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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
ardsar said:
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.
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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.
Hope someone can help
ive noticed that no matter wat i do, i cant change the notification light with different apps.
im using handcent, and i check different colors and its still effin green! samething while charging, orange when chraging, green when done,
does someone actually know how to change it?
running CM nightly build 185 with DarkFroyo.
djtoonjr said:
ive noticed that no matter wat i do, i cant change the notification light with different apps.
im using handcent, and i check different colors and its still effin green! samething while charging, orange when chraging, green when done,
does someone actually know how to change it?
running CM nightly build 185 with DarkFroyo.
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I believe that unlike some other phones our phone can only display the orange and green color. I have tried changing them before.
Isn't there another led on there for 4g notification or something?
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I don't know if I have seen HTCs with multi colored LEDs, really a RIM thing I think. Been an HTC guy for a while and other than orange, red, and green LEDs, I think that's it. There only thing this HTC doesn't do that others did is flash the LED for notification while charging. LED is always solid on the charger.
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Search wimax notifier, uses the 2nd top led for message notifications, has a few diff. patterns/speeds/colors to choose from, I have been using it for a couple months and I love it!
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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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phillybizzle said:
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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For those with the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, how many different color notifications are there for the LED when you use Light Flow?
17 colours to choose from on mine, it seems.
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17 colours to choose from on mine, it seems.
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But will the phone display all those 17 or only say 4?
The Nexus has a RGB LED so any of the 17 colors can be mixed without a problem.
Why don't you try it by yourself? Lazy?
Despite that I have 19 colors to choose from on my GSM Nexus with Light Flow (paid).
Just a quick warning from my experience with Light Flow lite.
I installed the free version and it worked fine - I think I used 10 different colors and most of the time the worked well (sometimes the light would stay on when the notification was cleared).
However, I was having battery life issues so I uninstalled the application.
This actually GREATLY improved my battery life - but now my led is broken. It will only flash white, and it doesn't work for all events that it did before I used LFL. I've done a factory reset and a battery pull and the led will not go back to green.
I've emailed the developer and hope I'll get some help. It's a little hard for me to understand how this could happen and I hope I can fix it.
Just a word of caution to anyone considering using this app.
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Just a quick warning from my experience with Light Flow lite.
This actually GREATLY improved my battery life - but now my led is broken. It will only flash white, and it doesn't work for all events that it did before I used LFL. I've done a factory reset and a battery pull and the led will not go back to green.
I've emailed the developer and hope I'll get some help. It's a little hard for me to understand how this could happen and I hope I can fix it.
Just a word of caution to anyone considering using this app.
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I don't think mine has ever flashed green? The stock notification for mail + sms is white, and tweetdeck is yellow... not seen anything else?
I too uninstalled Liteflow, because I found it frequently flashed forever until I rebooted when there were no notifications.
On the Nexus one, CM7 had a slider control for colors. You could create hundreds of different shades.
I think the Galaxy Nexus is the same. At this point we're only limited by software. RootzBoat rom had a LED color control built right into the general settings menu, but only had a few color selections. I used blue and I liked it alot. I don't think it allowed you to change it PER APP, but just the general color for all. Still cool to mess with again.
3rd party programs require to be run in the background as an app or service, but require constant monitoring. Kernel level control is best, but we'll have to wait for CM9 for that.
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I don't think mine has ever flashed green? The stock notification for mail + sms is white, and tweetdeck is yellow... not seen anything else?
I too uninstalled Liteflow, because I found it frequently flashed forever until I rebooted when there were no notifications.
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Ok then - maybe I've lost my mind! I thought I remembered it being green originally but it's entirely possible you're correct. Would make much more sense than to think that an app could 'break' the led functionality.
+1 for jmbillings.
Natively the LED is only flashing only whitish and as to be readable in a couple of threads not even that is working properly at all times.
Never had any issue with Light Flow except a not stopping notification ones a week. Bought it for Whatsapp and I'm still happy. No battery drain at all at no time.
you guys must be getting dozens of notifications in a day.
i've never even seen lightflow pop up under my battery statistics.
I use light flow on my Nexus and it works great!
