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A question about the LED on the Dinc

So normally my LED blinks green when I receive a text. However i use chomp and theres an option in the notifications to change the LED from green to a different color when i get a text. But if i change the color to orange or blue it still blinks green when i get a text. Is there anyway to fix that? is it just mine or can all the Dinc's LEDS not blink a different color? It blinks orange when i have a low batt so im confused.

The incredible supports only the green or amber led alerts. The hardware isn't capable of displaying any other colors like other phones can.
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bcgaynor82 said:
The incredible supports only the green or amber led alerts. The hardware isn't capable of displaying any other colors like other phones can.
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Yea I only have ever seen Green, Red, or Orange
By hardware not capable do you mean the LED does not display any other colors or the phone itself is the problem. Maybe they only used a tri-color LED in the phone..

Sorry yes I meant the led itself is only tricolor.
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So is there no way to make an application that can use those 3 colors?

LED Notification Colors

Hey guys,
Can someone with ROOT Access check what colors of LED Notification is available for the MyTouch 4G.
I was talking to the developer of the LED Know app on the market and he said someone with root access would have to enter the following command to see the available colors.
Code:
find /sys/devices/ -name 'brightness'

/sys/devices/platform/flashlight.0/leds/flashlight/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/leds-microp/leds/amber/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/leds-microp/leds/green/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/leds-microp/leds/button-backlight/brightness
/sys/devices/platform/nov_cabc.0/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness
uh 2 colors LOL
good enough?
cd /sys/devices/platform/leds-microp/leds/
ls
amber
green
button-backlight

ha ha...the developer's exact response was "my guess is that it will only have amber and green but I hope I am wrong"
Well, he wasn't wrong after all.
Thanks man.

not a prob anything to get the development moving on this device before it disappears... or i brick it LOL
Dodolom said:
ha ha...the developer's exact response was "my guess is that it will only have amber and green but I hope I am wrong"
Well, he wasn't wrong after all.
Thanks man.
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not to second guess the developer... doesn't it flash red... when its dying...i think so!
Dodolom said:
ha ha...the developer's exact response was "my guess is that it will only have amber and green but I hope I am wrong"
Well, he wasn't wrong after all.
Thanks man.
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wouldn't turning on both green and amber at the same time make a third color?

What im wondering is if we mix colors or take led files from another device and push. although the two diff colors green and amber mixed looks like when your charging the phone if you look close the green is on too... i think
anyone know how to add a color? or mix and match with the 2 colors we have?
vw671 said:
wouldn't turning on both green and amber at the same time make a third color?
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Sxyman815 said:
What im wondering is if we mix colors or take led files from another device and push. although the two diff colors green and amber mixed looks like when your charging the phone if you look close the green is on too... i think
anyone know how to add a color? or mix and match with the 2 colors we have?
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To add a color you would have to actually add on another led. You can't just add another color with a code because led only have colors that was originally put on them. If nobody put a green led for the full charge notification. No green led would be available. I'm pretty sure I'm accurate on my statement but if I'm wrong feel free to correct
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Or maybe a green-amber....green,amber....green,amber blink pattern.

Could have sworn I see when almost charged a mix of both. Like full amber with light green.
Or, just really really tired when I.plug in at night.
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I find the LED almost useless on this phone, as it's so small and dim compared to other phones. My hand reaches from the phone to turn it on, and my eyes fall on the notification bar for any alerts. I never glance at the LED.

I wish the LED would blink through the charging/charge light. If its sitting on the charger it stays solid, even if you have an alert waiting for you.

Moschdog said:
Could have sworn I see when almost charged a mix of both. Like full amber with light green.
Or, just really really tired when I.plug in at night.
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No it iz a mixture of both colors
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Sxyman815 said:
not to second guess the developer... doesn't it flash red... when its dying...i think so!
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I've just been conditioning my battery, and definitely get red when dying (no question, it is RED). So I'm seeing geen, amber, red.

If you look close there are only two leds, green and amber. Amber flashes with low battery, green with notification and full battery. And both when charging.next time you plug in your phone look closely and you will see both amber and green on making orange

All look same to me. I'm colorblind. And the standard red/green/amber used as a status on electronic equipment is just a light to me. Sucks when I'm in a datacenter trying to fix network equipment.

