LED notifications - HTC Inspire 4G

Does anyone elses LED stop blinking for notifications shortly after it starts? I was hoping it would continue to blink until i check the message or what not.

Yep. Not sure why but it seems hit or miss on the LED.
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is there anyway to bake this into the a ROM? It would really be nice to have it continue to blink so i dont have to turn my screen on in order to see if i have a missed message/call/etc

p4ranoid4ndroid said:
is there anyway to bake this into the a ROM? It would really be nice to have it continue to blink so i dont have to turn my screen on in order to see if i have a missed message/call/etc
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O yeah dude. The source code is out and has been released! We have the POWER!!! Just be patient and stay tuned, for the fun is about to begin.

nice !
sometimes i get LED and other times i dont

Me 2. Generally surprised to see if but I constaly have messages but no led. Cm7, thought it was just not working with the aosp messanger but its been blinking all day on cue today.....
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Yeah it's a little baffling how they setup the LED notifs, I'm hoping someone will fix/update/change that quickly. I've had the phone for two weeks and I still an not sure which blinking LED means what specifically.
Sire note, I'm also getting random vibrates which happen with no notifs at all and it's a little worrisome from a "what in the hell is the phone doing" standpoint but overall I love this phone.

Cwluc said:
Yeah it's a little baffling how they setup the LED notifs, I'm hoping someone will fix/update/change that quickly. I've had the phone for two weeks and I still an not sure which blinking LED means what specifically.
Sire note, I'm also getting random vibrates which happen with no notifs at all and it's a little worrisome from a "what in the hell is the phone doing" standpoint but overall I love this phone.
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I have had that before too, thought I was going crazy

Glad to see this is a sought after feature. Maybe I'll work with some devs and see what can happen.

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Using button backlights as notification light.

Yesterday my girlfriend received a txt msg, and I noticed her trackbal on the HTC Hero was glowing.
I remember back in the days someone made a cab that when ever your HD2 screen is on, the button backlight stays on (doesn't go black after 7 sec).
Now my question is, is there a app what lights up the button backlights as notification??
The small notification light sucks on the HD2.
Thx.
+1
I would also be interested in something like this...
+1
Im mos def in!
When I get back home, I'ma try contacting the dev of the previous app, to see if he can make something like this... Or help us out a bit.
Great idea indeed. +1 from me here also.
great idea whould be so nice if aassigned to the mid button or end call button..
Great idea - notifications were so much easier to see on my old touch diamond when the circular pad used to light up around the edge. Hope this one can be done.
It would be nice but I'm almost sure we can just make glow the 5 buttons in the same time (not individually).
try best reminder , you can find it for free, it sounds when you have one unreaded sms or one missed calls and unread mails, you can change the seconds to sound, i have it a long ago since i had omnia i...., is exellent
with key, have fun
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I was thinking bout knight rider... Like Kit!
use all the buttons illumination.
Imagine the light going from left to right, then back again!
So cool!
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try best reminder , you can find it for free, it sounds when you have one unreaded sms or one missed calls and unread mails, you can change the seconds to sound, i have it a long ago since i had omnia i...., is exellent
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We want just the light, sound is always there...
I'll second that i want to see my lights strobing like kit when i have a message !
Ok I've contacted NetRipper.
His big concern was battery life.
I told him people installing these apps are aware that it may infect the battery life.
He is going to make a proof of consept...
ETA etc.. Dunno, he gonna contact me when he has something.
So please don't spam him! The app is on the way.
Light talk about notification ..
still no solution for some HD 2 with new mail notification light. However strange that sms etc.. does, and not mail.
Good idea, xmoo.
The LEDs for the buttons wouldn't have to be illuminated for very long at all. In fact a quick double or triple strobe every few seconds would be enough to alert the user. That would have a minimal effect on battery life.
Major_Sarcasm said:
Good idea, xmoo.
The LEDs for the buttons wouldn't have to be illuminated for very long at all. In fact a quick double or triple strobe every few seconds would be enough to alert the user. That would have a minimal effect on battery life.
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Yeah, the Diamond notification lights would light up every few seconds, not all the time.Besides, I'm running the continuous keypad illumination app on my HD2, and i'm more than happy with battery life.
Major_Sarcasm said:
Good idea, xmoo.
The LEDs for the buttons wouldn't have to be illuminated for very long at all. In fact a quick double or triple strobe every few seconds would be enough to alert the user. That would have a minimal effect on battery life.
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The problem is, getting the LEDS to work is no deal. But getting the LEDS to work, the device needs to come out of standby (but with LCD off tho, just like playing music).
And that in the Longterm can eat some battery. But then again, when were notified we directly gonna check it.. at least I am
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The problem is, getting the LEDS to work is no deal. But getting the LEDS to work, the device needs to come out of standby (but with LCD off tho, just like playing music).
And that in the Longterm can eat some battery. But then again, when were notified we directly gonna check it.. at least I am
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Yeah but i think the big issue about the battery life is enlighting the screen. When its stays off, its not using power. I don't think such an app will take more battery than the current top-led status listener.
Jealousy said:
Yeah but i think the big issue about the battery life is enlighting the screen. When its stays off, its not using power. I don't think such an app will take more battery than the current top-led status listener.
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Only time will tel
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Only time will tel
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First tests seem to indicate battery drainage is fair. A small test indicates that the device in unattended mode only takes about 3% battery life in 2 hours (100% -> 97%). The keypad lights have been blinking every 3 seconds during this time.
If I have something ready to test massively, I'll let you guys know.

