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[Vibrant Android Development] duplico:
My guess is that if we can get the leds working this may also be possible, since the led problem now seems to hinge on getting the touchkeys enabled while the screen is sleeping.
[Vibrant Android Development] studiozeroseven:
Let get a team together?

I'm sure there are devs working on this but if not then we should start to, this is the only thing the the Vibrant is missing for everyday use. I'm sure it is not hard we just need to get it done.

Contact me:

Twitter: @IDS07

Email: ian@thedroidsector.com
[Vibrant Android Development] bryon13:
One week. Max.

I promise, within less than one week, you will not miss your hard keyboard at all. ESPECIALLY with Swype.

My phone is just so...VIBRANT
[Vibrant Android Development] rsfaze:
I too came from the dream/g1 and thought the idea of an OSK would be horrible to adjust to but it's not. I think the ones coming from the g1 can't appreciate the size of the screen on the Vibrant which makes the OSK easy to use.

Now using the OSK on the dream/g1 was kind of painful because of the overall size of the display.

I've had my Vibrant 2 days now and haven't regretted my decisions the least bit.
[Vibrant Android Development] Phromik:
Signed.

Also, I came from a G1 not knowing about the lack of LED. I guess I just figured it was standard now.

The OSK is really easy to use though.
[Vibrant Android Development] Neverglow:
I came from a dream too. I am in love with swype. Really cool feature. I actually got the phone with the intention of taking it back knowing out was lacking a few features I desired. After about 3 hours it was over man. I was hooked. I've had my hands on some great phones and this one simply tops em.

Sent from my Vibrant on xda app
[Vibrant Android Development] speedysilwady:
thanks everybody! ive had the phone for 2 days and im in love with it! swype gets better as i use it and im surprised how great it is, the 4" screen definitely helps!

my only complaint really is that the wiimote app wont work with the bluetooth 3.0 on this phone, and the dev claims its a hardware issue because his app uses the bluez stack which apparently this phone doesnt have =/ but its a minor gripe overall the phone is awesome! i do wish i could use the tv out with the wiimote to play games though..lol
[Vibrant Android Development] tq745:
alright guys the honeymoon is over...back on topic with getting this mod done.
[Vibrant Android Development] rizoh66:
Just install SMS Popup or Handcent from the market. They have pop ups that come on when the screen is locked. Just an alternative solution.
[Vibrant Android Development] studiozeroseven:
MOD not a Quick fix

Come on, no half steps all or nothing!
[Vibrant Android Development] matt_stang:
I think this would be fairly simple to do with a small app. I would probably be able to right it but I don't have a Vibrant. But I will be getting one on tuesday or wednesday so if it's not already done by then I'll look into it
[Vibrant Android Development] VICosPhi:
Great idea... I was thinking the same thing :)

thanks
[Vibrant Android Development] ultra spikey:
I think Missed Call would be a better alternative. It's just a notification service and doesnt actually replace the messaging app.
[Vibrant Android Development] Disconn3ct:
sms popup just does popups.. doesn't replace the messaging app or anything
[Vibrant Android Development] blanked:
I want this mod!
[Vibrant Android Development] bdveteran18:
I want!!! Hope this will work out
[Vibrant Android Development] ytj87:
I've been using a G1 for over a year and have flashed it maybe 100 times. I've really wrung a lot of use out of it. I upgraded to a Vibrant and although insanely faster than the G1, there are some frustrations. 1, the lack of a keyboard. 2, the lack of dedicated call and hangup keys. 3, the lack of notification LEDs. 4, the inferior speakerphone. 5, the inferior mic for speakerphone. 6, the Touchwiz interface (especially contacts) if you're used to and like vanilla Android. These aren't trivial and need to be seriously weighed.
[Vibrant Android Development] Freedomcaller:
i think the vibrants speaker is way better, my g1 always sounded like ****...
[Vibrant Android Development] frankencat:
Really?? You must have gotten a crappy one because my Vibrant crushes my old G1 in every way.
[Vibrant Android Development] Freedomcaller:
i actually just ran a test with both phones playing the same mp3 file at the same time. the g1 definitely was lower and sounded like **** so.....
[Vibrant Android Development] All~G1:
Ytj:

Did you not try or demo this phone? I mean you couldn't tell this phone didn't have a physical keyboard?? So your comparing/complaining about a Stock vibrant vs. most highly modded, under powered, first ever android, 2 year old G1.

