yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 General] aLlamaWithARifle:
Best bet is to either ring them or send an email since you might very well have problems if you want to get it repaired again for something.
[HD2 General] d33f:
the problem is solved. I sent an email to the repair center, they made a note about the subject and i guess i am good to go now :)
[HD2 General] xaccers:
Call them back in a week to ask if they have it on record, just to be certain.
[HD2 General] theabsurdman:
slightly OT, i recently had to open the case of my hd2 as there was a fingerprint behind the camera lens cover glass and in so doing obviously had to remove the void sticker and moisture indicator in the process. you can get them both out intact with a pin. upon reassembling, i didn't see the point in replacing them in situ and instead stored them in a small sealed plastic bag with a silica gel bag. i'll pop them back in if i ever need to send the phone back to HTC.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trentlythp:
download spare parts from the market. Go to battery history and hit the first dropdown and select partial wake usage. That should tell you what the culprit is or at least narrow it down.
[Captivate 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
[Captivate Android Development] tysj:
*nevermind*
[Captivate Android Development] caelestis2:
Since I know C++ and some java I'm definitely going to research this, but don't get your hopes up (I'm new to android). Did samsung release the source code for captivate's kernel yet?
[Captivate Android Development] systoxity:
you got mine :) that info better stay private lol!
[Captivate Android Development] abezapata:
The source code for the Galaxy S is out but the Capitvate source code I am not to sure about. Samsung has committed to releasing source code so you should not have to wait too long if not at all if its already out.
[Captivate Android Development] sl8125:
how different can it be. pretty much same phone.
[Captivate Android Development] soul4rent:
true but the buttons they are talking about using as notifications are one of the few differences
[Captivate Android Development] abezapata:
I know they are pretty much the same device but the original Samsung Galaxy S and the Captivate do have variations and that may or may not affect the source code. We do not want to brick our shiny new phones now. ;)
[Captivate Android Development] sl8125:
How many signature do we need? How come not all of you are signing the petitions? So mad.... I want to see this mod once i get it on Sunday. LOL.
[Captivate Android Development] jngtt:
it is a good idea, signed
[Captivate Android Development] moosefist:
If you aren't flashing radio, spl, or the bootloader the phone runs a low risk of bricking. IMO the problem is having a stock image to recover the phones with, but with root we should be able to pull everyting
[Captivate Android Development] gTen:
There is also another alternative possibility for notifications:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=727057
[Captivate Android Development] pongothemagnificent:
Change the threads tittle your miss leading people into thinking that theirs a "mod" already made...or you can read the forum rules were it clearly states it.
[Captivate Android Development] NikAmi:
Someone developed an app which uses the screen as a notification light. I would post the link, but I have read a few times that you need a minimum post count to do that so I won't tempt the forum gods. If you edit the "t" variable after "showthread" in the address bar to "730692", you should get there.
[Captivate Android Development] astrocrep:
Yeah, but it looks like keeping the screen on rips through the battery... We would be a lot better of with enabling the soft-touch keys to flash every 5 seconds or something...

Also dissappointed, thought it was already availible...
[Captivate Android Development] NikAmi:
I would think that the AMOLED screen only using a couple pixels would take less power than powering the LEDs behind the touch keys. Remember that with AMOLED, only the pixels that are lit are consuming any power and there is no backlighting. Not to mention that the app author has chosen to use the color red for the notifications because the red pixel on the AMOLED display uses the least amount of power. I personally would prefer an app that created icons using the display and flashed those instead of just a red dot.
[Captivate Android Development] BA_Flash_GOD:
nice

I signed. I'd just like to see the use Button's Backlight as Notification because besides a flash for camera that's the only thing missing for me. Thanks
[Captivate Android Development] warri:
What works a little bit better at grabbing developers attentions are Bounties.

Back in the WinMo world we would all vow to donate X amount of money for a mod. And as each persons contribution was added up, this became the bounty.

And we all know that people love money, so if you want this bad enough, promise to donate some money (if we have 20 people each says $10 thats 200 (obviously you can give your own amount)) and get a bounty going.

my $.02

you can see a successful bounty thread here :http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=499076
[Captivate Android Development] designgears:
This is the type of stuff that makes me NOT want to fulfill requests.
[Captivate Android Development] phishie:
Bounty desired or not I'd thrown down $5 or $10 for an application that enabled the LED buttons as notifications for missed calls/texts/etc.
[Captivate Android Development] eatkabab:
This is the greatest idea I have ever heard. I dunno why it didn't even occur to me. Having the soft keys blink is almost better than having a dedicated indicator light.

Please, the gods of XDA, accomplish this. You developers have pulled off some amazing things on my past windows phones.
[Captivate Android Development] boborone:
Ya I'm starting to notice what the guys were talking about in the winmo side how the community is different over here.
[Captivate Android Development] boborone:
+1
[Captivate Android Development] Baldilocks:
Is access to these buttons hard to find? There was talk of trying to make them stay on the same amount of time the screen does or at least longer than 3 seconds, but haven't heard anything else about that either.

