Ok, so the title might have been misleading, BUT..... There is a way. (kind of)
First let me briefly explain. This is the S5's Power Saving Mode. Not to be confused with ultra power saving mode. This turns EVERYTHING gray scale to increase battery life.
SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW
When using Power Saving Mode it limits maximum performance, reduces the screen refresh rate and turns off the touch key light to maximize battery life. These can all be turned off in the "Restrict performance" settings and ONLY use gray scale.
This might not be new to some of you that are "settings happy" but for the occasional n00b, I thought I'd shed some dark.
Steps:
Pull down your notifications and expand all options.
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Long press on "Power Saving" NOT Ultra Power Saving.
Turn Power saving mode on
UN-check Block background data and make sure "Restrict Performance" is turned off
Turn on Gray Scale
You are DONE
Keep in mind this will make EVERYTHING gray scale. Including pictures and videos. I was getting tired of the stock colors and figured this was a simple walk around for someone that doesn't mind gray scale.
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There seems to be a white hue or shadow around the text on my note. I can't recall if this was there originally or if this is some setting my kids somehow found that I cannot find. It's pretty annoying though. It doesn't show up on screenshots but I took a screenshot and then took a picture with my phone and you can see the white banding on the photo that isn't on the screenshot.
Is this a setting, a Samsung thing or something gone wrong with my hardware?
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Photo of Screen:
Yes there's a setting for this.
What you are seeing is sharpening that is added to the screen by default (note - it won't be saved in your drawing, it's added by the Note's screen). There is a setting called "Screen mode" (if I remember correctly) under "Display". If you change this to "Movie" it disables the colour boost and the sharpening. You'll still have good colour and sharpness, it just won't have extra boost applied.
Setting this to movie was one of the first things I did, after I realised everything was over-sharpened and over-saturated. They do this so it looks good in a showroom next to a bunch of other displays by other manufacturers. On its own you probably will prefer accuracy over mega-saturation and mega-sharpness.
Ahh.. much better. Thank you!
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Background processes make my skin itch.
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Using App Quarantine widgets for quick disabling enabling.
With Maps disabled, Now works fine in terms of determining my location, however the 'NAVIGATE' action is missing on cards.
Share your ways of saving juice
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Turn off the phone is the best method ))))
Alex.KAI said:
Turn off the phone is the best method ))))
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What really works for me: processor underclocking + low screen brightness.
Nothin big.
1.Just put it into airplane mode when u have weak network (it sucks out a lot of juice trying to find a stronger connection) or when asleep (so that no one disturbs! )
2. Turn off wifi, gps, bluetooth when not in use!
life!
certainly low screen brightness and put in airplaine mode when I sleep
If you're anything like me you have a nasty habit of reading on your phone before bed in the dark. Even at its lowest setting this phone is still very bright stock. I went through several screen dimming apps and all of them required me to open an app and put a persistent notification on my status bar/notification bar.
I stumbled upon nougat/Oreo quick settings (free in the play store) and it offers a full suite of goodies, some require root but most don't. One of the best is the night mode. It's a simple toggle like WiFi, Bluetooth, ect and dims the screen perfectly for night time reading.
I'm sure this feature will be implemented in custom ROMs but as the phone currently stands this is a must have app for me.
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Pretty cool toggle, it would be awesome if it toggled the native Motorola night mode with the color filter, rather than just lowering the overall screen brightness.
Better than nothing, thanks
Battery Saving Tips for the Honor 10
There are so many different ways to preserve your battery life in EMUI 8.1. The first is turning on your power saving mode in the settings. You can choose between Power Saving Mode or Ultra Power Saving Mode. Each of these options will show you how much time you can squeeze out of what’s left of your charge.
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Another great way to save some juice is the custom screen resolution settings. You can lower your screen resolution from 1080 to 720. This also helps quite a bit with performance in some situations. There's also an option for Smart Resolution which will automatically lower your screen resolution to help save power.
Then there's the battery optimizer which will monitor your phone to find out what you can do to get better battery life. It will check to see what apps are still running after the screen is shut off, what screen brightness you should be at and what screen timeout you should use.
App launch gives you the ability to restrict specific apps from auto-launching. This will save your battery as well as free up system RAM.
If you have any more battery saving tips, leave them in the comments.
Hi everyone,
I've just bought a brand-new OnePlus 9 (8/128) and I love it so far, except for a slow scroll in some applications that I more or less solved by fiddling with Dark Mode and color schemes.
One thing I'd gotten used on my Galaxy S20 FE that I can't enable on the OP is Always-On Display working all the time, not just during the day. I've found the AOD settings and I can either disable it, or enable it during a certain time bracket, or during "the day".
I've tried to set it to work from 00h00 to 23h59 just now, so I'll see if it works through the night after that one-minute gap just before midnight or not, but I'd like it to work fulltime, so that I don't have to handle the phone at night just to check what time it is.
Is there a hidden setting somewhere that can do that in a more straightforward fashion?
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Thanks, but on my French-UI phone, this translates into "la journée", which means that after a few minutes of total darkness at night, the AOD turns itself off.
In this case, "All day" doesn't mean 24/7. I suppose the light sensor must cause the AOD to call it a night too...
I have a 2115 ROM, which, if I'm not mistaken, is supposed to be for North America. Maybe AOD settings are different in other markets?