[Q] More LED options? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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.

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lightflow on sgs3

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
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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...

[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.

[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
jsms0905 said:
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.
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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

Notification LED

Is there a way to change the color of my notification LED for txt messages? Mine blinks blue for all notifications. I know my Droid 3 blinked green for messsges, emails, ect, and blue for Facebook. Does anyone know? Its not a huge deal just something I'd like to change if at all possible
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TheFiganator said:
Is there a way to change the color of my notification LED for txt messages? Mine blinks blue for all notifications. I know my Droid 3 blinked green for messsges, emails, ect, and blue for Facebook. Does anyone know? Its not a huge deal just something I'd like to change if at all possible
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Lightflow is the best app I've found to control it.
trmiv said:
Lightflow is the best app I've found to control it.
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this. the built in notification light will only blink blue. download lightflow and enjoy
Lightflow is the best way.
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I can't for the life of me get light flow to work. Got the charging LED to work but not SMS/MMS or gmail.
dansan382 said:
I can't for the life of me get light flow to work. Got the charging LED to work but not SMS/MMS or gmail.
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Make sure it is enabled in accessibility in the my device settings.
How many colors can the LED in the S4 display? I know it does red, green, and blue, what others?
JBeXX said:
Make sure it is enabled in accessibility in the my device settings.
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Yes but it tries to turn on talk back. Thought that bug was fixed
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How many colors can the LED in the S4 display? I know it does red, green, and blue, what others?
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Its probably like the galaxy nexus where it can do pretty much any mix of the colors. Its an rgb led I believe.
Turned it on in accessibility and everything works perfectly
Am I doing this correctly? I have "USA and Canada S3 mode" and "Run in foreground" enabled as well as light flow lite enabled in Accessibility to get this app to work properly on my S4. Are any of these actions redundant or will cause more battery drain? Thanks.
Edit: I disabled "USA and Canada S3 mode" and "Run in foreground" to get the colors right.
i still get some talkback issues when viewing gallery, hope to see this resolved soon
virus86 said:
Am I doing this correctly? I have "USA and Canada S3 mode" and "Run in foreground" enabled as well as light flow lite enabled in Accessibility to get this app to work properly on my S4. Are any of these actions redundant or will cause more battery drain? Thanks.
Edit: I disabled "USA and Canada S3 mode" and "Run in foreground" to get the colors right.
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Are you rooted? The usa/Canada mode is inky for non-root. Also, running in foreground is not needed. (not for me at least)
I have lightflow running flawless and I'm absolutely loving how it works with dashclock
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Are you rooted? The usa/Canada mode is inky for non-root. Also, running in foreground is not needed. (not for me at least)
I have lightflow running flawless and I'm absolutely loving how it works with dashclock
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Negative. I think my lightflow is working correctly.
I just uninstalled Lightflow. It constantly did nothing for certain notifications, I'm getting texts and having no LED at all even though I have it set to blink orange. It works when I test in the app, it works for a little while, and then I just get nothing.

Notification light?

Hey everyone. I picked up my new m8 yesterday at the AT&T store but for some reason I can't seem to get the notification light to work. Even when it's charging it just says red it never turns green! Does anyone have this problem?
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Euforeik said:
Hey everyone. I picked up my new m8 yesterday at the AT&T store but for some reason I can't seem to get the notification light to work. Even when it's charging it just says red it never turns green! Does anyone have this problem?
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Mine was red while charging, and turned green when finished. Are you sure it is finished charging?
suprtrukr425 said:
Mine was red while charging, and turned green when finished. Are you sure it is finished charging?
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Yeah I'm sure. It was over night and even when I get messages etc. It doesn't even blink. I bought two and they are doing the same thing.
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Euforeik said:
Yeah I'm sure. It was over night and even when I get messages etc. It doesn't even blink. I bought two and they are doing the same thing.
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Ok I wasn't sure, but I just checked, my notification light definitely blinks green when there is a notification. Go to settings > display & gestures > notification light and make sure the boxes are checked.
suprtrukr425 said:
Ok I wasn't sure, but I just checked, my notification light definitely blinks green when there is a notification. Go to settings > display & gestures > notification light and make sure the boxes are checked.
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Yeah its all checked too! I don't know what is going on!
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Euforeik said:
Yeah its all checked too! I don't know what is going on!
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As odd as it might be that you got two with the same problem, that might be the case. I can definitely confirm that the light blinks green for notifications, and is solid green when plugged up with a full battery on both of the one's my wife and I got.
Edit: Just found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2704461 it seems that you are not the only one with this problem. It looks like a factory reset may fix it. Might be worth a shot anyway.
I had the same problem. I read on another forum that if you install another launcher the led stops working for notifications. When I first setup my phone restored apps and one of them happened to be a launcher. I did factory reset did not restore any apps and notifications led started working again. I'm not sure if another launcher had anything to do with it but the fix worked for me.
jem417 said:
I had the same problem. I read on another forum that if you install another launcher the led stops working for notifications. When I first setup my phone restored apps and one of them happened to be a launcher. I did factory reset did not restore any apps and notifications led started working again. I'm not sure if another launcher had anything to do with it but the fix worked for me.
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I did factory reset did not restore any apps and notifications led started working again
same here, I had Nova Launcher and the LED wasn't working, factory reset and now it works, again not sure if it was the different launcher but the reset worked for me
It's a bug in Android back up & restore. Your restore files get corrupt. Same with HTC back up.
Only way to fix it is by not restoring with either option. Just do a fresh start
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