Hi guys
I was thinking if it is possible to use finger print scanner LED as a notification LED? I know it may not be currently possible but just floating the idea for the devs who make things possible all the time
I know the LED is huge to be used as notification LED but some people would love to have an LED instead of a ringtone or vibration alerts, thanks in advance for any help in this regard
I don't know if this is possible but this is a fantastic idea.
If this is actually possible it would be awesome!
Great idea, but is there really a separate LED ? I had always assumed that the FP uses the green lighting from the display itself....
s3axel said:
Great idea, but is there really a separate LED ? I had always assumed that the FP uses the green lighting from the display itself....
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Yes I thought it was like that.
I think it doesn't matter if there's a separate LED to light up the display or part of the screen itself is used as a notification LED, but I think all possibilities are there, to choose the color, random colors each time or per app, position on the screen etc...
I don't really see the point in using those specific pixels as a notification LED when any other pixels on the display work just as well. And if anything, you'd want to avoid lighting up the fingerprint pixels too much since they are being used more at high brightness and therefore more susceptible to burn-in.
mentaculus said:
I don't really see the point in using those specific pixels as a notification LED when any other pixels on the display work just as well. And if anything, you'd want to avoid lighting up the fingerprint pixels too much since they are being used more at high brightness and therefore more susceptible to burn-in.
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I want one to do like Samsung's edge lighting. That with Pixel Pulse would be perfect.
Amy work on this?
I disabled fps on my 6t because of the annoyingly high brightness of this green circle when your finger is close!
I don't think there is a led, I saw a video where they open the 6t and access the sensor module, it's just a camera sensor under the screen, the amoled brightness is boosted in this particular part of the screen, that's all.
Thanks God they didn't use a laser light, half the people would go (really) blind.
You can use an app like noled to simulate a led anywhere on your screen.
What about this app?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t/themes/app-plus-beat-alternative-to-t3875843
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What about this app?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t/themes/app-plus-beat-alternative-to-t3875843
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Yes, that is the app that a lot of us have been using with no issues. You just have to go into the settings and tweak it to your likings.
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Is there currently a hack, custom ROM, or other way to prevent the screen from dimming way down when on screens with lots of white (like the email/Outlook screen). Even when I have brightness set to "HIGH" and Auto to "OFF", all the other screens are really bright. But when I go to the email screen (or any other app that has a white background), the Focus automatically dims it way down. I'm sure this is to save battery or eye-strain on white screens, but I'd like it to be much brighter if possible.
Thanks!
Yeah, It's look hard but I want it on my HD7 too.
because the auto-brightness on WP7 was not smart so much compare to the other.
It's not give the lowest brightness when enter into the dark room (that's hurt my eye) and not bright enough when enter into the sunlight.
Nope. It's programmed into the pentile display driver. Total deal-breaker for me.
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Yeah, It's look hard but I want it on my HD7 too.
because the auto-brightness on WP7 was not smart so much compare to the other.
It's not give the lowest brightness when enter into the dark room (that's hurt my eye) and not bright enough when enter into the sunlight.
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The auto-brightness setting in WP7 adjusts a screen's brightness based only on the ambient light sensor. The Focus and Omnia 7 dim their screen if they're displaying a majority of white pixels, even with auto-brightness off and set to high.
Switch to the white theme. It happens so frequetly now that I don't even register it!
OK, so that's not a solution but give it a go, it bugged the hell out of me at the start but now ive forgotten it even does it.
I understand why they've done it, but really it should follow the brightness setting if they're worked about battery life.
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I would like to know why mine is blue and I gave the black one and my wife has the white one and hers is green? Also the little spot next to the ear piece on mine had a red glow and hers doesn't?
DadamsJR said:
I would like to know why mine is blue and I gave the black one and my wife has the white one and hers is green? Also the little spot next to the ear piece on mine had a red glow and hers doesn't?
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its gonna light up a different color for different notifications maybe you should read the manual that came with the phone.
