I am getting two THRILLs in the mail on Saturday.
I have an ATRIX, an INSPIRE, and a STATUS [opened 3 lines in store and 2 lines online]
The Status is not for me nor is the Inspire
but the ATRIX feels solid [tegra dual core like the G2X, but with a notification light and MUCH better battery life]
I am excited about the thrill though, the dual core omap is a monster and I hear the dual channel RAM is not a gimmick but a real edge
My only problem is, DOES THRILL HAVE NOTIFICATION LIGHT?
I know the optimus 3d doesn't, who here with a THRILL in hand knows whether it has the light or not?
Notification light
This is the only feature that I wish this phone had, but to answer your question no it doesn't. I figure it's only a matter of time till someone creates a mod that will turn the 4 buttons down at the bottom into a notification lights, as was done with the i think the hd2 not sure but it's one of the older phones that I use to have.
Don't let this stop you from getting this phone, I have had a lot of phones this is the first one that I have had that I am happy with and it doesn't even have a rom on it yet, can't wait to see what comes out in the way of roms.
Its true this phone is so awesome it doesnt need one... Haha but if you look in the optimus 3d thread under thwmes and apps I believe, there is an app that lets you use the 4 capacitive touchscreen buttons as a led notification system... It works with the thrill and has lots of features... Try that.
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Yea I was going to get the galaxy s 2 when it was released but I think.I may keep this after doing some test on it , it really is fast faster than atrix so as of now fastest stock wise of all at&t phones I may get another one (replacement) cuz I no longer have a bootscreeni turn it on and its black then just opens android lol plus the 3d is cool
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It doesn't have notifications lights. I thought after leaving my Blackberry that I'd miss the blinking light. After getting over the initial constantly looking at my phone to see a blinking light, I kinda prefer not having one as it's just another battery draining function.
againareku said:
I am getting two THRILLs in the mail on Saturday.
I have an ATRIX, an INSPIRE, and a STATUS [opened 3 lines in store and 2 lines online]
The Status is not for me nor is the Inspire
but the ATRIX feels solid [tegra dual core like the G2X, but with a notification light and MUCH better battery life]
I am excited about the thrill though, the dual core omap is a monster and I hear the dual channel RAM is not a gimmick but a real edge
My only problem is, DOES THRILL HAVE NOTIFICATION LIGHT?
I know the optimus 3d doesn't, who here with a THRILL in hand knows whether it has the light or not?
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check out the NOLED app in the market, works wonders
Not having the boot animation may be a blessing in disguise, I hate that At&t animation, it's the first thing I'm gonna change once we have some ROMs.
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Its called BLN (Back Light Notification) I had it on the Nexus S. And it really does light up your Bottom button lights like a notification light. But you need a custom kernel that supports it. Whoever can bake that in with a custom kernel then well will be set. but i did notice that the phone wakes up when a notification comes in. If i can remember correctly no other android phone does this unless you install an app.
I posted in the atrix forum..I have both the phones in hand..I'm so torn apart I can't make up my mind
I started feeling the limits..using the thrill I was down to about 200 megs of RAM...doing the same thing on Atrix I had 600 free
but there's something about the thrill that makes me want to keep it..I can't put my finger on it but it's something
who here has had both phones? like someone said..the thrill "kills all the phones"..
but the atrix no denying it is a monster..a sleek thin light weight monster.
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Its called BLN (Back Light Notification) I had it on the Nexus S. And it really does light up your Bottom button lights like a notification light. But you need a custom kernel that supports it. Whoever can bake that in with a custom kernel then well will be set. but i did notice that the phone wakes up when a notification comes in. If i can remember correctly no other android phone does this unless you install an app.
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There is a setting on the Inspire 4G that you can toggle on/off sort of thing that would allow the phone to be awakened when a notification came without the need for an app. However, the Inspire 4G had a notification light so I am not sure if there is any relevance between the two.
While we are talking about the Thrill 4G and its lighting....don't flame me for this lol...but how the heck do you turn on the LED light for the camera? I have looked everywhere and I must just be missing it. Any help would be awesome. Thanks in advance.
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There is a setting on the Inspire 4G that you can toggle on/off sort of thing that would allow the phone to be awakened when a notification came without the need for an app. However, the Inspire 4G had a notification light so I am not sure if there is any relevance between the two.
