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[Q] Blue notification led ???

Could somebody that knows what they are doing make an app to change sms, email, missed call led notification to blue? I know we have a blue light, it glows whenever your phone is done charging, and it would look really cool

Yeah me too

I was wondering this too. I know in handcent there is an option to select the LED color but it doesn't work. I know sometimes they have release updates to enable the LED for some phones in the past. Maybe they are working on it?

They could be, but I've realized that its a lot easier, and faster to ask the community for support. Who knows when we will get an update, to froyo and such if that what you ment.

swamp goblin said:
They could be, but I've realized that its a lot easier, and faster to ask the community for support. Who knows when we will get an update, to froyo and such if that what you ment.
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I was actually talking about the handcent developers

I'm curious about this too. I have actually tried several things to change the color of my notification light and nothing works.
At first my light wouldn't blink at all so I started looking into how to fix it. After doing the led test it started working when doing the test I noticed the green light actually flashes magenta so then I decided I needed a magenta light lol. I tried lots of things with no luck but I'm super new at learning how to customize Android. I just figured it was because I don't know what I'm doing yet. I usually use Handcent but recently changed to Chomp which also has the option to change the lights color.
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I'd love to change my led color too
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blazinazn said:
I was actually talking about the handcent developers
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Ohh sorry Ive never really used handcent, but if they could get the blue notification light working I would definitely start using it !

swamp goblin said:
Ohh sorry Ive never really used handcent, but if they could get the blue notification light working I would definitely start using it !
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Handcent is a pretty good 3rd party app. Some prefer Chomp. To each his own.
But I was looking through the release notes and heres an example from their website:
Handcent sms Version 3.2.3
27 Jul 2010
* Add LED supportion for EVO,it also imporve blink LED not only 5 minutes
* Fix Mms supportion for Ally
* Support Enable,Disable LED option for all sense UI phone
* Support Lock pattern for incredible
* Fix some widget bug
* Add greek sms mode option
http://www.handcent.com/News.php
Maybe you can try pinging them to see if they are working on it?

blazinazn said:
Handcent is a pretty good 3rd party app. Some prefer Chomp. To each his own.
But I was looking through the release notes and heres an example from their website:
Handcent sms Version 3.2.3
27 Jul 2010
* Add LED supportion for EVO,it also imporve blink LED not only 5 minutes
* Fix Mms supportion for Ally
* Support Enable,Disable LED option for all sense UI phone
* Support Lock pattern for incredible
* Fix some widget bug
* Add greek sms mode option
http://www.handcent.com/News.php
Maybe you can try pinging them to see if they are working on it?
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Yeah I will do that today, and I will post back here with the info..

Well I chatted with the handcent developer today, and we ran a few tests with the leds. We didn't do much, but at this point we found that you need su, or root access to control the led's to turn on and off etc... I'm not saying its not possible for support, and he didn't say anything either, but at least its being worked on and looked at

swamp goblin said:
Well I chatted with the handcent developer today, and we ran a few tests with the leds. We didn't do much, but at this point we found that you need su, or root access to control the led's to turn on and off etc... I'm not saying its not possible for support, and he didn't say anything either, but at least its being worked on and looked at
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cool deal. thanks for the update. Wonder if they will enable support and for those that have rooted phones, it should work, in theory anyways..

blazinazn said:
cool deal. thanks for the update. Wonder if they will enable support and for those that have rooted phones, it should work, in theory anyways..
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Yeah that's what I was thinking. I'm gonna talk to him tonight possibly, and try to figure out more about It.
But I'm pretty sure I will be switching to the evo this weekend because this Saturday is the 29th day, so if someone else wants to start talking to the dev about it that would be a good idea ha

Thank you for updating
I will just remain happy to have a red notification light
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Well, we found out that you do need root access for any led support.. this isn't a problem for many of us.
I was also told that they will consider and look in to adding support in handcent to change led colors for rooted epics, so its lookin pretty good at this point
I'm switching to the evo tomorrow, but I will still try to keep up to date with the dev, just to kinda finish what I started haha, just everybody cross your fingers ....

Its SO bizarre that these phone manufacturers will add LED lights but have limited or next to non-existent support/use of the LEDs.
If you are gonna include a LED, you can at least make it functional for more than charging. -___-;;;
Well, great news that Handcent is trying to make use of the LED! Would love for it to flash blue or magenta for text messages.

