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wanted: LED control

I love the DEFY really, but couldn´t find a customizer yet for the built in LED.
I want to config behaviour for e.g. sms or emails . Any ideas?

Hello
You should have a look at Missed Call, available on the market.
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I use missed call, sms notifier, email notifier.
The great thing with email notifier is you can select a different color depending of the e-mail account.

I tried Missed calls for Android 2.x on my Defy today but it didn't work. The LED was still blue when receiving a call and didn't flash when missed either.
Anyone having an idea?
I tried to disable led notification in the phone's settings but it still didn't work

App Blink -> Android Market

Same thing for me. Tested all the apps. The led is not working.
Even with Led tester which says that is compatible with defy, doesn't work. What to do?

ctalianos said:
Same thing for me. Tested all the apps. The led is not working.
Even with Led tester which says that is compatible with defy, doesn't work. What to do?
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I had a problem with the LED. When I activated it with the apps, nothing happen. I had to go in the phone settings to activate the LED.

Thanks for the hint molexxx. Do you own a Defy? Because I tried that app and it is not forking either. Not with LED turned on or off in general phone settings.
The only time I see this LED ever working is when receiving a phone call it is blue no matter what app I tell to light it in a different color

Have you tried "LED me know"?
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mrfab14163 said:
Thanks for the hint molexxx. Do you own a Defy? Because I tried that app and it is not forking either. Not with LED turned on or off in general phone settings.
The only time I see this LED ever working is when receiving a phone call it is blue no matter what app I tell to light it in a different color
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Yes I have a defy. It works perfectly.

TESLA app is working for me.

I've used "Flashlight" (use camera LED) & "Shake-Flashlight" (use screen LED) from my Defy and both works fine

MotoTorch for LED, and QuickSettings has a Display Flashlight included.

I didn't have any luck with any of these programs either. Missed Call only worked for missed calls, lol. No other programs would change the color of the front LED.

[Q] So am I right that Google didn't bother to add support for the LED in the SMS app

I don't get it, the notification LED works for everything EXCEPT the native SMS app! WTF is that about? Are they really that lazy to no include any LED notification options in ICS for this phone?
It works perfectly for FB, Whatsapp, Gmail, etc... but nothing for SMS/MMS?
Or am I missing something here?

Download light flow in the market. The lite version works perfectly, and you can set up different coloured led notifications for different apps

NOTORIOUS VR said:
I don't get it, the notification LED works for everything EXCEPT the native SMS app! WTF is that about? Are they really that lazy to no include any LED notification options in ICS for this phone?
It works perfectly for FB, Whatsapp, Gmail, etc... but nothing for SMS/MMS?
Or am I missing something here?
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Nope, you're not missing anything. Noticed it myself. I assume (or hope..) that Google will implement it anytime soon with an update.

? I get LED notifications for SMS..
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NOTORIOUS VR said:
I don't get it, the notification LED works for everything EXCEPT the native SMS app! WTF is that about? Are they really that lazy to no include any LED notification options in ICS for this phone?
It works perfectly for FB, Whatsapp, Gmail, etc... but nothing for SMS/MMS?
Or am I missing something here?
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Getting led notifications for native SMS normally

I think OP meant there are no -options- for LED notification for SMS messages. At least, that's how I interpreted it.

Petrovski80 said:
I think OP meant there are no -options- for LED notification for SMS messages. At least, that's how I interpreted it.
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OP said LED notification doesn't work for SMS. It works for me, but I'm using GO Sms pro and not stock.

Works for me to on stock
make sure pulse LED is selected in the settings, otherwise it wont but still works under 3rd party apps

It also works for me, that's not how I understood OP's problem. My point is that there are no settings for the notification LED in the SMS app. You cannot enable/disable it there, or choose a color.

sms native led works.gtalk led works.gmail led doesnt work (why?). twitter and facebook didnt test it and dont want it.missed calls led doesnt work (bad bad bad) most probably because of the screen on?

works here nativ too.
maybe faulty handset?

joecastrignano said:
Download light flow in the market. The lite version works perfectly, and you can set up different coloured led notifications for different apps
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WARNING: this app has serious compat issues with ICS.
It can cause your screen to not want to turn on again. I had to battery pull and then uninstall before the app started.

seven2099 said:
WARNING: this app has serious compat issues with ICS.
It can cause your screen to not want to turn on again. I had to battery pull and then uninstall before the app started.
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Yep.read few posts with problems came from light flow

You're right it does work I thought it wasn't working at all... but my other point where you cannot customize it for the SMS app is strange for having a brand new OS designed for a phone that has this feature.
I definitely don't want to install a 3rd party app for this.
thanks to all.

