Hi Guys,
Why do you think Google has turned off the led notification in the stock build of android for the Nexus 6?
Oniska said:
Hi Guys,
Why do you think Google has turned off the led notification in the stock build of android for the Nexus 6?
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Ambient display.
So why then include a led?
Oniska said:
So why then include a led?
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I believe it actually works. But it is a charging/battery LED. Charging when the phone is off perhaps. Low battery maybe. I don't recall under what situations it actually works, and maybe I am mistaking it for one of the Moto X devices but I am pretty sure there are situations where it works.
Regardless though, it is there, it just isn't a notification LED by default.
Root your nexus and install light flow.
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Ever since I met the LED notification, I've fallen in love with it and I'm sad to see that the Nexus 6 is leaving it out. Since it has an AMOLED screen, I'm thinking what would it be like battery life wise if I left the display on to always show notifications (if there is one)?
well.... with Ambient Display, the screen will pulse on every so often with just enough pixels to show the notifications you have (or at least that's how i'm understanding it'll work).
elementaldragon said:
well.... with Ambient Display, the screen will pulse on every so often with just enough pixels to show the notifications you have (or at least that's how i'm understanding it'll work).
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i think that's how it works as well but most of the time, i'm not near my phone and i just want a quick glance over to see if there are any notifications.
It's hard to say, really. I'm running one of the AOSP Lollipop builds on my Nexus 5 right now... but can't exactly compare that to the Nexus 6, since the N5 doesn't use an AMOLED screen. Every time i see Ambient Display turn on, the entire backlight is on, too.
With that said.... even with an AMOLED screen, i can't imagine leaving the screen on constantly being a good thing for battery life.
Hopefully there's at least a charging led someone can hack to use as regular led. Worked before...
frigidazzi said:
Hopefully there's at least a charging led someone can hack to use as regular led. Worked before...
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Does someone have information about that? Is there any charging LED?
Dabarr said:
Does someone have information about that? Is there any charging LED?
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I went through a bunch of videos, but none of them show charging so far..
frigidazzi said:
I went through a bunch of videos, but none of them show charging so far..
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I don't believe it does, at least by default. The Moto X has an LED behind the earpiece, which you can see a picture of here but it isn't a charging light by default. With root you can change that.
If this holds true for the Nexus 6, I don't know. No teardowns of the Nexus 6 yet, or hands on with the device showing this functionality. Even if it doesn't have this light. I am sure there will be a way to use the display to get this info across.
cupfulloflol said:
I don't believe it does, at least by default. The Moto X has an LED behind the earpiece, which you can see a picture of here but it isn't a charging light by default. With root you can change that.
If this holds true for the Nexus 6, I don't know. No teardowns of the Nexus 6 yet, or hands on with the device showing this functionality. Even if it doesn't have this light. I am sure there will be a way to use the display to get this info across.
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Yeah I was reading this about the Moto x also. Hopefully it kept that design too.
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!
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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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.
EmperorX said:
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
vvveith said:
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
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CraigP17 said:
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.
mzimand said:
So does mine
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What are you guys using? Lightflow?
vvveith said:
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.
jawmail said:
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?
jawmail said:
What are you guys using? Lightflow?
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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 .
jawmail said:
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.
so... I've had my N6 for about month and a half and last week decided to root, weird thing was, I DID NOT KNOW that there was a LED light on it ... while using stock, the LED light did not come on at all and only when i installed CM12 that i seen the light.
I want to go back to stock but i want the LED light for notifications. has anybody encountered this problem? how do i fix it ?
Stock does not support LED.
For me this is not an issue, why would I want an LED always flashing to show me I have notifications.
Went through the trouble of installing CM12 and you want stock?
Unless something was missing in CM12 like flaky bluetooth I would stick with custom ROMs
AstroDigital said:
Stock does not support LED.
For me this is not an issue, why would I want an LED always flashing to show me I have notifications.
Went through the trouble of installing CM12 and you want stock?
Unless something was missing in CM12 like flaky bluetooth I would stick with custom ROMs
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You don't want the light but i do ... preferences ...
installing wasn't trouble at all, my problem is that i feel like cm12 needs to get better and less buggy, the rom just started coming out so I wanna wait until most bugs are fixed, I was enjoying stock for a while, just wanted to test out cm12 to see where it was and for the way I like it, it's not ready.
BruKnowsBest said:
You don't want the light but i do ... preferences ...
installing wasn't trouble at all, my problem is that i feel like cm12 needs to get better and less buggy, the rom just started coming out so I wanna wait until most bugs are fixed, I was enjoying stock for a while, just wanted to test out cm12 to see where it was and for the way I like it, it's not ready.
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LightFlow paid app to control LEDs for notification.
wtherrell said:
LightFlow paid app to control LEDs for notification.
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does it require root?
BruKnowsBest said:
does it require root?
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Yes it does require root and you need the paid version of the app. I cannot believe the N6 didn't come stock with led notifications and double tap to wake. Beside the washed out/ way over saturated screen, I think I might return mine to ATT before my 2 weeks are over
Can't complain... Its huge but I kinda like it
Yes I was shocked at the light too.
Definitely should be enabled out of the gate.
Unlike the TINY one behind the HTC speaker grille with very limited viewing angle this one is bright and actually better IMO than Samsung's.
wtherrell said:
LightFlow paid app to control LEDs for notification.
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One thing to note is that for now with Light Flow the only colors for the LED are red green or blue. Or if you manually change the color with the built in light flow mixer you can make strange combinations with the top half of the LED being one color and the bottom half another.
Any one know how to fix low flash brightness ???
Please I need help !!!
You mean that the camera led flash is not bright enough?
winol said:
You mean that the camera led flash is not bright enough?
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Yes.....any solution ???
aladdine said:
Yes.....any solution ???
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What troubleshooting steps have you taken?
How do you know it's not as bright as it should be?
When did this start happening?
How long has it been going on?
Just saying, "this doesn't work, please help" doesn't give us any information. Imgaine taking your car to the mechanic and just saying, "my car doesn't work correctly. Fix it." Then just walking off.
I have compared my note 7 and note 8 led flash light with other phones, And yes, compared to others it seems to be less bright, but, the intensity is adecuate for the camera, the light intensity is designed to work fine with the camera's parameters it is not meant to be used as an illuminating lantern for other purposes, the important thing is to check if your dark enviroment photos using flash come out as they should
Can someone please tell me the names of some (7.0 or higher) roms that activate the led to pulse or blink? I'm receiving a Nexus 6, and i know that this feature can't be utilised while the phone is "stock". Thank you for any feedback.
grunt0300 said:
Can someone please tell me the names of some (7.0 or higher) roms that activate the led to pulse or blink? I'm receiving a Nexus 6, and i know that this feature can't be utilised while the phone is "stock". Thank you for any feedback.
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Try Nephilim 1.4. It has ALL you need and MUCH MUCH MORE THAN THAT!
grunt0300 said:
and i know that this feature can't be utilised while the phone is "stock".
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It's not usable in custom ROMs either, because the hardware doesn't support it. It can be emulated using apps like Lightflow, but at a cost of increased battery drain. Now, is there a custom ROM which supports flashing LEDs? Probably, but I couldn't tell you which ones have it.
Beltz has blinking light. But it may be software blinking, which may prevent deep sleep.