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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Hopefully that plume issue may have been fixed in the last version.

One of the checks for an event type when starting an app was wrong, i was calling eventTime instead of eventType for one check - doh!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Matterhorn:
I'm running stock Gingerbread, it is unrooted since "Gingerbreak" is not ready yet. This app solved the problem of no LED notification for a missed call that stock Gingerbread has. Thanks, I bought the full version ;)

I haven't been running Light Flow long, but I have noticed that if I receive a missed call or text message while my N1 is switched off, when I start it up again I hear the audio notification but no LED notification. Is this normal? I can't really remember how it behaved in this situation before.

Thanks for your work.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
When you say switched off, do you mean the screen or completely off?

My phone is never really off at all, but all notifications status' are cleared on boot as if there's ever any problems with people getting lights not switching off I don't want them going mad because it picked up the previous state and started them up again :-)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Matterhorn:
I meant switched completely off. I was just curious, I "turn off" my phone sometimes at night or just to refresh the system.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GldRush98:
Running this on Gingerbread to enable missed call light.

The vibration settings under notification are really funky and don't work right though. Even if I set it to "1 short" vibration, upon a missed call it will vibrate like 6 times.

Glad to have an app that enables the missed call led on Gingerbread though. Thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
That's odd, I use that setting myself. I will take a look into doing some extra checks on setting it as the android content provider that provides the notifications can send out notifications for multiple changes in very short succession, may that's why.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] lou2s:
Thx for the app! It controls the missed calls/sms/gmail well, but it also blocks some other apps' control over the led, e.g. ebuddy, flow (f+), and pingchat. Is it on purpose? Is it possible to leave other apps their own control over the led if they are natively supported?

Thanks again!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Hi,

It's not exactly on purpose, but it's the only way to get succession working because as soon as another app takes control it has control of the led until you dismiss the notification, hence stopping any control of the successive flow.

The good thing is, I can probably add those extra apps into the app to get control for those too. I've added them to my todo list!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] cowalex:
Hello:

Very nice app! I have one question... Why this program needs to "read my accounts and adresses" permission?

Thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Matterhorn:
I use Deja Office to sync my calendar and contacts with Outlook. Can you add Deja Office to your app list? All of my calendar reminders are initiated from Deja Office. Otherwise everything is working fine :-)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
I've added it to my list I'm keeping to look at.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
It's to query the contact database to be able to monitor for missed calls as it all comes from the same content provider. There isn't the granularity to specify permissions down to a low enough level sometimes in android to make it sound like you are not doing something with data you are not interested in at all.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Rusty!:
For those not using successsion, would it be posssible to stop the app blocking others using the LED?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kpjimmy:
With the most recent update of the paid version, the app hangs and force closes at times. When it hangs, I usually hit the back button and it usually gets it to the settings screen. But sometimes it force closes too. The description said if we were having problems, we should turn off the accessibility option. But don't we need that option to be 'on' to have LF working?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flixos:
It works great for me on my Nexus One on stock GRI40. I've been using Blink with Froyo, but it doesn´t work on Gingerbread anymore.

I would like to have the choice of using a blinking led while charging...is that possible?.

Congrats for the app ;)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kornball:
Love the app (much better than Blink); just thought I'd ask a question and request the possibilility of an added feature:

1) Is it normal to have a huge 'partial wake usage' for Light Flow? For example, since my last boot, Light Flow has had a total of almost 7 hours of partial wake lock whereas the next closest thing, Android System, has only had about 3 hours. Is this unusual? I feel like it might be hurting battery life.

2) Would it be possible to implement something where the user can set the LED light notitifaction to turn off if the user doesn't clear the notification within a specified amount of time? For example, if I don't notice I've gotten a text message within 3-5 minutes, I'd prefer it if the notification turned off in order to help conserve battery rather than it continuously blinking until I finally notice (which can sometimes be a half hour or more). Is something like this possible?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
That's on my todo list. I'm currently doing a lot of code refactoring to separate sound / vibration patterns from being tied to the led notification.

Once that's been done it should be failry easy to do.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Hi,

Hoefully the latest version has stopped the hanging, if not let me know.

