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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.

How many LED notification colors are there when using Light Flow?

For those with the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, how many different color notifications are there for the LED when you use Light Flow?

17 colours to choose from on mine, it seems.
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darrendm said:
17 colours to choose from on mine, it seems.
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But will the phone display all those 17 or only say 4?

The Nexus has a RGB LED so any of the 17 colors can be mixed without a problem.
Why don't you try it by yourself? Lazy?
Despite that I have 19 colors to choose from on my GSM Nexus with Light Flow (paid).

Just a quick warning from my experience with Light Flow lite.
I installed the free version and it worked fine - I think I used 10 different colors and most of the time the worked well (sometimes the light would stay on when the notification was cleared).
However, I was having battery life issues so I uninstalled the application.
This actually GREATLY improved my battery life - but now my led is broken. It will only flash white, and it doesn't work for all events that it did before I used LFL. I've done a factory reset and a battery pull and the led will not go back to green.
I've emailed the developer and hope I'll get some help. It's a little hard for me to understand how this could happen and I hope I can fix it.
Just a word of caution to anyone considering using this app.

McDeadagain said:
Just a quick warning from my experience with Light Flow lite.
This actually GREATLY improved my battery life - but now my led is broken. It will only flash white, and it doesn't work for all events that it did before I used LFL. I've done a factory reset and a battery pull and the led will not go back to green.
I've emailed the developer and hope I'll get some help. It's a little hard for me to understand how this could happen and I hope I can fix it.
Just a word of caution to anyone considering using this app.
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I don't think mine has ever flashed green? The stock notification for mail + sms is white, and tweetdeck is yellow... not seen anything else?
I too uninstalled Liteflow, because I found it frequently flashed forever until I rebooted when there were no notifications.

On the Nexus one, CM7 had a slider control for colors. You could create hundreds of different shades.
I think the Galaxy Nexus is the same. At this point we're only limited by software. RootzBoat rom had a LED color control built right into the general settings menu, but only had a few color selections. I used blue and I liked it alot. I don't think it allowed you to change it PER APP, but just the general color for all. Still cool to mess with again.
3rd party programs require to be run in the background as an app or service, but require constant monitoring. Kernel level control is best, but we'll have to wait for CM9 for that.

jmbillings said:
I don't think mine has ever flashed green? The stock notification for mail + sms is white, and tweetdeck is yellow... not seen anything else?
I too uninstalled Liteflow, because I found it frequently flashed forever until I rebooted when there were no notifications.
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Ok then - maybe I've lost my mind! I thought I remembered it being green originally but it's entirely possible you're correct. Would make much more sense than to think that an app could 'break' the led functionality.

+1 for jmbillings.
Natively the LED is only flashing only whitish and as to be readable in a couple of threads not even that is working properly at all times.
Never had any issue with Light Flow except a not stopping notification ones a week. Bought it for Whatsapp and I'm still happy. No battery drain at all at no time.

you guys must be getting dozens of notifications in a day.
i've never even seen lightflow pop up under my battery statistics.

I use light flow on my Nexus and it works great!

Same here lightflow works great on my Nexus. And every single color I tried works. If some people are having trouble with the light still flashing even after swiping the notification away, try going into the app itself. It apparently will keep flashing until I actually check the notification out in the app.

Light flow didn't work for me, it would either flash constantly in test mode or do nothing. My LED does flash green for chompSMS but white for everything else.

light flow works 100% for me. Notifications always work and no notification his become 'stuck' when I clear it...
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DanVanDamn said:
+1 for jmbillings.
Natively the LED is only flashing only whitish and as to be readable in a couple of threads not even that is working properly at all times.
Never had any issue with Light Flow except a not stopping notification ones a week. Bought it for Whatsapp and I'm still happy. No battery drain at all at no time.
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Well maybe it's a native problem that I'm having. It will not notify me now of a missed call or an email. The only time I'm seeing the led blink is when I get a text message.
The developer actually took the time to reply to me and make some recommendations to improve battery life.
I'll give it another try, still having intermittent battery issues but may be more related to location polling than this app.
Thanks again to the folks here who take the time to help out.
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neok44 said:
you guys must be getting dozens of notifications in a day.
i've never even seen lightflow pop up under my battery statistics.
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Yes, I do.
I don't see it under the native battery stats - it did show up fairly high on the list when I was using battery monitor widget.
Honestly, trying to figure out my battery issues has me suspicious of every app I install...

Works perfectly on my Verizon Nexus as well. The only hiccup is Handcent. If I dismiss the popup window on Handcent, the LED will continue to flash, until I actually go into Handcent and view the message,

I was using it to alert me if bluetooth was on, and that notification would tend to persist after I had turned bluetooth off.

For those having issues clearing the LED notifications, keep in mind just clearing the notification from the drop down won't turn off the LED. It will stay on until the notification is further acknowledged (i.e. the SMS message is 'read' under messages...or email etc).
Also, something I've found helpful is the lightflow debugger widget that comes installed with the app. From there you can clear all notifications as well as see what the last notification was

Technically the phone works well with all 17 colors - but as a male i must say that there are only approx. 8 colors existing in the world...

