[Q] Custom Jelly Bean ROM Recommendation - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm after a Jelly Bean ROM for my Desire. Was going to pick the AOKP ROM but then discovered that it only supports green led light notifications. I'd like something with multi-colour notification support. I also need GPS and WiFi tethering support. I did try searching other threads on here but didn't find any explicit references to multi-colour led notification support.
Any recommendations?

AFAIK the desire doesn't support multicoloured led lights. Green is our only option.
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I dont think the Desire supports any other colour than its own, i could be wrong though

The Desire LED is definitely multicoloured, however a few custom ROMs i tried disabled various different combinations of colours and blink rates, think it's kernel related. I currently get blinking green for WhatsApp, and solid blue for Go SMS pro even though I try to change the colour within settings. Used to have pink as well, haven't seen that in years...
It used to be very useful on SMS apps before I rooted, I set a different colour and or blink rate for different contacts
I can't remember if I tried LED me know before, don't know if it's support anymore, worth a shot

From what I've read, the Desire LED supports:
Red
Green
Orange
Blue
White
Magenta
Purple

eddiehk6 said:
The Desire LED is definitely multicoloured, however a few custom ROMs i tried disabled various different combinations of colours and blink rates, think it's kernel related. I currently get blinking green for WhatsApp, and solid blue for Go SMS pro even though I try to change the colour within settings. Used to have pink as well, haven't seen that in years...
It used to be very useful on SMS apps before I rooted, I set a different colour and or blink rate for different contacts
I can't remember if I tried LED me know before, don't know if it's support anymore, worth a shot
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Yea you're right. Facebook seems to occasionally give me a blue led, but that's the only colour other than green that I've ever seen.
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eddiehk6 said:
It used to be very useful on SMS apps before I rooted, I set a different colour and or blink rate for different contacts
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Mine's rooted and I'm running a custom 2.3.3 ROM...still supports multi-colour so rooting is not the cause of the problem.

I've given up on finding a Jelly Bean ROM with multi-colour led notification support. Is there an ICS ROM that can suit my needs?

Take a root explorer and navigate to " /sys/devices/virtual/leds/lcd-backlight/subsystem/" (may different on some roms). The folders green blue and amber are for the notification led, you can switch them on by setting the brightness file to 255 and switch them of by setting 0.
You can also use some combine, the desire hardware (and most kernels) supports multiple led colors, but no rom really use them for notifications.
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MetinKale38 said:
Take a root explorer and navigate to " /sys/devices/virtual/leds/lcd-backlight/subsystem/" (may different on some roms). The folders green blue and amber are for the notification led, you can switch them on by setting the brightness file to 255 and switch them of by setting 0.
You can also use some combine, the desire hardware (and most kernels) supports multiple led colors, but no rom really use them for notifications.
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There seems to be a misunderstanding. I don't want to switch on the led light manually. I just want the light to flash green when I have a missed call / new email and blue when I receive a new SMS. This is exactly what my phone does now with Android 2.3.3 and Handcent SMS. However, I read that Jelly Bean only supports green colour led notifications.

lambada24 said:
There seems to be a misunderstanding. I don't want to switch on the led light manually. I just want the light to flash green when I have a missed call / new email and blue when I receive a new SMS. This is exactly what my phone does now with Android 2.3.3 and Handcent SMS. However, I read that Jelly Bean only supports green colour led notifications.
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No that was just for people saying that the desire does not supports it
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You could try: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sabragesoft.poweronindicator
And https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite
They work on most of the roms.
I cannot remember if lightflowligt worked well on JB though . I'm currently back on 2.3 with MW5.
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I've had green red pink and blue on mine. Can't remember which Rom sorry.
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dodge67 said:
I've had green red pink and blue on mine. Can't remember which Rom sorry.
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Was it Jelly Bean? Did you have to install a 3rd party app for multi-colour support?

lambada24 said:
Was it Jelly Bean? Did you have to install a 3rd party app for multi-colour support?
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No. I think it was cooldroid.
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dodge67 said:
No. I think it was cooldroid.
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Cooldroid? What version of android is that?!

Gingerbread sense.
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Is there a light around the trackpad?

