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Notification lights

Hello,
I've noticed that there are a few colours that could light up on the x10. I'm talking about the notification light (round) on top right. So far I've witnessed:
Green
Orange
Red
and Purple <-- some of you may have not seen this. I'm guessing there are much more colours just like the nexus one track ball which will soon be available for adjustment after root... or maybe SE will be using them after the new update.
I see the purple light when I get new posts on the app called "craigsnotifica"
Please let me know if you have witnessed any other colours.
Lol, this is a bit exciting as the possibilities of this phone seems endless once root is achieved.
Cheers,
Trojjan

I've seen blue when using ebuddy.

trojjanhorse said:
Hello,
I've noticed that there are a few colours that could light up on the x10. I'm talking about the notification light (round) on top right. So far I've witnessed:
Green
Orange
Red
and Purple <-- some of you may have not seen this. I'm guessing there are much more colours just like the nexus one track ball which will soon be available for adjustment after root... or maybe SE will be using them after the new update.
I see the purple light when I get new posts on the app called "craigsnotifica"
Please let me know if you have witnessed any other colours.
Lol, this is a bit exciting as the possibilities of this phone seems endless once root is achieved.
Cheers,
Trojjan
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There is a app on the market that allows u to select any custom color for different notifications.
i think the apps name is blink flash led in your way.
it uses the RGB to generate any custom color.
cheers

Yeah the notilight can show any colour, except grey>black
Hello,
I've noticed that there are a few colours that could light up on the x10. I'm talking about the notification light (round) on top right. So far I've witnessed:
Green
Orange
Red
and Purple
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Try "Smspopup" "

yetep said:
Yeah the notilight can show any colour, except grey>black
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when there is no notification, it is black.. lol

Lol
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In addition to the five colors mentioned, there is also cyan. However... Is your orange really orange? Mine is green-yellowish.
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U can select a list of colors in Handcent app.

murmeljenta said:
In addition to the five colors mentioned, there is also cyan. However... Is your orange really orange? Mine is green-yellowish.
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My orange and yellow basically look the same.

The colour also changes as the charge level incresese.
so it goes from red when the battery is below 10% to very faint green then when its 100% charged it's a very bright green.

Found this from android forums by smg:
If you download the free app called "blink" from the market then you can set the led to lots of different colours for lots of different things like calls, texting, battery, memory etc.
Of the top of my head the colours you can set it too are:
Blue
Green
Red
Cyan
Purple
Orange
Pink
White
Yellow
This is pretty cool since now I can tell whether or not I missed a call or a text. Plus I get to play with the different cool colours.

Tried Blink app but IMHO it has limited functionality. Is there a way to turn the notification light on (in any color) for calendar reminders?

Our leds have various colours, but some things like light red and pink look exactly, use blink from market to change colours, its a free app, and use led tester (or sumtin) its also free and it shows you various colours you can use for on ur led, but its just a tester
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LED not showing correct colours :)

Hi guys,
I just purchased 2 GS3's. One black and one titanium grey. On the 1st night i put then to charge i noticed the black phone's led was shining brighter (red) while charging but i though it might just look brighter as its on a darker surface. Then i noticed that the titanium grey GS3 was not displaying the correct colours for notifications. So i went into setting and changed the notification colours and realised all light colours were not displayed properly, for e.g.. white is displayed as a light blue.
Does anyone know a fix for this (bedsides taking it back as i got them both from abroad) ?
Had anyone else experienced something like this?
Also just to mention it seems like the on/off button has a different feel to it (does not have that click/spring) to it as the black GS3 and also the camera does not seem as sharp.
Any info will be appreciated !

djsteel3000 said:
Hi guys,
I just purchased 2 GS3's. One black and one titanium grey. On the 1st night i put then to charge i noticed the black phone's led was shining brighter (red) while charging but i though it might just look brighter as its on a darker surface. Then i noticed that the titanium grey GS3 was not displaying the correct colours for notifications. So i went into setting and changed the notification colours and realised all light colours were not displayed properly, for e.g.. white is displayed as a light blue.
Does anyone know a fix for this (bedsides taking it back as i got them both from abroad) ?
Had anyone else experienced something like this?
Also just to mention it seems like the on/off button has a different feel to it (does not have that click/spring) to it as the black GS3 and also the camera does not seem as sharp.
Any info will be appreciated !
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Screen is Amoled, that's why it looks light blue and not white.
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terranoid said:
Screen is Amoled, that's why it looks light blue and not white.
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He is talking about Led Light for notification not the screen
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bbboldy said:
He is talking about Led Light for notification not the screen
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The LED light !!!

