So, I sold my Nexus S and bought a Galaxy Nexus today. I cannot seem to figure out exactly how the LED works. It doesn't seem to work reliably for all notifications.
Can someone please explain how the LED system works and also if you can customize the colors per app/person
Light flow from the Market...
I second light flow. It gets hung up sometimes and still glows after I viewed the message or call. But stock notifications never worked right.
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I like the setting for it to clear the led when you turn on the screen. I don't think it's ever hung up on me that way.
Ericstotle said:
I second light flow. It gets hung up sometimes and still glows after I viewed the message or call. But stock notifications never worked right.
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On stock there doesn't seem to be a way to adjust the notification light, without the aid of an external application. In saying this though, I haven't been able to work out the rate/times it blinks as sometimes it seems to double blink then sleep for a longer period then blink at a normal pace.
I only really have text messages come through with the odd call, so I couldn't verify the other notifications.
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I wish stock was able to dosimple mods to led notification like colour and interval. I dont like tonnes of apps to run in the background all the time.
Sharp75 said:
I wish stock was able to dosimple mods to led notification like colour and interval. I dont like tonnes of apps to run in the background all the time.
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This is such an obvious improvement I would be astonished if it did not show up in one of the next ICS updates.
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I like the setting for it to clear the led when you turn on the screen. I don't think it's ever hung up on me that way.
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Yeah its the only way LightFlow can work without false positives it seems.
And the GNex has a ton of RAM. Having a 7mb app in cached background is am issue?! The RAM is on anyway, you might as well use it.
I think both stock notification and light flow are far from being perfect. Both failed on various occasions, the former more than the latter. Therefore, I think there is room for a new app to accurately control LED notifications on the Galaxy Nexus. I would pay even 10 - 15 euros for such an app.
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GreenishApples said:
I like the setting for it to clear the led when you turn on the screen. I don't think it's ever hung up on me that way.
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Shame that setting isn't global
Using Light Flow Lite also. My tip is to just use it to manage the LED, don't use it to manage sounds/vibrates unless you feel like being really anal about your notifications. I found when setting it up that I got a lot of double notifies and crap that I didn't want. Just my 2c.
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I want to be able to change how fast the led blinks bc every time I look at it I have to stare at it for at least 30+ seconds to see if I have a message. Thx
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enkrypt3d said:
I want to be able to change how fast the led blinks bc every time I look at it I have to stare at it for at least 30+ seconds to see if I have a message. Thx
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If you're rooted you can use the app called light flow. It allows you to change the color of each notification light and the frequency it blinks at
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Light Flow
You can use the Light Flow app to manage your notifications. You can alter the light speed (slow to always on), and light color, along with vibrations.
It's nice to be able to know whether or not you got an e-mail or a text, with only the vibrations in your pocket.
Check the market, comes in a "Lite" (free) version and a $1.99 full version (more apps supported).
Root is not required. I've been using it on my nexus since the day I got it.
Careful with Light Flow, When I installed it and set it up, whenever my phone went to sleep mode the program wouldn't allow my phone to wake up again. I summarily uninstalled it and got a refund.
QuadFather said:
Careful with Light Flow, When I installed it and set it up, whenever my phone went to sleep mode the program wouldn't allow my phone to wake up again. I summarily uninstalled it and got a refund.
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An update from the developer takes care of this issue. The app works as advertised, quite well too.
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I also recommend Light Flow, it has worked flawlessly for me. I really like how it allows you to choose whether you want the LED to rotate through all your notifications, show the most recent, or show the highest priority.
You don't even need to be rooted to use light flow!
is it possible to add WhatsApp to lightflow?
(I see its supported in "additional apps supported by light flow", but the device only detects Google Talk in social apps)
Yes, default colour green.
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Go with Lightflow. Another nice feature for us crackflashers is, Lightflow will let backup your settings/preferences so once you set up a new rom and install the app it takes 2 seconds to restore your settings.
