I don't know if this has been posted before, or if I'm even in the right area, but I figured I'd throw this out here. I recently flashed to the NX Rom for my Moto Maxx. I lost my Moto Display, and I really like Ambient Display, but I hate how much battery it uses. I noticed quickly that it was on top of the list in Alarms under Better Battery Stats. Anyway I played with the alarm for Ambient Display via Amplify and found a super simple way to reduce battery usage from Ambient Display.
In Amplify find:
- com.android.systemui.doze.notification_pulse
Limit it to somewhere around the following:
1-5 gives you a pulse on notification with a kind of odd fade out/immediate fade back in for second pulse. It feels unnatural so I don't recommend.
6-9 seconds gives you 1 pulse on notify and two pulses after turning screen off and not clearing notification.
10-20 will give you 1 pulse, but then will only give you 1 pulse after screen off and not clearing notifications.
25-42 seems to eliminate the initial pulse on notification, but still give you a pulse about 10-12 seconds after screen off
45 seems to completely eliminate both initial notification pulse and screen off pulse if you haven't cleared notifications.
One thing I came across is with the above values, you would see no pulse on initial, but getting a second or third notification would trigger the screen to pulse upon receiving that second or third. A value such as 45 would still keep the screen off after re locking device and not clearing notifications. Even if there were multiple.
I haven't yet found a value that will trigger on an initial notification, but not trigger on a second, or third and still not pulse when screen is relocked without clearing notifications.
Finally just throw 7200 at it and you should never see the screen pulse on it's own. It will only respond to the pick up/approach for display.
Right now I just stick with a value of 10. As I like the single pulse on notification received, and subsequent notifications. I also don't really mind the additional pulse after screen off, because generally I clear out my notifications if the screen is on.
Either way this seems to drastically reduce the amount of alarms fired by the system to use the Ambient Display and over night I lost very little battery life to the display, despite receiving texts and other notifications as this will not now pulse continuously throughout the night.
The only way to save more battery would be to set it a value of 7200 and never see it, or just turn off Ambient Display.
That's it!
If anyone happens to find any better values that work well for them, or these don't work for you let me know. This could be a per-device thing.
Thanks for this, I was really wondering why systemui alarms were destroying a large chunk of my bettery life! Time to experiment or disable it...
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Hi,
I would like to make my phone's screen light up periodically when it's locked and I receive notifications.
My phone does not have a pulse notification LED and it does not have any other means of showing persistent alerts for notifications when the screen is locked.
I have sen many apps that replace the default lock screen and generally require a lot of permissions, change the lock screen design, wallpaper, unlocking method and mess up / complicate things unnecessarily in general.
What I had in mind is a very simple concept but I don't know if it exists or if it is possible, because it may consume too much battery or maybe Android just does not allow it.
I would like my regular lock screen (which already shows that I have notifications, by the way) to light up for ~1 second every ~1 minute when I have notifications. Ideally that would be customizable somewhere.
To save battery, if the front camera detects no light (i.e: the phone is in the pocket or turned down) then it would not light up the screen, assuming the camera does not consume more battery than this would.
Could someone help me find the closest thing to something like that?
Thanks.
Aesteras said:
Hi,
I would like to make my phone's screen light up periodically when it's locked and I receive notifications.
My phone does not have a pulse notification LED and it does not have any other means of showing persistent alerts for notifications when the screen is locked.
I have sen many apps that replace the default lock screen and generally require a lot of permissions, change the lock screen design, wallpaper, unlocking method and mess up / complicate things unnecessarily in general.
What I had in mind is a very simple concept but I don't know if it exists or if it is possible, because it may consume too much battery or maybe Android just does not allow it.
I would like my regular lock screen (which already shows that I have notifications, by the way) to light up for ~1 second every ~1 minute when I have notifications. Ideally that would be customizable somewhere.
To save battery, if the front camera detects no light (i.e: the phone is in the pocket or turned down) then it would not light up the screen, assuming the camera does not consume more battery than this would.
Could someone help me find the closest thing to something like that?
Thanks.
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Hello,
This forum is for newbies finding their way around XDA Developers, it isn't a general discussion section.
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Hi,
I would like to make my phone's screen light up periodically when it's locked and I receive notifications.
My phone does not have a pulse notification LED and it does not have any other means of showing persistent alerts for notifications when the screen is locked.
I have sen many apps that replace the default lock screen and generally require a lot of permissions, change the lock screen design, wallpaper, unlocking method and mess up / complicate things unnecessarily in general.
