I'm fairly certain that my "green" LED is either burned out or the circuitry is no longer working properly. I know it's highly unlikely that LEDs burn out, but it seems to be. I noticed today that i wasn't getting any blinking lights when i got texts (green) but i am getting facebook notification blinks (blue). After much googling, i read all about the "restore" issues people had. I did several FDRs without restoring and even reflashed my firmware with no luck. Finally fed up, i tried testing settings with Light Flow. After trying red, green, blue, yellow, orange, and white. The only settings that made my LED work were blue and white, but the weird part was that both white and blue settings caused the LED to blink blue, but at least it blinks now.
Anyone else have anything like this happen? I've had the phone since it came out so i can't exchange it, i guess i'll just live with it until my upgrade. Just wondering if i'm the only one.....
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I'm fairly certain that my "green" LED is either burned out or the circuitry is no longer working properly. I know it's highly unlikely that LEDs burn out, but it seems to be. I noticed today that i wasn't getting any blinking lights when i got texts (green) but i am getting facebook notification blinks (blue). After much googling, i read all about the "restore" issues people had. I did several FDRs without restoring and even reflashed my firmware with no luck. Finally fed up, i tried testing settings with Light Flow. After trying red, green, blue, yellow, orange, and white. The only settings that made my LED work were blue and white, but the weird part was that both white and blue settings caused the LED to blink blue, but at least it blinks now.
Anyone else have anything like this happen? I've had the phone since it came out so i can't exchange it, i guess i'll just live with it until my upgrade. Just wondering if i'm the only one.....
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Download LightFlow from the play store. The free version will support quite a few applications (the paid one supports more apps and has a few more features.) In any event, Lightflow allows you to set the color of the light for different apps, and it has a test feature which will cycle all the colors. On my phone, I can get green, red, blue, light blue, purple, red, yellow-ish, and a white/indigo-ish color. Not all the colors work, some default to a similar color.
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Download LightFlow from the play store. The free version will support quite a few applications (the paid one supports more apps and has a few more features.) In any event, Lightflow allows you to set the color of the light for different apps, and it has a test feature which will cycle all the colors. On my phone, I can get green, red, blue, light blue, purple, red, yellow-ish, and a white/indigo-ish color. Not all the colors work, some default to a similar color.
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I appreciate the reply, but it's clear you didn't actually read my post. I did all that with light flow. The only color that works is blue. So far in my research, i've found one other person that had a similar story where only his blue LED worked, But the thread ended with no solution and no one else had issues.
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I appreciate the reply, but it's clear you didn't actually read my post. I did all that with light flow. The only color that works is blue. So far in my research, i've found one other person that had a similar story where only his blue LED worked, But the thread ended with no solution and no one else had issues.
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Hmm sorry about that -- missed that you were using Lightflow. So, the LED is not burned out because other colors work, as far as I know it's only one light up there, not one per color (I could be wrong about that though.) Have you tried a factory reset?
-- Dan
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Hmm sorry about that -- missed that you were using Lightflow. So, the LED is not burned out because other colors work, as far as I know it's only one light up there, not one per color (I could be wrong about that though.) Have you tried a factory reset?
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he said he tried multiple FDRs...FDR means factory data reset
Correct, several factory resets. The way LEDs work is that there has to be a different LED die for each color. So it's not technically just one LED. Even if it's one housing. Knowing what I know about LEDs, my guess is that it is an issue with the circuitry and not just a bad die in the LED. If this phone wasn't glued together for a watertight seal, I would open it up and investigate. But seeing as how the only problem I'm having is the color of the LED, I'll leave it alone so I don't break something else.
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Sheesh - I'm really not scoring any points today, somehow I missed the FDR line too. Have you tried using RSD-Lite (or one of the RAZR HD tools) to flash everything back to stock?
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Sheesh - I'm really not scoring any points today, somehow I missed the FDR line too. Anyway, there are definitely RGB LEDs, that produce an array of colors from a single light, so I'm still not convinced this is a hardware problem.
Have you tried using RSD-Lite (or one of the RAZR HD tools) to flash everything back to stock?
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Haha, you lost more points yet again.... yes in my original post I stated that I reflashed the firmware.
