I've had two GN's. I swear my first one had a pure white LED notification light. This new one is prismatic. Red, blue, white. It's a whole bunch of colors melded together.
Does anyone else have the same or and I going color blind?
It's an RGB LED. Just like a white pixel, the white LED is made up of full-intensity red, green, and blue LEDs. That's what you're seeing is the individual LEDs.
copkay said:
It's an RGB LED. Just like a white pixel, the white LED is made up of full-intensity red, green, and blue LEDs. That's what you're seeing is the individual LEDs.
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I understand that. What I'm saying is one my first one, when the notification light was engaged, it was pure white. On this unit it's prismatic.
Am I going color blind? Is my unit defective? Should I be concerned? Or should I shut my giant pie hole?
bmstrong said:
I understand that. What I'm saying is one my first one, when the notification light was engaged, it was pure white. On this unit it's prismatic.
Am I going color blind? Is my unit defective? Should I be concerned? Or should I shut my giant pie hole?
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Mine is prismatic mate, little tinges of different colours
jameslfc5 said:
Mine is prismatic mate, little tinges of different colours
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Same here, and same with my buddy's
Yeah, I think the "rainbow" effect is the norm. Not sure how your other one didn't do it. Maybe it was an earlier batch that had a different LED, but that seems unlikely (mine was pretty early too, I was one the first to get a retail one from P4U...)
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Yeah, I think the "rainbow" effect is the norm. Not sure how your other one didn't do it. Maybe it was an earlier batch that had a different LED, but that seems unlikely (mine was pretty early too, I was one the first to get a retail one from P4U...)
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My first was one from the early Expansys shipments. This one came yesterday. Whew! Thanks guys, really started to freak me out.
bmstrong said:
My first was one from the early Expansys shipments. This one came yesterday. Whew! Thanks guys, really started to freak me out.
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Also I should note that mine is prismatic when I look at it, but when I "notice" the notification it looks pure white because I'm not focused on it. Maybe it didn't strike you as an oddity before so you didn't really focus on the color too much (I didn't really until I read this thread and then realized "oh yeah, it is multi-colored")?
s.m.knipe said:
Also I should note that mine is prismatic when I look at it, but when I "notice" the notification it looks pure white because I'm not focused on it. Maybe it didn't strike you as an oddity before so you didn't really focus on the color too much (I didn't really until I read this thread and then realized "oh yeah, it is multi-colored")?
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LOL, it's because humans are color blind in peripheral vision
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btw, mine does the same thing, sometimes it's white, sometimes it's the rainbow
can't put my finger on when and why different colors occur though...
Mine is white all the time. Uh oh, I got this one from the first batch off of Expansys USA.
You've probably already done this but you could use Light Flow to test it
Indeed, I tried Light FLow to no avail...
tk123456789 said:
Mine is white all the time. Uh oh, I got this one from the first batch off of Expansys USA.
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Dude, thanks for posting. I'm not completely crazy!
Mine is white when I receive a call, and yellow-esh for all other notifications
I noticed this the following day of receiving my phone (Nov.26= first batch)
The affected colors are: (White, Yellow, Orange, Purple, Cyan, Magenta) while I don't find any problem with Red, Green, Blue. Of course that is because it is an RGB LED.
I'm using LED Color Tester
p.s. It is funny because an hour ago, I was checking youtube to compare my LED with the ones in the few videos demonstrating this feature.
Thanks for posting and sharing your concern (I'm lazy @ posting)
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I find it really surprising that they have done it once again - released a device with a full RGB LED,but without any support for it in the software by default. Pretty much like my old Nexus One, the Galaxy Nexus can only blink in white for me. Has anybody found a way to use all colours of the LED for different notifications?
Tweet deck for blinks a yellowish hue, although i did download led tester from the market to make it was working and can display all the colours i can throw at it. I don't think you can set custom colours though I am sure a rom will be baked soon with that option though.
Try Blink: https://market.android.com/details?id=imoblife.blink&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImltb2JsaWZlLmJsaW5rIl0.
This worked well on my Nexus One.
Blink does not work, but application called Light Flow works just fine.
Blink does not work unfortunately.
I've had Blue and Green notifications plus the standard white so far - would be nice to be fully customisable as standard though.
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Blink does not work, but application called Light Flow works just fine.
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Cool. Glad you could find one that works!
I'll remember light flow for when I can get my hands on one here in the US.
when mine blinks white it looks more like a mix of colours rather than all white, like green at the bottom, abit of red in the middle and like a purple colour towards the top. is this just mine or is everyones like this?
