I used to own a nokia N8 before my beloved galaxy s2.
I miss a feature that the nokia had which is that it shows the clock and date and any missed calls. However this does not affect battery life.
I searched but did not find any thing relevant.
Can this be done in android ?
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Try Widget locker from the app store...it has several options for your lock screen
I agree, Widget Locker that is all you need. It's perfect.
Thanks for the reply. Had a look at widget locker not sure if it does this.
in n8 if in sleep mode . Ie. The screen is supposed to be switched off. So when I wake up at night I just look at the phone without having to click a button.
Sorry I could not post a picture.
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I think NoLED does this. A lot of people were having battery issues because of it but this is what you are looking for.
Actually , the screen of the N8 is AMOLED. and i think the technology of only powering on the pixles that are needed helps in keeping the power consumption low.
power consumption is very low in amoled and super amoled......
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Hi,
New to forums and have what may be a dumb question but feel I should ask
I have been using my clock app as my alarm clock at night. I am curious if this is bad for my screen over the long-term? The app appears to move the clock around to avoid burn-in (or at least that out what I assume it is for).... Any comments? I don't keep my phones forever, but I'd hope to use it for 2 to 3 years.
Any info would be great! Thanks.
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When using the clock app how do you get the screen to stay on do you use the docking station.
I use the clock app set the brightness to minimum to save battery power then the screen turns off after a couple of minutes.
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No I do not use a dock, I just stand it up against the lamp on my night stand.
I haven't set anything special, but you are right in the sense that the screen will eventually dim, but my clock stays lit and moves around every few minutes.
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Oh and I have mine plugged in to the wall too....just picked up that you said "too save battery power". I bet it is programmed to turn the screen off when it is on battery, and leaves it on when plugged in.
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First thing I want to say is that I didn't create this app.
But for everyone who finds the bLED idea kind of handy: NoLED does it too, but in another way.
Here the link to the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730692
I confirm that this application works very well on the GALAXY NOTE.
Thank you to the developer.
BubbleBuzz is better
Thanks. NoLed is an amazing app
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Screen based "LED notification" are not that healthy even with the SAMOLED, the screen is still lit and voltage is going through the screen and not only that but you also degrade both green and red OLEDs as they stay on even when a black picture is displayed as backed up by this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21560940&postcount=103
But if you dont care of any of those then its pretty ok to use at the expense of battery life.
An amazing app indeed. If only it didnt eat my battery. Since removing it I went from 1 day to 2 days on a batterycharge.
Not giving noled all the credit tho, also switched to LA4 a few days ago.
Nice application works very well on the NOTE.
I am a Noled user for 2 Years now, Its the best! ű
I tried iLED and it munched the battery in hours.
After installing Better Battery Stats and researching wakelocks, I understood that screen based LED notification apps will cause the phone to constantly remain in a state that drains the battery, not just the LED draining it.
I believe bLED operates differently and so doesn't drain the battery as much.
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You see the major problem with NoLED is in the Android framework. a) Android doesn't allow the CPU to deep-sleep if the screen is on regardless of its content. b) The black pixels are actually switched on. Even though I believe that our screen is capable of switching partial pixels on, the Android API simply doesn't give access to this feature.
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Xaddict said:
I tried iLED and it munched the battery in hours.
After installing Better Battery Stats and researching wakelocks, I understood that screen based LED notification apps will cause the phone to constantly remain in a state that drains the battery, not just the LED draining it.
I believe bLED operates differently and so doesn't drain the battery as much.
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Yeah, not only that, but NoLED wasn't working very well for me anyway. It kept coming on even when the screen wasn't sleeping (e.g. over running satnav...).
I am hoping that somebody will eventually add support for BLN to the kernel! I've seen BLN on Nexus S and it looks ideal.
Let me just start off by saying my battery life has been awesome I'm on stock and will soon transition over to custom. This is my first time having a super amoled display so from what I know black colors save power. Any other things to do to help with the amoled ? I keep the brightness low while and work and I have a black wallpaper does amoled make a big difference with battery life ?
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i was intersted in buying this phone, but it has an internal battery and i can't imagine out how to block the alimentation if i do some disaster modding it. It happened to me already to remove the battery to save my actual phone
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i was intersted in buying this phone, but it has an internal battery and i can't imagine out how to block the alimentation if i do some disaster modding it. It happened to me already to remove the battery to save my actual phone
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Simple, holding power button for around 10 seconds forces a reboot.
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it's not possible when a brick happens
Yes it is. I soft bricked my phone three separate times and could force restart every single time. There has to be a failsafe without being able to pull the battery.
The thing is, Samoled is a good battery life saver, But at the same time its also a huge battery consumer if that make sense.
When you see something black, The LED isnt black, But switched off so this saves battery, But due to its bright and vivid colours - this is where the battery gets used a lot.
