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Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

Stargazer77 — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 04:42:13 GMT

Does the home button light up like on the Ultimate 2? That darn button is the only thing preventing me from upgrading. I would love a new phone, but I love that feature so much.

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

GCR18 — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 04:24:05 GMT

Good question. I miss that feature.

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

Stargazer77 — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 04:48:20 GMT

From what I can see, it doesn't.

Someone suggested an app called NoLED and I tried it on my backup phone. I can only get it work sporadically, so we shall see how that goes. I need to sit down and have patience to figure it out and see if it will do what I want it to do.

I have a feeling that feature will never be back, as the makers seem to want a completely flat front screen with no pressable buttons. But I guess we'll see. I love it so much and find it so useful.

I was thinking about just biting the bullet and upgrading, but a few weeks ago my sister texted me late at night while my quiet hours were on saying her neighbor had been robbed and there were a lot of police cars on her street and the police came to her door. The situation was upsetting to her. Without that LED button I never would have seen her text that night because my phone was already sleeping. But I saw that purple light out of the corner of my eye.

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

Nuttmeg — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 04:51:36 GMT

@Stargazer77 wrote:
Does the home buton light up like on the Ultimate 2? That darn button is the only thing preventing me from upgrading. I would love a new phone, but I love that feature so much.

This is a link to the Service Manual http://www.qvc.com/footers/el/pdf/E230334-ServicesGuide.pdf

I have a smartphone with power saving switch. The darn buttons will not work with the power saving turned on.

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

Mytakeonit — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:08:35 GMT

I agree. In fact, I canceled my order for the Sky phone when I discovered it did not have the LED home button messaging feature. I'll keep looking for phones that will visually tell me when I have a message or text. It doesn't seem too much to ask. I've tried various Apps like NoLed and they didn't work on my LG Premier.

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

Ainhisg — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:02:56 GMT

I have the ZTE Zmax 2 Tracfone from HSN. Its home button pulses blue when you have a missed call or text. It has 16mg of storage, a nice, large screen, and is super fast. I would definitely buy it again. It uses AT&T prepaid towers.

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

x Hedge — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:14:02 GMT

@Stargazer77 wrote:
From what I can see, it doesn't.

Someone suggested an app called NoLED and I tried it on my backup phone. I can only get it work sporadically, so we shall see how that goes. I need to sit down and have patience to figure it out and see if it will do what I want it to do.

I have a feeling that feature will never be back, as the makers seem to want a completely flat front screen with no pressable buttons. But I guess we'll see. I love it so much and find it so useful.

I was thinking about just biting the bullet and upgrading, but a few weeks ago my sister texted me late at night while my quiet hours were on saying her neighbor had been robbed and there were a lot of police cars on her street and the police came to her door. The situation was upsetting to her. Without that LED button I never would have seen her text that night because my phone was already sleeping. But I saw that purple light out of the corner of my eye.

Hi @Stargazer77. I recommended the NoLED. I've been using it for years on 2 Trackfones. I totally rely on the visual and audio notifications it provides. It's worked great since I got my settings right. (That took me awhile).

Review all your NoLED settings. Don't overlook the Tutorial built into the NoLED settings.

Under Miscellaneous :

Check the box that says Display NoLED icon. Enable this if NoLED misses some events.
Check the box that says AutoStart NoLED after a reboot.
Check the box that says NoLED is on/off notification.

Under Battery, make sure the Notification Timeout is set to NO timeout.

Also, I assume you use the audio reminder. Make sure you set the NoLED audio reminder at the same interval as the phone's audio reminder. In other words, don't tell your phone's sound setting to repeat every 20 seconds, but then tell the NoLED settings to repeat every 2 minutes.

@Mytakeonit, @GCR18

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

Stargazer77 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:24:47 GMT

@Mytakeonit My uncle bought the Premier and I set it up for him. I liked it a lot! Mostly because it was larger in size, but I didn't buy it for myself due to the LED button issue.

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

Stargazer77 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:27:46 GMT

Thank you, @Ainhisg! I need a Verizon phone, but my backup phone is AT&T so when that comes due, I will check out the ZTE.

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

Stargazer77 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 03:31:46 GMT

Thank you, @x Hedge! I will try to play around with my settings this weekend. I've caught a couple missed spam calls so far using it. I have purple as my color, but may look to see if another color is brighter and more eye-catching. Anything you suggest?

I installed it on my backup phone, which I keep on silent all the time, so I wouldn't need to use any audio settings. It's basically a phone I keep for those whom I don't wish to give my primary number to (stores, etc.).

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

x Hedge — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 04:31:26 GMT

@Stargazer77 I mostly text, so have the NoLED show a picture onscreen of the person who's texting. But I just use the "even bigger" sized icons provided for incoming email, calls & missed calls.

I have all icons set to rove randomly on the screen, moving at 15 second intervals. The movement makes it more noticeable.

But if you are setting up a primarily unused phone with sound turned off I'd suggest just going with moving dots rather than big icons to conserve battery. In that kind of situation the Notification could be signaling for hours before you see it.

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

Mytakeonit — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 23:21:38 GMT

Hi Stargazer77! The Premier is a nice phone with very good sound quality, at least compared to my backup phone, an Ultimate2. I use Call Blocker on both my phones for unwanted calls. Works well.

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

lulu2 — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:12:31 GMT

For those of you with back-up phones, you must have different phone numbers, yes?

(It's not like have extensions on your home phone, correct?)

Re: Light up LED home button on Tracfone Samsung TSV?

x Hedge — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:32:35 GMT

Correct @lulu2. Each phone is assigned it's own phone number. 2 phones cannot share a phone number.

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lulu2 — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:08:13 GMT

@x Hedge

Thanks for your response. We always transfer our same number to our new phones. The thought never crossed my mind to keep the old phone in service.

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x Hedge — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:41:36 GMT

@lulu2, I did originally plan to port the old phone number to the new TracFone, but it occurred to me to activate the new TracFone with a new number, and use the new phone heavily to make sure all was in good working order in those first 30 days. I could always transfer the old number at a later date.

That proved to be such a good idea I stayed with it. I won't go down to only one phone.