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...
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:
screen notifications
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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 tried to enable from Custom restrictions "Don't turn on the screen" and "Don't wake for notifications" with no luck. Is this a bug or bad user?
albireox said:
I tried to enable from Custom restrictions "Don't turn on the screen" and "Don't wake for notifications" with no luck. Is this a bug or bad user?
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Always nice to answer to your own questions . Ambient display -> disable New Notifications. Oneplus logic escapes me.
Disable notifications
Go to the Settings app on android > Sound & Notifications > Scroll Down and App Notifications under notification section > Tap on App name installed on your mobile > Turn off the notification for the app.
Hope this helps!
RonPeters said:
Go to the Settings app on android > Sound & Notifications > Scroll Down and App Notifications under notification section > Tap on App name installed on your mobile > Turn off the notification for the app.
Hope this helps!
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Thanks, but I wanted just to disable wake screen for notifications not to disable notifications. Was a little confused initially since Oneplus seems to have two settings for the same thing. Got it in the end...
I have the same problem, but your solution does not work for me. As far as I can tell I have everything in ambient display turned off, but the screen still wakes up (to the normal lock screen). To confirm: THE TOGGLE SETTING "NEW NOTIFICATIONS" IS NOT HIGHLIGHTED, WHICH MEANS IT IS OFF. HOWEVER, THE SCREEN STILL WAKES UP.
In addition to that I even have "no notifications on lock screen" selected, which means my screen WAKES UP AND SHOWS NOTHING. It's distracting and useless at the same time. Very annoying.
I have now turned on "ambient display when I pick up the phone". This finally made my screen stop lighting up by itself, though of course now it does it when I pick it up. But at least it doesn't distract me while I'm working on my pc with my phone on the table.
I like my 7 Pro very much...and since this is my 2nd phone from OnePlus, I guess I am fairly satisfied with their implementation of Android Q. However, their way of setting up notifications is one of the worst things I have ever seen! It is convoluted, confusing, and counter intuitive.... not to mention just plain ridiculous. I hope they really get on the ball with the issue of notifications and their useless Horizon light very SOON because a cell phone without proper, accurate, notifications totally defeats the purpose of having a "portable" communications device.
morguslethe said:
I have the same problem, but your solution does not work for me. As far as I can tell I have everything in ambient display turned off, but the screen still wakes up (to the normal lock screen). To confirm: THE TOGGLE SETTING "NEW NOTIFICATIONS" IS NOT HIGHLIGHTED, WHICH MEANS IT IS OFF. HOWEVER, THE SCREEN STILL WAKES UP.
In addition to that I even have "no notifications on lock screen" selected, which means my screen WAKES UP AND SHOWS NOTHING. It's distracting and useless at the same time. Very annoying.
I have now turned on "ambient display when I pick up the phone". This finally made my screen stop lighting up by itself, though of course now it does it when I pick it up. But at least it doesn't distract me while I'm working on my pc with my phone on the table.
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I am having the same issue, how did you get the screen to stop waking up?
I'm trying to find a fix for this, as well. I have an app that wakes screen besides delivering the notification with/without sound. And now I realize I have another one. I also want to have those notifications on, but without waking my screen, just like most of the other apps' notifications. And this is not related to ambient display. In my case, I have stock Android, on a Pixel 3XL.
Thanks!
chrisradulescu said:
I'm trying to find a fix for this, as well. I have an app that wakes screen besides delivering the notification with/without sound. And now I realize I have another one. I also want to have those notifications on, but without waking my screen, just like most of the other apps' notifications. And this is not related to ambient display. In my case, I have stock Android, on a Pixel 3XL.
Thanks!
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I need the same. Hate that anything other than myself can turn on the screen. Have had lots of annoying incidents due to this
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I need the same. Hate that anything other than myself can turn on the screen. Have had lots of annoying incidents due to this
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Actually, there is a fix now, if you run Android 13. Under Apps->Special app access, there is a new option called 'Turn screen on'. I disallowed the annoying app and solved my issue.
I want to disable lock screen wake up for text messages and still no luck on S23. I went under special app access and disabled "Turn screen on" for the messages app (and others), and guess what? The screen still comes on when I get a text. HOLY ANNOYING.
You can turn Lock Screen Notifications completely off, but I dont want that. I want the audible notification to come in without turning the battery draining screen on, and when I tap the screen with my finger I want to see the app badge that tells me when app the notification came in on (signal, or messages, or fakebook, etc). If it's fakebook I may ignore it for example.
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You can turn Lock Screen Notifications completely off
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As I said in my post, I don't want to disable notifications, I want to disable lighting up the whole screen. The notification icon should show on the always on display without going full annoying brightness on the screen for 5 seconds. That's just dumb.
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As I said in my post, I don't want to disable notifications, I want to disable lighting up the whole screen. The notification icon should show on the always on display without going full annoying brightness on the screen for 5 seconds. That's just dumb.
