I've just got this device 3 days ago~ And i noticed that my led notification light hasnt been consistent or light up at all unless i use Light Flow but even with Light Flow its still inconsistent. I'm on stock KitKat 4.4.4 never rooted etc. Pulse notification led is on.
Without lightflow it just doesn't light up at all for applications like whatsapp,wechat,games(Does the led light up for games too?). Whenever i receive a phone calls however it lights up white for a split second and then it turn itself off.. If i don't pick it up, it doesn't light up to show me that i have a missed call either, but when i turn the screen on, it lights up for a split second and then turn itself off again.
Using lightflow , i haven't get to try it with whatsapp yet but for charging and phone calls it works great but for wechat it only works if i have the screen on. If the screen is off nothing lights up and when i turn on the screen by pressing the power button and then put it to sleep again it works. I have the run in foreground on,Reduce wake on(not sure if i need that), and Nexus 5 force LED Reset.
Also since i'm already here, how long does it takes for google to fix the lollipop if at all? Should i update it to see if the led works on lollipop? Does OTA update introduce problems and bugs? Sorry if my questions are too long and my english is bad.
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This adds simultaneous handling of notifications to the Speaker LED while charging, on CM6.1.
Behavior:
If it is plugged in, the light will stay solid (charging). If a notification comes in with the screen off, it will blink green. If you turn on the screen, the charging light will come on. If you don’t acknowledge the notification, when the screen turns off it will blink green again.
When it is not plugged in, notifications will blink green only when the screen is off.
http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/?p=1301
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This adds simultaneous handling of notifications to the Speaker LED while charging.
Behavior:
If it is plugged in, the light will stay solid (charging). If a notification comes in with the screen off, it will blink green. If you turn on the screen, the charging light will come on. If you don’t acknowledge the notification, when the screen turns off it will blink green again.
When it is not plugged in, notifications will blink green only when the screen is off.
http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/?p=1301
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So it works for the G1 and the G2? Thats interesting.
Now that I am not on Cm6.1 and rather on the official 2.2 AOSP this could be useful, thanks.
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So it works for the G1 and the G2?
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this is for the g1.
i have a seperate module for the g2 (in the g2 section).
Ineresting. I was always upset that I'm not able to notice any notification while charging phone, maybe now the problem is over .
excuse me does not work, the LED notifications for sms,mms,twitter and missed call. I'm not talking about when it is charging but during normal use.
It works for email. Twitter has their own handling and so does sms/mms. Missed call should also come through (which has not changed).
Missed called led notify should be on for missed call.
However, in earlier versions of Froyo (2.2) the led notifications worked . Because now they do not work
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However, in earlier versions of Froyo (2.2) the led notifications worked . Because now they do not work
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ill see if i can look in to it. that's out of the scope of this particular mod though, but any amendments i make that stem out of this module will be committed to the same git place and posted here.
It's kinda like Always Flash in the market. I'll give it a try and see if it uses less ram.
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Hey guys,
First off: I used the N5 "as is" for few days. I've set up all the notifications with light flow, and as expected: screen off, event happens (E.g. a received mail), led starts flashing with the expected color. All good.
Then today I unlocked and rooted the N5 with chainfire's auto root.
Now the led won't flash as expected.
I set light flow up and when I use light flow's test option, everything works just fine, but when the screen is off, notifications don't trigger the led... Email comes no led....
I don't know what to do....
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I don't know what to do....
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Contact the developer of lightflow (from the play store) - very responsive guy
Same here, rooted with CF-Auto-Root and notification LED seems to fail color and it blinks in a weird way.
After rooting (I did it right away so can't really say it worked right before) but lightflow didn't run any of the colors during the test, and even before I tried setting up lightflow, I think I've only seen the led 3 times (only in white)
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Light Flow just pushed a new update with N5 and 4.4 compatibility. Check it out.
Well after a little messing around it seems to work now. I've uninstalled LF, reinstalled, checked every option in the settings and so on, but I think the update did the trick.
Only glitch I have left is: I've set LF to cycle all notifications, if many notifications are active at once (or when I'm in test all mode) it happens often, that color_1 lights up and dimms down, (normally color_2 should now light up and dimm down but:=> ) color_1 lights up and swaps instantly to color_2. And so on. Any solution for that?
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)
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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!
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?
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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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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 proximity sensor has been acting up since the 4.3 OTA update, my screen stays black after calls, sometimes after screen time outs and I normally have to wait awhile before it'll turn back on, The infra red light for the proxy sensor stays on as well, it used to just blink occasionally. and yes I can see the infra red light, first sensor to the right of the speaker, for those of you who cant see it try looking at it with a camera and it'll become visible. since this seems to control my screen even while not making a call I need to disable it or calibrate it, I have already disabled it at phone, call settings, turn off screen during calls.
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my proximity sensor has been acting up since the 4.3 OTA update, my screen stays black after calls, sometimes after screen time outs and I normally have to wait awhile before it'll turn back on, The infra red light for the proxy sensor stays on as well, it used to just blink occasionally. and yes I can see the infra red light, first sensor to the right of the speaker, for those of you who cant see it try looking at it with a camera and it'll become visible. since this seems to control my screen even while not making a call I need to disable it or calibrate it, I have already disabled it at phone, call settings, turn off screen during calls.
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The option has been removed from 4.3 OTA, there's no way to calibrate them. Also none of the third part apps are compatible with this. :crying:
I have this problem: I use AcDisplay as lockscreen since I bought my M2 (like 2 week ago), and I have activated the option of "Active lockscreen" (automatically turn on the screen when I take my cell of my pocket). Everything was fine until last night, when I took my cellphone out of my pocket while the screen was off and I discover that it was some kind of red light next to the LED notification light of the phone. I tried rebooting the cell twice but the problem persisted. The only way I found to solve it was to turn off the option of "Active lockscreen" of AcDisplay, but I think it was something very useful and I want to have it back (without the red light of course).
Do you know how to solve this?
The red light you saw was proximity sensor. AcDisplay use proximity to make active lock screen works. So, it's normal.