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LED under the earpiece?

I have had the phone for about a week now and I love it, however one of my big complaints is that the active notifications do not show any battery info, charging or percentage blah blah blah. My phone died the other night and when it was plugged in it had a bright green LED under the earpiece. Any other time I've plugged it in it has never come on. Does anyone know why it would come on one time and never again? Has anyone else seen this elusive LED?

SnowKing25 said:
I have had the phone for about a week now and I love it, however one of my big complaints is that the active notifications do not show any battery info, charging or percentage blah blah blah. My phone died the other night and when it was plugged in it had a bright green LED under the earpiece. Any other time I've plugged it in it has never come on. Does anyone know why it would come on one time and never again? Has anyone else seen this elusive LED?
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I saw this on a display model at ATT with a dead battery. The earpiece was lit by a green LED.

maybe try lightflow?

WolfsFang said:
maybe try lightflow?
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I thought the same thing, and I played around with it a little and couldn't get the light to come on. I'm just curious because motorola made the point that LED's don't give any information like active notifications give, yet they still put one on the phone. It just appears it barely ever comes on.

We definitely need to figure this out!
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Never seen an LED on mine, but very interested in this. Would be awesome to enable it!
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Anyone figure this out? I saw the same light under same circumstances but can't control it.
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with lightflow pro (pay edition) nothing happens...

LED Light Answer
Found the answer in the owner's manual, of all places, on the page "At a Glance" with the illustration of the phone's features. The arrow in the diagram points more or less to the sensor right next to the earpiece. That small oblong is not just the light sensor to turn off the screen when you have the phone up to your ear. It also houses the Low Battery LED. Sometimes it really does pay to read the instructions, however boring they may be.
Low Battery LED:
This LED lights up when you plug in your
charger and the smartphone’s battery level is too low to
power on the display. It means that your smartphone is
charging and will be ready to use shortly.

RevLauren said:
Found the answer in the owner's manual, of all places, on the page "At a Glance" with the illustration of the phone's features. The arrow in the diagram points more or less to the sensor right next to the earpiece. That small oblong is not just the light sensor to turn off the screen when you have the phone up to your ear. It also houses the Low Battery LED. Sometimes it really does pay to read the instructions, however boring they may be.
Low Battery LED:
This LED lights up when you plug in your
charger and the smartphone’s battery level is too low to
power on the display. It means that your smartphone is
charging and will be ready to use shortly.
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Knowing that Motorola's way of Notification LED was their Active Display, it would be redundant to have the Notification LED too.

Even with root there's no physical way to enable this light in other circumstances?

I emailed LightFlow and got this reply:
Hi
Sadly it doesn't really have much led hardware in it. There's one
green led which I think can only be controlled with root access from
the experiments I've tried with a user.
Cheers
andrew
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I'm pretty sure it was confirmed that the LED in the earpiece was connected directly to the charging hardware found on the MotoX. What does this mean? It means we will probably never be able to take advantage of it. It's nothing the software can take control of.

Just to throw this out there, will this work?
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-fix-moto-g-notification-led

Pfhortune said:
Just to throw this out there, will this work?
http://www.androidcentral.com/how-fix-moto-g-notification-led
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doesn't work

jayboyyyy said:
doesn't work
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Oh well, worth a try!

LED notification

There seems to be no LED indication light for notifications. Is it possible to turn in on?
Thanks

I'm pretty sure this phone does not come with an LED on the front.
redhonker said:
There seems to be no LED indication light for notifications. Is it possible to turn in on?
Thanks
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redhonker said:
There seems to be no LED indication light for notifications. Is it possible to turn in on?
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There is no Notification LED on Moto X...
Comeon Enjoy your Active Notification feature

Ankush menat said:
There is no Notification LED on Moto X...
Comeon Enjoy your Active Notification feature
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I do enjoy it. The only time I miss it is when it's in my pocket. I used to see the blinking LED on my old phone.

Ankush menat said:
There is no Notification LED on Moto X...
Comeon Enjoy your Active Notification feature
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There *is* actually an LED on the Moto X. Page 2 of your owners manual. Although it only comes on when your battery is so low the screen can't power it up and you plug it in to charge. No one has seemed to be able to get it to work besides that.
See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2455870

I use Voxer (if you don't know what it is, it's a "walkie-talkie" type messaging app, it's in the Play Store) and upgraded to Pro, which gives you "Extreme" notifications. When I get a message, the camera LED flashes. Kind of nice.

