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Hello All, new Android user (iPhone 3g to Inspire) and trying to understand how the notification LED is supposed to work. I had few missed calls but there is no notification LED at all. I checked the Settings > Display > Notification Flash and all the check boxes are checked. Do I need to check any other setting (saw a post about a 5 min led flash time limit)?

There is a free app from the Market called "Missed Call', has MUCH MORE options and is what I use.
Details here
Try it out and if you like it let us know.

Thank you! I'll try that app and will let you know.

Hmm am I the only one still getting just the same green light with Missed Call?
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I also use missed call, and it works great for sound notifications. as for led notifications all i get is a green led. does the inspire only have one color (green). also with missed call the led only blinks for a while when the screen is sleeping...then it stops, anyone else experiencing this?

RiNo808 said:
I also use missed call, and it works great for sound notifications. as for led notifications all i get is a green led. does the inspire only have one color (green). also with missed call the led only blinks for a while when the screen is sleeping...then it stops, anyone else experiencing this?
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yeah, the LED does orange/amber and green. In a couple weeks or sometime, the root may allow for us to set suctom colors for different things, a la Nexus One style.
and the LED will only flash for a certain amount of time before it stops because it thinks you are purposely ignoring whatever it is. I'm not sure what the time frame is though

I was having problems with my LED as well. I checked the settings though.... it was off. Face-palm moment. Reading this thread made me realize what I did though, so thanks to you! haha.

Getting the LED Notification Light to Work?

Has anyone got the LED notification light to work?
I can confirm mine works when using 3rd party apps, but shouldn't it come on when screen is locked and a new sms is received? Maybe there is a setting I am missing somewhere?

Mine was blinking this morning for emails. Its very bright.
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download the app Light Flow

I wasn't getting any LED notifications at all, I also tried Light Flow lite and it didn't work. The paid version however works for me, but you have to enable the "Pulse notification light" setting in the Android Display settings menu.
edit. Actually not sure if the notifications are actually triggering the LED yet. The test inside Flight Flow worked with the different colours though.
edit2. OK, yep all seems to be working fine for me.

Its in the settings
Settings>Display>Pulse Notification Light

I'm also using Light Flow but for some reason it ignores my settings like "LED always on".
It just keeps blinking
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If you are using Lightflow make sure you also turn on the notification listener for it.

Yeah, LIghtFlow looks promising.
I did notice at one point it kept flashing the LED even after i had cleared the notification though. However I read somewhere on here a message by the developer of the app, who said he is busy working on a new version for the nexus 5 which may even be out this week.
Think it included additional fixes LED staying on constantly and better support for the Hangouts app. Looks good.

Stal said:
Yeah, LIghtFlow looks promising.
I did notice at one point it kept flashing the LED even after i had cleared the notification though. However I read somewhere on here a message by the developer of the app, who said he is busy working on a new version for the nexus 5 which may even be out this week.
Think it included additional fixes LED staying on constantly and better support for the Hangouts app. Looks good.
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Where did you read this? What is his username? Sounds good!

With the LED option enabled in the default settings, I was able to get a notification pulse for getting an email in my gmail primary folder. It takes about 10 seconds in between pulses.

I just received my replacement phone after the first one has speaker issues and now the LED will not work at all on this way.
I've tried light flow etc with the same settings that worked on the old phone and nothing. Thinking of just getting a refund now...

Someone please tell me: Will the LED notification work WITHOUT a third party app installed?
I too can not see any lit notifications at all. Settings are correct, "pulse notification" on, nothing... no notifications on text, email, missed call, nothing.
If an outside app is needed for the light to work, that is the most absurd thing ever...

lite flow is still VERY buggy on the N5 despite his latest update saying "N5 support"
only works sometimes for email and almost never for hangouts. Plus you cant have a different color for MMS in hangouts.
Even with "run in foreground" enabled it still doesn't work reliably

What kind of colors are guys seeing? I'm using Light Flow Lite for now and when I do the all enabled LED Test, it cycles through:
orange
teal
red
green
blue
and then back to orange.
I thought I saw others getting other colors like yellow, purple, and white to name a few. Is it because I have the free version and/or maybe issues with 4.4?

