Sorry if this has been asked/answered, but... I'm currently running Deviant Xone 4.2.2. rom and while the rom rocks, the one thing that I found unpleasing, at least IMO, is that the LED notification light when a mms or whatever (gmail, email, etc...) is received shuts off after the screen has either been turned on and then off or if the screen is one when the message is initially received. Sounds petty I know, but it's mildly irritating.
So I attempted to download Light Flow and Light Manager thru the playstore. Light manager did not want to play with this rom what-so-ever. And while Light flow did initially work, it only would work for the battery light (i.e. if the phone was charging) I allowed access thru the accessibility setting and granted root access. I can not get the app to flash the LED light when a notification is received though.
In the rom settings I have the battery light enabled and the notification light enabled, custom values not checked off. And I've tried these setting in every combination I could think of with no success other than the battery light.
Sorry for rambling and if any has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated!!
cas239 said:
Sorry if this has been asked/answered, but... I'm currently running Deviant Xone 4.2.2. rom and while the rom rocks, the one thing that I found unpleasing, at least IMO, is that the LED notification light when a mms or whatever (gmail, email, etc...) is received shuts off after the screen has either been turned on and then off or if the screen is one when the message is initially received. Sounds petty I know, but it's mildly irritating.
So I attempted to download Light Flow and Light Manager thru the playstore. Light manager did not want to play with this rom what-so-ever. And while Light flow did initially work, it only would work for the battery light (i.e. if the phone was charging) I allowed access thru the accessibility setting and granted root access. I can not get the app to flash the LED light when a notification is received though.
In the rom settings I have the battery light enabled and the notification light enabled, custom values not checked off. And I've tried these setting in every combination I could think of with no success other than the battery light.
Sorry for rambling and if any has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated!!
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I have Lightflow working for notifications (I used it on Deviant, now I'm on Liquid). There is probably one small option that is or isn't ticked that's preventing it from working for you. let's start with sms/mms. what app do you use for messaging and what settings do you have enabled through lightflow for each?
Thank You for the response! I actually got it to work, I uninstalled and re-installed and redid all the the setting checks/unchecks. Probable a user error on my part the first time around. Thanks again
I remember some custom ROMs allows us to adjust the strength of vibration especially when we receive notifications.
Is there any way to do this for our JB stock ROMs?
SMS wakes me up at night...
The only way I know how is a third party app like LightFlow. This option might not be available in the 'lite' version, I can't remember...
I doubt that you can change the strength, just the duration. The phone vibrates by spinning a motor with an off balance weight attached to it. Unless there are two motors with different weights (never seen a phone with more than one,) you can't change how hard the phone vibrates.
Why not use a program like Tasker or Locale to turn off vibrate after you go to bed? You can get very granular with it, for example you can set it to silence SMS notifications when you're at home between certain hours on certain days of the week.
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I doubt that you can change the strength, just the duration. The phone vibrates by spinning a motor with an off balance weight attached to it. Unless there are two motors with different weights (never seen a phone with more than one,) you can't change how hard the phone vibrates.
Why not use a program like Tasker or Locale to turn off vibrate after you go to bed? You can get very granular with it, for example you can set it to silence SMS notifications when you're at home between certain hours on certain days of the week.
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Couldn't tweaking voltage applied to vibrator make it spin faster or slower wich would in turn change vibration strength? Just a thought (which would probably require a change in the kernel)
Hi everybody,
got a brand new Nexus 5 from thuesday and so far I'm happy with it... There's just a thing that makes me angry; it seems to me that the notification LED is not working properly, or maybe I did not understand which are the roles which determine WHEN it should light or not.
Example: I set in Whatsapp configuration that notifications should use the LED (in particular, I also set the green color for these notifications).
Sometimes Whatsapp messages leads to a blinking led (when the screen is dark, so, in standby). This is what I expected to see everytime there's an unread Whatsapp message.
But... it happens sometimes that a received, unread whatsapp message doesn't trigger any LED activity.
Just 20 mins ago, I heard from my Nexus 5 a notification sound (an incoming Whatsapp message)... but no led activity at all.
Few mins ago I received another Whatsapp message, and this time I heard the sound and can see the green led blinking.
So... It's possible I didn't understand the correct behaviour of these LED notifications... or maybe it's a known bug and others have noticed the same issue.
Does anyone found a similar behaviour ? It seems to me it's a matter of software, because *when* the LED blinks, it blinks without any defect.
Thanks
I'm having the opposite issue from you. Sometimes the Notification LED gets stuck blinking, even after all notifications on my phone have been cleared.
This is happening on my phone, as well as the two others I purchased.
Mine seems fine so far
No issues here either. I have Handscent controlling the LED for SMS/MMS. And I let Android decide what to do for Gmail and Exchange LEDs. If you want full control you can probably download one of the LED apps and let that control all your LED settings for each app.
I'm having the same issue. Sometimes the notification light decides not to blink... I have no idea why this happens though. Just wanted to chime in that you're not alone.
Get light flow, the LED is a lot more useful with that app.
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I'm rooted and using light flow and after I've turned it on, read the notification and then switched it off I also sometimes get the light blink continuously until I open up light flow and it's again obtained root access. On the N4 it just requested root at startup and then never had to again but doesn't seem to till I've opened the app on the N5. Maybe it's a 4.4 bug.
No LED earlier when i received a Tapatalk notification. I don't know if that's the phone or the app at fault? Otherwise i seem to get LED notification in most cases.
