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LED still showing despite switched off

My only grouse so far. I have disabled all led notifications but seems is not working. I still get to see the led flashing with emails , messages, n in charging mode
Is this a possible hardware issue
Is there any place I can edit the system files to disable it
Thanks
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mobile88 said:
My only grouse so far. I have disabled all led notifications but seems is not working. I still get to see the led flashing with emails , messages, n in charging mode
Is this a possible hardware issue
Is there any place I can edit the system files to disable it
Thanks
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Is there a chance you have Light Flow installed? Well if you don't try installing it to see if it shuts off. Then uninstall it because Light flow has other issues right now;

SlimJ87D said:
Is there a chance you have Light Flow installed? Well if you don't try installing it to see if it shuts off. Then uninstall it because Light flow has other issues right now;
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Why dont you use the fault thread?!

LeviathanPT said:
Why dont you use the fault thread?!
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Fault thread?

SlimJ87D said:
Fault thread?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1683945

SlimJ87D said:
Is there a chance you have Light Flow installed? Well if you don't try installing it to see if it shuts off. Then uninstall it because Light flow has other issues right now;
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No . I don't use this app at all

LeviathanPT said:
Why dont you use the fault thread?!
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Thanks for the highlight to this thread. Has posted my query there accordingly

mobile88 said:
No . I don't use this app at all
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Well try activating it to see if it fixes the problem. If hard reset doesn't fix it then it sounds like a possible hardware problem.
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Notifications

OK I'm really frustrated trying to find a solution. Is there a way to get the screen to light up for a few seconds to a minute or two or keep the soft keys on the Note to light up and blink interval when I get any form of notification, mostly need for messages, miss calls and kick messages and emails. I have tried every kind of app, Noled, MMF, Tasker and a few others. The closest I got to was Llama, which lights the screen up but only for a few seconds like less than 3 seconds.
Really need a solution fast, I keep missing my notifications until for more than an hour, I am on PA rom 0.4a and not sure if BLN works, installed the app but doesn't seem to work, someone please solve this issue for me and the rest suffering in silence.
So surprised how such a basic function of screen lighting up when there is a new notification was available in as old phones as my previous N97mini but can't even have it decently working by downloading apps from the play store. I am so tried of Googling, have been doing so for several hours and I am sick of it. Someone with the solution or with their personal solution please post on this thread and share.
Sorry for the rant but really need this fixed soon, once again I'm on PA rom 0.4a
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Anyone ??
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There is appl in appl section requires MOD
but another same fuction application and easiest way is NoLED application, get from Market

Not what you asked for but this might help.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.led.notify&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
John.

dr.ketan said:
There is appl in appl section requires MOD
but another same fuction application and easiest way is NoLED application, get from Market
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Tinderbox (UK) said:
Not what you asked for but this might help.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.led.notify&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
John.
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Thanks guys for the suggestions but NOLed is not what I'm looking for, it just drains battery and isn't bright enough to capture my attention but its fine. I found a solution... iPhone Notification.
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I hope you don't get burn-in, does it move the notification around?
John.
fabu09 said:
Thanks guys for the suggestions but NOLed is not what I'm looking for, it just drains battery and isn't bright enough to capture my attention but its fine. I found a solution... iPhone Notification.
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Notification light

Done a test and it's working but when receiving texts it doesn't blink. Pulse is ticket in settings.. Any ideas what could be wrong?
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Just download this app, and you can thank me later.

rumthin said:
Just download this app, and you can thank me later.
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Thanks for the link, but I wish it wasn't required!! Seems kind of pointless having an LED with the default settings, possibly a firmware bug?
Note:
On the up side, after installing that app, I'm yet the find a colour the LED can't manage

Yep thanks for the app and yeah agree should be stock android to pick colours
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Light Flow app on GS4?

Anybody using it? I just tried to set it up and it told me this (see screenshot). I don't have talk back or any of those other things enabled so I'm not sure what's the deal.
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phositadc said:
Anybody using it? I just tried to set it up and it told me this (see screenshot). I don't have talk back or any of those other things enabled so I'm not sure what's the deal.
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Yea I installed it and got the same message so I decided to just uninstall it for the time being.
I moved onto other things and will come back to that later.

imthatguy83 said:
Yea I installed it and got the same message so I decided to just uninstall it for the time being.
I moved onto other things and will come back to that later.
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I didn't uninstall... I just exited the app. Guess what though? Just got a gmail, and sure enough, led was blinking the light flow color at the light flow pace. So seems that it is actually working despite that odd message...
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Yeah, Light flow, LMT and others use the Accessibility services and only one can be on at a time I believe. Although I think if you have root it may be different with light flow.

