheers

you should see a lightning bold in the battery icon when charging

Yeah, cheers.
I was meaning with the screen off. All my other Android phones had a notification light when charging (ie red, then turned green once fully charged).

sparks7 said:
Yeah, cheers.
I was meaning with the screen off. All my other Android phones had a notification light when charging (ie red, then turned green once fully charged).
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use this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite&hl=en

I had assumed there would at least be a sound considering the 3rd setting in my screen shot, but there's not.
As for light flow, I used it a lot on my N5, but I tried it on my 5X and there were some issues.
First, there's the persistent notification... It's the way LF uses to keep the app running in the foreground, but there's a LF notification always in the pull down AND that screws with ambient display. If you turn that setting off in LF, the app stops working within 20 minutes of the screen being off, defeating the purpose of having a light blinking to let you know it's charging.
Second, not so much LF's issue, but you can't make the LED light up certain colors like orange. Regardless of shade, it all comes out yellow.
I'm really surprised that Google didn't add something for a charging indication using the LED...

Yeah, cheers for that.
At least I know its not just my device.

gotzaDroid said:
I had assumed there would at least be a sound considering the 3rd setting in my screen shot, but there's not.
As for light flow, I used it a lot on my N5, but I tried it on my 5X and there were some issues.
First, there's the persistent notification... It's the way LF uses to keep the app running in the foreground, but there's a LF notification always in the pull down AND that screws with ambient display. If you turn that setting off in LF, the app stops working within 20 minutes of the screen being off, defeating the purpose of having a light blinking to let you know it's charging.
Second, not so much LF's issue, but you can't make the LED light up certain colors like orange. Regardless of shade, it all comes out yellow.
I'm really surprised that Google didn't add something for a charging indication using the LED...
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try out LightFlow LED