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[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
The log file does not even show any wakelock of the control app, not even any alarm or sensor event activity, just a little bit of activity of the services.

Do you have the proximity feature enabled?

Could you please try to find something in the BetterBatteryStats app, you may most probably find something in the sections "Process" and "Partial wakelocks" if you play with the "since"-selection.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] BigBugHmb:
That's what i mean... nothing to see, battery losts...

normaly not, but i turn it on before some hours to see it something change, but nope...

(and now is disabled again)

Many Wakeups found in "Alarms" (nelda.bln.control.pro = 947) ... nothing else... :(

But(?) the most of them only Blink on/off.

René
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Yesterday I could reproduce this "problem" on my nexus s and it seems to me that is not related to wakelocks or alarm events.

The built-in battery stats show almost 30% of battery use while the betterbatterystats shows a far less amount (no value displayed) - see the attached screenshots. In fact it shows only a few seconds of activity in the process of the control app.

Secondly I noticed that the battery usage does not look unusually high (5% in 11 hours), with active wi-fi and a few notifications.

I will investigate what problem may be the reason for the built-in battery app to show a 30% battery usage of my app.

However so far you should not be concerned about battery drainage by my app, the problem is something else.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] tiwag:
What ROM are you using ? i can just dream of 5% in 11hours
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Stock rom IML74K with matr1x kernel #37 and xxki1 modem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] kohkohnut:
Hi neldar

I just flashed the services.jar from here to enable bln notifications for touchwiz sms. Before that I was able to dismiss notifications by pressing the home button. But now, I can't use the home button to dismiss notifications anymore. It would light up again once the screen goes off. Even when I unlock and lock the phone, the notification light would come on once the screen goes off. Seems like the only way to dismiss the notification light completely is to view the unread message.

I have a habit of dismissing the notification when I am busy (to conserve battery), and only reading the new message when I am free. Thus this behavior is very undesirable to me. Is there any way to circumvent this? As in allowing the home button to dismiss the notification light.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Normally, a bln-patched services.jar work just as you described it. Please post your request into the thread of that services.jar, perhaps the author would like to adjust the behavior.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] kohkohnut:
Hi neldar

Thanks for the prompt response.

Do you have any guide on how to make an adjustment so that the bln notifications can be dismissed with the home button?

I would like to give it a try myself or maybe help out the author a little.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Use baksmali to disassemble the services.jar.

Then manually apply the patch to the NotificationManagerService.smali file. There are 3 occurrences of conditional statements regarding mScreenOn in the updateLightsLocked() function, you have to remove 2 of them. If you remove all 3, then you get the behavior that you have criticized.

And then assemble the services.jar with baksmali.

edit: this is only necessary for android versions >= 2.3 and < 4.0.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] micha3lvd:
Hi neldar, just want to tell you that i've found the troublemaker with BL going off after unlocking screen: NS tools. after removing it i've never encountered my leds go off after turning my screen on.

Thanks for the great app!

-edit

I've encountered the bug once again.. doesn't seem to do the trick
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
I am still hunting that "bug". However I do not think that it is a bug in my app, because the built-in battery stats of android 4.0 surprisingly showed my app even while it was not running (i killed the process and checked that no wakelock was active). It even showed an increasing percentage of battery drain for the app. It seems to me, that I managed somehow to trigger a bug in the built-in battery stats app.

So far the BetterBatteryStats app is more reliable.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] maranello69:
why is there any need to display the "Please buy this app to support..." if i already paid for the Pro version

this is one of the primary reasons for why i like to use paid apps, to get rid of those popups and ads

please fix this for those of us using pro version
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Just make sure the phone has an internet connection and the google account you purchased this app with is active.

And then restart the app, maybe you have to stop it by the taskmanager.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lurol:
go sms

First, thanks a lot for this BLN application. It is really very useful

Otherwise, as I read

"The BLN control app has a workaround implemented for the internal call, locale/tasker plug-in & test notification. Any other apps may have also a option to disable the screen before these apps try to trigger led notifications (e.g. Go SMS)"

Would it be possible to implement another workaround to allow BLN to work with gosms even when the screen is enabled for the notifications? particularly as it seams that a great number of people use gosms and would like such a thing?

Presently, with gosms we must choose between "BLN/screen off" or "no BLN/screen on" for the notifications :confused:

Thanks again

Luc
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] maranello69:
all good after a reboot man :) thanks

as a side note, the proximity feature doesn't work for me on S2
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
What happens if you enable the proximity sensor and the cover the upper area of the screen, does the status change?

