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[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
Here are my settings to make it work, maybe it will help you. Also make sure that if led is included in the rom you are running, that it's not toggled on or it will conflict with lite flow.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=58999978
[Nexus 6  General] rockluvva:
Thanks clothednblack, shall give that a shot when I get in (don't have the Nexus with me, but have now got my microsim cut to a nanosim with an adaptor set that can convert it either way), so will finish setting up tonight.

I'm only on the stock rom so far too (only got the phone yesterday), but will be playing with that aspect once I've hopefully got this sorted. :)
[Nexus 6  General] NexusHexus:
This is interesting, espicially if someone can get it to work in conjunction with active display
[Nexus 6  General] Jumbie:
If this can be made to function properly, I'm gonna be one happy camper.

One of the things I was gonna miss coming from my GS4. I still don't buy into the idea of ambient display. Seems like it won't pulse frequently enough for me to glance quickly at my phone and know what kind of notification I have waiting.
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
Agreed. I'm not loving Ambient Display either. Would love to switch it off and have this LED notify me instead. I also use Light Flow's repeating sounds feature in case I miss an SMS and I'm not looking at my phone.
[Nexus 6  General] andrewpmoore:
I've got JMUT running some commands now to see what might work while I wait to get hold of my Nexus 6 here in the UK

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It's seeming like red, green and blue are all possible (blue and red are quite dim compared with green) and I'm not sure how to go about getting the led to flash, it'll probably be an always on type led, but all progress I wasn't expecting!
[Nexus 6  General] bradputt:
So its a multicolor LED inside????
[Nexus 6  General] jonathan3579:
Exciting stuff, man! Now I'm even more glad that I bought your app. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to utilize it.
[Nexus 6  General] Bjray:
I love ambient display but I'll like a better notification for charging wirelessly.

Is it possible for a custom LED app to tell the difference between regular charging and wirelessly?
[Nexus 6  General] Jumbie:
Somewhat disappointed that those seem to be the only colors but that's more than I was expecting and I can learn to live with it if you can get it to work.

I have also happily bought your app and was thinking that I'd have to see what you could do with and on-screen lighted notification.
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
It looks like it has an RGB LED and a green one. They are both inside the top speaker.
[Nexus 6  General] bradputt:
Sorry I'm curious, you don't have the phone how do you know there's another led?

Base on the source code???

Edit: oh sorry! I got confused you with the developer of light flow

Sorry, sorry!
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
I have the phone and emailed the developer of Light Flow (andrewpmoore) to offer to help out testing or whatnot. He's in the UK and doesn't have a Nexus 6 yet.
[Nexus 6  General] jeffreii:
Thanks for chiming in, Andrew. I'm excited by the prospect of having Light Flow continue to be an important part of my phone!!
[Nexus 6  General] litrekid:
Anyone else get this to work? This is very interesting that they have an led there and no one has ever heard about it. I have been messing with light flow but can't get it to work. Not rooted yet though either.
[Nexus 6  General] andrewpmoore:
Lightflow doesn't do this at the moment but it's certainly possible to detect the difference

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Root is required as they've not added support into android for controlling the led so the drivers needs to be controlled directly which is only possible with root.

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Yes it's multicoloured

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More than those 3 colors should be possible. It seems possible to control the brightness of each red, green and blue led to some extent which when combined together will hopefully giveya mix of colors.
[Nexus 6  General] andrewpmoore:
ok it actually seems to work quite well after a bit of experimenting in the adb shell.

You'll need root but with that try the following:

Choose root mode

run every command as root and

direct mode

Make sure "su"/superuser has access granted for all requests

Then go into lightflow, notification settings and you should have a

"mixer" option. Enable that and you should then see options to set the

red, green and blue leds and also an option to set their brightness.

The brightness is has a 255 max value (0 being off) - (255 max brightness) and it should work.

The led won't flash but you can mix them together to get different colors. Technically you don't need to use the mixer but there's more control with it from what I remember.
[Nexus 6  General] xxroyalxtigerxx:
So does anyone know if a custom rom came around if it would be able to utilize the LED or is it completely locked down, (like flashing speed and colors)
[Nexus 6  General] andrewpmoore:
It's not locked down as lightflow can already use it (minus flash speeds)
[Nexus 6  General] bradputt:
this is so sweet! multicolor notification lights!!!

