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[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] hovanhuang:
Gmail Exchange works in Lightflow

After couple email debugging process with the lightflow developer, here is something we found out.

For those cannot make Gmail Exchange account notification light working in Lightflow, here is the solution.

If you are able to see your gmail exchange account from lightflow notification section, that means lightflow recognize your exchange account.

In the process of setting up your gmail exchange account, the last step gives you option to change the account name. You will have to keep your full email address as the exchange account name.

Only in this way, Lightflow can match your notification ID of an gmail exchange account with what's the lightflow.

hopefully this information would help.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Pmart317:
Anyone else rocking Next Lock screen? It seems that the LED for SMS/MMS messages will blink for a few and then turn off. Email/gmail works perfectly. Not sure if its a Hangout setting or a Light flow setting, but I cant seem to fix this.

Did not know if anyone knew the proper SMS monitoring settings within Light flow that i can try?

Notification Access - On

Accessibility Services - On

Enable workaround - On
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Resurrector99:
Hello

I have issues regarding Light Flow with my OnePlus Two running Oxygen OS 2.1.2 with AK Kernel.

I can't set most colors because they are shifting throughout their cycles. Let me clarify:

I choose cyan as color for a notification type. That's a combination of green and blue.

When I test that notification the first time it lights up everything is fine. Color is correct.

But after that it will increasingly shift to it's base colors. So the second time it starts with a very short pure green fades to cyan and ends with a very short moment of pure blue.

As I said display time of the base colors will continue to increase until I end up with pure green fading directly to blue. Cyan just being one split second of that fade...

What confuses me even more ist that it works flawlessly with violet but then again it does not work with pink. :confused:

I think I already tried every combination of Root-Settings, permanent Notificaiton and device settings... Any idea what is causing this problem?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] moldovanos:
Well, if I dont dismiss Dynamic notification, screen goes black in 30 sec. And led does not flash after that even with screen being dark. Led does flash once when a message arrives though
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] evonc:
It should work fine. I haven't had any issues with it on nexus 5 or 4

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] petard:
Does it have the persistent notification when you bring down the notification drawer? I JUST unchecked "Show Notifications" in the Light Flow app info and it stopped working.

EDIT: I had run in foreground checked. This was still checked from when I was trying to get it to work on day 1 before it was updated for the N5.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] wera750:
Is there a way to set a default notification light color for all apps you haven't assigned a color to?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Enhanced:
Title changed.

Decided to make this the general Nexus 5 LightFlow thread since that's what it pretty much became.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Ed V:
LoL Good title :good:

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[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
The led is a notification as far as android is concerned so selecting to not show notifications will stop the led

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Not at the moment. I'm planning on adding a copy/paste option to notifications

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Once things have settled down from 100's of emails per day I'll try and look into this.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] caribouxda:
Ledblinker is better.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] gsrrr:
What colors are guys getting when using Light Flow Lite? When I do the "all enabled LED Test", it cycles through:

orange>turquoise>red>green>blue>

and then back to orange.

I thought I saw others users getting colors like yellow, purple, and white to name a few. Is it because I have the free version of the app and/or maybe issues with 4.4?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] DeusInvictus7:
I'm using the free version of the app and am getting purple, white and lots of other combos, but not when I do the "all LEDs test". I have one of my contacts set to white LEDs, my gf set to a light purple, and another one of my friends set to a deep blue.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] gsrrr:
Thanks. I've tried to set a light notification for, let's say Email, to any of the colors not mentioned above, then test the notification and turned off my screen but the led never lights up. But when I change the color to red and redo the test, it would blink.

I'm just wondering if there is something wrong with my phone preventing some colors to show up.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] caribouxda:
Is it possible to run lightflow and dynamic notification at the same time? If I keep both active, they interfere
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] littleguevara:
Lightflow works fine after the updates, if it doesn't work for you read their FAQs which should remedy any issues, they remedied mine.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] etherealwinter:
Is their website down for everyone or just me?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] zephiK:
Loads fine here, http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/2153
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] impulse101:
Newest version of light flow just came out, seems to be working for hangouts and everything
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Scottland:
Yes, seems OK so far.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] zoltrix:
I seem to have an issue where if i have any two different notifications (email and text for example), i only see one LED

I already checked the setting to see if it was going by priority, but its not

General Settings --> Notification Mode on Battery --> Cycle All

General Settings --> Notification Mode on Charge --> Cycle All

Still only shows one

This is the Free version btw

EDIT: Alright, so it does look like it cycles through, however it is extremely random.

