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Disable Charging LED

Pri6oner — Sat, 03 May 2014 10:54:31 GMT

Is there any way of disabling the Charging LED?

Only a small gripe as it's quite bright and lights up my ceiling while I'm trying to grab some sleep.

Re: Disable Charging LED

theroninhunter — Sat, 03 May 2014 11:17:33 GMT

Same for me actually, Samsung had a blocking mode which allowed me to disable notifications abd LED during the night

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naos — Mon, 12 May 2014 15:54:43 GMT

Hi,

Who allowed to design such bright notification LED for charging mode? This thing shines like a torch when my phone is charging next to my bed. I can't sleep with this thing shining, I have to put a book on the phone so the led is covered. This need to be addressed, Hard to believe no one at Sony didn't see this issue coming, really, I mean, we don't really like to have a light turned on when sleeping.

I guess a lot of people have this problem as we all tend to use our phones as alarm clocks, so this is very common use case to have phone charing on night table by the bed. Please add option to disable this led for charging and also for fully charged status.

Greetings,

Luke

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Jejoma — Tue, 20 May 2014 22:22:08 GMT

I agree. I've stopped charging at night because of that bright green floodlight until I can work out a sensible way of blocking it

Re: Disable Charging LED

wlu10 — Thu, 22 May 2014 01:40:31 GMT

Same problem here!

Hopefully Sony can provide a solution for this. Seems like it should just be a simple option to disable it.

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Sensination — Thu, 22 May 2014 07:05:40 GMT

I have the same problem and it's driving me nuts!

On top of it, I bought Sony's overpriced docking station to use it by my bed stand which makes the issue even worse as now the stupid LED is directed straight at my face which means I can't use it until the issue is sorted...

I cannot believe nobody thought of it! This is ridiculous! I will be calling Sony's support helpline and sending complaints until they sort it out. Especially that I'm general I love this phone and it's by far the best smartphone I ever owned.

Re: Disable Charging LED

Melw1 — Thu, 22 May 2014 19:02:34 GMT

Er, I have to confess to using basic measures - a small chunk of blue tack works a treat...

Re: Disable Charging LED

naos — Thu, 22 May 2014 23:22:45 GMT

The sad thing from this is that there is no one at Sony that will spot such things and fix them before the phone gets released, like it would happen at Apple. Other thing is that someone that designed that feature didn't think about user experience and usability but about form, that tells a lot too.

Re: Disable Charging LED

Sensination — Fri, 23 May 2014 12:34:03 GMT

Yeah, I thought about sticking something there but the LED and a speaker share the same spot. If I cover LED I would also cover the speaker. I don't really want to stick something there every evening...

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dm841 — Fri, 23 May 2014 12:39:12 GMT

why not just turn the device n it's face when charging to sleep properly ?????? no hard

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naos — Fri, 23 May 2014 13:08:56 GMT

I did but it still leaks the light pretty strong when faced down, I need to cover it with something too.

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Sensination — Fri, 23 May 2014 13:29:37 GMT

I wouldn't mind but I really want to use the dock station I bought. I can also turn the dock away from my face but that defeats the purpose of having my phone easily accessible abd the dock station itself

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lu99ke — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:41:00 GMT

Ditto!!!

Using the "awesome" dock (far more convenient than opening the usb port cover each and every time ) means it is worse and the option of putting face down is ruled out .... And even the simple paper solution becomes a game of jenga to keep it standing..

Amazong phone let down by a really basic user experience oversight that requires a simple software fix. Hopefully fix will come in 4.4.3 update from Sony ???

Re: Disable Charging LED

baldwin471 — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:22:51 GMT

I know it's money, but buy Lightflow. It's only a £1 or 2, and it enables you to turn the charging/charged LED either completely off, or down to like 10%, which is what I did. Works a treat.

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hop3y — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:49:40 GMT

^ This

Re: Disable Charging LED

Chazu — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:53:12 GMT

@ baldwind471:

Hm, doesn't work for me!

Any suggestions?

Re: Disable Charging LED

naos — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:27:07 GMT

OK so I was putting the phone face down for night and I scratched the screen this way. Please add an option to disable this stupid LED.

Re: Disable Charging LED

christopherjz — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:00:10 GMT

Agree with baldwin471. This is the only option I've found.

Re: Disable Charging LED

naos — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:27:02 GMT

Thanks for the link. How did you talk to the developers? Do you work for Sony ? Will it come with Android L or 4.4.4 update ?