hi,
i just recently got a note 4 and i'm loving it. but just noticing that the red charging light does not come on every time i charge. actually, i'm trying to find some rhyme or reason on when it decides to light up and when it doesn't.
i've gathered so far that the light is supposed to come on when the screen is off. that's the only "behavior" cue that i'm aware of. are there any others?
and to be clear, the phone is charging. there's no problem with that. the battery level increases and i get the lightning bolt symbol and the "charging" displayed at the bottom of the screen when i turn the screen on.
but the red light lights up sometimes. sometimes not.
just now, i plugged it in and it decided to light up. but then a blue pulse turned on briefly and now nothing is lit up.
not a critical thing and i'm pretty sure this is what the phone's supposed to do. i just want to understand what exactly it's doing.
thanks.
haha,
figured it out myself. so the red light goes out when you get ANOTHER indicator light. like the blue light i got that deactivated the red one.
so if you clear your notifications, the red light comes back on and stays on... until you get another notification.
got it.
hehe, thanks for helping me think that through.
jin
jinchoung said:
haha,
figured it out myself. so the red light goes out when you get ANOTHER indicator light. like the blue light i got that deactivated the red one.
so if you clear your notifications, the red light comes back on and stays on... until you get another notification.
got it.
hehe, thanks for helping me think that through.
jin
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I do that all the time. I get stuck and can't come up with a solution, so post here. Then I figure it out even though no one has actually helped me. Lol
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Hi, is there a way to get the notification LED to blink when I have a missed call, voice mail, SMS..etc but while its charging too? I know it does this when its not charging, but it would be nice to glance at the phone and see if I missed something while its on the charger.
Thanks
As far as I know it does. It's much harder to notice because the red LED stays lit solid while charging and the green blinks "through" it, and I'm pretty sure when the phone is fully charged and the green LED is lit solid for full charge, it blinks as it usually would when not charging. Can anyone else confirm this?
Marlin29 said:
As far as I know it does. It's much harder to notice because the red LED stays lit solid while charging and the green blinks "through" it, and I'm pretty sure when the phone is fully charged and the green LED is lit solid for full charge, it blinks as it usually would when not charging. Can anyone else confirm this?
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Mine just stay red/orange when charging and green when charged...the led doesn't blink while it is plugged into the charger.
The other day i saw thread with someone talking about getting the phone send/answer and end keys to blink for things while charged...didn't see how they did it though. There may be a cab for it.
I just got my Nexus, and have plugged it in for the initial charge.
A graphic flashed on screen showing a battery being topped up, then went blank. As far as I know it's charging, but there isn't an LED showing me the charge status - is this right?
My desire LED is orange while it's charging, then turns green once it's fully charged. There doesn't seem to be anything like this on the Nexus, or am I missing something
Cheers.
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Yeah it's definitely charging - if you tap the power button the graphic comes back. Just seems odd that the LED doesn't relay the battery state, so you can glance to see if it's charged yet or not.
Oh well.
Maybe you can enable this function if you modify the LED notifications.
The idea behind this is likely so that you can see if you have notifications while it's charging. It's a trade-off between two useful things that both use LED.
Try this "market.android.com/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite" but you will need root
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kristovaher said:
The idea behind this is likely so that you can see if you have notifications while it's charging. It's a trade-off between two useful things that both use LED.
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Well the Nexus can display pretty much any colours with its LED so they could use different colour flashes to display different information. Another design oversight.
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it's retarded that the galaxy nexus doesn't have charging LED indicators. just got one and among other things, this blows...
mfive said:
it's retarded that the galaxy nexus doesn't have charging LED indicators. just got one and among other things, this blows...
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lol..... just wow.
You guys are seriously overreacting...
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You guys are seriously overreacting...
+1
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Is it on when you plug it in?
Yes - Plug it in. Look at the screen and see the icon change to the battery w/ lightening bolt. Set down the phone. Wait
No - Plug it in. Wait for the battery charging icon BIG WHITE BATTERY on the screen. Set down the phone. Wait.
