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When the battery of my TyTN gets at 20%, I start getting system notifications warning me about a low level battery and others telling me to charge the battery like the manual says so.
The issue is that at 20% the TyTN still has a lot of life time, and meanwhile until the battery gets completely drained, I get MANY of these notifications that keep disturbing, it really isn't handy.
Does anyone know any solution for this? Maybe some way to start this notification only at 10% and maybe making them fewer.
It's only needed one or two notifications to remember us we are getting low on battery power, no need to keep reminding it all the time...
Thank you.
It's anoying me aswell...
I hope they fix this in the new ROM.
On the same general topic, anyone else find the battery status to be inaccurate?
I've re-enabled the small, four-bar battery indicator at the bottom of the home screen with a hack from MoDaCo.
Thing is, it's full most of the time - then wack! it goes to one-bar red and I start getting notifications. It doesn't seem very dependable. Anyone else get this?
Marques said:
It's only needed one or two notifications to remember us we are getting low on battery power, no need to keep reminding it all the time...
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same problem with me. looks like there is some serious bug with low level battery notification. in my case, i have Magic Button installed and i'm using its feature, which shows thin battery bar at top 2 pixels of screen (something like Batti). each time when i wake up my Vario II, this indicator always shows 100% battery for 2-3 seconds, after which it refreshes back to current state.
so this thing brings the idea, that these multiple notifications are caused because device 'thinks' that battery is full after each wake up, but after few seconds it turns out that it isn't, so system is generating notification - again and again after each wake up.
I've been having similar issues except in my case the battery is actually full.
The device powers up after being in 'sleep' mode (or sometimes during normal usage) and generates low battery notifications, even though the battery has been on charge all night and is actually full or at nearly full charge.
A soft re-set doesn't seem to help but physically switching the device off and on again seems to fix the problem (the battery showing 100% afterwards) but theres a definate bug with the power monitoring software
I really want to know how to modify registry of Hermes to avoid low battery notification too
Just a thought, on other devices such as the universal and breeze etc... (i see ive mentioned smartphones aswell as ppc) ... is the battery indicator shown in 10% blocks like the hermes or are they in steps of 1%?????
Anyone know of a reg hack or possibility that this will be changeable to 1% steps???????? (ROM change or the like?)
Ah yes, pretty irritating, guess we'll have to wait for the rom updates?
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Anyone know of a reg hack or possibility that this will be changeable to 1% steps???????? (ROM change or the like?)
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There is still no way to change the battery monitor to 1% steps.
From what I've checked, there is still no fix for this massive flood of low battery notifications. If anyone have any other idea... please share it.
My WM6 ROM show low battery warning at 40% - really annoying. I really just want to get of these notifications altogether!!
One possible cause of the battery showing that it is full only to have it drop 50-80% after a few minutes is that you are using a trickle-charger such as the USB cable to charge it.
When charging with one of these devices, when the battery says it's fully charged it usually isn't. You will want to take it off of the charger for a minute or two after it says it is full and then put the charger back on if you want to get a consistent full charge with a trickle charger.
Any news about the annoying low battery notifications?
I hate it and I would like to kill it forever...
Thanks
SaRo
In s-k software's sktools there an option to allow it to show the low battery notification in the sounds and notifications. I find this very useful as i disable the message on the screen which gets in the way when it pops up to tell you battery is low. You can even change the sound or just disable the notification completely! Theres got to be a reg setting for it so people can use this little hack without buying the program.
Display Brightness problem with my Galaxy S
Hi I have bit of a problem with my galaxy S' display. The display uses a ton of power (90% +, going down 1% every 2-3 minutes with display on) as per the OS usage data. I have not experienced brightness settings / power saving mode as having any effect in terms of extending my battery life.
Now here's why I think there might be something wrong with my phone. I know two other people that also have a Galaxy S. We come together often last time I noticed their displays are MUCH MUCH brighter. I took all three phones on the table and noticed that regardless of the brightness level I set on all three phones, whether it be the minimum brightness setting or full brightness (all 3 phones SAME settings of course) mine is always the darkest. Also their phones display 40-60 % from the total power used by their display's rather than mine always showing 90%+.
