Hey,
did anyone manage to properly control the LED with an app? It's really bright and shiny when e.g. charging the phone but when i use it with apps i barely see it since most dont allow to further control the led notification, its mainly really high intervalls between the short blinks.
i installed light flow but i dont get it to work, it just doesnt do anything. i tried root mode and all, no success.
Ricochet23 said:
Hey,
did anyone manage to properly control the LED with an app? It's really bright and shiny when e.g. charging the phone but when i use it with apps i barely see it since most dont allow to further control the led notification, its mainly really high intervalls between the short blinks.
i installed light flow but i dont get it to work, it just doesnt do anything. i tried root mode and all, no success.
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You need to ensure you turn it on in accessibility settings menu, see my pic. I can confirm it works well as I'm using that app.
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You need to ensure you turn it on in accessibility settings menu, see my pic. I can confirm it works well as I'm using that app.
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Thanks for your reply but of course i turned it on in accessibility menu, i also tried all the options. i have no idea why it is not working. Do you use stamina mode? its also sometimes not blinking even with lightflow turned off..
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Ricochet23 said:
Thanks for your reply but of course i turned it on in accessibility menu, i also tried all the options. i have no idea why it is not working. Do you use stamina mode? its also sometimes not blinking even with lightflow turned off..
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Ah I just remembered when I had a XZ using stamina mode stops the LED from working.
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Ah I just remembered when I had a XZ using stamina mode stops the LED from working.
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Yeah but it was fixed in a future update. I dont even get it working without stamina mode though.
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Ricochet23 said:
Yeah but it was fixed in a future update. I dont even get it working without stamina mode though.
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Oh right, hmm, did you try to test the notifications in light flow, in settings it says test all LEDs what does that do? Other than a factory wipe I'm not sure.
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Oh right, hmm, did you try to test the notifications in light flow, in settings it says test all LEDs what does that do? Other than a factory wipe I'm not sure.
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It does nothing. Just stating that it starts in 5 seconds and nothing happens. No matter if the screen is turned on or off.
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Ricochet23 said:
It does nothing. Just stating that it starts in 5 seconds and nothing happens. No matter if the screen is turned on or off.
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Hmm then it might have to be a factory reset, I had to do that with my XZ when I had it.
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I'm using an app called Light Manager now, everything works fine. You can also control the intensity of the LED with it.
Ricochet23 said:
I'm using an app called Light Manager now, everything works fine. You can also control the intensity of the LED with it.
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I've used that before, didn't know you can control the intensity, awesome will give it ago.
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Does the LED have multiple colors? Is it fixed to a certain few, e.g. just red, green, orange?
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Does the LED have multiple colors? Is it fixed to a certain few, e.g. just red, green, orange?
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Yes it does, you can set it to what you want with apps.
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No it doesnt....
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Ah I just remembered when I had a XZ using stamina mode stops the LED from working.
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No it doesnt. I have an XZ constantly on stamina mode and my notification light still works
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No it doesnt....
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No it doesnt. I have an XZ constantly on stamina mode and my notification light still works
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When the XZ first came out it did stop the LED from working, then Sony fixed it.with an update, so the Z1 might be the same.
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I have the very same problem here on my Z1.
It's rooted with VRoot, firmware updated this morning to 14.1.G.1.534, but still I can't manage to work led notification through any software found on Play Store (Ligh Flow and Light Manager included).
Led does work when battery is low (red) or charged (green) or charging (orange) with stock settings, but nothing more.
Any other led test brings no effect, no light and no color at all.
Any suggestion?
Thanks
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I have the very same problem here on my Z1.
It's rooted with VRoot, firmware updated this morning to 14.1.G.1.534, but still I can't manage to work led notification through any software found on Play Store (Ligh Flow and Light Manager included).
Led does work when battery is low (red) or charged (green) or charging (orange) with stock settings, but nothing more.
Any other led test brings no effect, no light and no color at all.
Any suggestion?
Thanks
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I have XZ1 and my phone works a breeze without any issues now. Only issue i had from new was the vibrator stopped working for a day or 2 from initial re-flash cause i played with the build.prop and crashed it into a bootloop.
Re-flash might be the way to go, but if it still carries on without the light working, i'd return it faulty...