While we are talking about the Thrill 4G and its lighting....don't flame me for this lol...but how the heck do you turn on the LED light for the camera? I have looked everywhere and I must just be missing it. Any help would be awesome. Thanks in advance.
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You mean for the camera? If your talking about taking 3D Pictures the Flash Does Not function when taking 3D photo's. Plus from what I have heard from people with Evo 3D's the flash actually tends to wash out the picture a bit so I am assuming LG did that intentionally. Although I would guess that someone will cook a MOD to get flash to function when in 3D mode. If your talking about a flashlight just download one of the many apps for it.
Going with the Atrix
this phone is so fresh and so new..
very interesting, and in many ways AWESOME
but it's just not there yet. The Atrix is everything I need in a phone right now.
but I am excited to see what happens. Right now there is almost zero dev support, LG isn't saying much either about updates, and AT&T is just excited about the new phone.
I am hoping that 2 or 3 months from now LG has released official Gingerbread or maybe even official Ice Cream Sandwich, that devs have come up with interesting hacks and mods to the original software, and that there's a healthy selection of good cases and screen protectors
Then I might just sell the Atrix and pick this up again.
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These are a few of the improvements I would like to see:
1) Gingerbread.
2) Longer battery life.
3) Email program that the auto sync actually works.
4) Swype to work properly in the email app.
5) To be able to change all 4 of the quick shortcuts at the bottom.
6) Status light of some sort.
That pretty much summs it up.
Maybe ICS
I too would love for an ota update to give a status light on the phone. There us already an app in the O3D forum that works pretty well to light up the capacitive buttons. You can choose different types of blinking for different notifications, and it can keep the lights on with the screen, and had an option to disable at night (those capacitive lights blinking in the middle of the night can be distracting)
AT&T has promised a GB update, I would expect it sooner rather than later. With the Thrill being new I think it would be one of the first to get the update over phones that are closetto end of life. My hopes are that the GB build solves most issues. I only use gmail, so I don't know about the email problem, and I didn't like swype, so I don't know the issue there either. The battery life has been on par with my Captivate and iPhone 3GS before that, so I am used to not lasting longer than a day with 6 hours Pandora, occasional texting, and browsing, and constant Bluetooth connection.
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Touchpal is a swyping keyboard, and it works great on gmail and exchange.
Do you know the name of that app for the capacitive touch lights?
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The version that works for the Thrill (and O3D) is altered from the version on the market. Its in the O3D app forum. The thread is called Optimus 3D led notifications I think. Its on page two using the android app. Its not perfect, but works most of the time. It requires root, and immediate reboot when you first launch it. Sometimes on a reboot it wont work the first time you unlock. If I lock and unlock again it generally works.
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ICS +1
need it... dont even know what it does yet.. but i need it!!! haha
Oh Yeah and better battery Life...Did I mention Battery Life? I had to Charge Five Times today and use was NOT heavy!
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ICS +1
need it... dont even know what it does yet.. but i need it!!! haha
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LOL. Google Google's IO show this year. They touched on ICS and had some very promising news about working with phone manufacturers and directly with the US carriers to deliver timely updates.
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I kinda feel like AT&T, LG and Google have all but abandoned this device. It's an AMAZING piece of hardware, I sure hope they give it the attention it deserves!
You're correct, it did feel abandoned.
I'm scarcely back to wanting to trade mine again, so much as to get an HTC.
But still, I guess its cause there's no ROM's I'm interested in. This my first device.
I'm not getting the best treatment from this brick.
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Don't jump ship just yet guys, take a look at this
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Don't jump ship just yet guys, take a look at this
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Thanks for that!
In addition, all we really need to find is a 920h baseband that has our bands in it to flash. I'm using a Brazilian p920h baseband with no issues. ICS is on the way in CM9, life is good for the O3D/Thrill crowd ATM. Oh, and hate to be the party pooper, but this should have been in Q&A.
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Oh, and hate to be the party pooper, but this should have been in Q&A.
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I think it's where it belongs I am looking forward to this-
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Don't jump ship just yet guys, take a look at this
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Don't jump ship just yet guys, take a look at this
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I believe that you will still have to change basebands for whatever he produces so it still won't be any good for me.
we will have to change basebands yes if you want gb that is just one of the steps. until we get an official release thats the way it goes. you are able to flash gb and froyo basebands so if you dont like the gb baseband you can go back to froyo no problem. flashing the baseband isnt that difficult just extra steps in the process. also dont get discouraged stick it out with this phone, a bunch of people left because of no devs well, look at things now, we have seen 2-3 or more new roms in less than a week we have people working on kernels we have tekahuna improving his OC modules we have cm9 on the way. this phone has brand new top of the line tech in it so when we get all the kinks worked out you are going to want this phone.
