Hi XDA
I'm running Cyanogenmod Nightly, at the latest Kang but, since the official nightly of some months ago, the led started to behave differently:
Before it flashed in green for notifications, and in red when the battery was out;
now, even for notifications, it flashes always in red...it gets green only when plugged and the battery is charged, and with notifications when charged and plugged.
I tried various utilities for led configurations, but none of them fixed it..
Am I the only wanting the old led behaviour?
Jeeza said:
Hi XDA
I'm running Cyanogenmod Nightly, at the latest Kang but, since the official nightly of some months ago, the led started to behave differently:
Before it flashed in green for notifications, and in red when the battery was out;
now, even for notifications, it flashes always in red...it gets green only when plugged and the battery is charged, and with notifications when charged and plugged.
I tried various utilities for led configurations, but none of them fixed it..
Am I the only wanting the old led behaviour?
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Try Light Flow its in the market, After setting it up and configuring your led's, reboot to see it take effect.
I'm on the latest kang as well n have been using Light Flow ever since nightlies have been pushed out.
Some of the latest official nightlies seemed to mess up the LED stuff. I use Light Flow, which works perfectly for me.
Sent from my Desire Z running CM7.
Thank you for the advices!!
Is this Light flow a program that runs in background or something?
Do i need the paid version?
steviewevie said:
Some of the latest official nightlies seemed to mess up the LED stuff. I use Light Flow, which works perfectly for me.
Sent from my Desire Z running CM7.
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Thanks, good tip.
Jeeza said:
Thank you for the advices!!
Is this Light flow a program that runs in background or something?
Do i need the paid version?
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Yes, it's a program that runs in the background. It also works with your Accesibilty options free vrsion works just fine.
Also, as a suggestion, tsubus, an xda user who is compiling nightlies (ILWT) has created a zip file that can be flashed via recovery that will revert led notifications back to their old behavior. The file can be found in ROM Manager or the ILWT OP here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242480 It should work with any CM7 based ROM.
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Also, as a suggestion, tsubus, an xda user who is compiling nightlies (ILWT) has created a zip file that can be flashed via recovery that will revert led notifications back to their old behavior. The file can be found in ROM Manager or the ILWT OP here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242480 It should work with any CM7 based ROM.
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Testing in a few minutes...i'll let ya know!
This patch works like a charm!!! that's just what i wanted...i tendo to avoid programs running in BG
Big thanks to you!!!
Will i have to flash this every time i update my rom?
That patch will have to be applied everytime you wipe data. If you update your rom and just clear the caches, you will not have to reflash the patch.
Hello
I am experiencing the same issue. I tried the patch from the ILWT page but it doesn't seem to be working. I have the CM7.2.0 stable release on HTC Desire Z.
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tarroyo said:
Yes, it's a program that runs in the background. It also works with your Accesibilty options free vrsion works just fine.
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along the same lines I downloaded that program but it only shows 3 colors? I am new to the G2 from blackberry and G1 before that. Are there really only 3 colors in the G2 LED?
Thx.
austriker27 said:
along the same lines I downloaded that program but it only shows 3 colors? I am new to the G2 from blackberry and G1 before that. Are there really only 3 colors in the G2 LED?
Thx.
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Yes. Red, orange/amber, and green.
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Hi,
I finally took the plunge and installed this rom and must say it's great, thanks!
Everything is working good thus far except the trackball does not light up like when I had 2.1 Sense (VillainROM12). It would flash briefly and rapidly and then go, whereas before it would remain lit until I had read the message. Likewise, the amber led would flash but that's gone too. I'm using Handcent as my SMS app and I've set it on in the settings like I did before.
Can someone tell me how I can get these features back please? Thanks.
I have a problem with my desire Z, the LED notification (not the trackpad), It report new messages only for 5 minutes, then goes out and does not report them anymore.
I tried Gosms, Handcent, but nothing changes, and if I leave the stock message app can not set the stock LED.
Help
no one?
Telling us what rom (custom or stock) as well as kernel (custom or stock) would probably get you more answers.
