Having upgraded to my N4 I am looking for a nice lightweight SMS app.
I used to use SMSPOPUP on my Desire but I found that it would not flash the notification light on the N4, also reading latest reviews it would appear to have a few other issues with newer Androids.
Whilst on the subject of the notification light I presume it does not light up when on charge like my old desire and it is supposed to flash white for an SMS?
Sorry for the Questions, I've only had my new toy a day
Baz8755 said:
Having upgraded to my N4 I am looking for a nice lightweight SMS app.
I used to use SMSPOPUP on my Desire but I found that it would not flash the notification light on the N4, also reading latest reviews it would appear to have a few other issues with newer Androids.
Whilst on the subject of the notification light I presume it does not light up when on charge like my old desire and it is supposed to flash white for an SMS?
Sorry for the Questions, I've only had my new toy a day
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There's an app called Light Flow that lets you control the led color for many events and notifications.
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GoSMS flashes a green notification when I get an SMS and yes, it flashes even while charging. :good:
The SMS app included with the CM10 ROM has a popup feature built into it. I used to use GoSMS but have found this new SMS app sufficient.
Light Flow works well and flashes my LED.
Try handcent sms.
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I just recently switched to Go SMS from Handscent. Mainly because it has been taken off the market. Anyways, Go SMS is fine but I have one minor gripe. When receiving a picture and opening it, it opens in its own stupid viewing program. I hate it cause it downsizes the picture super small forcing you to hit the zoom button 5 times to see it. So far I just hit the save button then open Quikpic and view it there, but is there a way to make it just use Quikpic straight from the message like all other message apps do?
Settings/MMS settings/preserve image resolution. That might solve your image size issues. Don't know how to get it to open in another app for viewing. Suppose you could long press the image.
yeah that didnt help. I see handscent is back on the market maybe i will switch back.
I use go on my EVO and I dont notice any decrease in res I long press message then save attachment to sd
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I didn't want to start another GoSMS thread, so:
Does anyone else use a custom ROM and your SMS notification no longer lights up after receiving a text in GoSMS? I used to get a blue LED, flashed ACS ICS v4, and now I can never tell when I get a text!
Thanks!
ashamir said:
I didn't want to start another GoSMS thread, so:
Does anyone else use a custom ROM and your SMS notification no longer lights up after receiving a text in GoSMS? I used to get a blue LED, flashed ACS ICS v4, and now I can never tell when I get a text!
Thanks!
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Ics is still under development this might be just a bug but just in case check your setting there are a lot of custom options for led settings
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jayshocka said:
Ics is still under development this might be just a bug but just in case check your setting there are a lot of custom options for led settings
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Its a gb based rom..
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Its a gb based rom..
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Ha! whoops thought I was in my EVO forum..
Same applies though could be a rom specific bug my wife has gosms with cleangb rom and no problems.. Tinker around with your setting for GO SMS and even double check native SMS settings for any conflicts
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I have the same issues with my GO SMS. I'm also on ACS ICS V5.1. I think it's just specific to the rom itself. I just switched it back from blue to red led flash. It's not blue, but at least it still notifies me.
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I have the same issues with my GO SMS. I'm also on ACS ICS V5.1. I think it's just specific to the rom itself. I just switched it back from blue to red led flash. It's not blue, but at least it still notifies me.
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I have GOSMS and running ACS ICS 5.5. Changed my LED to blue and it lights up and flashes just fine. I'm sure it's in the settings but when I get a MMS, I recieve notification from GO SMS and the Stock Messenging app. I have GO SMS set up to turn off all other notifications but MMS still comes through on both.
Trying to see who knows what colors are possible for the notification LED on the SGSIIE4GT. I am rooted, but on any stock (or stockish) ROM there is a red notification LED color and then blue when it is charged. So I flashed over to CM7.2 alpha RC6 (because CM integrated LED controls into the settings menu) but I have no color options. I can only control the pulse. Interesting though is that when running this version of Cyanogenmod, the "charged" notification LED color is magenta. I also tried downloading ChompSMS (which allows you to assign custom LED colors to incoming SMS/MMS notifications) but I got no LED at all! Now running TNz Blend ROM and back to the same old red notification LED and blue charged LED.