There is an intended 5 seconds delay before bln switches off.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] maranello69:
yeah man, after 5 secs with the sensor covered the blinking stops, but when i take my hand off is starts again (i kept it covered for like 30secs)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fredbull:
Yes it's a normal behavior not ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
It is, with the next update you will be able to change the delay.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] chrcol:
hmm I got worried when I seen the update and updated anyway, now seeing these posts I am really worried.

how are you guys seeing the % used by BLN in the battery stats? is it only on new android versions? on 2.3.3 it only shows idle and voice usage not for apps.

I do have betterbatterystats installed tho also.

Also if needed how do I downgrade BLN pack to previous version?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
You dont have to worry about the battery usage, that problem seems to be a bug in the built-in battery stats of android.

The problem seems only to occur if an app holds or was holding references to the SensorManager class and/or the Sensor class. Then the built-in battery stats shows high battery usage for that app, but the battery actually does not drain more than normal (see this post). I could reproduce this behavior only when the battery is fully charged and the USB connection is disconnected while the app was already running or was executed shortly after the USB connection has been disconnected.

And I could only reproduce this on my Nexus S with android 4.0.3. In 4.0.4 this bug has been partially fixed, if the proximity sensor feature is active the app is still shown in the battery stats.

edit: Please see the attached screenshot of a Nexus S with 4.0.4. The battery has been discharged by 12% in 16 hours, 0,75% per hour. That is normal battery usage, the built-in battery stats shows that the control app should be responsible for 21% of that 12% usage. While BetterbatterStats dont even show the control app (no screenshot).

The following phones/android version have been tested and do not have that bug:

i9000 with 2.3.4

S5830 with 2.3.5
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Dan_Aykroyd:
Hi,

Is there a known SMS app that when messages are read externally would actually disabled the LED notification?

You know, with the stock (or modded services.jar), the LED would light up when an SMS is received and will stay lit until you actually open the SMS app from within the phone (also, the notification icon will show). I.e., notification doesn't get removed if, for example, I read the SMS from the computer.

Although the computer marks the SMS as read, it's a limitation that the notification will stay up until I enter the SMS app.

So... is there another, alternative client to stock that does this correctly?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] tamosaur:
I don't like how it turns my entire screen on when I get a text... can I set it so that ONLY the buttons light up?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] chrcol:
yeah it seems fine on my phone, no extra wakelocks or anything.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lowspeed:
Is this normal?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Maybe you should ask this in the android q&a section.

Gosms and handcent both have options for that.

Yes, that is normal.

However that is a kernel wakelock, that is controlled by the kernel driver of bln.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] tamosaur:
i got gosms and it fixed the screen wake!!! great app, thanks =)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] samokko:
Only blink on missed calls

Yo neldar!

Love the app, great work.

Is there a way to set pro version only blink on missed calls. Getting so much messages and emails that i dont want it to react on those.

If not possible atm, would it be easily done as a new feature?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Comporellon:
You can disable it in your messaging/email app.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] MatMaul:
Hi,

Could you enable the monitoring of the proximity sensor only when there is a notification to display ?

my prox sensor make a little red light, it doesn't seem to use a lot of battery (no wakelock) but I don't really see the point to have it if there is no notif, but maybe I missed something :)

Thanks !
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] krytes222:
Found a bug in the experimental "ringer mode". I use the "Silent/Vibrate" option. (bln off when in silent mode)

Case one:

When my gs2 is in silent mode with screen switched off and I have a message waiting that would normally trigger bln the buttons stay black as they should.

But when I switch the screen on and leave silent mode w/o reading the message first the buttons blink all the time. Switching the screen off and on again solves it though.

Case two:

Again gs2 in silent mode, screen switched off and I have a message waiting (no blinking leds). This time I switch the screen on, read the message first and then leave silent mode. Immediately the buttons start blinking all the time, stop blinking if I turn the screen off and start blinking again if I turn it back on and so on.

Entering silent mode stops it temporarily but the buttons blink again as soon as I leave silent mode.

Only switching bln off and back on in the app stops the blinking completely.

Can anyone reproduce this on another device?

Hope this helps fixing the bug.

Edit: I use Checkrom v6 and Siyah Kernel 2.6.14
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Your suggestion will be included with the next update.