BTW are you giving it eonugh time to flast the 'Blue" light for incoming notifications?
Mine usually takes about 20secs to kick in, but it does work
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I have XZ1 and my phone works a breeze without any issues now. Only issue i had from new was the vibrator stopped working for a day or 2 from initial re-flash cause i played with the build.prop and crashed it into a bootloop.
Re-flash might be the way to go, but if it still carries on without the light working, i'd return it faulty...
BTW are you giving it eonugh time to flast the 'Blue" light for incoming notifications?
Mine usually takes about 20secs to kick in, but it does work
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Led system notifications work fine, I just can't manage to set any custom notification so it would be difficult to return it as faulty (since it's not a stock function I'm complaining of).
I flashed the old version and the new, once with Flashtool and once by Sony PC companion and the result is: only when it's brand flashed, just before configuring and downloading any other app, the first time I run the led TEST on Ligh manager IT WORKS. Any other test (even run just a couple of second after and without changing anything else) fails.
I assume there's something wrong, maybe some kind of conflict but I really don't know what this could be.
For now I decided to wait for the new firmware (which is on its way) to see if maybe there is some issue that has been solved in the meantime.
Thanks
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It does nothing. Just stating that it starts in 5 seconds and nothing happens. No matter if the screen is turned on or off.
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Hi Ricochet23. Mine is the same as yours. I've tried ALL apps and all configuration (with, without STAMINA; Accessibility, etc) and not even a Blink. When Charging, full charged I have all notification without a problem. Did you try to Factory Reset? It worked? I didn't tried because in my phone I can't have ROOT and can't do a proper backup of my applications. Mine is Xperia Z1 C6943 14.1.G.2.257 (still no way to ROOT it and I can't downgrade cause I can't find a Stock C6943 1.534 FTF).
If it worked please notify me so I can try to have some time to do all backups possible without root and reset it.
I had the same issues, could not get it to work, however, there's a setting under Settings -> Display -> Pulse Notification Light that I enabled, and after that it works like a charm, perhaps this could solve it?
fizard said:
Hi Ricochet23. Mine is the same as yours. I've tried ALL apps and all configuration (with, without STAMINA; Accessibility, etc) and not even a Blink. When Charging, full charged I have all notification without a problem. Did you try to Factory Reset? It worked? I didn't tried because in my phone I can't have ROOT and can't do a proper backup of my applications. Mine is Xperia Z1 C6943 14.1.G.2.257 (still no way to ROOT it and I can't downgrade cause I can't find a Stock C6943 1.534 FTF).
If it worked please notify me so I can try to have some time to do all backups possible without root and reset it.
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I have lightflow installed since my Xperia Z and now on my Xperia Z1, you have so much control of settings flashing, vibration patterns,and tones. I would say this one of the best apps I have used for notifications. I have the paid version which has more options than the free version.
agreed the led is not as easy to see.
I purchased Light Flow mainly for a light for missed calls. Others may use it for more. I do have it working properly as should but only way I got it work under Device Root Setting enable Direct Mode.
Did anyone on N6 get it work without Direct Mode? What I want is the led to flash but all it will do stay solid in color.
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I don't think anyone has gotten it to blink yet, it will stay solid. I have heard if you receive multiple notifications, it will flash.
I can confirm. It's only blinking when you have multiple notifications each with a different color.
I have issues with this app. Also with all root settings enabled led doesn't work properly. Sometimes it doesn't turn on and sometimes it doesn't turn off (in this case I must open the app to turn it off). I hope Dev will update this app soon.
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Any battery drain with the light being on say for 30 min.
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mouse100 said:
I have issues with this app. Also with all root settings enabled led doesn't work properly. Sometimes it doesn't turn on and sometimes it doesn't turn off (in this case I must open the app to turn it off). I hope Dev will update this app soon.
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I had some issues with Light Flow too. The LED sometimes didn't work. Now i have found a "hidden" setting in the menu. In Accessibility (you have to scroll down) is an option "Light Flow". You have to turn this to on. Now my LED works as it should.
How can i get this to work with the basic standard messenger?
I have sms selected but so far no go. Everything else had worked so far
Didn't know the nexus 6 had working led light.
I didn't get the LED to work for incoming SMS neither. Maybe someone here has an idea how to fix this.
