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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] m3lover1:
Mine works, both screen off and on. Lit up for WhatsApp, text. Works even screen on while still using it. T-Mobile s8+
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] ilordvader:
Mines working now

I on all the Apps :cowboy:

I have a S8Plus love it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMZiwnb7L4E
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] maik005:
how?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Gr328297:
For text you have to use the Samsung messaging app. Works now for me.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] ilordvader:
Just on All Available Apps in Manage Notifications

restart you phone & that should do it

One Important thing you need to do is :

Settings/Display/Keep screen turned off - OFF
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] maik005:
That's what i did/have. But only messages are working with screen of. Everything else if it works then only with screen on.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] BazTardoUK:
When using the stock app to get this to work, notification when a message is received wakes my screen. Anyone else have this and found a way to stop it?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Vwmomo:
Not working

Did you have to do anything special to get yours to work? I have the same tmobile one but my edge notifications never work lol. I hate not having it for work.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Brown Sista:
This worked for me. The effect is very slight though. Not that cool looking or worth stressing over. I barely noticed it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] ppremier21:
No NOTIFICATIONS while screen is off

So I have tried every single thing that was posted on this thread and others... every notification screen is on. I have a spring samsung s8+ .... when my screen is locked and off .... it will not light up when I receive any notification... All I want is for the screen to light up some how...not even the edge lighting just turn on....text messages nothing does it. the edge lighting works when I receive a snapchat while screen is locked but THATS IT! PLEASE HELP IVE BEEN TRYING FOR A WEEK!! I did the update from 4/27/2017 and still nothing.... i just want my screen to light up when i receive a text message...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] ilordvader:
TRY THIS WHAT HE SAID BELOW & ALSO CHK - Settings/Display/Keep screen turned off - OFF
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] ppremier21:
Yes I tried this and many variations and still no luck at all. Still only Sanpchat lights up my locked screen. All notifications are turned on nothing is blocked anywhere... any other suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Best01:
Guys get glimpse notifications andir will work
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] maik005:
testing it out now... will report later.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mata77:
I've tried glimpse: the screen turns on (black remains and illuminate the edges) but the app notification popup does not appear

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] bigbad614:
I'm getting closer.... My edge Lighting works now when the screen is on after I cleared cache for Edge Screen. The only thing I cannot get to work is the Edge Lighting when the screen is off with or without AOD enabled.... Getting closer though!

Has everyone that is having problems used Smart Switch from and old device, restoring/transferring info?

This Maybe the key...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] burrzoo:
How did you clear the cache for the Edge Screen?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] bigbad614:
Settings-->Apps-->Show System Apps-->Edge Screen-->Storage-->Clear Cache-->Clear Data.

That will get you closer... I wish AOD or screen off was working. I am sure there is something with cache for that too....
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] skivnit:
I always had it working when screen is on
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] bigbad614:
Oh..... Well, the above might fix the issue for those who cannot get it to work at all..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Silli-Singen:
That´s it! Cool. Work fine fpr me!:good:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] zammi:
I'm not a big fan of Edge lighting, but recently noticed that with certain messaging apps like WhatsApp, I do not get Edge Lighting.

After some digging found the reason:

Edge Lighting / Screen wake-up works very well with certain apps like Samsung messages (both screen on and screen off), but not with all the apps (example: WhatsApp). This is due to a permission change in Android 7.

If you go to the "Settings/Apps" screen and tap the three dots in top-right corner and select "special access", these will be an entry called "Apps that can appear on top". When you tap the entry, you will get a list of apps that can have the special access called "draw on top of other apps". any app in this list can invoke Edge Lighting or wake the screen up. In my case, I found WhatsApp is missing in it. That mean WhatsApp developers have to fix the app.

As a workaround: Open WhatsApp, Go to settings -> Notifications and enable "Popup" notifications to show when the screen is "off".
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Babychan:
Awesome that worked thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] skivnit:
I already said that some pages ago but WhatsApp is supported as I get edge lighting when I get a whatsapp but not when screen is off also some apps can be in top but not supported according to other users
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] choccy31:
As I posted this morning I got it all working fine. Just had to allow the apps that you want to use.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] kash20:
As an alternative workaround, you can use LightFlow that allows you to set LED colour based on app/notification, but there's a feature to actually allow the screen to wake upon receipt of a notification so it would enable you to achieve the text message to wake up screen, hope that helps!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] ElBeaner:
Textra can do this, it has a setting to wake the screen
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] onejahson:
Here's my scenario. Edge Lighting works once after a factory reset then stops completely. I have tried every "fix" mentioned here and elsewhere but no luck. Then the lock screen notification icons stopped showing up. Then the double tap home button to unlock stopped working. Then I noticed the swipe on the locked screen time to access music controls stopped working. Also both of my wireless chargers work once or twice then stop. I have to unplug/plug them back in to reset.

