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[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] XCLuSive92683:
Nexus 5 Kitkat, LED won't stop blinking

Hi, I'm also experiencing the same issue, occasionally when I receive a whatsapp message, I unlock my phone, view the message, lock the phone; the LED will still be blinking. I've tried restarting Light Manager app and LED will still blink.

LED notifications are disabled on whatsapp app itself. Only restarting the phone will resolve it.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] :
Any one having problem with notifications from Google apps - Now, Keep, Hangouts, G+?

When I set LED notifaction for them, custom blinking speed seems to work, but color is always white.

I'm on stock, rooted KitKat, Nexus 4.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Try the updated release of Light Manager v5.4 see if it solves the problem. Adding 3rd party app in normal mode may or may not work, try changing to alternating mode see if it works.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Updated to v5.4

- Fixed compatibility with Android 4.4 KitKat

* Fixed SMS/MMS notification LED not working

- Add Hangouts SMS/MMS notification LED by contact

- Fixed Hangouts SMS not working on android 4.1 and 4.2

- Fixed Facebook Messenger LED remains blinking after read

- Fixed Facebook LED remains blinking after read

- Added ringer mode on notification LED

- Fixed email notification LED not working on Nexus 4 in alternating mode

- Fixed MMS got false notification in Motorola Razr Maxx

- Fixed Hangouts and email notification LED not working in normal mode for android 4.3 onwards

- Added some missing translation for Croatian, Italian, Slovak

In Android 4.3 or 4.4, Hangouts and email notification LED will not work in normal mode on certain devices running Samsung Touchwiz Android 4.3 or some Nexus devices. However it should work in alternating mode. This is due to how the notification LED is handled by the firmware. Anyway I managed to do some workaround to make it work but with some glitches. You may notice that the email or hangouts notification message are a little different (less informative) since I recreate it. If you cannot accept this limitation, you can try changing to alternating mode where I will not touch the original notification messages.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] ImShadix:
Thanks with temasek V8 it works great :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Aria807:
I'm on 5.4 atm on my Nexus 5, and I've set custom blinking speeds (LED flash 0.75 seconds, and flash rate every 1 second). My problem is with Hangouts, it always flashes White regardless of color I choose and it flashes with a flash rate of every 3 seconds, even though I've set it to 1 second. Everything else so far works as set. Anyone else having the same problem w/ Hangouts? I've tried Normal and Alternating modes.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] maarten2001:
Wow, the first free one out there!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Did you enable notification access?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] vlasis_myr:
dear mckoo. Is there the possibility to add led priorities? for example when the led blinking because of the low battery, and i have a missed call, i want the led to blink only for the missed call and not for the battery,,, BTW this is the best app for our leds...Thanks a lot
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Aria807:
I actually think I solved it after further reading into the earlier posts. I had 5.3 installed originally, and I installed 5.4. After 5.4, I noticed nothing really has changed and hangouts still didn't blink properly per settings I've set. I read in an earlier post that someone had to clear data and re set everything and after trying that, it's working as intended.

Only issue I have left is when setting the flash rate to None, sometimes it would just flash once and not stay lit.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
There is somehow this kind of priority in Light Manager but it depends on what firmware/ROM/device you are using? The above condition should work fine in Samsung Touchwiz.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] vlasis_myr:
I'm on 4.3 stock Rom.galaxy nexus...but I haven't any kind of priority...

Στάλθηκε από το Galaxy Nexus μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I think the priority will work on Samsung Touchwiz or Nexus device from LG. Galaxy Nexus is by Samsung, right? So the priority will not work. I would advice you to switch to alternating mode.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] LunaticoCR:
Wrong color when alternating

Hello,

Let me start by saying, what a great app!!! I've been using it for a while and I couldn't live without it now.

I've noticed an issue by which it'll blink the wrong color on a certain color combination in alternate mode. Basically I have configured Green for all my chat applications (Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Hangouts) and Yellow for my GMail emails. The interval of change I have configured is 3 seconds.

If I receive a Whatsapp message for example, it blinks green. Then I receive an email and the first time it blinks yellow, but then it just keeps alternating green with red.

Is this a known issue?

Also, I've noticed that it will blink every 3 seconds as configured, but it will blink all colors at once every 3 seconds. I was expecting to blink one color, then 3 seconds after the other color, and so on.

I have a Nexus 4 with KitKat 4.4. I already tried erasing cache, uninstalling, re-installing and re-configuring and same issue happens.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] droidmi:
Is there a setting so that light is a steady (not flashing) while the battery is charging and a steady light when the battery is fully charged?

I looked through the FAQs but didn't see anything on this issue. Unless I missed it.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Did you tie any other notification to blinking red color? By default, blinking red color is tied to low battery. Is that your phone is low battery at that moment?

