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Notification led colour changing app

Is there an app in the market compatible with ics, to change the colour led?
Thanks

Light flow works well
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I've been missing Lightflow since I went from an Atrix to GSII. Can't wait to get it back.

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I can't get the test mode to do anything on this. I press test notification but nothing happens. Did I miss another setting?

rikbrown said:
I can't get the test mode to do anything on this. I press test notification but nothing happens. Did I miss another setting?
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Need to turn the screen off whilst in test mode
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Need to turn the screen off whilst in test mode
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Thanks for that - phone is upstairs on charge (as usual with its battery life hah, and I'm that lazy to go fetch it) - but I'll check when I go to bed later. Feel stupid for not trying this!

Ive found that turning off the screen still dosnt work for me but the app does actually work when i miss a call or text.

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Thanks! new to android phones, works perfectly

It certainly works well.
But I find it to not work at times. Once I enabled the "force run in foreground" then I couldn't turn my phone screen on and had to take the battery out. So I think I'm fine with having it worked almost 80% of the time

It's a great app, quick and easy to setup.
But it does stop working sometimes, I've had it once or twice.

Does anyone else have problems with Lightflow? The notifications work well but then after I've checked the email or whatever, I turn the screen back off and the light carries on flashing, even though I don't have any more notifications

It depends on the notification, but if it's a Gmail notification and I open Gmail it goes away.

case0 said:
Does anyone else have problems with Lightflow? The notifications work well but then after I've checked the email or whatever, I turn the screen back off and the light carries on flashing, even though I don't have any more notifications
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The app uses a few methods of clearing notifications.
At the moment 2.7.2 has a bug if you choose "screen" as the clear notification style. It's fixed in the dev build, but not in the market yet.
The others are manual (where you have to manually clear a lightflow notification in your notification bar) and finally "app". (some apps such as gmail have extra methods)
"App" monitors for entering the app (or pressing the "clear all" button in older builds of android) and clears when you've entered the app.
I'm guessing that if you swipe away a notification from the notification bar that the led might still keep going as with Gingerbread there wasn't a method to clear single notifications directly from the notification bar. I'm hoping this has changed in ICS. I know the accessibility service has had things added to it, but nothing jumped out at me that would add in the relevant hooks.
Remember when upgrading the app from one version to another (there's been a few updates over the last few days) that I'd recomment powering off and back on the phone.
Looking forward to running lightflow on a GN myself as I've just picked one up today.
This gives me chance to see if there are any cool features I can add into lightflow for ICS and specifically the GN.
Now, just to get my "real" job out of the way for the day so I can start playing with the GN!

does using lightflow affect the battery alot?
Apparently it drains alot

Lightflow gave me Sleep of Death, so I uninstalled it. All ok now.

Trackball alert pro is pretty cool too, one of my favorite apps on the n1, it's now compatible with ics , but currently only works on the modaco rom.
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For those with Enterprise email/Exchange if you ever used Touchdown - might be good to go back.
Their light notifications work fine with Galaxy Nexus - set different notification colors for email, calendars and tasks
PS The Touchdown Tablet HD (Honeycomb) version actually works better though you need to pinch zoom out the email list to get the font smaller

AMoosa said:
Lightflow gave me Sleep of Death, so I uninstalled it. All ok now.
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Are you sure it's lightflow. If it is I'd be keen to work out what's causing it.
If anyone who had this issue is using lightflow, could they switch on file logging and then at least if it does happen you can mail to log to me and I'll take a look, but I've heard of others getting the sleep of death that have never installed the app.

