I'd like to take advantage of the edge lighting in my Samsung to color-code information. So, instead of having to unlock my phone, the edge lighting notification will tell me what it is (I know the meaning of each color). To give a simple example, take the weather: edge lighting in blue for rain, yellow for sunny, and red for extreme weather.
It'd be nice to do this without having to send a notification each time, just have the phone change edge color throughout the day; not periodically with the same colors in sequence (that's a traffic light or Christmas tree), but as a function of an information feed. The closest that I could find was this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edgenotification.codevida.com.edgenotification
An optional notification message would be nice, but I'd like to control when it happens, so I'm not flooded with notifications. Basically, I would like to use my phone as a discreet notification system, so I can go about my day without necessarily opening the phone too often; only when certain colors come up.
Any ideas on how to do it? Where can I find sample code on how to control the edge lighting?
Thanks
Lol, if it lights up at all you'll be lucky... it pretty much does what it wants.
A bad gf is more reliable
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Yo can anyone fill me in on this ^ I watched loads of reviews but not one person goes into detail about it, Ino Notification lights aren't anything new so it makes sense they wouldn't mention it but what about the people who are new to Sony phones. Samsung is all I no mostly the note series.
Anyone who owns the phone up for making a quick video on the Notification LED? I'm mainly interested in what colors it can be because on my current phone (Note 3) it can only be Red, green and Blue and i think White. but apps like light flow let me mix these colors together to create new colors. However the new colors dont look very good. Years ago I had a Sony walkman phone it wasn't Android but it lit up at the sides when I got a notification and it could be all kinds of colors, real colors! It was well cool. I'm hoping the Z3 LED will be just as cool.
Hopefully that made dome sense.
Haven't got the time to make a video but I installed lightflow lite and created a custom notification setting.
Sure enough the led tries to match the settings I choose under custom color (although not 100% accurate but still).
The notification led on this phone is pretty small, especially compared to the nexus.
Hope that helps.
..via Z3
I haven't paid too much attention to the led but i have seen it green, blue, and i think amber also
Notification LED is a full color LED, color rendition is so lala, not too precise.
Especially white has a bluish tint.
Cheers everyone
Can we set a different color for the edge lighting when we get a call from certain contacts? If so, where is the setting or is there an app for it that works with the S8+?
Tia,
Ian B
I'm using Textra and somehow when I reverted back to the stock theme I get purple edge lighting and purple outlined pop up when my wife texts me. Only does it for her. Everyone else is blue. So it's definitely possible.
mrlou623 said:
I'm using Textra and somehow when I reverted back to the stock theme I get purple edge lighting and purple outlined pop up when my wife texts me. Only does it for her. Everyone else is blue. So it's definitely possible.
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Thanks but I am not referring to notification light color but rather assigning a color to a phone contact so when they call, I can tell by the color of the edge light who it might be or let it go to vm. I think the edge s6 had this option for assigning up to 5 caller contacts.
Ian B
Mr Ian B said:
Thanks but I am not referring to notification light color but rather assigning a color to a phone contact so when they call, I can tell by the color of the edge light who it might be or let it go to vm. I think the edge s6 had this option for assigning up to 5 caller contacts.
Ian B
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I tried to locate the video on this I couldn't find it but it was a tips and tricks on s8 edge panel and they mentioned that you can do it...how? Idk I don't use often...
This, suggests that you can: http://techlife.samsung.com/color-code-top-5-contacts-1537.html#page1
It's an article about the S6E though.
All my contacts in my edge panel have a blue circle. When I click on a contact, the nav bar changes to blue. On my S6E, all contacts have a different color, but I can't find how to change it on the S8+.
I'd love to get different colors but it seems like blue is the only one available. I'll do more searching and more testing and will report back if I find anything.
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http://gadgetguideonline.com/s7/sasmung-galaxy-s7-how-to-guides/how-to-use-people-edge-in-edge-screen-of-galaxy-s7-edge-and-galaxy-note-7-galaxy-s6-edge-and-galaxy-s6-edge/ said:
You can also re-assign colors for all contacts. This color will be used for edge lighting. Update: with Android Nougat update for Galaxy S7 edge, this color option was removed from People edge.
