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[G2 and Desire Z General] FakeFakerson:
I agree that the trackpad notification outline is way too infrequent. You have to sit there and stare at the phone for like 10 seconds to figure out if you've got a message. I end up just hitting the power button to check the screen on my phone every so often instead of sitting there and staring at it. In addition to being infrequent, it's pretty dim so the notifications rarely catch my eye.

I really miss the different color LED notifications like the G1 had, but I'd settle for single color rapid blinking trackpad notification on Gmail/SMS/VoiceMail/Etc...

Is there a way to make the blinking more rapid?
[G2 and Desire Z General] sino8r:
I haven't found a way... yet. Perm. root is closer, so expect something soon.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Zak Jones!:
Sexy Nexus indeed. I will miss that trackball.

Love the G2 trackpad though. Can't wait for my ring of light to start flashing frequently and with color. :D

RRoD, anyone? :p
[G2 and Desire Z General] gjvah:
Seen it too many times.. :(
[G2 and Desire Z General] eddieringle:
The LEDs were one of the first things I played with when I got my G2 yesterday.

Echoing 255 into brightness won't work, despite what the max_brightness file says, there are only two possibilities: 1 or 0, on or off.

On that note, the LED flash in the back of the phone can be set anywhere from 0 to 255 (although when set to 1, it is already very bright).

Also, if the jogball had the LEDs to produce different colors, then you would probably be able to access them. For now, it seems as though white is the only color choice. The best bet for more colors is to wait for it to be perma-rooted and modify liblights.
[G2 and Desire Z General] cyanogen:
I made a liblights that will flash the top LED in addition to pulsing the white trackpad light. This same lib can be used on the Nexus One to make it's top LED blink too :) It'll only work when the screen is off.

You need root and adb. First get this file: http://android.chemlab.org/android/vision/lights.vision.so

Then:

1. adb push lights.vision.so /sdcard/

2. adb shell

(next commands on phone shell)

3. su

4. stop

5. mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system

6. cp /sdcard/lights.vision.so /system/lib/hw/

7. start

8. wait for soft bootup and actually know when you have a notification!
[G2 and Desire Z General] schwiz:
Awesome thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] PlatinumMOTO:
I can't get it to work on my G2 when I type adb shell stop then adb shell mount .... etc. it says mount: operation not permitted. How did you do it?
[G2 and Desire Z General] notxel21:
+1 I'm getting the same when I input those commands. :confused:
[G2 and Desire Z General] johnnylicious:
same thing i get operation is not permitted :/

i want this!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] cyanogen:
Sorry, updated the post. Forgot I had it setup to let me have a rootshell in adb by default.
[G2 and Desire Z General] johnnylicious:
thanks cyanogen trying now.
[G2 and Desire Z General] PlatinumMOTO:
Every time I type stop in the phone terminal it locks up my phone.. is this wrong

Edit ok I got the commands and the phone softbooted but I dont see the notification led blinking but I'm using chomp is it only the default messenger

Another edit I see it now in the default messenger way cool cyanogen thanks
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
works great!
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
Do you have to redo this every 12 hours, or will it persist through losing root? I'm sure you lose it after a reboot, but what about the 12-hr root goes away?
[G2 and Desire Z General] aedv:
For clarification: does the liblights posted by cyanogen work only with the default text messenger app, and not with gtalk, for example? Does it work with email? Do sound notifications have to be turned on?
[G2 and Desire Z General] ilos:
it look like working for all notifications
[G2 and Desire Z General] mtl171:
does it go away when i reboot?
[G2 and Desire Z General] oldsk00lz:
Nice. Great job Cyanogen. Works great for me.

Cyanogen, do you think we'll be able to change the flashing speed and color of the trackpad light? Looked like different LED settings than the nexus 1. Then again, I may have been looking at info on rooted/customized Nexus 1 settings.

--

FYI - If anyone is putting this call into a script, be sure to change the call to busybox cp or better yet, link the busybox cp during your setup

i.e.

# ln -s busybox /system/bin/cp

-oldsk00lz
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
seems to have an issue with the keyboard backlite.

