Apparently there is no blinking LED indicator for missed calls, i.e., you have to wake up the device to check for missed calls. I guess we can't be too picky at this price point, but does anyone know of a 3rd party app that would provide notification?
rmc69 said:
Apparently there is no blinking LED indicator for missed calls, i.e., you have to wake up the device to check for missed calls. I guess we can't be too picky at this price point, but does anyone know of a 3rd party app that would provide notification?
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Not surprising actually, since the same situation holds for google phones like the Nexus 4 and 5 for example.
Try the excellent Led Blinkerapp which allows to configure the LED for various events including missed calls. The developer has an app thread here on xda.
The app allows you to even configure the LED light blink rate (or can set it to continuous). Please try and post back if this feature works on this phone!
sordna said:
Not surprising actually, since the same situation holds for google phones like the Nexus 4 and 5 for example.
Try the excellent Led Blinkerapp which allows to configure the LED for various events including missed calls. The developer has an app thread here on xda.
The app allows you to even configure the LED light blink rate (or can set it to continuous). Please try and post back if this feature works on this phone!
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Actually both the nexus 4 and the nexus 5 have colored led's that can be set using lightflow. I never really used it as much as I should.
Thanks guys. I installed the lite version of LED Blinker and it actually worked! It apparently uses it's own blinking light on the center bottom of the screen which is ok. So, this is at least a solution for the Idol 3 until something better comes along. By the way, "Missed Call Reminder" didn't work. "NoLed" did work, but I didn't like it.
Re you saying LED Blinker uses the home button in the nav bar for the blinker? If so that's pretty cool. I may have to try it.
Actually, I think it's right above the home button if I recall. Give it a try.
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Hello All, new Android user (iPhone 3g to Inspire) and trying to understand how the notification LED is supposed to work. I had few missed calls but there is no notification LED at all. I checked the Settings > Display > Notification Flash and all the check boxes are checked. Do I need to check any other setting (saw a post about a 5 min led flash time limit)?
There is a free app from the Market called "Missed Call', has MUCH MORE options and is what I use.
Details here
Try it out and if you like it let us know.
Thank you! I'll try that app and will let you know.
Hmm am I the only one still getting just the same green light with Missed Call?
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I also use missed call, and it works great for sound notifications. as for led notifications all i get is a green led. does the inspire only have one color (green). also with missed call the led only blinks for a while when the screen is sleeping...then it stops, anyone else experiencing this?
RiNo808 said:
I also use missed call, and it works great for sound notifications. as for led notifications all i get is a green led. does the inspire only have one color (green). also with missed call the led only blinks for a while when the screen is sleeping...then it stops, anyone else experiencing this?
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yeah, the LED does orange/amber and green. In a couple weeks or sometime, the root may allow for us to set suctom colors for different things, a la Nexus One style.
and the LED will only flash for a certain amount of time before it stops because it thinks you are purposely ignoring whatever it is. I'm not sure what the time frame is though
I was having problems with my LED as well. I checked the settings though.... it was off. Face-palm moment. Reading this thread made me realize what I did though, so thanks to you! haha.
First, I know there is NO notification LED on the Charge. I'm sure some of you are tired of requests and want to yell at me, and others want to say I told you so, there is a notification LED.
I want t see if there is an app that would allow the bottom hardware buttons to function as the notification LED. Similar to how the HTC Touch Pro 1 notifications worked (pulsing for e-mail, fade in/out for sms, etc...).
Any ideas?
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First, I know there is NO notification LED on the Charge. I'm sure some of you are tired of requests and want to yell at me, and others want to say I told you so, there is a notification LED.
I want t see if there is an app that would allow the bottom hardware buttons to function as the notification LED. Similar to how the HTC Touch Pro 1 notifications worked (pulsing for e-mail, fade in/out for sms, etc...).
Any ideas?
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NoLED. There's a workaround to get only the backlit keys working.
whiteblazer01 said:
First, I know there is NO notification LED on the Charge. I'm sure some of you are tired of requests and want to yell at me, and others want to say I told you so, there is a notification LED.
