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[Q] Can't change brightness when battery low

When the battery gets low (not sure what percentage), the screen dims and there is no option to turn up the brightness. Is there a way to change this on a rooted Tab? Is it possible through the development API to adjust this, so that it can be implemented in an app?

Charge your battery. It comes on when like 5% remains anyway.
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It comes on when there's 15%, as I got two more low-battery notifications after that. The problem is the tab is almost unusable at that brightness (especially outdoors or in a car during the day) and since I ran it for two more hours with Angry Birds and YouTube, I've lost two hours of battery life period. If it let me adjust brightness, I could at least use it until it depleted.
There has to be some way to change this, even if I have to root it, change a config file, or write an app to let me change it. Does anyone know how to modify this setting?

Genuine question only because it wasn't mentioned. Auto brightness isn't checked right?
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Brightness was checked the first time, the second time it was unchecked and all the way up.

Did you notice, the backlight for the four haptics buttons at the bottom will also turn off at this point, which makes them impossible to see when it's dark.

You need check then uncheck auto, you be able to change the brightness
swyped from a galaxy far far away...

I'm having the same issue. I have a battery issue where my tab displays 1% when I have 20% or more remaining. Was wondering if you found a fix to this.

Phantom Battery Temp Notifications

I have an odd issue with my One. I am getting phantom battery temperature notifications. I'll hear my device go off or partially go off and typically when I grab it there will be no notification, but on occasion I grab the device quick and I can see it say the battery is too hot and then it disappears instantly. Oddly the notification says the temp is like 89f which is very cool...
The odd thing is that it ALWAYS appears when the device is just sitting down and super cool to the touch. Its never happened as I was using it or when it gets hot. Only after its sitting for a while and cooled down. An the notification never stays.
Any thoughts? Is it a faulty sensor? Think I should send it in?
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Hi,
Do you use GSam Battery Monitor? Can you take a screenshot of the notification?

I was also getting these. I was wondering why, they seem to have disappeared.
I did have gsam battery monitor installed, I don't know however.
I would always check the temperatures afterwards and they wouldn't even be near hot.
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altimax98 said:
I have an odd issue with my One. I am getting phantom battery temperature notifications. I'll hear my device go off or partially go off and typically when I grab it there will be no notification, but on occasion I grab the device quick and I can see it say the battery is too hot and then it disappears instantly. Oddly the notification says the temp is like 89f which is very cool...
The odd thing is that it ALWAYS appears when the device is just sitting down and super cool to the touch. Its never happened as I was using it or when it gets hot. Only after its sitting for a while and cooled down. An the notification never stays.
Any thoughts? Is it a faulty sensor? Think I should send it in?
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Did you update your firmware to the latest 3.09.401.1 posted by LlabTooFeR?
I guess I too get these notifications as you said randomly. And I doubt that after my firmware upgrade I have this issue. I too have GSam installed and updated to the latest
Any one else confirm this?

It is gsam go to it's settings scroll down to alarms click on alarms disable the last two notifications something got messed up in the last gsam update
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Re,
You need to disable the notification: Menu/Preferences/Alarms. There was a version with a bug with the notifications, normally solved with the last update.
EDIT: not fast enough , no issue here with the last update...

jerrycoffman45 said:
It is gsam go to it's settings scroll down to alarms click on alarms disable the last two notifications something got messed up in the last gsam update
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Ahh interesting. I do have Gsam installed but I only assumed it was the built in monitoring that was going off.
Thanks! It's been driving me nuts
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Is there a way to keep the display always on?

I couldn't find anything on this and was wondering if its possible. I know it will shorten battery life a lot but I would still like it if the display could always be on.

I think the screen will burn in, same as on the note 3
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microdot said:
I couldn't find anything on this and was wondering if its possible. I know it will shorten battery life a lot but I would still like it if the display could always be on.
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use this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nbondarchuk.android.keepscn

Sideloading the app above might work but I would not expected to say on more than a few hours due to battery life. It is not designed to stay on all the time. Change the screen time out to five minutes and set the wake up Motion and that will help.

highlordkram said:
Sideloading the app above might work but I would not expected to say on more than a few hours due to battery life. It is not designed to stay on all the time. Change the screen time out to five minutes and set the wake up Motion and that will help.
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It's a amoled screen, so black pixels are actually off, right ?
If i use a custom and ultra minimalist clock (2 pixels white on black font, one for hour, one for min) it will use a significant amount of battery if i keep it on ?