Only works for me when I have an unread message on whatsapp.
Hangouts and emails and also missed calls don't switch the led light on my nexus 5 which I do find so strange
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Mine only work now with using light flow. Don't get why. But at least it works.
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Stock LED settings are horrible, however, I installed lightflow and noticed a SMS message sent to a 4 digit # right after (light flow was the only app with access to those permissions and the text was sent at the time it was installed). No thanks.
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Buffalo66 said:
Someone please tell me: Will the LED notification work WITHOUT a third party app installed?
I too can not see any lit notifications at all. Settings are correct, "pulse notification" on, nothing... no notifications on text, email, missed call, nothing.
If an outside app is needed for the light to work, that is the most absurd thing ever...
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It does work though you need to check if it's activated in
Settings > Display > LED thingy (don't have english settings).
Lightflow does give you more control. Also it seems the N5 can't have the LED always on, only blinking mode
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Am I the only one that doesnt see the display settings anywhere?
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Never mind. I'm a dumbass
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Patt_E said:
It does work though you need to check if it's activated in
Settings > Display > LED thingy (don't have english settings).
Lightflow does give you more control. Also it seems the N5 can't have the LED always on, only blinking mode
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Thanks yes I did have the settings checked properly. Light did not work. Installed Light Flow, made sure everything was set right, still did not work even on test mode. Oh well guess it's defective. I've had enough annoyances with this device, it's going back...

No LED indicator for missed calls

Apparently there is no blinking LED indicator for missed calls, i.e., you have to wake up the device to check for missed calls. I guess we can't be too picky at this price point, but does anyone know of a 3rd party app that would provide notification?

rmc69 said:
Apparently there is no blinking LED indicator for missed calls, i.e., you have to wake up the device to check for missed calls. I guess we can't be too picky at this price point, but does anyone know of a 3rd party app that would provide notification?
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Not surprising actually, since the same situation holds for google phones like the Nexus 4 and 5 for example.
Try the excellent Led Blinkerapp which allows to configure the LED for various events including missed calls. The developer has an app thread here on xda.
The app allows you to even configure the LED light blink rate (or can set it to continuous). Please try and post back if this feature works on this phone!

sordna said:
Not surprising actually, since the same situation holds for google phones like the Nexus 4 and 5 for example.
Try the excellent Led Blinkerapp which allows to configure the LED for various events including missed calls. The developer has an app thread here on xda.
The app allows you to even configure the LED light blink rate (or can set it to continuous). Please try and post back if this feature works on this phone!
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Actually both the nexus 4 and the nexus 5 have colored led's that can be set using lightflow. I never really used it as much as I should.

Thanks guys. I installed the lite version of LED Blinker and it actually worked! It apparently uses it's own blinking light on the center bottom of the screen which is ok. So, this is at least a solution for the Idol 3 until something better comes along. By the way, "Missed Call Reminder" didn't work. "NoLed" did work, but I didn't like it.

Re you saying LED Blinker uses the home button in the nav bar for the blinker? If so that's pretty cool. I may have to try it.

Actually, I think it's right above the home button if I recall. Give it a try.

