Some people are trying to use Light flow to enable the LED for custom notifications, heres how to :
In order to get this working as far as I have tested you need the following :
1. Root
2. The Paid Version of Lightflow - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow&hl=en_GB
3. Enable the LED in Sound & Notification settings
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Jump into Light flows general settings and enable :
Show LED in priority mode
Accessibility check
Enable Clear All - Optional
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Next into Device settings and root in light flow and enable :
Root Mode
Run every command as root
Show LED while screen on - Optional
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You can now set up custom Flashes based on triggers as normal
Working :
Flashing Light
Solid Light
Red
Blue
Green
White
Yellow
I have not tested this without root or the lite version - if you manage to do so PM me and i'll update the thread
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It works without root. I've been using Light Manager and that works too.
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I have no root, but paid version and I can't seem to alter the style as in pulse or single flash etc,
I have a issue when my screen is off I I'm getting a constant blue blinking LED,yet in the app it says no active notifications,I've disabled all notifications in the app but its still doing it ,any ideas how to fix please ,I have had to knock off notifications light in settings but that stops them all coming through
Facebook or other apps...
I use LF wiith Sony XP z3c rooted, but did so with it (paid ver.) before root and found if you use the likes of Facebook and have notifications on within app settings it will designate blue colour regardless to the LED whether LFlow is installed and configured or not..I have a feeling I've maybe made an underhand silly comment here lol I hope not but just a suggestion I'm not entirely sure if there needs to strictly be a notification ongoing for it to flash in these cases... I appreciate as I'm new here all of you guys are respectful wizards compared to me so forgive my perhaps obvious novice-like rhetoric... hey ho...
combat goofwing said:
I have a issue when my screen is off I I'm getting a constant blue blinking LED,yet in the app it says no active notifications,I've disabled all notifications in the app but its still doing it ,any ideas how to fix please ,I have had to knock off notifications light in settings but that stops them all coming through
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Do you have any notifications at all? With "pulse notification light" enabled in system settings, you'll get a blinking blueish light for certain apps' notifications via Android itself, nothing to do with Lightflow.
all sorted thanks uninstalled light flow reinstalled and all fixed
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hey guys, ive had my nexus for a while, but i switched over from an iphone and on the iphone there was a plug in called sb settings which allowed you to swipe your finger across the status bar and a small control panel would drop down giving you options to dim your screen, turn wifi and other toggles on and off, and gave you your system info all without having to leave the current app you were on. i was wondering if there is such a thing for android, where you have a control panel in the notification drawer.?
looked like this on iphone
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hey guys, ive had my nexus for a while, but i switched over from an iphone and on the iphone there was a plug in called sb settings which allowed you to swipe your finger across the status bar and a small control panel would drop down giving you options to dim your screen, turn wifi and other toggles on and off, and gave you your system info all without having to leave the current app you were on. i was wondering if there is such a thing for android, where you have a control panel in the notification drawer.?
looked like this on iphone
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A free app called 'Bar Control' will let you put shortcuts in the notification bar.
I use this with 'Switches', a paid toggling app, and a free app 'Wifi Status' (that warns you if you have wifi on but no connection to a network).
HTH
Quick Settings free on the market will also do this. Nice little program I use it every day.
mjwatmough said:
Quick Settings free on the market will also do this. Nice little program I use it every day.
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+1, works great (although it could do with a UI uplift).
mjwatmough said:
Quick Settings free on the market will also do this. Nice little program I use it every day.
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exactly what i was looking for. works great. thankss. itd be cool if the led flash was supported for nexus. but it gets the job done.
It would be good, I'm stock so not sure if LED torch works with root.
the led torch app for the N1 defenitely requires root
Found a trick to the led notification inside the ROM control area. If you would like to change the color of your LED notification do not use custom colors to the left only use the slider to the right and then set them.
The slider to right is the colorful one
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I have pretty much tried every single color and it works pretty well some colors more then others.
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What's the difference between Set and !!!? So all you do to change the color of yours is use the slider on the right... do you need to then touch the right-hand color swatch, the Set button or !!! so it takes effect?
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What's the difference between Set and !!!? So all you do to change the color of yours is use the slider on the right... do you need to then touch the right-hand color swatch, the Set button or !!! so it takes effect?
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!!!! Is the stock ics blue
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I can't seem to figure out how to get mine to show anything other than a yellowish color. I'm using the slider on the right and hitting set, but to no avail. Just attempting to get back the stock blue, much less abrasive.
EDIT: Unsurprisingly it turns out that I'm just dumb and was overlooking LED settings within other apps...Oops! OP recommendation works just fine. Thanks!
No problem and don't use the !!! Just click the new color and done like I said it's close to the color that you pick but not perfect. Some notifications automatically come out red on their own for example Facebook notifications etc. but system apps seems to be the color that you pick
After installing this on my phone the LED won't do anything when charging, fully charged. Any reason why? I tried light flow but its bugged for the S3 right now.
Ov3rbyte said:
After installing this on my phone the LED won't do anything when charging, fully charged. Any reason why? I tried light flow but its bugged for the S3 right now.
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because aosp does not offer those options only Samsung software
My apologies if this has already been discussed somewhere.
I would love to see that awesome power button notification light glow after receiving a text, whatsapp message, email, etc.
Interested in hearing users and devs thoughts on this.
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I would be interested in this. Seems silly all it does is turn on with the phone.
andino said:
I would be interested in this. Seems silly all it does is turn on with the phone.
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Yeah, I don't get why they'd go through all the work and cost to integrate an led in the button to only have it play when getting/on a call (who would need that??) and when an alarm goes off (again, who needs that??). Makes sense to have it for emails/texts/etc.
Hope this comes out. I haven't had a chance to see if LightFlow can access it.
