Just recently got my HTC Vivid and I like the device. Quick question about the notification LED in the upper left corner. It seems to only flash for a few minutes indicating I have received an SMS or email, etc. Should it only flash for a few minutes? I would prefer it continue to flash until I check.
I don't know that it flashing for only 5 or 10 or 15 minutes (however long it is, I haven't timed it) will help me much as I check the phone every 5 minutes to see if it's blinking. For example, at work I often leave my phone on silent (as in not vibrate but completely silent) and rely on LED notification (or on my Captivate, BLN control pro) to tell me I have something waiting. But I may be away from my desk for 30 minutes or an hour. If the notification LED on this device only flashes for a few minutes upon receipt of something new (text, email, missed call, vm, etc.) then I could potentially miss events if I don't turn the screen on to look for notification bar icons.
It seems these apps on the market that are supposed to expand the functionality of the notification LED may not work for HTC devices such as this one.
All of that to ask...is this normal behavior or is there somewhere on the device I can control how long it will blink? If there is I have't found it so someone pointing me to it would be greatly appreciated!
It's normal, mine does it too actually. It's really annoying though, haven't tried any apps for it yet.
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slapshot30 said:
It's normal, mine does it too actually. It's really annoying though, haven't tried any apps for it yet.
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Hmm...well, I looked up a couple apps on the Market that I saw suggested elsewhere but it seems the comments/reviews were saying it didn't work on various HTC phones. It would be nice to be able to tell it to not blink as frequently (i.e. longer between blinks) but blink until cleared.
Also had a weird occurrence earlier where I got a text, light was blinking, I read and replied to the text but the light was still blinking. A restart cleared it. Hope this isn't a continual problem; I want the LED to work as I think it is very useful.
SMS pop up in market lets you adjust the blink rate.
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mark72501 said:
Also had a weird occurrence earlier where I got a text, light was blinking, I read and replied to the text but the light was still blinking. A restart cleared it. Hope this isn't a continual problem; I want the LED to work as I think it is very useful.
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That happens to me occasionally. All you need to do is pull down the notification tray and it will stop. At least, that's been working for me.
becandl said:
That happens to me occasionally. All you need to do is pull down the notification tray and it will stop. At least, that's been working for me.
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Will keep that in mind!
davezaff said:
SMS pop up in market lets you adjust the blink rate.
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Can you confirm that this feature in SMS Pop up works on the Vivid? I ask because I tried Lightflow, I think it was, from the Market and all it did was make the LED stay on steady and not blink (or I couldn't get it to blink). Also, can you disable the pop ups using the SMS Pop up app? Sorry, just wondering if you or anyone know from experience...
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Can you confirm that this feature in SMS Pop up works on the Vivid? I ask because I tried Lightflow, I think it was, from the Market and all it did was make the LED stay on steady and not blink (or I couldn't get it to blink). Also, can you disable the pop ups using the SMS Pop up app? Sorry, just wondering if you or anyone know from experience...
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SMS Popup has the option but I don't think it works for the Vivid. I vaguely remember trying it.
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Can you confirm that this feature in SMS Pop up works on the Vivid? I ask because I tried Lightflow, I think it was, from the Market and all it did was make the LED stay on steady and not blink (or I couldn't get it to blink). Also, can you disable the pop ups using the SMS Pop up app? Sorry, just wondering if you or anyone know from experience...
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Tested it out and it does work on the vivid. You can change the color, speed and how long it flashes. Yes you can also disable the pop up.
EDIT: After playing with it some more the LED color change doesn't work on the vivid. It is always green.
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Is there LED notifications for this device?
You can see a red light in the speaker grill in this video. Not sure exactly what it is but could be a notification light.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1sCpPooZKE
Yep it blinks away in green when you have a message come in
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Yep it blinks away in green when you have a message come in
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Actually from what I've seen it only blinks on notification of missed calls, not on receipt of SMS or emails, kinda annoying really, as MS claim to not want us being locked looking at our phones, but we have to switch the screen on to check for messages as the LED doesn't light up.
frontieruk said:
Actually from what I've seen it only blinks on notification of missed calls, not on receipt of SMS or emails, kinda annoying really, as MS claim to not want us being locked looking at our phones, but we have to switch the screen on to check for messages as the LED doesn't light up.
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It is indeed a shame that the LED does not blink for anything other than missed calls!!
I wonder why there isn't any setting for the LED notifications.
bhogal said:
It is indeed a shame that the LED does not blink for anything other than missed calls!!