30 flashes of red (fast speed), then 4 purple (normal speed)

It should really be one of each color
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] wera750:
I don't get an led through hangouts if it is a instant message. Only if it is a text.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] xdp:
So here's something odd - on my Nexus 5, I don't have Light Flow checked under "Notification access" under Security like I did in 4.3, AND the legacy accessibility service method is not enabled either. Yet the app and LED are working just fine. How could this be?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Evo_Shift:
Lightflow isn't reliable for me with handcent but light manager seems to be working fine. Light manager doesn't work as a charge light though unless you don't mind it blinking. I know handcent has had issues in the past with lightflow but is anyone else using it reliably? I like the options in lightflow better but i need my handcent notifications to light up.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Cyberdan3:
I also would like to be able to set the charging LED to be constantly on instead of "always on/slow pulse". Currently it ramps up the LED brightness in steps, stays lit for a few seconds, then ramps down. It shouldn't be hard to implement a solid LED, could it?

Otherwise, great app.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] notbrodie:
[MENTION=220547]andrewpmoore[/MENTION]

i seem to have gotten the camera flash to work (by giving lightflow control of led:flash_0 & led:flash_1), but I'd like to be able to customize the flash speed. would that be possible?

Sent from my Xoom
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] bubber_zh:
Lightflow & hangout sms: no sound

I'm using lightflow with hangout (sms only). LED and vibration works correctly, but no matter what I try, I'm unable to use the sound notification. It just doesn't play.

Has anyone a working sound notification for SMS??

Thanks,

martin
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] sgill74:
Getting some serious battery drain.....anyone else get it?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] bubber_zh:
No, it even doesn't show up in the list (paid version)
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] AndrasLOHF:
Try unticking Run in foreground and ticking Reduce wake. Worked for me.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] uodii:
I think SMS and MMS are set by default for Hangouts. You have to enable Hangouts Chat or something like that. There are quite a few options in regards to hangouts, you just need to read through them, but it's working fine for me.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Molitro:
I'm gonna go ahead and say it probably isn't that easy when he's had to make that work around for us to have something similar to an always on option.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] AmesCell:
If we have root enabled do we need the persistent notification?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Molitro:
The author Saif root does nothing for this device, but personally I have the persistent notification deactivated, and it works fine.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Evo_Shift:
Ok, it seems Handcent will work but not if you use the popup. Once I disabled the popup in Handcent then lightflow started working fine. I also started using 8sms and that app seems to work fine with Lightflow as well even with the popup enabled so I stick with that.

Both of these needed the alternate on monitoring in Lightflow checked.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] gollyzila:
I have a contact specific Hangouts notification setup but it gets overridden by the default Hangouts notification. Any tips to get the contact notification to override the default?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] familiarstranger:
Frozen LED might be what you were looking for. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sakisds.frozenled&hl=en
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] floepie:
Hmmm, so many different variables here.

1. Display - notification light. Does this override LightFlow, or must this be checked off for LightFlow to work?

2. Direct Mode?

3. Root Mode?

4. Run in foreground?

5. Reduce wake?

Has anyone done any testing on these variables? What is recommended for the Nexus 5? Perhaps it would be great if the OP could assimilate working values into his or her post? Thanks!
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] alphaola:
Work around for Led to stay on during charging

To get LED to stay on during charging for light flow.

Open Light Flow

Notifications

Charging battery

Go to Tab - Light

Set LED flash rate - Custom LED Flash Rate

Open Custom LED Flash Rate and set it to 10,1.

Do the same for Charged battery for the light to remain after full charged. You might want to set the threshold to 100.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Jeimygirl:
Anyone having their screen turn on vs the notification light? I haven't had an issue until this morning. I went from the lights working perfect, to my screen turning on for every notification. I do not have any notifications turning on my screen and didn't change anything from the time it worked right til this started. I tried restarting my phone and it doesn't work right still.

Edit: never mind, just disabled lightflow and it still turns on. I realized it was NiLs that was turning it on.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] floepie:
If it helps either the dev or anyone else I'll post what I did to get all the notifications working properly. After much trial and error, even reinstalling the app and wiping app data, I still was not able to get the light to work, even testing each individual notification. Only the missed calles test worked, but only a quarter of the time after turning off the screen. None of the others worked.

What triggered functionality for me was performing the All enabled LEDs Test in Tools. I let this run for a while, and suddenly everything works as expected. I have no idea if there could possibly be something that triggered a setting, and admittedly this sounds very anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.