Once you know its charging, what is the worry? Do you really look at your phone from across the room to see if it's done with phones that do have an LED?
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Is it on when you plug it in?
Yes - Plug it in. Look at the screen and see the icon change to the battery w/ lightening bolt. Set down the phone. Wait
No - Plug it in. Wait for the battery charging icon BIG WHITE BATTERY on the screen. Set down the phone. Wait.
Once you know its charging, what is the worry? Do you really look at your phone from across the room to see if it's done with phones that do have an LED?
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You don't even have to look at the top right. On your lock screen, it says:
Charging ( XX % ); XX being numbers. That's how simple it is, definitely making a big deal out of nothing.
The charging led was one of the things on the nexus one that I found quite handy. Well, once it was remapped to a more useful purpose anyway.
I had mine setup to indicate the cpu load (yes, even when the screen was "off"). Since it was a separate led from the notification (trackball) led, there was never any interference or confusion with "regular" notifications. Yes, I'll miss that extra re-mappable rgb led, whatever it's original purpose was supposed to have been...
By the way, Light Flow (free in market) will let you customize the led for this and other events.
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By the way, Light Flow (free in market) will let you customize the led for this and other events.
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Do I have to have a rooted galaxy nexus to use this app?
I second the LightFlow suggestion. I set mine up to show a flashing white LED while charging and a solid white LED when charging is done. Went through a few other options, too - orange for charging green for done, etc.
Lightflow has options to either prioritize or cycle notifications, so a charging indication won't override an email or something.
I know LightFlow uses root, but I just tested it out by denying it root access. The LED for charging still functions. even without root.
As a side note: "Done Charging" is indicated at around 90-something percent. So if you are somewhere between 90 and 100, you might see the LED acting like it's done even though the lockscreen still says charging. Not sure why that is, but I think it's probably so that the typical charge/discharge when the phone battery is full doesn't cause it to keep triggerring notifications over and over. Historesis would be a better option in my opinion. Wait for it to hit 100% to call it charged, but then wait for it to get below 90% before allowing another "charged" event to be activated. But again, that's just on the speculation about the reasoning.
Look for "Galaxy Nexus LED" in the market. It does exactly what you need, I believe (just charging led and low battery notifications). If you need more features Light Flow is the one to install (as people already mentioned).
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The notification LED (Red when charging, red blinking on notification, blue when fully charging) is always ON in RED. Regardless if the phone is on or off. It will obviously turn off if I pull the battery, however as soon as a put the battery back in, it turns on and stays on. Doesnt effect anything on the phone that I can notice, but its just always on.
Any ideas?
Possible water damage. Are you using a rom other than Stock? When did this problem start? Try and think back to when the problem started.you may have an App causing you Led to stay lit.
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I bought it used. So water damage is a possibility, although the stickers that turn pink when they get wet are still white and the phone is like brand new, not a scratch on it.
Its running the Sony XPLOD rom from the ROM section here. It was doing it back when it was stock though. I assumed it was a possible rom issue, so I rooted/CWM'd/installed a diff rom.
Same deal tho, RED light is still on. Turns purple when fully charged tho! (Blue comes on while red is already on)
I know you said it was "stock" when purchased but did you do a full wipe prior to or after flashing your current ROM? Worth a shot if not.
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Sounds like it could be water damage to me. You can buy new stickers, so those don't mean anything. I think there are also stickers inside the unit.
Sounds like the red light is stuck in an ON position. If this happens with all roms, its a hardware issue.
Does it come on as soon as you power on the device? If not, than I would think software.
I'd use one click Odin return to compete stock ek02 flash, run it for awhile and see if the problem happens again.
I say hardware problem same thing happens to mine aswell. I cant code but if we can get someone to develop a script or something that can disable the light that would be great because im sure it causes battery drain
Hi,
I just got my HOX today. It is a SH24 and I'm expecting it to have a HW problem. So I connected it to the power before I turned on. It didnt show any LED indication. Then after a while LED started flashing RED. Then the LED kept on (no flashing) in RED. Phone turns on and everythng seem sfine so far. And I see batter chargin in the display. But the LED is continuously turned on in RED. I understand it should be orange.
