Illumination bar

[jdoctor]

The main reason I got this phone was the illumination bar, however since upgrading to 12.0.A.2.245 earlier today it no longer works when I have a notification. The only way it will constantly blink to alert me to a notification is to turn stamina mode off which halves the battery life of the phone. It will blink once when stamina mode is on but this is of no use to me as I want a visible notification when the screen is off.
Please address this issue in the 4.3 update and revert to the illumination notification of the previous software

[jdoctor]

Poor show Sony.
What is the point of the illumination bar now then if this is permanent!

[deepak_TU]

I find an option to add exceptions in STAMINA MODE to exclude certain apps or processes. Is there a way i could have these LED notification to be an exception so that I could enable STAMINA mode and continue to use LED Notification ?

[OaKy]

Sony, I am sorry to say this but I am disappointed , I was o proud user of Sony Xperia SP , a grate phone , best notification I had ... And now is gone , I want that notification back , if you wont solve this I will root my phone , I don't want to do this but I want , that notification , even in stamina mod like it was , a led dosent drain much battery and if its drain I want to exclude it in stamina mode , to be on my own battery .

Why would you remove the only option that differentiate Sony Xperia SP to other phones. ........ .. .. .. .. ... ..

I want back my 3 LED NOTIFICATION.

[cw82]

I've just updated and my illumination doesn't work even out of stamina. Just spent two hours of my time having done the repair to be told by customer services that there might be a fault in my phone!! Which I know is lies! I wish so much that I hadn't updated my phone, actually gutted with this and even more upset by being fobbed off by customer services.

[cw82]

Come to think of it. It probably makes perfect sense that Sony Xperia have a cut of the money for the illumination bar pro app! Reel us in and make us pay! Especially after that cagey interaction with customer services who deny all knowledge of the problems with the illumination bar!!

[LTMB]

Yeah after messing around with the settings having to run my phone not in stamina mode just to have the illumination bar running (the reason I got the sp) is pretty annoying, wish Sony would roll back to the previous illumination bar settings or at least give the option to change it myself

[tstiller]

You have to install the app Illumination Bar if you want to use it during stamina mode. Choose as the device Xperia U and you can change the colors of the illumination. I have enabled WhatsApp in the task list of the illumination bar app and also added illumination bar and whatsapp in the tast list of the stamina mode.

[yatthamzah]

Why I can't activate my illumination bar? It can be used only when you download an application. This shouldnt happen. What is happening? It is not upgrading but downgrading sony handphones

[cqcoraltrout]

Mate that was great advice ,thank you.LED bar working in Stamina Mode now ,that was a very useful App..Cheers

[857077]

 "I have received more information and this is not a bug. LED will not continue to notify you when Stamina is enabled to save as much power as possible." Rickard, Xperia Support

This is a completely ridiculous and laughable response. The whole unique selling point of the phone is the LED notification bar and the software in the Xperia SP pushes the user towards using Stamina Mode when the battery gets low which I'm sure happens to most people by the end of a day! By taking this stance, Sony are taking a phone which is supposed to have a more attractive feature than other phones, and making it less attractive and more useless. Other phones have small LEDs to alert the user of messages when the screen is off, Sony put a whopping snazzy LED bar and then have it disabled half the time, utterly counter-intuitive. And the "saving power" argument doesn't hold up, unless Sony have used the most power-hungry LEDs on earth!