App for notification light? - OnePlus 7T Questions & Answers

So, i'm coming from a 6 and not having a notification LED sucks. Do you guys use any app for simulating a LED? If there was a way to put a tiny green blinking circle in the bottom, that would be awsome.
Thanks in advance.

sansanc said:
So, i'm coming from a 6 and not having a notification LED sucks. Do you guys use any app for simulating a LED? If there was a way to put a tiny green blinking circle in the bottom, that would be awsome.
Thanks in advance.
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I got my 7T yesterday was wondering the same thing, given that it's been a cornerstone of most every phone I've owned. So I did some searching around and found this, which seems to be working great, and is developed by an XDA member.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xander.android.notifybuddy
There is a thread about it here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t/themes/app-amoled-notification-light-t3943715

StilsonCanyon said:
I got my 7T yesterday was wondering the same thing, given that it's been a cornerstone of most every phone I've owned. So I did some searching around and found this, which seems to be working great, and is developed by an XDA member.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xander.android.notifybuddy
There is a thread about it here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t/themes/app-amoled-notification-light-t3943715
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Using it now. It evens allows to put the light wherever we want. On my car, i only see the bottom of the phone.
Looks great so far!

Although "Notify Buddy" is a very nice app and works on Oneplus 7T i found out that it has a quiet high battery consumption. There are two other apps, that worked fine for OP 6T:
"Plus Beat"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vaf.vishal.plusbeat
"Pixel Pulse"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compass.pixelpulse
They both need a workaround to be usefull on OP 7T:
- notification change to "important"
- enable popup on lockscreen
- disable "stealth mode" in app
Under this circumstandes they work fine!
Have fun with your new Oneplus!

dorianstgt said:
Although "Notify Buddy" is a very nice app and works on Oneplus 7T i found out that it has a quiet high battery consumption. There are two other apps, that worked fine for OP 6T:
"Plus Beat"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vaf.vishal.plusbeat
"Pixel Pulse"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compass.pixelpulse
They both need a workaround to be usefull on OP 7T:
- notification change to "important"
- enable popup on lockscreen
- disable "stealth mode" in app
Under this circumstandes they work fine!
Have fun with your new Oneplus!
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Yup, unsinstalled notify buddy precisely for that, wasting too much battery.
I have pulse beat here, but doesn't seem to work. Going to disable stealth mode. And enable it on lockscreen. O7t here.

sansanc said:
Yup, unsinstalled notify buddy precisely for that, wasting too much battery.
I have pulse beat here, but doesn't seem to work. Going to disable stealth mode. And enable it on lockscreen. O7t here.
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- notification change to "important"
- enable popup on lockscreen
- disable "stealth mode" in app
Under this circumstandes they work fine!

Ok, disabled stealth mode, seems to work now. thanks for the tips.

Battery still good?

TheBlueRaja said:
Battery still good?
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Yes

dorianstgt said:
- notification change to "important"
- enable popup on lockscreen
- disable "stealth mode" in app
Under this circumstandes they work fine!
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Where do I set notification to important?

aleck0112 said:
Where do I set notification to important?
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In the phone settings, settings - apps and notifications - notifications.

ryantorch96 said:
In the phone settings, settings - apps and notifications - notifications.
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ok I got it to work. But it seems like everytime it pulses the fingerprint scanner is there as well. For 1 thing its too bright, 2nd i'm concerned about battery life and burn in. What can we do with this?

aleck0112 said:
Where do I set notification to important?
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settings -> apps -> plus beat (on top) -> notification -> Plus Beat -> important (and popup)
if this helped u, give me a "thank you" pls

dorianstgt said:
settings -> apps -> plus beat (on top) -> notification -> Plus Beat -> important (and popup)
if this helped u, give me a "thank you" pls
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got it to work, it was set to that by default anyway, thanks.
Any idea on my question above regarding the fingerprint scanner?

aleck0112 said:
ok I got it to work. But it seems like everytime it pulses the fingerprint scanner is there as well. For 1 thing its too bright, 2nd i'm concerned about battery life and burn in. What can we do with this?
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I dont know another way. battery life is okay with plus beat, burn in depends on the frequency and time...
have a nice day!

Plus beat is much more battery friendly than nottify buddy.
There is no way to sey PB notifications to important, at least i don't see it. Android 10 on 7t here. But ir's working good with stealth mode disabled.