Using the buttons for notifications is also a good idea.
[Captivate Android Development] alphadog00:
Other android phones with soft keys already do this. It is a good solution without having a dedicated LED.
[Captivate Android Development] TimF:
It looks like the hooks to the soft key lights are at a very low level. It doesn't look like there will be a mod for this until samsung releases the Source Code. I've sent a request for an ETA on when they might release the source code but I haven't heard back from them, yet.

I am new to android development so I am still learning how everything works. I got "Hello Android" to run so i am on my way. It's gonna be a long journey.
[Captivate Android Development] USHERROB:
im pretty sure its written into the kernal... when i was modding w/ the g1 we had a kernel that was OC UV and also had the 4 hardware buttons blinking w/ the memory r/w (like lights on a computer when the harddrive is working)... any time the phone's system or the sd card were being read or written to, they were blinking, so i assume the settings would be there. correct me if im wrong :)
[Captivate Android Development] YellowGTO:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=706426&page=15

More info on this.
[Vibrant 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
[Vibrant Android Development] junkdruggler:
have you sent any emails to app developers or anything like that before you post a petition? I think you may be jumping the ball a little bit here... go ask a few developers first.. Im pretty sure someone might have the time (or knowledge to help you learn how to implement your idea...

doesnt seem like it should be that hard to link the led notification and a button backlight... they have done it with trackballs...

As soon as I get my vibrant I shall start work on this.. Someone will probably get it working before me but I shall give it a shot..
[Vibrant Android Development] deviusdragger:
Petition is a nice idea, but no need for it. Im pretty sure once the vibrant (galaxy s) gains more popularity, the programs an mods will start to come.
[Vibrant Android Development] Lieu10ant:
wow making the button backlight as notifications is actually a really good idea.
[Vibrant Android Development] MINUS Stl:
Second that! Actually seems like a pretty simple mod as well.
[Vibrant Android Development] Cuda1337:
Thirded. Great idea.
[Vibrant Android Development] Pancake345:
This would be fantastic. Good idea.
[Vibrant Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
can't wait to see progress.. also, is there a charging light? if not can there be a mod to have one of the buttons (i rather see the search icon as a charging LED)
[Vibrant Android Development] thegreatcity:
Thinking about getting a Vibrant, and this mod would make the purchase that much easier.
[Vibrant Android Development] gthmcty1:
All for it!!!
[Vibrant Android Development] schnem:
Make it happen
[Vibrant Android Development] speedysilwady:
Im still on the fence if i should buy this phone because im so used to my g1's hardware keyboard and the lack of an led notification is kind of turning me away from this awesome beast. i spent maybe half an hour playing with one today at t-mobile...if this gets done maybe ill get a vibrant and overcome my attachment to hardware keyboards lol.

a cool idea would be to have someone make the backlight for the buttons light up sequentially left to right!
[Vibrant Android Development] gthmcty1:
Even in stock form you will not regret the purchase of this device I love this device
[Vibrant Android Development] MINUS Stl:
Agreed. This thing is amazing. Came from a G1 and the lack of hw keyboard isn't a big deal for me (and I used the hw kb constantly!). No led notification is odd, but if we can do this button backlight mod....:cool:
[Vibrant Android Development] iPhace:
What about AMOLED?

I don't get it-

Why are we looking for workarounds like lighting the menu buttons when there's a Super AMOLED screen to play with? Since there's no backlight to lose precious mWh's from the battery every time you want to show a light pixel, shouldn't a simple white text/pattern/indicator drawn on the screen with the rest of it black/off work as needed? Make it flash, make it off most of the time like a normal indicator, make sure that notification is bright, perhaps make it customizable, and bingo!

It might even be more efficient than some silly LED somewhere...
[Vibrant Android Development] speedysilwady:
thanks i think ima go for it!

and whoever mentioned the screen idea, its deff not bad either imo but idk how thatd compare to the backlight idea battery-wise...i mean maybe youre right it might take less battery to flash the screen rather than the menu buttons
[Vibrant Android Development] jroid:
that doesn't sound bad at all, something like the battery icon that the screen shows when the phone is powered off but is charging. have a notification icon show on the screen and have it blink at certain values
[Vibrant Android Development] ryan562:
yes sir. i'm all for it as well!
[Vibrant Android Development] ArcticWolf91:
That sounds like a great idea. And different buttons could be set for different notifications. Like say the Menu button could light up if you have a new text, the Home button if you have a new E-mail, and so on.
[Vibrant Android Development] Chalup:
I used to do a lot of Java coding, but am pretty rusty. Tomorrow I'm going to start looking into implementing any of the ideas mentioned here. Already installed the android sdk, just need to learn how to write android applications :)
[Vibrant Android Development] teronzhul:
I haven't seen any evidence to suggest the buttons can light independently. I assume they are all attached to a single light source.
[Vibrant Android Development] Xygod:
I don't know how I did it, but I have seen the buttons light up independently before.

