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Hello guys,
I am trying to help a friend set up his Wildfire as he is new to android.
His biggest problem is the missed call / sms notification led. When he has a missed call, or a new sms the led notification lights up for five minutes and then turns off. Is it possible to leave the alert led on until he interacts with it?
The phone is brand new and still running the stock rom
Any help would be apreciated.
aalex
Just search for 'LED Me Know' on this Forum / GetJar. It should help.
I have used it personally, however, in the latest edition, theres a bug, that even after you have interacted with your phone, it keeps the notification LED on randomly. However, previously, I used v1.06, and, it worked flawlessly.
3xeno said:
Just search for 'LED Me Know' on this Forum / GetJar. It should help.
I have used it personally, however, in the latest edition, theres a bug, that even after you have interacted with your phone, it keeps the notification LED on randomly. However, previously, I used v1.06, and, it worked flawlessly.
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Thanks very much for responding,
I have tried both missed call and led me know, but they both time out after 5 minutes.
Am i missing something?
That's weird. Because I distinctly remember in my case, when I used it, the LED would keep blinking for hours at one go, till I checked the notification.
Did you try enabling 'Compatibility Mode' in the App Settings?
3xeno said:
That's weird. Because I distinctly remember in my case, when I used it, the LED would keep blinking for hours at one go, till I checked the notification.
Did you try enabling 'Compatibility Mode' in the App Settings?
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Hey 3xeno,
Thanks for responding.
Compatibility mode seems to be greyed out in my phone and i cannot select it.
Should the phone be rooted?
Thanks
aalex
No, it doesnt require root. One more thing comes to my mind, did you disable the stock ROM's option to flash the Notification LED?
Menu > Settings > Display > Notification LED
And GMail LED Notifications from GMail > Settings > More Settings
If, even after doing this, you cannot enable compatibility mode, refer the original thread of the app here and contact the developer, as he says:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837057
Good Luck
3xeno said:
No, it doesnt require root. One more thing comes to my mind, did you disable the stock ROM's option to flash the Notification LED?
Menu > Settings > Display > Notification LED
And GMail LED Notifications from GMail > Settings > More Settings
If, even after doing this, you cannot enable compatibility mode, refer the original thread of the app here and contact the developer, as he says:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=837057
Good Luck
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Thanks again 3xeno,
I will try and contact the developer.
Happy New Year!
aalex
Is there any thing that can change the frequency of the front led. I've tried light flow and light manager and can't seem to get any led control. The current led flashes like once every 10-15 seconds on a new text. Has any one had any luck?
kurofox23? said:
Is there any thing that can change the frequency of the front led. I've tried light flow and light manager and can't seem to get any led control. The current led flashes like once every 10-15 seconds on a new text. Has any one had any luck?
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Yeah, I managed to get control through a lot of trial and error. I'm using light flow lite and have it set in root mode, turned off 'run in foreground' and checked 'reset color before change'. Seems to be working just fine and dandy for me.
teeg07 said:
Yeah, I managed to get control through a lot of trial and error. I'm using light flow lite and have it set in root mode, turned off 'run in foreground' and checked 'reset color before change'. Seems to be working just fine and dandy for me.
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I just tried with these settings and it didn't work. Still doesn't work at all much less flashing fast.. What do you have checked under your display/notification in settings for your phone? Also do you use light flow with accessibility checked?
kurofox23? said:
I just tried with these settings and it didn't work. Still doesn't flash fast. What do you have checked under your display/notification in settings for your phone? Also do you use light flow with accessibility checked?
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I haven't messed with the flash speed... but it looks like there are options for that under each notification menu. I just left it stock speed as it works well for me.
Also, make sure you leave the stock LED notifications enabled or else it wont work at all.
OK so I finally found the right combination to make it work. I used light manager since I couldn't get light flow to work. What you have to do is make sure that under Settings>Display>Notifications that the notification switch is set to on BUT every item needs to be set to OFF. Light manager will then work perfectly even without root.
kurofox23? said:
OK so I finally found the right combination to make it work. I used light manager since I couldn't get light flow to work. What you have to do is make sure that under Settings>Display>Notifications that the notification switch is set to on BUT every item needs to be set to OFF. Light manager will then work perfectly even without root.
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Thanks!
I was able to get light flow working with the same setup
What carrier are you guys I have Verizon and for the life of me cant get either to work
jbreaz said:
What carrier are you guys I have Verizon and for the life of me cant get either to work
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I also have Verizon. Make sure this page looks like this or it won't work.
