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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jfp999:
It resolves the wake lock issues but the only way I know if I have wake lock issues is when my battery drains like crazy. It also only resolves it temporarily. If you reboot after it is working fine, it may not work fine and you have to clear dalvik again. Also, I've been getting the asking for root permission loop issue.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PatcheZ:
I have wake lock issues as well on my rooted stock i747m as well.

CPU spy shows it never goes to sleep, even when there is no notifications or when they are all cleared.

I have since uninstalled the pro version, but I'll reinstall later and send dump.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ali812:
Paid for LightFlow a while ago and loved its features, wakelocks are a disappointment so I'm currently not using it. I'd recommend LightManager to those waiting for the LightFlow wakelock to be fixed, works great for me but it lacks the ability to flash LED while the screen is on which was by far my favorite feature on LightFlow. Can't wait to use it again after battery drain issues are fixed! :fingers-crossed:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] KryptosXLayer2:
Looking into LightManager now, do you experience a high battery drain just from the LED being lit constantly? I mean, nothing is as bad as the CPU being pegged at full speed for hours on end like LightFlow does....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
So far I've only had one adb report. Anyone else want to provide one for me to try and look for patterns?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
Could people getting high battery drain try switching off "run in foreground" from light flow-> settings and see if that helps. I've had one report of this and seen the battery stats also.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] justin860:
If it's not running in the background then will it work? I too no longer use it because of the wake lock issue but I don't have a pc to provide adb

Sent from my AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ewingr:
I never got a reply on how to determine if mine has a wake lock holding.

But, since my problems with battery usage by LF (ie, large quantity of wake locks, high time for wake locks by LF, high % of battery use by LF) I have switched to the 'Serinity 1.1 JB ROM, and on that LF is quite low on the list of battery users (from GSM Battery stats).

I"m back to using it now. Just waiting for updates that include a couple apps I requested for monitory :fingers-crossed:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PatcheZ:
I've mentioned this before, one of the simplest ways is to use cpuspy. Phone should go into deep sleep, the majority of the time when screen is off.

1. Test with Light flow app installed

2. Test with Light flow app uninstalled (be sure to restart phone after uninstall)

3. Compare*

In my case, with the Light flow app enabled, it keeps my phone awake the whole time (no time spent in deep sleep).

*Note: there's a timer reset, so that should help during testing
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ewingr:
Ok, thanks. So in your case it's not a case of identifying when it is holding it awake, because it is awake all the time.

I just checked my phone with GSM Battery Monitor. It has been asleep (I assume it's asleep...screen is off) for the past hour. LF has held it awake since I unplugged the phone (4 hours ago) for a total of 9 min and 8 seconds. So in my case it is not holding it awake, and I presume then I can't add any testing results to the conversation.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PatcheZ:
Yeah, in my case it keeps the phone constantly awake.

You might as well try cpuspy to see how often your phone is actually in deep sleep (as screen off doesn't mean sleep).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ewingr:
Ah, OK. If the free version tells me, I'll give it a try.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sansart:
Any chance of support for gosms?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Florad77:
I just use Light Manager.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rb28ubGlnaHRtYW5hZ2VyIl0.

It does the same things as Light Flow and works perfectly for me.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ewingr:
Looks OK for all the basic needs. I like LF's ability to signal for a whole range of other apps.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
Go SMS Pro is supported by doing the following:

Go into lightflow, notifications, sms and make sure "alternate on monitoring" is OFF and "alternate off monitoring" is ON.

Then go into GO SMS Pro, select "settings", "advanced", "Receive settings", Switch off "disable other message notification".

Then go into the stock SMS app, "settings" and switch off "notifications" in the notification section.

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Those having issues and suggesting light manager instead. From what I've seen it doesn't cycle around multiple outstanding notifications which is similar to lightflows "latest" notification method. Do people still have wakelock issues if they use this mode and don't choose the "flashing" options for the led and just use "always on"?

As for the talkback issues, I'm guessing at how light manager works , I think it must read the file logs to work out what notifications are switched on (that'll be why root is required in jelly bean) and I think looks at the active app stack to clear them . Personally I wouldn't use an app that allows full internet access and reads the file logs, it's amazing how much information can be got from there. I'm not saying it's doing anything dodgy at all, I'm sure it fine, but I personally wouldn't install it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EViollet:
Hi.

I had the Wakelock issues some time ago on JB on my International S3.

But since then I've flashed quite a few new ROMs, full wiped, and haven't had the issue again.

