Develop Bugs

LED notifications?

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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gambiting said:
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.

majikdragoon said:
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

majikdragoon said:
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!

[Q] Is Your LED Notification Light Prismatic?

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...)

jmbillings said:
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)

Faulty led notification light?

Hopefully someone could clear this up... My notification light is never fully the colour I set it to. For example, I've set it to Yellow for one notification, however you can see tints of green in it. If i set it to green, I can see a quarter of it is blue. Is that the same for everyone else?

In my case it's the same. I think the LED can only show some standard colors like red, blue etc right. If you try any slitghtly different color it will try to do it like you do it when painting with watercolor. Mix them.
I think hat because when my LED should light up in white, I can see all colors in there. But maybe my phone is also just screwed :s
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the_f4b1 said:
In my case it's the same. I think the LED can only show some standard colors like red, blue etc right. If you try any slitghtly different color it will try to do it like you do it when painting with watercolor. Mix them.
I think hat because when my LED should light up in white, I can see all colors in there. But maybe my phone is also just screwed :s
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I can get Red, Green and Blue to work correctly, but the rest are screwed. The nexus one led worked really well.

Is it the led a crap, faulty or just lightflow?

With my nexus the led have a lot of colours, white, yellow, lima, etc , but the note can't show only red, green and blue, the yellow or white doesn't exists as all of the other.
3 colours on the led? It is a crappy one worse than the one of the nexus one? Or maybe it is lightflow fault? Have the s3 the same problem?

kersh said:
With my nexus the led have a lot of colours, white, yellow, lima, etc , but the note can't show only red, green and blue, the yellow or white doesn't exists as all of the other.
3 colours on the led? It is a crappy one worse than the one of the nexus one? Or maybe it is lightflow fault? Have the s3 the same problem?
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s3 led is same

How many colors do you need?

americasteam said:
How many colors do you need?
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Well, I have like 12 apps with notifications, and I would love to know what it is calling me, so, at least 6 7 to play with blink times or more like the nexus, not the 3 4 of the note 2.

If it can show the three primary light colours then doesn't that mean it can show at least the 7 colours? I don't know enough about led architecture to have a clue really.
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kersh said:
With my nexus the led have a lot of colours, white, yellow, lima, etc , but the note can't show only red, green and blue, the yellow or white doesn't exists as all of the other.
3 colours on the led? It is a crappy one worse than the one of the nexus one? Or maybe it is lightflow fault? Have the s3 the same problem?
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The color changes work fine for me.
Yellow and white are a little odd (you can see fringes of the three LEDS on the sides), but they are certainly distinct and don't look like any of the other colors.
- Frank

Light flow is great...but does not always work properly
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Try "Light manager"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5rb28ubGlnaHRtYW5hZ2VyIl0.

Question White Colour

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!

marmin said:
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.

Golf c said:
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

skimminstones said:
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?

Golf c said:
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?