s3 led lights issue - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

All,
I upgraded to jelly bean via the CNET UK guide and now I do not have led light notifications i have tried installing third party apps to force it but my phone still does not display an led notification. The only time it works is when a call comes through or if it is charging
Also most of the mmi codes don't seem to work? Any help would be much appreciated
Cheers
Grant

Yeah it doesnt work when getting a messsage..
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Did you turn the notifications on in the Settings menu? It's under "Display" in Jellybean. I know it's an obvious answer but, sometimes, the most obvious answer eludes the best of us!

Okay it worked it blinks every 5 sec
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Grantgibson45 said:
All,
I upgraded to jelly bean via the CNET UK guide and now I do not have led light notifications i have tried installing third party apps to force it but my phone still does not display an led notification. The only time it works is when a call comes through or if it is charging
Also most of the mmi codes don't seem to work? Any help would be much appreciated
Cheers
Grant
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I restored the factory defaults and JB remained. Now the LED is working.

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Hi there,
Is there an app for the LED notification to continuosly blink when I get an email, twitter updates, missed calls, etc.? I searched the market place and couldn't find any apps that will do this. There's a missed call app, but that's not what I'm looking for.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Wirelessgirl said:
Hi there,
Is there an app for the LED notification to continuosly blink when I get an email, twitter updates, missed calls, etc.? I searched the market place and couldn't find any apps that will do this. There's a missed call app, but that's not what I'm looking for.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Give more info, and are you rooted, on my stock rom I was able to control the led to what ever time I wanted it on. It's on settings and display I believe, I don't really remember what it was cuz I haven't been on stock for awhile now. You don't need an app for led lights
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thizzlemania91 said:
Give more info, and are you rooted, on my stock rom I was able to control the led to what ever time I wanted it on. It's on settings and display I believe, I don't really remember what it was cuz I haven't been on stock for awhile now. You don't need an app for led lights
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No my phone is not rooted. I just got the phone with Rogers. I went to settings and display and the only options I have are to select which events I want the led lights to flash. There's no option to flash indefinitely.
I have searched the forums and there doesn't seem to be a solution to my question. I have tried many led notification apps, most of them are for missed calls, sms, etc. But even with those reminders, the LED doesn't stay on. Without rooting the phone, is there an app that will leave the LED light blinking when there's missed events?
I have tried:
Missed call - doesn't stay blinking for more than 5 mins
handscent sms
easy reminder - deosn't stay blinking for more than 5 mins
light flow - phone needs to be rooted
There's others I have tried but they were for changing the led light which I found out it doesn't work.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[Q] Using tasker to turn off LED light?