What I had in mind is a very simple concept but I don't know if it exists or if it is possible, because it may consume too much battery or maybe Android just does not allow it.
I would like my regular lock screen (which already shows that I have notifications, by the way) to light up for ~1 second every ~1 minute until the notifications are dismissed when I have notifications. Ideally that would be customizable somewhere.
To save battery, if the front camera detects no light (i.e: the phone is in the pocket or turned down) then it would not light up the screen, assuming the camera does not consume more battery than this would.
Could someone help me find the closest thing to something like that?
Thanks.
screen notifications
nitifiction displayed on default lock screen
seems like a very usefu app,
Screen Notifications
ferolac said:
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Thanks.
That app is close to what I want, but if I understand it correctly, it turns on the screen when I receive a notification for a period of time, and then it turns off for good.
Ideally, it would do the same function as the notification LED: turn on and off repeatedly until the notifications are dismissed.
I'll give it a try though, and see what it does.
I'm on the latest Marshmallow (v6.0.1) for the Xperia Z3 (D6603) and the only thing I don't like about it are the LED notifications. When I get an email, text etc the tiny little led flashes limply about once every 3 seconds so you have to stare at it for a while to see if you have a message. If it flashed on and off once or twice per second you could glance at it and find out; as it is you might as well just press the power button and look (and wake it up).
Additionally, pressing the power button and discovering there's a notification seems to stop the LED flashing (until the next message turns up) even though you've not read the message. IE the notification might just say "1 email" but not display who sent it, the subject etc, but as far as the notification system is concerned you've just waved the LED flashing away.
I've gone through the settings a few times and looked at 1) notifications generally, 2) permissions per app, 3) the apps themselves but there don't seem to be any obvious settings to govern this behaviour. I'm not desperate to root my phone or buy apps which drain the battery etc; i'm just wondering if there's some option somewhere to make the notifications a little more persistent and obvious.
Install Lightflow.
Or Light Manager (Pro) - works flawlessly for me.
Hi, im new and hoping someone can help me!
I have the Pixel 3a which has the same ambient display as the main version and im not sure if a 3rd party app has knackered mine up and need confirmation.
When the phone receives a Messages or Gmail etc notification the ambient display lights up with an overview of the notification for a few seconds and includes quick action such as 'mark as read', 'reply' etc. If these are clicked what is the expected action of your phone? Does the ambient display remain on and allow you to type a reply within the ambient display or does it revert back to the normal lock screen for a second before either going through to the relevant app or THEN going back to the ambient display? I hope that makes sense.
Ive done a factory reset etc but restored app data and my mind tells me that before i downloaded the third party app that used the ambient display the quick actions were all contained within the ambient display.
Any help appreciated!!
The true ambient display (which shows the clock, date, current weather icon, temp, and app icons with current notifications) is static. If you double click on the screen, it takes you to what are are calling the quick action screen. This is brighter and in my opinion a regular screen and not the ambient display.
So I believe your phone is acting the exact same way my phone does.
EDIT - I just caught a gmail notification coming in and the ambient screen did show an option for "archive" and "reply" for about 5 seconds before going back to only displaying the app icons for apps with pending notification. It only displays for a very short period of time however. I've had the phone almost a week now and never noticed it until now. Could it be that you are simply missing it?
Hi there, fearless Huawei rebels!
You know the problem: No notification LED - and NO really working and/or reliable solution; I tried quite some.
But there's that built-in Alway On Display feature showing time, battery level - and notifications in standby in a real reliable way!
And there's MASSES of different additional AOD choices to download, some for free, some for a fistful of cents.
But NOTHING just showing the notifications, ALWAYS accompanied with some time display.
I would be quite happy if I had an AOD showing the notifications only, I don't wish to see the time of day or date, I don't wish to see my battery level, I don't need music control (that's the job of the player app), I don't need weather forecasts - just the tiny symbols notifying me of new messages, just like the traditional LED. And if there's no notifications, just a plain black screen with no power drain and distraction at all. Life could be that easy.
Thus my quite obvious questions:
1) Is there any AOD contents to download showing just the notifications and nothing else?
2) Does anyone know how to create your own AOD contents? - As there are masses of downloadable styles, there obviously must be a way.
I would like the AOD to:
a) continue to display notifications after unlocking then relocking back to the AOD (like every other non-Huawei android phone)
b) add weather (as per Pixel)
c) add music control (as per Samsung)
d) remove battery %