Hi guys,
In my opinion, the notification LED blinks way too slow in Atrix... I used "Blink" application from the market when i had Froyo to change that but it doesn't work in Gingerbread
Does anyone know how to change that notification LED blink rate for received SMSs? Any working applications or configurations?
Thanks in advance
Try Lightflow
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Let the lightflow.
I voided my warranty.
DrunkFuX666 said:
Try Lightflow
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Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work...
The flashing speed for lightflow "fast" is the same as Gingerbread stock notification, i need it much faster since i always leave my phone in silence mode when i am at work...
Any other options?
luizffgarcia said:
Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work...
The flashing speed for lightflow "fast" is the same as Gingerbread stock notification, i need it much faster since i always leave my phone in silence mode when i am at work...
Any other options?
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Why not leave it to always on or something ... tho I feel that's pretty fast... doubt you will find faster...
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DrunkFuX666 said:
Why not leave it to always on or something ... tho I feel that's pretty fast... doubt you will find faster...
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I fear always on may burn the LED...
I had a much faster rate with "Blink", but it doesn't work with Gingerbread... It was about two times faster!
What about Handcent? I know you can adjust the blink rate on notifications as a whole or per contact...
I was looking for a way to control LED colors. Thanks for the tip in LightFlow. Just set it up and it works great! Now when I see green I know what the notification is versus before it could be anything.
Atrix_E said:
I was looking for a way to control LED colors. Thanks for the tip in LightFlow. Just set it up and it works great! Now when I see green I know what the notification is versus before it could be anything.
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It works quite well yes... but you may want to watch out for battery drain since it tends to cause partial wakelocks... just observe for a few days... if your still happy with battery no need to worry... if its draining... you know what's causing it...
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luizffgarcia said:
I fear always on may burn the LED...
I had a much faster rate with "Blink", but it doesn't work with Gingerbread... It was about two times faster!
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Never used blink so wouldn't know... and well... I highly doubt the led will burn out... they tend to have very long lives... if it burns I would prob say just really bad luck... its not a bulb afterall, its a LED... Not to mention the BLN app which is used on the galaxy s and galaxy s2 for the backlight leds of the softkeys to come on for notifications is based off that due to lack of any actual notification LED...
But its your call... I would just say look around for if keeping those leds on constantly will cause any harm... if not... go for it...
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DrunkFuX666 said:
It works quite well yes... but you may want to watch out for battery drain since it tends to cause partial wakelocks... just observe for a few days... if your still happy with battery no need to worry... if its draining... you know what's causing it...
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Good looking out. Will I see LightFlow in my battery stats as the culprit? Im stock OTA GB still with a out 22-26 hours between charges. Ill report back after a couple days. I setup a bunch of notifications.
DrunkFuX666 said:
Never used blink so wouldn't know... and well... I highly doubt the led will burn out... they tend to have very long lives... if it burns I would prob say just really bad luck... its not a bulb afterall, its a LED... Not to mention the BLN app which is used on the galaxy s and galaxy s2 for the backlight leds of the softkeys to come on for notifications is based off that due to lack of any actual notification LED...
But its your call... I would just say look around for if keeping those leds on constantly will cause any harm... if not... go for it...
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I will do that!
But if someone knows other ways, just please let me know
Thanks
Atrix_E said:
Good looking out. Will I see LightFlow in my battery stats as the culprit? Im stock OTA GB still with a out 22-26 hours between charges. Ill report back after a couple days. I setup a bunch of notifications.
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It didn't show up on battery stats but did show up on Better Battery Stats as it doesn't cause a direct drain, but keeps the phone awake which leads to the system draining in general...
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DrunkFuX666 said:
It didn't show up on battery stats but did show up on Better Battery Stats as it doesn't cause a direct drain, but keeps the phone awake which leads to the system draining in general...
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Well I didn't need to wait a couple days to report. I can already tell LightFlow is having an adverse affect on my battery life. I hate when things are too good to be true.
EDIT: However I did wakeup to a bunch of pretty LED colors this morning lol..