I wonder why there isn't any setting for the LED notifications.
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Urgh, HTC needs to get their **** straight, you have these things to use... I will wait patiently for some sort of hack or something to enable these for notifications
Smokexz said:
Urgh, HTC needs to get their **** straight, you have these things to use... I will wait patiently for some sort of hack or something to enable these for notifications
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Well, The HTC attentive phone app should really have included support for settings for LED notifications as it seems none of the other WP7 handsets have a LED.
Waiting for an update from HTC!!
I thought MS rolled the updates?
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MS rolls OS updates, but apps like attentive phone HTC can roll the update it depends if they can get the led to flash.
Oh, alright
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hi,
On the htc one x when there is a notification, the led only blinks for ~30mins before stopping. Has htc fixed this yet, how long does it blink on the one?
Can someone with the phone test this please.
why would u want it to blink forever? this will burn the led out before u know it
Burn the LED out? I dont think so.
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On my S3, I can customize the color of the notification LED to distinguish whether it is notifying me of an e-mail, or a text message, or a missed call, or if the phone is fully charged or not fully charged, etc. Is that a basic android feature that will be available on the One as well?
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On my S3, I can customize the color of the notification LED to distinguish whether it is notifying me of an e-mail, or a text message, or a missed call, or if the phone is fully charged or not fully charged, etc. Is that a basic android feature that will be available on the One as well?
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You can download an app called LightFlow.
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On my S3, I can customize the color of the notification LED to distinguish whether it is notifying me of an e-mail, or a text message, or a missed call, or if the phone is fully charged or not fully charged, etc. Is that a basic android feature that will be available on the One as well?
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No, the HTC One only supports red and green... unlike the SIII which sports many more.
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Will this keep the the LED flashing?
It's a real pain it keep going out.
Does Lightflow even work on the HTC One?
Is that any way to turn low battery LED notification off? Really annoying
Send from my S3 (2nd HTC one goes for replacement)
So can anyone with the phone do a test? The led on the one x right now is useless. It may as well not have the led at all, since it only lasts for 30mins.
Just want to know if it's the same on the one before I pull the trigger.
thanks
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Does Lightflow even work on the HTC One?
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On the one x and one s it sure worked like crap... don't count on it working well on the One either.
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I'll test it now
Edit: Missed calls, texts messages & emails. All notifications are only lasting for 5 mins on my One.
vapotrini said:
I'll test it now
Edit: Missed calls, texts messages & emails. All notifications are only lasting for 5 mins on my One.
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Thanks for the reply, looks like I'm gonna wait for the next nexus or upgrade next year then.
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I'll test it now
Edit: Missed calls, texts messages & emails. All notifications are only lasting for 5 mins on my One.
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Surely this is something that can be fixed in a custom ROM? I'm getting my One next week and moving from an S3, the LED is one of the most useful features for me. I can deal with the lack of colour options but 5 minutes is just silly!
tryfound said:
Surely this is something that can be fixed in a custom ROM? I'm getting my One next week and moving from an S3, the LED is one of the most useful features for me. I can deal with the lack of colour options but 5 minutes is just silly!
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Its the same with the one x, and its still isn't fixed, even with custom kernel.
As most of us know our beloved Note (1) doesn't have the "notifications LED" present in so many dumber and older phones.
After completely breaking the power button from just checking if there's any notification I've got a new phone and I'm on a quest for finding some alternative notification.
So, it seems that in order to actually GET that there's some notification you need to have talkback enabled and that's buggy (you get this spooky voice when doing certain tasks). FINE, I disabled (freeze) both samsung and google TTS (although I didn't really wanted, but OK). Then I get a hand icon in the notification area with "talkback activated". Ok, FINE. I'm using Flashlight Notifier (which flashes the camera LED) and it seems to be somehow working, except that it leaves the (camera) LED turned on continuously!!!
I seems that there's some other option to flash the soft buttons backlight but it needs some very old (I think GB) ROM and I'm not going there. For what is worth I'm on a stock new JB with speedmod kernel.
In short, any solution that "just works", getting extremely frustrated with all the stupid problems I run into? I need notification for gmail, hangouts, sms, missed calls, nothing fancy.
Whats wrong with vibrate and message/ring tone?