You don't need root to run the lcd test that you can change the colors with. Why would a program need root to change the color then?
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you are gonna be so sad when you get the evo. i cant believe you are switching im offended...........

I just found out (by playing around with the LCD test mode) that Epic also has magenta LED color besides the red and blue colors.
Try yourself by entering *#0*#
We could probably use three colors for three different events, for instance, email, sms, and missed calls.
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The magenta is do to the blue and red mixing
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Anyone Fixing The Notification Light

I experience and read of the unreliable and slow blinking LED notification light.
In my case, it will work about 50% of the time. I am hoping somebody in this community is looking it over.
It would be nice if were more reliable and at least blink faster.

What application do you use to manage your notification light colors?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow
^ Install that. It takes a bit to customize just how you want it, but it runs flawlessly.
There's a free version floating around on the market, but it's well worth the $1-2 or whatever it is now.

c0LdFire said:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow
^ Install that. It takes a bit to customize just how you want it, but it runs flawlessly.
There's a free version floating around on the market, but it's well worth the $1-2 or whatever it is now.
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Yep, this is what I use and it works very well. Set the blink rate to very fast (very nice rate), ans buy the full version, as you can set lights for social apps too.

I was looking at light flow but holy cow the permissions it wants gives me pause.
Is all that necessary?

Well, if others are saying they've used it for a bit it's likely ok. But I would assume it needs all the extra permissions because it needs to collect data from them to light the LED. Can't light the LED on a new SMS if you don't know there is a new SMS.

Aokp has led customization built into the rom.
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Grillrd said:
Aokp has led customization built into the rom.
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Thanks! AMAZINGLY - - !
Poor poor me cannot find a dark theme where they show screen shots of the messaging apps. They all seem to show every possible screen but those.
I am looking for reversed messaging app skins. white/gray/red (I don't care) text with BLACK backgrounds.
I do surveillance work. I need this.
And none of us want to break the law and text or read a message while driving but why wave a flag!

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12628-mms-messaging-app-inverted-black-background-with-white-text/
There ya go.

Xephik said:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12628-mms-messaging-app-inverted-black-background-with-white-text/
There ya go.
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Thanks,
I'll be digging in and report back soon.

I have lightflow too it work good on the stock Verizon with free and paid version. But I have tried AOKP no luck. The MODAC rom has special script to work with trackball alert app led notifications. I wish app light flow would have support scripts.
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Adrynalyne's Wookie ROM has increased notification light speed built in.
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dbnaruto said:
Yep, this is what I use and it works very well. Set the blink rate to very fast (very nice rate), ans buy the full version, as you can set lights for social apps too.
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I use LightFlow also, but I have the blink rate set to Always On. According to the developer, this saves battery because code has to run every time it blinks. Not sure if this applies to the Galaxy Nexus.

PolishPauL11 said:
I use LightFlow also, but I have the blink rate set to Always On. According to the developer, this saves battery because code has to run every time it blinks. Not sure if this applies to the Galaxy Nexus.
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I will give it a try.
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I had the 'sleep of death' testing out liteflow... I made the I assume mistake of enabling that 'other' LED that it detected as well. I had to redo my phone after that..

Choose LED Color for messaging and missed calls?

I have noticed for different reminders, our galaxy s3 has a lot more colors included in this LED. Was wondering if there is any app I could use to control these specific colors yet? I've tried blink, sms popup, and LED control and the colors you have to pick from are not matching with what colors the phone flashes. Just didn't know if there was anything out there yet for us to control that

I noticed this too. It's funny once I noticed it was purple lol. But it would be cool to find a app or maybe it come in a ROM or something. But I doubt anything is like that now. Just have to stay patient and let the devs know about it and hope we can see it in the near future.

Lightflow.... It is almost ready for GS3 the development of it is occurring as we speak.
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Lightflow... So good I guess I will post twice....
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Is Lightflow going to be in a ROM or just a flashable zip or an app?

.Bambino said:
Is Lightflow going to be in a ROM or just a flashable zip or an app?
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It is an app
http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/1826

Naddict said:
It is an app
http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/1826
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App looks pretty cool. Thanks for the information.