...fighting ninjas at night, talkin' about this and that.
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we will have to change basebands yes if you want gb that is just one of the steps. until we get an official release thats the way it goes. you are able to flash gb and froyo basebands so if you dont like the gb baseband you can go back to froyo no problem. flashing the baseband isnt that difficult just extra steps in the process. also dont get discouraged stick it out with this phone, a bunch of people left because of no devs well, look at things now, we have seen 2-3 or more new roms in less than a week we have people working on kernels we have tekahuna improving his OC modules we have cm9 on the way. this phone has brand new top of the line tech in it so when we get all the kinks worked out you are going to want this phone.
...fighting ninjas at night, talkin' about this and that.
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yeh i agree to some degree. used to anyway. since this is the only phone with the tri-dual business i figured its just a sleeper waiting to wake up. my gf just got the galaxy s 2. i went there to play around with it and man it was dissapointing to b honest. it was THIN! i mean REAL thin. which is super nice. but not if its rly light. it felt like it was made in china out of rly thin plywood. now that aside, the speed. it was good....to b honest, it was just as good as our thrills. i couldnt tell the diff at all. only diff was that my thrill was able to load stuff waaaaaaaaay faster lol. it took her like a good 10 seconds+ to load up market or even search for smthn. (yeh i know thats cuz of the t-mobile connection, but still....prty big fail). and just in general phone looked like it had less to offer. i was rly worried about getting the thrill and not the galaxy s 2 but since i got to play with it, i can safely say, it is not as good. especially since my thrill is keeping up with it when its still a sleeper with old froyo. now the super amoled screen....lol i dont like it....no joke. when u look at it in the dark and the screen is black lets say...like ur gonna watch smthn on utube and the video is loading....the black screen looks like its been painted on top of an illuminating light and u can see all the streaks and its rly lame. besides that, i rly couldnt tell the diff. maybe it was slightly more crisp but thats all. u cant see sht in direct sunlight so who cares.
im sticking it out with the thrill for sure. even tho galaxy has way more dev, i got a feeling its not gonna b as good as the thrill. this phone has way less fame than it should have. but thats whats gonna make the handful of thrill owners awsome, when the phone finally wakes up after gb.
I have heard December 9th will be the date for the release. I cannot disclose where I got this info but hopefully it will be true.
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I have heard December 9th will be the date for the release. I cannot disclose where I got this info but hopefully it will be true.
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I hope so. Been on froyo since my Craptivate.
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yeh i agree to some degree. used to anyway. since this is the only phone with the tri-dual business i figured its just a sleeper waiting to wake up. my gf just got the galaxy s 2. i went there to play around with it and man it was dissapointing to b honest. it was THIN! i mean REAL thin. which is super nice. but not if its rly light. it felt like it was made in china out of rly thin plywood. now that aside, the speed. it was good....to b honest, it was just as good as our thrills. i couldnt tell the diff at all. only diff was that my thrill was able to load stuff waaaaaaaaay faster lol. it took her like a good 10 seconds+ to load up market or even search for smthn. (yeh i know thats cuz of the t-mobile connection, but still....prty big fail). and just in general phone looked like it had less to offer. i was rly worried about getting the thrill and not the galaxy s 2 but since i got to play with it, i can safely say, it is not as good. especially since my thrill is keeping up with it when its still a sleeper with old froyo. now the super amoled screen....lol i dont like it....no joke. when u look at it in the dark and the screen is black lets say...like ur gonna watch smthn on utube and the video is loading....the black screen looks like its been painted on top of an illuminating light and u can see all the streaks and its rly lame. besides that, i rly couldnt tell the diff. maybe it was slightly more crisp but thats all. u cant see sht in direct sunlight so who cares.
im sticking it out with the thrill for sure. even tho galaxy has way more dev, i got a feeling its not gonna b as good as the thrill. this phone has way less fame than it should have. but thats whats gonna make the handful of thrill owners awsome, when the phone finally wakes up after gb.