Took my Sprint S8+ back to BB and the Samsung rep suggested a swap out. Got a new phone, set it up and everything worked perfectly... for one time! Now all these exact issues have returned on my 2nd S8+.

I did do an online chat with Samsung trying to trouble shoot things and as far as the Edge Lighting issue goes, they said that they were aware of the bug and are working on a fix. Pretty annoying that I had to return a perfectly good device (hardware wise) and now we unfortunate ones have to sit and wait on a half baked UX for features that should have worked out of the box. Hopefully they will expedite this fix. The "red tint" bug fix came out for me yesterday but that obviously didn't fix any of the above issues.

I cant seem to find the setting for the onscreen icons on the lock screen. I found it once somewhere and wanted to check those again. Cannot for the life of me find that setting. Any help??

**UPDATE**

I figured out what was going on with my lock screen notifications, music player, and double tap home to unlock issue was. I had set my Screen Lock Type to "None" because I didn't like having to unlock and then swipe (or use any other lock feature), I just want to open the phone the easiest way possible. I didn't think the lock screen settings were tied into the Always On Display features. I put that setting back to "Swipe" and those features were back. I didn't realize that the other setting of holding the Home Button to bypass the lock screen was different so with that on the minimal lock setting of Swipe it's all good. Now I wait for the Edge Lighting bug to be fixed..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
Here is the use case:

Screen off, phone facing UP, show the text of a notification and do the flashing blue lights

This can work with ANY app - i did some code to enable this. AOD does not need to be on.

Video in action - using hangouts to trigger notification : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101388531/VID-20170517-WA0007.mp4

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101388531/app-release.apk

For whatsapp (for example)

enable notification access for augmentedsmartwatchpro (lock screen -> other security settings -> notification access) in samsung settings

in augmented smartwatch (ASP) enable in preferences

phone options -> show notifications on phone -> set to text view

optimized notifications -> enable whatsapp

For any other app - enable in "Optimized Notifications" first if it exists (otherwise select the app in "all other notifications"

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Disclaimer:

PS - yes I know it is a paid app on market - but this version I have not updated to market - it is optimized for Android 7 and fixes a lot of bugs - so consider this informal beta testing
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mata77:
It's possible to auto delete notification of app asp? I have tried.. And have notification of app original and of asp

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Acoustichayes:
Depending on your carrier, hotspot hack was super ungodly simple. At least for me on T-Mobile
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
Not currently - will need to take a look.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] irishwill44:
Galaxy S8 edge screen lighting

I have the Metro PCS version of the Galaxy S8 the edge lighting feature does work but using that feature was a pain in the but cause when i would get a notification i couldnt open my screen with the home button. It seemed like it turned it off when a message comes in. i had to use the power button to get to the lock screen and it was kind of a pain in the but. Im thinking that maybe some features work differently depending on the carrier. One more thing the edge lighting feature dont stay on very long at all i found that most of the time it went off before i got to look at it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
Updated apk should now automatically remove the ASWP notification while keeping the original.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mata77:
Good, Link?

For Telegram? It's possible optimation (like whatsapp)?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101388531/app-release.apk
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mata77:
ok thanks:D, build is always 8.1.1:good:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
Oops - yes - i need to be better @ version control - planning to update on market soon as it is pretty stable and more people are moving to Android 7+
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mata77:
Well, keep informed :): maybe if you create an app just for this, you could delete all of the options present (I've practically removed the flag almost to everything)

Beyond telegram optimization, in order to improve everything, also have the app icon like on screen on (now there is anonymous square for all notifications)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
Oh re telegram - I need to take a look it may be quick and easy to optimize.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theforevermachine:
I'm not entirely sure that this special access for apps that can appear on top has anything to do with waking the screen. I think the primary culprit with this edge lighting notifications issue has something to do with notification levels set within the apps themselves.If you search Power Notification Levels for Nougat, you will see that Nougat has built in notification levels which dictate how apps serve notifications. If they are a level 3 or lower, you will not get heads-up cards, or wake the display. I believe in order for edge notifications to work, notification levels for the app must be either Level 4 or Level 5.

