Hi guys,
Is there a way to disable the flashing orange low battery notification? It's actually quite annoying .
Thank you.
The best you can do is to ask it not to explicitly notify you when the battery is critically low through the Power option in the Settings, at which point, the LED starts blinking only below 10%.
I don't think you can do much better without flashing a ROM.
As the title asks, what is it? I know that turning off the screen with power button is not sleeping. I believe it is the state when it takes more than a second (lag) to unlock the screen. This means that the phone was in sleep state and I woke it up. But the question remains, that what is it? How and when is it activated? What happens when the phone is sleeping? Effect on battery (I believe it's positive)? The notifications like sms and call? Is only the screen asleep or are the other functions sleeping as well? Final question, Can I activate the sleep mode with the help of an application if it helps save the battery?
Note that I don't want to use battery saver apps because I don't want anything on my phone to stop. I paid for the whole phone, "including" gps, wifi and things like that. Smartphones are for us, we are not for smartphones.
usman farhat said:
As the title asks, what is it? I know that turning off the screen with power button is not sleeping. I believe it is the state when it takes more than a second (lag) to unlock the screen. This means that the phone was in sleep state and I woke it up. But the question remains, that what is it? How and when is it activated? What happens when the phone is sleeping? Effect on battery (I believe it's positive)? The notifications like sms and call? Is only the screen asleep or are the other functions sleeping as well? Final question, Can I activate the sleep mode with the help of an application if it helps save the battery?
Note that I don't want to use battery saver apps because I don't want anything on my phone to stop. I paid for the whole phone, "including" gps, wifi and things like that. Smartphones are for us, we are not for smartphones.
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Technically; sleep mode starts the moment the screen is switched off. With the exception of applications which can prevent the phone from fully 'sleeping'. A good and obvious example is the music application which keeps the phone awake in order to play music.
There's really nothing special about sleep mode except that the phone will execute a lot more tasks together but less frequently in order to save power, so you're still able to receive all messages, emails, calls and all notifications (from apps). Applications can also be informed about the change in power state (awake to sleep and sleep to awake) and therefore change the way they behave.
The amount of sleep time the phone gets is dependent on the apps you have installed and the amount of emails, calls and other notifications you get. There isn't a way to enable 'sleep mode' with an application as it would make little difference if your display is on. Your display is the main cause of power consumption, as is true with all smartphones.
Battery Saver apps are dangerous, by killing apps they have a negative impact on the phone. If the application is needed, the phone will restart it and add to the CPU cycles. The same goes with memory freeing apps. GPS/Bluetooth/WiFi are there for when you need them. Keeping them on when they're not needed is a waste of the phone's resources. As the more CPU cycles they use, the more power they consume.
DennisBold said:
Technically; sleep mode starts the moment the screen is switched off. With the exception of applications which can prevent the phone from fully 'sleeping'. A good and obvious example is the music application which keeps the phone awake in order to play music.
There's really nothing special about sleep mode except that the phone will execute a lot more tasks together but less frequently in order to save power, so you're still able to receive all messages, emails, calls and all notifications (from apps). Applications can also be informed about the change in power state (awake to sleep and sleep to awake) and therefore change the way they behave.
The amount of sleep time the phone gets is dependent on the apps you have installed and the amount of emails, calls and other notifications you get. There isn't a way to enable 'sleep mode' with an application as it would make little difference if your display is on. Your display is the main cause of power consumption, as is true with all smartphones.
Battery Saver apps are dangerous, by killing apps they have a negative impact on the phone. If the application is needed, the phone will restart it and add to the CPU cycles. The same goes with memory freeing apps. GPS/Bluetooth/WiFi are there for when you need them. Keeping them on when they're not needed is a waste of the phone's resources. As the more CPU cycles they use, the more power they consume.
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That's a good explanation
I have read about term "deep sleep" while searching for this, but the explanations on the internet are not clear to me. I have understood a part of it, that this state comes when phone is at rest for too long. The phone pauses apps and their processes, except those who are downloading e.g games and only does basic tasks such as incoming communications (message, call etc.) and sync. Again, I could not find answer to when it state/mode starts.
About GPS/Bluetooth/WiFi: I said this because I had seen people talking about how they have to force otherwise unnecessary restrictions on them and thus have to worry too much to save their batteries. This is what I don't like. Technology is made to facilitate people and to make their lives easy, that's what I believe. On the other hand, I always keep bluetooth off because I need it very rarely. Well, you may have other preferences but I have to keep gps on in order to geo tag photos and to make it ready whenever I open maps etc. Wifi according to me is life blood of smartphones. So I can't live without it either.
When I had Nokia 5800 I had to turn off auto rotate because its menu took time to refresh if I turned the phone by mistake. That was the time when I came to know how bad it feels to go through the settings to turn it on when I need it urgently.
I have problem on my Note 10.1,.when is my battery on 5 % i get low brightness.Does anyone know how to fix this,to set brightness on max when is battery low????
