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I never noticed this until the lastest update, but the LED changes different colors for different notifications. Voice mail gets a green , Facebook gets a blue,etc..I remember my phone use to light up a rainbow color.. anyone noticed these changes?
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May be someone that can clarify your answer... all I know is that I use Light Flow to change the color of the notifications.
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Which update? Carrier or XDA?
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The blue notification comes from the 1.9 update of the Facebook app. I don't use Voicemail, so I can't comment on that. SMS notifications are white (whitish) by default, can't change that without 3rd party hacks.
I configured Whatsapp though, to give green notification light, but you could change that to anything else in the app settings.
If you want more options for other apps, use an app like lightflow, although personally I don't like it, never worked reliable for me.
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The led has always been different colors, depending on your apps. Nothing new.
RogerPodacter said:
The led has always been different colors, depending on your apps. Nothing new.
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I have Android 4.0.1, yakjuux, Galaxy Nexus from Fido.
So far, my LED light has never lit up when I get a Whatsapp message. There's an option for light color in the Whatsapp settings menu, but it doesn't seem to work. I don't feel I need to download third party apps (light flow) in order to make the built-in LED of the phone to work. Shouldn't the notification LED work out of the box, without any tinkering?
Anyone else have this issue?
Seems normal. Have u rooted? CM9 nighties now has great support for led color notifications
My led was never lighting up for some reason until I started using Light Flow. I can't understand why would they give us a nice multi-color led and not use it nicely. And my god have I missed the charging orange led and charged green from htc.
I'm also using Light Flow and it works great, otherwise not so much with stock but the LED has always been a tri colored led.
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Seems normal. Have u rooted? CM9 nighties now has great support for led color notifications
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Normal for the LED not to work, even thought Whatsapp has an setting for it? That seems ridiculous.
My phone is not rooted, and I don't think I'd have to in order to make this LED to work. Why even put one on the phone if it doesn't work???
Oliie23 said:
. And my god have I missed the charging orange led and charged green from htc.
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Oliie23 said:
My led was never lighting up for some reason until I started using Light Flow. I can't understand why would they give us a nice multi-color led and not use it nicely. And my god have I missed the charging orange led and charged green from htc.
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So far, I haven't noticed any different colours on my GN. It would be great if it comes through the official update. Else CM9 shouldn't be far away anyways
I thought the GNex had an LED that at least lit up when charging. Mine didn't, so i took the phone back to the Sprint store. They thought is would have one, too, so they gave me a new one. Well, this new one doesn't have it either.
Now I'm wondering if there is no LED on the Sprint GNex. I get no LED notifications at all. Is this normal?
Have someone send you a gtalk message.
LED -> confirmed.
It is extremely limited. Use something like Light Flow to take full control over it.
But does it light up when you plug your phone in and it is charging?
No, hence my extremely limited comment
Download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.chatchatmeow.gnl or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.chargingLED for your fix, the Nexus doesn't do it stock.
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The LED is basically worthless without an app like Light Flow. It pretty much doesn't light up for anything when stock.
it lights up for missed calls and text notifications when screen is off.
use light flow or galaxy nexus LED apps in the market
Hakizi said:
The LED is basically worthless without an app like Light Flow. It pretty much doesn't light up for anything when stock.
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On stock rom the light blinks blue for new text (handcent), green for new Google voice mail, white for new Gmail and calls.
Then if you want more you can install light flow or similar.
But no, there is no charging light.
I just switched from a Nexus 4 to a HTC One M8 GPe. On the Nexus 4 I used Light flow very much with many colors and blink patterns to be able to identify what was happening without turning on the screen. Now when I have installed Light flow on my M8 it's only possible to choose from 4 colors or something and no blink patterns.
Is this possible to fix?
Great phone but this really bothers me...
djr83 said:
I just switched from a Nexus 4 to a HTC One M8 GPe. On the Nexus 4 I used Light flow very much with many colors and blink patterns to be able to identify what was happening without turning on the screen. Now when I have installed Light flow on my M8 it's only possible to choose from 4 colors or something and no blink patterns.
