I think the LED light drains my battery too much when the screen is off
any way to turn it off ?
Are you on ICS or JB? I thought on ICS there was a direct setting but can't remember what option under System Settings. Maybe "More Settings"?
If you're on JB, can you do it through Settings -> Blocking Mode?
I think "lightflow" from the playstore gives you the option to turn it off
Think it depends on what ROM. What do you have enabling the LED when screen is off? From what I have read around here it really doesnt drain battery.
jasvncnt1 said:
Think it depends on what ROM. What do you have enabling the LED when screen is off? From what I have read around here it really doesnt drain battery.
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having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol
I am running CM10 (stable) on Jelly Bean
anyone know how ?
Funkadelick said:
having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol
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Didn't realize people let the LED blink for hours. Relax dude
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MobileNick said:
If you're on JB, can you do it through Settings -> Blocking Mode?
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Should work. This way, you can disable all LED indicator all the time or for a selected period of time -- i.e. during the night.
More LED options are available in Settings -> Display -> LED Indicator, you can select which type(s) of LED indicator you want to activate or not (charging, low battery, notifications, and voice recording). It may then be interesting to configure these settings in conjuction with the blocking mode.
But that's on stock ROM. It might be different in CM10.
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having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol
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The S3's flashing led has negligible battery drain. (my experience)
I am using Light Manager app on a Stock ICS rom in normal mode blinking rapidly and have done the A/B tests to confirm that it is the least of your worries. I am a battery saving nut and have lots of experience with this.
But I would say, that some LED control apps have been known to cause heavy battery drain both to wakelocks and/or just the way they handle the switching.
themadproducer said:
The S3's flashing led has negligible battery drain. (my experience)
I am using Light Manager app on a Stock ICS rom in normal mode blinking rapidly and have done the A/B tests to confirm that it is the least of your worries. I am a battery saving nut and have lots of experience with this.
But I would say, that some LED control apps have been known to cause heavy battery drain both to wakelocks and/or just the way they handle the switching.
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Hi, you may be able to help me.
BBS indicates 100% awake while screen off. 90% of the times is the Kernel locks "leds wakelock"
What is it and how can I fix it?
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Right now if the battery level is below certain point, the brightness setting and stand-by time setting get automatically set by the system, and cannot be changed.
I don't know what app or what part of the system is doing this for me automatically. I unchecked "power saving mode" and still.
This is very frustrating. I understand the phone may THINK it's helping me save battery but in fact the brightness I want and I usually set is even LOWER than the auto value the phone sets for me. And besides, I don't like the idea that MY phone is being controlled by someone/something else and I don't have an option to disable that something.
Someone please shed some light?
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Note that this is NOT the "power saving mode". I disabled "power saving mode" and still this problem.
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Right now if the battery level is below certain point, the brightness setting and stand-by time setting get automatically set by the system, and cannot be changed.
I don't know what app or what part of the system is doing this for me automatically. I unchecked "power saving mode" and still.
This is very frustrating. I understand the phone may THINK it's helping me save battery but in fact the brightness I want and I usually set is even LOWER than the auto value the phone sets for me. And besides, I don't like the idea that MY phone is being controlled by someone/something else and I don't have an option to disable that something.
Someone please shed some light?
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this is the last 5% of battery correct?
G1_enthusiast said:
this is the last 5% of battery correct?
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I don't know the number right now. I'll keep an eye on phone as the battery drops and let you guys know the exact threshold that triggers this.
If it's some system app that's doing this, I have no problem freezing it using Titanium Backup just like how I freezed "Tethering Manager" to enable wifi hotspot and I freezed "My Account" so that 3G doesn't come on when wifi is connected.
Just don't know which app it is...
have you flash other roms to see if it go away? i think jug 2.0 take away this problem
And the even more ridiculous thing about it is that it auto sets the stand-by time to 30 seconds, and after I charge the battery to above the threshold it doesn't change the stand-by time back to where you set it! You have to change it back yourself.
Did you try a master reset and see if that fixed it?
No guys its like builtin in alot of roms with out apps... Its the system
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For me there is a "power savings mode" right in the settings menu that does what you describe. Granted I'm not on stock ROM, but I think it was there with the Telus ROM too.
Liquid5n0w said:
For me there is a "power savings mode" right in the settings menu that does what you describe. Granted I'm not on stock ROM, but I think it was there with the Telus ROM too.
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sounds exactly like pwer saving mode!! its in the settings
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sounds exactly like pwer saving mode!! its in the settings
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This isnt power saving mode causing this. Power saving mode is turned off and this still happens to me once my battery hits like 10%. This is built into the rom somewhere and the vibrant had the same thing. One of the devs for the vibrant was able to disable this setting in their rom so maybe the devs can do the same here. Again this is not power saving mode which can be set at certain levels that you would like.
