Evening gents,
Just after I bought my One (black version) I noticed that my notificaton led is barely visible, and only when looking at it straight - I thought its a design failure and lived on with it..
But lately my girlfriend bought herself a silver variant of htc one, and the notification led is bright and can be clearly visible from another end of the room, when the phone lays on the table.
So the question is if my one has a bad LED, or all black variants have the same fault - eg. The led is mounted deeper or whatsoever?
Cheers,
McK
TapaTalking
mckoval said:
Evening gents,
Just after I bought my One (black version) I noticed that my notificaton led is barely visible, and only when looking at it straight - I thought its a design failure and lived on with it..
But lately my girlfriend bought herself a silver variant of htc one, and the notification led is bright and can be clearly visible from another end of the room, when the phone lays on the table.
So the question is if my one has a bad LED, or all black variants have the same fault - eg. The led is mounted deeper or whatsoever?
Cheers,
McK
TapaTalking
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I think that you've had bad luck with your device. It should be like the LED of your girlfriend. Maybe you can give it back.
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Hi I have a small problem with my galaxy and I wonder if it is a common thing or is it a sporadic case. I recently took my galaxy in assistance for the replacement of the screen (between lcd and capacitive glass had a hair) Once again after a while 'I realized (I think that there is a problem from the beginning) that appeared on the display strange signs. Initially I thought it was a lcd problem then I tried to shift the LCD image and saw that signs remained fixed as if they were between display and glass. I brought the phone back in service but they said there were no defects. For sureness (they were very nice) they showed me another galaxy just out of the box and presented the same peculiarities. It seems to me (but I'm not sure) that the first galaxy that I had not had this feature.
If you want to help me try to manually set the display brightness to low and pull down the curtain of the notification bar, or choose a dark gray background and gimme an answer.
thank you
i attach a photo
anyone?
I saw that many people have downloaded the image.
thank you
Can you explain what is so peculiar about it ? I dont see anything wrong with that image . Is it the three orange color curved lines ?? (though that looks to me like a reflection of something).
Are you talking about the red haloing effect around the white text?
Apart from the orange claw 'reflection' in the top right there is nothing discernible about that image.
orange signs are camera lens reflection. I talk about grey zones of images. If you watch closely you notice that some grey pixel zones are different from other. With a kind of green blur.
thank you for your answers
Is this what you are concerning about?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8766267&postcount=12
What sort of notification LED does the Galaxy Note have? I've used three different Android phones since the original G1 and it feels like they're turning into pretty useless two or three colour things now. The G1 had a multi-colour LED, something like six or seven colour choices, as did my Motorola Milestone but my current phone, the HTC Desire HD, has a pathetic tri-colour LED. I was seriously considering the new One X but that has a dual-colour LED!
Anyway.. getting sidetracked. Can a Note user please tell me what, if any, notification LED the phone has and what colours it can display if it does have one? I know this won't be a big deal to a lot of people but I relied pretty heavily on the multiple colours in the past.
it has none.
None.
But, you can install a custom kernel that supports notification light and software to enable indicator light, such as when you have a new email. Then your soft buttons will be lit up.
I think there's also variations of quality on those soft touch lights. I had two Note, one had clear soft light on the soft button, the other had dirty looking light on the soft buttons. Both works fine, but just something to know.
hp79 said:
None.
But, you can install a custom kernel that supports notification light and software to enable indicator light, such as when you have a new email. Then your soft buttons will be lit up.
I think there's also variations of quality on those soft touch lights. I had two Note, one had clear soft light on the soft button, the other had dirty looking light on the soft buttons. Both works fine, but just something to know.
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as what jeremy.chan and hp79 have said that the SGN has no notification indicator. but if we are taking about custom kernel to have the touch key light as the indicator, it will be white in color.
Dyonas said:
What sort of notification LED does the Galaxy Note have? I've used three different Android phones since the original G1 and it feels like they're turning into pretty useless two or three colour things now. The G1 had a multi-colour LED, something like six or seven colour choices, as did my Motorola Milestone but my current phone, the HTC Desire HD, has a pathetic tri-colour LED. I was seriously considering the new One X but that has a dual-colour LED!
Anyway.. getting sidetracked. Can a Note user please tell me what, if any, notification LED the phone has and what colours it can display if it does have one? I know this won't be a big deal to a lot of people but I relied pretty heavily on the multiple colours in the past.
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The only notification LED you can have is the soft touch keys backlight. It will be white in color and you can change the blinking rate to your custom setting.
You require root and a custom kernel like abyss which supports this and attain the said functionality by using this app - https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsIm5lbGRhci5ibG4uY29udHJvbC5mcmVlIl0.
Hit thanks if it helped
If your on stock rom, install Noled app from market.
Thanks for the replies everyone, I appreciate it It's strange to see such a useful feature missing or reduced from what it started out as but I'm sure there are reasons behind it.
