Develop Bugs

[Q] increase LED notification flash rate?

the default of ~3 second intervals between flashing is a bit slow for my liking. Is there any way to make it flash faster when there are notifications to be checked?

Man I can't stand the gap between flashes. The "did I just see it flash?" thing I deal with every day. And why can't it flash green while charging? Or flash a different color for text, email and missed calls/voicemail? It does green, orange and red, surely this can be assigned by some sort of voodoo or dark arts?
Eric

You can use a program called nueled to adjust the LEDs to some extent, I don't believe you'll be able to adjust the flashing speed, but you can redirect the behaviors to make it a steady light and with some control over the color of the light.
I personally use it to kill off the LED while charging / finished charging, so that I can plug it in and do a crossword or watch a recorded show before going to bed without the light blinding me.

Cool thanks, I'll check it out! Wow your first post. I'm honored.
Eric

Just following up on this, I installed the version on the first page of this thread (v1.5)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371391
and it didn't do anything. The scanning function gave a popup error I couldn't make disappear without pressing the Call End button. There was registry removal info in one of the posts in that thread but I also received an error like the poster had. The Remove Programs uninstaller didn't work either.
My Tilt2 is on its way out of my life at some point hopefully soon, but it would still be nice to control the LEDs somehow.
Eric

A developer here on xda named zevele created blinker which will control the led on the tp2. I downloaded it here on xda. I dont know exactly where it is but search the tp2 forums and youll find it.

For those who may search and find this thread, the link to the blinker app is in the HD2 themes and apps sub forum. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=830299

[Q] Will Google be 'fixing' the LED notification light any time soon?

I'm glad that a Samsung high-end international Android smartphone finally has a good RGB notification LED, but the way it's been implemented in the Galaxy Nexus is pretty damn poor.
1) The blink rate is terrible. On my Motorola Milestone, I'd come back into the room and take a quick look at my phone to see if the LED is blinking. With the Nexus, I have to bloody stare at it for 10 seconds.
2) No customisation options. What's the point in having a white light for both my text messages and emails? At least Whatsapp lets me choose different colours I suppose...
Now, I know there are applications out there that can provide remedy to these issues, but this is another thing that I don't want to rely on third parties for...
So, my question is this: Will Google be fixing the Galaxy Nexus' notification LED, or will I have to resort to using Lightflow?

Its not broken. You're comparing it to a different phone that had an oem overlay. It's there for developers to utilize for app features. Now you can edit the code to make the blink rate faster just like the rom I'm running (bamf wookie) has that edited. But google will probably not be doing anything further than the way it has already been implemented.
good day.

Evangelion01 said:
I'm glad that a Samsung high-end international Android smartphone finally has a good RGB notification LED, but the way it's been implemented in the Galaxy Nexus is pretty damn poor.
1) The blink rate is terrible. On my Motorola Milestone, I'd come back into the room and take a quick look at my phone to see if the LED is blinking. With the Nexus, I have to bloody stare at it for 10 seconds.
2) No customisation options. What's the point in having a white light for both my text messages and emails? At least Whatsapp lets me choose different colours I suppose...
Now, I know there are applications out there that can provide remedy to these issues, but this is another thing that I don't want to rely on third parties for...
So, my question is this: Will Google be fixing the Galaxy Nexus' notification LED, or will I have to resort to using Lightflow?
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I know you said you don't want to go 3rd party, but I think LightFlow might be one of your few options. I just set it up today, and can tell you that the "Very Fast" setting on LightFlow makes the LED blink every second. So far I am very impressed with the customization options of LightFlow and might even purchase the full version soon.

Evangelion01 said:
I'm glad that a Samsung high-end international Android smartphone finally has a good RGB notification LED, but the way it's been implemented in the Galaxy Nexus is pretty damn poor.
1) The blink rate is terrible. On my Motorola Milestone, I'd come back into the room and take a quick look at my phone to see if the LED is blinking. With the Nexus, I have to bloody stare at it for 10 seconds.
2) No customisation options. What's the point in having a white light for both my text messages and emails? At least Whatsapp lets me choose different colours I suppose...
Now, I know there are applications out there that can provide remedy to these issues, but this is another thing that I don't want to rely on third parties for...
So, my question is this: Will Google be fixing the Galaxy Nexus' notification LED, or will I have to resort to using Lightflow?
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Compared to the hardware of the last Nexus device, the Nexus S, with no notification light, this is definitely an improvement.
It would seem logical to implement controls for the LED notification features in the Settings panel. From a technical stand point, the only downsides I can see to adding support for this feature into AOSP would be not all devices will support it.
As far as I've seen, and I could be wrong, the majority of LED control is performed through the specific sysfs structure setup by the kernel. Controlling the LED through this route require root access so if the third party apps control the LED w/o root access, I might be a bit behind the curve.
If you were interested in moving the ball along, all of the ICS source code is public being part of AOSP. Theoritically you could work on implementing controls for it in the Settings.apk AOSP file and send your changes to Google requesting they add it to their official AOSP repo.
In the end, I do agree. Adding controls for a LED notification light, when a notification LED is provided in the hardware, to AOSP shouldn't be *that* difficult.
Apparently this hasn't been a priority yet but hopefully now that the official Google device has a notification LED, they'll move in the direction of adding at least some simple stock controls for it.