I've been using light flow since I got my nexus last week, never had any issues. Great app!
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[BUG] Sometimes the led doesn´t blink

Hi, I have noticed that sometimes when I have a notification, the led doesn´t blink at all, and sometimes it does. I have official IMM76I, and I have noticed it mainly with Whatsapp, but it can be because is the only program I use with the phone silenced in my work.
Have you noticed that?
There is an issue opened:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=28284&q=led&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars

taylerdurden said:
Hi, I have noticed that sometimes when I have a notification, the led doesn´t blink at all, and sometimes it does. I have official IMM76I, and I have noticed it mainly with Whatsapp, but it can be because is the only program I use with the phone silenced in my work.
Have you noticed that?
There is an issue opened:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=28284&q=led&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
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Its not a native feature of ICS 4.0.4...so uhhh why are you reporting it? I really wish Google would've added options for it.

Smokeey said:
Its not a native feature of ICS 4.0.4...so uhhh why are you reporting it? I really wish Google would've added options for it.
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It is a native feature of Android...

taylerdurden said:
It is a native feature of Android...
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Android 4.0 does not currently provide options for multi-color Notification LED's. Please, learn to read.

Smokeey said:
Android 4.0 does not currently provide options for multi-color Notification LED's. Please, learn to read.
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Where are we talking of color option?

I have noticed it even with GTalk and many other apps. Yesterday, I was playing when a notification sounded. Without turning on the screen, I kept watching the phone but the LED never blinked. I turned on the screen and I had a GTalk message.
Nothing else have noticed that problem?

I have had this problem as well on my VZW nexus on AOKP m5 and earlier versions as well. It doesn't happen all of the time, but maybe 10-15% of the time with SMS and at least 90% of the time with gmail.
I can see a gmail come in on the notification light on my Xoom, but nothing happens on my phone, I'll check the phone 5 min later and the email is there but no notification.
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quantim0 said:
I have had this problem as well on my VZW nexus on AOKP m5 and earlier versions as well. It doesn't happen all of the time, but maybe 10-15% of the time with SMS and at least 90% of the time with gmail.
I can see a gmail come in on the notification light on my Xoom, but nothing happens on my phone, I'll check the phone 5 min later and the email is there but no notification.
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You mean there is not the notification icon on the upper bar?
My problem is different, I have the notification icon, but the led doesn´t blink

Notices this as well with various apps. Native as well as 3rd party. Doesn't bother me that much just makes the OS less 'perfect'.
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Cool story bro.
Seriously, whats posting it in the XDA forums going to help? We're not Google, we can't fix it.

MistaBishi said:
Cool story bro.
Seriously, whats posting it in the XDA forums going to help? We're not Google, we can't fix it.
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I ask in XDA to know if anyone else have noticed this, or is a problem with my phone.
Also, I have reported it to Google, here is the link:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=28284&q=led&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars

taylerdurden said:
Hi, I have noticed that sometimes when I have a notification, the led doesn´t blink at all, and sometimes it does. I have official IMM76I, and I have noticed it mainly with Whatsapp, but it can be because is the only program I use with the phone silenced in my work.
Have you noticed that?
There is an issue opened:
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...ed&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
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Have you tried the light flow app? Maybe it would fix the problem and give you more customization too.
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chrikenn said:
Have you tried the light flow app? Maybe it would fix the problem and give you more customization too.
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Thanks for the idea, I have not tried the light flow app; but I have asked in another forums and people with than app also have noticed the problem.
Anyway, the objetive is to find the bug and report it to google, so they can fix it in the next update for our Gnex

Anyone else with the problem?

Is the option checked in each program? Those who flash rooms and rebuild everything might forget an app or two that does not have the option on by default.
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I've noticed from time to time as well... But the other thing is that even when it does blink, it often shuts off fairly shortly afterwards.
It would be nice if there was options to ensure that it blinks and keeps blinking until you acknowledge it.

Light Flow works perfectly for me. Never had an issue with it not blinking or blinking incorrectly.
I use it as not all the apps I have on my phone have LED light functionality natively, and Light Flow takes care of that.

scoobdude said:
Is the option checked in each program? Those who flash rooms and rebuild everything might forget an app or two that does not have the option on by default.
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Yes, because the problem is not always, and the same app can work, and not work sometimes..