Not quite the same.. But I use an app called Glimpse, works perfectly for me, it lights the screen up when a notification comes In, I set mine to light the screen up for 30 seconds, gives me chance to read it unlike the oneplus light up screen setting which lasts for 8 seconds.
you can select apps for notifications.
you can set screen on time and you can set it to repeat alert until checked based on a time setting...
The app is light on background battery usage.
The app is also well supported on the Xda forums...
Couple of tips, turn off the built in oneplus light up screen setting or Glimpse will not work correctly.
Also consider turning off optimisation in the battery settings and locking the app, so that android does not close it down in the background.
The app is free and ad free from the Google store.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-glimpse-notifications-t3090575/amp/
I also use a xiaomi Mi band 4 with my oneplus 7t, I set my phone to silent, use the mii band app to send the watch notifications, via vibration from my selected apps, sooooo much better than the phone beeping loudly, it disturbs nobody, more zen like... Plus the Mi band 4 is low cost, very long battery life, Amoled screen, works wonderfully...
Plus the notification message can be partially seen on the Mi band.

Looks interesting. For now, plus beat does the job, but i would like for it to stop showing notifications after you see them in the status bar.

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light flow lite-led control works great on nexus 4

Just thought I would share that this app works great with the nexus 4. It actually is running flawless for me right now go check it out in play store. You can control your led light on the front of the device with just about any notification and color
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite
Yeah I love light flow I use it on my galaxy nexus
Luckily one of the android blog sites helped test the app so I managed to get a release out before the phone came out. I'd hoped to get one myself, but 10 cart errors later and they'd all gone!
Glad it seems to be working ok. I'm working on improving the calendar reminder notification as they seem to go a little crazy at the moment due to change in the way notifications are displayed now (ie snooze a notification and it won't totally disappear from your notification bar - you won't get an icon, but it's still there when you pull down the bar). So this is causing some extra notifications while on snooze, but I'm hoping to get a fix out for it soon. At least I can recreate it on my galaxy nexus on 4.2.
I was getting my led glowing randomly since installing so I uninstalled.. Was I doing something wrong?
Also how badly does lightflow affect the battery?
Thanks
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
I have the full version.
I've noticed some colours aren't working properly. eg. Indigo will show the some colour LED as red, Navy and Blue look the same too.
Would really appreciate if someone could make a list of all the true colours that actually work?
jameslfc5 said:
I was getting my led glowing randomly since installing so I uninstalled.. Was I doing something wrong?
Also how badly does lightflow affect the battery?
Thanks
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
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A couple of things with this. Swiping away notifications won't stop the led at the moment: vote for this android feature request here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23106
Also try adding the light flow debugger widget to a homescreen as that will tell you which notifications it thinks are on.
As for battery drain, I think it varies for different people depending on what settings they use. I try to set the default app settings to be fairly sensible on battery drain.
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6i9 said:
I have the full version.
I've noticed some colours aren't working properly. eg. Indigo will show the some colour LED as red, Navy and Blue look the same too.
Would really appreciate if someone could make a list of all the true colours that actually work?
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I'm planning in a future release to have a section where you can remap the preset colors to new RGB values as it's one of those things that varies a little from phone to phone. The colors were originally based on what the nexus one could manage (it was probably the best phone for color representation) and then tweaked a little for the galaxy nexus.
As I've not seen a nexus 4 (stupid google play checkout errors) yet I've not been able to experiment.
I installed the lite app, dunno why, my led was active all the time (white colour), even without notifications or plane mode. I uninstalled the app, and now my led doesnt work (Nexus 4)