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Recently whenever I enable lightflow in accessibility my phone gets all ****ed up and I can only do something if I use 2 fingers
I never noticed this until the lastest update, but the LED changes different colors for different notifications. Voice mail gets a green , Facebook gets a blue,etc..I remember my phone use to light up a rainbow color.. anyone noticed these changes?
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May be someone that can clarify your answer... all I know is that I use Light Flow to change the color of the notifications.
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Which update? Carrier or XDA?
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The blue notification comes from the 1.9 update of the Facebook app. I don't use Voicemail, so I can't comment on that. SMS notifications are white (whitish) by default, can't change that without 3rd party hacks.
I configured Whatsapp though, to give green notification light, but you could change that to anything else in the app settings.
If you want more options for other apps, use an app like lightflow, although personally I don't like it, never worked reliable for me.
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The led has always been different colors, depending on your apps. Nothing new.
RogerPodacter said:
The led has always been different colors, depending on your apps. Nothing new.
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I have Android 4.0.1, yakjuux, Galaxy Nexus from Fido.
So far, my LED light has never lit up when I get a Whatsapp message. There's an option for light color in the Whatsapp settings menu, but it doesn't seem to work. I don't feel I need to download third party apps (light flow) in order to make the built-in LED of the phone to work. Shouldn't the notification LED work out of the box, without any tinkering?
Anyone else have this issue?
Seems normal. Have u rooted? CM9 nighties now has great support for led color notifications
My led was never lighting up for some reason until I started using Light Flow. I can't understand why would they give us a nice multi-color led and not use it nicely. And my god have I missed the charging orange led and charged green from htc.
I'm also using Light Flow and it works great, otherwise not so much with stock but the LED has always been a tri colored led.
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Seems normal. Have u rooted? CM9 nighties now has great support for led color notifications
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Normal for the LED not to work, even thought Whatsapp has an setting for it? That seems ridiculous.
My phone is not rooted, and I don't think I'd have to in order to make this LED to work. Why even put one on the phone if it doesn't work???
Oliie23 said:
. And my god have I missed the charging orange led and charged green from htc.
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Oliie23 said:
My led was never lighting up for some reason until I started using Light Flow. I can't understand why would they give us a nice multi-color led and not use it nicely. And my god have I missed the charging orange led and charged green from htc.
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So far, I haven't noticed any different colours on my GN. It would be great if it comes through the official update. Else CM9 shouldn't be far away anyways
Anyone get Light Flow and Go SMS working together? I can't get the notification LED to work whether it's using GO SMS's built in "blinking LED" function or using Light Flow.
When attempting to use light flow, I turn off the "blinking LED" option in Go SMS. I've also tried using the alternate monitoring options.
Still not working.
EDIT: Well, I ended up uninstalling Light Flow. Notification light works again. I just can't customize the LED color. Guess I'll have to wait until Light Flow gets updated to work with the S III.
Also, even though Go SMS "blink LED" works, the color settings are messed up. The color you pick doesn't correlate to what shows up. Must be an app issue as well. But hey, at least it works.
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the color settings are messed up. The color you pick doesn't correlate to what shows up.
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Same here.
Maverick777 said:
Anyone get Light Flow and Go SMS working together? I can't get the notification LED to work whether it's using GO SMS's built in "blinking LED" function or using Light Flow.
When attempting to use light flow, I turn off the "blinking LED" option in Go SMS. I've also tried using the alternate monitoring options.
Still not working.
EDIT: Well, I ended up uninstalling Light Flow. Notification light works again. I just can't customize the LED color. Guess I'll have to wait until Light Flow gets updated to work with the S III.
Also, even though Go SMS "blink LED" works, the color settings are messed up. The color you pick doesn't correlate to what shows up. Must be an app issue as well. But hey, at least it works.
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Did you go into accessibility and enable light flow there?
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Anyone get Light Flow and Go SMS working together? I can't get the notification LED to work whether it's using GO SMS's built in "blinking LED" function or using Light Flow.