This menu is in settings under display. Also you need to use light manager from the play store and not lightflow. I couldn't get lightflow to work properly.
kurofox23? said:
I also have Verizon. Make sure this page looks like this or it won't work.
This menu is in settings under display. Also you need to use light manager from the play store and not lightflow. I couldn't get lightflow to work properly.
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OK thank you i'll try that. Do I need to reboot or anything?
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OK thank you i'll try that. Do I need to reboot or anything?
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Shouldn't have to
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Shouldn't have to
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It's still not working I dont know what i'm doing wrong. I got my settings like in the picture is there something i need to do in the light manager app itself
That's what mine looks like
teeg07 said:
Yeah, I managed to get control through a lot of trial and error. I'm using light flow lite and have it set in root mode, turned off 'run in foreground' and checked 'reset color before change'. Seems to be working just fine and dandy for me.
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Not working for me. I have the verizon version and the led just blinks green even though I set it to white.
Gasaraki- said:
Not working for me. I have the verizon version and the led just blinks green even though I set it to white.
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That's why I had to use light manager and not light flow unfortunately
kurofox23? said:
That's what mine looks like
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Yeah that's what I got still no go for me oh well thanks for all your help
kurofox23? said:
That's why I had to use light manager and not light flow unfortunately
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Yes I use light manager now but even that is weird. I had to leave the 'Missed LG emails' options checked in order for the correct color to show with light manager with my gmail. Also it's not showing me the light for other things when the gmail light is flashing. =(
kurofox23? said:
OK so I finally found the right combination to make it work. I used light manager since I couldn't get light flow to work. What you have to do is make sure that under Settings>Display>Notifications that the notification switch is set to on BUT every item needs to be set to OFF. Light manager will then work perfectly even without root.
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Light manager does the trick, working on cloudyg3
It seems to be just some bug fixing: http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-updates-active-display-bugfixes-renames-motorola-care-help
freeintruth said:
It seems to be just some bug fixing: http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-updates-active-display-bugfixes-renames-motorola-care-help
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Yeah, there were quite a few bugs with 1.2.8. I had to send a full bug report to Motorola, as did others.
Some issues included:
Notifications not working with certain apps
AN failing to wake the screen when device was moved
AN failing to wake the screen when a notification arrived
AN failing to open an app from the AN screen
Active display STILL doesn't show any notifications for me.
trevorftard said:
Active display STILL doesn't show any notifications for me.
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Same here. It was showing notifications for a few days then stopped.
The Tallest said:
Same here. It was showing notifications for a few days then stopped.
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I turned off active display because any movement and it would turn on the clock and catch my eye which is very distracting and annoying, anyway to disable that without disabling the whole feature?
Mine was working perfect, did a factory reset to try and fix the high android OS usage and now it's not working. This is very annoying.
evilp8ntballer7 said:
I turned off active display because any movement and it would turn on the clock and catch my eye which is very distracting and annoying, anyway to disable that without disabling the whole feature?
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If you go into the Apps side of the Activity Display you should be able to un-check the Clock and it won't show it anymore.
tu3218 said:
Mine was working perfect, did a factory reset to try and fix the high android OS usage and now it's not working. This is very annoying.
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I did that. Then remembered I took the Navigation buttons out via the Build.prop and had a hell of a time trying to reinstall everything without them. :laugh: I use LMT Pie Controls so I had to reinstall them through the Play Store before I could reinstall all my other apps. I then took LMT Pie Controls and made them flashable so that the next time I do a factory reset I can just reinstall them via recovery.
What irks me most is that half my notifications aren't working a week after buying the phone. When they worked the day I got it. Gmail doesn't show up, 1Weather doesn't show up, the battery no longer shows up. Outlook does and Messaging does. I know Motorola said there was a problem with 1Weather not working properly but the day I set my phone up a little over a week ago it worked. Now all of a sudden it doesn't, and Gmail should work but doesn't.
Also, does the image verification thing for the forum ever go away? It's kind of a PITA to remember it's there when I post. Guys, I'm not a robot. Seriously.
I turned off the sleep function of active display and now my notifications are working. I haven't tried turning it back on to see if it would work but just something to try for those who are having an issue.
trevorftard said:
Active display STILL doesn't show any notifications for me.
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Did you reboot the phone after updating? It's a highly integrated system function. It should require a reboot after updating. I noticed it acted the same as 1.2.8 until I restarted the phone.
evilp8ntballer7 said:
I turned off active display because any movement and it would turn on the clock and catch my eye which is very distracting and annoying, anyway to disable that without disabling the whole feature?
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Turn the phone face down or cover the proximity sensor face-up.