Is this possible to fix?
Great phone but this really bothers me...
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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that it is due to the limitations of the LED on the M8 vs the N4. It's a different type of LED so there isn't an ability to tinker with it as much.
I miss that from my N4 too, but ultimately as soon as I saw/see a notification light I check the phone anyway.
Ruxin said:
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that it is due to the limitations of the LED on the M8 vs the N4. It's a different type of LED so there isn't an ability to tinker with it as much.
I miss that from my N4 too, but ultimately as soon as I saw/see a notification light I check the phone anyway.
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I suspected this but before I got the M8 I didn't even realize that it would have anything else than the best LED. But yeah, 90% of the times It's just a message of some kind so I guess I'll survive. Still annoying though...
djr83 said:
I just switched from a Nexus 4 to a HTC One M8 GPe. On the Nexus 4 I used Light flow very much with many colors and blink patterns to be able to identify what was happening without turning on the screen. Now when I have installed Light flow on my M8 it's only possible to choose from 4 colors or something and no blink patterns.
Is this possible to fix?
Great phone but this really bothers me...
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Not only is it not possible to fix because of the limitation of the LED that the other poster mentioned, but I'd be shocked if Light Flow gives you any color other than green and if it works consistently.
I had messed around with it some a couple of weeks ago, and gave up. I guess it's possible the Light Flow developer has tweaked it since then, but the version I was using was pretty useless on the M8. I don't fault the Light Flow developer though. I blame HTC on this one.
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Not only is it not possible to fix because of the limitation of the LED that the other poster mentioned, but I'd be shocked if Light Flow gives you any color other than green and if it works consistently.
I had messed around with it some a couple of weeks ago, and gave up. I guess it's possible the Light Flow developer has tweaked it since then, but the version I was using was pretty useless on the M8. I don't fault the Light Flow developer though. I blame HTC on this one.
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I was able to get green and amber to work. Some colors would just pick green or amber, others just wouldn't do anything.
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Not only is it not possible to fix because of the limitation of the LED that the other poster mentioned, but I'd be shocked if Light Flow gives you any color other than green and if it works consistently.
I had messed around with it some a couple of weeks ago, and gave up. I guess it's possible the Light Flow developer has tweaked it since then, but the version I was using was pretty useless on the M8. I don't fault the Light Flow developer though. I blame HTC on this one.
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Yeah, it seems to work pretty bad. Are there any other ways to control the LED like Light flow? Does it work better if you just let all the apps control it themselves? I guess not?
I was able to get green and amber to work.
Green, deep orange, magenta and cyan works for me, but green and cyan shows as green/yellow on the LED and deep orange and magenta shows as orange.
Messed around with the LED settings in Textra after I disabled Light flow and suddenly it actually started to blink. Great improvement!
Is it possible to get it to blink in Light flow too?
Edit: Yes, enable color mixing.
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Green, deep orange, magenta and cyan works for me, but green and cyan shows as green/yellow on the LED and deep orange and magenta shows as orange.
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This is excellent information! Thanks. I'm going to have to reinstall Lightflow and take another whack at it!
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djr83 said:
Messed around with the LED settings in Textra after I disabled Light flow and suddenly it actually started to blink. Great improvement!
Is it possible to get it to blink in Light flow too?
Edit: Yes, enable color mixing.
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I use Textra too, so will have to try this as well. Thank you!
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This is excellent information! Thanks. I'm going to have to reinstall Lightflow and take another whack at it!
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I use Textra too, so will have to try this as well. Thank you!
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Maybe I was unclear. To get it to flash in light flow you just need to enable mix and choose flash under the right color. This is not specific for Textra, but Textra can flash the Led by itself, without Light flow.
I've really tried getting it to work, but needed to put it in Direct Mode to get the LED with permanent light when lit, instead of flashing.
But in this mode the LED is dimmed even though the settings are set to 100% brightness in lightflow.
