How to Use LED Flash as Notification Light on Android or iPhone

LED notification is really very useful and cool thing for the Smartphone, Do you know? Your phone’s LED Flashlight can start blinking when you receive any notifications like messages or receive any call on your Smartphone. But, some of the Smartphones do not come up with notification light feature. However, you can use your phone’s flashlight as a notifier.

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How to Use LED Flash as Notification Light on Android or iPhone

There is the inbuilt feature in iOS to use camera’s flashlight as LED notification which is not in Android by default. However, we have a trick that will help you  to use Camera’s LED flashlight as the notification reminder on your android device. Here are some different types of apps that are available on Google Play store that can be used to perform this task.

Android Apps to Use Camera Flash as Notification Indicator

1. Flash Notification for All App

With this app, you will get the features like incoming call flash alert, SMS Flash. The best thing in this app is you can get the flash notification on Viber, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp etc.

Features Of Flash Notification for all app:

• Notification Flash & Screen Flash
• Incoming Call Flash
• SMS Flash
• Flash when a new notification arrives in selected app
• (Whatsapp, Email, Twitter, Alarm/Clock, Messenger, any other app)

2. Call Flash: Alert on Call-SMS

CallFlash controls the flash for calls and other notifications. In this way you can be notified by your flash for every notification. It is an open source project, aiming to keep things simple and functional.

Features Of Call Flash:

• Operation modes (flash when on silent, vibration or normal mode).
• Notification flash modes (Time based or Repetitive).
• Flash notification for more instant messaging apps, like Viber, facebook messenger, what’s up etc…
• Flash only when phone is locked option
• Disable flash on call with volume buttons
• Option to disable flash if battery is low

3. flashME

flashME will be your light notification on your Android phone. The flashlight embedded in your device will promptly blink as your phone is ringing, or a new text has been received. Moreover, you can set/unset the flashlight blinking for each different notification event (Facebook or Twitter update, calendar alert, any other apps events). You can choose  to have your light notification only when your cell phone is upside down, and the light will continue blinking till you get the notification.

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Now every time you receive any call or SMS your smartphone’s LED will start blinking and you will be able to detect the alert even if your smartphone is on silent mode or on a face-off position. Hope you like the article, don’t forget to share it with your friends and leave a comment below if you are facing any problem at any of the step discussed above.

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