Okie, so it seems that notification issues are quite common... I'm tempted to buy light flow just to verify it's not an hardware fault which requires RMA.... (I'm actually for the software fault ...which isn't tracked yet)
KaylordTheuZ said:
Okie, so it seems that notification issues are quite common... I'm tempted to buy light flow just to verify it's not an hardware fault which requires RMA.... (I'm actually for the software fault ...which isn't tracked yet)
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Lightflow works perfectly for me.
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I can confirm ^. Just got the paid version of Light Flow, works like a charm so far. Lets you change LED colours. Really awesome app. SO far i tested it for missed call(red blink)/hangout MMS(purple)/gmail e-mail and hotmail e-mail (green). Its been working flawlessly so far. The stock LED function did work for my hangout text messages, however it would not work my my e-mail. With light flow everything is working perfectly now + the extra functionality that it comes with.
LightFlow is definitely a worthwhile investment. The developer is quite active on XDA as well, and is quick to reply to any feedback. The app works as advertised (had it for my N4 and now N5) and provides great functionality. For me, the LED notification was a key selling feature. I hated having to turn the screen on my previous phones to see if I even had any notifications, but now I can glance at my phone and know if I have a text, e-mail, missed call, etc. So having absolute control over the LED is awesome.
For my N5 I have had some occasions when the LED would act a bit on its own, whether it would pulse white for a second or two randomly, or not turn on when it was supposed to. It's rare when it happens and is really a non-issue. Where I haven't had much success, though, is testing the LED when I'm setting up notifications in LightFlow. Doing LED tests in LightFlow doesn't seem to work for some reason. Not sure if I'm the only one experiencing this or not.
Is there any specific configuration setting for lightflow on Nexus5 or it should work out of the box?
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Is there any specific configuration setting for lightflow on Nexus5 or it should work out of the box?
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Should work straight out of the box Although it may involve some playing around, and also make sure notifications in the apps themselves are turned off or you'll essentially have two going off at once (one for the app, one for LightFlow).
The dev just posted a helpful link that I used to get testing the LED to work, and also would help configure LightFlow for your N5 too:
http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/2349
I'm not rooted but I remembered using an app called missed call with the og droid and it works perfectly on the nexus 5. Free too!
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Hi everybody,
got a brand new Nexus 5 from thuesday and so far I'm happy with it... There's just a thing that makes me angry; it seems to me that the notification LED is not working properly, or maybe I did not understand which are the roles which determine WHEN it should light or not.
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I'm a noobi. I just received my Nexus 5 yesterday evening. When the phone goes into SLEEP mode, whether flip cover closed or just after a while in idle, the notification light keeps blinking, Is this normal? Does LightFlow have a setting to not blink when in SLEEP mode?
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Notification Light in Sleep Mode
KaylordTheuZ said:
Hi everybody,
got a brand new Nexus 5 from thuesday and so far I'm happy with it... There's just a thing that makes me angry; it seems to me that the notification LED is not working properly, or maybe I did not understand which are the roles which determine WHEN it should light or not.
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I'm a noobi. I just received my Nexus 5 yesterday evening. When the phone goes into SLEEP mode, whether flip cover closed or just after a while in idle, the notification light keeps blinking, Is this normal? Does LightFlow have a setting to not blink when in SLEEP mode?
Actually I use the Light Manager https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanager this app have sleep (night) mode, use only 15-20MB.
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Notification Light in Sleep Mode
BillyL said:
I'm a noobi. I just received my Nexus 5 yesterday evening. When the phone goes into SLEEP mode, whether flip cover closed or just after a while in idle, the notification light keeps blinking, Is this normal? Does LightFlow have a setting to not blink when in SLEEP mode?
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I installed LightFlow and tried to stop the blinking light in sleep mode. I enabled LightFlow and enabled sleep settings and checked the box for Stop the notification light when sleeping. The notification light still blinks when the NFC tag is triggered or when the phone times out for sleep. Please advise.
My setup is Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini with the latest official CM12 nightly. I'm otherwise very happy with my phone but because there is no notification LED on my phone model, I hate the fact that I have to constantly turn screen on to check if there are any notifications (I mostly get Whatsapp messages, Facebook Messenger messages and calls).
What's the best app for getting reminders of these unread notifications without having to turn on the screen? I would be happy with an app that would beep or even vibrate every 2-5 minutes to remind that there is a new notification. Apparently there might also be apps that use the screen when there is no LED on the phone, but I wouldn't want to sacrifice too much of the battery life of my phone.
I know these types of reminder features come as part of ROMs but my phone doesn't seem to have them.
Please help me!
Found the perfect app. LED Blinker (paid version). Does what I needed and more. I could've also used Tasker (which I do own), but I need something I can quickly and easily modify.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n26hxz8bm2dvb92/2015-10-15 15.45.16.mp4?dl=0
The above video shows how my Galaxy Note 4 (SM-N910G, 5.0.1, unrooted, original) has for the last 2 months or so occasionally played an alert (audible only), which cannot be stopped.
No notification or other indication shows what app or service causes this alert, it is NOT happening at times that
a calendar or such should trigger but happens out of the blue.
I have tried stopping each and every APP, (terninate from 'usage timelines pro')
It is even impossible to turn of the sound (from the sound icon in the notification/settings), it just goes on,
The only remedy I have found is to restart the phone.
Does anyone here recognize this sound and can tell me what causes this?
Phone details on:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5lgy0ddrmzdohr3/2015-10-15 15.58.24.png?dl=0
It sounds like the timer expiration notice. Check in your clock app.
Yes it does, but I have no timer alerts set. Is there any way another app can set such timer alerts? Next time this happens (it's infrequent, thnank god, but when it happens it does so at themost inconvenient times , I'll check the clock app... Thanks.
Other suggestions still welcoms