lightflow on sgs3 - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Does anyone know if light flow is compatible with this phone?
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yes, and it works flawless
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ardeban said:
yes, and it works flawless
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i confirm it

the default LED setting works fine....just that it cannot set a schedule. Was blinking the whole night due to an email

what colors does the LED flash

spikeynunny said:
what colors does the LED flash
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Blue, red, green (presumably an app could also provide mixed colours).

bought it juz for fun.
pleasantly surprised by the functions it offers.
a good buy definitely. doesnt cost a kidney too.

on my s3 when lightflow is on it activates talk back function when choosing home screen page. and talk back and driving mode are off :S

Yep - thats a bug (not with Lightflow) but elsewhere as this also happens with other apps that require Accessibility function.

Requires root or not?

NZtechfreak said:
Blue, red, green (presumably an app could also provide mixed colours).
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Include purple, yellow, orange to your list. App works a treat.
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Statts said:
Requires root or not?
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Root not required thankfully
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I cannot seem to get it to work at all? Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Did you guys need to use direct mode?

Root isn't required.
Yes talk back is an android bug in ics that Google seem happy to ignore. Their support even blame the app devs such as ourselves (and the tasker devs) for the issue but will not reply once you challenge them. It's really frustrating!
I hope to get an s3 over the next week or so to see if there are any extra things I van hook into that Samsung have added to ics.
I have one person with the lte version of the phone and it seems that that doesn't work so well as all the colors are messed up. I hope it's a pre production bug.
New version of the app due soon with quite a few additions.

Statts said:
I cannot seem to get it to work at all? Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Did you guys need to use direct mode?
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You need select the function from accessability. Untick led functions within settings and that's it. Let me know of that works.

I think the talkback issue is more of a touchwiz issue, as if you change the launcher to Apex there is no problem
Also i have totally removed talkback from my device... And i still habe the same issue.. So im quite sure what else to try

searley said:
I think the talkback issue is more of a touchwiz issue, as if you change the launcher to Apex there is no problem
Also i have totally removed talkback from my device... And i still habe the same issue.. So im quite sure what else to try
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Had the same problem and had to do a factory reset.

Well I managed to pick up and S3 for development.
I've been playing around with the tackback issue. What is working for me at the moment is going into accessibility. Switching "ON" talkback. Then pressing the "settings button at the bottom".
Uncheck every checkbox in the settings.
Then switch talkback OFF again.
Could anyone else see if this helps for them?
New version of lightflow due very soon, just fixing up a few last bits for the s3 with the new version.

andrewpmoore said:
I've been playing around with the tackback issue. What is working for me at the moment is going into accessibility. Switching "ON" talkback. Then pressing the "settings button at the bottom".
Uncheck every checkbox in the settings.
Then switch talkback OFF again.
Could anyone else see if this helps for them?
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Tried the above still have the talkback bug only but it only seems to be touchwiz related i.e when I open folders on a homescreen or go into the homescreen manager. Seems that the bug appeared after I enabled tasker under accessibility settings.

pulsing led
If you turn on or off your s3, you can see the led actually pulsing blue and greenish... I wonder if an app could make the led pulse in the same way for notifications...

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[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.
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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.
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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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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 ?
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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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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] Is there a way to customize the LED?

