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waxlrose

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I'm in the market for a new android phone. I'm stuck between the X and the Incredible, I'm not completely sure.

I've read some things about the LED notification on the Incredible and saying it wasn't very good? I've read the light only stays on for a couple of minutes.

How about with the X? How long does the notification stay active?
 
It's great for me... whenever I have a new e-mail or voicemail (and maybe missed call?) it flashes green on and off... very easy to see. When I get a new text, I have it set to have blue always on until I read it (I use Handcent SMS which does that.. great program!!)

I downloaded an app awhile ago to try to make it flash a different color when I missed a call so that I could tel the difference...and it worked, but I removed it. I don't remember why....

P.S. - go for the X! :D The screen size is amazing, you'll love it. the only advantage I think the incredible has is the Sense UI (or rather, the sense widgets) but to be honest... I'd rather have the stock android features - so I downloaded "Launcher Pro" which gives me that. A lot of people use that around here.. great program!
 
Just download 'Blink' from the market. You can set it to blink any color you want for incoming sms/mms messages, and a different color for missed calls, and a different color for system notifications. Additionally you can set the frequency that it blinks. I have my sms/mms set to blink blue very fast. My missed calls blink red at a normal rate, and my system notifications blink cyan very slowly.

Everything Andoid is infinitely customizable if you research it.
 
If you download Handcent, which I LOVE, as an SMS then you can change the notification color as well as how fast it blinks. I never miss a thing. This is the first phone I've ever had a notification light on and I really like it :)
 
Outlaw71 said:
Just download 'Blink' from the market. You can set it to blink any color you want for incoming sms/mms messages, and a different color for missed calls, and a different color for system notifications. Additionally you can set the frequency that it blinks. I have my sms/mms set to blink blue very fast. My missed calls blink red at a normal rate, and my system notifications blink cyan very slowly.

Everything Andoid is infinitely customizable if you research it.
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blink seems to be working great, thanks!
 
Outlaw71 said:
Just download 'Blink' from the market. You can set it to blink any color you want for incoming sms/mms messages, and a different color for missed calls, and a different color for system notifications. Additionally you can set the frequency that it blinks. I have my sms/mms set to blink blue very fast. My missed calls blink red at a normal rate, and my system notifications blink cyan very slowly.

Everything Andoid is infinitely customizable if you research it.
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Where exactly is this or what exactly is it called. ( I guess who makes it would help) Cause I really want it and I can't find it on the market.

Thanks!! :D
 
Outlaw71 said:
Just download 'Blink' from the market. You can set it to blink any color you want ... I have my sms/mms set to blink blue very fast. My missed calls blink red at a normal rate, and my system notifications blink cyan very slowly.
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Blink doesn't support interleaving all those notification types/colors at once, does it? i.e., if missed call and text, blink red-blue-red-blue?
 
PhilD said:
Blink doesn't support interleaving all those notification types/colors at once, does it? i.e., if missed call and text, blink red-blue-red-blue?
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No. They were soliciting input on XDA developers for the next version of their app, and I said I'd pay good money for an app that controlled all the notification LED colors (Gmail, email, SMS, calendar, system events, calls, voicemails, Google Voice, etc.) and frequencies, and would let me interleave them.

Seriously. Glancing at my phone to know immediately any and all notifications that might be waiting for me? That's easily a $5 app for me.
 
i would rather just hit my unlock button and see whats going on in my status bar.
no way is not having to do that worth 5 bucks
 
It would be cool if they could interweave them like that. I just look to see if it's blinking to be honest. Whether its a missed call, text or system notification doesn't really matter all that much to me, I'll still check it.
 
suv1186 said:
Where exactly is this or what exactly is it called. ( I guess who makes it would help) Cause I really want it and I can't find it on the market.

Thanks!! :D
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Ah, I went to the market to see if it was still there and saw that there is another app simply called 'Blink' that is a memory game. Just link to the app Binary Visions put up, that's the one I was talking about.
 
Der Juicen said:
i would rather just hit my unlock button and see whats going on in my status bar.
no way is not having to do that worth 5 bucks
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People have strange views on spending money.

You own a $500+ smartphone that you pay the better part of a hundred bucks a month for, or maybe more.

But $5 is too much for an app that provides you instant, system-wide notifications of any event that might be going on with your phone without touching it.

:confused:

Not saying your view is wrong, I just don't understand the penny pinching for apps. People resist paying for launchers or browsers, when they're the two MOST USED apps on the phone. But a game, a game people will pay for when they use it a tenth as much as the launcher/browser, and stop playing it altogether after a while. It's all very strange to me.
 
how do we light a fire under his ass? i would love a multicolor LED notifier on my phone and i will pay for it no problem. I had it on my Blackberry and it the one thing i miss the most:mad:
 
We do have a multi-color notifier... did your Blackberry blink multiple colors simultaneously?

BV, I sort of feel like the Market has spoiled me and possibly others as well. When I came to Android I didn't know what to expect. When I saw that most apps cost a mere. 99 cents, I thought they were nuts... how can they make any money that way??? But then I realized that with all the consumers on the Android market, I realized that even at just a buck, there is a huge potential to make a lot of money, because heck who won't pay a buck for an app?