[Q] LED notifications?

No notification light?
Ok wtf...
Not even a running charge indicator, no notification light? I mean it was so awesome on the nexus one and most every other android device with some form of glowing indicator light...
Now i dont know if a message or anything is waiting i have to keep turning on the phone. What a pain... Cant put a led in there somewhere?
Or is my phone screwed up?
Also, on two phone calls tonight the phone shut down and restarted...............
Slapinfunk said:
Ok wtf...
Not even a running charge indicator, no notification light? I mean it was so awesome on the nexus one and most every other android device with some form of glowing indicator light...
Now i dont know if a message or anything is waiting i have to keep turning on the phone. What a pain... Cant put a led in there somewhere?
Or is my phone screwed up?
Also, on two phone calls tonight the phone shut down and restarted...............
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Download the NoLED app from the market
Slapinfunk said:
Ok wtf...
Not even a running charge indicator, no notification light? I mean it was so awesome on the nexus one and most every other android device with some form of glowing indicator light...
Now i dont know if a message or anything is waiting i have to keep turning on the phone. What a pain... Cant put a led in there somewhere?
Or is my phone screwed up?
Also, on two phone calls tonight the phone shut down and restarted...............
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Welcome to life with a Samsung phone...
OK very cool thanks. Coming from a nexus one I would have never known about that.
Can we get swipe keyboard or something. The gingerbread one is so tiny feeling
alnova1 said:
Welcome to life with a Samsung phone...
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Yeah. I kinda love HTC
This is my first non HTC phone since the first g1. Had a click but that pretty much went into the wall with that motoblur crap crashing all the time.
Slapinfunk said:
OK very cool thanks. Coming from a nexus one I would have never known about that.
Can we get swipe keyboard or something. The gingerbread one is so tiny feeling
Yeah. I kinda love HTC
This is my first non HTC phone since the first g1. Had a click but that pretty much went into the wall with that motoblur crap crashing all the time.
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I dont have a NS yet...I have been reading the boards and trying to decide if I want one but I have a Fascinate and since its been rooted and debinged its a good phone but stock it was crap. I use something called BLN to notify me when I have a text or email. It lights up your buttons at the bottom. Its in the market but I think your rom has to be made to use it..I'm not sure about that but you might want to investigate that...it works better than NoLED.
I have no led running now. It works. I have it set to blink So it flashes the TV off animation which is cool.
Honestly. If You already have a galaxy s phone don't bother with the ns. I had my n1 since the day it came out I needed a new phone. There are many things ivwill miss about it. Like the desktop doc.....
More threads about this? Really? Can we have a mod lock this please...
Slapinfunk said:
I have no led running now. It works. I have it set to blink So it flashes the TV off animation which is cool.
Honestly. If You already have a galaxy s phone don't bother with the ns. I had my n1 since the day it came out I needed a new phone. There are many things ivwill miss about it. Like the desktop doc.....
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Thats kinda what I been thinking...
Best buy couldn't get my upgrade info so I paid full pop. Was on phone with t mobile and bestbuys system couldn't get it happening so I can still get another phone suplimented. Tried a mytouch 4g but returned it. So much t-mobile garbage on it plus gotta pay for wifi teather
BLN ftw, wait for a kernel that implements BackLightNotifications and then download Blinky which makes your softkey's blink ever few seconds when you get notifications.
So awesome. 3 out of 4 calls ended with the phone restarting
Sounds you guys are having even more trouble than Galaxy S phones, I hope it gets sorted out soon.
I can deal with a dropped call but having the phone restart wtf.... I may un install everything and go from there adding one app at a time
When the phone is off if you click the power button it will show you if you phone is still charging or not
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"Thx" Samsung
Darrien13 said:
When the phone is off if you click the power button it will show you if you phone is still charging or not
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
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well yes... that works for everything... but why should I take the time out of my day to reach out and touch something when I could just glance at it and not move my arms????????
Is it me or am i tripp'n..I SWEAR that it looks like it's an LED light on the left of the MIC...i dunno if i'm just hope'n for something thats not there..but it looks like it's in there but i dunno
Or atleast where it should of been
Shizzx said:
Is it me or am i tripp'n..I SWEAR that it looks like it's an LED light on the left of the MIC...i dunno if i'm just hope'n for something thats not there..but it looks like it's in there but i dunno
Or atleast where it should of been
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Left hole (circle) is the proximity sensor. Right hole (oval kinda) is the ambient light sensor. Hope this helps.
Does this phone even have a led notification light? thats the dots next to the earpiece right?
I ask because on my phone, i never get any LED flashing notifications when i receive a text, email, miss phone call, or etc.
Ive searched all throughout my settings but to no avail.. help?
Thats not an LED. It doesnt have one! Search. Its been discussed over and over again

