NoLED - anyone using it with their San Fran?

[Guest Paul]

My missus is using this with her Galaxy S, and it's pretty awesome.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/noled/com.led.notify

Anyone using it on their San Fran?

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[Guest tomqman]

yep paul been using it for a few days now and its working great

Edited November 19, 2010 by tomqman

[Guest Paul]

Cool...

BTW, looking at building up a new MCR r5 based on the Bouygues ROM. B)

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[Guest Freekers]

Same here ! Great alternative to the LED problem

[Guest BigBearMDC]

I also just installed it. Looks pretty good B)

Best regards,

BB

[Guest balb0wa]

Great app, very nice

[Guest meinnit]

Someone posted about this app here but I misunderstood it to not work. So does it actually work and not keep the phone in permanent wake state?

[Guest meinnit]

Cool...

BTW, looking at building up a new MCR r5 based on the Bouygues ROM. B)

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How does it differ from the Orange ROM?

[Guest balb0wa]

i dont think its meant to keep the phone in wake state.

Im sure its just meant to alert you to missed calls and texts by throwing a red or green icon around the screen, while the phone is in standby mode etc.

[Guest robot1000]

Is it at all possible to disable the led in the back button, cause at the moment mine is steady red for no apparent reason?

Edited November 19, 2010 by robot1000

[Guest Flumpster]

Cool...

BTW, looking at building up a new MCR r5 based on the Bouygues ROM. B)

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I just had to switch to your Rom off the Bouygues ROM because the disable data option is missing from the French Rom. Maybe it would be better to base your next one off the Hungarian one which has this setting back in it.

[Guest Movisman]

Yeah, I installed this a few days ago, it works pretty well so far!

Not sure how much effect it may or may not have on battery life though, will keep an eye on it.

[Guest meinnit]

Just tried the app. Looks like it's preventing the phone from sleeping? Reason why LED is working

[Guest Xoplit]

This app actually starts a service. This will allow the phone to go to full sleep in normal conditions preserving the battery. Whenever there is a missed event this service catches it and initiates notification on the screen. Now the phone is not asleep as you can imagine.

This is closest to perfect for now, as the phone is actually asleep most of the time and is awaken only for the period from missing the event to when you see the notification.

Ideally we will have the kernel fixed and the back button will notify us even if the phone is asleep, until then NoLed is a good workaround.

Edited November 19, 2010 by Xoplit

[Guest meinnit]

This app actually starts a service. This will allow the phone to go to full sleep in normal conditions preserving the battery. Whenever there is a missed event this service catches it and initiates notification on the screen. Now the phone is not asleep as you can imagine.

This is closest to perfect for now, as the phone is actually asleep most of the time and is awaken only for the period from missing the event to when you see the notification.

Ideally we will have the kernel fixed and the back button will notify us even if the phone is asleep, until then NoLed is a good workaround.

The home button wakes the phone when the notification is being displayed on screen. We all know that the front buttons do not wake the phone when sleeping so this suggests that phone phone is not sleeping while notification is being displayed.

You can turn the notification off after some time which puts the phone back to sleep. This is probably recommended.

This is the thread I was looking for:

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...90/led-me-know/

Someone else suggested that the NoLED causes phone not to sleep and is a workaround for now.

Edited November 19, 2010 by meinnit

[Guest targetbsp]

I've set up tasker profiles to keep the phone awake if i miss a call or receive a text, while the screen is off, until I unlock the screen. I'd imagine this is more power efficient than noled because while both prevent the phone sleeping - my method relies on the led and doesn't need the screen on. I shall compare the two. B)

[Guest milkykung]

NoLED is a good app. I love how it can be customised through themes ^^

My only concern is a battery usage. I find "FlashNotifier" usefull in that sense too as it only flashes the back button rather than lighting a black screen and display icons ^^

I need to have a go for both and observe that B)

Cheers,

[Guest milkykung]

Sorry for double post B) My Internet is bad :)

Edited November 19, 2010 by milkykung

[Guest targetbsp]

I've set up tasker profiles to keep the phone awake if i miss a call or receive a text, while the screen is off, until I unlock the screen. I'd imagine this is more power efficient than noled because while both prevent the phone sleeping - my method relies on the led and doesn't need the screen on. I shall compare the two. B)

OK, for those that have it, Tasker is much more battery efficient that NoLed. The below tests were done from 100% charge with wifi off on a stock rom streamlined using titanium and autostarts.

Over an 8 hour 50 minute test using Tasker to keep the phone awake, with the notification led flashing, the battery dropped by 33%.

NoLed dropped the battery by 30% in 4 hours 20 minutes.

For reference, my phone generally drops 3% in an 8 hour period overnight.

The main difference I assume being down to the fact that the screen is actually off with Tasker.