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Maybe I'm just being a little paranoid, but I notice that the blue notification light on my xperia play isn't a solid color. It's a very fast (almost unnoticeable) flashing blue that just makes me worry the light is having some problems... although it's been working fine. The green light is solid, why would the blue flash?
Is your bluetooth on?
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No, bluetooth is not on.
From what I gather its a notification of msg or status update from a chat or facebook
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well the blue light is on to tell me that it's a new text message... but my question is why does it flash, and not stay a solid blue? Does everyone else with a xperia play flash blue, or stay solid?
It flashes for me. The only time I know that the light shines solid blue is when it's in fastboot mode. It shines solid red when it has low battery, orange while it charges, and green when it's connected to the computer, both in Flash mode and normally.
Logseman said:
It flashes for me. The only time I know that the light shines solid blue is when it's in fastboot mode. It shines solid red when it has low battery, orange while it charges, and green when it's connected to the computer, both in Flash mode and normally.
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Snap, do get the lights flashing as well.
Orange for text messages, green for email, purple for twitter etc. Never seen a flashing blue light as of yet though.
Do you have Handcent installed?
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just because your paranoid does mean SE aren't onto you
xanderharris86 said:
Maybe I'm just being a little paranoid, but I notice that the blue notification light on my xperia play isn't a solid color. It's a very fast (almost unnoticeable) flashing blue that just makes me worry the light is having some problems... although it's been working fine. The green light is solid, why would the blue flash?
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seriously, I would not worry. This phone has so many faults, learn to love them
": My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasies. She used to fart in her sleep. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up. But Will, she's been dead for 2 years, and that's the **** I remember. Those are the things I miss the most. The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about. That's what made her my wife. People call these things imperfections, but there not. That's the good stuff"
nelly_boy said:
seriously, I would not worry. This phone has so many faults, learn to love them
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I havnt had any problems with mine. Even the new tiger mame save states work for me and everyone keeps saying they don't work.
Mine just......works!
xanderharris86 said:
well the blue light is on to tell me that it's a new text message... but my question is why does it flash, and not stay a solid blue? Does everyone else with a xperia play flash blue, or stay solid?
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yer it means facebook chat
Its a Facebook noti...happens to me all the time
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Forgive me if this has already been found but the Moto X has a notification light. Everywhere I've read including critic reviews said the moto x only has its active notification system.
I stumbled upon this with my defective moto maker xt1053. Somehow it came with a corrupt system from factory that even rsd lite couldn't fix. Anyway, I have a replacement on the way but I've had no way to turn it off. This morning I was playing around with it and plugged it in via USB to my computer. Battery graphic popped up as it would anytime you plug in with the phone powered down. The phone then showed 0% and to my surprise, a bright green led light long-blinks through the speaker grill!
My question now is... Is there anyway to enable the light under normal circumstances? I love active notifications, but if my phone is face up, I'd like to know if I have a text, etc with out picking up the phone.
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You don't have to pick up the phone to see active notifications. They will pulse (just like an led) until dismissed.
Jayrod1980 said:
Forgive me if this has already been found but the Moto X has a notification light. Everywhere I've read including critic reviews said the moto x only has its active notification system.
I stumbled upon this with my defective moto maker xt1053. Somehow it came with a corrupt system from factory that even rsd lite couldn't fix. Anyway, I have a replacement on the way but I've had no way to turn it off. This morning I was playing around with it and plugged it in via USB to my computer. Battery graphic popped up as it would anytime you plug in with the phone powered down. The phone then showed 0% and to my surprise, a bright green led light long-blinks through the speaker grill!
My question now is... Is there anyway to enable the light under normal circumstances? I love active notifications, but if my phone is face up, I'd like to know if I have a text, etc with out picking up the phone.
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That's pretty awesome. I would love to be able to activate that. Nice find!
That's pretty sick if it's not a hoax. Looks like an alien phone ?
I just tried the framework changes from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43281267&postcount=8
It did not work.
I tried disabling/enabling "active display", but it didn't help.
I'm surprised this hasn't been found before and hacked to work as an ordinary led notification light.
