Can anyone confirm if DynamicNotifications (ActiveNotifications from MotoX) work on the Nexus 5?
not possible because moto x uses Amoled Screen. Battery will drain so fast on a LCD screen
Are you talking about the actual app on the play store or the exact same thing from the moto x?
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It will work but it is not recommended AT ALL.
As supersain80 said, the Nexus 5 features an LED IPS screen and not OLED. Because of that the entire screen lights up instead of just pixels that are colored so instead of only lighting up those white pixels as on the Moto X, the entire screen, even blacks lightup, so it would destroy your battery.
I'll admit i miss OLED, last phone i had with it was the galaxy nexus, but the LED IPS displays are a lot nicer in other ways you just don't get things like this.
beaver2233 said:
Are you talking about the actual app on the play store or the exact same thing from the moto x?
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The app from the play store.
supersain08 said:
not possible because moto x uses Amoled Screen. Battery will drain so fast on a LCD screen
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neok44 said:
It will work but it is not recommended AT ALL.
As supersain80 said, the Nexus 5 features an LED IPS screen and not OLED. Because of that the entire screen lights up instead of just pixels that are colored so instead of only lighting up those white pixels as on the Moto X, the entire screen, even blacks lightup, so it would destroy your battery.
I'll admit i miss OLED, last phone i had with it was the galaxy nexus, but the LED IPS displays are a lot nicer in other ways you just don't get things like this.
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Thanks for the response. That is one of the features from the MotoX I will dreadfully miss.
I am missing the feature a lot too. Are there any settings in the dynamtic notifications app that make it more suitable for the nexus 5?
Well you could reduce the screen on time on new notifications and reduce the brightness of the display for this particular app. I only reduced the screen on time.
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I'm using the play store app and I don't notice excessive battery drain. There will of course be some, but it works fine.
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I currently have the Galaxy S2. I often use the LED as a flashlight to light up my room so I don't have to get up and turn the light on. Was wondering which phone has the brightest LED? What are the Galaxy S3 and HTC one x like?
in my experience, i've noticed that HTC phones typically have a very bright flashlight, IMHO.
I don't know which phone has the brightest flashlight, but I do know that it depends on the app you use. On my Droid 2, the Motorola flashlight app (Droidlight LED flashlight) is nowhere close in brightness to the ICS Torch app.
I can't imagine that the LED's differ too much from phone to phone, so I would guess you would benefit more from finding the app that lets you max the LEDs.
My skyrocket has a pretty bright led, but my friend had an HTC that was much brighter. Can't remember the exact model.
Nokia 808 pureview, if you say the best flashlight of all smartphones.
For an android smartphone, some dual led flash phones are the best!
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Not to sure on the brightest, but the coolest is the XBOX flashlight app on a WP. I get a lot of comments on my avatar holding the light for me.
Htc desire hd
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i have a motorola defy and its very bright,
but i also check the light of an HTC m8 and was pretty impressive
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I currently have the Galaxy S2. I often use the LED as a flashlight to light up my room so I don't have to get up and turn the light on. Was wondering which phone has the brightest LED? What are the Galaxy S3 and HTC one x like?
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I've compared my HTC One M8's flash to iPhone 6's, LG G3's, Galaxy S6 Edges, any flagship, and the One is always the brightest. It has the dual flash and the default HTC flashlight app has three increments of brightness so it pushes it out as much as possible. Lights up my room pretty good, and I have a pretty large room.
Just noticed this today. When looking at a black screen I see a decent amount of blotches on the screen. I looked it up and it appears to be normal at least on the gs3. I wanted to see if anyone else has it on their RAZRs.
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Hi, I already mention that in another thread, but yes I have the same issue on a dark screen on very low brightness and low ambiant light. The phone is usable but it's a bit disturbing to my eyes. And yes it's quite the same for the GS3. Must be from the amoled tech...
But the other thing is when on a solid green or blue or some others colours screen, like the fb loading page, I can distinguish dark stripes on the screen, it seem the the amoleds motorola uses aren't as good as the ones used from samsung IN the samsung's.
yep. totally normal for these screen types. The original razr had tons of them.
Welcome to amoled guys...
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haha.. i shifted from ips and was worried dude wtf man...Thank God its normal phew
Hi everyone,
It's my first time using a Nexus device.
I just switched from Samsung Galaxy S2.
With the samsung screen, the black is a real black whereas in the Nexus the black shows the backlight of the LCD (or however it is called now) screen so there's this white glow coming out when it supposed to be pure black screen.
I'm not referring to when the phone is off, I'm referring to when it suppose to display pure black background like when using the Daydream clock feature.
I'm not complaining, I'm just trying to understand if this is how it supposed to be
Thanks
gil80 said:
Hi everyone,
It's my first time using a Nexus device.