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Agreed... except the sgs2 is much faster and smoother with a dev rom.. I made a similiar rom for it and my phone flies at 1.4 oc stable... when gb att comes out I should be able to do same for thrill specially with bedwa making kernels... it isn't that far behind sg2 in performance.
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Ill take the Super AMOLED over the Thrills screen any day.
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yeh i agree to some degree. used to anyway. since this is the only phone with the tri-dual business i figured its just a sleeper waiting to wake up. my gf just got the galaxy s 2. i went there to play around with it and man it was dissapointing to b honest. it was THIN! i mean REAL thin. which is super nice. but not if its rly light. it felt like it was made in china out of rly thin plywood. now that aside, the speed. it was good....to b honest, it was just as good as our thrills. i couldnt tell the diff at all. only diff was that my thrill was able to load stuff waaaaaaaaay faster lol. it took her like a good 10 seconds+ to load up market or even search for smthn. (yeh i know thats cuz of the t-mobile connection, but still....prty big fail). and just in general phone looked like it had less to offer. i was rly worried about getting the thrill and not the galaxy s 2 but since i got to play with it, i can safely say, it is not as good. especially since my thrill is keeping up with it when its still a sleeper with old froyo. now the super amoled screen....lol i dont like it....no joke. when u look at it in the dark and the screen is black lets say...like ur gonna watch smthn on utube and the video is loading....the black screen looks like its been painted on top of an illuminating light and u can see all the streaks and its rly lame. besides that, i rly couldnt tell the diff. maybe it was slightly more crisp but thats all. u cant see sht in direct sunlight so who cares.
im sticking it out with the thrill for sure. even tho galaxy has way more dev, i got a feeling its not gonna b as good as the thrill. this phone has way less fame than it should have. but thats whats gonna make the handful of thrill owners awsome, when the phone finally wakes up after gb.
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I can see what you mean considering you are talking about the t-mobile version of the SGS2 which as far as I recall made the screen bigger and also switched out the CPU. Now if you are talking about the AT&T version it is a totally different game. The screen looks WAY better on the AT&T version because they didn't stretch the screen to 4.5" and the CPU/GPU until Quad-Core chips come out is at the moment second to none (Exynos as opposed to T-Mobile's Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ S3 Processor with 1.5 GHz dual-core CPUs). Also note that they changed the Processor on the New Skyrocket as well and also stretched the screen which makes it look like crap. Super Amoled + on Anything other than 4.3" and below Really badly needed to increase resolution.
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Ill take the Super AMOLED over the Thrills screen any day.
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I think I like thrill screen a little better but I'm using sg2 until gb comes out
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How do we unroot to update?
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Ill take the Super AMOLED over the Thrills screen any day.
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isn't the thrill's IPS the same as say the iPhone??
It has a bigger screen so the pixel to inch ratio isn't the same
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jznomoney said:
I have heard December 9th will be the date for the release. I cannot disclose where I got this info but hopefully it will be true.
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Two days away. I really really hope this is true!
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qfour20 said:
Two days away. I really really hope this is true!
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I just have a feeling if nothing is announced tomorrow on any mobile websites then it won't be happening on the 9th.
I've been looking for info on this and just talked to AT&T. They are certain this device doesn't have a notification LED on it. When I first got it I thought it was DOA, as when I went to power it on I got no LED or screen for nearly 10 seconds.
Could they really have omitted the notification LED on a smartphone like this!?
*sigh* Also, hello to all!!! First post, but I've been lurking ever since the end of November after I got this device and watched the rooting threads like a hawk
There is no dedicated LED (e.g. red flashing LED, etc) on the Captivate. Best we have is some modifications that cause the lights behind the 4 capacitive buttons on the bottom of the phone to light up when a message/email/event occurs.
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There is no dedicated LED (e.g. red flashing LED, etc) on the Captivate. Best we have is some modifications that cause the lights behind the 4 capacitive buttons on the bottom of the phone to light up when a message/email/event occurs.
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*sigh* Go figure. I guess I'll have to look into that then at some point. It just boggles my mind that such a phone doesn't have a notification LED...the last phone I had with that issue was from 2007...and was an old school "feature phone"
It's actually fairly useful - the only real drawback is that it's a little on the dim side. I'm finding it works best for me early in the mornings when it's still dark enough to see the lights easily.
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It's actually fairly useful - the only real drawback is that it's a little on the dim side. I'm finding it works best for me early in the mornings when it's still dark enough to see the lights easily.
