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[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
I've also just pushed out an update to lightflow specifically to address lots of issues and workarounds for the nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Enhanced:
I know that 4.3 brought in persistent notifications like with apps like LF. Still no work around with hiding it?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] floepie:
Thanks for the update! Still not seeing notification light for Hangouts - specifically for SMS. Anyone else experience this?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Ed V:
Maybe LEDBlinker?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1900309

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[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] ZealotOnAStick:
Thank you for that tip on the screen on clearing. That's a godsend.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] stewart1988:
Mine works fine.

I'm also using Hangouts but I didnt set any Hangout notifications, instead just used the SMS Apps one and the LED light works fine.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] kooldewil:
Thanks, just bought the app its working good.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] phositadc:
Uncheck the foreground option in settings. I always uncheck that and I've never seen any difference, except the persistent notification goes away.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Molitro:
How about getting the led to be always on?

I've always liked it better than pulsing, and set it up like that in the Galaxy Nexus, but can't get it to work on the N5 yet.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] hutzdani:
is it worth having root mode on as well ?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Ashcunak:
I see the very first app i ever purchased on the android market for my old N1 is still getting updates (sept 2013).... TrackBall Alert Pro... also Trackball Alert..

updates say it will work with any trackball (hah i miss that thing) and RGB LED.. from what i remember it was a pretty minimal app that let you choose colours/flash rate/etc...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.lilhermit.android.TrackballAlert&hl=en
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] ArkAngel06:
There's an option in each notification under the "light" tab for "LED flash rate" for "always on / very slow pulse". I have it that way for when my phone is charging.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Molitro:
Yes, but in the N5 "always on" doesn't seem to work.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] ArkAngel06:
It works on mine for charging indication. What kind of app are you trying to get it to work on?

Edit: I tested in on gmail, and you are correct sir. It doesn't work.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] quendil:
I uninstalled completely the application and then reinstalled it.

After that, the rapid flash remains for a sec but it flashes only in the correct color and not in various/random colors.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jeffreii:
Same issue here. Hopefully Andrew can build that feature in.

I'm also having issues with the sleep mode widget turning itself on randomly...despite having sleep mode set to NFC tags, which I have none (and NFC is off). Meanwhile, I am in the process of replacing my phone so I don't trust it at all lol
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jeffreii:
[MENTION=220547]andrewpmoore[/MENTION] - I'm having an issue for the last week where my "sleep" widget is turning itself on automatically and constantly. It doesn't seem to turn itself off...but I often look at my phone and see the sleep widget is suddenly on for no reason.

I am using the transparent widget to change sleep mode on and off. I have tried changing sleep mode from NFC to Time based and neither one changes this behavior.

Any thoughts? Thanks!

-Jeff
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] SamBG:
By default at what all purposes does this LED get lights up???
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Chad_Petree:
Guys I know it's really silly but I solved all the issues I had with Lightflow by deactivating the app from "accesibility" (on android settings) and activating it on "security/notification acess" :cowboy:
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Zorrich:
I installed LightFlow (premium) on Dec 7th. Worked great until Dec 9th at which point it has totally stopped working altogether. Disabled it, rebooted phone, re-enabled, and still nothing. The test doesn't even work.

Any ideas? Really like this app and want it to work! My phone is not rooted.

Thanks.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Chochiwpg:
LightFlow is my go to LED notification app and has been working great for me on the Nexus 5. One thing I can't figure out how to do, maybe others can give me a hand. I have LED notification setup for Hangouts. But I have my SMS integrated with hangouts as well. Is there a way to have a specific colour LED for SMS (lets say green) and another for regular hangouts message (lets say blue)?

I have a different ring tone depending on SMS or hangout, but when my phone is on vibrate it doesn't differentiate between SMS or hangout and will blink the same colour regardless of the type of message.

That is the only reason I miss the old Messaging app. Messaging would blink one colour and hangouts another.

Please let me know if there is a way to customize this, maybe I am missing something. Thanks.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Lownita:
What is causing those alarms?

Tapatalked from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Luckyman79uk:
I have been using lightflow on my nexus 5 running kitkat version 4.4, and it has been running perfectly. However when I upgraded to kitkat version 4.4.1 the notifications for whatsapp stopped. All other notifications seem fine. I've tried reinstalling lightflow and disabling and enabling the the notification option under security. After upgrading to 4.4.2 the issue is still present.

Anyone else had this issue?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] kolella:
i usually have whatsapp broadcast notification set to vibrate but those type of notification were removed. i now only have messages and group notification settings. to make whatsapp 'enable' notification i've set vibration in 'messages' to short, sound is set to silence, led to off popup to none. in group notification everything is set to off/silence. Sound, led, recurring vibration ... are configured through ligthflow
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] dakore:
edit: damn, now it works. Solved for now!

