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Started by JustAGuy , Dec 02 2014 11:58 AM

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#1 JustAGuy

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 11:58 AM

I know this was floating around elsewhere, but here is a good article on how to get the LED indicator functioning. At this moment it looks like only the paid version of Light Flow works. $2.49

 

I've got it running on mine now.

 

http://nexus5.wonder...exus-6-0158788/


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Posted 02 December 2014 - 12:12 PM

Hmmmm I might have to give that a shot. Have you disabled ambient display? And how does it effect your battery life

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Posted 02 December 2014 - 12:24 PM

I have disabled the ambient display, but not for battery reasons. I put the phone in my pocket, so I don't want it to wake up and I accidentally launch something.

From what I read, the ambient display setting just turns on the screen, not the back light. So not much power is being used. I had it running on my desk and noticed it turning on a lot, for no reason, there were not notification.


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Posted 02 December 2014 - 06:29 PM

Any movement after sitting for a while turns it on for a few seconds. My day I'm always moving and I've never had pocket functions happening, I also use a lock screen on top of being encrypted

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Posted 03 December 2014 - 03:02 AM

If you run Light Flow, I'd suggest turning off the toast pop up from SuperSu. I had it popping up like every 30 seconds, very annoying. 


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Posted 04 December 2014 - 09:01 AM

wait what?  The N6 has no native LED indicator out of the box?


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Posted 04 December 2014 - 09:10 AM

Nope. Moto hasn't used it on the past several devices.

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Posted 04 December 2014 - 09:11 AM

wait what?  The N6 has no native LED indicator out of the box?

Nether did the N5, I was running Light Manager to get that to work.


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Posted 06 December 2014 - 07:17 AM

N5 has led indicator, I get different colors to flash with different apps, no lightflow needed
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Posted 03 January 2015 - 09:54 AM

Actually, more correctly, it has an LED indicator, but its utility disabled in the OS for the Nexus 6.


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Posted 03 January 2015 - 10:30 AM

Actually, more correctly, it has an LED indicator, but its utility disabled in the OS for the Nexus 6.

Why?

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Posted 03 January 2015 - 10:39 AM

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Posted 07 February 2015 - 07:43 AM

Lightflow update as of two days ago enables notification LED blinking. However, it constantly writes to the file system to edit a file and then read it to do the blinking. Validus, CM12 and Liquid Smooth ROMs already have this baked in. I think Chroma has it as well.
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Posted 21 February 2015 - 11:01 AM

Lightflow update as of two days ago enables notification LED blinking. However, it constantly writes to the file system to edit a file and then read it to do the blinking. Validus, CM12 and Liquid Smooth ROMs already have this baked in. I think Chroma has it as well.

Chroma has the LED enabled but it doesn't blink.


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Posted 24 February 2016 - 01:32 PM

Never got this to work - going to try again on my new virgin device.


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Posted 24 February 2016 - 01:34 PM

It's much easier now, just go into settings/sound & notification the slide on the "pulse notification light" tab


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Posted 24 February 2016 - 01:59 PM

In the stock Marshmallow?


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Posted 24 February 2016 - 02:54 PM

I don't see that tab on my Nexus 6 under sound/notifications.


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Posted 24 February 2016 - 03:38 PM

I don't have that on Marshmallow 6.0.1 on the Nexus 6..  Does Lightflow need to be installed?


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