I know most of the drain comes from the screen but I wonder if the intensity is at 1 and you have a black background white text how long the gear would last.
At 4 my gear I charge every two days and even then there is a lot of life in the battery.

Baltyre said:
It's a amoled screen, so black pixels are actually off, right ?
If i use a custom and ultra minimalist clock (2 pixels white on black font, one for hour, one for min) it will use a significant amount of battery if i keep it on ?
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while black pixels are indeed off, i believe just waking up the gear itself will consume more battery, just because it stays 'ready' the whole time.

I thought it would be nice if the watch face was visible all the time but didn't think about burn in. It's probably for the best to leave it as is. Thanks for all the replies.

NoLED confirmed working

I need some sort of on screen notification or multicolored led and the ambient display is not working correctly ( I think I may have covered the sensor with my glass screen protector) so good old trusty NoLED works great just want to let you guys know...
Here's a link for anyone that is interested https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.led.notify

irock1985 said:
I need some sort of on screen notification and the ambient display is not working correctly ( I think I may have covered the sensor with my glass screen protector) so good old trusty noled works great just want to let you guys know...
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Thanks. Good to know. I remember using it on something a long time ago. Maybe with a Fascinate or some such.

The Nexus 6 has a notification LED, just need someone to develop a mod to make it light up.

GrayBoltWolf said:
The Nexus 6 has a notification LED, just need someone to develop a mod to make it light up.
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Does the nexus 6 not have a standard notification LED?

There's an LED behind the top speaker grille according to people on reddit. Can't confirm yet, my Nexus 6 arrives on Friday (before 8p per FedEx)

Yes there are reports of a led behind the speaker but until someone hacks it NoLED is perfect for me... Just have to keep track of battery to make sure its not draining it too much

irock1985 said:
Yes there are reports of a led behind the speaker but until someone hacks it NoLED is perfect for me... Just have to keep track of battery to make sure its not draining it too much
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the LED behind the speaker works fine with the full version of Lightflow. there is a thread in general with the instructions for setup. No blinking yet.

LightFlow
If you are rooted and have install light flow it works flawlessly. Its actually really bright even though its behind a grill.
Link for the brave:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56934625&postcount=35

Neled has been giving me issues for some reason. I've been using it for years on multiple devices with the exact same configuration. However, on this device it completely shuts off as soon as the battery gets to 100%.

HyperM3 said:
Neled has been giving me issues for some reason. I've been using it for years on multiple devices with the exact same configuration. However, on this device it completely shuts off as soon as the battery gets to 100%.
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Shuts off and doesn't work? Do you have it set to auto start?

HyperM3 said:
Neled has been giving me issues for some reason. I've been using it for years on multiple devices with the exact same configuration. However, on this device it completely shuts off as soon as the battery gets to 100%.
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Hmm.. Mine shows a battery charge notification dancing around with the other NoLed icons on the screen. Starts at 100% & then starts down.... 97, 95, then starts back back up to 100% and keeps Cylcling this way. Doesn't shut off by itself.

wtherrell said:
Hmm.. Mine shows a battery charge notification dancing around with the other NoLed icons on the screen. Starts at 100% & then starts down.... 97, 95, then starts back back up to 100% and keeps Cylcling this way. Doesn't shut off by itself.
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So yours counts down till fully charged? Mine will show the charging % but goes up until it hits 100. I have it set to stop showing charging percent once it hits 100%. However, the whole thing turns off when it hits 100 instead. Its really odd.
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Shuts off and doesn't work? Do you have it set to auto start?
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I have it set to turn on at 10pm and off at 830am. It does work and comes on at 10 like it should but like I previously mentioned, for some reason once the charging rate hits 100% it just shuts down and I have a black screen.

HyperM3 said:
So yours counts down till fully charged? Mine will show the charging % but goes up until it hits 100. I have it set to stop showing charging percent once it hits 100%. However, the whole thing turns off when it hits 100 instead. Its really odd.
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I have it set to turn on at 10pm and off at 830am. It does work and comes on at 10 like it should but like I previously mentioned, for some reason once the charging rate hits 100% it just shuts down and I have a black screen.
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Did you recently root your phone? Mine has been a little off since I rooted. At times it will be active to where if I touch the screen it will bring up the capacitive button but the notification icon won't show it'll just be a black screen

irock1985 said:
Did you recently root your phone? Mine has been a little off since I rooted. At times it will be active to where if I touch the screen it will bring up the capacitive button but the notification icon won't show it'll just be a black screen
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I rooted and unlocked immediately when I got the phone before I installed anything.

