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[Q] Which is preferred for missed notifications- LED or Active Display?

Thinking about getting a Droid Turbo but not sure about the notifications....I currently have a Note 2 and I really like having a front LED for missed notifications. I am not sure if I would notice active display as quickly or not. I thought I would ask and get some opinions on which is preferred(if had the choice of both).

I do miss my led but I've had one since the Droid X. So far Its something to get used to for me. If you aren't sure you can just wave your hand over it. I wasn't sure about it but I'll give the blinkey light up for the performance I have now over my old S4

Honestly the active display is awesome but to disable it when driving because it tends to keep turning on without any notification when on my gps mount but for me it's no big deal. The active display won't affect battery much since this is a amoled display and only the needed pixels (white ones) light off and the rest are completely off.
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http://m.androidcentral.com/inside-moto-x-active-display

I watched a video of it for Moto X and the strobe rate does not seem to be often enough for me. Is it adjustable to where the notification can just stay on the screen instead of strobe? I check my current phone with only a brief glance for LED notifications, and I would surely mess the notification on active display if it's in between strobes.

dman777 said:
I watched a video of it for Moto X and the strobe rate does not seem to be often enough for me. Is it adjustable to where the notification can just stay on the screen instead of strobe? I check my current phone with only a brief glance for LED notifications, and I would surely mess the notification on active display if it's in between strobes.
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Is this why my screen seems to blink intermittently? It doesn't even seem to have a pattern... It's not like "regular"... omg, I want to disable this so bad!!! Definitely horrible when driving and mounting the phone in a mount. It's irritating and distracting.
I guess that I never noticed that there was no more LED to blink!

I missed having an LED at first, but the active display functionality has grown on my like a tumor! LOL!

PerCompLLC said:
I missed having an LED at first, but the active display functionality has grown on my like a tumor! LOL!
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Same here! It's just so awesome! For me it's better because it's as if the led were on because of the amoled display.

wadamean said:
Same here! It's just so awesome! For me it's better because it's as if the led were on because of the amoled display.
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What do you do when you have it laying on a desk/table and you glance over and miss the notification because it was at the moment that it was faded out?

dman777 said:
What do you do when you have it laying on a desk/table and you glance over and miss the notification because it was at the moment that it was faded out?
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Jiggle,move it, flip it, etc. It senses movement as well.
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dman777 said:
What do you do when you have it laying on a desk/table and you glance over and miss the notification because it was at the moment that it was faded out?
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That's true and simple just wave you hand close to the screen or any movement really turns on active display. The notification doesn't go away until you have gone to the specified app to see what it was

dman777 said:
What do you do when you have it laying on a desk/table and you glance over and miss the notification because it was at the moment that it was faded out?
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just put your hand near it, you don't even have to touch it. The notifications will light up. Unless I am doing it wrong, it would be nice if I could touch that notification icon and swipe and it took me to it.

Here's how I usually operate...my phone is always on my desk or on my couch face up....without me touching it. How can I make it to where if I glance over at it without touching the phone or waving my hand over it where I can see the notification without staring at it? Is there a way to make the notifications on the screen stay on without fading in/out? With the speed it fades in/out, I know I will miss a notification while it's faded out.

just put your hand near it, you don't even have to touch it. The notifications will light up. Unless I am doing it wrong, it would be nice if I could touch that notification icon and swipe and it took me to it.
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You have to touch and hold the notification icon and slide up. That will open whatever application the notification is for.

I just went from note 2 to droid turbo 2. I miss the led light. I am a mom and sometimes I let my 3 years old play game on my phone while I shop. The led light let me know someone is trying to reach me. I can not tell anymore with droid turbo 2 because of no LED light. And, I still haven't found moto display useful. My husband noticed I don't response fast enough since the new phone. The note 2 and turbo 2 are are almost same size so I do not carry my phone in my pocket often because it is uncomfortable and sometimes even fall out of my pocket when I am cleaning, carrying dealing with my kids, so I like to lay it down and look across the room for the LED light. I am severe to profound hearing loss in both ears and wear cochlear implant so when i am not wearing it, i like to see the notifcation across the room.
I am giving my husband the turbo 2 (I could return it but he wants it). I going to get a phone with a led light.

we actually do have an led light near the front facing camera, but i have no idea how to activate it and it doesnt seem to be used by any app. ive seen it come on twice but idk why it came on. it happened while on the charger and it turned green.

Active Display all the way, hate LED lights.

I think you can get the led to work with some combo of light flow and xposed. It also is used by default with RR. I'm torn on which I like. I liked active display on stock, but it doesn't seem to work as well on non stock based ROMs. I've been using the LED, but it doesn't really blink, it just stays on solid when I have a notification.

Is Ambient display supposed to keep "pulsating" until I check the notifications?

Is Ambient display supposed to keep "pulsating" until I check the notifications?
I don't fully understand ambient display, how is it supposed to work? When I receive a notification, the display is supposed to light up and then turn itself off a few seconds ago (kinda like the iphone does ) until I pick up the phone and then it automatically turns on the display and show me the black & white version of the lockscreen , right? But why is it that sometimes the display keeps "pulsating" every couple of seconds like it does when you get a notification but it doesn't stop until I check it? Is this behavior app independent?

