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[Nexus 6  General] OCouceiro:
Thanks!

Works 100% at my device!
[Nexus 6  General] tgyberg:
This is great news!
[Nexus 6  General] johnny grep:
Pics or it didn't happen :)

Edit: I mean the 3-color LED...
[Nexus 6  General] Evo_Shift:
So it can be used without you even needing update the app? I have just started using LED Blinker because I figured I was going to have to use an on-screen method. If Light FLow works I am assuming battery would be much less impacted and Ambient Display would work with it (maybe) which is great.
[Nexus 6  General] apogee82:
Here ya go. I posted these over at /r/nexus6 on Reddit...
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
Red and Blue at the same time.

Here you go
[Nexus 6  General] twelfth:
Possibly not. It depends. This appears to be a similar situation to that of the first gen Moto X in where its function can be limited to specific use cases. The MotoX also has an LED (green only) behind the earpiece but it will not light up under any circumstances unless the device is plugged in... which makes it impossible to use it as a notification led alternative to active display. Shame because it looked pretty cool.

Its intended function is to light up as a charging indicator when the battery is too low to turn on the screen.
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
Charge LED and the RGB LED work when NOT on charge.
[Nexus 6  General] twelfth:
Caught me just before the edit. ;) I made things sound too 'firm'... so sounds like you guys have a lot more flexibility with the LED on the N6. Pretty cool.
[Nexus 6  General] johnny grep:
Thanks for the pics guys... Has anyone checked if there was a similar tri-color LED on the Moto X (1st & 2nd gen)?
[Nexus 6  General] andrewpmoore:
Thanks, I'd seen two colors (green and purple) but not the 3 base colors. Yes there's no changes need to lightflow to get it to work if you are happy to root your n6.
[Nexus 6  General] Evo_Shift:
Edit - Forgot one of the root checkboxes...didn't realize there was two.

I set it up but couldn't get it to show up with an actual notification (tried using gmail). Do we have to disable ambient display or any other pre-requisites for the people who got it working? Maybe I need to unisntall LED blinker first? I thought just disabling that app would be enough.
[Nexus 6  General] MikeLibbey:
Agreed. Blows my mind why they would hide things like this.
[Nexus 6  General] NexusHexus:
This is so awesome, I haven't rooted my previous phones but looks like that will change this year!
[Nexus 6  General] seh6183:
Where are all the note 4 fan boy whiners now? They came over here saying they specifically didn't buy the nexus because it is inferior and didn't have an led. I'd like to see their face when they read this thread lol
[Nexus 6  General] D3VI0US:
What I don't understand why would you have RGB LED on device and it's unusable ?! I mean there is a green one for charging for the battery activity but the RGB one why not use it as the Gnex LED and up
[Nexus 6  General] jayharper08:
Duuuuuude!!! Stop crushing my dreams! :p

I see what you're saying, though. :)
[Nexus 6  General] Evo_Shift:
This is great. Missed call, Gmail, SMS (sometimes that doesn't work though. I'm using the new google messenger so that might be why), everything works like my Nexus 5 again. Combining colors works pretty well since it kind of shows both colors. So, you mix red and green and you end up seeing both colors at once so even though its not a 16 million colors LED you at least see a difference combing two even when they are both colors that don't tend to mix well together.

Light Flow...you complete me....
[Nexus 6  General] wytecaztle:
Whats the setup process to get this to work correctly? I have root.

Just purchased it as well.
[Nexus 6  General] buzzwyzr:
This is nothing new from manufacturers.

My EVO 4G had a blue led that was originally intended to show when a Wimax signal was available. It was never active by default but developers figured out how to utilize it in their ROMs as a secondary notification light.
[Nexus 6  General] wytecaztle:
Ok got it to work. Sweet. Does not flash. I think someone said that already though.
[Nexus 6  General] scoobiesnacks:
This seems another crazy design choice by Google. This and the software encryption that you can't switch off.
[Nexus 6  General] jnralp00:
I just picked up the nexus 6 today. Is the light supposed to be on when hooked to car charger? Im wondering if the led works at all on this thing.
[Nexus 6  General] NexusHexus:
They probably had it in the initial design process where they wanted a notification light, but changed their minds about functionality once someone mentioned active notifications to the higherups
[Nexus 6  General] adbFreedom:
It is a Motorola thing, it was the same with the Moto X. They have the led behind the speaker and it's purpose was just to illuminate when your battery was completely dead and on the charger (something like that). I remember we could enable it through adb as well but I don't think it was RGB, only green.
[Nexus 6  General] Dr Faustus:
The only reason I would want to use a LED at this point is to tell when my battery is full (and when it is charging) while on a charger.