Light Flow issue fixed on 4.1.1

Hey guys. Im having a problem with Light Flow. Im sure a lot of you use it? Although i couldnt find many threads on it. I even searched Google for this issue. So hopefully you guys can help.
Anyways im using Light Flow 3.0.2
And it works great but a lot of the time ill get a notificiation (screen will be off) the LED will flash its appropreate color. Ill check the notification (Lets say Gmail) read the email, delete the email, respond to the email w/e and turn the screen off again.
Then the LED will still be flashing for that notification even though i checked it and erased it.
The only way i have found to fix this other then reboot ofcourse is to go into Light Flow > Notifications. I notice when i do this LightFlow gets granted Superuser then i exit turn screen off and all is good.
Any ideas?

krolla03 said:
Hey guys. Im having a problem with Light Flow. Im sure a lot of you use it? Although i couldnt find many threads on it. I even searched Google for this issue. So hopefully you guys can help.
Anyways im using Light Flow 3.0.2
And it works great but a lot of the time ill get a notificiation (screen will be off) the LED will flash its appropreate color. Ill check the notification (Lets say Gmail) read the email, delete the email, respond to the email w/e and turn the screen off again.
Then the LED will still be flashing for that notification even though i checked it and erased it.
The only way i have found to fix this other then reboot ofcourse is to go into Light Flow > Notifications. I notice when i do this LightFlow gets granted Superuser then i exit turn screen off and all is good.
Any ideas?
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Did you make sure you don't have any other app notifications that have the same color?
Are you using any task killers or killing the app with the hold of back button?

Same issue here, disabled it until it gets an update to support JB.
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Developer is aware of the issue already. He's working on a fix.
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Fantastic thanks guys
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It's in the known issues for jelly bean. Something to do with the accessibility.
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Yea I also found that fix
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What fix?
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Yea I also found that fix
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for me
when removed the app it disabled the vibration for new sms, gmail ..etc
tried everything without success (disabled settings & re-enable it, rebooting, ...etc), so I didn't bother to install it again after a factory reset (stock ICS by the way)
if anyone had the same problem and knew how to correct it let me know.

delete me please

There is a lightflow widget that clears all lightflow notifications when tapped.
I am just using that while waiting for a fix (which couldn't come soon enough).

FYI guys with JB 4.1.1 I got light flow to work 100%
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The missed call notification does not go away even after entering the app, that is the dialer.

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The missed call notification does not go away even after entering the app, that is the dialer.
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So i found out a little more.
So for me before 4.1.1 SMS was my biggest issue that notification would never go away unless i manually cleared it with the app or the widget.
I noticed that is was working on 4.1.1 after i went to accessibility and turned it off and then on again for Lightflow. after i did this i noticed that the notification for SMS was clearing on its own. So i thought it was all good.
UNTIL
I reset/tuned off the phone and received another txt. The notification would not clear on its own. So i was messing around with it and went back to accessibility and turned it off and on again and now the SMS notification clears itself until the next reset of the phone.
Hope it works for you guys. I dont mind toggling a setting until an update comes out.

lightflow issues not fixed on 4.1.1 derp :silly:

Gtalk and Gmail both clear correctly. Gonna see how it is with SMS and Missed Call when I get one of those.

uh. what's up with the title of this thread?

