LED notifications not working.... - G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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 !!!!

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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 !!!!
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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.

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Top of screen and capacitive buttons unresponsive!

Hey everyone, I woke up this morning to find a surprise! My Atrix screen was unresponsive. It took me a couple reboots to figure out that the top part of the screen doesn't respond to touch. Worse yet, none of the capacitive buttons work. So if I get into an app, most of the time, there's no real way for me to get out of it, thus requiring a reboot and more careful selections.
The weird part is, it happened within a span of about 2 hours. I woke up around 5:30AM, checked some emails and texts, and woke back up around 7AM with a buggy screen. It did drop from about 18 inches off the couch last night. But everything was in working order...
Right now I'm in the process of backing up my text messages, because I might have to use a set of them to prove my case in court.
What's the first steps to try to get it back working? Or do you think its a hardware problem(maybe a cable loose)? As far as returning it under warranty goes, I'm rooted and unlocked on Kenn's GB ROM, so that's a no-go.
bigb252 said:
Hey everyone, I woke up this morning to find a surprise! My Atrix screen was unresponsive. It took me a couple reboots to figure out that the top part of the screen doesn't respond to touch. Worse yet, none of the capacitive buttons work. So if I get into an app, most of the time, there's no real way for me to get out of it, thus requiring a reboot and more careful selections.
The weird part is, it happened within a span of about 2 hours. I woke up around 5:30AM, checked some emails and texts, and woke back up around 7AM with a buggy screen. It did drop from about 18 inches off the couch last night. But everything was in working order...
Right now I'm in the process of backing up my text messages, because I might have to use a set of them to prove my case in court.
What's the first steps to try to get it back working? Or do you think its a hardware problem(maybe a cable loose)? As far as returning it under warranty goes, I'm rooted and unlocked on Kenn's GB ROM, so that's a no-go.
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you are unlocked/rooted/custom rom = no warranty
anyways backup and maybe reflash the rom and see how that goes.
Hopefully you don't need to replace the digitizer... But if you do, there are lots of videos and it's reported to be one of the easier phones to do. Keep that in your back pocket as an alternative to a lengthy and costly court fight over a phone with no warranty!
Sent
Thanks guys, I already knew the risks associated with rooting and unlocking. I used an app called SMS Backup+ that allowed me to backup all my sms/mms and it also linked and sent copies to my Gmail.
I'll go ahead and try a reflash
*EDIT*
Did a quick wipe of the phone, and during setup, everything was OK! When blur came back, it was back to the same thing.
Bump...
Still lost
I would suggest backup all you apps and do a complete wipe of data. I had a similar problem when I first installed Alien. This fixed the issue.
bigb252 said:
Thanks guys, I already knew the risks associated with rooting and unlocking. I used an app called SMS Backup+ that allowed me to backup all my sms/mms and it also linked and sent copies to my Gmail.
I'll go ahead and try a reflash
*EDIT*
Did a quick wipe of the phone, and during setup, everything was OK! When blur came back, it was back to the same thing.
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I would do a wipe and reinstall. You could also fix your permissions through rom manager or cwm.
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I had a simillar problem: WIPE through CWM solved this problem
hi, guys i had the same problem... I remember getting it shortly after updating it to the leak version of gingerbread. Since then I have flash Alien built #3 but the problem remains...
I'm currently doing a Nandroid backup of my phone so i could try flashing to cherrypie hopefully this will solve my problem cuz I'm seriously feed up with it...
do you guy's think this will help? if so any suggestions before i flash? thanks in advance...
I had this problem brand new out of the box. I just took it to the store and they gave me a new one. One other thing i noticed was the FP sensor/button was almost like loose and i had to push it in real far for it to work. Maybe its a stuck FP button...
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im having the same issue, i cant make the buttons work, i have wiped everything in CWM, and using fastboot also and nothing, also tried flashing different roms but the problem persists, if anyone know how to solve will be great
thanks
I think you have one file corrupted... I'll try to remember which
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I think it may be touchpad.cfg. try Googling that and see if you can find a clue.
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Try here: http://www.kandroid.org/online-pdk/guide/keymaps_keyboard_input.html#androidKeymapKeyLayoutMapTitle
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thnaks for the answear, i flashed the 10 point multitouch patch to see if solved the problem but it didnt, yesterday i reproduced the error but idk how to solve ir, im gonna make a thread to show what i did

Camera inverted (upside down) with CM7.