Can this be replicated in the near future?
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
You can do this now. LED notifications using Light Flow can respond to charging state and "charged" state.
[Nexus 6  General] seh6183:
Where have you been? The encyption problem has been solved for eons.
[Nexus 6  General] NexusHexus:
Yeah I was just wondering because that moto X is green (forgetting the actual function) and the N6 is RGB, it must'v been a concious design choice somewhere along the line.
[Nexus 6  General] lopezcy94:
Tutorial Vid Help

Hey, I'm trying to make a tutorial video on How to enable LED on Nexus 6, but I can't seem to get it to work myself.

I do have root. I have been messing with it for over an hour. I've tried all the settings. It just doesn't seem to work. Can you clarify the settings that I am supposed to use with Light Flow?

Thanks
[Nexus 6  General] ggreenwood334:
Maybe google was being lazy and wanted to keep the developer community busy. Lol.

sent from my sad m8. soon nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] dabotsonline:
Can a user root, enable this functionality, then unroot? (so that the Nexus 6 will continue to receive Nexus 6 OTAs)
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
Pretty sure that won't work. Root is required to enable and disable the notification light. You could leave your phone rooted and just unroot if there's an OTA you want. Then re-root.
[Nexus 6  General] kjnangre:
Not sure I understood the messages above. Is it possible to control the LED with Lightflow while the phone is charging? Thanks
[Nexus 6  General] NexUsandThem:
You are a genius. I love you. Why would they bork the LED? WHY? Make it a choice dammit. GREAT FIND OP. :highfive:
[Nexus 6  General] obsanity:
This could be possible without root as long as someone creates a custom kernel with proper hooks.
[Nexus 6  General] Jrmiller:
this puts that grinch grin on my face. you have no idea how happy this makes me
[Nexus 6  General] cheami:
Yes. I have mine set to blue for charging and green for charged.
[Nexus 6  General] dipstik:
so you dont see magenta when you mix blue 255 and red 255? you see blue then red then blue etc? otherwise it would be 256*256*256=16.78 million colors.
[Nexus 6  General] aSquard:
I'm stumped too. I've got root, and enabled the settings like Andrew said, but I can't get the LED to function??
[Nexus 6  General] xman323:
Awesome!

I think this thread should be featured on xda news portal :D
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
Maybe try some lower brightness values. The LEDs will turn on with a brightness value of 1.
[Nexus 6  General] aSquard:
Since flashing doesn't work, do the LEDs have to be set to solid in the mixer options?
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
I believe so
[Nexus 6  General] aSquard:
After clearing app settings and starting over. I saw the option for Charging LED in the LED control menu. Got the LED working. Now to set the colours.

Many Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] g33k3r:
The option to run every command as root is grayed out. Am I missing something?
[Nexus 6  General] Qbancelli:
Read and follow the instructions again.

I did, and got it to work.

No flashing, and only 3 colors though ��
[Nexus 6  General] wtherrell:
Are you rooted?
[Nexus 6  General] g33k3r:
Yes I am rooted.
[Nexus 6  General] litrekid:
OK anyone know why I would be getting an granted su permission for interactive shell constantly for lightflow?
[Nexus 6  General] Berzerker7:
While this is nice, it's pretty limiting in features. Seeing as how it doesn't respond to brightness levels, we really only have 7 options (8 if you count all off being one) for color choices. I'll stick to ambient display.
[Nexus 6  General] wtherrell:
And do you have "Root mode" checked?

