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How to set notification led color?

I noticed (unless it was my imagination) 2 different colors for my notification led (which I was pleasantly surprised to find), Gmail is like a light blue, and I think it was fb that was regular blue, so is there an app to set the led color for each app?
Or at least see all the colors it can display?
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mvmacd said:
I noticed (unless it was my imagination) 2 different colors for my notification led (which I was pleasantly surprised to find), Gmail is like a light blue, and I think it was fb that was regular blue, so is there an app to set the led color for each app?
Or at least see all the colors it can display?
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You can use LightFlow which allows you to control the notifications (light, sound, vibration) for a ridiculous amount of apps. Works perfectly on the Nexus 10, I've used it on my Galaxy Nexus forever. It's a phenomenal app. That's the lite version, there's also a pay version which unlocks more features.

+1 for lightflow, I use it on my phone its great. Trying it for my N10

I'm pretty sure some apps have built in customization for the led color, I've seen it in the facebook and facebook messenger app.

mike02vr6 said:
+1 for lightflow, I use it on my phone its great. Trying it for my N10
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It works very well. Prior to configuring lightflow notifications were not illuminating the LED. After setting up lightflow all is as it should be.

daLareid said:
I'm pretty sure some apps have built in customization for the led color, I've seen it in the facebook and facebook messenger app.
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I looked in the Facebook settings but all it had was a toggle to enable notification light, no to change the color.
EDNYLaw said:
You can use LightFlow which allows you to control the notifications (light, sound, vibration) for a ridiculous amount of apps. Works perfectly on the Nexus 10, I've used it on my Galaxy Nexus forever. It's a phenomenal app. That's the lite version, there's also a pay version which unlocks more features.
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lol.. well I had found this app before starting this thread, however it seemed like it was messed up because it kept showing a light when I had no notifications. Turns out it was "No signal," and after disabling everything in Light Flow, I can test the led for colors.
I suppose you cannot use any other apps that Light Flow doesn't have? for example Facebook or Google Voice? I don't see any way to add an app. oh well.

mvmacd said:
I suppose you cannot use any other apps that Light Flow doesn't have? for example Facebook or Google Voice? I don't see any way to add an app. oh well.
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Are you using the lite version. Facebook and GV are there for me on the paid version

mvmacd said:
I looked in the Facebook settings but all it had was a toggle to enable notification light, no to change the color.
lol.. well I had found this app before starting this thread, however it seemed like it was messed up because it kept showing a light when I had no notifications. Turns out it was "No signal," and after disabling everything in Light Flow, I can test the led for colors.
I suppose you cannot use any other apps that Light Flow doesn't have? for example Facebook or Google Voice? I don't see any way to add an app. oh well.
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You can't add programs but the paid version has like over 300 different apps I think. Well worth the dollar or two. I use it for Google Voice on both my N10 and GNex and it works perfectly. If it's not there it's likely due to being the lite version as mentioned above.

mvmacd said:
I looked in the Facebook settings but all it had was a toggle to enable notification light, no to change the color.
lol.. well I had found this app before starting this thread, however it seemed like it was messed up because it kept showing a light when I had no notifications. Turns out it was "No signal," and after disabling everything in Light Flow, I can test the led for colors.
I suppose you cannot use any other apps that Light Flow doesn't have? for example Facebook or Google Voice? I don't see any way to add an app. oh well.
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That's odd, my phone doesn't even have led notifications support and it shows it to me in the options though lol.

mvmacd said:
I noticed (unless it was my imagination) 2 different colors for my notification led (which I was pleasantly surprised to find), Gmail is like a light blue, and I think it was fb that was regular blue, so is there an app to set the led color for each app?
Or at least see all the colors it can display?
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I've noticed the following:
White - Gmail/Gtalk
Green - Yelp, Flight Track
Blue - Facebook
Red - Google+
I heard there was a Purple, but so far I haven't been able to trigger it.

shoyuu said:
I've noticed the following:
White - Gmail/Gtalk
Green - Yelp, Flight Track
Blue - Facebook
Red - Google+
I heard there was a Purple, but so far I haven't been able to trigger it.
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Craigsnotifica goes purple. (Edit: On my S3) Try that.

If you couldn't tweak the color led light for Facebook, go to Setting -> Notifications -> Light

If you're willing to root and flash a custom ROM, many feature the ability to control led and set custom colors on a per-app basis. From personal experience, I know that the AOKP ROM by Task650 and Ktoonsez has an awesome interface for doing so.

How to enable notification light for gmail?

As title states...is there a trick to do this? Notification led works fine for texts, but I get nothing for gmail. Thanks
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There's an app called Lightflow on the Play Store that works great for changing the notification light settings. There is so much customization you can do, it's a really great app I would definitely recommend that you check it out.

