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Question: does the hardware support different LED colors? I'm not familiar with the technology. Mine only shows Red and Green. Are there any apps that might enable custom colors or is it hardware limited?
Thanks.
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Yup. Hardware limitations. Some things (like light flow) will also give you an orange color option by combining the red and green light together.
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Hi all,
I just recently purchased the Z1 and have a question regarding the Sony Z1 notification light.
I noticed our phone flashes/stays solid color of white, blue, green, and maybe other colors, but I was wondering what each color meant and what keeps it from staying solid? Is it all random or do different apps set off different colors and/or causes it to flash or stay solid?
Different apps set off different colors and/or causes it to flash or stay solid.
Kcyen18 said:
Hi all,
I just recently purchased the Z1 and have a question regarding the Sony Z1 notification light.
I noticed our phone flashes/stays solid color of white, blue, green, and maybe other colors, but I was wondering what each color meant and what keeps it from staying solid? Is it all random or do different apps set off different colors and/or causes it to flash or stay solid?
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You can use this powerfull application to set your led preferences:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite
About our led, i got the app light flow but i cant understand why it uses only 3-4 colours! Red blue and green led colours are in our device so theoretical it can produce every colour with some combinations of those 3 colours. So my question is, is the app not getting all out of our led or does the hardware have a problem?
P.S. the colours I've managed to get out of are red, blue, green and light blue
HitNrun_ said:
About our led, i got the app light flow but i cant understand why it uses only 3-4 colours! Red blue and green led colours are in our device so theoretical it can produce every colour with some combinations of those 3 colours. So my question is, is the app not getting all out of our led or does the hardware have a problem?
P.S. the colours I've managed to get out of are red, blue, green and light blue
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Check this out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2947625
Evolution_Freak said:
Check this out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2947625
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thank you very much
HitNrun_ said:
About our led, i got the app light flow but i cant understand why it uses only 3-4 colours! Red blue and green led colours are in our device so theoretical it can produce every colour with some combinations of those 3 colours. So my question is, is the app not getting all out of our led or does the hardware have a problem?
P.S. the colours I've managed to get out of are red, blue, green and light blue
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The answer is that the three single color LEDs are not merged in an RGB LED. They are distinct. Their intensity control is also EXTREMELY poor, which makes them effectively ON/OFF LEDs rather than ones you can blend at varying intensities. Means that the best you can hope for is the following combinations;
RED (red) = FF0000
GREEN (green) = 00FF00
BLUE (blue) = 0000FF
RED+GREEN (yellow) = FFFF00
RED+BLUE (purple) = FF00FF
GREEN+BLUE (teal) = 00FFFF
RED+GREEN+BLUE (white) = FFFFFF
Except, of course, that the colors won't blend together in the case of compound colors, so the "white" will actually appear as distinct red, green, and blue.
This is great stuff here, gonna download Lightflow and set this up as ASAP.
A lot of the ROMs are supporting the LED light by default now. I am using AOSiP RC-3 on N6 and it has LED Notification built into it. Highly configurable per app as well.
michaelramm said:
A lot of the ROMs are supporting the LED light by default now. I am using AOSiP RC-3 on N6 and it has LED Notification built into it. Highly configurable per app as well.
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does it support only RGB or can you mix the colours?
HitNrun_ said:
does it support only RGB or can you mix the colours?
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it has the standard color picker and I have some non-standard colors set (like orange for G+ notifications). See Picture Here
Hi, I have question regarding the notification led.
I have set it to green for notification and red for warnings but I still see sometimes blue light for notifications, why? Is there also any method to change colors for different apps? And if I get 2 notifications from 2 different apps with diffetrent colors what then? Who has priority or maybe it will blink in 2 colors one after another? (that would be great)
Hi,
to get custom led notifications you need a rooted P2 and Light Flow (find it on google apps)
I want to thank Andrew Moore (Light Flow)for taking the time to look at this with me and pointing me in the right direction
New (upcoming) version of Light Flow supporting "large" numbers for RGB led brightness will be available soon. Otherwise you may want to edit the backup file as per this post:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/vibe-p1/how-to/led-fix-custom-roms-t3569108
1>Disable led notifications on you device (Display)
In Light Flow
1> enable Direct mode and root
2> enable rgb led
3> set the rgb brightness to any the following for your notification:
Bright red:13631488
Pale Blue:6316128
Crabapple Red (pink):11796512
Orange:12607488
Green: 35840
Cyan Blue: 32896
Sea Blue: 8388
Dark Purple : 3876477
Before Andrew put me in the right direction, I tried different brightness levels with mixed success. As you see from above, the numbers have no logical sense (at least to me).
