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[Q] Notification LED - Working Apps to control it

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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maverick1103 said:
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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maverick1103 said:
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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maverick1103 said:
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?

ongally said:
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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maverick1103 said:
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. 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

fosko_esper said:
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

reignzy said:
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

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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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.

[Q] Anyone have any luck with an LED app?

I tried Light Flow but it doesn't work even when I set it up as direct. Does anyone have any luck with any other apps for LED control?

Light Flow works perfectly for me. Did you make sure to enable Notification access and Accessibility service?

Light manager works perfectly
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ikon8 said:
Light Flow works perfectly for me. Did you make sure to enable Notification access and Accessibility service?
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same here

ikon8 said:
Light Flow works perfectly for me. Did you make sure to enable Notification access and Accessibility service?
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Same. Works better on my Z3C than on any phone I've had.
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ikon8 said:
Light Flow works perfectly for me. Did you make sure to enable Notification access and Accessibility service?
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I forgot to enable it in Accessibility. That did the trick for the most part. It won't overwrite the system LEDs when the screen is on and not locked. So for something like receiving a call it will never work and for something like on the charger it will switch back and forth between the system color and light flow color. Nevertheless, thank you very much.

If your phone is rooted you could try XLED it dose what your looking for

derek2000 said:
If your phone is rooted you could try XLED it dose what your looking for
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I haven't rooted yet given the issues with unlocking the bootloader at the moment. I'm sitting tight waiting for better ways to root as the phone becomes more available worldwide. Light flow does the trick for now but I'll be sure to check out XLED when I finally get root. Thanks though.

No notification LED lights?

I got the Nexus 6 about a week ago. Same day I got it, I did the trick to upgrade it to 5.1 (remove SIM, check for updates). Just kinda noticed now that I never see any LED blinking for notifications. It does do the low power black screen heartbeat though. Any clue why no lights?

riotburn said:
I got the Nexus 6 about a week ago. Same day I got it, I did the trick to upgrade it to 5.1 (remove SIM, check for updates). Just kinda noticed now that I never see any LED blinking for notifications. It does do the low power black screen heartbeat though. Any clue why no lights?
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flash a custom kernel. I believe Lean, vindicator and elementalX have led notifications for sure. I think the others do too. Cant remember.

Lightflow is needed on the stock rom to make the led work.

Liam Neeson said:
flash a custom kernel. I believe Lean, vindicator and elementalX have led notifications for sure. I think the others do too. Cant remember.
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The custom kernels allow LED for charging but not for notifications.
Use Light Flow app or a custom ROM that has native LED built in.

TLS2000 said:
Lightflow is needed on the stock rom to make the led work.
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Doesn't Lightflowrequire root to control the LED?

mgerbasio said:
Doesn't Lightflowrequire root to control the LED?
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Yes it does.

mgerbasio said:
Doesn't Lightflowrequire root to control the LED?
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It does and it works very well. I set super user to disable it's notification of granting access though. Didn't need to see that, just the light.

Don't you need the paid Light flow app for notifications?

ronaldheld said:
Don't you need the paid Light flow app for notifications?
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Yes you do.

I'm not quite sure what the actual requirements are for native notification lights (lightflow is an ugly hack that I personally would not use), but it certainly is neither a custom kernel NOR a full custom system image. I *think* that a custom built lights HAL may suffice, or it may also require a custom built Settings application. I.e., under Settings --> Sound & notification, it is missing the option to enable/disable "Pulse notification light".

So wait, are notification light not used in stock Nexus? Is that because they replaced it with the heartbeat?

riotburn said:
So wait, are notification light not used in stock Nexus? Is that because they replaced it with the heartbeat?
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Yes, no notification LED on stock. Was supposedly replaced at the last minute with ambient display.

Evolution_Freak said:
Yes, no notification LED on stock. Was supposedly replaced at the last minute with ambient display.
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More a matter of the just disabled it for fun. Nexus 9 does NOT have ambient display (presumably because it is not amoled), and also has its led disabled.

[Q] Notification LED isn´t blinking. How to solve this?

Hello,
First of all im new to this scene so dont hate me for my lack of knowledge. Currently im running Cynaogenmod 12 on my Nexus 6.
In Stock of this CM the LED Notificatio Light is enabled. But this LED isnt blinking, just shining all time. Is there any way to fix that issue?
P.S.: Today I want to change to Chroma ROM and Vindicator Kernel. Anyone who knows if this issue is solved in another Custom Rom?
Best Greetings,
Barely_Alive

The LED doesn't blink natively, it has to be done via software.
There is a post in the general section where people were using LightFlow and perhaps using Tasker to accomplish this, I think there is a custom ROM that claims to have a blinking LED. My guess would be either way could potentially be a little buggy, in that it won't work all the time and/or probably wouldn't be too friendly on the battery, as your device has to stay awake for the software to tell it to blink.

cupfulloflol said:
The LED doesn't blink natively, it has to be done via software.
There is a post in the general section where people were using LightFlow and perhaps using Tasker to accomplish this, I think there is a custom ROM that claims to have a blinking LED. My guess would be either way could potentially be a little buggy, in that it won't work all the time and/or probably wouldn't be too friendly on the battery, as your device has to stay awake for the software to tell it to blink.
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I used Lightflow on the Vanilla Lollipop and it doesnt blinked too. And when my device is in sleep mode the LED is shinhing but when I´m waking up my Nexus the LED stops shining.