I ran it the first time and I couldn't get the keyboard to turn off, even when closed. Then I tried rebooting and trying it all over, then the backlite wouldn't turn on.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Stryder5:
How did you know the keyboard backlight was on if it was closed?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
I look through the crack and see the light, you can even open it just a little tiny bit to see.

But even when i put it to sleep while its open, it stays on.
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
Couple questions.

First, my keyboard backlight is also staying on. The first time I tried it, it wouldn't go on, so I rebooted and reran everything, and now it won't go off. Any thoughts? I don't think I'll mind too much, so long as it doesn't affect battery life too much.

Second, it only seems to work with green and orange. Orange seems to actually be yellow (if you turn red and green on full, the orange light comes on - if either red or green aren't full, you get nothing). So, shouldn't red work on its own? Anything else would just be variations of orange and green, but it seems like red won't go on unless green is on, and neither can change its brightness. The brightness part is probably hardware, and red may be hardware linked to green as well, but is there a chance that it's just software?
[G2 and Desire Z General] johnnylicious:
Here's a video showing off the LED light notifications by Cyanogen =]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_UlzBnkyYY
[G2 and Desire Z General] johnnylicious:
i can confirm that the keyboard backlight doesn't work with this hack activated :/

hope we can find a fix.
[G2 and Desire Z General] master.peterm:
whenever i get to stop my phone locks up =( any ideas of what im doing wrong....... temporary root is pretty stupid lol =)
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
By the way, for people questioning about any non-default program - it works with anything that uses either orange (which I'm not sure if it's actually orange or not. In Handcent, if you set it as "Orange" it works. But, if you do custom, it only works with either 0-red 255-green 0-blue [green] or 255-red 255-green 0-blue [yellow]) or green. So if you set third-party software to use green or orange (or maybe yellow?), it will work. I believe this is because there is only a red and a green LED. And for some reason you can't isolate the red LED.
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
If you're doing it on your phone, try using adb instead. If you're using adb, I have no idea.
[G2 and Desire Z General] xguntherc:
when it's someone like Cyanogen workin on it.. there "will" be a fix. just wait. lol
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
Should look like this in your COMPUTER TERMINAL

This is completely done on your computer besides allowing Root access on your phone.

Remember you phone needs to be rooted first.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TL24:
So i see that a few members have already asked this but did not receive an answer, so here we go again: Will this mod go away after a reboot like the temp. root?
[G2 and Desire Z General] highvista:
Yes, it will go away on the G2 after a reboot, since it is installed to the /system partition, which isn't preserved between reboots.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
Yes. Yes it will.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TL24:
That's too bad =( but I'll def. try this later when I get home!
[G2 and Desire Z General] gregferns:
Hi

I get to the part which shows cp : not found.

Any idea whats wrong ??

tx
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
Did you make sure check spelling? Did you make sure to push the lights.vision.so to the /sdcard/ first?
[G2 and Desire Z General] cyanogen:
Yeah I'll fix0r the keyboard backlight in a bit.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
Edit:

Yeah, no rush on that, I know you guys are workin hard on other stuff. This won't really be needed until perma root.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Superfrag:
Cyanogen isn't working on the Vibrant.. that's Wes and TheDudesAndroid.

AFAIK, Cyanogen is working on EVO's WiMax or something like that..

edit : Actually I have no clue what Cyanogen is primarily working on right now xD.
[G2 and Desire Z General] gregferns:
Yes, all spellings are correct.

And yes, i pushed the file to /sdcard/

In fact it even shows on the card when checked in Astro

it shows me cp : not found

means it is not able to get the cp or copy command...

wonder why...

anyone able to help please ??

Thanks

greg
[G2 and Desire Z General] PlatinumMOTO:
Has anyone got this to work with Chomp I've tried all the color notifications there is no option for yellow or custom with Chomp. Anyone?
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
I have the hack uninstalled for now, but as soon as I get home, I'll reinstall it and fiddle with chomp, to see if it works.

If not, Handcent is really similar, and has a few more options. It is a little uglier, though.
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
Ok, I tried it out, and green seems to work just fine, but none of the other colors do. That probably means that Handcent recognizes orange and yellow as the same thing, whereas Chomp does not, and is actually trying to dim the red LED (if there is a red LED), which is (apparently) not supported.
[G2 and Desire Z General] oldsk00lz:
You need to use: busybox cp

You would need to make a symbolic link if you wanted to call cp directly (See earlier in the thread.)

