Is there a way to turn off the flicky wrist screen on thing on my G watch R? I use the "always-on screen" feature and dont need the display to light up fully every time i look at the watch....!
Best regards/ Henke
If you mute it, it turns that off. But then it is muted so I do not know if that is any good to you.
seepage said:
If you mute it, it turns that off. But then it is muted so I do not know if that is any good to you.
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Well i would still like to get the notification vibration, but its a start...!!
Thanks!
Best regards/ Henke
944s2power said:
Well i would still like to get the notification vibration, but its a start...!!
Thanks!
Best regards/ Henke
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Most people seem to be using always on. Why? if you list your hand to look it comes on. It will make the battery last for a shorter time and what about screen burn? I may just be overthinking this.
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Most people seem to be using always on. Why? if you list your hand to look it comes on. It will make the battery last for a shorter time and what about screen burn? I may just be overthinking this.
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ive done some playing around with screen always on / off and it really doesnt seem to make that much difference to battery 6:30am - 10:30pm and i have 50% battery left with screen always on. u might be able to get a few more % having it off but i didnt notice much difference in testing.
not sure about screen burn tho...
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Most people seem to be using always on. Why? if you list your hand to look it comes on. It will make the battery last for a shorter time and what about screen burn? I may just be overthinking this.
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I am worried about the screen burn-in issue. The phone based on the same P-OLED display technology G Flex suffers from this problem. I can see that the quality of GWaR's panel is improved but the burn in problem should exist as long as it's oled.
Another small thing I noticed is when you use stock watch faces, their always on screen content will randomly shift a little every minute, to avoid screen burn(so LG is aware of this problem). Thus worrying about the screen burn is not over-thinking. I turned off the always-on function when I use 3rd party watch faces. (EDIT: 3rd-party watch faces can shift itself too, seems like it's a system-wide screen saving mechanism)
TeroZ said:
(EDIT: 3rd-party watch faces can shift itself too, seems like it's a system-wide screen saving mechanism)
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yes, it is - the Samsung Gear Live has the same feature - lets hope it helps in the long run...
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This is doing my head in, whats the point in an always on ambient mode, if the bloody thing turns on every time i move my arm. Pointless.
And mute it to stop it, then makes wearing it pointless?
This needs to be addressed asap!
944s2power said:
Is there a way to turn off the flicky wrist screen on thing on my G watch R? I use the "always-on screen" feature and dont need the display to light up fully every time i look at the watch....!
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jrvenge said:
This is doing my head in, whats the point in an always on ambient mode, if the bloody thing turns on every time i move my arm. Pointless.
And mute it to stop it, then makes wearing it pointless?
This needs to be addressed asap!
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Well, the darn thing dosn't always turn on when i look at my watch, and i like the way it looks when always on, and don't want an all black display when others look at my Beutiful watch...!!! ??
944s2power said:
Well, the darn thing dosn't always turn on when i look at my watch, and i like the way it looks when always on, and don't want an all black display when others look at my Beutiful watch...!!! ??
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LOL I think you misunderstood my post. I am in 100% agreement with both of you in that we need to be able to disable the "auto on" behavior without muting notifications.
Merely expressing my agreement...
dew.man said:
LOL I think you misunderstood my post. I am in 100% agreement with both of you in that we need to be able to disable the "auto on" behavior without muting notifications.
Merely expressing my agreement...
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+1 ??? Sorry for that.. Always read too quickly for my own good..!! ?
Just got my watch yesterday and this is also making me crazy... That's why I came to the forum in the first place. We need a setting to turn off the wake up movement gesture
Same thing here, it should be a fundamental control to turn this feature off. I'm a little worried about battery life on mine too, for some reason I'm just barely squeaking 24 hours on a full charge with no more than 12 notifications per day???
Patience my friends. Apparently there is a new update on the way, some lollipop for wear which has this much needed feature implemented.
More details here: http://phandroid.com/2014/11/11/android-wear-5-0-lollipop-features-revealed-smartwatch/
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Patience my friends. Apparently there is a new update on the way, some lollipop for wear which has this much needed feature implemented.
More details here: http://phandroid.com/2014/11/11/android-wear-5-0-lollipop-features-revealed-smartwatch/
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Are you referring to "Theater Mode"? That turns the screen off. We want the screen to be on but in the dim state.
I'm referring to this:
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I love active notifications however I feel that Sensor is way to sensitive. If im sitting at a desk and its moves just a little bit it turns on. I'm hoping in the future will have a way to lower this sensitivity, anyone else experiencing this?