Also, I don't mean to sound like a know-it-all... but LEDs can only produce 1 color of light. Those RGB LEDs you speak of actually have a different die for each color. Even though it is in the same housing, it is controlled by 3 different inputs (circuits). That's what leads me to believe it's the circuit more so than having a die or two burned out.
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Haha, you lost more points yet again.... yes in my original post I stated that I reflashed the firmware.
Also, I don't mean to sound like a know-it-all... but LEDs can only produce 1 color of light. Those RGB LEDs you speak of actually have a different die for each color. Even though it is in the same housing, it is controlled by 3 different inputs (circuits). That's what leads me to believe it's the circuit more so than having a die or two burned out.
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Good grief! Anyway - yeah - I read more about those because I was curious, and you are correct, they appear to just house three separate circuits inside them.
So, yeah, I think it is a hardware problem now. Should be easy to get a replacement though, just have the Verizon person use Lightflow on a working phone...
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Good grief! Anyway - yeah - I read more about those because I was curious, and you are correct, they appear to just house three separate circuits inside them.
So, yeah, I think it is a hardware problem now. Should be easy to get a replacement though, just have the Verizon person use Lightflow on a working phone...
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I've had the phone since last October, I'm pretty sure it's too late to get a replacement, or is it? Also, I don't have the insurance on it.
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Maybe not a direct replacement in a VZW store, but you should be able to -- the phone has a 1 year warranty from Moto.
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You should be able to -- the phone has a 1 year warranty from Moto.
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Would I have to go through moto though, or can I go through vzw? I'm rooted but I can flash back to stock if I want to. The only concern I have is that if I get a replacement, it will most likely have the latest unrootable firmware. I don't want that either.
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Not sure - I've never done a warranty replacement before. Getting a refurbished one is a concern -- but I wouldn't worry too much about the firmware. If you search thorough here and droidrzr.com you'll find some posts from people who've been in this predicament. Supposedly people have successfully flashed back to the old rootable/unlockable firmware and then protected root and re-updated the phone via an OTA.
One year is standard i think
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You have one year. I'd call up verizon. Hopefully they give you a decent replacement that isn't updated so you can unlock the bootloader (just in case you ever decide you want to have full access some day).
Crazy idea here but maybe you could try this. Go to play store, then my apps. Look at a Motorola app like smart actions. Click more by motorola. Install the notification light app. It's just a toggle. Add the widget to a home screen. Toggle the light off. Keep it off all day. Then try turning it back on and see what happens.
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Well after looking up the teardown procedure and seeing that it actually is very easy on this phone, only about 2 minutes to disassemble this phone, I opened this bad boy up and discovered it is definitely hardware related. Pic below. Good news is that I can get the replacement part I need for $9 online. Then I don't have to deal with firmware issues or having moto or Verizon say it was my fault and charging me. Here's the pic.
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Nice. Hope that fixes it. But I also hope if you ever need to send your phone in they don't complain. Oh well guess the warranty is almost up anyway...
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Great! Which tools did you need? I want to do this too. Can you please post the link for where you got the replacement part from?
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skpamnani said:
Great! Which tools did you need? I want to do this too. Can you please post the link for where you got the replacement part from?
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Not sure of I can post links, but if you search eBay for RAZR HD ear speaker, you can find it for $19.99 and free shipping from California. It'll be refurbished. The one I screen captured above from etrade supply was only $9 but it was $20 for shipping from China. So I went with the eBay one.
I used a single torx wrench (shown below) it's an XTD-6. It's all I had. But according to the teardown procedure, the specified tool you need is a T5 torx. I guess either will work.
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It seems my notification light is not working regardless what I do. Has anyone else had this issue after rooting and loading the fission rom?
I'm able to reproduce it as it happened both to my phone and a family members phone. I returned to stock rom by SBF and still my notification light doesn't work anymore.
Anyway idea's on how to fix this? Is it possible that our current rooting process breaks the notification light? I have also already tried booting into safe mode to make sure it wasn't an app.
mine works just fine running fission.
Well unfortunately mine is not working at all in either stock unrooted or rooted forms. This only started after I rooted the phone. Please don't tell me Motorola added a new "feature" that breaks the notification light if the phones been modified.
I would really like to figure out how to fix this .
101 views and no suggestions?
Notification light only works with screen off, you know that, right?
