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Notification LED doesn't flash

The new message notification LED on my (new) LTE Gnex only flashes once or twice, just when the phone boots up. Doesn't flash when a new message arrives. I've tried disabling it, and re-enabling it in settings, but it just does not work. This does not seem normal, and I'm wondering if I need to return the phone, which I really don't want to do. I've already unlocked the bootloader and rooted, but still running the stock ROM.

cam30era said:
The new message notification LED on my (new) LTE Gnex only flashes once or twice, just when the phone boots up. Doesn't flash when a new message arrives. I've tried disabling it, and re-enabling it in settings, but it just does not work. This does not seem normal, and I'm wondering if I need to return the phone, which I really don't want to do. I've already unlocked the bootloader and rooted, but still running the stock ROM.
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Have you tried Light Flow from the Market?
This has worked with the stock ROM.
I personally use Trackball Alert Pro - MoDaCo ROM has suppport for this.

Just tried calling myself, and hung up. The LED isn't lighting up. But I have seen it blink for emails at least. Hmm.. maybe try light flow.

justbabu said:
Have you tried Light Flow from the Market?
This has worked with the stock ROM.
I personally use Trackball Alert Pro - MoDaCo ROM has suppport for this.
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Have not tried any 3rd party apps, yet. First I wanted to know if there was a problem with my phone, or if this is "just" a bug. If others have this same problem, then I'll try a 3rd party solution. Thanks for the feedback.

Tried the same thing, called myself and sent messages with no led notification. Thought my led was broken but then installed light flow and it worked no problems.
Not sure how it was supposed to work stock but could not get it to work at all without a 3rd party app.
Without the app, the only option I could fight was pulse notifications which I tried turning on and rebooting but it never seemed to work.

maybemobile said:
Tried the same thing, called myself and sent messages with no led notification. Thought my led was broken but then installed light flow and it worked no problems.
Not sure how it was supposed to work stock but could not get it to work at all without a 3rd party app.
Without the app, the only option I could fight was pulse notifications which I tried turning on and rebooting but it never seemed to work.
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Thank you for the feedback. This is exactly the same behavior that I am seeing.

justbabu said:
Have you tried Light Flow from the Market?
This has worked with the stock ROM.
I personally use Trackball Alert Pro - MoDaCo ROM has suppport for this.
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Just tried light flow. When I tried the "test LED" function, my phone would no wake from sleep. Also got sleep of death when I got an email. Had to do a battery pull. Any solution for this?
I looked at Trackball Alert and it requires Paul's ROM, which I'm not ready to try (yet).

I noticed it doesn't light up when it's charging either. Is this normal behavior?

From what I've seen so far the stock light is a hit and miss for me. Only time will tell how they will improve this.

Do you have it set on? Lol that's all I can think of. Mine works fine
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ceredics said:
Do you have it set on? Lol that's all I can think of. Mine works fine
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Yes, mine is enabled.

Well its not your phone....The light stock is stupid I have no idea why you would include a light that only flashes random times and only in white..... I had issues with lightflow crashing my phone when waking with several notifications flashing. Just bite the bullet an flash ARHD or Paul's rom they both support Trackball notification and it works very well!!

Danny80y said:
Well its not your phone....The light stock is stupid I have no idea why you would include a light that only flashes random times and only in white..... I had issues with lightflow crashing my phone when waking with several notifications flashing. Just bite the bullet an flash ARHD or Paul's rom they both support Trackball notification and it works very well!!
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I don't think these two have a CDMA/LTE ROM yet, do they?

cam30era said:
I don't think these two have a CDMA/LTE ROM yet, do they?
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I'm pretty sure ARHD has 2 versions...gsm/lte

ceredics said:
Do you have it set on? Lol that's all I can think of. Mine works fine
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Yep. Probably don't have/use most apps that support it for me to notice it all the time.

I've been having the same trouble. Haven't seen the light in days.
I went back and revisited some of my settings. I had turned on the setting for the screen to "stay awake while charging." I unchecked it, and now my light is working again.
Now, it only ever comes on when the screen is off to begin with. It won't come on if the notification happens while it's already on.
But at least the light comes on when the screen is off now!
(And I really wish the blink rate was higher. You can look at it for several seconds between blinks, and think there's nothing and look away.)

