After much trial and error. I finally got Light Flow working on my S3. Here's what I did to get it to work :
Go to Setting > Led Notifications, and Only check Missed Events. Leave the others unchecked.
Make sure you disable all LED notifications in the rest of your apps (WhatsApp, GoSMS, etc); you'll need to let Light Flow handle these notifications. In some circumstances you may need to disable the 'screen on, on notification event' option in these apps to get the Light Flow to work.
In Light Flow, if you want to test the color of your notification, in 'Clear Notification Style' select 'App Entered', then scroll down to 'Test Notification', wait for the Pop-up and press the power button (to turn off your screen). Sometimes you might need to wait about 30 secs for the light to appear. This is just to test the color of your notification, Light Flow will still work with the rest of the Clear Notification Styles.
I'm on root, so the above works for me. It might work for non-rooted phones though.
Also, you may notice that not all colors are supported by the S3. Typically, the distinct colors I got are :
Cyan
Blue
White
Green
Indigo
Lime
Yellow
Orange
I tried the custom colors, but the S3 LED seemed to provide some mesh-ed up mix of colors.
I can't find what you mean by " Setting > Led Notifications".
Is that in the system settings, light flow settings, or individual app settings within light flow?
Mine just worked out of box... No fuss.
joelunch said:
I can't find what you mean by " Setting > Led Notifications".
Is that in the system settings, light flow settings, or individual app settings within light flow?
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System > Display > LED
You should not have to disable notifications in the apps for lightflow to work.
Because Lightflow registers itself as an accessibility tool, it should override any other notifications.
wow.....
all you need to do, OUT OF THE BOX.
Settings, Accessibilty, ------and heres the kicker...Turn on Light Flow, lol
Not to mention light flow keeps asking you to do this all the time!
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Guys you know that lightflow has a wake lock problem?
Had it installed and it drained my battery like anything, with it installed lucky to get 8 hours of battery, uninstalled i get 2 days.
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wow.....
all you need to do, OUT OF THE BOX.
Settings, Accessibilty, ------and heres the kicker...Turn on Light Flow, lol
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It didn't work for me out of the box. Notifications come on but don't turn off, and sometimes come on at random.
mrtoken said:
Guys you know that lightflow has a wake lock problem?
Had it installed and it drained my battery like anything, with it installed lucky to get 8 hours of battery, uninstalled i get 2 days.
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I couldn't get it to work on my sgs3 either. Just gave me the green light. The developer website says they're working on getting the US version of the s3 working but it sounds like it has issues with wake locks as well.
anyone else found a similar app that works on the sgs3? I really miss being able to designate any color I want for diferent email, text, missed calls, etc.
Ive never got light flow working properly.
Usually it prevents all notifications working for me but then gives me none of its own. The test is only ever green.
I set all my notifications blue as I only want it for sleep. Last install (this week) it actually worked. It went to sleep too. YAY!
but alas it was not to be. No more notifications the next day.
I only want to put my LED to sleep when I go to sleep. Why is this such a big ask?
It works well for me - but i SOMETIMES get the stock blue flashing light and can't figure out why.
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Does anyone know what the flashing blue LED means? And is there a way to disable it, at night it can be very bright!
Paul
Probably some useful info in the user guide http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/model/GT-I9300MBASWC-downloads?isManualDownload=true
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Nope, nothing in the manual that refers to the Blue Flashing LED.
Paul
Do you have anything enabled in the LED light settings that would explain why it's flashing?
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Nope, nothing in the manual that refers to the Blue Flashing LED.
Paul
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Please read again.
Settings -> LED Settings
Red is low battery and/or charging
Green is fully charged
Flashing blue means there is a notification of some sort.
Thanks Lenny,
The manual does not help:
●● Missed event: Set to turn on the service light when you have missed calls, messages, or notifications.
Doesnt say "Blue" anywhere so not exactly easy to find!
Paul
It's blue for every app notification unless you have light flow installed so you'll have to work out which app is notifying you
Usually I've forgotten to read an email or text message though - annoying though when you can't track it down
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Trying light flow as that does exactly what I require.
Thanks very much.
Paul
I use calendar snooze for my appointment reminders, and I set it to flash red for them.
I have been looking in Tasker if there is a setting there to turn reminders off while my 'night' setting is active. I also find them annoying during the night, but haven't been able to find a setting there yet. Anyone got any ideas?
what has to be done or there's an app that's already out, the led has to flash for a certain time and it turns off. constant flashing will piss people off and may possibly kill the battery
10076757 said:
what has to be done or there's an app that's already out, the led has to flash for a certain time and it turns off. constant flashing will piss people off and may possibly kill the battery
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If you really think about it though, that flashing light probably consumes less battery then you having to turn on the screen to see if you have a new notification that you might have missed. Even if your screen is on for 5 seconds it is still waking up the phone and causing it time for it to fall back into sleep.
