yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] phositadc:
Have you tried going into gallery and selecting a photo? Do you have root mode enabled?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AmesCell:
I have used the gallery quite a bit. From reading this thread it's supposed to say something, but it doesn't. Just works like normal. Yes I do have root mode enabled in LF.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Earthdog:
Select an image and put a check in the box and it should say Checked!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AmesCell:
Ah yeah it does say that. I was thinking select a photo; like select to view it. Checking does do the voice over.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] mcmb03:
yeah i've got lightflow working. it disables all of the features like air gestures and whatnot when you hit okay at that initial prompt, but you can afterwards enable them and use em again in conjunction with lightflow. I've also got vybe up and running too
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
Should be picking up my s4 tomorrow to start looking into things.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] bobbydsiu:
This is outstanding. One of the few apps I've paid for.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AmesCell:
Awesome support like always. I've been on LF since the begging and it seems like you've done every device no matter what it takes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
I try to. I have a rather large collection of devices because of it!

While waiting for the phone to turn up I've been working on an update to the app so that if accessibility is not switched on (I plan to make it not prompt straight away) that it'll show all the notifications that don't require accessibility and limit down some of the options (such as app entered) for clearing some of those notifications.

That will initially help for users that are not rooted who don't want talkback but are happy with the following limited notification types:

Aquamail, bluetooth, calendars, charged batter, battery charging, gmail (accounts and labels), GPS, Low battery, missed calls, MMS, Mobile data connection, No signal, Phone signal, Portable hotspot, silent mode, SMS, voicemail, Reddit is fun, mycntdwn, calendar event reminder, cloud messages, pebble connection, pebble disconnection, digical, rapidpish and wifi.

Then I'll add in the root option to monitor in a way I've been working on to add in full support for the notification types (my only question at the moment until I've done some more experiments is google now)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] j510:
Nice, what more does root include? My brother uses the free versiob on his gnexus. Havent tried it but once theres a fix im going straight for paid version. Please keep this thread updated!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AmesCell:
So if you release this change we would enable root mode and disable accessibility?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
That's the plan yet (well at least give the user the chance of using accessibility, or the root method)

---------- Post added at 11:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:04 PM ----------

It really depends on the phone to what root adds. Most phones it doesn't add much.

HTC phones need root to change some file permissions to control the notification led.

The s3 has the ability to have notifications on when the screen is on and control the blue pulsing light (that's usually reserved just for bootup)

Some chinese phones need it to control the led.

Phones such as the nexus one allow some additional control of the led.

The root functions usually have to be custom written for specific phones, which is why for lots of phones that already have decent support I don't get to do it because it'll either take too much time and not add much benefit or I don't have the specific models to reverse engineer things.

Obviously with the s4 being one of the major phone releases of the year (as with the s3 last year), I try to get them to do as much as I can (even if root is required)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jeffreii:
I just want to say that Light Flow is currently working nearly perfect on my AT&T S3 thanks to your hard work and willingness to do whatever it takes to make a fix (only MMS notifications are still broken). It was a little rough in the beginning but that was clearly not your fault and you did everything you could to fix it...with great communication as well.

I am very happy with my purchase of Light Flow on the S3 and anyone who says Light Flow is "crap" is a total moron.

I just got my S4 today and I'm sure you'll have it working just as well.

Thanks again for being -by far- one of the best devs I've ever dealt with.

---------- Post added at 09:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:32 PM ----------

On another note...

Andrew: when upgrading from the S3 to S4, would you recommend creating all notifications from scratch or is it safe to import a backup file? Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jeffreii:
Disabled Google TTS and had to freeze Samsung TTS with Titanium Backup in order to stop the talkback.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
Thanks. I can't think of anything in the backup file that would cause any problems, but you'll find the sounds won't map correctly as the media database between the two phones will be different. Also it may be worth going into the backup file before restoring (just with a text editor) and removing all the lines that start with "contact_" as the contact database will be different and there's not much point importing those (so you'll need to set up contact specific notifications again)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] phositadc:
Doesn't that mean that you won't get spoken directions if you use Google maps navigation?

Sent from my HTC One
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
I think you'll get some voices, but not actual streeet names.

The phone didn't arrive yesterday, but has today, so I'll be checking it out once I'm home.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jeffreii:
I'm having a hard time getting the LEDs to perform properly with any settings. AT&T Galaxy S4 here. Stock rooted.