So the change I made to the settings seems to have fixed the light issue. I have been properly getting notifications since I turned off the keep awake. Seems like an easy enough to fix bug as long as they know about it.
But now what I want is a faster blink rate. One second on out of every 6 or 7 seconds is easy to miss.

Problems with screen brightness, LED notifications, Xprivacy / slowness

So I seem to have a whole bunch of problems with my D851, and am curious if others have the same problems and know of fixes. Mine has 20g (stock Lollipop) installed, and is rooted.
Main problem: enabling Xprivacy makes this phone become significantly slower. The settings menu crawls with Xprivacy turned on. Anyone else experience this?
Auto brightness is *way* too dim to use. Surely, I must not be the only person experiencing this? I see a few people mention it in passing, but it doesn't seem to be an big deal. Are people not using auto brightness? Or do most folks not have this issue? All other devices I have with Lollipop allow a brightness range if set on auto. This one doesn't ? Can I get this feature somehow?
Even when I set the brightness manually, it keeps getting reset to 100% some half the times it wakes up from sleep. Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone know of a fix?
Also, the display off time never gets set. I set it to 30sec or 1min, and it always gets reset two 2 min.
The notification LED is virtually useless. It blinks once in like 20 seconds when I get an email (gmail app). I rely on this. Is there a fix to get it to blink every second or 2 seconds? Light manager didn't work.
What I don't understand is, since I experienced all these issue on pretty much a phone out of the box + rooted, I'm surprised they don't seem to be common problems.
Thanks in advance.

fivemill said:
So I seem to have a whole bunch of problems with my D851, and am curious if others have the same problems and know of fixes. Mine has 20g (stock Lollipop) installed, and is rooted.
Main problem: enabling Xprivacy makes this phone become significantly slower. The settings menu crawls with Xprivacy turned on. Anyone else experience this?
Auto brightness is *way* too dim to use. Surely, I must not be the only person experiencing this? I see a few people mention it in passing, but it doesn't seem to be an big deal. Are people not using auto brightness? Or do most folks not have this issue? All other devices I have with Lollipop allow a brightness range if set on auto. This one doesn't ? Can I get this feature somehow?
Even when I set the brightness manually, it keeps getting reset to 100% some half the times it wakes up from sleep. Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone know of a fix?
Also, the display off time never gets set. I set it to 30sec or 1min, and it always gets reset two 2 min.
The notification LED is virtually useless. It blinks once in like 20 seconds when I get an email (gmail app). I rely on this. Is there a fix to get it to blink every second or 2 seconds? Light manager didn't work.
What I don't understand is, since I experienced all these issue on pretty much a phone out of the box + rooted, I'm surprised they don't seem to be common problems.
Thanks in advance.
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I think maybe you got a dud. Try flashing a rom and see if problems stop,if they don't then get another phone through warranty

Still_living714 said:
I think maybe you got a dud. Try flashing a rom and see if problems stop,if they don't then get another phone through warranty
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Thanks, I think that was a part of it, but not all of it. I tried flashing stock on a different unit, and I found that the brightness issue was largely (but not fully) better, and the display settings not getting set issue went away. The Xprivacy and LED notification issues remain, and will occur on all units as far as I can tell. I haven't seen anything here that contradicts that info.

fivemill said:
Thanks, I think that was a part of it, but not all of it. I tried flashing stock on a different unit, and I found that the brightness issue was largely (but not fully) better, and the display settings not getting set issue went away. The Xprivacy and LED notification issues remain, and will occur on all units as far as I can tell. I haven't seen anything here that contradicts that info.
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I have xprivacy and my phone is still very smooth plus my LED works just fine. I even changed the colors

Still_living714 said:
I have xprivacy and my phone is still very smooth plus my LED works just fine. I even changed the colors
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Thanks a bunch for the info, this is good to know, and good to hear from another D851 user. The Xprivacy issue may be less easy to measure. The LED issue may be more objective. I have no trouble with changing LED colors. It's the blink rate that's at issue. Are you able to get it to blink say, twice per second, or even once per second when you get new email in your gmail app if you use that? Are you using any kind of an LED app?
Also, are you running Lollipop? Stock? Rooted? Thanks.