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You might want to consider utilizing the Google Issue Tracker which is a tool used internally at Google to track bugs and feature requests during product development.
For Do Not Disturb - If you have the setting "Always show time and info" enabled (Settings > Display > Lock Screen > Always show time and info) your screen will display a dimly lit clock when the screen is locked, among some other status icons.
In the DND settings, if you check "Don't wake for notifications" and you get a new notification (text, ig, whatever the notification is), it will not show on the screen until you unlock the phone. It will just display that clock and you'll be unaware of the notification.
If you UNcheck "Don't wake for notifications", the lock screen with the large dimly lit clock will change to show the small icons for whatever the notification is.
If you do NOT have enabled the setting "Always show time and info" (Settings > Display > Lock Screen > Always show time and info), I imagine it would be the same behavior, except you would see a difference when you manually wake up (but don't unlock) your screen--you would either see that you got a text message or whatever the notification is, or you wouldn't until you fully unlock the screen.
Hi,
I just got a pixel3a - on my old moto handsets, you could set what notifications would show on the ambient display - I liked to just have calls and text messages to quickly see if I had anything important coming though. Is this possible on Pixel? To clarify, the only notifications I want to see on ambient are calls and messages - thanks
I believe you will see whatever shows on your lock screen and the only option is either all notifications or none.
football24 said:
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I just got a pixel3a - on my old moto handsets, you could set what notifications would show on the ambient display - I liked to just have calls and text messages to quickly see if I had anything important coming though. Is this possible on Pixel? To clarify, the only notifications I want to see on ambient are calls and messages - thanks
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You can use Tasker to do this if you're willing to not have the ambient display on all the time. I've set mine up using Tasker so that the ambient display is off until I get a notification. Basically, what it does is turn on the ambient display when a notification is received and once you clear the notification it turns it back off. When you create the profile in Tasker you can choose the apps you want to be able to turn the display on so you don't have it turning on for notifications from apps you don't care about. I have mine set up so that only Messages, Facebook Messenger and Snapchat will turn on the always on display. If you're open to something like that, I can help you with setting up the profile and the tasks necessary.
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You can use Tasker to do this if you're willing to not have the ambient display on all the time. I've set mine up using Tasker so that the ambient display is off until I get a notification. Basically, what it does is turn on the ambient display when a notification is received and once you clear the notification it turns it back off. When you create the profile in Tasker you can choose the apps you want to be able to turn the display on so you don't have it turning on for notifications from apps you don't care about. I have mine set up so that only Messages, Facebook Messenger and Snapchat will turn on the always on display. If you're open to something like that, I can help you with setting up the profile and the tasks necessary.
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Thanks for the response - Tasker sounds like the best bet, I've installed it along with Autotools. I've had a play around and get the idea, but would really appreciate any guidance, cheers !
Do you mind sharing your Tasker profile regarding this?
Thank you
robocuff said:
You can use Tasker to do this if you're willing to not have the ambient display on all the time. I've set mine up using Tasker so that the ambient display is off until I get a notification. Basically, what it does is turn on the ambient display when a notification is received and once you clear the notification it turns it back off. When you create the profile in Tasker you can choose the apps you want to be able to turn the display on so you don't have it turning on for notifications from apps you don't care about. I have mine set up so that only Messages, Facebook Messenger and Snapchat will turn on the always on display. If you're open to something like that, I can help you with setting up the profile and the tasks necessary.
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So the functionality I'm looking for I used to be able to achieve on OnePlus devices using PlusBeat: A notification light/blinker/text lights up on the OLED display that persists until the screen is unlocked, but the AOD is still made available when I tap the display. As far as I can tell, I cannot achieve this functionality with any of the notification apps I've tried, but I'm open to suggestions.
aodNotify (there's a thread here): Everything works perfectly, but I cannot blink the light independently of the AOD. The clock is always showing while the light is blinking, or the clock never shows at all; no in between.
notifyBuddy removes the tap to show functionality entirely but displays properly.
Most other apps I've tried offer some variation of the two scenarios detailed above. Can anybody help me?
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So the functionality I'm looking for I used to be able to achieve on OnePlus devices using PlusBeat: A notification light/blinker/text lights up on the OLED display that persists until the screen is unlocked, but the AOD is still made available when I tap the display. As far as I can tell, I cannot achieve this functionality with any of the notification apps I've tried, but I'm open to suggestions.
aodNotify (there's a thread here): Everything works perfectly, but I cannot blink the light independently of the AOD. The clock is always showing while the light is blinking, or the clock never shows at all; no in between.
notifyBuddy removes the tap to show functionality entirely but displays properly.
Most other apps I've tried offer some variation of the two scenarios detailed above. Can anybody help me?
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The paid version of aodNotify allows disabling the AOD and just having notifications
General settings > Always on Display operation mode
- Don't Show
The always on Display is not displayed so
only the notification light is visible