I am quite sure Cyanogen 9 will have that... CM7 does...

seven2099 said:
WARNING: this app has serious compat issues with ICS.
It can cause your screen to not want to turn on again. I had to battery pull and then uninstall before the app started.
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Just some additional info on this, based on my experience:
I had the same happening to me, but only after I went to "General Settings->Additional LEDs found" and checked the box (I did that because I thought something isn't working right, but turned out I was just too stupid ;-).
My guess is that what's listed there as an LED is actually the main display, and checking the box messes things up.
Since rebooting (by pulling the battery) and unchecking that box again, everything works perfectly.
Also, if your GN is rooted, Light Flow will ask for superuser rights. Decline that, it's not needed on the device (everything runs well without su rights, as far as I can tell)

Even the Nexus One didn't have built in options for the notification light. In fact, it wasn't until much LATER that someone realized that it can do different colors.
I think CM7 is the only rom that had the notification LED settings built in at a kernel level. Other roms required the use of 3rd party apps (which killed the battery).

Coming from the original Galaxy S which did not have any notification lights, I still prefer the NoLed application instead of the led light. NoLed allows you to see the contact photo as the indicator that you have an sms message.

I use SMS Popup. It is a great utility and it supports LED Notifications
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I haven't seen any LED notifications. Gmail, sms, or with go sms pro. I tried testing notifications and nothing happened. LED tester verified that the LED is in fact working though. So odd.

Notifiction LED

Anyone found a working app to trigger events for the notification LED?
BLINK seems to work, but doesn't support gmail, gtalk, etc and crashes sometimes
LightFlow - Lite did not work
LED me know BETA didn't work
To test your LED, LED Disco works quite well (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coolbeans.leddisco&feature=search_result)

Liteflow works perfect for me
That good I'm going to purchase the full version, as I'm missing Facebook notifications.

daoutlawz said:
Liteflow works perfect for me
That good I'm going to purchase the full version, as I'm missing Facebook notifications.
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I purchased the full version of Liteflow. Awesome. Supports over 100 apps.

Light flow perfect here too.

salada2k said:
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I purchased the full version of Liteflow. Awesome. Supports over 100 apps.
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i purcheased it also but...what have you set that it is working for you-...i tried to set liteflow but when i pressed test all led colors button....nothing was happening

BoneMo said:
i purcheased it also but...what have you set that it is working for you-...i tried to set liteflow but when i pressed test all led colors button....nothing was happening
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You have to activate it in "Settings" - "Eingabehilfe" (I think its called "input" in system section menu beneath date & clock ).
Otherwise it won't work

Turn on Settings > accessibility > Light flow
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Am I the only one to encounter problem with Liteflow Lite ?
With LiteFlow activated, an annoying voice speak when I receive a phone call, a text msg or when I open a folder in AppGrid !!

ryosaebakao said:
Am I the only one to encounter problem with Liteflow Lite ?
With LiteFlow activated, an annoying voice speak when I receive a phone call, a text msg or when I open a folder in AppGrid !!
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Just go to settings/accessibility on your phone and disable LiteFlow
LiteFlow will still works but you won't have this annoying voice anymore

Mopral said:
Just go to settings/accessibility on your phone and disable LiteFlow
LiteFlow will still works but you won't have this annoying voice anymore
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What does it help to have it activated?
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norpan111 said:
What does it help to have it activated?
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Yeah... what does it do to help?

can't seem to get light flow to work either, not even the test.

For anyone getting the voice notification for opening and closing folders, it seems to be a problem with the TouchWiz interface. I changed over to Go Launcher and no longer get the voice. Just went back to Touchiz for a test and the voice is back.

I have the same issue -
I have disabled LightFlow from accesibility - and now there is NO LED light and no nagging voice (while opening/closing the folder)
If i enable the LightFlow from accesibility - LED starts working and so does the nagging voice !!!
So for now we HAVE to use the lightflow with the painfully nagging voice !
Anyone has any solution to the problem ?