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Stock rom, Gingerb 2.3.3
Kernel: 2.6.35.10
Sense 2.1
no LED at all
I found this thread while searching for solutions to LED problems too. I've tried CM7.0.3, CM7.1RC1, HTCClay SuperCM7, GoSMS, Handcent, stock SMS, none of them will light up the LED for SMS notifications or anything else besides low battery or charging battery. any link to some LED faq would be great.
I'm in the same boat. Just picked up a DZ and the notification LED timing out after 5 mins is a real bind... kind of defeats the purpose of having an LED if I have to switch on the screen to check in case a message arrived 6 minutes ago when I was away from my desk!
Anyone have any ideas about how to keep the LED flashing?.. I'm on the stock UK SIM-free ROM, Gingerbread.
LED Me Know used to work, until the upgrade to Android 2.3
I had it working until my update last week!
Hey all. New Vzw G2 here. I have clean rom on this right now and just loaded up aicp as well and neither rom has working led notifications. The led works it charges red, blinks green on boot up, and flashes white on waking up the screen with double tap.
I have tried multiple notification programs from the play store and tried to test out the led but nothing is working...
Am I just missing something obvious here??
Any help would be appreciated.
Mario
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I know that this sounds like a no-brainer, but we sometimes forget to check the simple things. Check your settings under display and make sure you have the notification switch "on" and then download and try light manager from the play store.
The only thing I could figure out to get LED notifications to work was to use a 4.3 based rom which has the proper API's for notification apps. IMO I traded the IR functionality for one which lets me setup my phone to actually have notifications. No idea what the AICP rom is since I have a D801 and the VSW G2 is all different for whatever silly reason but Light Flow works great on PA.
Thanks all still no such luck. So weird. Enabled and disabled the notification in display tried light manager and light flow still no go. For real I don't get it. I know the light works but only for system notifications like charging battery low knock on etc. SO weird. Grr
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Can you test a different rom?
I've tried aicp and clean and I'll try another here soon. 4.2.2 hasn't worked and an AOSP 4.3.1 hasn't worked I can't figure it out.
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Could my issues be anything to do with still being on the most recent stock firmware baseband? I have a rule now to never accept OTA updates after my S4 screwed me over. I thought I read there was an OTA for Verizon at some point....
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Have you tried backing up your data and trying the stock rom? I've also noticed that some things don't function properly on some custom roms, especially if it's not stock. I know you said you've tried other roms, but at this point, it just has to be checked through trial and error.
Make sure Pulse Notification Light is enabled, Use custom values is disabled and Battery Light is disabled. I have Root Mode and Reset color before change enabled on Light Flow and anything else significant disabled.
For the stock rom, Google backup was screwing up with the led notification. I had that problem.
I disabled Google backup and wiped the phone.
During initial boot when it says to back up with Google I deselected it and the led notification worked.
Not sure for custom rom.
Good luck
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adzam3 said:
For the stock rom, Google backup was screwing up with the led notification. I had that problem.
I disabled Google backup and wiped the phone.
During initial boot when it says to back up with Google I deselected it and the led notification worked.
Not sure for custom rom.
Good luck
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Hmm! Well, I am going to try this. I have plenty of TWRP backups, I'll run a fresh install and see if not using google restore fixes the issue. If it doesn't, I'm STUMPED!
I sure hope it works, this is the ONLY issue I have, I LOVE this phone otherwise, but this is a pretty big issue, I never know when I have messages waiting!
Mario
adzam3 said:
For the stock rom, Google backup was screwing up with the led notification. I had that problem.
I disabled Google backup and wiped the phone.
During initial boot when it says to back up with Google I deselected it and the led notification worked.
Not sure for custom rom.
Good luck
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HOLY CRAP - If I could THANK you a million times I would. Deselecting restore from google WORKED. Booted CleanROM up as a fresh install and tried out the lite version of LightFlow, and BAM, LEDs worked. Must have brought some setting over from all my Samsung devices I owned previous. Never had an issue going from the S3 to Note2 to S4, but going to an LG, must have had issues.