The way Light Flow currently works suits me fine.

I tested Light Manager, but it just isn't as flexible as Light Flow and I couldn't get it to do exactly what I wanted. So back to Light Flow and I'm currently a happy camper.

The only thing I'm currently missing is GMail 4.2 notifications. I know it hasn't been officially released yet, but if you have any tricks/ideas I could use to get it working (renaming the APK?), I'd love to try.

And also, tasker plugin integration would be a nice plus. It would allow us to control even more notification types, and, switch off/on LightFlow at our own will.

Thanks for the app.

Regards,
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] haroonie:
Thanks for your hard work on this application, i love it on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus. For the past couple days I've moved onto an AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 and I've been plagued with horrible battery life which seems to be from Lightflow, from what I can tell in the battery stats. LF works fine but GSAM reports that since being unplugged and 4 hours ago, Lightflow stats are CPU usage is 44m 18s, keep awake is 2hrs 4mins, number of wakelocks is 69898.0 and number of times waking device is 35791. I'm at 42% battery left with little to no usage and 15m screen time.

I'm going to clear data on the app, don't let it run in the foreground and wipe the dalvik cache. I'll recharge to 100% and see how it goes after.

Thanks again and keep up the good work!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ali812:
I have not seen any battery drain when using Light Manager, I tried one full charge cycle without using the app and one cycle with using it, there was marginally no difference in battery life. It's an okay app (very limited in functionality when compared to LightFlow) but it's a decent replacement until the wakelock issues are fixed for LightFlow.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sinichi21:
Yeah having same issue with it running ariel 2.10 rom. Please post your result I have been busy on work and study. I wish I could help Andrew since I really love this app hope he get it fix soon
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] iofthestorm:
I'm experiencing the wakelock issue on my VZW GS3, running CyanogenMod 10. I was using the USA/Canada S3 mode for a while because I seemed to have a problem with dismissing the notifications in the root mode, and it apparently has not let my phone sleep since this morning when I pulled it off the charger :/. FWIW I had a similar wakelock issue on stock Touchwiz so I did stop using it after a while, but decided to start using it again recently because I had forgotten why I stopped using it. I don't blame you for anything, considering you had to get a US SGS3 just to support our phones I'm really grateful for everything you've done. I don't understand the ungrateful, entitled posters in this thread :(.

I have disabled the built in notification LED settings in CM10 just FYI because they really are nowhere near as good as Lightflow. I imagine that if one were to enable both all kinds of havoc would occur. I also have run in foreground disabled. I'm currently back on root mode to see if it changes anything.

Attached is my alarm log. Let me know if you want anything else, I'm proficient with ADB and whatnot and have dabbled in some Android development. Thanks for all your hard work!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
At the moment gmail 4.2 doesn't seem to broadcast any notifications about when the mailbox is viewed which is why there are issues with it. I think I'll wait until Mondays announcement to see where things are with 4.2 as this could have been a partially working beta, or maybe google have changed/removed that ability.

I do plan tasker integration and would be interested to know what sort of integration you'd like to see. I'm also working on llama integration.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EViollet:
OK. I think I'm going to switch back to GMail 4.1 anyway. 4.2 is kind of buggy even though I do like the new features...

I have different night schedules depending on it being the weekend, vacation, normal week days. And so I have tasker taking care of the sound volume issues. If I could use tasker to enable/disable light notifications as well, it would be more flexible than the simple day/night schedule included in Light Flow.

Also, I don't currently have an example at hand for this, but I imagine the plugin could allow us to start/stop the LED blinking with a defined colour.

I could imagine it being useful.

Thanks.

Regards,
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
iofthestorm, thanks for the logs.

Those having the issues above, would it be possible to try the following:

Get your phone to a state where you have no outstanding notification, but the phone isn't going into sleep.

Then go into lightflow->tools->logging and select "file logging"

Leave the phone without getting notifications for approx 10 minutes,

Then back into lightflow->tools->logging and select "no logging"

Then e-mail me the file (our address should show in the market if you don't already have it, or pm me). It's stored in /sdcard/lightflow/tmp and it's called something like debug_log.txt

I'm keen to work out if the app has or hasn't closed off the events that I think it should have.