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Well I didn't need to wait a couple days to report. I can already tell LightFlow is having an adverse affect on my battery life. I hate when things are too good to be true.
EDIT: However I did wakeup to a bunch of pretty LED colors this morning lol..
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Haha... I agree I loved the app... but its simply a tradeoff... unfortunately battery life is more important for me...
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Ok before anyone starts raging, I've already searched around the forum and seen some say BLN is a battery drain and others saying it isn't. I'm curious as to what peoples experience has been with it on all the new 2.2.1 ROMs.
Drains probably 2% more total during the day for me
xriderx66 said:
Drains probably 2% more total during the day for me
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What app are you using to control it?
The app that it comes with...
Bln something
I think its in the market too
regP said:
Ok before anyone starts raging, I've already searched around the forum and seen some say BLN is a battery drain and others saying it isn't. I'm curious as to what peoples experience has been with it on all the new 2.2.1 ROMs.
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BLN Control....Theres A Free And Paid Version
It Dnt Drain Battery That Much..just COntrol it by using the app
MY sugestion USE noLED app it shuts off your soft buttons so they wont light up and noLED is way cooler PP
from what i've read from neldar himself (the guy the introduced the bln code, and created the bln settings app, and using the pro version you can control blinking, schedule when the bln on is implemented and when it isn't, etc), he's seen it only uses 0.85% of your total battery.
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Drains probably 2% more total during the day for me
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How many seconds on/off do you have it set at? Also do you have it turn off after 5 minutes? or?
Ive used both bln and no led is better in my opinion
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movieaddict said:
Ive used both bln and no led is better in my opinion
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Care to share the reasons why? Thanks...
you guys are so paranoid about 1-3% battery life.
I'm using CM7, and i have bln set to always on (as flashing bln eats up more battery, plus the normal Cm7 stuf doesn't support blinking bln). I get ~45 hours of battery life. For those that think bln eats up battery, it's only placebo effect.
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you guys are so paranoid about 1-3% battery life.
I'm using CM7, and i have bln set to always on (as flashing bln eats up more battery, plus the normal Cm7 stuf doesn't support blinking bln). I get ~45 hours of battery life. For those that think bln eats up battery, it's only placebo effect.
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Did you every try it with blinking? How big of a difference on batt life?
spiicytuna said:
Did you every try it with blinking? How big of a difference on batt life?
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CM7 hasn't had any added in blinking support since about April. There is one kernel that doesn't use LEDNotify, but rather the actual bln code. But I will have my led lights on for hours at a time, sometimes the entire night, and I still get nice battery life.
As for Samsung roms, I compared both blinking and non blinking, and tlfor me the difference was negligiable (sp?).
But seriously, stop worry about these stupid 1-2% and enjoy your phone.
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^ the question was posed before people KNEW how much of a % it took, lets not be harsh. Not sure how you are getting near 2 days of battery life. I assume you mean if you just leave it sitting... not a very good indicator for real life. I think 10 hours is more like it.
I've been using BLN control pro with bi-winning for a month or two now and have noticed no difference in battery beyond normal variance.
I prefer BLN to noLED because I was never able to get noLED to work consistently.
After using a BlackBerry for years, I am really bothered by not having a LED notification light.
I have seen posts about noled and bln, but would like some opinions
I would like a recommendation for an non-rooted phone. I am also concerned about battery life.
Thanks in advance.
we could do what IOS5 does, they use the LED flash to let people know a notification is pending..
lol, could you imagine.. dark room, and you get a txt.. then all of a sudden your camera flash is lighting up the room,
026TB4U said:
After using a BlackBerry for years, I am really bothered by not having a LED notification light.
I have seen posts about noled and bln, but would like some opinions
I would like a recommendation for an non-rooted phone. I am also concerned about battery life.
Thanks in advance.
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None if you care about battery.
NoLED turns on the screen and I believe also inhibits deep sleep - it'll eat battery like crazy.
