Just so everyone knows. If you were wondering if LightFlow plays nice with the S6 it does indeed.
Even without root all the notification settings im using work wonderfully.
I remember the LED in the Note 2 not giving me very many colors with Lightflow. But so far I have white, yellow, red, blue, green,
Now i wish the developer would make something to use the "edge lighting" in the same way the LED works.
Really, I can't get it to work at all. What setting are you using to make it work? I've been emailing with the developer and still no luck after a number of settings changes.
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Strike that, appears to be working now. Didn't work when I restored a backup of the old notification configuration from my S5, but when I reinstalled the app and manually configured the notification settings it all worked fine
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Not interested, Light Manager for me. Light Flow has worked fine with past phones and then all of a sudden it turns into a battery hog and heats up my phone. I've made enough complaints with the dev about it and nothing's been fixed so I've left them entirely.
KryptosXLayer2 said:
Not interested, Light Manager for me. Light Flow has worked fine with past phones and then all of a sudden it turns into a battery hog and heats up my phone. I've made enough complaints with the dev about it and nothing's been fixed so I've left them entirely.
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i instaled it soon as i got my phone and noticed a huge battery drain as well.
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elliwigy said:
i instaled it soon as i got my phone and noticed a huge battery drain as well.
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weird. ive noticed the same crappy battery life before and after having lightflow installed.
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krolla03 said:
weird. ive noticed the same crappy battery life before and after having lightflow installed.
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Yes, after I first unboxed it and started browsing through the settings, I was surprised at how fast it was and how slow my battery life was decreasing. Once I started loading my apps, it gradually started slowing down and now the battery life is horrible. Since it's an AMOLED screen, I might need to stick to dark themes to save my battery life.
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Somehow the notification thingy (red dot with number of unread emails) is not showing anymore. This is for the built-in email client that came with the Gnote.
I have a feeling its because I have ADW EX as my launcher now. Just want some confirmation, and is there a way to get it back?
Thanks.
If you're using ADW, then you'll need ADWNotifier.
Thanks, but doesn't work with the Samsung email client.
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NoLed. It is something different, but hav a look once. It supports almost all applications.
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NoLed. It is something different, but hav a look once. It supports almost all applications.
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Thanks. I've tried that before, and yes it works...
I just want something simple - like the read dot. lol.
Do you know how bad the NoLED affects battery life? Thank you.
Visual360 said:
Do you know how bad the NoLED affects battery life? Thank you.
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It has killed my phone before. It obviously came up and was there for hours, and the screen just drained the battery. I also assume it prevented the phone sleeping. This was with the Xperia Arc.
There are settings that can prevent this, but then I found the situation fairly useless as the notification was not there when I wanted it. I could not find a method that suited me.
I have no bought (waiting delivery) one of those wristbands that vibrate when you get a notification, call, or leave your phone behind . I think that will work better for me. Still waiting for an Android watch that does not look like a brick on your wrist.
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It has killed my phone before. It obviously came up and was there for hours, and the screen just drained the battery. I also assume it prevented the phone sleeping. This was with the Xperia Arc.
There are settings that can prevent this, but then I found the situation fairly useless as the notification was not there when I wanted it. I could not find a method that suited me.
I have no bought (waiting delivery) one of those wristbands that vibrate when you get a notification, call, or leave your phone behind . I think that will work better for me. Still waiting for an Android watch that does not look like a brick on your wrist.
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The wristband thingy sounds interesting. Which one did you get? Mind posting the link? Thanks.
Wanted to see if anyone elses' X does this.
Go into a dark/pitch black room.
Face down your phone and pick it up / get the AN to trigger.
Watch your screen after the AN fades out.
Does your whole screen go through a wavy/flicker effect? Lasts about 1 second. Looks slightly grey/brownish. Not so noticeable when it's bright out.
I have noticed this. I wanted to see if the active notification pixels were the only ones lighting up and I think they are. However, there is that brief moment that the whole screen is emitting enough light to be noticeable.
Ya I have noticed this too but only in very dark rooms. I'm not to worried; battery life is great for my usage.
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someone can solve this bug?
guillots said:
someone can solve this bug?
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I've got the exact same problem, but its only noticiable in very dark rooms, but still it sucks.
I have find this app, it's the same as Motos Active Screen, but it doesn't flicker for me.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications&hl=nl
You will need the paid version to get all options though.
seafood99 said:
I've got the exact same problem, but its only noticiable in very dark rooms, but still it sucks.