I tried a battery recalibration etc this doesn't do anything in my view. After trying some great suggestion on this forum, I alway set the display to its lowest brightness setting, still no difference.
One of those other phones is running the same S/W as mine (doc's rom JPA) the other is still on JM2, so I can definitely exclude the firmware version as a cause.
Any thoughts suggestions as to how to solve this? Or might I just as well stop bother with that and have Samsung exchange the phone's display?
I have the same problem.. Did you find a solution?
nikiiv said:
I have the same problem.. Did you find a solution?
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Hi, No unfortunately I didn't. It is kinda strange I'm not getting any response on this thread. If you and I are having the same issue, I find it hard to believe we'd be the only ones!
There is a "smart management" option under settings (saves battery). This seems to change contrast etc when enabled and makes screen dimmer. I have to SGSs and I can confirm that, Check it and tell me whether it worked.
nb: this option will make a full white screen dimmer than if you have half white and half black (the white will be brighter in the second case - probably to improve contrast).
Hmm.. this is what I did.. I placed the brightness slider to the left and switched on the automatic brightness control. Now battery use does not show 50% or more in average use, but seems normal, like it was before froyo
Smart Management is off
It's finally driven me to the point that I'm just going to sell the Nexus for a profit and get a G2. I can't take picking up my phone every single time I want to check if I have a message. I've never had a smartphone without this feature, and it's just a nightmare.
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It's finally driven me to the point that I'm just going to sell the Nexus for a profit and get a G2. I can't take picking up my phone every single time I want to check if I have a message. I've never had a smartphone without this feature, and it's just a nightmare.
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I do miss having an LED indicator too... but I wonder if they took it out due to battery life reasons. Is there an app that can help give better indications in case for missed calls or texts that can do a reminder without an LED indicator... maybe even use the LED light on the back of the camera is better than nothing
i would say just wait until someone makes it so it uses the LEDs under the softkeys as notification lights
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i would say just wait until someone makes it so it uses the LEDs under the softkeys as notification lights
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It's just not the same!
slowz3r said:
i would say just wait until someone makes it so it uses the LEDs under the softkeys as notification lights
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That would work fine for me, if only someone would write it!
Use NoLED, works great for me. I like it more than the trackball notifications on my N1 now, they look awesome on the screen.
ikon8 said:
Use NoLED, works great for me. I like it more than the trackball notifications on my N1 now, they look awesome on the screen.
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I don't want to power-on the screen for a notification that may be left un-noticed for an hour.
I didn't really like the idea of NoLED either but I just decided to try it for the hell of it. I use the blink mode and set the time out to 1 hour so if it's idle for an hour the notifications will stop. I've checked the battery drain and it seems to be quite small with blink mode at least (since I'm only having it display the notifications for 1 second every 30 seconds). So really, 2 seconds of screen time every minute, which is about 120 seconds every hour, or about 2 minutes of screen time where it's mostly black and a few lit pixels, and then after that 1 hour it stops.
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I don't want to power-on the screen for a notification that may be left un-noticed for an hour.
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I tried noled but must confess I never spent any time setting it up so the battery drain I noticed may have been avoidable.
Just to pick up on the above... I'd want the notifications instantly obvious so that a quick glance at my phone would notify me of any messages. Using the above method I'd only see a notification for some of the time and not all.
Lighting up the bottom buttons would be a much better option for me but in the meantime I might try noled again.
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It's just not the same!
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Other than the fact that they're not colored, seems a bit better IMO, more noticeable. Also, battery drain really is minimal with NoLed...
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TheBiles said:
I don't want to power-on the screen for a notification that may be left un-noticed for an hour.
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The three pixels on the screen drawing power aren't going to impact your battery life heavily.
JCopernicus said:
The three pixels on the screen drawing power aren't going to impact your battery life heavily.