So I am wondering if there is a way to turn off the LED lights within Tasker? I have a night profile where it turns down all the sounds, vibrations, etc etc but noticed last night that the LED light was flashing for some emails I had come in. I had a look in the tasker settings but I couldn't see any that would disable the LED?
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas?
OK, I shall keep up this conversation with myself (the voices in my head make me feel like it's a normal conversation with others though ). I found the setting in tasker to turn off the led - it's in the audio section and it's called 'notification pulse'. In my night profile I have now set that to 'off' but it made no difference and any emails during the night had the led flashing
You can use Light Flow to disable notifications at a certain time, plus you can do a lot of customisation.
You need root.
bortak said:
You can use Light Flow to disable notifications at a certain time, plus you can do a lot of customisation.
You need root.
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I reckon, you don't need root w light flow, but other than that bortak is absolutely right. Light flow does all that and perfectly.
Yes, you are totally right. I have installed and uninstalled lightflow a few times already. While it does do that for me, it's just not quite working right. I kept on having a notification light flashing after dismissing or viewing a notification. It just wouldn't stop flashing. That was bugging me more than the extra features I got out of the app, so I've removed it again.
goughymachine said:
Yes, you are totally right. I have installed and uninstalled lightflow a few times already. While it does do that for me, it's just not quite working right. I kept on having a notification light flashing after dismissing or viewing a notification. It just wouldn't stop flashing. That was bugging me more than the extra features I got out of the app, so I've removed it again.
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this is because you havemt set the "clear notification style" parameter. set it to 'screen on'. so that once you wake up the screen al notifications are cleared and u wont see that blink again. Normally it is set to 'app entered', where you have to go to the app (or the phone and click on the missed call etc). set it to what I told to all your notifications.
Thanks. I'll take another look at that. I thought I had it set that way but wouldn't be surprised to see I was wrong. I do think that I'd tried entering the app as well when it wouldn't clear, and still wouldn't.
Hi!
Im searching nearly same. Im looking for a solution to switch off and switch on this notofication Led like i want by a tasker or by a widget 1 click.
I dont really like the app light flow.
Tasker is audio>notification pulse
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Thanks rootSU. I had found that, but it doesn't seem to be working on the S3. I found the tasker google group and some similar problems exist there. One is having the same problem as me, and another I think is trying to turn the led on but it's not working; all S3's. Maybe tasker isn't optomised for this on the s3 yet?
I've found lightflow to be hit or miss. Sometimes the led keeps flashing even when the notification is dismissed (have checked my settings, even tried different ones), and the day before flashing for sms's stopped working. Even a reboot didn't fix it. So, I lived without the led's on my S1 and I'll do the same here. I had them on last night and kept waking to a notification of some kind and found that too annoying.
Thanks for the help and suggestions guys. Appreciate it.
Just a widget 1 click to switch would be perfect for me.
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I think it works for me but not entirely. That ecpksind why the missus woke me up the other night to complain about the led. Hope it's fixed soon.
Once fixed Fred, you can create a widget in tasker
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Light flow drain batteryy to much?
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rootSU said:
Once fixed Fred, you can create a widget in tasker
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Oh it's really possible to create one with tasker?
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Don't suppose anyone's come up with any more ideas about this? I have emailed the tasker developers and I don't think they were 100% sure, but didn't think the notification pulse setting was for disabling the led's completely. I still try playing with lightflow every now and then, but the little bugs I have (mostly sms notification led not dismissing without reboot or entering lf app (only thing that works is having manual dismissal but it's a pain)) are still present for me. I also tried it with handcent but was getting no led notifications.
Hey guys,
I figured out a fix for the Verizon Galaxy S3. I know there are differences between the way the international version and US versions handle the notification light, but it might at least give you guys a starting point. You do need root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803130
Josh
need help jellyverse rom v0.3 i get notified even after turning off the led in the settings it blinks blue not big of a deal but does seem to drain battery after a few hours
Has anyone found a way to do this yet? Notification Pulse doesn't work, at least on the SGS3. I have tried LightFlow in the past, I found it buggy and uninstalled it.
I've been using light manager to manager my led for a while now. Doesn't have the talkback issues I had with lightflow, and free.
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Hey guys,
if anyone is still looking for a fix.
I built a little plugin specifically for the galaxy s 3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2117824

[Q] More LED options?