I have find this app, it's the same as Motos Active Screen, but it doesn't flicker for me.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications&hl=nl
You will need the paid version to get all options though.
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That app may chew through your battery possibly, unlike moto's active display.
Just a heads up. ?
Is it possible for an app to run the phone in grayscale?
mobileboost said:
Is it possible for an app to run the phone in grayscale?
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I am very interested in this too. To be honest, I'm surprised nobody thought to do this for the Moto X's active display in the first place. :silly:
I would love a feature like that! My battery is pretty miserable on my moto x (huge android OS drain). Don't know if it's me always be in poor reception areas or what but not cool.
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Is it possible for an app to run the phone in grayscale?
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I don't know/think there is an app to do exact the same thing, but you could try an screen dimmer app, like screen dimmer or screen filter
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I am very interested in this too. To be honest, I'm surprised nobody thought to do this for the Moto X's active display in the first place. :silly:
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Didn't get that, Moto X's active display is black and white, no point getting it in greyscale o.o
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I would love a feature like that! My battery is pretty miserable on my moto x (huge android OS drain). Don't know if it's me always be in poor reception areas or what but not cool.
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Probably your problem isn't the screen if android OS is eating your battery
Android os gets bigger the more services you have enabled. Cut out some services you don't need running all the time and it will lower. Guaranteed.
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Am looking for something like this as well! (I love my battery)
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Can you list an app that would make the screen black and another color or something that is usable to reduce battery life? If it can be done without root that would be very helpful :fingers-crossed:
My android os usage was really high when I was stock then I unlocked the bootloader and without changing the ROM or kernel and now its a non issue usually staying at around 7-10%
Maybe that means a factory reset would help for that? Help this helps and sorry if its off topic
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This would be an awesome feature
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I've actually looked in to this a little. The ideal scenario would be to run everything in "greenscale" as green takes the least power on amoled displays, I believe.
I was sad when I learned that the "Greenify" app wasn't what I wanted it to be...lol
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I've actually looked in to this a little. The ideal scenario would be to run everything in "greenscale" as green takes the least power on amoled displays, I believe.
I was sad when I learned that the "Greenify" app wasn't what I wanted it to be...lol
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Well there are a couple apps to add a colored tint to the screen.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kovit.p.filteryourscreen
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paijwar.screenfilter
So this is something the Galaxy S5 does? ive seen some of the phones that have the e-ink on one side, regular display on the other.. I would be very interested in that!
I use an app called "Color Wallpaper" to set a dark or black wallpaper color which helps save battery on the OLED screen.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ellipselab.android.colorwallpaper
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I use an app called "Color Wallpaper" to set a dark or black wallpaper color which helps save battery on the OLED screen.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ellipselab.android.colorwallpaper
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I set my background to solid black. I just wish an app could change the color scale. I had a ROM one time that allowed it to all be changed to red, blue, or green. It would only use those colors. I think it was a ROM for an Evo 4G that was baked into it, but I don't remember.
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I would love a feature like that! My battery is pretty miserable on my moto x (huge android OS drain). Don't know if it's me always be in poor reception areas or what but not cool.
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Thats not normal. I have excellent battery life, have you tried doing a factory reset?
blackhand1001 said:
Thats not normal. I have excellent battery life, have you tried doing a factory reset?
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After hunting around some I disabled touchless control and it made a huge difference. It was eating all sorts of power and creating lots of wakelocks in the background. I still barely can make it through a day but at least it isn't dead by lunch. I may try a factory reset once the at&t 4.4.2 is out for download.
Found an app that can change everything to grayscale (or green, red, blue, salmon)! It's called CF.lumen
SOS Launcher
I just started trying this app for when I am camping and need extreme battery life, SOS Launcher
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webzler.soslauncher
the idea is similar to what you described, just make sure you reboot after setting it up.
Love this phone so far but one minor complaint is there is no LED for notifications I miss that coming from my S4! I also wish I could rearrange some of the things in the drop down menu but that's minor.
When will we have root access!!!
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You can use the camera flash as a LED notification light. Just have to download a app from the play store
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Love this phone so far but one minor complaint is there is no LED for notifications I miss that coming from my S4! I also wish I could rearrange some of the things in the drop down menu but that's minor.
When will we have root access!!!