:highfive:
[Nexus 6  General] apogee82:
First off a HUGE THANK YOU Andrew! For figuring this out and for your app. I purchased Light Flow for the Nexus 5 and I'm so happy it's now working on the Nexus 6. When they took the LED away on the Nexus S I lost some sleep :p and it was the same for the Nexus 6 but you have made my day!

I have found that the best setting is to set the "charging Brightness" to 0 to disable the bottom LED which is always green. Is there any way to control the bottom LED to reflect the color of the top LED?
[Nexus 6  General] andrewpmoore:
I'm pretty sure looking at the led drivers that that one is just one green led.
[Nexus 6  General] chubby65:
Daft question but it is the paid version of lightflow you have

The free version won't work
[Nexus 6  General] rockluvva:
Not at all daft, Chubby. I've asked a lot dafter, hehe. Yup, it's the full fat paid version :)
[Nexus 6  General] wtherrell:
And you ARE rooted?
[Nexus 6  General] rockluvva:
I am, yes. Because apps that I have that only work on rooted phones are all working great, plus the check root pro app I have says I am too
[Nexus 6  General] Sleeepy2:
and LightFlow has SU access in the SuperUser app.

I just re-installed from a stock phone yesterday and all I had to do was to make sure Direct mode, Root mode and Run every command as root were all checked and then it worked.
[Nexus 6  General] wtherrell:
The backup file that was posted earlier was a .rar file I believe. So installing in the correct manner and file on your phone could be a bit tricky.
[Nexus 6  General] rockluvva:
Yes Sleeeeeepy, SU is all good.

That's what I've done, wtherrell, doesn't seem to like it. Will start over when I get home
[Nexus 6  General] wtherrell:
LightFlow version 3.51.1. ?
[Nexus 6  General] rockluvva:
3.50.1. But it's not saying to update?
[Nexus 6  General] wtherrell:
3.51.1 has some improvements and a specific setting for Nexus 6. The restore file that was posted was from this update.

Also I have found that whether LightFlow works or not is highly dependent on the kernel. Even within a particular kernel some revisions work and others don't.
[Nexus 6  General] rockluvva:
Ok. Have now just updated to 3.52.7. Will prob reinstall & start over

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Right, have now got the LED to light up (THANK YOU wwetherell & all). It's not flashing though & I can only get green, blue or red. From what I've read, I don't think I can get the variety of colours I had on my last phone (LG G2 - can I?) . But even when I set the LED to flash, it doesn't, it's just a block light. Is this right?
[Nexus 6  General] wtherrell:
3.52.7 crashes immediately on my Nexus 6.

Going to restore previous 3.51.1 from Titanium.
[Nexus 6  General] rockluvva:
Strange, it works for me now. But doesn't flash, & I only get the 3 basic colours. Is this right?
[Nexus 6  General] wtherrell:
Must use mixer and enable some LEDs there. Also enable the Nexus 6 flashing option.
[Nexus 6  General] rockluvva:
That's what I thought, but mixer stops the light completely. I'm going to re try again tomorrow after I've had some sleep. Really appreciate your help, thank you so much :)
[Nexus 6  General] rubber guard:
Can someone put that pro is required in the OP?

I spent a while trying to configure it based on the OP, but didn't get it to work until i read the whole thread and bought Pro.

TIA.
[Nexus 6  General] JMUT:
Great suggestion. Done.
[Nexus 6  General] pifsworld:
You have to be rooted to get lighflow to work on the n6?? Don't u
[Nexus 6  General] purian23:
Yes getting it to properly blink
[Nexus 6  General] Modi1984:
Again, why this is not comes with the official stock? is there any news it will be added? or just hope and waiting :(
[Nexus 6  General] TheLoverMan:
can not get light flow to work on stock rooted
[Nexus 6  General] rgraville:
Is LightFlow still working on N6 in lollipop 5.1?
[Nexus 6  General] AmesCell:
Yes! I didn't need to change any settings or anything. Just kept working.
[Nexus 6  General] Toaplan:
I have Light Flow working fine on 5.1.

Does anyone know how to get rid of the message " Light Flow has been granted superuser permissions for an interactive shell" that pops up all the time? I find it very distracting when watching videos especially, but annoying overall in general.
[Nexus 6  General] dmunjal:
It's a SuperSU notification. Go into SuperSU and turn it off.
[Nexus 6  General] gitchrodd:
Settings-SuperSu-Light Flow-notifications set it to disabled
[Nexus 6  General] MVLJR:
Just thought I'd share my findings with everyone.