Tung_meister said:
when mine blinks white it looks more like a mix of colours rather than all white, like green at the bottom, abit of red in the middle and like a purple colour towards the top. is this just mine or is everyones like this?
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mine is as well, lets hope this is normal
Light Flow is free and works really well. Lets you customize notification colours, sounds, duration etc from within the app... and it doesn't require root.
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Light Flow is free and works really well. Lets you customize notification colours, sounds, duration etc from within the app... and it doesn't require root.
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You sure, it asked me for root when I had it, and I believe it was stated in it's description too, even though it adds itself to the accessibilities.
Surprisingly it works fine without changing anything other than the colors wanted
no root required
Tung_meister said:
when mine blinks white it looks more like a mix of colours rather than all white, like green at the bottom, abit of red in the middle and like a purple colour towards the top. is this just mine or is everyones like this?
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That's because its and RGB led and to make white, all 3 colours will be on
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Light Flow is amazing, thanks
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Evostance said:
That's because its and RGB led and to make white, all 3 colours will be on
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ye I understand that I've experienced RGB LED's before but not with such bad colour bleed through so I was just checking it wasn't my device that was at fault
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Light Flow is free and works really well. Lets you customize notification colours, sounds, duration etc from within the app... and it doesn't require root.
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It only works while the program is running or "minimized". If you close it in task switcher it stops working.
Thanks for that, seems to work perfectly.
Tung_meister said:
ye I understand that I've experienced RGB LED's before but not with such bad colour bleed through so I was just checking it wasn't my device that was at fault
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I have noticed the same colour bleed and it has a very very slight flicker as the light pulses too.
I'm glad this isn't a fault, though I would feel better if other people who read this could just confirm their Galaxy Nexus does the same thing??
I can see the three distinct colours, yeah. It's almost like they have separate R, G and B LED's on the circuit board really close together instead of one RGB one. If you get my drift. Doesn't bother me though.
jmbillings said:
I can see the three distinct colours, yeah. It's almost like they have separate R, G and B LED's on the circuit board really close together instead of one RGB one. If you get my drift. Doesn't bother me though.
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Thanks for the reassurance buddy!
Hi,
I got a grey One X last week and while fairly happy with the phone I thought the notification LED was pretty dim. Unless I look at the phone flat on I can't see it is on. I accepted this was to do with the LED being placed within the speaker grill; however a friend got a White version a few days later and the LED on his is about 3 times brighter.
A few videos I have seen show the Grey phone has a very dim light, would post them but can't link unfortunately.
Search this text on youtube for video example
HTC One X videopreview da Hitechworldita.net
Has anyone else noticed this or is this an issue with my phone?
Bobbeh84 said:
Hi,
I got a grey One X last week and while fairly happy with the phone I thought the notification LED was pretty dim. Unless I look at the phone flat on I can't see it is on. I accepted this was to do with the LED being placed within the speaker grill; however a friend got a White version a few days later and the LED on his is about 3 times brighter.
A few videos I have seen show the Grey phone has a very dim light, would post them but can't link unfortunately.
Search this text on youtube for video example
HTC One X videopreview da Hitechworldita.net
Has anyone else noticed this or is this an issue with my phone?
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I think that is simply because with the white casing, the light is able to shine through the white casing itself. Whereas obviously with the darker casing, it is truly confined to the tiny little hole of the earpiece. I do get the feeling that HTC designed the white one first
Yeah maybe, but comparing the two side by side, it looks as though his LED is a different type entirely. Looking at the LED straight on should negate the case colour and in that scenario his white version is still far brighter.
As long as other people think the grey one is dim there is no reason to send mine back.
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Yeah maybe, but comparing the two side by side, it looks as though his LED is a different type entirely. Looking at the LED straight on should negate the case colour and in that scenario his white version is still far brighter.
As long as other people think the grey one is dim there is no reason to send mine back.
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It was one of the first things I noticed when I held a grey one. So I don't think it is faulty. But just like most things, LEDs do vary from unit to unit in brightness.
i haven't seen a grey one, but with my 2nd white replacement, the charging led was stupidly dim. now im on the 3rd replacement, the same led is much much brighter. leads me to believe it was positioned incorrectly, or just a crap led.
quality control really sucks atm.
The other day I noticed that my once stock white colored notification LED was acting strangely. It now is multicolored and seems to have a slight flicker when it goes off. I went through Samsung US support steps, removed apps, then full factory reset. Still same problem. I installed Light Flow and tested all colors. Most work but still with a bit of a flicker. White is not working. It displays in three colors, yellow pink and green/blue? I suppose my LED has broken. Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a solution? Samsung US will not support the repair as it is an international GSM phone.