-oldsk00lz
[G2 and Desire Z General] gregferns:
Thanks Oldskoolz.

If i understand u correctly, i have to use the command in the format

busybox cp ........

correct me if i am wrong please.

regards,

greg
[G2 and Desire Z General] oldsk00lz:
greg - that is correct.

Personally, I would just add this to your a startup script:

ln -s busybox /system/bin/cp

This symbolic link will allow you to just use cp versus busybox cp.

-oldsk00lz
[G2 and Desire Z General] gregferns:
Thanks man....
[G2 and Desire Z General] johnxjets:
scrap that
[G2 and Desire Z General] johnnylicious:
was the keyboard backlight issue ever fixed?
[G2 and Desire Z General] Corylulu:
No public fix. Cyanogen has been working on other things I think. He might have an unreleased fix tho.
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
Maybe if/when he releases his not-quite-so-horrible-to-install-but-still-not-requiring-perma-root build of CM 6.1. he'll include this in it, with the keyboard fix included.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wilnotdie:
Here's my temp setup.. using noled.

Under flash screen, set on for 50micro, and off to the lowest. Its not perfect but works for me. Makes the lights flash pretty fast until I check my msg. Most of the time its too fast for the screen to actually turn on, but I'm sure its still draining more battery then id like. Owell...thought id share.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wanjae:
I'm glad this is getting attention. With a 10 second gap between pulses, the notification LED is essentially useless for casual "I've just walked back into the room, and now I'm going to glance at the phone to see if I have any notifications" scenario.

As it's a relatively low power LED, it really ought to pulse continuously, or the interval should be configurable.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wilnotdie:
I'm sure it will be sorted out eventually. CM6.1 should do it, if not, when perm root is figured out, it will be fixed.

Until then u can try my temp solution. It creates a rapid flash crap work around. Or u can cyan's temp solution.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wheeliest:
NoLED works great, flashes the trackpad light fast and the home.menu/back/search lights also... good call on that app
[G2 and Desire Z General] rune222:
What's your setup I haven't gotten that app to do anything for me
[G2 and Desire Z General] wheeliest:
Toggle Notifications

all checked

under Blink

*enable [checked]

On Time (50 microsec)

Off Time (1)
[G2 and Desire Z General] milenko11:
I get permission denied when I try to get superuser in the phone shell.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kalipedia:
Any thoughts on whether it's possible to not flash the home/menu/back/search keys? I wish I could just get the trackpad to flash. Thanks for the NoLED tip though - better than nothing.
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
You need root, and then when you type in "su" in adb, you need to click "Allow" (and "Remember", if you plan on using adb in the future) on your phone when it pops up with the SuperUser dialogue.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
Oh ****. This is awesome. Works great for me. It strobes the trackpad and the menu buttons!

My setup is:

1) Toggle Notifications check all 4 boxes

2) Leave icons and colors as default

3) Set notification timeout to 3 hours (just because infinit loop is too long)

4) Enable blink. ON TIME 50 microseconds, OFF TIME 1 second

5) Enable Right Dots placement

6) Enable autostart

7) Enable "Delay SmS notification" if you're using Handcent.. leave everything else in MISC unchecked.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wilnotdie:
Not with anything basic...unfortunately its as u say...better then nothing. Cmon cyanogen! Lol jk :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] soundslikemitch:
Will I need to run steps 3-7 after every reboot?
[G2 and Desire Z General] wilnotdie:
Yup. If your running visionary u can add thoes commands to the visionary.sh and it should be automatic upon each reboot.

Or u can manually run the script.

Copy and past this into a txt file...then save it. Then rename it to visionary.sh and cp this file to /data/local/

stop
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system
cp /sdcard/lights.vision.so /system/lib/hw/
start

Goodluck. Have fun.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tankmorph:
NoLED does work pretty well. The keyboard flashes, too.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sweetandsour:
How can we run this from GScript?!?!?!
[G2 and Desire Z General] soundslikemitch:
Are you having it freeze when you run it as a script too?
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
I don't think this will work as a script. The "stop" command freezes your phone, so after that, it can't really do anything else. You have to do it from adb, or it won't work, or at least that's the best of my (limited) understanding.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wilnotdie:
If it was the code I wrote, then I apologize. I was thinking of a batch file. I have no idea why I wrote that as part of the visionary script. I guess I wasn't paying attention. sry :(

I'll search around, maybe there is a work around for using the phone only.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Blackman778g:
Bump!

