Been doing some searching, but there doesn't seem to be much info regarding the different colors and frequency of flashes that the LED notification light is capable of, depending on the notification received on the Nexus 4, so here goes.
This is just regarding the stock setup without LED modification apps, etc. So far, I have found that the LED has a few different patterns and colors depending on the type of notification that you receive. I am also wondering if there is any way to adjust the behavior of LED notification light in the stock configuration without additional apps or rooting with custom ROMs, etc. I have checked around within the settings of the different apps but aside from a few giving the option simply to use the notification light or not, it seems that it is not possible to adjust the behavior. Here are the details that I have discovered so far:
- Gmail, stock email app, stock text messaging app, others? - White LED, flashes once every 10 seconds
- Google Voice messages, Ebay app, Official Twitter app - Green LED, flashes once every 2 seconds
- Yahoo Mail - Violet LED, flashes once every 2 seconds
- Facebook, Tasks app, Plume - Blue LED
- Flight Track app - Yellow/Orange LED
- Google Messenger, Calendar, others? - No LED notification flash
This is just what I have observed so far after about a week with this awesome phone. Feel free to add to this list based on your observations and I will update the list. Thanks!
There won't be any way to adjust these without additional apps. It's left up to each particular app to support it and pick a color.
I seem to remember the old TweetDeck app was yellow.
crachel said:
There won't be any way to adjust these without additional apps. It's left up to each particular app to support it and pick a color.
I seem to remember the old TweetDeck app was yellow.
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All apps can do different colors, but it just depends on the code. The Google+ used to use Red LED notifications, but they've since returned to using green (I think this is a step-backward, but whatever). Yahoo Mail did Purple when I last used it, and Flight Track uses Orange/Yellow. I suggest just downloading LightFlow or Rooting/Flashing a custom ROM for increased control (you can even specify blink frequency and other settings). The problem is, not many phones have had RGB LEDs, so App Devs have no reason to support them. With the GS3, New RAZRs, and the Optimus G/Nexus 4, hopefully this changes, although the LEDs seem to behave weird on some phone models, especially the RAZRs...
jab0321 said:
Violet LED, flashes once every 2 seconds? (This one happened the other day but didn't catch what caused it and haven't seen it since
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could the red LED be for sync error? google mail had an outage the other day.
Facebook notifications are blue on mine, which is neat.
xdatastic said:
could the red LED be for sync error? google mail had an outage the other day.
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That could be it. Anyone else notice this?
rickykemp said:
Facebook notifications are blue on mine, which is neat.
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Good to know, although I don't use Facebook right now.
My LED didn't work from the factory, installed light flow and now at least it works the way I would have wanted it to from the factory.
I wished Google + would use the red LED again. I thought it was cool with the FB blue and G+ red.
Plume (Twitter app) also is Blue by default but can be customized in the settings.
Just got an eBay notification and they use green too. I would have assumed yellow....
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Forgot to add, the flash rate is fast, like on one second, off one, then back on.
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Get Lightflow:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...yYWdlY29uc3VsdGluZy5hbmRyb2lkLmxpZ2h0ZmxvdyJd
It'll take about an eon or so to set up, but once it's up and running it'll change your life. I have customized the LED notifications for all of my different accounts/apps in such a way that I rarely even turn my phone off vibrate anymore - I can tell exactly what is waiting by looking at what color(s) are displayed on the LED.
Good info and thanks for the comments! Also I am aware of light flow but am just looking at the stock setup.
Before I go with lightflow, I'm going to need to see two things. 1. Full compatibility with the N4 (there are bugs) and 2. Proof this won't drain my battery or prevent notifications from appearing. My battery isn't doing too hot and I don't need something else draining it!
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One of my LEDs is dead
What color LEDs are there in there? I'm assuming RGB
I noticed my colors are off, tried several LED control apps, particularly "LED Tester", and none can get the Blue LED going. And my white is yellow. G and R are fine. Any advice beyond LED is dead?
I'm so sick and tired of QC on this phone ... I think I'm done with it. Returning for a refund, money wasted on now useless accessories, some of which are still in the mail
c0LdFire said:
Get Lightflow:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...yYWdlY29uc3VsdGluZy5hbmRyb2lkLmxpZ2h0ZmxvdyJd
It'll take about an eon or so to set up, but once it's up and running it'll change your life. I have customized the LED notifications for all of my different accounts/apps in such a way that I rarely even turn my phone off vibrate anymore - I can tell exactly what is waiting by looking at what color(s) are displayed on the LED.
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I prefer Light Manager. Much easier to set up. Plus notifications for charging.
Qbancelli said:
I prefer Light Manager. Much easier to set up. Plus notifications for charging.
