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I've looked all over for info regarding this, but can't find anything so far.
I saw in the Samsung Captivate forum that there are devs working on a screen LED since the captivate has no LED. Does that mean that all of the samsung galaxy phones have no notification lights?
The main thing ima miss about my Nexus One is the colored trackball. I assumed there would be at least a upper notification led like tha majority of phones out today.
The Epic does have a notification light. First 2 pictures: Top right of phone, in between the Sprint logo and the front-facing camera.
androidcentral com /sprint-epic-4g-hands-on
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Spik3balloon said:
The Epic does have a notification light. First 2 pictures: Top right of phone, in between the Sprint logo and the front-facing camera.
androidcentral com /sprint-epic-4g-hands-on
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Oh wow! I hadn't seen those pictures. Indeed there is a notification light!
I'm wondering why the Captivate or Vibrant don't have the notification light? It seems like they really did make the Epic better than the other 3 galaxy phones!
well it is a Galaxy S Pro
These two videos further confirm there's at least two colors (blue and pink):
http://www.youtube.com/user/phandroid#p/u/19/dzHR9_Ocu74
http://www.youtube.com/user/phandroid#p/u/21/zlWhWneMYrU
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These two videos further confirm there's at least two colors (blue and pink):
http://www.youtube.com/user/phandroid#p/u/19/dzHR9_Ocu74
http://www.youtube.com/user/phandroid#p/u/21/zlWhWneMYrU
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I've seen both of those videos but never paid attention to if there was a notification light or not!
We need more video of this amazing phone!
Fantastic, this allays one of my biggest concerns. Now if they release a car dock that works with Car Home, I'd have positively no hesitation in buying this phone.
Make your own car dock... for much cheaper. It won't auto launch the car home dock, but I made one for my Hero following a forum member's guide and it came out perfect. Cost ~$10... just use a different person for the garmin dock, i waited 2 months without receiving anything from ebay seller he recommended.
I have a car dock for my G1, but launching Car Home, automatically turning on bluetooth, etc. is sort of the point
Anyone have any ideas as to how configurable the notification lights/colors are? It'd be cool if I could have blue for work email, pink for texts, and maybe flashing blue for personal email. (or something like that)
quasi13 said:
Anyone have any ideas as to how configurable the notification lights/colors are? It'd be cool if I could have blue for work email, pink for texts, and maybe flashing blue for personal email. (or something like that)
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No one has reported on it yet and the phone isn't out yet. Right now we have seen Pink/Red and Blue I believe in videos and White as well. It is purely speculation, but the phone probably has RGB LED's in there so in theory can display any color of the rainbow. The same way the Nexus and G1 display different colors for different notifications I imagine this phone will as well. Once again purely speculation.
What I'd like to know is can we control notification light colors and customize them so much that even who you get a txt from gets its own color. Now that'd be cool.
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What I'd like to know is can we control notification light colors and customize them so much that even who you get a txt from gets its own color. Now that'd be cool.
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That's sort of what I'm thinking, except if not many colors, many options for blinking (incl. blink rate) or alternating colors. I sure hope the settings for these lights are powerful out of the box.
We need a proper geek to get his/her hands on this thing!
So the specs noted that the LED notification light was "tri-color" but none of the reviews that I've seen have indicated if it's a true RGB LED capable of producing multiple colors. I'm so used to having different colors for different notifications on my N1, I'd hate to be limited to 3 colors on the Atrix.
stoli412 said:
So the specs noted that the LED notification light was "tri-color" but none of the reviews that I've seen have indicated if it's a true RGB LED capable of producing multiple colors. I'm so used to having different colors for different notifications on my N1, I'd hate to be limited to 3 colors on the Atrix.
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Actually... All I've gotten is green.
blackberries also have a multi colored led but always shows red. Fortunately, there are apps (free and paid) that will let you tinker with it.
sure hope there will be one for this phone.
I think it has rgb, and then a white led
Its got a white led when charging, green for notifications, blue for calls, and red when theres a low battery. Use the app 'led tester' off the market to test the leds, its a pretty neat app. I like 'led disco' because it flashes all the colors and goes through them all. With the red, green, and blue led you can produce any color you want.