Maybe I'm just missing something.....

As far as the lack of a LED I've enabled notification reminders in handcent and it works for now but id like to see this mod happen also.

Catchin' the VIBE on the XDApp
[Vibrant Android Development] hurrpancakes:
Is there any news on the backlight notifications?
[Vibrant Android Development] backslide311:
I can't wait for this app..any update would be wonderful.
[Vibrant Android Development] Paxtez:
Any Progress?

Is anyone working on this? At first the OLED screen as a notification seemed like it made this idea obsolete, but after finding out it ate the battery pretty quickly, it doesn't seem that viable.
[Vibrant Android Development] Disconn3ct:
It isn't the screen that eats battery. To put the cpu to sleep, you have to blank the screen and the lights - anything that works differently will require changes to the system itself. (Possibly as far up the line as the kernel.) Apps can just hold a wakelock (to keep the display on, with the side effect of keeping the cpu running) and hope that the load is light enough that it stays in a decent powersaving mode.
[Vibrant Android Development] }{Alienz}{:
Right. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like much progress has been made on this mod. Great idea though.
[Vibrant Android Development] theMODEL22:
OP you need to change thread title - it should say [REQUEST] not [MOD]
[Vibrant Android Development] tjsynkral:
Has anyone contacted the dev for HeroLED? Seems like that person would be the natural choice to work on this.
[Vibrant Android Development] McBang2023:
Waiting for this to work. I need to know when i get my messages.
[Vibrant Android Development] fcbarca17:
Its been 3 weeks now.

I know you're doing this on your own time but this is getting ridiculous. If you aren't gonna do it.don't request it. Forgive me if the project is in work. Then you can call me an a s s h o l e
[Vibrant Android Development] senab:
Hi,

I'm the author of HeroLED (thanks to tjsynkral for bring this to my attention). Sorry for me not knowing but what is it you actually need? Does the Vibrant have a LED light? If not, it could be done using the button backlight quite easily. Can someone post the result of:

adb shell find /sys -name brightness

I'll then bake it into my app ;)
[Vibrant Android Development] xaisomboun:
Oh lord! I would but im no where near a computer!
[Vibrant Android Development] Mithent:
It's actually:

adb shell busybox find /sys -name brightness

but I'm constantly forgetting to add the busybox part myself! This is what I get on an I9000 Galaxy S:

/sys/devices/platform/s3cfb/spi_gpio.3/spi3.0/backlight/s5p_bl/brightness
/sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/brightness

None of the Galaxy S variants have a notification or power light, except the Sprint Epic 4G.
[Vibrant Android Development] senab:
Thanks, I'm guessing that the melfas_touchkey one is the button backlight but I'd need to be sure.

Could someone run the following commands and tell me what you see for each?

adb shell echo '1' > /sys/devices/platform/s3cfb/spi_gpio.3/spi3.0/backlight/s5p_bl/brightness
adb shell echo '1' > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/brightness
[Vibrant Android Development] Disretrospect:
someone do it now!
[Vibrant Android Development] masterotaku:
I got no response whatsoever :-|
[Vibrant Android Development] oswade:
Hey guys! Good to see you're interested in this topic :)

See the other thread in galaxy section http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=706426&page=17

Read the last 2 or 3 pages. Seems like you can't enable the button backlights while the screen is off, not without a driver or kernel hack (?). They could have missed something though.
[Vibrant Android Development] xplanowestx:
When i performed the commands you listed

adb shell echo '1' > /sys/devices/platform/s3cfb/spi_gpio.3/spi3.0/backlight/s5p_bl/brightness

adb shell echo '1' > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/brightness

It just returned the samething

"echo '1'......"
[Vibrant Android Development] Disconn3ct:
you wanted

adb shell

su

echo 1 > /sys/devices/...etc

And just fyi, the results are:

- melfas (the touch-sensitive keys): 1 turns the lights on, 0 does nothing. (They stay on). Touching the display or screen resets the timer and the turn off on their own regardless of the last echo

- s5p_bl is the main screen. started at 31 (for me) and 0 turned it off, etc. works as expected.
[Vibrant Android Development] d_bot:
/sys/devices/platform/s3cfb/spi_gpio.3/spi3.0/backlight/s5p_bl/brightness appears to change the screen brightness correct?