I just switched from Samsung Galaxy S2.
With the samsung screen, the black is a real black whereas in the Nexus the black shows the backlight of the LCD (or however it is called now) screen so there's this white glow coming out when it supposed to be pure black screen.
I'm not referring to when the phone is off, I'm referring to when it suppose to display pure black background like when using the Daydream clock feature.
I'm not complaining, I'm just trying to understand if this is how it supposed to be
Thanks
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It's normal. Use this for awhile and then go back to the s2, I have one too. You'll see how much better this screen is.
I agree that sharpness and colours are amazing on the Nexus but it's not the black colour / contrast I got used to from the S2.
I came from an S3 and I love the screen quality. I can actually see my phone in daylight.
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gil80 said:
I agree that sharpness and colours are amazing on the Nexus but it's not the black colour / contrast I got used to from the S2.
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samsung uses samoled screens, the blacks are blacker and the colors are more vivid. but, samoled screens dont show the real colors, they are much more overly saturated. oh, and black.. samoled dont light up pixels for black, thats why it seems blacker.
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I came from an S3 and I love the screen quality. I can actually see my phone in daylight.
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I could see as well with the S2
Anyway, as I was saying, I'm not complaining or anything... I just didn't know if the black I was expecting to see on the Nexus is about the same as in the S2...
Unfortunately, I must admit that the S2 presented a much deeper black and the Nexus 5 displays white glow rather than black.
IPS != AMOLED
S2 -> AMOLED. That's almost pure blacks and too saturated colours.
N5 -> IPS. In the N5's case, pretty accurate colours, but with background light, cause the tecnology is like that. You're not gonna get black blacks with IPS. The panel is quite a lot better in every other aspect though.
thanks @Molitro
I agree that besides the blacks, this screen is amazing
As others have hinted, only Oled screens can turn their pixels off complely (0nits) and that's why they can do cool things such as active notifications on the Moto X. When looked on head on the black levels of the Nexus 5 IPS screen are quite good compared to other non Oleds. Infact it out right destroys my desktop and laptop Tn displays in that regards.
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I know it's a battery killer on this device but how about if someone were to invent a mod for dt2wake that will only be sensitive in a certain area on the screen so it would consumer little battery because only the pixels in that area would be activated? I believe they have something like this on the moto x and the clock..
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I know it's a battery killer on this device but how about if someone were to invent a mod for dt2wake that will only be sensitive in a certain area on the screen so it would consumer little battery because only the pixels in that area would be activated? I believe they have something like this on the moto x and the clock..
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The Moto x can pull that off because it has an amoled sscreen, which can activate only certain pixels while the others stay dormant. The LCD on the n5 can't do that. When the screen is on, the whole thing is on.
It's got nothing to do with pixels. LCD or AMOLED it's not relevant. It's the capacitive digitiser in front of the display panel that is using power.
As for why it uses more power on the N5 rather than the G2, no one really knows
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It's got nothing to do with pixels. LCD or AMOLED it's not relevant. It's the capacitive digitiser in front of the display panel that is using power.
As for why it uses more power on the N5 rather than the G2, no one really knows
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Well, actually, we kinda know. LG uses different (probably more expensive) digitizer hardware along with a special firmware which enables a lower power mode for the digitizer. And with the Nexus 5 being a no-frills bargain device, this feature got skipped, kinda like Qualcomm's Quick Charge 2.0.
Ok, for us how are new to the moto phones, can you please explain the difference between these two options.
Which one do you prefer? Which one uses more battery?
Ambient Display uses more battery it doesn't use Motorola's separate low power CPU. Half-baked not as reliable as Moto Display.
Both accomplish the same task.
You have the option on the 2015 X. I wish the ir sensor worked with ambient display
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So there is no real advantage in ambient over moto display? Better go with moto?
I actually prefer the look of Ambient Display, but wish it worked as well as Moto Display. I've got Ambient enabled on my GPE HTC M8 (via DigitalHigh LolliGPE ROM), but it's not as responsive as the Nexus 6 Ambient Display, and nowhere near the finely tuned beast that is Moto Display. But, it looks really cool.
In short, the Ambient Display is Lollipop's default lockscreen shown in black and white. It's interactive, meaning you can tap on the black and white notification, and the screen will fully turn on in color, and you can do whatever you normally do with the notifications.
Moto Display is a similar, but separate lock-screen, where notifications show up on a black and white, low-power screen that shows up to three (I think) of your most recent notifications. You can tap on the circle, and drag for actions, such as dismiss, open, unlock, etc. There is still the stock Lollipop lock-screen if you just press the power button instead of picking up or waving over the phone, so it is completely separate from the default lockscreen.
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So there is no real advantage in ambient over moto display? Better go with moto?
