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HTC Vogue LED?

Well, as you may know, on the front of the device there is a LED within the speaker that flashes green; blue when bluetooth is on; red when you soft reset the device; orange when you are charging. is there an app or registry tweak that will let me mod the intervals and what color flashes? one idea is to glow a color when you tap the screen, or have it flash rapidly in different colors when receiving a call or sms/mms.

mikurej95 said:
Well, as you may know, on the front of the device there is a LED within the speaker that flashes green; blue when bluetooth is on; red when you soft reset the device; orange when you are charging. is there an app or registry tweak that will let me mod the intervals and what color flashes? one idea is to glow a color when you tap the screen, or have it flash rapidly in different colors when receiving a call or sms/mms.
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It does exist (I am not sure about the functionality that this will allow you), but there is a program that someone made a while back to control the LED. It is under D&H and I will give you the name as soon as I can remember it. It was LED something...

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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ChaosR said:
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?

LED Control

Just rooted me phone. Thanks to everyone who contributed to it!
With root, do we have control over the led color notifications finally? Or does that require more semantics?
Moto Droid's LED notifier is RGB. DroidINC has to have something similar right, because we get Red, Green, and Orange..unless they someone how have three colors in that tiny hole...

I don't understand... what does the study of words and the meaning herein have to do with LED control? Did I miss something?
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What do you mean LED color? The LED flash is the only LEDs on the phone and they are one color. You can swap it out for a custom color leds and put them in the place of the dual flash LEDs but other than that you can not change the color.

Calibob2001 said:
I don't understand... what does the study of words and the meaning herein have to do with LED control? Did I miss something?
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Oh, let's not argue about semantics
I read somewhere other than XDA that HTC had released the Incredible devices source code which, if true, will lead to all kinds of devices-level mods. I personally would like to see the soft button backlights be dimmeable, or individual controllable for different kinds notifications, or possible a scrolling/marquee style effect so it looks like KITT is in charge ehehe.

Ffej5647 said:
What do you mean LED color? The LED flash is the only LEDs on the phone and they are one color. You can swap it out for a custom color leds and put them in the place of the dual flash LEDs but other than that you can not change the color.
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He's talking about the notification LED on the front of the phone.
and OP there's nothing out that I'm aware of as of now.

I don't think any software modification would allow you to change the color of the notification LED at the top or the LEDs at the bottom (Home, menu, etc). However, I don't know anything about LED technology to argue my thought(s). I assuming that whatever color bulb they put in there is what you get.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to have the bottom buttons a red color to match the top speaker/camera areas because the phone would look absolutely badass but I'm not about to pry the screen off or take the phone apart to do it.

Xephik said:
I don't think any software modification would allow you to change the color of the notification LED at the top or the LEDs at the bottom (Home, menu, etc). However, I don't know anything about LED technology to argue my thought(s). I assuming that whatever color bulb they put in there is what you get.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to have the bottom buttons a red color to match the top speaker/camera areas because the phone would look absolutely badass but I'm not about to pry the screen off or take the phone apart to do it.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Dinc has at least a green and red LED for notifications. The Moto Droid however has RGB so you can pretty much make any color appear. That is also why there are a lot of options in apps like Handcent and Missed Call.

Sorry for the confusion, all. But yeah, I was referring to the LED notification on the front.
The LED flash on the back- is a bulb which can only push out white. But the one in the front pushes out Red, Green, and Orange. And with the moto droid, you could manipulate color notifications with different programs..
so my question is more of- is it software that locks those colors or hardware that does... thanks for clarifying my question-jrkrush2112

I suspect the notification LED in the Dinc is a tri-color which gives you red, green and a form of brown which looks like amber. It is not a RGB LED like in the Moto Droid.
So you already have the colors that are available.

qmartman711 said:
Sorry for the confusion, all. But yeah, I was referring to the LED notification on the front.
The LED flash on the back- is a bulb which can only push out white. But the one in the front pushes out Red, Green, and Orange. And with the moto droid, you could manipulate color notifications with different programs..
so my question is more of- is it software that locks those colors or hardware that does... thanks for clarifying my question-jrkrush2112
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It's most likely a mix of both. The hardware portion is the fact that we don't have an RGB LED like the droid, and software is just what options are pre-set. We will be able to change the colors for notifications, but we are limited in options.

LED colors

I've been looking to change the LED notification color on my mytouch slide however it seems that the hardware is limited to only green and orange...
anyone successfully changed the LED out for a multicolored one?

there is only 2 led colors and thats them

em2drvr03 said:
there is only 2 led colors and thats them
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I think he's asking if anyone has replaced the 2-color one with a multi-color one. At least, I think.
I haven't done much research, but I don't think anyone's mentioned it.