Quick question here -
On the OG Evo my favorite mod was the WiMax notification mod that enabled the green WiMax light to stay lit when I received a text message.
I know the Evo 4G LTE doesn't have this light. Is it possible to have the blinking notification changed to a constant on? That way it's harder to miss when I get a new text message.
How hard would it be for a developer to make this happen?
Thanks in advance!
And to go along with this could we get a mod so that the notification light doesn't time out after 5 minutes if it hasn't been checked? Kind of a useless light unless you look at your phone every 5 minutes. It is one of the main reasons I switched to Cyanogenmod on my EVO Shift.
The constant on mod would be nice. I wouldn't have to stare as long wondering if it is in fact blinking.
I use Handcent and while it's a little bloated it does allow you to set the charging light to flash when a text is received and also the frequency and color of the flash. It might be an option for you until someone creates a mod.
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And to go along with this could we get a mod so that the notification light doesn't time out after 5 minutes if it hasn't been checked? Kind of a useless light unless you look at your phone every 5 minutes. It is one of the main reasons I switched to Cyanogenmod on my EVO Shift.
The constant on mod would be nice. I wouldn't have to stare as long wondering if it is in fact blinking.
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Wait, the notification light times out after 5 minutes? Seriously? I thought maybe I was just seeing (or not seeing) things. That's irritating.
Aeonus said:
Quick question here -
On the OG Evo my favorite mod was the WiMax notification mod that enabled the green WiMax light to stay lit when I received a text message.
I know the Evo 4G LTE doesn't have this light. Is it possible to have the blinking notification changed to a constant on? That way it's harder to miss when I get a new text message.
How hard would it be for a developer to make this happen?
Thanks in advance!
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I also had that app in my Evo. It was from a developer in xda but when I tried to install it, it said was not supported. Wish the developer would redo for us.
Ian B
Mike Fitz said:
I use Handcent and while it's a little bloated it does allow you to set the charging light to flash when a text is received and also the frequency and color of the flash. It might be an option for you until someone creates a mod.
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I use hand cent also. Can you please point us to where you would adjust the color of the flash? All I see is a setting for blink led. But no color setting.
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I use Handcent and while it's a little bloated it does allow you to set the charging light to flash when a text is received and also the frequency and color of the flash. It might be an option for you until someone creates a mod.
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I actually really like the stock one that is included in this build. I've had sketchy results with third-party apps in the past and don't really need the extra bloat typically.
Appreciate the suggestion though, that's more along the lines of what I'm interested in. A constant-on notification light would be perfect.
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I use hand cent also. Can you please point us to where you would adjust the color of the flash? All I see is a setting for blink led. But no color setting.
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Menu/Settings/Notification Settings/Notification Settings (again)/Check the "LED Plus" box. You should then see a dropdown for LED color (Green or Amber) and another for LED Frequency. Not sure if you have to be rooted to select LED Plus.
I used the wimax notifier on the 4g, but it would be great if a ROM developer could include some tweaks for this!
I use this and it is godly light flow
It takes a while to figure everything out but once you do it's amazing
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Menu/Settings/Notification Settings/Notification Settings (again)/Check the "LED Plus" box. You should then see a dropdown for LED color (Green or Amber) and another for LED Frequency. Not sure if you have to be rooted to select LED Plus.
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I don't have "LED Plus" what version of handcent are you using?
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I don't have "LED Plus" what version of handcent are you using?
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I think you have to be rooted to use that feature/option!
I am rooted with zedomax
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I don't have "LED Plus" what version of handcent are you using?
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I'm on 4.2.5 and it's been there through multiple updates. It's possible it wasn't included for the LTE I guess, I'm still using the OG EVO (for now). Maybe someone else can verify. It would be hard to believe they would remove it for certain phones but who knows.
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I use this and it is godly light flow
It takes a while to figure everything out but once you do it's amazing
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I tried this on my LTE, and it only worked in Direct mode, which gave me very few options. How did you get it to work?
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I use this and it is godly light flow
It takes a while to figure everything out but once you do it's amazing
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I also tried this and although it works if my phone is silent the light turns off after a couple seconds if my sound is turned on. Also, the light doesn't flash it remains constant which I don't mind at all. However, I need to hear my phone sometimes so until that gets cleared up this isn't an option for me.
Ok for handcent there are a couple things but it does work even on our EVO LTE.
