Galaxy Nexus Shows Off Its Multi-Color Notification LED Light

by: Kellex | posted 11.12.11 | News, Videos

It may seem sort of silly that we are obsessing over something as minuscule as an LED notification light, but when it’s on the Galaxy Nexus and can do this many colors, it’s tough not to. We saw a quick glimpse of this a week or so ago in video, but nothing to this magnitude. This would be the G-Nex doing a rainbow. And this again confirms what our sources told us back in early October, that this device would have multi-color functionality in its notification settings. Tasty. Mmmm.

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charlyRoot

I use touchdown with my Google Apps account (GMail) to write emails rules that show diff colors based on folder(label) or search string (from address). This it the closest I’ve been to when the BB Storm came out and I could tell what my phone was doing across the room. With the rule sounds I can even tell what my phone is doing while in my pocket.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Coulter/571204037 Andrew Coulter

did you use a third part app for this? I want to change the color of the notification light on my nexus but I cant figure out how. HELP
Anonymous

is this built into the OS? Or is this an app?
http://www.lumalighting.co.uk Rich Fenton

Reminds me of a BlackBerry as they have colored notification lights. My droid (ZTE) doesn’t have one.
Anonymous

Yes the OG and DX had this, but not as many colors.. this is gonna be useful as hell.. I use to use blink patterns to determine which type of notification it was (facebook, gmail, txt, call, VM) but with this many colors I’ll choose colors tied to people
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Tabe

Is the notification LED on the bottom of the phone? Or is the screen just rotated 180degrees?

Justin Kos

bottom

Tabe

Weird

http://twitter.com/YKLee13 YK Lee

Easier to press the standby button. For filming.

Tabe

Huh? Standby button? Filming? What am i missing here? What does this have to do with the notification LED?

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Anonymous

That light is strangely hypnotic…
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Joelseph

Pooooooooost! *slams fist on table*
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Anonymous

can anyone say “get a life?” it is a phone people……jeeez
Anonymous

Kellex, I know its Sunday, but we’re all wondering if you have any new news on the Galaxy Nexus… I go through withdrawals on the weekends where I get no updates no matter how much I refresh… Its like crack, NOW GIVE IT TO ME! Holy crap I need an intervention.
xxdesmus

want….phone. Release the damn thing already Verizon.
Brett Ward

by the way hes using the lock button, we can also confirm that it’s on the side, not top. but being smasung, we can assume that anyway

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LQNNJDZQIWIIHJWUIUV7R24XAM Aaron

That’s been confirmed for a very long time.

Mr ilheis

Reminiscent of the BB days!
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fialcon

It’s my phone and I need it now!
jbonics

My droid 2 has more colors than that. Waiting a couple of months for the quad cores. Aka a real phone. Your going to feel like such a chump when they release a new phone a month after with 5 times the power 12 times the gpu……… don’t be that guy……

http://twitter.com/jcardea CEO Of Monster I N C

i bet it sucks.

jbonics

Says the people paying $125/mo. For one line. HOP ON THE BANDWAGGON YA CLONES. U NEED A GIRL, it sounds like… that sucks
jbonics

Says the people paying $125/mo. For one line. HOP ON THE BANDWAGGON YA CLONES. U NEED A GIRL, it sounds like… that sucks

Blackonblack99

Then you will feel like a chump a few months later when your phone sucks…it’s a vicious cycle. Why even make an ignorant comment?!! Technology changes fast we get it…why even post something so stupid.

Justin Ellis

You know the spec whores have to have the super duper crazy hardcore specs to compensate. Hardcore spec guys dont compromise on specs, which is why theyre always waiting on the perfect phone, never to be satisfied.

jbonics

Your that guy……. stay in school…. your burger king job is just temporary i hope.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=25001493 Hank Godwin

Stay in school? Please tell me you’re kidding. You used ‘your’ instead of ‘you’re’… YOU’RE an idiot.

Anonymous

I’m glad the nexus has a notification light. I got used to not having one on my fascinate to the point where I had been wondering why someone’s phone had a flashing light…haha of course then I was like, Oh yeah! I forgot they screwed us on that!
Justin Ellis

All the Motorola fanboys are out in full force. Guys, we all know Moto has really good LED indicators. Probably everybody commenting here had an OG Droid. The point is that Samsung is also known to never put them their phones. So the inclusion of a really bright big multi-colored LED is very exciting to us who have chosen HTC phones due to them being unlockable but put up with POS LED lights. Now we can have our cake and eat it too.
Freygrimrod

No SD card means not worth buying IMHO

Jdduncan11

32 GB is more than enough for me, and I would suspect most other people as well

Anonymous

And I’ll be able to stick a 64 GB sdxc card in my Bionic for a total of 80 GB.

http://androidcommunity.com/sandisk-64gb-micro-sdxc-cards-working-on-multiple-android-devices-20110927/

Anonymous

if 32 isn’t enough for you, have you heard about this thing called the cloud? being LTE should make it even less of an issue… I use my DX as a convenient external HD and I STILL haven’t filled 16gb

Anonymous

Ok…. so its got colors. But riddle me this. What good is a notification light on the bottom of this phone? My phones and many of people I know are kept in our shirt pocket. And our notification lights can actually be seen by glancing down inside the pocket. (All variations of Moto Droids) So unless you want to flip your phone upside down and put it in your pocket your are never going to see a notification without removing the phone from your pocket. Kind of a deal breaker for me as I work in loud environments and don’t hear/ feel notifications all the time.

