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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mrsatan:
K9 and Kaiten mail both support it, so if you do add it, it would be great for both of those. They are essentially the same but I do like Kaiten's interface better. Maybe add a widget to force the led off or look into integrating it into an app like Notifications Pro Plus.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
I was only aware of k9 having that possibility. I will have a look at what gmail and kaitenmail can do.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mrsatan:
Gmail is kind of shady when it comes to notification broadcasting, but kaiten mail should be perfectly ok. It is built off of K9.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sidneylopsides:
Great little app, and I'm about to suggest the same things, a slower blink rate and other notifications.

I have noticed something that may help. On other notifications apps, like the customer notifier on the liveview, they go through Accessibility, you have to enable the app in there in settings to allow it to read the notifications.

In theory then it would notify for anything, or maybe like the liveview plugin, you cam select what apps it responds to

I hope that helps!.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nixx-X1:
cool stuff! + ideas :)

Just installed your app as I recently got the X-U. It's working great for the first version!

It mixes up sometimes with the original LED (I keep them the notifications on while screen is on) so the tend to create disco colors.

I've been messing around with tasker to do the same (+more) and noticed it's good to reset the led-RGB values before giving it the color(cycle) this way it overrides xperia's own led activation and your color settings don't get an offset. the accessibility plug is helpfull btw.. this is how tasker also reads the notification messages and you can connect it to anything basically.

Any chance you could make the app load a profile externally instead of embedding it so we can change blink-rates/color settings etc ?

I'm not much of a programmer myself, but editing existing profiles is no problem. This way everyone can make it how they like it and you don't have to do all the work alone :)

I know everyone is throwing it's own wishlist here, so just figured to add my thoughts :

Since we have 3 leds and things get screwed up when having 2 notification when using all leds I thought the following (colors are free to choose)

L-Led > blinking red for gmail notification

M-Led > blinking green for missed SMS

R-Led > blinking blue for missed call

This way nothing gets mixed up. personally I'd like it if it eg. blinks 3 times in 1 second, then does nothing for 1-3 seconds and blinks again.

This would also open up space to use each led for a 2nd notification:

L-Led > blink yellow for facebook

M-Led > blink purple for what's app

R-Led > blink aqua for skype

At least.. that is something I'd like.

And maybe it's cool if you have 1 of everything it goes in bonus mode and just cycles through the rainbow color spectrum :rolleyes:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] matchung:
just found that SMS notification does not work but missed calls
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Farhang:
Hi

Can you please post the apk file?

Google Play is blocked in my country. :(

Much appreciated.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] brygse:
How do I get when the flashing strips also served as a diode and a native, but now the situation is either a strip or a diode.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] royalbloodvi:
is it possible to adjust the brightness of the strip? e.g. the bright light when the doomkernel lights up the bar.. that would be awesome cheers
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] AlexZam:
video

Could someone post demo video of this app on Xperia?

thx in advance.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] herasymcuk:
Yes.... the sms notification doesn't work. I explain: when an sms arrives....the bar blinks for 2/3 second but it stop to work immediatelly after.

With a missed call instead it continues to blink.

I noticed that: with sms blink rate "fast" it works for 2/3 seconds.... with blink rate "Medium" it works for 4/5 seconds.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Vitriol_Drinker:
That app is very nice, thank you :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] lythanhlong:
At first glance, I love the concept. For a first release it is really good despite some bugs that could be fixed. One major is that if my screen is on, the tranparent bar stays on which has been reported by others so don't worry bout what I said. I am looking very forward of the development of this app! Cannot wait to see what you have in store for us.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] tsukeyomi:
Didn't try this yet (and didn't read the whole thread, i'm a bit short of time right now sorry).

First of all, great job.

From what i see, other than minor bugs that can indeed be fixed, there's this conflict between the notification LED and the notification bar.

Do you think you can sort it out? Or is it like a XOR?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] P1T3RR0:
Hi. I have idea for this app, but it might be imposible to implement this i think. What i mean is that the bar could behave like led stripe in K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider. But i don't know how many led's there are in xperia bar, and if they can be controlled separetly.

P.S. When i saw for the first time New Xperia's, my first thought was about notification like this, and i was very surprised when i figured out, there is no option like this, becouse it was obvious function for me. I still have hope that Sony will add this feature in ICS update...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] przemo5020:
How to disable LED bar without installing any application?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nixx-X1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33572824
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] przemo5020:
I have to copy the entire code for Terminal Emulator?:

am startservice -a "com.sonyericsson.illumination.intent.action.START_LED" --es "com.sonyericsson.illumination.intent.extra.PACKAGE_NAME" "xda.kicks.ass" --es "com.sonyericsson.illumination.intent.extra.LED_ID" "com.sonyericsson.illumination.intent.extra.value.THEME" --ei "com.sonyericsson.illumination.intent.extra.LED_COLOR" 65793

Error:

Please help me. Step by step
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nixx-X1:
I've added a script there that you can run. Forgot that copy-paste messes things up.

if you run into problems, please respond there in the corresponding thread :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
New version 2.5 is out.