fivemill said:
Thanks a bunch for the info, this is good to know, and good to hear from another D851 user. The Xprivacy issue may be less easy to measure. The LED issue may be more objective. I have no trouble with changing LED colors. It's the blink rate that's at issue. Are you able to get it to blink say, twice per second, or even once per second when you get new email in your gmail app if you use that? Are you using any kind of an LED app?
Also, are you running Lollipop? Stock? Rooted? Thanks.
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I'm always rooted lol I'm running fulmics 5.0 and in the settings it gives you the option of length and speed of the LED. I highly recommend that rom if you want to try out marshmallow.

Still_living714 said:
I'm always rooted lol I'm running fulmics 5.0 and in the settings it gives you the option of length and speed of the LED. I highly recommend that rom if you want to try out marshmallow.
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Very good to know again, thanks for the recommendation! And the LED options are an additional reason. I'll try out fulmics soon.

Light flow

Has anyone figured out to get light flow to overwrite the settings for the notification light in settings? It seems like my settings from both are working.
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How do you set Light flow? On my phone it doesn't work (Oxygen 3.2.0)

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by rooting the op3.. i dont know about the unrooted phone.

For me, even with root and playing around with the LED settings, no luck.. I cant get it working unfortunately. The fancy stock colors the OP3 shows (especially for google+ or tapatalk) are dont even make sense to me.

kewkie said:
For me, even with root and playing around with the LED settings, no luck.. I cant get it working unfortunately. The fancy stock colors the OP3 shows (especially for google+ or tapatalk) are dont even make sense to me.
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I've been able to get it to work using Xposed/Gravitybox under the Ultimate Notification Control section.

slonn said:
I've been able to get it to work using Xposed/Gravitybox under the Ultimate Notification Control section.
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Confirmed! You just need to get used to the colors, but it is working, thanks for this!

I use Light Manager. A little simpler than light flow and works perfectly fine on my OP3.

My light flow (pro) is working fine. Got snapchat glowing yellow whatsapp green and charging light set to red. Seems to be working fine.

vwgti18 said:
My light flow (pro) is working fine. Got snapchat glowing yellow whatsapp green and charging light set to red. Seems to be working fine.
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Did you turn on accessibility? And what LED control methods do you have on in settings?
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I'm sorry I'm not using light flow. It's actually light manager!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanager

Light Flow Pro here in pair with Legacy (to get rid of the notification) and it works fine...as for the legacy however i contacted the developer and it gives me a modified apk that however will be in the play store (or maybe it is yet)

SedyBenoitPeace said:
Light Flow Pro here in pair with Legacy (to get rid of the notification) and it works fine...as for the legacy however i contacted the developer and it gives me a modified apk that however will be in the play store (or maybe it is yet)
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I'm using this combination as well, and it's working.. sort of. When my screen is off, the notification light constantly cycles through all the available colors, just like when you run the test and have to turn the screen off.. only permanent. Not sure why it's happening, never had this issue w/ any previous devices. I did restore my data from previous install, but I've gone through all the settings and checked/unchecked at some point and it's still happening. Thoughts/

bigmase521 said:
I'm using this combination as well, and it's working.. sort of. When my screen is off, the notification light constantly cycles through all the available colors, just like when you run the test and have to turn the screen off.. only permanent. Not sure why it's happening, never had this issue w/ any previous devices. I did restore my data from previous install, but I've gone through all the settings and checked/unchecked at some point and it's still happening. Thoughts/
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I talked with the developer.. It seems that is an Oxygen OS related issue.. He told me that also the s7 edge was having that issue and it was fixed by Samsung with a software update.. On Oxygen I read also some people that has problem with stock led control.. Then probably there is something buggy on our system..
I didn't try any other led app however.. Did you?

SedyBenoitPeace said:
I talked with the developer.. It seems that is an Oxygen OS related issue.. He told me that also the s7 edge was having that issue and it was fixed by Samsung with a software update.. On Oxygen I read also some people that has problem with stock led control.. Then probably there is something buggy on our system..
I didn't try any other led app however.. Did you?
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Oh that's good to know, thx for sharing. I haven't tried any other app yet, I just disabled LightFlow for now since the constant cycling has to chew up extra battery when the screen is off. I'm also still on 3.1.3, going to upgrade to 3.1.2 and see if that helps.