I purchased Light Flow, after being a longtime Light Flow Lite user, and I was able to get it up and running on my Nexus 6.

I thought I'd share some screen shots to help those who are trying to do this.

These are the settings I implemented to get the LED notifications working on my Nexus 6:

** I don't know if the LED truly is an RGB LED capable of displaying an array of various colors. I've heard it can only display Red, Green and Blue..... but those are the only LED colors I've always used anyways.**
[Nexus 6  General] luizffgarcia:
Hey guys, i have just performed all the steps in the tutorials but i still can't get it to properly work.

When i press "Test", the LED only starts blinking when i turn the screen on. Am i missing something?

Also, i am using Rastapop and Franco r26, don't know if this may be the problem...
[Nexus 6  General] westers035:
Might be a silly question, apologies. Does this require the phone to be rooted to work?
[Nexus 6  General] kjnangre:
Yes
[Nexus 6  General] MVLJR:
Yes, you must root the phone for this to work.

This is the tutorial I used to root my Nexus

http://highonandroid.com/android-howtos/how-to-root-nexus-6-windowsmaclinux/
[Nexus 6  General] HeckNoTechnO:
If rooted does this give the ability for the led to flash?
[Nexus 6  General] cam30era:
Based on the feedback from other users on this thread, the answer appears to be: sometimes yes, and sometimes no.
[Nexus 6  General] MVLJR:
It's been working flawlessly on my Nexus 6 for a few weeks now (since I rooted my Nexus).

Follow my screenshots posted above and you'll be good to go.
[Nexus 6  General] phxsports:
Thank you for this...got it working on my Nexus 6 thanks to your tutorial.
[Nexus 6  General] MVLJR:
No problem, glad I could help.
[Nexus 6  General] dansan382:
followed the tutorial exactly as you listed it, got it working but have some "issues"

i have a few alerts set up, all with different colors. i set my email to be green but it will only light up blue. even when i do the "test" for each color, only comes through as blue. also the light only blinks while active display pops up, after that it stops. also only works if the screen is on.

does every notification have to use the blue solid led in step 9? or should i make which led i pick as solid in step 9 to match the notification color i set on step 5?

any idea on how to get around these?
[Nexus 6  General] MVLJR:
As far as I know, the LED can only display Red, Green, or Blue light. I tried issuing a white light command and it wouldn't work.

I only use Red, Green and Blue for my alerts anyways.

As far as the email goes, I set mine to blue, so I don't know why that would be a problem. If you set your email to green, it should flash as green. Try looking and making sure you didn't set it as green on the front page and blue on the actual app page.

I set my active display to off, so I don't have the problem you're stating. You can do this by going into the settings app, then to Display, then set ambient display to off.

Yes, "solid" must be set in step 9, to my knowledge, I tried changing it to flash and the light wouldn't work.
[Nexus 6  General] dansan382:
I've got it solid "orange" for charging but the blinking is still a little spotty. Going to keep messing around and see what works.
[Nexus 6  General] HitNrun_:
I am sorry because i think the answer is somewhere in here but i didnt find it as i was reading. The colours we need to mix to have any colour is red blue and green! so is the software unable to mix the 3 colours or is the hardware just 0-1 on red blue green? i got the paid version of light flow and i get only red blue green and for some reason i get light blue too, i can see that it mixes green and blue with some combination but at the top its more "greeny" and at the bottom more blue. No other combination, what ever i try only this one. So the question is, is it the hardware or software that isnt enable to mix the 3 colours?
[Nexus 6  General] anthonyvardiz:
How do you get it to blink or pulse? I'm using Chroma ROM and it just stays there static.
[Nexus 6  General] Sleeepy2:
You will need to disable Chroma's built in LED display settings and then use LightFlow.
[Nexus 6  General] marshall39:
Is it possible to make the led blink with lightflow? I only have a static light :p
[Nexus 6  General] Sleeepy2:
Yes, it is possible. Some times the blink is inconsistent (some times flash quickly, or the same color in a row) but it does work.

You need to go to the Notification Settings, click the 3 dot menu for your app, swipe to the second tab "Light" then scroll down to the LED Mixer settings. Enable Mixer needs to be checked as well as App Controlled Flash needs to be checked. Then for each LED that you want on set the color to solid and brightness to 1.