It brings a widget so you can quickly enable and disable notifications.

Thanks to mrsatan for help with icons again!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mrsatan:
Looks good, good work man.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] quadlt:
Tested on CM10 FXP15, doesn't work.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
Probably the same problem as has been discussed earlier in the thread. You need to add the illumination libraries.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] quadlt:
My bad! Could you point me to exact post or something, because search feature doesn't help me in here. :confused:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31592702&postcount=1180
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] venkatpathy03:
thanks for the apps.

can we use the multicolor LED for xperia U

thx for advance
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] TorN-d-:
if you mean that you set different color for each(of 3) leds on bottom?

Then, only if you root your device, there is already an app that can do that

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.rckmn.leds.u.ctrl&hl=en

i actually like this one more. its simpler :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
This app can do any color on the XU, but only one at a time.

To get different colors at the same time you need root, as mentioned in the previous post.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] iFahod:
Does it work on xperia play
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
Probably no.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
New version out on Google Play

Version 2.6 contains

Notification for Battery Fully Charged and also Battery Empty
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] You_Know_Who:
^Great, you have kept improving it and added new features with every update :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Rosie-Posie:
Thanks, you rock!

I still need some more colours, I hope you'll implement the RGB system.

I like knowing what's going on by just looking at the phone from afar. LoL

Sent from my Sony Xperia U
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] tumpakmotorvega:
Good job!:good:

Keep on working guy! Perhaps many features added on next versions
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] boyheadkick:
^____^

installed it on my sola and it works :good: real nice!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ankh.red:
Do you have any resources about controlling led via apk? I want to make something interesting too. :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] momtaror:
App is very good :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
Check PM
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ankh.red:
I tried the link on first page for cm 9.

Doesn't work on Xperia U. :(
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xbeelzx:
Nice job.. keep going XD
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
Version 2.7 out on Google Play.

New feature is "set theme color" for Xperia U.

This lets you set the theme color for the illumination bar to any RGB value.

As a side effect you can also disable the "softkey backlight" functionality by decreasing all values to zero.

This is something a lot of people have asked for, but unfortunately it only works on Xperia U.

I have tried on Xperia S also but it is not possible to set the intensity of the softkey backlight using this method.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Me‎:
cool feature!

but I don't have an update yet :(?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] dtaluthge:
Awesome work.................. just updated and working perfectly.............. :D :D :D :D :D million thanks :) :victory::victory:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] frostyaloha:
Try to get library to CM9 along with this app but still not work. Any luck on CM9 for XPU?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DanielNL:
Awesome! :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] kolembo:
Definitely the best app out there for the Xperia U and all us illumination bar lovers!

Sony's design team is moving away from it, so these may be the last phones!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] crownpku:
This works quite well on my Xperia J. However one thing is that the color there is always mixed white.

Xperia J has an illumination "point" at the bottom that can have Blue, Yellow, Green etc theme colors. Can you make the "set theme color" function also works on Xperia J? Or perhaps could you give me a apk version with "set theme color" that is not limited to Xperia U and let me have a try on my Xperia J? Thanks!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] crownpku:
Just figured out that if i change the device type to xperia u then I can change the color in the settings for different apps. So this actually works out perfectly on Xperia J. Thank you!

Sent from my ST26i
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
I will look in to the theme color on XJ.

Good to know you got the colors working for the notifications.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xx1182:
Any news for cm9?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Rosie-Posie:
I'm loving this last update! I can finally turn off the bar without activating screen filter. Yay!

Thank you! :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mrsatan:
Do you think you could add the ability to read the light sensor so that during the day it wont light up the bar when using the display. Not totally necessary but a consideration.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DanielNL:
Awesome new feature ("theme color"), rundgong!!! :D :D

By setting the upper bar full (R), and the middle one like about 5-10% (G), I got my national color (netherlands), orange!!! :D :D

Cool, man! ;)

But, when I close app and re-visit that RGB theme feature, all bars are again set to 0%... :( Can u fix it, that it "saves" the last/latest setting when clicking on "save"-button? :D

Another idea I got, the picture on the Android "desktop" could be remade, like making the edges/corners round and maybe instead of white light-bar make the threee RDG colors (in that little pic), for Xperia U users... ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
There is not much I can do about that. I haven't tried it myself.