To get the LED 100% brightness I needed to remove Direct Mode and accept that permanent light instead didn't work, and live with flashing LED. Hence, not very different control than the standard setup i the Sense rom.
Any clues?
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I've really tried getting it to work, but needed to put it in Direct Mode to get the LED with permanent light when lit, instead of flashing.
But in this mode the LED is dimmed even though the settings are set to 100% brightness in lightflow.
To get the LED 100% brightness I needed to remove Direct Mode and accept that permanent light instead didn't work, and live with flashing LED. Hence, not very different control than the standard setup i the Sense rom.
Any clues?
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Try direct mode, root mode and HTC alternative mode. All three at once.
With that Setting the led is always permanent on dimmed like 20% through mixer and also standard control.
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djr83 said:
Maybe I was unclear. To get it to flash in light flow you just need to enable mix and choose flash under the right color. This is not specific for Textra, but Textra can flash the Led by itself, without Light flow.
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Yes, I had the LED flashing green from Textra, without Lightflow. But the Textra reminder options are so limited, I'd really prefer to use Lightflow if I can get it working properly.
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With that Setting the led is always permanent on dimmed like 20% through mixer and also standard control.
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Then I dont know. Works perfect for me. Really bright too. Have you turned off LED notification in screen settings?
I've been fooling around with this a lot since hearing the news that it was working.
I think I've got it working pretty well to my satisfaction now. As I was messing with settings, some of which I may have inadvertently checked (like the Samsung always on setting) I saw a number of interesting behaviors.
One was that at one point my basic notification was, instead of just the green LED flashing, a combination of alternating green and amber colors. (I'm not sure what I did, so don't ask me to reproduce it.)
At some other point I had the LED staying on even with the screen on.
There were other issues, though, when those things were happening. So I kept monkeying with the settings, and I think while neither of those things are happening now, for the most part Lightflow is working acceptably well. I actually would like it if the LED --could-- be on while the screen is on.
Also unless I am mistaken, after an alert, if the screen is turned on but the alert is not cleared, when the screen is turned off, the LED will not come back on. Is this what you two are experiencing as well? I'm pretty sure with my last phone if the alert was not cleared, the LED would continue to flash.
Thanks.
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I've been fooling around with this a lot since hearing the news that it was working.
I think I've got it working pretty well to my satisfaction now. As I was messing with settings, some of which I may have inadvertently checked (like the Samsung always on setting) I saw a number of interesting behaviors.
One was that at one point my basic notification was, instead of just the green LED flashing, a combination of alternating green and amber colors. (I'm not sure what I did, so don't ask me to reproduce it.)
At some other point I had the LED staying on even with the screen on.
There were other issues, though, when those things were happening. So I kept monkeying with the settings, and I think while neither of those things are happening now, for the most part Lightflow is working acceptably well. I actually would like it if the LED --could-- be on while the screen is on.
Also unless I am mistaken, after an alert, if the screen is turned on but the alert is not cleared, when the screen is turned off, the LED will not come back on. Is this what you two are experiencing as well? I'm pretty sure with my last phone if the alert was not cleared, the LED would continue to flash.
Thanks.
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When the LED is alternating between two colors (or more on other phones) it's probably two (or more) notifications and you've got the settings to loop through them all. Standard setting is to do this when you have the charger plugged in IIRC.
The LED is working with the screen on for me and I think it always has on the M8. On my Nexus 4 it turns off when I turn on the screen and the LED turns on again if I don't clear it and turn off the screen. Great if you don't want to read the message right now and still don't want to miss it later. Since the LED is always working wether or not the screen is on, this is not a problem on the M8.
But if it's possible to alternate with both colors on the same notification, that would be a great way to get a third "color". Could you check if it is like I said or if it really is dual color?
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I got it to work! In mixer you can set one color to solid and one to flash to get both. So there are actually a difference on green + amber and amber + green. This will give us a total of 6 options: green, flashing green, orange, flashing orange, orange + flashing green, green + flashing orange.