If i try to vi /sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/brightness i get an "I/O error"

however IF the LED buttons are off, and I do echo '1' > ../brightness the buttons will light up but ONLY if the phone is awake, either at the lock screen, or at the home screen. If the phone is asleep, and i echo '1' i get no lights.

The other post might be correct, there is no way to turn on the led lights without the phone being awake first......Hope this helps
[Vibrant Android Development] dattaway:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/s3cfb/spi_gpio.3/spi3.0/backlight/s5p_bl/brightness

I was hoping for a much dimmer display... :(
[Vibrant Android Development] junkdruggler:
I thought it was already stated that the screen has to be on to light the bottom buttons, which is what we are trying to avoid... Which is where this mod dead ends, which is why madmack uses the fake led.. It uses alot less power than lighting the buttons...
[Epic 4G General] accinfo:
Hey!

If you guys really really want the MOD, let's do something about it. AND I NEED ALL SUPPORT FROM EVERYONE.

Read Carefully.

I'm not sure if you've heard of PSX emulator or not. The author, zodttd, has started the project because he saw

So what I am thinking is, we should do the same thing too!

I have begun a petition. Now all I need is you guys to sign it. It's a really simple process.

Once we have enough signatures, we can show it to mods from other communities.

Petition

Thanks,

Clay
[Epic 4G General] egzthunder1:
I changed the title of this thread to Request since it was misleading. Also, I moved it to General due to the thread itself not being development.
[Epic 4G General] Itz a turtle:
The Evo has a notification led on it so there is no need for the button backlights to be used that way.
[Epic 4G General] rufflez2010:
Edit, the Epic has a multi-color led notification, so this is useless for us as it would use less bettery than the bottom bar being lit up
[Epic 4G General] NickMl:
Is there a reason why we can't just add a post to this thread to show our support?
[Epic 4G General] vince2398:
Has it been confirmed that the Epic 4G does have notification LEDs from someone who has a demo unit or Sprint itself? I have not seen this on any of the new reviews yet but I've read that its actually the light for when the FFC is used. This stays on until the camera is turned off. If someone can confirm this, it would be great. Thanks in advance.
[Epic 4G General] ben7337:
I still haven't seen a real confirmation like what you are saying. However if you watch the sprint epic 4g video where the girl shows the phone and explains it, there is a white light that is on, but the screen doesn't look like it's recording video or anything. Is it possible to have the phone doing nothing and the camera on?

Also we have seen different colors for the light, which also gives the idea that it is a multi-color notification light.

Here is the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ITVHayrhk&feature=player_embedded#!

she is holding the phone up with a light on, but it is at the home screen. However the light is on constantly.
[Fascinate Android Development] accinfo:
Hey!

If you guys really really want the MOD, let's do something about it. AND I NEED ALL SUPPORT FROM EVERYONE.

Read Carefully.

I'm not sure if you've heard of PSX emulator or not. The author, zodttd, has started the project because he saw

So what I am thinking is, we should do the same thing too!

I have begun a petition. Now all I need is you guys to sign it. It's a really simple process.

Once we have enough signatures, we can show it to mods from other communities.

Petition

Thanks,

Clay
[Fascinate Android Development] DeezNotes:
What would be really cool is if it cycled through all 4 soft keys when there is a notification rather than pulsing one soft key light. Kind of like the phone which I won't mention "Slide to unlock" text.
[Fascinate Android Development] DigitalDementia:
that would be kind of neat to pulse through all soft keys only I can't imagine what kind of adverse affect it would have on battery life. I for one wouldn't mind a pulsing soft key notification. Count me in.
[Fascinate Android Development] lucious584:
I agree too :D
[Fascinate Android Development] Kbesaw:
This would make having no LED notification light a NON issue. the NoLed app is a good idea, but it uses the screen and therefore a lot of the battery :/
[Fascinate Android Development] nillabob:
It would seem most of the work has been done already. Check this post from the i9000 forum out!