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Thanks. Would you be so kind as to provide a link?
I really do miss the notification LED. Coming from my N900, that's one thing that was always VERY good at.
You could also try NoLED in the market, but it wastes power pretty bad. It's about the only alternative to a BLN kernel.
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Thanks. Would you be so kind as to provide a link?
I really do miss the notification LED. Coming from my N900, that's one thing that was always VERY good at.
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You have to flash a custom kernel that has bln enabled, then just go to the market and grab the bln control app. There is a free and a paid version.
Paid version offers a blinking option which if nice.
Can't really link you cause dunno what firmware you're using.
All custom froyo kernels have it. And all I9000 ported gingerbread kernels have it. Native leaked gingerbread builds do not as there is no source to build from.
Check out NoLED in the market.
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When I was reading a review about LG Optimus 2X on GSMArena what I found REALLY cool is the feature in which you perform a little tap on the side of the phone to make the text cursor go precisely to the left or right.
What it feels like? I kept wondering what happens if you're typing on a bus though!
Used that feature dor the few days on stock... Works surprisingly good, the odd vibration is ignored, you really have to tap on a side to trigger the cursor movement. Waving the device around, sitting in a train on a rough ride etc won't do anything.
Loved that feature but, imho, since GB brought the blue "cursor-enlargement" it isn't really needed anymore.
I used it for Music. Previous and Next-Track on Tap. It was very useful in my Eyes.:good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUayjM1MtI
Good Video about that Feature.
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Never heard of that. How to "activate" that function?
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Settings >> Gesture
I used it a couple of times, but I don't really find it useful, maybe for music, but since I'm not on Stock rom I can't use it.
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When I was reading a review about LG Optimus 2X on GSMArena what I found REALLY cool is the feature in which you perform a little tap on the side of the phone to make the text cursor go precisely to the left or right.
What it feels like? I kept wondering what happens if you're typing on a bus though!
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Ha awesome, I didn't know this feature until now. I jumped straight to cm7 when I got this phone
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I like it and I miss it on my LTE II.
In homescreen you can move the application in homescreen by holding it and tilt the phone left and right to change the homescreen in stock only
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I did not know about it. Will be nice to have this on cm7 based roms . Will love to skip to next / previous track
Stefan, tonyb, can it be done?
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Stefan, tonyb, can it be done?
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Theoretically of course. Already came across it during development of my hybrid ROM. LG gestures code definitely can be ported, but I never checked in detail on how to completely port and activate it. Also I fear I don't have time for it currently.
I hope you can find some time as this is great feature
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Used that feature dor the few days on stock... Works surprisingly good, the odd vibration is ignored, you really have to tap on a side to trigger the cursor movement. Waving the device around, sitting in a train on a rough ride etc won't do anything.
Loved that feature but, imho, since GB brought the blue "cursor-enlargement" it isn't really needed anymore.
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I think the feature might be pretty handy.
It isn't that easy to reach the corners of the screen so when you want to put the cursor in the initial position of a line it'd be useful. Also my HTC EVO 3D used to refuse to put the cursor after the dot in a phrase in the end of the line (oddly when I went testing now I could do it flawlessly).
Anyway I'm looking to buy this phone to my sister that's why I got interested.
One of my last hang ups on getting the Nexus 6 is how it will handle notifications. I know it will have Ambient Display, but from what I have been able to read, its not going to pulse like the Active Display of the normal Moto phones. Has anyone seen how the Nexus 6 will handle notifications yet?
This is exactly what I'm trying to find out, i keep checking all the unboxing and first hands on video and reviews
and they just keep talking about the size, specs and camera, i might have to pass on this nexus if it doesn't pulse in some form, i just can always keep picking up my phone check for a message.
Yep. If it doesn't pulse or blink or something, it will be a poor choice. Knowing you have a notification from across the room or in a dark room, is one of the things I like about 95% of Android phones.
The last phone I had without an LED light was the GS2, and I had to use other means.
It seems like such a simple request for anyone with the phone to check as well. Every unboxing and first impressions video I have watched (far too many) have all said that "it has moto x like notifications and that's a good thing" but every time they show the settings it doesn't indicate that it pulses or breathes. I was hoping that DL would have answered this question when they got their test units, but even they haven't yet.
I'm pretty sure Google knows it's silly to send a visible notification only once. I'm confident they've incorporated some form of pulse or renotification of some kind. Fingers crossed
In any case if it is or not just remember this. ITS A SOFTWARE FEATURE.
