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The LEDs in the back can act as progress bars for various things.
by cubefox 3y ago
The LEDs in the back can act as progress bars for various things.
- marcodiego 3y agoMy Galaxy Note 2 has a RGB led which is accessible through /sys . It may sound like the guy who compared dropbox to a self hosted ftp, but It is possible to write scripts using termux to make it react according to any event you can imagine! Mine, out of the box, informs me if it is connected to cell network, low battery and missed calls or messages.
- 0ct4via 3y agoThat's on the front of the screen, though -- so provides a useful notification LED when your display is off. What the Nothing's progress bar requires is for you to put your phone screen down which is very different.
- ktm5j 3y agoIs that really useful considering they're on the back of the phone? I mean, maybe if something's taking so long you're going to put it down while waiting.. but otherwise I don't want to turn my phone around to see it. Cute, but seems rather gimmicky.
- tredre3 3y agoI don't think it's terribly useful as an indicator of software progress. Like you say, it would be simpler to keep the screen partially on (it's OLED). But I guess it could be used for notifications or for more hardware-y things like show your daily steps count (old fitbit style) or battery level (remember when motorola batteries had those super cool led bar graphs on the back in the 90s?).
- ktm5j 3y agoGood points! The possibility for notifications does sound neat.
- constantcrying 3y agoHardly innovative though. My Android has an LED at the top which signifies notifications, even with different colors, even my old Android had that... If you need continous data it might be more useful, but I can't think of a usecase where it is more than a gimmick
- RockRobotRock 3y agoIt's annoyingly hard to get fine grain control over which app uses the LED and what color the app uses.