[Q] Led notifications

I don't think we can ..... anyone know different? Maybe when there is the keyboard dock, does anyone have that yet?
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Could try something like noled until confirmation on dock leds?
good call, but I'm hoping for real led, like what I have gotten used to on the desire. its probably won't matter as I can't put the thing down.
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iamdarren said:
good call, but I'm hoping for real led, like what I have gotten used to on the desire. its probably won't matter as I can't put the thing down.
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Little O/T but after switching from N1 to NS, the lack of LED notifications was a bit wierd. BUT noLED is great and I actually prefer it over the LED blinking now.
Highland3r said:
Could try something like noled until confirmation on dock leds?
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NoLED wouldn't be good for the Transformer. NoLED was designed around OLED devices, that can have most of the screen off, and only a few pixels on at a time, with very little battery drain.
An LCD on the other hand, would be fully on, and drain the battery like crazy.
I quite liked the vertically long LED on the Xoom. Not something I'll particularly miss, but it felt rather familiar.
This doesn't seem like much of a problem to me really. My N1 makes a noise/LED lights for a notification, I pick up the tablet and check it. I have a different notification tone for both text messages and general notifications, so this system works well for me.
Perhaps when the dock gets released, we can repurpose the caps lock LED to be a notifications LED... I'm not sure how well that would work, or even if it would be neccessary?

[Q] Any way to get the LED Light to stay on longer?

I had my original Sensation and the LED light would stay on until I read the message no matter how long the time was. This was for all notifications.
Got a replacement and the phone is great except the light goes off after about 5 minutes. Any way to change this?
It's a 5 minutes limit. For texts you can use a different program. There's a thread about it in either this or the General forum.
Longer wow. Most want it to be shorter. Do you have a battery we dont know about?
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Xx12thANG3LxX said:
Longer wow. Most want it to be shorter. Do you have a battery we dont know about?
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
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I doubt the blinking LED uses much power. 5 minutes is just a ridiculous time frame. I too would rather it blink until the notification was acknowledged.
Very little bat drain from this. My Nexus trackball light would blink most of the day with no real bat impact.
xnifex said:
I doubt the blinking LED uses much power. 5 minutes is just a ridiculous time frame. I too would rather it blink until the notification was acknowledged.
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I agree. I used Handcent SMS to repeat the text message reminder until I acknowledge it. I will repeat it without sound, only the notification light.
Would stock vanilla messaging app fix this? I like how my G1's LED worked much, much better. I started a thread in Q&A asking if it's possible to replace the mms.apk on our phones with Google's vanilla one.
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Notification led not working like it originally did.