How about on 4.1? Is it playing nice on there? A ToroPlus GNex here...I will buy it if yes

I just downloaded the lite to try it. I feel like its hit or miss. Too much customization and easy to get lost. For example, right now, I have two different notifications going off for like SMS and email. Because within the SMS and email app themselves I've defined a notification sound and then within light flow settings you can define a sound. So I get x2. I think the trick may be to go into the app settings themselves and set them to silent. Then use light flow and set the sounds up. That seems to be the KEY. However, there is a learning curve it seems to this APP. Once you set it up, your good...but dam it takes awhile.
Colors are working good though, but the dismissal of notification via "opening the app" dont work worth crap. You have to set it to "on screen" dismissal
Plus I found myself disabling and re-nabling the app from withing settings --> Accessibility often.

krolla03 said:
FYI guys with JB 4.1.1 I got light flow to work 100%
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I'm on Team Vicious 4.1.1 and Lightflow still doesn't work at all for me.
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JohnCorleone said:
How about on 4.1? Is it playing nice on there? A ToroPlus GNex here...I will buy it if yes
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No, I was fine on 4.0.4 but when i went to 4.1 it stopped working, I'm now on 4.1.1 and it's still not working.
It is a fantastic app though, I'm sure the developer will update the app eventually to work with 4.1.1.

Light flow?

Anyone using light flow to control the led notifications? I was wondering if there is any alternatives because the market reviews say it kills the battery life?
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Guitarfreak26 said:
Anyone using light flow to control the led notifications? I was wondering if there is any alternatives because the market reviews say it kills the battery life?
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I've been using it since S3 till Note 2 now that don't feel it drains too much battery. Anyway, the battery life is very good on Note2.

I tried installing it but upon setting it up, it said it can't be activated together with the Air-view function...therefore I have uninstalled it.
Can anyone please confirm whether we can use both Light Flow together with Air-view?

Damn yeah i get the air view and light flow issue too
Maybe someone will make an alternative
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Light control works.
I don't know why, but it turns the TalkBack.accessbility option on and off during install,
which forces you to turn air view off.
However, it doesn't actually NEED talkback.
I turned airview on after the install finished, and was able to change my my notification colors (changed missed call from red to purple)
- Frank

I get the spoken "Folder open" or "Folder closed" when using light flow and opening folders. Talkback is disabled and it doesn't do this with any other features.
Only fix was to disable Light flow which eliminated the problem.

Install liteflow then go in to settings & turn Air-view back on...Now both work fine

Perhaps you can try Light Manager which can be downloaded from Google Play.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1735331
Not sure if it works on Galaxy Note II.

daydreamer1204 said:
I tried installing it but upon setting it up, it said it can't be activated together with the Air-view function...therefore I have uninstalled it.
Can anyone please confirm whether we can use both Light Flow together with Air-view?
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Yes...I'm using light flow and air view together....just disable air view first when first prompted...and then go into settings again later and you can enable air view again....
Light flow works perfect on my note 2...and battery drain is not that much at all
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with light flow does your samsung keyboard(swype) method still works?i've tried it it seems to disable it.

Guitarfreak26 said:
Anyone using light flow to control the led notifications? I was wondering if there is any alternatives because the market reviews say it kills the battery life?
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The battery killing is specific to some versions of the s3 where we work around some really bad bugs in the led driver.
It shouldn't affect the note 2 though.
At the moment the airview suggestion of switching back on is the best I know of (I had that reported from a beta tester with a note 2) - there's a reference to that on our support page - http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/2171
The main issues I'm aware of are the talkback and swype issues. I've offered me help to swype as they are aware it's an issue with their app and have recreated the issue themselves.
I've sent some code to Samsung regarding the talkback "folders open" issue and can recreate it with any app that uses accessibility services.

andrewpmoore said:
At the moment the airview suggestion of switching back on is the best I know of
The main issues I'm aware of are the talkback and swype issues. I've offered me help to swype as they are aware it's an issue with their app and have recreated the issue themselves.
I've sent some code to Samsung regarding the talkback "folders open" issue and can recreate it with any app that uses accessibility services.
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First of all, you MUST pop up a notification during install that air view can immmediately turned on after install.
I've seen several people post that when they saw the 'turn off air view' box, they immediately aborted the install and get a refund.
You must let them know, before it happens, that this is (for now) normal.
Secondly, the bug implies that the talkback bug is an ICS issue, so I'm not sure why any Note II users are having the problem.
(I don't have this problem, although I'm not exactly sure what folder people are opening to trigger the problem. App folder?)
- Frank

For me, it happens any time I open a folder on a homescreen.
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Also happens if you slide your finger on the homescreen page dots. You get "talked back" the page number.
Swype-alike "Continuous Typing" in Samsung Keyboard also gets disabled if you use any kind of accessibility apps.