LED Colors?

I've tried the following three apps:
LED Color Tester
LED Tester
Light Flow Lite - LED Control
No matter what I do with any of these apps, even using the Administrative access mode, compatability mode, screen off, etc, none will show any color aside from Green.
How are people getting different colors??

I think the only colors we have are orange and green. Orange being used for charging and notifications, and green being used to signify that the battery is full.

NikolaiT said:
I think the only colors we have are orange and green. Orange being used for charging and notifications, and green being used to signify that the battery is full.
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Ok, but how are people using orange for custom notifications via the above apps?
I can't even get orange to work, even though our phone clearly supports it.

Try 'LED Me Know'
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.p0w4.ledMeKnow

StefanB86 said:
Try 'LED Me Know'
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.p0w4.ledMeKnow
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Still no other colors.
Keyboard mode doesn't work either.
Tried with Compatability on or off.
Does it work for you with other colors?

I think that the only colors we can get are orange and green, on 'LED Me Know' I can get both colors and the capacitive buttons to work just fine.

Is it possible to have that notification LED different colors at all? Like I remember with the Nexus One, the trackball was RGB. Same with our notification LED, but just needs the proper tweaking? Or not even possible?
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xSeany said:
Is it possible to have that notification LED different colors at all? Like I remember with the Nexus One, the trackball was RGB. Same with our notification LED, but just needs the proper tweaking? Or not even possible?
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I don't think it's possible. It's something I really miss from my BlackBerry - the LED was completely customizable.

aNYthing24 said:
I don't think it's possible. It's something I really miss from my BlackBerry - the LED was completely customizable.
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Well, we do know it has the ability to flash GREEN, ORANGE, and RED.
So if it isn't RGB, which would be silly considering it's already 2/3, hopefully someone will find a way for us to customize it. I would prefer the LED to blink rapidly or something so I can just quick glance at it, instead of waiting a few seconds(in which case I'll just press the power button to see for myself). Sadly nothing I've tried so far will take control of the notification LED.

it can only show orange, red and green...kinda disappointing, cuz i like to use different colors for certain notifications...but its not that big a deal

got led notification?

does atrix 2 got led notification?
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ok it got led. please close this thread.

*face palm*
Naa it's cool, you can also change the colors of the led notifications as well. Handecnt SMS can change the colors. Not as bright as my blackberry torch but still enough so I'm not always turning the device on looking for new messages.

I noticed that. It does a few other colors but they all seem very dim besides green.

Try light flow, very excellent app and the paid version has a lot more customization to it. One of the few must have apps for me

Red, blue, green, yellow, and orange stand out to me the most. White really all that white for some reason
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Multi-Colored LED Notification?

Has anyone Confirmed that our LED is a multi-colored LED. I have not been able to change the LED notification color through Go SMS Pro, and other apps.
I'll keep looking into it, but have not seen any spec sheets that say differently.
Update: Wikipedia states that the LED Can only Flash Green or "Orange" (i see red)

It is multicolored. It was red when I plugged in, then when the battery was full it went to green.

theflavor said:
It is multicolored. It was red when I plugged in, then when the battery was full it went to green.
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but only red and green. no blue or white

My last HTC phone was only amber/green. (HTC Aria)
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Same results here. Red/green.
Wish I could do different colors to correspond to different app notifications but it's better than no LED on my old Fascinate.
Never realized how much I missed a notification LED until that phone -_-

blaine.hale said:
Same results here. Red/green.
Wish I could do different colors to correspond to different app notifications but it's better than no LED on my old Fascinate.
Never realized how much I missed a notification LED until that phone -_-
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Had the same on my Captivate, but thats what the LED Notification on the Capacitive buttons

warri said:
Had the same on my Captivate, but thats what the LED Notification on the Capacitive buttons
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Was thinking of this when I saw the hot restart flashed the keys a few times
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Read on one of the reviews that the LED is not customizable (through light flow) and they couldn't even get the app to work even with HTC direct mode enabled.
I'm just happy there's an LED at all. Coming from an SGS2 it surely is a time saver.
here's to hoping it's just a ROM swap away from customization.