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Lightflow has notifications for charging. I say it's a pain to set up initially because picking a color for 41290 different notifications can take awhile, but the setup really is quite intuitive. It's been changed a lot in the last couple months - might be worth looking again some time.
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gotzaDroid said:
Before I go with lightflow, I'm going to need to see two things. 1. Full compatibility with the N4 (there are bugs) and 2. Proof this won't drain my battery or prevent notifications from appearing. My battery isn't doing too hot and I don't need something else draining it!
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I've had no issues on my Nexus 4 with it. It's never drained my battery on this nor my Galaxy Nexus. Its memory footprint is tiny and it has no reason to wakelock the phone since all it does is intercept when a notification shows up (so the other app is what actually wakes the phone). It's really well designed.
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Lightflow has notifications for charging. I say it's a pain to set up initially because picking a color for 41290 different notifications can take awhile, but the setup really is quite intuitive. It's been changed a lot in the last couple months - might be worth looking again some time.
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I've had no issues on my Nexus 4 with it. It's never drained my battery on this nor my Galaxy Nexus. Its memory footprint is tiny and it has no reason to wakelock the phone since all it does is intercept when a notification shows up (so the other app is what actually wakes the phone). It's really well designed.
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One question for you. I know that because of how light flow works, if it doesn't support an app the led won't work on that app even if that app has it's own led ability, but will the phone still display the notification (minus the light) for an unsupported app?
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If you guys are rooted and installed the stock AOSP browser, for some reason Light Flow breaks it.
Once light flow is installed and permission is set in accessibility, the stock AOSP browser starts behaving badly and stops working correctly.
The autohide url bar stops working, when changed to full screen mode there is either a glitchy image at the top or a blank black area where the url bar is supposed to be. Problem completely goes away once light flow is uninstalled.
Very frustrating because I can't stand Chrome, and I need the AOSP browser + lightflow. It's either one or the other.
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If you guys are rooted and installed the stock AOSP browser, for some reason Light Flow breaks it.
Once light flow is installed and permission is set in accessibility, the stock AOSP browser starts behaving badly and stops working correctly.
The autohide url bar stops working, when changed to full screen mode there is either a glitchy image at the top or a blank black area where the url bar is supposed to be. Problem completely goes away once light flow is uninstalled.
Very frustrating because I can't stand Chrome, and I need the AOSP browser + lightflow. It's either one or the other.
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Have you talked about this issue in the Light Flow thread here?:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994906
Maybe it helps to get it solved.
gotzaDroid said:
One question for you. I know that because of how light flow works, if it doesn't support an app the led won't work on that app even if that app has it's own led ability, but will the phone still display the notification (minus the light) for an unsupported app?
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As far as showing up in the notification bar? Absolutely. The apps themselves control that, not lightflow.
Personally I don't have any apps that lightflow doesn't support by now, but I'm sure there's some out there.
After purchasing my moto x and running stock for a while, the active notifications are a must. Just wondering if (other than eclipse, which i am running now) there are any other roms with these features? I know Pac and AOKP were shooting to add them but never found any confirmation. And i do have a vzw dev edition so.
I think no. The only way to get active notifications is installing 3rd party apps (Dynamic Notifications) from play store.
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I think no. The only way to get active notifications is installing 3rd party apps (Dynamic Notifications) from play store.
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Correct me if im wrong, but don't those apps light up the entire screen rather than just the few pixels the stock active notifications does?
StATicxTW0T said:
Correct me if im wrong, but don't those apps light up the entire screen rather than just the few pixels the stock active notifications does?
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Nope. The color black doesn't use any lighting. No matter what app
Hello All,
The new update is really smooth but it seems to have affected my favorite feature Moto Display with some weird issues.
1) DND doesn't automatically deactivate the sensors like Moto Assist used to keep the screen dark and the phone still flashes notifications at night. Does that consumer battery and affect Doze?
2) We cand choose the screen to go dark from 11pm-6am in Moto Display, but they removed the option to define custom timings. So now its either 11pm-6am or have the phone flash notification all night?
3) The flashing interval for Moto Display also seems to have been reduced and it flashes too often now, which becomes a little annoying if the phone is in front of you.
Are these issues for everyone or am I missing something? Any comments or workarounds would be helpful.
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Hello All,
The new update is really smooth but it seems to have affected my favorite feature Moto Display with some weird issues.
1) DND doesn't automatically deactivate the sensors like Moto Assist used to keep the screen dark and the phone still flashes notifications at night. Does that consumer battery and affect Doze?
2) We cand choose the screen to go dark from 11pm-6am in Moto Display, but they removed the option to define custom timings. So now its either 11pm-6am or have the phone flash notification all night?