Well, I found the reason for that behavior on the sgs2 and I will try to fix it with the next update.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] MatMaul:
Cool thanks :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] speedfreak007:
Great app! I don't know if it has been asked before, but is it possible to enable "smooth" blinking (like the notification led on a nokia E72 or the sleep light of a MacBook)? If it's possible to control the on/off behavior of the LEDs fast enough, you could use PWM for example.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ponpadour:
Unfortunately it is a hack and there is no control on the way it is blinking
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] speedfreak007:
If the the LEDS can be switched ON and OFF very fast, Pulse-Width Modulation can be applied so it appears like they are blinking "smoothly" (like the sine in the following picture, but without negative values of course ).

http://masters.donntu.edu.ua/2007/fema/rudenko_y/library/art9/fig4.gif
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] solar666:
calendar notifier with ICS

Does anyone of you use the calender notifier together with ICS and BLN control app?

For me this combination was working fine with Gingerbread and I always got the LED Light on after a notification from the calender notifier app but with ICS this seems not to work anymore.

Can someone please check this and confirm?

Neldar,

do you have any idea of different app that makes the calender notification working together with BLN at ICS?

Thanks upfront.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] :
do you refer to this Calendar Notifier app (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1533401 )?

If your answer is "yes", i'm using in my S2 and i have BLN support (you need a compatible kernel, like Siyah, of course). :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] globaltrasher:
Hi Neldar,

Pro user here. I really like an app, however coming from Motorola Atrix 4G (LED notifications of different color for different app), I really miss ability to distinguish between sources of notifications with BLN Control app on Samsung Note.

Would it be possible to assign each soft key a separate source of notifications? For example, my scenario and I'm sure others will have similar usage scenarios:

K9Mail for personal email notifications --> Settings soft-key lit up

Touchdown for Exchange email notifications --> Home soft-key lit up

Google Talk and Go SMS for text notifications --> Back soft-key lit up

Missed call / voice message --> Search soft key lit up

Is that possible to implement?

Thank you!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] untalented893:
Posted a suggestion a while back about different light up patterns for the soft keys. I know the galaxy s 4g has a different LED light for each button so you could have them light up one at a time to make a cool pattern/effect. I was wondering if you looked into this or were considering it at all?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] solar666:
Hi Bartito,

thanks for the reply.

I really don't know if we are talking about the same "calender notifier" as the xda thread has no download or working market link available.

I am speaking about the "calender notifier" app posted by Neldar in his first 2 messages in this posted.

I was using this app to get notified for each calender entry and it was working in GB ROMs without problems but together with ICS (and for sure a working BLN Kernel, as missed calls notification (by NSTOOLS) and SMS notification are working but the calender notification is not toggling the BLN of the keys.

Thanks anyhow.

Hope to get a reply by Neldar for this.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] :
ok, not talking about the same apps, but i'm the developer of

the related "Calendar Notifier" (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1533401) and i'm sure of that:

1) the op post contains a link to the markt (just click into the QR code)

2) is working fine with BLN in GB and ICS, and also provides additional

capabilities, like recurrent events reminder...

Try it... :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] andip71:
Lock screen app side effect?

Hi Neldar,

hope this observation was not already posted in the thread, was searching for it but could not find anything.

I am using a lock screen app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lidroid.lockscreen) to quickly lock my screen without using the hardware power button.

When I do that, I can see some weird behaviour: The screen goes off and locks, one second later it comes back again for a short while before it finally goes off.

I noticed, this is only the case if BLN Pro is enabled. When I disable it, the effect is gone.

I can replicate it on both SlimICS and AOKP ICS roms, on kernels Semaphore ICS and Midnight ICS. Also with some different lock screen apps.

When I use the hardware power button by the way, everything is correct.

Is this a known issue or anything to look into?

Many thanks

Andi
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] maranello69:
i had the same issue with my lock screen app, Screen Off and Lock, but the dev sorted it out with a small update pretty fast

so in my case it was from the screen lock app...

you can try to active the schedule in bln settings, maybe you will get lucky :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] solar666:
Perfect, Thanks. Working great :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] saugstauber:
Does the usage of the proximity sensor consume a lot of battery?

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[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] maranello69:
i don't see that much of a difference with sensor on, haven't got a chance yet to measure it exactly
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ipaq_101:
What exactly does the proximity sensor do?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] cdmackay:
Optionally, it turns off the notification lights if the proximity sensor is triggered. Thus you don't waste any battery when it's in its case, for example.

As soon as the prox sensor is released, the lights will come back on, e.g. if you take it out of a case for a few seconds.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fjkum:
I heard proximity sensor eats more battery as it requires to stay on for detection all the time...that's why it's still in experimental mode.

So you guys are basically guinea pigs for that features! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] cdmackay:
I believe it's an alarm, so doesn't need to be polled, but yes, I can imagine that if there are no prox alarms registered then perhaps the phone can power down the sensor.