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If I didn't have a busted phone I would never have known. On android central someone else mentioned that the light will turn on when plugged in without enough battery to activate the led screen. Has anyone tried the notification light widget from Motorola? Supposedly that gets the moto g light to turn on. If that doesn't work then perhaps it is a kernel setting? I would love to play around to get this working but until my replacement arrives I'm stuck. The picture I took was dumb luck. I kept plugging it in until I could snap a picture fast enough with my nexus 5 to catch it. It looks really cool coming through that grill... Even if it is only green. Its more of a bar than just a single light but perhaps thats an effect of the metallic grill.
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Oddly enough I just try to downld and install "light flow" a led notification control center for android and its not installing it just stuck @ ℅100 :what:
Description says it's updated for kitkat and nexus 5 device
That looks awesome! I hope someone figures out how to enable it. I'm too stupid to figure that out
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As far as i know, It's directly wired to the battery system and does not interact with the OS... So no apk or firmware mod is going to have access to control it.
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Whatever we have active notify
nice find
I love active notifications, but would still like using this for some things. It looks pretty awesome when lit as far as your pic shows.
Hard to believe it isn't controlled by the OS.
Yes someone found this early on in the Motos realease. It was eventually concluded that it is not in any part of the system framework so any kind of software changes wouldn't be able to enable it. It is independently attached to the batteries circuit.
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Nice find!
Seriously... What an opportunity wasted... Especially since they put it in such a neat spot. To place an LED there in that spot in such a clever way and then never have it do anything with the OS seems like such a waste.
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anyone opened it up yet to see if there is an alt/ place to solder the light to? or am i just crazy....
EDIT: i've seen a few phones i've opened up have extra contact points for random little things but hey its entirely possible
You could do that but definitely not worth shorting out your $500 phone accidentally IMO
From the user manual:
Low Battery LED:
This LED lights up when you plug in your
charger and the smartphone’s battery level is too low to
power on the display. It means that your smartphone is
charging and will be ready to use shortly.
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Seen some posts about this before and so far no one has been able to make use of it otherwise
Hah most of us haven't seen it because our battery life is so great
I've actually never had the motox run out of juice on me.
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It may only be a simple feature but it's really important for me and makes a huge difference.
Yes indeed it has
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Yep.......
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can we not clutter up the forum with questions like this. just look at photos of it and you can see it does smh
I can't think of any smartphones these days, at least the flagship ones, that does not have a notification led.
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My white Note 3 has somewhat week led light when it is light outside. Any info if they corrected this in Note 4?
How to activate the LED light on galaxy note 4
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It may only be a simple feature but it's really important for me and makes a huge difference.
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Hi. Yes it does, i would imagine you figured it out by now, but just in case. You go to settings--> Display--->LED indicator, make sure the box for this option is checked. This will enable the LED light to blink again for notifications when your screen is off.
I know how important this little feature can be. I work from home, and that little light helps me stay up to date with all that is going on in my business. it lets me know when there is something new going on that i need to check out.
Hope this helps
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m3lover1 said:
I can't think of any smartphones these days, at least the flagship ones, that does not have a notification led.
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Ask nexus 6 users if they have a notification light out of the box lol
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But I think note 4 has only 3 colors, red green blue , at least that's how it's on mine note 4. It's not showing any other colors even lightflow not working.
m3lover1 said:
I can't think of any smartphones these days, at least the flagship ones, that does not have a notification led.
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Nexus 6, iPhone, any Windows Phone
proudixz said:
But I think note 4 has only 3 colors, red green blue , at least that's how it's on mine note 4. It's not showing any other colors even lightflow not working.
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I use light manager and am getting almost every color under the rainbow. Check it out.
Lightflow is not working, but the custom lights in Whatsapp is working - it lights purple when set ...
Someone to have an idea why whatsapp can control LED but another applications cannot?
There are some features missing in this moto g as compared to it's predecessor.
Please add on the list
Driving mode in moto Assist
Gyroscope
Notification light
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ben7337 said:
Notification light
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With Moto Display, you aren't going to see the notification light on Motorola phones anymore. It just doesn't make sense.
The led is discrete. The moto display is not.
krsmit0 said:
The led is discrete. The moto display is not.
