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.
immulsion said:
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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Anyone can show me how notifications look like on this particular device?
I tried searching for youtube videos but nothing came up.
(I'm looking for a phone that comes with a clearly visible notification light. So far the Xperia Z phones are winning with their fast blink notification light. Yes, I tried light manager, lightflow, and every app chewed up my battery straight.)
Thanks!
h8Aramex said:
Anyone can show me how notifications look like on this particular device?
I tried searching for youtube videos but nothing came up.
(I'm looking for a phone that comes with a clearly visible notification light. So far the Xperia Z phones are winning with their fast blink notification light. Yes, I tried light manager, lightflow, and every app chewed up my battery straight.)
Thanks!
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This device indicates a notification with a light which is situated at the top left above the screen. It blinks slowly but is very clear and easy to see. In addition to this, the rear power button also lights up in sync with the front light. I really like this feature
Yeah!
No phone beats it in term of notification LED. :good:
You will not miss the notification both from the front LED and power button LED at the back! They are bigger and brighter than any other phones! :silly:
That's one of the reasons why I love the G Pro! It's just so innovative and so different from other phones
Does your led on the back able to display complete white?
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
I can't seem to find it settings, and I suspect there isn't one.
Coming from Samsung Note 8, this was one of the feature I liked most.
I could use Lightflow and I could customize LED color lighting for a certain sender.
I wonder if anyone know a good replacement for a silent and subtle way of notification through third party apps, maybe utilizing the always on display with colored lights for status indicator?
Thanks in advance.
I honestly wanting to know it as well, its something that I really like even more when it has different colors and not only white as in some motorola versions.
If anyone don't mind please let us know if it has the led notification please!
I can't see any led lights on my mate 30 pro
Nope, there is no notification LED .
I'm using this at the moment,
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.used.aoe&hl=en
Not very robust, still learning how to configure it, and doesn't have the same flexibility as lightflow.
Damn that's sad I know it might look sissy but no volume button, earphone jack and notification led might make me think a bit more before buying it
It's not big problem for me - AOD works very well and informs me about everything.
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
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...