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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.

bln for desire HD

Hi to evarybody!
i have an issue: i have a desire HD, and i want that the soft keys blink (or simply switched on) when i receve an sms or missed call on my phone and the screen is turned off.
My phone is routed and now i have ice cold sandwich rom vers. 8.4 aokp
the kernel is 2.6.35.14-LordmodUE 9.8.8 (that is included with this rom)
in this rom, in settings-->rom control --> led option --> there is "use BLN" , i have activated it with the flag, but when i try to test it with a missed call or sms, the sofkays remains off !!!
I know that there is also a BLN sotware in the market, i have dowloaded it, but is impossible to activate it because the kernel is not compatible!!!
What i have to do??
i come from gingerbread 2.3 where i used app "let me know" that have this function and works perfectly! with any rom of andorid 4.0 this app don't work...and also bln app....and also the settings included on the roms (i have tryed also miui...)
This function for me is very very important and much more appreciate....could some one help me?
THANKS so much!
marco

Hey megamarco83,
got the same question asked a few days ago. Let me know if you found something out

nemo09 said:
Hey megamarco83,
got the same question asked a few days ago. Let me know if you found something out
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Ciao nemo!
ok no problem, i try to find a solution since many days....without results
if i discover something i will write....!
have a nice day
marco

Let me get this straight. You want the home, meu, back and search button to light up when you receive a notification? If the answer is yes, I'll flash ice cold and take a look. I don't understand why it doesn't work for you.
Sent from a dream.

Get into the LED menu at RomControl, switch the function ON or OFF.
Exit.
Get back into the menu and switch it ON or OFF again.
Exit.
Worked for me, I had the same problem.

Teichopsia said:
Let me get this straight. You want the home, meu, back and search button to light up when you receive a notification? If the answer is yes, I'll flash ice cold and take a look. I don't understand why it doesn't work for you.
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ciao Teichopsia....yes the answer is...YES
I have tried in many ways...but still not working
if you coul flash ics aokp 8.4 final ad test it...you make me a favor
ps. but you have an htc desire hd?
thanks so much
Marco

megamarco83 said:
ciao Teichopsia....yes the answer is...YES
I have tried in many ways...but still not working
if you coul flash ics aokp 8.4 final ad test it...you make me a favor
ps. but you have an htc desire hd?
thanks so much
Marco
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Inspire.
Did you try what the previous member suggested?
Sent from a dream.

capastl chiefly
Zeitraffer said:
Get into the LED menu at RomControl, switch the function ON or OFF.
Exit.
Get back into the menu and switch it ON or OFF again.
Exit.
Worked for me, I had the same problem.
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Hi!
i have try your suggest...and it works...but partially
i try to explain better: i switched on an off three times (with enter and exit on RomControl menu -> led notification) and finally i had swiched on the bln and then exit.
i try to send at my desire hd one sms....and the soft keys (home, menu, back, and search) was light on! (perfect!!)
then i delete the notification, i had lock my screen, the softkeys wos not lighted (perfect!!!).... and so i sent another sms... the softkeys light on! (perfect)
finally i have delete the sms notification, i locked my scree, i made a missed call....and when the my ringtones shut off, the screen became locked....the soft keys was NOT light on (NOT correct!) because if i look at my notification there is a missed call but the soft keys was not light on
i have also made another test...i have download from the market the bln free software, and when i open it, there is a message error: the bkn mod in son installed, and is not possible to activate it.....
thanks again to you and to all for all the answer!

Teichopsia said:
Inspire.
Did you try what the previous member suggested?
Sent from a dream.
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yes, i tried and didn't works
(is ok only for sms notification....and the lighk is only turned on....not blinking ....but ok....should be ok anly with light on, without blinking....but with all notification, not only with sms
p.s.
finally....if you test ics 8.4 aokp....i discoveder also a problem with vibration on sms (if i recive an sms the vibration NOt working!!) ....this happen in both case: only vibration and no sound or vibration+sound....in both case NO vibration when i receive an sms. (if i receive a call the vibration is on in both case...)
i could not post that problem on the rom post because i have not that autorization