About the timing issue, you can try go into Light Manager > Advanced Settings > Smoothness and increase the percentage. That could make the alternating timing alternate smoother. Note that increasing the percentage will increase battery consumption.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
By default, it should behave like what you have mentioned above. How does it behave on your device?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] LunaticoCR:
I haven't tied red color to any other notifications, just low and charging battery. And no, my phone was not low on battery (nor charging) at the moment. In fact just now it's like 95% battery and I just tested this and it's doing the same thing.

First it's blinking green every 3sec as expected, then receive an email. It blinks yellow once, then green, then like yellow-red, then green, and then it keeps alternating red/green.

Could you explain better what the alternate smoother do please? I just increased it to 25% and it's pretty much the same. I thought alternate mode would mean, with the above example: green - 3sec - yellow - 3sec - green - 3sec - yellow - etc

But instead it's doing: green - yellow - 3sec - green - yellow - 3 sec - etc (replace yellow with red per the above issue)

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] droidmi:
Thanks for your reply. The light isn't steady, it flashes when I have it plugged. I tried changing the setting flash rate and when it is set to "none", it just flashes one time and stops. Or if I set it to one of the other flash rates, it flashes those flash rates but I couldn't find a setting where the light is just steady while charging and fully charged.

By the way, actually, I have a Nexus 5 with kitkat. I did a search for light manager and this thread came up as the main search result.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Try to increase to 100% see if it works? It won't do harm to your phone, just that it will drain your battery.

When the phone's screen is off, the processor will be idle or work slower. By increasing the smoothness, you are actually asking the processor to wake up to do something to alternate the LED color. If processor work slowly, then alternating timing might run off.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Nexus 5 has such a problem with static LED? No one reported to me before. Anyway you can try the instruction in FAQ #19.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t26evGufoC4Fha1Vjyho1cgBKHY6MLJGBPHcsGKZVLc/edit

Let me know if it does not work.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] LunaticoCR:
Hi, thanks again for the suggestion. I increased the smoothness to 100% and double checked that the flash rates for everything are 3 sec, now this is what's doing:

green - 2.471s - red - 0.528s - green - 3.104s - red - 2.473s - green - 0.504s - red - 3.104s - green - 2.193s - red - 0.623s - green

To be honest, the fact that the flash rate is not accurate to 3 seconds doesn't bother me, but the fact that it's doing red instead of yellow does bother me. Right after I receive an email and it flashes that notification for the first time it does flash yellow, but then that turns into red.

Please let me know if there's any other information I can give you in order to debug this.

EDIT: One more issue, I think this was introduced after I upgraded to KitKat. I have the 'Cancel LED after unlock' unchecked, however, if I unlock and then lock, the LED notification is cancelled.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Aria807:
I noticed an issue regarding the LED color for Facebook Messenger. The color for other notifications are correct, but for Facebook Messenger, I set the color of the LED to blink blue, but it will blink green for some reason. I don't have green set for anything.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
By the way, are you using stock ROM stock kernel?

You mean your "Cancel LED after unlock" is unchecked, but all notification LED got cancelled after you unlock the phone? Is this happened in alternating mode?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Try disable the notification LED in Facebook Messenger APP by following the instruction in FAQ #5.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t26evGufoC4Fha1Vjyho1cgBKHY6MLJGBPHcsGKZVLc/edit
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Aria807:
Thanks that solved it for me :victory:
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] LunaticoCR:
Yes, LG Nexus 4 with stock rom, stock kernel and unrooted. With latest 4.4 KitKat update.

Exactly.

Yes.

EDIT: I just retested the "Cancel LED after unlock" issue and now it's working fine. Maybe it's an intermittent issue? I pretty sure last week when it was happening I double and triple tested it.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I will monitor it from time to time. Intermittent issue is difficult to track.

About the alternating timing problem, it depends on your processor resouce. A processor hungry phone will have worse alternating timing, this is what I noticed while testing. For totally different color while alternating, I never notice such problem. I will keep monitor it as well.

Anyway thanks for the feedback.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] LunaticoCR:
Thank you! Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] droidmi:
I tried changing the different options mentioned in FAQ #19 but it doesn't seem to work. The light stays on for a few seconds and then it turns off for like a second and then it stays on for a few seconds etc...

I found this thread with forum search which has some Light Manager users http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2513109&page=3 and the results seem to be mixed. SMS and MMS seem to work for mine but a steady light for charging and charged still doesn't seem to work.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Brendo:
Well, the only way I could get led to work on my Nexus 5 is to turn on notification pulse. The only to get charging led to work in lm was with option 2. Pulse makes it stay on, slowly turn off, then back on. Normal leds flash for short time. Still detected as charging if on power and at 100% though
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I guess it might be firmware limitation on the notification LED to prevent it from being turning on for a long time to prolong its life cycle. When charging, how the static LED behaves? How many seconds on, how many seconds off, then on, then off?