I'd really like to jump on board with this app, but after a report of "My LED doesn't work anymore" I'm scared. I think I'll wait for the dev to get his own n4 to work out n4 specific kinks/quirks.
andrewpmoore said:
A couple of things with this. Swiping away notifications won't stop the led at the moment: vote for this android feature request here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23106
Also try adding the light flow debugger widget to a homescreen as that will tell you which notifications it thinks are on.
As for battery drain, I think it varies for different people depending on what settings they use. I try to set the default app settings to be fairly sensible on battery drain.
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I'm planning in a future release to have a section where you can remap the preset colors to new RGB values as it's one of those things that varies a little from phone to phone. The colors were originally based on what the nexus one could manage (it was probably the best phone for color representation) and then tweaked a little for the galaxy nexus.
As I've not seen a nexus 4 (stupid google play checkout errors) yet I've not been able to experiment.
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Regarding to this, I have to say that the custom color mode works very straight for me, the color that I chose is the colour what I see (taking into account the obvious deviations from IPS and RGB led, of course).
Under Settings there's something that says "Additional LEDs Found" and there's 4 LEDs there:
lcd-backlight control
lm3530 control
pm8xxx-led control
spotlight control
Any idea what these are for?
Thanks
dexter_walrus said:
Under Settings there's something that says "Additional LEDs Found" and there's 4 LEDs there:
lcd-backlight control
lm3530 control
pm8xxx-led control
spotlight control
Any idea what these are for?
Thanks
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Also curious about this.
Also, it does seem to work well so far, but testing the LED in-app does not work. Any idea why this is?
Anyone having problems with Gmail? If I set Light Flow to use priority inbox I don't get notification lights. If I uncheck use priority inbox then it works.
obscure.detour said:
Also curious about this.
Also, it does seem to work well so far, but testing the LED in-app does not work. Any idea why this is?
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the testing does work. when you get the popup about waiting 5 seconds, immediately click the wake/power button and you should see the led trigger the tests.
Developer said Priority Inbox isn't working right under 4.2. Will be fixed once a fix is found. Regular inbox is fine.
sarni84 said:
Just thought I would share that this app works great with the nexus 4. It actually is running flawless for me right now go check it out in play store. You can control your led light on the front of the device with just about any notification and color
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite
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I have a weird bug with LightFlow. When it is enabled i will randomly get Accessibility voice when inside chrome. Like, she will say "NEW TAB" or she will call out the page title of every thing. Then if I disable light Flow, the bug is gone.
Would like to use it but if with this here....i can't. Unless i got something set up wrong, but i check all accessibility settings and they are off except for light flow
FlukerFlakes said:
I have a weird bug with LightFlow. When it is enabled i will randomly get Accessibility voice when inside chrome. Like, she will say "NEW TAB" or she will call out the page title of every thing. Then if I disable light Flow, the bug is gone.
Would like to use it but if with this here....i can't. Unless i got something set up wrong, but i check all accessibility settings and they are off except for light flow
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Check other Lightflow threads. I remember reading about on the S3 thread or GN thread. I've never had it happen, but remember some other people talking about it.
Tested it a couple of day and is not working properly, light notifications are very slow to get dismissed and sometimes the led blink without a reason
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
Using LEDBlinker Pro personally. Works spot on.
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kaiowas82 said:
Tested it a couple of day and is not working properly, light notifications are very slow to get dismissed and sometimes the led blink without a reason
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
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What? No. Outside of only inbox and not priority inbox it's working great. Same as on my S3. It sounds like you didn't properly setup your dismiss settings for how you want it. There are a lot of options.
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[APP] ElDiskMonitor v0.1 HDD Monitor using camera activity indicator + System Tray

