[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
[MENTION=5442363]kaziq[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5849464]mikeoswego[/MENTION]

Again with this LED? I am quite satisfied with mine because, at a glance, I can tell if I missed an SMS message, call, have voicemail, or got a Facebook message. I think I set others, but this is what I use if for. I can tell, at a glance, from across the room, if any of these conditions exist. Albeit, I may have to stare up to 30 seconds, but at least I do not need to get off the couch or out of bed to check. I will get into this more but need to explain something first.

I am an electronic technician all my life. So besides fix stuff, I know all about big corporate, bottom line, profit and loss. And no matter how "nice" they are, ALL companies care about is the bottom line and their reputation is a BIG part of it. Pulsing that LED every 30 seconds consumes power. Anything that lights, makes sound, transmits, lights a screen, or vibrates uses battery power. 2 quick pulses every hour does not consume much battery to speak of. But suppose they let you vary that greatly, you can make it strobe light or flash every 2 seconds. If you flash it once every 3 seconds, you have doubled the battery consumption of the device for LED notification. Get out of hand with it and the phone will not last ½ a day before it goes dead. Word gets out to the public, "Motorola makes terrible phones, the battery will not even last ½ a day!" Very bad press and in the world we live in, that can make or break a company. When I find "a new toy" in the phone after an update or a really cool app, I play all day and yep, the battery dies pretty quickly.

That being said, let's look into a bit, shall we?

Well, I went into Pulse Notification Light. I see the changes you can make are vast. Since this is just a time question, I did not change my custom colors. I choose "Default" because that will flash even if there is no event trigger, but the same can be said for other options such as missed call, or voicemail. There is a big + sign in the top left to create another trigger for it, say an SMS or MMS message, same deal. Color, duration, and rate. One of the durations is "Always On" which is pretty ridiculous as it would wipe out the battery to tell you that you missed a text message. So, "Always On" may have been planned for the rom, but Motorola simply will not permit it. You can, however, get it to flash as fast as every 3 seconds and that is pretty fast. Very Fast, Normal, Very slow and steps in between. I set mine to very fast, which in this case, is every 3 seconds. Pulse duration from very fast to very slow. Because it is a notification LED, you must press power and release after saying OK to the changes to see it work. Yep, every 3 seconds my LED flashed green.

While the adjustment app is running, you see the LED respond to show how it will look, approximately. But the real test comes when you say OKAY and allow the screen to go dark. It works for me. I see the phone on the dresser. I am in bed. I stare at it for up to a minute, I see a green flash and not only is the phone on, but I see I did not miss anything. My Go SMS Pro has it's own Notification System in it, including LED and that one flashes with a Magenta color so I know if I miss a text message. These are rom settings and can be overwritten by any manufacturer who decides that leaving the notification LED on forever is a dumb idea and a total waste of battery. Who could blame them? Maybe Daewoo thinks it is a great idea, tried it, the thing would not stay on for ½ a day before the battery went dead, and maybe Daewoo no longer makes cell phones. I am imagining that last part.

Mail for the most part, does not do anything. But if you receive mail, it makes a toast. You can use the + button to your mail program so that when it "goes off", you get a yellow light. Or anything you want. With my 3 second limit on the Motorola Droid Razr, I will have to stare at the phone for up to 3 seconds while it sits on the coffee table to see I got mail, an Facebook message, missed call, voice mail, or email. Not bad, not bad at all. So it does what it is supposed to. What more do you guys want? You are not getting laser beams, or solid lit LED just because someone on Facebook is requesting you play "Farmville". Honestly, what do you guys want?

It is a "Notification LED" so it does not run while the screen is lit

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Tell you what, if you really want to see what that LED can do, install one or more of the flashlights and

really check them out

. There are a whole bunch of them but this is my favorite, I keep it on home screen all the time and will put in on the lock screen when I figure out how. It finds my keyhole, where to put the jack under the car at night to change a tire, anything you really need light for and it comes with many toys too. You can send a Morse Code message with it. Tiny Flashlight + LED

'night guys! :D