MODEL: SAMSUNG-SGH-I337

KERNEL: 3.4.0-440216 se.infra@SEP-133 #1

BUILD: JDQ39.I337UCUAMDB

Perhaps you can let us know what the best settings are for the S4 at the moment? Thanks as always.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AmesCell:
I'm running same phone also root.

Accessibility has LF On

In LF:

Enable LF

Root mode on

Didn't check either S3 options

Run in foreground

Didn't check reduce wake
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
Thanks, I'll add my own to the list:

Model: GT-I9505

Kernel: 3.4.0-431985 se.infra@SEP-124#1 - Fri Apr 12 17:22:59 KST 2013

Baseband version: I9505XXUAMDF

I can confirm exactly the same issues as others are having. The only thing that stops the talkback either disabling the TTS services (which affects other things) or setting the "media" volume stream down to silent.

The issue does not occur in Chrome browser or custom gallery apps.

I'd thought of setting the media volume to silent when in the problematic apps, but then if you've background music playing it'd stop. Still investigating a few things.

All the options that you are warned will be switched off can be switched back on again without issue.

I've got most of the "non accessibility mode" option working (ie with the reduced notification list)

I've also managed to replace the s3 root mode with a more generic one which is much more battery efficient than the existing s3 mode and also allows the same custom timings that are possible in non-root mode. Handy for having the led flash when the screen is on.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] bmroczka:
I just got a new S4 (last one had problems with the screen) and after getting all my apps installed I turned on the accessibility for Light Flow and suddenly my screen got extremely slow. I had to log in by just pressing home and eventually was able to get back into accessibility and turn Light Flow back off and the problem went away. This might have been the problem with my last S4 also so I dunno if it's something in my settings that is causing this or what. Thought I should bring it to your attention though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
I've had reports of this sometimes happening on samsung phones when any accessibility service is switched on. The usual fix for most people seems to have been to do a factory reset and the problem usually then goes away.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] bmroczka:
I was able to get in and turn off the accessibility. I will just hold off on using Light Flow until either Samsung or you guys find a fix for that :p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] anl2304:
I tried light flow on my GS$, and went through the motions of granting accessibility permissions. However, when I decided to go back (removing accessibility and even removing light flow), I find that I have lost air view, smart scroll and all the other features unique to the samsung line. A reset of the phone has not helped.

What can I do to restore these features?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
You'll just need to go into your phone settings and enable them again in each of the sections where the settings originate. Eg

phone settings->my device tab->air view

motions and gestures->air gestures

smart screen....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] anl2304:
I thought the same thing. Tried it. It did not work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
Does it allow you to switch those options back on. (ie does the state of changing them stick)

Also do you have any other apps switched to use accessibility?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] bmroczka:
I realized that I could actually disable Talkback entirely so it's not even in accessibility anymore and that seems to have got rid of that problem for now at least. Got another question though, when I received texts I wanted to set a sound for individuals but when I do it in the application the default one overrides it, but if I disable notification in the messaging settings it gets rid of both the notification and the sound, I don't see an option to do sound itself. Is there any way I can set Light Flow to have priority over the default sounds? or a way I can remove the default sounds while not removing the notification popup also?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
I have mine set to have a notification tone of "silent" in the messaging app but leave the rest of the notification settings as the default, then just set the sound up in lightflow. Would that work for you?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] bmroczka:
I'm apparently blind and didn't see silent. That seems to have done it, thanks.

You might wanna put in your notes directions for people to disable talkback in the application manager, it seems to get rid of a lot of the problems for the S4.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] anl2304:
It did allow me to switch these options back on. But they still were not working.

After many efforts, including discussions with t-mobile tech support, the features returned. It took me resetting from recovery, and clearing cache.

Thanks for your help....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
I've just released version 3.7.0 which will work without accessibility (but with less options). Still plan to work on a root version though to add those back in.

Had a long conversation with Samsung today and I'm pleased to say they've acknowledged the bug and have a fix coming and they've updated the thread here:

http://developer.samsung.com/forum/...=GeneralB&messageId=204387&messageNumber=2156

Below is the changelog for 3.7.0:

Version 3.7.0 (Release 1081) - 10 May 2013

Added five DashClock extensions, so you can now see all your notifications from your lock screen and get direct access to apps and system settings.

e.g. Silent mode will take you to the sound menu,

Wifi on into the wifi settings,

Apps will display text from most of them and allow direct access to them

Heavy traffic notifications will take you to google now

It'll show up to five outstanding notifications from lightflow based on the priority order set within light flow.