So viewing a lot of black is kinda good. Try to use some of the inverted AOSP apps too !
Now if we could just get the Sense 4.0 settings page black, Or even grey this would be awesome !
I know this will be completely relative to the amount of notifications you have pushed to the sw2 but....what kind of impact are you seeing in regards to your phone's battery life?
Basically, does reduction in phone screen-on time and foreground cpu processes negate the impact of the bt and smartwatch connect running in the background of your phone?
Thanks!
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randaddy said:
I know this will be completely relative to the amount of notifications you have pushed to the sw2 but....what kind of impact are you seeing in regards to your phone's battery life?
Basically, does reduction in phone screen-on time and foreground cpu processes negate the impact of the bt and smartwatch connect running in the background of your phone?
Thanks!
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Difficult to quantify accurately without a with and without comparison on a strictly like for like basis but I haven't noticed any significant impact on my phone's battery life. I was worried that maintaining a constant bluetooth link and keeping SmartConnect and the SW's notification elements constantly running in the backgroung (ie, not Greenified) would be a big drain but I've not seen any of this. If anything, not having to constantly get my phone out and turn the screen on everytime it receives some form of message may well be saving my phone's battery - it's certainly been much more convenient for me.
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Prepagan said:
Difficult to quantify accurately without a with and without comparison on a strictly like for like basis but I haven't noticed any significant impact on my phone's battery life. I was worried that maintaining a constant bluetooth link and keeping SmartConnect and the SW's notification elements constantly running in the backgroung (ie, not Greenified) would be a big drain but I've not seen any of this. If anything, not having to constantly get my phone out and turn the screen on everytime it receives some form of message may well be saving my phone's battery - it's certainly been much more convenient for me.
Nexus 5 (rooted, stock 4.4.2)
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Same. I was worried also about BT, but nothing happened Once i saw Smartwatch Map2 consuming battery, but it is gone too. I found some feedbacks about that app consuming battery, but that's another story and always can be uninstalled...
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Thanks! This is exactly what I was hoping to hear.
The SW2 happened to be on sale at Best Buy today, needless to say I'm now part of the club! =)
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Welcome mate! Enjoy your new toy
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I'm pretty satisfied too, it doesn't seem to drain too much the phone battery! The only thing i noticed was the gmail extension for smartwatch, in the first days it seemed to have a little bit more of battery drain compared to the other extensions, so i removed it. With Watchit you can see the notifications of gmail also, so no problems at all welcome to the SW community
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Wore my watch and used my Samsung GS3 (rooted 4.1.2, BoneStock 3.4) and it chewed up battery way faster than normal. Previously my rooted phone could get two days between charges with light usage and definitely through a full day with moderator heavy use. Only extensive GPS use would wear it own under a day. Using SW2 seems to draw just under the GPS draw. I only have the stock Sony extensions for Gmail, messaging, slide show, music, calendar. I read that the Gmail extension draws a lot battery but I can't use other notification apps like Watch It so I push all my email to my Gmail account to get notifications on my watch.
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I have a Note 3 and had this watch since xmas and i can say with all the test i made, with battery monitors, checking wakelocks, trying 2 identical days with and without the watch tethered, there is no significant impact of this watch on the battery life of my Note 3, there is less than 2% difference between the days i have the watch connected and those i dont. That could be considered as a margin of error. Or maybe one day a had a couple more notifications that the other, anyways, there is no significant impact.
my phone battery is bad but I haven't noticed that the battery drain more with the smartwatch 2,
before using the smartwatch 2 I had always running BT on the background (so I can step in to the car and connect with the radio ),
In fact yesterday i uses my smartwatch 2 allot in in place of my phone and my phone fell down when i was home normally it will shut down hours before!
So I think it doesn't effect allot of you'r phone batery.
It's currently chewing up a good 20% plus of my battery consumption. Well, "com.sonyericsson.extras.liveware.extension.userLabel" is chewing up 20% plus. I think that's the long winded name for "Smart Connect", that or the "SmartWatch 2" app.
"com.sonyericsson.extras.liveware.extension.userLabel" under 'included packages' states:
Facebook - Smart Extras
Weather Widget - Smart Extras
Find Phone - Smart Extras
Twitter - Smart Extras
Missed Call - Smart Extras
I'm assuming that however I have those Smart Extras setup determines how much impact it has on the battery i.e. Weather Widget - Smart Extras updating the weather every 15 minutes will eat up more battery then setting it to every 1 hour.
Question: If you install something like "Watchify", and you use that to handle notifications for what is being currently handled by the Smart Extras in the list above, is it safe to remove "Smart Connect"?
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Question: If you install something like "Watchify", and you use that to handle notifications for what is being currently handled by the Smart Extras in the list above, is it safe to remove "Smart Connect"?
