Hey guys,
Ever since ICS update, the charging LED completely overrides all notification LEDs.
I used to have k9mail LED color set to white which results in the LED blinking red whenever a new email arrives. This works perfectly fine if the phone is not being charged and this also worked before ICS but this no longer works.
Anyone else notice this with their E4GT?
Thanks
My notification light has never worked except while charging it glows red, blue when full then unplug and sometimes it stays red
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Try blink or light flow in the market.
Ravaged Pheonix said:
Try blink or light flow in the market.
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Neither fix it
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Yeah this beg has been there since the early leaks, Samsung screwed us on that one and I guess Sprint never made it a priority to fix. This works in aokp though so I figure it also works in cm9 and other aosp roms.
I don't even use the leds they just blink and drain the battery. I have them disabled for everything including charging. You can't see it blink in your pocket so all its doing is wasting your battery as it blinks away unattended and it has notifications and vibration to alert you to an incoming message. No real point in having sound, vibration, an icon and a light for a notification. Plus ICS doesn't handle the LEDs properly and they keep the SoC from going into deepsleep causing excessive battery drain. You use less battery to click the screen on and look for an icon than you do with the LED blinking til you check it anyways.
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Anyone know of an app or a ROM that allows you to turn off the charging LED, so that the LED blinks on regular notifications like it would when not on the charger?
the OMFGB rom has the led on while charging but when you get a notification it chages color
so it goes from orange to green and blinks like that untill you view your notification
nazo0 said:
the OMFGB rom has the led on while charging but when you get a notification it chages color
so it goes from orange to green and blinks like that untill you view your notification
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MIUI does the same.
Thanks guys. From your responses it looks like the AOSP roms have this ability. I'm guessing CM7 has it too.
This functionality is helpful as my phone sits on the charger at my desk all day, and it sucks having to compulsively check it by turning the screen on all the time.
CM7 does it too. I wouldn't recommend it tho, it was too glitchy on mine, kept freezing on me...OMFGB hasn't crashed one time
try both and see which one you like better
I am on the latest cm7 nightly and have no issues with the led changing color for notifications when its on the charger.
Would this be possible on Virtuous? Or any other sense rom?
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I never noticed this until the lastest update, but the LED changes different colors for different notifications. Voice mail gets a green , Facebook gets a blue,etc..I remember my phone use to light up a rainbow color.. anyone noticed these changes?
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May be someone that can clarify your answer... all I know is that I use Light Flow to change the color of the notifications.
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Which update? Carrier or XDA?
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The blue notification comes from the 1.9 update of the Facebook app. I don't use Voicemail, so I can't comment on that. SMS notifications are white (whitish) by default, can't change that without 3rd party hacks.
I configured Whatsapp though, to give green notification light, but you could change that to anything else in the app settings.
If you want more options for other apps, use an app like lightflow, although personally I don't like it, never worked reliable for me.
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The led has always been different colors, depending on your apps. Nothing new.
RogerPodacter said:
The led has always been different colors, depending on your apps. Nothing new.
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I have Android 4.0.1, yakjuux, Galaxy Nexus from Fido.
So far, my LED light has never lit up when I get a Whatsapp message. There's an option for light color in the Whatsapp settings menu, but it doesn't seem to work. I don't feel I need to download third party apps (light flow) in order to make the built-in LED of the phone to work. Shouldn't the notification LED work out of the box, without any tinkering?
Anyone else have this issue?
Seems normal. Have u rooted? CM9 nighties now has great support for led color notifications
My led was never lighting up for some reason until I started using Light Flow. I can't understand why would they give us a nice multi-color led and not use it nicely. And my god have I missed the charging orange led and charged green from htc.
I'm also using Light Flow and it works great, otherwise not so much with stock but the LED has always been a tri colored led.
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Seems normal. Have u rooted? CM9 nighties now has great support for led color notifications
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Normal for the LED not to work, even thought Whatsapp has an setting for it? That seems ridiculous.
My phone is not rooted, and I don't think I'd have to in order to make this LED to work. Why even put one on the phone if it doesn't work???
Oliie23 said:
. And my god have I missed the charging orange led and charged green from htc.
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My led was never lighting up for some reason until I started using Light Flow. I can't understand why would they give us a nice multi-color led and not use it nicely. And my god have I missed the charging orange led and charged green from htc.
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So far, I haven't noticed any different colours on my GN. It would be great if it comes through the official update. Else CM9 shouldn't be far away anyways
I thought the GNex had an LED that at least lit up when charging. Mine didn't, so i took the phone back to the Sprint store. They thought is would have one, too, so they gave me a new one. Well, this new one doesn't have it either.
Now I'm wondering if there is no LED on the Sprint GNex. I get no LED notifications at all. Is this normal?
Have someone send you a gtalk message.
LED -> confirmed.
It is extremely limited. Use something like Light Flow to take full control over it.