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Yeah once it reach 5%, the autobrightness become very bright and doesn't change..I have tested it on all ROM..and it's not the powersaving..I think it drain the battery really fast to help mentation the health of the battery..just guessing though..and stock ROM is more sensitive than jnault ROM..
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This isnt power saving mode causing this. Power saving mode is turned off and this still happens to me once my battery hits like 10%. This is built into the rom somewhere and the vibrant had the same thing. One of the devs for the vibrant was able to disable this setting in their rom so maybe the devs can do the same here. Again this is not power saving mode which can be set at certain levels that you would like.
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Yeah once it reach 5%, the autobrightness become very bright and doesn't change..I have tested it on all ROM..and it's not the powersaving..I think it drain the battery really fast to help mentation the health of the battery..just guessing though..and stock ROM is more sensitive than jnault ROM..
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You guys are right. It's not the power saving mode. This happens even when I turn OFF my power saving mode. It's something else in the system that's doing this, and yes, the auto brightness the system sets is even brighter than what I previously set myself. So, what a useful feature!
mine does the right thing, opposite of what your phones are doing. im guessing at about 5% battery life, the display sets itself pretty close to the lowest (if not the lowest) brightness setting, even with my power saving mode option unchecked. i wonder if the auto adjust screen power has something to do with it, since i got that checked all the time. but maybe not. im running on beastmod 1.0 rom.
I am currently using a custom rom, AndroidME GNex 1.9 and I have faster blinking notification lights built into the rom. I am looking to switch to another rom as the developer has disappeared and I'm still on 4.1.1, frequently getting messages to update to 4.1.2 Many of the other roms do not list faster blinking LED's as a feature though. I know Liteflow drains the battery a lot but I can't seem to find another alternative. This feature has been so useful I don't know what I'll do without it.
Any suggestions? I tried looking for liteflow alternatives but nothing came up.
Just to let you know, I don't think light flow is any worse for the battery than what is built in the rom. I just checked in the battery usage and light flow isn't even mentioned. Maybe I'm not looking right? And even if it did, it wouldn't be much, I thought led lights don't take a lot of battery
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Just chiming in. I use Light Flor as well and it's had 0 effects on my battery life. It is also not mentioned on my battery screen. Last thing mentioned is Instagram and that is at 2%.
How do you enable offline charging leds...nothing lights up when charging with phone off. Charging status can be checked by depressing power button when charging, but no led lights. Currently running [ROM][KERNEL][4.4.2/4.3] Quantum v3.21 & QuantumKernel 1/16 on galaxy s3 i747 d2att. Have tried enabling different settings in display & lights...battery options etc. Is this possibly a kernel feature that needs to be addressed? Thanks
I think turning on kernel would mean turning on the phone - CPU and all. If I am not wrong, battery charging circuit is the one that kicks in when the phone is switched off and charging applied. I see this happening independent of phone processes when phone is off.
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I think turning on kernel would mean turning on the phone - CPU and all. If I am not wrong, battery charging circuit is the one that kicks in when the phone is switched off and charging applied. I see this happening independent of phone processes when phone is off.
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Would that mean the feature is controlled by the rom? Charging leds seem to work properly if phone is being charged while on. I can restore to Hyperdrive 4.1.2, which I have on nandroid in which the charging leds work properly. The Quantum 4.4.2 is based on the CM11 nightly rom...I've seen nothing in that forum about this. I'm limited to where I can ask about this because of posting rules. Thanks for responding.
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Would that mean the feature is controlled by the rom? Charging leds seem to work properly if phone is being charged while on. I can restore to Hyperdrive 4.1.2, which I have on nandroid in which the charging leds work properly. The Quantum 4.4.2 is based on the CM11 nightly rom...I've seen nothing in that forum about this. I'm limited to where I can ask about this because of posting rules. Thanks for responding.
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Yes. That's what I feel. I feel the LED is controlled by phone software, wherin the battery level you see is controlled by charging circuit that should be separate from phone software.
diablo009 said:
Yes. That's what I feel. I feel the LED is controlled by phone software, wherin the battery level you see is controlled by charging circuit that should be separate from phone software.
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OK, thanks for helping with the explanation...guess I'll just have to hope some future update fixes this feature. It's not a deal killer with the rom, just inconvenient when charging with phone off.
cybrgeek 45 said:
OK, thanks for helping with the explanation...guess I'll just have to hope some future update fixes this feature. It's not a deal killer with the rom, just inconvenient when charging with phone off.