Since I've bought Asus T100 one of the most annoying things for me was no hdd activity monitor...
So I've decided to code one for myself... And to share with you guys as I've already did before with my other pet projects (see ElWpAudioBooks).
This small app sits in tray and simulates hdd indicator... And if you right click icon in the system tray -> settings you can enable camera led to blink as an HDD indicator... It should theoretically work with any camera with activity indicator, so not only with ASUS T100...
It's just the POC version - no settings, no autorun, just ACTION - but still it works for me...
So tell me what you think and do you need it at all, or I'm the only pervert here who likes to see hdd blinking
Changelog:
[v 0.1]
- First public release.
Taskbar works on Surface Pro 2, but not LED.
takmsdsm said:
Taskbar works on Surface Pro 2, but not LED.
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Several things:
1) have you enabled it settings?
2) does surface have camera activity indicator?
I don't have surface pro, so I cannot test .
In theory it just connects/disconnects to camera...
Elastep said:
Several things:
1) have you enabled it settings?
2) does surface have camera activity indicator?
I don't have surface pro, so I cannot test .
In theory it just connects/disconnects to camera...
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1. Settings does nothing, it does not launch any windows when I choose "Settings."
2. Yes, the SP has an LED.
Wont turning off and on the camera constantly just drain the battery crazy fast?
takmsdsm said:
1. Settings does nothing, it does not launch any windows when I choose "Settings."
2. Yes, the SP has an LED.
Wont turning off and on the camera constantly just drain the battery crazy fast?
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Strange, you should see a settings window... With some info and a check box to turn on the led... Try to double click icon in tray... I'll check it out..
It should not drain battery - I'm not reading image from camera, no load to CPU or GPU is made...
Elastep said:
Strange, you should see a settings window... With some info and a check box to turn on the led... Try to double click icon in tray... I'll check it out..
It should not drain battery - I'm not reading image from camera, no load to CPU or GPU is made...
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Double clicking opened the box, but selecting settings does not.
After enabling it brings up the video source selection window repeatedly to choose between the front and rear camera. it doesnt seem to save what I select. The LED worked for a second, but now doesnt after the selection window came up.
takmsdsm said:
Double clicking opened the box, but selecting settings does not.
After enabling it brings up the video source selection window repeatedly to choose between the front and rear camera. it doesnt seem to save what I select. The LED worked for a second, but now doesnt after the selection window came up.
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Can you please post a screenshot of how this camera sel dialog looks like? And what happened after you selected camera in selection window? Did it show again?
Elastep said:
Can you please post a screenshot of how this camera sel dialog looks like? And what happened after you selected camera in selection window? Did it show again?
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Here you go:
http://i.imgur.com/pjfEJz2.jpg
Yes, the dialog shows again after a few seconds. After a reboot, the LED again works for a second, then i get the popup.
Any update to the app
It camera indicator does not seem to work with this app on my T100 64 gig. The weird thing is that when the box is checked to the camera light a dialog box of some sort flashes periodically on the screen but I can read it because it goes away so fast.
takmsdsm said:
Here you go:
http://i.imgur.com/pjfEJz2.jpg
Yes, the dialog shows again after a few seconds. After a reboot, the LED again works for a second, then i get the popup.
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Elastep said:
Since I've bought Asus T100 one of the most annoying things for me was no hdd activity monitor...
So I've decided to code one for myself... And to share with you guys as I've already did before with my other pet projects (see ElWpAudioBooks).
This small app sits in tray and simulates hdd indicator... And if you right click icon in the system tray -> settings you can enable camera led to blink as an HDD indicator... It should theoretically work with any camera with activity indicator, so not only with ASUS T100...
It's just the POC version - no settings, no autorun, just ACTION - but still it works for me...
So tell me what you think and do you need it at all, or I'm the only pervert here who likes to see hdd blinking
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Works good on my Dell Venue Pro 8, would love to use this all the time, the cammera light works, but is a little buggy. I keep the little box on my task bar pinned. Thanks for this program, i also like to see that light blinking so I know its doing something.
Chris