There was a problem with past samsung phones where even though talkback was disabled the phone still announced the selection. Does this happen? In the description of the app theres a link that states Samsung fixed the issue but carriers never pushed the update fix yet.

Have you guys tried Light Manager instead to see if that works better? I like LM better than LF for my SIII, but the S4 is a different animal and LF may work better, just throwing that out there to see what you all thought

KryptosXLayer2 said:
Have you guys tried Light Manager instead to see if that works better? I like LM better than LF for my SIII, but the S4 is a different animal and LF may work better, just throwing that out there to see what you all thought
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Found this in the reviews:
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phositadc said:
Found this in the reviews:
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TRUE.... okay, well, hopefully both apps will be developed to work properly on the S4 soon! I know it took months for anything to happen with either one because they were trying to get data directly from Samsung - the dev of LF even went so far as to order an AT&T 747, and he lives in the UK! That would suck to have to go through again....

Oh please don't say Samsung have messed up with the accessibility service again. The leaked s3 4.2 android works quite well (without TalkBack)
Is the message actually true? Does it then go on to work (lightflow and the things it says won't)?
I hoped not to buy an s4,but if I need to to try and progress things I will.
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hamzer11 said:
Yeah, Light flow, LMT and others use the Accessibility services and only one can be on at a time I believe. Although I think if you have root it may be different with light flow.
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You should be able to have many (rooted or not). I've a collection of phones and will have lightflow, tasker and many other apps running on several of those phones.
The standard android source code certainly allows for it as I've checked it out extensively.

Can someone with an s4 on hand test out the free version of light flow to see if there are issues? Thanks

Works for me.. And I have all my air view and motion features working.
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YoungAceAtlanta said:
Works for me.. And I have all my air view and motion features working.
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I'm using Light Manager without any issues....... yet........

Light flow enables some aspects of talk back on my AT&T galaxy s 4. When light flow is enabled in accessibility (with talk back disabled, of course), if I select a picture in the gallery app, a very annoying voice tells me, "one item selected" even if my phone is set to silent. With light flow accessibility disabled, this doesn't happen. I can only stop it if I freeze Samsung and Google tts services with titanium. I'm not sure where else the talk back is inadvertently activated due to light flow.

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Light flow enables some aspects of talk back on my AT&T galaxy s 4. When light flow is enabled in accessibility (with talk back disabled, of course), if I select a picture in the gallery app, a very annoying voice tells me, "one item selected" even if my phone is set to silent. With light flow accessibility disabled, this doesn't happen. I can only stop it if I freeze Samsung and Google tts services with titanium. I'm not sure where else the talk back is inadvertently activated due to light flow.
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I can confirm this happens to me as well. I re downloaded light flow and this time clicked "ok" on the screenshot in the op, and now, if I go into gallery and select a photo, it speaks "one item selected", etc. I even have talk back DISABLED under all apps.
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Guys. Use Light Manager. Light flow is crap.
Light manager doesnt need root and doesnt use accessibility settings.
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geoldr said:
Guys. Use Light Manager. Light flow is crap.
Light manager doesnt need root and doesnt use accessibility settings.
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Light flow is far superior when it works. Many more options, like ending led on screen on, etc. With light manager I have to go into the notification drawer and dismiss the notifications to get led to stop blinking. I much prefer a quick screen on and off.
That being said, I'm using light manager for now because it doesn't have the talk back issues.
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phositadc said:
Anybody using it? I just tried to set it up and it told me this (see screenshot). I don't have talk back or any of those other things enabled so I'm not sure what's the deal.
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I didn't install lightflow for that very reason. Haven't tested it much yet but I just installed Light Manager and it works without any issues so far...(literally installed it less than a half hours before reading this post). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanager&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5rb28ubGlnaHRtYW5hZ2VyIl0.

