I see a lot of questions about multi-colored LED, but none helpful to me. However, I apologize in advance if I missed it, and this is a repost.
Anyway, I was wondering if there was a "hack" or app that would allow the notification LED to show multiple notifications. Right now, if I have an unread text, it only blinks purple, regardless of whether or not I have a missed call, or Google Voice message as well.
Is there a way to set it up to alternate colors? So it would alternate purple and green if I had an sms and Google Voice message, or alternate green and blue if I had a Google Voice message and missed call?
Any help is very appreciated.
Thank you,
-Rex
Try blink.
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Hey, I was wondering about this myself. I tried Blink, neat little app however, it looks like the Droid X's LED only comes on when the screen is off. It would be cool to have the LED continuously blinking until you address the notification. (unless there is an option to change it?)
I did not know the DX has a full array of colors for the LED until I installed this app, I will use it regardless
handcent allows you to customize ringtone, notification light, vibration pattern, and theme of texts. i HIGHLY recommend using handcent instead of the stock texting app. just make sure to turn off notifications in your stock texting app or else you get two notifications per text.
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Is it possible to change the notifications so that the trackball keeps flashing when there's a new email / missed call / voicemail etc? At the moment it seems to flash when new email arrives and that's it, so if you miss the flash you can't tell there are any notifications unless you check.
actually just found out that when you have notifications the indicator flashes green, otherwise it doesn't flash at all. Unlike other HTC devices (where they nomally flashed green and then flashed orange to indicate notifications), but I guess it'll do
It does say in the user guide that the LED will flash green when there are notifications, but who ever reads that.
It would be nice to be able to select if the trackball should light up, in which interval and for what notifications. The green led will blink on any notification, not just email and missed call.
I came across an app called SMS Popup. It can change the color of the LED for SMS and MMS notifications in addition to the other great options of popping the message up on the screen and giving you reminders of unread messages.
Hi, I searched the threads and google and saw that someone asked if they could change the flashing green light for a text, email, etc...to like purple or red or any other color. Is there a way to do this? For AIM i changed incoming messages to blink purple, but how about for sms, email, etc... thanks!
you can either download chompsms in the market and change ur sms LED settings there (note that the led change will work only for chompsms)
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download missed call and change your sms LED settings there.
For SMS messages, you can also download the latest apk mod from rgv151
For more info, check out this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540651
As far as I'm aware there's no way to make the standard notification colour change, but there are lots of apps out there that allow to switch off the standard notifications and replace them with an app-based notification of your choice.
For example, SMSPopup and Missed call allow you to replace the LED colour to one of your choice (from pre-defined colours) as well as change the frequency of the flashes, and also the type of vibration (e.g. long vibrations, short vibrations or combinations thereof)
I recommend SMSPopup as it will also wake up your screen and display the text message, like the majority of phones do as standard.
thanks for the info.
On my nexus 4 the notification led only seems to activate for SMS messages and glows white.
It does not flash for Emails (I use the Email app not Gmail) or missed calls.
Is this normal or is there a setting somewhere?
Try using the "Light Flow" app to control your LED lights. It works great. You can pick how often the LED blinks and the color it should use.
Stryder5 said:
Try using the "Light Flow" app to control your LED lights. It works great. You can pick how often the LED blinks and the color it should use.
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Ive just started using lightflow. Works great, but notifications which used to work previously for facebook, whatsapp have stopped working
Baz8755 said:
On my nexus 4 the notification led only seems to activate for SMS messages and glows white.
It does not flash for Emails (I use the Email app not Gmail) or missed calls.
Is this normal or is there a setting somewhere?
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I get all different colour notifications depending on what app I get a message from without using any 3rd party app.
I've never used the email app unfortunately but seems as though missed calls doesn't trigger the LED. The notifications I know work are:
GMail - Set to white
Whatsapp - Set to green
Facebook - Set to blue/purple can't remember which
SMS - Set to white
I would've thought the Email app would just use the default white notification but maybe it doesn't have a trigger for it?
AvRS said:
I get all different colour notifications depending on what app I get a message from without using any 3rd party app.
