Since the latest update I have been unable to receive LED notifications. Before the update I had:
1. Blue LED flashing for Touchdown Exchange messages
2. Yellow for incoming SMS
3. Green for pushed pop or gmail
4. Red for missed call
These seemed default as I didn't set these up specifically. I liked this arrangement. I should note that I use GoSMS Pro as my SMS client.
To remedy my new lack of LED notifications, I've attempted a few applications from the market, specifically called Light Flow, even trying the "test mode" to cause dancing LEDs. It did not fix this problem. I've also tried a dancing LED/disco LED apps from the market, with no blinking LEDs.
The only LED I get now is when I plug in to charge, a green LED.
Has anyone seen this or have any ideas on how to remedy this issue? I really liked being able to see what was flashing and get an idea on the source of the beep, it would help me decide if I should ignore it without even unlocking the phone.
SMUAlien said:
Since the latest update I have been unable to receive LED notifications. Before the update I had:
1. Blue LED flashing for Touchdown Exchange messages
2. Yellow for incoming SMS
3. Green for pushed pop or gmail
4. Red for missed call
These seemed default as I didn't set these up specifically. I liked this arrangement. I should note that I use GoSMS Pro as my SMS client.
To remedy my new lack of LED notifications, I've attempted a few applications from the market, specifically called Light Flow, even trying the "test mode" to cause dancing LEDs. It did not fix this problem. I've also tried a dancing LED/disco LED apps from the market, with no blinking LEDs.
The only LED I get now is when I plug in to charge, a green LED.
Has anyone seen this or have any ideas on how to remedy this issue? I really liked being able to see what was flashing and get an idea on the source of the beep, it would help me decide if I should ignore it without even unlocking the phone.
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I haven't had this happen at all. Mine still give the correct LED notifications that it always has.
If you are on stock firmware, have you considered a factory reset? It's the only thing I can think of and might narrow down the problem. If you do the reset and it continues to persist than it isn't an issue with the OS but instead either the hardware or an app.
Thank you for your reply.
I have been extremely hesitant to do a factory reset. I use my phone primarily for work purposes (although it is rooted), it's loaded down with QuickOffice files and Touchdown is all configured the way I like it. A reset really has to be a last resort.
I do remember I had installed youmail and this notification thing happened shortly after. I have uninstalled that application but the LED notifications haven't returned.
Strange issue.
SMUAlien said:
Thank you for your reply.
I have been extremely hesitant to do a factory reset. I use my phone primarily for work purposes (although it is rooted), it's loaded down with QuickOffice files and Touchdown is all configured the way I like it. A reset really has to be a last resort.
I do remember I had installed youmail and this notification thing happened shortly after. I have uninstalled that application but the LED notifications haven't returned.
Strange issue.
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Strange indeed. I wish I could say something else that would help, but I can't. If you end up doing a factory reset, get titanium backup and backup all the files, use SMS backup+ to backup all the messages to your gmail account, and then just copy all the files over to the PC or a new SD card.
The factory reset should only take an hour at most to recover from if you take precautions and back up everything prior to it.
If you want to root and enable sideloading after the reset, you will need to use Gingerbreak. If you do this, make certain your external card is not in when this happens and that you have no data stored on the internal card as it will erase the internal card.
Hi Darrell,
I have purchased Titanium Backup Pro, I have used it in the past to freeze and unfreeze applications. I have never been successful however in backing up and restoring program data. I'll scour the net some more looking for a solution before/if I do a reset. If I find anything I will post it in this thread.
Thanks for your help.
BR.
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i am getting TONS of 'alarm4' notification sounds coming out of soft reset (and now like all the time). almost everything in notifications is unchecked (except phone and emai messages). and nothing is set for 'alarm4'. when these notifications go off, there's nothing happening when they happen!
i feel like it's hard reset reload time. but i don't wanna do it again.... (but i have this whole westtek bluetooth printer problems to deal with....)
if i turn off all alarms/programs/notifications it doesn't happen. this is not a fix
You need to use a program like SK Tools to look at your notification lists and delete ONLY the ones you think are suspect (ex notifications for a calendar event that is no longer present).
thanks i'll try that next time. today the i just lost it and had to hard reset it.
well, it started to do it again. and i got the SK tools and did a clean up, and a delete duplicate notifications. but it's still doing the sporadic notifications on soft reset. this time they go off randomly for up to 5 minutes after the soft reset! there are not displayed nofitications. and none with vibrate enabled, yet there they are!
MOST ANNOYING!
any more ideas?
scary bear notifications can help.
screwing with the notifications can generally screw up the device.
i tried, and failed, and simply hard reset it and started again.
i found it was caused more so when a notification had come up, and you either voluntarily, or involuntarily had to soft reset the device.
but there is no conclusive evidence of this. just my input.
next day: i had to hard reset the device. it became totally unstable. i was getting 'unknown usb device' and 'battery low for PC card messages' (thought i turned that off). oh well, at least i keep good backups.
Hey guys,
Recently I flashed exynos 5.4 (didn't like it) and I think it made the phone lose the vibration. Specifically the messaging part. I flashed back to stock KG6 but still problem persists I wiped all data, wiped cache and wiped dalvik cache.
However... the phone vibrates when I get phoned
I usually get a vibration notification when I get a message through SMS, whatsapp and MSN (I used mercury, ebuddy and stock IM app)
vibration is set for always on. I checked the app settings and vibration is checked.