phositadc said:
Light flow is far superior when it works. Many more options, like ending led on screen on, etc. With light manager I have to go into the notification drawer and dismiss the notifications to get led to stop blinking. I much prefer a quick screen on and off.
That being said, I'm using light manager for now because it doesn't have the talk back issues.
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Nope. Light manager advanced settings has an option to clear on screen on.
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geoldr said:
Nope. Light manager advanced settings has an option to clear on screen on.
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it does?

bobbydsiu said:
it does?
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Yup. Check advanced settings
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LightFlow discussion

I remember recently that there was an alternative to LightFlow being featured somewhere (forget if it was XDA or Reddit or somewhere else).
Does anyone remember it? I believe it was a bit more lightweight than LF.
EDIT: Decided to make this the general Nexus 5 LightFlow thread since that's what it pretty much became.
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I could find and try this one only.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanager
But eventually I moved back to light flow because it works better for me in KitKat.

I prefer light flow. I like being able to set it to dismiss the light as soon as I turn my screen on. Quickest way to get the light to stop blinking.
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phositadc said:
I prefer light flow. I like being able to set it to dismiss the light as soon as I turn my screen on. Quickest way to get the light to stop blinking.
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Where can i set this option? I can't find it.

netjunkie51 said:
Where can i set this option? I can't find it.
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Under each notification, choose screen on as the clear notification trigger.
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Edit: screenshot below

Screen shot

I've also just pushed out an update to lightflow specifically to address lots of issues and workarounds for the nexus 5.

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I've also just pushed out an update to lightflow specifically to address lots of issues and workarounds for the nexus 5.
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I know that 4.3 brought in persistent notifications like with apps like LF. Still no work around with hiding it?
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andrewpmoore said:
I've also just pushed out an update to lightflow specifically to address lots of issues and workarounds for the nexus 5.
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Thanks for the update! Still not seeing notification light for Hangouts - specifically for SMS. Anyone else experience this?

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I remember recently that there was an alternative to LightFlow being featured somewhere (forget if it was XDA or Reddit or somewhere else).
Does anyone remember it? I believe it was a bit more lightweight than LF.
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Maybe LEDBlinker?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900309
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Thank you for that tip on the screen on clearing. That's a godsend.

floepie said:
Thanks for the update! Still not seeing notification light for Hangouts - specifically for SMS. Anyone else experience this?
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Mine works fine.
I'm also using Hangouts but I didnt set any Hangout notifications, instead just used the SMS Apps one and the LED light works fine.

andrewpmoore said:
I've also just pushed out an update to lightflow specifically to address lots of issues and workarounds for the nexus 5.
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Thanks, just bought the app its working good.
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Enhanced said:
I know that 4.3 brought in persistent notifications like with apps like LF. Still no work around with hiding it?
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Uncheck the foreground option in settings. I always uncheck that and I've never seen any difference, except the persistent notification goes away.
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andrewpmoore said:
I've also just pushed out an update to lightflow specifically to address lots of issues and workarounds for the nexus 5.
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How about getting the led to be always on?
I've always liked it better than pulsing, and set it up like that in the Galaxy Nexus, but can't get it to work on the N5 yet.

is it worth having root mode on as well ?

Enhanced said:
I remember recently that there was an alternative to LightFlow being featured somewhere (forget if it was XDA or Reddit or somewhere else).
Does anyone remember it? I believe it was a bit more lightweight than LF.
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I see the very first app i ever purchased on the android market for my old N1 is still getting updates (sept 2013).... TrackBall Alert Pro... also Trackball Alert..
updates say it will work with any trackball (hah i miss that thing) and RGB LED.. from what i remember it was a pretty minimal app that let you choose colours/flash rate/etc...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.lilhermit.android.TrackballAlert&hl=en

Molitro said:
How about getting the led to be always on?
I've always liked it better than pulsing, and set it up like that in the Galaxy Nexus, but can't get it to work on the N5 yet.
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There's an option in each notification under the "light" tab for "LED flash rate" for "always on / very slow pulse". I have it that way for when my phone is charging.

ArkAngel06 said:
There's an option in each notification under the "light" tab for "LED flash rate" for "always on / very slow pulse". I have it that way for when my phone is charging.
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Yes, but in the N5 "always on" doesn't seem to work.

Molitro said:
Yes, but in the N5 "always on" doesn't seem to work.
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It works on mine for charging indication. What kind of app are you trying to get it to work on?
Edit: I tested in on gmail, and you are correct sir. It doesn't work.