As many of you are painfully aware, the LED notifications on the Inc2 leave much to be desired. As you likely also know, Light Flow with a stock unrooted phone didn't do much to remedy the situation.
Now that I have root, I decided to give Light Flow a second chance. Much to my surprise, it actually worked quite well (OK... as well as it can work with only 2 LED hardware options).
If you utilize all the options in Light Flow (including LED Mixer option) you can actually milk about 7 unique LED notifications from the limited hardware:
1. Steady Green
2. Steady Orange
3. Steady "Deep" Orange
4. Flashing Green
5. Flashing Orange
6. Steady Green + Flashing Orange
7. Steady Orange + Flashing Green
Have fun and Enjoy.
Thanks for sharing the tip. I miss my Droid 1 LED notifications and this look like the best option.
3ntr0py said:
Thanks for sharing the tip. I miss my Droid 1 LED notifications and this look like the best option.
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Same here. Shame the multicolored LED doesn't make it to more phones. Will give this a try.
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Looks like an interesting App for controlling your LED notifications. Try it out and report your findings!
Light Flow - LED Control
Will do dude thanks
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This didn't work on the Epic 4G, would be nice if it worked on this device? Is it only red and blue or is it multicolor?
Seems to work fine...
sent from my damn EPIC TOUCH 4G!!!!
If anybody uses go SMS you can change the led to a couple different colors and even change it for individual contacts
Epic 4G touch only has 2 colors for notification LED - Red and Blue
cary328is said:
Epic 4G touch only has 2 colors for notification LED - Red and Blue
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just found that out
Its better than not having one or even waiting another month for it
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cary328is said:
Epic 4G touch only has 2 colors for notification LED - Red and Blue
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I'm using Handcent & I got a magenta light for when my girl texts me. I did choose the color "green" tho.
I am getting three color choices with Light Flow paid version. Blue, red and purple.
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what are you talking about, Purple does not work with paid version, it's red and blue!!!
Purple is a choice in the paid version for me. Of course, the actual color is more like magenta but it does work. I have Direct Mode checked in the General Settings menu.
Good to hear some feedback on this...similar results here. Wishin we had more color options!
I've only found three that work:
setting > looks like
Blue > Blue
Green > Purple
Red > Red
Purple is of course just red+blue lit simultaneously.
This is in Pro version, NOT Direct Mode.
White = fast blinking red color.
Also I noticed that the led stays lit for a long duration of time when you choose red or blue. Then it blinks off really quickly and back to on...kind of like the reverse of how it is normally. Any way to fix that?
Thanks for pointing out that white will rapid flash. That is just what I needed!
this did not work for me at all? does it only work on rooted phones?
Dont know if anyone uses kicker but my led stays magenta when I get a message
Brooose said:
Purple is a choice in the paid version for me. Of course, the actual color is more like magenta but it does work. I have Direct Mode checked in the General Settings menu.
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Hi
Just for info. There shouldn't be any difference between the free version and the paid version of LightFlow for color controls as they both use the same code. The only differences are the length of time it takes to cycle around the notifications and the number of apps supported.
As for the colors, the app just sends an ARGB value to the phone (when running in standard mode) and then it's up to the phone to work out how to interpret it. It's good to know white allows for rapid flashing (odd interpretation there samsung, but at least it's more choice). This is the quote from the android development documentation regarding color representation "Not every color in the spectrum is supported by the device LEDs, and not every device supports the same colors, so the hardware estimates to the best of its ability."
If anyone wants to have a play with the app "LED color tester" by coolbeans in the market to see if they can get any more colors (e.g. rapid blue flashing etc) then let me know and I'll try get the extra option put into lightflow. Note, to test using LED color tester, you'll need to uninstall lightflow first as lightflow will take over the notifications, preventing control by the tester app.
Direct mode writes to the files directly in unix that control the leds. At the moment it'll write out a 0 or a 1 to the brightness file for either the red or blue led. My guess is that some other values allow for the flashing. If only there was some consistency between phones, things would be so much easier! I'm also planning to add the option to allow custom brightness values to be sent for the leds which may help control things a little more.
mrbelvedere said:
I'm using Handcent & I got a magenta light for when my girl texts me. I did choose the color "green" tho.
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WHere do you set that for a single contact?
What are all of the colors that people have found out can be make from the notification light? So far ive gotten green,blue,red,light blue, light green, and a weird light green with orange dot in the middle color.
X-dude said:
What are all of the colors that people have found out can be make from the notification light? So far ive gotten green,blue,red,light blue, light green, and a weird light green with orange dot in the middle color.
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Do you have White or Titanium ?
Lol, only three, R G B.
There is no light blue or light green, just your proximity sensor dimming the colour depending on your ambient lighting intensity. Dark room, light led, bright room, bright led.
To get custom colours, you need third party apps like Light Manager or Light Flow. However, after using Light Flow for a day, I can say, other than R G B, no colour appear to be prominent! But I've also heard this is a problem with the Grey units, but White ones, on white ones colours come out perfect it has been mentioned.
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I have a white one and I can make every color but no shades.
GNoteII
The only accurate color other than r g b that the grey version is capable of is cyan. The rest are ****.
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i thought LED can mix any color u like by RGB, depends on the kernel
btw, i just saw white, blue, green and red appeared on my note2
For those using Light Manager and/or Light Flow, which one has the best results on Galaxy Note 2? Any issues?
I'm reading A LOT of bad comments on Brazilian Play Store from S III users about Light Flow, and I'm afraid of messing up things here!
Don't be afraid of messing anything, if something goes wrong just uninstall the app.
And afaik, Light Manager is more consistent than Light Flow. It doesn't mess with your 'Accessibility' options. But I've seen that it drains battery in advanced mode, so better use it in Normal mode.
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jujuburi said:
Don't be afraid of messing anything, if something goes wrong just uninstall the app.
And afaik, Light Manager is more consistent than Light Flow. It doesn't mess with your 'Accessibility' options. But I've seen that it drains battery in advanced mode, so better use it in Normal mode.
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Thanks!
I was afraid because I read some comments related to an issue that messed up colors "forever". And something like eternal notifications until reboot. Of course, these could be solved with a full wipe.
Thanks for the reply.. it helps. .
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what with that yellow color ?
can i just make the flashlight only white ?
i had HTC 8X windows phone which use a white flash light and was very good
but in m9 , the light is yellow which is annoying and give me wrong color when i am flashing
what with that yellow color ?
can i just make the flashlight only white ?
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It's not a flash. I'm not 100% sure,but I believe it collects light for your pictures. Don't quote me on it
ah no , i meant the light is self no white
is there an app that make only white flash light ?
or i can't because there is 2 LED on the flash ?
The amber LED is used with the white LED to create a more natural light closer to that of the sun. Trust me, it makes photos look better, you want it.
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The amber LED is used with the white LED to create a more natural light closer to that of the sun. Trust me, it makes photos look better, you want it.
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i know its better for taking photos
but i meant for just a flashlight
my old HTC 8X used to have very good white flashlight and you can adjust the power of that light
here you can't adjust the power of the light
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.