is this happening to anyone else? when i get a notification, the led flashes just one time...then nothing. its not too useful if i don't happen to see the one time it flashes.
i'm kind of hoping its broken...i don't really want it if that's working as designed.
yeah that what it is doing for me also
Dunno. I gave up and installed Light Flow from the Market, so I could use multi-colored notification lights (which I miss from my Nexus 1).
Now the lights flash repeatedly, although not as quickly as I'd like.
Mine flashes more than once, about every 3 seconds
thanks for the feedback. looks like i got a bad one....
I decided to do a factory reset before bringing it in. Notification is now working normally. The only thing I did different was not auto-restore my apps.
I just set up Handcent to do fast blue flashes. It didn't flash on the text coming in, but as soon as the screen went dark, it started flashing ever three seconds.
I didn't know you could create custom colors on the flash LED. I had it flashing white for a bit.
I would like to confirm that doing a factory reset and not restoring google settings fixed my notification issue also..
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The phone is continuously blinking that I have a new sms!
I restarted, same thing!
I went through each and every sms in my inbox/email folders so that if one was "new" it would be read since I entered it.
Still blinking, so I uninstalled it, restarted and re-installed it. Still blinking!!
I then uninstalled it, restarted, installed it this time on my storage card, restarted and same! Still damn blinking.
I even turned off all light notifications and restarted, then enabled blinking, still blinking! I even changed lights but still blinked green and blue!
Wheres the malfunction?
thanks
Green blinks are normal for me, seem to mean the phone is on. And blue blinks means Bluetooth is on. This can be changed to some extent with a program, but I don't recommend it because the initial version of the program strangely doesn't allow setting the blue blink as an indicator of Bluetooth being on, which is SUCH a weird thing, since it's the default not only for this phone but pretty much for all phones with Bluetooth capability.
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Green blinks are normal for me, seem to mean the phone is on. And blue blinks means Bluetooth is on. This can be changed to some extent with a program, but I don't recommend it because the initial version of the program strangely doesn't allow setting the blue blink as an indicator of Bluetooth being on, which is SUCH a weird thing, since it's the default not only for this phone but pretty much for all phones with Bluetooth capability.
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You are not familiar with this app called Kaiser Notification by Phil Lee.
It allows you to disable lights and then enable lights for different notifications.
So you can set it to blink green (right lamp) for new sms and blue for new email or vice versa.
You can have it blink amber for bluetooth on, red for missed call and green for phone in service.
Or you can turn off all blinking notifications.
Mine is blinking blue even though I have no new sms.
Hi
This problem has been reported before although I've never seen it. What seems to happen is Windows Mobile gets out of sync with the count of unread messages. The program itself just looks at these counts so if it is told by Windows Mobile there are 'x' unread messages it sets the LED flashing.
A fix is discussed here which requires using a registry editor to reset the counts. I'm working a newer version with some extra features and will look to change the code to either include this fix or to keep count of messages itself rather than use the Windows Mobile reported counts.
Hope the above helps.
Regards
Phil
Hi Phil,
Thanks for taking the time to create such a great app and the time to respond to errors. I checked the thread you referred to and it is literally exactly what im going through,e xcept I havent edited the registry yet.
Thanks again!
I tried a bunch of searching and just keep finding stuff about trackball wake, trackball colors, etc.
My problems is that my trackball will only light up on an incoming call, nothing else. Not email, text (even with Handcent), or tweets.
I was previously running CM 5.0.6, which they all worked then. Of course I updated to Froyo this weekend (Thanks Paul!!), with a full wipe. I have also reflashed Pauls new Froyo with no radio this morning with no change.
Any ideas?
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I tried a bunch of searching and just keep finding stuff about trackball wake, trackball colors, etc.
My problems is that my trackball will only light up on an incoming call, nothing else. Not email, text (even with Handcent), or tweets.
