Gonna have to replace my beloved N1 eventually
Do any of the newer android phones have anything remotely similar?
Thanks
Well newest speculations are claiming there will be a notification LED in the nexus... so wait and see?
I think I'll miss the trackball too. Most new phones don't even have the optical track pad.
No they don't but they do have a little LED on the front like a blackberry. It would be easy to make that multicoloured.
Supposedly, the Nexus Prime has a multi-colored notification light.
yea that trackball notification thing. setting up different colours for different app notifications..
best thing to ever be put on any phone ever. its probably the best thing about the nexus one
There is also NoLED for AMOLED phones with no notification light...
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I've looked all over for info regarding this, but can't find anything so far.
I saw in the Samsung Captivate forum that there are devs working on a screen LED since the captivate has no LED. Does that mean that all of the samsung galaxy phones have no notification lights?
The main thing ima miss about my Nexus One is the colored trackball. I assumed there would be at least a upper notification led like tha majority of phones out today.
The Epic does have a notification light. First 2 pictures: Top right of phone, in between the Sprint logo and the front-facing camera.
androidcentral com /sprint-epic-4g-hands-on
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Spik3balloon said:
The Epic does have a notification light. First 2 pictures: Top right of phone, in between the Sprint logo and the front-facing camera.
androidcentral com /sprint-epic-4g-hands-on
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Oh wow! I hadn't seen those pictures. Indeed there is a notification light!
I'm wondering why the Captivate or Vibrant don't have the notification light? It seems like they really did make the Epic better than the other 3 galaxy phones!
well it is a Galaxy S Pro
These two videos further confirm there's at least two colors (blue and pink):
http://www.youtube.com/user/phandroid#p/u/19/dzHR9_Ocu74
http://www.youtube.com/user/phandroid#p/u/21/zlWhWneMYrU
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These two videos further confirm there's at least two colors (blue and pink):
http://www.youtube.com/user/phandroid#p/u/19/dzHR9_Ocu74
http://www.youtube.com/user/phandroid#p/u/21/zlWhWneMYrU
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I've seen both of those videos but never paid attention to if there was a notification light or not!
We need more video of this amazing phone!
Fantastic, this allays one of my biggest concerns. Now if they release a car dock that works with Car Home, I'd have positively no hesitation in buying this phone.
Make your own car dock... for much cheaper. It won't auto launch the car home dock, but I made one for my Hero following a forum member's guide and it came out perfect. Cost ~$10... just use a different person for the garmin dock, i waited 2 months without receiving anything from ebay seller he recommended.
I have a car dock for my G1, but launching Car Home, automatically turning on bluetooth, etc. is sort of the point
Anyone have any ideas as to how configurable the notification lights/colors are? It'd be cool if I could have blue for work email, pink for texts, and maybe flashing blue for personal email. (or something like that)
quasi13 said:
Anyone have any ideas as to how configurable the notification lights/colors are? It'd be cool if I could have blue for work email, pink for texts, and maybe flashing blue for personal email. (or something like that)
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No one has reported on it yet and the phone isn't out yet. Right now we have seen Pink/Red and Blue I believe in videos and White as well. It is purely speculation, but the phone probably has RGB LED's in there so in theory can display any color of the rainbow. The same way the Nexus and G1 display different colors for different notifications I imagine this phone will as well. Once again purely speculation.
What I'd like to know is can we control notification light colors and customize them so much that even who you get a txt from gets its own color. Now that'd be cool.
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What I'd like to know is can we control notification light colors and customize them so much that even who you get a txt from gets its own color. Now that'd be cool.
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That's sort of what I'm thinking, except if not many colors, many options for blinking (incl. blink rate) or alternating colors. I sure hope the settings for these lights are powerful out of the box.
We need a proper geek to get his/her hands on this thing!
the nexus one has one (along with the trackball), but i havent seen anything about one for the nexus s. anyone know if there is one. i assume if there was one we would know by now
jaker.the.skater said:
the nexus one has one (along with the trackball), but i havent seen anything about one for the nexus s. anyone know if there is one. i assume if there was one we would know by now
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no LED
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arg. that sucks. its not a major feature but its handy.
oh well im still getting one anyways. cant wait till thursday!
