Notification LED

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Just wondering if the Nexus S has a notification LED like every other phone, except the Galaxy S of course. Can't find any info of that on the latest previews/reviews.

Early reviews says it does not have an LED.

Use the NoLED app on the market instead http://www.appbrain.com/app/noled/com.led.notify

Hmmm thanks for that! Last time I read about NoLed it was an alfa and ofcourse very limited, but I see it has progressed a lot. I've been using BLN on my Captivate for a while and kind of like it but will try NoLed right now.

yup, no notification LED, luckily noLED has turned into an amazing app. i'm actually using it on my Nexus one. people always find it pretty awesome when they see the trackball and the screen have the notification.

Originally Posted by neok44

yup, no notification LED, luckily noLED has turned into an amazing app. i'm actually using it on my Nexus one. people always find it pretty awesome when they see the trackball and the screen have the notification.

how does noLED work? care to explain?

Originally Posted by slowz3r

how does noLED work? care to explain?

noLED creates a notification icon (dot or actual icon) on your phones screen when you get a notification.

on OLED screens, anytime a pixel is black, it's not using any power, so with phones that don't have LED's, using the screen works since your only lighting up the part of the screen with the notification.

To save even more power you can make it a simple pixel in one corner, or use an icon that moves around the screen (what i use)

And it looks damn awesome too.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/noled/com.led.notify

Originally Posted by neok44

noLED creates a notification icon (dot or actual icon) on your phones screen when you get a notification.

on OLED screens, anytime a pixel is black, it's not using any power, so with phones that don't have LED's, using the screen works since your only lighting up the part of the screen with the notification.

To save even more power you can make it a simple pixel in one corner, or use an icon that moves around the screen (what i use)

And it looks damn awesome too.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/noled/com.led.notify

Hmmm.....giving it a try, as we speak. Very hard to imagine life without a dedicated notification light. Seems totally insane!!!

You're telling me!

Coming from a Blackberry, I would DIE without a notification LED.

Anyone have issues with the battery life when running the noLED app?

Backlit dedicated buttons...

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Just tested NoLed by sending a chrome to phone link. My only real concern is that I noticed the dedicated buttons at the bottom of the N1 seem to remain lit, in addition to the tiny colored pixel notification. Do they stay lit indefinitely??? I did not notice an option to disable this, but I didn't watch it for more than a minute or so to see if they would turn off. It pretty much looked like they were gonna stay on. Pretty sure that would be detrimental to battery life. Did I miss something?

Well, on my Captivate I disabled BLN(custom notification system for Galaxy S that uses buttons backlight) and only have noLed for notifications. It also has the option to use the proximity sensor to turn the screen on/off so it isn't displaying anything while the phone is upside down or in your pocket. Very nice app.