THANK YOU !!!!
desantim said:
HOLY CRAP - If I could THANK you a million times I would. Deselecting restore from google WORKED. Booted CleanROM up as a fresh install and tried out the lite version of LightFlow, and BAM, LEDs worked. Must have brought some setting over from all my Samsung devices I owned previous. Never had an issue going from the S3 to Note2 to S4, but going to an LG, must have had issues.
THANK YOU !!!!
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Glad that it worked.
Read it somewhere that the backup was the culprit. So the credit goes to the first person that discovered it.
Thank god for xda community and all the sharing .
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adzam3 said:
Glad that it worked.
Read it somewhere that the backup was the culprit. So the credit goes to the first person that discovered it.
Thank god for xda community and all the sharing .
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Seriously! I was about to try to return my phone, that would have been a hassle and a half. I LOVE my G2, Best phone I've had, I wish there were more cases for it for the Verizon version, I'm a minimalist guy and there is like one case on ebay that fits that bill. Oh I digress!
I switched from GS3 to G2 and let Google restore my settings and apps. My Light Flow (and Light Manager and every other LED app under the sun) just would not work. I just couldn't figure it out... it worked just fine on the GS3.
Finally, after disabling the auto restore of settings and apps, I did a factory restore; and now Light Flow works. Well, my email insists on green rather than the colour I set for it, and I can't seem to get the calendar notification LED working but everything else LED related now seems to work (mostly all 3rd party IM apps) including charging, charged, sms, etc.
LED notification light works only when battery low and while charging and then full charge indication not working for other notifications. mine OPT updated to oxygen os 2.1.0 rooted and unlocked bootloader with twrp recovery I have factory reset wiped caches and all after rooting the device
any ideas anybody notified this problem i test LED with third apps light flow and ran test there also not led blinking up
and update to oxygen os 2.1.1 will that bug fix in that?
I found that bug after reading the post of someone reporting about this bug till that I didn't notified that
I have seen many post that after updated to 2.1.1 only quad core is using not eight core is that true?
VijayaBaskar said:
LED notification light works only when battery low and while charging and then full charge indication not working for other notifications. mine OPT updated to oxygen os 2.1.0 rooted and unlocked bootloader with twrp recovery I have factory reset wiped caches and all after rooting the device
any ideas anybody notified this problem i test LED with third apps light flow and ran test there also not led blinking up
and update to oxygen os 2.1.1 will that bug fix in that?
I found that bug after reading the post of someone reporting about this bug till that I didn't notified that
I have seen many post that after updated to 2.1.1 only quad core is using not eight core is that true?
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Hi there, I've got the same issue. No LED notifications other then charging. OS 2.0.2
any ideas gents?
mystras said:
Hi there, I've got the same issue. No LED notifications other then charging. OS 2.0.2
any ideas gents?
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Factory reset the phone (in setting menu not in recovery) and not sign in when it set the phone up initially. Then once the home screen shows up, go into settings, then add account through backup & reset. It's a pain, but for some reason when I set the phone up like that, I got the LED light to work again. :highfive:
wanted to avoid factory reset...to old for the hassle
Thanks, will try and say whether it worked for me.
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It worked like a charm.
thanks
mystras said:
wanted to avoid factory reset...to old for the hassle
Thanks, will try and say whether it worked for me.
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It worked like a charm.
thanks
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This worked for me as well, was definitely a hassle to get all my apps installed again but its worth it. Kept missing important messages and emails when I left the phone inside the room.
I tried to search for this topic over the Internet but got even more confused. Can someone help me with the following question?
Does Essential phone have LED notification?
I know it has a charging light and it is working fine.
greygene said:
I tried to search for this topic over the Internet but got even more confused. Can someone help me with the following question?
Does Essential phone have LED notification?
I know it has a charging light and it is working fine.
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Weird. You have more settings in that screen shot that I do. What version? Just got mine a few hours ago. It received two updates and is on nmi81c
Nevermind it is getting an update that adds that now
I'm on NMI81C too. So that explained why I don't see those extra settings either. I only see "Pulse Notification Light" and "Battery Charging Light". I'm wondering what does "Pulse Notification Light" mean?