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Its got a white led when charging, green for notifications, blue for calls, and red when theres a low battery. Use the app 'led tester' off the market to test the leds, its a pretty neat app. I like 'led disco' because it flashes all the colors and goes through them all. With the red, green, and blue led you can produce any color you want.
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Uhhh. No. Those facts are not true. Had the atrix for 3 days now and I've only seen it shine green. No red no nothing. And TRUST me I've been tinkering with it.
Fixter said:
Uhhh. No. Those facts are not true. Had the atrix for 3 days now and I've only seen it shine green. No red no nothing. And TRUST me I've been tinkering with it.
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did you download LED tester?
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did you download LED tester?
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Yes, it doesn't work.
I have an atrix in my hand and I have seen 3 colors:
1. Green for messages and charging
2. Red for low battery
3. White - can't remember the condition
I have not seen blue. The Bravo does have blue though.
alphadog00 said:
I have an atrix in my hand and I have seen 3 colors:
1. Green for messages and charging
2. Red for low battery
3. White - can't remember the condition
I have not seen blue. The Bravo does have blue though.
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How in the heck did you get it to say low battery? O.O! You really like to abuse your gadgets don't you?!
I've been able to change my colors. Not sure to what extent you can though. I had pinkish for SMS but changed it to blue.
I always run my stuff down until it dies once every couple of months - i did the Atrix early.
So far battery life is great - i played with it all weekend and it is one solid phone.
alphadog00 said:
I always run my stuff down until it dies once every couple of months - i did the Atrix early.
So far battery life is great - i played with it all weekend and it is one solid phone.
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Yep. I tried running it out of battery but I got bored and decided to let it get some charge by the time it told me it needed it.
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I've been able to change my colors. Not sure to what extent you can though. I had pinkish for SMS but changed it to blue.
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What tool did you use? Some report that some don't work.
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What tool did you use? Some report that some don't work.
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Exactly. Even when I plug in my phone I don't see any light go on. :S
I'm using GoSMS which has an option to change the led color of it's capable.
I was able to see blue when connecting my bluetooth headset to it. It only flashes when it makes the initial connection.
So far I've seen red, blue, green, and a purpleish color. I came from my BB with the BeBuzz app, and it was easy to tell which one of my contacts were calling/texting me from the colors I had assigned.
I was able to use LED lights on Touchdown app..Blue, Red & of course Green.
Okay, let's try asking the question a different way to get an answer we all are looking for.... what FREE app works to change the color of the LEDs and isn't an add-on or skin to SMS or Email? I'm looking for something just like Blink that actually works for this phone!
EDIT - Well what do you know, it DOES work as long as you read the damn instructions! UNPLUG the phone.... click Menu > LED Manager > choose a color > check to test color > TURN OFF SCREEN ON PHONE...... all six colors - RED, GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW, PURPLE, and TURQUOISE all work when you follow those steps! Pretty awesome
<== can be an idiot sometimes....
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Uhhh. No. Those facts are not true. Had the atrix for 3 days now and I've only seen it shine green. No red no nothing. And TRUST me I've been tinkering with it.
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Mine was red when the battery level dropped to 10%.
It doesn't work. No matter what app I try it just doesn't go off. There is also no display option to turn the led on or off.
Anyone familiar with this?
Using stock 4.3? Download lightflow from play store and it'll work.
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Using stock 4.3? Download lightflow from play store and it'll work.
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I'm still on 4.2.2 after a big scare using various Nexus 4 tool sets, ill be waiting for OTA update.
Lightflow does make it light up though! But its faint as f... notification led seems pretty useless to be honest.
Servaas said:
I'm still on 4.2.2 after a big scare using various Nexus 4 tool sets, ill be waiting for OTA update.
Lightflow does make it light up though! But its faint as f... notification led seems pretty useless to be honest.
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Then why are you asking if you have a broken LED? It wouldn't make a difference if it lights up or not if you thought the feature was useless. I personally like it. Comes in handy when I'm not in my room and leave my phone there and then come back to see the LED blinking.
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It doesn't work. No matter what app I try it just doesn't go off. There is also no display option to turn the led on or off.