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The led also flashes every few seconds. The Moto display does not do any such thing and though people say you can wave your hand over the phone to turn it on, that's still more interaction to see if there's anything and I tried that feature on my Moto g and it never worked.
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ben7337 said:
The led also flashes every few seconds. The Moto display does not do any such thing and though people say you can wave your hand over the phone to turn it on, that's still more interaction to see if there's anything and I tried that feature on my Moto g and it never worked.
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It certainly is not the same. But the days of led notifications are coming to an end. And you don't have to wave your hand. You can also just pick up your phone and it automatically shows your notifications in dark mode.
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It certainly is not the same. But the days of led notifications are coming to an end. And you don't have to wave your hand. You can also just pick up your phone and it automatically shows your notifications in dark mode.
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So what if I'm typing and working and want to know if I have a message. How do I check visually without picking up the phone? With the notification light it blinks constantly. The active display can't do that and as a result is a drop in functionality for me. It's nice that the phone turns the active display on when I pick up the phone, but that doesn't replace a notification light, if anything it would work best in unison with a notification light.
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I'll miss the light. Had active display on motox and hated it. It was the best part of my motog.
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With Moto Display, you aren't going to see the notification light on Motorola phones anymore. It just doesn't make sense.
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ben7337 said:
So what if I'm typing and working and want to know if I have a message. How do I check visually without picking up the phone? With the notification light it blinks constantly. The active display can't do that and as a result is a drop in functionality for me. It's nice that the phone turns the active display on when I pick up the phone, but that doesn't replace a notification light, if anything it would work best in unison with a notification light.
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ben7337 said:
So what if I'm typing and working and want to know if I have a message. How do I check visually without picking up the phone? With the notification light it blinks constantly. The active display can't do that and as a result is a drop in functionality for me. It's nice that the phone turns the active display on when I pick up the phone, but that doesn't replace a notification light, if anything it would work best in unison with a notification light.
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Very true. But most people didn't use led notifications because it didn't tell you much (unless you download an app to configure them with different colors). This is what Moto Display and the ambient display were created for. People used to led notifications don't like it but I venture to say more people are making use of the new method.
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Very true. But most people didn't use led notifications because it didn't tell you much (unless you download an app to configure them with different colors). This is what Moto Display and the ambient display were created for. People used to led notifications don't like it but I venture to say more people are making use of the new method.
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Isn't the new method only on Moto phones though? What percent of the market does Moto even have? As for notification colors, every app I know has its own colors for notifications so it's always easy to tell what I have a notification for, unless I have multiple notifications.
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Isn't the new method only on Moto phones though? What percent of the market does Moto even have? As for notification colors, every app I know has its own colors for notifications so it's always easy to tell what I have a notification for, unless I have multiple notifications.
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No. Lollipop has ambient display which is very similar. That is why turning on ambient display disables Moto Display.
Piyoosh_Singh said:
There are some features missing in this moto g as compared to it's predecessor.
Please add on the list
Driving mode in moto Assist
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Make sure Motorola Contextual Services is installed from Play. That's what I had to do with my 2nd Gen to get driving mode.
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I am not a big fan of the notification screen i dont think Moto G has a AMOLED display hence if it is not the case the notification will drain the battery faster how i am not an expert on how the notification works so i may be wrong
LED was cool but no many used it anyways it was not a feature but an accessory without which you can live with
How did this turn into a philosophical debate over the merits of a notification led?
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No gyroscope - so no driving mode or photosphere or google cardboard or spotlight stories. No LED notifications. No stereo speakers.
There is a hidden LED;
http://www.techdroider.com/2015/08/moto-g-3rd-generation-also-have-hidden-led.html
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No gyroscope - so no driving mode or photosphere or google cardboard or spotlight stories. No LED notifications. No stereo speakers.
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Driving mode is no gyroscope dependent. It was there on the first gen Moto G (which too, leaks a gyroscope.)
Whoa...I was considering moving from Samsung to Moto...but if no LED, it's a no go for me. I use Lightflow, and the different colors, and flash/no flash, is too handy to lose. Don't have to pick up the phone; don't have to be close to it even, to know what type of message may be waiting.