Added support for facebook chat heads in messenger app (including contact specific notifications)

Added more detailed facebook notifications, now has

-- facebook (which will catch all notifications)

-- friend requests

-- invites

-- message

-- post/notification

-- upload complete

Rework of accessibility settings on Samsung devices

Added support for not using the accessibility service with a restricted list of notifications

New Samsung root mode to replace S3 root mode. Should work on the note 2, s3 and s4. More battery efficient and custom led timings possible

Fix for some custom roms where the app would hang at "identifying apps" due to what seems to be a kernel bug

Improved xabber notifications

Weatherbug and accuweather notification improvements

IMO - filter out notification types

Kaiten filter out some notifications

Many other bug fixes.

Added support for the following 70 apps

PixelPhone Pro

Cricbuzz

Zaman

Pinger

Textfree

PagerDuty

RapidPush

News Republic

Series Addict

Emoze- email app

Quizboard

Changelog Droid Premium

ScienceIllustrated Quiz Battle

DW Contacts and Phone and Dialer

MessageMe

Metatrader 5

AutomateIt

IMDB

Shakes and Fidget

socially pink

pokerstars.com

Iphone Messages

iCam - Webcam Video Streaming

The Student Room

Xparent Twitter

Mocospace

mypeople Messenger

Changelog Droid

Call End Tone

PC Monitor

L'Equipe.fr

Stock Alert

Rando

GuySpy gay dating and video chat

Prime Guide

Ring Central

AOKPush

Text from Tablet-SMS Messaging

francetv info

Regularly

Volvo On Call

Swish

Wrike – Project Management

Pocket

Producteev

Blendr

Amazon

Slickdeals

FlightAware Flight Tracker

Free SMS Sender

The Guardian

RTL Nieuws

NOS

Venmo

Family Feud

Netflix

Prevue GE

Kontalk Messenger

Notifier Widget for Facebook

Metatrader 4

Metatrader 5

Blood brothers (RPG)

Mail.ru

Wordblitz for Friends

TV Guide Smart

email+

Redfin Real Estate

Simplest Reminder

Fly4free+

Say the same thing

2 new permissions required:

- k9 email permission for upcoming better k9 support

- retrieve system internal status - for root users only for better notification access
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] AmesCell:
User error by me:) 3.7 is working perfectly. Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
Lol, no worries!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jeffreii:
Thanks Andrew. I have not had LED notifications since I got my S4 but the latest update seems to have done the trick.

I have enabled root mode, Samsung root mode, and kept accessibility on...the only actual change I made since updating was turning on the new Samsung root mode and immediately everything started working correctly.

I still have Talkback disabled and Google/Samsung TTS disabled to prevent any Talkback bugs. So far it does not seem to have affected anything I use, even Google Maps Navigation.

I will continue to report any bugs I find.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
Thanks for the update. I'm not sure if in google nav is stops the street names being read out and just gives more generic instructions. That's what happened on the s3.

I'm just glad Samsung have acknowledged the issue so it should get resolved (as well as me trying to get it working for root users)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jeffreii:
I retract my previous statement about the Google Maps Navigation. You are correct. It stops saying the street names and just says "Turn Left in 1/4 mile", "Turn Left Now", etc.

BTW I still need to test it more but I'm noticing what I think is a bug with the low battery indicator...once it reaches the threshold I am getting the sound/LED/vibrate, but I am not seeing the notification in the bar.

Thanks again!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
Which notification are you expecting to see? There's not normally one raised and lightflow doesn't normally raise notification icons itself.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jeffreii:
On my AT&T Galaxy S3 whenever I'd hit the low battery threshold the following would happen:

LED illuminates

Sound triggered

Vibrate triggered

Notification appears in notification bar (it was the Light Flow icon and I could pull down the notification bar and press it to clear the notification, turn off the LED, and prevent repeating notifications)

I am not seeing that notification in the bar anymore...at least not in the last few days.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
My guess is that you had the "clear notification style" set to "manual", that's what usually causes the lightflow icon to show in the notification bar
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] KryptosXLayer2:
Wanted to try using LF after switching from LM since my Handcent notifications weren't working, and sent an email through the app but wanted to find out if anyone else knew the answers....

I've used both this and Light Manager on my S4, and neither one will report Handcent SMS notifications. I have everything set in order for it to work, or so I think, but does anyone know which settings I'm supposed to have selected in order for notifications to work?