When attempting to use light flow, I turn off the "blinking LED" option in Go SMS. I've also tried using the alternate monitoring options.
Still not working.
EDIT: Well, I ended up uninstalling Light Flow. Notification light works again. I just can't customize the LED color. Guess I'll have to wait until Light Flow gets updated to work with the S III.
Also, even though Go SMS "blink LED" works, the color settings are messed up. The color you pick doesn't correlate to what shows up. Must be an app issue as well. But hey, at least it works.
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Does the LED actually blink for you albeit with effed up colours? Cause it doesn't blink for me, just stays one solid messed up colour.
It stays solid just like you said.
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wings76 said:
It stays solid just like you said.
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Solid LED: text notification
Blinking LED: General notifications, ie gmail
for social networks, facebook, ect, idk, since I don't use them
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Solid LED: text notification
Blinking LED: General notifications, ie gmail
for social networks, facebook, ect, idk, since I don't use them
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Then it goes the exact opposite of mine. Mine blinks for text notifications, and stays solid for others.
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Hes working on the app to address issues with lightflow an the gs3
Both my and my dad's sgh-i747 displays the wrong led colour.
Blue comes out as red, green as magenta, etc.
I'm starting to think its a problem with all north American versions of the.phone? My friends with the i9300 don't have this problem!
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Both my and my dad's sgh-i747 displays the wrong led colour.
Blue comes out as red, green as magenta, etc.
I'm starting to think its a problem with all north American versions of the.phone? My friends with the i9300 don't have this problem!
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Yeah the hex codes are all messed up in the NA version, so regardless of what program you are setting the colors with they're almost opposite. Yellow = White from my experience if anyone wants white haha
I'm so glad this got brought up, but it's a shame nobody's found a fix yet. It's such a subtle, yet mindblowingly irritating thing. Mine is sold red, no matter what I change in both the system LED settings, or the GoSMS settings. I haven't bothered with LightFlo, since everyone reported the mis-representation of color changes in the settings.
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Anyone know the fix for this?
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If your on a twiz rom the colors are gonna be all messed up. For example if you use light flow to change the color of the led you'll notice that the color you set it to be is not the color it is. This is an os problem. If you flash a stock android based rom like cm9 cm10 or aokp they will be fixed.
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If your on a twiz rom the colors are gonna be all messed up. For example if you use light flow to change the color of the led you'll notice that the color you set it to be is not the color it is. This is an os problem. If you flash a stock android based rom like cm9 cm10 or aokp they will be fixed.
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Now this is some handy info. Does this apply to someone having CM9 or 10 AND GoSMS as well?
I installed the apk NoLed from GooglePlay (https://play.google.com/store/apps/...lt#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5sZWQubm90aWZ5Il0.) and i think it is a fantastic apk as we don´t have a regular notification led as others phones.
How does this work exactly does it prevent your phone from going to sleep? What about the Lock screen? Do you have to remove the lock screen to see this?
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How does this work exactly does it prevent your phone from going to sleep? What about the Lock screen? Do you have to remove the lock screen to see this?
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You have lots of options to configure the apk, when i receive email (gmail) my phone vibrate, make a sound and the screen blinks an small mail icon, all black, just the icon. You can set how long it will blink, can also ajust the proximity sensor to not show the icon when the phone is in you pocket, and so on.
Too much to tell, install and try.
Seems good!
Thanks
The app is quite good, very customizable, but it drains too much battery. Energy saving options are not enough.
Sadly uninstalled.
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Are you referring to with even no notifications active? Or with notifications active?
For me, it doesn't seem to bad, though overall batter drain is like 10% over 10 hours, sleeping with nothing else active.
Can't say.. if i get a text, or just a whatsapp notification or anything else, my battery is drained when i take it back. I don't say that battery is halved, but it is still a remarkable loss.