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So, yes, go with the Moto Display if you value battery life more than aesthetics, because the Moto Display uses the low-power, dedicated CPU core to run the sensors that turn on Moto Display, which Ambient Display doesn't. Ambient uses the phones internal sensors to determine whether you're picking up the phone or not, which uses more power than the proprietary chip/core.
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As an aside, there is one more dedicated CPU core that does natural language processing, which is what allows you to always talk to the phone and have it respond to a certain keyphrase. Another really cool addition that makes the Moto X line a notch above the other flagships, IMO
what about
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications&hl=en
jonathanbailie said:
I actually prefer the look of Ambient Display...
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Thanks a lot for such a detailed explanation. I appreciate it
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what about
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications&hl=en
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I've used that on my M8 and Nexus 5 before and it works really well. It essentially mimics Moto Display, but since those phones don't have the hardware to match the DynamicNotifications like the Moto X does, it does create more battery drain. That app does work as advertised though; it's good, especially if you've got an AMOLED device.
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Thanks a lot for such a detailed explanation. I appreciate it
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Yeah man, that's what we're here for :good:
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I've used that on my M8 and Nexus 5 before and it works really well. It essentially mimics Moto Display, but since those phones don't have the hardware to match the DynamicNotifications like the Moto X does, it does create more battery drain. That app does work as advertised though; it's good, especially if you've got an AMOLED device.
Yeah man, that's what we're here for :good:
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Also it doesn't respect the smart locks you set. If you're connected to a device that's supposed to keep your device unlocked the dynamic notifications will relock the device. Happens with acdisplay as well.
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Coming from a Nexus 6, I may end up getting the Pure. I'm a little worried that Motorola is losing its luster under Lenovo so I'm concerned for updates & support, but using the Nexus 6 for almost a year, I feel like Google's additions of Motorola's features weren't all there yet and Moto Display is one of the ones I was missing.
It felt more limited on my 2013 Moto x vs the Nexus 6 since the Nexus 6 is basically a black and white version of your lock screen so you see all the notifications when it 'breathes' vs the 2013 Moto X's one at a time (it improved a lot on the 2014 one if I'm not mistaken), but the thing I don't like about it on my Nexus 6 is that simply touching the screen anywhere fires up the whole screen which likely needlessly wastes battery. I'm constantly activating the whole screen on my Nexus 6 and it's very annoying, especially when all I'm trying to do is put the phone in my pocket, but my hand brushes against the screen. To me, the 2013 Moto x, it was a deliberate action when I wanted to preview a notification or swipe up/down to fire up the display.
Though with a non-amoled screen, it probably doesn't matter any more, power wise.
Is the colored Moto Display new to the 2015 Moto XPE, or was that on the older 2014 Moto X as well? I've never seen it before, so I'm thinking it has to be because of the LCD instead of AMOLED.
If you don't know what I mean, the new Moto X Pure/Style can show colors (instead of just black and white notifications) in its Moto Display feature.
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Is the colored Moto Display new to the 2015 Moto XPE, or was that on the older 2014 Moto X as well? I've never seen it before, so I'm thinking it has to be because of the LCD instead of AMOLED.
If you don't know what I mean, the new Moto X Pure/Style can show colors (instead of just black and white notifications) in its Moto Display feature.
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I believe that's the blue screen when you activate the phone with moto voice.
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I believe that's the blue screen when you activate the phone with moto voice.
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No, that's not what I mean. I haven't actually seen it since the first time I used Moto Display, but it had a little blue part below the ring that said "touch to start" or something. Since then, I haven't seen anything bit black and white on Moto Display.
Isnt the Moto Pure screen LDC this time? Means the Moto Display will use more power than AMOLED?
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Isnt the Moto Pure screen LDC this time? Means the Moto Display will use more power than AMOLED?
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Yeah it would do kost likley. But the less power used during web browsing on the LCD is probably a greater saving in power overall compared to the AMOLED.
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Tested ambient display on mxpe for about 2 weeks. I changed back to moto display and am happy about it.
For like media player, moto display you need to push on the lock icon and slide it to the task you want. Making accidentally unlocking in pocket harder.
Ambient display kept unlocking in my pocket.
I think Moto display is way better but it's a shame that it isn't in any custom ROM only in stock
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I think Moto display is way better but it's a shame that it isn't in any custom ROM only in stock
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Hey. You can flash moto display. With any compatible ROM like trupurexmm. Flash with twrp. I don't know about other recovery's.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/mot...ast-smooth-t3237155/post63574299#post63574299
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Hey. You can flash moto display. With any compatible ROM like trupurexmm. Flash with twrp. I don't know about other recovery's.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-style/development/rom-trupurex-fast-smooth-t3237155/post63574299#post63574299
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Would I be able to flash it on a CM13 based ROM though ?
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Would I be able to flash it on a CM13 based ROM though ?
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That I do not know.
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