I think we are SOL on customized led notifications. The last 3 HTC devices I had (inspire, EVO 3d, and vivid) were unable to change colors.
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jayv81 said:
I think we are SOL on customized led notifications. The last 3 HTC devices I had (inspire, EVO 3d, and vivid) were unable to change colors.
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I think you are right. Thats okay, Like a couple other people said, I am just happy to have one!

warri said:
I think you are right. Thats okay, Like a couple other people said, I am just happy to have one!
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Yeah I agree. Since I haven't had it for so long it doesn't even bother me anymore.
ent from my
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Coming from a Nexus One, I'm gonna miss the hell outta the notification LED!
I hope it has more color options.
Billy
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Only thing I miss from my blackberry
Cuz you can set different colors when you get text from different people
(so I could ignore it if it was someone unimportant lol)
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Sorry. Posted on wrong thread. Noob on xda I am.

Looks like a true multicolour LED
I know that HTC say that the notification LED can only do orange and green but I'm guessing that the hardware is multicolour capable (i.e. Red, green, orange, yellow, possibly even blue, white, etc).
I say this for the following reason; the hue of the green LED.
It is not the green colour that you normally get from a green only LED (which normally has a slightly yellowish hue). The HTC green LED colour has a blueish hue that indicates that the green comes from a multicolour LED. Also normally the orange that HTC state you should see when charging would normally come from a green and red led (or dual colour led) lit together. My HTC One X lights red NOT orange when charging.
Perhaps my observations are incorrect am I'm just seeing what I want but if anyone has a link to HTC it would be good to get an answer on this.

xdamedd said:
I know that HTC say that the notification LED can only do orange and green but I'm guessing that the hardware is multicolour capable (i.e. Red, green, orange, yellow, possibly even blue, white, etc).
I say this for the following reason; the hue of the green LED.
It is not the green colour that you normally get from a green only LED (which normally has a slightly yellowish hue). The HTC green LED colour has a blueish hue that indicates that the green comes from a multicolour LED. Also normally the orange that HTC state you should see when charging would normally come from a green and red led (or dual colour led) lit together. My HTC One X lights red NOT orange when charging.
Perhaps my observations are incorrect am I'm just seeing what I want but if anyone has a link to HTC it would be good to get an answer on this.
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When commanded through Light Flow, you have three options, Green, Deep Orange (Looks red) and Orange (which is more yellowish then the deep red)
My fear is that the LED Is not an RGP LED which means we can not make every color.

any update on this for the AT&T One X?

Multicolor led can work only if some kernel dev activates it but we need the source and i have not seen any kernel devs yet working for the hox

JeepFreak said:
Coming from a Nexus One, I'm gonna miss the hell outta the notification LED!
I hope it has more color options.
Billy
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Yeah i too miss my N1 and the trackball/LED. It was great for taking pictures (dedicated shutter) Trackball wake was the **** and the multitude of colors was a great feature. I had a different color for almost every notification. I knew if i missed a call, got an email, a text message, calendar alert, etc from the other side of the room. When my girl took it over the colored notifications was enough to catch her cheating ass in a lie (or two) lol.
eX picks up phone, reads it, says i missed a call from my mom. I'm thinking but the light was blue for text. Red is missed call. I checked it later and sure enough was a text from her ex. No missed call from mom :victory:

nugzo said:
Yeah i too miss my N1 and the trackball/LED. It was great for taking pictures (dedicated shutter) Trackball wake was the **** and the multitude of colors was a great feature. I had a different color for almost every notification. I knew if i missed a call, got an email, a text message, calendar alert, etc from the other side of the room. When my girl took it over the colored notifications was enough to catch her cheating ass in a lie (or two) lol.
eX picks up phone, reads it, says i missed a call from my mom. I'm thinking but the light was blue for text. Red is missed call. I checked it later and sure enough was a text from her ex. No missed call from mom :victory:
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This did make me chuckle...but as you say, the different colours are/were epic! Is there NO way we can get more colours out of the HOX?? I'll be honest...had I known this little detail too, I might just gave gone the SGS3 route...sigh