megamarco83 said:
yes, i tried and didn't works
(is ok only for sms notification....and the lighk is only turned on....not blinking ....but ok....should be ok anly with light on, without blinking....but with all notification, not only with sms
p.s.
finally....if you test ics 8.4 aokp....i discoveder also a problem with vibration on sms (if i recive an sms the vibration NOt working!!) ....this happen in both case: only vibration and no sound or vibration+sound....in both case NO vibration when i receive an sms. (if i receive a call the vibration is on in both case...)
i could not post that problem on the rom post because i have not that autorization
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jajaajaja..... with the amount of posts I have, this is the first time I use the laptop to post on xda. So that's how you guys get the bold, italics and all that. I used to type it in manually.... jajajajaja....
anyhow, Im charging my phone to flash ice cold, I had downloaded it when it was released to test it out, just hadn't had the time.
I did a search in the meantime. Read these and search a bit more to see if you find your answer. The first two are from other phones, the last one is for icecold.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=823922&page=9
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457506
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1450962&page=481
http://www.google.com/cse?q=how+do+bln+work&sa=Search&cx=partner-pub-2900107662879704%3Afs7umqefhnf&ie=ISO-8859-1#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=how%20do%20bln%20work%20in%20icecoldsandwhich

Just lighten up the buttons works great with Ice Cold Sandwhich, but i want them to blink. Not just to light up, that means the 4 buttons (on, off, on, off) until i read the message!

Teichopsia said:
jajaajaja..... with the amount of posts I have, this is the first time I use the laptop to post on xda. So that's how you guys get the bold, italics and all that. I used to type it in manually.... jajajajaja....
anyhow, Im charging my phone to flash ice cold, I had downloaded it when it was released to test it out, just hadn't had the time.
I did a search in the meantime. Read these and search a bit more to see if you find your answer. The first two are from other phones, the last one is for icecold.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=823922&page=9
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457506
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1450962&page=481
http://www.google.com/cse?q=how+do+bln+work&sa=Search&cx=partner-pub-2900107662879704%3Afs7umqefhnf&ie=ISO-8859-1#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=how%20do%20bln%20work%20in%20icecoldsandwhich
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Hi!
first of all....many thanks for your help!
...i have read that topics, and...maybe i'm wrong, but i not able to find any solution for my problem...
updated to now, the only thing that have succesful result (not blink, only swich on the light, but is ok!) is only for sms message.
but bln still not working for missed calls
have you had tha chance to flash the rom and verify it?
thanks again
marco

megamarco83 said:
Hi!
first of all....many thanks for your help!
...i have read that topics, and...maybe i'm wrong, but i not able to find any solution for my problem...
updated to now, the only thing that have succesful result (not blink, only swich on the light, but is ok!) is only for sms message.
but bln still not working for missed calls
have you had tha chance to flash the rom and verify it?
thanks again
marco
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Sorry bub, I decided to flash a different one since I've always been curious to know how it runs as a daily.
Sent from a dream.

Teichopsia said:
Sorry bub, I decided to flash a different one since I've always been curious to know how it runs as a daily.
Sent from a dream.
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ok, no problem
....anyone alse...have some idea to solve the bln issue?
thanks so much!

hi!
no one else have that problem? ...or better: someone have in mind an idea to solve this issue?
it's impossible living without bln
have a nice day
marco

hi, i have seen that thare is a new release of ice cold sandwich.... 8.5
i have flashed it, but also in this version the BLN on desire HD works ONLY with sms message and NOT with missed calls...why???
someone else have this issue? someone else could write it on the rom develop post? (i have not acces to write there... ....for me is very important that the keys light on when i receive a call....
thanks in advance to all xda comunity

Is there any JB rom with bln?

erazerx said:
Is there any JB rom with bln?
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uhmmm i never seen one

led notification stopped working after cm upgrade

Upgraded from cm.-10.20130224-nightly to cm-10.1.2 and I've been unsuccessful in getting the the led notification to work. I upgraded with CWM and used darkside swipe before upgrading. Did I do something wrong or am I overlooking anything? I rarely hear or feel the vibrations and rely on the led notification more than anything. Any help resolving this is sincerely appreciated, thanks!

pretty sure they took it out you need a custom kernel for it now head over to CL3Kener thread and he has amazing kernels for this ROM

krazierokz said:
pretty sure they took it out you need a custom kernel for it now head over to CL3Kener thread and he has amazing kernels for this ROM
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installed CL3Keners uber kernel and got the led notification back, thanks!

