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[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Updated to v3.1

- Calendar notification LED does not need ROOT permission anymore

- Fixed force close when enabling Light Manager under certain condition

- Reduce battery consumption

- Added alternating LED for multiple notifications

- Added some missing translation text for Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Slovenian

- Added Hebrew translation

- Added SMS unread count checking to cancel its notification LED

- Put back showing notification icon by default to improve stability

For those who is having battery drain problem, try this version and see if it is fixed.

I have added alternating LED feature in this version as well. It is not enabled by default, you may need to go to "Advanced Settings" to enable it.

Please note that when you enable Alternating LED, Light Manager will fully take over control of the LED. In other words, other 3rd party app which is not supported by Light Manager will not be able to generate its LED notification. I will see what can I do to overcome this limitation.

Also notification icon will be shown when you enable Alternating LED, this is to ensure it can run smoothly and stably.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] chargen2:
Thank you so much for the update and for all your work with developing this application! Is there a donate button somewhere? :good:

Could of questions:

- The app uses all the CPU cycles it can get if I enable any of the following notifications: Google Talk, Facebook, Email, - possibly anything that requires root? I have to leave all those notifications disabled.

- I used the SIyah kernel for a long time and LOVE the option to have the notification LED throb (fade in/out) instead of blink. Is there any way this could be controlled by the application, or is this something that MUST be implemented in the kernel?

Thanks again!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Thanks for your support.

You have tested with the latest version v3.1 and it is still draining battery after enabling Google Talk or Facebook etc?

Yeah, the led fade in/out is not possible with the current android API.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] chargen2:
Yes, using 3.1 with the symptoms above. Can I generate any logs that could help diagnose the issue?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Ninolina:
mckoo, I use this great app for some time. On ICS I didn't have any problem, but on JB from time to time it pop up as toasted message that Light Manager has been granted superuser permissions. It's kind annoying so I think maybe that why it can consume more battery?

I really like this app. :) Keep the good work.

THANK YOU! :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Emaaans:
Same problem for me with the 3.0 still happens on the 3.1?

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
What ROM and kernel are you using?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
What ROM and kernel are you using?

It is just the difference of displaying or not displaying the toast message / root or unroot the device between ICS and JB. Internally they are doing the same thing.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
You are having problem with battery as well?

What ROM and kernel are you using?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] chargen2:
Omega v31, phenomenal kernel v4(medium).
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Ninolina:
I am using Omega ROM and Yank555 kernel. It's ok to show that message when turning the phone but it repeat from time to time. It's not happening with other apps.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I am suspecting it is the issue of kernel. I tested Omega ROM with stock kernel and I didn't find any battery drain issue.

Could you help in testing your battery consumption with stock kernel with Facebook and Google Talk notification LED enabled?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Please see the FAQ for how to disable that message from showing repeatedly.

11. From time to time I received a popup log message saying that "Light Manager has been granted superuser permissions...". It is really annoying and how do I make it go away?

You can do either of the following to disable the popup log message:

a) Enable "Show Notification Icon" in Advanced Settings of Light Manager

b) Disable showing popup log message in the setting of superuser app
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] xclub_101:
Problem with deep sleep / CPU usage / battery drain

That is a very interesting program - thank you!

I have noted that the colors are slightly different - and there is a very clear "space pattern" in the colors, which IMHO is not (so) visible in the default notifications! Those are however editable and I was able to get a clear improvement over the stock values.

However it is quite clear that there is a small power-consumption problem in certain configurations - I am able to test side-by-side with two hardware-identical GT-I9300 (for another 1 week or so) and both have 99% same software (starting with Criskelo ROM with Siyah kernel) - except on one I have LightManager and and on the other I do not - and the one with LightManager has very serious power-consumption problems!

Some of the problems seem to be improved by removing root access for LightManager (and disabling checks for 3rd-party notifications) but it is not clear yet if that fixes 100% things - I will test for a few days more and come back with more details! (BetterBatteryStats is a huge help in debugging that kind of stuff).

Any feedback or suggestions for other relevant tests is welcome!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] lucus_d:
last update

Hello again, I reinstall the jb rom on my S3, I rooted, and the app worked well, until the last update. I select the Alternating led, it alternate well the colors but after I clear all the notifications I still remain with the mail (in my case Yahoo) led notification (purple - in my case) I must restart the app.

In rest it it better than light flow...
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] chargen2:
You are correct - installed the stock kernel and enabled a number of checks - email, facebook, twitter, google talk that were causing the issue previously.