So if I'm not mistaken this app isn't ready yet for the gs3 right? Last time I used it the colors were off. You would choose red and get white or choose green and get red.

rey_1178 said:
So if I'm not mistaken this app isn't ready yet for the gs3 right? Last time I used it the colors were off. You would choose red and get white or choose green and get red.
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Yes, They are having some issues right now. Maybe the next update it will be fixed. Last time it was updated was July 17th.

Hey guys, good news. I found a free app called light manager. Its in the market/play store. It will let you modify the led color and flash rate. And it actually picks up the correct colors too. Check it out, it was just updated today 07/31/2012.

powerstroke said:
Hey guys, good news. I found a free app called light manager. Its in the market/play store. It will let you modify the led color and flash rate. And it actually picks up the correct colors too. Check it out, it was just updated today 07/31/2012.
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The colors are still not correct in this app.

seems to work perfect for me on all colors, not sure why its not for you. sorry

powerstroke said:
seems to work perfect for me on all colors, not sure why its not for you. sorry
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I am running stock. This has all different colors. It also will produce random white/blue LEDs without any notification in the notification bar.

Another option would be to root, and go with the CM10 preview build (it's very stable at this point, good enough for a daily). You can apply LED colors/blink intervals to just about anything with it. No other apps or hacking required. :good:

Doesn't look like Light Manager or Light Flow works yet.

Could be differences between models
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Doesn't look like Light Manager or Light Flow works yet.
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I've tried both as well, I'm on a Telus SIII (I747M) and not having any luck with any of the suggested apps, but I have heard of people getting it to work. So at this point, it could be possible its a difference in the devices and control of them. I'm glad someone is looking into this because I used to have a BlackBerry and I loved the ability to customize the LED completely down to what colour light flashes when a certain contact texts or calls. It was so customizable, this is the first Android device I've had that has an LED, so hopefully we will be able to take control of it! :good:

Works on S III
Works great on my Galaxy SIII (rooted, Sprint version) !

I'll vouch for Light Flow, but its a little buggy. my green light stays on when i have signal (even when turned off)

Light flow just got updated today and fixed the green light always on with a lot of other app fixes.

Lightflow is cool. But all assigned colors do not work... Yet....
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Notification led fix ever possible?

Do you guys think a fix for the Led color issues will be possible? Is there any way to tell if it's a hardware issue? I'm wondering if it would be worth it to return the phone. I bought it in early July... Am wondering if it's been fixed in newer ones

I've owned the International GS3 & the AT&T version. It'd ridiculous that this issue hasn't been addressed yet. I've receive about 4 update on my Int. GS3 & it has yet to be corrected

What's the problem with yours?
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Ya, what's the issue with the LED?

I know on mine google voice makes it light up solid purple, which most likely isn't the correct intention.

eallan said:
I know on mine google voice makes it light up solid purple, which most likely isn't the correct intention.
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LED not working properly is a known issue and from what I've read, it's software related which means a fix will happen (possibly even with JB release).
-Ryan

Ya, the colors are off. I have an app that can change the color for whatever I want and it doens't work well. Red and Blue are great, but thats about it. YOu can see it trying to change but the color mix is way off.

eallan said:
I know on mine google voice makes it light up solid purple, which most likely isn't the correct intention.
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Hmm, mine is blue for text messages, purple for facebook notifications and red for google talk. I don't have a problem with those colours.

I have a constant green light that appears when I use that app. And no, it's not charging.

I flashed ktoonsez's KT747 kernel and my LEDs work well now. I can even configure colors if the apps allow it.

ookba said:
I flashed ktoonsez's KT747 kernel and my LEDs work well now. I can even configure colors if the apps allow it.
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Thanks. Tried this kernel - it fixed the main colors (RGB), but Pink, Orange, and etc are still ugly. They look like a unmixed paint of different colors.

ookba said:
I flashed ktoonsez's KT747 kernel and my LEDs work well now. I can even configure colors if the apps allow it.
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Odd, I have the same kernel installed (the stock one though, I dunno what version you have), and my notification LEDs are screwy too... Except for the red charging, blue Gmail (which I can't seem to change) and Green fully charged... Which work perfectly. So yeah, probably a software issue.
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I thought purple was normal for certain notifications.