Thank you.
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The other day I noticed that my once stock white colored notification LED was acting strangely. It now is multicolored and seems to have a slight flicker when it goes off. I went through Samsung US support steps, removed apps, then full factory reset. Still same problem. I installed Light Flow and tested all colors. Most work but still with a bit of a flicker. White is not working. It displays in three colors, yellow pink and green/blue? I suppose my LED has broken. Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a solution? Samsung US will not support the repair as it is an international GSM phone.
Thank you.
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Yeah white isn't really white, its a combination of three colors. Its normal.. no biggie
Well mine is also like that..
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I have had my phone since January and it was always a white notification. My old Nexus One was also always a plain white notification. I am pretty sure thats what stock Android intends it to be. The multicolored just started. Either way Light Flow when set to White should display a white notification but it cannot. I am almost certain my LED is defective. Anyone else?
Ahmato27 said:
Yeah white isn't really white, its a combination of three colors.
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As proved by Newton:
White light is the effect of combining the visible colors of light in suitable proportions (the same present in solar light).
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Ok, so... no help here. Thanks anyway, guys.
I sure wish my LED could be fixed. <head down>
Everything you describe is normal.
You probably just never noticed it before.
I actually did notice it and that is why I have posted here. The notification light is supposed to be white. Not multicolored. I know this phone like the back of my hand. The led has changed.
Mine has been like exactly what you've described on both Nexus' that I've owned.
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It's a tri-colored LED (red, green, blue).
It displays different colors by mixing those 3 primary colors.
To get white, it mixes all 3.
The 3 LED's aren't close enough together, so around the edges you'll see the individual colors, but in the center it will appear white.
At certain distances/angles/lighting conditions, it can appear almost fully white.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDrYDjXThLc
If you insist that it was pure white before, then somehow you had a white LED and it has transformed into a RGB LED.
I'm pretty sure no Galaxy Nexus's were shipped with a white LED, and certainly not ones that can transform.
AFAIK
The notification LED at the bottom of the phone has always been a 3 color LED. Red, green and blue. To get white it turns on all 3. Other colors are variations on a theme.
Thank you, terryhau.
My notification light does not look like it does in that video. It is now mostly pink with a green hue no the bottom portion and a purple/blue color in the top left hand portion. It DID NOT used to be like this.
I guess I need to post a pic somehow.
Maybe something like an update or .apk has changed the behavior of the LEDs like reduced the output which would explain why you now see all 3 colors instead of white.
Wilsonium said:
Maybe something like an update or .apk has changed the behavior of the LEDs like reduced the output which would explain why you now see all 3 colors instead of white.
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I did a full factory reset hoping that may be the case. No luck. This hasn't happened to anyone else?
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Thank you, terryhau.
My notification light does not look like it does in that video. It is now mostly pink with a green hue no the bottom portion and a purple/blue color in the top left hand portion. It DID NOT used to be like this.
I guess I need to post a pic somehow.
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The video shows that it is not pure white, but a mixture of colors. Kind of hard to see because of the bad camera.
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The video shows that it is not pure white, but a mixture of colors. Kind of hard to see because of the bad camera.
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Yes. And in the video it shows what my led looked like about three days ago. It no longer displays that way. Now the three colors are glaringly obvious with a bit of a flicker as it fades out.
I am having the same issue. I have a galaxy nexus from sprint and the play store. the sprint one is perfect. all colors requiring a mix of colors show perfectly like pink, magenta, lime etc. However the play one does not. its almost like its off center so with lime you will see a bit of green and then orange on one side. Pink is slightly pink on one section then almost white every where else. Purple is purple and then has a nice section of blue on one edge.
So my question is those who have replaced your screen is the led attached to it or is it part of the speaker daughter board?
My led is darned close to white (accepting Newton's physical laws etc.). I'm thinking that if yours has changed then perhaps it's damaged, but perhaps your rom settings have (been) changed and your notification colour is now set differently (by default). What rom are you using?
I'm using CM9, which nominally allows me to have notifications in different colours for different apps. I find when I pick colours from the chooser, though I'm meant to have complete control over the colour, in reality I can get white, red, blue, green, and different rotations of rainbows.