This is why we need BLN. BLN should use a lot less juice as it is only a small LED and not a big screen. Hopefully someone will modify the ICS kernel and we will get it.
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This is why we need BLN. BLN should use a lot less juice as it is only a small LED and not a big screen. Hopefully someone will modify the ICS kernel and we will get it.
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From what you said, i'm assuming you totally has no idea how (AM)OLED screens works, so let me give you a fast walktrough.
On most mobile phones you can see TFT-LCD based screens. These screens uses a background (white) light trough the entire screen surface, this light is first polarized then secondly filtered. This filter is controlled by the electronic, witch results how it blocks or let's trough the way of the background light, resulting the picture what you see on the screen.
However the LED screens, including OLED and AMOLED screen are rather different from the above.
Each pixel on the screen is one tiny independent light source, aka. a Light Emitting Diode.
When the question comes to power consumption, from the above you can see that the TFT-LCD has a relative constant power consumption, because the backlight always has to be on, even if the entire screen shows black.
As for LED displays, only those areas uses power, witch actually emits light, in other words: the pixel/screen area is else then full black.
This is the reason why "use as much black as possible" is mostly suggested for this kind of screen, because if the less leds emitting light, the less the power consumption are.
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this is a must have... if u don't have an led and amoled and from what iv'e seen it isnt a battery hog...
I've tried the BLN app, and it didn't work for me. Has anyone gotten it to work on the glide?
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I've tried the BLN app, and it didn't work for me. Has anyone gotten it to work on the glide?
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i never know how to use BLN i download the app, and try settings, the lights turrn on when i receive sms or something, but thats all, i want them to blink or something like that
lorddavid said:
i never know how to use BLN i download the app, and try settings, the lights turrn on when i receive sms or something, but thats all, i want them to blink or something like that
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I think the BLN pro app would be able to achieve the blinking. You have to buy it though.
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but sure? :/ somebody can confirm that D:
Confirm it adds blink function with the paid version? Yes.
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nice app....always wanted something like that.... thanks a lot guys....
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I'm currently with a phone that has an LED notification light which is pretty convenient for me because I'm the type of persons who usually check his phone only when there's a message. Nowadays, I knew that this convenient notification LED have been discontinued
If I buy a future One Plus phone, How can I tell if I get e.g. a whatsapp message without constantly checking my phone from time to time?
P.S. I'm also not interested to have an that thing called "on screen display" that is running 24/7 just for an average 2-3 messages I recieve / day. I'm aware of software notification LED in the app store but I'm not really into software solutions because they tend to eat battery life pretty much the same way as on screen display.
I also don't really understand what's the deal about eliminating it?! if they can't find a space for it on the edges - because edges became so small nowadays - they can simply merge it somehow with the punch out lens for the front camera! or make a built-in software solution that popus out the notification on the screen ONLY when I get a message.
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I'm currently with a phone that has an LED notification light which is pretty convenient for me because I'm the type of persons who usually check his phone only when there's a message. Nowadays, I knew that this convenient notification LED have been discontinued
If I buy a future One Plus phone, How can I tell if I get e.g. a whatsapp message without constantly checking my phone from time to time?
P.S. I'm also not interested to have an that thing called "on screen display" that is running 24/7 just for an average 2-3 messages I recieve / day. I'm aware of software notification LED in the app store but I'm not really into software solutions because they tend to eat battery life pretty much the same way as on screen display.
I also don't really understand what's the deal about eliminating it?! if they can't find a space for it on the edges - because edges became so small nowadays - they can simply merge it somehow with the punch out lens for the front camera! or make a built-in software solution that popus out the notification on the screen ONLY when I get a message.
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First I thought that same but I think ambient display replaced the notification led. If you lift it up or just tap (not double tap) on the screen, you will see your notifications. I don't like always on display too.
Kollachi said:
First I thought that same but I think ambient display replaced the notification led. If you lift it up or just tap (not double tap) on the screen, you will see your notifications. I don't like always on display too.