Accessibility does need to be on, but sometimes after upgrading from one version to the next I've seen the accessibility service unregister from the app and fail to reregister (seems a common problem with other apps that use the service)

The only way to restart that service is to unselect it - and then reselect it again. This will force a restart of the service and hook back up to the app again. Yes the app does need that access to work correctly. Maybe I didn't make the switching it back on again clear enough.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Glad to hear it's working for you. I'm not sure what you mean by blinking while charging. Do you mean have a color designated to charging as an option. That would be possible.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
I'm a little suprised at number 1 - what are you using to find out that information? I have once seen something similar happen. But I'm always running on dev (read faulty) versions! I've not seen it happen since.

Number 2, that would be a possibility as I've already got code monitoring how long the notification has been on to deal with repeating sounds and vibration patterns, so it shouldn't be too difficult to add.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kornball:
To check for partial wake lock, I go into Dialer and dial *#*#4636#*#*. Then I go to battery history, change 'Other usage' to 'Partial wake usage' and changed 'Since last unplugged' to 'Total since boot.' Since I've installed Light Flow, the program has used over 9 hours of partial wake usage.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Sinkdrain:
I'm getting a strange happening with this app. For no reason I am getting a fast orange blinking led. When I check the phone there is no notification of any kind there. I don't even have orange set for any notification. I checked everything. Rebooting doesn't stop the light. Opening light flow stops it for a few minutes but eventually comes back.

I'm on a stock nexus one running gingerbread. Any ideas?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
I've now had a couple of reports of this. Not sure if you of the people that's contacted me is you or not. If not, is there any chance you can run aLogcat (off the market) when it's flashing like this and send me the results, I'm keen to find out which notitfication the phone thinks it has on.

Cheers

Andrew
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Thanks for that. When I do a *#*#4636#*#* I get to the app, but only have "Phone information", "Battery Information", "Usage Statistics" and "Wifi Info", none of them seem to get through to any information like you mention. Are you on a custom rom?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Matterhorn:
I just loaded the new Light Flow update with the addition of DejaOffice support. It seems to be working fine on my stock Gingerbread 2.3.3 setup. Thanks.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
That's good news thanks, I couldn't test that one due to not having the server components.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kornball:
No, I'm not on a custom ROM; I'm just on rooted stock 2.2.2 (FRG83G). That's really weird you don't have the 'Battery History' option.

I've also been getting the flashing orange LED notification, but I was assuming that's due to my phone wanting to update to 2.3.3 OTA. I'm not upgrading, though, until a relatively simple one click-type root method is available. Just a thought...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kpjimmy:
Works like it used to now. I understand the instructions now. Thanks for clearing it up. I thought it needed the accessibility as a required step so I left it on anyways or made sure it was checked on. But the latest update fixed the hanging issue for me. Thanks for the quick turn around!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] twolves14:
When I get notifications, is there a way to make it so that pulling down the notification bar makes the light stop blinking? Like usually if you open and close the notification bar, the trackball light stops blinking. However, right now, as soon as you push the bar back up, the light continues to blink. This is useful if you do not want to be annoyed by the light right now and will look at the notification later.

Also, my "Trillian" chat app's notification light no longer works. Light Flow cannot control Trillian (well it isnt in the list), so I would think that it wouldn't interfere with Trillian's blinking light. But since I installed Light Flow, when I get a chat for Trillian, the phone vibrates but the light does not blink. And (I promise this is my last complaint lol) for "Words with Friends", it will not let me change anything for notifications. Light Flow makes the notification light "blue" by default, but I would like for it to be "red" and for the phone to vibrate. However, when I adjust the settings, this does not happen.

Keep up the great work!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Rusty!:
Unfortunately it no longer exists in Gingerbread.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Thanks for reporting back on that.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Ah, that makes sense! Thought I was going mad.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Ok I'll try and answer these in order.

It think would be possible to make the lights stop when the notification bar is pulled down as it looks like there's some unique information available from the accessibility service to do that. I will look into adding it as a clear notification style to add to the existing list.

You are correct that Trillian is not on the list, and that the notification will have stopped for it. The way the app works to get succession flows working is that it has to take control of all notification lights. Otherwise once an unsupported app put a notification light up it would hog the notification bar until that one was cleared and would therefore stop the succession of lights. What I will do though is look into if it would be possible to add Trillian. It should be possible as long as it doesn't have a permanent icon on the notification bar. If notifications just pop up on the bar when you've got a new notification it should be ok to add. That's why beejive and ebuddy are not yet supported when people have asked for them.