Lightflow not working properly

Hello
Using Lightflow I tried to set some custom notifications for stuff like texts, missed calls, skype, steam. I ran into some trouble. Some of these notifications dont work at all, there is no sound that i set in the app, others work inconsistently.
For example, I set Lightflow to repeat a notification sound and a vibration every 5 seconds for an unread skype message. It pretty much never sticks to the 5 second interval, sometimes it just plays the sound once when the message arrives and goes silent after, sometimes it repeats the notification sound, but not within 5 seconds of the one before, sometimes the sounds appears like 2 or 3 times in correct interval and then it goes silent. Vibrations don't work properly too, theyre either not there or behave like the sound, plus theyre much shorter than i set up in the app (i set them to long). Any idea what might be causing this? is it just an issue with the app being incompatible with the system?

trager said:
Hello
Using Lightflow I tried to set some custom notifications for stuff like texts, missed calls, skype, steam. I ran into some trouble. Some of these notifications dont work at all, there is no sound that i set in the app, others work inconsistently.
For example, I set Lightflow to repeat a notification sound and a vibration every 5 seconds for an unread skype message. It pretty much never sticks to the 5 second interval, sometimes it just plays the sound once when the message arrives and goes silent after, sometimes it repeats the notification sound, but not within 5 seconds of the one before, sometimes the sounds appears like 2 or 3 times in correct interval and then it goes silent. Vibrations don't work properly too, theyre either not there or behave like the sound, plus theyre much shorter than i set up in the app (i set them to long). Any idea what might be causing this? is it just an issue with the app being incompatible with the system?
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Yes, indeed, it did not work properly.
NXT-L29C900B180
I use Light Manager Pro, is perfect.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanagerpro&hl=hu

Got another question about the led. My phones diode is really small and kind of dim, it displays lots of colours incorrectly and not showing others at all. Is it normal with all mate 8 devices or am i the only one? Sorry if its a noob question, got the phone recently, trying to make sure its alright

trager said:
Got another question about the led. My phones diode is really small and kind of dim, it displays lots of colours incorrectly and not showing others at all. Is it normal with all mate 8 devices or am i the only one? Sorry if its a noob question, got the phone recently, trying to make sure its alright
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Read the threads! It's normal :good:

perna_hungarian said:
Yes, indeed, it did not work properly.
NXT-L29C900B180
I use Light Manager Pro, is perfect.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanagerpro&hl=hu
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do the repeating notifications in that app work correctly? I've been having repeating notification problems on and off with other apps.
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tdamocles said:
do the repeating notifications in that app work correctly? I've been having repeating notification problems on and off with other apps.
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Yes, although (almost) all colors are borked alternating colors do work.
Finding a nice set of colors I found very irritating (using trial and error) and because of the higher battery drain this app is gone from the phone though

Pfeffernuss said:
Yes, although (almost) all colors are borked alternating colors do work.
Finding a nice set of colors I found very irritating (using trial and error) and because of the higher battery drain this app is gone from the phone though
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I was actually talking sounds... I see now that it has no sound notifications, only lightflow has the sounds.
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LED, where is it?

can't find the LED notification light. it won't come on while charging or anything... is there a setting for this? the only setting i find is for pulsing, but that won't do much good if the thing doesn't even come on. is there a setting i'm missing?

VR32 said:
can't find the LED notification light. it won't come on while charging or anything... is there a setting for this? the only setting i find is for pulsing, but that won't do much good if the thing doesn't even come on. is there a setting i'm missing?
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Settings > Notifications > Gear Icon > Pulse notification light.
I think the default setting is on. The blue color (which I think is default) is harder to see than other colors, at least for me. I was able to see it better when changing it to red or green for a given app.
That being said, the fourth small bug which I've noticed is (at least for the few apps I've tried) if you disable sound for a given notification, neither ambient display nor the LED will work for that given notification. I'm unsure if that is intended behavior or not.

How do you change the colours for certain apps. I hoped the led would have been brighter and covered by the glass so it never needs cleaning.
Thanks.

Mcyates said:
How do you change the colours for certain apps. I hoped the led would have been brighter and covered by the glass so it never needs cleaning.
Thanks.
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It either has to be baked into the app or you'll have to use a third party app (which may or may not require root).

my pulse notification setting is on. i have an email, a text, and i'm charging and there is no LED anywhere to be found. is there another way to test it? maybe my unit is defective.

