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[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] obones:
Thanks a lot for this application, I did not notice that the S10e does not have a notification LED until I received it a week ago, your application looks very interesting.

I did not have any trouble installing it, following the setup wizard and it appears to work well.

I do have a few remarks/questions though:

The activation toggle at the top is of the same grey color whether it's on the right (activated) or on the left (disabled). This makes it hard to figure out which state it is by simply looking at it. System settings use the same GUI element, but it's grey when disabled and blue (or another color) when activated. This is a minor annoyance, though.

I see that you had a French translation at some point, but that it had to be removed because no one was maintaining it. Do not hesitate to ask me, I can take over that part (I'm already doing just that for other applications)

I understand that AOD must be enabled for the holey light to come up. It appears you are actually placing an all black bitmap on top of whatever picture is selected for AOD so that the screen is "visually off" while not being "off" for the operating system itself. With regard to battery usage, if I'm correct, this means that AOD is actually not using up much (or at all) battery because showing black on an OLED display consumes no energy.

Now, when I choose a setting for "Battery: Screen off" the various options show estimated battery usage between less than 1% and 5.5% per hour. I assume that this battery usage is when there is a notification to be displayed, but if no notification is present, Holey light will not consume any battery. Is that correct?

Once again, thanks for this great application.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Keule-Tm:
Tbh that's wrong. Just to power up the screen (without lighting a pixel) you need some energy. Yes, there is a difference between full bright white and keeping the screen black; but even a black picture without anything else will consume some power.

Actually here on XDA you can find an article on this (including the finding that the difference in power consumption between black and dark grey is negligible).
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Lagggi:
What about Android 10?

Does our application still work?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] dctrbnsttr:
Works for me..... Just updated to Android 10 yesterday on my S10+. Holey light continued to work as if the OTA update never happened. No adjustments needed on my end.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Lagggi:
Unholey light (the big circle in the center of the screen) does not work for me!
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] dctrbnsttr:
Never tried that. The swirling light around the lenses on my s10+ works..... Sorry
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Lagggi:
Swirl Light works also for me but it consumes much more power than unholey light...
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] zabhi:
Stuck on accessibility installed service. Version 0 66

Phone s10+ andriod 10
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Xdeeayy:
I can confirm that ever since the Android 10 upgrade, the Unholey Light Circle in the center of the phone screen has stopped working, however I've switched to using the Swirl Light in the top right corner which still works. I did prefer the Unholey Light Circle, but I'll take what I can get and still appreciate the app.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] andee39:
I got my Android 10 upgrade last night and totally forgot Unholey Light does not work at this time. I have a new Fitbit that is unfortunately draining my battery too much and am trying to resolve that so I don't want to add the light around the camera at this point. Will try something else that is hopefully not too complicated because not having a notification light is so aggravating. Samsung idiots!!!

Much appreciated Unholey Light while I could and hope to again!!
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] a4e5h:
i moved to AOD Notify, dont see any update here.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.alwaysondisplay&hl=de
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Chainfire:
Android 10 fix for Unholey Light display pushed

Severe lack of updates on my end on all my apps, but too busy with work I actually get paid for...
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] koko115:
App is not installed after update from 0.66 version... any sugestion ?

I dont want lose my colors per apps.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Md99z:
Why don't you make it a paid app? I would pay for it; I really like your app.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Chainfire:
Because all the dozen users that are actually willing to pay giving me a dollar does not make up for the psychological pressure of feeling obligated to provide timely updates. Apps need massive amounts of users to be worth doing them for the money these days, unless you go shady with ads and whatnot.

As it is now, there's no obligations in any direction. The source is there for anyone to fix if they have an issue, for themselves and others, or switch to a competing app that doesn't have that issue. I use this app every day myself so as long as I need it, it'll be updated to support those needs. (It would surprise no one that the day the last update was released is the same day my S10 was updated to Android 10). I don't care about this app taking over the world or having a massive user-base. I built it for me, and you get to use it because it doesn't cost me anything to make it available.

If people are happy with it, great. If not, shrug. Works for me.

EDIT: To clarify, I was not complaining that I'm not being paid for this app; it's just that the job I am being paid for takes up so much of my time that there's virtually none left for side-projects.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] zabhi:
0.67 Stuck on accessibility installed service.

S10 plus andriod 10
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Chainfire:
Reboot; if that doesn't help, uninstall, reboot, reinstall, reboot.