Disabling Charge LED

I depend on the LED to see notifications when my phone is idle.
I've read that charging the phone forces the LED on and blue.
Assuming I will be rooting, and using xposed, is there any option available to disable this such that the LED functions normally at all times?

Notification light comes on as normal even when charging.

tofuboi01 said:
Notification light comes on as normal even when charging.
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So what's the blue LED that is forced on when using dash charge that I've read about?

Trel said:
So what's the blue LED that is forced on when using dash charge that I've read about?
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Basically, while charging the phone has a solid blue LED whoever if you get a notification the blue stops and is replaced by the blinking green or whatever colour for the other notification is

Trel said:
So what's the blue LED that is forced on when using dash charge that I've read about?
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No idea about it being forced on while dash charging but that's just to indicate it's charging at dash speeds. Notification alerts will blink priority over charge indication.

What I think: When you charge at 'normal' speed the led is red, with dash it is blue (and this can't be changed). That's all... Like said as soon as you get a message it will change until you checked it.

superiscch said:
What I think: When you charge at 'normal' speed the led is red, with dash it is blue (and this can't be changed). That's all... Like said as soon as you get a message it will change until you checked it.
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I think you're missing the point.
Suppose I have an notifications for specific email accounts that's blue and red.
I'm on the other side of the room (or in bed) and I glance at my phone to see if I have anything I need to address.
The LED is on and Blue/Red.
Do I have an email or is it charging?

Trel said:
I think you're missing the point.
Suppose I have an notifications for specific email accounts that's blue and red.
I'm on the other side of the room (or in bed) and I glance at my phone to see if I have anything I need to address.
The LED is on and Blue/Red.
Do I have an email or is it charging?
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Steady blue is charging, blinking or different color is email...

superiscch said:
Steady blue is charging, blinking or different color is email...
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*sigh*
Let me be specific.
I want it OFF when charging unless there's a notification.
Can I do that with some combination of
1. Stock software
2. Root
3. Xposed

Trel said:
*sigh*
Let me be specific.
I want it OFF when charging unless there's a notification.
Can I do that with some combination of
1. Stock software
2. Root
3. Xposed
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No need to *sigh* when people try to help you. Just making clear how the situation is, i see it it too hard for you to see if a led is blinking or not. Good luck finding a solution.
I know I won't waste any more time here.

If you are willing to flash a nougat based rom ( as I have flashed AOKP N 7.1 on mine), you'll get the option to disable charging led under lights in display settings.
P.S. Not sure other N ROMs have got this option or in stock OOS or CB.

AJay27 said:
If you are willing to flash a nougat based rom ( as I have flashed AOKP N 7.1 on mine), you'll get the option to disable charging led under lights in display settings.
P.S. Not sure other N ROMs have got this option or in stock OOS or CB.
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Any chance that's in any of the Marshmallow roms?
I do need to have access to Xposed for Gravitybox and other tools I use, which isn't yet available on Nougat.

Trel said:
Any chance that's in any of the Marshmallow roms?
I do need to have access to Xposed for Gravitybox and other tools I use, which isn't yet available on Nougat.
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Sorry. I don't know. Maybe someone else could help.

Trel said:
Any chance that's in any of the Marshmallow roms?
I do need to have access to Xposed for Gravitybox and other tools I use, which isn't yet available on Nougat.
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thats the most basic feature and available in all roms

Ajaykumar21066 said:
thats the most basic feature and available in all roms
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That being the case, would you recommend any particular 6.0.1 rom (that does allow me to disable the charging LED) then?
I'm trying to get as close to stock Android or at the very least stock OxygenOS as humanly possible while still being able to disable the hardware buttons in favor of enabling the software ones.

Just to update, I found (still on my Nexus 5) an option in Gravitybox to disable charging LED. I don't know if that would work on the Oneplus 3, but it looks hopeful. I'm likely going to make the purchase soon then.

