On ICS on the ET4G, there is an option for Show Battery Percentage on Indicator. What does that do? I've checked it and unchecked it and noticed that absolutely nothing changed on any form of battery indicator that comes with the phone (battery indicator in the notification bar and on the lock screen). Has anyone figured out how to get this to work yet?
+1 for me. I would like to know also.
Yep, wondering the same thing.
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it might be broken, but try to check it and then reboot your phone to check if it works or not.
The battery percentage shows up (sometimes) on the left side in the status bar, only when charging? Not all the time.
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Hi all.
Right now i look into phone status to see the battery-percent if its 100% or not. But most time i'm charging the phone when its turned off. and then you really cant exactly tell when its charged. yes, you can see the battery-icon when you press the home button. but is it really fully charged when the animation is full?
somewhere i read that its charged when the led turns green. but its already green when the battery-icon is only 3quarters full.
I miss some kind of notification that tells me when the battery is fully charged.
Rondock said:
Hi all.
Right now i look into phone status to see the battery-percent if its 100% or not. But most time i'm charging the phone when its turned off. and then you really cant exactly tell when its charged. yes, you can see the battery-icon when you press the home button. but is it really fully charged when the animation is full?
somewhere i read that its charged when the led turns green. but its already green when the battery-icon is only 3quarters full.
I miss some kind of notification that tells me when the battery is fully charged.
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It's 'fully' charged when the status (Settings -> About Phone -> Status) says 100%, the status bar image shows a full battery for less then 100% (between 100 and 80? I think)
There's an article here on the subject: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/nov/16/android-battery-icon-information
You can install themes that will display the number in the battery image or you can get 1% incremental battery themes, which will be more accurate
ok but this is just for turned on.
but what about when its turned off? because as i said thats the way i mostly charge it.
Dont think you can do anything when the phone is off think your just gona have to charge it when its on... You can see a percentage on the lockscreen while charging the phone when is on
[APP][ROOT][1.6-4.0] ButtonLED​
EDIT: I figured out that we can actually control the LED notification light with this app now. Instead of using the file for the capacitive buttons, just substitute it for one of the LED files.
Green - /sys/devices/platform/msm_ssbi.0/pm8921-core/pm8xxx-led/leds/led:green/brightness
Red - /sys/devices/platform/msm_ssbi.0/pm8921-core/pm8xxx-led/leds/led:red/brightness
Remember to also enable it in Accessibility! It still doesn't work well for any time less than 1 second, but I don't feel like that's a huge deal.
If you want to use the button LED, you can still use that file as well.
Since the OG's notification light (or frequency) is shameful to say the least, I just discovered this app today and it's sooooo handy for our phones even though it was meant for phones with no LED at all. Basically, it uses the capacitive buttons as a notification light.
Download the HDPI version and install it.
When you first open it, you have to tell it where the button backlight file is since it's different on every phone. Ours is located at /sys/devices/platform/msm_ssbi.0/pm8921-core/pm8xxx-led/leds/button-backlight/brightness.
Lastly, scroll down in the main menu to where it says "Enable ButtonLED in accessibility" and click on it. It'll take you to the system accessibility settings where you just have to toggle it on.
It took me a little while of playing with the settings to get it working how I wanted, and you can do the same. I have noticed a few issues here and there, but overall it works pretty great. One thing I found was that if you try to set the LED on time to anything less than 1 second, it just does a real quick flash, regardless of what length you chose. Personally, I like 1 second on, 1 second off.
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Thanks for posting. :good:
Have you noticed any change in battery life? Reading the developer's posts, when the notification lights are active the phone doesn't sleep.
signal34 said:
Have you noticed any change in battery life? Reading the developer's posts, when the notification lights are active the phone doesn't sleep.
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No difference so far, but I don't think that I've had a notification that I haven't seen and cleared within five minutes. I'd be interested to see what the drain is if it goes unmonitored for a couple of hours.
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No difference so far, but I don't think that I've had a notification that I haven't seen and cleared within five minutes. I'd be interested to see what the drain is if it goes unmonitored for a couple of hours.
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Not the biggest difference in the world but it is affecting it its always at the top of the battery stats
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I can't even get this app to let me change where the led is located. How did you get it to work?
