The notification light/led only blinks for about 5 minutes. Because im not looking at my phone every five minutes, i often miss the notification. Why only make it blink for 5 minutes? It defeats the purpose of a notification led if it doesnt notify you when theres something going on. So... Is there a way to make it blink until the notification is cleared?
OMG, you not got a faulty device are you? Because this does sound really ridiculous - I mean, what, I leave my phone on my desk for 10 mins, then I come back - and see no LED blinking because its already stopped?
I have almost decided on getting One, but this ridiculous "feature" just totally bummed me....
I'm pretty sure it's 5 minutes by design. My One X + is the same way. I called HTC and they said yes, 5 minutes by design. If I recall, no one could find an app either that would extend the time.
But surely it must be changeable by tweaking the kernel driver (one that works with LED hardware)?
Maybe some custom kernels patched this?
Ingvarr said:
But surely it must be changeable by tweaking the kernel driver (one that works with LED hardware)?
Maybe some custom kernels patched this?
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any solution for this yet? this is a huge annoyance for me too. doesn't make any sense that this would be the design...
I've installed an app called 'Easy Reminder' (by Edges Labs) off the Play Store - with this active, the LED blinks for at least an hour for missed calls and unread SMS. You can set audible reminders for calls and SMS, going up to 'infinite' repeat, and this seems to keep the LED alive as well. I've set it to infinite but not tested it past an hour. Also, for missed calls only, in the app you can separately set the LED to blink, but I've not activated that as the LED blinks natively anyway - regardless, the LED still blinks for at least an hour for both calls and sms.
The app hasn't been updated since Jan 2011 but seems to work fine - also, someone resolved the same problem on their HTC One X a while back (HTC One X forum) using a different reminder app, so perhaps other similar apps will work the same.
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I wonder - is it possible to change the frequency of blinking of the notification LED diode? It blinks too slow and one has to stare at the phone to be sure there are no missed calls or new messages without waking the device.
I went through the settings several times but could not find anything. In the registry I stumbled upon HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\AllLEDMgr (as I understand AllLEDMgr is the LED driver), but there was no value that seemed to be related to frequency of blinking. Maybe I missed something in the registry?
Anyway, I'd like to avoid applications such as nueLED, because that would be another thing running all the time (TD2 is not the snappiest phone even if one does not use HTC Sense - personally I prefer the less is more approach and therefore install only applications that I really need).
Any hints/tips would be most welcome.
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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.
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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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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!
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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!
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Its the same with the one x, and its still isn't fixed, even with custom kernel.
Hi,
is there a possibility to change the notification-led settings? Like that the LED should shine instantly or blink so long till i unlock the phone?
Thanks...
(I´ve the One for 2 days now and want to install TrickDroid)
There's not much you can do with the led
And you should flash trickdroid
Hmm, but why? Is it not possible to change the kernel "a little bit" so you can config the led?
You can download a led app from Google play but you got to be rooted it doesn't work very well
There's also LightFlow, but apparently there's some serious compatibility issues with the One at the moment. Perhaps when there's an update.
so as of right now, there is no way to extend the duration of the flashing led notification without rooting? it really doesn't make sense that it would turn off after a few minutes. it seems obvious that it should remain blinking until you've viewed the notification...or is it just me? can this be done if the phone has been rooted?
Just got the Nexus 6 a few days ago. I could have sworn that before I unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP, and rooted that when I got a text or email the LED would blink. The last day or so I noticed it isn't blinking when I get a notification. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
I understood that although there is an LED under the top speaker it isn't activated. The only solution I remember seeing is using Lightflow on a rooted device. Are you sure your memory isn't playing tricks?
I don't believe the LED on this device has the ability to flash, just stay solid when active. Stock doesn't have this enabled, I have seen the setting to activate the LED in CM 13, but when I've used it there, it just stays solid when a notification comes in. I've never tried Lightflow so I do not know if that can flash the LED or not.
You can do software based flashing through lightflow but, it is a bit janky and has random intervals. Solid is probably what you want to do with the nexus since it isn't supported by the hardware (that's my understanding at least). In response to the OP, there is really no way you had the LED flash without having root
Only custom ROMs or being rooted allows activations of the LED. By default it is not used.
I ended up flashing Pure Nexus rom and it has the led enabled but it is solid only. Works for me. Thanks for the reply's guys.
And it is quite possible my eyes were playing tricks on me. I was transferring stuff from my old phone and maybe I mistook a notification on my old phone for the new one.
Before I even get started, I know CM13 is outdated/discontinued/insecure. I'm aware, I'm stuck with it for a while.
I've been trying to get the notification LED on my phone to work the way I want. I had no problems doing this with Light Flow on my old Samsung GS4. Things were not so peachy until I was reminded Cyanogenmod has built in controls for the notification LED. I have everything set up just the way I want it, it demos just fine when I'm punching in the settings. The problem is it won't work reliably when I set my phone down.
With my GS4, if the screen was off and I had notifications, the LED blinked accordingly. My N6P doesn't do that. I've caught it blinking a few times throughout my day, and had friends send me notifications while it's sitting on my desk, so I know it works sometimes. But the LED won't stay that way forever, eventually it just decides my notifications aren't important enough to me and stops blinking.
I'm having a hard time really pinning down it's logic because it seems to just work when it wants to. I have a theory that the way the 6P is really aggressive about saving battery, whatever service controls the LED is being woken up when a new notification comes in and eventually being put back to sleep, but I simply don't know enough to say. While I'm at it, I don't think I have any way of assigning priority to the different notifications (a text message is more important than an email, for example), so my color code scheme might as well go out the window.
I don't know why google seems to hate the notification LED so much, every time I try to google the issue I just get tons of pages telling me how Google hid it away and you can turn it back on in the settings for AOSP. Obviously none of that is helpful, maybe someone here has an answer?
@FoxtrotZero: Wrong forum. This is the Nexus 6 forum. Your device is here.
GFDI, didn't even know there was another device called the Nexus 6. Thanks.