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notification light?

i saw a white light on the bottom corner on my xoom;s screen. is it for notifications?

Depends on how you hold it. The notification light is a white (supposed to be tri-color) line next to the Verizon logo.

Jrockttu said:
Depends on how you hold it. The notification light is a white (supposed to be tri-color) line next to the Verizon logo.
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right. i'm just confused as it rarely comes on. i think the only time it came on was when i was playing wordfeud with friends.
isn't it suppose to come on when i get IM or email or something?

clovis_ll said:
right. i'm just confused as it rarely comes on. i think the only time it came on was when i was playing wordfeud with friends.
isn't it suppose to come on when i get IM or email or something?
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My light pulses White every 2 seconds or so when I get an IM on Gmail Talk. Edit: Only when the screens off, btw.

clovis_ll said:
right. i'm just confused as it rarely comes on. i think the only time it came on was when i was playing wordfeud with friends.
isn't it suppose to come on when i get IM or email or something?
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Here are the steps I took to learn this information:
1) Read the labels on the film taped across the front of the Xoom's screen as it came from the box, where it's pointing to NOTIFICATION LED
2) Read the user manual
3) Use my common knowledge and history of using mobile, connected devices to understand that a blinking light means something new has happened or arrived on the device.
4) Post a question on the forum
I think this is my first post, but I gladly use it to point out how newbish you are to have to ask this question on the internet.

Broadscope said:
Here are the steps I took to learn this information:
1) Read the labels on the film taped across the front of the Xoom's screen as it came from the box, where it's pointing to NOTIFICATION LED
2) Read the user manual
3) Use my common knowledge and history of using mobile, connected devices to understand that a blinking light means something new has happened or arrived on the device.
4) Post a question on the forum
I think this is my first post, but I gladly use it to point out how newbish you are to have to ask this question on the internet.
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Thanks for being a jerk. You may also want to make sure that you have notifications turned on whatever apps you're using.

Top light to the left of the camera
There's another light, just to the left of the front-facing camera. Does anybody know what it does?
The light to the camera's right glows when the camera's on. But the light to the left doesn't seem to do anything yet. (And it's not listed in the manuals nor on the plastic pull-off screen protector.)
Judging from the iFixIt take-apart photos, I'm guessing it will light up when the Xoom is running 4G.
Anybody else know more?

Broadscope said:
Here are the steps I took to learn this information:
1) Read the labels on the film taped across the front of the Xoom's screen as it came from the box, where it's pointing to NOTIFICATION LED
2) Read the user manual
3) Use my common knowledge and history of using mobile, connected devices to understand that a blinking light means something new has happened or arrived on the device.
4) Post a question on the forum
I think this is my first post, but I gladly use it to point out how newbish you are to have to ask this question on the internet.
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WOW thanks for your reply!
1. the label was taken off by the verizon employee when it was activated so i don't know that there was a sign that pointed to it.
2. the user manual did not specify where the notification light for apps are only for the charging light.
3. i know it is used to notify if something arrived but like i said it DOESN'T light when i get IMs even when the screen is off.
4. it is posted on the forum!
thanks, but i don't need your sarcastic answers.

AndyRathbone said:
There's another light, just to the left of the front-facing camera. Does anybody know what it does?
The light to the camera's right glows when the camera's on. But the light to the left doesn't seem to do anything yet. (And it's not listed in the manuals nor on the plastic pull-off screen protector.)
Judging from the iFixIt take-apart photos, I'm guessing it will light up when the Xoom is running 4G.
Anybody else know more?
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I'm fairly sure what you are referring to is a light sensor, for automatic brightness adjustments.

I actually had sorta the opposite problem in that I had the notification light going for seemingly no reason. Checked all apps and no notifications on bottom bar. Reboot solved but made me wonder what was up.
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If you can't see the notification light it most likely has to do with your screen brightness. I thought mine was broken when it was so faint, so i cranked up the brightness and sent myself a test e-mail. When the screen was off the notification light pulsed incredibly bright, i turned it down repeated the test, and the notification light was really faint. Hopefully they can change that to where it's always bright no matter what the brightness of your screen is set at.