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From what I have observed thus far, charging battery with phone off gets routed via a separate circuitry, without activating any of phone functions. This enables battery to get charged faster too. Not sure if anyone would alter a functionality this core level.
To Be sure in what I am saying, I just restored my Hyperdrive backup, & charging led works fine with phone off. CM nightly also has no charging lights...maybe just something left out of the mod or a hidden setting. Maybe someone else will address this in the Quantum Rom section. Thanks again for spending your time on this!!
Oh. Now that's new to me. Maybe I missed something. Sorry.
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In Marshmallow we had the enable LED option under Settings -> Screen, on Nougat this option is not there anymore, Light Flow with Normal/Direct/ROOT mode doesn't work too..
Does anyone knows an easy way tô enable the LED?
Since Marshmallow I've been enabling Miracast with a simple line on build.prop, hopefully there is another for enabling the LED.
Thanks.
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Thanks! I haven't seem that menu..
The only bug on N that I am experiencing is that some apps seem to no longer trigger the notification light. Chrome does, for example, but Touchdown does not.
is sound for charging and led for charging is working in the Android N
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is sound for charging and led for charging is working in the Android N
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Led isn't enabled while charging. I don't know why google doesn't likes leds.
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The only bug on N that I am experiencing is that some apps seem to no longer trigger the notification light. Chrome does, for example, but Touchdown does not.
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I noticed this on one of my apps when I set the phone down for a few hours like overnight, no light and no sound. I woke up this AM and seen no notification light and then as soon as i pressed the power button to wake up the screen the notification sound played. defiantly a bug, not sure if its with one specific app or across the board. I have yet to get a late night call, as far as I know.
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I noticed this on one of my apps when I set the phone down for a few hours like overnight, no light and no sound. I woke up this AM and seen no notification light and then as soon as i pressed the power button to wake up the screen the notification sound played. defiantly a bug, not sure if its with one specific app or across the board. I have yet to get a late night call, as far as I know.
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Do you charge overnight? If not, probably just doze.
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Do you charge overnight? If not, probably just doze.
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It should not matter if it was charging or not, I'm trying to understand where you are going with this?
The app functions perfectly until the phone is left alone for several hours then it will never notify, no light, no sound, nothing until I hit the power button., then the sound played no light obviously.
I am tempted to start a thread on this shortly, but I need to see if other apps behave the same way.
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It should not matter if it was charging or not, I'm trying to understand where you are going with this?
The app functions perfectly until the phone is left alone for several hours then it will never notify, no light, no sound, nothing until I hit the power button., then the sound played no light obviously.
I am tempted to start a thread on this shortly, but I need to see if other apps behave the same way.
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Disable battery optimizations for the poorly coded app.
Settings > Battery > three dot menu button > Battery optimization > Select Not Optimized and change to All apps > Find and select app > Pick Don't optimize > Done
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Disable battery optimizations for the poorly coded app.
Settings > Battery > three dot menu button > Battery optimization > Select Not Optimized and change to All apps > Find and select app > Pick Don't optimize > Done
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I know there is that option, however I did not have to preform this in 6.0.1 for any app, so that's why I am wondering whats up and if that will make a difference or not. I do know that apps with GCS can automatically bypass this from what I read, but that has to be written into the app. I will continue to experiment with seeing what apps do it or do not do it without messing around with turning off optimization for any app like with 6.0.1 . Either this version of doze is overly aggressive or its a bug
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I know there is that option, however I did not have to preform this in 6.0.1 for any app, so that's why I am wondering whats up and if that will make a difference or not. I do know that apps with GCS can automatically bypass this from what I read, but that has to be written into the app. I will continue to experiment with seeing what apps do it or do not do it without messing around with turning off optimization for any app like with 6.0.1 . Either this version of doze is overly aggressive or its a bug
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Or the app hasn't been updated to cope with the improvements made to doze in N.
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Or the app hasn't been updated to cope with the improvements made to doze in N.
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Well, in any case its too early to tell what it is, at least for my level of understanding the android OS as well as some others on here.
I guess I will just sit tight n wait and see what others are saying about notifications
Thanks
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Well, in any case its too early to tell what it is, at least for my level of understanding the android OS as well as some others on here.
I guess I will just sit tight n wait and see what others are saying about notifications
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From my understanding/experience, Doze is significantly more aggressive now than it was in 6. Which is great for battery life, but annoying when you're watching TV and expecting an email or some such.
The charging comment in my other post was due to the understanding that doze is disabled while charging; if you charge over night everything should come in normally, but if you just leave the phone down then it will not.