+++

Nobody mention Facebook Messenger app... I found old posts saying it is supported by LF paid, but I can't make it work. I set up everything the same as for other apps, just different led color. Then I tried playing with disabling sound/light/vibrate under FM app AND enabling same options under LF notification settings - but LF doesn't ring or vibrate for Messenger notification. It looks like LF doesn't react on FM notifications at all.

Is there any secret tip for FM app?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] pagy:
It's been weeks now and LF still doesnt work at all with hangouts... was on 4.4, just went to 4.4.2

I've paid for this app and loved it for years...but this is getting sort of frustrating now. it worked perfectly with kitkat too but the last upgrade ruined it.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jeffreii:
It's working for me. I just had to enable Hangouts - All Messages (no sounds/vibrate/LED etc., just enabled).

I do wish Andrew would keep us updated on his progress fixing all the little bugs!
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] temka:
Ok, I have found a very strange issue with Whatsapp (individual messages).

my setup:

WhatsApp

- NO vibration

- Ringtone selected

- Color selected

LightFlow:

- Vibration selected (short)

- NO vibration repeat

- NO ringtone

- Color selected (I guess it overrides WhatsApp in-app settings)

The issue:

It works just fine until I am trying to send someone a video. While the video is uploading, the notification (the one with the progress bar) appears in notification center. The phone starts vibrating and ends only after the file is uploaded. After several attempts I understood that the vibration was not just "one long vibration", but it was a series of those Short vibrations. I think that somewhy LightFlow treats the notification "as if it was updated multiple times per second", probably because of the live progress bar.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] radical86:
A bug

Another interesting bug I have found in the app is the missed call one. When a missed call is from a "Private Number", Lightflow won't give any notification but it does for every other missed call (from a number or unknown number).

This is from Lightflow Lite. For some reason the paid app didn't work as well as Lite for me so not sure if this is present in the paid version as well.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] FuMMoD:
When I use lightflow my textra app cannot apply custom notification lights to people. Lightflow takes control of the whole led notification. Light manager works perfectly like this and they even have a custom setting for people notifications through sms. I use the pro version of lightflow and have to use a free app to get what I Want sadly.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] cpasoft:
Have you tried to change the option "Main control Led" under settings??

By default is set to LightFlow full control. If you change to without control maybe you'll get of you want...

Regards :good:
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] FuMMoD:
Yeah I know my way around android. I tried every work around and settled down to using light manager. It's a shame I paid for light flow almost 2 years ago.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] daLareid:
So lightflow is still keeping the green led light notification on after a phone call, and now there's a LightFlow always on in the Notifications menu which I can remove. I clicked on the app itself not to show that icon in the notification tray but it won't go away, any ideas?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] dogans:
Light flow just stopped working for me. I haven't installed any new apps, changed any settings.. I just don't get the led notifications any longer :(
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Battleship:
What have you chosen to clear the notification for calls? Your problem might be in what you've selected there. As far as the notification tray issue: in General Settings, unckeck "Persistent Icon" and then restart your phone. Worked for me.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] overlord727:
Lightflow isn't working for me anymore either. I'm completely stock. No mods or anything.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] EddyOS:
Working fine for me, 100% stock bar an unlocked bootloader and I'm using the paid version. Currently running the phone in ART to test a few things but works without issues
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] docfreed:
Doesn't work for me either - I have the "persistent icon" unchecked but I still get a notification and icon (annoying since takes up space in the notification pulldown). Deleting until this gets sorted out but since there appears to be a huge variability in the successful use of this app the dev needs to take a closer look at various use scenarios.

Having "magic recipes" like clearing cache/fix permissions using recovery doesn't seem to be an ideal solution (and won't work for those unrooted folks anyway) - app needs to be fixed from the get-go.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] overlord727:
I wonder whats up with the app then... I have the paid version and it was working up until recently. Maybe some change to google services or some update to an app that borked it?

As far as my settings, I just have the notification bar icon unchecked, no changes. Testing the LEDs works, but it only cycles green and red. Not sure if there are supposed to be other colors being cycled.

Still, when I get a notification, there is no light for any of the apps (hangouts, sms, mms, etc.) when I get anything.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] daLareid:
It is unchecked and I have tried restarting it but no luck.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] angryPirate12:
if you are having an issue with the notification icon staying active, the problem is with it running in the foreground.