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nope, it just notifies you via the screen blinking showing you got notifications (forgot the name of this feature)
the same as moto X
I will be getting my turbo this afternoon. I'm also coming from a rooted s4 where I used titanium backup for my backup. I am sure going to miss being rooted ?.
Did you do anything to restore things, especially things from titanium backup, since I can't use tibu with the turbo? A little apprehensive here.
I will be getting the red 32 gb turbo (black one was unavailable on Verizon's website).
I'm hoping the change over goes smoothly.
Kinda sucks there's no LED but what are you gonna do. Its a trade off. When I got my this phone I just downloaded all the apps I had again can't do much with tibu without root access.
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Kinda sucks there's no LED but what are you gonna do. Its a trade off. When I got my this phone I just downloaded all the apps I had again can't do much with tibu without root access.
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I'm a big fan of led notification but I'm not missing it that much with this screen notification feature...
the screen turns on every few seconds and you can see by the icon what kind of notification it is, pretty simple
The LED would be pretty redundant with Moto Display.
I came from the S4 too and I don't miss the LED notification one bit. I love the Moto Display.
I'm trying out the moto display now. Its actually pretty sweet!
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You can use the camera flash as a LED notification light. Just have to download a app from the play store
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And what app would that be?
boogerlad said:
And what app would that be?
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Flash alerts
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.megawave.flashalerts
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I will be getting my turbo this afternoon. I'm also coming from a rooted s4 where I used titanium backup for my backup. I am sure going to miss being rooted ?.
Did you do anything to restore things, especially things from titanium backup, since I can't use tibu with the turbo? A little apprehensive here.
I will be getting the red 32 gb turbo (black one was unavailable on Verizon's website).
I'm hoping the change over goes smoothly.
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Helium works. Just install it in your S4 and backup...
Then run it in the Turbo and you can restore your apps.
Just a reminder, most people had to manually set the device as Mot Composite USB in the device manager menu.
Let me know if it worked for you!
Alex, thx, for your response. I actually got my turbo yesterday afternoon. After signing into it, I just let Google do its thing. It downloaded most of my apps (took 2 or 3 hours), but, wasn't too bad.
I am enjoying playing with the phone and trying to learn how to use it. One thing I really miss about root is not having a good ad blocker (I used MOAB). Do you happen to know of any good non root ad blockers? Haven't googled, yet.
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Alex, thx, for your response. I actually got my turbo yesterday afternoon. After signing into it, I just let Google do its thing. It downloaded most of my apps (took 2 or 3 hours), but, wasn't too bad.
I am enjoying playing with the phone and trying to learn how to use it. One thing I really miss about root is not having a good ad blocker (I used MOAB). Do you happen to know of any good non root ad blockers? Haven't googled, yet.
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I tried using AdBlock Plus but it didn't work, however a Turbo user said it was working for him in another thread.
Helium can restore the appdata that Google might not be able.
A lot of games still don't cloud backup your saves, for example...
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/11/21/nexus-6-has-a-hidden-rgb-led-under-the-top-speaker-grill/
Nothing like this on the Turbo, right?
I dl'd Adblock+. It does not seem to have done too much for the little I have checked so far. I will continue to look. Thx, alex.
frankeegee said:
I dl'd Adblock+. It does not seem to have done too much for the little I have checked so far. I will continue to look. Thx, alex.
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No problem, man!
El Perfecto said:
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/11/21/nexus-6-has-a-hidden-rgb-led-under-the-top-speaker-grill/
Nothing like this on the Turbo, right?
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That is what i was hoping for. Even the moto x has it....maybe if we get root we can see if theres any hidden LEDs. Hopefully *crosses fingers*
I believe there is some sort of LED
So I let my DT die night before last and plugged it into the charger.
Low and behold, to the left of the front camera was a green LED in a vertical orientation. When the phone received enough of a charge, this light disappeared and the normal battery charging screen came up.
So maybe there is some LED action here ? I read somewhere else that the MOTO X also has/had a hidden LED.
**shrug**
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So I let my DT die night before last and plugged it into the charger.
Low and behold, to the left of the front camera was a green LED in a vertical orientation. When the phone received enough of a charge, this light disappeared and the normal battery charging screen came up.
So maybe there is some LED action here ? I read somewhere else that the MOTO X also has/had a hidden LED.
**shrug**
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Interesting...I let my Turbo die before and no LED ever shone on mine. I might have to try it again and see if it comes on. From everything I've read, the X has an LED as well, but people have only gotten it to shine through the bootloader and stuff.
