I was taking a quick look at the leds in the G2.
When i look at the jogball-backlight in regards to the trackpad light, I am unable to change the color. It retains the following value.
# cat color
color : invalid lengthI tried to echo "0 255 255" into that, and still see the same message when I cat it. Any ideas?
Also, I can cat 255 into the brightness with no effect. I see the value when I cat brightness, but the light is still off. Looks like you have to trigger it? When sleeping the display and forcing the notification light, the brightness gets set back to 0 after it's flash.
Also the jogball-backlight directory contains:
- uevent
l- subsystem
l- devices
- power/wakeup
- brightness
- max_brightness
- trigger
- color
Also, check this out.
#cat trigger
[none] rfkill0 battery-charging-or-full battery-charging battery-full usb-online ac-online mmc0 mmc1 mmc2
-oldsk00lz
You tried this after soft root, correct?
Hahhahha my mistake nevermind...
Where is the trackball light? Is it next to the earpiece like every other LED light on most HTC phones?
mortal300 said:
Where is the trackball light? Is it next to the earpiece like every other LED light on most HTC phones?
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It has a touchpad light like the nexus and a battery notify light next the speaker. Currently, the trackpad flashing during an incoming call and the led light by the earpiece flashes during low battery or solid while charging. No flashing anything for notifications such as messages/email/ or reminders which sucks obviously. No apps change this currently without root. I guess this was the concern and the color obviously.
Tweetdeck makes the led flash when new post appear
When I have a new text message, with Chomp, the trackpad flashes intermittently as long as it goes unchecked.
Well that's good news I look a bit harder for 3rd party apps that can make notifications without root and see. Plus, there is a trackpad light app that requires root but let's you change colors and it creates notifications for email/sms/mms/ and reminders.
Have you tried that application yet? Would be interesting to see if it works as the directory structure looks different than what I read about the nexus 1. I was wondering if the 'invalid number' for color was due to no color being available, or just something that we couldn't read/set.
The notification in the earpiece looks to be amber/green versus RGB.
-oldsk00lz
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The notification in the earpiece also goes red when battery is low along with amber and green so I think its RGB. I miss that led being used for notifications like on the G1. The trackpad glows slowly for notifications and seems to be only if the screen is off.
phesone said:
The notification in the earpiece also goes red when battery is low along with amber and green so I think its RGB. I miss that led being used for notifications like on the G1. The trackpad glows slowly for notifications and seems to be only if the screen is off.
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If you go to /sys/class/leds you will only see amber and green. On my G1 I see red, green, blue. I think the amber is actually used for the red. I think it would be hard to having any blue colors without a blue led setting.
-oldsk00lz
Im assuming none of you guys seen the other two ligths located at the top left of the device on the face? if im not mistaken if you hold it up to the light it shows a purple square bulb below and a blue one above. is the blue one for blutooth? and is the other thing the proximity sensor?
I'm pretty sure both of the other "bulbs" you see are actually both the proximity sensor, on my vibrant there were 3 things, one was the ambient light sensor and the other 2 were the proximity sensors. I guess its an emitter and reciever.
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Hey, I just got the G2 and I am also gravely missing the LED notifications from the G1. I installed handcent, and have gotten the trackpad outline to blink, but the blinking is so infrequent and limited to white. There must be a way to toggle the charging indicator LED's. I've tried the app "Blinker" with no satisfaction. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
not getting the notifications on gmail, or handcent or anything. This is a deal-breaker for me. I may steal my nexus back from my wife and leave her with the G2 if one of you smart guys cant figure this out!
schwiz said:
not getting the notifications on gmail, or handcent or anything. This is a deal-breaker for me. I may steal my nexus back from my wife and leave her with the G2 if one of you smart guys cant figure this out!
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That's because the trackpad does the notifications. Not the other lights nor will they ever work for notifications... get the apps that add reminders and you'll be fine. Quit crying...
Lmao @ quit crying ! But really.. Am I the only one who likes the fact that I can see when I have a notification while my phone is charging? I think it was a good idea though to seperate them. Any dittos?
sino8r said:
That's because the trackpad does the notifications. Not the other lights nor will they ever work for notifications... get the apps that add reminders and you'll be fine. Quit crying...
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What is this reminder you are talking about? I don't see any reminder in the sdk. Also, I would be on board with finding alternate apps that use this reminder instead if the Gmail app used it. No notification on gmail blows, I'm sorry!
Also, I heard chomp shows the led notification, but I tried it out and it doesn't how about being a little more constructive and offering alternatives.