Dyonas said:
It's strange to see such a useful feature missing or reduced from what it started out as but I'm sure there are reasons behind it.
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Bad Samsung user interface? Samsung arrogance? Silly patents? Doubt there's a good reason.
But you aint gonna change it, so you'll just have to live with it!
my black notification led works just fine............
Mystic38 said:
my black notification led works just fine............
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i never noticed it until i read your post. it's actually amazing!
It's possible make a notification like the iPhone 4 ?, whit the flash led, if you have a notification blink two times or something similar.
PD: sorry for my english
Hi, I think that the notification LEd of our HTC One is really poor. It really small and also not very bright, so it's very hard to see if you are not in a dark place.
But I noticed that when the battery is empty, or nearly empty, and you plug in the charger with the phone turned off, the LED is much brighter than usual.
So I wonder if it would be possible to make a hack for increase its brightness for every notification.
Thanks!
blackhawk_LA said:
Hi, I think that the notification LEd of our HTC One is really poor. It really small and also not very bright, so it's very hard to see if you are not in a dark place.
But I noticed that when the battery is empty, or nearly empty, and you plug in the charger with the phone turned off, the LED is much brighter than usual.
So I wonder if it would be possible to make a hack for increase its brightness for every notification.
Thanks!
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+1 here. No solution yet...
My led died last December. I don't miss it. But I was on the search for a brighter light too. I know that there are some hacks but I don't know exactly where and what.
Philipp_94 said:
My led died last December. I don't miss it. But I was on the search for a brighter light too. I know that there are some hacks but I don't know exactly where and what.
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Are you sure it's not just covered with dust or something? Try cleaning out with a toothbrush, some people "recovered" its led and loudness after cleaning
blackhawk_LA said:
Are you sure it's not just covered with dust or something? Try cleaning out with a toothbrush, some people "recovered" its led and loudness after cleaning
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Yeah I'm pretty sure. I cleaned it very often it's dead and I don't care anymore. It's not worse to me.
Okay, I fixed my LED brightness.
It really was very very dim in phone's standby regime. Entering the bootloader or and other on/off procedure was setting orange led ON FIRE! That means there is a lot of power getting lost somewhere. In the /system/sys/class/leds/amber and /system/sys/class/leds/green there is a file named "pwm_coefficient" that determines LED's strength. I was unable to edit it on my (stock 5.0.1) kernel, but somebody may be able to do that, and alter the default value of "5" to something like "255" which I believe is maximum.
Anyhow, as a last resort (being so frustrated not being able to see my notifications on time) I decided to physically clean the LED's hole. I used an extra spiked toothpick (just give it a nice touch with a sharp knife, to make it super pointy and thin) and stuck it inside, rotating vigorously. It turns out that was it, it's as bright as new.
Still I wonder why dirty LED was shining brighter prior to boot?
Hey guys.. Just took delivery of a n920cd. Love it. However have an issue with my led notification light.. When I first get a WhatsApp message it flashes red before flashing white.. The white itself has some red bleeding from the top of the notification led circle so it's almost pink. I wouldn't mind so much if it didn't flash red first. After the first red blink it goes into the pink / white led.
Same happens for purple and orange .
Setting the notification color in WhatsApp to Green is OK and flashes green straight away.
Has anyone experienced this. Should I just rma the device
Behavior recreated from led testing app in the play store
All I did was flash the Thailand csc version of the official n920c on this device to get rid of the Afghanistan csc the device shipped with all official Samsung
I do not want to send this back but equally I don't think this is good sign from a new phone
Any tips are welcome
Why would you start another thread???? You made the same post as the other guy. And you even replied in his thread....
Sent from my SM-N920T using Tapatalk
Well to be fair I started this thread before finding the other one.. Happy to merge it
I was wondering if the dual tone flash has two seperate LED's? or if its only one LED powering the two coloured plastic parts. Based on close inspection mine only has one led powering the two slots. A quick reply would be appreciated, thanks!
Anyone?
Mine has 2 . One is white and the other is orange .
I got 2 also. It flash white and then orange.
Two LEDs here. It produces pure white light while focusing and nice warm tone flash later. Single LED is not capable of doing it.
When using the torch, does the White LED only turn on?
Both on mine
JamesRLS said:
When using the torch, does the White LED only turn on?
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That's how it works on pretty much every single Huawei/Honor device. Why? I have no idea.
I'm not an expert, but cooler white LED's have lesser power consumption (Lumen per Watt). So if you want to use the LED as a flashlight, cooler light is more efficient and they don't need to cool the module too much. I like the warm one as a flash, but I still miss the Xenon Flash from old Sony Ericsson Phones
Noone uses it long enough to make 7-10% difference neigligible. Turning the flashlight on for couple of hours makes no difference either.
More - LED efficiency depends on the current. Split the same current for two diodes and they'll make even more light! And since the other one is a warm one, light itself will be much higher quality. There's absolutely no reason to use just one LED as a flashlight.