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Hi, from what I can tell the notifications from Moto Display are supposed to pulse while the screen is in standby? It does show them under the clock when you pick the phone up and it wakes automatically but I thought the whole point of it would be that it would pulse on by itself every 30 seconds or so if you had a new Whatsapp or whatever? Mine doesnt and I cant see any sign of it in the settings...
Any help appreciated thanks.
no, it doesn't pulse. It detect when you move it and then it shows up. If you want your screen to pulse you can disable moto display and enable ambient display in screen settings, but this one doesn't detect move, it always pulse.
I can't believe this phone doesn't have a notification LED. Blows my mind. Thank you iks8 for the ambient display option though. I was starting to wonder how anyone would know they have a missed call/message etc.
ThePublisher said:
I can't believe this phone doesn't have a notification LED. Blows my mind. Thank you iks8 for the ambient display option though. I was starting to wonder how anyone would know they have a missed call/message etc.
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The worst thing is that it actually has notification led but it is disabled... Probably to force users to use their ****ty moto display.
iks8 said:
The worst thing is that it actually has notification led but it is disabled... Probably to force users to use their ****ty moto display.
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Upon a closer look I see the LED on here, which you're right, makes it even dumber. So that means I need another ROM on this thing that will enable it. Thank you!!!
i have LED working on stock rom with Squid's kernel.
Unfortunately Motorola tells me they wont unlock my bootloader since I have the ATT version of this phone. UGH! So no LED for me....
Introducing Pixel Pulse - a simple app to make your Ambient Display pulse when you have notifications!
Choose the interval and select the apps you want you to cause your screen to wake.
Optional paid features let you select different icons and colors for specific apps but the interval and app filter core functionality is all free.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compass.pixelpulse
If you had previously purchased Ambi-Turner, it has been updated for the new permissions, but because it was written for 8.0 and when Google's ambient display worked differently I decided to leave it as it is. You may however transfer your purchase status of Ambient Display to Pixel Pulse using both apps.
FIRST!
So, I've installed and tested and here are my initial findings:
It works great and looks gorgeous!
If you have your notifications set to display the notification contents, those contents will also flash on the screen.
The default display interval of 60 seconds works perfectly, but when I set it to 30 seconds, it flashed approximately every 10 seconds for some reason.
The notification it chooses to flash doesn't appear to be based on the most recent received or highest priority. Can you explain how the app knows which notification to flash on the display?
So far, there is no way to interact with the notification. Swiping away or double tapping do nothing.
The only way to wake the phone is to press the power button or fingerprint scanner.
This is a great start and I hope you please keep up the great work! I will be donating to the cause!
PuffDaddy_d said:
FIRST!
So, I've installed and tested and here are my initial findings:
It works great and looks gorgeous!
If you have your notifications set to display the notification contents, those contents will also flash on the screen.
The default display interval of 60 seconds works perfectly, but when I set it to 30 seconds, it flashed approximately every 10 seconds for some reason.
The notification it chooses to flash doesn't appear to be based on the most recent received or highest priority. Can you explain how the app knows which notification to flash on the display?
So far, there is no way to interact with the notification. Swiping away or double tapping do nothing.
The only way to wake the phone is to press the power button or fingerprint scanner.
This is a great start and I hope you please keep up the great work! I will be donating to the cause!
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The times were accurate on my pixel 2, but my pixel 3 which only just arrived, was being stopped. Probably due the aggressive process killing I've read about. So this morning I quickly added a secondary wake to keep it from being killed. I'll sync the times when I get home from work.
It uses the natural order of notifications. A priority option would be a good idea.
No interaction yet, but that's planned. So is a blackout period (don't pulse when you're sleeping for example).
Ignore my comment about the notification priority - that was user error.
Feature request: Can you add an option to have the ambient display stay on (no pulsing) until the user bypasses the ambient display screen? The flashing of the ambient display is a little distracting when the phone is on a desk. This way, we could still tell at a glance when we have a notification waiting, but the screen will go back to all black once we act on it or simply unlock the phone.
I can try but it may not be possible without root.
grokus said:
I can try but it may not be possible without root.
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No worries - this is xda, root is all we do!
grokus said:
Introducing Pixel Pulse - a simple app to make your Ambient Display pulse when you have notifications!