Just wondered if theres any apps out there which add more LED options? Maybe frequency and colour change?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...oid.lightflowlite&feature=more_from_developer
JoNAsOS3 said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...oid.lightflowlite&feature=more_from_developer
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"NOTE - the LED functionality does not work on most LG and Samsung phones."
Does it work with SGSIII?
Yes, it works, but unfortunately it looks like it causes huge battery drain.
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As mentioned light flow is pretty awesome!
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Coreym said:
As mentioned light flow is pretty awesome!
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I couldn't seem to get light flow (free) to work on my S3, or it didn't change the colour anyway. Does it need root?
rendez2k said:
I couldn't seem to get light flow (free) to work on my S3, or it didn't change the colour anyway. Does it need root?
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same , i tried it yesterday and couldnt get it to work (not rooted)
chriskinetic said:
same , i tried it yesterday and couldnt get it to work (not rooted)
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Yeah, lightflow asks for root.
thanks,hows the warranty effected on rooting the S3 ? is there any "official" word ?
chriskinetic said:
thanks,hows the warranty effected on rooting the S3 ? is there any "official" word ?
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Good point - I was going to root last night then thought I'd be screwed if something goes wrong with the phone!
yeah thats what im waiting for , really dont want to void the warranty on a few day old phone by rooting it
Well you can always restore the phone to factory settings, reset the flash counter and unroot which isnt that hard tbh and then nobody would ever no you rooted or flashed another ROM and to your warranty would be intact!
Im going to try out this app now cheers guys!
I confirm Led Flow works with my galaxy S3 base on the version DXLE 8
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lzj676 said:
I confirm Led Flow works with my galaxy S3 base on the version DXLE 8
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Is your phone rooted?
Can't get it to work properly, it will blink once when I get a text. Then it stops.
HaruSoul said:
Can't get it to work properly, it will blink once when I get a text. Then it stops.
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Go to lightflow and make sure that your SMS notification is set to stop "when notified app is open" (or something like that)
Mopral said:
Go to lightflow and make sure that your SMS notification is set to stop "when notified app is open" (or something like that)
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It is set to "App entered"
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I have SMS setup to blink green. Here is what happens
Green light comes on
Screen turns on for like 5 seconds showing the lockscreen and the new message
Green light comes on for a short duration
Red light comes on even shorter.
No more blinks.
I recommend lightflow lite..it is free and work perfectly with sgs3
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Your phone doesn't need to be rooted to run light flow.
The issue with SMS showing and then stopping is due to the way it's monitored.
The Samsung SMS app causes the app to pop-up when a new text comes in. Doing this causes lightflow to think the app has been entered and cancels the notification straight away.
Could you try switch on "alternate off monitoring". That's what's needed for some other apps the have a pop-up like this.
I've got an s3 to test this out on, but I haven't got around to cutting a sim card down yet to try out the phone functionality. I plan to do that before releasing lightflow release 3.
To avoid battery drain make sure you set "notification type" TO "Show latest only" in general settings of light flow.

[Q] LED light irregularity in Supernexus ROM?

Hello
I have a S3 rooted GTI9300 with the Supernexus ROM Build 5, 4.1.2. I came from stock so I used to use Lightflow Pro in that to control and allocate different colored blinking for different notifications. I dont think Lightflow works properly with jelly bean. Apart from that, even with no third party app, I still dont get any LED notification even if its enabled in whatsapp or facebook. My LED works fine when theres an incoming call, the battery is low or when im charging it. Please help!?
Anyone?
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install & use Light Flow! to control the leds functions

[Q] Notification LED

Does anyone know how to use the front key lights as notification led's on our L9 since we don't have one? I found out how to use the camera flash as one but that's the back of the phone and i don't like facing the phone screen face down on anything in fear of scratching the screen.
If there is not a method already around somewhere to do this, how hard would it be to get this working? I think it would be a great asset to our L9s!
R: [Q] Notification LED
Use LG Notifications from Playstore. It's free but requires root.
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I tried that before posting and it didnt work :/
mjb1994 said:
Does anyone know how to use the front key lights as notification led's on our L9 since we don't have one? I found out how to use the camera flash as one but that's the back of the phone and i don't like facing the phone screen face down on anything in fear of scratching the screen.
If there is not a method already around somewhere to do this, how hard would it be to get this working? I think it would be a great asset to our L9s!
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How do you use the flash for notifications?
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Juanito216 said:
How do you use the flash for notifications?
Please try the NOLED app. Probably a better option. Tried on my HTC Glacier. Works.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.led.notify&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5sZWQubm90aWZ5Il0.
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mjb1994 said:
I tried that before posting and it didnt work :/
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Works for me.
How does it behave for you? On my L9 nothing changed at all once installed and enabled :/ What settings did you choose? Do they flash after the screen turns off for awhile after the notification, and stay flashing until they are read??
mjb1994 said:
How does it behave for you? On my L9 nothing changed at all once installed and enabled :/ What settings did you choose? Do they flash after the screen turns off for awhile after the notification, and stay flashing until they are read??
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I just chose the default settings, and it flashes the front key lights till the message is read. Maybe cause I'm using P760 V10h on my P765.
The app is a battery drainer since it wakes the cpu up each time the buttons light up.
Im hoping they can program this feature into future roms for the L9 where it just causes the LED's to blink until the screen is turned back up when a notification is received. Not sure if its possible to program the blinking to run without waking the cpu?
That was another concern of mine, but if it was integrated into the rom in such a way to not wake the cpu then battery life would not be affected as much.

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