S7 edge user

Hello,
I'm S7E happy user but I just purchased OP3 for my girlfriend. Can I ask for few things, here?
- Alarm- is any way when home button pressed deactivate alarm in the morning? When she pick up phone in the morning while alarm ring accidentally she touch home button and then unlock the phone. and then takes ages to turn the annoying alarm off.
- Scheduled DO NOT DISTURB- I just cannot believe phones without this function still exist- what to do?
- Change system font- is it missing or I'm blind?
- DPI, any way for changing it without the root? Everything looks like has been made for DISABLE, blind 80y old person. It is JUST MASSIVELY HUGE.
- Nova's Tesla unread count badge is not working for FB messenger
- Pickup call- is any way of swapping annoying swipe to answer for just click icon or similar? When phone or finger cold there is no way of answering incoming call.
- What is the best browser with adblock (needs to be easy to temporary turn it off) and sync with google?
Thank you for all your replies.
- Not that i know off.
- Scheduled Do not disturb is a missing feature, but again we have a notification slider.
- Its missing indeed.
- Nope, but it takes 7 min to Rlroot and u dont void warranty.
- idk
- Not that i know off. Never had a issue with not beeing able to pick a call up in cold weather.
- I personally use chrome with this. With root it works better.
Demian3112 said:
- Not that i know off.
- Scheduled Do not disturb is a missing feature, but again we have a notification slider.
- Its missing indeed.
- Nope, but it takes 7 min to Rlroot and u dont void warranty.
- idk
- Not that i know off. Never had a issue with not beeing able to pick a call up in cold weather.
- I personally use chrome with this. With root it works better.
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Hello, thank you for your reply. Our bank aps won't work with rooted phones and this is more important for us
prfraczek said:
Hello, thank you for your reply. Our bank aps won't work with rooted phones and this is more important for us
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How about systemless root? Anyways u can root and change DPI and then remove root again.
I never done it before and little bit scared. Also I was just reading that OP3 is not dealing very well with changed dpi
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prfraczek said:
I never done it before and little bit scared. Also I was just reading that OP3 is not dealing very well with changed dpi
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I absolutly have no problem with my currently 420 DPI. If you are going to buy it i recommend using Freedom OS. Its basicly OxygenOS with a little bit more features such as: Adblocker, DPI etc.
No need to root you can use adb to change the dpi on the fly
yubrowser from the playstore is really good with built in ad blocking
The other ones like others have said cannot be changed afaik.
NetGuard works via the VPN API and doesn't require root/xposed/unlocked BL and works with any browser
So when alarm goes off you can't snooze with home button?
borijess said:
So when alarm goes off you can't snooze with home button?
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You can't. Home button- fingerprint unlocking your phone, alarm ringing like crazy and you have to go to notifications to turn it off. What a mess in the morning. iPhone alarm just stop when home pressed.
You can get scheduled DND functionality using an app. I use Silence Premium but they have a free version also.
Edit: Note that Google includes scheduled and other nice DND functions in stock Android but OnePlus delete this functionality from OxygenOS even though it is essentially stock Android. They delete it because they are too lazy to think about accommodating it with their hardware slider even though other manufacturers do it, most notably Apple.
Super. Silence premium do the job. Thank you.
bulletmark said:
You can get scheduled DND functionality using an app. I use Silence Premium but they have a free version also.
Edit: Note that Google includes scheduled and other nice DND functions in stock Android but OnePlus delete this functionality from OxygenOS even though it is essentially stock Android. They delete it because they are too lazy to think about accommodating it with their hardware slider even though other manufacturers do it, most notably Apple.
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Out of curiosity, how does Apple manage potential conflicts between physical alert slider and different software settings?
What setting does take over?
prfraczek said:
You can't. Home button- fingerprint unlocking your phone, alarm ringing like crazy and you have to go to notifications to turn it off. What a mess in the morning. iPhone alarm just stop when home pressed.
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This is a ridiculous complaint. Just slide the alarm to end it like everyone else
2x4 said:
This is a ridiculous complaint. Just slide the alarm to end it like everyone else
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Some people are just NOT like everyone else so please keep stupid comment for yourself. Thanks.
Giocarro said:
Out of curiosity, how does Apple manage potential conflicts between physical alert slider and different software settings?
What setting does take over?
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I don't own an iPhone so no idea but Silience Premium on the OnePlus 3 works exactly how I would expect. I.e. the slider always has priority. In the normal position the software can set priority mode on/off but the slider always sets it on if set and sets it off if toggled etc. When the app sets priority on the indicator goes on just like the slider so it is a true system setting thus we know that the stock DND could do it as well. I just don't understand why this simple and obvious behavior wasn't adopted by the OP design team.