Thanks! Mine is always blue and hers is always been but yea Thanks for the reply
DadamsJR said:
Thanks! Mine is always blue and hers is always been but yea Thanks for the reply
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yea it will throw a different color for gmail,sms,missed call etc...
The little red light to the right of the earpiece is the proximity sensor. Its emitting infrared to be able to see proximity. You aren't supposed to really be able to see it, but its normal to see dim red in there when the sensor is active. My Galaxy S II did the same thing.
You can use light flow in the play store to change the color based on type of notification.
The ambient light sensor also affects the notification LED - its dimmer in dark rooms vs bright rooms.
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quarlow said:
The little red light to the right of the earpiece is the proximity sensor. Its emitting infrared to be able to see proximity. You aren't supposed to really be able to see it, but its normal to see dim red in there when the sensor is active. My Galaxy S II did the same thing.
You can use light flow in the play store to change the color based on type of notification.
The ambient light sensor also affects the notification LED - its dimmer in dark rooms vs bright rooms.
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Light flow sounded like a cool app so I checked it on Play however in reading the reviews it seems people with a Note II have had issues with it running properly.
Check quick glance in motion settings. I didnt see the glowing light until I turned that on. Pretty neat feature
I searched and found no info on dimming the camera's LED. I want to be able to use as a flashlight, but I don't want it so darn bright.
Still looking at different apps on the Play Store, but I think it would have to be some kind of hack for rooted phones, which I haven't done yet.
Any one have any ideas?
whipps said:
I searched and found no info on dimming the camera's LED. I want to be able to use as a flashlight, but I don't want it so darn bright.
Still looking at different apps on the Play Store, but I think it would have to be some kind of hack for rooted phones, which I haven't done yet.
Any one have any ideas?
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I don't think it's possible. When you use it as a flashlight android apps have a setting called "torch" and that's it. There is no modification for adjusting brightness. Also, I looked in the /sys/class/leds/ directory for the camera led to be able to enter your own value for the brightness file, but nothing exists in there for the camera light. I personally like the bright led for a flashlight. If I don't want something super bright, I use a screen flashlight that just displays a white screen and boosts brightness to Max. I personally use a red screen though.
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The tricky aspect of what you are talking about doing here is that the Linux kernel is your entire power management for the device. There might be a a root flashlight somewhere in the market that could accomplish this for you, otherwise it would take some adjusting at the kernel level... which again is your power control for hardware
Thank you guys for the help and info. It's not the end of the world if I can't do this, but now I know what to keep my eye out for.
The kernel is the key to over clock and under volt, so I understand that the kernel would have to support that.
Hello, I'm facing a sort of problem. When I look at the locked screen it has a calibration, but when I drop down the quick toggle or I unlock the screen it turns a little bit more yellowish. I don't think it's hardware related but could someone give me an explanation?
I think it's because of the FP sensor. To improve the recognition maybe.
Or it is a bug like the dark theme not being dark in some apps, Chrome, YouTube, Shelf. Top of the screen is less dark, like a little bit green. Not a hardware issue though, settings and built in apps ark dark (Dialler, Messages). I think it is something with the theme settings.
It's all normal. The lockscreen has this colder/blueish tone, like a filter, which goes away after unlocking. Nothing to worry about, not a bug or a defect. Just the way it's designed to work.
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Or it is a bug like the dark theme not being dark in some apps, Chrome, YouTube, Shelf. Top of the screen is less dark, like a little bit green. Not a hardware issue though, settings and built in apps ark dark (Dialler, Messages). I think it is something with the theme settings.
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I don't think so.
With every app that request fingerprint authentication the color of the screen changes.
It must be something related to improve fingerprint accuracy
I am not talking about the screen with FP scanner active. Just check the dark themed Chrome, Shelf, YT. Especially on the dimmed screen. Upper part is a little greenish. Cannot make a screenshot as it looks ok on it. It has to be sth with theme, as on some apps (dialler, messages, settings) the whole screen is dark (black).