I want t see if there is an app that would allow the bottom hardware buttons to function as the notification LED. Similar to how the HTC Touch Pro 1 notifications worked (pulsing for e-mail, fade in/out for sms, etc...).
Any ideas?
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there is a way to enable BLN (backlight notifications) but it must be done through some custom kernel work, which afaik right now is not possible since we don't have kernel source code to work with
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NoLED. There's a workaround to get only the backlit keys working.
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Yea, I forgot to mention in my original post I've tried noLED. It worked fine except the whole power button thing was annoying. I had to turn the screen "on" with the home button (even though technically the screen is already on. The app said the power button feature is buggy). Again, this just goes to personal preference, and some people may not understand why I have trouble when it works for them, but I have my own preferences as that's just me. I don't like the screen bright at night, so I changed the icon colors, then I couldn't see the icons well during the day, so I had to change them back. I don't like that the icons flash around the screen (even though that's to get my attention - hence the whole purpose of the app), but it didn't completely suit my needs. It is a good app, and I'll continue to use it (I'll have to reinstall it), but my main problem is I couldn't configure it to show Google Voice notifications. I don't use sms, I only use Google Voice, and this didn't work as well. Same with the puzzle lockscreen; it doesn't show Google Voice notifications.
If you monitor google voice (in settings) it does show google voice notifications because I do it. The little google voice pops up.
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there is a way to enable BLN (backlight notifications) but it must be done through some custom kernel work, which afaik right now is not possible since we don't have kernel source code to work with
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Not completely true... We have the kernel source for Froyo. We (TeamGummyCharged) worked on BLN's for the charge but failed on first try.. The BLN also requires a binary for the lights one that is not compatible with the Charge.. Maybe after 2.0 is released and we have more time we will pick it up again by reaching out to the original dev for that project but at the moment it is shelved.
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Not completely true... We have the kernel source for Froyo. We (TeamGummyCharged) worked on BLN's for the charge but failed on first try.. The BLN also requires a binary for the lights one that is not compatible with the Charge.. Maybe after 2.0 is released and we have more time we will pick it up again by reaching out to the original dev for that project but at the moment it is shelved.
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nice, good to know you guys can work on it... I personally don't see a use for it as the hardkey lights don't seem bright enough, though it'd be nice as an option (I'm coming from a Fascinate where they were bright and actually useful lol)
Can someone please once and for all confirm what exactly makes the pulse notification light flash when running stock 4.4.2 that came with the N5?
I've searched all over an nobody seems to know for certain what conditions activate the light without the use of a 3rd party app.
Every Android device I've owned always had a notification led for Missed Calls, New Emails, New SMS, New MMS, New VM, Charging the battery etc.
I find it hard to believe that you need an app such as Light Flow to enable these standard features.
Any help would be appreciated as I'm considering RMA'ing it as I can't get it to work for the life of me.
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Can someone please once and for all confirm what exactly makes the pulse notification light flash...
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Missed calls, new email, texts, and voicemail: yes (just white). Charging the battery: no.
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rbalfury said:
Can someone please once and for all confirm what exactly makes the pulse notification light flash when running stock 4.4.2 that came with the N5?
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Make sure Settings->Display->Pulse notification light is checked, and that the Notifications you want are enabled in the individual app Settings (e.g. Gmail, Hangouts, etc). Also the light only pulses when display is off.
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I've already tried that among many other work arounds out there.
The only thing I could get to work is with text messages and even then sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
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can't find the LED notification light. it won't come on while charging or anything... is there a setting for this? the only setting i find is for pulsing, but that won't do much good if the thing doesn't even come on. is there a setting i'm missing?
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can't find the LED notification light. it won't come on while charging or anything... is there a setting for this? the only setting i find is for pulsing, but that won't do much good if the thing doesn't even come on. is there a setting i'm missing?
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Settings > Notifications > Gear Icon > Pulse notification light.
I think the default setting is on. The blue color (which I think is default) is harder to see than other colors, at least for me. I was able to see it better when changing it to red or green for a given app.
That being said, the fourth small bug which I've noticed is (at least for the few apps I've tried) if you disable sound for a given notification, neither ambient display nor the LED will work for that given notification. I'm unsure if that is intended behavior or not.
