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Is there a way to set the notifaction light to blink orange like all the other htc phones with an incoming text or email? I cant find the setting.

Dirtay said:
Is there a way to set the notifaction light to blink orange like all the other htc phones with an incoming text or email? I cant find the setting.
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Not currently. I started a thread about having the backlight turn on when a message is received. I think this should be the same.

another thing google needs to fix ASAP!
I want the damn light to turn on when I get a message (screen)

The light BLINKS GREEN when there is something in the notification bar.

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The light BLINKS GREEN when there is something in the notification bar.
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Doesn't the light blink Green when the phone has service and/or WIFI, Orange when charging, Blue for bluetooth and Red when the battery is low?
Just curious on WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOUR EXPECTING inside jk

danielbui23 said:
Doesn't the light blink Green when the phone has service and/or WIFI, Orange when charging, Blue for bluetooth and Red when the battery is low?
Just curious on WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOUR EXPECTING inside jk
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I just noticed my battery like is down to 12% the notification light, isn't blinking at all.
Even with Bluetooth or wifi on my light does not blink blue. Weird.
I wonder if this is included in Androids "memory saving" feature. *Since the Android will self close apps in the background when it needs more memory. I don't know.

green blink
I just sent a txt to myself. light blinks green... cool!

Doesn't the light normally blink green, in stand-by mode?

Mikey1022 said:
Doesn't the light normally blink green, in stand-by mode?
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The light doesnt blink as others cell phones do. The only time the light blink is when there is something in the notification bar. Test it out...

blue led?
I have yet to see the blue light just green orage and red...
anybody seen a blue led on a g1?

I think there's only one LED on the G1, and it's a red/green one (that looks yellow when both sides are energized.)

beartard said:
I think there's only one LED on the G1, and it's a red/green one (that looks yellow when both sides are energized.)
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You can get it blue wen you hold the track ball down and powering up the phone.

beartard said:
I think there's only one LED on the G1, and it's a red/green one (that looks yellow when both sides are energized.)
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I think it is four sided. Red, Orange, Green, and Blue
I have seen green and red LEDs mix before... and this doesn't look like that.

Notification LED Multicolor (App to toggle blue+green+amber led included)

I've written an app that can enable and disable the blue led with a toggle. I would like to know for who this works. Please test it and tell me .
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For some reason my Desire went buggy and crashed at some point. However something amazing happened.
Contrary to popular believe, there are more colors than red, green and orange. My Desire's LED flashed blue and purple. Now I searched the forums and could not find any topic that confirmed this, nor on google, so just to let you guys know .
Next point on the list is finding an application that can tweak them
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EDIT: Seeing the recent activity in this thread, I want to tell you this app was written a long time ago. It does not function on any recent roms. There are loads of other apps out there that can control your led.

Picture ??

lennshow66 said:
Picture ??
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Gheh, it only showed for like a few seconds, then the phone restarted, I will try to replicate the bug, but I expect I will be unsuccessful .

Interesting. I got my Desire yesterday and installed the Touchdown app for corporate connectivity. In TD's settings you can customise the LED behaviour to select different colours (beyond red, green and amber) for different events. Tried it and it just flashed green, but why have these settings if there's not a way to do this...interesting

I have been able to replicate the bug. This is how I do it:
1. Turn on Bluetooth
2. Receive a text message while charging
3. Disconnect from charger
4. Turn off screen
5. Reconnect to charger
6. My led will glow purply
7. Disconnect the phone from the charger
8. Led starts flashing blue, orange and purple
9. Phone reboots
Taking pictures as we speak

Re: MultiLed Colors
I have been able to replicate the bug. This is how I do it:
1. Turn on Bluetooth
2. Receive a text message while charging
3. Disconnect from charger
4. Turn off screen
5. Reconnect to charger
6. My led will glow purply
7. Disconnect the phone from the charger
8. Led starts flashing blue, orange and purple
9. Phone reboots
Taking pictures as we speak
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Interesting. Get these pics up ASAP lol
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I've added the images. It was too hard to take a picture of the blue color. But at least here is purple.
PS. images are in the first post
EDIT: Also, I should add, I have been unable to duplicate the color for a second time. No idea why it happens. Just happy I was able to get these pictures

i did what you said. no special colors but strange things happens. no reboot

Re: Notification LED Multicolor (Picture of purple included)
Looks like the desire does some how support multi colours :S there must be a way to enable this fully within the codes. I will be donateing if the devs can get this to fully work
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Re: Notification LED Multicolor (Picture of purple included)
I have to say u r pretty legendary to find that bug.
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supasye said:
I have to say u r pretty legendary to find that bug.
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I have tried and tried and I have been unable to replicate this bug from this point on. I'm so happy I was able to take the pictures. I think it's because of a semi-faulty flash that I have this bug. Even though the randomality of it suggests it might be more of a hardware bug. We do however now know it has a blue led too. So cyan and white should be possible as well. I just wonder, why go through the trouble of a adding a full multicolor led, if you are only going to use 3 colors of the possible 7.

there might be something as simple as a voltage problem.
most leds will change color when you increase voltage and/or overload them.
the first few times you won't see any damage, but eventually the changing color might be permanent and then it's just a matter of time before the led just brakes.
so there is a change that it's not multi color, but the phone just overloads the led while crashing.

