Getting WhatsApp notifications to work with Light Flow on Note 3

[artdiefenbach]

I had the hardest time getting the WhatsApp notifications to work using Light Flow on my Note 3, but I finally figured it out. Here is the solution.
Normally you need to turn on Light Flow in the Accessibility settings on the phone. But not for Android 4.3 and above. There is a note when you turn Light Flow Accessibility on and off saying such. So leave Accessibility off for Light Flow. Instead go to Phone Settings/Security/Notification access and check the box after Light Flow. And now it should work.

Hope that helps you.

 

[qman66]

I had the hardest time getting the WhatsApp notifications to work using Light Flow on my Note 3, but I finally figured it out. Here is the solution.
Normally you need to turn on Light Flow in the Accessibility settings on the phone. But not for Android 4.3 and above. There is a note when you turn Light Flow Accessibility on and off saying such. So leave Accessibility off for Light Flow. Instead go to Phone Settings/Security/Notification access and check the box after Light Flow. And now it should work.

Hope that helps you.

not worth using light flow on 4.3 and above since there is a persistent notification when you pull down the status bar. i use led blinker pro now. does the same thing pretty much.

 

[artdiefenbach]

not worth using light flow on 4.3 and above since there is a persistent notification when you pull down the status bar. i use led blinker pro now. does the same thing pretty much.

I don't have an issue with the notification lights in 4.3. The reason I use Light Flow is because WhatsApp doesn't use alerts for contacts propertly. When you tell it to use Contact specific notifications in WhatsApp it uses the Contact's Ringtone instead of the Message Alert. Light Flow handles this properly and in addition it allows a different notification for WhatsApp and Handcent (or your SMS App). I don't know of any other App that will do that. I would be ok with WhatsApp using the Message Alert and having the same alert for a text messages as WhatsApp messages. But I'm not OK with using a phone Ringtone for a text/WhatsApp message.

I should also mention that I set Light Flow Setting for "Select the type of control" to "No Control - Default device behavior." This allowed me to use the Handcent notification settings which turned out to be better than Light Flow.

 

[js0uth]

thank you for this! i love lightflow!

 

[Stefa.]

I had the hardest time getting the WhatsApp notifications to work using Light Flow on my Note 3, but I finally figured it out. Here is the solution.
Normally you need to turn on Light Flow in the Accessibility settings on the phone. But not for Android 4.3 and above. There is a note when you turn Light Flow Accessibility on and off saying such. So leave Accessibility off for Light Flow. Instead go to Phone Settings/Security/Notification access and check the box after Light Flow. And now it should work.

Hope that helps you.

Really thanks for sharing, you solved my problem with LightFlow and Whatsapp :good:

 

[ManoxVermox]

Solution

Friends, i solve this problem in Adjust\Security - Access To Notifications, i mark Light Flow, and the app start correctly!!!


I have a Xperia ZL Android 4.3, this is my solution, try in different Devices.

Sorry for my bad englis!