You should probably ask the cm developers about that.

Why do you want this only during the day? There is already an option for doing it all the time.

Would a time interval be enough?

Sounds like should be doable though.

The reason I don't save it is because you can change it the normal way that Sony does it. Then the value I have saved will not reflect the real setting.

I figured it was better to not show anything than to show the wrong value, but maybe I should re-think that.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DanielNL:
What exactly is then the way how Sony does it? :/
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
When you set the Theme of the phone it will adjust the Theme Color accordingly
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Divaksh:
On CM9 library method doesn't work.

Any update?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nbch:
Great app, it is something which should come with the phone by default. It reminds me of my old HTC Diamond.

Unfortunately, after upgrading my Xperia P to the latest Sony firmware the behavior of the light bar becomes different. It used to work perfect, then I updated and it still works fine. After I rebooted my phone however the light bar is always on, and stays on, also when the screen is off. I checked the settings of the app, no changes there. I uninstalled the app and then rebooted, the light bar goes off with the screen again. I reinstalled the app, configure it and it works fine. Now I rebooted my phone and the light bar is on all the time again.

Can you help me fix it?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Min3r:
Hey man ! Been using your app since day 1 of getting my U and loving it :p Seriously, I was half pissed off when I couldnt set notifications on the LED bar till I found your app :D Saved me trying to return the phone for another ;)

And Just an idea, but can you add the option of maybe a 5s notification ? 2s isnt as battery efficient as I want it ;) Anyway keep up the good work :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] dimon2242:
Planned in future added lights effect like u-disco?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] niku4uster:
Hey man could you add more colors??

And the feature to adjust the brightness of the light app wise...

Thanks man
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
I'm sorry, but I have no idea what could be causing this. Does it stop if you kill my app or does it keep shining anyway?

When I started working on the app, 2 seconds was the maximum time that worked. Now I did a quick test and it looks like sony has made some changes with the ICS upgrade so longer blink times may be possible.

I will investigate more and see what I find.

No. That level of control is not possible without root access.

I have been getting some requests for more colors, so I will have a look at that.

The brightness of the notifications can be adjusted under general settings.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] LeoRamalho:
Illumination

This is App is awesome!

Thanks, i am using Xperia U and this app fits so good.

Nice Job.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nbch:
No, it even don't stop shining after deleting the app. Only after reboot the light bar acts normal. When re-installing the app it is fine until the next reboot then the problem is back again unfortunately.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
Then it is something out of my control that is wrong with your phone.

If my app misbehaves it will stop shortly after you kill it.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] lstic:
Do you have this app activated for whatsapp? I found that when i turn notification on for whatsapp, is often doesn't stop being lit. If I deatcivate it for whatsapp, everything works fine except that whatsapp light notification is turned off.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nbch:
Strange, it worked fine until I upgraded to the new Sony firmware. Maybe they changed something in managing the LED bar?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
New version 2.8 is out on google play, with longer blink times.

5, 10, 30 and 60 seconds is now available in addition to the earlier options.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Jamal_RS:
Thanks Dude!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nbch:
I decided to give the new version a go and so far it works as it is supposed to, also after a reboot. Should the problems appear again I will report back here.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nakedgun99:
sometimes when i unlock my LED bar stil blink and back to normal until i relock again :confused:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] myzar:
I really miss this great app with cm9 , can you try to investigate a possible fix ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
I had a look at the free xperia project webpage. In the change log I saw that some files were removed by request from Sony.

I don't know why or what other consequences there are of that, but that is probably why it does not work anymore.

I think it should still be possible to patch it in afterwards, but the FXP developers should know more about that.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DanielNL:
Can you add some blink-rhythms like 2x short, 3 sec. break for example? :D Would be great! ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
No. To get more than just simple blinking patterns requires root.

It might be possible to do some things without root, but that would at the very least use much more battery than it does now, so it is not a good solution.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] crownpku:
I am using Xperia J. Before updating to the latest firmware everything was working perfectly as I choose device type Xperia U. Now after the update, the bar will only blink with one color if I choose Xperia P, and will change color as I choose but not blink if I choose Xperia U.

Sent from my ST26i
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] naszrudd:
this app used to word on my sola.

but now after updated to latest version, no longer works
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
There are no significant changes in the latest version. Have you changed anything else on your phone?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] chetan180:
i wanted an option to control led brightness ... i know there is one..

but i wanted two because at night the led hurt my eyes so i have to keep on changing the brightness everyday...

so please add an option to control .. low the brightness of led . at particular period of time...

sorry for my bad English
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] myzar:
rundgong let's continue here

yay ! it works no more fxp buggy lights ! it needs lights.st-ericsson.so from stock rom too and system\lib\hw\lights.montblanc.so needs to be deleted
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] JesusMcCloud:
This is great news! The RGB led bar is definitely the killer feature of this Phone!