But does it light up when you plug your phone in and it is charging?
No, hence my extremely limited comment
Download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.chatchatmeow.gnl or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.chargingLED for your fix, the Nexus doesn't do it stock.
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The LED is basically worthless without an app like Light Flow. It pretty much doesn't light up for anything when stock.
it lights up for missed calls and text notifications when screen is off.
use light flow or galaxy nexus LED apps in the market
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The LED is basically worthless without an app like Light Flow. It pretty much doesn't light up for anything when stock.
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On stock rom the light blinks blue for new text (handcent), green for new Google voice mail, white for new Gmail and calls.
Then if you want more you can install light flow or similar.
But no, there is no charging light.
Anyone get Light Flow and Go SMS working together? I can't get the notification LED to work whether it's using GO SMS's built in "blinking LED" function or using Light Flow.
When attempting to use light flow, I turn off the "blinking LED" option in Go SMS. I've also tried using the alternate monitoring options.
Still not working.
EDIT: Well, I ended up uninstalling Light Flow. Notification light works again. I just can't customize the LED color. Guess I'll have to wait until Light Flow gets updated to work with the S III.
Also, even though Go SMS "blink LED" works, the color settings are messed up. The color you pick doesn't correlate to what shows up. Must be an app issue as well. But hey, at least it works.
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the color settings are messed up. The color you pick doesn't correlate to what shows up.
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Same here.
Maverick777 said:
Anyone get Light Flow and Go SMS working together? I can't get the notification LED to work whether it's using GO SMS's built in "blinking LED" function or using Light Flow.
When attempting to use light flow, I turn off the "blinking LED" option in Go SMS. I've also tried using the alternate monitoring options.
Still not working.
EDIT: Well, I ended up uninstalling Light Flow. Notification light works again. I just can't customize the LED color. Guess I'll have to wait until Light Flow gets updated to work with the S III.
Also, even though Go SMS "blink LED" works, the color settings are messed up. The color you pick doesn't correlate to what shows up. Must be an app issue as well. But hey, at least it works.
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Did you go into accessibility and enable light flow there?
Maverick777 said:
Anyone get Light Flow and Go SMS working together? I can't get the notification LED to work whether it's using GO SMS's built in "blinking LED" function or using Light Flow.
When attempting to use light flow, I turn off the "blinking LED" option in Go SMS. I've also tried using the alternate monitoring options.
Still not working.
EDIT: Well, I ended up uninstalling Light Flow. Notification light works again. I just can't customize the LED color. Guess I'll have to wait until Light Flow gets updated to work with the S III.
Also, even though Go SMS "blink LED" works, the color settings are messed up. The color you pick doesn't correlate to what shows up. Must be an app issue as well. But hey, at least it works.
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Does the LED actually blink for you albeit with effed up colours? Cause it doesn't blink for me, just stays one solid messed up colour.
It stays solid just like you said.
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It stays solid just like you said.
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Solid LED: text notification
Blinking LED: General notifications, ie gmail
for social networks, facebook, ect, idk, since I don't use them
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Solid LED: text notification
Blinking LED: General notifications, ie gmail
for social networks, facebook, ect, idk, since I don't use them
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Then it goes the exact opposite of mine. Mine blinks for text notifications, and stays solid for others.
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Hes working on the app to address issues with lightflow an the gs3
Both my and my dad's sgh-i747 displays the wrong led colour.
Blue comes out as red, green as magenta, etc.
I'm starting to think its a problem with all north American versions of the.phone? My friends with the i9300 don't have this problem!
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Both my and my dad's sgh-i747 displays the wrong led colour.
Blue comes out as red, green as magenta, etc.
I'm starting to think its a problem with all north American versions of the.phone? My friends with the i9300 don't have this problem!
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Yeah the hex codes are all messed up in the NA version, so regardless of what program you are setting the colors with they're almost opposite. Yellow = White from my experience if anyone wants white haha
I'm so glad this got brought up, but it's a shame nobody's found a fix yet. It's such a subtle, yet mindblowingly irritating thing. Mine is sold red, no matter what I change in both the system LED settings, or the GoSMS settings. I haven't bothered with LightFlo, since everyone reported the mis-representation of color changes in the settings.
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Anyone know the fix for this?
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If your on a twiz rom the colors are gonna be all messed up. For example if you use light flow to change the color of the led you'll notice that the color you set it to be is not the color it is. This is an os problem. If you flash a stock android based rom like cm9 cm10 or aokp they will be fixed.
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If your on a twiz rom the colors are gonna be all messed up. For example if you use light flow to change the color of the led you'll notice that the color you set it to be is not the color it is. This is an os problem. If you flash a stock android based rom like cm9 cm10 or aokp they will be fixed.
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Now this is some handy info. Does this apply to someone having CM9 or 10 AND GoSMS as well?
Are there any similar apps to light flow? I was using it for awhile and I realized how quickly it was eating my battery.
