I recently switched over to the newly released 4.4.2 stock and, in the process, seem to have lost the ability for the LED light to light up when the screen is on, like I had on some custom ROMs. Is this strictly a 4.4.3 ability, or are there apps which can give this functionality on stock?
Not sure but its another battery drainer lol. I see no point in it unless for a notification IMO.
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shayneflashindaily said:
Not sure but its another battery drainer lol. I see no point in it unless for a notification IMO.
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Well yeah, that's what I mean, for a notification. I don't just want the LED to stay on all day just to give me something purty to look at. :laugh: I just like having it as an extra way to see I have an email or something.
ixijimixi said:
Well yeah, that's what I mean, for a notification. I don't just want the LED to stay on all day just to give me something purty to look at. :laugh: I just like having it as an extra way to see I have an email or something.
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Im on 4.4.2 and my notification led (the colored led on the Home button) works when I get notifications, but the led only turns on when the screen is off. It doesnt blink with the screen on.
If I get a text message for example, the led will blink when the screen is off. Once the screen is turned on, the led shuts off, but as long as I dont view the text, then the led starts blinking again once I shut off the screen.
For anyone who needs it:
The settings for this are under Display > Home Button LED
There is an easily missable section under there too. Be sure to tap "select missed event" and choose your options in there too.
ixijimixi said:
Well yeah, that's what I mean, for a notification. I don't just want the LED to stay on all day just to give me something purty to look at. :laugh: I just like having it as an extra way to see I have an email or something.
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Lol I thought you wanted it to stay completely on while screen was on..... I misread that.
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shayneflashindaily said:
Lol I thought you wanted it to stay completely on while screen was on..... I misread that.
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Imagine being the poor schmuck who has to sell THAT feature to the CEO...
It's this colored light, that stays on even when the screen is on, so you know that your phone is on..."
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Heya! I thought i'm gonna ask this before calling service or something. The problem is (yey!) notification led.. I've tried enabling/disabling it from screen settings and from light flow (paid and free versions) and i haven't seen any life from it. Led testers and everything else gives same results.
Someone has another test method for me or am i forced to call for Samsung?
Service company told me to call Samsung (ROFL?)
Hey this may be done already but when you test the notification in lightflow did you turn the screen off?
I know lightflow will only work and show test notifications if the screen is off. Sorry if you did this already but I thought the same when I got my Nexus.
jd1001 said:
Hey this may be done already but when you test the notification in lightflow did you turn the screen off?
I know lightflow will only work and show test notifications if the screen is off. Sorry if you did this already but I thought the same when I got my Nexus.
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Yea i tried and rebooted phone after installing/uninstalled Lightflow versions and vice versa. Seems like its completely dead
Weird. If your rooted I would unroot and go back to your carrier. They should replace it. Good luck
Easiest way to see if the led works is to look at the phone while it is receiving a call. The LED should be lit solid white while the phone is ringing...
NPuter said:
Easiest way to see if the led works is to look at the phone while it is receiving a call. The LED should be lit solid white while the phone is ringing...
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Didn't think of that. Good point.
NPuter said:
Easiest way to see if the led works is to look at the phone while it is receiving a call. The LED should be lit solid white while the phone is ringing...
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thanks.. its not alive then! Poor thing almost perfect phone Screen and panel is perfect for me and if they're changing whole thing for me i bet theres some ****ty panel coming for me
E: phone is on factory img now and waiting for service call. Thumbs up
Hi..
I have set up Light flow for several applications,but, for instance, when i recieve sms , i get sound and vibrate both when screen is on and when screen is off, but i get notification light only when screen is off.. What to do folx.. I know it sounds a bit stupid, but i would like that notif light when screen is on also..
Thanks in advance
Nothing. The LED doesn't function when screen is on.
akellar said:
Nothing. The LED doesn't function when screen is on.
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Thanks mate .
One more question tho - i have set up the mod for charging battery : notif light lights up and stays on all the time while battery is charging.. Can this do any harm to led light or phone itself (heating etc)? Or it is intended so it can stay on for long time ?
I had light flow on my galaxy nexus. Although the features are nice, i uninstalled because it seemed very broken. The led would stay on evwn after i checked notifications and so forth. Yeah it was cool, but just didnt see the risk of burning out my led.
For me it works like charm .. But only think i want to know is this :
Can led stay up for longer time ? Like, for example, the HTC Sensations led is staying up for all time while you are charging (by default), and it doesnt burn out. So is GN led designed to stay up for long time, or no ? (Im asking this because i want to know if i can charge the phone whole night and have led turned up)
Thanks again folx
Yes it can! Start LightFlow, choose notifications"then pick the app of your choice. There you can able and enable (amongst many other options) the duration of how long you wish the led to stay on for that particular app.
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Yes it can! Start LightFlow, choose notifications"then pick the app of your choice. There you can able and enable (amongst many other options) the duration of how long you wish the led to stay on for that particular app.
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Yes i know that .. But, will LED burn out if it stays on for all night while charging for example ?