Well, that sort of set the bar in my head, so that when I saw some apps (mostly games) costing upwards of $10 or $15 bucks I thought; "dang greedy". It's all about conditioning IMO. Had all the apps started off around $10 bucks when I first started shopping around, I probably wouldn't think twice about the ones that cost that. But as my conditioning has gone, an app that costs $3.50 seems like a lot to me.
 
Blink is a nice App. Not sure why the reviews were so bad though. Its odd that it doesn't let you change the notification for gmail. I'm also trying to figure out why I don't get an LED light when I get a text through Chomp. May have to turn system notifications back on.
 
Outlaw71 said:
It's all about conditioning IMO. Had all the apps started off around $10 bucks when I first started shopping around, I probably wouldn't think twice about the ones that cost that. But as my conditioning has gone, an app that costs $3.50 seems like a lot to me.
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I guess I just think people should rely a little less on the knee-jerk reaction and a little more on thinking about the value of something.

I paid $30 for a birding application (and I'm not even a serious birder). Probably in the top 5% most expensive apps on the market, at a guess? If you want to follow the knee-jerk reaction to it, that's absolutely outrageous and unacceptable.

On the other hand, I got the equivalent data and pictures of an entire stack of bird books, a set of rich media like bird calls and photos that are not even available in books, and a ridiculously comprehensive set of search algorithms that no physical media could ever provide. $300 worth of bird books might cover this data without even providing me the rich media, and that doesn't even take into account the convenience of having it in my pocket. So did I get screwed because it's an expensive app, or did I get a ridiculous bargain?

Same with the LED flashing. How much is not touching your phone worth? What if you can ignore the Gmail indicator because you know it's not hiding a voicemail indicator? All of the little things add up. I spend a lot of time with technology and it's valuable for me to have one little extra way to detach myself from it.

I'm not saying it's worth it to everyone, just pointing out that there are lots of ways to value things, and we shouldn't be so quick to reject a few bucks here or there for things that are very useful. I'm sure a lot of us waste money daily on less useful and less lasting things. I know I do. That bacon, egg and cheese on a bagel I had this morning was more expensive than Launcher Pro Plus, and when tomorrow rolls around, I won't be thinking of how good that sandwich was, but I will still be using the features of LPP. Not, of course, that we should be foregoing bacon for apps in any situation :D
 
I agree with your point. I paid $18 bucks for 'PDAnet' when I first got this phone. That is by far the most expensive app I have bought. At the time though it was well worth it because I wasn't rooted, and there was no wifi work around method out at that time (still on 2.1). So that was the only way I could teether my computer. So it's value was very much worth the price IMO.

Now then, as far as price of apps goes, I tend to look at how much time/effort might have gone into the app, and the actual benefits you can get out of it as far as putting a worth on it. And as it seems to me anyhow, an app that displayed multiple colors to notify you of multiple messages wouldn't seem like something a dev would have to spend very much time coming up with, if it were possible at all to do on the DX (my guess is that it isn't). That and to me I'm happy just knowing that there is any sort of message waiting for me, so a $5 dollar upgrade option to what you were talking about wouldn't be something I would invest in either (even though I spend that much on Redbull daily!). Perhaps if it were $1 dollar, but the value of such an app just isn't as high on my priority list as it is on yours.

As I'm sure there were probably lots of people who had no use for 'PDAnet' like I did.
 
binary visions said:
Blink - Flash LED in Your Way - Android app on AppBrain

I think a notification LED has made my list of "absolutely must have" items on my next phone. Not sure I could go back to turning my phone on to see notifications.
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I just tried this app and keep getting pop-ups for low memory. Even though things are running fine and I have very little background things running. I also noticed that this program is one of the largest apps running (~6MB in RAM).

Edit: Found the settings for the threshold for the low memory warning. So hopefully that takes care of that issue.
 
I just got this app an installed it. I am receiving texts right now but the light is not blinking as it should. I also got the low memory message as well. What should I check to be sure it is working correctly?

I had this feature on my blackberry I moved from. When I first got my X, this was one of the first questions I asked and nobody seemed to be able to tell me how to make my ohone do this. I am super excited about finding this app. It's nice to only have to look at the phone and tell what might be waiting as far as messages or texts at a glance.

Now if I could just get it to work lol.
 
J S Machine said:
I just got this app an installed it. I am receiving texts right now but the light is not blinking as it should. I also got the low memory message as well. What should I check to be sure it is working correctly?

I had this feature on my blackberry I moved from. When I first got my X, this was one of the first questions I asked and nobody seemed to be able to tell me how to make my ohone do this. I am super excited about finding this app. It's nice to only have to look at the phone and tell what might be waiting as far as messages or texts at a glance.

Now if I could just get it to work lol.
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LEDS DONT WORK, and not enough options.:mad:
 
Make sure you're setting your LEDs to an appropriate color. There's a limitation in the DX where you can't use all three LED colors at once, so colors that you'd need all three to create, don't work.

I'm using green, blue, purple, orange and red.
 
binary visions said:
Make sure you're setting your LEDs to an appropriate color. There's a limitation in the DX where you can't use all three LED colors at once, so colors that you'd need all three to create, don't work.

I'm using green, blue, purple, orange and red.
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So in other words the fancy colors won"t work anyway?

Are you saying they must be set to something normal? like the ones you have--?
 
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