SphericalPuma said:
If you can't see the notification light it most likely has to do with your screen brightness. I thought mine was broken when it was so faint, so i cranked up the brightness and sent myself a test e-mail. When the screen was off the notification light pulsed incredibly bright, i turned it down repeated the test, and the notification light was really faint. Hopefully they can change that to where it's always bright no matter what the brightness of your screen is set at.
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I assumed the notification light is only when the screen is off. Why do you need it when the screen is on? You can see all notifications in the lower right.

Also, lets not forget the notification light on the BOTTOM center of the tablet in landscape.
It only comes on if the device is OFF... its a battery charge light. Its 2 or 3 colors that change depending on the charge level.

keitht said:
I assumed the notification light is only when the screen is off. Why do you need it when the screen is on? You can see all notifications in the lower right.
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What I'm saying is that the brightness of the notification light when your screen is off depends on the brightness your Xoom is set to. If you have your screen at 100 percent when its off the notification light will be very bright. However I had my screen quite dim and when it was off ans I received a notification, the light was almost nonexistent. You can test it for yourself. Its something that is hopefully fixed so that the notification light brightness is independent of the brightness your Xoom is set to.

SphericalPuma said:
What I'm saying is that the brightness of the notification light when your screen is off depends on the brightness your Xoom is set to. If you have your screen at 100 percent when its off the notification light will be very bright. However I had my screen quite dim and when it was off ans I received a notification, the light was almost nonexistent. You can test it for yourself. Its something that is hopefully fixed so that the notification light brightness is independent of the brightness your Xoom is set to.
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Oh, I am sorry I misunderstood. I tested it at lowest brightness setting and the notification light is just as bright as full brightness for me.

diaa08 said:
I actually had sorta the opposite problem in that I had the notification light going for seemingly no reason. Checked all apps and no notifications on bottom bar. Reboot solved but made me wonder what was up.
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The reboot actually made it work. It was driving me nuts. Lol
The batery on this thing is so good, I haven't turned it off till I got it yesterday.

keitht said:
Oh, I am sorry I misunderstood. I tested it at lowest brightness setting and the notification light is just as bright as full brightness for me.
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Yeah, mine works now too, weird, I rebooted it so there must have been something wonky going on, but everything works now.

Rooted Note 3 LED Control?

Is there any way to make the led work with the screen on in a rooted note 3?
Sent from my Hyperdriven Note 3

I have asked this question many times and got no solution.
Seems like samsung doesnt supports this.
Sent from Galaxy Note 3 SM-N9005

If you mean having the notification led on while the screen is on, Light Flow can do that with the Samsung root mode.

Daved+ said:
If you mean having the notification led on while the screen is on, Light Flow can do that with the Samsung root mode.
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I use Light Flow as well, I know you can use Samsung Root Mode for notifications when screen is on, but I'd rather save the battery and look at my notification bar instead of having another bright light shining in the dark.

nicholaschum said:
I use Light Flow as well, I know you can use Samsung Root Mode for notifications when screen is on, but I'd rather save the battery and look at my notification bar instead of having another bright light shining in the dark.
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I'd rather do that as well but I was just trying to answer the original question.

RGB led has strange color

Hi all, i use different led colors for different type of notifications and I noticed one strange thing. Depends on color if I look the led from a close distance, it seems divided in two parts with two different colors. Is that normal?
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum

turtuv said:
Hi all, i use different led colors for different type of notifications and I noticed one strange thing. Depends on color if I look the led from a close distance, it seems divided in two parts with two different colors. Is that normal?
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum
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mine does that some times i can see blue and green

A led such as the ones in the phone are RGB. They have a Red, blue, and green chip that make up the spectrum of colors... As with all things, these are your primary colors that lead to all colors. Light all 3 chips full bright and you have white.