Any suggestions?
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Try light manager yet? Seems to do the same, also seems to work for our version of the S3 as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1735331
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanager
Good luck!
I'll try it out and see how it goes! Thanks for the suggestion!
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Only blue/green/red seem to work.
Are the US S3s still screwy with the leds ?
I can get light manager and handcent to display some what different colors but all still have mostly blue tones. Handcent wont work at all except under "test".
I read somewhere that the leds between the different carriers is set up differently, like the AT&T version is different from Sprint.
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SimeonAS89 said:
Are there any similar apps to light flow? I was using it for awhile and I realized how quickly it was eating my battery.
Any suggestions?
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Did you have the "always on" option checked for light flow? The option which allows the light to be on whilst the screen is on? If so that uses a wake lock. Without that checked my phone slept.
But on a second note...
Anyone know how to get custom durations set up for light flow?
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You can try an AOKP ROM, they work fine on them.
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Did you have the "always on" option checked for light flow? The option which allows the light to be on whilst the screen is on? If so that uses a wake lock. Without that checked my phone slept.
But on a second note...
Anyone know how to get custom durations set up for light flow?
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Not that I know of. Where can I find that option, I'm not seeing it?
So far light manager is working out fine. I just wish it were a bit more customizable to my needs.
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I use light manager too....
My phone and girl (her phone) both are on a light flow right now... no pun intended...
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I'm using light Flow as well and I have noticed that my battery doesn't last as long. I think it's very customizable, I have different colors for different people when they text me. Different colors for apps as well.
But I think my LED light might be defective. When I set a light color (green, white, yellow, orange) sometimes the color shows, but it also shows a red spot on the LED.
Is that standard with LED'S or is mine defective?
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I'm using light Flow as well and I have noticed that my battery doesn't last as long. I think it's very customizable, I have different colors for different people when they text me. Different colors for apps as well.
But I think my LED light might be defective. When I set a light color (green, white, yellow, orange) sometimes the color shows, but it also shows a red spot on the LED.
Is that standard with LED'S or is mine defective?
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I'm not really sure about the red spot, but I noticed that on my phone as well. So far my only complaint about light manager is that it's not as customizable as light flow. I do prefer light flow, but I like having that little bit of extra juice at the end of the day.
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Actionx1 said:
I'm using light Flow as well and I have noticed that my battery doesn't last as long. I think it's very customizable, I have different colors for different people when they text me. Different colors for apps as well.
But I think my LED light might be defective. When I set a light color (green, white, yellow, orange) sometimes the color shows, but it also shows a red spot on the LED.
Is that standard with LED'S or is mine defective?
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by red spot, if you mean you can see what looks to Jr like the red led is lit, then it's normal. In order to make certain colors, the red led must be on. There are a total of three leds. Red, green, and blue. And when you have "white" selected as the color, all three led lights are illuminated. It's really weired when you think about it. But physics says when those three colors of light pass over each other, white light is seen.
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by red spot, if you mean you can see what looks to Jr like the red led is lit, then it's normal. In order to make certain colors, the red led must be on. There are a total of three leds. Red, green, and blue. And when you have "white" selected as the color, all three led lights are illuminated. It's really weired when you think about it. But physics says when those three colors of light pass over each other, white light is seen.
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Wow I did not know that. That is pretty weird. But I still don't get why I c the red spot in it, specially with white.
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Wow I did not know that. That is pretty weird. But I still don't get why I c the red spot in it, specially with white.
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Well that's why. Cause you have all led lights glowing, and the red sticks out. You can actually see all of them if you look closely
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To all of you who say liteflow kills your battery, does it show up in battery usage under settings? Mine has never appeared under there. Also, do you all have it flash fast, medium, or stay on? I have it under stay on as it says it is better for battery life.
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elflip88 said:
To all of you who say liteflow kills your battery, does it show up in battery usage under settings? Mine has never appeared under there. Also, do you all have it flash fast, medium, or stay on? I have it under stay on as it says it is better for battery life.
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If it's using a wakelock it won't appear there, you'll have to use a battery monitor app. But why would you set it to stay on when stock it flashes without killing battery? A lot of apps have custom settings for the led. Lightflow is pointless. It's supposed to be "customizeable" but if you have to set it to "stay on" then it's not customizeable. I tried to use it but my light got all screwy. It's really not needed for cm10 and alike builds.
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To all of you who say liteflow kills your battery, does it show up in battery usage under settings? Mine has never appeared under there. Also, do you all have it flash fast, medium, or stay on? I have it under stay on as it says it is better for battery life.
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If it's super heavy usage it'll show up in the settings. I use system panel to keep track of my app usage, stats, and all that fun stuff. It does use more battery than light manager does that's for sure.
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It keeps the phone awake after first notification that's why it drains battery. Still waiting for a fix...
Is this applications will work on S3 International LED notifications while screen is ON ??