I had been a very satisfied user of Lightflow receiving tons of notfications a day, it was essential for me to look at my phone and based on the colored LED notifications I was able to tell if I have received anything important.
One day I had to factory reset the phone since it was just showing the blue LED with a black screen. Ever since that I am unable to make Lightflow or any other 3rd party LED solution to work. All I have is just the red LED charging light nothing else.
I have contacted the developer of Lightflow to help with the complicated settings but no luck.
It looks like something just blocks the 3rd party apps to access the LED.
I have looked into all the possible apps, that could use, hence block the LED such as Messenger, Whatsapp, Viber, Nine, even the stock apps such as Email, Skype etc and everywhere I have switched off the LED management. Deleted Galaxy Button Manager. Still no luck.
I am on 6.0.1. I know that there could be something in the settings, I just could not figure out what. When I restetted the phone it imported the settings from an old backup I guess.
Settings / Display / LED is of course ON. Could be the Notification Reminder? I have tried OFF and ON as well. I have tried everything in the last two days, including LED Blinker Pro with all the recommended settings, read the relevant forum topics, but no luck. :crying:
Would any of you have the same problem? An idea?
Would you share your phone / Lightflow settings with me?
Thanks
Consider this solved.
Since I had the factory reset the s6 the phone restored an old version of accessibility settings from an earlier saved settings saved in my Samsung account I had to factory reset the settings manually from the menu. This finally cleared something blocking the LED and voila everything is back to normal.
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Hoping for some assistance in solving an annoying problem. After updating my rooted XT926 to 4.1.2 last week, I have noticed strange behavior from the LED notification light. I have noticed this on 3rd party apps (such as Tweetcaster, Go SMS Pro, Enhanced Email) as well as stock apps (such as Gmail and the native SMS app). When I get a new text message, email, whatever, I will hear the notification sound but the LED does not activate. I have left it alone for as long as 30 minutes after hearing the notification sound, but no LED light. All the notification settings in each individual app are set as they should be. When I turn the screen on, the light will then blink once. While the screen is on the light will not blink (which I understand is normal), but as soon as I turn the screen off (as long as I didn't clear the notification) the LED will start blinking as it should.
The LED worked fine before the 4.1.2 update. I rooted using mattlgroff's utility, and used voodoo rootkeeper to protect root during the OTA. I have tried using Light Manager and Lite Flow; neither solved the issue. Using the test features in both these apps, I was able to get the LED to display each supported color, but it wouldn't work in "real life". I have factory reset the device twice, and I reinstalled all apps manually. I also tried the Motorola Notification Light Widget from the Play Store, with no luck. If unrooting would help in solving this issue, I would not be opposed to that as I was considering unrooting before taking the most recent update. But, I do not know of a way to unroot besides mattlgroff's utility, which apparently is not currently possible after the 4.1.2 update.
I would be very grateful if someone could shed some light on this issue. Thanks in advance!
UPDATE: After doing a full SBF and reformatting the SD card, I am still having this issue. Am I the only "lucky" one?
I tried Light Flow. Then I uninstalled it. Since then, I no longer receive LED light notifications at all. This, despite having the setting turned on . If I reinstall and use light flow all is well again. However, I prefer not to use it anymore.
I see some other people having issues with LED notifications on the Nexus 5.
Any ideas?
That's weird. Installing LiteFlow and then uninstalling it seemed to be the only way I could get all my notification lights to work.
froggydoddy said:
I tried Light Flow. Then I uninstalled it. Since then, I no longer receive LED light notifications at all. This, despite having the setting turned on . If I reinstall and use light flow all is well again. However, I prefer not to use it anymore.
I see some other people having issues with LED notifications on the Nexus 5.
Any ideas?
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Try deleting data in your sms and email apps, it worked for me.
Sent from my Nexus 5
Noticed a little while ago that some emails I was waiting for were sitting in Inbox (the app) all along. I've done some troubleshooting (reboot, clear cache, clear data, bouncing the notification settings in the app, bouncing sync).