[APP] Pixel Pulse for ambient display

Introducing Pixel Pulse - a simple app to make your Ambient Display pulse when you have notifications!
Choose the interval and select the apps you want you to cause your screen to wake.
Optional paid features let you select different icons and colors for specific apps but the interval and app filter core functionality is all free.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compass.pixelpulse
If you had previously purchased Ambi-Turner, it has been updated for the new permissions, but because it was written for 8.0 and when Google's ambient display worked differently I decided to leave it as it is. You may however transfer your purchase status of Ambient Display to Pixel Pulse using both apps.
grokus said:
Introducing Pixel Pulse - a simple app to make your Ambient Display pulse when you have notifications!
Choose the interval and select the apps you want you to cause your screen to wake.
Optional paid features let you select different icons and colors for specific apps but the interval and app filter core functionality is all free.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compass.pixelpulse
If you had previously purchased Ambi-Turner, it has been updated for the new permissions, but because it was written for 8.0 and when Google's ambient display worked differently I decided to leave it as it is. You may however transfer your purchase status of Ambient Display to Pixel Pulse using both apps.
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Thanks for the app, I just installed it and gonna test it out.
Maybe you could share some screenshots of when it is working and the paid features (I was thinking of paying but wanted to check what the features we're before).
I'll report if I find anything
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matssa said:
Thanks for the app, I just installed it and gonna test it out.
Maybe you could share some screenshots of when it is working and the paid features (I was thinking of paying but wanted to check what the features we're before).
I'll report if I find anything
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Paid customization adds the ability to always pulse (with a view that shows you that you have no important notifications), and the ability to select icons and colors for specific applications.
Screenshots are difficult because you can't screenshot the ambient display. I'll need to try and take actual photographs.
Seems like the settings don't save. Just updated the app and everything is set to pulse even though I removed some stuff :S
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matssa said:
Seems like the settings don't save. Just updated the app and everything is set to pulse even though I removed some stuff :S
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My settings save okay - Pixel 3
grokus said:
Introducing Pixel Pulse - a simple app to make your Ambient Display pulse when you have notifications!
Choose the interval and select the apps you want you to cause your screen to wake.
Optional paid features let you select different icons and colors for specific apps but the interval and app filter core functionality is all free.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compass.pixelpulse
If you had previously purchased Ambi-Turner, it has been updated for the new permissions, but because it was written for 8.0 and when Google's ambient display worked differently I decided to leave it as it is. You may however transfer your purchase status of Ambient Display to Pixel Pulse using both apps.
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This is awesome. But is there a way you can maybe make the icon only pulse and be custom colors? Without showing the actual notification text? That would be amazing! But bought the paid one and I am using it now looks good on the wireless charger. :good:
vwgti18 said:
This is awesome. But is there a way you can maybe make the icon only pulse and be custom colors? Without showing the actual notification text? That would be amazing! But bought the paid one and I am using it now looks good on the wireless charger. :good:
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I can certainly add that option
grokus said:
Paid customization adds the ability to always pulse (with a view that shows you that you have no important notifications), and the ability to select icons and colors for specific applications.
Screenshots are difficult because you can't screenshot the ambient display. I'll need to try and take actual photographs.
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I just "bought you a snack" - thanks for the hard work!
bought you a beer \w/
I must be doing something wrong. This doesn't seem to do anything when I receive a notification with the screen off and having AOD on or off. I have the time turned down to 10 second but nothing even pulses.
airmaxx23 said:
I must be doing something wrong. This doesn't seem to do anything when I receive a notification with the screen off and having AOD on or off. I have the time turned down to 10 second but nothing even pulses.
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You want always on display to be off but you want wake on new notifications to be on.
bamafan39 said:
bought you a beer \w/
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Thank you, Sir!
PuffDaddy_d said:
I just "bought you a snack" - thanks for the hard work!
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Thank you, Sir!
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You want always on display to be off but you want wake on new notifications to be on.
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Thanks, I bought you a beer. Changing the time internal doesn't seem to work. I've tried 30 seconds and it's only 5 before it pulses again. Same thing with any other time I try, it pulses after only 5 seconds.
airmaxx23 said:
Thanks, I bought you a snack. Changing the time internal doesn't seem to work. I've tried 30 seconds and it's only 5 before it pulses again. Same thing with any other time I try, it pulses after only 5 seconds.
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Yea, that's a bug. I'll be working on that tonight
Nice. Bought the app.
Idea: always pulse when charging (no timeout)
Thanks for the cool app
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Yea, that's a bug. I'll be working on that tonight
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The update somewhat fixed the timing issue but it still is off by 5 seconds. When setting the internal to 20 seconds it pulses after 15 seconds.
Edit: It seems that the timer starts when the notification pops up not when the notification disappears. Is this the way it is intended to work?
apristel said:
Nice. Bought the app.
Idea: always pulse when charging (no timeout)
Thanks for the cool app
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Yes, I have not having a visual confirmation that my phone is charging. Cables come loose sometimes and you'd never know without an LED.
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The update somewhat fixed the timing issue but it still is off by 5 seconds. When setting the internal to 20 seconds it pulses after 15 seconds.
Edit: It seems that the timer starts when the notification pops up not when the notification disappears. Is this the way it is intended to work?
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Yes currently its a start to start time but if everyone thinks it makes more sense to time finish to start I can modify it.
apristel said:
Nice. Bought the app.
Idea: always pulse when charging (no timeout)
Thanks for the cool app
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PuffDaddy_d said:
Yes, I have not having a visual confirmation that my phone is charging. Cables come loose sometimes and you'd never know without an LED.
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I'll add that to the list! Hopefully tonight but certainly this weekend.

