Does G2 track pad have color capabilities like the Nexus One trackball?
Don't think so but not too sure. I think I read somewhere that it turns blue when connected to a bluetooth headset, but someone tried it and it didn't change for them
Generally speaking, any white LED is actually an RGB LED, just because of the way that LEDs create light. I have no clue if that's the case here, but that's how it usually works.
So the file lights.vision.so refers to it as an RGB LED. It also gives an option to set the color. How do you modify that (or can you)? I have no clue. But that file at least refers to it as an RGB.
based on my experience theres different kind of LEDs some with multi colors some are sound sensitive and some are RGB only, therefore you cannot use purple on an RGB LED. BTW the lighting on the trackpad is the same as the one on the physical keyboard if you can change the trackpads color you could change the keyboards do, but you cant, i dont think you can change the color of that. btw the nexus one's trackball is an LED that changes color i dont know if its multi-color but yea the g2's trackpad doesnt have that
Acid_Wir3 said:
based on my experience theres different kind of LEDs some with multi colors some are sound sensitive and some are RGB only, therefore you cannot use purple on an RGB LED. BTW the lighting on the trackpad is the same as the one on the physical keyboard if you can change the trackpads color you could change the keyboards do, but you cant, i dont think you can change the color of that. btw the nexus one's trackball is an LED that changes color i dont know if its multi-color but yea the g2's trackpad doesnt have that
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Uhhhh…I think you're distinctly unaware about how LEDs work. LEDs emit light of a certain frequency when current passes through them. "An" RGB LED is actually three LEDs, a red, green, and a blue, which together create white. However, by tweaking the brightness output of the individual LEDs that make up an RGB LED, you can create pretty much any color you want. That's how light works (as an aside, there really isn't such a thing as "white" colored light. You're simply seeing equal amounts of red, green, and blue).
So, generally speaking, if you have white, you have RGB (though they have developed "white" LEDs, they're more expensive to manufacture than simply making 3 colored LEDs). And if you have RGB, then you (probably) have the ability to create different colors.
Now, the possible kink in the idea here is that it may be that all three LEDs are run in circuit, so if you have one on, all three are on; you can't modify brightness individually. I don't know if that's the case here, but if it is, then there's nothing we can do. Someone who's done a teardown would probably be the only ones who would know.
PS, have you looked at a G2 before? Because the trackpad and the keyboard are on different parts of the phone. It's physically impossible for them to share a backlight. Not to mention the fact that the trackpad acts as a notification system, and flashes intermittently. Don't think you want your keyboard backlight doing that.
what i meant is the keyboard and trackpad use the same kind of LED, (not running on the same kind of circuitry. yeah someone could prolly tear it down and edit or tamper the LCD by themselves, i know what RGB is btw, i just did not know that white is possible. RGB = red green blue = different combinations of density on R or G or B = different color.
Any white led where you can see a bluish tinge is a white LED that isn't RGB. The trackpad I have a suspicion that its probably one of the newer LED's that's just a blue LED with the special coating that makes it white.
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Hi all! I'm trying to figure out if Desire Z would work for me, if I should buy it or not. I have read all the threads on led I could find but thngs are still unclear to me. My provider sells the Desire Z with android 2.2. still. I want to be able to use at least the 3 possible colors of notification led to set amber just for sms, green just for calls and red just for battery for example. From what I could find Led me know stopped working when 2.3. update came for Desire Z. If I DON'T update however, I can not completely understand which possibilities Led me know beta gives and which not. For example, can I choose which color I want for sms and frequency and lenght or will the color for sms be the phones' default one (if it has one).
Or is there any better application with which I could also update the phone and be able to shoose color, frequency, lenght? The pre relese for 2.3 Desire Z does not work right?
Also I can't seem to find anywhere where the led is located. Is it behind speaker girll like on sensation?
Thanks all!
Can't change colors if there is no color to change ;o). No the only colors you get are the ones you've seen already
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Really? I understand I can't get blue, magneta etc, but I can't even choose for example if I want red for sms and not green?
nope. i mean the app is free just try it. but the trackpad only has 1 color and the charge indicator only has the green and red.
led me know not really meant for our phones
I can't try it, I don't have the phone yet lol. I'm asking this in order to decide wheter or not I should buy it.