Light Flow > Settings > Run in Foreground - uncheck this option and the notification icon will disappear

my only issue with Light Flow is having my Hangouts notification light come on when i receive a text message, can't figure out what combination of options to use to make it work.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] droid@xda:
Light manager works better for me. Lightflow has been very unreliable on nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] mattfox27:
How many wakelocks are you getting with light flow? I'm getting around 89 does that seem about right?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] epithetic:
The only problem with LightFlow on my device is cosmetic; when cycling through various notification types the LED seems to "stutter" as it's trying to change the colour mid flash. It would look nicer if it waited to change between flashes.

Other than that it has been perfectly reliable, and good on battery as well. I have it set to root/not running in foreground.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Zinloos1:
I am having trouble with all the light managers..

It seems to stop working when my phone is turned off for a longer period of time.

When I wake up I have like 10 notifications, but no LED.

Also see this happening with Light Manager.

It looks to be happening when my phone goes into deep sleep (?).

The most annoying thing is it won't work after I have turned my phone back on..
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] cc16177:
Agreed. Mine works fine but when I shut the phone off I notice it cycle through several colors sometimes before going to sleep.

Not really an issue other than the cosmetic aspect as you mentioned.

Overall, for an app I paid for two years ago and haven't been able to use on my last two phones due to hardware limitations, I am very happy.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] j831:
Does Light Flow override all default LED notifications? I'm using Light Flow Lite and WhatsApp notifications no longer show up.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] cpasoft:
Yes, it does. But you can change this behaviour under the setting menu, but I don't know if it's working well... Have a look to it

Enviado desde el movil
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] nolook:
does anyone know how to get the led to stop blinking after getting a text in hangouts? I basically have to reboot my phone to get rid of the led? is this a known bug?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] cpasoft:
I suppose you have kitkat and, maybe, a Nexus 5.

This is a known kitkat issue. The last lightflow version must fix this behaviour. What version are you using??
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] nolook:
yes nexus 5 with latest kitkat stock except for rooted... lightflow free version is latest too
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jeffreii:
Dear [MENTION=220547]andrewpmoore[/MENTION] ,

The one thing I'd really like for Christmas (from Android-land, that is) is a working Light Flow! Or at least a status update!

Thanks and Merry Christmas,

Jeff
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
I'm busy still working on nexus 5 issues. My main focus has been improving the issues for hangouts, call notification not clearing and the memory increasing over time on kitkat. Most of these I've made good progress on. Memory is much better now but I've a couple of things to still sort out from the changes as there's been a lot to do to get things working better. I've not had chance to really check out the forums as I've been so busy working on the issues that most evenings are finishing at between 1 and 2am. I hope to have something out soon, but don't want to release a version that's more unstable due to lots of underlying changes.

---------- Post added at 09:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:16 PM ----------

The cycling of colors is a hack to get around a nexus 5 bug that means the led won't always switch off correctly. Doing these rapid flashes generally seems to fix it, so after certain activities it'll do this on the next two screen power offs and also on the next new notification after that.

---------- Post added at 09:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:18 PM ----------

Yes, it has to to override any apps. Using the full version is the only way to get support for whatsapp.

---------- Post added at 09:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:18 PM ----------

The free version is a version behind the full version for most people (all but 5% of lite users), this was due to the memory issues and wanting to try and fix that. The issue with pushing out the app to all the free users is the extra need for support. I can easily get 200+ emails per day for a couple of weeks after an update and I'm more keen to try and get things fixed otherwise I'll still have to push out another release, but it'll be approx 2 weeks later.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jeffreii:
Thanks for answering my Android Christmas wish! I'm glad to hear you're making progress. Thanks again for all your hard work.

For me, the LEDs seem fairly stable though not perfect. My main issue, and it's a big one. is having my notification sounds cut short or not playing. This happens quite often and I tend to miss these notifications until the repeat notification sound alerts me that I've missed something. I've yet to find a consistent and predictable way to reproduce the issue...hopefully you've found it yourself!

Thanks!

-Jeff
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
This is something I'm getting to. I've still to sort this one out., but llan to look at it before releasing.

For the time being you may have more luck going into lightflow, notifications, select a notification, select sounds and try changing the volume control method to the Android standard option. Let me know if that works better.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Red5:
Oh, so the paid version is a whole update ahead of the lite version. So anyone using the lite version wil need to upgrade to the paid version to get the latest fixes since its ahead.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Bytecode:
What's up people, got a question. Does light flow drain battery?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jeffreii:
Heaven forbid he gives updates quicker to people who pay...he's not saying the free users won't get the updates, they just won't get them right away. You can't get everything for free and expect to have the exact same support, service, speed of updates, etc.

I'm not saying it's an indisputable way of doing things, but it's his prerogative.

It drains a small amount for me: 1 to 3% at most. I've read some people in this thread who had some crazy bugs where it burned through memory/battery but that's a but that will get fixed and hasn't happened to me.