I do find it odd that some people have no issues and others get their device to never sleep, but fingers crossed these logs from a device where it happens will help.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pqrs:
im not having any luck with this app... i was using light manager, but i wanted to try this since i saw this thread. it wants me to turn on accessibility and enable light flow.. but if i do then it turns voice on and i hear "folder open" "folder closed" all the time? cant have that, but i dont see any way to shut it off without killing light flow? why does that need to be on anyways? light manager didnt ask it?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PatcheZ:
lol. make sure 'TalkBack' is disabled, and just 'Light Flow' is enabled
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
Good news, it seems like the battery drain issue has been identified and fixed (it's been confirmed to be fixed by a few beta testers).

For the talkback issues the only options at the moment seem to be either use an alternative launcher, use an app like "app folder" instead of the default ones, or not use folders.

Can people report this issue to samsung as it happens for all apps that switch on accessibility (takser, llama, pops, missedIt and many more)?

Hopeing for a release within the week.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nephilim:
Any idea when Gmail 4.2 is going to work? My notifications are fine except for my light flow LED blink. It just doesn't blink at all, I get audible and vibrating notifications as well as everything else is fine but the LED never lights up. I absolutely love Light Flow and have had no issues with it besides this.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
I'm working on getting gmail 4.2 installed on my device at the moment to try get it working. I know it also doesn't work on the nexus 4 so it's not just the leaked version that doesn't work. Hope to have something going soon.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nephilim:
Thanks. That's honestly the only issue I've had with light flow, never once had a wake lock problem on my gnex. ;)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] girishverma:
Working OK

Working better than before.. i will say. Battery usage is OK..its not getting drained like before...but before when sleeping if my battery was 100% at night in the morning it'd be about 90ish...and today i saw it drop from 66% to about 44ish so 20% drop with NO USE of phone...Lights produce chosen colors..though I am not seeing them cycling properly..also the blinking of lights when it starts it goes on and off and then sort of stabilize. New version indeed better than before...not perfect...Getting there..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
I've just managed to get gmail 4.2 working in development so hope to get a release out in the next few days.

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Are you on the full or lite version?

The lite version only cylces once every 20-30 seconds. The full version can be much faster - the setting is in lightflow->settings and then either:

"notification method on charge" or "notification method on battery". This allow different potentially more battery intensive notification methods when charging than on battery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JoeSchmoe22:
Same issue here. Lightflow keeps phone awake the entire time.

Update ----

I have switched off run in foreground and still will not allow it to go into Deep Sleep. I uninstalled Lightflow and did NOT reboot and suddenly the phone can go into Deep Sleep again. So obviously it's LF. It appears that foreground or not does not make a difference. I am only monitoring SMS (Go SMS), calendar, Google Voice and Touchdown. This is quite a disappointment for me. I loved LF until it drained my battery. I hope the developer can fix it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rickythefox:
Gmail LED notification doesn't work for me. GMail 4.1.2, OmegaROM v31.1.

Anything I can do to pinpoint the source of this issue?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JoeSchmoe22:
Fixed the deep sleep issue. Seems that Light Flow was having an issue with the stock kernel and/or governor and scheduler that was in Synergy Rom. I installed KT747 kernel and used SmartassV2 with SIO, rebooted and know it works great! Pleanty of deep sleep and running cool.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
Try add the lightflow debugger widget to a homescreen and see if anything triggers with gmail.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nephilim:
Any idea when we might be seeing a fix for gmail 4.2?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] basf11:
I've installed the latest version on i747 stock rom. It seemed ok at start, but after some time it again puts device to continously awake state with excessive battery drain :(

Uninstalled with hope of upcoming fix. Except of that bug everything is ok. Great App!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JoeSchmoe22:
UPDATE - Turns out that after a day of use and a reboot, LightFlow again is NOT allowing my Samsung S3 to go into deep sleep resulting in unnecessary battery drain. PLEASE FIX. I love the app but can't use it if it drains the battery.

Running Synergy Rom r106 and KT747 kernel using SmartassV2 governor and SIO scheduler.

UPDATE #2

I have determined the following:

1. LightFlow will allow deep sleep immediately after installation, until the first notification.

2. After first notification, LightFlow prevents the phone from entering deep sleep.

3. Rebooting the phone after first notification will still not allow phone to enter deep sleep.

4. Uninstalling LightFlow and reinstalling it after first notification is the only way to allow deep sleep again until the first notification after installation.