BTW, when did you get your update?
Barsky said:
Weird. You have more settings in that screen shot that I do. What version? Just got mine a few hours ago. It received two updates and is on nmi81c
Nevermind it is getting an update that adds that now
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greygene said:
I'm on NMI81C too. So that explained why I don't see those extra settings either. I only see "Pulse Notification Light" and "Battery Charging Light". I'm wondering what does "Pulse Notification Light" mean?
BTW, when did you get your update?
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Got the phone 3 hrs ago. Just got what should be the 4th and last update
What build version are you on?!
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Yes
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greygene said:
What build version are you on?!
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Oreo beta. Sorry.
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Barsky said:
Weird. You have more settings in that screen shot that I do. What version? Just got mine a few hours ago. It received two updates and is on nmi81c
Nevermind it is getting an update that adds that now
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Sorry I didn't mention. It's the Oreo beta build
hmm...it looks like I have to wait for the next update.
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Got the phone 3 hrs ago. Just got what should be the 4th and last update
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Well, today I found the LED notification does exist but not consistent. I saw the LED lights up and flash slowly (very slow!) for some applications and sometimes. It does not always light up for the the same application as my Nexus 6P did before. It looks like the ROM needs some work.
greygene said:
Well, today I found the LED notification does exist but not consistent. I saw the LED lights up and flash slowly (very slow!) for some applications and sometimes. It does not always light up for the the same application as my Nexus 6P did before. It looks like the ROM needs some work.
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I think with O you have to set the choice for each app. I believe it's in the notification settings for each app
someone tried lightflow? otherwise i will do in the next days..
I tried. Not working well either. I'm with NMI81C though. I will try to load Oreo beta today.
hs911 said:
someone tried lightflow? otherwise i will do in the next days..
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hs911 said:
someone tried lightflow? otherwise i will do in the next days..
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I am using Lightflow with no issues. I am on the oreo beta, but did have it working prior to upgrading. That was on the original build as I am on sprint, and once I sideloaded the other 2 builds I decided to go for the beta as well.
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I sideloaded Oreo beta. Everything went smoothly. But the LED notification has not changed. The charging light is still working. I enabled "Allow notification dot" and Blink light". But LED notification does not light up when a text message arrived (using Textra).
arya9901 said:
I am using Lightflow with no issues. I am on the oreo beta, but did have it working prior to upgrading. That was on the original build as I am on sprint, and once I sideloaded the other 2 builds I decided to go for the beta as well.
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I think with O you have to set the choice for each app. I believe it's in the notification settings for each app
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I just side loaded Keep beta. I saw settings on "allow notification dot" on each app and they are turned on. But I still could not get LED notification. (For example, Textra). It worked well on my old Nexus 6p.
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The Essential phone most definitely has a notification light. It's hidden under the left-most portion of the tiny speaker grill. You'll only notice it when you have a notification or it's charging.
It has multiple colors. I've seen blinking blue for notifications, green for charging and I think red for low battery, if I remember correctly.
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FallN said:
The Essential phone most definitely has a notification light. It's hidden under the left-most portion of the tiny speaker grill. You'll only notice it when you have a notification or it's charging.
It has multiple colors. I've seen blinking blue for notifications, green for charging and I think red for low battery, if I remember correctly.
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You are absolutely correct. The LED light works fine when changing. But as for notification, it does not work persistently. For the same app, sometimes it worked but the other times it didn't. Also for some other apps they never worked. (Those apps have notifications and worked well on my old Nexus 6p, like Textra, Facebook, etc.)
Another thing I found is that the blink interval seems to be too long.
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try turning off the ambient display in display settings. once I did that the led colors and flash rate started working...
I'm using light flow and it works fine for changing colours ,have different colours set for
Text
Missed calls
What's app
Low battery ,charging ,fully charged
Emails etc
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combat goofwing said:
I'm using light flow and it works fine for changing colours ,have different colours set for
Text
Missed calls
What's app
Low battery ,charging ,fully charged
Emails etc
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Same here, running Oreo beta and Light Flow. No issues.