I didn't put this thread in q and a since it's not really asking for basic help.
Moving along, i like the way the led pulses on phone power off with the animated Samsung logo. Is there some way to get the led to pulse like that for notifications? I'm a little disappointed that there aren't more ways to customize the appearance of it.
Thanks in advance!
falkon114 said:
I didn't put this thread in q and a since it's not really asking for basic help.
Moving along, i like the way the led pulses on phone power off with the animated Samsung logo. Is there some way to get the led to pulse like that for notifications? I'm a little disappointed that there aren't more ways to customize the appearance of it.
Thanks in advance!
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Well you really shouldn't have put it here because you sure aren't developing anything. You should read the forum rules so you know where to post.
To Your question there are apps in the play store that let you do that.
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falkon114 said:
I didn't put this thread in q and a since it's not really asking for basic help.
Moving along, i like the way the led pulses on phone power off with the animated Samsung logo. Is there some way to get the led to pulse like that for notifications? I'm a little disappointed that there aren't more ways to customize the appearance of it.
Thanks in advance!
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If I am following you correctly, im pretty sure light flow from the market will give you what you want.
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Wrong place for a question
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hggadm3 said:
If I am following you correctly, im pretty sure light flow from the market will give you what you want.
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That's the one I was thinking of
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lightfflow works for that but theres a bug that samsung has that makes talkback turn on and turns off air view if lightflow is on, theres no current way to be able to have lightflow on and talkback off
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lightfflow works for that but theres a bug that samsung has that makes talkback turn on and turns off air view if lightflow is on, theres no current way to be able to have lightflow on and talkback off
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Not sure what I did but I have Lightflow working with talkback off. I'll mention that Lightflow works best when you have root which I have. My setup does just what I want. Also note that the Note 2 has a setting that enables flashing the LED for incoming messages, voice mail and one other thing I can't recall. The drawback of this stock capability is that the flashing goes off when the screen comes on. I only want the light off when I go to the app causing the LED notification which Lightflow allows me to setup.
Light manager works beautifully andbits free...no bugs
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Universexdadev said:
Not sure what I did but I have Lightflow working with talkback off. I'll mention that Lightflow works best when you have root which I have. My setup does just what I want. Also note that the Note 2 has a setting that enables flashing the LED for incoming messages, voice mail and one other thing I can't recall. The drawback of this stock capability is that the flashing goes off when the screen comes on. I only want the light off when I go to the app causing the LED notification which Lightflow allows me to setup.
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If rooted, the light will stay on when the screen is on using light flow - go into settings and enable root mode and s3 root mode. Unless I misunderstood what you said, in which case, my bad.
Also, once it disables air view to turn on light flow, just go back in and turn on airview
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Another vote for Light Manager. It just works.
+1
Took me a sec to figure out the thread was moved lol. I was like "Ummm dummy this IS the Q&A section" Massive :facepalm:
Anyway +1 For Light Manager

Vibration on Nexus 10

Why did no one warn me about this flipping thing.................'*`+*'!!!!! The Nexus 7 doesn't have this nonsense. Samsung you suck!
Is there a trick to rid myself of it completely (I'm not rooting the device)?
Can you elaborate, please? I understand that you don't want the machine vibration, but when? while you touch the screen, or the keyboard?
In that case just uncheck the vibration option under Settings -> Sound, or under Settings -> Language&Input -> Google keyboard settings.
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Can you elaborate, please? I understand that you don't want the machine vibration, but when? while you touch the screen, or the keyboard?
In that case just uncheck the vibration option under Settings -> Sound, or under Settings -> Language&Input -> Google keyboard settings.
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Hi thanks I don't want it ever, I tried what you said last night (after googling it) but it didn't help. I discovered with more googling that me having everything permanently on mute was causing it to activate vibrate mode automatically. So I turned my volume to zero then up a notch or two (as was recommended). That cuts it out mostly but when I move app icons around for example it still bloody buzzes at me. Makes me jump every time.
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Hi thanks I don't want it ever, I tried what you said last night (after googling it) but it didn't help. I discovered with more googling that me having everything permanently on mute was causing it to activate vibrate mode automatically. So I turned my volume to zero then up a notch or two (as was recommended). That cuts it out mostly but when I move app icons around for example it still bloody buzzes at me. Makes me jump every time.
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Cannot confrm this, no vibration here...
Seems to me like you did not uncheck Vibration in Settings/Sound...
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Cannot confrm this, no vibration here...
Seems to me like you did not uncheck Vibration in Settings/Sound...
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I'm not a liar.
Hey don't be like that man. We are only trying to help.
Go to settings, sound and disable vibrate on touch. This should disable the keyboard.
Download something like Widgetsoid and there should be a toggle that allows you to disable system wide vibrate.
Some apps may override it, like SwiftKey so you may need to disable it for some apps manually
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I'm not a liar.
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I can assure you that with the following settings there are no vibrations at all (Nexus 10 stock). Maybe it is caused by a 3rd-party app?
der187 said:
I can assure you that with the following settings there are no vibrations at all (Nexus 10 stock). Maybe it is caused by a 3rd-party app?
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I'm running stock. I have disabled it in the settings I did that before posting the thread. I've had a Nexus 7 since launch day, so I'm not a complete newbie.
I have only installed the following so far, all from the Google Play shop
Perfect Viewer
Comics (comiXology app)
build a lot 4
Stand O Food 3
As I said it is only happening now when I move an app icon around.
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I'm running stock. I have disabled it in the settings I did that before posting the thread. I've had a Nexus 7 since launch day, so I'm not a complete newbie.
I have only installed the following so far, all from the Google Play shop
Perfect Viewer
Comics (comiXology app)
build a lot 4
Stand O Food 3
As I said it is only happening now when I move an app icon around.
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It's a stock launcher "issue"...
You could try Google Now Launcher...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.launcher
... or any other launcher.
It happens to me too using the stock launcher and Nova launcher, and as far as I know there is no way to turn it off. My only recommendation is try apex launcher since it has the option to turn it off.
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gc84245 said:
It happens to me too using the stock launcher and Nova launcher, and as far as I know there is no way to turn it off. My only recommendation is try apex launcher since it has the option to turn it off.
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Thanks that's helpful. I'm keeping my device 100% stock so I'll just have to put up with it unless someone comes up with a cure.
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Cannot confrm this, no vibration here...
Seems to me like you did not uncheck Vibration in Settings/Sound...
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der187 said:
I can assure you that with the following settings there are no vibrations at all (Nexus 10 stock).
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Before you start making incorrect sweeping statements & accusing people of lying, perhaps get your facts straight next time. Don't try & 'help' me again you're going on ignore.
I personally love the haptic feedback. I wish my 2012 nexus 7 had it. One of my favorite features.
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As I mentioned I am not "suffering" from "bad vibrations" using Google Now Launcher (but otherwise completely stock). I didn't consider this to be the reason but who would have? At least I took some time investigating and finally realized why I am not experiencing this "issue" while others do and even offered a solution for those who are annoyed: Install Google Now Launcher (or any other launcher, though I don't know which one does "solve" that too)
It saddens me that some people get so offensive over nothing...
Wow, people complain about everything. Complaining about Samsung for adding a feature?:banghead:
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For some of us, haptic feedback is not a "feature" it's an annoyance. At least give us the option to turn it off. It is the only reason why I switched from Nova to Apex on my Nexus 10.
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Edge lighting not working when screen is off