I tryed to test the led light with no luck
[G2 and Desire Z General] ccb04:
Is there a fix for doing it the script way?? It makes it a lot easier to do especially after a reboot...NoLed is garbage by the way
[G2 and Desire Z General] minotauri:
you can try something like this. it may work:

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system
rm /system/lib/hw/lights.vision.so
cp /data/local/lights.vision.so /system/lib/hw
busybox killall system_server
[G2 and Desire Z General] spullar:
after installing the cyanogen light.vision.so file, I get no notification lights. The track pad light does not come on, and there is no led light in the speaker grill. I still have a charging light however.

EDIT:

It is working, it just needs to be sleeping, it won't work if the screen is awake. I ran it using gscript with the code above. I am now going to try using visionary.sh along with my overclocking and screen density stuff.

EDIT 2:

I have it working using visionary, I just manually run it rather then have it run on bootup so it doesn't loop with the killall system_server command
[G2 and Desire Z General] wilnotdie:
Are you using Handcent? I can't seem to get it working. I've tried a couple of things but I haven't got the lights to work. The only change I've noticed is the keyboard lights stay lit, even when phone is sleeping. The only time I've seen a green light was when I received an email, but that was only once.

What code did u use? If u don't mind.

Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z General] minotauri:
it didnt work with handcent for me. i stopped using this though. when i enable it, the touch buttons at the bottom stay lit always?! dont know why.

maybe i'll try it again, but i doubt it'll work since i have OTA and a new kernel.
[G2 and Desire Z General] minotauri:
retried this today. the light works and I'm on the new OTA. The keyboard light doesnt turn on though.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wilnotdie:
Ill keep lurking for things.

Sometimes the keyboard lights work and sometimes they just stay lit.

Owell. Back to NoLED for time being lol.
[G2 and Desire Z General] :
I have no friends.
[G2 and Desire Z General] blk_jack:
This doesn't seem to work with the Desire Z.. for me it turns on my soft button lights permanently.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Code3VW:
Cyanogen,

Any update on this? I know you are busy with a ton of stuff, but we have permanent root now and could really use this! :)

Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
It's in the bacon bits. Works fine without causing issues to the soft lights/keyboard lights.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Zak Jones!:
By my understanding, the bacon bits include using the charging LED in the speaker grille as the notification light (which I do not like in the least. : /).

You sure on that?
[G2 and Desire Z General] -FuRBz-:
i thought the bacon bits was for the speaker grill led..

am i wrong on that?
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
That's what Cyanogen's notification light was from the get-go. It's still not the trackpad notification light mod, but Cyanogen never did anything with that.
[G2 and Desire Z General] EdTeach1680:
I love how these threads go, i am sure that when they chefs have dinner ready they are going to include all the sppices in this new kitchen.

Sent from MY! HTC Vision using XDA App
[G2 and Desire Z General] Shady Gambino:
I read somewhere here that the grill LED turns blue when bluetooth is connected, is that correct? I've never seen that on mine.
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
Tried it on mine and it didn't do anything. And I'd guess it's a no, as if you set the LED blink to blue on Handcent, it doesn't do anything. So I think there's only the Amber and Green LEDs.
[G2 and Desire Z General] theebest:
Bump need it bad
[G2 and Desire Z General] gs2020:
Has anyone made any progess in finding out whether multiple colors at the trackpad is even possible? Just curious to know if its something to look forward to, loved it on the n1
[G2 and Desire Z General] Guy_Fawx:
@gs2020

If what I read is correct, the light illuminating the trackpad is white only. If that's true, there will be no trackpad color mods. :|
[G2 and Desire Z General] gs2020:
Guy

Thank you for the response
[G2 and Desire Z General] aacrabtree:
Is there anyone who's done a teardown that can verify this? Anyone know how to get a hold of Intuitive Nipple (from #g2root). He did a teardown, but you can't really tell from the pics anything about the LED.