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=772672
[Nexus One Android Development] mburris:
I was impressed by the way the mouse cursor is controlled in the Remote Desktop application called "Xtralogic Remote Desktop Client for Android"

It uses what I am referring to here as "touch based relative cursor control" to allow you to control the mouse movements when connected to your remote desktop PC.

"Touch based relative cursor control" means that where ever you touch the screen, you are moving the mouse. Its basically like layering a transparent touchpad on top of the screen. Your finger doesn't have to be right on top of the cursor for it to work...

here is a video from their website to illustrate what i'm talking about:

[YOUTUBE]xq56-8fQg6o[/YOUTUBE]

I think that this could be very handy for certain things in android like browsing the internet.

the folks over at android-x86.org already have the code to add cursor support to android, their source code is freely available.

so here is what I would like to see:

-relative touch cursor

-for use in android browser (or other parts of the OS)

-while in browser, can be controlled via some sort or swiping gesture, menu option, or triple clicking

I just wanted to get a feeling on how the xda community would be open to such an idea, and maybe see if it sparks the interest of any devs (since my android coding skills are relativity limited at the moment.).
[Nexus One Android Development] Grimms:
Good idea, but you're not the first to mention this.. i just hope some one make this happen :)
[Nexus One Android Development] ylam310:
This would be great as an option for interacting with flash apps that rely on mouse hover.
[EVO 4G General] rockethot:
UPDATED MY SETTINGS

So as many other users I've been having lots of problems with battery life. I've done so many things in an effort to try to improve battery life but it doesn't seem to improve as much as it has for other people

This is what I have done:

Installed Baked Snack 9.7

Have brightness set to automatic

Changed the preferred network type GSM Auto (PRL) to CDMA Auto (PRL)

Installed Juice Defender

Installed SetCPU and have it so that my phone is under clocked to 245mhz when screen is off.

Turned haptic feedback off

Turned Off Auto-Sync

Manage my running applications with Advanced Task Manager and have it so that it ends apps every 30 minutes.

Flashed the newest Radio

Reconditioned my battery like HTC representatives suggested

Even with all these changes I'm lucky to get 10 hours of battery with moderate use. Far below the 16-20 hours that other users claim to get.

I don't understand why my battery life is so bad. Any tips? Maybe something I did wrong?
[EVO 4G General] jerryparid:
Perform the HTC suggested battery cycling.

Charge until full, unplug, recharge, unplug, recharge, turn off, recharge, turn on, recharge for a few times.
[EVO 4G General] Minjin:
No comment on the battery life as I have no problems but why did you want this phone in the first place if you only text and don't use the internet? I would own a Blackberry or Nokia E71 if I used my phone in that way.
[EVO 4G General] rockethot:
I expected someone to say that, I used the internet heavily for the first few days and saw the horrible battery life so I started limiting how much I went on and this is how much battery I'm getting now. I do use apps sometimes though

I tried that, it worked on the first day but then battery went back to normal the day afterwards
[EVO 4G General] Philosuffer:
Try running dcpowertop via ADB to see if something is causing a lot of wakes and preventing your phone from sleeping. Also try running Systempanel monitoring to see what is using up the CPU time and draining the battery.

Also, this does nothing unless you are running a custom kernel (You didn't mention if you were, so just sayin'):

But, even so, you should be well above 10hrs battery life with the other changes you made.
[EVO 4G General] DanBergundy:
Bad luck? Could try replacing battery and getting a 1750.
[EVO 4G General] Philosuffer:
He's better off with this deal really, many members have purchased them (including myself) and they perform near as well, or just as well as the OEM battery - but you get 2 of them, AND a charger:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715739

Most batteries above 1500mAh do not even perform close to what they say they should. Check out batteryboss.org for details.
[EVO 4G General] rockethot:
I'll give dcpowertop a try.

