Edit: It can be done, see these videos!
https://youtu.be/fdvkuyd491w?t=72
https://youtu.be/FK6Bn8E_j1Q
harryspar said:
Edit: It can be done, see these videos!
https://youtu.be/fdvkuyd491w?t=72
https://youtu.be/FK6Bn8E_j1Q
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I saw the notification light as well and enabled it via e x kernel manager apk.
Your suggestion and instructions was spot on.
Thanks...
Works great!!!
I watched the videos. It almost appears the LED blinks in the 2nd video. But am I correct in saying the notification LED does not blink?
zapjb said:
I watched the videos. It almost appears the LED blinks in the 2nd video. But am I correct in saying the notification LED does not blink?
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I'm curious about this also. If notification doesn't blink this is useless.
jhjhjhjhjhjh said:
I saw the notification light as well and enabled it via e x kernel manager apk.
Your suggestion and instructions was spot on.
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Works great!!!
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How did you enable it using EX kernel manager?
I've tried this. It doesn't blink. Within the software, the Charging LED doesn't have a blink option, only solid.
I'd personally set the LED to only be on when I've missed a call or text since I don't care about emails.
Yes, I remember it being the same way on the G7 Power, and then I found out that it had a LED by installing one of the custom roms which had taken the time to add some custom features allowing full control of it. If it can be solid, it can also blink, it's just a matter of programming it that way, perhaps a developer could figure it out.
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I thought the Arc had a notification light on the Battery charging light but cannot find the settings in the menu & when i get a message via gmail, there is no light just a notification in the bar??? Does anyone else get a flashing light if so any idea where the settings are.
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Just did another test & the led light does flash. But when you press the power or home key (which displays the lock screen) the led stops flashing which is silly as you can easily press the home key in your pocket.
Is there anyway to leave the led light flashing until you swipe & unlock the phone, or to disable waking up the phone by pressing the home key.
i think Led always stop flashing after the screen comes on. This was also on my nexus. didn't com across something to keep it flashing while the screen comes on.
Anyways i don't like the led location, i never see it.
commodoor said:
Anyways i don't like the led location, i never see it.
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Agree Stupid place to put it, but at least it has one unlike LG & Samsung phones. hope it is possible to stop the phone from waking by pressing the home key though.
I want programmable notification lights like the X1 had.
My X1 still works, but it lacks any decent software to make it work well.
I love it! I ordered a PDAir case with a cutout for the light so I can see it witout taking it out of the case.
Anyone tried Light Flow app?
I hope we can use the lights of the buttons under the screen as notifications too
vegetaleb said:
Anyone tried Light Flow app?
I hope we can use the lights of the buttons under the screen as notifications too
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I m using light flow. There is no lights on the button but I can email the developers on this
Sent from my Xperia Arc
commodoor said:
i think Led always stop flashing after the screen comes on. This was also on my nexus. didn't com across something to keep it flashing while the screen comes on.
Anyways i don't like the led location, i never see it.
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Light flow apps can overwrite this setting and more
Sent from my Xperia Arc
Rithina said:
I m using light flow. There is no lights on the button but I can email the developers on this
Sent from my Xperia Arc
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Would be very nice to have the option for the 2 lights in between the 3 front buttons to flash with notifications aswell.
TheAptPupil said:
I want programmable notification lights like the X1 had.
My X1 still works, but it lacks any decent software to make it work well.
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lol mine 3~4 year old x1 is good as death, had a good run with it. i loved the phone
Rithina said:
Light flow apps can overwrite this setting and more
Sent from my Xperia Arc
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thnx gonna look into it
Surethom said:
Would be very nice to have the option for the 2 lights in between the 3 front buttons to flash with notifications aswell.
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This was exactly what i was thinking of, it would be great.
That would be BackLight Notification (BLN) it exists for samsung phones that doesn't have a LED.
But it needs a modified kernel to work. So we have to wait for SE to unlock the bootloader and someone to adapt the kernel for bln to work.
It's possible in a cyannogen mod rom under led setting... we'll have to wait for custom roms to use it that way..
Surethom said:
Would be very nice to have the option for the 2 lights in between the 3 front buttons to flash with notifications aswell.
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That would be so damn sexy!
