Where are the options for the Notification LED?

Ralle · January 8, 2016, 7:50am

My fp2 doesn’t show me any LED notification except when it is loading
My wife’s fp2 is doing it for messages and calls.

Maybe I turned of, but I cannot remember where. Any idea?

jpderuiter · January 8, 2016, 8:30am

You can edit the LED settings per App (provided the App supports editing the settings).
For example in Whatsapp you can edit the color and blink settings.

rainer_zufall · January 8, 2016, 9:17am

The options seem to be not “activated” (in terms of accessibility): if you go to settings and then search for ‘pulse’ you will find an entry called ‘Pulse notification light’, which should be the designated settings entry. (According to web research - but can’t find the links now) if you click on it you will find yourself in the (known) notifications settings.

@Douwe how are the chances of this menu to be activated in an future update?

Douwe · January 8, 2016, 10:16am

Hey, I saw your question, but probably I will not be able to get an answer very soon. Sorry about that.

neolovich · January 8, 2016, 10:29am

Yes i know, thank you.
But it doesnt work. Only red functions.

jpderuiter · January 8, 2016, 10:32am

It’s a known bug:
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/notification-led-only-has-red-light-community-fix-available/11675/24?source_topic_id=11636

rainer_zufall · January 8, 2016, 12:58pm

@douwe thx, appreciate already the fact that it is on your/fp’s radar!

laura_schmitt · January 24, 2016, 2:27pm

same problem here…

Sonne · February 4, 2016, 8:23pm

I have a stupid question here: Where is the notification LED supposed to be?
I haven’t installed a messanger yet so I cannot test.
When the battery is empty nothing happens even when there is already the exclamation mark in the symbol and while charging nothing lights up…
I disabled the google stuff as far as possible but this shouldn’t have to do anything with it, should it?
Any ideas?

Volker · February 4, 2016, 8:28pm

Just “to see your LED is ok” I propose: shutdown your phone and then start loading while “powered off”. You should see red LED then. When accu loading reaches 100% then LED will change to green (all before booting phone)…

Sonne · February 4, 2016, 8:31pm

Thanks, that helped
After 1 sec it lights up.
My old phones also shows the battery loading status when turned on (and screen is off) so I was a little bit suspicious…

Edit: Ok after startup and on the charger it now also shows the light … also with unplugging and plugging in again… weird … as if the LED needed a start or something…

Volker · February 4, 2016, 8:37pm

Sonne, no worries. I think what you expect is what you’ll get Just be patient. How it behaves now is imho just a bug. You find it on the “official buglist” under https://fairphone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207228996-Fairphone-2-software-issue-report

freibadschwimmer · February 4, 2016, 9:52pm

Strange. I get no results when i search for pulse

therob · February 7, 2016, 11:41pm

How does your red LED pulses/blinks, if you have notifications (and configured it to use the LED)?
In my case the LED only pulses in an ascending and descending manner (about 500ms rising, 500ms falling time), which I find quite annoying. I prefer an instant ON/OFF for better visibility.

I use it with “Prof. Reminder”, which manages the reminder after receiving sms or missed calls.

The FP1 has only ON and OFF as notification with the same settings, which I liked much more. The idea of notification LEDs is to notify the user about something. And that is proved to be more efficient if the pulse is more “digital”, thus without a noticalbe rising time.

therob · February 11, 2016, 9:52pm

Following this thread also my green and blue LED is now working.

And by using Conversations my green led is now blinking like hell , 2-3 / sec and with instant ON/OFF.

So my question is: how is the behaviour of the LED driven?
By hardware, Android, or by the individual apps?
Where can we tweak a little?

jaymanu · March 1, 2016, 1:44pm

Hello all

I did the fix and unlocked LED colors other than red.
Now it’s blinking a lot with different colors, do you know what is the meaning of each one ?
ie, is there a color for mail, sms, voicemail ?
and is there a way to configure this ?
Thanks

Kristof · March 9, 2016, 5:58pm

LED light in all(!) colours!!!##

I have made very good experience with Koo Light Manager. Suprisingly the app (I’ve tried the free version) makes the FP2 notification LED shine not just red but also blue, cyan, somekind of orange and others - without the Fairphone update, we are still waiting for, and without any superuser stuff, but simply by running this app.

mgkoeln · April 7, 2016, 10:27am

With the full LED range working now (after the FP2 update to 1.2.8) I can recommend “LED Blinker Pro”. The paid version (2,84 €) not only lets you set LED colour and flashing mode for any app you want (not only a given selection like in “Koo Light Manager”, if I see it correctly) - but also gives you control over individual vibration strength and notification sounds. I was searching for an app that can do the latter for a while - and now I find it in this LED app as a pleasant surprise. Seems to be well worth the money.

Kristof · April 7, 2016, 10:40am

But what about showing a notification while LED shows battery loading? Does a Missed Call notification overwrite the Battery Loading notification?

In fact this was the case with Koo Light Manager - until the Fairphone 2 Update 1.2.8. Now the Battery Loading notification light dominates the other(s).

mgkoeln · April 7, 2016, 11:40am

Yes, I just checked it and unfortunately it’s the same with “LED Blinker Pro”. The app doesn’t overwrite the phone’s standard settings in case of the charging light. Even if I set the charging notification to a different color and flashing in the app (so it could take turns with the other notifications) it stays slightly yellow and turned on constantly.