[App] [Pixel Pulse] Rejoice! Our Alternative for LED Notifications - (Stable)

Like most, I feel really empty without the LED.. I've been using, and have been dependent on the LED ever since my beloved Nexus One
and every Nexus/Pixel since..
Giving thanks:
Forcing us to pick up our phone just to see if we have any notifications is just uncalled for.
I want to check my phone when I want to, not because I have to.
I've tried pretty much every alternative out there -- they either didnt work how i wanted, or were just too ugly how they displayed the info.
Welp, enough rambling. Let me get to the point.
Lets us all give a round of applause to @grokus,
for providing us non-led'ers a true solution in the hell storm that has been created over this whole ordeal :victory:
He's been taking suggestions on what to include as well!
Behold, "Pixel Pulse"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compass.pixelpulse​
Description:
- Pixel Pulse uses the systems ambient display, in a VERY minimal, clean, efficient, time interval approach, to display whatever app you want to 'pop up'
- Pixel Pulse will 'cycle through' each app if multiple notifications are present
- Notifications can either be displayed as; icon only, icon + app name, icon + notification title, icon + title + content, or a mixture of all three depending on the app(s) you choose.
- Color choices, and more
How to use:
- Must have Ambient Display enabled. - (I just have the 'tap to touch' slider on).
- Have 'New Notifications' (Inside Ambient Display settings) enabled. - (This just allows Pixel Pulse to take over how to display the notifications).
- Battery Optimization (for this app) disabled. - (So the system continues the run the app without shutting the app down) ---- Settings > Battery > Battery Optimization > Pixel Pulse app > Don't Optimize.
- Go back into the app, set everything up as you like; colors, the time interval between pulses, what apps to display, how to display, etc
Going a Step Further:
- Once you have everything enabled you will be greeted with a persistent notification that displays "Pixel Pulse is Running". This notification will be present at ALL times; pulsing like a notification when the screen is off and in the notification drop down. Lets get rid of this (look at the next line).
- Settings > Apps & Notifications > Pixel Pulse app > Notifications > uncheck Pixel Pulse is Running > Enjoy :good:​
And there you have it! Enjoy your new LED notifications haha :laugh: -- Cant wait to see future development.
Thanks so much for the mention! I'll subscribe to this thread so if anyone has any issues or requests feel free to post them here.
I came across this a few days ago and even donated to get the pro features but for the life of me couldn't get the repeating pulse to work. It would show when I got a notification but then never repeat no matter how many seconds I set the interval to so I just gave up on it.
tlbland0426 said:
I came across this a few days ago and even donated to get the pro features but for the life of me couldn't get the repeating pulse to work. It would show when I got a notification but then never repeat no matter how many seconds I set the interval to so I just gave up on it.
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After reading through that thread, i believe he fixed it sometime last night.. I pulses for me fine.. You might give it another go and see
Yeah for some reason I still can't seem to get it to work. The notification shows up one time and then never reappears. I have the interval set to 10 seconds just to test and nothing.
tlbland0426 said:
Yeah for some reason I still can't seem to get it to work. The notification shows up one time and then never reappears. I have the interval set to 10 seconds just to test and nothing.
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You gave it notification access, right?
hartleyshc said:
You gave it notification access, right?
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Yep, ambient display is turned on (tap to view) and set to wake screen with new notifications. Have Pixel Pulse enabled with notification access, interval set to 10 seconds, apps configured and timeout set to 0.
I think this one would be a better implementation for notifications because it does a light ring around the phone AND a pop up toast for the app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flysoft.panel.edgelighting
tlbland0426 said:
Yep, ambient display is turned on (tap to view) and set to wake screen with new notifications. Have Pixel Pulse enabled with notification access, interval set to 10 seconds, apps configured and timeout set to 0.
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That all sounds correct. I wonder if do not disturb is causing problems?
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jeanxx said:
I think this one would be a better implementation for notifications because it does a light ring around the phone AND a pop up toast for the app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flysoft.panel.edgelighting
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Just be aware that displaying content over the lock screen like that wakes the device from doze/sleep.
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That all sounds correct. I wonder if do not disturb is causing problems?
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Don't have DND on and made sure to disable all battery optimizations so that wouldn't affect it either. I'll keep messing around with it though cause it seems like it's just the app I'm looking for at least until OnePlus implements an AOD or someone makes a working AOD port down the road.
This is pretty cool,I wonder how it effects battery?
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Don't have DND on and made sure to disable all battery optimizations so that wouldn't affect it either. I'll keep messing around with it though cause it seems like it's just the app I'm looking for at least until OnePlus implements an AOD or someone makes a working AOD port down the road.