It's a couple lines up from the "run every command as root" box

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Same question here.
[Nexus 6  General] g33k3r:
Yes I do.
[Nexus 6  General] thejron:
Im having the same issue
[Nexus 6  General] wtherrell:
Well, we're stumped then. For the moment.
[Nexus 6  General] litrekid:
Well for now u can go into su and click on light flow and disable the notification to stop the message from popping up.
[Nexus 6  General] yojlik:
I see the options on my install of the paid Light Flow app but on my wife's Nexus 6 with Light Flow Lite I'm not sure I'm finding the same options. Like I can't seem to choose root mode, run every command as root, and direct mode all at the same time. My wife isn't opposed to buying the paid version if it's sure to work on her Nexus 6 but I'd sure like to know it will before buying it.

Does Light Flow Lite have the ability to configure the options in such a way that works? I couldn't get the LED to illuminate at all.
[Nexus 6  General] akellar:
Lite hasn't been updated since like march, pretty unlikely it will work
[Nexus 6  General] yojlik:
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Actually, reading back in the thread I'm almost sure that this is due to being on the Lite version too:
[Nexus 6  General] kjnangre:
I understand no blinking. But can you still cycle between colors if you have multiple notifications active? Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] drawde40599:
Well since the Dev/community just found out it works and he don't even own the device WTF do u expect . have some respect .
[Nexus 6  General] Berzerker7:
Lol? I had nothing on the dev. It was more on Motorola/Google for not including something as simple as a brightness or color-reactive notification LED. Stop being a little child.
[Nexus 6  General] drawde40599:
The crap your whining about is controlled by the app . so your comment reads like your *****ing about the app . LOL ..... O_o
[Nexus 6  General] Berzerker7:
I'm complaining about the hardware. The app is completely fine. It has the capabilities, the hardware just doesn't respond to it. It has nothing to do with software capabilities. We already know it can't flash or respond to brightness because of hardware. Think for a second.
[Nexus 6  General] drawde40599:
Forgive me , im just sick of reading post after posts everywhere i go of Bull..... And the phone came out less than a week ago . Sorry . truthfully i wasnt even going to Root because im sick of digging threw people crying and total disrepect of Dev's and and and ....... Long freaking Day , sorry . I should prob get off my phone .
[Nexus 6  General] andrewpmoore:
You need to set the su app to automatically accept lightflow requests. Every led change requires root.

I think there's a file that can be changed in android to stop requiring root every for every command.

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Are you changing the brightness level in lightflow, speaking to Jeff who did the testing there was a difference between setting a brightness level of 1 compared to a level of 40 for example.
[Nexus 6  General] litrekid:
That su message just comes up like every 60 seconds consistently. I have it set to grant permission in the su app but it makes no difference. What's strange is that the window for granting permission never showed up. Even after clearing the apps data and starting over.
[Nexus 6  General] Astraeus85:
Open Super SU, under apps select Light Flow, and set notifications to disabled. Got rid of them for me.
[Nexus 6  General] marbulas:
Outstanding
[Nexus 6  General] D3VI0US:
So [MENTION=220547]andrewpmoore[/MENTION] is there is any chance for it to blink ? I know you don't have the phone yet but do you think it could be done ?
[Nexus 6  General] Baldilocks:
If you can turn it off and on then you can, in a sense, make it blink. :)
[Nexus 6  General] cfmusicman:
I've been able to get it to work using trickster mod's settings , not sure if that helps but thought I'd contribute. :D
[Nexus 6  General] Jeimygirl:
So glad this was found. I use that little LED for everything on my N5. Can't wait until it's figured out how to make it blink!
[Nexus 6  General] thejron:
I bought the paid version but now I can't find the mixer setting in the paid app. Am I blind?
[Nexus 6  General] estallings15:
Under the individual notification settings you can enable mixer. Took me awhile, too.
[Nexus 6  General] Berzerker7:
I notice absolutely no difference between 1, 40, 100, and 255. They all are just "on" or "off."
[Nexus 6  General] Jeimygirl:
I'm still not finding it either
[Nexus 6  General] estallings15:
Each individual notification – which are all inside notifications – has a mixer option.

So, for example, you want your hangouts messages to flash green.

Under notifications you'd select Hangouts. Doing so presents you with the screen that shows all the little color and flash options. Disabled by default is mixer. Enable it.
[Nexus 6  General] Jeimygirl:
I'm not getting the menu now that I selected root though
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
You're right, for the RGB LEDs.