Level 3 (Does not support edge notifications): No Full screen interruption, Never Peek

Level 4: No Full screen interruption, Always Peek

Level 5: Show at top of list, Allow full screen interruption, always peek

The reason I believe it not to be the culprit is because I just checked my list, and two of my apps that DO work with edge notifications aren't even in this list for "appear on top"... Alto for email, and Messenger Lite (lite version of facebook messenger). Also, some apps that have this permission emabled in the list don't have edge notifications working, or wake my screen up at all, such as Venmo, Samsung Pay, and Google Play Music.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] renton82:
Same here, edge notifications don't work if screen is off, AOD display on or off doesn't matter...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] SpiderflyStudios:
Edge lighting only works if the phone is facing down. That's how it is with all of the Edge phones. That's the whole point of the feature.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] maik005:
You are completely wrong and do not have a S8(+)

That's new to the S8 that EDGE-Lightning also works wenn the screen is facing UP and even when the screen is on AND off!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] renton82:
Ok, but doesn't work for me...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] crayonyes:
except for Phone Calls.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] callumbr1:
Incorrect. Mine is working perfect which ever way it's facing. Screen off and on
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] renton82:
For which apps?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
Yes I need to clean up all the options before updating to market. The main purpose of the app is for Android Wear support, but Text to Speech and S8/S8+ edge notifications are supported.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] CGYCGY:
Anyone here know how to add Facebook messenger into the Edge lighting support apps list?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
I believe out of the box, it only works for some apps (like Samsung apps). I believe this is either intentional (in which case it is not too useful) or there is a bug (which I believe Samsung will eventually fix).

Or there may be situations where it will only work (e.g. get rid of lock screen etc). Someone pointed me to a workaround (based on Whatsapp pop up notifications which seem to work if configured as such).

To work around this, the following works:

1) the app needs to send info as a normal alert to Android Notification area; AND

2) Some app (like Pop-up for whatsapp notifications), needs to trigger a screen wake-up (and workaround the security lock).

This is what I did in my post above to trigger Edge Notifications for any 3rd party app.

Note I have been alerted to a potential issue with the LED - this version does not touch the LED at all.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101388531/app-release.apk

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] SpiderflyStudios:
That's great. Yet of the people like you stating this, why haven't you helped everyone figure out how to make it work? Perhaps it is something to do with the carrier variants. Wouldn't put it past a carrier mod breaking a core feature. Not like that has never happened before.

[MENTION=1572395]maik005[/MENTION] - well...that was clearly a mature response there sport. **golf clap**
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] renton82:
Thank you, but how does it work?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
I force a pop-up notification (similar to whatsapp pop up) using Augmented SmartWatch Pro as a proxy for selected 3rd partyapps. This is done in the background and invisible to the user. Whatyou see is the Edge notification like this:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101388531/VID-20170517-WA0007.mp4

It just so happen that I had code for the former MotoACTV smartwatch that needed this sort of capability so I just use that code path here - so it was virtually no work for me.

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Acoustichayes:
I was about to mention this. The only one that seems to work for me with screen off is phone calls. But I also have a dedicated Google voice number that I use with the hangouts app. And phone calls from the actual phone and from hangouts are the only 2 that invoke edge lighting
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mosi76:
I downloaded your app and installed it but I still only get edge lighting and the notification pop up when the phone is locked, when receiving an SMS in the default messaging app.

I gave your app notification access. Is there something that I am missing?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
You still need to enable individual apps in augmented, Which app are you trying to see.

Also check to make sure in Edge Screen -> edge lighting -> manage notifications that Augmented smartwatch Pro is enabled.

Also this only works when the S8 screen is off.

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mosi76:
I would like to enable Hangouts, Facebook, FB messenger and a few others.

In your app, do you enable it in the "All Other Notifications menu"? Your app is enabled in the edge lighting notification menu

When you say off, do you mean AOD has to be turned off as well?

Should I be seeing these errors? http://imgur.com/a/jKDiP
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
Enable in optimized first if it exists, else all other notifications.

AOD on or off works.

Note also make sure in augmented settings -> phone options->show notifications on phone is set to textview

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mosi76:
I still can't get it working. I don't see the text view option you mentioned.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
In Augmented settings scroll down to Phone Options: In Phone Options - Select the first one (Show Notifications on Phone) - then select the middle one in the pop-up (Text View (S8/S8+ Edge Notifications)

See attached for screen shots.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mosi76:
That worked! Thanks for the screenshots.