That said, I've used it since it was introduced, and no sign of it in my BBS logs, so I don't think it's an issue.

And, of course, there's the question of how much battery is used leaving the BLN lights on all the time (if you have it set that way) in comparison. I would imagine that the sensor requires less power than the lights... of course, you could set the lights to timeout.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] S1lv3r H4wK:
Would it be possible to make the blink on miniMum period less than 500ms? I would like a quicker blink or is there some hardware limitation to this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] chrcol:
I use the blinking mode, today I changed unlimited timeout to 2 hours. Now the leds dont blink on a new sms they just stay on.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
That isnt related to the control app or the bln mod, that is just an issue of that lockscreen app.

It is possible, I have that on my todo list.

What happens if you revert that change?

Maybe the service for blinking has been stopped, just start the control app or disable and re-enable blinking to restart the service.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] chrcol:
I already reverted and it blinks again now.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] NetSkipper:
Hello neldar.

I have an issue with blinking. I've set it to 1 sec for 15 min, and afterwards the "leds" (the touch buttons) are on for another 45 min. All that working just fine with missed calls, sms, gmail, whatsapp, im+, facebook, etc..

Since the 0.17.x versions I've started to notice that even when I'm reading the message from the above mentioned apps, and dismissing it, the leds continues to blink. Even if I'll terminate the above apps completely. I need to go to BLN settings and de-activate/activate for it to stop blinking. I've tried it without enabling the proximity sensor, and tried with it being enabled. If it's on, and I've read the message, the leds are continuing to blink, they stop when I'm covering the sensor, and resumes when uncovering. Again, the message\notification has been read and dismissed.

I'm talking of course about the Pro version (I can mail\PM you the order number if needed). I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace (GT-S5830) with custom Cyanogen 7.2 Modded ROM that completely supports BLN (ltheink to the thread is in my signature). The interesting thing, that I had no blinking issues at all with BLN Pro versions 0.15.x and 0.16.x! The ROM was the same all the time. I also don't have any automatic task killers, so the service is working all the time.

Please advise what to do to resolve this issue.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Do you only notice that behavior if the proximity sensor is active?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] NetSkipper:
No, even if the sensor is not active, this issue still occurs.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] AaronCompNetSys:
Question for you neldar,

I like the vibrate feature of Blinky, and since Bob appears to no longer be developing it for Gingerbread, can this be part of the Pro app? I seem to remember a no-compete post but Bob fails to update his.

Right now I'm on TSM with KGB, vibrating with Blinky. I have the bug where BLN does not clear unless you pull down the notification bar, which was not patched because TSM updates have stopped [link]. I can clear it manually with Pro+Tasker, but I'll loose the vibrate function.

Help?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] cdmackay:
I'm getting the impression there might be a slight issue with the proximity detector, recently.

I'm on the latest CM9 nightlies, and a mixture of stock and Semaphore kernel.

When I test out BLN manually, all works perfectly, including the proximity detection.

But, several times, I've noted that when I take my phone out of its case, the BLN lights are on. Normally, with the prox detection, I get to see them come out, just after removal from the case. But when this occurs, I get the impression they were already on (which they should not be, in the case, given the prox detection).

sure enough, when this occurs, if I put something over the prox sensor (without touching the screen), the BLN lights stay on, whereas they should go off.

Again, when I test things manually, they all work perfectly, so it's rather odd.

Anyone else seeing this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Camron708:
Is there a kernel that supports BLN on the Bell Galaxy S2 for ICS (and the different ICS roms for it)? I see there was a kernel that supported it specifically for 2.3/2.4/2.5 but not ICS.

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] squall458:
Siyah works perfectly.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Dani01c:
But why does it work for fb notifications only? Mine never works for calls or text. The leds light up only on apps where you can choose the led color.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Camron708:
Awesome, thanks. I am going to flash the latest kernel with ICS Resurrection Remix ROM.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] killian32:
How could I enable BLN for a certain app ? (inside the app I can only activate BLN for calls)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] SilenceSea:
cha zui hou yi ge

ji xu yong pin yin
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] maranello69:
the respective app itself has to be bln / led compatible, just go on the menu of the app you want and look for something like "Activate led notification"
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] fantomatico:
can ussd support be part of bln?

Some Portuguese carriers have a service thet enable you to send via ussd code a notification to someone asking him to call you back.

When I receive this notification on my Samsung S5830 if the screen is off I don't know I received it.

Thanks