If you've got tasker, you can try setting up these tasks to prove the point. You can get the Charging LED brightness to vary but the red green and blue ones seem to be on or off.
[Nexus 6  General] andrewpmoore:
I am planning on updating the lite version soon to be in line with the full version. It's not been updated for a while due to the lack of office at home while having renovation work done on the house for 6 months and the support increase is always huge with the lite release and doing all the support on an MS surface is a little hard work. Once the full version support settles from the lollipop release I'll be pushing out to the lite version.

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I honestly don't know yet, once I've got a device I'll certainly be looking but from memory I don't think with root mode I've ever got a Motorola phone working to flash. Doing to programatically would be a battery hog so I'd need to find a way for the led drivers themselves to allow flashing. HTC phones have a specific driver file for flashing and being solid but moto phones don't seem to have the equivalent.

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It only shows once "direct mode" is switched on in the app. Then you'll see it for each notification
[Nexus 6  General] yojlik:
My wife is willing to pay for apps she uses, screw updating the Lite version. It's nothing but crazy support costs for no benefit.

A question she does have if you're willing to answer: Are you going planning to make Nexus 6 support a little easier than "fiddle with manual mixer for every color you want" or is what we've got now all we're ever going to have?
[Nexus 6  General] andrewpmoore:
I'll see how it goes, as it'll be my daily driver once I've got it, I'll probably be keen to make things simpler for myself!

I think you might get away without using the mixer option and just choosing a color when in direct mode, but without the phone I'm not 100% sure as the app will try to do similar to estimate the color (e.g red & blue mixed = magenta)
[Nexus 6  General] Evo_Shift:
It's weird almost like there are 3 tiny individual led lights, one blue, one red and one green rather than one led. Reminds me of the old HTC notification led only 3 colors instead of two. And when you turn two of them on for a notification it's like two led lights are on rather than one led mixing colors.
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
I set everything up like the op says but no matter how many times I try the test, I never see the led come on.

I have it unlocked

Rooted

Su shows its granted

Checked the box for direct mode and root mode

Enabled mixer

What am I missing?

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
This option is greyed out

Sent from my Nexus 6

Edit: checking the box for Samsung root allows me to check the greyed out box, still no led.
[Nexus 6  General] yojlik:
I don't believe it's possible to check all the boxes necessary for it to work on the Lite version.
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
I would buy it if I know it will work for me lol

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] yojlik:
I can confirm that it will in fact work for you.
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
Well, I shall go buy it right now and see

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] Qbancelli:
Wow! Love that font.

Can you share the name?
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
You are correct, it now works, thank you!

Briemscript font from the ifont app

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] nfs3freak:
I jumped in and bought the App and it was worth it! Thanks for the hard work on Light Flow, especially prior to us going to Nexus 6!

Now if only I could get more than five colors...
[Nexus 6  General] stuff:
Bought the lightflow app as well. Here's to hopes that someone figures out an easier way to get LED's to work, and hopefully to blink instead of being just solid.

They are definitely a few LED's in there. So if you try to blend the leds, it doesn't work. Instead you can clearly see the different colors.

I wonder why the phone comes with an LED, but motorola and Google just pass it off like it was never there,
[Nexus 6  General] SirRastusBear:
This was a great find! Cheers to OP and to app dev!

[emoji106]
[Nexus 6  General] Qbancelli:
Thanks
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
My led blinks, I thought that it would only be solid. I'm not complaining, I like the blink lol. Just thought it wasn't possible yet.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] aSquard:
What did you do to get it to blink?
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
I'm still trying to figure that out, I got hangouts to flash blue but SMS stays a solid green

Sent from my Nexus 6

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Seems like it only flashes when you receive more than one notification. I will continue to mess with it and see what else I can find

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] bradputt:
and the plot thickens.....:eek:
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
And just now, I received a email because you quoted me (light went solid green) then I got the Tapatalk notification (light went from solid to flashing)

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
I think I figured out why it flashes.

I have Gmail set as follows in green

Then I have Tapatalk set differently, color set at white, colors in mixer are off.