If you set the threshold to "fully charged", it will still be static red at 100%. You can try changing threshold to "100%" and it should become static green at 100%.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] l3s:
Actually for me the notification LED working on my Nexus 5 with this app. I use the default settings. The only 2 thing what I realized, some color not right (purple, rose), and just blinking no option for static light, but I don't need this option. But anyway this is really great app, so thanks for sharing your app.

Edit: (because I don't want to make a new post)

I found one possible bug: when I tried to set any color for the Google plus app, it not working. Every time just flashing in white (may rose-white). But this is really strange, because I can set custom color for any app, and it working well.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] techdog:
Hi!

I just updated to Sprint's 4.3 on my Samsung using the ROM that CNexus posted. Light Manager will not work at all. I uninstalled the app, wiped dalvik cache, rebooted, and installed from the Play store. However, it still does not seem to be working.

I went in and set the application to have access under "Notification Access" but it still doesn't work.

Even if I go in and use the Test LED, I still don't get the LED lighting up.

The LED works because if I enable the LED on charging under Settings, the LED lights up fine.

I also converted it to a system app using TI backup but that didn't help.

Any clues on what I can try next????

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Are you using normal mode? Google plus app might not work in normal mode, try on alternating mode.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Is the Setting > Display > LED indicator > Notification enabled? Is the ROM stock ROM or custom ROM?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] techdog:
I finally was able to get it to work by enabling ALL of the LED notifications in Settings. This is the stock ROM modified to have Knox removed.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] l3s:
Thanks, it is solve the problem.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Muckael:
I tried to use your app to alternate the LED for Whatsapp messages, because I couldn't stand the 4 seconds gap between the flashes.

I noticed that it doesn't seem to work with Whatsapp. I'm running ART and Cataclysm, might that be the issue?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] himgil:
I've been using this app successfully for the last couple of weeks (even custom apps worked without any problems). However, as soon as I updated my nexus 5 to 4.4.1, it's started work erratically. Some apps doesn't give any LED notifications, some just blink once, some in wrong colours... Does anyone have similar issues?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] beaner14096:
Okay, I really dont know what to do here...I have been trying to use the alternate method...so the leds will change for the notification. I have it selected and when I go to pick the color of the notification I can only pick one, Is there something I am missing here...
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
What device are you using? What android OS version?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Try uninstall and reinstall back Light Manager see if it solves the problem.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Alternate LED means one color for one app. For example, missed call is having green color, facebook is blue color. LED will alternate only when you received more than one notifications.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] beaner14096:
ahhhh okay...now it makes sense so there is no way for one notification...say text message, to alternate between colors like blue to green to yellow for just a text message?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Takkuz:
Nexus 5 doesn't stop blinking

Same here, on my Nexus 5 4.4, all stock.

I don't have any issue on Whatsapp but on Facebook Messenger. No way to stop it blinking if I receive multiple messages (but not always, I wasn't able to reproduce the issue).

I haven't tried Alternate mode, but "Restart the app" and removing "Cancel after unlock" don't work.

Anyway I still use it, I found it a great app and I will be happy to pay to remove ad (I hate it). :D Good work!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Muckael:
Nexus 5, 4.4.1
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] yukirena88:
Notification access required

Hello there. I am using a stock Nexus 4 running on Android 4.4 (KitKat).

I really appreciate the developer(s) providing this application free of charge and working amazingly well compared to the other similar applications.

However, it seems like it has notification access problems on Android 4.4. I cannot provide sufficient evidence since I updated to 4.4 as soon as I got my phone.

The LED works fine for Missed Call, Message, MMS, Gmail and Calendar Reminder, but for Hangouts, Emails, Facebook etc., it says "Notification access required" although I have already enabled it in Settings>Security>Notification Access, and no matter what LED color I set, it only shows White LED for those notifications.

I would be really grateful if this problem can be solved, since the LED notification is amazingly useful.

I have tried Light Flow Lite as well, but it is a lot more complicated to set up even for basic notifications, and the addition of custom apps is a lot less intuitive and more tedious compared to Light Manager, so I decided against investing on Light Flow and would be more than glad to pay a dollar or 2 for Light Manager if the problem is resolved.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
No, blinking more than one color for one notification is not the idea. It will get confuse if more than one notification.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Have you enabled "Notification access" for Light Manager?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
A few Nexus 5 users are getting this problem. Unfortunately I couldn't simulate it on my device, so I guess it might be due to compatibility issue. I will see what I can do to solve this.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
The "Notification access required" is static and will not disappear even if you have enabled it. Can you go into Setting > Application > Running and check if Light Manager is using 1 process and 2 services? Another thing you can try is switching between normal mode and alternating mode see if either of them is working?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Takkuz:
It could seems weirder but I think (whispering it :P) I solved by turning off "Start on boot" option.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Fuz90:
So I disabled notification on application "Message" (Default message app on Samsung S3) because I wanted to use hangout for SMS/MMS and app message is so fk*** slow ..