Not sure if I am running into limitations of software (or drivers) or if this is a physical limitation of the LED only being capable of three colors (red, blue and magenta).
Anyone know about this?
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This has been discussed many times before. You can get red, blue, and magenta is a mix of both. you can use blink from the market to control this but no magenta option.
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skndeep102 said:
This has been discussed many times before. You can get red, blue, and magenta is a mix of both. you can use blink from the market to control this but no magenta option.
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Sorry for the double post then. On that note, what app do you use to browse forums on your phone? I am using tapatalk and used the search function to find a thread on this topic which brought back no relevant results.
Thanks for your help.
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Sorry for the double post then. On that note, what app do you use to browse forums on your phone? I am using tapatalk and used the search function to find a thread on this topic which brought back no relevant results.
Thanks for your help.
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Use the XDA app in the Market.
I know there are a bunch of threads on how to change the color, and I use blink to do it right now myself. However, most of the threads I have read talk of the issue where the colors flash in kinda the opposite way they should, constantly on, blink off then back on. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Yo! I've been using SMS Popup for some time now and just realized that the led blinking rate and different colors have been working flawlessly ever since I updated my modem/baseband to UVLI3 with Ktoonsez kernel on WildChld's v70 rom. I know there is the Light Flow app, but I just find this a lot more simpler and more useful. Here's the play store link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.everythingandroid.smspopup&hl=en
Enjoy!
SICK!!! Thanks so much for posting this.
The notification (red circle that says 1) on the message icon stays even after I send the message through SMS Popup (yes I disabled notification on stock messenger). Does the notification stay for you guys?
kharnage said:
The notification (red circle that says 1) on the message icon stays even after I send the message through SMS Popup (yes I disabled notification on stock messenger). Does the notification stay for you guys?
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You need to check "Mark Read" in additional settings.
rizoh66 said:
You need to check "Mark Read" in additional settings.
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It's "mark read" on default
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It's "mark read" on default
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Sorry dude, it doesnt stay on for me. However, it used to do it on my my htc sensation.
Works great..stock w/ nova launcher
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Works great..stock w/ nova launcher
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unff, heck yea it does.:good:
kharnage said:
The notification (red circle that says 1) on the message icon stays even after I send the message through SMS Popup (yes I disabled notification on stock messenger). Does the notification stay for you guys?
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yeah, mine stays on too. Kinda annoying. Great app tho.
Hrm Ive been using SMS Popup for 4 years with my G1, I have it of course installed on my S3.. but LED doesnt show up at all. Stock Rom. (Least when I use Test Notification) So how are you all getting it to work and do all colors work?
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Hrm Ive been using SMS Popup for 4 years with my G1, I have it of course installed on my S3.. but LED doesnt show up at all. Stock Rom. (Least when I use Test Notification) So how are you all getting it to work and do all colors work?
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Not sure if the colors work on stock. At least they didn't when i was running stock. To test the colors, I had to send myself test texts.
Ok so on stock you say these wont work at all eh? Ugh.. personally I hate how stock even handles LED anyways.. seems to always cut off. I just dont wanna change roms till official JB comes out and roms are based on it.
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Anyone using stock rom with LED stuff working?
Seems like a cool app. Just downloaded it. Hope to give it a good run.
Oh its a very good app. Been here since Htc G1 days. Why Google never added it as an option. No clue. Just wish LED light would work on stock.
Just thought I would share that this app works great with the nexus 4. It actually is running flawless for me right now go check it out in play store. You can control your led light on the front of the device with just about any notification and color
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite
Yeah I love light flow I use it on my galaxy nexus
Luckily one of the android blog sites helped test the app so I managed to get a release out before the phone came out. I'd hoped to get one myself, but 10 cart errors later and they'd all gone!
Glad it seems to be working ok. I'm working on improving the calendar reminder notification as they seem to go a little crazy at the moment due to change in the way notifications are displayed now (ie snooze a notification and it won't totally disappear from your notification bar - you won't get an icon, but it's still there when you pull down the bar). So this is causing some extra notifications while on snooze, but I'm hoping to get a fix out for it soon. At least I can recreate it on my galaxy nexus on 4.2.