I hate the position of the LED on the Arc...
Surethom said:
I thought the Arc had a notification light on the Battery charging light but cannot find the settings in the menu & when i get a message via gmail, there is no light just a notification in the bar??? Does anyone else get a flashing light if so any idea where the settings are.
Cheers
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Could anyone pls post a pic on how the notification light looks in reality..havent been able to find a single picture yet of the same to make a sound judgement on the positioning of the notification light ...pls
Try the app 'Blink', it's for free on the market place.
try this.. it wokrs well on x10..
farhan032 said:
Could anyone pls post a pic on how the notification light looks in reality..havent been able to find a single picture yet of the same to make a sound judgement on the positioning of the notification light ...pls
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At 3:00 Minutes.
has anyone found a way to make the 2 LED lights work for notifications?
Any news on this topic? Will it be possible without rooting the device?
Would be perfect if I can use the front-leds of the device for notifications.
[APP][ROOT][1.6-4.0] ButtonLED​
EDIT: I figured out that we can actually control the LED notification light with this app now. Instead of using the file for the capacitive buttons, just substitute it for one of the LED files.
Green - /sys/devices/platform/msm_ssbi.0/pm8921-core/pm8xxx-led/leds/led:green/brightness
Red - /sys/devices/platform/msm_ssbi.0/pm8921-core/pm8xxx-led/leds/led:red/brightness
Remember to also enable it in Accessibility! It still doesn't work well for any time less than 1 second, but I don't feel like that's a huge deal.
If you want to use the button LED, you can still use that file as well.
Since the OG's notification light (or frequency) is shameful to say the least, I just discovered this app today and it's sooooo handy for our phones even though it was meant for phones with no LED at all. Basically, it uses the capacitive buttons as a notification light.
Download the HDPI version and install it.
When you first open it, you have to tell it where the button backlight file is since it's different on every phone. Ours is located at /sys/devices/platform/msm_ssbi.0/pm8921-core/pm8xxx-led/leds/button-backlight/brightness.
Lastly, scroll down in the main menu to where it says "Enable ButtonLED in accessibility" and click on it. It'll take you to the system accessibility settings where you just have to toggle it on.
It took me a little while of playing with the settings to get it working how I wanted, and you can do the same. I have noticed a few issues here and there, but overall it works pretty great. One thing I found was that if you try to set the LED on time to anything less than 1 second, it just does a real quick flash, regardless of what length you chose. Personally, I like 1 second on, 1 second off.
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Thanks for posting. :good:
Have you noticed any change in battery life? Reading the developer's posts, when the notification lights are active the phone doesn't sleep.
signal34 said:
Have you noticed any change in battery life? Reading the developer's posts, when the notification lights are active the phone doesn't sleep.
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No difference so far, but I don't think that I've had a notification that I haven't seen and cleared within five minutes. I'd be interested to see what the drain is if it goes unmonitored for a couple of hours.
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No difference so far, but I don't think that I've had a notification that I haven't seen and cleared within five minutes. I'd be interested to see what the drain is if it goes unmonitored for a couple of hours.
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Not the biggest difference in the world but it is affecting it its always at the top of the battery stats
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I can't even get this app to let me change where the led is located. How did you get it to work?
Edit: never mind I simply had to update my busy box version
BTW: I love you for finding this app
LOL, nevermind, nice find!
Jxt. said:
Hey thanks I've been looking for this, but if you've tried cm10 the led notification is kinda amber greenish, i wanted to know if i can get that same color, is it possible?
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Not with this app unfortunately. You can either tell it to use the green color or the "red" (orange) color for the LED and that's it.
Works on stock kernel?
Is this supposed to work with stock ZVC kernel?
Test works, and the logs show that ButtonLED detects and processes my notifications, but it won't light the led.
I tried everything, what he says here too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37134835&postcount=338
But terminal gave me an error creating the path.
does that means it's not supported?
Does anyone know how I can get the notification LED to flash when I have a notification while it is charging? The LED emits a green light continuously while charging which is unfortunate. I tried playing around with LiteFlow to see if I could get it to flash while charging but had no luck.
Anyone have any luck with LiteFlow or other apps?