I was actually so frustrated with the talk back feature I uninstalled this app. I might install it again.
Dev. you should really consider telling people this, because I'm sure there are others who were like me and said "oh no! Talk back is working even though I turned it off" and just uninstalled it.
It happened to me on my home screen folders.
So does anyone notice a battery drain on their devices while using this app? Of course I'm referring to people who have a Note 2.
EDIT: Nope, I turned Air View back on and I'm still getting that annoying folder open and folder closed voice. I even turned on talk back and turned it back off! haha. I have to uninstall this until this issue gets fixed. On my home screen I use folders all the time, and it's rather annoying to hear.

I've removed talkback and changed airview back on and is now working 100%. Not sure does it drain battery since have used it from start. I get 6-8hrs screen on time. Gotta love Bright Pink and Cyan.
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Jobiza said:
I've removed talkback and changed airview back on and is now working 100%. Not sure does it drain battery since have used it from start. I get 6-8hrs screen on time. Gotta love Bright Pink and Cyan.
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Doesn't your phone still tell you when a folder is open or closed on your home page? It did for me .

zkyevolved said:
Doesn't your phone still tell you when a folder is open or closed on your home page? It did for me .
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Same here.
Uninstall LightFlow helped. Very sad
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Doesn't your phone still tell you when a folder is open or closed on your home page? It did for me .
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I use an app called app folders to manage my apps, so this is a non issue for me.
Also when I switch roms I don't lose all my folders
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Doesn't your phone still tell you when a folder is open or closed on your home page? It did for me .
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Fix for this is to disable all Samsung TTS, S Voice and Google text-to-speech. I'm not sure does it work with disabling only one or two, haven't tried.
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Screen off and on without using power button !

hi all
first time poster long time reader
I am so tired of trying **** apps.
Could somebody please tell me what app works with the nexus four to allow me to touch the screen somehow to see a text message etc when it arrives??
for the first time ever I am missing the button in my iPhone that let's me hit it to see what is going on at a glance.
I just want a way to toggle the screen on without hitting the power button on the Nexus 4
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The only way to do this is to leave the screen on, which would drain the battery. There's probably an app that would turn the screen off (or dim it), but this would keep your phone awake and drain the battery.
Someone feel free to chime in and correct me if there is such an app.

Vukh said:
hi all
first time poster long time reader
I am so tired of trying **** apps.
Could somebody please tell me what app works with the nexus four to allow me to touch the screen somehow to see a text message etc when it arrives??
for the first time ever I am missing the button in my iPhone that let's me hit it to see what is going on at a glance.
I just want a way to toggle the screen on without hitting the power button on the Nexus 4
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For the Gnex there's an app called “PGM", I emailed the developer if he had intention to update the app so it works with the Nexus⁴, but sadly he doesn't have the phone yet.
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There is an app for that called tap tap app uses proximity sensor to lock and unlock screen.
Not positive is works on 4.2 but worth a shot.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.maicas.android.wsleep
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SIGUEL said:
For the Gnex there's an app called “PGM", I emailed the developer if he had intention to update the app so it works with the Nexus⁴, but sadly he doesn't have the phone yet.
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Just wait for PGM to be updated for Nexus 4 support, OP; I can vouch for its greatness. You can enable double tap or slide to unlock gesture to turn the screen on. Once you get used to this, you seriously forget you have a power button.

robg2008 said:
There is an app for that called tap tap app uses proximity sensor to lock and unlock screen.
Not positive is works on 4.2 but worth a shot.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.maicas.android.wsleep
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It appears to work, but needs some calibration. I'm only able to get it working 30% of the time (if even).

you may try Smart Screen On : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.android.smartscreenonlite
works on my Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.1

I'm waiting on a kernel that has Sweep2Wake...that would be awesome with this phone.