3) The flashing interval for Moto Display also seems to have been reduced and it flashes too often now, which becomes a little annoying if the phone is in front of you.
Are these issues for everyone or am I missing something? Any comments or workarounds would be helpful.
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I own Moto X 2014, but still Lollipop, not receive Marshmallow yet. But i find some changlog on Motorola, I see :
Sleeping and Meeting - to keep your phone quiet while you are sleeping or while you are busy in a meeting you may wish to consider using the Do not disturb feature from Android. To set it up, swipe the status bar down with two fingers and tap the gear icon at the top right corner of your screen. Once in the Settings menu, scroll down and tap Sound & notification, then go to Do not disturb. To keep your screen dark while you are sleeping, open the Moto app, tap the icon on the top right corner of your screen, then go to Display and set the time under Keep screen dark.
KRN03 said:
Hello All,
The new update is really smooth but it seems to have affected my favorite feature Moto Display with some weird issues.
1) DND doesn't automatically deactivate the sensors like Moto Assist used to keep the screen dark and the phone still flashes notifications at night. Does that consumer battery and affect Doze?
2) We cand choose the screen to go dark from 11pm-6am in Moto Display, but they removed the option to define custom timings. So now its either 11pm-6am or have the phone flash notification all night?
3) The flashing interval for Moto Display also seems to have been reduced and it flashes too often now, which becomes a little annoying if the phone is in front of you.
Are these issues for everyone or am I missing something? Any comments or workarounds would be helpful.
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Tap the time in Moto display settings to choose what hours you would like the display to be off. The features in Marshmallow just have been relocated from what they were in Lollipop.
Ok, sorry. I got it. I tried hitting the numbers earlier but it just got deselected. Trying to tap those ain't easy with your thumb I guess. Worked now. Thanks guys!
Sent from my Moto X 2014.
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Tap the time in Moto display settings to choose what hours you would like the display to be off. The features in Marshmallow just have been relocated from what they were in Lollipop.
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But the Moto Display assist doesn't work with Marshmallow.... At least the icons don't appear....
Found this thread, it was modded for the Moto Z, but it is working great on my Moto X Pure XT1575. The new Moto actions will not install though.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z/themes/apk-moto-display-moto-x4-t3682701
Great find! Finally moto display makes sense after this update. Thanks a lot!
the moto displaye works.. but moto action while installing doesn't even open the file.. it throws error..
there was problem while phrasing the package
On moto x style Nougat it work but it forces wave to wake. Disabling it in moto action do nothing. Wave to wale is a battery hog on nougat so i has to uninnstall
NahuelMS said:
On moto x style Nougat it work but it forces wave to wake. Disabling it in moto action do nothing. Wave to wale is a battery hog on nougat so i has to uninnstall
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nougat itself is battery hog on this phone, I don't see difference with wave to wake enabled or disabled
The new motodisplay is dumber than the old one. It used to not unlock when i cover the proximity sensor, even if i tried to drag down. This though, it unlocks even my finger is on the sensor.
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The new motodisplay is dumber than the old one. It used to not unlock when i cover the proximity sensor, even if i tried to drag down. This though, it unlocks even my finger is on the sensor.
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also it sometimes constatnly flashes even in the pocket so it drains battery quite fast ;\
I don't get notifications for Gmail
So how to uninstall this? Can't find the uninstall button except disabling it, doing which disables the original Moto display too.
Answer: Go to play store. Search for Moto Display and click uninstall.
Im used to the led light on my previous samsung phones. The s10 doesn't have one but people were asking samsung to implement the camera cut out light, others made apps and one that was interesting that was the AOD would activate only when there was a notification to open.
As im looking to switch to the s10, are there news on the implementation of the notification light or new apps? Do the current apps work well?
Thank you!
If you're only looking for an LED notification, Samsung has updated the Edge Lighting + settings within the Good Lock app to create an notification ring to display around the camera cut out. I have it set on my phone and it performs exactly to my liking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9HOXh9KEg
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If you're only looking for an LED notification, Samsung has updated the Edge Lighting + settings within the Good Lock app to create an notification ring to display around the camera cut out. I have it set on my phone and it performs exactly to my liking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9HOXh9KEg
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Thanks!
I have read and seen videos on it when it was released but it only worked for a few seconds when the notification showed up and didn't keep "blinking" like the led/until you seen or open the notification. Its still like that right?
I'm not 100% sure about that. I rarely see my notifications right away and generally check my phone when I get back to my desk when at work.
Holey Light on the play store...
I have read that holey lights uses quite a bit of battery, i wanted something that didn't use as much.
There was this AOD app that would only show when there was a notification but i don't know how well it works
Led notification
griffin_1 said:
Thanks!
Also it doesn't work for downloaded apps on screen off mode.
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