Is this something that you might be able to workaround or fix, or is the only option to not use the Phenomenal kernel with Light Manager?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I can confirm that by disabling those 3rd-party notification in Light Manager, you can save some battery. This is because the detection is using polling method (Perhaps it is running also when the phone is asleep without the need to implement wakelock). However this polling method does not seem to consume high battery with stock firmware. I am suspecting it will drain the battery when it is with non-stock kernel.

With your testing, can you roughly estimate the percentage of battery usage of Light Manager with 3rd party notification enabled? I just need a value to see how bad is the battery drain. With stock firmware, Light Manager is using less than 1% of battery usage (I am testing with GSam battery monitor).

Could you also do a testing with stock kernel?

Thanks in advanced.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
In normal mode (Non-alternating mode), the notification LED will be cancelled when

1) Corresponding app is entered

2) Corresponding app is exited

3) Drop down the notification bar

However for alternating mode, the notification LED will only be cancelled when

1) Corresponding app is entered

2) Corresponding app is exited

So dropping down the notification bar and cancelling the notification without entering the app will not cancel the notification LED.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I could not think about any solution yet. Let me also test for myself with the custom kernel.

Thanks for your help in testing.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Valwit:
2 things i just noticed after switching to official 4.1.1 (rooted):

- custom color set to: AA00AA and 220022 - no difference between them and purple. but it should be darker.

- it does not ask for root, also all notification that require root are greyed out. how do i grant root, if the app does not request it?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Are you sure you are rooted? Can you find "superuser" app in your app drawer?

The notification will be greyed out if it cannot find your "superuser" app.

Or perhaps you have just been rooted and Light Manager is still caching the old greyed out UI, try restarting your device and see.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] stian230:
Corfirm working on Samsung galaxy sIII I9305 lte.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Valwit:
yes, I'm sure :) i never used Android phones with no root for more then a few hours. Superuser (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noshufou.android.su) is present, also SU and busybox.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] kenzoc:
CPU Usage

Seems like this app is constantly using 30% and up of my GS3's CPU when it's awake :/

This causes all 4 CPU cores to be active at its maximum clock which means... battery drain.

Hope this problem would be resolved. Anyway, great app!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] chargen2:
No problem. In case it helps, I've installed the Siyah kernel and found the same issue as with the Phenomenal - high CPU usage when any of the apps that require root access are enabled.

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] kaiowas82:
Same here with wanam and siyiah
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] lucus_d:
Aha, could you to an option to cancel the light notification by pulling down the notification and cancel all notifications? Why that, because if you have an corporate mail and your yahoo mail, and when do you receive mails on both mail and a sms, or even if you receive a lots of mails(with all kind of things) i yahoo mail it is annoying to open each of this, please do an options for this...

thx, I love this app, actually is the only app that works fine and it is practice...

Thx again
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] evil_moses:
OK, I have a weird one that if you can help solve will make you my hero.

I have never been able to get led notifications to work with handcent SMS, until today. I installed your app and the default led setting in handcent now works. Weirdly, the setting I applied in light manager does not work, but the handcent setting dpes.

When the handcent led notification is turned off nothing happens.

Have you ever come across this before?

Id love to get your app to work with handcent. Any advice?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Perhaps you are using a different superuser app.

Currently Light Manager is only detecting the superuser app at /system/app/Superuser.apk

Could you help in checking where is your superuser app located and the name of the apk?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
By the way, battery drain happens only on JB with custom kernel? Or also happens in ICS with custom kernel?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Are you letting the popup enabled when message received?

Try disabling the popup and see if it works. By the way, you do not need to turn off the handcent LED notification in Handcent app.

Let me know if it can work without popup.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] DirkStorck:
Hi. Any plans in detecting SuperSU from chainfire as well?

Thanks :)

Send from my Omega ROM powered SGS3 :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
The current version is detecting SuperSU from chainfire. However I guess detecting only the apk file at /system/app/Superuser.apk is not enough. Perhaps the apk filename could be named differently. I will add one more root checking on next release of Light Manager. Please test later and let me know if those 3rd party app still not accessible.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mermaidkiller:
A nice addition would be a notification when the GPS has a fix.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I could not detect when user pulling down the notification or cancel the notification. Perhaps the only thing I can do is to cancel all current blinking LED notifications when one of them is cancelled.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] lgkahn:
Yet I am also using supersu.. superuser has a bug in latest version.. crashing desktop and freezing with shell has been granted root access error. That is why I switched to.supersu. best just to look for system/xbin/su
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] chargen2:
Sorry, I don't know. I think I was using light manager while on ICS, but I don't remember 100%

Pete
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] lucus_d:
light manager

I am not a developer, so I try to explain how it works on my S3 JB Poland rooted. If is not activated the Alternatig option, it shows me the last notification light (sms,email,call etc and the color what I choose) when i pull down the notification menu and click clear al, all the notifications light closed, only if I charge the phone or I check the "no wifi" light or no signal, this ones stays, ok this is when I don't check the alternating option. When I enable the alternating option, and I have receive a call, a sms, an email, all the lights I choose for this notification are alternating. OK(I really love this), I pull down the notification menu, I click clear all, all the lights are turned off except the email light notification. This light stays glowing until I open the email app(yahoo,or the samsung mail app) and i read the new email.