Something like this:
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Didusieq said:
I am not talking about the screen with FP scanner active. Just check the dark themed Chrome, Shelf, YT. Especially on the dimmed screen. Upper part is a little greenish. Cannot make a screenshot as it looks ok on it. It has to be sth with theme, as on some apps (dialler, messages, settings) the whole screen is dark (black).
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On picture we could clearly see green tint defect
Yep, and it looks like software issue to me.
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As you can see, app is a little green, but quick settings are black when dragged down. Screen is fine, I believe.
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Yep, and it looks like software issue to me.
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As you can see, app is a little green, but quick settings are black when dragged down. Screen is fine, I believe.
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Thats because green tint is only visible on certain brightness levels at grey background. No problem on black background
The issue related to the lock screen is present any time the through screen fingerprint camera activates. You will also notice it if you have face unlock active in low light and the screen lights up to assist the front camera in recognizing you. Color spectrum is super important to cameras when they are recognizing things on our skin.
Didusieq said:
Yep, and it looks like software issue to me.
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As you can see, app is a little green, but quick settings are black when dragged down. Screen is fine, I believe.
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That apps are not black, are grey. "Dark mode" does not mean "black".
In other way, all amoled panels have (or can have) this kind of behaviours at very low bright level and certain colours (especially grey).
Particularly, I do not see that effect in mine or I just cannot see it.
If you think that is a defect or problem, why not open a repair request to OnePlus?
So I don't know if it's on here or not but I came from a Samsung phone and so anytime a notification will go off it would flash a green light does the OnePlus 9 pro have that same feature or some type of light that could flash when a notification is on the device? Perhaps maybe there's some type of a magisk module that can utilize the camera ring around it to flash when there's a notification if it helps I am on a custom ROM. So I'm not sure if stock has it. Thanks.
On recent OnePlus phones, you'll find a function called Horizon Light (it basically lights the screen's borders when a notification is received), that is used for similar purposes, but there isn't a notification LED in the hardware.
I'm not sure if it is a function that is still in your custom ROM, but it is a stock ROM function.
Yeh, only aware of built-in horizon light , but it doesn't flash long enough to catch it....
Geez, how I miss the LED notification lights that older phones had.
Especially the ones that were multi-color so you could assign a different color for different notification types.
CZ Eddie said:
Geez, how I miss the LED notification lights that older phones had.
Especially the ones that were multi-color so you could assign a different color for different notification types.
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Technically, it wouldn't be impossible to recreate it with an app dedicated to modify the always on display features.
As AMOLED screens are basically tiny LEDs side by side, we could imagine a way to light or pulse specific ones to remplace the "missing" one. But it would be a trade-off, as those selected LEDs would be functioning and aging surely more quickly than the others.
There are a few apps out there that will use the AOD to create the appearance of a notification light or even continually flash the Horizon light bars and other custom lighting options however all 3 I've tried were glitchy and obviously drained the battery since it's using AOD to accomplish the notification light. Maybe if you're already used to AOD battery drain it wouldn't be so noticeable but I don't use AOD normally so the difference was very noticeable to me.
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There are a few apps out there that will use the AOD to create the appearance of a notification light or even continually flash the Horizon light bars and other custom lighting options however all 3 I've tried were glitchy and obviously drained the battery since it's using AOD to accomplish the notification light. Maybe if you're already used to AOD battery drain it wouldn't be so noticeable but I don't use AOD normally so the difference was very noticeable to me.
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Yes, it's also a thing to consider, but I don't think the memory and power usage for only a black screen and a color dot would be that energy consuming. Did you notice a change that big when you gave a try to those apps?
look for notifybuddy on the playstore. works fine on my OP9Pro.
I didn't realize how much i relied on the notification light until it was gone. The AOD fits my needs, tho. Posted settings on another thread awhile back: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/horizon-light.4371367/#post-86085187
I may give notifybuddy a try, too
Would recommend this app. I've been using it on my oneplus devices last couple of year. There are a lot customizations too.
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i REALLY missed my notification LED (the last phone I had that had it was my old blackberry priv) then I got a smart watch and I don't care so much anymore