(^_^)
http://www.appbrain.com/app/noled/com.led.notify
does this forum have a mod?
Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=870833
From all the reviews and responses I've read, I was really surprised that people don't seem to care about notification LED. Coming from N1, I really can't live without notification LED (no, I don't wanna use mod to burn the OLED)
C'mon Google, almost every android phone has notification LED except for the 'S' series!! N1 even has two, and they are RGB LEDs!!!
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From all the reviews and responses I've read, I was really surprised that people don't seem to care about notification LED. Coming from N1, I really can't live without notification LED (no, I don't wanna use mod to burn the OLED)
C'mon Google, almost every android phone has notification LED except for the 'S' series!! N1 even has two, and they are RGB LEDs!!!
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go read what noLED does, it won't burn in because it constantly moves around. Not to mention it takes a long ass time to burn in a screen so unless you plan on leaving a notification there for a week, you'll be fine.
victorinoxs said:
From all the reviews and responses I've read, I was really surprised that people don't seem to care about notification LED. Coming from N1, I really can't live without notification LED (no, I don't wanna use mod to burn the OLED)
C'mon Google, almost every android phone has notification LED except for the 'S' series!! N1 even has two, and they are RGB LEDs!!!
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I like how people say "C'mon Google" like Google made the phone. Samsung made it!
I really like the LED trackball, it is useful. One big point to me.
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Damn people, enough of these trackball LED threads. If you REALLY want something, search the Galaxy S forums for BLN (Backlight Notifications) which uses the capacitive buttons LEDs as notification lights... it's not the same, but at least it's SOMETHING. I'm sure the Nexus S will be modded to have it in short order.
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Damn people, enough of these trackball LED threads. If you REALLY want something, search the Galaxy S forums for BLN (Backlight Notifications) which uses the capacitive buttons LEDs as notification lights... it's not the same, but at least it's SOMETHING. I'm sure the Nexus S will be modded to have it in short order.
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This is what I came here to say. I am willing to bet there will be a BLN kernel for Nexus S in less than a week.
yesterday i was bored and was somehow glued to the notification light and how it pulsed. and the closer i look, i realize it does not look like the notification light you see on devices such as GS3 or GS4. another thing is the accuracy of the led notification colour.
so i am wondering, is it actually LED or a tiny display made into a notification light?
One way to find out!
(No jk I am also curious but I think it's just a LED.)
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By the low light and the way it works I think its just a little display.
It's a LED.
But the way they have worked with the perforation in the casing makes it look a lot softer than your usual LEDs.
I have a feeling that you answered your own question in your own question.
Also they are not going to make a tiny display to act as notification, what would be very energy consuming and impractical.
Generally speaking, (this is probably obvious to some) I feel they disabled/hid the notification LED controls due to its location directly behind the speaker. Previous devices had clearly visible notification LEDs, and its likely they felt it wasn't presentable enough to be enabled.
I'd imagine during preliminary designs the earpiece speaker was located slightly lower which would have given the led full and unobstructed view ability.
They likely changed the location of the speaker because the phone's front display wouldn't maintain symmetry. Just my random thoughts.
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Good thought, but even now the LED is plenty visible so I'm not sure why they didn't just go with it
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Probably due to the ambient display. Now that I sent back my nexus 6 and am using the note 4 till my 64gb nexus comes in, I really miss that feature. It's perfect for quick and easy notification access, but there's no way to tell if you have a new notification, without picking up the phone/turning the screen on. Having both ambient display and LED lights would be phenomenal.
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Probably due to the ambient display. Now that I sent back my nexus 6 and am using the note 4 till my 64gb nexus comes in, I really miss that feature. It's perfect for quick and easy notification access, but there's no way to tell if you have a new notification, without picking up the phone/turning the screen on. Having both ambient display and LED lights would be phenomenal.
