Moto X has a notification light!

[Jayrod1980]

Forgive me if this has already been found but the Moto X has a notification light. Everywhere I've read including critic reviews said the moto x only has its active notification system.

I stumbled upon this with my defective moto maker xt1053. Somehow it came with a corrupt system from factory that even rsd lite couldn't fix. Anyway, I have a replacement on the way but I've had no way to turn it off. This morning I was playing around with it and plugged it in via USB to my computer. Battery graphic popped up as it would anytime you plug in with the phone powered down. The phone then showed 0% and to my surprise, a bright green led light long-blinks through the speaker grill!

My question now is... Is there anyway to enable the light under normal circumstances? I love active notifications, but if my phone is face up, I'd like to know if I have a text, etc with out picking up the phone.

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[Solutions Etcetera]

You don't have to pick up the phone to see active notifications. They will pulse (just like an led) until dismissed.

 

[karn101]

Forgive me if this has already been found but the Moto X has a notification light. Everywhere I've read including critic reviews said the moto x only has its active notification system.

I stumbled upon this with my defective moto maker xt1053. Somehow it came with a corrupt system from factory that even rsd lite couldn't fix. Anyway, I have a replacement on the way but I've had no way to turn it off. This morning I was playing around with it and plugged it in via USB to my computer. Battery graphic popped up as it would anytime you plug in with the phone powered down. The phone then showed 0% and to my surprise, a bright green led light long-blinks through the speaker grill!

My question now is... Is there anyway to enable the light under normal circumstances? I love active notifications, but if my phone is face up, I'd like to know if I have a text, etc with out picking up the phone.

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That's pretty awesome. I would love to be able to activate that. Nice find!

 

[Anthony445]

That's pretty sick if it's not a hoax. Looks like an alien phone ?

 

[Ctrl-Freak]

I just tried the framework changes from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43281267&postcount=8

It did not work.

I tried disabling/enabling "active display", but it didn't help.

 

[Darth]

I'm surprised this hasn't been found before and hacked to work as an ordinary led notification light.

Sent from my Moto X cell phone telephone...

 

[Jayrod1980]

If I didn't have a busted phone I would never have known. On android central someone else mentioned that the light will turn on when plugged in without enough battery to activate the led screen. Has anyone tried the notification light widget from Motorola? Supposedly that gets the moto g light to turn on. If that doesn't work then perhaps it is a kernel setting? I would love to play around to get this working but until my replacement arrives I'm stuck. The picture I took was dumb luck. I kept plugging it in until I could snap a picture fast enough with my nexus 5 to catch it. It looks really cool coming through that grill... Even if it is only green. Its more of a bar than just a single light but perhaps thats an effect of the metallic grill.

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[Anthony445]

Oddly enough I just try to downld and install "light flow" a led notification control center for android and its not installing it just stuck @ ℅100 :what:
Description says it's updated for kitkat and nexus 5 device

 

[aooga]

That looks awesome! I hope someone figures out how to enable it. I'm too stupid to figure that out

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[ClippinWings]

As far as i know, It's directly wired to the battery system and does not interact with the OS... So no apk or firmware mod is going to have access to control it.

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[Anthony445]

Whatever we have active notify

 

[kolyan]

nice find

 

[chrisomnia1]

I love active notifications, but would still like using this for some things. It looks pretty awesome when lit as far as your pic shows.
Hard to believe it isn't controlled by the OS.

 

[zgroten]

Yes someone found this early on in the Motos realease. It was eventually concluded that it is not in any part of the system framework so any kind of software changes wouldn't be able to enable it. It is independently attached to the batteries circuit.

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[colbywan]

Nice find!

 

[Jayrod1980]

Seriously... What an opportunity wasted... Especially since they put it in such a neat spot. To place an LED there in that spot in such a clever way and then never have it do anything with the OS seems like such a waste.

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[a1sauc3]

?

anyone opened it up yet to see if there is an alt/ place to solder the light to? or am i just crazy....

EDIT: i've seen a few phones i've opened up have extra contact points for random little things but hey its entirely possible

 

[Anthony445]

You could do that but definitely not worth shorting out your $500 phone accidentally IMO

 

[detonation]

From the user manual:

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.

Seen some posts about this before and so far no one has been able to make use of it otherwise

 

[jason.912]

Hah most of us haven't seen it because our battery life is so great

I've actually never had the motox run out of juice on me.

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