Well, in short, the notification led doesn't flash red anymore when an event takes place (missed call/sms). The phone has been upgraded from wm5 to wm6 a while ago and if I recall correctly, the led used to flash at that time. However, since it was simlocked, I had it taken to someone for unlocking. The guy reinstalled wm6 on it but that didn't help the unlocking procedure (it's a T-Mobile Dash actually, which are a bit more difficult to crack, requiring obtaining an unlock code from a central server based on the IMEI). I'm not sure at which point the LED stopped working, but right now it's not working anymore.
Any ideas ?
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Well, this is what I posted on HTCforums as well, but didn't get a reply. As of yesterday, I have also upgraded to win mobile 6.1 (and WOW, this is all I can say ... just ... WOW) from 6.0. However, the notification LED issue is still happening.
The issue is somewhat annoying since I have no way of knowing whether I have any missed calls or new text messages.
Thanks in advance.
P.S.: I also have an Asus v1210 (Vodafone 1210) with winmo 6.
Try this...led utility
Thank you for the reply. Installed the app, and it seems like quite a useful little thing. Unfortunately the LED issue still occurs, still no red blinking. At this point I'm considering a more low tech issue such as the LED itself (well, just the red part) being damaged. Currently I have the upper LED displaying green and yellow (when charging) and the lower LED blinking sometimes, just no signs of red lights
could be, the only time i seen a red led on mine was when the batterys low.
I thought the only LED you could use for notification is fast flashing green for the Excalibur, at least that's all I could find after looking in many places for different color notifications.
If anyone does know how to get different color notifications or solid rather than flashing please share.
sum18223 said:
I thought the only LED you could use for notification is fast flashing green for the Excalibur, at least that's all I could find after looking in many places for different color notifications.
If anyone does know how to get different color notifications or solid rather than flashing please share.
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Um try the cab I posted in post #2.
This doesnt work with the new rom
phatmanxxl said:
Um try the cab I posted in post #2.
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I've tried DontForget before. Never saw any settings to choose LED color or anything unless im missing something.
sum18223 said:
I've tried DontForget before. Never saw any settings to choose LED color or anything unless im missing something.
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Oh man, Im sorry about that I was thinking of the G1 light utility. I had the two mixed up.
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I haven't fully tested this issue yet mainly because I've only had the phone for a few days... I wanted to check if anyone else had this problem.
Under Settings -> Sound & Display -> Notification Flash
I have all the options ticked.
In theory, whenever I have a missed call or a SMS or email etc, I should be able to tell that I need to check my phone be a little blinking light in the top right corner off the screen. I just came back to my phone and this LED wasn't blinking but when I turned on the phone, there was a missed call and a SMS.
Other times, it seemed to work fine.
Anyone else noticed this problem?
it only flashes for 5 mins and then stops. There is no way to change this without additional apps.
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Oh... How disappointing. Pretty useless imo. Thanks for the info. I wonder if they will fix it. My previous phone, Touch Diamond, had something similar but it never stopped flashing until you looked at your missed calls.
Now that explains things. I tend to look for the led after I've not used the phone for a while. In my pocket or elsewhere. Quite a few times I've seen no flashing but have a notification in the top left. I thought it was another one of those little 'features' we keep finding.
Yeh i discovered this awhile back and it's annoying as hell, i just use a app called Missed Reminder which can be configured to allowed it to keep flashing indefinitely
I was just going to make a post about this. I thought the LED notification wasn't working at all on my Desire, since I've never seen it, but perhaps it had just stopped before I had the chance to catch it, then
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it only flashes for 5 mins and then stops. There is no way to change this without additional apps.
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What apps are you referring to? It would be nice to be able to have the LED flash longer.
I'm guessing this is to save battery time, I don't know how much power a small LED uses but it surely can't help with the already abysmal battery life
I first thought the LED was located behind the optical trackpad, because the trackball on my Hero could light up. I think the LED-notification is pretty dumb since it's almost invisible when it lights up. The lighting trackball was much much better
This is a known issue. I thought that did not happen in Android, but I guess I was wrong.
If the phone work in Windows Mobile, there are a registry key to let assign values to the options, so they are usable.
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4846399#post4846399
In Android, I have no clue... maybe my info help in any way.
PMoto
It would be nice to be able to change the flash time from the default 5 minutes, or atleast an option for no time limit.