First I don't think the option is called LED Plus any more. To get to those options open up one of your text messages like you are reading it and at the top right side there is a little gear settings button. Click that and select Notification Settings. When you scroll down you will see three settings under the heading "LED Settings"; Blink LED, Color of LED and LED flash frequency. Those settings would have solved our problem. The problem is they are grayed out on our new phones. Bummer. I guess it means handcent isn't fully compatible with Sense 4 yet.
We can get around that though!
Now back out of your messages so that you are at the main screen of handcent where you can see all the contacts who have messaged you. Now press menu> settings>notification settings>notification settings. In here you will see a set of options called reminders. Turn on reminders and make sure the frequency is set for 5 minutes. 5 minutes is when Sense will usually time out a notification. Also, make sure to set the number of reminders to keep repeating so that every 5 minutes you get a new reminder. These reminders seem to restart the notification to your phone. You will get another notification sound/vibration or however you have yours set up and the led light will continue to flash like you just received the message. I don't think there is a way to not have the sound/vibration go off again unless your phone is on silent. Doesn't bother me since if I haven't checked the notification by then that means I still need to be notified.
Another cool thing about handcent is if you like the way the stock messaging app pops up your text on the lock screen handcent can do that too. It's in the options to popup on lockscreen and you also have to check the option for popup on lockscreen fix for some phone on Android 2.2+. You can even check an option somewhere in there so that the popup only shows up on the lockscreen and not when you are using the phone.
With these options I can make handcent function identical to the stock messaging app but have my notification led remain on forever until I clear it. I also turned off notifications for my stock messaging app and under display settings in my phone turned off led notification for sms/mms so handcent is controlling them.
Unfortunately this does nothing for emails, phone calls, etc but really texts are the one thing I need to know about since it is the primary way my wife communicates with me during the day.
I have also tried Light Flow but it doesn't seem to work at all. My notifications still turn off after 5 minutes even in direct mode.
I had the hardest time getting the WhatsApp notifications to work using Light Flow on my Note 3, but I finally figured it out. Here is the solution.
Normally you need to turn on Light Flow in the Accessibility settings on the phone. But not for Android 4.3 and above. There is a note when you turn Light Flow Accessibility on and off saying such. So leave Accessibility off for Light Flow. Instead go to Phone Settings/Security/Notification access and check the box after Light Flow. And now it should work.
Hope that helps you.
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I had the hardest time getting the WhatsApp notifications to work using Light Flow on my Note 3, but I finally figured it out. Here is the solution.
Normally you need to turn on Light Flow in the Accessibility settings on the phone. But not for Android 4.3 and above. There is a note when you turn Light Flow Accessibility on and off saying such. So leave Accessibility off for Light Flow. Instead go to Phone Settings/Security/Notification access and check the box after Light Flow. And now it should work.
Hope that helps you.
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not worth using light flow on 4.3 and above since there is a persistent notification when you pull down the status bar. i use led blinker pro now. does the same thing pretty much.
qman66 said:
not worth using light flow on 4.3 and above since there is a persistent notification when you pull down the status bar. i use led blinker pro now. does the same thing pretty much.
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I don't have an issue with the notification lights in 4.3. The reason I use Light Flow is because WhatsApp doesn't use alerts for contacts propertly. When you tell it to use Contact specific notifications in WhatsApp it uses the Contact's Ringtone instead of the Message Alert. Light Flow handles this properly and in addition it allows a different notification for WhatsApp and Handcent (or your SMS App). I don't know of any other App that will do that. I would be ok with WhatsApp using the Message Alert and having the same alert for a text messages as WhatsApp messages. But I'm not OK with using a phone Ringtone for a text/WhatsApp message.
I should also mention that I set Light Flow Setting for "Select the type of control" to "No Control - Default device behavior." This allowed me to use the Handcent notification settings which turned out to be better than Light Flow.
thank you for this! i love lightflow!
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I had the hardest time getting the WhatsApp notifications to work using Light Flow on my Note 3, but I finally figured it out. Here is the solution.
Normally you need to turn on Light Flow in the Accessibility settings on the phone. But not for Android 4.3 and above. There is a note when you turn Light Flow Accessibility on and off saying such. So leave Accessibility off for Light Flow. Instead go to Phone Settings/Security/Notification access and check the box after Light Flow. And now it should work.
Hope that helps you.
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Really thanks for sharing, you solved my problem with LightFlow and Whatsapp :good:
Solution
Friends, i solve this problem in Adjust\Security - Access To Notifications, i mark Light Flow, and the app start correctly!!!
I have a Xperia ZL Android 4.3, this is my solution, try in different Devices.
Sorry for my bad englis!
