How To Synchronize Lighting On The ROG Phone 5 - Android

RGB lighting has become synonymous with gaming over the years and that has carried over to the ROG Phone 5. It's also been on every single version of the ROG Phone since the ROG Phone became a thing back in 2018. Basically ASUS loves gaming and it loves RGB lighting, and so the ROG Phone [...]

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RGB lighting has become synonymous with gaming over the years and that has carried over to the ROG Phone 5. It's also been on every single version of the ROG Phone since the ROG Phone became a thing back in 2018.

Basically ASUS loves gaming and it loves RGB lighting, and so the ROG Phone 5 had to continue this trend of adding the feature in some way, shape, or form. Whether you love RGB lighting just as much as ASUS or not, the company has taken it upon themselves to ensure that the lighting does more than just turn on and off and cycle through colors.

While there are many different lighting effects available, one of the cooler aspects of it on the ROG Phone 5 is the ability to synchronize the RGB logos on the back. Again though, this is something that's been around since the original ROG Phone. Now you can't exactly do this with the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate. Not in the same way you would do it with two ROG Phone 5 devices.

And the only reason is because the Ultimate model has a monochromatic ROG Vision display. So while you can synchronize the lighting on the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate, you can only do so when the AeroActive Cooler 5 attachment is on the device. The same goes for the ROG Phone 5 Pro.

In this handy guide, we'll walk you through setting up the RGB lighting on your ROG Phone 5. Then take you through the steps to synchronize it with another ROG Phone should you ever want to do that.

How to synchronize the lighting on ROG Phone 5

Before you can synchronize the lighting on your device, you'll need to know where it is. Thankfully it's located where you'd potentially expect it to be. So let's start there.

Launch the Armoury Crate app

Lighting options are located in the Armoury Crate app. So your first order of business is to open that up and scroll down till you find the lighting section.

Worth keeping in mind is that if you have the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate, and likely the Pro, the synchronize lighting feature won't show up unless you have the AeroActive Cooler 5 attached. So slap that bad boy on before you go any further.

Enable the lighting

Now that you've got the fan attachment on, enable the lighting toggle to turn the system lighting on. If you have the standard ROG Phone 5 you won't need the fan obviously.

Enable the synchronize lighting feature

Just below the system lighting toggle, there's a toggle for the synchronization. Once you enable it, there will be two options available. One for creating a group, and one for joining a group. Decide which phone you want to be the group creator, or the "host" phone.

Whatever lighting effects you pick, all other phones connected to this group will display those effects.

Scan the QR code on the host phone

Once you have the group created, the host phone will display a screen that has a QR code on it. You'll need to scan this QR code with the camera on any other ROG Phone you're trying to sync the lighting with. Scanning should only take a couple of seconds. You will also only have to do this one time.

Any time in the future if you want to synchronize the lighting again, the name of the host phone will pop up in a my devices list of the phones joining the group and you can just tap on that.

That's really all there is to the synchronization part. But there are still some things you can tinker with.

ROG Phone 5 synchronized lighting effects

The ROG Phone 5 has a nice little selection of RGB effects you can choose from. Eight in total. However, not all of these are available if you're lighting in synchronized. Altogether there are four effects in the list for synchronization. This includes the following.

• Static color: You choose a single color and both phones will display it.
• Breathing: Both phones will display the same color, while slowly fading in and out, like it's actually breathing.
• Strobing:  The selected color will blink on and off. The blinking also happens at a faster rate than the fading in and out of the breathing option.
• Color cycle: Pretty self explanatory here. This one cycles through all the possible colors in a smooth motion.

ROG Phone 5 non-synchronized lighting effects

As noted above there are four more lighting effects in addition to those already mentioned. Furthermore, the ones mentioned above also have more tweaks when in their non-synchronized mode. Like the brightness and rate of the effect. Which can't be adjusted when synced.

The four additional lighting effects that you can only use when not synced with another device includes the following:

• Comet: Lighting colors quickly shift from right to left or left to right. You can select the color and the brightness on this, but not the rate of the effect.
• Flash and Dash: This effect is a lot like Comet, but it changes things up by having the colors shift twice in quick succession. There are also two cycles of this. Hence the name Flash and Dash, as the "flash" is the first cycle and the "dash" is the second cycle.
• Mixed Lights: With this effect you can choose two different colors, and the logo will be mixed together. You can also choose which side each color is on, and add a secondary effect to it like sync breathing or async breathing. Sync breathing looks exactly the same as the regular breathing. Async breathing however changes things up by having the breathing alternate back and forth between the two colors. Lastly there's the mono breathing, where one of the colors stays static at all times, and the second color breathes in and out.
• Rainbow: This is the last lighting effect, and most closely resembles the Color Cycle effect. The main difference is that as the colors are cycled through, you'll have multiple colors on the logo at once before it shifts to a new set of colors. Like a rainbow.

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