BLN isn't implemented for our phones yet - I tried porting a patch for the I9100 kernels but I screwed something up, if the notification light is on, the code holds a wakelock that prevents deep sleep. As a result, that BLN implementation ate battery too. I'm hoping to eventually get it working sanely, but it's much lower on my priorities list now.
Entropy512 said:
None if you care about battery.
NoLED turns on the screen and I believe also inhibits deep sleep - it'll eat battery like crazy.
BLN isn't implemented for our phones yet - I tried porting a patch for the I9100 kernels but I screwed something up, if the notification light is on, the code holds a wakelock that prevents deep sleep. As a result, that BLN implementation ate battery too. I'm hoping to eventually get it working sanely, but it's much lower on my priorities list now.
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I can say, that for me, this is a big deal. I almost switched to another carrier's S2 because of it. After reading the reviews, I'm glad I didn't.
This is a great phone. Battery was a concern, but after a few battery cycles and turning wifi off, it now kicks ass for such a powerful phone.
The LEd notification light would have made it the perfect phone...lol
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I can say, that for me, this is a big deal. I almost switched to another carrier's S2 because of it. After reading the reviews, I'm glad I didn't.
This is a great phone. Battery was a concern, but after a few battery cycles and turning wifi off, it now kicks ass for such a powerful phone.
The LEd notification light would have made it the perfect phone...lol
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Hopefully eventually we'll get BLN that's stable AND doesn't wakelock the phone - but I am thinking that right now the reason it's stable is because it isn't holding excessive wakelocks.
Entropy512 said:
None if you care about battery.
NoLED turns on the screen and I believe also inhibits deep sleep - it'll eat battery like crazy.
BLN isn't implemented for our phones yet - I tried porting a patch for the I9100 kernels but I screwed something up, if the notification light is on, the code holds a wakelock that prevents deep sleep. As a result, that BLN implementation ate battery too. I'm hoping to eventually get it working sanely, but it's much lower on my priorities list now.
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Since noled turns the screen on, but bln doesn't, and they both inhibit deep sleep, wouldn't even this flawed BLN implementation be better than NoLed for those who really need some sort of notification light?
Its weird how this phone needs a custom kernel for BLN. The Thrill I returned had an app in the market that worked for BLN, all it needed was root. It was sweet too: you could choose different blinking combos for different notifications.
I can't complain though, this phone more than makes up for that in so many other ways. Its just a matter of time before we have it. Plus this phone has the built in option to keep those on with the screen. I was so excited when I saw that.
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026TB4U said:
After using a BlackBerry for years, I am really bothered by not having a LED notification light.
I have seen posts about noled and bln, but would like some opinions
I would like a recommendation for an non-rooted phone. I am also concerned about battery life.
Thanks in advance.
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As stated, there aren't really any options right now. I use an audible repeating alert (Easy Reminder). There are several of those apps in the market.
jsmith8858 said:
Since noled turns the screen on, but bln doesn't, and they both inhibit deep sleep, wouldn't even this flawed BLN implementation be better than NoLed for those who really need some sort of notification light?
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Hmm... I'll consider it, user clue-factor and reading comprehension HAS been better than I expected based on my past experience with the Infuse. (I was expecting to have a bunch of overclock instability reports despite the giant red text, like a bunch of Infuse ROM devs had. But I haven't and as a result haven't had to yank OC from the kernel.
Maybe tomorrow... Too late for tonight's release, that's in testing.
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Hmm... I'll consider it, user clue-factor and reading comprehension HAS been better than I expected based on my past experience with the Infuse. (I was expecting to have a bunch of overclock instability reports despite the giant red text, like a bunch of Infuse ROM devs had. But I haven't and as a result haven't had to yank OC from the kernel.
Maybe tomorrow... Too late for tonight's release, that's in testing.
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I totally agree. I can see you posting this with a huge battery-drain warning in large bold type and then seeing post after post after post of people complaining about battery issues.... tough call, but I'd say it's probably worth posting if it is not too much work for you to compile a version with it enabled. Easy for me to say, of course! Thank you again for all of your amazing hard work!
I'm using missed message flasher and I like it very match.
yossiw said:
I'm using missed message flasher and I like it very match.