I hope they developer is watching this forum and is working on a solution. I love this app but I can afford the battery drain.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Kruzkal:
As above. Please fix. :crying:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jfp999:
Guys, my current fix that will continue to work as long as you don't reboot is just clear dalvik cache.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PatcheZ:
Deep sleep works for me with stock Sammy kernel, maybe it's the kernel dev that needs to fix his kernel to work with light flow.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rickwood:
I don't the issue is a particular kernel. I'm running stock rooted and am also experiencing battery drain due to inability to go into deep sleep. Same issue for my son's stock rooted S3. Using Light Manager for the last few days. It doesn't drain battery, but also seems to allow itself to be unloaded from memory and then quits working. :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
Just PM'd you about this to try and help.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jproy12:
So is this still draining people's battery?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
Nobody has followed up on the information I've requested regarding this :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] basf11:
Yes, it's still draining the battery, so i've uninstalled it. But if I can help somehow by giving information on that just let me know
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Earthdog:
Sent you my logs a few hours ago. Its odd but wiping the Dalvik Cache may have helped still testing. I did not have this issue on 3.2.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] c_86:
i to just sent a log using the app logging setting

sent it about 30 mins ago... hopefully it helps... let me know if there is any other testing i can do to help... my phone sucks without this app lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PatcheZ:
just wanted to let you know that light flow works on my lte sgs3 (i747m) without having the 'usa and canada s3 mode' checked, just as it did in the test app.

deep sleep still good.

- stock sammy rom rooted
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gzesku:
andrewpmoore,

Actually I'm not an S3 user, however it looks like this app is also draining battery on Motorola RAZR XT910. My phone could last 36-48 hours with 2 hours of "screen on" before started to use Light Flow, now after less than 24 hours and 1 hour of "screen on", RAZR is yelling for battery charger.

However, I noticed small improvement - I tried version 3.1 - Light Flow process was using 30MB RAM once, now in 3.3 it is around 8MB.

I hope you don't mind I sent you file log via email.

CPU Spy Plus didn't report any issues with deep sleep though.

XT910 @ Stock 4.0.4

Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JoeSchmoe22:
Anything new lately regarding the S3?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kevz65:
Same wake lock issue here in the sgs3 international version. App works flawlessly but it keeps the phone awake constantly. Hopefully it gets fixed because otherwise its a great app but I've removed it for now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] c_86:
Check one of my threads. I started it so search my profile. Great settings in that thread that will prevent that issueb
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
This is the thread by the way: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2005074

If people are still having issues pm me as I can get you to produce some logs to help. Also let me know the mode (s3 or not, root or not) that you are using. Plus the rom installed on your phone and model number of s3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] -Kevlar-:
is it impossible to have flashing LED for an incoming call/led flash while screen is on????

I miss this so much...

http://youtu.be/ZEyZGpTGmFg
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jproy12:
I've just redownloaded this app, with some minor tweeks in the settings, will report back to see if it drains the battery!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Chewee91:
I just disable the app, reboot, unckeck for root S3 option, checked stay in foreground option and sleep timing.... and enable light flow....Since, no wake locks ! and no problem with notifications... :D

My battery life is so better now !
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
It will be possible for root users (when I get around to writing the incoming calls stuff)

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Things are generally much better with jelly bean to run without any of the s3 modes checked as then the app can use android standard notifications.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pipipde:
hey, i've been using light flow (payed version) for a while on my xperia arc s and i'm also experiencing a quite high ram usage (about 30MB)...

(i know ... wrong forum but the same issue)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nephilim:
Facebook notification light does not work on newest update. Tried everything and it will not work. Lights up fine when testing but that's it, never when I get a notification from Facebook.

Sent from my AOSPA Galaxy Nexus
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
Can you try add the lightflow debug widget to a homescreen and see if it shows as been on. Note that 3.4.0 had a bug for facebook but that was fixed in later builds.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nephilim:
My bad, didn't update to 3.4.2 :p

Sent from my AOSPA Galaxy Nexus
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
Incoming Call LED

Is it possible to assign a LED color to a specific contact for an Incoming Call ..... not Missed Call?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] element3g:
Just bought the app, its working flawless. Thanks for your hard work towards US version of gs3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
It could be possible for root users. By default android switches off the led when the screen is on and as it's on when the phone is ringing that's where it's a bit tricky.

It'd only be possible with root, but custom vibrations and maybe even camera flashes may be possible for other users.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sentry07:
Will unchecking S3 root mode allow the LED to come on while the screen is on?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andrewpmoore:
No, without root android is coded to switch off the led when the screen is on.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brawndo89:
For some reason after I installed it my phone started announcing a bunch of stuff. Like when I open a folder it says "folder opened". I'm so confused.