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Looks like there's nothing we can do until Samsung updates that feature
I've been playing around with the different features for edge lighting, and there's not very many settings. The Edge Lighting on the S8 pretty much just shows as an outline around the screen when it is on. It can be blue, purple, salmon-ish depending on what theme you have running (i've only seen them change with the infinity themes). It also does the "glow" when it is face down, but that color depends on what theme you currently have, at least that's what i've noticed with mine. You can't really assign a color to a contact like you could on the older devices. I use LightFlow to change the color of the notification light. That seems to work a little better for me since the light is constant and the Edge Lighting only shows once very quickly for me, and you can assign different light colors to different apps/contacts/notifications.
I know on my Nexus 6, the default Google contacts, phone, and messages app were synced together based on the contact colors. Maybe you can try using those apps?
Edge lighting is based on which Samsung Theme you are using.
You'd have to find a 3rd party app if you want to customise it. There are many on the app store.
I asked the same question on r/oneplus.
So I've bought a OP 7 Pro just 1 month ago and I'm really paranoid about burn in.
I searched a lot about amoled technology and from what i read i assumed screen burn in it's not something recoverable. And I took all the security measures to not make it happen. Auto-brightness, screen timeout to 30s, AOD turned off, and i never leave a static image on my phone.
Today I noticed that when i plugged my phone and the colors screensaver started, the fingerprint icon left a visible mark like it was burned in. But it lasted only a couple seconds and then it disappeared. Same thing happens with the signal icon on the status bar.
So, is that screen burn in? Or it's just image retention? And why is it recovering? Should I worry about it becoming permanent? I'm not even enjoying the phone anymore :c
Sorry for my english and thank you
Not that big of a deal. Especially with screen technology these days. Walk into your local carrier store, or Best Buy, look at an old phone that has an amoled screen and that's left on all the time for display. That's burn in. When the image stays there after a long period of time and doesn't disappear when the screen is turned off and on. When I had my S8 and S9, it was noticeable that the clock and always-on home button shifted all of the time. With screen technology the way it is now, a lot of OEM skins have some sort of burn-in protection in place. I've left the screen on my 7 Pro on for hours on end, alas at the lowest brightness, with the screen timeout set to never and I've never had an issue.
I'm paranoid about burn-in too. I use navigation gestures and systemui tuner app to hide status bar. I use battery widget reborn to see battery percentage and other notifications can be seen in notifications pull down shade. Use auto brightness to change brightness more frequently. I use amoled antiburn app to check for any burn-in. All clear so far.
Since launch, Not much chatter concerning this as an issue... Enjoy your device
I have Google maps burned in..? I hate it because you can see see on a white background alot.
The notification led is too bright to bother and uncomfortable for the eyesight.
Is there any way to reduce the intensity of the glare?
IMHO no software way yet (at least working (found a few ROMs with LED notification customization, none of them worked)), but your imagination is the limit here, if you really must, use black permanent marker, or black paper sticker, or something like that...
Back when phones still had LED indicator lights, they would blink when you have a text or a notification or just different colors for different reasons and I miss that because I didn't have to pick up my phone.
So here's my question. Given that a lot of phones these days use amoled screens, that means these phones have the ability to only turn on certain pixels while leaving the others off.
Would you be able to create an app that would make a circle of pixels blink when you get a message and also customize the colors of the pixels depending on the notification?
Also it'd be cool if someone would do that because I know nothing about making an App.
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Back when phones still had LED indicator lights, they would blink when you have a text or a notification or just different colors for different reasons and I miss that because I didn't have to pick up my phone.
So here's my question. Given that a lot of phones these days use amoled screens, that means these phones have the ability to only turn on certain pixels while leaving the others off.
Would you be able to create an app that would make a circle of pixels blink when you get a message and also customize the colors of the pixels depending on the notification?
Also it'd be cool if someone would do that because I know nothing about making an App.
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There are already some apps available for some devices doing this.
E.g. Holey Light from chainfire:
[APP][2021.03.02] Holey Light - Samsung/Pixel Notification LED Emulator [v1.00]
100% Free - 100% GPLv3 Open Sauce - No ads - No tracking - No nags - Optional donation Holey Light is a LED emulation app. It animates the edges of the camera cut-out (AKA punch-hole) as replacement for the sadly missing LED on many modern...
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