[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Gosh, I didn't even know what the heck OG is! (OG = Original Motorola Droid 1 phone) I get it now. Man, I never even heard of all these Android releases before. You might be my age or even younger (I am going to back off this topic as "A lady never will disclose her age" and it is dangerous territory!) but you sure have me beat, hands down, with Android experience. I was busy fixing and mastering electronics while you were getting your Android education and experience. I joined the game with Froyo, I think it was, on my Droid X and really did love that phone. Gingerbread came next and was a big deal. I think that is when I got the Razr Maxx with Gingerbread and ICS was a HUGE improvement! The entire UI changed and was a LOT better. Then Jellybean, everybody wanted it but nobody really knew at first, what it was or did. It sort of "greased the wheels of ICS" and made everything run a lot smoother. Nice upgrade w/out new features. That lasted all through the CM10 ride and when the ride was over, then came CM11 and something called "Kit Kat".

Jellybean was already slowing to a snail by now and the first time I got cm11 up and running and experienced this new Kit Kat thing, all I could say was, "WOW"! Speed, and lots of it, with Kit Kat. :)

I understand why you need the Notification LED enabled with screen on. You use a dock, thus the screen is "always on" but during dock use, your screen is covered with a daydream screen or digital clock. Thus, you do not get notifications. Makes sense. Unfortunately features are incorporated on a "majority rules" basis and the vast majority is not demanding the LED being active w/screen on. If this were a small feature that any developer could add in, say, to a rom by app or feature, maybe default OFF and allow set to ON in Settings, we could have this feature. Normally I would ask someone like [MENTION=3457922]stargo[/MENTION] to give us the ability to add it or enable it in system files. Unfortunately, this feature request would require a kernel rebuild to allow it and asking for something like that in cm11 would not be easy nor would the chances of getting it be anything other than zero. Besides, stargo is so busy these days I cannot even talk to him anymore. :(

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I am almost positive that having the Notification LED on while screen is on requires a kernel mod in "a cm11 friendly" kernel, there is something you can do, Sherri. Ask a kernel developer who makes cm11 kernels how difficult it would be to compile a cm11 compatible kernel with LED Notification on all the time. Many developers get tons of PMs and do not answer the bulk of them unless the user has tried everything else and submits the proper logs, sometimes when a harmless question comes from a pretty lady, they will take the time to answer. You should ask dtrail1, the German developer of the JBX kernel. Since building an Android kernel is not that difficult for someone with experience and detrail1 does this all the time, he would be able to tell you how difficult or easy it is to build a cm11 compatible kernel with the Notification LED on all the time. You don't care if it is on always or if you can shut it off, keep it simple for now. If you ask dtrail1 politely and quickly, I bet he would give you an answer, Sherri. If dtrail1 gives you the answer, then we would know a lot more about it than we do now. Just see if he will tell you if it is possible and how difficult it would be. You think it is worth a shot? :confused:

Hey, thanks for the Android History Lesson. I really did enjoy it quite a bit. Happy New Year, Sherri! :)

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I just dug through some of the Android Developer & Programming docs online and man, this is no small task. Other developers are asking if Notification LED can be turned on with screen on and keep getting the same answer, NO, at least not with app programming. The developer in the link given states that he does have an app that does this, so having the light on with screen on may be possible anyway. Went through more notification programming docs and this stuff is WAY over my head, Sherri. Still, if it could be made to work, I am pretty sure it starts with the kernel. It would do no harm to ask a kernel developer if this is possible, Sherri.