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I used Lightflow on the Vanilla Lollipop and it doesnt blinked too. And when my device is in sleep mode the LED is shinhing but when I´m waking up my Nexus the LED stops shining.
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Right, but there is some settings that can make it blink, I think they combined it with Tasker. There is a thread in general that was quite popular where they talked about it.
Edit: This one or perhaps this one talk about how to do it with light flow (and whatever else they use). This is the custom ROM that includes it

Great! Thank you for your help

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Anyone who knows if this issue is solved in another Custom Rom?
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MeanPop has a blinking LED for notifications if you don't mind a stock base.

Recently the screen in my N6 always turning on w/o doing nothing

Hi!
As i wrote, the screen just turning on without doing nothing.
I'm not touching...Only move it within my palms and the screen turnes on.
Anyone heard about that?
Your help would be appreciated.
Thank you!

It's called ambient display. Makes your screen turn on when the phone is moved after your screen turns off.
Basicly a replacement for the lack of a led light(talking non rooted non custom rom here)

OR.. it could also be an app, thats turning your screen on. there are many apps that do this, you should read your apps permissions.

Just turned off ambient display.
But...does it mean that now I wont get any notifications during phone at sleep?
Tnx!

Ambient display doesn't use much extra battery, it only illuminates the pixels its displaying and it keep the phone in a low power state.
It is your phone's stock visual notification system, so yes if you turn it off you won't get any visual notifications. If your phone is set to vibrate or make notification noises it will still do that. The phone does have an LED behind the speaker, so if you are rooted you can install something like lightflow to use your phone's LED for notifications instead/as well.

scryan said:
The phone does have an LED behind the speaker, so if you are rooted you can install something like lightflow to use your phone's LED for notifications instead/as well.
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If you mentioned 'lightflow':
Yes, I am rooted and followed the tut for lightflow - But I still doesnt get LED notifications.
Any reasson why?
Tnx!

shabydog said:
If you mentioned 'lightflow':
Yes, I am rooted and followed the tut for lightflow - But I still doesnt get LED notifications.
Any reasson why?
Tnx!
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I don't use light flow, but I have heard of many having issues using that app. what I use is s ROM that allows for colored notifications, then I set my colors within the ROMs options. BTW, pure nexus ROM.

simms22 said:
I don't use light flow, but I have heard of many having issues using that app. what I use is s ROM that allows for colored notifications, then I set my colors within the ROMs options. BTW, pure nexus ROM.
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oh snap, I just realized this is the same guy who was posting in the lightflow tutorial thread and was told how to do it multiple times.
He does not have "run all commands as root" check in the settings, and insist its not an option. He just needs to go through the settings and enable that like the popup window when you first launch light flow tells you.
You gotta look through your settings man. I don't know what else to tell you, I don't use that app anymore but I have. And unless you go through all the options in the settings menu... The app isn't going to be able to write to the kernels file system to turn the light on.

Maybe I'll just flash the pure nexus ROM.
I just dont get how to use this App.
Tnx!

I don't want to sound mean but if you Cant figure an app out I don't think you should be flashing ROMs

shabydog said:
Maybe I'll just flash the pure nexus ROM.
I just dont get how to use this App.
Tnx!
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You click settings.... Your looking for something to do with running commands as root.
Did you check under the "device settings and root" menu?

Does he even have the paid version of light flow?

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Does he even have the paid version of light flow?
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He said in another thread that he bought it... but that doesn't matter. I don't and I used it via the options I stated to have LED notification for basic stuff.

I have a question regarding ambient display. I know how it works and all that stuff, however, how many time the phone wakes up with the black/white screen? Because mine gets a notification, it shows it to me then without doing nothing it shows the notification again and again, every minute I guess for a long time. Is this normal?

Yes thats normal. Just like a notification LED will stay on, Ambient Display will show every now and again until you acknowledge the notification in case you missed it. Again, it uses almost no battery to do this, I have used the phone with it on and with it off and never really notice a difference.

holeindalip said:
I don't want to sound mean but if you Cant figure an app out I don't think you should be flashing ROMs
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You will be surprisingly to hear that I do know well how to flash Roms...
scryan said:
You click settings.... Your looking for something to do with running commands as root.
Did you check under the "device settings and root" menu?
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Reinstalled and after i gave the SU permission - I chose the following:
'Root mode' is on.
'Run every command as root' is on.
Let's see if it would work now.
Thanks!

Hi,
Letting u know that for some reasson i dono - it still just dont work.
Super wierd.