With all the advancements in mobile technology it still comes as a huge surprise when a smartphone manufacturer neglects to add a notification light to their device. There are not a whole bunch of phones that are plagued with this dilema but for the ones that are, it's known to be a pain in the arse.
For some reason Samsung has decided to crank out a few popular mobile devices and at my dismay, they are sans notification LED. I , like many others, own a Samsung device and hate not knowing that I have a message waiting for me unless I activate the screen and check for myself. Sounds like an easy task but when you find yourself checking for messages all day long it gets old real fast.
XDA member, MADMACK, has come up with a solution by using the phone's display as a notification light. When you receive a message (or anything that you want a notification for) your screen will activate flashing different color dots or icons based on the type of message received. The dots/icons are customizable allowing the user to create different notifications for each type of reminder making it easy, for example, to differentiate between email and text messages. There are many ways to tweak this app from battery conservation to delayed notification, NoLed gives more options than most factory notification lights.
With over 10,000 downloads from the Android Market and an average rating of 4.4 stars, MADMACK seems to have come up with an acceptable solution for not having a notification light. I have been using it since I got the Samsung Charge and I highly recommend checking it out for yourself.
Join us after the break for more screenshots, download links, and a NoLed explanation from the creator himself.
The application does the following:
1. When your phone receives a notification, it switches the screen on and displays a notification. The notification bounces around every 3 seconds (changeable via an option). This will guarantee using different LEDs so that the same ones won't be burned out.
2. You can customize whether to have a dot or an icon for each type of supported notification. Users may also customize the colors of these icons/dots.
3. NoLED will work with SMS/MMS, Gtalk, Gmail, Missed calls, Voicemail, Calendar and K-9 (email client) without any additional permissions. Any other 3rd party software (e.g. Whatsapp, Email app, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) will need to be checked under Monitored Apps and will require granting Accessibility rights to NoLED.
4. The app runs as a service, after installing, you have two ways to activate the app. (a) by restarting. (b) by loading the widget into your home screen and clicking on it.
5. To get rid of the notification screen, you may use the home or the back key. You can enable dismissal via more keys in the Miscellaneous submenu. Once your notifications are dismissed, all notifications disappear and will not come back up.
You can download NoLed from the Android Market or hit our apps database for the QR code. Wether you love it or hate it, be sure to let us know what you think!
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is this just for Android phones?
I just bought the galaxy j3 luna pro and found out it didn’t have a notification light when I plugged it in to charge. I wasn’t very happy about that. I did a google search to find out how I can get notifications when my screen is off. (I leave my phone in silent mode) I clicked on a link for this site and started reading about the NoLed app, I have downloaded it and played around with it a bit to get the right notifications on my phone. I now have the battery displaying how much I have to charge, messages, phone calls missed, and even have to option to get notifications from 3rd party apps as well. Thanks for the post and it truly works.
My 3 rd party apps don’t display on the black screen.. like what’s app. Sms works. Help please
thanks for the info… hope it really helps our concern. Then that would be time to contribute our part.
its not working on my samsung galaxy y? really not work on my unit?
Thank you very much for this advice. I just got he Samsung Galaxy S11 4G and was bitterly disappointed that it didn’t have the notification light.
I’ve informed Samsung of my disappointment.
will this work for Google Voice?
How do you know if it’s a app that won’t screw up the phone? My phone wouldn’t charge properly & had other issue’s since downloading it. Does anyone know?
Thx guy’s
Love it,although I’am worried if it will mess up my phone or crash it. Other tjan that “beautiful”
NoLED got the job done on my GSI but I’ve always been jealous of the Nokia Sleeping Screen, which does the same thing but looks infinitely better.
take a look if you haven’t seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE5pLjrivP8
I wish someone would make something comparable for Android.
I recommend trying Missed Message Flasher from the Android market too. It’s a similar but can flash the whole screen for a split second or repeat a notification tone every so often at a time interval which you can specify, comes in free and donate versions. I got it as it has support for Whats App messenger where I find it always miss the notification.
This is one of the greatest apps for samsung owners! i use it on my SGS2 for tmobil. U can also get themes for the noled icons at xda, im using super mario icons for noled icons.