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Does anyone know how I can get the notification LED to flash when I have a notification while it is charging? The LED emits a green light continuously while charging which is unfortunate. I tried playing around with LiteFlow to see if I could get it to flash while charging but had no luck.
Anyone have any luck with LiteFlow or other apps?
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you might try a flashlight app like this one... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jug6ernaut.utl.flnotifier&hl=en
this might work as well... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.led.notify&hl=en
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you might try a flashlight app like this one... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jug6ernaut.utl.flnotifier&hl=en
this might work as well... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.led.notify&hl=en
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I used a combination of tasker and noLED so noLED will only activate while charging. This is a decent solution for now.
I am just curious if there is a way to do this without NoLED. If I could somehow disable the charging LED in tasker or somehow get the notification LED to pulse when charging to indicate a notification.
Thanks for your help though!
Frankie1588 said:
Does anyone know how I can get the notification LED to flash when I have a notification while it is charging? The LED emits a green light continuously while charging which is unfortunate. I tried playing around with LiteFlow to see if I could get it to flash while charging but had no luck.
Anyone have any luck with LiteFlow or other apps?
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ViperOne ROM has a tweak to enable Notification LED to flash while charging, plus a tweak to make the Flashlight on the back flash as often and as fast as you want, instead (some who work in noisy environments really love that!).
Sneakyghost said:
ViperOne ROM has a tweak to enable Notification LED to flash while charging, plus a tweak to make the Flashlight on the back flash as often and as fast as you want, instead (some who work in noisy environments really love that!).
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You are killing me by teasing all of these awesome features. I cannot wait to get my hands on this ROM!
Frankie1588 said:
You are killing me by teasing all of these awesome features. I cannot wait to get my hands on this ROM!
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I found a thread last night that explained how to do this with tasker. It works perfectly. I'll see if I can find it.
How to disable your charging/notification lights using Tasker
Download the two attached files and place them in "/tasker/tasks/"
Open Tasker, click on the Tasks tab and then click the tab again to import. Select the two scripts and import.
Now you can create a profile that happens during a certain time, say 11pm-8am. Use 'Disable Lights' as your task and 'Enable Lights' as your exit task.
If you want to also disable your Button Backlights, create a Run Shell task under Tasker and enter this command
Code:
chmod 0333 /sys/class/leds/button-backlight/brightness; echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/button-backlight/brightness
Until Someone figures out the code to reenable the backlights, you can reboot the phone to revert them back to normal.
Cm10 has this. Green led when charging and then green with flashing orange when there's a notification.
Sent from my HTC One.
Why is my LED Notification light in the top speaker grill?
Is this normal?
It's normal because that's where htc put it.
That's the design.
And it only shows two colors.
Amber while charging and green for all notifications
HTC UltimEight ?
It's the one thing I miss from my Nexus 5, loved having the RGB LED and using LightFlow to customise it. Hoping HTC sort this out in future...
Jooosty said:
That's the design.
And it only shows two colors.
Amber while charging and green for all notifications
HTC UltimEight ?
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Well technically you can use the amber LED for other notifications in apps that support custom LED colours. Just select the "red" option. Works for me on Whatsapp
yayyap159 said:
Well technically you can use the amber LED for other notifications in apps that support custom LED colours. Just select the "red" option. Works for me on Whatsapp
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doesn't work for me, it blinks green whatever color I choose. My m8 isn't rooted. Is yours?
keijers said:
doesn't work for me, it blinks green whatever color I choose. My m8 isn't rooted. Is yours?
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Yup, it's rooted. But root access shouldn't affect such a thing, I didn't receive any root access requests when setting LED colour. What app did you try it on?
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Yup, it's rooted. But root access shouldn't affect such a thing, I didn't receive any root access requests when setting LED colour. What app did you try it on?
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on whatsapp! Set it to red but blinks green...
keijers said:
on whatsapp! Set it to red but blinks green...
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Hmm that's weird, unrooted and it still works for me. It's probably due to the custom rom then, I'm using the Venom rom
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Hmm that's weird, unrooted and it still works for me. It's probably due to the custom rom then, I'm using the Venom rom
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that will probably the problem for me. stock rom
Has anybody found a way to override the 5 min limitation without using a 3rd party app? I can override it with an app called recurrent notifications manager and it works well, but I'd rather not use an app to do something that should happen anyway. Take note HTC...