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The non-flashing color isn't very strong, so I'm not sure how useful this really is.
http://youtu.be/CIRPbcZqV0U
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When the LED is alternating between two colors (or more on other phones) it's probably two (or more) notifications and you've got the settings to loop through them all. Standard setting is to do this when you have the charger plugged in IIRC.
The LED is working with the screen on for me and I think it always has on the M8. On my Nexus 4 it turns off when I turn on the screen and the LED turns on again if I don't clear it and turn off the screen. Great if you don't want to read the message right now and still don't want to miss it later. Since the LED is always working wether or not the screen is on, this is not a problem on the M8.
But if it's possible to alternate with both colors on the same notification, that would be a great way to get a third "color". Could you check if it is like I said or if it really is dual color?
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I got it to work! In mixer you can set one color to solid and one to flash to get both. So there are actually a difference on green + amber and amber + green. This will give us a total of 6 options: green, flashing green, orange, flashing orange, orange + flashing green, green + flashing orange.
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The non-flashing color isn't very strong, so I'm not sure how useful this really is.
http://youtu.be/CIRPbcZqV0U
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It was definitely not really two notifications, though it is somehow possible that Lightflow was acting as if it were. The alternating was definitely like the alternating LED colors that I used to see on my last device when it was alternating between notifications.
I can't reproduce it because I don't know what crazy combination of settings I had at the time. The Samsung always on setting was probably involved. It's even possible I had incorrect checked the Samsung root mode. I was really trying lots of things, and not sure of what I was doing.
Right now, as you suggested, I have Direct Mode, Root Mode, and HTC Alternative driect mode all checked.
I have all LED notifications turned off in Settings/Display and Gestures/Notification Light.
I have Textra set to not notify me in any way, and am using LighFlow for notifications and repeat notifications.
I have not tested things much, so I really don't know how well it is working, but it basically seems to be, though I definitely do not have the LED staying lit with the phone on, or after I turn it on and then back off.
I wonder if some of the differences we are seeing could be due to versions of the phone, rooting procedures, etc. My phone is the Verizon version, and I used Weaksauce to gain root access. Could this make a difference?
Again, many thanks!
It is not possible to fix because of the limitation of the LED.
I've got the phone 2 weeks ago and ever since then the notification LED randomly blinks almost all the time.
It blinks green every second even though there are no notifications.
Tried turning off the alarm and AOD but to na avail.
LG-G710EM, stock V10f-EUR-XX.
It also blinks when there is a real notification, but since it blinks constantly- I can't "trust" the LED.
Is there a way I can find out what's triggering it?
I believe it turns off sometimes but I can't figure out what is the cause.
I've had S8 and didn't have those kind of problems with the LED and I've had the sam apps (plus/minus Samsung and LG stock apps).
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I've got the phone 2 weeks ago and ever since then the notification LED randomly blinks almost all the time.
It blinks green every second even though there are no notifications.
Tried turning off the alarm and AOD but to na avail.
It also blinks when there is a real notification, but since it blinks constantly- I can't "trust" the LED.
Is there a way I can find out what's triggering it?
I believe it turns off sometimes but I can't figure out what is the cause.
I've had S8 and didn't have those kind of problems with the LED and I've had the sam apps (plus/minus Samsung and LG stock apps).
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It would help if you told us exactly what phone and model you have.
Is it stock or modded?
I've never seen any such issue with my stock G710EAW. The green LED only blinks when there is a message notification.
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It would help if you told us exactly what phone and model you have.
Is it stock or modded?
I've never seen any such issue with my stock G710EAW. The green LED only blinks when there is a message notification.
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Sorry, it's LG-G710EM, stock V10f-EUR-XX.
I've updated the first post.
The LED on my G7 always blinks when I receive a new email, even if I turned the notifications off for that. Maybe your emails?
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The LED on my G7 always blinks when I receive a new email, even if I turned the notifications off for that. Maybe your emails?