Furthermore, my settings are:

No direct mode

No root mode

No run in foreground

No reduce wake
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] AndrasLOHF:
Does anyone know all the colors our phone supports?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] floepie:
In theory you have 255 levels each of red, green, and blue, right? So that comes to 16.6 million, give or take a hundred grand.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] hurricanefloyd41:
Any way to get the led to flash red and blue like a cop car?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] droidmi:
I have a color set for sms, mms and missed calls but the light isn't flashing for missed calls. I've tried changing the color, restarting and testing the LED cycles. Is there some sort of setting specific for missed calls?

[edit]I tried the steps for missed calls on the help page for light flow but still doesn't work.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] gollyzila:
This page goes over which settings work best: http://www.folioflow.com/ff/page/website/lightflow/pageId/2349
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] sparhawk6:
Anyone having problems getting the Email notification to work (using the built in email app for exchange)? Light flow is not recognizing the incoming mail, and thus I'm not getting any emails.

EDIT: Nevermind, working. I just needed to grant Light Flow access to notifications.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jbdan:
How's the progress coming along on this app to work reliably on the N5

NX5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] daLareid:
I'm having an issue with LightFlow, whenever I get a call after it's ended, the LED keeps on blinking green, how do I stop this?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] TobiS87:
I just had LightFlow taking >200MB RAM and sucking my battery dry. A reboot solved the problem but I always have the feeling that it is not too reliable on the N5 yet.

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[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Evo_Shift:
Maybe an update has changed this but my light flashes very fast when I do this. Like a very, very fast strobe.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] samlikely:
I'm having an issue with notification sounds still playing during sleep quiet hours. The LED seems to get properly turned off but notification sounds still play. Do the Lightflow sleep options mute all notifications or just the ones set in-app?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] floepie:
Sometime, not always, the SMS notification light remains blinking when the screen is off, and I can't seem to turn it off. What's odd is that sometimes it turns off as expected.

If I choose to be notified of SMS's via Hangouts, must you set up notification LEDs for BOTH Hangouts AND SMS Apps?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] xdviper:
I think I am having the same problem, I have sent the developer a email already stating the problem and asking for a solution. The thing is if I get a text message while in the hangouts app with someone and then decide to go back to homescreen and then put the phone to sleep, the LED will still continue to blink even after I have read the message. I have to click on the lightflow app on the notification bar, in order to clear the LED from blinking.

EDIT: The developer replied back, and has a fix pending. It will hopefully be available this week.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] manxam:
This is actually a bug with hangouts as far as I can tell. The SMS notification is not cleared until you EXIT the specific SMS thread that you're viewing. If you just read the text and/or respond and stay in the same thread the notification persists.

If you hit the back button then the notification disappears AND lightflow works properly.

Hangouts chat works properly; just not SMS/MMS.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] aznxk3vi17:
Almost every night, I wake up to new Gmail, but the notification light is not flashing. Does anybody else have problems with the Gmail notification? It seems to flash the LED correctly on other apps.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] keitht:
No problem here. I assume you checked the obvious and it is enabled for Gmail Inbox in LightFlow? There are various sub options for Gmail including Priority Inbox etc... I only have mine enabled for Inbox and none of the others.

And also enabled notifications within the Gmail app settings?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] sparhawk6:
I'm also getting terrible battery drain with Light FLow. I have Run in Foreground unchecked, and Reduce Wake checked.

Here's a recent example of my drain:

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Also, the app is sucking up a ton of RAM. Up to 110 MB right now:
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Jnewell05:
I have the same issue. Matter of fact I decided that I'd just turn off the led and use the vibration feature instead. But the led never disabled. Switched that off for now.

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I have this enabled but cannot get this to work. But defeats purpose if it doesn't flash.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] TobiS87:
Had that, too. A reboot will fix that.

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[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] notbrodie:
i ended up disabling camera flash in lightflow and installed FlashMe. works great for SMS/Calls
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] sparhawk6:
Yes, I saw your earlier post, but this is the second time it's happened to me after a full reboot. Seems to be a reoccurring flaw.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] TobiS87:
Yeah, it seems to happen pretty often and annoys me, too. LightFlow seems pretty hit and miss for me on N5.