There's an issue somewhere in Android that makes accessibility services get stuck sometimes. Not sure where the problem is but the above usually fixes it.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] zabhi:
Only v0.50 working
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] sanderg:
Dank je wel Chainfire. Everything working like on Pie!
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] KNikov:
I cannot get past the 1/4 permission step. I Do have wifi and bluetooth enabled , is there something else i can try or perhaps a manual add of the needed permissions. I really miss a led notification.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] mjakobi:
Hi chainfire,

I really like this app. Thanks for your great work!

If I can help with the translation to German, please let me know.

I've installed the app on my wife's S10e (Android 10). It works great and she likes it apart from one bug we've found.

If Holey Light is switched on in 'Accessibility' -> 'Services' the camera app tries to activate the voice control everytime it is started. The message says something like 'To improve Talkback in "camera" voice control will be activated" (sorry, I only have german messages). If you switch it on it doesn't ask again (until you switch voice control off again in the camera settings) but if you click 'Cancel' it keeps coming back.

As long as Holey Light service is switched off, the message isn't shown.

Would be great if this could be fixed in one of the future versions.

Regards - Markus
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Mr Anderson:
Is it just me, or did the System UI 'FBT' (full battery) setting stop working after the ASJG update?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] dctrbnsttr:
It stopped working a while back after a pie security update.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] sirvalence:
Greetings and many thanks for this awesome app! Just updated to the latest version and I'm seeing something interesting and figured I'd share.

S10 running Android 10.

Holey Light v0.67

Have it setup to show only for Battery:Screen off

Have Hide AOD set to Full

Proceeded through the setup wizard and completed all steps including installing an AOD image only.

Everything works great except for one scenario I'm seeing. With screen OFF and device locked (everything looks great). If/when something wakes the device whether it be a button push or picking up the device or double tapping screen and such, the screen wakes to the lockscreen, but then after a few seconds, the screen goes dark again like it should, but AOD is fully visible now. Only way I can go back to a fully hidden AOD screen is to unlock the device and either let it timeout or double tap to lock (using Lawnchair). Please let me know if you need any additional info and thanks again!!

Troubleshooting steps taken:

reboot

uninstall -> reinstall -> reconfigure -> reboot

Switch to default AOD then install AOD image only again.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Chainfire:
What's a consistent procedure of getting this popup in Camera?

I've seen it now, once. But once doesn't help with debugging. Though I'm pretty sure this is an issue with the TalkBack feature and not with HoleyLight, so there may not be anything I can do about it.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] andee39:
Is the version that works with Android 10 the one in playstore?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Emerl:
Thank you for making this available to everyone! I do have a concern though. Sometimes when my screen is off, the notification light will appear on the far left side of the screen. I have everything set as "swirl". Haven't tried the others.

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I believe so. There's notes of what's changed under the "What's New" section ?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Xdeeayy:
Awesome, the Unholey Light Circle works for me again after the update, much appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] andee39:
I thought so but it is not working for me. Just wanted to confirm. Will have to keep trying. Must have missed something. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] zperetz:
For me it"s simple. With Holey Light enabled as Accessibility Service go to the camera settings - 4th line from the bottom with methods of shooting - voice control switch to off.

From now every time camera is activated the popup with TalkBack raises until you agree to enable it.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] slapdatass:
There's a few posts about it here - from what I have found, the camera pop-up regarding TalkBack only began once Android 10 was installed. I've confirmed that it stop popping up if Holey Light is disabled (which isn't a great workaround, as HL is fantastic). It also resumed popping up once I enabled HL again.

If there's any specific methodology for getting some better debugging info I'd be happy to try & do so :)
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] mpamxl:
Hello, I really like this software, but is there a way to save more power?

In addition, I made a complete Chinese translation of this software, How do I contact you and give my translation to you?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] andee39:
Are you using Holey Light or Unholey Light? There are several choices for Holey and one of them is better on battery than the others (sorry, I did not use Holey so not sure which one it is but it is also mentioned throughout the thread) I used Unholey before the A10 update and the battery usage was minimal.

Check the opening post - there is contact info for Chainfire.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Gemini_05:
Holey Light was working perfectly for me for a while on Android 10 on my S10 until recently. Now, no matter what I have configured, it won't hide my AOD screen anymore.

Update: I uninstalled and then reinstalled the app. Looks like whatever issue there was has cleared.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] struct_de:
Hi! I use holey light on my S10e and it works fine. However, after I reboot the phone it stops to work. I have to disable and then enable it to work again.

