Has anyone tried out this app yet?
I installed yesterday and its pretty awesome. It seamlessly adds a AOD to our phones that is similar to the galaxy phones. It has tons of optimizations from edge lighting, to notifications, to even having the fingerprint work while the AOD is on. and the UI is way better then the other apps I have tried.
I just installed it last night and it has been going good so far. I have not messed with the edge lighting as much tho. and the battery doesn't seem to be to drastic but I will update after I have it running for a while.
I am not associated with the app, just wanted to share my findings for an app that could bring us our beloved AOD to our phones with better UI and functionality.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newgen.alwayson
Beautiful app with tons of settings. Will try this out and hope the battery consumption is not that much. Thank you for the hint.
dschense said:
Beautiful app with tons of settings. Will try this out and hope the battery consumption is not that much. Thank you for the hint.
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No problem!
Fingerprint option don't work properly
cultofluna said:
Fingerprint option don't work properly
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Yea, its not perfect, I found it works if you keep your finger on the sensor after the AOD goes away.
So after 10 hours, it is really eating the battery, but I have the setting so it's not considering my battery. I'm pretty sure if I tweaked it and let it run a day without messing around with the app this 30% would be lower. But non the less that is still pretty high.
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Giving this app a try, so far lots to play with, the additional features are less than a regular cup of coffee from you favourite outlet.
The Oneplus notifications are p**s poor so nothing to loose.
7 hours overnight with flight mode: 19% battery.
Normally it would be 3-4%
But the rainbow notification thing was turned on. I'll try it again without rainbow notification border
naja09 said:
7 hours overnight with flight mode: 19% battery.
Normally it would be 3-4%
But the rainbow notification thing was turned on. I'll try it again without rainbow notification border
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Yea, I am going to see how much it pulls today with some settings changed and not messing around with the app as much.
For me the app looks great, but battery consumption is really high. Checking some settings, but I think it's not possible to keep the consumption down.
Battery drain was still about the same without rainbow notification.
Deleted it because it's not worth it for me
naja09 said:
Battery drain was still about the same without rainbow notification.
Deleted it because it's not worth it for me
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I turned on raise to wake and glance display to see if that helps, but the same for me, the battery consumption is really high, sad because its a really decent app and a nice looking AOD.
Power drain is bit high.
Yes but you have big SOT
Considering the app isn't a system app then the battery drain is normal. Glance display for me does not drain anything. Having the app on 24/7 will drain power because the screen is on. New update just came out with doze mode option for root users...I'm going to see if it improves battery while app is on without glance display.
Best free app for aod but it's a big battery drain
For me, it seems that the possibility to extend edge light to top real edge is missing. I get the edge light to get only under the top bar and not to the top edge of the bar.
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For me, it seems that the possibility to extend edge light to top real edge is missing. I get the edge light to get only under the top bar and not to the top edge of the bar.
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The edge lighting does not go past the notch.
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The edge lighting does not go past the notch.
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It does, set the app to run full screen.
Drains about 1% every 15 min for me.
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Is there a way to force the watch face to remain in full color without slipping into ambient mode?
I'm interested in trying this, even though I'm sure it will have a negative effect on battery life.
Download StayLit Wear from the Play Store and set it to Indefinitely.
Just use a watchface app like Watchmaker, and make/modify your own color ambient watchface. You can choose what to enable/disable on the ambient. It's probably a good idea to turn off a sweeping seconds hand, as the OLED display will take a battery hit when it has to change pixels on the screen.
I have my own face that's color on ambient. It looks identical to the awake face, except the seconds hand is missing. Lasts about 2 days.
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Download StayLit Wear from the Play Store and set it to Indefinitely.
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Just use a watchface app like Watchmaker, and make/modify your own color ambient watchface. You can choose what to enable/disable on the ambient. It's probably a good idea to turn off a sweeping seconds hand, as the OLED display will take a battery hit when it has to change pixels on the screen.
I have my own face that's color on ambient. It looks identical to the awake face, except the seconds hand is missing. Lasts about 2 days.
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Good info guys, thank you!
I'll give StayLit Wear a shot.
Having an ambient face that looks identical without the seconds hand seems awesome! All the faces I download for Watchmaker seem to have an ambient mode that just freezes the seconds hand in place but it is still visible. I hate that.
I know either of these options will cause me to take a hit on battery, but I am not concerned with trying to get more than a day out of the watch.
StayLit Wear worked exactly how I wanted it to. Unfortunately, it was destroying my battery. I'm using the Dark Suit watch face, which doesn't even have a second hand, and I was losing a percent of battery every couple minutes.
I didn't think leaving the screen on would have such a drastic effect on battery life. With stock behavior, I can get maybe 30 hours with max brightness. I was hoping I could just get through one normal 15-16 hour awake day with the screen always on. It seemed like I wouldn't get anywhere close to that based on the 30 minutes I used StayLit.