strikerdj2011 said:
mine does that some times i can see blue and green
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Yes, it depends on what color is the led. Do you have any "light blue" notification's color?
lisnup65 said:
A led such as the ones in the phone are RGB. They have a Red, blue, and green chip that make up the spectrum of colors... As with all things, these are your primary colors that lead to all colors. Light all 3 chips full bright and you have white.
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Meaning? So, is that normal that when the led has to visualize a secondary colors, it is half of one color and other half of another color?
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum

turtuv said:
Meaning? So, is that normal that when the led has to visualize a secondary colors, it is half of one color and other half of another color?
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum
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Yes, it's basically mixing different colours to produce a new colour.

the_scotsman said:
Yes, it's basically mixing different colours to produce a new colour.
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Ok, thank you. This is my first phone with a RGB led, so I didn't know how it works and I wanted to be sure that this beavhiour was ok. It seemed a little strange to me that if you look so close the led with secondary color you can literally see the two primary colors close together.
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum

Hi guys, I saw a strange thing. Phone locked, if I turn on the screen (without unlock it), if I have some notifications, when the screen turn off again the first led blink is red instead of the color of the notification. How come? I have my battery charge and the phone has full network signal.
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum

turtuv said:
Hi guys, I saw a strange thing. Phone locked, if I turn on the screen (without unlock it), if I have some notifications, when the screen turn off again the first led blink is red instead of the color of the notification. How come? I have my battery charge and the phone has full network signal.
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum
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Never encountered this issue but sometimes when I have multiple notifications the led gets confused and flashes different colors for the different notifications. For example Emil will flash red but text is blue so it will flash red and blue.

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tiskewlio said:
Never encountered this issue but sometimes when I have multiple notifications the led gets confused and flashes different colors for the different notifications. For example Emil will flash red but text is blue so it will flash red and blue.
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I don't have any red notifications, only yellow and green. I don't understand, what could it be?
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum

I tried to reset default values, but the only thing that changed is that the color of led the first time is blue instead of red and the it start to blink with the right color of the notification. I don't know what to do.
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum

tiskewlio said:
Never encountered this issue but sometimes when I have multiple notifications the led gets confused and flashes different colors for the different notifications. For example Emil will flash red but text is blue so it will flash red and blue.
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In that case, two colors for two type of notifications, what is the color that will be displayed? The one from last notification received? Anyway from close distance, the mixing of two primary color in order to "create" a secondary color is really visible.. I hope is normal.
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum

turtuv said:
Hi all, i use different led colors for different type of notifications and I noticed one strange thing. Depends on color if I look the led from a close distance, it seems divided in two parts with two different colors. Is that normal?
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum
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Yes, it's normal for S7 Edge which has a really low quality notification LED which seems to have been produced with an inferior technology. It can't even display the white color (displays a purple color) due to the cheap LED "lens" design which does not mix colors well. My former LG G2 had a great quality LED which could display any color, including pure white.
However, just be thankful that there is a LED, many manufacturers like Motorola chose to omit it (really stupid). You can just use primary colors (Red, Green, Blue) those are displayed quite well.

Cst79 said:
Yes, it's normal for S7 Edge which has a really low quality notification LED which seems to have been produced with an inferior technology. It can't even display the white color (displays a purple color) due to the cheap LED "lens" design which does not mix colors well. My former LG G2 had a great quality LED which could display any color, including pure white.
However, just be thankful that there is a LED, many manufacturers like Motorola chose to omit it (really stupid). You can just use primary colors (Red, Green, Blue) those are displayed quite well.
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This is a very nonsense thing. A phone like this should has a high quality led. Sometimes Samsung just lose itself in a glass of water.
What about the notifications colors priority? Does the led use the color of last notification received?
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum

turtuv said:
This is a very nonsense thing. A phone like this should has a high quality led. Sometimes Samsung just lose itself in a glass of water.
What about the notifications colors priority? Does the led use the color of last notification received?
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum
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By default the S7/Edge only displays an infrequent, intermittent blue light if you have any notifications (doesn't matter from which app).
If you use the Light Flow application, you can customize and display the color of the notification with the highest priority, or cycle colors of all notifications, etc. But...There are quite a few issues with Light Flow on the S7/Edge. Most are fixable, though.