Laynee1 said:
Yes i know that .. But, will LED burn out if it stays on for all night while charging for example ?
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LED's have a life of many thousands, if not, tens of thousands of hours. It's unlikely that the notification LED will ever burn out while you own that phone... Unless you keep the phone for six or seven years and keep the led on almost all the time!
If your led burns out consider it akin to winning the lottery.
Sent from my Nexus in Texas.
Thank you all. ! I really like multi colored led.. I liked it on n900 (back in the old days).. I like it again I simply like when im charging the phone to have my led on all the time
Thanks folx
Ive let mine to constantly show an orange light while i leave the phone on charge overnight and a green when it is charged. Led's wont die on you unless you keep your led on for like 6years straight, so nothing to worry about
jjzah said:
I had light flow on my galaxy nexus. Although the features are nice, i uninstalled because it seemed very broken. The led would stay on evwn after i checked notifications and so forth. Yeah it was cool, but just didnt see the risk of burning out my led.
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Yeh I found the same thing, seemed really broken to me, was so annoying to get rid of notifications and then still have the led going off.
Guys just a quick question. I think this led is three colors right? Red, blue, and green and to get other colors it just mixes them right?
If you guys use colors other than those three I mentioned do you guys kind of obviously see that theres more then one color shining?
Like for purple it looks like purple on top and redish on bottom. Clearly like two colors.
Anyone? Just wanna know if its how others have it or just me??
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akellar said:
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Sure it does
I have Light Flow set up to show a solid yellow color while charging. When I plug in my phone, the LED blinks on then off. If I turn the screen off, the yellow light cones on like it should. If I then turn the screen on without unlocking the phone, the light remains.
Only after I unlock the phone does the LED not function.
thereddog said:
Sure it does
I have Light Flow set up to show a solid yellow color while charging. When I plug in my phone, the LED blinks on then off. If I turn the screen off, the yellow light cones on like it should. If I then turn the screen on without unlocking the phone, the light remains.
Only after I unlock the phone does the LED not function.
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You are right.. It doesnt works when you unlock the phone If you dont, its on
case0 said:
Yeh I found the same thing, seemed really broken to me, was so annoying to get rid of notifications and then still have the led going off.
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I found that problem was because of the ROM I was on. Some ROMS would need me to launch the lightflow app to clear the notification, but I use CND and it works exactly like it is supposed to. I could flash AOKP and it would work how you describe.
Does it have any kind of effect on battery life? Seems like it would keep the phone awake.
Laynee1 said:
You are right.. It doesnt works when you unlock the phone If you dont, its on
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So I wonder if the dev will be able to update the app so the LED will work at all times...
williamthegoat said:
Does it have any kind of effect on battery life? Seems like it would keep the phone awake.
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My phone deep sleeps just fine with lightflow.
[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!
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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?
After just getting the one these are just a couple annoyances to me and I feel there is probably no way to disable them... Also not having power save mode toggle is a little annoying but I saw somewhere that it's apparently baked into 4.2.2 or something.
I think it is but power saver is really dumb. It honestly wastes more battery for reasons I'm too lazy to type again
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fatmando2 said:
After just getting the one these are just a couple annoyances to me and I feel there is probably no way to disable them... Also not having power save mode toggle is a little annoying but I saw somewhere that it's apparently baked into 4.2.2 or something.
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Bump on the charging LED turn off. I use the phone as my alarm clock and leave the display on all night. One it hits FULL, that green glow is a spotlight! LOL!
I've been scouring all over the place for something like this as well.
I could likely stomach the charging LED as it is red for the most part at night for me and by the time it turns green I'm too damned sleepy to care, but the capacitive lights are annoying. I too like to leave my screen on so that I can see what time it is if I should wake up before my alarms.
Does anyone know if this is possible on an unrooted device?
Wyveryx said:
I've been scouring all over the place for something like this as well.
I could likely stomach the charging LED as it is red for the most part at night for me and by the time it turns green I'm too damned sleepy to care, but the capacitive lights are annoying. I too like to leave my screen on so that I can see what time it is if I should wake up before my alarms.
Does anyone know if this is possible on an unrooted device?
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*maybe* with the an application.
andybones said:
*maybe* with the an application.
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I tried a few and either I'm inept or they don't work, so I spose I'm gonna have to play the waiting game
Hi
I'm currently with a phone that has an LED notification light which is pretty convenient for me because I'm the type of persons who usually check his phone only when there's a message. Nowadays, I knew that this convenient notification LED have been discontinued
If I buy a future One Plus phone, How can I tell if I get e.g. a whatsapp message without constantly checking my phone from time to time?
P.S. I'm also not interested to have an that thing called "on screen display" that is running 24/7 just for an average 2-3 messages I recieve / day. I'm aware of software notification LED in the app store but I'm not really into software solutions because they tend to eat battery life pretty much the same way as on screen display.
I also don't really understand what's the deal about eliminating it?! if they can't find a space for it on the edges - because edges became so small nowadays - they can simply merge it somehow with the punch out lens for the front camera! or make a built-in software solution that popus out the notification on the screen ONLY when I get a message.