Choose the interval and select the apps you want you to cause your screen to wake.
Optional paid features let you select different icons and colors for specific apps but the interval and app filter core functionality is all free.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compass.pixelpulse
If you had previously purchased Ambi-Turner, it has been updated for the new permissions, but because it was written for 8.0 and when Google's ambient display worked differently I decided to leave it as it is. You may however transfer your purchase status of Ambient Display to Pixel Pulse using both apps.
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I have been working on a similar app, and could not find a way to get this to work while still allowing the device to doze, so the battery life is heavily impacted. Did you solve the battery drain issue?
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I have been working on a similar app, and could not find a way to get this to work while still allowing the device to doze, so the battery life is heavily impacted. Did you solve the battery drain issue?
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I haven't noticed a battery drain issue, but I'm hoping xda can help find one if it exists. I'm not actually turning on the screen so doze should remain active.
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I haven't noticed a battery drain issue, but I'm hoping xda can help find one if it exists. I'm not actually turning on the screen so doze should remain active.
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Ah, I see. I have not actually run your app. I did not realize that your were pulsing the notifications themselves -- that's clever! For my own implementation, I am animating a fake LED that fades in and out, which obviously requires the screen to be on. The AOD has a way to doze with the screen on, but I have not found a way to expose that functionality to an app without root.
Anyhow, I see you are using setExactAndAllowWhileIdle to schedule your pulses. I wonder what the battery (and timing) impact is compared to setAndAllowWhileIdle?
Nice work on this!
I originally went down the road of doing a custom screen to mimic the LED until I came up with this idea.
From other threads I've seen some people will prefer that even if it uses slightly more battery.
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Ah, I see. I have not actually run your app. I did not realize that your were pulsing the notifications themselves -- that's clever! For my own implementation, I am animating a fake LED that fades in and out, which obviously requires the screen to be on. The AOD has a way to doze with the screen on, but I have not found a way to expose that functionality to an app without root.
Anyhow, I see you are using setExactAndAllowWhileIdle to schedule your pulses. I wonder what the battery (and timing) impact is compared to setAndAllowWhileIdle?
Nice work on this!
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I'm willing to be a tester for you if you need one. Pixel 3, rooted with magisk.
There's now an option to be able to swipe to dismiss and double tap to open the app. I'm working on notification actions next.
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There's now an option to be able to swipe to dismiss and double tap to open the app. I'm working on notification actions next.
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Dude, you're a beast! Keep it up!
I may be able to use the real icons and colors. If so should I just remove the icon customization or would people still find that useful?
Hi mate, i bought your app right away. If you can integreat the original Icons for the famused apps, that would be great.
And can you look at the puls time? I set my time to 20 seconds but it puls every 40 - 50 seconds? Strange.
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I may be able to use the real icons and colors. If so should I just remove the icon customization or would people still find that useful?
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just as it is perfect now, only the repetition time does not work reliably
There is a possibility that the AOD stays on until the message has been read
Been looking for a way to customize the notifications since there's no LED light on this phone. I installed and bought you a coffee, I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for your efforts.
Hi is this app only usable to Google Pixel phones???
Man this sounds like an awesome app however I'm on an LG V30 (which also doesn't have an LED but this doesn't seem to work. The notification interaction feature alone would be worth the donation.
I'll mess around some more and see if I can get anything
So, the LED is way too tiny for my aging eyes (also cannot get it to change colours with Lightflow anyway). I am looking for some sort of app that can show a notification on the screen when the screen is off. I don't want the screen to turn on. I just want some sort of icon to show up. I used to use an app called NoLed that would do this. You could customize icons for different notifications, colours, timing, duration, etc. Looks like that app is long gone.
I've been trying a bunch of different "edge lighting" apps, hoping to find one that will simply light up the edges to notify my (when the screen is off). So far, none of them work the way I want (or at all).
Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!
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So, the LED is way too tiny for my aging eyes (also cannot get it to change colours with Lightflow anyway). I am looking for some sort of app that can show a notification on the screen when the screen is off. I don't want the screen to turn on. I just want some sort of icon to show up. I used to use an app called NoLed that would do this. You could customize icons for different notifications, colours, timing, duration, etc. Looks like that app is long gone.
