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 %
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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 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.
-Vatsal
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.
Hello, if someone wondering how to set only notifications on AOD display without any graphic, time etc.
- turn on AOD
- pick signature motive
- remove all letters leave only one "space"
- in elements section turn on notifications
that's it
Thanks but you receive only one icon for any notifications that way.
I know it's late since the question was raised but I came here through Google because of the same issue, maybe it helps someone.
So my solution was to use an own background image which is completely black. This solves the notification issue mentioned above.
Battery drain is still the same with only black AOD. It does not matter with or without graphics.
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?
bigcc32 said:
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