I know it's to help save battery life, but I'm willing to say that the light flashing will use less battery then the back light coming on everytime I'm away from my phone for more then 5 minutes, from me checking to see if I have new messages, email, or missed phone calls.
Same issue with my recently purchased A40.
No blinking at all despite screen flash notification selected.
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I'm using RMK's Virtuous Unity ROM and I'm annoyed by the fact that the green LED notification only blinks for a few minutes after the message/email arrives. I feel like it should keep blinking until the screen is turned on or the message is acknowledged. I checked it on RMK's GingerSense and it displays the same annoying behavior there. Does anyone have any advice or the MODing chops to help me out?
I am also interested in this!
I was thinking the same thing.
I think that might be some sort of default behavior on the Inc2...at least I've noticed the same thing on rooted stock 2.3.3....
Have you tried roms that are not based on sense, like miui or cynogenmod?
I'm on CM7 and I THINK the led continuously blinks. Don't quote me on that, though
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I'm a fan of cm7, but the messed up compass on the AOSP ROMs is a dealbreaker for me. So I'm still hoping that someone comes up with a solution for the Sense/stock based ROMS.
OMFGB rom has continuous blinking......even when charging
gatta acknowledged it and it'll go away
Cosis_94 said:
I'm using RMK's Virtuous Unity ROM and I'm annoyed by the fact that the green LED notification only blinks for a few minutes after the message/email arrives. I feel like it should keep blinking until the screen is turned on or the message is acknowledged. I checked it on RMK's GingerSense and it displays the same annoying behavior there. Does anyone have any advice or the MODing chops to help me out?
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maybe a spam unread email in your spam folders?!
there was a similar problem in minicm7, don't know if it helps.
MarkMRL said:
Hello everyone. I wanted to tell you that I managed to fix the random blinking leds. I did it by basically selecting random options in the advanced settings under led notification. I guess some flags don't update correctly, causing the led to always blink in random colors. By ticking and unticking everything a few times randomly, I probably triggered the random flag to update correctly, thus fixing the blinking color. Now I can select a color and have it blink normally. SO yeah, if you have this but and deleting the file didn't help, just tick and untick everything a few times, until the problem fixes itself. There is definitely some bug in the ROM regarding the led behaviour, and I think it should be tested throughly.
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maybe a spam unread email in your spam folders?!
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Nice original thought phillybizzle, thanks for joining in on the brainstorming. Alas, after turning off notifications for email (presumably taking any email sub folder issues out of the equation) and sending a txt to the device, the notification LED blinked for 5 minutes and then stopped.
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Nice original thought phillybizzle, thanks for joining in on the brainstorming. Alas, after turning off notifications for email (presumably taking any email sub folder issues out of the equation) and sending a txt to the device, the notification LED blinked for 5 minutes and then stopped.
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Im running Miui and just in the last 24hrs my phone been doing things ibr never seen...like in independence day when the ailens came and the ailen spacecraft like woke yup lmao
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Im not trying to be a pain in the neck but how can I make the LED blink when I get a notification.
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Im not trying to be a pain in the neck but how can I make the LED blink when I get a notification.
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If you're using FRX7.1 it already does it.
Mine flashes green when I get a text or voice mail and red (orange?) when I get an email.
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Im not trying to be a pain in the neck but how can I make the LED blink when I get a notification.
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mbellot said:
If you're using FRX7.1 it already does it.
Mine flashes green when I get a text or voice mail and red (orange?) when I get an email.
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Indeed, to the first part. FRX07.1 now has userland control the LED's instead of the sleep state.
So this is what I've noticed thus far. When plugged in, the LED will be orange for charging below 90%, and green when above 90. The notification I believe trumps it tho, and AFAIK the only notification from email/text/etc should be green blink. The only time I've seen orange blink is when the battery is critically low! Pretty sure that's all the feedback it provides, let me know if you guys see something different.
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Indeed, to the first part. FRX07.1 now has userland control the LED's instead of the sleep state.
So this is what I've noticed thus far. When plugged in, the LED will be orange for charging below 90%, and green when above 90. The notification I believe trumps it tho, and AFAIK the only notification from email/text/etc should be green blink. The only time I've seen orange blink is when the battery is critically low! Pretty sure that's all the feedback it provides, let me know if you guys see something different.