Samsung galaxy note 10.1 n8000 4.1.2
dekar123 said:
I have problem on my Note 10.1,.when is my battery on 5 % i get low brightness.Does anyone know how to fix this,to set brightness on max when is battery low????
Samsung galaxy note 10.1 n8000 4.1.2
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that's a feature. Charge it
shaun298 said:
that's a feature. Charge it
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how???? im unable to change brightness when battery is 5 %
dekar123 said:
how???? im unable to change brightness when battery is 5 %
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Dud, just charge it up.
Aluyi said:
Dud, just charge it up.
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It's not a solution,my chinese 9` inch tablet whith 5 % off battery could stand mabye 20 minutes,is that on all note 10`1 tablets???
Does anyone know how to get full brightness when my battery is 5 %???????
There is no way to change it.
It propably protects the battery to become too empty without getting your device plugged in time. "Too empty" means that sometimes if you drain your litium battery empty totally, it wont start to charge it at all. So it is there for protecting you and your device without having next problem not being able to charge it.
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There is no way to change it.
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Have you ever investigated this subject that you are so sure? If you cannot do it - don't assume that no one can.
I don't also see any relation between dimming the screen and protecting the battery of getting broken. If 5% level is a level on which the battery should be charged because of the damage risk, then it would be absurd to dim the screen (ie take an action aimed at saving the remaining power so the user can work a few minutes longer on the last remaining 5% until it reaches 0 or 1% = drain battery even more = in your theory: increasing the risk of the damage even more), and not to turn off the device at all. Be aware, that Samsung indeed implemented a protection aimed to secure the user of the risk of breaking the battery (well, I don't think it's the clue anyway - iI guess the main purpose is in preserving user of data loss/filesystem corruption, which is possible to occur when the system is being shutdown in an "immediate" way, without chance to perform shutdown sequence properly) due to full discharge, but it is triggered on 0 - 1% level and is resulting in starting a "regular" system shutdown, aimed mainly to save all the working data before user loses it *** See comment at the very end of my post for additional info about changing this behavior, which is confirmed to work by myself...
It is almost ALWAYS possible to mod behavior of the system, especially by decompiling system apps and modyfing smali, which is not extremely difficult/impossible by the way, as the community has released such a solutions for many issues/feature requests, concerning even n8000 itself (ink lockscreen, syscope disable, power menu, flashable themes...).
In this case, I can see another possibility, which is even less intrusive to the system; AFAIR the percentage level of 5% is not embedded in some system or framework app, but it is defined in one of the system's apps preferences (guess settings provider? dont remember...), in sqlite database. And sqlite database can be easily accessed and its content can be modified by sqlite tools, ie sqlite3 binary from command line, and even some apps from play store. Then, you shall be able to lower the value to, for example, 1%, so the screen backlight will be turned off with further delay, ie. at REALLY critical power level of 1%..
EDIT: Didn't found above setting, dont have time for this, but found another one (at database lying at com.android.provider.settings) - "dim_screen" which is set 1 by default. Maybe changing it to 0 with any SQL editor will force NOT to dim screen at all.
An for the begin, I have a solution that is very very very possible to work...
As for now, I have not tested it, especially if the critical battery level setting (default 5%) has direct relation to the battery level on which screen is dimmed, but I am ALMOST sure about it, as the crtitical level setting that I am talking about (no matter where it is stored...) is recognized system-wide.
Oh, almost forgot, the solution!!!
Install Xposed Framework (search for it on xda if u dunno what it is) + module XBatteryThemer - apart of other options, it has the option to lower critical battery level (as well as two other levels, which determine displaying the low battery alert popup) to as low as 1%. Your screen shall no longer dim at 5%.
*** actually, there is another one Xposed module (CriticalBatteryShutdown, or something...?) which can force the device not to turn off when battery reaches some level between 0 and 1%, which is arbitrary action by default. With this mod the device is working untile theres really no power left, which sometimes can give you additional 10 minutes. A
dekar123 said:
Does anyone know how to get full brightness when my battery is 5 %???????
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Please correct me if I´m wrong, does that make sense to you if your battery is 5% and you thinking of raising the slider higher ? Maybe you should check your energy saving settings. My two cents.
esgie said:
Have you ever investigated this subject that you are so sure? If you cannot do it - don't assume that no one can.
I don't also see any relation between dimming the screen and protecting the battery of getting broken. If 5% level is a level on which the battery should be charged because of the damage risk, then it would be absurd to dim the screen (ie take an action aimed at saving the remaining power so the user can work a few minutes longer on the last remaining 5% until it reaches 0 or 1% = drain battery even more = in your theory: increasing the risk of the damage even more), and not to turn off the device at all. Be aware, that Samsung indeed implemented a protection aimed to secure the user of the risk of breaking the battery (well, I don't think it's the clue anyway - iI guess the main purpose is in preserving user of data loss/filesystem corruption, which is possible to occur when the system is being shutdown in an "immediate" way, without chance to perform shutdown sequence properly) due to full discharge, but it is triggered on 0 - 1% level and is resulting in starting a "regular" system shutdown, aimed mainly to save all the working data before user loses it *** See comment at the very end of my post for additional info about changing this behavior, which is confirmed to work by myself...