I mean come on guys, we are XDA. If its not perfect I am sure one or some of us here will be able to modify the feature to allow whatever we want. The feature is baked into 5.0 android now and is Open, all we have to do is work on a expanded settings system to customize it if it already does not have one. Hell if Xposed gets properly ported to ART we can surely see a module for it!
Stop acting like its the end of the world if it does/doesn't have the exact feature of software design as the Moto X. Its a software feature and if demand needs it I am sure we will find a way to make it happen. Have faith in XDA and the Developers.
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In any case if it is or not just remember this. ITS A SOFTWARE FEATURE.
I mean come on guys, we are XDA. If its not perfect I am sure one or some of us here will be able to modify the feature to allow whatever we want. The feature is baked into 5.0 android now and is Open, all we have to do is work on a expanded settings system to customize it if it already does not have one. Hell if Xposed gets properly ported to ART we can surely see a module for it!
Stop acting like its the end of the world if it does/doesn't have the exact feature of software design as the Moto X. Its a software feature and if demand needs it I am sure we will find a way to make it happen. Have faith in XDA and the Developers.
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Its definitely not the end of the world. I'm not being dramatic and condemning the phone if it doesn't have it. Just looking for an answer to what I hope Google realizes is a basic need. I've been rooting and roming since the OG Droid days here so I know what XDA can do, I just don't believe this is a feature that I should need to rely on the Devs here to create.
First of all, it's something you can turn off. So if it doesn't work the way you want it to you don't have to use it.
Google is also pushing Android Wear which makes anything like Moto Display (ie Active Display) pointless cause you can see it on your wrist faster anyway.
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First of all, it's something you can turn off. So if it doesn't work the way you want it to you don't have to use it.
Google is also pushing Android Wear which makes anything like Moto Display (ie Active Display) pointless cause you can see it on your wrist faster anyway.
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Not everybody can afford a $250 "wear" on top of their phone purchase though.
G3
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Not everybody can afford a $250 "wear" on top of their phone purchase though.
G3
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Or want to. I really have no desire to spend $250 on a watch that I have to replace every couple years because it becomes obsolete or the battery is well beyond is usefully life.
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Or want to. I really have no desire to spend $250 on a watch that I have to replace every couple years because it becomes obsolete or the battery is well beyond is usefully life.
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The battery on the G watch is really great actually.
And if you don't want Android wear, don't buy it. But that's where Google is going so some features that used to be present on phones that aren't as necessary now will potentially be removed.
Ambient display on N6 works similar to Moto X. It will pulse when the notification arrives. After that it will pulse every few minutes, in an adaptive time period - the longer you don't pick it up, the period between pulses will increase.
And of course custom rom's will be able to tweak this, I hope.
ECrispy said:
Ambient display on N6 works similar to Moto X. It will pulse when the notification arrives. After that it will pulse every few minutes, in an adaptive time period - the longer you don't pick it up, the period between pulses will increase.
And of course custom rom's will be able to tweak this, I hope.
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This sounds perfect. Do you have a source for this or speculation?
ABOsborn20 said:
This sounds perfect. Do you have a source for this or speculation?
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Its from the AndroidPolice hands on which is one of the most detailed ones.
ECrispy said:
Its from the AndroidPolice hands on which is one of the most detailed ones.
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Are you referring to this article: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...-googles-nexus-6-really-big-really-beautiful/
I don't see anything about Active Display there...
Does anyone know if it has the IR sensors on the screen to wake the display up with a hand gesture just like it happens on the Moto X?
dualityim said:
Are you referring to this article: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...-googles-nexus-6-really-big-really-beautiful/
I don't see anything about Active Display there...
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Yes. It's in the comments, the author replied to a question about Active Display.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TyhaOjME5g
Droid Life showing a video of the notifications. I can see why the battery savings aren't as big as they would be on Active Display
ABOsborn20 said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TyhaOjME5g
Droid Life showing a video of the notifications. I can see why the battery savings aren't as big as they would be on Active Display
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Seems very unreliable, he had to try multiple times. Also why is pick up to activate so unreliable?
I really wish they'd copied the Moto version and added the sensors.
this seems like it will just nuke the battery in comparison to an LED.... I may end up just leaving this off.
won't this turn on constantly in a pocket as well?