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Nope- tested it just now.
Although it stopped today during the day- but continued now again.
Today it didn't turn on until now.
It was on the charger and was blinking red since it was charging.
But when it came to a 100%- it started blinking green (when off the charger and the screen is off).
If I wake up the phone- it stops.
No notifications of any kind.
But it stopped blinking when the battery dropped to 99%.
EDIT: Yep, it seems like the 100% battery makes it light up.
Is it usable?
There's no notification LED on the View 20.
Yes there is.
https://youtu.be/ZZGU7QVVVQY?t=226
Why did you post this incorrect information?
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Is it usable?
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The Notification is so small like Honor 10 unless you particularly observe it you cant find it blinking when there is a notification.
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Yes there is.
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Why did you post this incorrect information?
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Well, 2 videos I've seen mentioned that it doesn't have any notification LED, my bad
PalakMi said:
Well, 2 videos I've seen mentioned that it doesn't have any notification LED, my bad
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I have the View 20 and can confirm it does have a notification LED.
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I have the View 20 and can confirm it does have a notification LED.
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same here!
And would you call it usable then?
I recently purchased to Honor View 20, but the Led notification is not working for me. It seems to be off by default and I have not been able to find how to turn it on. Or possibly it is malfunctioning??
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I recently purchased to Honor View 20, but the Led notification is not working for me. It seems to be off by default and I have not been able to find how to turn it on. Or possibly it is malfunctioning??
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Its so minute that you cant see it properly in bright light, you may check it in dark room and check again.
PalakMi said:
There's no notification LED on the View 20.
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There is notification light but it's too small
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Its so minute that you cant see it properly in bright light, you may check it in dark room and check again.
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You should have bat eyes to check the light ?
fahadbashir said:
There is notification light but it's too small
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You should have bat eyes to check the light
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Yes it's so small even compared to H10.
For my needs it is bright enough, but it is on the slope, so the issue that nova 3 has with sunken led is even more pronounced here and it can only be seen in very unpractical angles.
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There is notification light but it's too small
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You should have bat eyes to check the light
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Is there some sort of trick to enabling it? I have pulse light notification turned on. I do not see any light even in a dark room. I just received my View 20 from the UK today.
The notification light is easy enough to see, when it works! It obviously has a bug as it rarely works. Probably due to the aggressive battery saving.
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Is there some sort of trick to enabling it? I have pulse light notification turned on. I do not see any light even in a dark room. I just received my View 20 from the UK today.
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I didn't see any option for enabling it in my Chinese rom
Give it a reset I guess for any bug
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I didn't see any option for enabling it in my Chinese rom
Give it a reset I guess for any bug
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I confirmed with Honor UK support that there is no setting to enable it other than the pulse light notification within the Notifications - More Notification Settings. There are no app specific settings. He said there have been various reports about the LED notification, but most are that it is hard to see. He suggested that I try to check the notification LED first with a phone call (waiting on my new SIM). If that doesn't work, he suggested a hard reset (not from within the Magic OS settings) and then contact the retailer. Those were the only support options provided. I should have my SIM today to verify the call. Other than that, if it is a OS bug, how does one report that to Honor?
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I confirmed with Honor UK support that there is no setting to enable it other than the pulse light notification within the Notifications - More Notification Settings. There are no app specific settings. He said there have been various reports about the LED notification, but most are that it is hard to see. He suggested that I try to check the notification LED first with a phone call (waiting on my new SIM). If that doesn't work, he suggested a hard reset (not from within the Magic OS settings) and then contact the retailer. Those were the only support options provided. I should have my SIM today to verify the call. Other than that, if it is a OS bug, how does one report that to Honor?
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No go after the hard reset. It also does not light up when the charger is connected, as it should and is shown in some videos.
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No go after the hard reset. It also does not light up when the charger is connected, as it should and is shown in some videos.
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Then I assume it's a hardware issue.
It is small, it is though better than the one on the Mate 20 Pro!