Jürgen
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Brylle Dacumos:
Guys can you help me? I am stuck in the first pop up 1/4 even though i open my wifi and also connected to bluetooth with other device. It works perfectly before but i reset the app and can't use it anymore. This is in S10+.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] bigpotato107:
this is what i had to do to get it to work :good: did not have to reinstall tho..
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Seth25:
Hi, can't get AOD tap to show to work with holey light. It will not light up with screen off, only after I tap it to show AOD. is there anything I can do, except disabling tap to show? Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Seth25:
Same problem here, so I guess I'm not alone. S10+

Will work fine with AOD off or AOD set to always, but will not work with AOD set to "tap to show" unfortunately.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] alireza_simkesh:
Hi, Can you explain more about Unholey Light?

Is it introduced in this same thread? Were both apps originated by the same person?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] andee39:
Unholey Light is not a separate app. You can choose it during set-up. You would get a circular light in the middle of your screen (unholey) for notifications instead of light around camera cut out (holey.)
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] alireza_simkesh:
Thanks.

I have another question, it says on the app that this app uses an average of 1-5% battery per hour. Is this power consumption only for when there is actually a notification? In other words, when there is no notification on the phone at all, is the app still using 1-5% battery, or is it less?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] andee39:
I was using unholey and had minimal battery consumption overall.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Yankee6:
not working when plugged in

When I get a text with my 10e plugged in there's no light. If I unplug the light comes on. Is there a fix for this or a setting I'm missing? I tried all the ones I could find.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] xmas2:
Some weird stuff happens when this app is used in another country. When lockscreen starts showing two clocks - one with local time and another with home time then lockscreen can freeze the phone and it won't react to anything.. And then in the end it makes a restart itself later..

Never happened while in home country, but always happens when in another country in another time zone...

Seems to happen if to press power button so it turns display on but not to unlock the screen-then if to press button again then it starts showing two clocks on dark screen forever and then in some cases it hang in the end if any notifications come.. To turn screw completely off I have to press power and then unlock the screen and then press power again

Any setting what could fix that?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Covafett:
My S20 Ultra would be perfect if this worked on it. ?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Chr0nicDreamz:
While I would absolutely agree, I wouldn't ask for it. If he has time he will update. He's a great Dev and always has been.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Covafett:
I know better than to ask for something. Was simply stating my current thought..... Lol.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] slapdatass:
Update - looks like the February security update resolved whatever the issue was, so while the Talkback pop-up was technically caused by whatever HL was hooking into, it was an Android problem that now seems to be fixed.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] xmas2:
No one else had this problem?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] zgrieger:
Any idea how to get textra and snapchat to show up on the colors list?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] mkoev:
Hey all,

Just installed the app and I can't continue after getting permission 1 of 4. I connect to my miband, click done and nothing... no other pop up. I did a thorough search in the thread and could not find a realistic answer or steps to troubleshoot. Just one user mentioned something about having Dynamic Notifications installed on their device , but I don't have that. S10e. Can anyone help?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] thekoumi:
I had the same issue when i try to connect my device with my handsfree for first time . This solved and the other pop up appears finally when i connected my device with my laptop Bluetooth. I don't now if matters but both my laptop and my s10 plus was connected to the same wifi network also.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] omgitzmo:
One UI 2.1

Anyone else on the One UI 2.1 update? Just installed it and the light around the pill hole camera seems to be misaligned, tried my best to make adjustments but it stretches out and looks weird. Is this going to be fixed?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] zgrieger:
I have an S10+ and noticed it. Here are the settings I used to get it back to normal:

Scale Base: 5.00dp

Scale Horizontal: 1.00dp

Shift Vertical: 0.00dp

Shift Horizontal: -5.00dp

Hope that helps.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] omgitzmo:
Ayy, thanks it worked! For shift horizontal, I done -5.25dp. Btw I'm now having another issue. When I get notification like WhatsApp, the swirl display on effect usually goes after 5-10 seconds but after 2.1, the notification light swirls permanently until I get rid of that notification. Have you found a fix for this?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] zgrieger:
I use Textra and haven't noticed anything unusual. Are you saying that your notification light continues to blink until you open it up? If so, that's the way it's supposed to function. I know there are some settings you can play with to tell it when you want it to shut off after doing an action.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] omgitzmo:
I think I sorted it out, fixed the "timeout period" for holey light. Thanks ?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] omgitzmo:
Netflix Issue

holey light app uses my phones accessibility settings, this makes my Netflix app's playback controls (play, pause, rewind and forward) stay on screen. As soon as I turn off accessibility settings for the app, the netflix app playback control goes away when I tap the screen.