Should I be concerned?
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.
YabeMadu said:
Hi,
I just got my HOX today. It is a SH24 and I'm expecting it to have a HW problem. So I connected it to the power before I turned on. It didnt show any LED indication. Then after a while LED started flashing RED. Then the LED kept on (no flashing) in RED. Phone turns on and everythng seem sfine so far. And I see batter chargin in the display. But the LED is continuously turned on in RED. I understand it should be orange.
Should I be concerned?
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.
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Mine is a reddish/orange while charging, depends on the angle at which i look at it. Never had any problems. As far as I know thats normal lol.
Out of curiosity, why are you expecting a HW problem?
kylec said:
Mine is a reddish/orange while charging, depends on the angle at which i look at it. Never had any problems. As far as I know thats normal lol.
Out of curiosity, why are you expecting a HW problem?
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Thank you.
Nice to hear that it couldnt be a problem.
Well this version is known to have problems and it is made in China. I have read in many threads that Chinese made has more problems than the Taiwan made.
I just have a 2 week window to RMA so I'm expecting the worst but hoping for the best.
Cheers.
Hey guys, I just purchased an HTC One X, got back home and plugged it on the charger but no light came on. I tried to use the USB cable to charge it on my laptop and even tried my Nokia N86's charger but nothing worked, no light came on. I then decided to leave it on the charger. About 5-10 minutes later a red blinking light appeared, I didn't like the fact that it was blinking and decided to Google it, some people said that it's a battery problem and some others said that it just means that the phone is low on battery. I checked my phone again and noticed that the red light stopped flashing. Should I be worried that this is the start of a worse problem or is it to be expected? I was scared to buy this phone at first due to the problems I was reading online and this red flashing light thing isn't much of a warm welcoming :crying:
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Hey guys, I just purchased an HTC One X, got back home and plugged it on the charger but no light came on. I tried to use the USB cable to charge it on my laptop and even tried my Nokia N86's charger but nothing worked, no light came on. I then decided to leave it on the charger. About 5-10 minutes later a red blinking light appeared, I didn't like the fact that it was blinking and decided to Google it, some people said that it's a battery problem and some others said that it just means that the phone is low on battery. I checked my phone again and noticed that the red light stopped flashing. Should I be worried that this is the start of a worse problem or is it to be expected? I was scared to buy this phone at first due to the problems I was reading online and this red flashing light thing isn't much of a warm welcoming :crying:
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Now that the flashing has stopped, is there just a constant red light?
If there is a constant red light now, no need to be worried.
The battery was obviously very low, and as it is a newly bought phone this seems to be the more logical cause.
If there is no red light any more I would take it back for replacement.
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Now that the flashing has stopped, is there just a constant red light?
If there is a constant red light now, no need to be worried.
The battery was obviously very low, and as it is a newly bought phone this seems to be the more logical cause.
If there is no red light any more I would take it back for replacement.
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It's charging just fine now, the red light isn't blinking. So you're saying that I shouldn't be worried? Thank God, this incident made me think that I've made a wrong phone selection again. Thank you!
Energokinetic said:
It's charging just fine now, the red light isn't blinking. So you're saying that I shouldn't be worried? Thank God, this incident made me think that I've made a wrong phone selection again. Thank you!
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Yeah this sounds like a definite low battery. They can get to a point where there so low, they havent even got the energy to realise they are being charged, and therefor will not charge.
As I said, as its a new phone I'd say 99.999999% it is a battery that was left to get to low, which the seller should have kept an eye on. But it has obviously sorted itself out. So leave it to charge for an hour or 2 and your away !
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Wilks3y said:
Yeah this sounds like a definite low battery. They can get to a point where there so low, they havent even got the energy to realise they are being charged, and therefor will not charge.
As I said, as its a new phone I'd say 99.999999% it is a battery that was left to get to low, which the seller should have kept an eye on. But it has obviously sorted itself out. So leave it to charge for an hour or 2 and your away !
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Thank you for your help!
No worries, glad I could help !