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oh! until now I have knew that why the LED turn on green while I 'm connecting it to PC ( firstly, I don't why and it turn on green only when battery 's full ).
Dear Arrrghhh,
as my idea it turn on orange while it's connecting to PC ( sync or charge a battery if the power less than 100%) until to 100% the led will become Green it notice for user know that battery 's full )
Could you please create more function as same as WM while connecting to PC, I thing it will be longer life of battery
it's : user will have 2 choices ( agree or not agree charge battery while connect to pC)
The LED deosnt work for me only when I charge my phone but not when I get a text
Sent from my TouchPRO2(Sprint) running FRX07.1
crownvn said:
oh! until now I have knew that why the LED turn on green while I 'm connecting it to PC ( firstly, I don't why and it turn on green only when battery 's full ).
Dear Arrrghhh,
as my idea it turn on orange while it's connecting to PC ( sync or charge a battery if the power less than 100%) until to 100% the led will become Green it notice for user know that battery 's full )
Could you please create more function as same as WM while connecting to PC, I thing it will be longer life of battery
it's : user will have 2 choices ( agree or not agree charge battery while connect to pC)
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I already answered your question in the other thread. Please don't ask the exact same question(s) in multiple threads - it dilutes the community effort.
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The LED deosnt work for me only when I charge my phone but not when I get a text
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Uhhh... mine definitely blinks green when I get a text. Perhaps I have it backwards and when it's plugged in that notification trumps the other...? Are you using some 3rd party app to handle texts? You get no blink on or off the charger? I don't know why it wouldn't work for you, but does work for (literally) everyone else.
You didn't change anything with FRX07.1? Nothing? Just want to make sure, because if you did something like move to an old rootfs, userland notifications won't work properly.
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So this is what I've noticed thus far. When plugged in, the LED will be orange for charging below 90%, and green when above 90. The notification I believe trumps it tho,
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My experience is just the opposite, charging (solid, orange or green) trumps notification (blinking). That's how it works in WinMo, so it wasn't a surprise to see the same in FRX.
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AFAIK the only notification from email/text/etc should be green blink. The only time I've seen orange blink is when the battery is critically low!
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I'm using K9 email which (in theory) lets you set the LED color, but no matter what I use it's always orange.
I do also get blinking orange for critically low battery.
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I already answered your question in the other thread. Please don't ask the exact same question(s) in multiple threads - it dilutes the community effort.
Uhhh... mine definitely blinks green when I get a text. Perhaps I have it backwards and when it's plugged in that notification trumps the other...? Are you using some 3rd party app to handle texts? You get no blink on or off the charger? I don't know why it wouldn't work for you, but does work for (literally) everyone else.
You didn't change anything with FRX07.1? Nothing? Just want to make sure, because if you did something like move to an old rootfs, userland notifications won't work properly.
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I installed SMS Handcent. Thats the only thing im using for texting
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x12CHRIS18x said:
I installed SMS Handcent. Thats the only thing im using for texting
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Perhaps that's your problem? Dunno. You'll need to do some legwork if you modified the way the system handles text messages.
I use Google Voice and the stock messaging app for MMS. Both work great, and notify me correctly. As does the built-in GMail app...
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Perhaps that's your problem? Dunno. You'll need to do some legwork if you modified the way the system handles text messages.
I use Google Voice and the stock messaging app for MMS. Both work great, and notify me correctly. As does the built-in GMail app...
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Where can I get the stock messaging app because I deleted mine along time ago?
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Where can I get the stock messaging app because I deleted mine along time ago?
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...You just removed it from the app drawer right? You didn't actually remove the apk from /system/app did you...?
If you did remove it from /system/app, just pull the apk out of a fresh system.ext2. Or just throw in a fresh system.ext2 file, you won't lose any data assuming you leave the data.img untouched/intact.
I've used PhoneAlarm from PocketMax since 2007 and LightFlow for years as well, and was always able to get one or the other to control the LED on whatever phone I was using. But I have messed around with both apps on my new HTC One M8, and can't get either one to function properly.
I think I've really only seen the phone's LED generate two colors--green and amber. Is it possible those are the only two colors it is capable of? I find that hard to believe.
I see warnings and special modes and things in the LightFlow configuration options for HTC phones, indicating that HTC phones are different, but nothing I try gets me any other colors.
