I know this is a bit counter intuitive for some but is there a way to turn off the orange blinking light when the batter is low? It is getting really annoying, I prefer not to be reminded all day by some blinging light.
Thank you very much in advance!
Have always found it ironic that the lower your battery gets the more it uses, you get low battery and phones start beeping and messaging and lighting up. How dumb!
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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
026TB4U said:
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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Sent from my SGS II
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Entropy512 said:
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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.
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.
Sent from my GT-I9300T using xda premium
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.
I've done some searching and seen mixed answers, so I thought I'd ask here. I'd like to be able to leave my Vibrant's screen on at night. It's always charging on my dresser right beside me, but because we use our phones as our alarms, we don't have a clock in our room.
I was wondering if setting it to stay on while charging with either an analog type clock or a flip clock would have any impact on my screen or on my battery. I don't want screen burn-in or to adversely impact my battery life.
What are your thoughts and/or experiences with this?
I doubt you would experience screen burn as such, because that was only a problem on old crt monitors, not lcd screens like your phone.
The main issue I would be concerned about would be overheating.
I would not think it would cause any battery issues either.
I would suggest to try it for a couple of hours constantly on when you are awake and see how hot it gets, if it seems to be fine, then I would guess that it should be fine to leave it like all night.
I have a Motorola Defy work phone with screen set to stay on while on charge and I have no issue with it, but I will mention that it is only usually a couple of hours at a time while it is plugged in to the car kit.
Hope this helps.
Sent from my GT-I9300T using xda premium
You can experience burn in on this device. I bought my vibe used so I don't know how it was used before me but on white or light colored screens I can see burn in from froyo dock icons and the status bar. Obviously leaving screen on all night will cause more battery drain but as far as long term battery life a I can't say.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using xda app-developers app
AMOLED are known to suffer from burn in so I think it is possible if you leave it on for a long time, I've had some that have retention issue where the previous shape will disappear quickly, I haven't had any long term burn in though I never leave my screen on for a long time.
Uptill now there are not any perfect SAMOLED screen I have seen, I have owned nearly 12 by now, they all suffer from the black spots, some people aren't aware of it or don't know how to detect them. Banding issue is also very prevalent, but if you are lucky you might get one that suffer from very little of it. Point is I can't say I've owned any AMOLED screen that is perfect.
How about a regular LED clock from Target?
screen on
Burn in is a definite possibly. When I was still on stock JDF I used to have mine set to stay on during charging . I did get some burn in but it has seemed to lessen over time. The screen on is generally the biggest battery drain to your phone
Somehow Nokia Lumias are managing to have an always on screen using plain ol LCD and not OLED tech... apparently the battery drain is minimal something like 1% a day.... the author reckons that it's something to do with the screen brightness being really reduced or something...
Is this possible to implement with the Truesmart because this would really be a killer feature!!!
http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/18191_Nokia_works_a_LCD_miracle-Glan.php
That is pretty damn cool
The nearest i could find was clock view, this allows you just to show the time with a mainly black screen and with the brightness turned right down...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kimscom.clockview
Im going to see how much of a drain it is, but the backlight is still on so prolly plenty; Thing is on a lumia the battery is gonna be pretty bad compared to a smartwatch so a days worth of battery is good for a phone but terrible for a watch..