Hey guys.
I've been using CM7 for about a month now, currently in the 010911 Nightly.
Everthing was fine until this past week, when the camera of my phone started to have strange freezes and lags. Then, one time, it FCed and when I turned it back on, the display was inverted, and colors were all strange and washed off.
I've rebooted, cleaned the data, etc, etc, and nothing fix the issue. Keep in mind that there's nothing with the tilt sensor. It's something software related.
I remember seeing a fix for a similar problem a while back, but I searched this hole forum and couldn't find anything, so, I beg for your help.
Thanks a lot!
Sorry for the bump, guys. But I really need some light with this problems.
Try clearing Camera app data or switch to another nightly.
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ryan8r said:
Try clearing Camera app data or switch to another nightly.
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Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately, I already tried both things you suggested, with no luck.
Not sure if it has anything to do with it, but is the boot mode set to 2nd init by default ?!
You can also try using other camera apps like Vignette.
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dude, we are on the same boat. Tell me when u find a solution.
A temporary fix which i m not sure till when its gonna last but is working for the moment.
open camera, leave it opened and pull the battery. put the battery again after 2 mins and see if it helps you. Its working for me at the moment but dont know the logic behind the process.
I already got my camera hardware replaced but this problem happened again just after rooting the phone.
I have the same problem and I'm almost sure it is a hardware failure. Maybe after a shock or drop. I'll open my unit this week and see what's wrong. Did some of you manage to fix it?
I've even tried flashing full stock sbf without success, so I'd blame the camera module.

[Q] Led notifications colors with Cyanogen

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.
Ditamae said:
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.
If you want true led notification get an N1
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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.

Notification light

Hi Nexus 10 owners,
Love my Nexus 10 but I have an issue with the notification light under the screen.
It was working fine when I first got it on Friday, with it dimming on and off when an email is received.
But since yesterday, it hasn't light up at all, for any notifications, and I do have the "Pulse Notification Light" checked in setting.
So I was wondering if anyone else have any problems with the notification light? Could it be a bug, or perhaps my light broke after the first day?
Thanks in advance for any response.
I might suggest trying https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coolbeans.ledtester&hl=en to see if your light still works
espionage724 said:
I might suggest trying to see if your light still works
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Thanks for the suggestion.
Just tried the app and there's no light.
However, could it be that this app doesn't work on the Nexus 10 yet?
imistw said:
Thanks for the suggestion.
Just tried the app and there's no light.
However, could it be that this app doesn't work on the Nexus 10 yet?
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Yea it might be possible that app doesn't work; may want to see what an actual N10 owner has to report though
Works fine on my N10, only flashes white though, regardless what colour I pick.
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alias_neo said:
Works fine on my N10, only flashes white though, regardless what colour I pick.
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So I guess it's really just my N10 then.
Thanks though.
No problem, try reflash with stock images and you might get lucky. My Nexus 10 is buggy as sh** and I put it down to 4.2. It'll all get sorted out soon enough, hopefully yours is just a bug too. Hope you solve it.
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UPDATE
Just reset my N10 and now the notification light works again.:victory:
Guess it must have been one of the app interfering with the light.
BTW, when I tested it with a LED tester app, it can actually show green, red, blue and purple lights.:good:
alias_neo said:
No problem, try reflash with stock images and you might get lucky. My Nexus 10 is buggy as sh** and I put it down to 4.2. It'll all get sorted out soon enough, hopefully yours is just a bug too. Hope you solve it.
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Thanks, I actually just solved it so now I am happy. haha
BTW, what do you mean by reflash with stock image and put it down to 4.2?
imistw said:
Thanks, I actually just solved it so now I am happy. haha
BTW, what do you mean by reflash with stock image and put it down to 4.2?
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If I understand right, he just flashed a factory 4.2 image from Google, without any OTA updates.
You can get the factory software from the Google developer site and you can download it to your nexus device in case anything gets messed up.
By "put it down to", I mean I blame 4.2 (Android version on the Nexus 10) for all the bugs I'm having. It's a new OS, and this multiuser stuff amongst others means some pretty major changes so I expect it to be a little unstable for a while. Still a better state than honeycomb was when I bought my XOOM on launch day, boy was that a mess.
You're right about the lights, I just got it to work with all the different colours, cyan and then purple look nice
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alias_neo said:
You can get the factory software from the Google developer site and you can download it to your nexus device in case anything gets messed up.
By "put it down to", I mean I blame 4.2 (Android version on the Nexus 10) for all the bugs I'm having. It's a new OS, and this multiuser stuff amongst others means some pretty major changes so I expect it to be a little unstable for a while. Still a better state than honeycomb was when I bought my XOOM on launch day, boy was that a mess.
You're right about the lights, I just got it to work with all the different colours, cyan and then purple look nice
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Wow, I did not know about the factory software from the Google developer site. Guess i learned something new today. :laugh:
UPDATE #2
The notification light is not working again
Reset my N10 again, then performed a LED light test each time I install a new app.
Until the last app installed, the notification light was working, then after a few minutes it stops working again.
So I guess it's not really caused by 3rd party apps.
So I ask again, has anyone had problem with their N10's notification light?
Still hoping that it's a bug instead of just me having a defective unit.
Thanks again!
I'm having the same issues. Sometimes the LED seems to be working, others it's not. I installed LED tester and again, sometimes it works fine and others not at all. I have tried to spot a pattern to see what causes it to stop and start and have drawn a blank - no idea. I have since installed light flow but this has not helped. Seems to me that there is either a software bug and we haven't yet figured what the trigger is, or there is a dodgy hardware batch (I hope it's the former!)
hefferman said:
I'm having the same issues. Sometimes the LED seems to be working, others it's not. I installed LED tester and again, sometimes it works fine and others not at all. I have tried to spot a pattern to see what causes it to stop and start and have drawn a blank - no idea. I have since installed light flow but this has not helped. Seems to me that there is either a software bug and we haven't yet figured what the trigger is, or there is a dodgy hardware batch (I hope it's the former!)
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I think I've found the trigger. If I turn the device completely off, and turn it back on with the charger plugged in, notifications work. If I turn it back on with the charger unplugged, notifications do not work.
Other things I have tried which made no difference included factory reset and factory reflash.
Can some other folks see if their behavior matches mine? I have a replacement device being shipped to me, but if this is a software problem I'd rather not swap hardware. I'm very curious to hear if there are any devices that have a working LED under both boot up scenarios.
I think you are right. LED notifications were working ok when I had a freeze in google now. I restarted (on battery) and tested the notifications - no LED. I plugged in the charger, restarted the system and retested - LED working again. Looks like we have a workaround and a confirmed software bug rather than a hardware fault.
I'll test when I get home, but, I've only ever noticed the light when my tablet is plugged in, so it could be the same for me too. Shouldn't be a major problem, will get fixed in the next update as long as Google are aware.
alias_neo said:
I'll test when I get home, but, I've only ever noticed the light when my tablet is plugged in, so it could be the same for me too. Shouldn't be a major problem, will get fixed in the next update as long as Google are aware.
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I'm not entirely sure, there are people who are claiming that their LED works 100%.
kftrav said:
I think I've found the trigger. If I turn the device completely off, and turn it back on with the charger plugged in, notifications work. If I turn it back on with the charger unplugged, notifications do not work.
Other things I have tried which made no difference included factory reset and factory reflash.
Can some other folks see if their behavior matches mine? I have a replacement device being shipped to me, but if this is a software problem I'd rather not swap hardware. I'm very curious to hear if there are any devices that have a working LED under both boot up scenarios.
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Just tried this but still nothing.
Called Google today and they are sending me a replacement.
Ok, this is ridiculous.
Just unplugged my N10 and now the notification light is working.
So apparently it's working randomly.
Hopefully my replacement device works 100% of the time.
BTW, are replacement devices new, or refurbished?