So it looks like it's giving me 2 different led notifications, one for Gmail and one for tapa, hence the flashing led.
[Nexus 6  General] bradputt:
so does it mean in order to have it flashing you must have 2 events to trigger it ?

one for white and one for green?
[Nexus 6  General] deya987:
Your genius ;)
[Nexus 6  General] lightsout:
Can't seem to get it to work, been used light flow for a long time so I am comfortable with it. Oh well I will wait for roms to add support for it.
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
Are you using the paid version? I was on the free one and it didn't work till I got the other one.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] lightsout:
Oh I see. I was using the free version
[Nexus 6  General] :
I'd by a Nexus 6 just for this to be enabled in stock. On my current device I can't believe how much I miss that light.
[Nexus 6  General] Jeimygirl:
I have direct mode selected too. I followed each steps. I have the LED's working fine, but still have no mixer option.
[Nexus 6  General] aSquard:
My LED blinks and changes colours... Don't mind the audio, was listening to the girlfriend tell me about her day http://youtu.be/Um1NHjdK_l0
[Nexus 6  General] litrekid:
Ur such a good listener. Lol
[Nexus 6  General] kkl260:
help

Can someone help me out here? I've tried all the instructions and I just can't get it working. I've attached some photos to show what I have done. Would really appreciate the help.
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
Looks like you did everything right. Maybe try clearing app data for Light Flow and starting over. Are you sure your SuperSu is granting SU permission correctly?
[Nexus 6  General] Evo_Shift:
I think Light Flow occasionally gets killed for me. On multiple occasions the LED will not shine for Gmail or Google Messenger, especially MMS from Google Messenger. I still use it for lack of options at this point but hopefully those are bugs that can be worked out.

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Do you have any other app that has access to notifications like "Led Blinker" or something? When I had LED Blinker enabled as well in the notification access Light Flow wouldn't work for me.
[Nexus 6  General] kkl260:
The only other app with access to notifications is pushbullet

Not sure. How would I be able to check?
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
Do you get the little toast popup saying Light Flow granted Super User whatever?
[Nexus 6  General] kkl260:
As soon as I enable Root mode, yes
[Nexus 6  General] Evo_Shift:
Try disabling pushbullet in the settings>sound & notification>notification access once and try again. Maybe the phone doesn't like more than one app having access at a time.
[Nexus 6  General] kkl260:
Still didn't work
[Nexus 6  General] ospreyguy:
Charging LED

Hi! So I was able to get the LED working for gmail and calls but I cannot get it to do anything while charging. I have it checked off in the general settings for "charging control" (Let light Flow take control of the charging LED when the screen is off - correct?). Also there isn't a notification option for facebook, FB messages or the new google messages (SMS/MMS). Those are my main apps I use notifications for... is that a light flow thing or something else?

I would even be OK with 1 notification light for all notifications with maybe a separate something for charging (green/blue) until we can get full support. I have the full version of tasker, anyone know of a way to set that up?

Thanks so much for finding this! SOOO HAPPY!

Update 12/11: Just wanted to come back to my post and update that it is working just fine now. Not sure why but when I was adding additional notifications the options, the ones for facebook, etc weren't present. When I finally went back though to check a few days later they were all there, added them and it worked fine. Probably user error. I still get just red, blue, green, and not flashing like everyone else but that's to be expected. Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] Gungrave223:
Umm I also have an issue with the app being killed, no other app to control led installed, and app is set to run in foreground as a service, might try adding the persistent icon., maybe that will keep it from being killed.
[Nexus 6  General] wtherrell:
Well the tests worked. Wish it worked for more apps. Anybody else notice this difficulty on turning on the screen with this enabled?

Have yet to see if it works for actual notifications.
[Nexus 6  General] winstonbyrd:
Sucks

I have noticed that. As well as total lock. Sucks. Software in time...
[Nexus 6  General] wtherrell:
I bought it and I think given time it may turn out fine. Until it can be refined for lollipop and this phone in particular I am going back to the old standby: NoLed. Works great, by the way and you can add apps to it.

Edit: Used NoLed yesterday and this morning. It will do nicely until Light flow is ready for prime time.