This is question. So should be in Q and A thread
a. vibrate/ring disturbs people around (especially when there are at least 10-20+ notifications coming every day)
b. you might step out briefly and you might not take the phone (all the time...) with you to WC and such. Yes, some applications allow for repeat rings (like the default SMS app) but that only makes (a.) worse
I think it is good to be able to just look at the phone and see that you don't want to turn the screen on as opposed to turning the screen on, see you don't need anything from there, turn it off.
If a mod wants to move the thread please and thank you.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itsme4ucz.screenoff
Thanks, interesting but not at all what I want. Just want something to blink reliably ...
There's a whole cohort of software that does that but is usually geared towards making the "real" notification LED blink in various colours and also it usually shares the talkback (samsung) bug (but I'm willing to work around it).
d210 said:
Thanks, interesting but not at all what I want. Just want something to blink reliably ...
There's a whole cohort of software that does that but is usually geared towards making the "real" notification LED blink in various colours and also it usually shares the talkback (samsung) bug (but I'm willing to work around it).
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try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
d210 said:
Just want something to blink reliably ...
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Fork this, modify it any way you like, compile and bob's your uncle.
treacherous_hawk said:
try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
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Thanks. Is it a warlock...
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Thanks. Is it a warlock...
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did not get you. warlock (literal meaning?, some user?).
none that dont cause severe wakelock lol
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Typo error. Sorry.
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NoLED seems to be fine (I was thinking for a long time that on OLED it might be a good idea to have some "few pixel" notifications, although I understand there is still significant power consumption even with OLED and few pixels on).
The device still deep sleeps (at least without notification) but of course this is the type of thing liable to kill the battery overnight.
Still, it works great and for most notifications I need it doesn't even need talkback (that's a big plus because I don't have to freeze TTS). And it looks great! Will report later or tomorrow how things go, with my luck I'll run into some issues in no time.
wow
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try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
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I was looking something like this. (It has many options / choices).
Thanks.
baz77 said:
none that dont cause severe wakelock lol
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The battery drain was extra 2-3% while me and the phone were sleep from 10pm to 6am. Acceptable. Good. With setting - noled always on and battery % while charging on.
Thanks.
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lol, maybe they obtimized it, that is good news if true. The wakelock occurs when not charging btw.
Thank you everyone!
NoLED is great for now, battery life is good, it catching all I want (maybe except hangouts) without enabling accessibility and is better than I dreamt.
Maybe, maybe a little concerned with display life now (it looks like there is still some kind of backlight, not only the small icons) but overall it looks good!
Maybe some option to blink the camera LED would still be good but you can't have everything.
I iust found this and I thought ill share it with the wonderful people at xda for always helping me why not share . Feel me I dont know if theres another thread for this but hey . Any way I had a chance to play with the moto x and its okay . Lets put it like this its not a s4 . Lol. However I did like this active display which show your notifications as they pop in . Almost like a lock screen but better in my veiw . Take a look for your self heres the link.....
http://gs4.wonderhowto.com/how-to/s...x-style-active-display-notifications-0148248/
The great thing is that it works for our phone it also help with battery life thats a plus . Enjoy . Let me know what ya think.
Peace .
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Not sure how this would actually help with battery life as it actually turns on the screen which is a major power drainer as opposed to just turning on the Led which is what happens by default. With that being said I do love this app for phones that do not have an led indicator. I use this on my blu life play and it does help with getting notified especially when your phone is on silent . I think one obvious feature it is missing is the ability to "pulse" the notifications periodically cause as it stands right now the screen lights up and if you aren't staring directly at your phone you will miss it. And you are back to pressing a button to turn the screen on and check. With the s4 its not that big of an issue cause the led will continue to pulse as it would anyway. So although its kind of gimmicky I would see it consuming more battery on the s4 than by just turning on the led. If the whole point it just to get notified when some actionable item has happened than a simple led is best. Rather than a screen that lights up only momentarily then never to be seen again.
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Not sure how this would actually help with battery life as it actually turns on the screen which is a major power drainer as opposed to just turning on the Led which is what happens by default. With that being said I do love this app for phones that do not have an led indicator. I use this on my blu life play and it does help with getting notified especially when your phone is on silent . I think one obvious feature it is missing is the ability to "pulse" the notifications periodically cause as it stands right now the screen lights up and if you aren't staring directly at your phone you will miss it. And you are back to pressing a button to turn the screen on and check. With the s4 its not that big of an issue cause the led will continue to pulse as it would anyway. So although its kind of gimmicky I would see it consuming more battery on the s4 than by just turning on the led. If the whole point it just to get notified when some actionable item has happened than a simple led is best. Rather than a screen that lights up only momentarily then never to be seen again.