I've been trying a bunch of different "edge lighting" apps, hoping to find one that will simply light up the edges to notify my (when the screen is off). So far, none of them work the way I want (or at all).
Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!
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Is this any good?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZTEGLuTbaaSHKZorpEXiCHOMNgKoaymx/view?usp=drivesdk
Darkat70 said:
Is this any good?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZTEGLuTbaaSHKZorpEXiCHOMNgKoaymx/view?usp=drivesdk
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Thank you! That's the old app I was referring to that I used to use. Glad you still have a copy. I've just installed it, but for some reason the icons a super small. Just like mini-squares, no matter what I do.
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Thank you! That's the old app I was referring to that I used to use. Glad you still have a copy. I've just installed it, but for some reason the icons a super small. Just like mini-squares, no matter what I do.
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I just went through and tried messing with the settings, in notifications settings you can change it from dot to icon which makes some bigger.
Darkat70 said:
I just went through and tried messing with the settings, in notifications settings you can change it from dot to icon which makes some bigger.
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Ah-ha! Thank you so much sir!
There are several drop-in AOD replacement apps, and they work well, but... From all reports they drink your battery too much to be worth it. Too bad, not sure why Huawei didn't go that next obvious step and have control over 'per app' notifications and such. It pretty much makes the stock AOD useless unless you really, really like knowing what time it is.
Maybe give a try to this, a perfect AOD application fully customizable !
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newgen.alwayson
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Maybe give a try to this, a perfect AOD application fully customizable !
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newgen.alwayson
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I tried this and was unable to get it to work. All I want it to do is light up the edges of the screen when the screen is off and a notification comes in. I had all the settings looking like they were correct. I chose difference colours for different apps, but no go. It wouldn't even work when trying "test". It would only work with the screen on.
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I tried this and was unable to get it to work. All I want it to do is light up the edges of the screen when the screen is off and a notification comes in. I had all the settings looking like they were correct. I chose difference colours for different apps, but no go. It wouldn't even work when trying "test". It would only work with the screen on.
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Certainly a mistake in the configuration menu, because this is exactly the point of this app !
Tested and approved by your servitor right here, look at the screen shot I took when I just received a notification.
UM Marneus said:
Maybe give a try to this, a perfect AOD application fully customizable !
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newgen.alwayson
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I tried that app, while i did get it to work fine, it was a massive battery drain & I mean massive.
@home said:
I tried that app, while i did get it to work fine, it was a massive battery drain & I mean massive.
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Same here.. 30% overall drain overnight.. Means at least 20% by the app itself
Just gave this app a try and it's got a few quirks to it. If I leave the "allow fingerprint functionality" after about 3 seconds the fingerprint location lights up and that's all that shows on the screen.
I also noticed when unlocking, face detection is no longer automatic. I have to double tap the screen to dismiss this app and then double tap again to start the face unlock.
Its a shame the stock aod is so terrible
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The stock AOD will hopefully be better soon as Huawei in it's p30 pro latest firmware will add 3rd party access to the AOD, so developers can add functionality to the AOD.
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The stock AOD will hopefully be better soon as Huawei in it's p30 pro latest firmware will add 3rd party access to the AOD, so developers can add functionality to the AOD.
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Probably be nest year when we get it then.
So it would seem one of the features of miui 11 which I looked forward to is not as effective as I hoped. That is the pulsing breathing light.
When the screen is locked, the ambient display brightness dims after a few seconds. If and when a notification comes, the brightness remains dim and you can hardly notice the pulsing effect or even the arrival of the notification for that matter.
I would assume the screen would brighten up and the pulse would be more prominent but unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.
Yes it's pretty useless feature notification dont seem work very well since getting 11
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Same here
Got miui 11 on my k20 pro yesterday, feels quite nice but the notification animation (rhythm) lights up continuously when, for example, the Google maps notification is active. Feature is quite cool but this makes it rather useless/annoying.
Got the MIUI 11 few minutes ago.
I thought the ambient display would work like the old Moto X, just showing something when I receive a notification or raise up the phone.
Showing all the time like this doesn't rises the risk of burn in? Or am I missing some option?
diegosniper said:
Got the MIUI 11 few minutes ago.