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I didn't get the LED to work for incoming SMS neither. Maybe someone here has an idea how to fix this.
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pretty sure I saw a post yesterday from the author starting an update was in the works that will fix the led for messenger
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pretty sure I saw a post yesterday from the author starting an update was in the works that will fix the led for messenger
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That would be great!
Hi Guys
When a notifications arrives and ambient display is enabled it is showed in the display but it only "blinks" like 3 times. Is there a way to keep it blinking until notifications are dismissed without rooting?
The problem with how it works now is that if it has been for example 1 hours since the notification arrival you can't see that there is something waiting for your attention without garbing the phone. I miss that from my Nexus 5.
rootusr said:
Hi Guys
When a notifications arrives and ambient display is enabled it is showed in the display but it only "blinks" like 3 times. Is there a way to keep it blinking until notifications are dismissed without rooting?
The problem with how it works now is that if it has been for example 1 hours since the notification arrival you can't see that there is something waiting for your attention without garbing the phone. I miss that from my Nexus 5.
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I would like to see this as well, but I am assuming it will have to be built into a custom rom. I am using Light Flow Pro to light up the LED for now.
Crosserson said:
I would like to see this as well, but I am assuming it will have to be built into a custom rom. I am using Light Flow Pro to light up the LED for now.
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So you are rooted right?
Yes. I assumed you were too based on your name.
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Yes. I assumed you were too based on your name.
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not yet. Thanks for your help. I guess root is the only option for now
It would be a cool feature.
For whatever reason when I enable ambient display the time won't update until I unlock the device. Has anyone had this issue? I'm stock and rooted with Franco kernel.
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Try wiping dalvik and cache in recovery, maybe fix permissions as well. If it persists, try re-installing stock kernel, or maybe re-flash the rom as a last resort.
Do not do fix permissions, it'll cause your phone to boot loop on the nexus 6.
Kernel has nothing to do with the time and making it display incorrectly.
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/help/stuck-bootloop-tried-to-fix-t2972641
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I have the same issue. Using stock rom with lean kernel (1.7).
I kind of hate ambient display anyways so I guess I'll just wait for an update to come out
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I'm having this exact same problem. But I'm not even rooted, all I did was unlock the bootloader, running stock 5.0.1, stock kernel, stock everything.
I've tried having the Time be set automatically, and I've tried turning that auto-set off. The display still doesn't show the correct time until I go to unlock the screen. It seems like it freezes after a few minutes no matter what, kinda like the deep sleep bug. But turning off the Automatic Time setting used to fix that...
Anybody have any idea what causes this now?
actually... it doesn't FULLY freeze... it seems to update 1 time after a set interval. I can't tell what that interval is, and it seems to change randomly, but it'll never be more than, say, an hour behind.
I wonder if there's any way to change the interval? or at least find out why it seems random?
Anybody else experience this?
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Anybody else experience this?
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Yes and I'm stock unrooted locked...
So is there a fix for it?
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Do not do fix permissions, it'll cause your phone to boot loop on the nexus 6.
Kernel has nothing to do with the time and making it display incorrectly.
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/help/stuck-bootloop-tried-to-fix-t2972641
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huh? bootloop? you mean fix_permissions via twrp? ive been using the fix permissions app by Stericson(busybox). it works while youre still in tbe os, but does one app at a time instead of all of them at once. and it works well. btw https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stericson.permissionfix
edit.. i just realized that this is an old thread.
So, I was thinking about modding the kernel so that my notification LED can blink when the screen is on. (It currently works off-screen only).
Have it been done? [/] Can I get any help from the developers?
Pure nexus if I'm not mistaking has an option to make the led blink with screen on... What I'm sure is there was an app developed by a user which makes the led blink at sound rhythms. I was a beta tester
Here it is the free version https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.led.ledmusiceffect
The beta was working good on nexus 5, but I uninstalled it because for me was useless
Working!
It works and it has limitation.
However, that was a solution for me.
& the app is the best one of that category and it drains battery much (had to).
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So, I was thinking about modding the kernel so that my notification LED can blink when the screen is on. (It currently works off-screen only).
Have it been done? [/] Can I get any help from the developers?
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Maybe it's also a ROM thing, NitrogenOS Nougat 7.1 has this option and i'm currently using it without the included kernel but a custom one
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