It is almost ALWAYS possible to mod behavior of the system, especially by decompiling system apps and modyfing smali, which is not extremely difficult/impossible by the way, as the community has released such a solutions for many issues/feature requests, concerning even n8000 itself (ink lockscreen, syscope disable, power menu, flashable themes...).
In this case, I can see another possibility, which is even less intrusive to the system; AFAIR the percentage level of 5% is not embedded in some system or framework app, but it is defined in one of the system's apps preferences (guess settings provider? dont remember...), in sqlite database. And sqlite database can be easily accessed and its content can be modified by sqlite tools, ie sqlite3 binary from command line, and even some apps from play store. Then, you shall be able to lower the value to, for example, 1%, so the screen backlight will be turned off with further delay, ie. at REALLY critical power level of 1%..
EDIT: Didn't found above setting, dont have time for this, but found another one (at database lying at com.android.provider.settings) - "dim_screen" which is set 1 by default. Maybe changing it to 0 with any SQL editor will force NOT to dim screen at all.
An for the begin, I have a solution that is very very very possible to work...
As for now, I have not tested it, especially if the critical battery level setting (default 5%) has direct relation to the battery level on which screen is dimmed, but I am ALMOST sure about it, as the crtitical level setting that I am talking about (no matter where it is stored...) is recognized system-wide.
Oh, almost forgot, the solution!!!
Install Xposed Framework (search for it on xda if u dunno what it is) + module XBatteryThemer - apart of other options, it has the option to lower critical battery level (as well as two other levels, which determine displaying the low battery alert popup) to as low as 1%. Your screen shall no longer dim at 5%.
*** actually, there is another one Xposed module (CriticalBatteryShutdown, or something...?) which can force the device not to turn off when battery reaches some level between 0 and 1%, which is arbitrary action by default. With this mod the device is working untile theres really no power left, which sometimes can give you additional 10 minutes. A
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Did I say that 5% is the minimum level? No, I didnt. All I said it is, it gives you more time and IF you drain your battery EMPTY, it may not charge. Of course there are self-protection manager already, but as you know, they dont always work as they should. There are several questions on net what to do when the phone doesnt start charging because they drained the battery to a state to auto-shut off. I dont understand why anyone would like to drain the battery almost empty and in a bad scenario you have a dead battery. Will it happen with your device? Maybe or maybe not. And it is not even healthy for a lithium battery to let it full disharged/cycled on everytime.
And yes I have read that there are apps that allows you to change this but only if your device is rooted. Never tried, mine is not rooted.
This will explain it very well: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
Sent from my Galaxy Note 10.1 (N8000).
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Aluyi said:
Please correct me if I´m wrong, does that make sense to you if your battery is 5% and you thinking of raising the slider higher ? Maybe you should check your energy saving settings. My two cents.
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No, you cannot set the brightness by a slider when the battery level is 5%. It automatically goes to a state to save the battery. It is built in the system.
Sent from my Galaxy Note 10.1 (N8000).
Ive got a SM-N770F/DS and I always have medium power saving mode on. I have also always had an issue with Google Maps not wanting to detect location after I turn the screen off. I assumed it was a google issue until I turned optimized power saving mode on today and Maps suddenly started reading my location and giving directions while the screen was off. Is it possible to disable the "prevent background location access" part of medium power saving mode? Long pressing my power saving settings doesnt give any options to do this, im thinking my only option is to root. Would rooting fix this? If so, does anyone know of some roms on here that would allow me to do this? I dont care about much else from the rom, I like the phone as is and this is the only issue I have with it
Do not toggled on any power management other than the power mode (optimized) and fast charging.
They screw up functionality and increase battery usage on my unrooted 10+ running on Pie.
In Developer options>standby apps all buckets should show as active otherwise power management is active. Android will manage apps well without any power management options turned on. Track down any remaining battery hogs on a per case basis and deal directly with them. Sometimes closing the window gets it done like with Brave. Others need to be dealt with by package disabler and/or Karma Firewall.
This may or may not help you.
Gmaps is crapware. Runs best on original factory load and is a parasitic drain wanting to constantly run in the backup from boot sucking up battery and bandwidth.
Unlike you my goal is to keep it from doing this
Also review Gmaps notification and other settings. It's a mess; buried settings galore.
blackhawk said:
They screw up functionality and increase battery usage
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Android will manage apps well without any power management options turned on
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I feel like I have experienced the opposite. I felt like my battery was draining faster with optimized on today (2nd pic) compared to the past few days with medium power saving on (first pic). Obviously more testing needs to be done to see. Going off of the pics I lost about 50% each day, so optimized seems to be worse for battery life but the reduced screen on time makes up for it in this scenario