I think they need to combine the app (LightFlow) with the color selector from AOKP ROM. Its basically the MS Windows/Photoshop color chooser we're all used to: a circle with a slider to the right. The combination of those allows you to choose ANY color in the spectrum. And the LED will display it. (Blood red is my favorite....not as "light up your room" as the default cyan/white)
I did catch the LED lighting up yellow when I had a text that didnt get delivered....not sure if thats the SMS app Im using (GoSMS) or the kernel/ROM but something made it flash different color at different frequency.
Id love LightFlow just for all the apps it responds to....especially Words with Friends.

LED Notification Issues

The LED notification on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus is shaky at best.
I mainly get notifications for Gmail and Google Voice texts. It seems as if it only sometimes actually work. It seems worse for the Gmail notifications, but there are many times that I pick up my phone and see that I have an email when there is no LED blinking.
I'm not sure if it just never came on or if it stops after a period of time, but what the heck is up with the LED? Why bother putting something on the phone as a feature and not having it work correctly.
I'm currently on a custom JB ROM, but it has only worked very inconsistently at stock on ICS and any of the other ROMs I've tried.
**** And yes, I know about Lightflow, but don't think we should have to use a 3rd party app to enable something that should already be working.

know8677 said:
The LED notification on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus is shaky at best.
I mainly get notifications for Gmail and Google Voice texts. It seems as if it only sometimes actually work. It seems worse for the Gmail notifications, but there are many times that I pick up my phone and see that I have an email when there is no LED blinking.
I'm not sure if it just never came on or if it stops after a period of time, but what the heck is up with the LED? Why bother putting something on the phone as a feature and not having it work correctly.
I'm currently on a custom JB ROM, but it has only worked very inconsistently at stock on ICS and any of the other ROMs I've tried.
**** And yes, I know about Lightflow, but don't think we should have to use a 3rd party app to enable something that should already be working.
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I am very new to my galaxy nexus but I've noticed that the LED basically only blinks for GT/whatsapp messages while for other apps/missed calls/sms it only blinks once at its very best, that's why I kind of forced myself to use lightflow. There are some custom JB roms like Liquid Jelly Bean that offer advanced LED management, you might want to try those.

waallen said:
I am very new to my galaxy nexus but I've noticed that the LED basically only blinks for GT/whatsapp messages while for other apps/missed calls/sms it only blinks once at its very best, that's why I kind of forced myself to use lightflow. There are some custom JB roms like Liquid Jelly Bean that offer advanced LED management, you might want to try those.
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Thanks!
I think I also read that the free version of LightFlow doesn't support Google Voice which is one of the main 2 notifications I get.
It's just very surprising that this feature of the phone works so poorly. And even more surprising that there aren't more people making noise about it.

know8677 said:
The LED notification on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus is shaky at best.
I mainly get notifications for Gmail and Google Voice texts. It seems as if it only sometimes actually work. It seems worse for the Gmail notifications, but there are many times that I pick up my phone and see that I have an email when there is no LED blinking.
I'm not sure if it just never came on or if it stops after a period of time, but what the heck is up with the LED? Why bother putting something on the phone as a feature and not having it work correctly.
I'm currently on a custom JB ROM, but it has only worked very inconsistently at stock on ICS and any of the other ROMs I've tried.
**** And yes, I know about Lightflow, but don't think we should have to use a 3rd party app to enable something that should already be working.
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I had the same problem, and I still think that LED notification isn't as good as what it should be...
If you have a custom JB ROM, I think your best option is to look for a CM10 rom, because in the screen settings, you can change the behaviour of the LED with different apps.

Light Flow issue

Hi guys, i'm having some troubles with Light Flow and KitKat on my Nexus 4.
I have set the led notification color etc.. but when there are notifications the led doesn't pulse.
I also try the testing mode of any notification and the led doesn't pulse but the led works..
Someone else has this problem? solutions?

I dont have any issue on my nexus...and you're wrong forum section..it should be on QA and Answer..
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Same thing happens on my N4 with the paid version on stock rooted KitKat. I did a LED test in Light Flow to make sure everything works and it does, but the LED lights up about 20-30 seconds after I begin the test.
I then tried the free version of LEDBlinker and the LED lights instantly during the LED test and actual notifications.
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Spasticdroid said:
Same thing happens on my N4 with the paid version on stock rooted KitKat. I did a LED test in Light Flow to make sure everything works and it does, but the LED lights up about 20-30 seconds after I begin the test.
I then tried the free version of LEDBlinker and the LED lights instantly during the LED test and actual notifications.
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No problem, at all.
Light flow works like a charm to me.
Stock, rooted, clean install of 4.4.