With or without color, has there been any work done on modifying the trackpad's blink rate?
[G2 and Desire Z General] snudel:
any update on the trackpad glow without the other side effects?
[G2 and Desire Z General] wilnotdie:
I don't remember where it was posted but

LED me know

get it, try it, love it. on the market.
[G2 and Desire Z General] legendary1022:
Thanks for letting me know about it. Amazing app and was exactly what I was looking for. I set everything to light but the trackpad and is much better than the slow notifications that was there previously. Highly recommended

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] sinistersai4d4d:
Can't believe how well that works.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Goodsirchurchill:
Does "LED me know" work with Handcent? Please advise.
[G2 and Desire Z General] BkBasm:
Yup, it does.
[G2 and Desire Z General] snudel:
i want to have the trackpad glow any time. not as notification.

like we had with the magic
[G2 and Desire Z General] kalipedia:
i've been trying to like LED me know, but it seems a bit wonky so i'm surprised others are liking it. my problem is that if i get emails, the led flashes which is great, but then i have to unlock the phone and read EVERY email before the flashing stops! it's quite maddening... :)

am i missing some sort of secret setting that will get the flashing to stop with unlock? that's the dream...
[G2 and Desire Z General] NXUS:
Or with sms notifications , you have to go in read your sms then back out of your message to stop the blinking

Edit: stock notification trackpad stops as soon as you go into messages app , no need to read sms
[G2 and Desire Z General] legendary1022:
It has its quirks but it functions how I would like. If others more talented then me look at how the app is doing it and making some modifications it can be really perfect. I do miss the different colors on the trackball on my nexus one.

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] andrewpmoore:
Hi,

I'm the author of the app LightFlow that does colored notifications on quite a few phones for lots of different types of notifications.

I'm currently adding functionality for button backlight control, camera flash control and hoping to add jogball control too.

The jogball (as htc call it) is the one that is currently difficult. I've got an HTC desire and a Nexus One, but controlling of the Nexus one jogball is easy as it's performed through the standard api.

It would be great if somebody with root access could provide the path to where the control files are. Also if they could perform from an adb shell a

echo 1 > brightness

from within the directory while the screen is off and see if it lights up the jogball.
[G2 and Desire Z General] francescopr:
some solutions?
[G2 and Desire Z General] mzedjsp:
No Fix

unless you are running cyonogen or stock rom their is currently no fix

you have to chose between track pad or speaker led.
[G2 and Desire Z General] G1ForFun:
Check the date of the post you are replying too next time.
[G2 and Desire Z General] revol007:
Led me know

Hi, I just updated my G2 to Android 2.3.3 and the app Led me know doesn't work with trackpad notification. Do you know any other app for notification with trackpad LED? I couldn't find it
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayhaan77:
Hi, im really sorry for the noob question but I was wondering if someone ( with trial and experience) knows the best STABLE Froyo Rom with htc sense for G1, I have seen few Roms with their own little additions and twists or maybe just the clock and home screen jump feature, even that would be fine, but since Im new I thought it would be easier to ask others for they fav sense or sense like ROM out there. thanks
[Desire General] SkyWalker1726:
hi everyone , wanted to know if there was any way to install Symbian apps on Android ?

i heard that it was possible with Winmo so i asked to see if it was possible to with android

( i want to have OVI maps .... )

Thx !
[Desire General] nasimdejai:
Hi,that's not possible as both Operating Systems are completely different platforms.The symbian apps are usually in the sis/sisx format while those of android are in apk formats e.g angrybirds.sis(symbian) or angrybird.apk(android). However,if an app is created for symbian it is possible that the android version also exists.For example the WorldMate app on symbian is also available for android but some features present in the symbian version are not yet included in the android version.Hope this answers your question.Ovi map is specially designed for symbian devices,it won't work on android.
[G2 and Desire Z General] v8pwrdz28:
so if the dual partion thing is true to keep from booting up custom roms, who here would sell their G2? i have already thought about this and i think i would, after having 2 rooted androids and having the freedom to flash whatever i wanted i dont think i could deal with a stock phone lol.