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What is this reminder you are talking about? I don't see any reminder in the sdk. Also, I would be on board with finding alternate apps that use this reminder instead if the Gmail app used it. No notification on gmail blows, I'm sorry!
Also, I heard chomp shows the led notification, but I tried it out and it doesn't how about being a little more constructive and offering alternatives.
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No its not a built in option. Nor would it be in the sdk... there a few third party apps that add the ability. Here's what I use: gmail notifier/ sms notifier/ and calendar notifier. They are all free and available in the market. They work very well and make up for lack of traditional led. The trackball flashes too only in white and fades on and off slowly.
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No its not a built in option. Nor would it be in the sdk... there a few third party apps that add the ability. Here's what I use: gmail notifier/ sms notifier/ and calendar notifier. They are all free and available in the market. They work very well and make up for lack of traditional led. The trackball flashes too only in white and fades on and off slowly.
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Thanks! This will have to do for now.
Edit: back to crying... color doesn't work. boooo
schwiz said:
Thanks! This will have to do for now.
Edit: back to crying... color doesn't work. boooo
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When the N1 came out, all we had was white notifications from the trackball. It took some time but devs eventually figured out how to get diverse colored notifications from the trackball, and from the charge LED.
Relax and be patient, surely the G2 will follow the same path. It just came out.
Hey guys, is there a way to do color notifications for different things on the HD2. Like my old G1, or like my NexusOne.
Is there an app that will let me set certain colors on the HD2s notification LED. Blue for text, green for email. Something like missed call App. I'd love to have certain colors on this HD2. I did a search without any luck. I only searched HTC Leo area.
The app Blinker do that. Your hd2 not. Only red and green
The led on the hd2 only supports red, green, and Orange.
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It's actually a hardware limit.. really. That is sad. And we are sure. Why would the G1 have it and the HD2 not. Just seems odd.
Ill use the 3 it has then. Lol. Thanks guys
Have any of you tried the different LED notification apps such as Blink on the Arc?
If so, which ones and how do you like them.
Thanks.
I had a problem with blink and had to uninstall.
Light Flow works very well with notifications and the lights. Reminds me of my nexus one
On the Stock Roms for the Razr I had a blue notification light for text. On the Energy Rom it only shows a green one for e-mail? Anyone know how to get the blue again for text?
mattlatawiec said:
On the Stock Roms for the Razr I had a blue notification light for text. On the Energy Rom it only shows a green one for e-mail? Anyone know how to get the blue again for text?
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You could always install this and assign any color to any notification you want (and any flashing rate):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite
There is a paid version as well.
Looks like a great app but I don't use stock messages. I use Handcent and it won't light up for those notifications but I will use it for other ones though.
mattlatawiec said:
Looks like a great app but I don't use stock messages. I use Handcent and it won't light up for those notifications but I will use it for other ones though.
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You know you can customize Light Flow to blink for any app. You just have to add it. I use Handcent and its working for me.
Hello guys, i have a simple question for you.
I had the impression that the led notification light for missed calls (top of the screen) is blue. I never payed attention. But today i noticed that the missed call notification light is green, like the fb messenger one.
Is this the right color or something is mixed up? Thanks in advance.
Xampos said:
Hello guys, i have a simple question for you.
I had the impression that the led notification light for missed calls (top of the screen) is blue. I never payed attention. But today i noticed that the missed call notification light is green, like the fb messenger one.
Is this the right color or something is mixed up? Thanks in advance.
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The light on my phone is also different, so I don't think it should be the same color all the time.
Charkatak said:
The light on my phone is also different, so I don't think it should be the same color all the time.
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There are different color notifications for different apps. For Facebook Messenger is green, for sms is blue etc.
I had the impression that it's also blue for missed calls but i noticed today that is green and i want to know if its the same for the other owners...
I used to like my old Blackberrys bcuz they had apps that let you adjust the LED colors and blink speeds with various apps.
by default its diffrent colors for diffrent apps (most the time). My wife's lights up purple for some game she plays lol. it sucks you cant really customize them through the settings but I've used Light Flow (Play Store) on my S8 and it works perfectly (atleast for me)
Xampos said:
Hello guys, i have a simple question for you.
I had the impression that the led notification light for missed calls (top of the screen) is blue. I never payed attention. But today i noticed that the missed call notification light is green, like the fb messenger one.
Is this the right color or something is mixed up? Thanks in advance.
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Yes. Missed call is green.