So if you want just a solid red, under RED LED > set to Solid, Red LED Brightness > set to 1, Green LED > Off and Blue LED > Off.

Hope this helps.
[Nexus 6  General] marshall39:
Thanks for your help , actually yes it works a bit weird :p , but it is better than a static light.

Thanks again!
[Nexus 6  General] NYZack:
Here's a cool way to enable the notification light without Lightflow, if you have the Tasker and Autonotification apps (and, of course, if you're rooted). Thanks to [MENTION=336863]garyd9[/MENTION] in this post for providing the code.

Set up a tasker task named "Flash" that does this:

Flash (2)

Abort Existing Task

A1: If [ %par1 = 0 ]

A2: Run Shell [ Command:echo none > /sys/class/leds/charging/trigger Timeout (Seconds):0 Use Root:eek:n Store Output In: Store Errors In: Store Result In: ]

A3: Else

A4: Run Shell [ Command:echo default-on > /sys/class/leds/charging/trigger Timeout (Seconds):0 Use Root:eek:n Store Output In: Store Errors In: Store Result In: ]

A5: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:1 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]

A6: Run Shell [ Command:echo none > /sys/class/leds/charging/trigger Timeout (Seconds):0 Use Root:eek:n Store Output In: Store Errors In: Store Result In: ]

A7: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:1 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ]

A8: Goto [ Type:Action Number Number:1 Label: ]

A9: End If

Then set up a Tasker state profile that triggers on the Autonotification Intercept state (under Plugin), leaving all Autonotification fields blank (intercept all notifications), but only trigger on non-persistent notifications, and un-check "Event Behavior". For the Enter task, do a task to "Perform Task Flash", with %par1 set to 1. For the Exit task, do a task to "Perform Task Flash" with %par1 set to 0.

You now have a flashing notification light (flashes 1 second on, 1 second off).

Edit: Fracking emojis. Where you see smiley faces above, it should read "Root On", with a colon between the "Root" and the "On".
[Nexus 6  General] NYZack:
Even better/simpler task. It doesn't flash, but it makes a pretty dim blue light and, because it doesn't flash, should use no processor power. Same point as above with emojis (how do I get rid of them in xda?).

Flash (2)

Abort Existing Task

A1: If [ %par1 = 0 ]

A2: Run Shell [ Command:echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/blue/brightness Timeout (Seconds):0 Use Root:eek:n Store Output In: Store Errors In: Store Result In: ]

A3: Else

A4: Run Shell [ Command:echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/blue/brightness Timeout (Seconds):0 Use Root:eek:n Store Output In: Store Errors In: Store Result In: ]

A5: End If
[Nexus 6  General] indolent:
Yeah, the Test function is acting similar for me. For actual notifications, it seems to work fine. Though, I do think the flashing is way too sporadic and inconsistent to be useful. I'm leaving it on solid for now and going to see how it impacts my battery for a couple days.
[Nexus 6  General] cruzzmz:
Does this work on Android M preview 2?
[Nexus 6  General] red3razor:
Zach, I'm late to this post, thanks for sharing it! One question- I believe I've grasped all the Tasker inputs to make except the first one, how/where do I input "Flash (2)"?

Also, I don't need to iluse autonotification app for method 2 / your second post?

Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] NYZack:
It's been a long time since I posted this, but I'm pretty sure I just copied and pasted Tasker's exported task, which made it show up this way. "Flash (2)" is just the name of the task, and you can ignore it when typing in the task.

However, you definitely need Autonotification to trigger the task and to know when to stop it. If you use Tasker's built-in Notification event as a trigger, there won't be a way to know when to turn the light off, since I don't believe that Tasker implements a way of knowing when a Notification has been dismissed.

Also, your device has to be rooted, which is progressively an issue these days.
[Nexus 6  General] JW09I4:
Great find =]
[Nexus 6  General] shabydog:
I am rooted, Installed the paid one BUT it still doesnt worked for me.

Maybe there is something related to SuperSU?

When I launched the app I did not got this alert from the SuperUser.
[Nexus 6  General] TriguyRN:
Here are the long and drawn out instructions I wrote for a guy in droid life.

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/12/1...us-6ps-notification-light/#comment-2416837200

Is based on this thread

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6/general/tutorial-light-flow-enable-led-t2988506
[Nexus 6  General] shabydog:
Maybe it bc's I do not have 'Run Every Command as Root' in settings?
[Nexus 6  General] scryan:
Yes it is.
[Nexus 6  General] shabydog:
How come?