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I love active notifications however I feel that Sensor is way to sensitive. If im sitting at a desk and its moves just a little bit it turns on. I'm hoping in the future will have a way to lower this sensitivity, anyone else experiencing this?
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It's not always the touch, could have been a light change or noise too. That being said don't worry about it deciding to wake up the active notification is very low battery draw.
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It's not always the touch, could have been a light change or noise too. That being said don't worry about it deciding to wake up the active notification is very low battery draw.
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It's distracting, though. I don't get how this is the solution for receiving too many notifications during the day. For me, it's actually more stressful to see the clock/notifications coming in and out every 30 secs.
I'm not meaning to criticize, just wondering... is having a screen going on and off really nicer for everyone but me?
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It's distracting, though. I don't get how this is the solution for receiving too many notifications during the day. For me, it's actually more stressful to see the clock/notifications coming in and out every 30 secs.
I'm not meaning to criticize, just wondering... is having a screen going on and off really nicer for everyone but me?
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Well I agree in your situation it might be easier to have it less often I think the majority of cases are people pulling it out of a pocket or they keep it face down on a desk so it's less of an issue. Once we have some real development this is very possibly something that will be tweaked keeping the phone face down may help you for now.
I found that ambient display is useless.
I was thinking that whenever I got notification, the ambient display will lit the screen and then OFF ... then lit ... then OFF.
You know, kind of asking attention.
It is NOT.
It lit ONCE, then OFF forever, until I pick up the phone (of course).
The problem with this, if I leave the phone on my desk for quite long, I won't know if there was notification arrived, unless I pick up the phone.
So, what's the use of this ambient display?
Damn, LED notification would be much useful!
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I found that ambient display is useless.
I was thinking that whenever I got notification, the ambient display will lit the screen and then OFF ... then lit ... then OFF.
You know, kind of asking attention.
It is NOT.
It lit ONCE, then OFF forever, until I pick up the phone (of course).
The problem with this, if I leave the phone on my desk for quite long, I won't know if there was notification arrived, unless I pick up the phone.
So, what's the use of this ambient display?
Damn, LED notification would be much useful!
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So you can either see the notification come in first time when it lights up. Or you can quickly pick the phone up to see if there are any notifications without it fully waking up.
LED is easier though!
I prefer they don't lit it on and off constantly because it is distracting when you are in a meeting and it drains your battery. Though having an option would be nice
Yeah, I agree it is a useless battery wasting feature (though the impact to battery is minimal). Thankfully the LED can be enabled with Light Flow even though that is flawed as well since the app will randomly get killed and the light won't work.
Ambient Display would be perfect if it flashed continuously until you check it and if it worked in priority mode, which it doesn't if you have priority mode set up like the old silent mode. If you don't want your phone making noise or vibrating but still need to see notifications it is pretty worthless.
you are dead on sir.
gogol said:
I found that ambient display is useless.
I was thinking that whenever I got notification, the ambient display will lit the screen and then OFF ... then lit ... then OFF.
You know, kind of asking attention.
It is NOT.
It lit ONCE, then OFF forever, until I pick up the phone (of course).
The problem with this, if I leave the phone on my desk for quite long, I won't know if there was notification arrived, unless I pick up the phone.
So, what's the use of this ambient display?
Damn, LED notification would be much useful!
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I was told Google is moving away from using led notification, but yet they designed a phone? with one built in but totally useless at this point. Hopefully the next update will address this.
Mine flashes continually until I check things... Every ten seconds or so. It is wonderful... Not sure what is up with your guys' one time notifications...
ambient display is alrite.... It doesn't work that well though. It does not consistently work when you pick up the phone. I would much rather have them activate the LED since it's already there.
you. me. and many more
tsy87 said:
ambient display is alrite.... It doesn't work that well though. It does not consistently work when you pick up the phone. I would much rather have them activate the LED since it's already there.
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I'm setting this gripe in many circles outside of xda hopefully they will address it in the next update. Lots of corporate people want that portion which was always a part of android and even non android phones of the past.
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Mine flashes continually until I check things... Every ten seconds or so. It is wonderful... Not sure what is up with your guys' one time notifications...
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So does mine
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I was told Google is moving away from using led notification, but yet they designed a phone? with one built in but totally useless at this point. Hopefully the next update will address this.
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in all fairness, Moto made the phone, whether for Android Silver or whatever other reason, it wasnt designed ground up with Google or originally planned as a Nexus.
I like ambient. Works great for me. and being an Amoled display, only the pixels being used light up, so battery is minimal
users report otherwise.
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in all fairness, Moto made the phone, whether for Android Silver or whatever other reason, it wasnt designed ground up with Google or originally planned as a Nexus.