I've never used the email app unfortunately but seems as though missed calls doesn't trigger the LED. The notifications I know work are:
GMail - Set to white
Whatsapp - Set to green
Facebook - Set to blue/purple can't remember which
SMS - Set to white
I would've thought the Email app would just use the default white notification but maybe it doesn't have a trigger for it?
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Before using lightflow, facebook, whatsapp worked for me, nothing else did. not even the notification whilst charging the battery.
After installing lightflow, all sorted except facebook, whatsapp!
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
Thanks guys, I have just bought Light Flow and all seems good.
Now have notifications for Email, Missed Call & SMS
pratopathak said:
Before using lightflow, facebook, whatsapp worked for me, nothing else did. not even the notification whilst charging the battery.
After installing lightflow, all sorted except facebook, whatsapp!
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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I don't use either of those but did you try adding them to lightflow? I'm pretty sure you need to specifically add non system apps to lightflow.
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Not sure if this is possible with the way Android is set up. What I'm wondering is if you can assign different colors for when you get notification from different people. For example, when my work texts me, I get a red light, but when my friend texts me, it's green.
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With light flow in the market you can do what you ask.
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Not sure if this is possible with the way Android is set up. What I'm wondering is if you can assign different colors for when you get notification from different people. For example, when my work texts me, I get a red light, but when my friend texts me, it's green.
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I agree. Use Light FLow if you're using stock messaging app. However, if you want to use it with any 3rd party SMS apps, like Go SMS Pro, Handcent, Chomp SMS, etc. There is no way, that I know, to have different colors for different contacts for those 3rd party SMS app.
so a couple times now I've had the notification light start blinking red when i've had no notifications. is this telling me there is an error or something? subsequently I've also had it it flash green after getting a text and clearing the notification, it just wouldn't stop unless I opened the stock messaging app which I don't use anymore and have the notifications turned off for.
my main concern is the flashing red, usually have to restart it to get it to go away.
bova80 said:
so a couple times now I've had the notification light start blinking red when i've had no notifications. is this telling me there is an error or something? subsequently I've also had it it flash green after getting a text and clearing the notification, it just wouldn't stop unless I opened the stock messaging app which I don't use anymore and have the notifications turned off for.
my main concern is the flashing red, usually have to restart it to get it to go away.
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Umm I think it flashes red when the phone is on the charger. Have you looked in Settings/Display/Notification light. Click on the Notification Light and it will open another screen.
Make sure your notification for text isn't set to repeat, for me that setting causes ghost notification, if your on the default out of the box settings cycling the phone a few times, power on off a few times and try that.
yeah I know it's red when charging but this is off the charger. Also I'm rooted and don't use the stock messaging app, I use textra, the notifications on the stock app are all turned off. I do have led colors set for different people when I get texts though, but like I said I had no notifications when it was flashing. Hasn't happened again yet but I'll keep watching.
I found something useful! I was getting these "phantom lights" and it was only doing it for my gmail app which I had set to pink. I found out that it was doing this when I got an email that was not in the primary inbox (i.e. promotions tab) It will not give a notification but it will still blink because you receive an email.
Hope this helps someone
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I found something useful! I was getting these "phantom lights" and it was only doing it for my gmail app which I had set to pink. I found out that it was doing this when I got an email that was not in the primary inbox (i.e. promotions tab) It will not give a notification but it will still blink because you receive an email.
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Thanks for posting this! I thought I was going nuts as the damn light was blinking and I could not figure out why. I figured it out just this morning as I was looking through my list of Gmail "folders" that I had received an email in one of them. Once I cleared that the light stopped.
bova80 said:
so a couple times now I've had the notification light start blinking red when i've had no notifications. is this telling me there is an error or something? subsequently I've also had it it flash green after getting a text and clearing the notification, it just wouldn't stop unless I opened the stock messaging app which I don't use anymore and have the notifications turned off for.
my main concern is the flashing red, usually have to restart it to get it to go away.
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I believe it flashes red when you are at 20% or below in battery life. Was your battery life in that range at the time?
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seems to be random colors now and only happens when I'm in my car and get a text. I'm thinking it something to do with textra and my texts coming in through my ford touch system. when I first connected the bluetooth it asked if I wanted messages sent to the system and I said no, but it did it anyways. I'd actually prefer to turn this off but there is no way on the phone I can see.