After playing with the Lollipop build for a while on the Moto X 14, I think for me the biggest thing that will take the most getting used to on the N6 is not having Moto display. Sure Googles implementation is OK, but no where near as useful ad Moto's.
Cant beat picking up the phone and having your messages show up. Or better yet waiving your hand over the display to light it up.
This and moto assist are the only reason I may hang on to my Moto X 14. I use the hand wave feature frequently. Way more than i thought i would. Moto assist for driving and at home is so convenient. It's like having Amazon's echo wherever you are. Sure the N6 has always listening but I don't think you can answer phone calls and reply to messages hands free.
If the moto apps can be hacked to work on the N6 I may go for it.
jmill75 said:
Cant beat picking up the phone and having your messages show up.
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That's how it works on the N6.
Try agent app. That's a good replacement for talking and replying back to texts while driving. Dynamic notifications is almost exactly like moto display
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I need to get a new phone, and the only thing keeping me from the Nexus 6 is the lack of Moto Display/Moto Suite/Moto Voice, etc. I've yet to hear from a 2014 Moto X user who says that they wouldn't miss it.
The way it works on the nexus is when you pick up the phone the active display turns on. The same as the moto
magestic1995 said:
The way it works on the nexus is when you pick up the phone the active display turns on. The same as the moto
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The Moto X's active display also pulses like a notification LED, and you can also just wave your hand over it to get it to turn on.
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The Moto X's active display also pulses like a notification LED, and you can also just wave your hand over it to get it to turn on.
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The N6 version pulses as well, so it's only missing the wave function.
Credit & Thanks to biggiestuff for the following:
"Ambient display looks similar but in no way is close to moto display. Moto display uses the low power contextual processor in order to save battery. Ambient display uses the amoled ability to fire up specific pixels in order not to waste battery. The minute you interact with ambient display the screen fires up 100 percent. Moto display let's you interact without ever using the primary processor until you unlock. It's a step in the right direction but not there just yet."
Battery impact will be substantially greater.
l_stevens said:
Credit & Thanks to biggiestuff for the following:
"Ambient display looks similar but in no way is close to moto display. Moto display uses the low power contextual processor in order to save battery. Ambient display uses the amoled ability to fire up specific pixels in order not to waste battery. The minute you interact with ambient display the screen fires up 100 percent. Moto display let's you interact without ever using the primary processor until you unlock. It's a step in the right direction but not there just yet."
Battery impact will be substantially greater.
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Uuhm... i'm sorry.... but i'd personally be questioning biggiestuff's basis for his comment. Watch video's of "Moto Display", and then watch the video of Ambient Display. There is physically no difference as to how one functions compared to the other. In Lollipop's Ambient Display, you get the typical Lollipop notification look, with the notifications showing up under the clock, also saying what the notification is, what was said in the text message, etc... When you interact with a particular notification, yes, the display turns on completely. Then look at "Moto Display". Yes, you can touch the screen to "interact" with them... but with either system, the display has to be turned on to do anything more than that. Only difference i can see is that Moto Display uses less pixels, since it only lights up up to 3 circles with the app icon in the middle, unless you have more than 3 notifications.... at which point you get a menu-like notification as the 3rd one.
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Ambient Display = notifications are displayed on screen, and interacting with them (to see your list of e-mails/texts received, or opening the app directly from the notification) powers the display on completely.
Moto Display = Notification icons are displayed on screen. Interacting with those allows you to see what the notification says. Interacting FURTHER powers the display on completely to open the app so you can do what you need to do.
No difference at all power requirement wise (except for the minuscule amount of power needed for the couple extra pixels in Ambient Display) that i can see.
elementaldragon said:
Uuhm... i'm sorry.... but i'd personally be questioning biggiestuff's basis for his comment. Watch video's of "Moto Display", and then watch the video of Ambient Display. There is physically no difference as to how one functions compared to the other. In Lollipop's Ambient Display, you get the typical Lollipop notification look, with the notifications showing up under the clock, also saying what the notification is, what was said in the text message, etc... When you interact with a particular notification, yes, the display turns on completely. Then look at "Moto Display". Yes, you can touch the screen to "interact" with them... but with either system, the display has to be turned on to do anything more than that. Only difference i can see is that Moto Display uses less pixels, since it only lights up up to 3 circles with the app icon in the middle, unless you have more than 3 notifications.... at which point you get a menu-like notification as the 3rd one.