So what would love to have, is in alternating mode, when I receive a call,sms,email, FB notifications, etc, and I pull down the notification menu and click clear all, to turn off al the notification lights, except the charging led (for charging and for full charged), the no wfi notification if I enabled it, and the no signal light if I enabled IT.

THX for your patience>>>
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Actually I will add another root detection by checking "android.os.Build.TAGS" and see if it is "test-keys", I got this solution from somewhere on net. Let see if it can solve the 3rd party app non accessible issue for rooted device. If cannot, I will consider your suggestion of checking system/xbin/su

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Are you sure all the lights are turned off except the email light notification in alternating mode?

I have tested personally and all the lights will remain there when you pull down the notification bar in alternating mode. Theoretically it should work like this also.

Anyway, after some time of research, I think I managed to detect when user click the clear all button. I will implement this on the next release.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I have tested this personally and it is not working for me also. I found out that they probably have updated something. I might need to change some coding on Light Manager. I will fix this on next release.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] netchow:
Hi mckoo.

Firstly I'd like to thank you for the great app! It has been until now mandatory on my SGSIII. Sadly though I had to uninstall it today due to the battery drain.

I was using Galaxsyh JB kernel version 1.1 until today. I stayed in this version because with it there was no battery drain from Light Manager. But the kernel was already in version 2.0 (3 upgrades) and I simply had to follow it. Starting on version 1.2 I can confirm that there were battery drain concerning Light Manager.

I can also confirm that on ICS I experienced battery drain with Syah kernel. That's the reason I choose to use Galaxsyh instead (and have been doing it until today, it's a great kernel for battery).

I hope the app will get fixed at some point, so that we can start using it again with no drain! Thanks for the effort!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] lucus_d:
Thx i will do some tests and tell you, anyway I love this app, and I waith for your next update.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] subzer0wbb:
its not working properly for me.

I am using the international S3 - i9300 with the rom -

[ROM][XXDLJ4][JB 4.1.1][25 OCT][203MB] RonenROM v1.6-Ultra SuperLite & SuperFast!

I set up all the lights I wanted and I ran the test one - it worked fine.

But whenever I leave an open open and lock the device the led starts flashing.

also I turned off the battery low light and that still comes on.

Whilst it charged overnight, it started flashing random colours - I had no notifications.

Any idea what I should?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] VistaOpfer:
Have Samsung Galaxy Note II with Jelly Bean AND Root.

However, cannot e.g. change LED colour for E-Mail, as this option is not active (greyed out),

even though I have a rooted device!

Also "Light Manager" was never asking for root - permission and I don 't know how to force it into root(ed) - mode?

Any ideas?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] RonMcDon:
Permissions?

Hello,

I am using Light Manager, JB und LBE Security Guard.

Light Manager wants the following permissions:

Call History, Contact Records und SMS Records - can somebody tell me why?

I prohibit these 3 permissions In LBE Security Guard. When I enter Call History or SMS App LBE blocked access for Light Manger and Light Manger hangs up and needs to be restarted. How to solve this behavior?

Regards
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
I will check with these custom kernel and see why is it draining the battery.

Hopefully I can find a solution.

Thanks for your support.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
If you were updating Light Manager from the previous version instead of a clean install, try uninstall and reinstall back Light Manager.

Someone reported that this solves the false notification LED issue.

If not, I would like to know what random colors did u see?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
This is a bug in the current version. Please try the latest version which will be updated today or tomorrow and see if those option is still greyed out.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Light Manager needs these permissions to get the number of miscall or new sms you received. Without this, it will not work.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Updated to v3.2

- Remove limitation to disable notification icon in alternating mode

- Added 3 slots for users to add their own apps

- Force Gmail to cancel notification when app is entered or exited

- Fixed some rooted device cannot access 3rd party app LED settings

- Fixed Handcent SMS not working

- Cancel all notification LED when user clicks clear all button in drop down notification bar

- Added some missing translation text for Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, Polish

For those rooted devices but cannot access to 3rd party app LED setting, please try this version and see if those options are still greyed out?

