Notifications not working - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

For some reason the notification light and sound has stopped working. Volume is up, sounds work in games, music player, etc. But when I get a text... No sound, no led light. Tried wiping cache, still nothing. Any ideas?
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What ROM are you running and android version? What about Kernel?
Can you remember if this has started happening after you installed a specific app?
Did you check the notification sound in the settings? Try putting it to zero then increase it again. Mute it then unmute it again.
Do you use Lightflow for light notification? If yes then ensure that it got root permissions.
Sorry for these so many questions, but it would really help to know about them so members here know how to help you further

I'm running Eclipse 2.1 with lean kernel. Haven't added any apps in the time this started. Tinkered around a bunch and got the sound to work, but still no led.
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Good to know that sound is back
Which app are you using for the Light notification? Light Flow Lite? I have lost some of the led notifications recently but updating my Light Flow Lite app solved the problem

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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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dave83uk said:
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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Light flow works well
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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
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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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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.

How do you disable the LED from blinking for notifications on CM7.2.0?

I downgraded, rooted, flashed CM7, etc. on my brother's G2 recently and he's very happy about the better performance and new features. Anyway, we wanted to know if it was possible to make the LED in the upper right of the phone not blink when there is a notification.
There is an app called Light Flow that could probably help him with that. There is a free version & a paid version. Try the free version out.
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I tried that app and it didn't work for controlling the LED, but thanks for the suggestion.
hi, I think its in settings - profiles - your current profile - and sms or email etc.. there is light indication option.

BLN half working

I installed the kernel that supports BLN then I installed lite Rom version 5. Now I downloaded the BLN from the market and it said my Rom supports it. Unfortunately when I get an email the button lights don't go on when the phone is sleep. Same with Facebook notifications but it did work with Google talk. Someone sent me a message and it lit up quite nicely and stayed on till I woke up the phone. Anyone else experiencing this? I looked in Facebook and made sure on the app that I have light notification enabled but that did not help. I could not see any options from the email. I use the built in email from android not the Google one, the white one with the blue @ sign is the one I use. Am I not enabling something? Please help I would love this to work properly.
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I second this. BLN works, but not consistently. I can't quite put my finger on why the performance varies. It works during sleep, but not always. It works while it's awake, but the screen is off, but also not always.
The only thing I may have found is that BLN works less often when I have the app triggering the notification open/active. So, when I'm in a chat and I put down my phone after a message, the screen will go off after 15 seconds. The other party may have replied within 20 seconds, but it does not always trigger BLN.
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I wish it would just trigger on everything in the notification section. Unfortunately kind of useless if it is only sometimes getting triggered. What good is a notification light that does not work? Sorry, I know how hard some people have worked hard on this and I am not trying to upset anyone, just stating that it is not there yet to be reliable and fully functional.
I had the same issue previously on older versions of the lite kernel. I ended up flashing the kernel twice in a row and it seemed to fix the issue. I haven't seen issues since. Maybe upgrade to the most current lite kernel?
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I couldn't get BLN Control to work with Handcent SMS so I downloaded Light Flow Lite, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite.
So far it has worked great and I haven't seen any of these intermittent issues. Maybe it will help one of you guys.

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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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
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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.
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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..

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