djsteel3000 said:
The LED light !!!
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There are only 3 colours available in sgs3 stock red while charging, green when fully charged, blue for missed events notifications, what diff. Colours you are taking about?
Are you using any external 3rd party applications to change led colours?
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gchindi said:
There are only 3 colours available in sgs3 stock red while charging, green when fully charged, blue for missed events notifications, what diff. Colours you are taking about?
Are you using any external 3rd party applications to change led colours?
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Yes i agree there are 3 colours while charging.
While both phones were charging (red led) it was noticeably brighter on the black phone.
Concerning the white led light on whatsapp messenger its supposed to be white (i know you can change the colour in the app settings). On the grey phone it displays the white led light as a light blue. If i change the app notification colour to display a yellow led light it displays it in a greenish colour.
To cut a long story short the led notification light is not displaying the correct colours......
I have changed different custom Roms so i know its not software !

djsteel3000 said:
Yes i agree there are 3 colours while charging.
While both phones were charging (red led) it was noticeably brighter on the black phone.
Concerning the white led light on whatsapp messenger its supposed to be white (i know you can change the colour in the app settings). On the grey phone it displays the white led light as a light blue. If i change the app notification colour to display a yellow led light it displays it in a greenish colour.
To cut a long story short the led notification light is not displaying the correct colours......
I have changed different custom Roms so i know its not software !
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It could be whats app issue, coz on normal stock, all required led lights work fine here on JB leaks, not yet tried official JB yet...
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Try *#0*# on your titanium grey s3 and check if it displays the correct led

It's probably a mis-balance of the voltages to the LED. This could be a driver chip or resistor out of tolerance. Nothing you can do about it except replace the phone. I doubt that they would seriously consider exchanging it for a minor fault like this.

vineet8137 said:
Try *#0*# on your titanium grey s3 and check if it displays the correct led
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Thanks Vineet all working correctly.
OK i took both the black phone and grey phone and observed them both closely . I have realised that the led light on the black phone is visible when off but on the grey phone its nearly invisible when off. It seems they covered the led with the grey colour of the phone and maybe thats why it doesn't show the correct colours.
Im not sure if that makes sense, its hard to explain.
It would be nice if someone else with a grey S3 would comment.

zardoz99 said:
It's probably a mis-balance of the voltages to the LED. This could be a driver chip or resistor out of tolerance. Nothing you can do about it except replace the phone. I doubt that they would seriously consider exchanging it for a minor fault like this.
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Red, green and blue all display properly but not as bright as on the black phone. Its only the light colours that are not correct like white and yellow.

[Q] Do I have a broken notification led? :(

It doesn't work. No matter what app I try it just doesn't go off. There is also no display option to turn the led on or off.
Anyone familiar with this?

Using stock 4.3? Download lightflow from play store and it'll work.

zephiK said:
Using stock 4.3? Download lightflow from play store and it'll work.
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I'm still on 4.2.2 after a big scare using various Nexus 4 tool sets, ill be waiting for OTA update.
Lightflow does make it light up though! But its faint as f... notification led seems pretty useless to be honest.

Servaas said:
I'm still on 4.2.2 after a big scare using various Nexus 4 tool sets, ill be waiting for OTA update.
Lightflow does make it light up though! But its faint as f... notification led seems pretty useless to be honest.
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Then why are you asking if you have a broken LED? It wouldn't make a difference if it lights up or not if you thought the feature was useless. I personally like it. Comes in handy when I'm not in my room and leave my phone there and then come back to see the LED blinking.

Servaas said:
It doesn't work. No matter what app I try it just doesn't go off. There is also no display option to turn the led on or off.
Anyone familiar with this?
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Im having this issue, but mine hasn't worked since cyanogenmod a couple months back, on carbon or PA it didn't work. Now on 4.3 and doesn't work. Though on Carbon the charging notification still worked when plugged in but lightflow or other apps didn't.

zephiK said:
Then why are you asking if you have a broken LED? It wouldn't make a difference if it lights up or not if you thought the feature was useless. I personally like it. Comes in handy when I'm not in my room and leave my phone there and then come back to see the LED blinking.
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The feature is really useful if you put in a bright led, one that a normal human can see when there is even the slightest hint of light. Not one that only works in total darkness.

Servaas said:
The feature is really useful if you put in a bright led, one that a normal human can see when there is even the slightest hint of light. Not one that only works in total darkness.
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Then change the color to red or a color thats extremely bright, lol. Its not that difficult.