By the way, I have added 3 slots for user to add their own 3rd party app. This option only applicable in Alternating Mode. I have tested this with some 3rd party apps such as KakaoTalk, Viber, G+, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Mail, K-9 Mail and they all work. However it might not work with some app. You may try it out by yourself.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Valwit:
indeed, the superuser app was (and still is actually) in /data/app/

the name of the file was com.noshufou.android.su-1.apk

I changed it to Superuser.apk but due to location there was no change in the Light Manager.

checking for su binary seems far better, the latest version works fine now. Thank you for the fix!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] pasc5:
why doesn't work on Samsung Galaxy Nexus GT-I9250 ?

On my i9250 works very well.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] evil_moses:
Thank you so much, the new version 3.2 works with Handcent almost (see below) perfectly. This is the first time that I've been able to configure the LED for Handcent SMS pretty much since I've bought my GS3 (LightFlow has never worked properly for me)

How can I donate to you? Do you have any paid apps in the market that I can buy to say thanks for this app or do you have Paypal for donations?

There is one bug that I have found in testing this afternoon. If you get a missed call and then an SMS, the alternating LED works perfectly for the two. However if you receive an SMS and then a missed call, only the missed call LED shows. Do you get what I mean here or do you need further info?

Again, please advise how I can donate for this app.....
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] psloan:
Add an Application, click to add an Application....

When i click, nothing happens.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Ninolina:
You must choose in Operating Mode - Alternating Mode. Then you will be able to add applications. :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] UnLucky12:
Does Light manager drain alot of battery or consume a little considering it is running in the background?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Ok, I have removed Samsung Galaxy Nexus GT-I9250 from the non working list.

Thanks for reporting.:good:
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
It depends on what you set in Light Manager. If you are just using for those basic functions such as missed call, sms, mms, gmail, calendar, your battery consumption should be unnoticeable. For 3rd party apps LED notification, someone reported that it is draining a lot battery with some custom kernel. However, if you are using stock kernel, it should be fine. I guess you might need to test by yourself.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] kisetsu17:
Verified working for Sony Xperia Sola. Will be getting my hands on a SXP by end of month so I can test for the device, too.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] ICavalera:
I had finish the last strings on Portuguese (PT)

I use your app.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] burnout:
Hi,

how can we stop the led flash after x minutes for example ?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] respider:
sometimes I have a flashing led even if I dont have any notification

then I dont know how to stop it...

is this just me?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] VistaOpfer:
Thank you very much for this info and for removing the bug!

Have just downloaded and installed the latest version and the "rooted" options are now active!

Thanks a lot!

Just need to check if everything else is doing as it is supposed to, if not... I may return!

:)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] UnLucky12:
I am now giving Led Manager a try. Led notification on sms/mms, missed call, whatsapp, gmail, messenger and facebook.

Running Siyah Kernel. Will update how it works and how it treats the battery.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
Glad to know that it works with Handcent now. However no need to donate to me, perhaps just help in introducing Light Manager to more people.;)

By the way, I have tested to receive an SMS then a missed call, I got it working perfectly. Both colors will light up alternately. Could you please confirm it again? Perhaps are you getting both SMS and missed call at the same time?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
You cannot stop it in "Normal Mode". However in "Alternating Mode", you can stop it by going into "Advanced Settings", there is a "Auto Cancel Per Notification" option to select when you want to stop the LED from flashing. This applies to all notifications.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
What color is the false flashing led? Does this color tie to any notification in Light Manager?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] krishs3:
Techies,

Every 2 mins once am getting a msg that Lightflow has been given superuser permission to read LOGS. ( i don't know why its coming again n again).

My awake time is 5 h 6 m vs screen On time of 30 m 19 s. where BBS/gsam battery monitor states states that the total wake-up's caused by Light manager is 8303 in a span of 12 hrs.

I've attached screenshots from both apps. Should i uninstall this app :crying::crying:. I desperately want it thou :(:(
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] kultus:
mckoo: is it possible to provide the newest apk, because some custom ROMs already have old version of LM installed and integrated into system and its impossible to update them throught google play even if I delete them from system apps...THX
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] mckoo:
How do u delete the old version of LM from system app? Have u tried delete it using titanium backup? Else you can request the ROM maker to put the app into data app instead of system app.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Siberian Tiger:
Hi, this APP is featured on the Index http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1674286

Any observation please send me a PM :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] kultus:
just deleted with root explorer...I dont have titanium backup...never used it...