One reason I loved the nexus 4 was because of the ability to control the RGB LED. I set it up so that different notifications changed the colour of the LED.
When I moved to the Nexus 5, as far as I remember, it wasn't possible to set the LED to be always on, this really bugged me. It could only do long pulses.
Does anybody know if this is possible on the Nexus 5X?
It's the same as the Nexus 5. You can change all the notifications to always on and have it cycle between different colours at whatever speed you want, but the light will still pulse off briefly each cycle.
I have mine on pretty much constant when charging (as said above it will remain constantly on and go off every now and again for a very brief second) pretty much solid in my eyes though
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So, I sold my Nexus S and bought a Galaxy Nexus today. I cannot seem to figure out exactly how the LED works. It doesn't seem to work reliably for all notifications.
Can someone please explain how the LED system works and also if you can customize the colors per app/person
Light flow from the Market...
I second light flow. It gets hung up sometimes and still glows after I viewed the message or call. But stock notifications never worked right.
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I like the setting for it to clear the led when you turn on the screen. I don't think it's ever hung up on me that way.
Ericstotle said:
I second light flow. It gets hung up sometimes and still glows after I viewed the message or call. But stock notifications never worked right.
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On stock there doesn't seem to be a way to adjust the notification light, without the aid of an external application. In saying this though, I haven't been able to work out the rate/times it blinks as sometimes it seems to double blink then sleep for a longer period then blink at a normal pace.
I only really have text messages come through with the odd call, so I couldn't verify the other notifications.
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I wish stock was able to dosimple mods to led notification like colour and interval. I dont like tonnes of apps to run in the background all the time.
Sharp75 said:
I wish stock was able to dosimple mods to led notification like colour and interval. I dont like tonnes of apps to run in the background all the time.
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This is such an obvious improvement I would be astonished if it did not show up in one of the next ICS updates.
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I like the setting for it to clear the led when you turn on the screen. I don't think it's ever hung up on me that way.
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Yeah its the only way LightFlow can work without false positives it seems.
And the GNex has a ton of RAM. Having a 7mb app in cached background is am issue?! The RAM is on anyway, you might as well use it.
I think both stock notification and light flow are far from being perfect. Both failed on various occasions, the former more than the latter. Therefore, I think there is room for a new app to accurately control LED notifications on the Galaxy Nexus. I would pay even 10 - 15 euros for such an app.
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GreenishApples said:
I like the setting for it to clear the led when you turn on the screen. I don't think it's ever hung up on me that way.
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Shame that setting isn't global
Using Light Flow Lite also. My tip is to just use it to manage the LED, don't use it to manage sounds/vibrates unless you feel like being really anal about your notifications. I found when setting it up that I got a lot of double notifies and crap that I didn't want. Just my 2c.
The notification LED was a great improvement to the Galaxy Nexus over the Nexus S, however, the default settings in Android 4.0 blink the light very, very slowly, so slowly in fact that I often don't notice I have a message waiting even though the LED is blinking.
Is there any way to force the LED to blink faster? At about the rate that HTC notification LEDs blink?
Download Light Flow Lite, it is a Free app that lets you customize:
SMS, G-mail, E-mail, Charging, and more.
You can choose intervals of: very slow, slow, normal, fast, very fast. And how long you want it to blink.
Great app, and used it since Day 1.
Light Flow Lite - LINK
AOKP has this feature as part of the ROM. It has flash on time and flash off time, from 0.5 to 10 seconds.
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The notification LED was a great improvement to the Galaxy Nexus over the Nexus S, however, the default settings in Android 4.0 blink the light very, very slowly, so slowly in fact that I often don't notice I have a message waiting even though the LED is blinking.
Is there any way to force the LED to blink faster? At about the rate that HTC notification LEDs blink?
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AOKP rom is your saviour
Enough said!
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I need this too, can I have it without installing an app? I'd like something that I can flash directly.
Light flow is good, but it is a battery destroyer. Upwards of a hundred alarms and wakelocks over a 3 hour sleep period, and this is without receiving any notifications!
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exactly, and the roms that have it built-in don't drain as much battery. thats why I need a better solution than lightflow
Here's more on LightFlow:
If you use LED color cycling it will destroy your battery because LightFLow needs to keep a thread alive.
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You can thank some stupid designer and/or use-case engineer at Google who clearly either doesn't use an android phone or is just plain clueless.
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The problem is that the phone never really goes into deep sleep when you are using color cycling because the wake-lock by a thread which needs to continuously change the colors keeps running and kills your battery.
Ideally, the way the notification module should have been designed is that an app should be able to specify a sequence and a blink rate to the LED chip, which should then handle LED lighting, independent of any future CPU intervention/dependence for minimal battery hit.
But since this is not the case: I have LightFlow setup with 'show latest/last color' on battery and fast cycling on charging only. This is a good balance with literally no perceptible impact to battery life. If you don't mind a little more battery drain then set priority-based notification colors on battery.
I don't believe mine works, or has ever worked. I didn't even know it had a notification LED until yesterday when a friend showed me on his Galaxy Nexus...also from Verizon. So this makes no sense where is my LED how do I make it work!?
It should just work, there's an option on standard rooms to disable the LED in the display settings. Mine just lit up by default from first use.
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Use the app Light Flow to control your LED. It gives you a lot more options than the standard Android one.
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I downloaded Light Flow and I have the screen lock on and set it to test all the LED lights. Screen is off but phone remains black, no light whatsoever.
Do you have "pulse notification light" checking in settings>display?
Seen, not saw.
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Yes I have it enabled I think I have a faulty device.
I would get a replacement then if your LED isn't working.
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i havent' tried light flow, but my led only lights up when my phone is ringing :\
Well, dang. I'm having the same problem. Will download Light Flow and see if that does anything. If not, it's back to Sprint. Sigh.
My Nexus 5x arrived and I enabled notification LED pulsing in settings, installed Light Flow, then started testing.
It seems that there isn't full RGB color control. For example, anything set to orange becomes red, anything set to pink becomes purple. Is this a software issue with LED control apps not having been updated for full Nexus 5x control? Anyone else experience something similar / have any workarounds?
My answer to your 1st question is highly likely. 2nd question is I have not tried any led apps yet, but wow the 5X led is super bright!
Same here
I have that problem using PureNexus's notification lights
I just got my Pixel XL yesterday coming from the Note 7 / S7 Edge (temp device) and noticed the notification light acts differently from what I am used to seeing on Samsung devices. I have it enabled, under the 'Configure Notifications' setting menu (Pulse notification light). I then sent myself a test text message, and it pulsed, as expected. However, I have not seen the notification light come on for any other notifications, such as emails, or missed calls, etc.
I was playing around with the email notification settings in the Gmail app, and changed it from Silent to a notification sound, and the light then worked on a new email. I also noticed the ambient display is tied to this setting.
If I change the notification sound to Silent, I no longer get the notification light or the Ambient display notification.
I'm used to having the notification light to indicate any notification, regardless if I have it set to no sound.
Is there any way around this? I don't want my phone beeping every time I get a new e-mail, but I would like to know if I have one without having to power on the screen, since we do not have a nice ambient display like the Note 7 or S7E (at least not yet!)
As always: Light Flow
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow
Thanks for the suggestion of Light Flow. It does seem to work, but I am forced to buy it to unlock notifications from apps other than the standard Google apps (I know, it's not much), but I would have thought something like this would have been baked into Android by now.
Did they change the licensing key? I purchased last year and now it doesn't show I did.
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Or Settings/Notifications/Settings and turn on Pulse Notifications
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