Guest

what’s so bad about having the phone in you pocket upside down?? i mean really!!! some times i put my DX upside down in my pocket. it’s not the end of the world!

Cam

Actually, when I think about it, I always put my phone in my pocket upside down. That way when I pull it out, it is right-side up.
Never really thought about it before; I just assumed that everyone reached into their pocket and got a good hold of their phone before they took it out.

Questto

Crap! They all look the same. Except for blues I can see blues. Or was it purple. Damn being color blind sucks.
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awesome
Johnwall

My old sidekick did this 5+ years ago.
Anonymous

why is this news? motorola phones have been able to do this for the past 2 years

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=25001493 Hank Godwin

Because Samsung hasn’t used notification lights in the past.

yo mama

Huh, That’s weird. My Bionic can change it’s notification colors and so could my OG Droid. How is this news again? This phone really needs to come out already so I can have a really fun time laughing at the bugs that come along with it.

Blootzm3

your dumb … show me where on the og Droid that the notification light changes colors like that. oh it doesn’t . just the red or green light… not the same thing.

Anonymous

*You’re

Nixhex05

SMS Popup. Download it on the OG. Lets you change to blue, purple and other colors. Don’t call someone dumb until you do the research. That’s the app I used to do it back in the day, I’m sure there’s a ton more.

Anonymous

CM7 lets you change the color so does Handcent SMS, I use a dark blue and Cyan colored LED now and the only time its red is when the battery is dying. Its an OG Droid…

http://whitemarket.freeforums.org/ Avery Dejuan Herron

Um my Droid x did the same thing and im pretty sure the bionic and must other phones can as well.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705034 Jeff Simpson

Is this exciting? The OG Droid has multiple colors, too, and that came out like, 2 years ago…

Cam

Yea, Samsung finally figured out how to use LEDs.
Justin Ellis

Heres why this is a big deal to us. Samsung hasnt put in a notification light in any of the Galaxy phones except for Sprint’s GS2. The Nexus S also didnt have one either. I just assumed they wouldnt have one in the Galaxy Nexus so the inclusion of a really good LED makes us notification light nerds really excited. Yes, everybody knows that the OG Droid had loads of colors. We all had one.

Cam

Why does it taunt me?!!?

;_;
shdowman

Take…my…green…$$$!!!
Anonymous

I just bought the samsung galaxy nexus costco bundle that includes a docking station for $289………………….in my dreams
Anonymous

I just went to costco and bought the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus bundle with docking station for $289.99…………………..in my dream
RJFrank

Question… I’m going to spring for the Galaxy Nex when it arrives. Will my Nex be as relevant two years from now as my OG Droid is now? Can’t help it but I still love my OG running CM.

Dominick DeVito

Hard to say, I’d take a stab at it by saying probably not. I don’t think there is a phone today that can withstand the Android invasion. With that said, your best bet is a Nexus phone because it will get updates from Google, but I wouldn’t bet on longer than 18 months for updates.

Anonymous

NEXUS PRIME indeed!
Anonymous

Really Kellex… Notification light? I thought I needed tech therapy. Lol its ok it helps to sooth our cravings with each post
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Bionic

I wish there was a way on Bionic to control the color and settings for the notification light. I cant seem to find any way to do it.

Dominick DeVito

Sure you can, root it and install a custom ROM. It’s how I do it on my OG

Bionic

Im already rooted but I dont care for customs ROMS. Besides there are no popular custom ROMS that are classified as stable for Bionic yet.

You would think they would allow you to change it up under settings, but nope.

Dominick DeVito

Yeah it’s weird. Not sure why they don’t allow it. Have you tried Light Flow (I think that’s the name), worked about 75% of the time.

Bionic

Never heard of it. Is it an app?
Dominick DeVito

yep.

There’s a free lite version and I think a full version for $1

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5yYWdlY29uc3VsdGluZy5hbmRyb2lkLmxpZ2h0Zmxvd2xpdGUiXQ..
Bionic

Cool thanks
yo mama

SMS Popup lets you change the color of notifications. I’m sure there’s a ton of apps that let you. Once again, this isn’t news. Stop hyping up a phone more than it needs!!!!! (not you Bionic, to the op)
Anonymous

I’m using Light flow on my Bionic, works well.

http://twitter.com/ElectronicYank Marcus

that looks amazing!
FYRCITY

Is the strong interest in this phone the ability to easily root or remove all the unwanted crap or is it the ICS?

Anonymous

both, and more
Cliff Wynne

being a google experience phone there should be no unwanted crap

Anonymous

lame
Jonyauger

Awesome. One of the few things I liked on my storm is now on android. Now we need a berrybuzz like app for android n we are set.

LionStone

Yea man that was it!! Berrybuzz on blackberry was sweet…you could pick a different color for FB, email, etc. Keyword though: was. Its about Android now! Bring on the Ice Cream sandwiches!

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