I watched a youtube video on a review of the g2. He was claiming there was a light around the trackpad that lights up say when you get a call, or a notifing you have a miss text etc etc. I couldn't find an option for this or havn't seen it light up either. Anyone?
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Yes. There is a light around the track pad. It flashed for me when I received a text.
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Yeah I take that back. Just text myself and saw it, but is there any options/settings we can do? For example to flash rapid, slow, etc etc.
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From what I've found, there are no settings for that. I would also like to be able to configure it. And they should have made it more than just white
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Yeah would of been nice to have different colors for different notifications. I feel like it flashes to slow for me also. Maybe there will be an app for it. Use to have the BB9700 long time ago. That had an app you can fully customize the Led. Colors, speed, notifications etc.
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Yes, there is a light.
I was able to set the color through TouchDown.
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Yes, there is a light.
I was able to set the color through TouchDown.
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Edit: Awesome! I'm looking into this
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What is Touchdown?
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I guess touchdown is a 20$ email exchange app?
Are you positive the colors work? Can you take a pic of the trackpad lighting up some color other than white?
The app Blink which is ment to control the color and flash rate does not work for me
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weber09 said:
I guess touchdown is a 20$ email exchange app?
Are you positive the colors work? Can you take a pic of the trackpad lighting up some color other than white?
The app Blink which is ment to control the color and flash rate does not work for me
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i thought blink was only for like the g1 and mytouch?
You may be right. I just wish they'd have included this in the phone settings.
I hope its capable of RGB, but I have a feeling that its just a white led. Idk.
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LED is there, however only in white. Check out LED Tester free in the market. Works, but no matter what color you pick it's always white.

How do I change the colors on the LED lights (trackpad, notification light, etc)?

Hey
How do I change the colors of the trackpad, notification light, etc?
riahc3 said:
Hey
How do I change the colors of the trackpad, notification light, etc?
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I tried every app possible it doesn't work, you can't change the colors. Someone tell me if I'm wrong I wish you could change em
T-Mobile G2 1.42 GHZ
riahc3 said:
Hey
How do I change the colors of the trackpad, notification light, etc?
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You can't change the trackpad as it's only a white LED. The notification LED is a tricolor (green, amber and red) however I'm not sure as to how to change what color shows when; granted I don't see why you'd want to as it makes sense how its set up now (green=charged/notification, amber=low, red=almost dead)
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a app i use to change how fast and how often the led or trackpad led light flashes is Ledmeknow. its free on the market and works great. so far there is no way to change the color of the led
Learn to love soldering irons ;-p
LEDMeKnow has issues with CM7 and Themes .
Its odd noone has found a way to change it. Like said, the top one is only one LED and it is amber/green which should be able to be modified.
Haha I remember the G1 lit up blue when you had a Facebook notification
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Try led flow from marketplace
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Try led flow from marketplace
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LedFlow only allows me pattern changes and from what I see only Green and Amber. Have you tried it and have you gotten Blue and Red and Yellow and other colors?
Noone have any information at all?
An LED's colour is a function of the hardware, and thus you cannot change it in software. It would be like giving you a can of red paint, and asking you to paint the room blue.
If only 1 color is included in the phone you won't be able to change the color..post above me was good lol
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Hmmmm if we had the right tools would be able to physically change the trackpad LED colors???
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An LED's colour is a function of the hardware, and thus you cannot change it in software. It would be like giving you a can of red paint, and asking you to paint the room blue.
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When rooted, some phones have LEDs that can be changed to any color.
the point remains the same. those "some phones" are not the Desire Z nor is it a G2.
The fact remains the same: trackpad only shines white and the notification light only shines green or orange (maybe red, i'm not sure).
Refer to the post you quoted for a layman's term on why the DZ/G2 can not change to any color you want.
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Hmmmm if we had the right tools would be able to physically change the trackpad LED colors???
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If by "tools" you mean a soldering iron and a bin of multicoloured LED modules, then yes.
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When rooted, some phones have LEDs that can be changed to any color.
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Sure, and those phones would already have LEDs capable of doing that. But if your phone has, say, a green LED in it, you cannot somehow use software to convince it to emit any light other than green. You might as well ask if software can turn a 480x320 display into a 1280x720 one. The answer, again, is "no".
taob said:
If by "tools" you mean a soldering iron and a bin of multicoloured LED modules, then yes.
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Of to the store I go
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taob said:
Sure, and those phones would already have LEDs capable of doing that. But if your phone has, say, a green LED in it, you cannot somehow use software to convince it to emit any light other than green. You might as well ask if software can turn a 480x320 display into a 1280x720 one. The answer, again, is "no".
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I wasnt sure if it had a LED capable of that as it the LED in it transmits orange and green.
And the display is one of the worst examples ever: You can thru software make your display display whatever resolution you want.

