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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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 have been experiencing problems with my phone wherein the led notification is not working. I use an app called lightflow to customize the colors for each notification. However, one day it just stopped working. I tried restarting the device and reinstallin the app to no avail. Please help i dont know what to do. Also i use 4.3 and is rooted
Go to SETTINGS >> DISPLAY and check if you have the Pulse Notification Light set to OFF.
quendil said:
Go to SETTINGS >> DISPLAY and check if you have the Pulse Notification Light set to OFF.
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Thanks. I feel so dumb to have overlooked that one.
Thabks again
mike_aldwin said:
Thanks. I feel so dumb to have overlooked that one.
Thabks again
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Hehe no worries.
I had the same problemand after a few hours of troubleshooting i did a hard reset... THEN i remembered that setting!!!
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
I don't use it very often but I do like one handed operation. Today I realized that it wasn't working so I started undoing all the mods/setup I've been working on. Turns out it was lightflow. I can disable it in accessibility options and one hand operation immediately starts working.
Are there any other decent led control apps to try?
Thought I'd post here to hopefully save anyone else the trouble if they run into the same problem.
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It seems like having anything enabled under Accessibility kills one-handed mode.
But Light Flow is working for me without the Accessibility setting. There's a new setting called Notification Access in the Security section.
Try enabling Light Flow there and see if it works. As I said, mine is working that way, but I'm also rooted, so maybe that has something to do with it...
Yeah it was enabled there too. Maybe there's just something wrong with mine because my wife just informed me that hers is working find and all she did was install it and forget about it. I had to enable options I've never used before like the one to make the led flash even when the screen is on, in order to get or to do anything at all.
I'm rooted too.
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Yeah it was enabled there too. Maybe there's just something wrong with mine because my wife just informed me that hers is working find and all she did was install it and forget about it. I had to enable options I've never used before like the one to make the led flash even when the screen is on, in order to get or to do anything at all.
I'm rooted too.
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Make sure that you have the LED settings under 'Settings' > 'Display' to have "Charging" and "Notifications" checked along with the checkbox in 'Security' > 'Notification Access'.
bd177 said:
Make sure that you have the LED settings under 'Settings' > 'Display' to have "Charging" and "Notifications" checked along with the checkbox in 'Security' > 'Notification Access'.
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Lol, looks like that was my problem. For some reason I thought they all needed to be turned off so I did that initially and didn't even think to revisit it.
Thanks.
So we don't need to enable it in accessibility? Cuz that ruins most features. Makes you disable them.
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So we don't need to enable it in accessibility? Cuz that ruins most features. Makes you disable them.
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Mine is currently disabled in Accessibility and enabled in Security -> Notification Access. In Display -> LED indicator, I have Charging, and Notifications checked.
Working like a charm.
Works good this way with or without root. Just installed.opened.enabled the notification access. And use. Doesn't need enabled in accessibility.
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dclutter1 said:
Lol, looks like that was my problem. For some reason I thought they all needed to be turned off so I did that initially and didn't even think to revisit it.
Thanks.
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In my S3 they had to be disabled in stock settings to work. In this they need to be enabled in stock settings for it to work. I know lightflow told me to disable it in stock settings on the S3.
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FWIW, I FOUGHT WITH THIS FOR A WEEK AND GOT NO WHERE. THE TASKER PROFILE LISTED IN THE REDDIT THREAD BELOW WORKS GREAT ON MY ROOTED PHONE. ALSO, LIGHTFLOW WORKED ON MY ROOTED PHONE. SO I AM JUST GOING TO ASSUME THIS REQUIRES ROOT
So, i have been searching and reading and asking around and I STILL cannot get the power button LED to light up with notifications.
I have lightflow installed
I have the notification and accessability settings turned on for the app
I have back button led 1 and 2 turned on
I have them turned to "always" on for notifications (I dont expect it to pulse)
I have the brightness set at 255 (But i have tried all other numbers in between)
I am NOT rooted
I am on stock 4.4.2
all other LED notifications seem to be working just fine and are the colors/speeds I set them to.
anyone able to get it working? not sure what else I can try to get it working.
if you have it working on stock rooted 4.4.2 let me know what options you have checked and unchecked in the "settings" page.
guess I'm the only one with this problem eh? lol
I didn't think it did light up. Only time mine does is when unlocking the screen.
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turdbogls said:
guess I'm the only one with this problem eh? lol
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Haha, on AOSP ROMs I used tasker to run a script that changed the values in the file that controlled the 2 back LEDs to 255 when I got a notification. Then it cleared the file, and so on until I turned the screen on.
I don't remember it exactly, and I'm pretty sure it would need root.
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I didn't think it did light up. Only time mine does is when unlocking the screen.
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by default it only works for a couple apps. others have had success with the latest lightflow app, but I haven't
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Haha, on AOSP ROMs I used tasker to run a script that changed the values in the file that controlled the 2 back LEDs to 255 when I got a notification. Then it cleared the file, and so on until I turned the screen on.
I don't remember it exactly, and I'm pretty sure it would need root.
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interesting, I poked around for a bit in tasker and didn't see anything in there for the back buttons. if you happen to come across this, or remember it, please let me know.
edit: i found the profile on Reddit to do this. going to give it a try in a little bit
Oh, please link me the reddit profile. It is probably better than mine. Haha.
Edit: Found my profile. I set it to trigger at a notification event. Works for me. (Remove the .txt at the end if you want to load it into tasker and look at it).
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Oh, please link me the reddit profile. It is probably better than mine. Haha.
Edit: Found my profile. I set it to trigger at a notification event. Works for me. (Remove the .txt at the end if you want to load it into tasker and look at it).
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here is the reddit thread. looks like it requires Root so I didn't even try it.
http://www.reddit.com/r/lgg2/comments/20769k/how_to_use_tasker_to_control_the_back_button_led/
but thanks for your profile. I loaded it, and it isn't giving me any errors, but I'm still not getting it to work. I have it set to trigger when a notification event happens...I set Hangouts to the "owner application" and still not getting it working.....I have almost given up on this working without root.
thanks for you help though. if you think of anything, I would greatly appreciate any help, but dont bend over backwards for me...haha
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.
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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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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.