Silent mode on/off doesn't matter.
Anyone has an idea what to do?
I don't think it's (fully) broken because vibrating when getting phone is working and you get a slight vibration when you switch to silent mode to let you know that it vibrates when getting phoned or messaged
Maybe it is an app, later in the evening I will do another FULL reset and wait with restoring with backups and just download whatsapp of market and see if it will vibrate. Maybe.. just maybe it's something with my google account. I'll try my old account as well.
Had the same stupid thing
Some app like this fixes it
search for force vibration in the market
i realy hate why for all things we must install some special apps if something goes wrong...use this use that...its android yeah...
I've noticed from other threads that people are able to get LED apps like Light Manager to work on the G2, but it absolutely will not work for me. I'm wondering if it might be a software difference in the Canadian version of the G2 which makes it incompatible.
I've tried Light Manager and Light Flow. I've tried normal modes and alternate modes. I've tried with the notification LED settings on the phone in every combination of on/off and checked/unchecked. I've spent hours fiddling, and Light Manager and Light Flow simply do not manipulate the LED whatsoever. Not even with the test function in the apps.
Anyone with a Canadian variant of the G2 had any luck?
For the record, the default LED settings on the stock ROM behave as expected, so the LED works fine. I've used these apps on several other phones and never had any issues tweaking the LED to my heart's content.
Rogers, stock ROM, rooted, no other tweaks.
Edit: Something else different about this variant is that you cannot specify different LED notifications for individual contacts. When you edit a contact, there is no such option like there is on the US variants.
I'm going to be lazy and paste in a reply I did for the same issue on another board:
For myself, I found that although the native notification LED's worked, that none of the 3rd party apps nor light flow could control the LED. I did a Reset to Factory and then light flow worked for me except for Calendar; and email seemed to want to remain green rather than the colour I set it for.
HOWEVER, before going the Reset to Factory route: one question (possibly to prove a theory) -- did you back up your settings to Google Servers and allow it to restore app data and previously installed apps? I did, when I switched from my Samsung Galaxy S3 to my new LG G2. But before I did my Reset to Factory, I turned those settings off and set everything up from scratch and installed my apps one by one.
My theory is that restoring app data and previously installed apps will work fine when switching from a G2 to another G2 but possibly not from another device. It makes no sense that a Reset to Factory would fix my issue with 3rd party LED notification and light flow; so I wanted to take it one step further rather than find out a reset did not fix the issue because somehow the restoring of data was causing a problem.
Note that turning these settings off does not mean you have to redo your contacts or calendar, those still sync'd over after my Reset to Factory.
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I did not look forward to doing a Reset to Factory, I didn't want to redo anything more than the next person but I did want to get light flow working.
I ended up factory resetting and it solved the issue. What a pain.
Thanks!
I was about 80% finished configuring/tweaking my G2 to my liking when I decided to bite the bullet and try the reset to see if it would fix light flow before I got too far.
If I may ask, did you allow the device to restore your settings from Google servers and apps from the Play Store? I just wanted to see if this part is just an unfounded theory or if that made the difference; or if just doing a reset regardless of settings would have worked. Basically, I lost my saved wifi settings but to the best of my knowledge, that was about it -- the really important stuff like contacts and calendar did sync over.
May I also ask if you can get native or light flow to trigger the Calendar LED's, and if your Email LED is green or a colour you chose in light flow?
Thanks!
Today I've the problem again, the notification simply doesn't work, it looks like the sensor is failing or something because I took it out of the pocket, as usual, and it doesn't light on... having to use the power button again...
It happened other time, some weeks after I bought it... complaining with the technical support on Moto Care, without results, so I've factory reset and wipe everything, and it works...
So, my first guess is that the cache of Active Notification may have some guilty on that, but I can't find the app from it to clean and check if it works. Does anyone knows what app is it?
I'm not gonna to factory reset this time, it simply not useful as a solution.
Does anyone have/had this problem?
Regards,
It happened to be one time. I found the solution to be simply disabling Active Notifications and then re-enabling it.
Julianocas said:
It happened other time, some weeks after I bought it... complaining with the technical support on Moto Care, without results, so I've factory reset and wipe everything, and it works...
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If a factory reset fixes it, it's probably not a sensor issue. It's possible that an app you've installed is interfering with it somehow - do you have any kind of root apps, or apps that play with system resources (like process managers/Greenify/etc.), or apps that control notifications?
I've noticed this on 4.4 a few times, as well as the lag on unlocking from AN a few times, too. Then again, I'm still on the leak, so that may have something to do with it.
Case maybe? Make sure the screen is clean. That proximity sensor is sensitive.
I think I found the problem.
The app management of what will show on active notification... don't active any of those that did not come checked after a reset. I did check some "Google's" for active notification.
For the past two days the notification light hasn't turned off no matter what I do. I used the Light Flow app to figure out the problem, I turned of the led notification light in settings, I've been installed a new ROM and bootloader with a clean install but nothing has worked.
Not only is this a problem but also downloading apps, updates and files in general don't even work without resetting the phone, and ironically notifications now don't even vibrate or make any noise, which I think has to do with the constant light blinking. On a side note Google Play Services doesn't function or sync properly.
This issue has been quite bothersome, especially since the clean wipe and install doesn't solve this issue., although I did backup/restore all of my non-system apps via Titanium Backup.
If anyone could help me figure out the problem I'd greatly appreciate it!