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[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
FAQ:

How do i enable led notification for ...?

touchwiz sms: notification is only possible if you use another sms app (e.g. Go SMS) or if you use a patched sms app or a patched services.jar

touchwiz email: notification by default

gmail: notification by default

Google talk: notification by default

calendar: download "Calendar notifier" app from market (alternative)

call: BLN control - Pro from market

any other apps:

ask the author of the app for notification led support

The led notification is enabled in app xyz, but it still dont work, why?

This only a problem of Android >= 2.3. Led notifications in Android >= 2.3 do only work if the screen is powered off. You can not trigger a led notification while the screen is powered on and any led notification is automatically dismissed if the screen becomes powered on. This is a general "problem" of all gingerbread phones. This behavior is a design decision of the asop team and they think this is not important enough to be mentioned in the Android SDK documentation. 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).

How much does this modification affect battery life?

With backlight notification permanently powered on, the battery lasts around 82 hours (around 3,5 days, 1,22% per hour). This means, that activated backlights will increase battery usage by about 0,18% per hour. If there is no backlight notification ongoing, battery life is normal (around 96 hours, 1,04% per hour). Measurements were made on a i9000 (eclair) with enabled flight mode.

The sgs2 does currently (6th august 2011) rely on a kernel wakelock, that does affect the battery more than on other phones.

This is an exception from the general bln behavior and may hopefully change in future.

How do you test the battery consumption? This is a common and reliable method.

Could you add a fade feature?

That is only possible on some phones, most hardware is limited (by controller firmware) to simple on/off. Maybe I add these capability in the future.

The blinking or the missed call notification of the pro app are not reliably working, what is wrong?

The lowmemorykiller of your phone is configured with too aggressive settings, thereby the app services are killed and not restarted.

Either you use less aggressive settings or you have to live with the fact that your settings make things unreliable.

Btw, it is better to have less free ram in android. A lot of free ram on a android device indicates that it is inefficiently working.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] EarlZ:
Just a wild guess but the prox sensor might drain more power than the touch buttons
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Yes, i will try to implement that the promxity sensor status get polled only every few minutes, that should consume less energy.

But this feature is still on the todo-list, other features have higher priority.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Borky_16:
Gonna it work with Universal Lagfix Kernel (0.3)???

A answer would be nice..
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] android53:
Proxy sensor would be so slick though lol
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Of course, every kernel that incorporates bln with version greater than 1.0 should work.

edit: Btw, if you are unsure about that, just install the app. It will notify you, if BLN is not installed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Fihlvein:
Can we forget about seperate applications for missed calls and calendar events with this application or will we always need to count on third party solutions?

That's the biggest downside for me especially as there seems not to be any calendar solution that would be invisible to user, instead they all want to display their own calendar interface when LED is configured to be used.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
My plan is that this app can detect calendar and call notfications. And beside that you should be able to enable/disable led notification for the other touchwiz apps, that already support led notifications.

But that is not implemented yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] HaTeNL:
Does this work when you have BLN installed with UniversalLagFix? (ULF)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Fihlvein:
Excellent. Until that I will use NoLED, but will surely switch to BLN when basic notifications can be shown with your app only. Any eta on that?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] SysTem-X:
neldar, i tested this with gmail and it works. Have not tried call/sms yet. And hardcore kernel has BLN already also :D

edit: call working also!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] steph-one:
Suggestion : Turn LED Off after 15-30 minutes :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Fihlvein:
So, native BLN call & calendar notifications ready?!

Sorry, just being annoying in purpose. I just cannot wait for this. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
The schedule feature is planned for v0.8.

The feature list in post 1 is not sorted by priority... install/repair is more important to me. But you can change priority for scheduler feature implementation, that lacks only 6 votes. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] NunxPT:
First of all, great job neldar :)

I think I found a bug, I'm currently with:

- froyo JPM ROM

- BacklightNotification settings app v0.6

- BacklightNotification v2.2

- OCLF 2.0

I go to the settings app and untick "Activate BLN" to disable it for a while (eg. at night), when I press back and then return to the app, that particular setting is selected again, so I can't actually disable it.

Is it a bug or am I doing anything wrong? :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
It is a bug in the app, i have chosen another (and supposed to be a faster) method to write to sysfs, but it seems to fail. :mad:

That will be fixed in v0.6.7, that may be released tomorrow or monday.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] NunxPT:
Great, thanks neldar :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] crypta:
feature suggestion:

breathing buttons, if possible :).

also calendar and missed call native support would be great.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
What are breathing buttons?

Btw, new BLN settings app version released:

v0.6.6

*fixed: enable/disable of BLN function (sometimes?) broken

*added: update function

See the first post for apk.

The update function will check for an update of the app and the BLN mod.