Anyone familiar with this?
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Im having this issue, but mine hasn't worked since cyanogenmod a couple months back, on carbon or PA it didn't work. Now on 4.3 and doesn't work. Though on Carbon the charging notification still worked when plugged in but lightflow or other apps didn't.
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Then why are you asking if you have a broken LED? It wouldn't make a difference if it lights up or not if you thought the feature was useless. I personally like it. Comes in handy when I'm not in my room and leave my phone there and then come back to see the LED blinking.
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The feature is really useful if you put in a bright led, one that a normal human can see when there is even the slightest hint of light. Not one that only works in total darkness.
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The feature is really useful if you put in a bright led, one that a normal human can see when there is even the slightest hint of light. Not one that only works in total darkness.
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Then change the color to red or a color thats extremely bright, lol. Its not that difficult.
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The feature is really useful if you put in a bright led, one that a normal human can see when there is even the slightest hint of light. Not one that only works in total darkness.
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You are saying that it is faint..You should check out the led of Htc phones :silly:
Notification Led of N4 is okay here..Not at all faint
Looking for insight about the colors that the LED light can display. Not sure where it would be documented, and Light Flow only shows white.
Nexus 7 only has a white LED:
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Q: Is the notification light RGB? Why can I only have it flash white?
A: The software is reporting that the LED on the Nexus 7 is only white (my explanation here). This means that because it's missing the other primary colors it will not be able to flash anything but white.
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great
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Nexus 7 only has a white LED:
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Why not check the kernel drivers to see if it has support for something else?
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Why not check the kernel drivers to see if it has support for something else?
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Unfortunately, I am not a kernel dev and don't even know where to begin. What we do know at the moment is that as far as stock goes the Nexus 7 can only show the color white (which is stated in the link on the quote).
Perhaps it is an RGB LED and it was disabled at kernel level, however I can't see why Google would do such a thing.
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Unfortunately, I am not a kernel dev and don't even know where to begin. What we do know at the moment is that as far as stock goes the Nexus 7 can only show the color white (which is stated in the link on the quote).
Perhaps it is a multi LED and it was disabled at kernel level, however I can't see why Google would do such a thing.
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Hmm maybe they kept white just that so they can keep the thing low (even though LED's are cheap)
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Hmm maybe they kept white just that so they can keep the thing low (even though LED's are cheap)
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Probably. It would have been nice if they would have 'upgraded' us to the multi-color LEDs and just passed along the added $0.04 cost to us...
I'm hoping that it's RGB.
If you look closely at it, it has a slight pinkish hue to it. It's the same way with my Galaxy Nexus (which does have RBG). I'm guessing it's because all the colors are turned on and the mix isn't perfectly even.
I could be wrong, of course.
I've been looking for an answer to this but I haven't found any good one with a clear "NO" or "Yes".
Is it RGB, multicolor or some technology with more colors? Has someone tested it with light flow to see if you can control it or it is actually a RGB led but the software just let you use 2 of them for some reason?
I'd like to have at least 5 colors... It is weird to me to see that it only has green and red. To be an RGB it only lacks the blue one, which is really werid to me. I'm planning to buy the phone and since I had this LED on my Galaxy S3 back in the day I can't be without it.
Doesn't seem RGB to me, so far I have seen green and red from the notification LED.
Couldn't get another color to display with Light Flow app (I'm noob with it tho, I just installed to reply to you)
Ya, I can't get light Flow to work either....all I have seen is Red and Green. Someone said orange but I have yet to see it.
Red and green...that is all I get also. But it does work! Some do say yellow also but I am not sure when yellow shows up. I have not seen yellow yet.
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Ya, I can't get light Flow to work either....all I have seen is Red and Green. Someone said orange but I have yet to see it.
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If it's got red and green, you can get orange. It's just probably not used in the ZTE software anywhere.
And RGB notification light isn't a fancy LED light any phone I know if, it's discrete R, G, and B diodes. Which is why you can really only get Red, Green, Blue, White, Yellow, Orange, and Purple on any phone.
Thank you for the information guys. I'll keep that in mind.