I was getting my led glowing randomly since installing so I uninstalled.. Was I doing something wrong?
Also how badly does lightflow affect the battery?
Thanks
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I have the full version.
I've noticed some colours aren't working properly. eg. Indigo will show the some colour LED as red, Navy and Blue look the same too.
Would really appreciate if someone could make a list of all the true colours that actually work?
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I was getting my led glowing randomly since installing so I uninstalled.. Was I doing something wrong?
Also how badly does lightflow affect the battery?
Thanks
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A couple of things with this. Swiping away notifications won't stop the led at the moment: vote for this android feature request here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23106
Also try adding the light flow debugger widget to a homescreen as that will tell you which notifications it thinks are on.
As for battery drain, I think it varies for different people depending on what settings they use. I try to set the default app settings to be fairly sensible on battery drain.
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I have the full version.
I've noticed some colours aren't working properly. eg. Indigo will show the some colour LED as red, Navy and Blue look the same too.
Would really appreciate if someone could make a list of all the true colours that actually work?
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I'm planning in a future release to have a section where you can remap the preset colors to new RGB values as it's one of those things that varies a little from phone to phone. The colors were originally based on what the nexus one could manage (it was probably the best phone for color representation) and then tweaked a little for the galaxy nexus.
As I've not seen a nexus 4 (stupid google play checkout errors) yet I've not been able to experiment.
I installed the lite app, dunno why, my led was active all the time (white colour), even without notifications or plane mode. I uninstalled the app, and now my led doesnt work (Nexus 4)
I'd really like to jump on board with this app, but after a report of "My LED doesn't work anymore" I'm scared. I think I'll wait for the dev to get his own n4 to work out n4 specific kinks/quirks.
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A couple of things with this. Swiping away notifications won't stop the led at the moment: vote for this android feature request here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23106
Also try adding the light flow debugger widget to a homescreen as that will tell you which notifications it thinks are on.
As for battery drain, I think it varies for different people depending on what settings they use. I try to set the default app settings to be fairly sensible on battery drain.
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I'm planning in a future release to have a section where you can remap the preset colors to new RGB values as it's one of those things that varies a little from phone to phone. The colors were originally based on what the nexus one could manage (it was probably the best phone for color representation) and then tweaked a little for the galaxy nexus.
As I've not seen a nexus 4 (stupid google play checkout errors) yet I've not been able to experiment.
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Regarding to this, I have to say that the custom color mode works very straight for me, the color that I chose is the colour what I see (taking into account the obvious deviations from IPS and RGB led, of course).
Under Settings there's something that says "Additional LEDs Found" and there's 4 LEDs there:
lcd-backlight control
lm3530 control
pm8xxx-led control
spotlight control
Any idea what these are for?
Thanks
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Under Settings there's something that says "Additional LEDs Found" and there's 4 LEDs there:
lcd-backlight control
lm3530 control
pm8xxx-led control
spotlight control
Any idea what these are for?
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Also curious about this.
Also, it does seem to work well so far, but testing the LED in-app does not work. Any idea why this is?
Anyone having problems with Gmail? If I set Light Flow to use priority inbox I don't get notification lights. If I uncheck use priority inbox then it works.
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Also curious about this.
Also, it does seem to work well so far, but testing the LED in-app does not work. Any idea why this is?
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the testing does work. when you get the popup about waiting 5 seconds, immediately click the wake/power button and you should see the led trigger the tests.
Developer said Priority Inbox isn't working right under 4.2. Will be fixed once a fix is found. Regular inbox is fine.
sarni84 said:
Just thought I would share that this app works great with the nexus 4. It actually is running flawless for me right now go check it out in play store. You can control your led light on the front of the device with just about any notification and color
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite
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I have a weird bug with LightFlow. When it is enabled i will randomly get Accessibility voice when inside chrome. Like, she will say "NEW TAB" or she will call out the page title of every thing. Then if I disable light Flow, the bug is gone.
