LED color diversity

[Dural]

I chose the S4 (on Verizon) as my daily driver but a colleague is considering the ATT One. We rely heavily on color coded LED via apps like Lightflow or similar to alert us to incoming messages and their relative importance. How many total colors (nonrooted) can the One use? He'll need a minimum of 5 (SMS/MMS, personal email, work email, VM and missed call) to be able to use the device. Also, how bright is the LED and can it be seen easily from a distance? Thanks.

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[SCjRqrQCnBQ19QoYCtdl]

I chose the S4 (on Verizon) as my daily driver but a colleague is considering the ATT One. We rely heavily on color coded LED via apps like Lightflow or similar to alert us to incoming messages and their relative importance. How many total colors (nonrooted) can the One use? He'll need a minimum of 5 (SMS/MMS, personal email, work email, VM and missed call) to be able to use the device. Also, how bright is the LED and can it be seen easily from a distance? Thanks.

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Just one I think, so sounds like it won't work. Although I am a little surprised that anyone relies heavily on having 5 different notification colors.

 

[adriandb]

The one has at least green and orange LED notifications, but I think that's it. It's also pretty small, it's just a single hole in the speaker grill. I don't have any use for LED notifications so it isn't an issue for me, but if you rely on them this might not be your device. YMMV.

 

[vasekvi]

It's useful having the different colors. I use yellow for snap chat. White for emails and sms. Blue for facebook. Green for missed calls. Solid Orange while charging and Solid Green when fully charged. I use light manager.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...etails?id=com.koo.lightmanager&token=VJ4aUtt6

It all depends on needs and preferences. I want to see what's going on while my phone screen is off and it's sitting on the desk. That's the beauty of having so much flexibility.

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[SCjRqrQCnBQ19QoYCtdl]

It's useful having the different colors. I use yellow for snap chat. White for emails and sms. Blue for facebook. Green for missed calls. Solid Orange while charging and Solid Green when fully charged. I use light manager.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...etails?id=com.koo.lightmanager&token=7xAo32M4

It all depends on needs and preferences. I want to see what's going on while my phone screen is off and it's sitting on the desk. That's the beauty of having so much flexibility.

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So are you saying that you ignore some notifications? I guess I don't understand. If you are going to ignore them, they why have them turned on? If I get a notification I will pretty much always check it because different people use different methods of contacting me. To me, a text could be as important as an email or a voice mail.

I am not saying that having different lights avaialbe couldn't be useful on occassion for some people, I am just questioning that someone needs a minimum of 5 colors to even be able to use the device. Obviously, they must think they need them, but it would be hard for someone to convice me that it was necessary.

I will say that if this is a common feature on phones these days, I am surprised HTC didn't incorporate it. My prior phone had no notification LED, so maybe I have become accustomed to not relying on them.

 

[cgardnervt]

Coming from an S3 and have used Lightflow for a little while I can say that its a great app. The dev is a good guy and does a really good job! However I found my self turning off for the most part. The only thing that I used it for was to make GV pulse a lot quicker rather than the slow blue pulse. But I also used to use it so I knew what kinda message I had waiting for me. With the HTC One I don't feel the need to use it. The basic LED notification does it for me currently!

 

[Dural]

So are you saying that you ignore some notifications? I guess I don't understand...

You'd be surprised how differently people use their phones.

In this case, we must leave our phones at a distance (medical setting) and rely on the LED to prompt us whether to check (or have someone check for us) the notification. For example, I'd still like to know that I received a personal email, but I'm not going to worry about it in the work setting. On the other hand, I'd like to know if someone called and if they did/did not leave a VM. The LEDs prompt me as to how important it is to step away from the patient and check my phone.

Thanks all for the comments. It is pretty clear that the One isn't functional enough on the LED front.

 

[SCjRqrQCnBQ19QoYCtdl]

You'd be surprised how differently people use their phones.

In this case, we must leave our phones at a distance (medical setting) and rely on the LED to prompt us whether to check (or have someone check for us) the notification. For example, I'd still like to know that I received a personal email, but I'm not going to worry about it in the work setting. On the other hand, I'd like to know if someone called and if they did/did not leave a VM. The LEDs prompt me as to how important it is to step away from the patient and check my phone.

Thanks all for the comments. It is pretty clear that the One isn't functional enough on the LED front.

Well like I said, having different lights avaialbe could be useful on occassion for some people. I guess you would be one of those people. How many phones fit the description of having 5 different colors available?

 

[Gator352]

You'd be surprised how differently people use their phones.

