improvement: using flash for alerts

asked 2014-05-30 17:03:11 +0300

maddler gravatar image

updated 2014-10-23 16:49:40 +0300

eric gravatar image

Rationale:

In both quiet and noisy environments you could easily miss alerts and the default led cold be not enough. Also, being able to use the flash light as a alert led, could make life easier for hear impaired people.

Actual behaviour:

Function not present

Desiderata:

You should be able to enable "flash for notification" from sound and alert settings. Ideally you would have different blink pattern for different events and have flash enabled "always" or "when sound off".

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Comments

I think flashing the screen would be a more reasonable option (which is more or less what happens now, but only with SMS/MMS, at least as far as I know). Turning on the flash light when it is facing a table, with no space in between, has a strange tendency to instantly switch off devices, which of course is not very desirable.

nthn ( 2014-05-30 17:11:55 +0300 )edit
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I'd vote for both options. Also, having an API for both would be the best way to go, letting application access them for their notifications.

maddler ( 2014-05-30 17:14:38 +0300 )edit