Led Notification or Moto Screen ?

know that the Nexus 6 will have a Amoled screen, but the notifications be equal Moto X (moto screen pulsating) or notification led like the Nexus 5?

I'm wondering about the notification LED myself. It has always been a staple of nexus devices, but it doesn't seem like this one is going to have it. Motorola is more prone to waking the screen when a notification is received rather than LEDs. I think, with great disappointment, that this iteration of the Nexus won't have an LED notification light.
Although I have no knowledge or proof and hoping someone can confirm or deny.

I was just going to post a thread asking the same question. Does anyone know if the N6 will have the active display like the Moto X? Where you can say commands and have it answer you back etc etc...

I heard that android L introduces "OK google" with the screen off on nexus 6, along with some level of screen notifications

rapha.194 said:
know that the Nexus 6 will have a Amoled screen, but the notifications be equal Moto X (moto screen pulsating) or notification led like the Nexus 5?
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I hope that it will have an notification LED. If not, it will be one more reasen that i (may be) don´t buy it.

What I remember reading about the guy on G+ who was a device tester for the N6 there is no notification LED. Instead we will have a variant of the "Active Notifications" screen.
While this may be disappointing to some out there I am not surprised they went this way not because of the AMOLED display, but because of Android Wear being pushed out to the market to the point where we have headware, watches, hell even jewelry capable of notification alarms making the notification LED almost obsolete these days. Hell the only time I ever see my LED work is when its charging/low batt/full battery. I will not miss it too much.

I think the LED is more anonymous, so i like this much more.
The other question is, which one takes more accumulator? The LED or the active display (AMOLED)

this is such a disappointment, i rely heavily on the LED, it's much less time consuming, just look at the light, no need to push the power button.

Koolieman20 said:
this is such a disappointment, i rely heavily on the LED, it's much less time consuming, just look at the light, no need to push the power button.
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If its some sort of active display notification there won't be a need to press a button either. It'll just flash a few pixels on your screen with better information as to what type of notification.
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biggiestuff said:
If its some sort of active display notification there won't be a need to press a button either. It'll just flash a few pixels on your screen with better information as to what type of notification.
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Constantly like LED or when you wave?

borchgrevink said:
Constantly like LED or when you wave?
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They call it "breathing". It's not as rapid as a led light but it's still low power consumption because it only uses a few pixels to light up the notification and it uses the lower power core on the processor so it's not waking the phone. Not sure if it's going to be the same like on the motos but if it is, I'd prefer it over led notification light.
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http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...bient-display-personalized-take-moto-display/

I have a Moto 360 so neither really concerns me, but if I didn't I'd rather have use of the Moto Active screen than a notification LED.

Hmm, seems like a step back to me. LED keeps battery usage to a minimum, and is always visible. This only lights up when lifted or new notification. I like coming into the room and seeing the LED blink different colours for different notifications.

borchgrevink said:
Hmm, seems like a step back to me. LED keeps battery usage to a minimum, and is always visible. This only lights up when lifted or new notification. I like coming into the room and seeing the LED blink different colours for different notifications.
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This. Exactly! And from my understanding (at least on the Moto x) you can't change colors of the notifications. So you won't be able to tell from a distance.

Pretty sure that there's tons of AMOLED apps that let you choose custom notifications on the screen, at least from what I remember when I had a GNex. The other benefit of that method is you can display multiple notifications at once.
I still prefer the dedicated LED though, seems to be brighter and visible from further away. Also power use is lower, and the general consensus is AMOLED notifications should be 'bounced' around to various spots to avoid burn-in, which makes it a bit annoying.

SenK9 said:
Pretty sure that there's tons of AMOLED apps that let you choose custom notifications on the screen, at least from what I remember when I had a GNex..
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Yeah, the LED on Nexus 5, with "Lightflow", saved my mental sanity a thousand time.
Someone knows a good app like that for Amoled screen?
I want to be prepared...