Could you point me to the source of the needed library?

(Which version of a stock sony rom works? - Is there a CWM flashable zip of such a rom that contains the correct version of the library so I can easily extract it?)

Best Regards,

Jesus McCloud
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ljubanve:
@myzar

What exactly we need to do to in order to fix LEDs?

I've copied lights.st-ericsson.so in hw folder and I deleted lights.montblanc, then I copied SemcIllumination.apk in app folder as I thought it should be done.

By doing this I've totally lost LEDs and screen brightness is maxed out and can't be changed. Is there anything else that need to be done?

Thank you for your help.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] myzar:
You need to add more files from stock rom and to edit init.st-ericsson.usb.rc too i'll post a flashable zip soon
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] myzar:
Sony illumination service for FXP CM9

This is the zip flash it with cwm then install the Illumination bar notification app. It's not a clean way this will flash an edited boot img too because init.st-ericsson.usb.rc needs to be edited too and that file it's in the boot img. If someone knows how to edit it without having to reflash the whole img with the kernel it would be great basically the illumination service needs to be started at boot and it's started from this line:

service illumination /system/bin/illumination_service

if the service is not started a boot loop will result

NB. THIS IS FOR XPERIA-U ONLY DON'T FLASH IT ON ANOTHER DEVICE IT WILL NOT WORK
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
i'm looking at other ways to get it started during boot, but so far no luck
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] JesusMcCloud:
Working fine on fxp201.

One thing though: the notification led (next to the speaker) is always on after the first notification.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] coolvicky4u:
thank you very much for the effort works like a charm :victory:

i have noticed a problem , the brightness automatically sets to 40 or 50% after you turn off the display and turn it back on.

if you could possibly disable the led bar on screen touch it would be great. You could have a look at this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33572804&postcount=4

thanks once again :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] myzar:
I've noticed that too my workaround is to set it to A with beautiful quick settings app, but i think any third party app should do the trick
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] dlf110:
Sorry, I've a xperia u running CM9.1 FXP201 and I can't change the led bar colour. It doesn't run neither with this app nor with another. Any help?

Thanks.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vamsi_krishna:
FXP 201 doesn't yet fully support the illumination bar.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] coolvicky4u:
I have tried a number of third party apps but they don't work properly, the brightness resets everytime the screen turns off
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] myzar:
right now i'm using this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux.free to control brightness/autobrightness and it seems to work fine
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ljubanve:
It looks OK but as Coolvicky4u said brightness is resetting and on every screen touch LED bar is illuminated.

Why can't we choose theme color from app?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
I think I got it working on CM9 without modifying the boot image.

Check out the instructions in the zip or just run the file RunMe.bat

I've tried it on a clean FXP 201 install.

There appears to be some voodoo magic going on in the interactions of illumination_service, system_server, and the pipe /data/lightservice.soc but once it works I think it will continue to work.

If you get the files from your own device, don't forget that SemcIllumination.apk must be re-signed with CM keys for it to work.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] myzar:
it seems to work fine, great work finding out how to autostart it, il'make a flashable zip for the lazy people. I was trying to figure out why we can't change the theme color, i noticed that editing light_themes in data works, so your app is simply not recognizing the device
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
A flashable zip may not be a good idea. The last step where the application is launched manually seems to be important. Flashing it might screw up that part.

Yeah, the theme color works. An update will come shortly.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] XUx3:
I can't get it to work with your method rundgong... :/

It just disables the led bar... will it be possible to change theme color like on stock(-based) roms?

regards
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
Did you try the step in the trouble-shooting section of the instructions file?

Yeah you should be able to change the theme in the next version.

This of course require that you get it to work at all first :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] XUx3:
I tried it with Terminal IDE but idk if it was right :D

do i have to do all the steps again if it doesn't work?

It works now :) I just had to restart it :)

I love you :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rundgong:
did you install it with the bat-file or did you run the commands by hand?

I dont know if running the commands again will help.

can you verify all the files are in place?

also verify that the service is running by executing the following:

ps | grep ill

you should get a few lines and and one should look something like this:

1504 root 1896 S /system/bin/illumination_service
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] XUx3:
i just had to reboot after typing the trouble shooting commands :)

is it possible to change the theme without your updated app? i don't want to wait until it's finished :)