Hello! I've just updated my AT&T N1 to Froyo FRF85B and am excited on how awesome it is. For the color notifications now enabled, I've tried both Blink and Trackball Alert and it is nice. Trackball Alert technically only supports certain builds, and Blink doesn't have a notification setting for gmail. Unfortunately Trackball Alert, although having a gmail notification, doesn't work with the stock Froyo. I know we'll see updates I'm sure that will correct this, but does anyone else know of an app that allows gmail new email notifications blink in customized colors?
Thanks!
From my understanding of Trackball Alert, you can't use it on a stock rom.
I'm in the same boat as you right now. I am using Blink for notifications.
For some reason the trackball lighting functionality changed from the trackball mod in 2.1 to the official 2.2 release. Hopefully there will be some apps for it soon.
Gmail Notifier from the market is free and what you are looking for. Works with 2.2 and is very customizable, including the trackball colors.
I use Blink, shame about the screen needing to be off, so can't change incoming call colour.
hi folks...
sorry if its been asked and answered elswhere... i didnt see this elsewhere on the forum.
when i upgraded my stock att n1 to 2.2, the trackball began glowing various colors for certain notifications. i know that a rooted phone can have this feature set for specific color for notification, but on stock 2.2, i cant find a guide to what glows what color, or how (if able?) to change the color settings.
sometimes my trackball now glows green, and sometimes white.. no rhyme or reason. anyone here have a link, or info on how to associate the meanings of trackball colors?
thanks
look for blink in the market
nexusonemeover said:
hi folks...
sorry if its been asked and answered elswhere... i didnt see this elsewhere on the forum.
when i upgraded my stock att n1 to 2.2, the trackball began glowing various colors for certain notifications. i know that a rooted phone can have this feature set for specific color for notification, but on stock 2.2, i cant find a guide to what glows what color, or how (if able?) to change the color settings.
sometimes my trackball now glows green, and sometimes white.. no rhyme or reason. anyone here have a link, or info on how to associate the meanings of trackball colors?
thanks
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This is a feature of FROYO. For applications that support the color notification you can set it in the apps settings. I know on my I have text messages set to one color, gvoice to another and email to yet another.
HTH,
marka
manderson8898 said:
This is a feature of FROYO. For applications that support the color notification you can set it in the apps settings. I know on my I have text messages set to one color, gvoice to another and email to yet another.
HTH,
marka
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thanks for this info. looked at each of the programs you mentioned though, and it seems i dont have the same options that you mention above. can you be a bit more specific with how you access the setting?
ive entered the settings area of each program (gmail, voice, talk) and for gmail i have notification bar, ringtone, vibrate, and notify once. for voice, in addition to the gmail options (minus notify once), i have light option (but not color setting... just blink or not blink). for talk, i have notification bar, ringtone, and vibrate... thats it.
i did try the blink application posted above, but i dont use sms or mms (just voice), and i really dont need colors for incoming calls... just wanted distinct colors for voice, talk, and gmail.
thanks.
The key point is this:
"For applications that support the color notification you can set it in the apps settings".
The stock apps don't have settings to change the colour of the notification. Things like Handcent SMS/ChompSMS/SMS Popup provide notifications that have specified colours, which you can use (and disable the stock apps notifications).
In a similar way, GMail notifier can be used instead of the stock gmail app notification to allow you to customise the colour of your gmail notification.
ok. i get the point.
thanks for the responses.
You're not able to change the colour of the incoming call LED, as the colour can only be changed when the screen is off, and when a call comes in, the screen lights up.
Is it a new thing since froyo, that you only get a trackball illumination for notifications other than calls, when the screen is OFF?
I am new to Froyo, like the majority of other Nexus users who do NOT frequent these forums. So I am also new to the coloured trackball and getting my head around it.
I see a few other new froyo newbies reporting their trackball does not illuminate any more since their OTA. But like me, they probably overlooked that apart from phone calls, it seemingly only notifies you when the screen is OFF. Make sense when you think about it, as notification will be in the notification bar with screen on and no need for trackball glow.
Next question.. What is supposed to display if two concurrent notifications occur for different colored events. Just the first color or perhaps a sequence (or even a blend of the two colors - joking)? Seems to me it just displays the most recent item. Is that correct?
A little annoying that the native google apps themselves don't support the colored trackball.
Anyway seems plenty of room for 3rd party apps to improve things. Like occulting different colors at the same time for differing notification sources. Multiple flashes to quantify number of new notifications.
Tried Blink but it did not really fit the bill for me.
So I am currently running with just ChompSMS telling me a unique color for SMS and I am looking for way to improve the rest.
Green is GV. It's controlled by the app.
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Green is GV.
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I have no idea what you are talking about.
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I have no idea what you are talking about.
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he means the green color notification is controlled by google voice ... means you have a notification in google voice (GV)
I have rooted my phone and updated all my apps....i think tht no led is causing it to delay the chomp sms popup.
What happens is i receive a txt message, i see the no led notification and then after pressing home and unlocking screen my homescreen shows no popup but shows text message icon in notification bar.....needless to say the popup comes up an hour later...with OLD text messages as well as a new current received one.....what is the problem here? is it a no led in conjunction with Chomp sms? or a plain chomp sms and root problem? im very confused....
EDIT** have verified this is a No LED problem.... wanting a way to fix this somehow. i just posted in No Led thread also.
DOUBLE EDIT** MODS please delete this thread....have fixed issue thanks.
switch to handsent SMS waaaaaaay better
My P20 pro does not show notification light when receiving sms or email. Im using the apps outlook and textra. Notifications work, but not the light.
Notification light is enabled in settings.
Anyone?
Use the app Light manager (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanagerpro). I could only get it working with this app. Without it, the notification LED would work randomly with some apps, and with some it wouldn't.
Thank you
I already tried light manager, but didnt like it.
I would really prefer stock management to work.
If you get it to work without any other app, please report back. I'd be interested in your solution.
I'm sure I'm missing something, but how exactly does the notification light work on this phone? I'm coming from a OnePlus 3 and I'm just baffled.
The main switch for notification dot is on and is also enabled in the apps' settings.
I have been able to get some notification lights working with the LightFlow app, but basic functions like SMS messages don't notify me at all. Fail for Discord as well. And I should not have to use a third party app, right?
Thanks!
It's a shame it's not working proplerly. Have you tried Whatsapp's in-app light notification settings?
It's still bugged, for everything else it's actually fine, just for the sms message app it comes on once upon recieving an SMS then goes off rather than a continuous blink. I read in one of the old CN firmwares they fixed it, but nowhere in the WW firmware is it mentioned.
I've noticed there's no option for vibration on notification led. What's going on here!, the most important small details are missing.
Notification light of Rog symbol can be accessed by opening Armoury crate app- Console tab-system lightings- advanced settings- notification