I have a problem on KitKat it notifies me but sometime a notification isn't dismissed from the app so the led just keeps flashing. Its annoying but as KitKat is new it'll hopefully be fixed.
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I have a issue with lightflow too .. sometime the led is working like a charm, then sometime (like 20% of time when i got a notification) nothing happen, i mean there is no led notification AT ALL !
Didn't try LEDBlinker because i like light flow for its feature to open screen for 5 second when a notification income

I have the issue where if I want read a text message after my screen is turned off then the light blink continues to go off. Its really annoying

Spasticdroid said:
Same thing happens on my N4 with the paid version on stock rooted KitKat. I did a LED test in Light Flow to make sure everything works and it does, but the LED lights up about 20-30 seconds after I begin the test.
I then tried the free version of LEDBlinker and the LED lights instantly during the LED test and actual notifications.
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I had also wait a bit to see if the led was pulsing, but now it doesn't works..
I couldn't find anything on internet so I thought it was only a my problem..

Make sure to turn the accessibility service on and tick the notification access. (Security->Notification Access.)
Works perfectly fine for me, haven't had any issues with Lightflow on KK.
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xSalamanderman said:
Make sure to turn the accessibility service on and tick the notification access. (Security->Notification Access.)
Works perfectly fine for me, haven't had any issues with Lightflow on KK.
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It's enabled.
I try delete all app data and reinstall and now it seems works

When i was in JB 4.2.2 it worked just fine, but since i factory reset and install official 4.4 kitkat Light Flow don't work so great

Same here whatsapp doesn't show any light...
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tlf55 said:
I have a issue with lightflow too .. sometime the led is working like a charm, then sometime (like 20% of time when i got a notification) nothing happen, i mean there is no led notification AT ALL !
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Try using Light Flow in "Foreground Mode" (No idea what the setting is called in English - i'm using localization), it sometimes gets killed by Android to free up ressources for other apps.

There's a new update out that has a few fixes for Kit Kat. The long delay of LED notification was fixed on my phone and all my custom settings react instantly.
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With the new update, my hangout sms led never work now .. before it worked sometime and sometime not, but now, it doesn't work at all .. i'm very disapointed ..

tlf55 said:
With the new update, my hangout sms led never work now .. before it worked sometime and sometime not, but now, it doesn't work at all .. i'm very disapointed ..
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The same happened to me, I found a temporary fix for that specific issue, though. If you go into the Lightflow there should be an option called like "Hangouts - All Notifications" or something like that, enable that one and the LED should start working again when you get an SMS in Hangouts.

The update isn't perfect... Sometimes it fails in SMS, but i think it will b just fine in the next couple updates, it's a very good app.

Maybe there is dust...try to open phone i clean it from inside

gajodafeira said:
The update isn't perfect... Sometimes it fails in SMS, but i think it will b just fine in the next couple updates, it's a very good app.
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At my N4 it just stopped working. It works great during testing, but it doesn't for the actual notifications.

el_joel said:
At my N4 it just stopped working. It works great during testing, but it doesn't for the actual notifications.
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Are you on 4.4? Did you did a fresh and clean update or simply updated 4.3 to 4.4? There are some people experiencing issues when they just updated..

Notificaion LED no longer works

Has anyone else noticed that the notification LED works sometimes and then sometimes it doesn't. My Wife's phone no longer indicates her of any text messages anymore. I have tried power cycling the phone and doing a hard reset (holding power down until it reboots) and nothing seems to fix it. I ran the LED test in the system menu and the light works. I also checked all the settings and everything is properly enabled. My phone indicates me of text messages but one of my e-mail accounts doesn't update me anymore. Any ideas?

Can try to follow this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi83Qd07Pak&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Can you tell if this problem started after you installed and removed a custom led notification app? Many have reported such problems with apps like light flow lite.
I would suggest a reset to factory if the problem persists. Before you do so make sure your data is properly backed up.
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rockytruelyrox said:
Can try to follow this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi83Qd07Pak&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Can you tell if this problem started after you installed and removed a custom led notification app? Many have reported such problems with apps like light flow lite.
I would suggest a reset to factory if the problem persists. Before you do so make sure your data is properly backed up.
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All of her settings were properly setup under settings. Also, she has no custom apps for LED installed, nor do I. I noticed on the HTC One M7 forum there is a lot of people complaining about this issue after taking the 4.3 update. That seems to be about the time from from when I first noticed the issue.

jvcjbl said:
Has anyone else noticed that the notification LED works sometimes and then sometimes it doesn't. My Wife's phone no longer indicates her of any text messages anymore. I have tried power cycling the phone and doing a hard reset (holding power down until it reboots) and nothing seems to fix it. I ran the LED test in the system menu and the light works. I also checked all the settings and everything is properly enabled. My phone indicates me of text messages but one of my e-mail accounts doesn't update me anymore. Any ideas?
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Mine works normally but I noticed my notification light is a lot uh... dimmer? after I updated to 4.3. Before 4.3 my notification light used to be incredibly bright and annoying when charging and watching YouTube at night especially when fully charged....that green light was ridiculous lol
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