LED on the back not working properly with notifications

[todosi_george]

The LED on the back does not blink when I get a new notification. I've already turned it on and configured it to have certain colors for certain apps in the Armoury Crate. After a notification I first need to press the power button to check the screen and then turn the screen off again for it to start blinking. This does not happen when I have the AeroCooler connected, so it seems to be working fine when the cooler connected.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there any fix? Is it a known issue? I have the Strix version (the 8gb/128gb European edition).

[todosi_george]

I've managed to get the back LED to blink for Protonmail notification by going to Settings > Advanced > Mobile Manager > Power Master tab > Auto-start Manager and enabling auto start for the app.
It still doesn't blink for Girls' Frontline. I think the notifications from it are local notifications and not push notifications. Could this be affecting it?
I will try to see if I can find a friend to test Discord tonight too and will report back with the results.

[todosi_george]

Doublepost for some reason.

[todosi_george]

Anders_ASUS

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/15657/led-on-the-back-not-working-properly-with-notifications

Can you please tell me specifically which app it won't detect. Please make sure you don't have your phone in "do not disturb" or that the app it's not reacting to is set as a silent notification in the apps appinfo

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Ok I haven't managed to get the back LED to blink for either Discord or Girls' Frontline notifications. It also randomly stopped working for Protonmail despite not changing any settings. I've also tried Gmail and it doesn't work properly with that either.
While testing I had a few instances where the back LED did start blinking but I couldn't reproduce it nor think of a reason why. Perhaps there's some service that's being turned off if the phone isn't being actively used for a bit? I don't know but it's pretty clear the back LED isn't properly working.

[Anders_ASUS]

The LED is designed to only blink with high priority notifications. Maybe the notifications in these apps are not considered as high priority? Gmail is ofc high priority and on my phone with Android Q, it does work with gmail so I guess you just need to wait for the FOTA with Android Q.

[todosi_george]

Is the notification priority an Android/App internal thing? I've never seen any option for something like that. Note that the front LED does blink accordingly, only the back LED doesn't. Are they configured differently in regards to this priority?
I guess I'll wait for the Android Q update and see if it fixes anything. Is there any release date estimate for the update?