Same here lightflow works great on my Nexus. And every single color I tried works. If some people are having trouble with the light still flashing even after swiping the notification away, try going into the app itself. It apparently will keep flashing until I actually check the notification out in the app.
Light flow didn't work for me, it would either flash constantly in test mode or do nothing. My LED does flash green for chompSMS but white for everything else.
light flow works 100% for me. Notifications always work and no notification his become 'stuck' when I clear it...
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+1 for jmbillings.
Natively the LED is only flashing only whitish and as to be readable in a couple of threads not even that is working properly at all times.
Never had any issue with Light Flow except a not stopping notification ones a week. Bought it for Whatsapp and I'm still happy. No battery drain at all at no time.
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Well maybe it's a native problem that I'm having. It will not notify me now of a missed call or an email. The only time I'm seeing the led blink is when I get a text message.
The developer actually took the time to reply to me and make some recommendations to improve battery life.
I'll give it another try, still having intermittent battery issues but may be more related to location polling than this app.
Thanks again to the folks here who take the time to help out.
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you guys must be getting dozens of notifications in a day.
i've never even seen lightflow pop up under my battery statistics.
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Yes, I do.
I don't see it under the native battery stats - it did show up fairly high on the list when I was using battery monitor widget.
Honestly, trying to figure out my battery issues has me suspicious of every app I install...
Works perfectly on my Verizon Nexus as well. The only hiccup is Handcent. If I dismiss the popup window on Handcent, the LED will continue to flash, until I actually go into Handcent and view the message,
I was using it to alert me if bluetooth was on, and that notification would tend to persist after I had turned bluetooth off.
For those having issues clearing the LED notifications, keep in mind just clearing the notification from the drop down won't turn off the LED. It will stay on until the notification is further acknowledged (i.e. the SMS message is 'read' under messages...or email etc).
Also, something I've found helpful is the lightflow debugger widget that comes installed with the app. From there you can clear all notifications as well as see what the last notification was
Technically the phone works well with all 17 colors - but as a male i must say that there are only approx. 8 colors existing in the world...
I think they need to combine the app (LightFlow) with the color selector from AOKP ROM. Its basically the MS Windows/Photoshop color chooser we're all used to: a circle with a slider to the right. The combination of those allows you to choose ANY color in the spectrum. And the LED will display it. (Blood red is my favorite....not as "light up your room" as the default cyan/white)
I did catch the LED lighting up yellow when I had a text that didnt get delivered....not sure if thats the SMS app Im using (GoSMS) or the kernel/ROM but something made it flash different color at different frequency.
Id love LightFlow just for all the apps it responds to....especially Words with Friends.
Hello. I purchased the Epic 4G Touch two days ago from Best Buy, and I've realised that the notification light doesn't work correctly. When it's plugged in and charging it glows red, and when it's done charging it glows blue. But when it's not plugged in and I get an email, text, missed call, voicemail or Gmail notification, the light doesn't light up. I've checked that SETTINGS > DISPLAY > PULSE NOTIFICATION LIGHT is ticked, and it was. I've unticked it, shutdown, R+R battery, rebooted and re-ticked it, and still I have no light notifications.
I haven't rooted the phone, it's basically as it was out of the box, on Android 4.0.4, FH13, using the stock messaging app, stock email app for AOL mails, and the Gmail app. I can't see in any of those apps that I have to turn on LED notification, so I don't know what I'm not doing correctly.
Second question is that the guy at Best Buy told me that I should install the Battery Charged Silencer app from play.google.com/store/apps/ details?id=cz.psencik.simple.silence so that my phone doesn't beep in the night when it's done charging, Well, that's all well and good, but my phone doesn't beep when it's done charging, and actually, I'd like it to -- at least during the day -- so how do I make it so that it does beep when fully charged?
Third, I've noticed that the phone's brightness changes occasionally, but only when I open the browser. It's isn't because of Auto brightness, because it happens when I'm stationary in a room where the lighting level hasn't changed (and I don't use Auto brightness anyways). I usually set my phone to be pretty dim, but the browser is often much brighter than that when I open it. When I'm lying in bed, especially, I don't want to get blinded or disturb "Mrs me" when I access the internet. Does the browser have it's own brightness setting? If so I can't find it, so how do I set the browser brightness to be the same as the rest of the phone's? Or do I just have a dodgy screen light?