On "Words with Friends", is that the UI won't let you choose other options, or it does let you but the app ignores what you selected and always displays what it wants?

Wow, at the moment my todo list grows quicker than my "now done" list!

I'm just doing a major code rework to separate out the processing of led notifications from the sound and vibration ones. This will allow for some extra functionality like being able to disable the LED for certain apps, but still have sounds and vibrations.

It will also allow for more consistent flashing as at the moment if you've got three apps set to use for example green, the light will flash green three times in every succession cycle. Once the code is separated I'll be able to aggregate all notifications of one color up into one notification making the flashing colors more consistent.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] twolves14:
Thanks for the speedy response! Words with Friends itself does not have LED notifications at all. The game itself has almost no notification options. Light Flow just ignores what I select, my settings get saved, but they do not work. I guess since the game doesn't support LED by itself, Light Flow isn't working optimally ?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Does words with friends support putting a notification on the notification bar at all?

Some apps are difficult to test (ie need to subscribe, get other people who subscribe involved too) so I add them on request using a standard model I use for about 75% of notification types.

From what I remember I saw the "background notifications" option in the menu and presumed that it would pop something up on the notification bar. Do you know if it does in this situation.

If so, it should be possible to get light flow to put out an led notification even if the main app doesn't have it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] twolves14:
Yea, "Words with Friends" puts a notification on the bar. Light Flow adds the led notification, except it isn't customizable, it is stuck at the color blue and no vibration.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
I'm just playing a game through now with somebody random to test it out.

I've managed to get the blue notification and have just changed the color, so I'll see what happens when it's my turn again!

EDIT:

I've just got to my turn and it's flashing bright pink.

There's a chance I've managed to fix this in the upcoming version as there's been a lot of underlying changes and it could be a bug in the current market version.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] twolves14:
Alright, good to know! Thanks.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
For those with the orange flashing issue it's coming from a couple of problems.

There was some logic that was incorrect in the calendar notification checking which means that even if the preference is not set it will still set off the notification lights.

The other issue which I'm aware of, but not yet tracked down how to fix is that my monitoring of the calendar event reminder database is picking up on some events when it shouldn't. I thought I had them working fine by looking for a event state of FIRED, but it seemed sometimes even when a calendar event isn't to be displayed that it can end up at this state.

I'm going to look into finding out a bit more about fixing up this issue.

If you do start getting it, one option is to try and delete any recent events from your calendar that are in the past. I get a feeling it might be related to when you press the "clear all" button in the notification bar instead of snooze all/dismiss all from the notification itself, but that's just a theory at the moment.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kornball:
I've figured out that my phantom LED notification is from Google Talk (at least I think it is). I had the notification for Google Talk enabled as orange and got the random flashing (even though I'm never signed into Gchat on my phone). I then changed its color to Purple and got the flashing again. After turning off the notification for Google Talk, I haven't gotten the random notification since.

It all started when I took a logcat shortly after the random flashing occurred: I saw that the Google Talk notification was ON even though I wasn't signed into Gchat. I hope this helps...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Thanks for that. Arghh the calendar and gtalk parts are the most difficult part of the app to write as there's no documenation on googles own apps so it's made up of lotlots of playing around never knowing if it's always going to work. I'll try look into it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Sinkdrain:
Excellent news that your working on this. I had to uninstall temporarily until you find a fix as I use my calender heavily and the orange light drove me bazerk. it was the only way to stop it

I love this app so I'm looking forward to the day you solve it. Thank you for the time you spend on this great app.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GldRush98:
Another feature request: A backup/restore settings to sdcard. I have the Lite version now, and I'm sort of lazy and don't want to change all my settings back if I buy the full version. Plus, this could help people who have the full version with a ton of settings... give them a way to save all of their settings in case they want to change roms or something. :)

Just a thought.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
It's already on my list if things to add. I completely agree as the number of settings keeps growing.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] FLAC Vest:
Just jumping in to say that this is a great application and to keep it up :)

Bought the pro version after using the lite ffor a few seconds (which says aa lot about the application :))

And I have been using it for about a month now.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] nabeelburney:
Hi there. First of all, major kudos for such a fantastic app and for your continued support.

I was wondering, is there a way for you to add a notification for when the battery has reached 100% upon charging? The low battery notification is handy, but I'd also like one for when the battery has finished charging so that I can see it's done from far away.