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+1 that would be a really useful combination! Devs will most likely figure something out to achieve that.
If the speaker was lower, wouldn't they have to move the LED with it anyway?
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Its not enabled because they have active display. Its there to tell you the phone is dead (no battery) when trying to turn it on.
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Having both ambient display and LED lights would be phenomenal.
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Ya, see the blink and wave your hand over the phone to see whats up. Na, who needs that?! :cyclops:
From the source commit logs, the first revision of the phone only had a charging LED. The second added the tricolor one.
However, neither LED was ever at any time properly "attached" to android. The "glue" abstraction lib has never exposed either LED since the library's initial commit.
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What else are they removing? Sales?
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What else are they removing? Sales?
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That would be retarded so I hope not.
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You get a bid amoled screen with AOD that works as a improved led. Something like that. Look at other phones with the same design and You Will see
Yep, AOD works for me. Have it on my Pixel...
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What else are they removing? Sales?
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A notification LED would be nice! I hope it has one. Never had a device with AOD but I'd prefer an LED myself.
No way aod is as bright and visible as led. I'm going to use their slogan on them and not buy this device.
"Never Settle"
Well I guess you can't expect to call batman using your screen
AFAIK there were rumors that said the LED is the bottom like on the Nexus 5 back then. I can't seem to find the proximity or ambient light sensor on the images so it could be. On the other hand I would say they have removed it in favor of the smaller notch. If I need to upgrade from my OnePlus 5T I'll probably have to choose between the OnePlus 6 and 6T. So either bigger notch with LED and headphone jack or smaller notch without them. Makes me not wanna buy a new phone...
Oneplus are making it very difficult to like this new phone.
They could make small part/dot on top of the display, use few pixels to act as a LED when screen is off. It's OLED so it shouldn't be a problem.?
So does it have led notifications?
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So does it have led notifications?
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No it doesn't.
Guys does it for sure have AOD or is it lift up display ambient display like the OnePlus 6? Anyone has a link that lists or confirms AOD? I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and no one talks about AOD which is VERY important if it doesn't have a notification LED.
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No it doesn't.
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I am definitely out then. One thing is the headphone jack being removed but the only other thing I liked about oneplus is led notifications.
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Guys does it for sure have AOD or is it lift up display ambient display like the OnePlus 6? Anyone has a link that lists or confirms AOD? I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and no one talks about AOD which is VERY important if it doesn't have a notification LED.
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I agree, but it seems there is no LED notification AND no AOD...
You can see that on the XDA review: https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t-review/
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Guys does it for sure have AOD or is it lift up display ambient display like the OnePlus 6? Anyone has a link that lists or confirms AOD? I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and no one talks about AOD which is VERY important if it doesn't have a notification LED.
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No LED, and no AOD. Stupid as hell. I've been so hype for this release, and now no headphone jack, no led, and no AOD to replace it? Wtf is that. Guess I'll never settle for a OP again, unfortunately.
There's got to be some way to have the thing make some sort of blinking notification in the absence of the LED.
I'm fairly primed to buy one of these (coming from a 3T, to be used on ATT in the USA). Lack of LED is a big hit though. I gloat to my iPhone friends how I know which email account just had a new message via the LED being a specific color (I use Light Flow).
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I agree, but it seems there is no LED notification AND no AOD...
You can see that on the XDA review: https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t-review/
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All official specs here:
https://www.oneplus.com/6t/specs
izzyserious said:
No LED, and no AOD. Stupid as hell. I've been so hype for this release, and now no headphone jack, no led, and no AOD to replace it? Wtf is that. Guess I'll never settle for a OP again, unfortunately.
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I was SERIOUSLY considering switching from my 6 to the 6T, but no notification LED and no AOD is a no go for me! How are you supposed to tell you have a notification if your phone is sitting on a table?
Yep. I don't want to root this phone and if it doesn't at LEAST include Always On Display, then it's a no go.