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Whoa...I was considering moving from Samsung to Moto...but if no LED, it's a no go for me. I use Lightflow, and the different colors, and flash/no flash, is too handy to lose. Don't have to pick up the phone; don't have to be close to it even, to know what type of message may be waiting.
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Enjoy it while you can. Ambient notifications are going to kill the need for led notifications. While it is not was powerful as led notifications, I would imagine we will see a huge drop in LEDs in Android phones in the next year or so.
God, I'm still using my Oneplus 3t, The Oneplus 5 is sitting in its box.
I couldn't be more let down by the Notification led that they should have called the "I CAN BARELY SEE IT LED"
And the dim blue navigation button lights are so dim compared to the Oneplus 3t white ones as well.
Seriously, It has one job...To NOTIFY...what was the point of making it so dim you can't see it in a lit room unless the phone is in your hand.
I've tried Custom Firmware (Resurrection Remix), I've tried Light Flow...Nothing ...That Dim Led is already at 100% and about 1/4 the brightness of the 3t.
Sadly I come from Australia, Not a county Oneplus sells to so no returning for me.
Thats $770 down the drain, I rely heavily on the NOTIFICATION LED (If you're reading this Oneplus...Thats NOTIFICATION...as in NOTIFYING..like, being VISIBLE)
It's sad, A notification led is one of the things that really separates us from Iphone users.
Maybe with a firmware update but i doubt it...I have the terrible feeling they're at full brightness...But lets hope
I don't mind the capacitive buttons being dim since I turn off lights anyway. But yeah, the notification LED is pretty dim for whatever reason.
I guess the best option for those who rely on notifications is to turn on Ambient Display.
I actually like the navigation leds being on, I set them to be on as long as the screen is on.
I could live with them, but the notification led... It's like what's next.. A camera that doesn't take pictures, a battery that doesn't charge, a speaker that makes no sound.
It's a NOTIFICATION Led, one job.. To be able to notify you ?*
""A notification led is one of the things that really separates us from Iphone users.""
but having a 3T and a op5 in a box. Apple fan boii much, buying phones every year, what a waste/overconsumption.
Ummm, no... I said I have a Oneplus 5 in a box.
I'm a tad confused by your
A) Obvious hostility towards me.
B) Having two android phones makes me an "Apple fan boii" how
I've actually never owned an Apple anything
Using the ElementalX kernel i increased the brightness of the LED. i would say it is more than adequate for my needs at least. Might be worth a try?
I'm also disappointed by the notification led being so dimm..
But if a kernel can brighten it up, maybe OnePlus can do it too.
I'd rather a custom OS, right now it's running Resurrection Remix Official, but not many kernels seem compatible with it.
And unlike RR on the Oneplus 3t, I don't feel it's very polisher on the Plus 5.... The Vibration is a bit glitchy, it tends to skip some key presses.. I mean if you press a key numerous times in a row.. Sometimes you'll get no haptic feedback.
I'm currently exploring other firmwares.
I really miss Xposed Framework ?
I'll let you know how I go.
They're almost unbrickable so I'm pretty gungho about flashing ****.
tsuttie99 said:
Using the ElementalX kernel i increased the brightness of the LED. i would say it is more than adequate for my needs at least. Might be worth a try?
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How did you increase the brighness? According to the commit message, the value in the kernel setting can be set between 1% and 100% brighness level of the stock value, ie no way to increase over stock value. Or am I missing something?
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How did you increase the brighness? According to the commit message, the value in the kernel setting can be set between 1% and 100% brighness level of the stock value, ie no way to increase over stock value. Or am I missing something?
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I use EX Kernel Manager. Under Misc. there is a section for Notification LED, fade speed, intensity and fade enable/disable. set my intensity to 9 and all is fine for my needs. On par with my 6P
9 should mean 9% of stock setting, so should be very low.. Must be something I am missing.. ?
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9 should mean 9% of stock setting, so should be very low.. Must be something I am missing.. ?
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It may have been a typo and he meant 90%.
And perhaps stock isn't set to maximum in the first place?
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It may have been a typo and he meant 90%.
And perhaps stock isn't set to maximum in the first place?
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Stock is at 50%, but with light manager you can set to 100% without root or kernel. But that doesn't change enough to make the led good.
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