I thought the ambient display would work like the old Moto X, just showing something when I receive a notification or raise up the phone.
Showing all the time like this doesn't rises the risk of burn in? Or am I missing some option?
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You're totally right, I was disappointed this was default behavior
diegosniper said:
Got the MIUI 11 few minutes ago.
I thought the ambient display would work like the old Moto X, just showing something when I receive a notification or raise up the phone.
Showing all the time like this doesn't rises the risk of burn in? Or am I missing some option?
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It doesn't move around the screen?
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It doesn't move around the screen?
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It does
diegosniper said:
Got the MIUI 11 few minutes ago.
I thought the ambient display would work like the old Moto X, just showing something when I receive a notification or raise up the phone.
Showing all the time like this doesn't rises the risk of burn in? Or am I missing some option?
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the always on display moves around periodically to avoid burn-in
Facing same issue
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So it would seem one of the features of miui 11 which I looked forward to is not as effective as I hoped. That is the pulsing breathing light.
When the screen is locked, the ambient display brightness dims after a few seconds. If and when a notification comes, the brightness remains dim and you can hardly notice the pulsing effect or even the arrival of the notification for that matter.
I would assume the screen would brighten up and the pulse would be more prominent but unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.
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i am also facing same issue... so i m not alone... i tried factory reset but FR didnt helped
Similar issue here, AOD works as normal (although message icons are very dim, almost invisible), breathing light works but only blinks once.. which is quite useless as it's so quick can hardly notice it.. anyone know if there is a fix so it pulsates longer?
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Hello,
Hello, I use Outlook and Textra and I don't have any notification icons when I use the Always On display. Any ideas? I Thanks.
hope if it will get resolve in next update ? which has no ETA -_-
hope if it will get resolve in next update ? which has no ETA -_-
same issue here.
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same issue here.
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Me too, and I really need that functionality.
Messages don't appear on screen for me even after allowing notification permission
Since 11 I don't get any notifications like I did. Screen stays black with AOD turned off but sounds off. With AOD on it does not show any new notifications or any lights go off. Useless.
ffactory said:
Got miui 11 on my k20 pro yesterday, feels quite nice but the notification animation (rhythm) lights up continuously when, for example, the Google maps notification is active. Feature is quite cool but this makes it rather useless/annoying.
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Have you found any way to fix this?
I really enjoy the notification animation, as the notifications led is not always facing me/not visable.
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Hello, I use Outlook and Textra and I don't have any notification icons when I use the Always On display. Any ideas? I Thanks.
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AOD only works with some apps. Whatsapp and Gmail work. Textra and Outlook do not. It has never worked properly on MIUI. It's pretty useless like this. xiaomi.eu devs add each app (by request) to the AOD. I don't know why Xiaomi have such a poor AOD.
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AOD only works with some apps. Whatsapp and Gmail work. Textra and Outlook do not. It has never worked properly on MIUI. It's pretty useless like this. xiaomi.eu devs add each app (by request) to the AOD. I don't know why Xiaomi have such a poor AOD.
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For anyone who is unaware, xiaomi.eu rom (11.04 stable) can display notification icons for all apps in AOD now.
Well, since the V30 does not have a notification LED, I read somewhere that there is a notification on the always on screen instead. My question is this, is there any way to adjust the always on screen brightness? Seems that the setting for that does not really help at all. Or has anyone discovered an app that notifies you of missed calls or texts? Thanks.
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Well, since the V30 does not have a notification LED, I read somewhere that there is a notification on the always on screen instead. My question is this, is there any way to adjust the always on screen brightness? Seems that the setting for that does not really help at all.
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On my phone the AOD brightness toggle makes it brighter.
No recent (over 2 years) flagship phone has LED notifications anymore.
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Or has anyone discovered an app that notifies you of missed calls or texts? Thanks.
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Notifications bar on upper left side of the home screen. Same place it's always been.
Thanks for the info ChazzMatt. I just discovered that turning off the bright display toggle makes the AOD screen brighter. Seems backwards to me but it works.
graywoulf1 said:
Thanks for the info ChazzMatt. I just discovered that turning off the bright display toggle makes the AOD screen brighter. Seems backwards to me but it works.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-v30/help/updating-att-h931-to-pie-t4013207
There's is the answer to your other question.