Wait... What do we mean here by led? You mean bln? Like the buttons lighting up right?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

nashy10 said:
Wait... What do we mean here by led? You mean bln? Like the buttons lighting up right?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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yes, the back light notification.

d0u6145 said:
installed CL3Keners uber kernel and got the led notification back, thanks!
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SO i installed the same kernal as you and i got the LED notification working but i see two issues which are bothering me,
My Vibrate option is gone. My phone will go from Mute straight to Loud (volume control) No Vibrate option anywhere.
Second issue vibrate feedback is also gone and i think this might have to do with the vibrate not working all together.
Are you seeing the same issue on your end?
i tried reinstalling CM 10.1.2 fresh with a clean wipe but still no luck.
Thanks in advance

smitdoshi said:
SO i installed the same kernal as you and i got the LED notification working but i see two issues which are bothering me,
My Vibrate option is gone. My phone will go from Mute straight to Loud (volume control) No Vibrate option anywhere.
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Reboot a few times. Vibration should come back.

meekrawb said:
Reboot a few times. Vibration should come back.
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That fixed it.. Thanks. took 4 reboots but its running perfectly.

LED not turning on during phone call, after flashing 4.3

Hi guys,
Yesterday I decided to flash my ZL (c6506) to 4.3.
Before this update, the LED used to turn on during a phone call (it started at the same time the call was answered).
After the update, the LED is not turning on during phone calls.
What do you think...
Is this normal? probably a bug? Incompatibility with another app?
Hope someone can help.
Regards

kobolt99 said:
Hi guys,
Yesterday I decided to flash my ZL (c6506) to 4.3.
Before this update, the LED used to turn on during a phone call (it started at the same time the call was answered).
After the update, the LED is not turning on during phone calls.
What do you think...
Is this normal? probably a bug? Incompatibility with another app?
Hope someone can help.
Regards
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i am getting led on during calls maybe some app is interfering or try a factory reset

bhavstech said:
i am getting led on during calls maybe some app is interfering or try a factory reset
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Thanks for your reply.
I'm trying the uninstall of some apps to see if there's any luck. Nothing yet
Regards.

kobolt99 said:
Thanks for your reply.
I'm trying the uninstall of some apps to see if there's any luck. Nothing yet
Regards.
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you need to uninstall those apps and check which can controllo led eg whatsapp can controll led bet temple run has no connection with led

Any luck fixing this? I just updated to 4.3 via PC Companion and got the same issue, led not turning on during phone calls.

same to me,no working led durin calls.....on 4.3

bhavstech said:
you need to uninstall those apps and check which can controllo led eg whatsapp can controll led bet temple run has no connection with led
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That's a good tip, I was trying with the apps installed recently. I ll give it a try with those controlling led.
No luck yet.
Let's make a list of the apps that works with the LED and find the common one.
Regards

well, the same apps I used on 4.2 are running on 4.3 and the blue light led is not working.....

Same here using. Using same apps before updating to 4.3

bhavstech said:
i am getting led on during calls maybe some app is interfering or try a factory reset
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When you installed 4.3,did you make a 'fresh start' I mean everything was erased and installed all over again? After flashing all my apps and configurations were there. I have tested uninstalling almost all the appd using the LED and not working yet.
Regards

kobolt99 said:
When you installed 4.3,did you make a 'fresh start' I mean everything was erased and installed all over again? After flashing all my apps and configurations were there. I have tested uninstalling almost all the appd using the LED and not working yet.
Regards
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actually i didnt make a fresh start but after a few day of installing i accidently factory reset my phone i dont know whether it was working b4 reset or not
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kobolt99 said:
When you installed 4.3,did you make a 'fresh start' I mean everything was erased and installed all over again? After flashing all my apps and configurations were there. I have tested uninstalling almost all the appd using the LED and not working yet.
Regards
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by working led you mean that blue led light we get during incoming calls right?

bhavstech said:
actually i didnt make a fresh start but after a few day of installing i accidently factory reset my phone i dont know whether it was working b4 reset or not
I just did a factory reset and it's still the same...
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by working led you mean that blue led light we get during incoming calls right?
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No, that's different. The blue light I'm talking about, used to turn on while making the call, at the time the other party answered you.
Regards

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kobolt99 said:
No, that's different. The blue light I'm talking about, used to turn on while making the call, at the time the other party answered you.
Regards
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oh sorry my mistake no led in that !

Yeah the light we are talking about is the one that used to turn on right away WHEN making a call and DURING the call till you hung up but it's not working anymore at least for me and the color of the light depends on the theme you are using. Also my phone is not flashed or rooted but still after updating to 4.3 the light stopped working.