When I looked down the headphone port I could clearly see the red and blue led burning. I do really think there is a blue led in there.

Re: Notification LED Multicolor (Picture of purple included)
When I looked down the headphone port I could clearly see the red and blue led burning. I do really think there is a blue led in there.
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Legend: D
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Haa nice one mate

Well we know there is a Red and Green led for definite so having a Blue as well means we have multi colour. Now we just need a way to use it
There's no way that type of colour came from overloading the phone as when an LED overloads it just blows, it doesn't change colour to that extent.

Re: Notification LED Multicolor (Picture of purple included)
Well we know there is a Red and Green led for definite so having a Blue as well means we have multi colour. Now we just need a way to use it
There's no way that type of colour came from overloading the phone as when an LED overloads it just blows, it doesn't change colour to that extent.
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Agreed lol. Just need the devs to add the code somewhere to enable this colour
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This should really be moved to the dev section, let the guys play with it, i dont think too many devs trawl through the ****e on the general forum, with questions like "how do i make a call on my phone".. lollol
Start a new thread on the dev section, im sure this will be picked up by one of the wizzes
JD

Heh, I'm sorry guys, but we already know there's a BLUE led inside.
This LED works a bit differently from the other LEDs, however.
Theres no need to do advanced tricks to show the blue LED, you
can easily enable it:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/leds-microp/blue/brightness
From within a terminal emulator.
the blue LED is, however, missing the 'blink' property, as the Green and Amber LEDs do.
And yes, it is also possible to turn other LEDs on at the same time, so you can make purple by enabling the BLUE and Amber LEDs.

ieftm said:
Heh, I'm sorry guys, but we already know there's a BLUE led inside.
This LED works a bit differently from the other LEDs, however.
Theres no need to do advanced tricks to show the blue LED, you
can easily enable it:
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/leds-microp/blue/brightness
From within a terminal emulator.
the blue LED is, however, missing the 'blink' property, as the Green and Amber LEDs do.
And yes, it is also possible to turn other LEDs on at the same time, so you can make purple by enabling the BLUE and Amber LEDs.
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Then can we not just simply integrate that command into our applications for use of the blue LED?

Notification LED

Just wondering if the Nexus S has a notification LED like every other phone, except the Galaxy S of course. Can't find any info of that on the latest previews/reviews.

Early reviews says it does not have an LED.
Use the NoLED app on the market instead http://www.appbrain.com/app/noled/com.led.notify

Hmmm thanks for that! Last time I read about NoLed it was an alfa and ofcourse very limited, but I see it has progressed a lot. I've been using BLN on my Captivate for a while and kind of like it but will try NoLed right now.

yup, no notification LED, luckily noLED has turned into an amazing app. i'm actually using it on my Nexus one. people always find it pretty awesome when they see the trackball and the screen have the notification.

neok44 said:
yup, no notification LED, luckily noLED has turned into an amazing app. i'm actually using it on my Nexus one. people always find it pretty awesome when they see the trackball and the screen have the notification.
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how does noLED work? care to explain?

slowz3r said:
how does noLED work? care to explain?
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noLED creates a notification icon (dot or actual icon) on your phones screen when you get a notification.
on OLED screens, anytime a pixel is black, it's not using any power, so with phones that don't have LED's, using the screen works since your only lighting up the part of the screen with the notification.
To save even more power you can make it a simple pixel in one corner, or use an icon that moves around the screen (what i use)
And it looks damn awesome too.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/noled/com.led.notify

neok44 said:
noLED creates a notification icon (dot or actual icon) on your phones screen when you get a notification.
on OLED screens, anytime a pixel is black, it's not using any power, so with phones that don't have LED's, using the screen works since your only lighting up the part of the screen with the notification.
To save even more power you can make it a simple pixel in one corner, or use an icon that moves around the screen (what i use)
And it looks damn awesome too.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/noled/com.led.notify
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Hmmm.....giving it a try, as we speak. Very hard to imagine life without a dedicated notification light. Seems totally insane!!!

You're telling me!
Coming from a Blackberry, I would DIE without a notification LED.
Anyone have issues with the battery life when running the noLED app?

Backlit dedicated buttons...
Just tested NoLed by sending a chrome to phone link. My only real concern is that I noticed the dedicated buttons at the bottom of the N1 seem to remain lit, in addition to the tiny colored pixel notification. Do they stay lit indefinitely??? I did not notice an option to disable this, but I didn't watch it for more than a minute or so to see if they would turn off. It pretty much looked like they were gonna stay on. Pretty sure that would be detrimental to battery life. Did I miss something?