Would like to use it but if with this here....i can't. Unless i got something set up wrong, but i check all accessibility settings and they are off except for light flow
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I have a weird bug with LightFlow. When it is enabled i will randomly get Accessibility voice when inside chrome. Like, she will say "NEW TAB" or she will call out the page title of every thing. Then if I disable light Flow, the bug is gone.
Would like to use it but if with this here....i can't. Unless i got something set up wrong, but i check all accessibility settings and they are off except for light flow
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Check other Lightflow threads. I remember reading about on the S3 thread or GN thread. I've never had it happen, but remember some other people talking about it.
Tested it a couple of day and is not working properly, light notifications are very slow to get dismissed and sometimes the led blink without a reason
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Using LEDBlinker Pro personally. Works spot on.
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Tested it a couple of day and is not working properly, light notifications are very slow to get dismissed and sometimes the led blink without a reason
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What? No. Outside of only inbox and not priority inbox it's working great. Same as on my S3. It sounds like you didn't properly setup your dismiss settings for how you want it. There are a lot of options.
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Since we don't have LED notifications you guys can check out Dynamic Notifications. Gives a nice clean look to notifications https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications
What's wrong with Flash Alerts 2? I use it all the time, if you opt for it, you can buy the premium version, I just use the free version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.megawave.flashalerts
He didn't say there was something wrong with it, apparently he prefers that app. Does flash alerts give led notification? I thought it was just a flash from the flashlight.
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so basicly the second screen but full screen i dont get it this phone has the best notifications ever just put date and time as your secound screen off mode then turn see all notifications on on the lock screen and boom second screen shows when you miss a call double time the screen and you see who it is. why would you install and app that turns on the screen when you have a second screen just for that. or am i missing something
Can't see it from a distance. Led is great for that.
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well i've had notes up untill now and i cant say i missed the led i actually didnt even realize the phone didnt have one till i saw this post. seeing that all it did was say hey unlock your phone something is happening lol now i look and i see oh its just and email back in the pocket you go. i think this is better cause now your phone doesnt have a light that says to everyone i'm checking a message of some kind lol now it just looks like i'm checking the time.
Led was great, color coded for text messages, email, missed calls, etc. But hey, if you are happy, I'm happy for you.
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If u go into settings>accessibility>hearing> flash notifications is now an option no 3rd party app needed.
bhowell423 said:
If u go into settings>accessibility>hearing> flash notifications is now an option no 3rd party app needed.
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Thank u
bhowell423 said:
If u go into settings>accessibility>hearing> flash notifications is now an option no 3rd party app needed.
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:good: Thanks I was all set to download an app. No need now!
Easy solution to those missing the led, we can just make an app that makes the second screen flash different colors at full brightness. Heck let's turn it on permanently and the screen and go rainbow in equal divisions of color based on the order the notifications come in. I'm tempted to put a /s on this but I think I might actually use it if it became available...
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Easy solution to those missing the led, we can just make an app that makes the second screen flash different colors at full brightness. Heck let's turn it on permanently and the screen and go rainbow in equal divisions of color based on the order the notifications come in. I'm tempted to put a /s on this but I think I might actually use it if it became available...
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Agreed. The camera led is obnoxious. Brighter, blinking, colored images on the second screen needs to happen.....why on earth are All the second screen notifications white?!
Also.....missed call AND text reminders need to be standard on new devices. Is there a rational explanation why my brand new tech still needs an app for common sense stuff?
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Agreed. The camera led is obnoxious. Brighter, blinking, colored images on the second screen needs to happen.....why on earth are All the second screen notifications white?!
Also.....missed call AND text reminders need to be standard on new devices. Is there a rational explanation why my brand new tech still needs an app for common sense stuff?
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they aren't....it is app dependent
i have certain apps that display the notification icon in a different color...i was glad to see this cause it showed it was possible...bright "breathing" color notifications would be awesome
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If u go into settings>accessibility>hearing> flash notifications is now an option no 3rd party app needed.
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Wow thanks for that!!!
NO LED
IF we can get this app to display on the second screen I think we will have a almost perfect solution:
NoLED app by madmac
For rooted phones w/ Xposed, just get the enable ambient display module.