Wow I cannot believe the responses I got...
Thanks everyone!
I settled on the Smart Screen On.
Works about 75% of the time...I can live with that till something better comes along.
I don't really understand why you cannot make text msgs received light the screen up like it does on an iphone. It was so convenient to just glance at the phone and see it was work texting yet again and mutter under my breath for them to piss off and then go back to playing Xbox without ever having to touch the phone.

Vukh said:
Wow I cannot believe the responses I got...
Thanks everyone!
I settled on the Smart Screen On.
Works about 75% of the time...I can live with that till something better comes along.
I don't really understand why you cannot make text msgs received light the screen up like it does on an iphone. It was so convenient to just glance at the phone and see it was work texting yet again and mutter under my breath for them to piss off and then go back to playing Xbox without ever having to touch the phone.
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What settings did you use with Smart Screen On? I couldn't get it working.
EDIT: Nevermind, I think I was waving too fast lol.

Stryder5 said:
What settings did you use with Smart Screen On? I couldn't get it working.
EDIT: Nevermind, I think I was waving too fast lol.
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hahah ok man..
I did 2 waves 525ms

Vukh said:
Wow I cannot believe the responses I got...
Thanks everyone!
I settled on the Smart Screen On.
Works about 75% of the time...I can live with that till something better comes along.
I don't really understand why you cannot make text msgs received light the screen up like it does on an iphone. It was so convenient to just glance at the phone and see it was work texting yet again and mutter under my breath for them to piss off and then go back to playing Xbox without ever having to touch the phone.
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with GoSMS i always choose the option for the pop up box and the options to unlock the phone, so when it's sitting on my desk next to me it lights up

Vukh said:
I don't really understand why you cannot make text msgs received light the screen up like it does on an iphone. It was so convenient to just glance at the phone and see it was work texting yet again and mutter under my breath for them to piss off and then go back to playing Xbox without ever having to touch the phone.
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Try Light flow for that... I think you can set a custom LED color and the screen to come on with certain notifications.

Yeah I've got Light Flow. You can set the LED colour and the screen to come on with some notifications. There is a 'lite' version which should cover the basics. But if you dont use the stock messenger or use things like Whatapp, you need the paid for version.
I use it and it has great customisation BUT at the moment I can't get it to work 100% of the time. So be warned!
It will be great though once they update it for 4.2.

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For now I'm settling for half of the equation; screen off with a double tap. I'm using screen off and lock from Play.
I had PGM on my GN and it works very well, the developer is planning on getting an N4 the last I heard.

I'm currently looking into getting the phone to wake using the volume rocker -- I'm reading that it's inside android.policy.jar and removing two lines that ignore the volume rocker button presses.
Anyone want to give it a go? I'm going to look into it this weekend.

SIGUEL said:
For the Gnex there's an app called “PGM", I emailed the developer if he had intention to update the app so it works with the Nexus⁴, but sadly he doesn't have the phone yet.
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I emailed him too! That is one of the best app out there, in terms of the idea behind it. No real battery drain, but still be able to wake your device from sleep. I died a little after getting that email.
Kinda hope someone would do something like that for N4.
You can use Tasker+Secure Settings (pro version) to use the Google Now shortcut to unlock/lock the device, but there is no waking the device.

I too am waiting for pgm! That would be amazing
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krhainos said:
I'm currently looking into getting the phone to wake using the volume rocker -- I'm reading that it's inside android.policy.jar and removing two lines that ignore the volume rocker button presses.
Anyone want to give it a go? I'm going to look into it this weekend.
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That feature works fine in the Paranoid Android ROM
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