Also regarding the stock browser, coming from an Android 2.2 handset I fully expected things to be different, but I can't get the browser to open my bookmarks or give me access to the address bar unless I scroll back up to the top of the page. Am I missing something really obvious here, or is that just how it is now? It used to be that pressing the Menu button would let me do that, but it doesn't seem to work that way any more, and it's really annoying to have to scroll to the top of a very long page when I want to go to open a new page.
Fourthly, I know that the pre-installed apps can be deleted, and might have to do it with TelenavGPS. I clicked the app, which popped up with a notification that said "An update is required". I tapped the "update now" button, which opened the browser which opened Play Store, but the Play Store says the app is up to date. Should I delete it and re-download from the Store, or just delete it and stick with the Google Maps/Google Navigation apps? Why does Sprint install this when Google's comes installed as well? Is it supposed to be better?
And the last thing I'm confused about at this point is when I'm in the app drawer and tap the Menu Button and then Edit. When I tap the minus sign next to an app, it pops up with "This application will be deleted" and a Yes and a No button, but it isn't clear (to me) whether it will get deleted from my phone or just deleted from the app drawer.
Thanks for any help or info anyone can give me about these things. I know they don't seem like major problems, but they niggle at me and I can't help but worry that I picked the wrong phone or have a faulty one (with regards to the bad notification light and random dimming and brightening at least) that I need to exchange while I'm in my return period.
Browser has its own brightness settings. Hit menu and scroll down. Its right there.
Yes the address bar will scroll out of the screen when you scroll down.
No idea about the beep. Notification led should work. May be some one stock can check on that.
Remove telenav. Use google maps.
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BluesRulez said:
Browser has its own brightness settings. Hit menu and scroll down. Its right there.
Yes the address bar will scroll out of the screen when you scroll down.
No idea about the beep. Notification led should work. May be some one stock can check on that.
Remove telenav. Use google maps.
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LED used to work on gingerbread for me but never on ICS TOUCHWIZ, works on AOSP though. Since I'm in a touchwiz ROM I'm just using blink app to make it work.
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I use the app light flow for my notifications and make it blink blue. The app blink also works.
Not sure about telenav, never had any issues. You have to be rooted to remove some stock apps like the Sprint and Samsung stuff and I highly recommend it.
Notification LED was broken in FF18 and FH13 OTA releases. It is now fixed in FI27 which will be available OTA soon, also available via Kies.
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LED used to work on gingerbread for me but never on ICS TOUCHWIZ, works on AOSP though. Since I'm in a touchwiz ROM I'm just using blink app to make it work.
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I'm sorry, I'm such a noob, what exactly is TOUCHWIZ? I've read bits about it being an interface or something, but other than that...
Mattix724 said:
Notification LED was broken in FF18 and FH13 OTA releases. It is now fixed in FI27 which will be available OTA soon, also available via Kies.
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It's available now via Kies?
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You have to be rooted to remove some stock apps like the Sprint and Samsung stuff and I highly recommend it.
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I don't mind rooting, as long as I can still get OTA updates and stuff..
Still wondering about the charge complete notification beep.. do the phones beep or not beep when charged?
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I'm sorry, I'm such a noob, what exactly is TOUCHWIZ? I've read bits about it being an interface or something, but other than that...
It's available now via Kies?
I don't mind rooting, as long as I can still get OTA updates and stuff..
Still wondering about the charge complete notification beep.. do the phones beep or not beep when charged?
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Touchwiz is the Samsung launcher/ui just like HTCs sense and motos blur. My phone has never beeped when it was charged, and download and install kies on your PC and see if fi27 is available. Or check the fi27 discussion thread in general sub forum
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Of you press the minus button it will be deleted from your phone.
I bought an e4gt sometime arounf august i think and my notification never worked either... even on stock el29 gb.... until i flashed shadowgod's Universe 2.0 rom.... then it worked! i was like holy crap!!!!!!!!! i didnt think this phone had a notification light and then i tried stock kernals.... no led light. but when i flashed a kuban or agat kernal BOOM! there was my notification light!