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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
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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
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Rithina said:
I m using light flow. There is no lights on the button but I can email the developers on this
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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
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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.
I am very hard of hearing so I have most sounds turned off on my phone and rely on vibrate. I do have blue tooth hearing aids which allow for phone calls to be heard.
My problem is that the notification for emails and text are very short and not very strong. Is there an app or some way to increase the length of the vibration allowing it to be noticed easier when the phone is in my pocket.
I use exchange email, both the stock and Touchdown. I saw some apps that might do it but they were for gmail, imap.
Thanks,
Dave
I agree the vibration is quite weak. Get Light Flow, the app that allows for very granular control of the front LED- it has the ability to vibrate when gmail/sms/etc occurs. Part of this though is that you can specify the duration of the vibration, so you can make it vibrate longer than the stock gmail vibrate, as well as making it repeat which is useful if you miss it the first time(s) around...
You do need root though.
Hope this helps.
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I agree the vibration is quite weak. Get Light Flow, the app that allows for very granular control of the front LED- it has the ability to vibrate when gmail/sms/etc occurs. Part of this though is that you can specify the duration of the vibration, so you can make it vibrate longer than the stock gmail vibrate, as well as making it repeat which is useful if you miss it the first time(s) around...
You do need root though.
Hope this helps.
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+1 for light flow, you can read more here
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/12/1...alaxy-nexus-is-called-light-flow-led-control/
i too rely on the vibrate but only because i think its annoying to have it beeping constantly lol
Thanks,
It seems to be doing what I need now. Had to purchase the application, since the free did not support Touchdown/Exchange. Did not have to root.
Another +1 for light flow. I have my texts set to blue and flashing very fast, emails are gold, and missed calls are red. It's set up just like my Blackberry was 2 years ago!
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You do need root though.
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Don't need root for light flow... I'm not rooted and it does LED, vibrations and sounds perfectly for me..
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My OG Doid used to play a nice loud notification sound when it turned off due to the battery dying. I can't remember if I set this up somewhere or if it just did this by default, but I really liked it. That way I knew I needed to swap out the battery. My GNex just dies a silent death and I have no idea that I'm missing calls. Does anyone know if there's a way to get the GNex to play a notification sound when it dies? Thanks.
I use the app Light Flow which lets me manage the LED light as well as notifications with sounds, including Low Battery.
JustStan said:
My OG Doid used to play a nice loud notification sound when it turned off due to the battery dying. I can't remember if I set this up somewhere or if it just did this by default, but I really liked it. That way I knew I needed to swap out the battery. My GNex just dies a silent death and I have no idea that I'm missing calls. Does anyone know if there's a way to get the GNex to play a notification sound when it dies? Thanks.
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It will beep and give you a huge pop up when you are down to 14% and then again at 4 or 5%. I don't know if the LED changes color or flashes, but I'm sure it does.
This is all automatic. No need to set it up.
Peesashiz said:
I use the app Light Flow which lets me manage the LED light as well as notifications with sounds, including Low Battery.
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Thanks for the suggestion. The funny thing is, I already use Light Flow to manage the LED notifications. I just never thought to use it for this. It's not quite the same as having the notification right as the phone is dying, but being able to set it to notify me when the battery is at 1% is close enough.
EP2008 said:
It will beep and give you a huge pop up when you are down to 14% and then again at 4 or 5%. I don't know if the LED changes color or flashes, but I'm sure it does. This is all automatic. No need to set it up.
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Thanks. I am all too aware of these earlier notifications, (in fact, if you know a way to turn them off or change the % at which they activate, I would love to do so). I really just need to know when the phone is dying.
I'm not sure if the vibration is working on my phone, or not. I have haptic feed back on, and the vibration sensitivity set to the far right. I have also set the vibration on key press to on, as well. I'm not able to feel the vibration at all. I just want to know whether the vibration is strong on the phone, or whether it's very weak, due to the thinness of the phone.
Also, I've noticed my notification led does not light up. Watching some videos of the phone, it shows the led lit up in the upper right corner. I can see the spot for the led when I angle the phone certain ways, but it doesn't come on when charging, or when I get notifications.
I did buy the phone used, and it looks like it may have been dropped a couple of times (screen is in perfect shape, but the outer rim of the phone has marks on it, on the corners), and am thinking maybe the led and the vibration may have been casualties of these falls.
Everything else is fine, and I'm used to not having a notification led, since the Nexus S didn't have one, but I miss the vibration when I type, or get a phone call/text/email/etc.
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I'm not sure if the vibration is working on my phone, or not. I have haptic feed back on, and the vibration sensitivity set to the far right. I have also set the vibration on key press to on, as well. I'm not able to feel the vibration at all. I just want to know whether the vibration is strong on the phone, or whether it's very weak, due to the thinness of the phone.
Also, I've noticed my notification led does not light up. Watching some videos of the phone, it shows the led lit up in the upper right corner. I can see the spot for the led when I angle the phone certain ways, but it doesn't come on when charging, or when I get notifications.
I did buy the phone used, and it looks like it may have been dropped a couple of times (screen is in perfect shape, but the outer rim of the phone has marks on it, on the corners), and am thinking maybe the led and the vibration may have been casualties of these falls.
Everything else is fine, and I'm used to not having a notification led, since the Nexus S didn't have one, but I miss the vibration when I type, or get a phone call/text/email/etc.
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I'll assume you are on a stock, or stock-ish (Calkulin's for example) ROM.
The vibration is definitely noticeable, and you should be getting LED notifications.
I would suggest possibly using ODIN and going back to the stock rooted ROM or flashing one of the fine ROMs in the development sub-forum and see if that improves your problem.
I can see why the vibration function would break -- dislodged vibrator motor. As far as the LED is concerned, there should be no reason why the LED doesn't work under normal circumstances.
Hope this helps!
I should add that I'm using sfhub's stock rooted EL29 rom. I am currently not running a custom recovery at this time.
I had the same problem, backed up, but before I restored to stock, I went into the clockwork and selected the, "fix permissions" been fine for almost two weeks.
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I am using clauk's
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All I have to input on this is, the vibration of this phone reminds me of my sonic toothbrush. It's Hella strong. If you cant feel it or hardly feel it you have issues.
So strong my gf likes it more than me.. Yikes!
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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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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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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.
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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!
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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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magoooood said:
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.