Clarification: when I say I can get 'red, blue, and green', I mean properly: I get a solid circle of whichever one of those colours I'm aiming for. But anything else (e.g. yellow, orange, cyan, magenta, lilac, etc.) will be a the chosen colour in a small part of the circle, and an array of all the other colours elsewhere in the rest of the circle.
i can get all those colors too... but only on a portion of the window. white will show green, blue and pink on the side.. but not just around the edges. I think this is what the OP was talking about. I honestly do not think its a software issue as i am running lightflow on both of my nexus's and one is has run cm9 and AOKP witht he same results. It has to be a hardware issue. So if any one can answer this, is the LED attached to the screen or the lower speaker daughter board?
For about a month now iv noticed that the notification light flashes 3 different colors at once... pinkish red, greenish blue and yellowish white.
Im pretty sure when i got the phone it was just white.. and dark blue for text messages.
Is it me or should it be white and blue only?
I get white for messaging and blue for FB notifications. I haven't noticed a red yet, but it may be reserved for notifications that I don't receive.
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I get white for messaging and blue for FB notifications. I haven't noticed a red yet, but it may be reserved for notifications that I don't receive.
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sorry i dont think you understand.
I used to get a white light.. but now that white light has turned in to faded multiple colors.. the colors i mentioned above. They are all together.
Well thats what im asking if it was always like that or not.
I guess i got my answer though...
thanks.
Twitter - Green
Facebook - Blue
Email/Messages - White (but you can see a mixture of pink and green in it)
Those are the colours I usually get.
hmm i dont get different colors on different messages but like the op a 3color whitish. i bought the device 2nd hand and it was always like this
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grognaz said:
hmm i dont get different colors on different messages but like the op a 3color whitish. i bought the device 2nd hand and it was always like this
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use this if you want different colors
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...jb25zdWx0aW5nLmFuZHJvaWQubGlnaHRmbG93bGl0ZSJd
And I use this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5jaGF0Y2hhdG1lb3cuZ25sIl0.
Geez, not a single person understood his question.
Yes my light blinks white but shows 3 colors too. This happens for many people as its been talked about before.
RogerPodacter said:
Geez, not a single person understood his question.
Yes my light blinks white but shows 3 colors too. This happens for many people as its been talked about before.
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Thanks... but is it meant to be like that?
RedBlueGreen said:
For about a month now iv noticed that the notification light flashes 3 different colors at once... pinkish red, greenish blue and yellowish white.
Im pretty sure when i got the phone it was just white.. and dark blue for text messages.
Is it me or should it be white and blue only?
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that's how google led light is. you don't have a bad phone.. its default
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Thanks... but is it meant to be like that?
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Yes, it is.
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RedBlueGreen said:
Thanks... but is it meant to be like that?
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Yes, if you look closely its Google colors. White, blue, red yellow, green in a little sphere
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Its just an overlooked hardware design by Samsung. No big deal.
Hi,
Got my White P6P from EE last week and have noticed that mine is "full" white, ie top part is not grey!? Was kinda looking forward top seeing the contrast, I havent seen the full white advertised anywhere.
What you got? Grey or white up top?
marmin said:
Hi,
Got my White P6P from EE last week and have noticed that mine is "full" white, ie top part is not grey!? Was kinda looking forward top seeing the contrast, I havent seen the full white advertised anywhere.
What you got? Grey or white up top?
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Yep, sucks. Same as yours. All white.
Golf c said:
Yep, sucks. Same as yours. All white.
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Bit of a bummer when they advertise one colour and you get another!
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Bit of a bummer when they advertise one colour and you get another!
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Yes.I don't get why they do that. Grey would look really nice. I wonder how the yellow looks?
I posted this on Reddit. https://redd.it/qgk8ch
I don't like the off white color, it looks almost very light pink to me. In bright light you can see the different top color.
nxt said:
I posted this on Reddit. https://redd.it/qgk8ch
I don't like the off white color, it looks almost very light pink to me. In bright light you can see the different top color.
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Looks really grey in your picture.
More grey looking than anything to me...
I do love the white. But like OP wish it had the grey top. I got bored with black.
Golf c said:
Yes.I don't get why they do that. Grey would look really nice. I wonder how the yellow looks?
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Not sure the colour comes across but I have the yellow...
skimminstones said:
Not sure the colour comes across but I have the yellow...
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That looks white with a grey top.
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That looks white with a grey top.
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yea didnt think the colour would come across but its definitely a yellow colour with an almost light pinkish top
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yea didnt think the colour would come across but its definitely a yellow colour with an almost light pinkish top
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Do you like the color?
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Do you like the color?
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Yea i like it, but then i like colours that are slightly different to the norm. I work in car sales and everyone gets black, white, silver or grey whereas i like the yellows, turquoise etc lol. Same with phones, black and white are nice but why go with everyone else?