I like ambient. Works great for me. and being an Amoled display, only the pixels being used light up, so battery is minimal
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Acording to the battery threads I've read, ambient display sucks battery.
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So does mine
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What are you guys using? Lightflow?
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Acording to the battery threads I've read, ambient display sucks battery.
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Does the device wake up from deep sleep for it? If yes it sure does suck a lot of battery. Especially if it is supposed to flash up in intervals to remind you of the notification.
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What are you guys using? Lightflow?
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I just tested it... it flashes up every 30 seconds or so. As soon as as you click on it the screen is on without any delay. So I guess it screws your battery hard by making it wake up each time? It would mean that as soon as you have a notification your device would wake up every 30 seconds.
I can't get Lightflow to work at all. Do you need a kernel that has LED support?
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I am just using the regular ambient feature built into the stock rom. I am encrypted, rooted with stock kernel on stock 5.0.1. I have not messed with any AOSP roms .
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I can't get Lightflow to work at all. Do you need a kernel that has LED support?
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Rooted and use root access for the LED activated in Lightflow.
Lightflow screws up ambient tough. It constantly flashes as if it has an notification, even if it only shows the clock. This WILL kill your battery in my opinion...
Led notification will drain batttery fast?
Via my NeXus™ 7FHD on XDA Premium app
I actually like it more than Active Display. Active was much more sensitive to movements which for really annoying.
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Alienfreak said:
Rooted and use root access for the LED activated in Lightflow.
Lightflow screws up ambient tough. It constantly flashes as if it has an notification, even if it only shows the clock. This WILL kill your battery in my opinion...
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I don't know what settings you set to make it do that.
Light Flow doesn't do that here. Cooperates fine with Ambient.
I know there are people (Lightflow Dev) who are working on getting the built-in led working, and I think that's great. I wonder if there are any devs working on making Ambient Display more useful...? I'm going to shut off the Ambient Display today and mess around with an app I used to use on the Galaxy S called NoLed. It puts dots or icons on the screen and could notify me of anything... might be the ticket here.
I'm hoping in future developments/releases we may see some changes with the touch screen/button behaviour. Perhaps this may only come through Kernel Dev or an app (maybe). The issue I have found since owning the watch is accidental activation of the touch screen when on the move, especially when exercising (rain and/or jacket cuffs).
Would love to see touch the screen activated with a press of the button, not the screen itself. This would almost eliminate accidental presses, and inherently reduce battery consumption.
Perhaps I'm the only one with this problem? Interested to hear what other LG watch R users think?
Theater mode?
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That works well, of course for my exercise app I do have to swipe a couple of times after pressing the button to get to the detail, but this is a good workaround. Thanks
isn't theater mode turning off notifications also?
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isn't theater mode turning off notifications also?
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That's correct and its far from perfect, but at least it stops the accidental touches.
What would be great is screen touch ability after button activation, thus creating a child lock (irrespective of screen on or off) and allowing notifications. Cinema just goes a little too far and turns the screen off which renders quick viewing useless.
I'm hoping in the future this smart watch will be a little smarter.
When I am working out, I never feel/notice notification vibrations.
I usually have on a headset and set the phone to normal volume profile. So I hear the notifications.
With "Vibration Notifier" you still have vibration for notification from app selected. Screen not light up but watch vibrate even in Theater mode.
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With "Vibration Notifier" you still have vibration for notification from app selected. Screen not light up but watch vibrate even in Theater mode.
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Are you referring to this app?
Play store Vibration Notifier
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Are you referring to this app?
Play store Vibration Notifier
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Yes
To the OP, have you seen this app? Could this help with the issue you're experiencing?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jdd.showear
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To the OP, have you seen this app? Could this help with the issue you're experiencing?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jdd.showear
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I did look at this but haven't tried. I've noticed someone else has raised the question on feedback regarding unlocking using the button. I will email the dev and try the app.
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I did look at this but haven't tried. I've noticed someone else has raised the question on feedback regarding unlocking using the button. I will email the dev and try the app.
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Once you do, please post back and let us know how it it went.
Cheers,
Rob
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Once you do, please post back and let us know how it it went.
Cheers,
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TBH I didn't get on well with the app, a nice idea but even with the customisations it got in the way of the watches quick open/view/close plus points.
regarding feedback - I didn't hear anything back, perhaps I will check for updates in the future.
I love the watch but I do feel Android Wear has been rushed.
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TBH I didn't get on well with the app, a nice idea but even with the customisations it got in the way of the watches quick open/view/close plus points.
regarding feedback - I didn't hear anything back, perhaps I will check for updates in the future.
I love the watch but I do feel Android Wear has been rushed.