Just tried that...didn't work. I always used light manager...didn't work at all. Can someone confirm ye or ne that gmail led notification works on this phone?
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Looks like there is no way to have multi colored led lights using third party apps...light manager nor lightflow will change colors. Bummer
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powerwagon said:
Looks like there is no way to have multi colored led lights using third party apps...light manager nor lightflow will change colors. Bummer
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The LG notification light software could be overriding third-party program settings. When you use the notification test mode in lightflow, the LED does show up as whatever color you configured for that notification. I just got the phone and I haven't had a chance to really mess around with the notification light so I'm not sure.

Test mode only shows red no matter what color you choose in both light manager and lightflow
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powerwagon said:
Test mode only shows red no matter what color you choose in both light manager and lightflow
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Then u have a defective phone...

alright, this is what I do to get mine to work.
Download Light Manager. Make sure operating mode is set to normal. Then just to test the LED settings change the missed call of any normal notifications to a color of your choice. Then under the same menu where you changed the color hit Test. Once you hit test a pop up menu shows up. Says something about screen off or something. Well don't click anything. Just hit the power button on your G2 and turn the screen off. wait 3 seconds and you should see the notification blink the color you just picked. now turn the phone on, click ok and click Restart light manager.
Now for Gmail, or other apps to blink custom colors you need to uncheck the notifications from normal system settings. go to settings - display - Notification led. Don't click the on.off switch, click the words Notification LED. Then uncheck Missed call, meissed messages and missed Emails. well, all of this fixes mine. I have Customs LED set and it works fine.
Hope this helps

[APP] Light Manager Compatibility

I am the developer of Light Manager. It is an app to configure notification LED color and its flashing frequency for different notification types.
I noticed that there are quite a lot of Nexus 5 users are using Light Manager app. Almost comparable to Samsung devices which Light Manager is designed based on. So I would like to make it fully compatible with Nexus 5. One major bug that users reported is the WhatsApp notification LED does not turn off even after notification has been read or cleared. I think it happens to other notification as well.
I don't have a Nexus 5 to test. Could someone willing to help in doing some beta testing? You may PM me or send me an email. I will send you the install apk for beta testing.
Thanks in advanced.

Actually I only start to have problem after update to 5.8, I am using ART
p.s. I got the same problem on hangout, not whatsapp

I have no issues with light manager but I don't use whatsapp or art.
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I use and don't have any problem with LM, using it for months on several devices...
But if you look for further versions testers, I'm your man!

DummyPLUG said:
Actually I only start to have problem after update to 5.8, I am using ART
p.s. I got the same problem on hangout, not whatsapp
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You mean the LED notification for hangouts remains blinking even after you have read the message? If you are using normal mode, did you enable "Allow Recreate Notification" in Light Manager > Hangouts option?

mckoo said:
You mean the LED notification for hangouts remains blinking even after you have read the message? If you are using normal mode, did you enable "Allow Recreate Notification" in Light Manager > Hangouts option?
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Yes it remains blinking in normal dalvik too.
i am using alternative mode
update:
I had disable ""Allow Recreate Notification" but it still remains blinking in normal mode

DummyPLUG said:
Yes it remains blinking in normal dalvik too.
i am using alternative mode
update:
I had disable ""Allow Recreate Notification" but it still remains blinking in normal mode
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Could you help out in testing? I have added some fix but not sure if it can fix it or not. Let me know if you are OK and I will send you the apk installer for testing.

mckoo said:
You mean the LED notification for hangouts remains blinking even after you have read the message? If you are using normal mode, did you enable "Allow Recreate Notification" in Light Manager > Hangouts option?
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I have the same issue for 8sms when the screens off it keeps flashing. Did it on my nexus 4 and my 5.

mckoo said:
Could you help out in testing? I have added some fix but not sure if it can fix it or not. Let me know if you are OK and I will send you the apk installer for testing.
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Yes I can help, but don't expect too much feedback from me due to I don't have too many msg per day to toggle the bug.
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I've been using light manager for a long time and haven't had any issues. Using ART runtime and Hangouts. I also use alternating mode if that helps.
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A Nexus 5 user reported that he found a way to simulate the whatsapp LED remains blinking bug at the link below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51149422&postcount=1727
Could someone here verify if it happens to you too? Just want to make sure if this bug happens to all Nexus 5 users instead of certain users only. By the way, he is using alternating mode.
Thanks in advanced.

I use to use this app a lot but the same issue with the whatsapp app was happening with Google hangouts for some reason.