VR32 said:
my pulse notification setting is on. i have an email, a text, and i'm charging and there is no LED anywhere to be found. is there another way to test it? maybe my unit is defective.
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Are you looking VERY carefully at the left corner of the earpiece speaker grille (where the LED is located)? I thought mine was defective too until I saw how faint and small it was.

i have a text, on the charger, and i'm staring where you say but nothing. on chat support with google right now. i think mine may be defective but i'll know more in a few...

The LED is nothing special. It will flash for me every once and awhile if I have an Allo message, and if I don't read the message, it will flash as soon as I lock the phone - I did this several times just to get a good look at it. The LED is directly behind the cloth speaker cover in the earpiece. It looks like ****. You can easily identify each red, green, and blue LED when they are trying to display a white color. It doesn't even look white at a distance - you can easily see red, green, and blue. And if the phone is laying flat on a table, you can BARELY even see it. Surely it will not grab your attention unless the room is pitch black. Don't know if they thought it would be cool to do this, but it looks terrible imo.

i didn't finish the tech support chat cus i had to get back to work, but eventually the LED did show for an instant after i got an email.
it showed for an instant, and gone. i waited for it to show again and w/in 20 or 30 secs it did not show. this is what i call a useless feature. makes no sense. why is it even there?
there are so many things about this phone i don't get, and these are not bugs. i guess this is what happens when you smooth everything out for the mainstream or Apple crowd. i'm returning the phone. nice phone, but not for me at this price.

Lightflow does a good job enhancing the LED. Even without root, I now have a charging indicator and fully charged green LED. You can customize other apps too.
With the exception of having used the app for a long time, I do not know the dev, nor have any interest in his/her ventures.
I am linking the paid version as I am a strong beliver in supporting devs that turn out useful apps. There is a free version also.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow
Enjoy..
Edit: There is another app, called Light Manager, that I have previously tested. In the end, I found that Lightflow is the most flexible and useful for me.

snovvman said:
Lightflow does a good job enhancing the LED. Even without root, I now have a charging indicator and fully charged green LED. You can customize other apps too.
With the exception of having used the app for a long time, I do not know the dev, nor have any interest in his/her ventures.
I am linking the paid version as I am a strong beliver in supporting devs that turn out useful apps. There is a free version also.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow
Enjoy..
Edit: There is another app, called Light Manager, that I have previously tested. In the end, I found that Lightflow is the most flexible and useful for me.
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What do you like better about LightFlow out of curiosity? I have the paid version of LightFlow as well but find myself using Light Manager.
Thanks

RoccoN4 said:
What do you like better about LightFlow out of curiosity? I have the paid version of LightFlow as well but find myself using Light Manager.
Thanks
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Lightflow has more features. It takes more work/tweaking, but I can do more with it. For example, I use Lightflow to also control ringtones for some apps, as well as reminder tones. You can also control vibrate/volume characteristics. Light Manager does not offer that.

snovvman said:
Lightflow has more features. It takes more work/tweaking, but I can do more with it. For example, I use Lightflow to also control ringtones for some apps, as well as reminder tones. You can also control vibrate/volume characteristics. Light Manager does not offer that.
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May give it another try. if I remember correctly, I didn't like the persistent notification that is always there.

snovvman said:
Lightflow has more features. It takes more work/tweaking, but I can do more with it. For example, I use Lightflow to also control ringtones for some apps, as well as reminder tones. You can also control vibrate/volume characteristics. Light Manager does not offer that.
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I read somewhere that Lightflow was causing wakelocks on the Pixel and users didn't have the problem using Light Manager. Any confirmation on this?
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chrisinsocalif said:
I read somewhere that Lightflow was causing wakelocks on the Pixel and users didn't have the problem using Light Manager. Any confirmation on this?
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I am running LF on my PXL with no wakelock issues. Battery life is great.

I wish they would put the LED from the Galaxy nexus on the new phones. It had an awesome LED. Theres plenty of space for it on the button.

Been using LF for years. Great developer.

I use light manager pro myself. Just got the pixel yesterday