I don't understand why it is not at least possible to use the existing colors in customised way. If amber color does exist, why not be able to set it for sms?
How visible is the led behind the speaker grill? I have found it is hidden behind the grill right?
You can set the top led for red, orange, or green. The buttom (trackpad) is white only. Ledmeknow allows all that on 2.2... 2.3 it has problems with. If you want GB and led mods, go with light flow. But still red, green, orange only of course.
But yeah, the mixing doesn't work. All the newer HTC models are like that. I'm not sure why... but you can combo top and bottom led at the same time and they are all very visible. The top led is behind the speaker grill but is extremely visible still. Enjoy your new Desire Z/G2!
What do you mean by mixing?
Does Led me know or Light flow require root?
is it normal that my LED colours seem to have multiple colours in them.. like example if i set the notification ligth to be orange ( with paranoid rom, but did the same on stock with lightflow) the light will be half light red and the other half will be yellow.. or green and blue if i want light blue.. it seems i have to mess around with the colours value (RGB) to get just one solid colour and not a mix of multiple colours..
this is hard to explain.. so if you know what i mean please let me know.. if not i can take a picture and upload them here!
Thanks
It's my understanding that although it IS an RGB LED, that doesn't necessarily mean that it will be able to recreate every color you could dream of. There's actually another thread here in the S3 section (Forget which part) where people are compiling a list of different Hex values of colors that turn out really well.
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It's my understanding that although it IS an RGB LED, that doesn't necessarily mean that it will be able to recreate every color you could dream of. There's actually another thread here in the S3 section (Forget which part) where people are compiling a list of different Hex values of colors that turn out really well.
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thing is is that im using ParanoidAndroid rom, and i dont see the option to add a hex value.. i can only pick a hue and slide the colour around ..
Well, in my experience with that, it seems to have a better color output for the LED if you don't have the saturation all the way up..... Say if you were shooting for a pure red color, have the slider down just a bit from as bright as it can get. Seemed like whenever i tried using that to set LED colors, if i had it all the way up, it had something else mixed in.... generally i think a bit more of a white color to it.
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Well, in my experience with that, it seems to have a better color output for the LED if you don't have the saturation all the way up..... Say if you were shooting for a pure red color, have the slider down just a bit from as bright as it can get. Seemed like whenever i tried using that to set LED colors, if i had it all the way up, it had something else mixed in.... generally i think a bit more of a white color to it.
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yea thats what ive been doing, seems to work alright, was just wondering if it was normal for it to have mixed colours. thanks, what you said works !
I noticed this after I got my phone. All notifications are green including fully-charged, while Red is for charging. Does the LED really don't have a Blue Color?
Correct. The HTC 10 just has RG LED, no RGB.
Oh ok. That was helpful. Thank you.
This my main gripe with this phone. Was very disappointed to see such a simple feature missing.
On my old phone I used the Light Flow app to set different colours for all sorts of things. Simple things like being able to glance at the phone and know if it's a work or personal email was soo handy.
Just got a Pixel XL from Google, for my battery-issue plagued 6P.
Found out about the LED notifications and they work. Now that I'm using 3rd party apps (Lightflow, etc.) to customize it a bit more, the LED lights up w/ funny colors. For example, Orange looks mostly orange, but with a green part at the bottom right of the LED. Same with red, as there appears to be some blue in it. I never noticed this mixing of colors when not using the 3rd party apps.
Any chance the Pixel XL was refurbished, but the LED was borked and they didn't check it? -OR- is the 3rd party apps messing up showing singular colors?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
try a diifrent app to see if that works,i been using light manager on the xl and it works excellant
Red green blue colors should be exactly red green blue, because of nature of 3 LED light. But if it is different as you say, phone led calibration might messed up so may be you need to adjust the colors manually. I think light flow must have a hex code selector for colors.
I'm using light manager and those three colors are a match but others of course mixed.
Hi there
Is there a way to change the colour of the led notification light for each app in built into the phone.
If not then is there a reliable app that you have tried and found to be working well.
Thank you for your time.
You can try LightFlow app. Keep in mind the 5Z doesn't have a traditional RGB LED, it only has a Red & Green type LED notification light so the possibilities of producing different colors by mixing are limited. However some colors are still possible but don't expect much brightness in them.
Thank you for the information.