For those of you that don't know Bedside,
It is a night clock that turns off all notifications while it's opened. However, if somebody calls you, it will ring/vibrate, or whatever ring mode you had before you opened it. For example:
- You set the phone to vibrate
- Open Bedside
- You get any notification, sms, email, other app, etc.. it wont vibrate or sound, nothing.
- You get a call, it will vibrate.
It has features like:
- TTS (Text-to-Speech), long press anywhere on the screen, and Bedside will say the time. You can enable/disable this on the preferences.
- Swipe Up/Down for Brightness Control.
- Battery Status
- Option not to turn off sounds (Clock Only).
- Ability to Keep Screen On, or just let it off along with your Display Timeout setting (Bedside will keep running).
- 24 Hours Format (TTS will say time in 24 hours as well)
- Text Colors
- Text Fonts (only for the time)
- Subtle Background (optional since it doesn't help with Brightness)
- Flashlight (on the menu, or also you can enable the Show Lightbulb option on preferences and a small lightbulb will show up on the top left corner for easy flashlight access)
As you can see, this app is very customizable and useful. It's $1.49 and available in the market right now.
There's a "Lite" version as well but it's missing many features that the regular version has.
Who wants SMS whitelist support????
bedside without clock
Hello,
is it possible to make a widget-app which turns off all notifications, except the phone - vibrate, without the clock function?
On a regular basis I'm on permanence for my work and do not be worried by notifications while sleeping, except if they need me by phone ring.
with kind regards,
Luc
lucky58 said:
Hello,
is it possible to make a widget-app which turns off all notifications, except the phone - vibrate, without the clock function?
On a regular basis I'm on permanence for my work and do not be worried by notifications while sleeping, except if they need me by phone ring.
with kind regards,
Luc
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Yes, I have already thought about this and might start working on it soon, I'd like to finish the SMS (and maybe calls whitelists) on Bedside before doing a widget since it would be almost the same code.
Thanks!
Status on the new version (whitelists!), I've had some unconsistency problems, and I'm looking into it, haven't had the time to really fix it because I've been really busy with work/problems, but I'm getting back on track soon.
I've been messing around with this app obsessively for a few days as a possible replacement for the Gear wake-up gesture. The app seems to be great for two things...
1.) Screen turns off immediately as you start to lower your arm instead of the watch having to wait a minimum of 5-7 seconds
2.) Keep Screen ON by Motion option to prevent a screen timeout for as long as you are looking at it.
I've realized however that the "Turn screen on by motion" option uses more energy and is NOT a good replacement for the normal wake-up gesture found in gear settings. The normal wake-up gesture seems to be better optimized for the watch. No matter how many times i've tried to set up Gravity Screen to do the same thing, the angles don't work right and the screen comes on a lot when it shouldn't.
So i've combined the two...using the wake-up gesture of the gear (keeping the "screen on by motion" unchecked in Gravity screen) and utilizing the Screen Off feature and "Keep Screen ON by motion" feature of Gravity Screen. This has worked the best for me.
Here are the settings i use for everthing...
In the Gear settings:
-Set screen timeout to 7 seconds or whatever you prefer (not important if you keep Gravity Screen running all the time)
-Wake-up gesture set to "Last screen viewed".
(I simply turn off Wake-up gesture and pause Gravity Screen before going to bed... Still looking for a way to toggle these actions as a widget without having to go into settings everytime. Possibly tasker could do it? If anybody knows a way please tell me!)
In the Gravity Screen settings from top to bottom:
Pocket Sensor = 90 degrees
Table Sensor = 90 degrees
Keep Screen ON by Motion = checked
Sensitivity set = 100
Booster = checked
Running During Call = checked (your preference)
Notification = checked
Low Priority (hide icon) = checked
Start at boot = checked
(Everything else leave unchecked)
So that's it. Manually turning on/off the screen is always the best battery saver...but if you want to have the automatic wake-up then using either the app or the gear settings by themselves isn't as good on battery as combining the two as I have described. Let me know what you guys think.
Thanks for sharing your findings.
I figured I'd start a thread to share tips and tricks moving over to LP 5.0.1
Haven't found a way to add icons to Lock Screen other then Call & Camera yet BUT..
If your like me and really don't like the use of LP's Home button I downloaded "Screen Off and Unlock" from play store, now when I press and hold Home the screen goes off/sleep, it still goes to Google Now if you double hit Home...
1) If you want to use Do Not Disturb (DND), setting the toggle to on will keep DND on all the time. Setting just a schedule (and keeping the toggle off) will only activate DND during the scheduled time.
Alternatively, you can use the app called Do Not Disturb, which, IMO, works better than the default one. Plus, you can set multiple schedules!
2) if you're like me and hate how the new lockscreen notifications show everything that appears in your notification panel, and only shows the first 2 notifications (before you have to expand them all), then look at NiLS on Play. It mimics the LP lockscreen notifications, but you can choose what notifications to show or hide. And you can theme them too.
Hi
I can't find whether this option exists - to put the phone once docked to a dimmed clock with no leds flashing. I've used the do not disturb settings which disable the lights and sounds but not worked out how to trigger the dimmed clock when docked?! Any ideas?
I've previously used Dock Clock but if its a core feature I'd rather not install it.
On the Priv I returned recently this a setting based on the clock but doesn't appear to exist on the Note 5.
thanks
Daydream, maybe?
Guys - on the top menu which has DND, Flashlight, etc is it possible to add anything from settings? I'd like to place the brightness setting in there (in particular if I can turn on/off ambient lighting with one click) that'll be great. Thanks
It's already there. You have to swipe down again to get the brightness settings, which presents a slider to brighten or dim the didplay, along with options to choose what shortcuts to turn things on/off that you see on the ribbon initially. I think brightness is one of them..
Maybe under device settings?