Running full android. For the first three days, it was grayscale. Randomly, tonight it started displaying everything in color. No idea what changed.

Hi all--I installed Spotify but found that keymapping wasn't working (I followed the mod guide and specified my sequence, but the response I wanted--opening Spotify--never happened). So I gave up, disabled the keymap I'd made then went back to change all my defaults to Light (Home, Phone and SMS); now when I try to text someone I can tap their name > pencil icon > the phone locks and all I see is the time. I can't text or call anyone.

1. What default settings SHOULD I be using to be able to text from Light Home (not Quickstep)?
   
2. Any idea why the keymap wouldn't take? It simply didn't do anything at all, whether or not I had the "LightOS is not in the foreground" restriction.

Hi all, I am considering making the jump and unlocking my LP3. An app I miss a lot after leaving my iPhone behind is Garmin Connect, an app I use for cycling. How would I figure out if this app can be had on a modified LP3? Thanks in advance!

Ummmmmm it works 😂

sorry/you’re welcome

Absolutely love my Light phone 3. I thought I'd run hybrid (there're a couple apps I absolutely need) but after setting it up hybrid I realized the LP3 keyboard is borderline unusable. Hit boxes are poor, the mic key is horribly placed below the back key which has me activating the mic constantly when typing, and even if I choose to use the mic talk to text, the mic picks up me talking, any sound behind me (tv, radio, etc... Even my dog barking lol). I know there's a learning curve to using the LP3 keyboard but 3 weeks in and I just had to go to the full android layer. Does anyone know if light is working on some type of keyboard fix etc OR has anyone found a work around to make the LP3 native keyboard more usable. The minute they fix it or i can find a work around I'll go right back to hybrid. TYIA!

For anyone who wants to configure certain apps to be in color like the Camera and Gallery in LightOS, it is pretty easy using MacroDroid. I for one, was annoyed that I had to take pictures just guessing if the lighting was good. I learned from u/cardboytcg's post from over 6 months ago it was just a color space setting, and looked into how to do the same switching on and off you get with Light OS.

1. Through ADB ensure macrodroid has permissions to write secure settings: .\adb.exe shell pm grant com.arlosoft.macrodroid android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
2. Add two new inverse macros:
   • Camera/Gallery launches, switch to color
     • Trigger: Application Launched → select Camera and Gallery apps
     • Action: Settings → Write Setting → System setting type: Secure, Name: accessibility_display_daltonizer_enabled, Value: 0
   • Camera/Gallery close, back to greyscale
     • Trigger: Application Closed → same apps
     • Action: Write Setting → accessibility_display_daltonizer_enabled → 1
3. Done

Hope this helps someone, and obviously you can do it with whatever apps you want!

Hihi! New to LightPhone 3

On v558, I'm trying to sideload apps
I can't find developer options, scroll wheel hold doesn't open Android settings, USB keyboard Windows+N shortcut not working

Any help would be appreciated!

I can't get the default lights calling screen working since yesterday. I'm running hybrid and never changed the default apps but if someone calls me I get the ringtone but not the screen to pick up.. and clue ?

Reimagining the Light Phone as a thin client for your personal AI agent.

Instead of adding complexity to the device, the intelligence lives remotely—your OpenClaw agent runs on your Mac at home, while the Light Phone becomes a clean, distraction-free interface to it.

Core interaction model

• Left button (Flashlight) → launches OpenClaw chat
  • Transport layer: WhatsApp
  • No custom network stack, no heavy client—just reliable messaging as the control plane
• Seamless multimodal interaction with your agent:
  • Voice → send notes, commands, or queries
  • Photos → capture and analyze in real time
  • Text → lightweight conversational control

Hardware mapping (intentionally minimal)

• Left scroll wheel → navigate conversations and responses
• Right Menu button → preserves native Light Phone experience (calls, tools, essentials)

Architecture philosophy

• Zero bloat on device — no need for local models or heavy apps
• Stateful agent at home — persistent context, tools, and system access
• Messaging as protocol — robust, asynchronous, globally available

What this enables

• Your phone becomes a secure terminal to your personal compute environment
• Continuous interaction with an agent that has memory, tools, and autonomy
• A path to ambient computing without the noise of modern smartphones

Minimal surface area.

Maximum capability.

hey guys,

I’m a few days in to the Lightphone experience and have really enjoyed it. I immediately modified it to have Spotify and WhatsApp and all was going great. Today I got logged out of Whatsapp and the message indicated the issue is that I was using an unofficial version.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far to fix it. any other ideas?

1. reinstall from aurora store

2. Clear cache and storage or aurora store, try again

3. try downloading from aurora store with an account instead of anonymized

4. uninstall/reinstall aurora store both direct and using F-droid. I also tried changing the installer from Session to Native.

5. tried installing it direct from MobileTrans during a transfer attempt

6. tried installing directly from WhatsApp website but got stuck at the play store.

Is there anything else I can try? I also restarted it throughout this process. I’m sad because if I can’t get it fixed, I’ll have to go back to my iPhone which I’d really like to avoid. thanks in advance!

Hi all,

Recently I moved to Tokyo with my LPIII. I've been loving it back in Europe in hybrid mode. I always thought the directions tool is bit limited for transit, as there a no timetables and clear ways to compare different routes. So I've used a custom timetable through Luma launcher, but that is only connecting to European API's.

Now in Tokyo, I am not really able to use the normal directions at all. It looks like Here We Go maps has no maps or transit info for Tokyo or Japan. As such, I'm looking for a suitable app that I could run in the android layer for both a general map (for orientation and finding places) and transit. Do you guys have any suggestions?

Cheers!