[Q] Notification sounds from an unknown app

Hey
Over the last few days my phone has been making what sounds like a notification sound, it has two parts, a warbling sound followed by a beep. It doesn't sound like any notification from an app I use and the sound isn't in the default list of sounds or in media/audio/notifications/ and it continues to happen even if I have no apps running.
Has anyone had anything similar happen or know of a way to view what apps would permission to make notification sounds?
Thanks
Dan
Are you running stock or custom rom? If it's custom, just try to reflash it. Make sure to wipe cache/dalvik cache.
Beremus said:
Are you running stock or custom rom? If it's custom, just try to reflash it. Make sure to wipe cache/dalvik cache.
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Stock rom.
I've stopped as many apps as possible and It just won't stop it.
I keep trying to record a snippet of the sound but predictably after going for about 10 minutes non stop it's now packed it in.
Probably the NFC sound.
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joshnichols189 said:
Probably the NFC sound.
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Try disabling NFC.
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joshnichols189 said:
Probably the NFC sound.
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Thank you! that would explain why it's going off when it's sat near my wallet. Problem solved.
Me Too
Cabble said:
Hey
Over the last few days my phone has been making what sounds like a notification sound, it has two parts, a warbling sound followed by a beep. It doesn't sound like any notification from an app I use and the sound isn't in the default list of sounds or in media/audio/notifications/ and it continues to happen even if I have no apps running.
Has anyone had anything similar happen or know of a way to view what apps would permission to make notification sounds?
Thanks
Dan
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My WiFi only 2012 Nexus 7 has started doing this also the past 2 days. I'm running stock 4.4.2 and have been going through turning off anything the might generate a notification and it still does it. On or off charger, full battery, cool to the touch, screen on or sleep, no alarms set, no appointments, no chats and basically nothing common or easily overlooked.
I thought for a second it was related to juice defender, I'm still exploring that possibility. Do you have JD on your device? I'm going to uninstall it on my device and see what happens, I'll update in a day or so with my outcome.

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