Just a suggestion. When some apps get updated like line app and some other apps, they get unchecked in that active notification select apps menu/setting. I have to go back and manually check them again to show up on active display.
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tu3218 said:
I turned off the sleep function of active display and now my notifications are working. I haven't tried turning it back on to see if it would work but just something to try for those who are having an issue.
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I'll have to try this.
I've enabled pulsing light in notifications but for some reason light flow us still not working.
Any tips on how to get it to work right?
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reno55 said:
I've enabled pulsing light in notifications but for some reason light flow us still not working.
Any tips on how to get it to work right?
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maybe it needs root, some phones do. could also just be that it's not marshmallow optimized yet? are you rooted and if so, have you checked the "root" box in settings? mine wasn't working either and it's the straw that broke the proverbial back of my camel and caused me to give up on not rooting my phone and trying to go vanilla. I just knew that if i was having problems this early i wasn't going to be able to go long term without it.
Light Flow worked out of the box for me, I just installed the app... gave it permission to view my notifications and it worked.
Be sure pulse notification light is enabled in settings > sound & notifications.
What color light you trying to use? I noticed some of the choices in light flow don't work on my led. Try a different color maybe.
zephiK said:
gave it permission to view my notifications and it worked.
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This is the most common reason I see for LF not working for people. Make sure you do this (as the app tells you to do).
Light manager works far better than light flow i have the paid version of both
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Might not apply, but make sure to NOT follow the tutorial for Light Flow on the Nexus 6.
You still need to uncheck "Run in foreground" in the Persistent Icon menu.
Then under Device Settings and Root, ONLY check the following:
Root Mode
Show LED While Screen on (this might not need to be checked)
Nexus 5 force LED reset
I think that's it.
stevew84 said:
Might not apply, but make sure to NOT follow the tutorial for Light Flow on the Nexus 6.
You still need to uncheck "Run in foreground" in the Persistent Icon menu.
Then under Device Settings and Root, ONLY check the following:
Root Mode
Show LED While Screen on (this might not need to be checked)
Nexus 5 force LED reset
I think that's it.
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These things are not necessary.
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chubby65 said:
Light manager works far better than light flow i have the paid version of both
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I strongly disagree, but as with anything else... to each their own, they both have free versions to try out in advance.
dmarden said:
These things are not necessary.
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I had a back up of Light Flow from my Nexus 6 so i just left it the same, but the biggest change was the "LED Mixer" or whatever the setting was called in each notification. Removing that, and just selecting the color and blink rate fixed the problem for me.
stevew84 said:
I had a back up of Light Flow from my Nexus 6 so i just left it the same, but the biggest change was the "LED Mixer" or whatever the setting was called in each notification. Removing that, and just selecting the color and blink rate fixed the problem for me.
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I am not saying those settings you mention break anything... just wanted to clarify that they aren't required in order for it to work. For example, I don't have Light Flow running in root mode.
dmarden said:
I am not saying those settings you mention break anything... just wanted to clarify that they aren't required in order for it to work. For example, I don't have Light Flow running in root mode.
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Enabling the LED Mixer did break Light Flow, which is only caused if you follow the Nexus 6 tutorial. So if people are saying it works out of the box, then great.
stevew84 said:
Enabling the LED Mixer did break Light Flow, which is only caused if you follow the Nexus 6 tutorial. So if people are saying it works out of the box, then great.
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Yup, it does. The only things you need to do are the ones it pops up and tells you about... which for me, was reminding me to give it access to see my notifications.
I've been using Light Flow since it was released, so I typically start fresh on each new device to report any issues before I import my notifications backup.
Edit: Well, and turn on the LED in Settings for the device.
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Yup, it does. The only things you need to do are the ones it pops up and tells you about... which for me, was reminding me to give it access to see my notifications.
I've been using Light Flow since it was released, so I typically start fresh on each new device to report any issues before I import my notifications backup.
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I usually use the provided LED settings in ROMs since Light Flow doesn't give you LED options for every app (Tweet Caster for example).
stevew84 said:
I usually use the provided LED settings in ROMs since Light Flow doesn't give you LED options for every app (Tweet Caster for example).
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Yeah, I am sure it doesn't support every single app in existence. I usually run into an unsupported app once a year or so and the dev always adds it very quickly upon request.
dmarden said:
Yeah, I am sure it doesn't support every single app in existence. I usually run into an unsupported app once a year or so and the dev always adds it very quickly upon request.
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Well damn, I didn't even know a request was an option! thanks.
Any help from people have it working properly?
I'm rooted and it only blinks a white/purplish light. Solid green when charging.