Halmo said:
Hmm, mine is blue for text messages, purple for facebook notifications and red for google talk. I don't have a problem with those colours.
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Are you using an app or a custom ROM to make your LEDs light up that way?

Have you tried using light flow to change the led light color?
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Light flow doesn't work properly. Colors are all wrong unfortunately.

Moozh1 said:
Are you using an app or a custom ROM to make your LEDs light up that way?
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No, that's stock.

amarpatel said:
Light flow doesn't work properly. Colors are all wrong unfortunately.
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Dev has found a fix for that but only for rooted GS3
8 August 2012 - fix for GT-I9300 settings in root mode. Updated translations files for new languages added. Testing on non S3 phones. Added support for another 24 apps. Started to prepare build for next release to play store (this usually takes about 1-2 days depending on if any issues are identified in the "lite" version of the app as development is all done on the full version)
http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/1826

Light Flow release the app today. Its in the market

Halmo said:
Hmm, mine is blue for text messages, purple for facebook notifications and red for google talk. I don't have a problem with those colours.
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Are you using an app or a custom ROM to make your LEDs light up that way?
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No, that's stock.
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That's strange. I am completely stock and my phone only blinks blue for all notifications, including texts, gmails and google talk. Is that not normal?

LED control app?

Looking for the best led control app available. Having the notification led back was one of the biggest wins on this phone for me (having come from a skyrocket 2 days ago). not having a notification led has been bugging me since I came from blackberry. I had an app on my bold that could make calls, texts, and emails different colors, combinations or patterns. Would like this app to make the led flash while ringing too, not just a missed call.
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-Kevlar- said:
Looking for the best led control app available. Having the notification led back was one of the biggest wins on this phone for me (having come from a skyrocket 2 days ago). not having a notification led has been bugging me since I came from blackberry. I had an app on my bold that could make calls, texts, and emails different colors, combinations or patterns. Would like this app to make the led flash while ringing too, not just a missed call.
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Light flow is currently as good as you will find.
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Notification Led
Another option that you got is to flash an CM10 or or PA Hybrid ROM, it has a built-in seetting for Led Control, it works flawlessly.
Cheers!

theres also light manager. I believe the dev built it specifically for the GS3.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanager&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5rb28ubGlnaHRtYW5hZ2VyIl0.

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theres also light manager. I believe the dev built it specifically for the GS3.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanager&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5rb28ubGlnaHRtYW5hZ2VyIl0.
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Tried that one, and it was derped on US S3. I tested the miss call, and it did show the color, however, the light would not go away afterwards(even after clearing the call, disabling the app, and even uninstalling the app)
Lightflow so far has worked pretty well(the one for rooted phones)

I am using light flow. I did not need the pro features but the dev deserves money for the supprt he provides
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Light Flow is def a great app. Provides plenty of customization and if needed the pro version provides LED notifications for many different apps from the Play store.

None of these can have the led on when screen is on or incoming call.
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Original thread discussing Light Flow here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728788
Blog by the author discussing the SIII here:
http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/1826
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Lightflow so far has worked pretty well(the one for rooted phones)
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Where did you get the rooted version of LightFlow? Just download the market version and it will ask for root? I don't see any of those details on the blog by the author.... just see where he said he's been messing with the root version, not posting it for download, do you have a link to it somewhere?
Unless you mean the Lite version, where he states this:
....the S3 USA versions have some issues unless your phone is "rooted" (See our website for more details)....
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Definitely looking for the full version for my rooted SIII if you know anything about that! Will pay for it, just to be clear, but need the full version, not just the lite one....

Full version of light flow has the ability to be used in rooted mode. Works well here. No issues.
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CM have LED control

Stager.27 said:
CM have LED control
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So does AOKP.
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the latest lightflow version is causing wake locks and preventing the phone from going into deep sleep
the LED controls in the ROMs is nice but kinda sucks as it doesnt cycle thru the lights... meaning if i have a missed call (red), voice mail (purple) and a SMS (blue) only my red light will only flash... will not cycle thru meaning with lightflow, it would flash red, then purple, then blue... the built in one in the ROMs will only show red...
just an fyi

search for light manager great led control and no wakelocks.