I just try with lightflow enabled in accessibility service and there is no nagging voice comming from my phone...

thanks, you guys are right. LightFLow does work. The only thing I didn't get to work right now are the two white LEDs at the bottom. (I could use those with LightFlow on my Defy without BLN-mod)
But that isn't that important as the Notification LED is quite noticable

Solution to "the folder is open"
I found a temporary solution to the nagging voice.
Disable Samsung TTS and Google Text-To-Speech engine.
this will disable text to speech in all apps that use one of these two, so if your using an application that uses one of those, your out of luck.
I tested S voice and it appears to not use any of them.

LIght Flow on LG G4

Is anyone using Light Flow with the LG G4 to control the LED? If you are can you please list the step to get it working the way you want it.

Turn off all the led options in the phones settings except the bottom "downloaded apps" option.

20degrees said:
Turn off all the led options in the phones settings except the bottom "downloaded apps" option.
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How's that working for you?

llaugerm said:
How's that working for you?
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It's the only way to get it to work. I had many emails with the dev in the last 24hours and you need to uncheck all options BUT "downloaded apps" in the stock notifications setting and it will work.
The other issue is that you might not be able to select "always on" as an option for the LED flash rate and actually have it stay on. So, instead, you have to set a custom time with say something like 50000,10 and then the LED will stop blinking. I have 2 notifications - charging and charged - when plugged in the LED would blink rapidly the colors I set no matter what I selected for LED flash rate time. Setting the custom length resolved that.

Lock-N-Load said:
It's the only way to get it to work. I had many emails with the dev in the last 24hours and you need to uncheck all options BUT "downloaded apps" in the stock notifications setting and it will work.
The other issue is that you might not be able to select "always on" as an option for the LED flash rate and actually have it stay on. So, instead, you have to set a custom time with say something like 50000,10 and then the LED will stop blinking. I have 2 notifications - charging and charged - when plugged in the LED would blink rapidly the colors I set no matter what I selected for LED flash rate time. Setting the custom length resolved that.
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Thank you, if you find more information please share it with us in this thread.

battery charging always on LED was blinking for me, so I set it to custom blink, and then something like 99999999,0

Anyone else running light flow and can you post some of your configuration?

i can only set the green led colour...the others don't work.

tonyeltriton said:
i can only set the green led colour...the others don't work.
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Which version do you have the lite version or the paid version?

llaugerm said:
Which version do you have the lite version or the paid version?
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The paid one, 3.54.14. But now i dont know what i have set that even the green led is not working on light flow. I should have made a config backup to restore now

tonyeltriton said:
The paid one, 3.54.14. But now i dont know what i have set that even the green led is not working on light flow. I should have made a config backup to restore now
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Mine is working fine. If you like I can share my back up configuration with you? Then you can make the changes. send me your email. by pm

llaugerm said:
Mine is working fine. If you like I can share my back up configuration with you? Then you can make the changes. send me your email. by pm
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I really appreciate that.

tonyeltriton said:
I really appreciate that.
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Sent. Please let me know if that works for you. Just go and do a restore.

llaugerm said:
Sent. Please let me know if that works for you. Just go and do a restore.
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Thanks again! Working like a charm!

tonyeltriton said:
Thanks again! Working like a charm!
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Excellent, I'm glad it did.

I have it working very well now after toying with a lot of settings and doing a lot testing & debugging/logging with the dev.
What we did find out through the tests is that - at least on the USA version with Verizon - it will not notify you if you have a Voice Mail or Visual Voice Mail (I use) and that it turns out, LG made it's own "voice mail" app - whereas in the past Verizon had their own voice mail or visual voice mail app. So, his next release addresses this new LG Voice Mail specific app because the 2 we have on the Verizon phone ( "Voice Mail" and "Voicemail Notification Monitoring") will not trigger a Lightflow notification as they are new LG specific app.