I was previously running CM 5.0.6, which they all worked then. Of course I updated to Froyo this weekend (Thanks Paul!!), with a full wipe. I have also reflashed Pauls new Froyo with no radio this morning with no change.
Any ideas?
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OK, evidently the trackball will only light up for me when the screen is off. So try this. Download handcent, send a test notification to your phone, but don't click ok, simply shut off the screen and see if the trackball lights up.
Also, I don't know how some people are managing to get it to light up with the screen on, because as soon as my screen powers on the notification dissapears. I remember in Cyanogen there was an option to pulse while the screen was on, but so far I've been unable to find it in the stock FroYo build. Anybody have any suggestions?
got it all worked out now.
I had to turn off quick reply in Handcent. It was turning on the screen and therefore not allowing the trackball to light up. I just sent a text with screen off and it worked ok. I guess the "test notification" in Handcent is not 100% yet. I havent seen an option to pulse while screen was on either...dont think its there, yet.
These changes have been merged into the latest nightly. Expect to see it in the new dinc build on 11/30/2010.
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Hey fellow dinc users. We've been complaining for too long and now we can complain no more (or some more)
I've made a patch that fixes the led notifications so that green and amber blinks now. You can flash this over any version of cm 6.
The led blinks like stock, but the blink rate is not configurable.
-Flash in succession works for different notification colors.
Flash like any zip. Be sure to back up.
Bug: There seems to be an issue with the led light colors not being properly set by CM settings.. Here is a possible solution:
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Next: Bingo:
Set a custom color (somewhere in the pink-red range). Got a red LED immediately.
Now flash color, blink rate work as advertised.
Hopefully that helps narrow down the issue me and CUViper are seeing.
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Devs: I've started a Gerritt issue for the fix. I'm not sure if I broke things for other phones.. so hopefully there'll be more contribution from other devs to get this into cm6.1..... update- they didn't like my generic liblights fix, so I've made a device specific one for our inc. It works right now, but I will clean up the file when I get a chance.
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/527
NEW: http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,681
Do you think this will work with RUBY?
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Do you think this will work with RUBY?
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I think it should. But please let us know if it doesn't!
Let me do a backup and I'll try it out.
nice.. much appreciated! what's left in terms of issues? just the cam force close or are there others? once the cam's fixed.. i'd like to use cm as my daily
The camera really only fcs for 720p recording with autofocus. I might look into it over Thanksgiving.
The led issue was just really bugging me and I was getting impatient lol..
No, go. When I get a text it doesn't blink, or even stay on like it did.
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No, go. When I get a text it doesn't blink, or even stay on like it did.
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Sorry man, there must be other changes in Ruby that I don't know about. Have you tried changing the colors of your notifications? The driver only responds if it's green or red.
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Sorry man, there must be other changes in Ruby that I don't know about. Have you tried changing the colors of your notifications? The driver only responds if it's green or red.
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I don't believe Ruby allows you to change the color of your LED. We only have two anyway
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I don't believe Ruby allows you to change the color of your LED. We only have two anyway
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You should try an led tester or handcent. An app that lets you change test the color of the led. I could recode the patch to default to green for all other colors, I believe that would make it work for MIUI. Pm me if you're willing to try it..
I think many users may want it blink for Ruby. Though, it does work just fine as it is being only solid. Reason I sorta perfer that is I'm not being tricked into thinking I have a notification. When it blinks I have to always take a second look at it
I tried LED Tester, only colors we have are green and red.
For the apps that have built in LED configuration, like handcent and kik. THey wouldn't even have the orange LED blinking right, which leads me to have it set to no blind in CMsettings and the app settings.
Will this fix work with those aswell?
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For the apps that have built in LED configuration, like handcent and kik. THey wouldn't even have the orange LED blinking right, which leads me to have it set to no blind in CMsettings and the app settings.
Will this fix work with those aswell?
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I'm not sure what you mean, but I can use handcent's settings to set the led color. Only green and red work though. For the apps that don't have a way to set the color, I can control it using cyanogen's settings under the led notifications menu.