Edit: never mind I simply had to update my busy box version
BTW: I love you for finding this app
LOL, nevermind, nice find!
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Hey thanks I've been looking for this, but if you've tried cm10 the led notification is kinda amber greenish, i wanted to know if i can get that same color, is it possible?
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Not with this app unfortunately. You can either tell it to use the green color or the "red" (orange) color for the LED and that's it.
Works on stock kernel?
Is this supposed to work with stock ZVC kernel?
Test works, and the logs show that ButtonLED detects and processes my notifications, but it won't light the led.
I tried everything, what he says here too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37134835&postcount=338
But terminal gave me an error creating the path.
does that means it's not supported?
Anybody know how to alert a user on the law battery situaton? There is no led indicator and I didn't found a sound option for the low battery.
Mine pops up a notification and also chimes. But that may be just because the screen was already on.
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Has anyone noticed any issues while using Lightflow? I have been having issues where my phone won't turn on for about 20-30 seconds sometimes and I have turned everything off and Lightflow was the last that I turned off and so far I have not had this issue again yet. I'm just wondering if anyone else had seen this as well.
I had an issue where I would charge my phone at night. I would wake up in the morning and try to turn the screen on but it would stay off. I would have to reboot it to get it to work. The second time I unplugged the phone and could tell it was unlocking with the finger print reader but the screen would not come on. I forced the reboot and when it came back up I had a notification that lightflow was using more battery than it should. Uninstalled it and haven't had the problem since.
Yeah that app got wayyyy to complicated years ago.
I use Lightmanager now. Much simpler havent had any issues
Light Flow seems to be working well on my 2XL.
As far as Light Flow being complicated, it does have a lot of options but that's a good thing IMO, not a negative.
The devs are attempting to make a program that works well with all brands of phones and Samsung, HTC and LG seem to have different methods for controlling the LED.
Light Flow can bypass the OS to control the LED.
I would suggest you email the developer before you give up or move to another program.
I think Light Flow used to have their own forum here on XDA and maybe they still do.
Seems Navigation Bar Hider can have that same effect. Just installed it last night, and had my first experience with that effect. It's a lot less scary now that I know it's not just my phone, or just one app doing it. I wonder if it's the phone, the OS, or the Apps implementation on the OS. I personally think it's more software based though.
Update: Just looked at Light Flow (never used it personally). It looks like it has an effect with the lock screen. It's a theory, and I don't actually plan to test it if I don't have to, but I THINK both it and Nav Bar Hider having an effect with lock screens (with how I had it set up to be active with everything) is what causes it to not come on when you unlock after extended time. Since i have tuned hider to specific apps instead of generically on by default for everything, the symptom has not come back.
Are you on 8.1? A lot of users have been having a similar issue on the beta.
I've had better luck on Pixels with Light Flow Legacy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlegacy
no issues for me with lightflow on 8.0 or 8.1 so far...
Working fine on mine with 8.0.
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no issues for me with lightflow on 8.0 or 8.1 so far...
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Do you have anything enabled under Device Settings and Root, or LED control? Been hit or miss for me on 2 XL, have root enabled.
bigknowz said:
Do you have anything enabled under Device Settings and Root, or LED control? Been hit or miss for me on 2 XL, have root enabled.
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I do not, not rooted.
only thing checked there is the nexus 5 setting, it must have been enabled by default, I don't remember ticking it.
Hows the battery usage with lightflow anymore? I abandoned it when I got my Nexus 6P as the device would never sleep with lightflow.
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Hows the battery usage with lightflow anymore? I abandoned it when I got my Nexus 6P as the device would never sleep with lightflow.
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Ive never had an issue with it, using it since Nexus 5.
No issues here with my 6p or pixel2 other then it seems to go to sleep if my phone is motionless. Once I wake the screen the led comes on. No battery drain either.
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Hello everyone,
I seem to be only able to get Light Flow(Paid version) to work but only while the screen is off and not while the screen is on. I am rooted and I tried setting the options for both root on and root off and I have the option set for the LED to be always on while the screen is on, but again I can only get the LED to show with the app while the screen is off. I'm hoping that someone here can help me out by sharing their settings that they are using that enable them to have the LED on while the screen is either on or off. Maybe they could even share their own settings backup file if they have the app working while the screen is on?
