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Notification LED

Does anyone actually use it? I've had nothing but problems with it. The CM notification manager works for maybe 1-2 notifications and it stops working. Lightflow tends to be the same way unless I restart the app. I loved my notification LED on my nexus. Anyone have any solutions?

XfrostX said:
Does anyone actually use it? I've had nothing but problems with it. The CM notification manager works for maybe 1-2 notifications and it stops working. Lightflow tends to be the same way unless I restart the app. I loved my notification LED on my nexus. Anyone have any solutions?
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I'm running synergy and use it all the time, mainly for text messages, that way i can just look my phone and know if i have a text or not

I find it to be helpful, and use it. Running stock still, works flawlessly.

Works fine, other then GO SMS doesn't blink. Lightflow sucks, ate my battery up when it shouldn't be doing it. I would not have gotten this phone if their wasn't a LED, never would know I was called/texted.

Elite49 said:
Works fine, other then GO SMS doesn't blink. Lightflow sucks, ate my battery up when it shouldn't be doing it. I would not have gotten this phone if their wasn't a LED, never would know I was called/texted.
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Everything works for me, even Go Sms, when using Light Flow. The dev officially got the ins and outs working awhile back and I can modify my colors and see notifications for all my important apps. I've been using that app (full version) for a few weeks and I haven't had any battery issues with Light Flow.
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Nwver heard of lightflow before, definitely gonna look into it.

Me too, will check that out now. :thumbup:
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lightflow caused battery issues for me
for about 2 weeks, my phone would not go to sleep as it would always be in partial wakelock.
i used betterbatterystats to get an idea of what was going on, and it pointed out that "alarm manager" was causing the partial wakelock. when i checked out the alarms, lightflow had significantly more alarms running to cause the partial wakelock.
i uninstalled lightflow, and immediately my battery life improved. the difference was huge.
but that was my experience. some people don't have issues with light flow, so give it a try and see how/if it affects you

I had entirely forgotten about lightflow. Used it on my Droid X. But never on my Bionic. Totally forgot I even paid for this app. Thanks for the reminder. Works great. GoSMS by default would mess up the LED color everytime. This makes em proper. Good call. Thanks to you
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Light flow was working great for me for a few days last week when I first got it, but since yesterday, it's been keeping my phone awake the entire time and was killing my battery so I uninstalled it. My phone is sleeping normal again. I've just reinstalled it again to see if it'll work normal like before.
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Anyone one of you on AOSP? For those on a touchwiz ROM, what settings are you using for light flow to make it work so flawlessly?
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overcastfab said:
for about 2 weeks, my phone would not go to sleep as it would always be in partial wakelock.
i used betterbatterystats to get an idea of what was going on, and it pointed out that "alarm manager" was causing the partial wakelock. when i checked out the alarms, lightflow had significantly more alarms running to cause the partial wakelock.
i uninstalled lightflow, and immediately my battery life improved. the difference was huge.
but that was my experience. some people don't have issues with light flow, so give it a try and see how/if it affects you
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Legato Bluesummers said:
I had entirely forgotten about lightflow. Used it on my Droid X. But never on my Bionic. Totally forgot I even paid for this app. Thanks for the reminder. Works great. GoSMS by default would mess up the LED color everytime. This makes em proper. Good call. Thanks to you
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WillEat4F00d said:
Light flow was working great for me for a few days last week when I first got it, but since yesterday, it's been keeping my phone awake the entire time and was killing my battery so I uninstalled it. My phone is sleeping normal again. I've just reinstalled it again to see if it'll work normal like before.
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Yea, I've heard those issues as well. I was worried about that going into purchasing the app. I'm not sure if it helps but I have Light Flow set for night hours from 12a-7a so might that impact it in keeping my phone asleep? Just a a question I have for those who have tried and noticed battery drain overnight.
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XfrostX said:
Anyone one of you on AOSP? For those on a touchwiz ROM, what settings are you using for light flow to make it work so flawlessly?
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Nah, not me I'm on Cleanrom. Haven't tested AOSP yet. Have you tried the same settings from when you used the app on Touchwiz? What's the issue?
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light flow looks to work work every time i install it and set it up. but a few hours later there is always lots of problems.
hopefully some day all the kinks are worked out of it...then i'll buy it. but for now it causes too many issues.

Blue6IX said:
I find it to be helpful, and use it. Running stock still, works flawlessly.
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Ditto.
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[Q] Nexus S and NoLED

On locking the Nexus S screen, it goes to sleep and thus NoLED notifications are not visible at all. On pressing the power button, the screen comes on into the NoLED Notifications screen and I can see the NoLED notifications. However, I'd like the notifications to be visible without needing to press any button. The NoLED FAQ mentions nothing regarding this.
It would be great if someone could give me an idiot's step by step on setting up NoLED correctly on the Nexus S.

I never liked noled because it always worked other than the way it was intended to. My screen would turn on to the lock screen and then go to the led notification. It's also a battery drain. Anyway, I think it might just be the app or a settings conflict.
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Don't think many people use NoLED on a Nexus S with BLN available. Big battery drain for nothing. *shrugs*
Edit: You do need a custom kernel though.