Test and real notifications don't show requested custom color
I have the option for pulse turned on but have not had any notifications use the led. In fact I don't even know where it is on the phone bc it hasn't turned on once. Does it not work without lightflow or similar app?
minieod said:
Any help from people have it working properly?
I'm rooted and it only blinks a white/purplish light. Solid green when charging.
Test and real notifications don't show requested custom color
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I have the same problem. I have seen a pink and red work as well though but orange = forget it!
One thing that worked for me is to not use custom colors
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asif9t9 said:
One thing that worked for me is to not use custom colors
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The App is pointless then IMO
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Hello,
I received my S7 Edge (Exynos), installed my Light Flow app (paid) and it is not working. Tried the Samsung-specific workaround proposed by the app, Direct Mode, etc. and nothing.
Any idea about this ? Any alternatives to Light Flow ?
Thanks !
It works if you turn off the always on display and you enable the samsung fix.
I was using Light Manager on my Xperia Z2 and I'm using it again on S7 Edge. It works without any problems with Always on display feature.
AmesCell said:
It works if you turn off the always on display and you enable the samsung fix.
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niebyl2002 said:
I was using Light Manager on my Xperia Z2 and I'm using it again on S7 Edge. It works without any problems with Always on display feature.
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Thanks for the tips, everyone. I am not willing to give up the Always-On display, I think I will try the Light Manager.
niebyl2002 said:
I was using Light Manager on my Xperia Z2 and I'm using it again on S7 Edge. It works without any problems with Always on display feature.
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May I ask you about your settings?
You have 'always on display' ON as you said, what about 'LED-Display' in the 'Display' Settings?
I have the 'Light Manager Pro' and Mode on 'Normal Mode', but the notification is not working..
Here's my settings:
Display -> Led indicator -> Turned On / Enabled
Display -> Always On Display -> On
As far as Light Manager, I just installed app and configure some colors for apps, no other changes:
Normal Mode
Enable Fix -> unchecked
Shows notification Only
I have not made any display nor light manager changes. All was as it was installed / default.
Hope that helps. One more thing I have regular version NOT Pro
Works, I dont know why exactly but it does - thanks!
Light Manager works if you are charging. It seems to get pretty flaky on battery. I set it to turn the screen on when starting the light and it's better. Still not 100% accurate.
AmesCell said:
It works if you turn off the always on display and you enable the samsung fix.
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Can someone confirm this? Its still not working for me.
reayard said:
Can someone confirm this? Its still not working for me.
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He just confirmed it...
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Brava27 said:
He just confirmed it...
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He confirmed it for Light Manager but his first comment was for Light Flow which is what I am trying to use.
Lightflow I could only get to work if I disabled the always on screen in the phones settings and enabled the Samsung fix in Lightflow (it prompts you for the Samsung fix). The Samsung fix means notifications don't get dismissed correctly a lot.
Light Manager works with the always on screen. It worked great when I set it up while charging. It got pretty unreliable running on battery. So I set in Light Manager advanced settings I enabled "Wake Screen". Works a lot better like that. Normal mode and no 5.1.1 fix needed.
Always on OFF
Lightflow is working for me
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Can someone confirm this? Its still not working for me.
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Yes I can confirm. I have lightflow working fine.
I have the always on screen off, and have done right from the start. The fact it only displays missed calls and sms is useless to me. Until it starts show all notifications, then I won't use it.
Notifications always clear fine as well.
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prophet42 said:
Yes I can confirm.
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Okay, I tried again and found that I must not disable the LightFlow notification. I have installed the legacy version and LightFlow now works and without the permanent notification.
Thanks to all who answered!
reayard said:
Okay, I tried again and found that I must not disable the LightFlow notification. I have installed the legacy version and LightFlow now works and without the permanent notification.
Thanks to all who answered!
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Same as. I prefer legacy. Constant lightflow icon and notification does my head in. Legacy all the way!
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prophet42 said:
Same as. I prefer legacy. Constant lightflow icon and notification does my head in. Legacy all the way!
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reayard said:
Okay, I tried again and found that I must not disable the LightFlow notification. I have installed the legacy version and LightFlow now works and without the permanent notification.
Thanks to all who answered!
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Which LF version are you on?
kevinbakon said:
Which LF version are you on?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlegacy&hl=en
Anyone with a rooted phone can try Light Flow to see if it works ? The app has some "root options" that may or may not make a difference
Right now the following issues are present:
- Does not work when the Always-On screen is on
- All applications from Google (Gmail, Messenger tried) do not work, unless you set their "Notifications" toggle off, which is even worse than Light Flow not working
Thanks !
LED blinker pro works perfectly.