What if when you have a new message, you have a single 1 (or more if necessary) pixel blue line going down the screen vertically? That way when you glance at you're phone from your pocket, no matter which way it's in there, you'd be notified. Better than 1 LED imo.

Or, 2 blue lines horizontally, one at the top and 1 at the bottom. And then Gmail's line would be red etc. Line notifications also supports multinotifications because you can just set the lines to different pixels.
[Vibrant Android Development] MINUS Stl:
In a sense, it should actually be feasible to have a full popup notification (ie. Handcent SMS). Granted, that would take more coding/modding though.
[Vibrant Android Development] Mithent:
I could be wrong, but I doubt that the screen can be on with the CPU in standby, and battery consumption would be pretty high if the device was unable to go into standby.
[Vibrant Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
thats what i was thinking.. but make one button blink for notifications (i say menu button).. and another button (i say search button) stay lit for charging.. since they dont change colors, have the charge light quick blink once fully charged, or stay lit on the button next to it (back button).. how does that sound?
[Vibrant Android Development] DesignDawg:
They are definitely separate. ne easy way to test this is to run your finger along the buttons side to side. Make sure you are contacting the area of the button but that you can see the button light. They go off individually when you touch them. You can do this with the phone off while it's on the charger as well. Just hit the volume button to pull up the battery display and light the buttons, and run your finger along the bottom. The buttons turn on and off individually.
[Vibrant Android Development] phantasm714:
yes please. signed.
[Vibrant Android Development] MINUS Stl:
Oh cool! Just tried that and they do. This seriously makes me wanna jump into the code and see what happens.
[Vibrant Android Development] StefanB86:
I would love to see this MOD in my Vibrant! Signed.

StefanB.
[Vibrant Android Development] speedysilwady:
i finally took the plunge and got the vibrant! no more g1 for me...just gotta wait on the UPS guy...

anyways i like that idea! but are we sure they dont change colors? itd be so badass if we could change each button's color!

also while were thinking about modding buttons does anyone have a suggestion for a substitute camera button? I really miss having a camera button and its easier to take self portraits with em.
[Vibrant Android Development] jblade1000:
so after having the phone for a day, i absolutely love it, and having no notifications is my first real gripe. Petition signed!
[Vibrant Android Development] Babyface1249:
I think either the button backlights or simply having a few pixels light up on the screen would be immensely helpful. I'd take whichever does the job using the least battery
[Vibrant Android Development] oDeACoNo:
It looks like a similar thread regarding this was posted here as well ...

http://android.modaco.com/content/s...lack-of-notification-light-developers-needed/

A little bit of info there that may help.
[Vibrant Android Development] MINUS Stl:
So I've been digging around yesterday and this morning as well as talkin with some dev friends. I was hoping it would be something somewhat simple. I have no coding experience and thought this might be an easy start. Well, I think it's still a little out of my league as of now.

However, I did come across this thread for the Moment. In there is a post from PeteMatthews who developed an app called FlashNotify. It flashes the screen periodically (not the buttons) and it works on the Galaxy S! It only does missed calls and sms messages though. I tested it with GMail and it's a no-go. But that's a start for us. :D
[Vibrant Android Development] shtay:
Looks like there is another thread on this here, this would be a sweet

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=727057
[Vibrant Android Development] SykesAT:
IMO the absence of a notification LED is a huge factor for me... I love the idea of using the home keys, even better if they can change colors (battery could go from red-orange-green) on the search key. Email text and calls could take the others.

if a dev could solve this I would be so grateful, as I'm sure so many others would too.
[Vibrant Android Development] julez456:
I read thru some of these threads and couldn't believe someone was debating keeping their G1 over this phone? Loco. :eek: I had the G1 (still do actually) then the Nexus One (still do), got the MyTouch Slide for my daughter, and now the Vibrant. This phone out performs all the others. I do miss some features of my N1 but whenever I need them I just switch SIMs out for the time being. Making a mod for the screen to notify me of messages would be the best. Other than that I don't have many complaints about this phone.

I have noticed the signal strength issues that some are talking about but for me its only if I cup the whole bottom of the phone. Who the **** holds their phone like that anyways and I always keep 3G..it might drop a couple bars but never drops to Edge.
[Vibrant Android Development] duplico:
Okay, so I've been poking around a little bit in /sys on my Vibrant and have had a look at some of the work done on the Galaxy S part of the forum. Some things that I've found:

You can get the kernel code for the phone from the Samsung Open Source Release Center, under the mobile section (can't link yet).