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leobg said:
Notification light only works with screen off, you know that, right?
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Oh I know that. Light will not work with the screen off. I've sent my self several emails to test this. I also have events in my calender at 9:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. which should also be triggering the light and never do. And no I'm not sitting there with the screen on waiting for it.
Every time I sent my self and email I waited to hear the sound notification and then waiting 2 minutes after yet still no light blinks. I think finally turn on the screen to clear the notification from the bar.
Even my facebook notifications which should trigger the light don't either. So far for the last week I've had no notification lights at all no matter what I do.
Right now I've SBF my phone back to stock and have left it unrooted and I'm still not getting any notification lights with the screen off.
I'm not stupid and know that the screen must be off.
possibly the LED is broken...these things happen. it may or may not even be related to the rooting either could of just coincedently broken at the same time. since youve returned your phone to stock and it still doesnt work then that seems the logical conclusion. not sure if someones found a service mode yet where you can test the LED, thats the next thing to try.
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possibly the LED is broken...these things happen. it may or may not even be related to the rooting either could of just coincedently broken at the same time. since youve returned your phone to stock and it still doesnt work then that seems the logical conclusion. not sure if someones found a service mode yet where you can test the LED, thats the next thing to try.
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That is a possibility but I find it quite unlikely that both phones would have broken notification lights at around the same time.
Is there any applications out there that allow you to flip on the notification light without notifications? I've seen some applications that allow you to change the color of the light if your phone supports but.
It lacks brightness and is hidden behind the speaker grill, I can barely see it light up most of the time. What a waste.
It is duller than I'd like but unless it is in direct sunlight, I have no problem seeing it. I wish it wads a little brighter though.
At least is has one. A lot of android phones don't.
I want to know if anyone has figured out how to make it stay on longer than 5 minutes
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I want to know if anyone has figured out how to make it stay on longer than 5 minutes
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Also how to change the color to orange? This green is so useless .
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mike2518 said:
Also how to change the color to orange? This green is pro much useless .
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Green has been HTC's standard notification color since the g1 first came out. Once the device is rooted you'll be able to use LED color changing apps.
I was wondering, there is another whole on the opposite side of the front reading facing camera and the notification led. I wonder why htc put that there it seems to have no purpose. That probably could have been a nice place to put the notification led.
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ayvecs said:
I was wondering, there is another whole on the opposite side of the front reading facing camera and the notification led. I wonder why htc put that there it seems to have no purpose. That probably could have been a nice place to put the notification led.
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It's most likely the ambient light sensor, or the motion sensor that shuts the screen off when you place the phone by your face.
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It's most likely the ambient light sensor, or the motion sensor that shuts the screen off when you place the phone by your face.
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That is correct. It is the light sensor.
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Green has been HTC's standard notification color since the g1 first came out. Once the device is rooted you'll be able to use LED color changing apps.
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If rooting will allow me to change the LED to something a little more noticeable (red might work well I would think), that might be ideal.
So far, the green barely stands out, especially since my desk is next to a window with ambient sunlight.
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If rooting will allow me to change the LED to something a little more noticeable (red might work well I would think), that might be ideal.
So far, the green barely stands out, especially since my desk is next to a window with ambient sunlight.
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I believe that we only have 2 colors to choose from, the green and the abmer, the one that comes up when charging phone. I always had the amber on my HD2 and it was always visible. Hope we could do the same on this phone later.
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I believe that we only have 2 colors to choose from, the green and the abmer, the one that comes up when charging phone. I always had the amber on my HD2 and it was always visible. Hope we could do the same on this phone later.
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The LED light can actually produce multiple colors but like someone said. It's not possible until it's rooted unless the application your using gives you the option.
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Green has been HTC's standard notification color since the g1 first came out. Once the device is rooted you'll be able to use LED color changing apps.
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Maybe the free market app 'Blink' which doesn't require root will work...
Damonkashu said:
If rooting will allow me to change the LED to something a little more noticeable (red might work well I would think), that might be ideal.
So far, the green barely stands out, especially since my desk is next to a window with ambient sunlight.
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If you use a 3rd part text messaging application like Chomp or Hancent it gives you the option to make your LED multiple colors plus the option of how long you want it to stay on.
jrwingate6 said:
The LED light can actually produce multiple colors but like someone said. It's not possible until it's rooted unless the application your using gives you the option.