Also, I thought that in the past there was a setting to disable ongoing notifications in the notification bar, but now I'm not seeing it after going back to Light Flow and updating the app. Is this not possible any longer?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
With handcent you've two options.

Firstly if you don't set handcent to be the default SMS app it should work fully as long as you set "alternate off monitoring" on.

If you want to set handcent as the default sms app then unfortunately you won't be able to have contact specific notifications as handcent breaks the standard android notifications we pick up on. If using this setting make sure "alternate on monitoring" and "alternate off monitoring" are both checked.

As for the persistent notification, just go into lightflow, settings and switch off "run in foreground". That's changed due to a request from google to change the foreground mode to show an icon for a security hole they plan to plug in an upcoming version of android.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] KryptosXLayer2:
Thanks for the prompt reply. I do in fact want Handcent to be the default SMS app and don't care about contact specific notifications, but I've also had both those options selected under SMS settings, and still don't see a notification LED. I'm using Blue Pulse as my LED color and Always On for flash rate, but that shouldn't have anything to do with it, right?

Got the ongoing notification situation, thanks for that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
Have you got handcent pushing out a notification to the notification bar in its settings. Make sure that is on. Make sure alternate on and off monitoring are both on in lightflow and then add the lightflow debug widget to a homescreen and let me know what it shows. Probably email or PM me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] KryptosXLayer2:
The debugging widget showed me that Accessibility wasn't set, turned it on and I'm getting notifications from Light Flow now for SMS, how strange that it worked for everything else but not SMS with Accessibility off! I'm going to buy the full version as soon as I play with it for a day and make sure everything still works, but thanks for your help!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] deifel:
Hello,

I use Lightflow full version for long time with no problems and now I have big problems with the S4 unfortunately.

Light Flow works so far, but I can no longer use Airflow in the emails (preview).

As soon as I disable Lightflow, it works again.

Of course talkback is off.

Airflow and works fine in the gallery.

Is there a solution for this problem?

Thank you very much
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] KryptosXLayer2:
http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/2300
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] zekeblue:
Hi Andrew,

I'm another S4 user and am trying to get LightFlow to work fully. I followed your website instructions for the S4 from the link above and do get notifications. I only have set:

Missed calls - Blue - Fast

Aquamail Smart Inbox - Green - Fast

Silent Mode - Deep Orange - Fast

Low Battery - Red - Steady On

Charged - Green - Steady On

All other notifications are turned off.

LF does not seem consistently reliable with those first three notifications. I have yet to pin down a pattern about when it doesn't get all notifications going that it should.

But more importantly, it seems the cycling is too slow to be useful. It takes 20 seconds to change colors. Is that by design? Any way to get alternating colors at each blink?

Thanks in advance and thank you for your efforts with a much needed app, particularly for one time blackberry users! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] dansan382:
edit...

nvm, waiting for the root update version :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] NRGZ28:
I have the same problem with AirView not working in the SMS or Email app. Your answer has nothing to do with his question...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] KryptosXLayer2:
Yeah, it does, it tells you that there's an issue with it, and that you can get it working by turning Talk Back off, and then turning all the Air View features back on.... It works for me just fine after following the instructions on the link provided that you claim "has nothing to do with it"

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S 4 using the XDA app
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] NRGZ28:
Even so, he said he DID all that and it's still not working. I have the same problem.... even after doing all that. We're not idiots.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] atlprettygirl2145:
Is anybody else having color problems I cannot get cyan turquoise indigo purple colors to work. I get a purplish blue color

Sent from my SGH-M919 using Xparent Pink Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] andrewpmoore:
I would say "yes" from some reports I've had. I think it seems to be how the phone calibrates the brightness of the leds. It seems that the blue led is brighter than the red and green which is why colors come out not very well that have a blue base. Try using custom colors and lower the value of the blue significantly and see if that helps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] Kadu_Leite:
Lighflow is one of the best apps that I've ever known.

The issue wiht talkback can be "solved" using Titanium for freezing (payed version) or uninstalling (free version) the Samsung and Google talking systems.

I really need those lights and I don't need my phone talking to me! So...

Keep calm and let the lights blink!

Kadu Leite

Visit Brazil
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] itiskonrad:
This sort of works, but it also does disable any other voice services, including audio directions in google maps, etc. I don't personally use them, but others might find that an inconvenience.