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Ambient Display = notifications are displayed on screen, and interacting with them (to see your list of e-mails/texts received, or opening the app directly from the notification) powers the display on completely.
Moto Display = Notification icons are displayed on screen. Interacting with those allows you to see what the notification says. Interacting FURTHER powers the display on completely to open the app so you can do what you need to do.
No difference at all power requirement wise (except for the minuscule amount of power needed for the couple extra pixels in Ambient Display) that i can see.
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No, it's different. With the Moto X, you can interact with the screen and view the notification without the phone actually turning on, whilst still only using the low power contextual processor. You can't respond to it, but you can view it. And again, unless you physically unlock the device, it is all done with the low power contextual processor while the phone is technically still asleep. With the N6 and Ambient Display, the moment you touch the screen it wakes up the phone, lights up in full color and uses the full power processor. There is a reason why when you use Ambient Display the standby battery life gets chopped by about 25%. Check out the specs sheet for the N6- Standby time is 330hrs with Ambient Display off, and 250hrs with it on. http://www.google.com/nexus/6/
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No, it's different. With the Moto X, you can interact with the screen and view the notification without the phone actually turning on, whilst still only using the low power contextual processor. You can't respond to it, but you can view it. And again, unless you physically unlock the device, it is all done with the low power contextual processor while the phone is technically still asleep. With the N6 and Ambient Display, the moment you touch the screen it wakes up the phone, lights up in full color and uses the full power processor. There is a reason why when you use Ambient Display the standby battery life gets chopped by about 25%. Check out the specs sheet for the N6- Standby time is 330hrs with Ambient Display off, and 250hrs with it on. http://www.google.com/nexus/6/
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Yes..... but on the other hand.... they've actually gone ahead and POSTED their estimated battery life with it on and off. Looking at the Moto X, all you get is "24 hours mixed usage". Nothing saying what to expect with Moto Display on or off. I'd assume it probably kills the battery just as much... but i couldn't find a review that tested battery life with it on and off.
Again.... with Moto Display, you get notification circles.... only showing the app icon. You touch the icon, and you get what the text message says and who it's from, or what the e-mail you received was about. You can then slide your finger up to the app icon again to unlock the device, turning the screen on fully, and opening up to that message.
With Ambient Display, it's no different from the standard lock screen with the notifications showing, aside from it using only the required pixels. The ONLY difference between it and Moto Display is that for Moto Display, you have to touch the notification icon on the screen to see what the notification says, whereas with Ambient Display, when it turns on, whatever you'd really need to see is already there. Moto Display just adds one extra step to the process.
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Moto display uses the low power contextual processor in order to save battery. Ambient display uses the amoled ability to fire up specific pixels in order not to waste battery..
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This doesn't make any sense to me. Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Both Moto Display and Ambient Display take advantage of AMOLED's ability to only light up select pixels to conserve battery when displaying notifications. As for the use of a low power processor to save battery when displaying notifications, the Snapdragon 805 SoC has a Hexagon DSP built-in, so it's possible that the Nexus 6's Ambient Display is also using a low power processor to display notifications. It's simply too early to say that this difference exists between Ambient Display and Moto Display.
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Yes..... but on the other hand.... they've actually gone ahead and POSTED their estimated battery life with it on and off. Looking at the Moto X, all you get is "24 hours mixed usage". Nothing saying what to expect with Moto Display on or off. I'd assume it probably kills the battery just as much... but i couldn't find a review that tested battery life with it on and off.
Again.... with Moto Display, you get notification circles.... only showing the app icon. You touch the icon, and you get what the text message says and who it's from, or what the e-mail you received was about. You can then slide your finger up to the app icon again to unlock the device, turning the screen on fully, and opening up to that message.