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Yeah it's working here. Tested it out. It was iffy at first for me too.
I would say go in and just toggle the settings again and then restart.
After I did that it's been flawless.
Also @grokus enjoy 70% of a coffee.
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Thanks so much for the mention! I'll subscribe to this thread so if anyone has any issues or requests feel free to post them here.
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Absolutely!
However, if i may give one .. maybe two suggestions.. lol
1. While its pulsing, with hidden content.. Maybe remove the "pixel pulse" name and only show the icon itself? thatll clean it up a bit more i think.. (also: when new message is received, the content still displays, but then 'goes away' and continues to pulse without the content -- is that intended?).
2. When you have multiple notifications; gmail, sms, etc .. maybe have the notification cycle through each app every pulse? (first pulse could show the sms, then the next pulse, gmail, etc..) Or 'stack' them (maybe 3 at the most?) on top of each other while it pulses? .. So you get to see all three apps at one time? Or a combinations of those if you have multiple notifications from various apps? ..
Hope i made sense :silly: -- i can elaborate if need be ha
Incredible_Culp said:
Absolutely!
However, if i may give one .. maybe two suggestions.. lol
1. While its pulsing, with hidden content.. Maybe remove the "pixel pulse" name and only show the icon itself? thatll clean it up a bit more i think.. (also: when new message is received, the content still displays, but then 'goes away' and continues to pulse without the content -- is that intended?).
2. When you have multiple notifications; gmail, sms, etc .. maybe have the notification cycle through each app every pulse? (first pulse could show the sms, then the next pulse, gmail, etc..) Or 'stack' them (maybe 3 at the most?) on top of each other while it pulses? .. So you get to see all three apps at one time? Or a combinations of those if you have multiple notifications from various apps? ..
Hope i made sense :silly: -- i can elaborate if need be ha
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Yeah for those I have a feeling the Pixel lock screen doesn't work like ours. So he would definitely need to detect the device that's being used, if he's not already.
hartleyshc said:
Also @grokus enjoy 70% of a coffee.
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Lol
Incredible_Culp said:
Absolutely!
However, if i may give one .. maybe two suggestions.. lol
1. While its pulsing, with hidden content.. Maybe remove the "pixel pulse" name and only show the icon itself? thatll clean it up a bit more i think.. (also: when new message is received, the content still displays, but then 'goes away' and continues to pulse without the content -- is that intended?).
2. When you have multiple notifications; gmail, sms, etc .. maybe have the notification cycle through each app every pulse? (first pulse could show the sms, then the next pulse, gmail, etc..) Or 'stack' them (maybe 3 at the most?) on top of each other while it pulses? .. So you get to see all three apps at one time? Or a combinations of those if you have multiple notifications from various apps? ..
Hope i made sense :silly: -- i can elaborate if need be ha
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I only have a Pixel to test on right now so please bear with me while I try to understand this.
I suspect that the first wake up might be your device's initial wake but I could be wrong.
I'll be adding a way to only show icons in addition to the hide content option (like the ninja mode).
On the pixel they do scroll through all current notifications each pulse. The pixel only shows one full notification at a time. What happens on your device? I can try other ways if you're willing to test it for me.
@Incredible_Culp
THX for sharing this w/us,much appreciated ! :good:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compass.pixelpulse&hl=en
I'm liking this a bit better than a couple of the other apps mentioned throughout the OP6T Forum .
Your set-up notes in the OP got me to give it a look & once set-up & tested,I immediately went to this one as my go-to LED Notification replacement.
Those who choose to use this or any other LED replacement apps are going to see usage in the battery stats.
This may be near the top in usage,my suggestion is don't get caught up in the numbers,just use your phone as you normally would.
You may see less remaining at the end of the day vs not using it at all,but,I'm willing to bet it won't be close to a "panic" / "wall-hugger" level.
If this wasn't using battery/in-use,the next app or process in line would be showing the higher % use,hence the tail-chasing of the battery life discussions,LOL.
I recommend anyone give this a shot & support the developer if possible............. :good:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compass.pixelpulse&hl=en
It doesn't work for me no matter what I try. Changed the settings according to the first post, made all in-app settings, activated the pulse for all apps. Still, nothing happens when a notification arrives. Can someone please help?
jackennils said:
It doesn't work for me no matter what I try. Changed the settings according to the first post, made all in-app settings, activated the pulse for all apps. Still, nothing happens when a notification arrives. Can someone please help?
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Perhaps check your battery optimizations for all of the associated apps, including Pixel Pulse. (make sure they're not optimized & are allowed to run in the background)
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Now it works, thanks a lot!
Edit: Okay, not really working. Sometimes it is, but most of the time it doesn't.

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