I haven't seen a fix yet, they also need to take note to make the notification light flash while charging. Pretty stupid of htc if you ask me.
Has anyone figured out how to change the LED frequency without downloading apps like LED flow? I am looking for something like a build.prop mod.
Thanks
stas333 said:
Has anyone figured out how to change the LED frequency without downloading apps like LED flow? I am looking for something like a build.prop mod.
Thanks
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Also looking for it. Looks like it flashes every 20 seconds. You have to watch your phone to see that it had received a message or something.
stas333 said:
Has anyone figured out how to change the LED frequency without downloading apps like LED flow? I am looking for something like a build.prop mod.
Thanks
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Edit: Oops, I can't read lol :-0 I'll leave the info in the event it helps someone.
Literally just got done setting up Light Flow - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite&hl=en
You have to enable it under Settings>Security>Notification Access. Then disable it under Settings>Accessibility>Services. Enable LED in Settings>Display>Notification light, and click on Notification light and uncheck all EXCEPT downloads apps.
Kind of a pain but worth it because you can set custom vibrate patterns, LED flash frequency and color
stas333 said:
Has anyone figured out how to change the LED frequency without downloading apps like LED flow? I am looking for something like a build.prop mod.
Thanks
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/etc/emotional_led/
bunchies said:
/etc/emotional_led/
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That's a start, but I have no idea what to do there.
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That's a start, but I have no idea what to do there.
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yeah, i havent really played around with it either
ive only touched the ir-remote values, turned it purple and can also make it blink more per remote action
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Edit: Oops, I can't read lol :-0 I'll leave the info in the event it helps someone.
Literally just got done setting up Light Flow - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite&hl=en
You have to enable it under Settings>Security>Notification Access. Then disable it under Settings>Accessibility>Services. Enable LED in Settings>Display>Notification light, and click on Notification light and uncheck all.
Kind of a pain but worth it because you can set custom vibrate patterns, LED flash frequency and color
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I've just attempted this and no go.
1. Went to Settings>Security>Notification Access and enabled Lite Flow Lite.
2. Went to Settings>Accessibility>Services and ensured Lite Flow Lite is OFF
3. Went to Settings>Display>Notification LED and turned off all the apps (incoming call, missed calls, etc..) Does the Parent "Notification LED" have to be ON or OFF?
4. In Lite Flow, changed Gmail to Blue
5. Ran the test feature: No LED appeared.
6. Turned off screen and sent an email to my phone. NO LED appeared.
Anything I missed?
clockwork58 said:
I've just attempted this and no go.
1. Went to Settings>Security>Notification Access and enabled Lite Flow Lite.
2. Went to Settings>Accessibility>Services and ensured Lite Flow Lite is OFF
3. Went to Settings>Display>Notification LED and turned off all the apps (incoming call, missed calls, etc..) Does the Parent "Notification LED" have to be ON or OFF?
4. In Lite Flow, changed Gmail to Blue
5. Ran the test feature: No LED appeared.
6. Turned off screen and sent an email to my phone. NO LED appeared.
Anything I missed?
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Parent Notification LED has to be switched on. Try leaving downloaded apps checked under display>notification light and run the test in Light Flow again.
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Parent Notification LED has to be switched on. Try leaving downloaded apps checked under display>notification light and run the test in Light Flow again.
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Bahaha. In the words of the one and only Borat Sagdiyev - "Great Success. I like"
:good: TY!
lets get this done lol
Thank You
clockwork58 said:
I've just attempted this and no go.
1. Went to Settings>Security>Notification Access and enabled Lite Flow Lite.
2. Went to Settings>Accessibility>Services and ensured Lite Flow Lite is OFF
3. Went to Settings>Display>Notification LED and turned off all the apps (incoming call, missed calls, etc..) Does the Parent "Notification LED" have to be ON or OFF?
4. In Lite Flow, changed Gmail to Blue
5. Ran the test feature: No LED appeared.
6. Turned off screen and sent an email to my phone. NO LED appeared.
Anything I missed?
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Hey, thank you for the instructions as I looked everywhere for how to get LightFlow to work on my G3. I really appreciate this.