How do you change the colours for certain apps. I hoped the led would have been brighter and covered by the glass so it never needs cleaning.
Thanks.
Mcyates said:
How do you change the colours for certain apps. I hoped the led would have been brighter and covered by the glass so it never needs cleaning.
Thanks.
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It either has to be baked into the app or you'll have to use a third party app (which may or may not require root).
my pulse notification setting is on. i have an email, a text, and i'm charging and there is no LED anywhere to be found. is there another way to test it? maybe my unit is defective.
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my pulse notification setting is on. i have an email, a text, and i'm charging and there is no LED anywhere to be found. is there another way to test it? maybe my unit is defective.
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Are you looking VERY carefully at the left corner of the earpiece speaker grille (where the LED is located)? I thought mine was defective too until I saw how faint and small it was.
i have a text, on the charger, and i'm staring where you say but nothing. on chat support with google right now. i think mine may be defective but i'll know more in a few...
The LED is nothing special. It will flash for me every once and awhile if I have an Allo message, and if I don't read the message, it will flash as soon as I lock the phone - I did this several times just to get a good look at it. The LED is directly behind the cloth speaker cover in the earpiece. It looks like ****. You can easily identify each red, green, and blue LED when they are trying to display a white color. It doesn't even look white at a distance - you can easily see red, green, and blue. And if the phone is laying flat on a table, you can BARELY even see it. Surely it will not grab your attention unless the room is pitch black. Don't know if they thought it would be cool to do this, but it looks terrible imo.
i didn't finish the tech support chat cus i had to get back to work, but eventually the LED did show for an instant after i got an email.
it showed for an instant, and gone. i waited for it to show again and w/in 20 or 30 secs it did not show. this is what i call a useless feature. makes no sense. why is it even there?
there are so many things about this phone i don't get, and these are not bugs. i guess this is what happens when you smooth everything out for the mainstream or Apple crowd. i'm returning the phone. nice phone, but not for me at this price.
Lightflow does a good job enhancing the LED. Even without root, I now have a charging indicator and fully charged green LED. You can customize other apps too.
With the exception of having used the app for a long time, I do not know the dev, nor have any interest in his/her ventures.
I am linking the paid version as I am a strong beliver in supporting devs that turn out useful apps. There is a free version also.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow
Enjoy..
Edit: There is another app, called Light Manager, that I have previously tested. In the end, I found that Lightflow is the most flexible and useful for me.
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Lightflow does a good job enhancing the LED. Even without root, I now have a charging indicator and fully charged green LED. You can customize other apps too.
With the exception of having used the app for a long time, I do not know the dev, nor have any interest in his/her ventures.
I am linking the paid version as I am a strong beliver in supporting devs that turn out useful apps. There is a free version also.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow
Enjoy..
Edit: There is another app, called Light Manager, that I have previously tested. In the end, I found that Lightflow is the most flexible and useful for me.
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What do you like better about LightFlow out of curiosity? I have the paid version of LightFlow as well but find myself using Light Manager.
Thanks
RoccoN4 said:
What do you like better about LightFlow out of curiosity? I have the paid version of LightFlow as well but find myself using Light Manager.
Thanks
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Lightflow has more features. It takes more work/tweaking, but I can do more with it. For example, I use Lightflow to also control ringtones for some apps, as well as reminder tones. You can also control vibrate/volume characteristics. Light Manager does not offer that.
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Lightflow has more features. It takes more work/tweaking, but I can do more with it. For example, I use Lightflow to also control ringtones for some apps, as well as reminder tones. You can also control vibrate/volume characteristics. Light Manager does not offer that.
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May give it another try. if I remember correctly, I didn't like the persistent notification that is always there.
snovvman said:
Lightflow has more features. It takes more work/tweaking, but I can do more with it. For example, I use Lightflow to also control ringtones for some apps, as well as reminder tones. You can also control vibrate/volume characteristics. Light Manager does not offer that.
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I read somewhere that Lightflow was causing wakelocks on the Pixel and users didn't have the problem using Light Manager. Any confirmation on this?
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I read somewhere that Lightflow was causing wakelocks on the Pixel and users didn't have the problem using Light Manager. Any confirmation on this?