Is there an official site for this aosp code? I goggled it but didn't knife which link is the official download site. Running GNex Sprint.

Sup Milestone buddy .
I've long since decided that Light Flow is literally the only way you can get the gsexy's LED to function the same way it did on the Droid1/Milestone. You should try it or at least try Galaxy Nexus LED (on Play, it's free) first.

install lightflow

I agree with OP. I know it's all about finding the workaround, but workaround's and third party fixes are not always the satisfactory answer. It would be nice to have out-of-the-box notification light controls.

LED Notification brightness !

Hi all
I'd be interested to know if anyone else finds the led notification light on our ZL is just not bright enough, I really struggle to see it flashing when out in direct daylight especially on a sunny day. I use my ZL as a business phone and rely quite heavily on the notification led for emails and sms notifications when quickly glancing at the phone in meetings and out on site visits, on numerous occasions now I have not responded to emails and sms as quick as I would have liked due to not noticing the led flashing when out in sunlight.. I've done a bit of digging about on forums and Google but cant find any suggestions on a way to adjust the XZL led brightness, there is a mod for Xperia 2011 devices which I've tried but unfortunately this doesn't work on Sony's latest devices,I've searched the system files and build.prop but cant find any reference to the led brightness.
So with this said I would be grateful to find out if anybody knows where the led control files in the system files are located or better still a mod that can adjust the brightness.

I'm using Illumination Bar Notification from playstore. You can adjust colours and brightness, but I don't think you can make the light brighter with this app.

sturmtruppler said:
I'm using Illumination Bar Notification from playstore. You can adjust colours and brightness, but I don't think you can make the light brighter with this app.
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Hi yes Im also using Illumination Bar Notification and yes your correct in saying there's no option to adjust the led brightness.

LED Notification, No Blue color?

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.

Question Notification light

So I don't know if it's on here or not but I came from a Samsung phone and so anytime a notification will go off it would flash a green light does the OnePlus 9 pro have that same feature or some type of light that could flash when a notification is on the device? Perhaps maybe there's some type of a magisk module that can utilize the camera ring around it to flash when there's a notification if it helps I am on a custom ROM. So I'm not sure if stock has it. Thanks.

On recent OnePlus phones, you'll find a function called Horizon Light (it basically lights the screen's borders when a notification is received), that is used for similar purposes, but there isn't a notification LED in the hardware.
I'm not sure if it is a function that is still in your custom ROM, but it is a stock ROM function.

Yeh, only aware of built-in horizon light , but it doesn't flash long enough to catch it....

Geez, how I miss the LED notification lights that older phones had.
Especially the ones that were multi-color so you could assign a different color for different notification types.

CZ Eddie said:
Geez, how I miss the LED notification lights that older phones had.
Especially the ones that were multi-color so you could assign a different color for different notification types.
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Technically, it wouldn't be impossible to recreate it with an app dedicated to modify the always on display features.
As AMOLED screens are basically tiny LEDs side by side, we could imagine a way to light or pulse specific ones to remplace the "missing" one. But it would be a trade-off, as those selected LEDs would be functioning and aging surely more quickly than the others.

There are a few apps out there that will use the AOD to create the appearance of a notification light or even continually flash the Horizon light bars and other custom lighting options however all 3 I've tried were glitchy and obviously drained the battery since it's using AOD to accomplish the notification light. Maybe if you're already used to AOD battery drain it wouldn't be so noticeable but I don't use AOD normally so the difference was very noticeable to me.

Buslova said:
There are a few apps out there that will use the AOD to create the appearance of a notification light or even continually flash the Horizon light bars and other custom lighting options however all 3 I've tried were glitchy and obviously drained the battery since it's using AOD to accomplish the notification light. Maybe if you're already used to AOD battery drain it wouldn't be so noticeable but I don't use AOD normally so the difference was very noticeable to me.
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Yes, it's also a thing to consider, but I don't think the memory and power usage for only a black screen and a color dot would be that energy consuming. Did you notice a change that big when you gave a try to those apps?

look for notifybuddy on the playstore. works fine on my OP9Pro.

I didn't realize how much i relied on the notification light until it was gone. The AOD fits my needs, tho. Posted settings on another thread awhile back: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/horizon-light.4371367/#post-86085187
I may give notifybuddy a try, too

Would recommend this app. I've been using it on my oneplus devices last couple of year. There are a lot customizations too.
LED Blinker Notifications

i REALLY missed my notification LED (the last phone I had that had it was my old blackberry priv) then I got a smart watch and I don't care so much anymore