Does any one have the same issue? I have set it to always be on but it only works when the screen is on. Please advise.
It was that way with the S8+ also. I thought it was supposed to work when the screen is off but I could never get it to work. Kind of a bummer since I think it would be a cool feature.
MrClean69 said:
It was that way with the S8+ also. I thought it was supposed to work when the screen is off but I could never get it to work. Kind of a bummer since I think it would be a cool feature.
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I tried contacting the customer support and all they told me was to reset the settings because something might have interfered with it
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I tried contacting the customer support and all they told me was to reset the settings because something might have interfered with it
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Super helpful as always. I thought maybe the always on display had to be on, but it doesn't seem to matter. The only way it works is with the screen on that I've found.
No problems with edge lighting here. Been working every time.
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But it's not working if the screen is off or in standby that is what he says. I had a s8 and i never get it work
It didn't work for me on the s8 bjr MSG and WhatsApp are working fine now. Nothing else
I had mine working and it got turned off. It was only working with screen on. Went back into settings, and apparently the settings got reset to default when I switched samsung themes. Changing the settings back fixed my issue. I can confirm, that at least on mine, edge lighting does work with screen off.
Edit: Apparently it's no longer working again after just trying it.
you guys have to turn it on for all apps, normally it is on just for 3 of them
Same here.
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you guys have to turn it on for all apps, normally it is on just for 3 of them
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Tried that too. Still doesn't work.
Maybe is not working when you are using one of the live infinity display themes...? Have you tried with normal backgrounds (and consequently with normal AOD - not live one).
Maybe is just working when the device is screen down?.
Just a thought.
I've had no issues with it working with the screen off. I have AOD on and the original theme still. I only have it set to come on when I get a text thru Textra app
It turns out you have to make sure that pop up notifications is on when the screen is off for all the apps you want the edge lighting to work.:fingers-crossed:
Yet another stupid software design from Samsung, all most of us want is that the edge lighting can replace the notification led, right? But no somehow they over complicate this ****.
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It turns out you have to make sure that pop up notifications is on when the screen is off for all the apps you want the edge lighting to work.:fingers-crossed:
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Would you mind to say where I can find this setting?.
Thanks!
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Would you mind to say where I can find this setting?.
Thanks!
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It varies between apps. For whatsapp its in the more options menu->settings->notifications->pop up notification set it to either always show up or show up when screen off
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It varies between apps. For whatsapp its in the more options menu->settings->notifications->pop up notification set it to either always show up or show up when screen off
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Thanks, I thought it was a general setting for all the apps.
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It varies between apps. For whatsapp its in the more options menu->settings->notifications->pop up notification set it to either always show up or show up when screen off
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But the annoying what's app box pops up too when you go look at your phone.
The one app that works when the screen is off is messages for me.

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