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to be honest id be more paranoid about burn in , cuz really if i get a text when im sleeping and it goes unnoticed for 8 hours then what
With NoLED you can set notification timeouts, I have mine set to 30 minutes because I always have my phone near me and 30 minutes is plenty. I also have it set to use the Proximity sensor so that if the phone is in my pocket it's not displaying any notification, only when you remove the phone from your pocket and the proximity sensor detects that it's clear will it display the notification instantly. You can also set a "sleep" time for notifications, so I have mine turn off at 2am and turn back on at 6am.
If there is any increased battery drain I haven't noticed it, but then again I don't leave notifications on flashing for hours either.
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to be honest id be more paranoid about burn in , cuz really if i get a text when im sleeping and it goes unnoticed for 8 hours then what
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The notifications move around the screen to prevent any pixel burn-in. You can set them to timeout after a certain amount of time also.
Have you guys even bothered trying out NoLED? Haha
Good to know but on top of that don't the notifications move around the screen?
Edit: ikon beat me to it.
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The notifications move around the screen to prevent any pixel burn-in. You can set them to timeout after a certain amount of time also.
Have you guys even bothered trying out NoLED? Haha
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NO!, i fear change!
Have the phone make a sound/vibrate. No need to pick it up.
or download noLED. Problem solved.
I've made a couple posts in the Poor Battery Life on NS? thread( such as http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10143276&postcount=159) detailing my experience with the Nexus S's battery.
I use noLED as my notification system with large icons rather than the default little dots and no time out method. The only other special thing I've done to it is turn on the proximity sensor so noLED doesn't run while it's in my pocket. My boss likes to do a lot of paperwork in the super late evening/early morning and sends me emails accordingly(this is why I don't leave the sound/vibrate on, lol). noLED's impact on battery life is extremely negligible. I would put it on par with the power with the power consumption of an actual LED notification light due to the way SAMOLED and blacks work.
And, if you're worried about burn in, like someone said, the icons shift around the screen in order to avoid that.
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I've made a couple posts in the Poor Battery Life on NS? thread( such as http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10143276&postcount=159) detailing my experience with the Nexus S's battery.
I use noLED as my notification system with large icons rather than the default little dots and no time out method. The only other special thing I've done to it is turn on the proximity sensor so noLED doesn't run while it's in my pocket. My boss likes to do a lot of paperwork in the super late evening/early morning and sends me emails accordingly(this is why I don't leave the sound/vibrate on, lol). noLED's impact on battery life is extremely negligible. I would put it on par with the power with the power consumption of an actual LED notification light due to the way SAMOLED and blacks work.
And, if you're worried about burn in, like someone said, the icons shift around the screen in order to avoid that.
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that proximity sensor idea while its in your pocket, genius
Just tried noled again and am noticing a few force close errors.
What settings are best for this app and when a notification is received, what are you using to wake tje phone again as the power button causes issues as explained in the splash screen after install?
I'm also seeing all the bottom buttons light up as well as the notification on the screen, is this normal and if so is this not consuming battery unnecesarily?
Seems a tad buggy to me this app on the Nexus S. Would appreciate exact settings / configuration from anyone that has it running satisfactorily.
Do you think the state of the "always on " really saving battery power than normal mode ?
There is some research that ?
I suppose you are asking: is the Samsung always-on mode better than a simple application that enables some kind of always-on screen ?
My answer is: no, the Samsung's always-on display is not a special power-saving mode. It is as bad as any application that shows a screen all the time.
GSMArena battery rating for S7 Edge without always-on display is 98h, and with the always-on display is 67h. So the always-on display eats a lot of battery.
On the other hand, the LG G2 has a rating of 60h without always-on display, and 50h with always-on display, so LG has a true efficient always-on mode, while Samsung is just like a simple application.
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Do you think the state of the "always on " really saving battery power than normal mode ?
There is some research that ?