You can deactivate it in the update settings category.

The function will only check for updates on app start and only every 48 hours.

The update check on boot is not yet implemented (and will stay disabled by default in future releases).

You can also manually trigger an update check, dont use that excessively!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] MrBusiness:
Thanks for your answerers. Not exactly what I was looking for, but I while think about it.

Must try to become the unread count within Zeam Launcher...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] jkruijff:
I never touch the scheduler. I just set it once, and never touched it again. So that's probably not it.

Not an inconvenience at all, just wanted to let you know. Not much trouble switching the app off and on again after a reboot :)

I understand. It's not a problem. Just wanted to let you know this as well. Maybe give you some more insight.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lilnev:
Does this work on the Nexus S?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
No, at the moment bln does not work on a nexus s.

The nexus s touchkey controller behave slightly different - it is not possible (at the moment) to directly control the backlight. This is what i can say after i studied the kernel source and the liblights source for the nexus s. It maybe that there is an undocumented way to control the backlights, but to find that i need a nexus s and at the moment i can not effort money to buy such a expensive phone (almost 600 euro - too much for a student ;)).
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Ok, then there is another issue - i will double check that.

I will re-write parts of the app.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ge1026:
I downloaded the bln, renamed it to update.zip correctly, placed it root of sdcard, no subfolder...got the weird font, phone rebooted but got stuck on galaxy i9000 screen and my phone is a tmobile vibrant...what options do I have? I am able to boot into recovery but my power button does not let me execute any of the options that my volume +/- buttons allow me to scroll through
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ge1026:
sorry to all if I am not posting this question in the right place...just looking for some help...I have a vibrant rooted running 2.1.1, no lagfix, I downloaded, renamed the bln zip to the root of sdcard, no subfolder, rebooted into recovery, applied zip from sd, got the weird font, phone rebooted but rebooted to galaxy s i9000 screen and got stuck there..I am able to boot into recovery but my power button does not allow me to choose any of the options that my volum +/- allows me to scroll through...I do have a nandroid backup for my vibrant but have no clue how to get there manually if even possible to back up my phone from the current state of BRICK-age

sorry again for the dweeb like question
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
You need to download a vibrant kernel and flash that with odin/heimdall, how that works is described in the froyo bln kernel thread.

And please remove the quote in the other post.

Quoting the first post is a no-go.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] blackburnfan:
Hi Neldar.

Purchased BLN control Pro and I'm getting the following message:

WARNING - The liblights on this device does not support BLN.

Latest BLN kernel found.

Do you want to get some instructions to resolve this problem?

I Odin'd BLN 2.3 and it is displaying as BLN kernel in Settings..About Phone.

2.2.1 JPY.

Can you please provide a resolution as both the free and pro versions of your app produce this error.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Rar9:
Is BLN working with K9-Mail? Or do I have to enable something else?

Currently using the K12 Kernel with Darky 7 Rom with enabled BLN
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Should work - enable led notification and set a led color.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lgkahn:
same problem here running jpy 2.2.1 same error message.. and just paid for pro versionl... thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Fixed in 2.3.1:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10064370&postcount=209
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] MaTiCeK-:
Is there a way to buy this app in countries where paid android market is not available?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] gadjet0:
Hi,

Went from 2.3 to 2.3.1 using SGS flasher, now Pro app says "

WARNING - The liblights on this device does not support BLN"

Tried other two previous kernels, 2.2 and 2.3 but still can not get it working.

SGS flasher did an update earlier, could it be this, has anyone else had this issue?

PDA: JP6

Phone: JP3

Cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] 9point6:
Bug: The lights fail to turn off after the notification has been dismissed. Both blinking or non-blinking. And it doesn't matter which notification, tested with the BLN test notification, tweetdeck and chompSMS.

My config is in my sig. The BLN app is the Pro version and it's up-to-date

edit: it only happens intermittently. It appears to be random.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Does the test notification work?

Ok, i will check that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Liquidator:
I can confirm 9point6's report. Witnessed this today, was only fixed after reboot.

/edit:

Bah, it's late, forgot all of the important stuff:

BLN Control Pro, latest version. I'm on JPO with Voodoo 5.0.1. Issue happened with the test notification and persisted even after disabling it it multiple times. It seemed pretty erratic, too, but I didn't give it much thought since the reboot fixed it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
For a workaround disable the blinking feature until an update is ready.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ofulanof:
Hello,

Blinks seem to be done only 1 cycle, then lights stay on forever.

Also even though I turned off test notification, it keeps on randomly notifying me with that same 1 blink cycle, forever on type of notification.

I'm using SGS I9000 with stock JPY, got my BLN from Speedmod kernel K12C. Nothing else is installed.