Would the developer of the app be able to fix this? Its kind of annoying.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] nenesse:
Hi, I have the same problem here + my AOD clock does not display anymore when screen is off :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] niaxi:
I can't understand i have installed this app but it doesn't work when screen is off ? please help
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] shaggyskunk:
Check to make sure that you don't have Holey Light being "Optimised" by the Settings of your device - You might want to run through the Setup for Holey Light again - No issues on my S10+ One UI V2.0 Snapdragon variant.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] nenesse:
Well,

Maybe the problems appear with One UI 2.1

In latest firmware update G975FXXU4CTC9 , One Ui is in 2.1 version instead of 2.0
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] shaggyskunk:
Maybe - But doubtful - Holey Light worked perfectly on One UI V1.0 & No issues with 2.0 which was a significant update - I'll be receiving 2.1 in the next few days (Scheduled anyway) & I'll post back once I have it & let you know if it's not working for me on 2.1
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] nenesse:
I can say that HL works perfectly when I was in OneUI 2.0, it stops working when I update despite of all permissions granted.

Let us know how it will work for you in a few days
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] shaggyskunk:
Did you try to Uninstall Holey Light & Reinstall? There really shouldn't be any issues going from 2.0 to 2.1 ?
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] faisalis10:
Anyone noticing huge battery drain with holey light on one ui 2.1
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] shaggyskunk:
Holey Light is working just fine for me on my S10+ One UI V2.1 (just updated this morning & Factory Reset) - No issues with the screen On or Off.

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You just updated to 2.1 today right?

It's probably way too early to get a sense of the battery usage on a new Android Version - Give it a few days & if you don't want to Factory Reset (I ALWAYS do with a new Android Version) - At least Boot into Recovery & Wipe Cache.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Chainfire:
The next release, you can set a notification to ignore by setting its color to black.

Aside from that, if you hide the notification in Android itself, Holey Light will *also* not see it.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2Faat:
So far so good but I don't seem to be getting anything while my screen is off.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] fatboypup:
It was the Samsung edge Lighting+ blocking it ... I got it running now thx. Looking forward to screen off now
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] xPr0metheus:
Some feedback:

• When my phone isnt connected to the charger, screen off notifications dont work - not sure if thats supposed to be like that atm.

• As the screen is always on with this when you got a notification, you can pull down the notification bar while the screen is "off"

• AOD usage is also not possible when you received a notification, but that's clear. Still would be cooler to have it work

• Doesnt work at all with edge lighting on (set to screen off in my case). When I receive a notifcation while the screen is off, Holey Light triggers a notification (this app draws over blabla) which is displayed by the edge lighting notification. It doesnt display the notification I got.

I think in conclusion we can say that this app already is better than that ad-junked **** app of which we have a dozen topics around here, but a useful solution probably can only be done by sammy themselves... so lets hope.

Edit: Btw is there a way to disable the "this app draws over bliblablub" notification without making the app not working properly anymore?

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[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] the_scotsman:
It helps to read the information provided by the dev before posting feedback etc...

I'd suggest you (and others) read the Github link posted in the OP to understand what features are enabled or disabled in the app and why.

A lot of people are posting this same thing, yet haven't read anything Chainfire posted in the OP. if you did, you'd know why.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] xPr0metheus:
I indeed read it, that's why I added the part that I am not sure if intended or not. I assumed it but it isn't 100% clear for me from the github stuff.

Apart from that, my comment contains a lot of other points. I don't see any value in your comment though. You could have answered with "its intended atm because of the battery consumption" but you decided to be a righteous jerk instead. If such behavior makes you feel better - work on your insecurities.

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[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] the_scotsman:
Yes it is intended, as per the lnk I suggested:

Pretty clear really. Hope that clears it up for you :)

And I'm perfectly secure ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] xPr0metheus:
It might be clear for a native english speaker, I dont know that.

I read it like "currently it works when the screen is on, when the screen is off and when the phone is charging"

I thought only exception was the lockscreen

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[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] PG101:
What is not clear to me is why are you still beating the dead horse.

the_scotsman linked you to the info - you read it - be a sport and accept the fact.
[Samsung Galaxy S10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] exeon:
Hope it has an option to disable during screen on when "screen off with battery power" is supported. Thanks!