Now I am getting the same notifications (from Hangouts) over and over when I unlock the phone or when the phone locks and the AOD comes on. Is there another setting that I might need to set?

Thanks for all your help
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
Just to confirm hangouts is enabled under optimized notifications?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] mosi76:
Yes but I also had it enabled under Other Notifications. I cleared that and will see what it does now.

Edit: If I remove it from Other Notifications, I don't get any notification from AOD. I notice that its sending (re-sending) notifications from unread hangouts threads. I guess that's ok
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
Do you mean if AOD is on, it doesn't work (or vice versa). It shoudl work the same with AOD on or off?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] TT_Vert:
Just to clarify this edge notification is only one quick illumination of the perimiter and not repetitive? That seems a bit pointless if that is in fact how it operates.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theforevermachine:
You're probably running into the issue where you have "Keep Screen Turned Off" toggled on in the display settings. This is known to cause issues with edge lighting notifications displaying.

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Facebook messenger does not work, but Facebook Messenger Lite does. You can download it form APK mirror
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] xMrThunder:
It seems to be working on some apps like snapchat. for me it doesn't work with whatsapp. doesn't matter if the option Keep Screen Turned off is or or off. same results
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] VADWezsky:
Thanks man that is really the case I notice that Youtube and Viber are in this list of "apps that can appear on top" and they receive edge lighting both with screen on and off, so I guess it's on developers side to change their apps to work with this feature without having to go for 3rd party apps.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Kermit33:
I got my S8 2 weeks ago and the Edge light works with my WhatsApp and wechat though it only lights up for only 2 seconds.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] thinhletien:
For my 950W its not working when screen off. When screen on, it work with music, viber, messaging. Sometime when screen off, it will flashing like crazy when on call in viber.

The software's bugs for sure. I dont know why after several updates, samsung still not give a **** about that.

Using this s8, 2 things that pissed me off so much are edge lighting and stupid "always on display" when comparing to aod on g6.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] gc180:
Thanks, works like a charm.:D
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] miyavi1216:
Please install this app, if you want to make it edge lighting when the screen is off.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lukekorth.screennotifications

This app is turns on the screen when a notification comes.

(Light Flow Legacy can do the same, but it is heavy...used 500MB over)

Oh yeah, the conditions for shining edge lighting are below..

#1. apps notification turn it on in system setting.

#2. apps notification turn it on in edge lighiting setting.

#3. need screen on when notification is received.

#4. set the notification importance level 4 higiher.

#5. head-up notification is turned off( optional)

#6. need AOD package enabled.(if u use package disabler pro,and disabled aod.)

When the screen is off, the condition of # 3 is required.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] yakalelos7:
can we have these in our s7 edge . like te video with the litle banner in the center when we receive a message ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] bri972:
hello i m french ;and i don t find the path augmented setting; could you please tell me where exactly

ok it s good i found it thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] aleekwen:
I wrote up info on how to configure here:

https://augmentedtraffic.wordpress.com/2017/06/05/samsung-galaxy-s8s8-edge-notification-support/
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] Kermit33:
My Edge light is working even when the screen is off without downloading any other app!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] XkobiX:
Does it work for you also for whatsapp, telegram annd other 3rd party apps? For me only original sms is showing edge light when screen is off
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] theprfct10:
Mine works when receiving a phone call but nothing else
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] ilordvader:
Before WhatsApp worked for me

But now only original sms mesg works :(

Can setting i need to do to set it for WhatsApp & other Apps to work

& Yes all APPS are ON in the Edge Light settings
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] miyavi1216:
I have never used WhatsApp, but are there screen pop-up settings when receiving notification?

If it exists screen-on will trigger and the edge lighiting work .

It's content to clear condition 3 in my post #144
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] fersayken2:
After about 4 hours of testing and pulling my hair out trying to get phone and app edge lighting to work with phone on or off and have pills show up with text in them, I finally had to use a combination of 2 free apps. 1) Edge Mask App (for app color control and pill color and text) and 2)Edge Color Notification App ( Check phonecall notifications and you can also use the menu button to color your contacts) Hope this helps some people. I also toggled Display-> Edge Screen->Edge lighting-> Off in Main settings menu. Keep screen turned off should be unchecked under display settings. :)