Gil. said:
Yeah, the LED on Nexus 5, with "Lightflow", saved my mental sanity a thousand time.
Someone knows a good app like that for Amoled screen?
I want to be prepared...
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Lightflow was a nightmare half the time with the LED, sometimes it works when it wants to work and other times it just does what it wants.
I had to eventually disable the notification LED's all except for low battery, charging and Full battery. Those were the only ones that were not problematic (most of the time).

Dr Faustus said:
Lightflow was a nightmare half the time with the LED, sometimes it works when it wants to work and other times it just does what it wants.
I had to eventually disable the notification LED's all except for low battery, charging and Full battery. Those were the only ones that were not problematic (most of the time).
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Strange, never happened to me.
For me that app was a savior!
I hope I'll find a good competitor for AMOled.

I am sure given time developers will be able to find and mod the "Ambient Display" System to do anything you want it to. Hell if we are lucky and get an Xposed for ART support we will certainly see an xposed module to take full advantage of it.

[Q] Which is preferred for missed notifications- LED or Active Display?

Thinking about getting a Droid Turbo but not sure about the notifications....I currently have a Note 2 and I really like having a front LED for missed notifications. I am not sure if I would notice active display as quickly or not. I thought I would ask and get some opinions on which is preferred(if had the choice of both).

I do miss my led but I've had one since the Droid X. So far Its something to get used to for me. If you aren't sure you can just wave your hand over it. I wasn't sure about it but I'll give the blinkey light up for the performance I have now over my old S4

Honestly the active display is awesome but to disable it when driving because it tends to keep turning on without any notification when on my gps mount but for me it's no big deal. The active display won't affect battery much since this is a amoled display and only the needed pixels (white ones) light off and the rest are completely off.
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http://m.androidcentral.com/inside-moto-x-active-display

I watched a video of it for Moto X and the strobe rate does not seem to be often enough for me. Is it adjustable to where the notification can just stay on the screen instead of strobe? I check my current phone with only a brief glance for LED notifications, and I would surely mess the notification on active display if it's in between strobes.

dman777 said:
I watched a video of it for Moto X and the strobe rate does not seem to be often enough for me. Is it adjustable to where the notification can just stay on the screen instead of strobe? I check my current phone with only a brief glance for LED notifications, and I would surely mess the notification on active display if it's in between strobes.
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Is this why my screen seems to blink intermittently? It doesn't even seem to have a pattern... It's not like "regular"... omg, I want to disable this so bad!!! Definitely horrible when driving and mounting the phone in a mount. It's irritating and distracting.
I guess that I never noticed that there was no more LED to blink!

I missed having an LED at first, but the active display functionality has grown on my like a tumor! LOL!

PerCompLLC said:
I missed having an LED at first, but the active display functionality has grown on my like a tumor! LOL!
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Same here! It's just so awesome! For me it's better because it's as if the led were on because of the amoled display.

wadamean said:
Same here! It's just so awesome! For me it's better because it's as if the led were on because of the amoled display.
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What do you do when you have it laying on a desk/table and you glance over and miss the notification because it was at the moment that it was faded out?

dman777 said:
What do you do when you have it laying on a desk/table and you glance over and miss the notification because it was at the moment that it was faded out?
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Jiggle,move it, flip it, etc. It senses movement as well.
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dman777 said:
What do you do when you have it laying on a desk/table and you glance over and miss the notification because it was at the moment that it was faded out?
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That's true and simple just wave you hand close to the screen or any movement really turns on active display. The notification doesn't go away until you have gone to the specified app to see what it was

dman777 said:
What do you do when you have it laying on a desk/table and you glance over and miss the notification because it was at the moment that it was faded out?
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just put your hand near it, you don't even have to touch it. The notifications will light up. Unless I am doing it wrong, it would be nice if I could touch that notification icon and swipe and it took me to it.

Here's how I usually operate...my phone is always on my desk or on my couch face up....without me touching it. How can I make it to where if I glance over at it without touching the phone or waving my hand over it where I can see the notification without staring at it? Is there a way to make the notifications on the screen stay on without fading in/out? With the speed it fades in/out, I know I will miss a notification while it's faded out.

just put your hand near it, you don't even have to touch it. The notifications will light up. Unless I am doing it wrong, it would be nice if I could touch that notification icon and swipe and it took me to it.
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You have to touch and hold the notification icon and slide up. That will open whatever application the notification is for.