I purchased the paid version...

Wierd, Ha?

Tnx!
[Nexus 6  General] heenryy:
Chroma Rom has built in tools to personalize the led light in both charging and notifications
[Nexus 6  General] scryan:
What? Why would paying prevent the need for root permission to write to the kernel's filesystem?

Paid has nothing to do with what is needed for the app to be able to work, only the additional features the app has...

It tells you when you first run it that the nexus 6 will require run every command as root go be checked...
[Nexus 6  General] shabydog:
So what would u reccomand me to do it order to operate it?

Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] scryan:
... Its seems fairly obvious.

Have it run every command as root, like you were told.
[Nexus 6  General] Jaspreet84:
I'm using PureNexus, a custom rom. It supports led notifications along with double tap to wake up and lock down and many more features out of box. Also, it's very close to stock Android and pretty stable
[Nexus 6  General] shabydog:
Sorry, But i do not understand what is "run every command as root and direct mode"?

Did you mean to adb commands? Havn't found them in the tut.
[Nexus 6  General] scryan:
The tutorial suggesting run every command as root was for light flow.

When you launch it it tells you what settings you need for a nexus 6. I am guessing you immediately dismissed this, didn't follow them and wonder why it doesn't work?

Look in the settings.
[Nexus 6  General] MVLJR:
Same here!

I was running stock forever, then switched to Pure Nexus and it is awesome!

I don't even use the app anymore for LED notfications, Pure Nexus has them built it.

What I like about it also, is the LEDs stay fully lit, thus notifying you of a message. Unlike the LightFlow app and its sketchy blinking LEDs
[Nexus 6  General] shabydog:
Actually it doesnt.

I t brought me into notifocations setting to chose the alert type for each App...
[Nexus 6  General] fortunz:
It might not be as good using autonotification, but you can use tasker without it and without the console commands, just with set light. Works for me. I had issues when trying to use set light with large numbers, but it responds to 1 and some other small numbers as well. I'm rooted and on stock 5.1 with leankernel.

Profile: Event - Notification * & State - Display off

Action: set light blue 1

To turn the light off when the display comes on:

Profile: Event - Display on

Action: set light blue 0

Edit: I did have to add a another profile to capture missed calls through hangouts since the display is on when the missed call notification goes through. While I was at it, I went ahead and made it power off immediately after a missed hangouts call rather than waiting for the display timeout. I might regret that if I'm actually using my phone at the time and dodging a call. So it's more complicated than with autonotification, but still doable.
[Nexus 6  General] scryan:
????

This is the notification light thread?

I guess maybe, with significant coding you could get it to blink all on screen text in morse code?
[Nexus 6  General] Jaspreet84:
[emoji17] that is really very sad! Are you sure it's the screen and not the tempered glass above it? How did it break?
[Nexus 6  General] superbass311:
light without light flow?

Guys I have a nexus 6 forever now and I have my light enabled without light flow. My brother got a Nexus 6 the other day and now I cant find how to enable it again without LightFlow. I would think I'm crazy but i'm looking at my phone now with the light on because I have a message. How can I not find this on the internet? I rooted his phone already.
[Nexus 6  General] coremania:
If you don't use a custom rom try this
[Nexus 6  General] cyan86:
how can I do to install the package on stock rom Nougat 7.0 without root?
[Nexus 6  General] coremania:
You don't need root, but custom recovery twrp, then you can flash the zip
[Nexus 6  General] xconwayx:
Does anything special have to happen after you flash this? I flashed it and nothing happens. Curious if we need a piece of software to run it is all.
[Nexus 6  General] coremania:
What special ?, led is working for charging and notification on stock, that's it
[Nexus 6  General] Fuse8499:
I like Light Flow for the time being. I find it really strange that Motorola would put an LED notification on the device and not have it accessible right out of the box. Nevertheless I was happy it had one.
[Nexus 6  General] FedericoUY:
Is there a way to unintall this?

Are there any apps that only manage light control? Light flow is ok but it has so many things and for example the battery light is not controlling...
[Nexus 6  General] MartinN6:
Thanks!

Works 100% at my device!

(Tested with Whatsapp-notification and charging.)
[Nexus 6  General] coremania:
Unzip and take a look to the files, delete them on your phone and for sure dirty flash the rom, should work, but never tested, because I'm more happy with custom roms.