I just tried light manager with hangout sms/mms but it doesn't work on my Galaxy S3. I have already configured LED color for each contact in SMS and hangout but no matter what LED color I set, it only shows BLUE LED for SMS's notification by using hangout.

It works fine when I'm enabling notification by using Application "Message" On my S3 and turn off hangout.

:/ ..

Galaxy S3 - 4.1.2 Official rom

Edit : I tried to

-Reboot my device

-Restart Light Manager app

But it still doesn't work :/ ....
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] LunaticoCR:
Not working on 4.4.2

Hello,

I received an update to 4.4.2 yesterday and now Light Manager is not working at all.

I already tried clearing cache and removing data, uninstalling and restoring configuration, I also made sure that notification access is enabled. Sadly, it's just not working. :crying:
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Hassan !:
Great thank you very much :o
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] yukirena88:
I switched to alternating mode and it seems like it's working now. Thank you so much!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] madeinbr:
Great work!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Takkuz:
No way! I was wrong.. :P It stuck blincking on Whatsapp, and it has never done before. :eek:

Updating to 4.4.2 unistalled, reinstalled and rebooted... See what's happen! :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I have just tested again on S3 4.1.2 official rom and hangouts SMS notification LED is working fine.

Perhaps you can try uninstall and reinstall Light Manager see if it solves the problem.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Really? I will test it on 4.4.2 and see.

Thanks for reporting.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] LunaticoCR:
Yes, sadly. :(

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

EDIT: Not sure why but the app seems to have started working now.... I'll keep an eye on it.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] drbell:
Nexus 5 owner on 4.4 in UK. Just emailed the dev, then found this forum. Anyone else having problems with false notifications. I have had 3 in 18 hours, different colours. The latest one was definitely where I had received no notifications, but for some reason the LED starts blinking. It went away when i enabled test mode (the test colour alternatied with the false colour) then disabling test mode stoped both the test and the false notification colour.

Im hoping someone has found a fix/workaround, or is there any otehr debug info I can look at, or provide?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] hoang51:
I thought I'd like to report the following: I have a Google Nexus 5 with Android 4.4.2 non-rooted (i.e., stock). At first, I installed Light Manager onto my Android 4.4.2. It did not work for notifications even though when I tested the LED lights, it worked. I am trying to use alternating mode (not bothering with normal mode because I want multiple color notifications). I thought I had to enable the Notification Access under Settings/Security. I decided to uninstall the app and reinstall the app first. I also enabled the Notification Access after installing. I set up the colors again. I sent some test e-mails and texts to my Nexus 5. It worked. I disabled the Notification Access (technically, I'm using it for Gmail, SMS/MMS, calls only). It still works. So I think a reinstall fixed my problem.

I do have one suggestion for this app: Instead of allowing a 1-5 seconds radio button selection, allow a manual input numerical value from a box instead (and cap the number range, such as 0-99). I wanted to have it set at 10 seconds to reduce battery draining. Android 4.4.2 stock pulse notification clocks in at 10 seconds and only shows white color.

I do have one concern for this app: Does it need 40-50 MB of RAM to operate? Even though my Nexus 5 has 2 GB... I'm having trouble understanding why this type of application needs that much resources.

---------- Post added at 09:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:36 PM ----------

I think I found a bug (or "feature"): I got a two text messages from the same person. I loaded up Hangouts (default Android 4.4.x SMS/MMS app) to view it. Then I locked my Nexus 5 phone. The LED notification still blinks green. I checked Hangouts again to verify no new message. I lock the screen. LED notification still blinks green. Note that under the Advanced Settings, I disabled the auto cancel per notification (set to never) and disabled cancel LED after unlock (unchecked box).

There is no more notification in the notification area/drawer at the status bar at the top of the screen. So I think that there's something wrong that isn't due to my fault. I think it is the "Cancel LED after unlock" feature that is causing the problem. The description of that feature is that all notifications are cleared after an unlock. Well, I want a specific LED notification (I enabled alternating mode) to be cleared if I enter the specific app (such as Hangouts for text messaging or Gmail for e-mail). I noticed that if I enabled the "Cancel LED after unlock", the LED notification will not blink like before. So does the app not default back to clearing the LED notification by entering the app or dismissing the notification in the notification status? If I'm not mistaken, stock Android 4.4 would stop the LED notification if I either: enter the notifying app or dismiss the notification from the notification area/drawer.