I really love this app and always use it.
Is it possible to make notifications flash even if the screen is on? (i.e when using another app)
Thanks in advance

dd66 said:
I really love this app and always use it.
Is it possible to make notifications flash even if the screen is on? (i.e when using another app)
Thanks in advance
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This has to be done at the firmware side instead of application.
Light Manager can support it if manufacturer allows it.

mckoo said:
This has to be done at the firmware side instead of application.
Light Manager can support it if manufacturer allows it.
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Will custom notifications sounds be implemented in future releases or the donate version?
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Sometimes whatsapp notifications keeps blinking even after clearing the notification. It's needed to restart the light manager app.
It would be nice to have a led notification when receiving a call like light flow does.
There is no charging indication too. But I think it's a problem of nexus and not the app.
I keep using this app anyway, I use since a had a galaxy s4.
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FuMMoD said:
Will custom notifications sounds be implemented in future releases or the donate version?
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Unfortunately not at the moment.

mhdsanto85 said:
Sometimes whatsapp notifications keeps blinking even after clearing the notification. It's needed to restart the light manager app.
It would be nice to have a led notification when receiving a call like light flow does.
There is no charging indication too. But I think it's a problem of nexus and not the app.
I keep using this app anyway, I use since a had a galaxy s4.
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How come nexus is having charging indication problem?

mckoo said:
How come nexus is having charging indication problem?
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There's no continuous led when charging.
The s4 behaviour is: when charging, red led continuously, when fully charged green led continuously.
In my recent experience with nexus 5, I can see that, with the stock kernel, it's impossible to have continuous led, only intermittent.
With custom kernels, like Franco or faux, we can see in changelog that there is continuous led implementation.
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mhdsanto85 said:
There's no continuous led when charging.
The s4 behaviour is: when charging, red led continuously, when fully charged green led continuously.
In my recent experience with nexus 5, I can see that, with the stock kernel, it's impossible to have continuous led, only intermittent.
With custom kernels, like Franco or faux, we can see in changelog that there is continuous led implementation.
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You can try go to Light Manager > Advanced Settings > Static LED and select option 2. That will give you somehow continuous red LED (In fact it is just 8s on 2s off as reported by other Nexus 5 user).

Notification Light Not Changing Color

I am trying to customize the notification LED per app. I've tried 3 tools to achieve this but I am not having success. Both GravityBox and XBlast tools would let me change the colour, but it would never work. All my notifications were still white. Even when I "previewed" the notification light, it would still be white. I also tried light flow, but only a couple of notification lights would show (those were some of the predefined settings). Are there specific hex values I have to use to get it to work? I really want to get this to work but it is annoying me!!

Settings/accessibility/light flow is turned on?
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In the light flow app, settings/general settings/enabled?
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I found the issue. I didn't realize there are only certain colours for the LED. I was choosing custom colors, and if the hex value wasn't one of the few supported colours, it wouldn't work properly.

Same issue. Blue isn't working, but I can get it to flash for a brief moment... Also, I used to use orange, but I can't get orange to display at all. I hope this isn't a hardware problem.

Moto Z Front Facing LED

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but the Moto Z does have a front LED light that can be activated by changing /sys/class/leds/charging.
It seems to be activated when flashing in fastboot (?), and is a small white light between the camera and speaker. The Moto X LED app seems to work with root permissions. Unfortunately there's only one brightness, so the brightness control doesn't work.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.akexorcist.motoxled&hl=en

i've use this since moto x style, z play also can use, but no option for missi call / message

Use light flow legacy for led for missed notifications.

I'm using Moto Led Enabler (root required).
With this you can choose which app enables the led.
Not the most stable app at the moment but does the job.
I'm currently only using it for hangouts, gmail and missed calls.
Every couple of days it needs a kick in the rear to get going again

Seems good, I do miss the light on my old S4.

Feisar1985 said:
I'm using Moto Led Enabler (root required).
With this you can choose which app enables the led.
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Strange, it ticks all apps after close and open. And the LED did not go off. Is there some special setting necessary?
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Milly7 said:
Use light flow legacy for led for missed notifications.
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Did not work at all. Some special hint?

Feisar1985 said:
I'm using Moto Led Enabler (root required).
With this you can choose which app enables the led.
Not the most stable app at the moment but does the job.
I'm currently only using it for hangouts, gmail and missed calls.
Every couple of days it needs a kick in the rear to get going again
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Thanks for your tip.
I installed the Moto Led Enabler is working now.

I use Light Flow Legacy with great succes. The LED blinks with every notification I want and it works together with Moto display. It needs root though.
First install the app. Go to the setting and enable 'root modus' and 'use root on every action' (or something like that, I use a different language on my phone). Then go to notifications and set charging led to 'only' and brightness to 255 for every notification. That's all

Silvin_nl said:
I use Light Flow Legacy with great succes. The LED blinks with every notification I want and it works together with Moto display. It needs root though.
First install the app. Go to the setting and enable 'root modus' and 'use root on every action' (or something like that, I use a different language on my phone). Then go to notifications and set charging led to 'only' and brightness to 255 for every notification. That's all
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So it's required to have a rooted phone, right.
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razorsbk said:
So it's required to have a rooted phone, right.
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I guess it's not possible to access the LED without root. Not with this method anyway. So root is required for light flow legacy to work yes.