In this case, we must leave our phones at a distance (medical setting) and rely on the LED to prompt us whether to check (or have someone check for us) the notification. For example, I'd still like to know that I received a personal email, but I'm not going to worry about it in the work setting. On the other hand, I'd like to know if someone called and if they did/did not leave a VM. The LEDs prompt me as to how important it is to step away from the patient and check my phone.

Thanks all for the comments. It is pretty clear that the One isn't functional enough on the LED front.

There are apps in the Play store that will make your screen flash different colors for notifications.....just sayin.

 

[taniabonita52]

I know the Note 2 has several colors available. 12 I think. Your friend might want to get the same phone you have.

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[madlaw1071]

You'd be surprised how differently people use their phones.

In this case, we must leave our phones at a distance (medical setting) and rely on the LED to prompt us whether to check (or have someone check for us) the notification. For example, I'd still like to know that I received a personal email, but I'm not going to worry about it in the work setting. On the other hand, I'd like to know if someone called and if they did/did not leave a VM. The LEDs prompt me as to how important it is to step away from the patient and check my phone.

Thanks all for the comments. It is pretty clear that the One isn't functional enough on the LED front.

You are in good company. I have the One and the S4 and one of the key reasons I cant use the One as my daily driver is the poor LED. Like you, I am used to using at least 5 different colors and flashing speeds to determine whether a notification needs responding to. The S4 fits that bill perfectly and any color of the rainbow can be selected.

 

[madlaw1071]

There are apps in the Play store that will make your screen flash different colors for notifications.....just sayin.

That defeats one of the key points to having a tweakable LED. I can massage the battery a lot longer by not having to activate the screen for every notification. The LED color will tell me if I need to open the screen.

 

[Dural]

Yes, that screen wake is not helpful. I need something unobtrusive. Also, how would it handle multiple alerts?

Re: How many phones have colored LED, we're coming from the GNex which does. Clearly the Galaxy S Series does, along with the Note line. Motorola also has similar LED flexibility, as I used to do the exact same LED programming on the Droids. I've never owned an HTC, but didn't the Evo, Rezound, et al. have multiple LED colors previously?

 

[taniabonita52]

Yes, that screen wake is not helpful. I need something unobtrusive. Also,how would it handle multiple alerts?

Re: How many phones have colored LED, we're coming from the GNex which does. Clearly the Galaxy S Series does, along with the Note line. Motorola also has similar LED flexibility, as I used to do the exact same LED programming on the Droids. I've never owned an HTC, but didn't the Evo, Rezound, et al. have multiple LED colors previously?

None of the Evos I had could be programmed with several LED colors...

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[SCjRqrQCnBQ19QoYCtdl]

Yes, that screen wake is not helpful. I need something unobtrusive. Also,how would it handle multiple alerts?

Re: How many phones have colored LED, we're coming from the GNex which does. Clearly the Galaxy S Series does, along with the Note line. Motorola also has similar LED flexibility, as I used to do the exact same LED programming on the Droids. I've never owned an HTC, but didn't the Evo, Rezound, et al. have multiple LED colors previously?

My samsung infuse had no led at all.

 

[Gator352]

That defeats one of the key points to having a tweakable LED. I can massage the battery a lot longer by not having to activate the screen for every notification. The LED color will tell me if I need to open the screen.

It doesn't defeat anything. I was merely stating an alternative to a tweakable LED that the One doesn't have. If the One had a tweakable LED, then yeah, it would defeat the purpose.

Solid green: charged
Solid red: charging
Solid blue: wife
Blue blinking: girlfriend
Red blinking: girlfriends husband (just in case)
Solid white: kids
White blinking: creditors
Solid purple: facebook posts
Blinking purple: facebook girlfriend
Solid teal: facebook girlfriends boyfriend (just in case)

 

[taniabonita52]

It doesn't defeat anything. I was merely stating an alternative to a tweakable LED that the One doesn't have. If the One had a tweakable LED, then yeah, it would defeat the purpose.

Solid green: charged
Solid red: charging
Solid blue: wife
Blue blinking: girlfriend
Red blinking: girlfriends husband (just in case)
Solid white: kids
White blinking: creditors
Solid purple: facebook posts
Blinking purple: facebook girlfriend
Solid teal: facebook girlfriends boyfriend (just in case)

LOL at all the color meanings.

Sent from my awesome Note 2!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dural]

Solid green: charged
Solid red: charging
Solid blue: wife
Blue blinking: girlfriend
Red blinking: girlfriends husband (just in case)
Solid white: kids
White blinking: creditors
Solid purple: facebook posts
Blinking purple: facebook girlfriend
Solid teal: facebook girlfriends boyfriend (just in case)

Great stuff.