Well I guess you could just set it to not shut off at 100 percent.. Your phone will still be on the charger so its not going to drain your battery

irock1985 said:
Well I guess you could just set it to not shut off at 100 percent.. Your phone will still be on the charger so its not going to drain your battery
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I can try that and see if that works. Only thing is, in that setting, it's only supposed to stop showing the charge %, not all indications including time.

irock1985 said:
Did you recently root your phone? Mine has been a little off since I rooted. At times it will be active to where if I touch the screen it will bring up the capacitive button but the notification icon won't show it'll just be a black screen
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After decryption the behavior seems to have changed slightly. Found that a battery Monitor app that turns on screen at 100% charge was causing NoLed to stop. Another app that supposedly helps battery life was turning off accessibility for NoLed, Pie, & a couple of others. Something I will need to sort out in the coming weeks.

What is the bigger battery drain, Light Flow or Ambient Display? With Light Flow the light stays on CONSTANTLY if you only have one notification. It doesn't blink it just stays on. With Ambient Display it pulses on and off. If Light Flow actually gave us the ability to set a flash rate of the lights it would be awesome.
What do you think, which is a greater drain on the battery, a flashing screen or a solid light?

Yes the nexus 6 does have a led under the speaker grill. You just need to be rooted and light flow pro I get all my notification that way

Cincybearcatfan said:
What is the bigger battery drain, Light Flow or Ambient Display? With Light Flow the light stays on CONSTANTLY if you only have one notification. It doesn't blink it just stays on. With Ambient Display it pulses on and off. If Light Flow actually gave us the ability to set a flash rate of the lights it would be awesome.
What do you think, which is a greater drain on the battery, a flashing screen or a solid light?
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I also want to know the answer to the above question.
troyd28 said:
Yes the nexus 6 does have a led under the speaker grill. You just need to be rooted and light flow pro I get all my notification that way
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Unfortunately, you misread his question.

Question Notification lights on AOSP-based roms, what do you use?

Hello.
I've always used phones with a notification led so things were pretty simple. This one doesn't have a led and while the colored screen edges were ok with MIUI, I'm using crDroid and I can't replicate the same behaviour (I've turned on that option on ambient display settings but nothing lights up after a notification pop). I've tried the app "aod notification light for pixel" from the google play store and it works alright but the battery drainage is crazy (overnight it drained pretty much half my battery), being responsible for 20% usage of a full charge.
What workaround have you found? Do you just live without any notification alert?

Notification alerts are overrated. Back then we had a nice rgb small led, now mostly gone. Try pick up gesture on ambient light. Or turn on edge lighting, crdroid should have it.

I use True Edge from playstore, it's free, tons of customizations. To change the pattern, i had to watch a advertisment only once, so not much problems with it.

Klaus69 said:
I use True Edge from playstore, it's free, tons of customizations. To change the pattern, i had to watch a advertisment only once, so not much problems with it.
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How's the battery drainage using that app?

diogofd8 said:
How's the battery drainage using that app?
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Not even in the app list on batt usage.

Because the actual battery drain is under "Display"
(But I don't expect it to be high, with conservative settings anyway.)

I hate it that they removed the LED from newer phones, lighting up the display for mere notifications seems so out of place. Thanks for the advice, I'll look around some options and report back if I find something interesting.

@diogofd8 Then again with AMOLED displays, showing a small notification on display is pretty much equivalent to using a dedicated LED as far as battery drain goes.
I vaguely remember there used to be an app to pretty much simulate a notification LED when AMOLED displays were first introduced on Android by literally just showing a couple of pixels in various color, but can't remember how it was called and no idea if it even exists still.

Case_ said:
@diogofd8 Then again with AMOLED displays, showing a small notification on display is pretty much equivalent to using a dedicated LED as far as battery drain goes.
I vaguely remember there used to be an app to pretty much simulate a notification LED when AMOLED displays were first introduced on Android by literally just showing a couple of pixels in various color, but can't remember how it was called and no idea if it even exists still.
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I've tried the app "aod notification light for pixel" from the google play store and it works alright but the battery drainage is crazy (overnight it drained pretty much half my battery), being responsible for 20% usage of a full charge. It's basically the functionallity you've mentioned and I don't think 20% is just due to the light... oh well...

Klaus69 said:
I use True Edge from playstore, it's free, tons of customizations. To change the pattern, i had to watch a advertisment only once, so not much problems with it.
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Looks really nice and with network access blocked in the settings there's really no chance of ads being shown and data collection problem with Google Analytics is solved too.
The only real downside is that the app isn't open source and uses Google Libraries.