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I'm currently with a phone that has an LED notification light which is pretty convenient for me because I'm the type of persons who usually check his phone only when there's a message. Nowadays, I knew that this convenient notification LED have been discontinued
If I buy a future One Plus phone, How can I tell if I get e.g. a whatsapp message without constantly checking my phone from time to time?
P.S. I'm also not interested to have an that thing called "on screen display" that is running 24/7 just for an average 2-3 messages I recieve / day. I'm aware of software notification LED in the app store but I'm not really into software solutions because they tend to eat battery life pretty much the same way as on screen display.
I also don't really understand what's the deal about eliminating it?! if they can't find a space for it on the edges - because edges became so small nowadays - they can simply merge it somehow with the punch out lens for the front camera! or make a built-in software solution that popus out the notification on the screen ONLY when I get a message.
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First I thought that same but I think ambient display replaced the notification led. If you lift it up or just tap (not double tap) on the screen, you will see your notifications. I don't like always on display too.
Kollachi said:
First I thought that same but I think ambient display replaced the notification led. If you lift it up or just tap (not double tap) on the screen, you will see your notifications. I don't like always on display too.
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So do I have to tap everytime I'm suspecting a message?! That's not convenient at all and I really hope that all manufacturers return back that LED notification light. It was a stupid decision to make really
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magoooood said:
So do I have to tap everytime I'm suspecting a message?! That's not convenient at all and I really hope that all manufacturers return back that LED notification light. It was a stupid decision to make really
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No, if you get a message your phone will turn the ambient display on too, to show you the notification. But after a few seconds it will turn the screen off again.
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No, if you get a message your phone will turn the ambient display on too, to show you the notification. But after a few seconds it will turn the screen off again.
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That's still not convenient because I may not be present beside my phone to see the notification when it's triggered. The notification LED is blinking in a nicer continuous way to tell me that there's something i need to check. I still insist that ditching it was a very silly decision towards inconvenience
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magoooood said:
That's still not convenient because I may not be present beside my phone to see the notification when it's triggered. The notification LED is blinking in a nicer continuous way to tell me that there's something i need to check. I still insist that ditching it was a very silly decision towards inconvenience
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I know, but you will get used to it.
I also miss my notification LED from my OP6. I installed the app called NotifyBuddy to replace it.
jonny30bass said:
I also miss my notification LED from my OP6. I installed the app called NotifyBuddy to replace it.
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I bought that as soon as I saw it, amazing! Thanks for the heads up!
jonny30bass said:
I also miss my notification LED from my OP6. I installed the app called NotifyBuddy to replace it.
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But what about battery drain?
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But what about battery drain?
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It's not good as the app needs to be running all the time even in the background to deliver notifications. I read so many negative reviews about such apps. Nothing is convenient like the LED notification
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When using NotifyBuddy, disable notifications on ambient display and double tap to wake, so it can work properly.
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It's not good as the app needs to be running all the time even in the background to deliver notifications. I read so many negative reviews about such apps. Nothing is convenient like the LED notification
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That's what I don't like. Third party apps are mostly bad at batter drain.
Well if u guys are patient enough Oneplus already confirmed they are working on Always on Display for that reason.
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Well if u guys are patient enough Oneplus already confirmed they are working on Always on Display for that reason.
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The whole point of the discussion is return of the notification LED which doesn't need constant unlocking for the phone to see if there's anything new, nor does it need an always on screen display
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The whole point of the discussion is return of the notification LED which doesn't need constant unlocking for the phone to see if there's anything new, nor does it need an always on screen display
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Well if you read what is always on display you will realise you dont have to unlock your phone to see anything
Give NoLED a try.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692
I find the lack of LED very annoying.
yes, you can tap the screen, or lift it up to check, but I find it very common that a notification icon is NOT present, but if I unlock, and scroll down, I will see a new email/text/etc.
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Well if you read what is always on display you will realise you dont have to unlock your phone to see anything
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And if you read the first post, you will see he isn't interested in "AOD".
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And if you read the first post, you will see he isn't interested in "AOD".
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AOD, if well done, does not drain any more battery than a notification LED. When you get a notification, it will only lit up a few pixels on the screen, in any shape you want. You can literally simulate a LED with AOD. Personally I use the app "always on edge", I set it up to show the name of the contact and the messaging app when I receive a text, super useful, way better than just a LED. I didn't notice any more drain in battery life, I can still very easily last a whole day of heavy use.
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AOD, if well done, does not drain any more battery than a notification LED. When you get a notification, it will only lit up a few pixels on the screen, in any shape you want. You can literally simulate a LED with AOD. Personally I use the app "always on edge", I set it up to show the name of the contact and the messaging app when I receive a text, super useful, way better than just a LED. I didn't notice any more drain in battery life, I can still very easily last a whole day of heavy use.
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that looks interesting.. thanks for the tip.
EDIT: I can't get AOE to show up on my OP7T when the screen is off? Am I missing something obvious? I gave it all of the permissions I saw it asking for... but still no visual way to tell I had a notification without touching the phone.