We're almost certainly looking for a way to work with the melfas_touchkey system. The most relevant pieces of code I've found are located in drivers/input/keyboard/cypress/cypress-touchkey.c in the kernel source (looking specifically at the touch_led_control function at line 590). Turning on and off the buttons seems to generate a "touch_led_control" line (with a 1 for turn-on and a 2 for turn-off, as far as I can tell) in dmesg, which suggests to me that this is what we're looking at. However, this function doesn't look to me like it's called when pressing a key (when it turns off the light for that key). Though someone in the Galaxy S forum had different results (can't link yet)

I get "touchkey press keycode: 139" (for example) when pressing one of them. Twice, at different logging levels, which brings me to lines 241 and 242 (looks like they commented out the extraneous debug message in the source they made available online.)

We're definitely using i2c to read these things. Not sure about controlling their LEDs.

/sys/misc/melfas_touchkey seems promising, but I can't figure out how to interact with it properly. I also don't want to just start writing 1s and 2s over i2c at random. Not sure where to go from here, but maybe someone can run with this or point me at some mistake I've made.

Incidentally, there's something of a solution available from madmack in the Galaxy S forum (again, can't link yet); he uses the OLED display to make a red dot for notifications.

Edit: Okay, when I turn the screen off and then unlock it (therefore turning the buttons' backlights back on), I see:

touch_led_control: 1

i2c-adapter i2c-10: Used 2 tried to write to client at 0x20: success

"cat /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-10/10-0020/name" returns "melfas-touchkey", so this is on the right track. Still not really sure how to interact with it.

Not really a kernel hacker at all, so I'd imagine I'm flailing quite a bit.

One more edit:

The good news: If you run "echo 1 > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/brightness", ALL of the touchkey lights will turn on. Echoing 2 will result in the lights being turned off. There is no way to read the state of the lights from sysfs.

The bad news: this only appears to work if the screen is on. I should be able to get around this by enabling the touchkeys, but for some reason the touchkey_enable_disable function does not seem to be getting called.
[Vibrant Android Development] speedysilwady:
glad to see all this progress! thanks for your contribution! btw i know you cannot post links yet, but im interested in that samsung oled workaround by madmax, could you perhaps post the link to that and just put spaces between the periods?

itd be great having an option to use the backlights as a notification or an apk to flash the oled
[Vibrant Android Development] Pneumatic:
Here is the main post with a link to the program he has so far. You can get to the whole thread with the link at the top of that page.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7240939&postcount=117
[Vibrant Android Development] speedysilwady:
thank you very much! id love to test this out but i dont have my vibrant yet (hopefully tuesday or wednesday) lol. but maybe itll help everyone else!
[Vibrant Android Development] rbtady:
Great idea, Signed!
[Vibrant Android Development] Janis:
As long as we can turn 'em off without wiping and reflashing, dontcha think? I got the best sleep I've had in a long time last night without those emails from marketing nutholes lighting up my phone. I thought I'd miss the glitter, but with my enthusiasm for a new phone, especially one like this, I didn't miss anything, and it's loud enough (almost), unlike the G1.

I'm curious about the charging display while the phone is off. I'm all about copying code (not that I've done it that much), and it seems as if there would be something there to use the screen while the cpu is disengaged. I'll read some more.

(I don't miss the keyboard. Back in WinCE days I bought every keyboard gadget you can imagine; second-hand stores adored me - they probably kept the stuff. I got the TmoMDA entirely for its slide keyboard. I was very skeptical in the store the other day; the sales guy helped three other people before I did enough messing around with Swype, and the surprisingly ugly-but-kinda-handy Samsung IME before I decided to even walk out of the store with it. As long as the phone is responsive, has ample space for soft keys, and I can use the SDK from my PC for recovery console stuff, there aren't any drawbacks. As a matter of fact, I churned out an email in less time than I budgeted, which means I was writing faster on a Vibrant than I was the G1. Really, try it. You won't miss it. I do, however, miss having a case....)
[Vibrant Android Development] lou0611:
I just loaded it, works good, at least I dont have to keep turning on my phone to see if someone texted or emailed me, I just gaze to see if there is a red dot, Thanks again.
[Vibrant Android Development] Tairen:
Just want everyone to know I'm using the app and its working fine! The red led dot is very subtle but very easy to notice if you wasn't to check you phone without unlocking it. Great job!

Sent from my Samsung Vibrant
[Vibrant Android Development] dgrave:
might be off topic, but would there be a way to have the bottom buttons unlock the screen, i hate trying to find that stupid button on the right, and then i lower or raise the volume.
[Vibrant Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
link?

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[Vibrant Android Development] StefanB86:
I think he's talking about this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=730692
[Vibrant Android Development] Zyxwvu44:
I am using the app and it works well. i just hope it doesnt drain too much battery
[Vibrant Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
thx!

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