On my evo shift why would the sensor to the left of the speaker grill stop flashing for notifications such as sms/mms, missed calls etc. Now that it has stopped, the led under the speaker grill on the right, which was just the charging led, flashes for my notifications. Because of this, I no longer have two led notification lights so if my phone is charging i now have to turn on my screen to check notifications.
Ive tried calling Sprint three times. I was told to take the phone to sprint and have them check it out and install a previous software version. I went to sprint told them about my problem an how the tech made a note on my account. they said they did not do that there and said id have to go to the other sprint store down the street. When i got there, they seemed clueless about loading software or anything for that matter manually. Ive tried factory resetting and everything else I can think off. I bought 2 evo shifts with a new contract that had 2.3.3os out of box and a few days later checked for updates. Im not sure what the software number was before but after i updated it was 2.76.651.5(now.6) the same problem is happening with the second shift also.
Is this like unheard of to everyone? Ive looked every where about this problem and im not seeing anything at all about anyones proximity sensor ever even flashing for notifications.
What looks like a led on the left of the speaker grill is actually the proximity sensor, when you put the phone to your ear it turns the screen off so you don't open an app or hang up on the person you are talking to accidentally. The notification led is the one located to the right of the speaker grill.
Without them(developers) this place would not be called *Insert You Device Forum Name Here* but something else, e.g Mobile Phone & Tablet User Support Services For Ungrateful Nerds.
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Yeah the sensor has never flashed for me,my girl and my homie, all we have had is the orange charge light/green notification light to the right of the speaker grill.....
Shifted to the extreme, cause I rawk Supreme
FdxRider said:
What looks like a led on the left of the speaker grill is actually the proximity sensor, when you put the phone to your ear it turns the screen off so you don't open an app or hang up on the person you are talking to accidentally. The notification led is the one located to the right of the speaker grill.
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I know what it is and does, but what I am saying is that on both the evo shifts I bought, the proximity sensor acted as an actual led notification light. it flashed a bright green for every notification while the actual led notification light was only lighting/flashing orange and turning solid green to be charged,charging and finally when its fully charged. the proximity sensor would flash even when plugged in while the real led was being used for the charging light. I swear im not lying about any of this lol.
Well unless HTC has changed the sensor in newer makes thats not the way mine and others phones works so Guess you had a different phone. Try taking it to sprint repair and see what bthey tellyou . Good Luck
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FdxRider said:
Try taking it to sprint repair and see what bthey tellyou . Good Luck
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Lmao They looked at me like I was nuts.
I bought the two phones in late October. They both came with 2.3 out of the box. The proximity sensor acted as a second notification light for about a week after I decided to go into settings and check for updates and applied them which caused this to stop. Ive tried everything I could think of to get it to do it again but I cant find anything.
Im hoping someone here could help me look more into this and try to make it possible again.
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Hopefully since the sensor CAN and at one time did emit a green flash for notifications, can someone out there please figure out how to make it happen again. I don't really know anything about developing so I sadly can't do it myself...
toast1224 said:
Lmao They looked at me like I was nuts.
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...because the proximity sensor has never acted as a notification LED on any ROM. Sorry.
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...because the proximity sensor has never acted as a notification LED on any ROM. Sorry.
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grr, Okay, I know Im a newly registered user here and I havnt posted enough for you or the other members here to get to know me but Im being 100% honest about this guys. If this means anything, I swear on my daughters life and my mothers gave who has passed away that when I started my contract with 2 lines an 2 brand new evo shifts with 2.3 out of box that this really happened. The sensor flashed for notifications until about a week later when I performed the firmware, profile,prl and software update. It didnt even act like the prox. sensor should during calls until after the updates. And this was weeks before i even rooted the phones, they were completely stock.
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grr, Okay, I know Im a newly registered user here and I havnt posted enough for you or the other members here to get to know me but Im being 100% honest about this guys. If this means anything, I swear on my daughters life and my mothers gave who has passed away that when I started my contract with 2 lines an 2 brand new evo shifts with 2.3 out of box that this really happened. The sensor flashed for notifications until about a week later when I performed the firmware, profile,prl and software update. It didnt even act like the prox. sensor should during calls until after the updates. And this was weeks before i even rooted the phones, they were completely stock.
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You must have gotten a very very special shift and seeing as none of us have ever had a special shift like you i doubt we would even know where to begin on helping you fix your problem . You now have a normal shift thats not special anymore which is a shame... Not trying to be mean or sarcastic by any means
YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
You must have gotten a very very special shift and seeing as none of us have ever had a special shift like you i doubt we would even know where to begin on helping you fix your problem . You now have a normal shift thats not special anymore which is a shame... Not trying to be mean or sarcastic by any means
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Right...
Okay fine, I give up. It seems no one here wants to believe this for whatever reason. >.< What would be the point in posting all this if it wasn't true?
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toast1224 said:
Right...
Okay fine, I give up. It seems no one here wants to believe this for whatever reason. >.< What would be the point in posting all this if it wasn't true?
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Dude i believe you, but seeing as none of our shifts have ever done that i don't think we would know where to begin on helping you. Take what i said however you want but i really wasn't trying to be mean or sarcastic cause i'm not the type of person to do that seeing as i don't know as much as everyone else on here about android

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