Yes. Me also faced the same issue. That's why I keep it off.

Read this, it's a pretty good explanation of ambient display http://www.androidcentral.com/ambient-display-nexus-6

Waynehead69 said:
Read this, it's a pretty good explanation of ambient display http://www.androidcentral.com/ambient-display-nexus-6
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Yep pretty much works like I thought it did , when it keeps "pulsating" it's probably because of a bug of the app that's sending the notification

Notification LED vs Ambient Screen

I am thinking about buying a Nokia 7 Plus but one thing is really bugging me.
I am currently using the OnePlus 2 which has a Notification LED and I have gotten quite used to it and I'm not very happy to give it up. The Ambient Screen might be an alternative for me but one thing about it is bugging me. It takes advantage of the face that OLED screen don't use any power to display black. But the 7 Plus uses an LCD.
So how much of a battery issue is using the Ambient Screen with this phone?

the Nokia 7 Plus does not have a always on display. the screen lights up if you get a message or pick up your phone

Yes like what they guy above said and the battery usage is minimal at best

You will get used to live without that led. It took couple days to get used just take phone to hand and it'll show you your notifications.

vahtmestar said:
You will get used to live without that led. It took couple days to get used just take phone to hand and it'll show you your notifications.
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I agree. I do not miss led notification that much either. I used to have Huawei P10 before with a tiny led which was in fact unusable in daylight anyway, therefore I find picking up this Nokia phone to hand shortly more than I liked the crappy led on P10.

Is it any specific movement of the phone that will make the screen come on? Does it happen when walking for instance with the phone in your pocket?

yes, the phone needs to lay down on a table frist and you need to lift it up. The screen lights up then.
I doubt this happens when the phone is in your pocket.

Tequila.CZ said:
yes, the phone needs to lay down on a table frist and you need to lift it up. The screen lights up then.
I doubt this happens when the phone is in your pocket.
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It happends. When I grab it from pocket it turns ambient screen on.

mgolder said:
Is it any specific movement of the phone that will make the screen come on? Does it happen when walking for instance with the phone in your pocket?
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if you walking without somersault then ambiend is not activated
is need specific movement, from desk pick up to face, or from pocket to hand, in fact needed moving about 90 degress

The phone uses the proximity sensor with the ambient display, so if phone is in pocket, then it won't be activated unless you pull it out of your pocket, and it doesn't need any specific movement, any movement will trigger it on

salahmed said:
[...]uses the proximity sensor[...]
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you're right... then is also possible walk with somersault
salahmed said:
it doesn't need any specific movement, any movement will trigger it on
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but this is not true, if you take out phone from pocket/case with movement only in one axis, then ambient is not activated...

Does it have the feature like the moto display, where you can wave above the screen to make ambient display light up and show notifications without touching the screen?

No it doesn't unfortunately – and this feature was borrowed from Nokia on the glance screen introduced in the WP8 era. I was too looking for a comeback on my Nokia 7 Plus.
On a side note – any possible hack to have this ambient display always on? My Lumia 1020 has an LCD screen and has glance screen that can be configured to be always on, so it's not technically impossible. It just consumes more battery, but I like to see the notification status and the clock at a glance without having to touch or hover anything.

Disinto said:
any possible hack to have this ambient display always on?
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wait to end(?) of august for P upgrade, in P DP4 this feature is already native (btw:i have DP4, but not enable this, then not know what this drain battery)

Wake screen for notifications question

I have my phone set for screen to wake when a notification comes in. Is there not a way to have the notification appear at intervals until I dismiss? The way it works now is, screen will wake when a notification comes in, and stays on briefly, then goes off...and that's it. Am I to understand that unless I notice that one brief notification, the only way to see if I have an email/text/etc is to open the phone and look? No notification light and one measly, brief notification? Is that it? Help!

velveteen71 said:
I have my phone set for screen to wake when a notification comes in. Is there not a way to have the notification appear at intervals until I dismiss? The way it works now is, screen will wake when a notification comes in, and stays on briefly, then goes off...and that's it. Am I to understand that unless I notice that one brief notification, the only way to see if I have an email/text/etc is to open the phone and look? No notification light and one measly, brief notification? Is that it? Help!
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This is a minor gripe of mine as well. Plenty of forehead but no notification light. CleanSlate kernel has this option but I haven't tried it out yet
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74071273&postcount=932

velveteen71 said:
I have my phone set for screen to wake when a notification comes in. Is there not a way to have the notification appear at intervals until I dismiss? The way it works now is, screen will wake when a notification comes in, and stays on briefly, then goes off...and that's it. Am I to understand that unless I notice that one brief notification, the only way to see if I have an email/text/etc is to open the phone and look? No notification light and one measly, brief notification? Is that it? Help!
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That's what the always on display is for. In your case, double tap to wake would work too.
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Question Notifications and screen on

Hi Comrades,
Whenever I get a notification, the screen doesn't light up. This started happening after I changed the notification style from brief to detailed. Is there some other setting that I need to turn on so that screen lights up?

I was also shocked, samsungs have it like that, install glimpse if you want screen to turn on when notification arrives

lubikem said:
I was also shocked, samsungs have it like that, install glimpse if you want screen to turn on when notification arrives
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Naah..it's ok. I can live without the screen turning on.