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It's not saving power as it's still pixels that the battery has to power, especially since the clock and calendar has to move around the screen to prevent burn in on the AMOLED panels. While it doesn't use a lot of power, it still draws from the overall battery life of the device. If you're away from the charger for extended periods of time then i'd suggest not having always on display enabled but if you're able to plug in int the middle of the day if your battery gets low, then it shouldn't be a problem.
Yea. I thought I was going to like the AOD but I don't. For one I can definitely see an increase in battery usage and I also hate how it moves around the display. I know it's nessesary for image burn but while I'm at work, I keep my phone in a stand and every time the clock moves around the screen it makes me glance at it. Just got annoying after a while.
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It eats 3% per 9hrs for me on exynos. Pretty good if you ask me
It's really a question of how much you use your phone as a clock. If you're constantly turning it on just to check the time and turning it right off, then yes, it can save power because turning the whole screen on just to check the time will use more power. Otherwise, if you wear a watch or have another source of time handy (or just don't bother tracking time that closely) and only check the clock occasionally on your phone, then you're probably better off with it off.
Of course personal preference is also a factor, but I'm just talking about the so called "battery saving" logic behind it. It'd have more potential for saving battery if it showed you your notifications like the Moto AOD does.
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I suppose you are asking: is the Samsung always-on mode better than a simple application that enables some kind of always-on screen ?
My answer is: no, the Samsung's always-on display is not a special power-saving mode. It is as bad as any application that shows a screen all the time.
GSMArena battery rating for S7 Edge without always-on display is 98h, and with the always-on display is 67h. So the always-on display eats a lot of battery.
On the other hand, the LG G2 has a rating of 60h without always-on display, and 50h with always-on display, so LG has a true efficient always-on mode, while Samsung is just like a simple application.
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you meant LG G5; and yes, they seem to have developed their AOD better; in fact I think that they prepared it for a longer time and Samsung just implemented it empirically (probably using a developer like the one that delivers NoLED)
sure, AOD notification in LG G5 is much smaller and less bright but it gets the job done nonetheless
on the other hand, Samsung should really put a timer for AOD (during night I cannot stop it, just replace it automatically with night clock which is dimmer) and adjust the brightness; they have enough sensors and algorithms in order to achieve that; one forum member suggested that I should just turn the phone with the back side up, but this way I cannot see the led notification in case of missed events during muted....
also, anyone can tell for sure whether AOD or night clock is is more energy efficient???
its my second day using a xiaomi mi a1 .
and one of the things i just find ridiculous is the RED top bar that appears when you turn "Battery Saver" ON.
that red top bar will cause screen burn after a year or more of use. Plus it is not a nice thing to see. I wonder why the hell they designed something like that because it is absolutly stupid.
Does anyone know how to change the color of the bar after battery saver is turned on?
or a way to not use battery saver and use a different app that will do the same purpose?
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its my second day using a xiaomi mi a1 .
and one of the things i just find ridiculous is the RED top bar that appears when you turn "Battery Saver" ON.
that red top bar will cause screen burn after a year or more of use. Plus it is not a nice thing to see. I wonder why the hell they designed something like that because it is absolutly stupid.
Does anyone know how to change the color of the bar after battery saver is turned on?
or a way to not use battery saver and use a different app that will do the same purpose?
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The red bar is standard on android, it will been removed on android p.
To turn the bar off, you must install xposed and the module gravitybox [O]
ZeldaWW said:
that red top bar will cause screen burn after a year or more of use. Plus it is not a nice thing to see. I wonder why the hell they designed something like that because it is absolutly stupid.
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1. you cant get screen burn in with lcds only with amoleds. There is something called image retention when the liquid crystals cant relax into their initial state so there is a temporary(!) ghost image visible. That would happen with either blue or white light. Red is the last color it could happen with. (not enough energy in that wavelength range). Also as mentioned already, standard stock android thing.
2. You can mostly set the settings yourself like disabling sync, restricting background app access and so forth. You could probably automate most of it with using tasker.