I haven't used NoLED, but you can get that functionality with CM10 stable. You can use the four buttons as notification led. When the screen is off and you get new notifications, they light up. I disabled it because I don't like being distracted, but it works very smoothly. You would need to root and go away from stock, but I think that's great for more reasons than just this one.

Yeah, BLN. Good stuff.
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This is more of a "why" it happens question than anything else

Good evening/morning/afternoon/ beer o'clock to everyone,
So I like many users have been affected by the notification light not blinking for notifications. It worked for maybe half a day from what I can remember.
it was advised to install light manager or light flow and that seems to have fixed it . Why do we need a third party app to fix something like this though? Pulse notification is enabled in the settings too.
Edit: might have spoken too soon. Hangouts still appears to not notify me with the led.
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eddies92 said:
Good evening/morning/afternoon/ beer o'clock to everyone,
So I like many users have been affected by the notification light not blinking for notifications. It worked for maybe half a day from what I can remember.
it was advised to install light manager or light flow and that seems to have fixed it . Why do we need a third party app to fix something like this though? Pulse notification is enabled in the settings too.
Edit: might have spoken too soon. Hangouts still appears to not notify me with the led.
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Honestly, I'd give it a few weeks. This release was clearly rushed out. There are a lot of bugs and app crashes. Many of the third-party app developers will start updating since they also just got 4.4 in their hands.

Yeah its solved for now. I was just a bit taken back that a phone of this caliber with such a revered update would have such a trivial bug.
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[Q] Is light flow killing your battery?

This is a simple Q&A to see if you use light flow and sustain battery shortages on your delightful nexus 5?
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TechMennis said:
This is a simple Q&A to see if you use light flow and sustain battery shortages on your delightful nexus 5?
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It doesn`t kill my battery and i use it for years now.

Use Ledblinker. It doesn't kill any battery. I get 2% drop overnight
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Used LF for a few years now and I have no issues with battery drain

No problems here. Used LF since my Galaxy Nexus.

I suppose it's all down to what you've used the app to do. All I've done is set up some LED colours for certain apps. I've not used the sound preferences, I've not changed how often it flashes or the speed of the flashes so I'm using the app in a very basic setup. The more you have the app doing, the more it'll use battery

No.
In contrast to above I use it to control nearly all my notifications, LED colours and flash frequencies. No drain.
There is a lightflow discussion thread here which the developer checks.
Set up the app as per developer's website. If you (still) have actual drain, try to get a logcat plus BBS showing wakelocks. He is pretty responsive to these things

Red notification light on the nexus 5

I suddenly got a red notification light on my device with out anything doing in my device any answer to this?
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Low battery perhaps?
(Do you have lightflow or another such app that controls LED notifications?)

My battery is still 45% at that time
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superjelly31 said:
I suddenly got a red notification light on my device with out anything doing in my device any answer to this?
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Was your phone around any type of moisture? Or did it get wet somehow? I've read in some of the water damage threads that some people experience the red flashing notification light after it's been damaged from water.

No i dont think it got wet it was on top of a table and the room was cool and dry
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Restart and see if it come back.
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It was only there for a while but when i unlocked my screen it was gone i haven't rebooted my phone
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Some apps use a red notification LED by default. I know my fiancee uses the SportsCenter app and it pulses the LED red when there's a notification.

i see the same happen on my G2, usually when i pull into my driveway and i connect to my wifi

I'm a relatively new nexus 5 user and am sometimes confused by what the color leds correspond to. Is there a tool that will indicate which app sends which color led signal?

I know Push Bullet gives me green notifications. I'm stock as well.

I think i found the problem its my zynga poker app that gets a red notification light
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Anderson2 said:
I'm a relatively new nexus 5 user and am sometimes confused by what the color leds correspond to. Is there a tool that will indicate which app sends which color led signal?
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Are you rooted,if so what custom ROM.Majority let you change led to your liking.I hope that helps
Sorry I meant to suggest a very stable build by team omni which let's you adjust led light.try it and have fun

habitformer said:
Are you rooted,if so what custom ROM.Majority let you change led to your liking.I hope that helps
Sorry I meant to suggest a very stable build by team omni which let's you adjust led light.try it and have fun
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I am rooted but using stock rom.
Various apps utilize led notifications but it is hard after a while to remember which color corresponds to which app. I thought there might be a tool, not to modify them but just to list which app sends which color. But I guess not.
Thanks.

Anderson2 said:
I am rooted but using stock rom.
Various apps utilize led notifications but it is hard after a while to remember which color corresponds to which app. I thought there might be a tool, not to modify them but just to list which app sends which color. But I guess not.
Thanks.
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If I remember correctly, the LED light does flash red when the phone is charging, I myself downloaded Light Flow, which allows you to manage all aspects of the LED light, I like it much better than not having control over it . But like you said you did nothing, so must be just an app you have.

I wonder if an app that monitored the logcat could deduce who the heck triggered the light so you could at least find out what app was responsible?

Claghorn said:
I wonder if an app that monitored the logcat could deduce who the heck triggered the light so you could at least find out what app was responsible?
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You can go to settings-apps.Check to see what is currently running. What kind of apps do you have that run all the time?