Servaas said:
The feature is really useful if you put in a bright led, one that a normal human can see when there is even the slightest hint of light. Not one that only works in total darkness.
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You are saying that it is faint..You should check out the led of Htc phones :silly:
Notification Led of N4 is okay here..Not at all faint

Notification LED colors

I've been looking for an answer to this but I haven't found any good one with a clear "NO" or "Yes".
Is it RGB, multicolor or some technology with more colors? Has someone tested it with light flow to see if you can control it or it is actually a RGB led but the software just let you use 2 of them for some reason?
I'd like to have at least 5 colors... It is weird to me to see that it only has green and red. To be an RGB it only lacks the blue one, which is really werid to me. I'm planning to buy the phone and since I had this LED on my Galaxy S3 back in the day I can't be without it.

Doesn't seem RGB to me, so far I have seen green and red from the notification LED.
Couldn't get another color to display with Light Flow app (I'm noob with it tho, I just installed to reply to you)

Ya, I can't get light Flow to work either....all I have seen is Red and Green. Someone said orange but I have yet to see it.

Red and green...that is all I get also. But it does work! Some do say yellow also but I am not sure when yellow shows up. I have not seen yellow yet.

DTR_OS said:
Ya, I can't get light Flow to work either....all I have seen is Red and Green. Someone said orange but I have yet to see it.
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If it's got red and green, you can get orange. It's just probably not used in the ZTE software anywhere.
And RGB notification light isn't a fancy LED light any phone I know if, it's discrete R, G, and B diodes. Which is why you can really only get Red, Green, Blue, White, Yellow, Orange, and Purple on any phone.

Thank you for the information guys. I'll keep that in mind.
TeutonJon78 said:
If it's got red and green, you can get orange. It's just probably not used in the ZTE software anywhere.
And RGB notification light isn't a fancy LED light any phone I know if, it's discrete R, G, and B diodes. Which is why you can really only get Red, Green, Blue, White, Yellow, Orange, and Purple on any phone.
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I think they actually have the blue diode, but they don't use it. I wonder if someone can get it to work along the other 2.

Cesaragus said:
Thank you for the information guys. I'll keep that in mind.
I think they actually have the blue diode, but they don't use it. I wonder if someone can get it to work along the other 2.
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all three colors are showing up under /sys/class/leds, so it must be there. I'm not sure why it's not able to be turned on. I was able to get red, green, and orange to show up.

TeutonJon78 said:
all three colors are showing up under /sys/class/leds, so it must be there. I'm not sure why it's not able to be turned on. I was able to get red, green, and orange to show up.
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So it is definetly there right? Or maybe it is just a generic class for leds and they only use the ones they need (red and green). Would be nice to check if they can be activated via software in some way.

Cesaragus said:
So it is definetly there right? Or maybe it is just a generic class for leds and they only use the ones they need (red and green). Would be nice to check if they can be activated via software in some way.
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They shouldn't show up there if they aren't actual hardware, as those are created at runtime, I believe. I tried writing a value to the brightness, but it wouldn't let me (terminal user isn't part of the "system" group).
The LED testing app I was playing with couldn't activate it. So, no idea why it's not working.

TeutonJon78 said:
They shouldn't show up there if they aren't actual hardware, as those are created at runtime, I believe. I tried writing a value to the brightness, but it wouldn't let me (terminal user isn't part of the "system" group).
The LED testing app I was playing with couldn't activate it. So, no idea why it's not working.
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The node is there but only green and red have blink files.
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Unjustified Dev said:
The node is there but only green and red have blink files.
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Does it require the blink file to actually turn on though? I thought you just turn it to "on" with the brightness file? It still seems odd to only partially create the class (just like it seems odd to only have a RG LED if that's what they truly did).

TeutonJon78 said:
Does it require the blink file to actually turn on though? I thought you just turn it to "on" with the brightness file? It still seems odd to only partially create the class (just like it seems odd to only have a RG LED if that's what they truly did).
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It shouldn't I'll report back though after looking at the kernel tomorrow.
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Unjustified Dev said:
It shouldn't I'll report back though after looking at the kernel tomorrow.
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You sir, are a saint. Can't wait to make use of your work when I get my 6 gig Axon (As soon as it's released in the US)! Thanks so much for all your hard work! I'll make a donation to you at some point when I've got some spare cash!

DTR_OS said:
Ya, I can't get light Flow to work either....all I have seen is Red and Green. Someone said orange but I have yet to see it.
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Green+red=orange

Unjustified Dev said:
The node is there but only green and red have blink files.
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So what does it mean? Can someone add the mising blink file? Or is it impossible to do?
EDIT: For some reason I couldn't see the other answers. I hope it works, I really like the notification LED and I think this phone is amazing.

News from the ZTE community from sshasan
https://community.zteusa.com/message/55264?et=watches.email.thread#comment-55264
Only RG confirmed. Bummer.