If you do find additional colors, please post them in this thread.
HAPPY CUSTOM LED NOTIFICATIONS EVERYONE
Here are the "reference colors"
Works also on custom roms.Thanks for the guide!
Thanks for making the LED work! But I'm stuck at the brightness levels part... In the notification settings per app, under the light settings, I can only set 4 numbers and you give a whole lot more. What am I doing wrong?
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Thanks for making the LED work! But I'm stuck at the brightness levels part... In the notification settings per app, under the light settings, I can only set 4 numbers and you give a whole lot more. What am I doing wrong?
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As I said, light flow at the moment only supports 4 . Andrew (the maker of light flow) will update the app asap. If you are in a hurry., use the backup/modify./restore method mentioned in the first post. Just change the brightness level. It works.
Hi, any chance to set the red color too (the red color the LED shows when charging)?
Found it in the first post Sorry!
Useful 10x.
Thanks for the tip and tutorial, I got a bit confused on where to set the RGB colors (in the individual notifications) but it's working well now. Also the battery charged threshold was set at 90% by default so it popped up as green when I plugged in at 92%
It is only working in Test for me. Can someone send détailled settings?
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Did you make sure it was active? If it is you'll see a notification in the pull-down list.
This is really cool, definitely will use a custom Rom because of Light Flow.
Working thanks
Could someone tell me where I insert the RGB values?
I have a rooted Lineage 14.1, but all I can select is one colour with RGB enabled...
There is only one colour available per application, ie e.g. Signal has blue (which works), agenda as well, but Gmail has black... And that's not showing of course
Edit: I edited the settings manually and imported them again as suggested in the opening post, we'll see how that goes...
Does it work with free version of Lightflow?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlegacy
Works for me with the legacy version. But there is also a "light" version of the newest release.
Currently, I see heavy battery drain due to light flow; the device never goes to sleep. Maybe, this is different with the light version... I will try.
Edit: same battery drain issue with the light version...
This does not seem to work with the latest version of the app(I even bought pro). I followed all the steps but it never works. Is there something I'm missing? after enabling rgb control i setup a notification and in the setting's light tab i enable the light and set the rgb LED to solid and set the color to one given in the first post(none of them seem to work). I then use the test button but LED does not turn off(tried both - turning screen off and keeping it on). Any Help?
@Uibon
Me neither.
Edit: Legacy is working, but only when screen is off. I'm rooted of course rooted (Magisk) and I have the "screen on" option ticked.
Wmateria said:
This is really cool, definitely will use a custom Rom because of Light Flow.
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The title says stock?
Those of you who reported it working, does it work when the screen is on as well?
Edit: Missed calls, incoming call and other things related to the system is working when screen is on. With Textra (and other apps?) it only works when screen is off.
Thanks for the instructions and links.
I bought the app (Just Rs 10).
Cant be more worthy purchase.
All working good.
hi can someone help i have been able to set a few app leds and they work properly but whats app i set to green but it is not working i have also disabled the led setting in whats app settings but still not flashing green for whats app message?
I looked to see if I could find this answer on here and on Google please flame away if it's a repost. In the chroma app I set the led color to red. I tell it to pulse if I get a notification,but the pulse color is not the color I selected it is a light blue is this normal?
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The colour you set in Chroma is just for the passive effect. When you get a notification it tries to find the most prominent colour in the app's logo which sent the notification and uses that. It's meant to make it more useful than a plain old notification LED since you can intuitively determine which app sent the notification just by looking at it.
So yeah, that's normal
CurtisMJ said:
The colour you set in Chroma is just for the passive effect. When you get a notification it tries to find the most prominent colour in the app's logo which sent the notification and uses that. It's meant to make it more useful than a plain old notification LED since you can intuitively determine which app sent the notification just by looking at it.
So yeah, that's normal
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Gotcha I will pay closer attention to it seems a little odd to use light blue for Hangouts which is green. Maybe it's just not that accurate