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If you remove Smart Connect I believe your watch will loose connection with your phone. At least that's what I found.
Try it for yourself though, easy enough to put back on.
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If you remove Smart Connect I believe your watch will loose connection with your phone. At least that's what I found.
Try it for yourself though, easy enough to put back on.
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Yes I think you're right. Delving deeper in to third party apps it would seem they all use Smart Connect as a kind of vehicle between watch and phone.
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Yes I think you're right. Delving deeper in to third party apps it would seem they all use Smart Connect as a kind of vehicle between watch and phone.
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Wow. As I mentioned earlier, Smart Connect was hogging a good 20%+ battery. I have been monitoring it all day and I've been out at work on my mobile data during that time. Now I've been back home on WiFi only a couple of hours, Smart Connect has dropped right down to 5% battery usage! Would definitely seem as though while its using the mobile data to forward notifications it hits the battery harder then it does over WiFi.
That sort of makes sense as under normal circumstances mobile data, as it's constantly trying to find best signal, always hits the battery harder then WiFi which is generally pretty stable. So factor in Smart Connect and it makes sense.
I really need to see what my phones battery life would be like had I not been charging it on and off throughout the day. I'll try and start at 100% tomorrow morning and just let it run till I'm home and see what percentage it drops and how much of that drop was Smart Connect.
My phone is the Note II. Going forward battery capacity will be high on my priority prerequisite list for my next mobile phone.
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I use 2x battery, to just turn on auto-sync/wifi/3g every 15 minutes, rather than having permanent push. Saves tonnes of power if you can content yourself with that.
It also has a SmartWatch extension which is nice.
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I use 2x battery, to just turn on auto-sync/wifi/3g every 15 minutes, rather than having permanent push. Saves tonnes of power if you can content yourself with that.
It also has a SmartWatch extension which is nice.
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Yes, I also use 2x battery, and I can confirm this. In my opinion the best battery saver out there. And works nicely with the SW2.
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nice trick that 2x battery, data always chews a lot of battery, but with the z ultra, that screen is a killer, alltough i put it on 20% brightness and still see ok, but since i got the SW2 it does drain faster, idk why is that, before i had this toy i could go a solid day listening to grooveshark and googling contantly, now i had to buy a magnetic dock to keep it going.Oh what we do for our gadgets )
Do you guys think it would be possible for the Honor 8 to be getting an Always On display feature? I know the Pixel 2 has it and I just think it would be neat if Huawei incorporated that feature on to the Honor 8, whether it'd be on the (hopefully) upcoming update or some other way. In my opinion I think it would be better to have that feature instead of having your phone turn on normally (with the background and everything) to every notification you get (assuming you have that turned on like I do), plus it saves some battery life in the long run. What do you guys think?
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Do you guys think it would be possible for the Honor 8 to be getting an Always On display? I know the Pixel 2 has it and I just think it would be neat if Huawei incorporated that feature on to the Honor 8, whether it'd be on the (hopefully) upcoming update or some other way. In my opinion I think it would be better to have that feature instead of having your phone turn on normally (with the background and everything) to every notification you get (assuming you have that turned on like I do), plus it saves some battery life in the long run. What do you guys think?
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I think that it might eat more battery because honor 8 has lcd display and not amoled. Amoled display is only using battery on those pixels that are on, so blacks don't use any battery. Lcd display needs the whole display to be alight when its using even one pixel on the screen. I think that with lcd displays it's better to use the notification led which we already have.
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I think that it might eat more battery because honor 8 has lcd display and not amoled. Amoled display is only using battery on those pixels that are on, so blacks don't use any battery. Lcd display needs the whole display to be alight when its using even one pixel on the screen. I think that with lcd displays it's better to use the notification led which we already have.
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True, I never actually thought of that. So does that mean the always on feature is only on AMOLED phones?
Lg g6 has always on feature even though it has an LCD panel
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True, I never actually thought of that. So does that mean the always on feature is only on AMOLED phones?
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Im not saying that AOD would not work on LCD. There are some apps on google playstore that should do the trick. I dont know how well they work but you can try some. See if drain your battery.
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Im not saying that AOD would not work on LCD. There are some apps on google playstore that should do the trick. I dont know how well they work but you can try some. See if drain your battery.
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Yea those apps drain the battery. I remember trying it out on my old Nexus 5. However having that feature already integrated into the system of the phone and having a separate app are 2 different things as having it integrated into the system allows it to be more optimized, meaning that it could minimally affect battery life unlike having a separate app.
I use an AOD along with macrodroid so it only comes on when charging. My phone sits on a dock next to my bed so it becomes a night clock with the brightness set to low. Works pretty neat actually, but wouldn't recommend it for normal use as it eats the battery