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So do I have to tap everytime I'm suspecting a message?! That's not convenient at all and I really hope that all manufacturers return back that LED notification light. It was a stupid decision to make really
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So do I have to tap everytime I'm suspecting a message?! That's not convenient at all and I really hope that all manufacturers return back that LED notification light. It was a stupid decision to make really
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No, if you get a message your phone will turn the ambient display on too, to show you the notification. But after a few seconds it will turn the screen off again.
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No, if you get a message your phone will turn the ambient display on too, to show you the notification. But after a few seconds it will turn the screen off again.
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That's still not convenient because I may not be present beside my phone to see the notification when it's triggered. The notification LED is blinking in a nicer continuous way to tell me that there's something i need to check. I still insist that ditching it was a very silly decision towards inconvenience
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That's still not convenient because I may not be present beside my phone to see the notification when it's triggered. The notification LED is blinking in a nicer continuous way to tell me that there's something i need to check. I still insist that ditching it was a very silly decision towards inconvenience
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I know, but you will get used to it.
I also miss my notification LED from my OP6. I installed the app called NotifyBuddy to replace it.
jonny30bass said:
I also miss my notification LED from my OP6. I installed the app called NotifyBuddy to replace it.
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I bought that as soon as I saw it, amazing! Thanks for the heads up!
jonny30bass said:
I also miss my notification LED from my OP6. I installed the app called NotifyBuddy to replace it.
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But what about battery drain?
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But what about battery drain?
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It's not good as the app needs to be running all the time even in the background to deliver notifications. I read so many negative reviews about such apps. Nothing is convenient like the LED notification
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When using NotifyBuddy, disable notifications on ambient display and double tap to wake, so it can work properly.
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It's not good as the app needs to be running all the time even in the background to deliver notifications. I read so many negative reviews about such apps. Nothing is convenient like the LED notification
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That's what I don't like. Third party apps are mostly bad at batter drain.
Well if u guys are patient enough Oneplus already confirmed they are working on Always on Display for that reason.
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Well if u guys are patient enough Oneplus already confirmed they are working on Always on Display for that reason.
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The whole point of the discussion is return of the notification LED which doesn't need constant unlocking for the phone to see if there's anything new, nor does it need an always on screen display
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The whole point of the discussion is return of the notification LED which doesn't need constant unlocking for the phone to see if there's anything new, nor does it need an always on screen display
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Well if you read what is always on display you will realise you dont have to unlock your phone to see anything
Give NoLED a try.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692
I find the lack of LED very annoying.
yes, you can tap the screen, or lift it up to check, but I find it very common that a notification icon is NOT present, but if I unlock, and scroll down, I will see a new email/text/etc.
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Well if you read what is always on display you will realise you dont have to unlock your phone to see anything
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And if you read the first post, you will see he isn't interested in "AOD".
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And if you read the first post, you will see he isn't interested in "AOD".
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AOD, if well done, does not drain any more battery than a notification LED. When you get a notification, it will only lit up a few pixels on the screen, in any shape you want. You can literally simulate a LED with AOD. Personally I use the app "always on edge", I set it up to show the name of the contact and the messaging app when I receive a text, super useful, way better than just a LED. I didn't notice any more drain in battery life, I can still very easily last a whole day of heavy use.
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AOD, if well done, does not drain any more battery than a notification LED. When you get a notification, it will only lit up a few pixels on the screen, in any shape you want. You can literally simulate a LED with AOD. Personally I use the app "always on edge", I set it up to show the name of the contact and the messaging app when I receive a text, super useful, way better than just a LED. I didn't notice any more drain in battery life, I can still very easily last a whole day of heavy use.
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that looks interesting.. thanks for the tip.
EDIT: I can't get AOE to show up on my OP7T when the screen is off? Am I missing something obvious? I gave it all of the permissions I saw it asking for... but still no visual way to tell I had a notification without touching the phone.