I seem unable to get Lightflow working. Anyone having success? (I'm not rooted).
If so, can you share what all you had to do to get it going?
I use light manager, and it works as promised, I am also not rooted. (SD). I haven't tried light flow, but I can confirm light manager works with most of the colors
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Hmmmmm.....must be some setting problem. Just tried Light Manager, and it doesn't work for me either
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I seem unable to get Lightflow working. Anyone having success? (I'm not rooted).
If so, can you share what all you had to do to get it going?
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I'm using Lightflow and it's working as usual for me. Didn't have to do anything special to make it work.
Thanks for the input guys.
Turns out that me LED indicator setting under was turned off. I believe i dud that SetdudLdudevice on initial setup, thinking i was turning off charging LEDs, and that LF had its own control.
I'm good to go now, and feeling a bit embarrassed ...
Anyone else having problems with the LED being shut off after notifications are dismissed? I have all my Light Flow notifications set to stop after I clear the notification from the notification bar. But it's not working. I'll try contacted the developer.
Weird, not had that one.
But I have noticed several problems with Lightflow. I have contacted the developer, but no respose as of yet.
With Lightflow, things I've noticed is:
1) When added a new Notification, if you test it, the LED colour does not match the one you've selected. But it'll still work for the notification.
2) Colours in the Cyan range don't seem to be replicated corretly - but I don't think that's to do with lightflow. One my phone (SM-910F in black) there's a fine, wire mesh kind of pattern over the surface of the phone, which covers the LED. Seems to distort what colour comes out.
If I look really closely, I can see a hint of the correct colour if that makes sense. Not sure how a developer could sort that out, as the program is probably working correctly.
Pretty much Sea Green, turqoise, teal, light green all seem to come out as Light blue. Even using the hex manually still results in this. Same with Light manager too. Really really annoying!
Of course it could just me my old eyes playing tricks one me!
3) Sleep mode doesn't quite work properly. If you set it to disable vribrate only, and leave everything else on, it disables everything, not just vibrate. A small issue, but hey, I'd like to use the feature.
Apart from that, it works perfectly. So nice not to have to switch on accesability to get it to work
On my Honor notification LED light is working only with pre-installed and google apps. Without additional app you cannot control it. I tried Light Flow, and from there you cannot choose Viber, Whatsapp or Facebook but at least you can control what will happen with pre-installed and google apps. With any other app LED light is just not working. Is there a way to change this, and did somebody else had this problem..?
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On my Honor notification LED light is working only with pre-installed and google apps. Without additional app you cannot control it. I tried Light Flow, and from there you cannot choose Viber, Whatsapp or Facebook but at least you can control what will happen with pre-installed and google apps. With any other app LED light is just not working. Is there a way to change this, and did somebody else had this problem..?
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You can use settings in Whatsapp for turning on the notification light. In fact, Honor 7 has multi colored light.
For Whatsapp: Go to Settings > Notification > Light
I have tried all the colours in the colour options and all of them working normally.
For facebook go to App Settings > Notifications (Turn these ON) > Phone LED (Turn this ON)
You're done. The notification will blink red by default for Facebook
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You can use settings in Whatsapp for turning on the notification light. In fact, Honor 7 has multi colored light.
For Whatsapp: Go to Settings > Notification > Light
I have tried all the colours in the colour options and all of them working normally.
For facebook go to App Settings > Notifications (Turn these ON) > Phone LED (Turn this ON)
You're done. The notification will blink red by default for Facebook
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Hi, thanks fo the answer!
Anyway it didn't help. Of course those were the first things which i checked when i noticed this problem. And in every app LED light was enabled, but no blinking. But since you told me that on your phone works, i searched a bit more, and I found a solution with Light Manager app. I manage to enable there LED blink for all the apps which i use.
I highly recommend this app it gives you much more options and it works with much more apps than Light Flow.
Although it would be perfect if this would be solved inside EMUI.
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Hi, thanks fo the answer!
Anyway it didn't help. Of course those were the first things which i checked when i noticed this problem. And in every app LED light was enabled, but no blinking. But since you told me that on your phone works, i searched a bit more, and I found a solution with Light Manager app. I manage to enable there LED blink for all the apps which i use.
I highly recommend this app it gives you much more options and it works with much more apps than Light Flow.
Although it would be perfect if this would be solved inside EMUI.
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Thanks for recommending the app. Great that it helps in blink timing.
you need to unplug it for it to work, stupid as that sounds
The whatsapp led doesnt work on my Honor 7x, all Settings are correct
crisi24 said:
The whatsapp led doesnt work on my Honor 7x, all Settings are correct
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Wrong thread buddy... This thread is for honor7