I added some review comments in Gerrit for you. When I tried it myself, I wasn't able to get it working until I uncommented your BLINK_FILE writes.
This b0rks the green LED when charging above 90% Now both orange and green are lit.
Also rather then plain green flashing I get nothing :/
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I added some review comments in Gerrit for you. When I tried it myself, I wasn't able to get it working until I uncommented your BLINK_FILE writes.
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When remove the comments, don't the blinks go sporadically?
I intended for the leds to be able to have both red and green, but it looks rediculous so I'm going to fix it.
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When remove the comments, don't the blinks go sporadically?
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I'm not sure what you mean by sporadic. It's a quick blink about every two seconds, longer off than on. But with your comments in place, I don't get anything blinking lights at all. The solid charge light works, but blinking notification doesn't.
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I'm not sure what you mean by sporadic. It's a quick blink about every two seconds, longer off than on. But with your comments in place, I don't get anything blinking lights at all. The solid charge light works, but blinking notification doesn't.
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Interesting, try setting different blink rates, it definitely works!
I'm posting a new version fixing the issue with both lights showing up.
Ok, this is weird. I built your second patch from Gerrit, pushed it out, rebooted, and then suddenly I was getting the opposite of before, now a long blink on with a short off. So I went into Advanced and chose "Reset all colors and apps", and now I can't get anything to blink at all. I'm about to give up and let you and others figure it out...
Can you tell what all the settings are for you? I have only the default "Miscellaneous" category, and I've tried "Always pulse" on and off. The other Advanced settings don't look like they should matter, but I have the rest all off. Then I go into the applications list and choose Gmail, set it to green or red, choose any blink rate, and then "Flash test" does nothing.
You should get a long blink with short off..
I just repeated what you did..
Reset all notifications,
Goto led settings for gmail,
Test flash does nothing,
pick green..even though it was already selected...
Test flash and it worked..
Not exactly sure why it doesn't work for you. lets see what the others say.
So since I got the phone I am trying to figure what is going on with LED notifications. Basically it works fine with missed calls, sms, gmail, email, it blinks every few seconds, but with 3rd party apps like whatsapp, viber, facebook..it wont blink, its just always on (until i clear notification). I tried some apps like Light Flow, even if you set it to blink/flash every few seconds, it doesn't work, its always ON.
Also I noticed something strange about illumination bar when browsing gallery, as soon as LED notification light turns on, illumination bar will turn off, like some kind of conflict between them.
I did phone repair, factory reset, nothing helps.
So I want to know is it supposed to be like that, is it a glitch/bug, bad programming or something else. Even on my old Sony phone I had troubles with LED...
Android 4.4.2
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So since I got the phone I am trying to figure what is going on with LED notifications. Basically it works fine with missed calls, sms, gmail, email, it blinks every few seconds, but with 3rd party apps like whatsapp, viber, facebook..it wont blink, its just always on (until i clear notification). I tried some apps like Light Flow, even if you set it to blink/flash every few seconds, it doesn't work, its always ON.
Also I noticed something strange about illumination bar when browsing gallery, as soon as LED notification light turns on, illumination bar will turn off, like some kind of conflict between them.
I did phone repair, factory reset, nothing helps.
So I want to know is it supposed to be like that, is it a glitch/bug, bad programming or something else. Even on my old Sony phone I had troubles with LED...
Android 4.4.2
20.1.A.2.14
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Have you enabled "STAMINA"-Mode in the Settings? if yes turn it off and see if it helps.
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Have you enabled "STAMINA"-Mode in the Settings? if yes turn it off and see if it helps.
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Nope, it's disabled.
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Nope, it's disabled.
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I have testet it on my E1 and i can't get it work too. I think the ROM has a bug or something.
Also I noticed that LED is keeping phone awake. For example, you receive email, led is blinking keeping phone awake and then "Android OS" is draining battery like crazy if wifi is enabled, but that's another story. Tried repair, factory reset, nothing helps...