In the end I uninstalled inbox and enabled gmail and went through all the above with that but no difference. Test emails, as well as genuine ones are all turning up immediately but I get no notification on the notification bar, led, no sound/vibrate etc.
I've tried in safe mode - same thing. I've turned priority mode on and off too.
Any ideas what I can try next? I did finally get the latest sony update a couple of days ago and I can't be certain this has worked properly since then (Inbox, which I quite like, is set to not notify me for the majority of emails i get.
Update: got home and tried a few other devices which were all fine, so not an account problem. Factory reset fixed it. Sweet.
Hi everyone.
My wife has an S8 and recently she has noticed that she hasn't been receiving notification on Facebook messenger.
Me thinking it was an easy problem to solve went into the phone setting clicked on notifications and found that the notifications for the app were all on how they should be.
Then I went into the app settings and checked there and everything was right.
Then I restarted the phone and it still wouldn't work.
Then I uninstalled and reinstalled the app and still no success
I even got my phone out an S7E and checked how the settings should look on mine and hers matched my settings.
All her other apps are working except this one.
Am I missing something here, because it doesn't make any sense why it's not working. I performed a stock flash on the device about a month ago to 3 software, so she could have wifi calling but I don't see how this could of affected this one app and none of the others.
If anyone has any suggestions here I am all ears because I am out of ideas.
Make sure that it's not being forced close by the S8's onboard memory manager... sometimes it shuts down apps and you won't get notifications. Double check in the battery settings (you can get there from settings or the swipe panel) to see if the Messenger app itself is active.
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Make sure that it's not being forced close by the S8's onboard memory manager... sometimes it shuts down apps and you won't get notifications. Double check in the battery settings (you can get there from settings or the swipe panel) to see if the Messenger app itself is active.
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Cool thank you for the reply, I will try it and keep you posted...but what setting am I looking for when I get to the battery settings.
Owenboy89 said:
Hi everyone.
My wife has an S8 and recently she has noticed that she hasn't been receiving notification on Facebook messenger.
Me thinking it was an easy problem to solve went into the phone setting clicked on notifications and found that the notifications for the app were all on how they should be.
Then I went into the app settings and checked there and everything was right.
Then I restarted the phone and it still wouldn't work.
Then I uninstalled and reinstalled the app and still no success
I even got my phone out an S7E and checked how the settings should look on mine and hers matched my settings.
All her other apps are working except this one.
Am I missing something here, because it doesn't make any sense why it's not working. I performed a stock flash on the device about a month ago to 3 software, so she could have wifi calling but I don't see how this could of affected this one app and none of the others.
If anyone has any suggestions here I am all ears because I am out of ideas.
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Hi people, I seem to have solved the problem.
I followed the suggestion and went to the battery setting. In those setting there was an option for unmonitored and monitored apps. When checking the list of apps that were in these setting everything was right, including the messenger app in unmonitered app section. I removed it from that list and didn't bother adding it back.
Tested.........and it worked....I even got other people to message her in different situtations and it worked and still works.....not added it back in to the list yet, as long as it keeps working I prob won't
I recently got my Xperia 5 II. While setting it up I imported my old apps and settings from my xperia XZ1 via the set up wizard (that automatically pops up). (Not sure if that has anything to do with it).
The problem is that the notification led doesn't work reliably. Sometimes it blinks, sometime it doesn't. I'm not even sure if it's caused by certain apps or not. Most of the time gmail notifications don't make it blink but sometimes it does. Whatsapp never blinks, although it should accodtring to the settings.
Obviously the notification settings have the led enabled both in system settings and each app. I even tried deleting and reinstalling some of the apps. For gmail the notification led worked once after a new install but afterwards never again.
My last hope was to add it to the exceptions of the battery management, so it doesn't get killed, but that didn't help either.
What's going on? Is this a common bug? Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?