The same problem here too, seams like is from the new fw
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kobolt99 said:
Hi guys,
Yesterday I decided to flash my ZL (c6506) to 4.3.
Before this update, the LED used to turn on during a phone call (it started at the same time the call was answered).
After the update, the LED is not turning on during phone calls.
What do you think...
Is this normal? probably a bug? Incompatibility with another app?
Hope someone can help.
Regards
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Did u check the option un settings>display >notification light
Also is your all other notification light working normal?
Sent from my C6502 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

unmaskedfalesh said:
Did u check the option un settings>display >notification light
Also is your all other notification light working normal?
Sent from my C6502 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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I already checked this and the Notification light is on also it works fine with everything else, whatsapp, messages, facebook notifications even when I open a picture from the album it turns on like it used to. It just won´t turn on during phone calls.

unmaskedfalesh said:
Did u check the option un settings>display >notification light
Also is your all other notification light working normal?
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Yes I did, and yes, the other notifications are working normal.
Don't you have the same issue on c6502?
Regards

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Yes I did, and yes, the other notifications are working normal.
Don't you have the same issue on c6502?
Regards
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Strange i never had this issue in mine..prior to 4.3 in 4.2.2 there was option called pulse light notification that used to handle call notification...but it changed to light notification...i think a repair from sus n a factory settings should fix that...
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Light flow

Has anyone figured out to get light flow to overwrite the settings for the notification light in settings? It seems like my settings from both are working.
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How do you set Light flow? On my phone it doesn't work (Oxygen 3.2.0)

Root
by rooting the op3.. i dont know about the unrooted phone.

For me, even with root and playing around with the LED settings, no luck.. I cant get it working unfortunately. The fancy stock colors the OP3 shows (especially for google+ or tapatalk) are dont even make sense to me.

kewkie said:
For me, even with root and playing around with the LED settings, no luck.. I cant get it working unfortunately. The fancy stock colors the OP3 shows (especially for google+ or tapatalk) are dont even make sense to me.
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I've been able to get it to work using Xposed/Gravitybox under the Ultimate Notification Control section.

slonn said:
I've been able to get it to work using Xposed/Gravitybox under the Ultimate Notification Control section.
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Confirmed! You just need to get used to the colors, but it is working, thanks for this!

I use Light Manager. A little simpler than light flow and works perfectly fine on my OP3.

My light flow (pro) is working fine. Got snapchat glowing yellow whatsapp green and charging light set to red. Seems to be working fine.

vwgti18 said:
My light flow (pro) is working fine. Got snapchat glowing yellow whatsapp green and charging light set to red. Seems to be working fine.
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Did you turn on accessibility? And what LED control methods do you have on in settings?
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I'm sorry I'm not using light flow. It's actually light manager!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanager

Light Flow Pro here in pair with Legacy (to get rid of the notification) and it works fine...as for the legacy however i contacted the developer and it gives me a modified apk that however will be in the play store (or maybe it is yet)

SedyBenoitPeace said:
Light Flow Pro here in pair with Legacy (to get rid of the notification) and it works fine...as for the legacy however i contacted the developer and it gives me a modified apk that however will be in the play store (or maybe it is yet)
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I'm using this combination as well, and it's working.. sort of. When my screen is off, the notification light constantly cycles through all the available colors, just like when you run the test and have to turn the screen off.. only permanent. Not sure why it's happening, never had this issue w/ any previous devices. I did restore my data from previous install, but I've gone through all the settings and checked/unchecked at some point and it's still happening. Thoughts/

bigmase521 said:
I'm using this combination as well, and it's working.. sort of. When my screen is off, the notification light constantly cycles through all the available colors, just like when you run the test and have to turn the screen off.. only permanent. Not sure why it's happening, never had this issue w/ any previous devices. I did restore my data from previous install, but I've gone through all the settings and checked/unchecked at some point and it's still happening. Thoughts/
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I talked with the developer.. It seems that is an Oxygen OS related issue.. He told me that also the s7 edge was having that issue and it was fixed by Samsung with a software update.. On Oxygen I read also some people that has problem with stock led control.. Then probably there is something buggy on our system..
I didn't try any other led app however.. Did you?

SedyBenoitPeace said:
I talked with the developer.. It seems that is an Oxygen OS related issue.. He told me that also the s7 edge was having that issue and it was fixed by Samsung with a software update.. On Oxygen I read also some people that has problem with stock led control.. Then probably there is something buggy on our system..
I didn't try any other led app however.. Did you?
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Oh that's good to know, thx for sharing. I haven't tried any other app yet, I just disabled LightFlow for now since the constant cycling has to chew up extra battery when the screen is off. I'm also still on 3.1.3, going to upgrade to 3.1.2 and see if that helps.