Well, on my Captivate I disabled BLN(custom notification system for Galaxy S that uses buttons backlight) and only have noLed for notifications. It also has the option to use the proximity sensor to turn the screen on/off so it isn't displaying anything while the phone is upside down or in your pocket. Very nice app.

neok44 said:
noLED creates a notification icon (dot or actual icon) on your phones screen when you get a notification.
on OLED screens, anytime a pixel is black, it's not using any power, so with phones that don't have LED's, using the screen works since your only lighting up the part of the screen with the notification.
To save even more power you can make it a simple pixel in one corner, or use an icon that moves around the screen (what i use)
And it looks damn awesome too.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/noled/com.led.notify
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Oh wow you are right, it does look awesome

this is awesome.

It doesn't seem to work with Launcher Pro on my Vibrant. =T

On my Nexus One, I use LEDs Hack: http://www.appbrain.com/app/leds-hack-(root-only)/net.geekherd.softbuttonshack
To turn off the soft button lighting.
Maybe with a combination of this and noLED, we'd have a good combo.

i dont get it, i seriously cannot live without a led notification light on my phone, if google had time to include a NFC tag reader why did they not include a led notification light? even the nexus one has one!

Atrix 4G indicator light

The green LED in the top right, when and when isn't it supposed to light up. When i first got it, it was lit always, now it only lights when i get a text

Mine lights up when I get texts, emails, missed calls, Bluetooth connection, and when fully charged. It only stays lit green continuously when it is fully charged.

Steady Green = Phone is connected to charger and battery charge is 85% - 100%
Blinking Green = Notification (Email, SMS, Missed Call, .. etc)
If you are doubtful or there's anything wrong, you probably need to remove any installed LED color apps (ex. Light flow, LED me know, .. )

what's the blue light for?

htc fan89 said:
what's the blue light for?
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Bluetooth connected

htc fan89 said:
what's the blue light for?
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Also Facebook notification.
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Or you can use LightFlow and screw with all of the different colors that LED has to offer.
I have found Blue, Red, Purple, Green, Orange, and Multi-Color. You can make almost any application/event do any color you want, at least that's how it is with the Pro version.

Blink rate

Is there a way to change the blink rate of the notification LED?
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Yes, Light Flow

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Works for me!
Pay your internet bill?

WiredPirate said:
Yes, Light Flow
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Worked for me. Not all colors work,of course.

WiredPirate said:
Yes, Light Flow
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I was never able to actually get the blink "rate" to change. The colors all worked but still had the slow blink rate.
Joe

Same thing, led color changes but still blinks slow. Like the new colors though.
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Yeah, this thing doesn't have the same control over the flashing LED that a BlackBerry has. Blink rate seems slow and random. Lightflow is good, but it is no BeBuzz. I find frequently that the LED is flashing for seemingly no reason. There are no alerts, but yet the LED is flashing. I really hate the LED on the ATRIX.

Never ever had it flash for no reason. There is always a reason so u should check your settings.
But u are right for sure, Light Flow is no BeBuzz!!!!!
Joe

ka3yan said:
Yeah, this thing doesn't have the same control over the flashing LED that a BlackBerry has. Blink rate seems slow and random. Lightflow is good, but it is no BeBuzz. I find frequently that the LED is flashing for seemingly no reason. There are no alerts, but yet the LED is flashing. I really hate the LED on the ATRIX.
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On Light Flow this happened to me when I saw the notification (at least for the Google Talk app) in the notification bar but didn't actually open it up in the Talk app. Light Flow probably still thinks I haven't seen it, because I don't think it can tell if I've seen and cleared the notification in the status bar.

just set your notifications to end blinking at screen-on rather than app.

Never had the problem of it blinking for no reason, i now have the full version and it blinks more often than before and i have enough control of the LED for how i use it tbh

Agreed with above and I think it's draining my batt. Didn't know we had this colors available though!
When I was porting my tilt there was a lib that controlled the blink. I don't remember what level the lib is. It's certainly possible that it is kernal level and we can't touch it yet
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ka3yan said:
Yeah, this thing doesn't have the same control over the flashing LED that a BlackBerry has. Blink rate seems slow and random. Lightflow is good, but it is no BeBuzz. I find frequently that the LED is flashing for seemingly no reason. There are no alerts, but yet the LED is flashing. I really hate the LED on the ATRIX.
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I thought it was flashing for no reason once. Turned out this program flashes the led when a mail arrives in the non priority inbox as well (native gmail only flashes for priority inbox for me). It triggers the led then, but naturally no notification. Turned gmail notifications off as a result, still have to see whether it will blink for priority inbox (show week).
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