Does Led me know beta allow to choose led color on Desire Z 2.2?

Hi all! I'm trying to figure out if Desire Z would work for me, if I should buy it or not. I have read all the threads on led I could find but thngs are still unclear to me. My provider sells the Desire Z with android 2.2. still. I want to be able to use at least the 3 possible colors of notification led to set amber just for sms, green just for calls and red just for battery for example. From what I could find Led me know stopped working when 2.3. update came for Desire Z. If I DON'T update however, I can not completely understand which possibilities Led me know beta gives and which not. For example, can I choose which color I want for sms and frequency and lenght or will the color for sms be the phones' default one (if it has one).
Or is there any better application with which I could also update the phone and be able to shoose color, frequency, lenght? The pre relese for 2.3 Desire Z does not work right?
Also I can't seem to find anywhere where the led is located. Is it behind speaker girll like on sensation?
Thanks all!
Can't change colors if there is no color to change ;o). No the only colors you get are the ones you've seen already
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Really? I understand I can't get blue, magneta etc, but I can't even choose for example if I want red for sms and not green?
nope. i mean the app is free just try it. but the trackpad only has 1 color and the charge indicator only has the green and red.
led me know not really meant for our phones
I can't try it, I don't have the phone yet lol. I'm asking this in order to decide wheter or not I should buy it.
I don't understand why it is not at least possible to use the existing colors in customised way. If amber color does exist, why not be able to set it for sms?
How visible is the led behind the speaker grill? I have found it is hidden behind the grill right?
You can set the top led for red, orange, or green. The buttom (trackpad) is white only. Ledmeknow allows all that on 2.2... 2.3 it has problems with. If you want GB and led mods, go with light flow. But still red, green, orange only of course.
But yeah, the mixing doesn't work. All the newer HTC models are like that. I'm not sure why... but you can combo top and bottom led at the same time and they are all very visible. The top led is behind the speaker grill but is extremely visible still. Enjoy your new Desire Z/G2!
What do you mean by mixing?
Does Led me know or Light flow require root?

Led notification

I notice my led light had a purple blue led light flashing..... Then other times it's blue is something wrong with my led notification light.
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No.
What a way to explain lol /\/\
Anyways I have no idea what chooses the color but it changes by app sometimes, light flow seems to work 90% on rooted devices but not much on stock devices (Last time I checked it out) I wish Samsung Would make an update for it, love the led on the BB way back in 2006 and there is nothing like it sadly
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OreoBoyVa said:
I notice my led light had a purple blue led light flashing..... Then other times it's blue is something wrong with my led notification light.
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Yes and no. The US versions have issues ultimately. Some apps will yield different colors. If you're rooted, you can give light flow a try. I've had good results and bad results with it on this phone. It worked fine, then I flashed an update of the ROM, restored light flow and... it doesn't work right.
ASOP and AKOP ROMs have good control of the LED. Just know, that the phone can't do a pure white and pure yellow. It seems that the main colors are red, blue, and green. It mixed lights to get different colors.

LED Control (sort-of)

I am On paranoid 2.99 and i didnt like the way that the led would blink in Deep orange for low battery and Notification so i was trying a few LED control apps .. and Found:
Light Flow Lite - LED Control : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite&hl=en
this works Partially . i could set my SMS notifications to Green .. and this supports 3 Colors only on our device .. Dark Orange , orange (kinda yellow) and Green
just thought it will be useful for people to know ..
be careful when using such apps. it MIGHT screw your phone.
Yup ! .. just Make a NAND backup just to be safe ! I made a backup ! .... the app is working fine for me ! .
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be careful when using such apps. it MIGHT screw your phone.
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Yeah I had actually used this app in the past and the led goes out of control, especially if you set it to green/ and /or other colors..
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i'm running aokp but i installed the app yesterday and found that this doesn't work at all. It can only change the color of the first flicker and still shows the led light even if you turn it off. useless.
I can change the colors of the LED from the source files - there is actually a Java file that controls the LED and it is commented -
This device has only 3 LED colors. Do not try to parse any other colors.
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So basically we can't play with them even if we want to .

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