Cst79 said:
By default the S7/Edge only displays an infrequent, intermittent blue light if you have any notifications (doesn't matter from which app).
If you use the Light Flow application, you can display the color of the notification with the highest priority, or cycle colors of all notifications, etc.
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On my phone is not like that. My led usually display the color of the last notifications received. That's why I want to understand if this is a normal beavhiour.
Sended from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Gold Platinum

Still facing red tint issue

DEAR ALL
still facing red tint issue even after fix update what to do?
please guide me.

There's no other solution if you've moved the red-tint slider down to minimal and you still have too much red tint. Either you exchange it or try to live with it. Cmiiw

You're one of few, like me, and have to live with it yes.
My adaptive is reasonable, bit strange with such an expensive device to call it that. But my amoled modes are as pink as they were on day 1.
I don't find any other news about any more fixes either. So samsung probably thinks everybody is enjoying their fantastic looking s8 and + versions.
Ps. You could bring it to samsung repair and let them recalibrate or repair your screen.

did you try???
Sent from my Samsung SM-G950F using XDA Labs

yes bro tried everything but still there

The red is so annoying I agree, when I bought my S8 earlier this month the display was fine up until last week when it suddenly started turning red after sunset and the red lasts until sunrise!! I have tried all the possible adjustments with no result in all display modes and modifications. The red is so annoying to live with. At night when I change the phone time to am, it goes back to the regular display and all is well until sunset. I tried it in different timezones, it also adapts the black timing to the local sunset time! I haven't read/heard/seen anyone face this problem., am I the only one?

That thing is what you call night mode or Blue light filter you can turn it off

Mine looks pretty good on adaptive, but on other modes it's a bit reddish. I really wish Samsung released the sliders on the other modes too.

mmdub said:
The red is so annoying I agree, when I bought my S8 earlier this month the display was fine up until last week when it suddenly started turning red after sunset and the red lasts until sunrise!! I have tried all the possible adjustments with no result in all display modes and modifications. The red is so annoying to live with. At night when I change the phone time to am, it goes back to the regular display and all is well until sunset. I tried it in different timezones, it also adapts the black timing to the local sunset time! I haven't read/heard/seen anyone face this problem., am I the only one?
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Are you for real [emoji1] ?
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lvinwithandroid said:
That thing is what you call night mode or Blue light filter you can turn it off
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Hey thanks but I forgot to mention that:
- the red screen comes up even if the blue light filter is switched off
- the red screen shows up in all displays (Adaptive -even if the red is reduced to a minimum in the Advanced options , AMOLED cinema, AMOLED photo and basic modes)
- the red from the red screen is different from the nightmode's yellow-ish colour.
I am not sure if the warranty covers it. but I will speak to Samsung customer service and see if anyone has faced this before

after adjusting the RGBs and the display edge adjuster, the top of my display still appears slightly red..as though there is a reddish band at the top.. anyone?

A10 Night light delayed after unlocking screen?

Hi,
When my phone is set to night light and I unlock it, there's a second or two delay before the screen turns on the night light, which is really annoying in dark places. This started to happen after A10 update, all versions so far. Is there a way to fix it? I'm rooted.

grt67DFqyu said:
Hi,
When my phone is set to night light and I unlock it, there's a second or two delay before the screen turns on the night light, which is really annoying in dark places. This started to happen after A10 update, all versions so far. Is there a way to fix it? I'm rooted.
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This is intentional because the fingerprint scanner uses the screen's brightness (and the color green) to shine a light on your finger so that it recognizes your fingerprint.
If night light stays on, that green light will have a different shade of green, thus preventing the camera underneath the screen from taking an accurate picture of your fingerprint.

rirozizo said:
This is intentional because the fingerprint scanner uses the screen's brightness (and the color green) to shine a light on your finger so that it recognizes your fingerprint.
If night light stays on, that green light will have a different shade of green, thus preventing the camera underneath the screen from taking an accurate picture of your fingerprint.
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Oh, this makes sense, thanks. I wish it would be disabled for people who don't use the fingerprint scanner at all, like me.