I just went from note 2 to droid turbo 2. I miss the led light. I am a mom and sometimes I let my 3 years old play game on my phone while I shop. The led light let me know someone is trying to reach me. I can not tell anymore with droid turbo 2 because of no LED light. And, I still haven't found moto display useful. My husband noticed I don't response fast enough since the new phone. The note 2 and turbo 2 are are almost same size so I do not carry my phone in my pocket often because it is uncomfortable and sometimes even fall out of my pocket when I am cleaning, carrying dealing with my kids, so I like to lay it down and look across the room for the LED light. I am severe to profound hearing loss in both ears and wear cochlear implant so when i am not wearing it, i like to see the notifcation across the room.
I am giving my husband the turbo 2 (I could return it but he wants it). I going to get a phone with a led light.

we actually do have an led light near the front facing camera, but i have no idea how to activate it and it doesnt seem to be used by any app. ive seen it come on twice but idk why it came on. it happened while on the charger and it turned green.

Active Display all the way, hate LED lights.

I think you can get the led to work with some combo of light flow and xposed. It also is used by default with RR. I'm torn on which I like. I liked active display on stock, but it doesn't seem to work as well on non stock based ROMs. I've been using the LED, but it doesn't really blink, it just stays on solid when I have a notification.

Losing the LED? From Nexus 4 to Moto X

I love the led on my Nexus 4. I use lightflow to light up the led with different colors based on the notification and keep the led going until I dismiss the notification. I am thinking of getting a new Moto X, but unsure about losing the LED. How does the active display feature work on the Moto X when compared to the LED?
Thank you.

NexusIncarnate said:
I love the led on my Nexus 4. I use lightflow to light up the led with different colors based on the notification and keep the led going until I dismiss the notification. I am thinking of getting a new Moto X, but unsure about losing the LED. How does the active display feature work on the Moto X when compared to the LED?
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I think it works well. I cannot be certain as to how much power it uses when compared to the LED, however, if it is very similar than I would take active display over LED notifications any day.

I used lightflow on my nexus 4 and 5, and now with the moto X and active display... I couldn't care less about the light anymore. Active notifications are so much better. All the info you need, you don't have to remember which light goes to what and you get to see a preview of the notification without ever unlocking to phone.

You won't miss that led at all.

I've just moved from a Samsung S3 to a Moto X. I had LED notifications on my S3 and to be honest I do miss it. The notifications on the Moto X is good, however the only "problem" I have with it is that I have to wave my hand over the screen to see if there is any form of notification. With my S3 I could see from across the room if something was waiting for me without doing anything as I could see the LED flashing with a specific color.
It's not a deal breaker and it's also not the end of the world, I do like the Moto X notifications but I would still prefer to have an LED as well.

Active Notifications should blink periodically too, so that you can see if you have a notif w/out the hand wave. At least it works that way on my '13 X
(whether or not your eyesight is good enough to see which notif it is from a distance is another issue)

If you get a device that you can root lightflow will allow you to enable the notification LED under the headset speaker grill.

I came from a Galaxy S4 and I don't miss the LEDs at all. Active Display does the job pretty well, when you have notifications the screen blinks from time to time, hold the icon and you can see exactly what the notification is about, and you can either swipe up to go directly to the app, swipe left to dismiss and down to unlock the phone. Working great for me, don't imagine living without it anymore lol

tw1tch175 said:
If you get a device that you can root lightflow will allow you to enable the notification LED under the headset speaker grill.
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Yeah! If you root your device you can use a green LED, this LED is originally used when the battery drops and you can't turn on the phone and even the screen, to show you that the phone is charging this LED turn on.
But, if I'm not wrong, you can't make it blink, and you need to run Light Flow in root mode.

I really like the LED on my phone as well. I don't know why I'm having a hard time deciding if I should get a Moto X or not. I have a cyber Monday coupon but I really like the Nexus 4. The only thing I really hate about it is the camera and battery life. Is the Camera at least better than the N4?

The battery is great on this phone. I constantly get 4.5 to 5 hours of SOT with location on high accuracy, BT on and all syncing on.

I don't miss the led much. Had the s3 before. Love the active display!
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I don't miss the LED from my S3 one bit. The active display is far superior.
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