Can anyone explain to me HTC's logic in this:
"The indicators are listed in order of priority. For example, if your device is connected to a power adapter and is charging the battery, the LED will be solid amber and will not switch to a flashing green light even if there is a pending notification."
I keep my phone on the charger a lot of the time and I have missed several voice mails and text messages as a result of this behavior. Is there a way to change this (I am stock/unrooted) or anything in the marketplace that will fix it?
pixelpop said:
Can anyone explain to me HTC's logic in this:
"The indicators are listed in order of priority. For example, if your device is connected to a power adapter and is charging the battery, the LED will be solid amber and will not switch to a flashing green light even if there is a pending notification."
I keep my phone on the charger a lot of the time and I have missed several voice mails and text messages as a result of this behavior. Is there a way to change this (I am stock/unrooted) or anything in the marketplace that will fix it?
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HTC does this, and it drives me crazy. It was the same way on my TP2 - if charging, it'll be orange. If fully charged, it will be green. It will stay that way, even in the presence of a notification.
I'd love to see green flashing over the orange when charging. Maybe the LED flashing OFF with a notification while fully charged. Probably not going to happen though, it never did for the TP2.
You'll need to root to fix something like this, if we even have access to it.
There's an app called always flash that does exactly that you just need root
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Can anyone confirm the same problem i have.
When charging the phone, any new sms's that come in dont make any alert sounds.
I had 3 yesterday whilst it was on charge and not a single peep out of it. I was literally sitting on the phone!!
There's no LED flashing anymore either.
hmmm never noticed that.
Its true though!!
while charging i only get a beeb on sms and emails. any one have a fix to play notifications instead of a beep while charging.
Generally, when my HD2 is on charge and the green light is on showing that it is fully charged, it stops operating completely until taken off the charger. It sometimes remains shut down until soft reset (from inside cover). Everything else is fine.
I'm not very optimistic about this, but is there a way to enable LED notifications while the phone is charging? It works very nicely when running off battery power, but if the phone is plugged into the charger (or a PC via USB) the LED always shows either steady yellow (for charging) or steady green (for fully charged) - and this overrides anything that might otherwise give me a flashing green LED. I'd prefer it if incoming messages gave me a flashing green LED, even while the phone is running on external power. Is this possible?
(Running stock T-Mobile UK ROM, 1.72).
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I'm not very optimistic about this, but is there a way to enable LED notifications while the phone is charging? It works very nicely when running off battery power, but if the phone is plugged into the charger (or a PC via USB) the LED always shows either steady yellow (for charging) or steady green (for fully charged) - and this overrides anything that might otherwise give me a flashing green LED. I'd prefer it if incoming messages gave me a flashing green LED, even while the phone is running on external power. Is this possible?
(Running stock T-Mobile UK ROM, 1.72).
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It should be possible. I had my notification Led flash whenever I got a text message while charging on my mytouch 3g. I just flashed a zip I got from droidbasement and it worked great. Sadly I've been looking for one for my mytouch 4g and I have yet to find something like it.
Shasarak said:
I'm not very optimistic about this, but is there a way to enable LED notifications while the phone is charging? It works very nicely when running off battery power, but if the phone is plugged into the charger (or a PC via USB) the LED always shows either steady yellow (for charging) or steady green (for fully charged) - and this overrides anything that might otherwise give me a flashing green LED. I'd prefer it if incoming messages gave me a flashing green LED, even while the phone is running on external power. Is this possible?
(Running stock T-Mobile UK ROM, 1.72).
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On mine it works, when I have a unread SMS LED alternates, about ten seconds orange and few seconds green. May be You've made some tweaks? Try hard resetting your phone, it should work as I wrote.
I tried Handcent and shipped SMS client and both behave the same, when a new message comes through, the LED only blinks for a few seconds. After that, it will only blink every so often.
If I wasn't near the phone, I would need to turn on the screen to see if I have a new message. Is there a way to get the LED to flash continuously? I'm gussing this is a power savings measure?
Is this the same way for everyone else? I'm running DJ29, if that makes a difference.
Thanks.
It's another one of those things Samsung has failed at getting to work properly and does not acknowledge there is a problem.
The fix is to use Missed Reminder.
My settings are Led blink interval = 500, Notification intervals = 1s, and Number of repeats = Forever. This keeps the LED blinking continuously.
I'm trying to post this on a few threads. I know how annoying it was when my led would only blink 5 times then stop. My epic had that problem since the day i got it. I ordered a couple of cheap batteries and a charger from ebay and while using the new batteries i discovered that my led blinks perfectly now. Been using them for probably 2 weeks and have not had a LED problem since. You can get 2 batteries and a charger for $13 and it fixed my led problem.
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It's another one of those things Samsung has failed at getting to work properly and does not acknowledge there is a problem.
The fix is to use Missed Reminder.
My settings are Led blink interval = 500, Notification intervals = 1s, and Number of repeats = Forever. This keeps the LED blinking continuously.
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I use missed reminder as well. It's the only thing that seems to work ok, but as Isira Said... blame Samsung. I was trying to figure out the LED thing like the day it came out, and after beating a dead horse for months back in 2010, I had to look for other options as the above.
This is one thing I loved about the TP2 from HTC and when I lost it after getting the Epic, it was frustrating because yes, I had to turn the screen on here and there to see if anyone sent anything.
I use SMS Popup and my notification LED flashes the color i want, at the rate i want, for as long as i want, for the most part >_>
My Nexus One had a LED in addition to the notification LED. Does this phone only have the notification LED? Does that or anything else light up for anyone when they are charging? It sure doesn't for me .
Edit: Since it may not be crystal clear I am referring to the absence of any LED indicating charging status. Most phones have this; red/amber while charging and green when fully charged. Would be nice to know when the phone is fully charged without having to turn the screen on.
download lightflow from playstore, im using it for custom colours and flash rates for all notifications now, should we have to? no, but seeing as they called it in its your best option.
The gnex by default didn't have a charging led it was only ever used for notifications so presumably the nexus 4 has went the same route. But as mentioned there are apps to allow the led to be used for this purpose
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Simple question: should the LED be on when charging the device? I've never seen it on...
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Simple question: should the LED be on when charging the device? I've never seen it on...
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The LED (I believe) should keep working as normal, whether on charge or not (as long as the tab is on). I don't believe the LED should stay solid on charge (unless you get 3rd-party software to do so anyway)
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Simple question: should the LED be on when charging the device? I've never seen it on...
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THOUGHT about it today, I have never seen my LED on. Did a search and it is a known bug, not known if it is the N10 or Android. But is you install "LED color Tester" from the play store, you can test all the colors and confirm it turns on... so it looks like it may be a software bug. Some people can make it turn on temporarily by rebooting their system while it is charging. I personally never saw my LED before I tried the color tester today. nice pretty colrs <grin> too bad it doesn't work.
Here is a link to one of the Google error reports on it: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40294
I just looked at my tablet while it was sleeping, on charge, and the LED is flashing (got an email). I am on a custom ROM and Kernel though.
Mine never comes on while charging.
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