Lock-N-Load said:
I have it working very well now after toying with a lot of settings and doing a lot testing & debugging/logging with the dev.
What we did find out through the tests is that - at least on the USA version with Verizon - it will not notify you if you have a Voice Mail or Visual Voice Mail (I use) and that it turns out, LG made it's own "voice mail" app - whereas in the past Verizon had their own voice mail or visual voice mail app. So, his next release addresses this new LG Voice Mail specific app because the 2 we have on the Verizon phone ( "Voice Mail" and "Voicemail Notification Monitoring") will not trigger a Lightflow notification as they are new LG specific app.
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Do you figured out with the DEV how to make the light steady specially when the phone is charging instead of setting a crazy custom value?

llaugerm said:
Do you figured out with the DEV how to make the light steady specially when the phone is charging instead of setting a crazy custom value?
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No. We did not try to address that further given the custom number value solves that - which is why that function even exists. So, I - and I am sure he - looks at that as a low priority issue as that method works. However, once the VM/VVM issue gets resolved, I will ask him if there is a way to see how to get that working so no custom value is needed and so "always on" does it's job of being "always on".

Lock-N-Load said:
No. We did not try to address that further given the custom number value solves that - which is why that function even exists. So, I - and I am sure he - looks at that as a low priority issue as that method works. However, once the VM/VVM issue gets resolved, I will ask him if there is a way to see how to get that working so no custom value is needed and so "always on" does it's job of being "always on".
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Great.

20degrees said:
Turn off all the led options in the phones settings except the bottom "downloaded apps" option.
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It works for me!
thanks! :good:

S9 LED Indicator

Hey everyone. I'm coming from phones that haven't had always on displays so I didn't really think it was necessary but now that I've turned it off I noticed that when I get notifications the LED doesn't work for anything except my work e-mail through the outlook app. No gmail, allo, hangouts etc. I've also turned off edge notification and tried toggling the LED notifications, rebooting and a bunch of other stuff. Am I missing something simple? It seems like I should be able to get an LED notification for everything even if they are the same color.
Edit: whoops i totally meant to post this in the questions forum.. if the mods could move it that would be great >_<

I've got the same issue, I can't find settings to adjust led

really would like to know this...always have the AOD off

Wabem said:
Hey everyone. I'm coming from phones that haven't had always on displays so I didn't really think it was necessary but now that I've turned it off I noticed that when I get notifications the LED doesn't work for anything except my work e-mail through the outlook app. No gmail, allo, hangouts etc. I've also turned off edge notification and tried toggling the LED notifications, rebooting and a bunch of other stuff. Am I missing something simple? It seems like I should be able to get an LED notification for everything even if they are the same color.
Edit: whoops i totally meant to post this in the questions forum.. if the mods could move it that would be great >_<
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You have to do it in the app settings by going to settings/app/ pick your app then go in notifications /notifications /importance and change it to urgent.

I've done this but it's still not working !

ulissse said:
I've done this but it's still not working !
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Sorry! Working here

Mine is working, but I noticed that there seems to be a timeout on the LED. So if I don't clear the notification or look at the message or email then LED will stop flashing ( approx 30 minutes). During that time I have opened the home screen and dragged down notifications view from the status bar, but as I said I have not cleared or viewed emails or messages

Well, i'm happy it's working for you but in my case it seems gmail app don't accept led notification at all.

ulissse said:
Well, i'm happy it's working for you but in my case it seems gmail app don't accept led notification at all.
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Yes you are right , just tested and sent an email to my gmail account and the LED does not flash although I get a lockscreen notification . However I also use the samsung mail app to get gmail and when that synchronises with gmail, then the LED will flash.
I had a look at the settings in the gmail account , but can't see anything obvious

5teve0 said:
Yes you are right , just tested and sent an email to my gmail account and the LED does not flash although I get a lockscreen notification . However I also use the samsung mail app to get gmail and when that synchronises with gmail, then the LED will flash.
I had a look at the settings in the gmail account , but can't see anything obvious
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Yes, Samsung email app is working but take's so much time to synchronise, i hope Google will found a fix soon because Gmail app seems to have this problem with Oreo because not only Samsung phones have that issue!

I use an app called Light Flow, it allows you to set notification colours for various apps, e.g. Blue for Facebook, Green for Whatsapp. I absolutely love it, can see what notification you have just by the flashing colour

Just got S9 two days ago .
Can the Lightflow App enable the LED to flash notifications while screen is ON ...
BUT Always On Display is off. ?
I was also wondering the Lightflow App says it needs control over notifications and messages calendars etc. Is it reliable enough to not miss an appointment ?