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I am running LF on my PXL with no wakelock issues. Battery life is great.
I wish they would put the LED from the Galaxy nexus on the new phones. It had an awesome LED. Theres plenty of space for it on the button.
Been using LF for years. Great developer.
I use light manager pro myself. Just got the pixel yesterday
Although I have the setting enabled, I miss messages for hours because I never see the LED blinking. I know the hardware works because it lights up during charging and Textra can enable the LED through it's app. Do any of you have notification LED working for non-messaging apps like email, xda, banking, etc?
After searching around the forums and the web, it appears that EMUI only shows LED notifications for stock apps. It will only blink for 3rd party apps if those apps have an option within the app's setting. I am missing so many notifications because of this. Without that blinking light, the phone looks like nothing has happened, causing me not to wake it up to view the missed notifications. I hate this so much! This is the same problem I have with iPhones. You never know when a message is waiting for you because it doesn't blink. The phone could be completely powered off and you wouldn't notice until you tried to wake it up.
There option like Light Manager and Light Flow may want to give them a try for led notifications
Nyssa1104 said:
There option like Light Manager and Light Flow may want to give them a try for led notifications
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Thanks for the suggestion. Light manager works great, but it prevents the phone from sleeping and caused horrendous battery drain. I'll just have to get used to waking my screen regularly to check for notifications. Not only does this look like an iPhone, it acts like one too! Lol
PuffDaddy_d said:
Thanks for the suggestion. Light manager works great, but it prevents the phone from sleeping and caused horrendous battery drain. I'll just have to get used to waking my screen regularly to check for notifications. Not only does this look like an iPhone, it acts like one too! Lol
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LOL like the quote.. "Even acts like one" (iphone)
I must say I use Lm Pro 11.2 and I don't get the battery drain now. I used to but after a few clicks of the Phone manager my device has settled down OS is B360 L09.
Since I have read this I saw that notification led is working. At least for viber and it is like viber an purpel led color.. I did not saw for regular messages at least for now.. couse all was over viber.. but yeah its working..
Will report if the regular message will trigger the led notification
Yeah, I know messaging apps will trigger the LED, but a lot of my other apps don't get the same treatment. My banking app, my home security app, and even Google now traffic alerts don't trigger the LED. It kinda sucks!
For now it worked for normal messages with green led and viber with purple led..
Will try to see what about other apps like notificstions from you tube maybe..
If it is like you said for banking app and thoese other apps it may be incompatibility with this sistem or just with the setting option..
Becouse if it would not work at all then it would be something different.. but since some of default apps works and some not.. it could be the app incompatibility..
I think it'd a flaw in EMUI, because this didn't happen with any other Android phone I've ever owned.
You are right
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I think it'd a flaw in EMUI, because this didn't happen with any other Android phone I've ever owned.
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So, I have been reporting back to you that it works but for default sms and viber. And that would be it for me
Couse it does not work for other notifacations like you tube and other apps
So you are right, some of them just dont work
Honor 8 LED light not working all of a sudden
I have a problem with the LED light stopped working at all. Yesterday, there was a red light going on for hours, which made me turned the phone off. Today, the LED light just stopped working for any apps and doesn't even lights on while charging. I have switched into the option of setting the screen on whenever I get a notification, but it's not the same as the LED light, because this drains the battery. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this problem? I'll appreciate it.
Did you try a wipe cache or an Hard Reset?
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I have a problem with the LED light stopped working at all. Yesterday, there was a red light going on for hours, which made me turned the phone off. Today, the LED light just stopped working for any apps and doesn't even lights on while charging. I have switched into the option of setting the screen on whenever I get a notification, but it's not the same as the LED light, because this drains the battery. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this problem? I'll appreciate it.
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How old is your phone? Maybe the LED got busted.
Led manager on honor 8
I dont know if u guys try on led manager there is an option for led blinking version 1 -2 and 3 try to change them and see if that works for u or any app that will blink i try it on xiaomi option 1 work but the led didnt show the right color it only show rainmbow kind of color then option 2 also work but first it blink green and then after the color i put...option 3 worked just fine u have to play with the led manager...hope it helps and just to let u know i have the paid version