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[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Nastybutler:
I switched to LEDblinker since LightFlow wasn't working worth a shi*. Just the lite version now, but it's doing so well I'll probably upgrade before long to get the full functionality.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Saturn2K:
Is it any added benefit of running the app in root mode? Or is it just a compatibility thing?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] glebonator:
LightFlow kinda worked in testing mode, but failed to actually display any LED notifications for real things. I followed the guide. Uninstalling for now, definitely majorly incompatibly with the N5.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Jnewell05:
It works via test mode but takes 5-10 looong seconds for me. And only when the screen is off.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] 99RedB:
You're lucky - I see it consuming between 40% and 45% of my battery. I don't see the same issue on another phone with an older version of Android, so I wonder if it's KK related.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] fix-this!:
maybe Google should update the n5 so the native notification light works without the use of 3rd party apps. especially when plugged into a charger.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jbdan:
Now that would be nice! Come on goog

NX5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] b1g1an:
I've given up, have to reboot several times a day to get rid of persistent flashing, giving led blinker a go now.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] blinde:
Works like a charm as always. Those who have problems, have you allowed it to work properly?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Battleship:
Works flawlessly on my Nexus 5, too.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] droidmi:
The other day it was randomly flashing but there weren't actually notifications when I checked. Other than that, it's been working well since the initial issues I was experiencing.

I tried using this custom flash rate for charging and charged and it's working good too. I like the steady light when it's charging. Thanks for this tip.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jeffreii:
I've been using the full version of Light Flow since my Galaxy S3 a few years ago...one of my favorite apps.

It's working pretty well for me on the Nexus 5...I just have one random problem that I can't seem to pin down yet: sometimes the LED does not turn on for a notification until I turn on the screen then turn it back off. So the screen is off...I turn it on and see a Gmail notification...but the LED wasn't on...turn the screen back off and NOW the LED turns on...

If I test that same notification, it works perfectly! I'm not even 100% positive yet that this isn't just a case of confusion caused by the very slow blinking LED...maybe that one second where the LED is off between slow blinks is when I pick it up and think the LED was off...but it wasn't?

I'm going to keep trying to figure this one out but for the other 95% of the time, Light Flow is working perfectly for me on my Nexus 5. Thanks Andrew!
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Jnewell05:
Same issue. Mainly with email app not gmail though. Charging light does this occasionally too. Phone shows charging but no light till I turn on screen and look to see if it is charging.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] SaltSweatSugar:
I had problems with lightflow when I first installed it but I eventually got it to work without problems. Then after about a week, it just stopped working and i couldn't get it working again so I'm using LEDblinker now as suggested.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] daLareid:
I think I might just disable Lightflow and use the built in led notifications that some apps offer.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] tracerit:
damn, every update breaks my SMS notification light. I wish Google Play would allow one to not update apps.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] instinctkiller:
Experienced the same issue !

I had to use my TiBu backup and restore the previous version.

I contacted Andrew by PM to inform him on this issue.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] floepie:
Every update of what? You can just turn off auto updates for the play store.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] tracerit:
It is off but I have to be constantly reminded there's a new version of an app since it shows up at top.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] floepie:
With TiBa you can also break an app's connection with the play store if I'm not mistaken so that app won't show as an update.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jbdan:
The new update working nicely for me so far thanks Andrew

NX5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Is that with the new 3.14.101 release, if so can you contact me via the app's contact us option, just mention this thread so I know the context and I'll try and work through it.

SMS notifications is by far the most complicated area due to contact specific notifications and around 20 different sms apps.

There's so many differences between android version too. 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 all handle things quite differently and hangouts just messes up the picture more!

Hangouts is a real pain as it groups sms and hangout notifications into one with no way to really differentiate them. The routine is very complicated to work around this and try give seperate notifications for contact specific sms messages as well as chat messages.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jbdan:
I use hangouts for SMS MMS and IM. Love the app. Light flow works perfectly for me with these 3 things all different colors. I don't use individual colors for contacts

NX5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Anyone having issues after the update. Can you try power off and back on your phone. It's seeming a common issue with kitkat that the listener service is stopping after an update for some reason and not despatching any more notifications.

Also if sms aren't working, make sure "hangouts - chat" or "hangouts - all notifications" are enabled as there's a bug that's causing that issue.

If still having issues, email me and I'll check through for other situations.
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] letmedanz:
Yes, i had a number of issues & decided to remove it...

but decided to give it a final go.. installed & restarted as indicated in the guide..

so far seems to be working fine!
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] d_phekt:
I liked having the battery charge/charged led flash rate set to "always on" with my N4.. Are we still getting the flicker with this setting with the N5?
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] jbdan:
Yes I do but don't use the feature.

NX5
[Nexus 5 Themes and Apps] Battleship:
Everything working wonderfully for me on the Nexus 5: thank you, Andrew - and thank you for adding support for Smart Messenger.