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Are you using it on the GSII?
Ive been using NoLED from the beginning and my battery life is outstanding. I guess results may vary.
If you or anyone else wants to get PHENOMENAL battery life of let's say 15 hours of use and still have 40%-50% battery left on a regular stock battery on the Rezound, just follow these steps:
1. Go to Settings - Power - Power mode Choose "Economy"
2. Back at Power options, Click on "Economy mode setting" I left the setting as "Normal" which means that the only box that was unchecked was "Disable background data"
3. Back at Settings, Click on "Accounts & sync" Uncheck the "Auto-Sync" box, but leave the "Background data" box checked.
4. Using whatever Screen Brightness tool you want to, set the screen brightness to no more than 20%. The only exception to this is if you are out in the sun and really need to see your screen while in the sun (navigation or etc...). Other than that, I never need it to be brighter than 20%.
5. Because of these changes, you will have to manually "Refresh" your email app to check for new mail. Other than that, everything data wise should work as normal.
I always have my 4G LTE and GPS on and ever since I did this, I have been getting RIDICULOUS battery life! This best it has been is when I charged it completely and unplugged it at 10pm and the next day around 1pm I still had 62% battery left. On a normal basis where I take it off the charger at 8am, with normal use (3 hrs of music, 1 or 2 of web surfing and video watching, 1 hour of phone calls, and Google Talk and Google Voice and GMail all day *literally*) I have about 50% battery left at 7pm.
Disclaimer: I have "Bump Charged" my battery before making these changes. However, I never saw this type of battery life until I made the above changes. Also, if you constantly watch video (Youtube or etc..) you will not see quite this performance, but it will still be much better than what you are currently experiencing.
Enjoy
Turn off data and you can get multiple days on battery
Screen Filter
You can also use the app Screen Filter to turn off the bottom row of leds.
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Disclaimer: I have "Bump Charged" my battery before making these changes.
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So you have an extended battery then? If so, might be good to include that info in your post just to be clear. Not that that wouldn't help any battery, but the stats will make more sense and the answers to your poll may be more accurate since people might think their results aren't as good as yours if they're using a regular battery.
I'll change my settings and try it since I don't need instant notification of emails atm. Thanks for the tip.
When I change the power setting to Economy, I lose 4G.
I am eager to try this, but I gotta have my 4G. Any suggestions??
Turn it back to 4g in network settings
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So you have an extended battery then? If so, might be good to include that info in your post just to be clear. Not that that wouldn't help any battery, but the stats will make more sense and the answers to your poll may be more accurate since people might think their results aren't as good as yours if they're using a regular battery.
I'll change my settings and try it since I don't need instant notification of emails atm. Thanks for the tip.
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You can bump charge the normal battery as well.
So what exactly do the power modes do? Are they just presets for certain settings? or do they control CPU scaling or anything else? I've always just left mine on normal with auto sleep enabled
Edit: I also wonder what affect the "auto start task manager on startup" option does exactly, and if having that on improves battery life, or if it is referring to the task manager in the notification bar quick settings
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dccoh said:
You can also use the app Screen Filter to turn off the bottom row of leds.
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i just downloaded this as app, and it made me fall on love with my phone again lol. The only time i could ever see the light leakage on my phone was at night when reading Tapatalk. Now i can dim the screen and turn of the LEDs with the app. Ugh amazing
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platinumrims said:
i just downloaded this as app, and it made me fall on love with my phone again lol. The only time i could ever see the light leakage on my phone was at night when reading Tapatalk. Now i can dim the screen and turn of the LEDs with the app. Ugh amazing
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I used that app for quite sometime on my Incredible when I ran a sense rom (cm7 allowed me to set the buttons leds off on its own).
Fyi though, when screen filter is active, I am unable to install an app. When you go to install an app, and you are on the screen that shows the permissions with the install button on the lower right, I have been unable to click the install button with screen filter running. I just run screen filter again to deactivate it and the install goes fine, then I just run screen filter again to get it running again.
It's a hassle, but a small price to pay to get those led's off if you dont want / need them.