I'd settle for being able to have just a few different colors for missed calls, missed texts,, etc.
Anyone know of a way to get either of the apps above controlling the LEDs, or have a different app that --IS-- working to control the LEDs with this phone?
Thanks!
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I've used PhoneAlarm from PocketMax since 2007 and LightFlow for years as well, and was always able to get one or the other to control the LED on whatever phone I was using. But I have messed around with both apps on my new HTC One M8, and can't get either one to function properly.
I think I've really only seen the phone's LED generate two colors--green and amber. Is it possible those are the only two colors it is capable of? I find that hard to believe.
I see warnings and special modes and things in the LightFlow configuration options for HTC phones, indicating that HTC phones are different, but nothing I try gets me any other colors.
I'd settle for being able to have just a few different colors for missed calls, missed texts,, etc.
Anyone know of a way to get either of the apps above controlling the LEDs, or have a different app that --IS-- working to control the LEDs with this phone?
Thanks!
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Not sure if you're talking about front LED's or rear flash LED's but I have FlashMe working on my M8.
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Not sure if you're talking about front LED's or rear flash LED's but I have FlashMe working on my M8.
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Thanks. I was talking about just the main, front LED. I'll have to check out FlashMe. Thanks for the tip!
Edit: So after taking a look at FlashMe, it appears that app does, in fact, just control the camera's flash. I'm trying to use the phone's main LED to see the status of things. So, for example, if I've been away from my phone, or if it is on silent, and I have a missed call, I might see the light blinking red, and similarly it might blink purple for an unread text message.
I'm trying to figure this out as well. Have you found any app that works so far, Andyw2100? Or are we just stuck with green and Amber?
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I'm trying to figure this out as well. Have you found any app that works so far, Andyw2100? Or are we just stuck with green and Amber?
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I posted in another thread that I have LightFlow working, I'm pretty sure I included the details of my configuration, which differed slightly from someone else's who also said it was working for him.
Light Flow, when running the LED test, can actually generate three colors - green, amber, and red--but the notification options can't make use of the red. So for now it's still limited to two.
Also, since posting, I've discovered that from time to time, probably due to the bug that others mentioned, the LED will just stop working completely.The "fix" I have found is to uninstall and reinstall Light Flow. As long as the settings are backed up, this isn't that big a deal, but it's not a great situation, of course.
I've written to the Light Flow developer, but apparently he is away on vacation for a while. I'll write again when he returns.
I have tried everything in terms of manipulating the settings, but I cannot get horizon light to work at all, am I the only one with this issue, and does anyone know what needs to be done in order for it to function that isn't obvious?
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I have tried everything in terms of manipulating the settings, but I cannot get horizon light to work at all, am I the only one with this issue, and does anyone know what needs to be done in order for it to function that isn't obvious?
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No issues here. The colored bars show up when the screen is off and a notification comes in. I do have always on display, well, always on....not sure if that matters or not.
Mine doesn't seem to work either on the NA phone. And I can't even tell, are they supposed to light up just once or do they act more like the old notification LEDs?
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No issues here. The colored bars show up when the screen is off and a notification comes in. I do have always on display, well, always on....not sure if that matters or not.
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yeah I tried that but to no avail, is it lighting up with any app or only certain ones? for example, I use fairemail for email and threema/signal for messaging, and it does not light up for any. moreover, it doesn't light up for anything at all, very frustrating.
I've noticed it for notifications from the stock messaging app and Gmail, but haven't seen anything else trigger it yet.
It's not that bright and only does it once so if you blink you will miss it!
I tested it with a calendar notification, not sure what else it works on. Don't remember seeing it for WhatsApp
Eta: it does work on most things, just miss it unless you are looking for it.
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It's not that bright and only does it once so if you blink you will miss it!
I tested it with a calendar notification, not sure what else it works on. Don't remember seeing it for WhatsApp
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Only does it once, you're right. Basically pointless lol.
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Only does it once, you're right. Basically pointless lol.
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Im not entirely sure how well this works, but I have messed around with this app previous. I used an app on the playstore called AOA by newGen Mobile, its not quite an ambient display but it is an Always on Display app that enables you to customize your horizon lights as you see fit(color, duration, pattern and such). There is a free version of it if you want to at least try it out.
Mine works fine, but i'm on Color OS c36.
Too bad that is only 3 colors : blue, red, gold.