This might be the first phone I leave stock. I do miss xposed on my htc, but aside from that. I don't see any reason to root. Am I the only one with similar feelings?
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only 1 reason is ram management bug
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only 1 reason is ram management bug
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Glad that you mentioned this. Whenever I switch between apps and go back into chrome. The page I was viewing has to reload. How is this fixed via root?
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So... you have to make changes to the build.xxx file? Are all phones affected by this ram issue? I haven't experienced any issues with apps crashing or lagging.
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NYLUVBUG said:
So... you have to make changes to the build.xxx file? Are all phones affected by this ram issue? I haven't experienced any issues with apps crashing or lagging.
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Honestly other than debloating, I could have left it stock as well.
I have incredibly itchy fingers though If I'm not messing with something that can turn my phone into a paperweight, I'm not having fun. Even the ram management stock wasn't noticeable to me. The Tmobile bloat is horrible, and I love loading ROMs and screwing with stuff I shouldn't be for the sake of the community.
LMT pie, adaway, custom roms, alliance framework, volume warning removal, de bloating, viper4android, etc... Root is always necessary.
viper4android
You are not missing much by not rooting. Nothing out there anyways. Most bloat can be disabled. No fix for ram issues. Only samsung can fix it if they want.
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ambervals6 said:
You are not missing much by not rooting. Nothing out there anyways. Most bloat can be disabled. No fix for ram issues. Only samsung can fix it if they want.
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True, I have everything disabled and I haven't found the need to root.
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True, I have everything disabled and I haven't found the need to root.
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Stock since April 10th ram management isn't a huge issue for me. First phone ever not rooted. I'm satisfied.
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philliman said:
Stock since April 10th ram management isn't a huge issue for me. First phone ever not rooted. I'm satisfied.
Launched from myT-Mobile Galaxy S6 5.1.1
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Agree, you won't miss much by not rooting. I have disabled most of the bloat which are allowed to be disabled. I can switch between apps without any issues. I got a replacement device last week because the previous one will just turn off itself even if the battery is charged. the "new" (Actually is seems refurbished) works well so far. I have repeated the same process on disabling the unwanted apps, turning off wifi calling and VoLTE, screen on auto brightness, all the usual stuff. Battery life is not great, but can last a working day with moderate usage. If you are on the road, and use camera, maps, then battery drains quickly. If t-mobile network is poor where you are( which is a not unusal), battery will drain even quicker.
T version has to many app from stock... Almost 1.5gb of trash stuff.
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Agree, you won't miss much by not rooting. I have disabled most of the bloat which are allowed to be disabled. I can switch between apps without any issues. I got a replacement device last week because the previous one will just turn off itself even if the battery is charged. the "new" (Actually is seems refurbished) works well so far. I have repeated the same process on disabling the unwanted apps, turning off wifi calling and VoLTE, screen on auto brightness, all the usual stuff. Battery life is not great, but can last a working day with moderate usage. If you are on the road, and use camera, maps, then battery drains quickly. If t-mobile network is poor where you are( which is a not unusal), battery will drain even quicker.
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I have everything enabled. Disabled the apps that I don't use and my battery life is great for my needs. 15 hrs with moderate use. I'm not big on SOT because I'm not in my phone all day long. Lol people be wanting 10 hrs SOT. ? ? ?
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viper4android!
I semi-bricked my phone and haven't been rooted since bringing it back to life. The only thing I truly miss is AdAway. It's been years since I had to browse the web without an ad blocker and I feel like they've turned up the onslaught ten fold.
Not bad at all.
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I wouldn't root either, but I hate ads, ad-away is a must for me. Adguard and all those work when browsing but not in apps. Until then I will stick to 5.0.2 with root. If anyone knows of a alternative for ad blocking like ad-away does, please let me know.
I need root. Few reasons. Debloating, ViperFX and volume button skip mod (whenever we get one)
Also really really hoping official Cyanogenmod makes it to this phone. I miss AOSP with all my heart.
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I need root. Few reasons. Debloating, ViperFX and volume button skip mod (whenever we get one)
Also really really hoping official Cyanogenmod makes it to this phone. I miss AOSP with all my heart.
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Why not get a nexus then
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Why not get a nexus then
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It's too damn big lol plus I prefer Samsung software. The S4 was perfect because of Google's GPE program. But since that's dead the best I can hope for is that sooner or later CM will come to the S6.