I will bet it gets even better once Andrew pushes out more updates...I've used Light Flow on all of my previous Android devices and the battery drain is usually 1% or less.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Red5:
No need to be snarky. I was just summing up what the dev just said yesterday after several pages of a few people talking about the lite version not working. It now makes sense because he just stated that there is a difference between the lite version and full, so if people are experiencing issues and are on the lite version, thats why and they can either wait for him to push to the lite version, or upgrade now. Jeez.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] r a g n o r:
There's a lot of pages here, but I searched and I didn't find anything about this.

My problem here is when I have multiple notifications. It seems that there's some timing problem: instead of doing one (for instance) green blink and the next yellow one, it is doing like one green, the next one appears green and blinks rapidly to yellow, and so on. It's like different colors are not in phase.

Is this happening to you also? I've checked, and the speed of blinking is the same in all notifications, and everything is set us the website says (for Nexus 5).

BTW, the big question is: if those Nexus phones have this LED notifications since a while: why isn't this an stock setting?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] evonc:
Is anyone having issues with vibration? I seem to be getting 2 short vibrates when selecting 1 short vibrate and 3 when I select 2.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] cpasoft:
Did you disabled the vibration in the app? It's the same as the tones, if you don't disable it on the app, you've got two tones...

Enviado desde el movil
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
I hope to push out an update for both soon to be on the same newer development version.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] nolook:
its interesting to hear how development works for this app and I do understand now why its done this way but I personally wouldn't buy the pro version unless I know the basics work on my n5 so I'll wait for the free version to get fixed...
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] evonc:
Yes I have disabled all in-app notifications as well. I'll try to get a logcat once I'm off work.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] _Russ_:
Not too much.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] orangekid:
currently using the latest lite version.

All I did was install the app, open it, and went to notifications. I changed a couple of the stock ones, then went to add a contact and I get this message.

Anyone else get this?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] TarunN5:
I'm trying very hard to make this work but cant seem to do it.. I am running Nexus 5 on Stock, not rooted...

So in settings, It shows multiple LEDs in "additional LEDs found".. Do I have to enable any one of those ???

I tried various test notifications but non of them worked :crying:

EDIT : Worksss like a charm all of a suden !!!!!
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Red5:
I have the latest lite version and I couldnt get it to work for me at all for the first 3 days, then uninstaling it and reinstalling it made it work again. Its been working for the past two days now... then i just tried to add a contact when i saw your post. I was able to add a contact (didnt get the weird message you did) but it broke my notifications again. :/
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] orangekid:
I'll try doing that and seeing what happens.

Wonder if this might also be a CM conflict.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Red5:
Could be. Im about ready to switch to Cataclysm for a few reasons. Ill be looking at the notifications lights with this app as well. Ill let you know what I find.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] evonc:
Problem solved. Seems like it was a ROM issue. I disabled all notifications and lightflow and I was still getting the phantom vibration. Coincedentally it was exactly 2 short vibrates similar to the Lightflow one which made me think it was an app issue.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Red5:
What rom were you on, and what did you switch to, to confirm?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] EarlZ:
I cant seem to get any LED notifications when the batter is at 15% or lower, I have the low battery notification disabled. Even the LED cycle function does not work. If anyone knows a solution to this please do share.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] evonc:
Was happening on Mahdi, and I thought it was done when I switched to Cataclysm but it started happening on Cataclysm as well. I'm back on Mahdi to see why. Interestingly, it only seems to be happening with certain apps (GV, Hangouts) and not others (WhatsApp, Kik Messenger).

The phantom vibrate shows up as this in logcat

Edit

Did the "ps | grep <uid>" command in terminal to find what process it was and it returned system_server so I'm assuming it's something rom related. Note that this happens on both ART and Dalvik.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] mattfox27:
Geez lightflow is a battery killer can some please make an xposed module to control led.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] AndrasLOHF:
False report is false.

Been using Lighflow since a day or two after I got the phone at launch. Never ever shows up on my battery stats. Try unchecking Run in Foreground and checking Reduce Wake.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Battleship:
Not in my case at all. It uses so little battery it doesn't even show up in the list of what's been using my battery at all. Sorry you're having trouble with it.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jeffreii:
Agreed, no battery issues.

Only a few posts up you can see someone else asking battery questions and getting the same response...
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] TarunN5:
Been using Lightflow for a few days now and it seemed to working fine till today morning, Now the Notification LED for Whatsapp ( Green ) wont stop blinking! I've Cleared the notifications, read the latest messages and everything else.. but it still keeps blinking!!!
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jbdan:
Known issue, reboot

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