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The G2 LED could only turn orange or green.. I'm assuming most new HTC phones are set up like this.
galaxys said:
Maybe the free market app 'Blink' which doesn't require root will work...
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Just tried it. Only Green & Red work
Du22ty said:
The G2 LED could only turn orange or green.. I'm assuming most new HTC phones are set up like this.
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I hope this isn't the case. The Thunderbolt can do Red, Green, Pink, Blue and White.
i like having a notification led, as opposed to the Vibrant, which didn't have one. I just wish it lasted longer than 5 minutes.
There is an app for the g2x that pulses the four bottom buttons for notifications. its pretty spiffy...i wrote the developer he said it's possible it could work on the sensation but he doesn't have one to try it out.
It would be a pretty nice option to have because I agree, the led as is is pretty much invisible
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Profondo_Rosso said:
There is an app for the g2x that pulses the four bottom buttons for notifications. its pretty spiffy...i wrote the developer he said it's possible it could work on the sensation but he doesn't have one to try it out.
It would be a pretty nice option to have because I agree, the led as is is pretty much invisible
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I used it on my G2X and it sucked the battery big time.
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...
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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.
x99percent said:
...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
Hello everyone,
I'm thinking to buy this very good devices but I read on some italian sites that there are some batch that have notification led bugged.
I'm explain better: they told that the led is shifted from the normal position and isn't so visible as other batch.
Anyone of you have this problem?
BR
nope, mine is at the right position and works well
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nope, mine is at the right position and works well
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Thanks.
Can you do a photo so I can compare with the one that I will buy today?
Will seems strange but on internet there aren't any photo of the one s notification led.
For me hte LED, comparing to the Desire is less noticable
I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but the led is definitely too back behind the ear-piece net.
Just got my grey one s yesterday so not sure what is normal what is not in terms of notification light.
My light is located at the second row of the speaker holes, the 5th hole from the left. it is yes quite small compared to my incredible s, and during daylight, you have to be close to the phone in order to see it.
Is it normal?
This is my same location of hte led as well
h.han said:
Just got my grey one s yesterday so not sure what is normal what is not in terms of notification light.
My light is located at the second row of the speaker holes, the 5th hole from the left. it is yes quite small compared to my incredible s, and during daylight, you have to be close to the phone in order to see it.
Is it normal?
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my led is in the same location and it is much less visible as compared with my 2 years old desire...
The problem is not where is the led, but the fact that notification is still buggy after update 1.78.401.2: the other morning for example I had 3 emails but there was no led blinking. Others too reported led not working or working just for the first 5 minutes...
hexaae said:
The problem is not where is the led, but the fact that notification is still buggy after update 1.78.401.2: the other morning for example I had 3 emails but there was no led blinking. Others too reported led not working or working just for the first 5 minutes...
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I have the opposite problem. My LED flashes for new emails, but does not stop when I access the mail app! (Still on original 1.53 base).
Have some problem.
LED blinking for a few minuts and after don't blinking
Mine is just fine.
Mine was useless. You can't even see the led from the sides,only when u look pretty much straight at phone. Led is behind the speaker grill.
orenfl said:
my led is in the same location and it is much less visible as compared with my 2 years old desire...
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Also coming from Desire, this is a topic of concern for me as well, since I usually look at my phone from an angle when it isn't in my hand...
Same issue with the One X
kolyan said:
Mine was useless. You can't even see the led from the sides,only when u look pretty much straight at phone. Led is behind the speaker grill.
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fully agree!
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kolyan said:
Mine was useless. You can't even see the led from the sides,only when u look pretty much straight at phone. Led is behind the speaker grill.
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good and cool idea as far as design goes, but most definitely not good for notifications
Mine is international unlocked, but with french CID. The led is too down and catches up just the first row of holes on the grill.
I must say it's completely unusable. I'm looking for a way to hardware fix it with some light conductive material.
Maybe a software patch to boost up the LED current will be also needed.
On HTC Mozart it's also under the speaker grill, but it's way to bright compared with the One S one.
mine works except I notice it only blink for like 5 minutes and turn itself off.
Mine is kinda useless, since it's almost impossible to see it unless you hold the phone in your hands...
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.
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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.
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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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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:
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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:
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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