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Well not really cause in the app it self you could set how long you want it to stay on. Plus I'm one that dont like led I hate to see that light flash plus it dont show you your message just saying. Lol. And being that is black with white letter consume less battery. And instead of going in your phone you could read a brief detail of your messages and emails with out go in your to phone ,,unlock your phone sliding your bar down and then clicking it to go in your app then your app has to load which is quick but more step to see your messages here you could just quick veiw. I always have my phone on ten mins cause I hate for my phone to turn off plus I always turn it off when im not using it and I get great battery life doing that with it being ten mins that app will stay on as long as you have your system time out set plus you could set a sound for it too so you dont miss it. So in alot of way its great once again in my view. And yeah never to be seen again..lol.. that needs to get updated . But its a work in progress. Lol
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Not sure how this would actually help with battery life as it actually turns on the screen which is a major power drainer as opposed to just turning on the Led which is what happens by default.
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It doesn't turn on the whole screen. With AMOLED screens, the black pixels are completely off and aren't using any power. The only pixels drawing power are the ones you see. An LCD screen, on the other hand, is drawing tons of power even if it's displaying an all-screen. Having an AMOLED screen is what makes this feature practical.
On our galaxy S4 s we have the Quick Glance feature anyway so that works for me. I think its actually better than this app because u can have the screen light up when u need it, with a quick wave over the device itself, and not just once after receiving the message, email or etc.. No offense to the Dev its awesome for phones that don't have a led notifier or the Quick Glance feature. Keeps up the development it helps lots of people thou.
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On our galaxy S4 s we have the Quick Glance feature anyway so that works for me. I think its actually better than this app because u can have the screen light up when u need it, with a quick wave over the device itself, and not just once after receiving the message, email or etc.. No offense to the Dev its awesome for phones that don't have a led notifier or the Quick Glance feature. Keeps up the development it helps lots of people thou.
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Yeah but once again quick glance dont actually show you the messages it just shows that you have a notification pending thats it..lol.. I wanna have the ability to to read and dismiss or read slide up and it takes me right in to the message . I kinda like the idea of it. I just hate the led flashing .lol.. but I see ths goin places..lol..
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Yeah but once again quick glance dont actually show you the messages it just shows that you have a notification pending thats it..lol.. I wanna have the ability to to read and dismiss or read slide up and it takes me right in to the message . I kinda like the idea of it. I just hate the led flashing .lol.. but I see ths goin places..lol..
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That, and the fact that it takes a couple seconds to activate the quick glance feature. I found that it was quicker to just unlock the phone and look at it.
**** I installed this stupid app and now I cant uninstall it anyone know how to uninstall
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Never mind I got it
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I purchased Light Flow mainly for a light for missed calls. Others may use it for more. I do have it working properly as should but only way I got it work under Device Root Setting enable Direct Mode.
Did anyone on N6 get it work without Direct Mode? What I want is the led to flash but all it will do stay solid in color.
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I don't think anyone has gotten it to blink yet, it will stay solid. I have heard if you receive multiple notifications, it will flash.
I can confirm. It's only blinking when you have multiple notifications each with a different color.
I have issues with this app. Also with all root settings enabled led doesn't work properly. Sometimes it doesn't turn on and sometimes it doesn't turn off (in this case I must open the app to turn it off). I hope Dev will update this app soon.
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Any battery drain with the light being on say for 30 min.
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mouse100 said:
I have issues with this app. Also with all root settings enabled led doesn't work properly. Sometimes it doesn't turn on and sometimes it doesn't turn off (in this case I must open the app to turn it off). I hope Dev will update this app soon.
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I had some issues with Light Flow too. The LED sometimes didn't work. Now i have found a "hidden" setting in the menu. In Accessibility (you have to scroll down) is an option "Light Flow". You have to turn this to on. Now my LED works as it should.
How can i get this to work with the basic standard messenger?
I have sms selected but so far no go. Everything else had worked so far
Didn't know the nexus 6 had working led light.
I didn't get the LED to work for incoming SMS neither. Maybe someone here has an idea how to fix this.
schockfroster said:
I didn't get the LED to work for incoming SMS neither. Maybe someone here has an idea how to fix this.
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pretty sure I saw a post yesterday from the author starting an update was in the works that will fix the led for messenger
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pretty sure I saw a post yesterday from the author starting an update was in the works that will fix the led for messenger
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That would be great!