Anyone email the lightflow dev? He has supported alternative led's in the past.
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I may mention it when I ask about the color of the main led not displaying correctly when a Gmail message is received. Anyone else noticed this?
I don't currently use light flow, bit I read somewhere else on this board that other people were having the same Gmail issue.
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I may mention it when I ask about the color of the main led not displaying correctly when a Gmail message is received. Anyone else noticed this?
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I too may be seeing what you are.
I have lightflow setup to throw a white led for gmail, but.... when the screen is locked (I use pattern lock) and off, first the led flashes green for gmail. Then after I wake the screen, the led switches back to white as it should for the lightflow setting.
I've tried setting lightflow to reset the led before throwing a notification but that did not fix it. The other kicker is it doesn't always seem to do this green then white problem. Under the phone settings it does look like lg has set up quite a bit of an interface into the led, the front and back one. Most of the conditions for the led to come on are defaulted to only a green option in the phone setting. I've turned them all off so lightflow can control and determine the color etc. I even tried turning off the led function in the phone settings hoping that only lightflow would control, but the phone settings actually do keep the led completely off if set.
It's not a deal breaker, but I use green for google voice texts that are a much higher priority for me to take a look at.
I think the lg system on this phone still has some "tendrils" into the led settings that are getting in the way of lightflow having full control?
Also, for what it is worth, under the lightflow settings, it does show that lightflow does detect the back led and others so maybe the dev of that app can add some functionality in their copious free time
Yep. That's the behavior I'm seeing. Not the end of the world, but it kind of defeats the purpose of giving different colors in lightflow. I agree that it's likely due to the hooks LG still has present or something the LF devs need to iron out with this device. I saw those extra options for LEDs as well, but I wasn't able to get them to do anything. The lm3630 is the control for the backlight of the screen (found that while looking for a CABL control). I have no idea what the mmc1 is.
Anyone else notice the white led that lights up while charging?
I wonder if this could be RGB as well and light up with other colors?
Perhaps someone can bring a tweak or mod that can activate the LED for notification purposes?
Just wanted to get this thread started for anyone also interested in this happening. I hope a Dev can come forth and make it a reality!
This has been mentioned. I am not rooted yet but I wonder if anyone has tried the Light Flow app from the play store to see if it works.
I am rooted, and have tried lightflow. Unfortunately it reports that the LED is white only. :crying:
shimaspa said:
I am rooted, and have tried lightflow. Unfortunately it reports that the LED is white only. :crying:
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So it doesn't work for notifications at all through the app?
No, I could not get it to have any control over the LED. I tried the legacy version as well, and direct mode and also granting su (all suggestions from the author of the app). Nothing worked.
shimaspa said:
I am rooted, and have tried lightflow. Unfortunately it reports that the LED is white only. :crying:
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But can it be used for notifications, even if it is just white?
blackra1n said:
But can it be used for notifications, even if it is just white?
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I don't think so. It's pretty much the same led that was on the 3rd gen Moto and it's not much use for anything actually useful.
Tel864 said:
I don't think so. It's pretty much the same led that was on the 3rd gen Moto and it's not much use for anything actually useful.
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Bummer I had really hoped to use it as notifications. Even if it just white at least flash when I have one
Can anyone post a pic of that LED? Im not seem it.
Thanks!
luan3232 said:
Can anyone post a pic of that LED? Im not seem it.
Thanks!
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I googled this image, though on my phone it's to the left of the fingerprint button.
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Good news guys
After I installed elementalx kernel I tried to use again light flow and now it works for notifications
If someone can test just for stay sure that was that and no other thing
Hello All,
I don't know what happened and I did not intentionally change any settings (maybe on accident?) but today when I checked my phone I discovered that all my notifications from the top of my screen are now uniformed instead of displaying notification from mails, different apps etc. I'm wondering how I can get back to the default setting where each app has its own notification icon. Please see the attached picture for reference of what I'm talking about, thank you so much!
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Go into settings, Display and deactivate only shoiw quantity in statusbar and you will see your notifications normal again
projectseahorse said:
Hello All,
I don't know what happened and I did not intentionally change any settings (maybe on accident?) but today when I checked my phone I discovered that all my notifications from the top of my screen are now uniformed instead of displaying notification from mails, different apps etc. I'm wondering how I can get back to the default setting where each app has its own notification icon. Please see the attached picture for reference of what I'm talking about, thank you so much!
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Go to Settings>Display and slide "Only show quantity in status bar" to the off position.
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Go to Settings>Display and slide "Only show quantity in status bar" to the off position.
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nuridurdu27 said:
Go into settings, Display and deactivate only shoiw quantity in statusbar and you will see your notifications normal again
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Hello All,
Thank you for the prompt help, for some reasons my display setting menu does not have the "only show quantity in status bar" option. My display has the following options
Font Size
Sleep
Brightness Level
Auto rotate screen
Battery percentage
Notification Ligh
Display pedometer
Screen effect
Cast screen
I downloaded the update but was unable to update it because I had install TWRP. After the installation failed because of TWRP I never did get around to install the update using the TWRP way. Wondering if that would play a role here. Please help, thank you guys so much, I greatly appreciate the assistance!!
on which model and Version are you? It should be under the battery percentage
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on which model and Version are you? It should be under the battery percentage
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I'm on Android 6.0.1 Build 0B29.
I figured it out. For anyone who has the same problem as I, the setting can be found by pulling the status bar menu all the way down and press on "edit"
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Go into settings, Display and deactivate only shoiw quantity in statusbar and you will see your notifications normal again
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Thanks nuridurdu27. I've been trying to figure this out for the last couple of hours. I must have turned this on unintentionally at some point and it was driving me crazy!