Wow.. Disappointing..

how can you fit a flagship device with top notch display, cpu and chipset with a crappy RG led for notifications?
i honestly can't belive it and i hope it's just a poor software use of the existing hardware...

vizzze said:
how can you fit a flagship device with top notch display, cpu and chipset with a crappy RG led for notifications?
i honestly can't belive it and i hope it's just a poor software use of the existing hardware...
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Well, it is a small annoyance, but this phone was half the price of my other choice (Note 7). Also, it hasn't exploded, so that's a plus. It has better screen and audio than OP3, which was my third choice. So, I'd enjoy more notification light colors, but of things that were cut to save me $400, I'd vote for simpler LED light while keeping gorgeous screen and great sound any day.

vizzze said:
how can you fit a flagship device with top notch display, cpu and chipset with a crappy RG led for notifications?
i honestly can't belive it and i hope it's just a poor software use of the existing hardware...
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Blimey - that's quite extreme! I personally only care if there is an led (one colour is fine for me) as I'm only interested to see if there's a notification - after that I pick up the phone to see what it is!

LEDs?

I'm considering a V20. One question I have: does it have an LED, and support multiple colors?
I use Lightflow for my notifications. Different color and/or flash rate for notifications.
I'm aware of but not familiar with the second screen. I've read something about the notifications having a lifetime, ie will go away possibly before read. AS well, I think it would be easier to see notification lights and not have to even be necessarily close to the screen to read anything.
At any rate...does the V20 have the LED? Anyone using Lightflow?

ewingr said:
I'm considering a V20. One question I have: does it have an LED, and support multiple colors?
I use Lightflow for my notifications. Different color and/or flash rate for notifications.
I'm aware of but not familiar with the second screen. I've read something about the notifications having a lifetime, ie will go away possibly before read. AS well, I think it would be easier to see notification lights and not have to even be necessarily close to the screen to read anything.
At any rate...does the V20 have the LED? Anyone using Lightflow?
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no LED.
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You might not catch the message preview in the second screen but it's always on and showing what notifications you have

Thanks for the feedback guys.

It's a bit of a change going from a device with LED's to one without, but I ended up installing LED Blinker Pro and am using the on-screen notifications option (for devices lacking the LED light) and it works pretty good. Definitely worth the couple of bucks for the pro version.
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AthieN said:
It's a bit of a change going from a device with LED's to one without, but I ended up installing LED Blinker Pro and am using the on-screen notifications option (for devices lacking the LED light) and it works pretty good. Definitely worth the couple of bucks for the pro version.
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I used to have an app like that. Forgot about it. This might be a good solution. I guess the V20 is back on my evaluation list.
Thanks

ewingr said:
I used to have an app like that. Forgot about it. This might be a good solution. I guess the V20 is back on my evaluation list.
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No problem. It's definitely a great device, even though it has a few shortcomings. Overall though, I'm very happy with it!
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Hey all!
I know this an old thread and weird bumping it! ... But can anyone please check out this video of this guy applying a screen protector ... and his LG V20 has an LED Light? maybe some different version of phone?
https://youtu.be/SpFOJ3FQI5I?t=2m9s
You can see his lot of notifications and an LED light just next to his front Camera?

zero_zerodegree said:
Hey all!
I know this an old thread and weird bumping it! ... But can anyone please check out this video of this guy applying a screen protector ... and his LG V20 has an LED Light? maybe some different version of phone?
https://youtu.be/SpFOJ3FQI5I?t=2m9s
You can see his lot of notifications and an LED light just next to his front Camera?
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Sure looks like it... But pausing the video at the right spot (2:06) with the flashing light on and then zooming in, it looks like it's just the glare from his lighting. You can also see a similar glare on the camera and on the screen. You can also draw a straight line thru all the...

Uh, that's not an LED
That's the proximity sensor
If you aim any camera at it you're bound to see it flashing
We just don't cause our eyes don't see that spectrum of light
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HOWEVER
Since someone recently figured out the second screen widgets and can put anything they want up there (even on stock!) I'm sure we can expect some sort of led emulation thingy soon.

I kinda like how v20 handles notifications instead of led

Still_living714 said:
I kinda like how v20 handles notifications instead of led
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Same, I just wished the notifications stayed on the screen for longer than 2 seconds. Its not enough time to read which defeats the purpose entirely.

Thisisabadname said:
Same, I just wished the notifications stayed on the screen for longer than 2 seconds. Its not enough time to read which defeats the purpose entirely.
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This is where I guess it comes to each user. I personally like how fast they dissappear.

I personally cant stand this dem
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