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From my understanding/experience, Doze is significantly more aggressive now than it was in 6. Which is great for battery life, but annoying when you're watching TV and expecting an email or some such.
The charging comment in my other post was due to the understanding that doze is disabled while charging; if you charge over night everything should come in normally, but if you just leave the phone down then it will not.
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I thought that might be what you might be getting at .
If doze is more aggressive, i think it is overly aggressive to the point where sometime within an hour of setting your phone down it will only alert for calls/text messages, nothing else, then if the text come in early enough in the light the notification light will completely stop by the time you wake up. I am just not too happy about how overly aggressive this is as like you stated expecting someone to contact you in some way you are SOL. I don't think one should have to go through every single app to set it manually, that is pointless IMO
I have re flashed my system partition since the factory images came out a few hours ago so maybe(not) that could help but I am not optimistic.
Thanks for clearing that up
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I thought that might be what you might be getting at .
If doze is more aggressive, i think it is overly aggressive to the point where sometime within an hour of setting your phone down it will only alert for calls/text messages, nothing else, then if the text come in early enough in the light the notification light will completely stop by the time you wake up. I am just not too happy about how overly aggressive this is as like you stated expecting someone to contact you in some way you are SOL. I don't think one should have to go through every single app to set it manually, that is pointless IMO
I have re flashed my system partition since the factory images came out a few hours ago so maybe(not) that could help but I am not optimistic.
Thanks for clearing that up
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Doze does not completely kill the services. It just adds more and more delay to its syncing, so even if doze is working aggressively, the notifications should be delayed (like by some seconds or minutes), not completely disabled. The case you are stating doesn't seems normal. I don't know if the apps need to be updated.
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I noticed this on one of my apps when I set the phone down for a few hours like overnight, no light and no sound. I woke up this AM and seen no notification light and then as soon as i pressed the power button to wake up the screen the notification sound played. defiantly a bug, not sure if its with one specific app or across the board. I have yet to get a late night call, as far as I know.
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So, at least in my case, I solved this issue with the notification light. I went into Settings --> System UI Tuner --> Other --> Power Notification Controls --> and turned them on. Then, Settings --> Notifications --> Touchdown (the app that was giving me problems) --> and changed the notification level from Auto to Level 4 (one down from the top).
Since then, the notification light works as expected.
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Thanks been bugging me for days wondered if had been disabled in N just hidden in the cog setting hadn't noticed it lol
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Hello,
Is there any reason why when on battery saver mode (not extreme), the LED keeps blinking red to indicate low battery? This is stupid (I already know that I have low battery) and it apparently consumes energy and makes the battery drain fast. Is there any way to turn it off? Not completely, just the battery-related red blink.
Cheers.
errikosd said:
Hello,
Is there any reason why when on battery saver mode (not extreme), the LED keeps blinking red to indicate low battery? This is stupid (I already know that I have low battery) and it apparently consumes energy and makes the battery drain fast. Is there any way to turn it off? Not completely, just the battery-related red blink.
Cheers.
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Are you on a custom or stock rom?
errikosd said:
Hello,
Is there any reason why when on battery saver mode (not extreme), the LED keeps blinking red to indicate low battery? This is stupid (I already know that I have low battery) and it apparently consumes energy and makes the battery drain fast. Is there any way to turn it off? Not completely, just the battery-related red blink.
Cheers.
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Only way I've found to turn it off is Gravity box. Viper rom does have the setting but the last time I tried it all it did was to lower the percentage at which power saver turned on. So not a satisfactory fix.
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Are you on a custom or stock rom?
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Nope, stock Marshmallow...
I dug around in the settings a little bit, but I did not find any option. I mean you can turn it off for calls, messages, etc. but not for battery.
errikosd said:
Nope, stock Marshmallow...
I dug around in the settings a little bit, but I did not find any option. I mean you can turn it off for calls, messages, etc. but not for battery.
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You can change the led notifications with a custom rom and or a custom kernel. But as far as I'm aware it doesn't exist right now for the stock rom.
You say your marshmallow. Have you looked at xposed modules? Do you have root?
Flashing a red led is going to consume negligible power compared to for example having your screen on.
I would very much doubt that you could actually measure the difference in additional battery time between led flashing and led off
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Flashing a red led is going to consume negligible power compared to for example having your screen on.
I would very much doubt that you could actually measure the difference in additional battery time between led flashing and led off
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I think you are right. I have a new device and I wanted to discharge it completely, so I left home today with 15% battery. About 1 hour later, I was on 5% and another hour later at 2%. I was not connected to WiFi, neither I had data on. I suppose it is just the battery's factory charge.