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So you have an extended battery then? If so, might be good to include that info in your post just to be clear. Not that that wouldn't help any battery, but the stats will make more sense and the answers to your poll may be more accurate since people might think their results aren't as good as yours if they're using a regular battery.
I'll change my settings and try it since I don't need instant notification of emails atm. Thanks for the tip.
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I am not using an extended battery. I am using the regular stock battery that came with the phone. This is stated in the first sentence of the original post.
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You can bump charge the normal battery as well.
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smartbusiness2003 said:
I am not using an extended battery. I am using the regular stock battery that came with the phone. This is stated in the first sentence of the original post.
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Oh, I see I missed that in your post, sorry. The thread that explains bump charging makes it sound like it's only for extended batteries so I had that idea in my brain when reading it.
Carry on.
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platinumrims said:
So what exactly do the power modes do? Are they just presets for certain settings? or do they control CPU scaling or anything else? I've always just left mine on normal with auto sleep enabled
Edit: I also wonder what affect the "auto start task manager on startup" option does exactly, and if having that on improves battery life, or if it is referring to the task manager in the notification bar quick settings
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I am curious about this as well... I know the kernel supports multiple governors for CPU scaling.
I am also not sure what the task manager is that it refers to. It might just start the app in the background.
No one know?
I guess not :-(
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Beginning to think the biggest hindrance to good battery life for me is poor signal strength at work in the hospital. Here's a screen shot for me today at home and running around so a combo of wifi and good 4g. Extended battery.
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Beginning to think the biggest hindrance to good battery life for me is poor signal strength at work in the hospital. Here's a screen shot for me today at home and running around so a combo of wifi and good 4g. Extended battery.
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Tap the graph and it shows a bar that shows signal strength over time. That would help to figure it out.
I just use the extended battery and have everything set to high performance and can easily get though the day. Good tips though.
nrfitchett4 said:
Beginning to think the biggest hindrance to good battery life for me is poor signal strength at work in the hospital. Here's a screen shot for me today at home and running around so a combo of wifi and good 4g. Extended battery.
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what's that icon with the green circle from? Wondering if it's something cool that I need to put on my phone.
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what's that icon with the green circle from? Wondering if it's something cool that I need to put on my phone.
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The youmail Icon?
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Is there any way to keep the led light flashing green? I use to have a Blackberry so I'm use to the light blinking
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Do you mean like a service indicator? As far as I know, there is no conventional way to do this. You may want to check out an app called LightFlow, it may have a way for you to do this however, it's probably going to drain your battery much faster than normal.
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Do you mean like a service indicator? As far as I know, there is no conventional way to do this. You may want to check out an app called LightFlow, it may have a way for you to do this however, it's probably going to drain your battery much faster than normal.
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+1 for LightFlow. And, yes, it does drain your battery a little faster. I use it to notify me of specific things my phone is doing.
Hi there fellas using s3 like me its been 2days since i've bought this beast and i really wanted to know if using smart stay and keeping bln on does affect the battery much or not, as i couldn't come up to the conclusion yet. So what do you guys think who have owned this phone for some time now??
Smart stay affects battery consumption.
Well it affects battery file but not to the point that it drains the battery. Plus its a very useful feature
Some, but negligible affect on overall battery life.
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whats "bln"?
Back Light Notification a thing of the past with S3... think op is thinking of notification led...
I guess i'll have to agree with you guys because i kept it on for a day and off the other, there wasn't any noticable difference
Yes and no, if you constants get text messages / notifications then the BLN might have an effect on battery, same as if you stare at the screen for a long time the Smart stay might have an effect but in general compared to other apps,etc i wouldn't think it's what one would deem to be a big problem.
It's hard to tell since I've only had the phone since for 2 days and have been using it constantly, but I think it may be a light load on the battery. I had one instance already where it think it was wake-locking the phone. (seen using betterbatterystats)
I will report back later after I have investigated a little further. It may not even be worth it to me...I'm pretty well trained in turning off my screen immediately after I use it, I don't let it time out on its own.