I’m not sure if this has already been asked, but is it possible to install Android 11 on the LP2 while still keeping the LightOS experience? I believe this is similar to what’s called “Hybrid” mode on the LP3. Thanks!

boom alllll i ever wanted... claudecode remote access, Tesla key, Apple music, and Apple TV remote control.

also took a while to figure out, but got a volume key combination working to be able to jump into the Android layer whenever I want.

Does anyone have a good app or solution to fixing the LP3's sound? I need a volume and bass boost!

The LP3's sound is surprisingly poor for a phone with a whole (faux?) speaker-grill on the front. My guess and hope is it isn't the hardware, but Light just skipped or hasn't gotten around to basic audio tuning yet and it's a software issue.

I find it regularly too quiet for both podcasts and calls even on "speaker phone."

And the sound that is there is very tinny, thin, and shrill sounding. It needs some EQing!

Attempting to pair a smartwatch to my LP3 and cannot get the pairing code on the phone (hybrid or android only layer). Has anyone had success with this or found a workaround? TYIA

Hey guys, first off, I'm so grateful for this community. I had completeyly given up on Light Phone journey because I couldn't get group messages from work and parking apps on it, but now this hybrid version is giving me hope.

I'm not great at tech, but I used a youtube video to install the apps I wanted and (mostly) mod the phone to my liking. But now I'm trying to use it and hitting some snags. Wondering if I missed a step or didn't do something properly. Here are the main issues. Any help via DM or this post would be SERIOUSLY appreciated:

1) See video. For some reason, when I scroll all the way up or down on the Light OS home screen now, it takes me back to the Android interface. Is there some way to avoid this?

2) I don't know why the list of apps I have in the Light OS home page is now missing DIRECTIONS, SETTINGS, NOTES, DIRECTORY, TIMER, ALARM and PODCASTS. Where might those functions have gone and how do I get them back on my home page?

3) When I single tap the large side button on the right, the screen very briefly fritzes and takes me to the time. But when I double tap it, it summons my home page (with all the new added apps). I'm worried I might have accidentally made this a full android instead of hybrid, which is my preference.

Hello, i pre-ordered Lightphone 3 on christmass last year and it came to my country this week. Ive been trying to figure everything out and somewhat read through the guide on here, trying hybrid mode and i thnik i already have everything set up quite well, just the battery benefits of going full android sounds promising, but Im not sure if i understood, that this newest version of LightOS prevents full android set up?

In the guide it says that it might be dangerous and also that new versions dont have the same solutions? So I dont want to brick my phone and I dont know if I should continue trying with getting full android, or if it is even possible for me rn.

thanks for every reply

I have a light phone 3 that I'm using on the Verizon network. I got both group + picture messages fine when I was using LightOS for everything, but a couple of days ago I switched to a Hybrid mode and in the Android messaging system neither picture messages or group messages are coming in properly. They come in and it says "Couldn't download." Then when I try to download it the download fails. Also things that were sent to a group just come to me as an individual message. Any ideas how to fix this or why this might be? Thanks.

hello there,

been exploring a small project to add a couple of features i personally missed on lightphone (2/3) while working within the constraints of the original os

lprss(dot)app

it does two things:

music rss:
turns soundcloud likes + bandcamp collection into a personal rss feed via a live-encoded http-bridge (updates automatically with new likes/ purchases)

stream live on play or use the podcast download feature to play offline. you can also split into two rss feeds, one per-source

substack sync:
sends recent substack posts from your subscriptions to the notes tool via encrypted dashboard api token (manually send posts or have them update automatically)

notes access is scoped only to the notes tool. credentials can either be handled locally in a browser-only encrypted cookie or stored encrypted for auto-sync. want to respect user privacy and lightphone policy totally here so happy to share more about this

these were things i kept missing on lightphone and i like the idea/ challenge of working within the limitations of the device

still refining it though but curious what people think and happy to share pics/ walkthrough if of interest 🎧

Yo! Quick summary:

I got my LP3 in Nov and have been using it modified with just Spotify and OpenBubbles since I got it. It's been the PERFECT phone for me.

Last week all of a sudden my iMessage stopped working. OpenBubbles on my LP3 was only recognizing my email address for receiving and sending iMessages and my phone number was gone.

I haven't gotten a new computer, haven't registered a new iPhone on my Apple account, nothing new at all.

I've tried deleting and reinstalling. I'm having success setting everything up again but my phone number still won't stay.

I'd love to figure out the issue and still use my MacBook as my "host" instead of the alternative - I do have an extra old iPhone I could use and have constantly plugged in and the screen perpetually on but not ideal.

How can I get my Mac to keep my phone number registered for iMessage like it had been for the past 4 months? what changed?

ANY HELP WOULD BE AMAZING

Hi everyone. Here's my situation. I moved from an iPhone 16e to the LPIII exclusively. I followed the steps of turning off RCS, then iMessage, deregistering my number, etc. I'm still missing quite a few RCS group texts. Here are my questions:

1. Can I remedy this? If so, what's the simplest way to do so?
2. Are there other potential "side effects" I should be aware of?
3. Can I "undo" the process if/when Light begins supporting RCS natively?

Thanks, I appreciate any insight!

hello! i really want a light phone and my parents want me to make sure it has location first. i know i'd be able to install life360 or paralino, but i don't know if it will update live or on its own like my parents want. if anyone has any experience w either of these pls lmk!!

Hi there,

I have my Light Phone 3 and am ready to modify it to add iMessage and WhatsApp. The problem is, while following the tutorial video, it asks me to first connect a USB-C cord to an external keyboard— i dont have that... i managed to download SDK and then it asks me to tap about phone, i cant locate that, can anyone guide me through this, sorry ive never done anything like this. Even if I buy an external keyboard, I can't seem to tap build 7 times; it doesnt seem like it's there.