Thanks, and keep up the great work.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Hi,

Yes that should be possible. It's now added to my list.

EDIT: Just looked at my list and it was already there to do!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Thanks. An early adopter! About 2 months now since I started coding it.

Must give myself a night off soon!

Version 1.4.0 should be coming really soon. It's the biggest change to the app since I started writing it hence the lack of release for the last few days.

Oddly enough it looks to add less features than most releases, but structurally there's been a big change. Which should help on consistency of the light flashing, bring some battery improvements.

Just testing the new backup and restore settings feature trying to get rid of the odd FC issue.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] FLAC Vest:
Hey, just chiming in to say I got the 1.4 version today and love it; being able to set the times of notifications is an amazing add on.

Keep it up :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GldRush98:
When I click "restore settings" it force closes. Glad to see the feature is coming though :)

As soon as this works I will buy the full version :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Yes, there's one or two issues with the new version which I kind of expected as there's been a change of about 50% of the code!

Have you pressed the report button on the force close?

Other issues some people are getting:

-Problem with the spanish version trying to convert the colors by the spanish name instead of the english name

- Possible loss of settings reverting back to their defaults

I'll be looking into them all soon.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Rusty!:
Yep my settings went back to the defaults after the update, but as it was a major rewrite I wasn't too surprised :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] FormelLMS:
Am I right, that the Trackball only flashes 20 sec in the light version.

So I read this in the german market.

I don't know, who have made the translation, but it is very hard to read.

I can help you by translate this to german, if you want that :)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Rusty!:
No that's not right, the lite version has slow & fast options.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
That would be great. It's currently google Translate that automatically created it and i know its rubbish!

I'll pm you later.

Cheers

Andrew
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Sinkdrain:
Wonderful. Had to uninstall the last version to stop the cal. Notifications. Just reinstalled with the latest update and its been working like a charm! Thank you. I'm looking forward to gtasks integration.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GldRush98:
Fantastic updates. Went ahead and bought the full version. Keep up the great work!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Thanks all.

I've still a list of features as long as my arm that I'm planning on adding.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dys4ea:
thinking about installing this but a few qs

whenever i get a light notification through email or text, i'm usually on a computer and check it there. is there a way when i read the google voice text or email (basically marking it as read) that the phone light notification can stop blinking without me clearing the notification on the phone?

had this ability on cm5 a while back but have no idea why this stopped working.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
That app currently supports automatically switching off gmail messages and gtalk messages but not other types as the current monitoring method is not as advanced.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dys4ea:
could you point me to an app/file that can allow me to do what i described? i swear before that cm5 did it but seems like the latest cm6 doesn't unless there is a setting i missed.

thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GldRush98:
The latest version seems to have an issue clearing sms notifications. Even after I read the message, I turn off the phone and it keeps on blinking.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GldRush98:
Well disregard that. A reboot seems to have fixed the issue.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] derfo:
Hello,

Are there any plans to support switching off notification for Google Voice?

Regards.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
I'm happy to implement that if could look into seeing if google provide any data through a content provider. As i can't even run the app in my country there's no way for me to look into it.

Any volunteers?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Sandwich88:
I have a problem with the latest MIUI rom (1.3.25):

every time I get a missed calls or new sms it activates the "Light Flow -Test Notifications" notification and it remains there until I clear it :(

See attachment...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GldRush98:
Every once in a while my SMS notification like will still get stuck blinking.

It seems to happen when I have a lot of SMS' going on, incoming as I'm reading them, etc... it seems to lose track some how. Usually starting the Light Flow interface will stop it from blinking.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
That's really odd. PM me and I'll try going through some steps to work out what's happening.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
What "clear notification style" do you have set?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] FLAC Vest:
That happens to me sometimes as well; it doesn't happen often but when it does, the SMS notification will continue to blink after I clear the notification, enter the app, or try and kill the program all together.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] PaulCayard:
Are you sure that ALL sms are marked as read in your sms app?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] vegetaleb:
Is it compatible with CM7 RC3?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
I'm not sure, but i would love to know!

Sadly I don't have enough time for flashing on other roms. Too busy developing!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Rusty!:
Not really needed on CM7 is it? That has it's own built in colour picker.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] flixos:
Same here...but it's a minor issue.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] andrewpmoore:
Does CM7 RC3 allow you to cycle through notification colors in succession?