I got my R1 HD recently. After I set up everything I noticed that when the screen is off, no matter whether I received an email, a sms or a missed call, the LED light just didn't flash. The phone did notify by sound and I can see items in status bar when I turn on the screen.
I looked at everything in the Settings, but couldn't find anything wrong. I called R1 representative and he said he never heard such issue before.
Then I ordered a replacement from Amazon and it arrived today. You know what, same thing happened! No LED light for notification. Just sound notification.
The only time I know there is an LED light is when I charge the phone (red) or when it's fully charged (green).
Has anyone seen such issue before? I greatly appreciate the help!
The LED can really only display red and green as when they are both on the red greatly overpowers the green so the color combination is not detectable. Lightflow can control which apps have access to the LED and which color to display. The LEDs are either on or off - no brightness levels. I have also not been able to get the LED to blink on notifications and suspect that this is also a hardware limitation of the phone. I've been quite disappointed in the LED notification capabilities. There are a couple of other threads about the notification light in the Blu forums here if you search
Thanks for the reply! I did try Lightflow, but it didn't help. In test mode or real mode, what I got was just a status bar notification, no LED.
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The LED can really only display red and green as when they are both on the red greatly overpowers the green so the color combination is not detectable. Lightflow can control which apps have access to the LED and which color to display. The LEDs are either on or off - no brightness levels. I have also not been able to get the LED to blink on notifications and suspect that this is also a hardware limitation of the phone. I've been quite disappointed in the LED notification capabilities. There are a couple of other threads about the notification light in the Blu forums here if you search
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I did have to change some settings for it to work with the Blu phone.
These are the settings I am using that allow apps to turn on the LED:
Under General settings, the following are checked:
Enable Light Flow
Show LED in priority mode
Device Admin
Enable Clear all
Accessibility check
Version upgrade reminder
Under Device settings and root, the following are checked:
Direct mode
Root mode
Run every command as root
Show LED with screen on
Nexus 5 force LED reset
I also have light flow enabled under settings->accessability and lightflow has root permission in supersu.
Oh so I have to root the phone? I just called Blu customer service, and they told me I need to do a factory reset..
Try it and let us know what happens, please. Some phones require root and others don't. I reflashed and rooted and xposed mine before I did anything else so I don't know if it works without root or not.
Solved! Did a hard reset (not factory data reset thru Settings) by pressing power button and volume up together to enter the recovery menu. I cannot believe Amazon/Blu missed such an important step that the customer has to do it by themselves..
Same here bit in a Blu vivo 5R in this case.
So... I need to execute a Factory Reset? And then appears the option for LED notification And works.
Hi ! I did buy a BLU VIVO XL2. No LED activity for notifications. I have the options for LED behavior (Settings/Advanced Settings/Under Hardware title, LED indicator, Notification Reminder ON but green LED never flashes when expected. Factory Reset tried: I used Volume Up & Power Button to get recovery menu. There, I took a backup (SD storage, no compression, several chunks of data). After that, I selected Factory Reset. When rebooted, Google did his automatic restore of phone. After that, I tried Restore from Recovery menu, but a msg informed backup was corrupted, so, I did get a full Factory Reset status, with my phone memory user data lost. NO LED Notifications working after all these actions !!!!! . LED is alive, when reporting Power status, so it is not HW damaged. I will keep fighting to get my LED notification activity working... Regards, Norberto !!!
Try the free version of LightFlow from the play store. It will allow you to test and turn individual notifications on or off. The light can on display red and green colors and the red is very much brighter than the green. Mine turns flashing red when I miss a phone call on the Blu R1 HD>
Hi !! Thnx yaconsult. I did try free & legacy, unsuccessfully. Have a good day !!
I guess the Vivo works differently, then. The notification light works ok on my R1. If I miss a call, I get a blinking red light.