With Ambient Display, it's no different from the standard lock screen with the notifications showing, aside from it using only the required pixels. The ONLY difference between it and Moto Display is that for Moto Display, you have to touch the notification icon on the screen to see what the notification says, whereas with Ambient Display, when it turns on, whatever you'd really need to see is already there. Moto Display just adds one extra step to the process.
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I haven't really tested it on my 2014 Moto X yet, but I can tell you from personal experience with my 2013 Moto X that Active Display has pretty much zero effect on standby battery life. My 2013 loses about 1% overnight, and maybe 3-4% a day if I just let it sit. That's with or without Active Display being on. That's the whole point of the low power contextual processor, it can do these things (Active Display, Moto Voice) with negligible effect on battery life. It was designed that way. Judging from the stated specs of the Nexus 6, it doesn't seem like they had Ambient Display in mind when designing the hardware. I mean, an 80 hour hit to standby battery life is pretty substantial.
As far as the information that's displayed is concerned, I can't really comment on it because I have no experience with the N6. But it does seem that you are correct in that it displays the same or similar information, albeit with one less step. In my point of view, that's actually a bad thing because it brings up some privacy concerns. The Moto X just pulses the type of notification for all to see- if you want to see the contents of it, you need to physically interact with the display. The N6 with Ambient Display, actually pulses the content of the notification which I'm not so keen on.
In the same boat. The Moto features truly change how one uses a phone. Am worried by getting the N6, that I'd miss these features a great deal.
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Anyone have the screen shot of the moto x2014 lollipop updates before they took it down? Even Motorola somewhat acknowledge that ambient display drains more than moto display. Moto x 2014 will have ability to use both.
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What are the odds of the moto features becoming available for the N6, either from porting or moto directly making them available?
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What are the odds of the moto features becoming available for the N6, either from porting or moto directly making them available?
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If they haven't been done by now, I'd say the chances are slim. What features are you looking for. There are solid alternatives but I agree with most that Motorola's implementation has much tighter and cleaner integration. I actually gave up on my nexus 5 for a moto x. I probably would have ended up with the new moto x if it wasn't for that tiny battery.
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You think some build prop. editing would allow moto suite to work? That is the main advantage of Nexus devices. Tinkering ?
Has anyone found out how to have this light remain blinking until you unlock? Thanks!
(I'm referring to a completely stock phone)
Steve - O said:
Has anyone found out how to have this light remain blinking until you unlock? Thanks!
(I'm referring to a completely stock phone)
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I wonder if using an app like Lightflow will work for you.
Yes, I did in fact try it and it has options to keep it on for various time periods or until unlocked.
Unfortunately it does NOT work on the Axon 7.
No way to do what you want right now. We are hoping that the Nougat update will adress this and many other issues with this phone. You can search at ZTEUSA web site for more information.
Bringing this back up again now that Nougat has been made available. So has anyone found a way within the new OS how to make this light stay on longer???
Between the broken led notifications and overall lack of notification control, I'm at a loss on how to deal with this.
Coming from a moto x pure, it took some adjusting to the moto display. I had it set it where an audible notification was made on email/text/etc arrival. Picking up the phone would trigger the moto display to show what the actual notification was. I am ok with this.
On this phone, if the sound is missed, the led goes out after about a min (on stock 7.1.1), and other than unlocking, there's no other way to see if there are any notifications. How are others dealing with this?
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This might be a nonissue in resurrection, but lack of sim control (being able to turn off each individual sim) is the deal breaker for me.
Hi, coming from nexus device with rgb led and lightflow app
Moto g5+ is one of the candidate for upgrade, i'm interested in how active display on g5+ works.
Does the active display turns on the screen when you get notification, and than turns off the screen and that's it? or you can set to pulse from time to time, so it's always visible?
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bump, can anyone please confirm? i have to buy new device soon and it's would be an important feature
Out of the box, it shows up on notifications, but you can set a clock as a screensaver to get the "always on" feel. 3rd party Roms also bring ambient display support. Additionally, there are a bunch of apps you can get off the play store which do the same type of thing. The possibilities are endless