Just wanted to report it to you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Have a look at the post above yours:

For a workaround disable the blinking feature until an update is ready.

I tried to add support for bln 2.3 to the existent blinking code and that failed.

I will re-write that part, an update may be available in the next 2 days.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ZeuBug:
Same issue here with JPY and K12C.

I'm sorry for you Neldar that your great app doesn't work on this JPY...

Merry Christmas and take time to work on this, enjoy your meal! ;-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ofulanof:
Merry x-mas! Looking for the update.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] toto313:
Yep ! Same than you :/

I'm on Darky's ROM v7 (JPY) with Trasig Kernel (v69)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] zibiksior:
Hi neldar, I updated this app few minutes ago to version 0.9.0 and now blinking is working really bad for me. It starts blinking but after a while it starts light still or it's turn off complitly. I have Super Optimized kernel with BLN 2.3 likt it is required. Do you have any idea why it's happening like that?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Did it vibrate? Then the blink service got killed...

If not it sounds like the normal behavior - blinking stops by default after 5 minutes.

You could check if everything is alright by turning the screen on and off again.

If the notification led turns on, it means the blink service fail.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] zibiksior:
Ok I think problem is solved. I installed other kernel and now everything is allright:D Earlier I had a Super Optimized Kernel and I think there was a problem becouse now I have SpeedMod with 2.3 BLN and everything is working. I don't know what was the problem but it have to be in Super Optimized kernel not in your soft;)

Thanks for help anyway;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] pekota:
Hi,

Today im updated BLN and notice strange things.

After reboot and recieved 1st missed sms/call all fine and led blinking.

I leave it for 30 minutes - like my seetings for "blink duration ( overall )".

After 30 minutes blinking stoped and both led its lighting without blinking.

When i recieved next missed sms/call its not start blinking again. Still lighting without blinking.

When i cleared all missed notification leds stop lighting. But when now finally get again new missed sms/call leds start lighting but without blinking ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Griphine:
Hi neldar,

I would like to know if it was possible to port this app on the Google Nexus S on the future ?

Greetings.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Fixed that in v0.9.1.

I already had a look at the nexus s sources and there is no way documented to control the touchkey backlight.

So i need access to a nexus s to check if there is an undocumented way.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] davidmore:
Hi Neldar,

today i'm little un-happy because i see that every day there is a new version of you program.

I was testing your 0.84 BLN version with JPU and JPA firmware (works fine if you don't use schedule). Today i see that there is 0.91 version with a new Kernel for blink facilities.

I think that this changes are too fast; now i'm not more sure if there is a stable BLN program with low power consumption for my galaxy i9000 device.

in any case, I really appreciate your work.

David
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
I understand you concerns about the stability and power consumption.

The stability was an issue between 0.8.4 and 0.9.1 - i found a few bugs in the android api and tried to build workarounds to get the blinking functionality working. But in 0.9.0 the blinking code got completely changed to avoid those apis and in fact it is now using less energy(, but the blinking interval are not always accurate). In the mean time i fixed some little bugs in the scheduler.

So as a conclusion i would say the 0.9.1 is a lot more reliable and stable than 0.8.4.

And if you are still facing problems with one of the features you should drop a (detailed) bug report. If you do not like to experiment with new things, you can disable any feature so that it does not affect the functionality of the other features.

And you should be aware of, that this app is alpha - new features are not always stable... :rolleyes:

So the status of the current features should be (from my point of view):

scheduler: stable

blinking: (almost) stable

call: stable

everything else: stable (until i change that...:rolleyes:)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Griphine:
I understand. Thx you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lgkahn:
just tested .91 at least no more fc's but still not working correctly on my galaxy s 2.2.1 jpy..

got a missed call and the lights were just constantly on and not blinking..

(also tried uping the time to 1000 ms.. no change)

also they dont turn off after dismissing the missed call notification.

i have to sleep/unlock and then unlock the phone to get the lights to go out?

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] vipercubic:
Keep up the good work neldar, all working fine here (darky's 7.5 JPY @ speedmodK12f) missed calls, sms and blinkin :>
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] pekota:
Yeah now works fine ! Great.

Also its possible to add in BLINK DURATION menu - option like "nonstop" for never ending blinking ? Sometime 30 minutes its not enough long for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ofulanof:
Hello! Thanks for the updated version.

Blinking works as it should now. Lovin' it.

However, as mentioned in previous posts (and you replied "fixed") my BLN control does not apply settings on boot.

I didn't see any root permissions or anything like that.

BLN is enabled when phone is rebooted, however Blinking and Stock application BLN are both OFF when rebooted.

I hope this gives you an idea.

SGS I9000 stock JPY with Speedmod K12F (updated) BLN 2.3, nothing else installed.