I haven't pulled the slide apart to check, but most 2-color LEDs only have 2 leads to solder to the board. The color is changed by polarity. Multicolor RGB LEDs have four leads: one for common, and one for each of red, green, and blue. I can't imagine HTC would include the board traces for it and not include it.

[Q] Notification LED

So I was playing around with lightflow on my nexus 4 and I noticed that the red LED is kind of prominent when the notification light pulses when I have any color selected with red in it. There's a red glow at the top of the notification light when it pulses, which makes blue half purple, yellow half red-orange, and white pink/purple. The picture is kind of bright, but you can kind of see what I mean (it's supposed to be yellow). It's a lot more visible in real life... Does anyone else have this too?

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So I was playing around with lightflow on my nexus 4 and I noticed that the red LED is kind of prominent when the notification light pulses when I have any color selected with red in it. There's a red glow at the top of the notification light when it pulses, which makes blue half purple, yellow half red-orange, and white pink/purple. The picture is kind of bright, but you can kind of see what I mean (it's supposed to be yellow). It's a lot more visible in real life... Does anyone else have this too?
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Looks yellow to me brotato.
But yes, I think it's normal to get glimpses of other colors. Happened on gnex and gs3 too.
-Sent from my Nexus 7.-

How do you even configure the LED I couldn't find a way to do this (never had a phone with notification LED before)
In fact I haven't seen the notification LED at all, I can't test SMS messages because my Micro-SIM isn't here yet, but all other kind of notifications had no effect.
Where do I find the LED settings
EDIT: Ok, It seems like there is a notification if I receive a mail (gmail), but not for all notifications. Is this normal?
(If you can tell me how it works I can check if I have a red glow)

Use light flow, download from play.
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Slightly topic related question. (apology for slight double post - question sits better here - not worth another thread)
Q1 : When charging I have no lights/led indicators illuminated (on both stock and aokp) - is this the normal? - intended behavior?
I'm used to HTC/Samsung, that tend charge at one colour (amber/red) and then display another colour when full (green). This would seem sensible to me, so that we ensure that we don't over charge the battery and over heat the phone?
Q2 : Another favour to ask: can someone please post a close up picture, of the two Nexus 4 USB cable plugs, as I've managed to confuse several USB leads and don't know which came with the Nexus, which I may need for an RMA return?
Thanks in advance

An RGB LED is basically 3 LEDs crammed into one housing. It's just like a pixel on your monitor, but larger. If you were to zoom in on your monitor you would notice the three individual colors. It just so happens that the red part of the LED doesn't diffuse throughout the housing as well as the other colors do.

karanrajpal14 said:
Use light flow, download from play.
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I see, it's done using an app.
I can see a small red glow at the top (I guess) but it's really small and I wouldn't even have noticed without this thread. (Maybe it's because I am red-green colorblind, but I don't think this has a great effect here)
BTW: Is there a more advanced possibility to control the LED in Cyanogenmod or is it a good idea to pay for light flow (I'm especially interested in support of steam)?

ben_pyett said:
Q1 : When charging I have no lights/led indicators illuminated (on both stock and aokp) - is this the normal? - intended behavior?
I'm used to HTC/Samsung, that tend charge at one colour (amber/red) and then display another colour when full (green). This would seem sensible to me, so that we ensure that we don't over charge the battery and over heat the phone?
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Yes, by default there is no LED notification of the charge status. You can use Light Flow (including the free version) from the Play Store to add this behavior, as well as controlling notifications for all sorts of events (not just LED notifications -- sounds and vibrations, as well).
You don't need to worry about overcharging the battery, though. There is a protection circuit built in that prevents issues of that sort.

ben_pyett said:
Slightly topic related question. (apology for slight double post - question sits better here - not worth another thread)
Q2 : Another favour to ask: can someone please post a close up picture, of the two Nexus 4 USB cable plugs, as I've managed to confuse several USB leads and don't know which came with the Nexus, which I may need for an RMA return?
Thanks in advance
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--Here you go--

Hidden92 said:
BTW: Is there a more advanced possibility to control the LED in Cyanogenmod or is it a good idea to pay for light flow (I'm especially interested in support of steam)?
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CM allows you to set colors and flash rate per app, Lite flow allows this too, Lite flow (paid) allows you to add additional apps beyond the standard ones (Gmail, SMS, Facebook, etc).

Brad S said:
--Here you go--
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thanks, but I wasn't able to see any attachment? *confused*?
EDIT: I can now, XDA/browser issue, seen it now - so resolved and thanks

I'd suggest you try out the lite version of light flow first then decide to buy it or not. It's worth the price AFAIK!
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