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Thank you for letting us know. Hopefully Google is working on something simillar but more refined as I could see this being very useful. I kind of know what you mean about the rushed feeling, I guess that's the cost for us early adopters.
There's some really nice looking watch faces out there, but once your watch goes into ambient mode, it doesn't look nearly as good. I know this is to save battery, but I wanted to know if there's anyway to keep the watch from going to ambient mode, and always showing the live version of the watch face?
Live version: http://i.imgur.com/0Albn58.jpg
ambient version: http://i.imgur.com/7cMrvsM.jpg
Just a side question... what watch face is that?
I've seen a couple watch faces that let you extend the time of the active face but haven't come across one that lets you permanently leave it on. I assume you wouldn't make it through a day with the watch if you had it on the whole time.
Just saw this.... StayLit Wear
No idea if it works but there's an app that is supposed to do what you want.
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Just a side question... what watch face is that?
I've seen a couple watch faces that let you extend the time of the active face but haven't come across one that lets you permanently leave it on. I assume you wouldn't make it through a day with the watch if you had it on the whole time.
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Its not a good idea to have screen always on due to burn-in on OLED screens.
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Its not a good idea to have screen always on due to burn-in on OLED screens.
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The ambient screen moves a little every so often and I assume it is to prevent burn in. I don't know if it does it when the screen is on because I don't leave the screen on more than 5 seconds. Do you know if it moves the screen when on as well to prevent burn in?
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The ambient screen moves a little every so often and I assume it is to prevent burn in. I don't know if it does it when the screen is on because I don't leave the screen on more than 5 seconds. Do you know if it moves the screen when on as well to prevent burn in?
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I don't think it moves. At least I never seen it move in the full mode.
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Just saw this.... StayLit Wear
No idea if it works but there's an app that is supposed to do what you want.
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That's exactly what I wanted! Thanks so much!
But keep in mind what was said here about burn in on the Urbane. If you don't see the watch face moving a bit every so often, I wouldn't leave your watch face on. It could burn into the screen.
Has anyone reported burn in yet on the urbane? I thought burn in was an issue people didn't need to worry about anymore.
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Has anyone reported burn in yet on the urbane? I thought burn in was an issue people didn't need to worry about anymore.
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Some types of screens don't suffer from burn-ins while others do. Anyways you can be the first to tell us if you get burn-in on your watch.
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Has anyone reported burn in yet on the urbane? I thought burn in was an issue people didn't need to worry about anymore.
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There's a guy on reddit that is saying his burned in. But, the fact that they have the watchface move a little every 5-10 seconds in ambient mode pretty much leads to the conclusion that the manufacturer was concerned about burn in too.
After all of this, I wouldn't have the screen on all the time. No way.
I'd like to know as well what face that is?
Hello guys
I come from a Pixel2XL where AOD stays always on the way it should be.
However, I don't know if it's a bug or the developers have forgot to keep 11Ultra AOD "always on" even when the option is selected in the settings for it to be, as it goes off just after few minutes!
Any idea what's the cause and is it happening for all devices (mine is GLOBAL variant)
So form of power management is active?
blackhawk said:
So form of power management is active?
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No modification done...Vanilla 12.5.2 Global
Try to update to the latest 12.5.4.0 and see if the issue persists
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No modification done...Vanilla 12.5.2 Global
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I wouldn't sweat it as it sounds like a good feature. I use to always have AOD on but it got to be quit annoying for me after a year. It's set to tap on now.
100% availability means 100% no peace.
I got tired of playing the time game as well unless it's dinner
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blackhawk said:
I wouldn't sweat it as it sounds like a good feature. I use to always have AOD on but it got to be quit annoying for me after a year. It's set to tap on now.
100% availability means 100% no peace.
I got tired of playing the time game as well unless it's dinner
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the only thing that was lovable about always on display was to check if I had any notifications to respond to without tapping the device
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Hope some developer gets an eye on this as it's a very useful feature where you don't even have an AlwaysON notification LED!
You can set the rear display to be on all the time if you want to
Change the 30 second timeout to 30 million seconds....
speedtripler said:
You can set the rear display to be on all the time if you want to
Change the 30 second timeout to 30 million seconds....
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Yes... however, unlike the main screen the Xiaomi developers haven't set the pixels to move slightly for the rear screen and that might cause a screen burn!
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Yes... however, unlike the main screen the Xiaomi developers haven't set the pixels to move slightly for the rear screen and that might cause a screen burn!
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The time and date is always changing tho.... It should not be using the same pixels all the time
If I wanted to use the rear screen i wouldn't think twice but I don't like setting the phone face down anyway