Trel said:
Just to update, I found (still on my Nexus 5) an option in Gravitybox to disable charging LED. I don't know if that would work on the Oneplus 3, but it looks hopeful. I'm likely going to make the purchase soon then.
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I'm pretty sure any of the cm13 will have that option

Trel said:
Just to update, I found (still on my Nexus 5) an option in Gravitybox to disable charging LED. I don't know if that would work on the Oneplus 3, but it looks hopeful. I'm likely going to make the purchase soon then.
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Worked on op3?

[APP]AMOLED Notification Light "NotifyBuddy"

Interesting project ... NoLED replacement?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6t/themes/app-amoled-notification-light-t3943715

i'm using this. it's quite good imo but we can't change the led colors (yet)

rzki03 said:
i'm using this. it's quite good imo but we can't change the led colors (yet)
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Didn't worked for me

rzki03 said:
i'm using this. it's quite good imo but we can't change the led colors (yet)
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Change the led colors is working.

Check this

fereidooni said:
Didn't worked for me
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Did you set:
Disable Ambient Display and any battery optimisation for the app.
Give notification access permission.

Guys who can't make it work, try turning on "Wake lock screen for notifications" option in lock screen settings.

After the last update it stopped working again. I've given it every permission, I've disabled ambient display, I've disabled battery optimization, I've locked it in the recent apps, I rebooted several times, nothing helped. I tried turning on and off auto brightness, wake for notifications, dt2w. I saw it working a few hours ago, but now again nothing. This is the last thing left to make this phone a normal phone.

I am now on Havoc ROM but ... on last 9.7.18 was all ok. Fully working.

For me doesn't show notifications for missed phone calls, MiuiEu.
I think Led Blinker is better and I will stay with Missed Notifications Reminder.

He wrote in first post: "Don't enable the LED for the "Phone App" as it will interfere when an incoming call is coming! Will fix this soon".
On Havoc is working fine and I have using too: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dan_ru.ProfReminder it is good combo.

dzidexx said:
For me doesn't show notifications for missed phone calls, MiuiEu.
I think Led Blinker is better and I will stay with Missed Notifications Reminder.
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For some reason I've never looked at blinker. Looks interesting and seem to work. Thanks!

Thought on battery life with this app? Works flawlessly however I'm curious on the battery life.

vigilante7373 said:
After the last update it stopped working again. I've given it every permission, I've disabled ambient display, I've disabled battery optimization, I've locked it in the recent apps, I rebooted several times, nothing helped. I tried turning on and off auto brightness, wake for notifications, dt2w. I saw it working a few hours ago, but now again nothing. This is the last thing left to make this phone a normal phone.
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Same here. Not working at all.
Disabled ambient display
Enabled wake for notifications
Disabled battery optimization for the app
Enabled notification access
Chose a color for the apps I want
Nothing.

What rom do you have? On crDroid is all ok ... I am using every day.

Hey guys,
after trying several apps (e.g. NotifyBuddy) and none of them worked as I imagined, I found this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.used.aoe
It brings not only the possibility of an alternative AOD with icons or edge lighting but also a fake notification LED. That is exactly what I wanted. It works for me with fingerprint scanner deactivated but face unlock activated. Did not try with FOD so far. But I have it set to show Lockscreen on new message and afterwards show the fake LED.
I'm quite satisfied. But I have no long time experience. Just a few hours. So I can't tell anything about battery behavior

Xiaomi 9 SE 10.3.3.0 Global Rom
It worked OK after first install. Then I rebooted ...and it does not work at all. I have tried all the settings I used the first time and all the suggestions given in this thread, but I can't make it work again.

Same here. Any solution?

It does work perfectly . I'm using this app more than a month - no issues whatsoever.
Just add this app to exclusions in security panel , cleaner etc.
Check for the newest version which is 1.50 for today.
If you have any issues , just clean and uninstall older version and install fresh, new one.
Finally i have smartphone with "led" notification . No led was the only cons about this phone for me
I hope it will help you guys.
Ps. Red dot on screenshot is during charging , while i took screenshot , only then is possible to do it - in case if someone will ask to show other color
Ps.2. I'm on xiaomi.eu 11 Rom Dev , but this app also works on Masik Rom 8.5 .
Propably it works on any rom , settings is the key to make it work.