Notification Light Quit After 4.1.1 Update?

[ki4cgs]

We have two Samsung GS3's in our family and after I did the update on one of them the LED notification light will not work except for during the power up screen. It doesn't work any other times (charging, email, texts). I have tried disabling and enabling the notification light in settings but that didn't help. I also tried Lightflow and tested it which still did nothing. The last thing I tried was a factory reset but still no luck.

I have thought about going to AT&T and doing a swap but considering this GS3 is only about 3 months old I really don't want to swap for a referb.

I know the actual light still works because of the light during boot up. Is there anything else I can try to get the notification light working again?

 

[meyerweb#CB]

There are three separate LEDS (red, blue, green), and only the blue lights up during boot (at least on mine), so I guess it's possible the others are bad.

If you haven't already, try pulling the battery (after shutting down) for 5 or 10 minutes and see what happens. This isn't a problem I've heard of before.

 

[GSDer]

For what it's worth, I also saw a reference to putting the phone in Odin mode (Volume down + Home + Power buttons while the phone is powered off) and pulling the battery for a few minutes - that fixed the poster's issue where nothing else had.

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[ki4cgs]

I'll try the battery pull and the Odin mode (although I've never heard of that) and let you know. I wasn't aware that it was actually three separate LEDs but I don't think doing a software update would make them just quit. Seems more like software issue to me. At this point who knows? It does seem like a very isolated problem.

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[meyerweb#CB]

I agree the update shouldn't break the LEDs, but doing a factory reset would seem to rule an an app problem, and I haven't seen anyone else reporting this after doing the update. Very strange indeed.

(Oh, "Odin mode" is more commonly referred to as "download" mode.)