I just uninstalled overclockwidget and installed SetCPU instead, the new version has the perflock disabler which should allow me to underclock.
[EVO 4G General] Bielinsk:
If you are in a sketchy service area, your battery will drain fast.
[EVO 4G General] ajftl:
How much do u use your phone? That's right there the key when other people say ILL GET 16-20 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE. Yes cause they don use it as much as i do, maybe u use.ur phone hardcore too, texting mms back and forward like no joke. Lots of them. I do over 600 just the morning. So my battery die around 2 then i use my hero battery that i have as back up. Its BS when other ones say that they get crazy amount of battery. Yes it can be but cause they don't use the phone as much, my buddie has a iphone 4 and we tested it against the evo and yes he's better but not crazy better like when i was on 50% left he was on 62-65 % my phone died first he was on 10% left. ...
[EVO 4G General] rockethot:
Ok, so SetCPU does actually work and I have successfully downclocked my phone.
[EVO 4G General] redditor01:
If you send 200 texts per day and do little else, as smart phone is not for you. Get a more basic phone that would give you 3-4 days of heavy usage.
[EVO 4G General] 06ms6:
That's very strange especially with how little you use it now to try to get more battery life.

Only other thing I can't think of that's not on your list is disabling Google Talk auto sign-in. Not that I think that will make up the difference you are seeing, but it's something else to try. You seem to be doing everything right, maybe try a clean ROM install?
[EVO 4G General] rockethot:
I started limiting myself to try to squeeze as much battery life as I could.
[EVO 4G General] brownmc77:
Im running "bakedsnacks" latest version, try that. Ive been having insane battery life. It already has the undervolting kernel in it. Give it a try, u have nothing to lose. But you have to remember that the Evo is a beast .
[EVO 4G General] muncheroo:
What is your dcpowertop
[EVO 4G General] fusionpit:
Follow the Battery Recalibration instructions in the cyanogenmod wiki.

Doing this, I was at 73% after 26 hours unplugged. Yes, I was using the phone: 20 Text messages, about 20 minutes of pocket empires, 20 minutes of another game, WiFi enabled for most of those hours, and I even ran the "Relax and Sleep" app for half an hour when I went to bed.

DC 3.2.3 with the Balanced profile.
[EVO 4G General] rockethot:
I'll give baked snack a try
[EVO 4G General] acrh2:
You don't need to turn off all those features to get better battery life.

If you really have trouble, simply downclock the cpu to something like 460 Mhz and you battery life will double.

Then have someone make an undervolted kernel for you, and your battery life will triple.
[EVO 4G General] frozndevl:
When you say managing your apps with ATM? Are you using it to kill your processes? You probably don't need to manually or even schedule task killing with the lowmemkiller in DC.

One thing you didn't mention is what your signal strength in the area is. My 3g reception is utter trash in my office, so I have an extra cable to keep it charged. Overall, my phone drops about 1% while idle and I don't have any task management or cpu throttling apps going.
[EVO 4G General] cjosephmo:
As stated above, you can try recalibrating your battery. These are the steps:

1. Plug your phone in and let it charge for 8 hours.

2. Unplug, turn it off, charge for another hour.

3. Unplug, turn it on, turn it off, charge for another hour.

This is the jist of it if I remember correctly. The key here is obviously to push the most into the battery to get it as close to a sustained 4.2 volts as possible. It would also be beneficial to drain it as much as you can before this process. Meaning: once its dead, turn it back on and try and get more life out of it and repeat until you can't even turn it on. Also note that a slow charge through USB connected to your computer will give the battery a more gentle and thorough charge.

Following all the above, I've been getting more than satisfactory battery life, having used a iPhone 3G S for the last year.
[EVO 4G General] Deviation:
I just carry around a solar charger and a wall plug to suck electric wherever I am.

Seriously though, I'm lucky to get a few hours out of my phone. I use it ALOT without any battery saving apps on it, full brightness, etc.. I want to enjoy the phone. No complaining here. If I don't use it much and its on Wifi rather than 3G, I get about 6 hours or so.

Sent from my computer using a keyboard
[EVO 4G General] admorris:
If you are rooted, then download root explorer and uninstall friendstream apk and the widget. Uncheck live sync under Facebook syncing. Uncheck syncing of weather and news if you don't use them. I use beautiful widgets clock (nicer than htc's clock), so the weather sync is useless to me. I also manually update my news when I want to check it...I don't care about syncing automatically every so many hours. Do those things and you should see a pretty dramatic improvement in battery life.
[EVO 4G General] donatom3:
Have you by chance checked to see if you are having too many wake ups while the screen is off

This was posted in post 2 of the damage control thread