I don't use light flow but I do use immersive mode for the navigation bar and I too have the same issue with the screen not coming in once I plug the charger in. I have to hard reboot the phone. I thought it was the Root causing the issue but it's not. I think it happens when hide the navigation bar
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I don't use light flow but I do use immersive mode for the navigation bar and I too have the same issue with the screen not coming in once I plug the charger in. I have to hard reboot the phone. I thought it was the Root causing the issue but it's not. I think it happens when hide the navigation bar
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It is a hiding the nav bar issue. The dev behind "Custom Navigation Bar" has supposedly figured out the problem and said that it doesn't happen when using that app for immersive mode.
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It is a hiding the nav bar issue. The dev behind "Custom Navigation Bar" has supposedly figured out the problem and said that it doesn't happen when using that app for immersive mode.
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Thank you sir I'm now using the custom navigation bar app and I have not had any issues so far.
Hello everyone,
I asked a question last week but I think it may have been missed or overlooked, so I am bumping it in hopes of getting an answer.
is anyone here able to get the paid version of this app to show/change the notification LED while the screen is on? I am able to change the color of the LED and it shows for all the notifications that I have set while the screen is off, but no matter what I do, I'm unable to get the LED to light up with my notifications while the screen is turned on, even though I have the setting enabled to do so.
So I would like to know what settings ppl are using to enable the LED to light up while the screen is either off or on? because ppl have mentioned in this thread that they have the app working for both screen off and on, so if someone that has this working could please share how they have the app configured, or what they did to get this feature working, then it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot guys...
I was quite frustrated that the Battery percentage isn't available on home screen status bar , regardless you have already turn it ON using system UI Turner > Always Show Battery Percentage .
I believe this is a system bug and would get fix on the next update (maybe) .
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I was quite frustrated that the Battery percentage isn't available on home screen status bar , regardless you have already turn it ON using system UI Turner > Always Show Battery Percentage .
I believe this is a system bug and would get fix on the next update (maybe) .
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The phone has a notched display so it won't show battery percentage in the status bar. All manufacturers are doing this. You have to tap the status bar on some phone to show you more information that was originally supposed to be on the status bar (if there were not a notch), on some phones, others you have to pull down the status bar to see the battery percentage.
still_living said:
The phone has a notched display so it won't show battery percentage in the status bar. All the manufacturers are doing this. You have to tap the status bar on some phone to show you more information that was originally supposed to be on the status bar (if there were not a notch), on some phones, others you have to pull down the status bar to see the battery percentage.
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Yes I had this same issue earlier today when setting up my A2 lite for the first time..... the same situation, in the end, I downloaded a battery percentage app call My Battery Percentage , it shows the percentage left of the notch then I went and turned off the battery logo altogether...kind of works out fine.....But I cannot see any reason why they cannot make it show a battery percentage rather than a battery....bit lame.
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Yes I had this same issue earlier today when setting up my A2 lite for the first time..... the same situation, in the end, I downloaded a battery percentage app call My Battery Percentage , it shows the percentage left of the notch then I went and turned off the battery logo altogether...kind of works out fine.....But I cannot see any reason why they cannot make it show a battery percentage rather than a battery....bit lame.
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Icon takes up less space
But offers less detailed information
They need to allow battery percent and push other things like the bluetooth and the do not disturb icon into the overflow.
This is definitely not a bug but by design. Just set "percentage always on" in the system UI tuner and then pull down status bar to view the percentage that appears next to the battery. No need to have it on the screen all the time.
justwondering said:
Yes I had this same issue earlier today when setting up my A2 lite for the first time..... the same situation, in the end, I downloaded a battery percentage app call My Battery Percentage , it shows the percentage left of the notch then I went and turned off the battery logo altogether...kind of works out fine.....But I cannot see any reason why they cannot make it show a battery percentage rather than a battery....bit lame.
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What is the app you downloaded? I searched for my battery percentage on playstore but many shows up. Can you SS the icon please. Thanks
It's here in the android pie updatee