Regards.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] endebe:
+1

after reboot blinking/stock appl. is off...

doc's 6.1 jpy with k12f - should we install BLN 2.3.1 over k12f's-integrated 2.3?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] stepsch:
Neldar, you made my day!

This app was the only thing I really missed when switching from old HTC HD to i9000 (2.2.1_XPY_rooted_oclf_andallthosestuff)

First attempt to install wasn't successfull (using Odin and .tar) but second version with update.zip works like a charme.

It was quiet boring to unlock the screen everytime to check if there was an incoming call or message ... but now it's a fast view... done.

One question left - I searched the thread but did'nt found an answer:

when I want to it to work 24h a day, what's the best schedule?

Start at 00:00 every day, but no scheduled end?

PS: never gave 1€ so fast for an app. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] NunxPT:
You can disable schedule, just delete both entries on the schedule menu ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lgkahn:
scheduler does not seem to work if you reboot the phone (ie battery dies) and you put new one in.. ie i have on at 7 am and off at 10pm .. at 11:30 battery died and put new battery in and booted.. later got text and lights were on... tried to uncheck and recheck 10 pm time and it said will take effect in 16 hours...

it needs to periodically look at both times and the current time and determine what it should do..

thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
But the scheduler turned bln off at 10pm, right?

I'll check that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
The led off option after blinking is coming with the next update.

At the moment i can not detect whether the led notification is coming from call, sms, or something else - but i'll keep that feature suggestion in mind. May be i will add that in a later version.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Vinsane:
What about Nero V3? Can't get it to work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] neldar:
Well, it depends on the dev of that kernel if he incorporates bln - just ask him to incorporate the bln patch.

And if he is not able to patch the source i could help with that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Volcacius:
Great app, I've just bought the pro version :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] lgkahn:
yes it did that correctly but was back on after reboot.. looks like it latest beta version you addressed this? thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] HKcow:
Hi~ I bought the pro version today and it worked as expected.. great!

But I meet a issue, could you please look into it?

My friend phoned me today and it is a missed call, the led just don't blink or stay on. I go to double confirm the setting and it is ok, in the test mode it is ok too. Then I phone myself to have a test and it is ok too! But I am sure my friend's call did not trigger the BLN! I look into my phone and I see the call end, the led did not show up even the call ended for 1 mins. Maybe there is some random bug?

My setting:

schedule to off at night, blinking enabled, stay on after blink for 2 mins, missed call enabled.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] zibiksior:
@HKcow what kernel do tou have? I have problem with blinking but I think it's after updating to latest varsion of BLN Control becouse earlier there was no problem. If you can please verify that blinking is working for you through hole 2 minutes becouse in my case is stops blinking after few seconds:(

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] shashank.aviator:
erratic blinking

hi neldar,

just bought the pro version. great idea for the app. dint hesitate at all in buying. but id like to report that the blinking functions on 0.9.2 (latest version i think) is heavily bugged. sometimes it blinks properly. sometimes it stops blinking after three blinks and the led's remain off. sometimes it doesnt blink at all and the led's remain on. seems like the internal timer logic is off.

and frankly i only saw the blinking function working as it should just once. after that its been bugging all the time.

some light on this would be appreciated

im using stock 2.2 jp6 with trasigs advanced voodoo kernel v69.2 .

EDIT : blinking seems to have stabilized on its own after a few reboots. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] HKcow:
Hi, I am using super optmized kernel.

In the previous BLN version, blinking only work for few second. But in the latest version of BLN, blinking worked for 2 min (as I set).

However, in the latest version BLN, occasionally BLN not work. I think about 25% the BLN just did not start no matter blinking is enabled or disabled.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] MiTMaNeK:
Hi,

Im using this kernel : Hardcore's Kernel - SpeedMod K12H with HZ=500

But sometimes blinking dont work, or dont work for all the time i set.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] shumbatzal:
Need a way to ignore Gmail notifications

Great app, bought the PRO version :)

Is there a way to ignore the Gmail app notifications?

When I'm at work I read my emails from the computer, and the phone shows the gmail notification for hours. I didn't mind that when i didn't have BLN, but now I do, because the LEDs are always on. This way I can't differentiate between missed calls and Gmail notifications.

This would be very helpful...

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] zibiksior:
I have exactly the same problem on the same kernel. Blinking is working for short time or it's not wroking, its random. HKcow I tried super optimized kernel and I have the same issues. Neldar if you can please check it I would be greatful.

Thanks zibiksior.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] shashank.aviator:
Feature request/suggestion

@ neldar,

how about a user input variable delay after which only BLN will start notification?

for example a delay of 2 mins? the leds wil not blink/notify of a message till 2 mins after the message arrives. in my opinion this would save some battery and time as many times the user is near the phone when a message arrives (or any other notification)

happy new year :)