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If it's got red and green, you can get orange. It's just probably not used in the ZTE software anywhere.
And RGB notification light isn't a fancy LED light any phone I know if, it's discrete R, G, and B diodes. Which is why you can really only get Red, Green, Blue, White, Yellow, Orange, and Purple on any phone.
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I think they actually have the blue diode, but they don't use it. I wonder if someone can get it to work along the other 2.
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Thank you for the information guys. I'll keep that in mind.
I think they actually have the blue diode, but they don't use it. I wonder if someone can get it to work along the other 2.
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all three colors are showing up under /sys/class/leds, so it must be there. I'm not sure why it's not able to be turned on. I was able to get red, green, and orange to show up.
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all three colors are showing up under /sys/class/leds, so it must be there. I'm not sure why it's not able to be turned on. I was able to get red, green, and orange to show up.
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So it is definetly there right? Or maybe it is just a generic class for leds and they only use the ones they need (red and green). Would be nice to check if they can be activated via software in some way.
Cesaragus said:
So it is definetly there right? Or maybe it is just a generic class for leds and they only use the ones they need (red and green). Would be nice to check if they can be activated via software in some way.
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They shouldn't show up there if they aren't actual hardware, as those are created at runtime, I believe. I tried writing a value to the brightness, but it wouldn't let me (terminal user isn't part of the "system" group).
The LED testing app I was playing with couldn't activate it. So, no idea why it's not working.
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They shouldn't show up there if they aren't actual hardware, as those are created at runtime, I believe. I tried writing a value to the brightness, but it wouldn't let me (terminal user isn't part of the "system" group).
The LED testing app I was playing with couldn't activate it. So, no idea why it's not working.
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The node is there but only green and red have blink files.
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Unjustified Dev said:
The node is there but only green and red have blink files.
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Does it require the blink file to actually turn on though? I thought you just turn it to "on" with the brightness file? It still seems odd to only partially create the class (just like it seems odd to only have a RG LED if that's what they truly did).
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Does it require the blink file to actually turn on though? I thought you just turn it to "on" with the brightness file? It still seems odd to only partially create the class (just like it seems odd to only have a RG LED if that's what they truly did).
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It shouldn't I'll report back though after looking at the kernel tomorrow.
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It shouldn't I'll report back though after looking at the kernel tomorrow.
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You sir, are a saint. Can't wait to make use of your work when I get my 6 gig Axon (As soon as it's released in the US)! Thanks so much for all your hard work! I'll make a donation to you at some point when I've got some spare cash!
DTR_OS said:
Ya, I can't get light Flow to work either....all I have seen is Red and Green. Someone said orange but I have yet to see it.
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Green+red=orange
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The node is there but only green and red have blink files.
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So what does it mean? Can someone add the mising blink file? Or is it impossible to do?
EDIT: For some reason I couldn't see the other answers. I hope it works, I really like the notification LED and I think this phone is amazing.
News from the ZTE community from sshasan
https://community.zteusa.com/message/55264?et=watches.email.thread#comment-55264
Only RG confirmed. Bummer.
Wow.. Disappointing..
how can you fit a flagship device with top notch display, cpu and chipset with a crappy RG led for notifications?
i honestly can't belive it and i hope it's just a poor software use of the existing hardware...
vizzze said:
how can you fit a flagship device with top notch display, cpu and chipset with a crappy RG led for notifications?
i honestly can't belive it and i hope it's just a poor software use of the existing hardware...
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Well, it is a small annoyance, but this phone was half the price of my other choice (Note 7). Also, it hasn't exploded, so that's a plus. It has better screen and audio than OP3, which was my third choice. So, I'd enjoy more notification light colors, but of things that were cut to save me $400, I'd vote for simpler LED light while keeping gorgeous screen and great sound any day.
vizzze said:
how can you fit a flagship device with top notch display, cpu and chipset with a crappy RG led for notifications?
i honestly can't belive it and i hope it's just a poor software use of the existing hardware...
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Blimey - that's quite extreme! I personally only care if there is an led (one colour is fine for me) as I'm only interested to see if there's a notification - after that I pick up the phone to see what it is!