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StayLit Wear worked exactly how I wanted it to. Unfortunately, it was destroying my battery. I'm using the Dark Suit watch face, which doesn't even have a second hand, and I was losing a percent of battery every couple minutes.
I didn't think leaving the screen on would have such a drastic effect on battery life. With stock behavior, I can get maybe 30 hours with max brightness. I was hoping I could just get through one normal 15-16 hour awake day with the screen always on. It seemed like I wouldn't get anywhere close to that based on the 30 minutes I used StayLit.
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.... of course it drains battery. The whole SOC is not sleeping...
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.... of course it drains battery. The whole SOC is not sleeping...
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Well when you put it that way, it makes perfect sense. I was thinking about it strictly from the perspective of actual screen battery use. I didn't even consider the method that StayLit probably uses to keep the screen lit...a wakelock!!
So it seems that using watchmaker like @firehawk suggested makes the most sense. It should still allow the phone to sleep, but still display full colors.
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Is there a way to force the watch face to remain in full color without slipping into ambient mode?
I'm interested in trying this, even though I'm sure it will have a negative effect on battery life.
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Try wear mini Launcher , you can set it easy on and off
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Try wear mini Launcher , you can set it easy on and off
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Does it cause a wakelock that severely drains battery? Or does it just keep the full color face while allowing the watch to still sleep?
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Does it cause a wakelock that severely drains battery? Or does it just keep the full color face while allowing the watch to still sleep?
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Most likely your watch won't last 7 hours. At best. It's because of the current technology by the end of this year there will be smart watches lasting more than a couple days and the ALWAYS on screen (no ambient) with the new snapdragon 2100 made especially for wearables.
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All the faces I download for Watchmaker seem to have an ambient mode that just freezes the seconds hand in place but it is still visible. I hate that.
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Just go to customize watch, select the seconds hand and choose bright only. And it's gone!
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Just go to customize watch, select the seconds hand and choose bright only. And it's gone!
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Thanks!
Do you guys leave always on display on? Should i leave it off the save battery?
I turned mine off. Kinda pointless IMO.
I don't think it is a substantial hit. It turns off when in a pocket.
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Only you can decide what amount of screen on time you want and what gets sacrifices to get there. I'm easily getting through the day without turning it off and I like having the information. If you like it and you're getting the battery life you want by all means leave it running. Shiny new toys would just be new toys without the shiny.
I have it on from 6am to 10pm then off while I sleep. I find it useful at times during the day.
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I have it on, not a great batt drain, it loolks awesome, thknk about this, You want a great device, full of functions, real unique charateristics, , so? why all rhe compñaints about battery life? if so concened boit batt life, go get a chimese unbranded set
I turned mine off the day I got it. Reason for that since it uses AMOLED screen which means over time you'll get burn in (actually it's really burn out) which can't be fixed. From what I understand it moves slightly to prevent that. Still why chance it?
I have mine on all the time, but honestly I find it can be distracting often. I have gotten to the point of NOT wanting my phone to be bothering me 24/7, and have found actually turning it off for days at a time is a good thing. But that's kind of a different point... fact is, the AOD is something that attracts the eye and attention, and I find myself turning my phone face down or away from me so that I am not constantly looking at the AOD. Not the phone's or AOD fault, just how this works. It is nice to have the option of AOD and I don't think it effects the battery life much.
Mine is only off at night because I like to sleep in the dark. All day long it's super handy to be able to glance down at the phone to see the time and other info, plus it looks cool.
I keep it on 24/7. The battery consumption is too minimal for me to loose the information it provides if I were to disable it. As long as my device can last two days on a single charge I'm happy.
under what I would class reasonable use I'm getting from 6am till midnight and still having 40%+ of battery so can't really complain as it's not running the battery down enough to the point where I would want to save battery.
Love this feature and never turn it off. Makes a great night clock.
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I found it too bright for me.
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I found it too bright for me.
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Cant you control the brightness?
Battery consumption is definitely minimal. Two great things I learned from this thread: you can change the color, and you can set on/off times. Sweet.
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Cant you control the brightness?
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Sadly i can't see an option to. I would love the ability to turn it down a bit as well
It can auto-off AOD when in the pocket or facing down.
How many of you are using the ambient display and how much battery does it drain in average?
I had it turned on from day one, but want to use it for the cool now listening songs feature while screen is off
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How many of you are using the ambient display and how much battery does it drain in average?
I had it turned on from day one, but want to use it for the cool now listening songs feature while screen is off
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I can't tell you how much exactly but it is a noticeable amount.
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I Use ambient display, but don't really notice my battery taking a hit...
If you keep it in you pocket or face down (proximity sensor turns off the display on said conditions) when you're not using your phone the battery drain isn't noticeable
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How many of you are using the ambient display and how much battery does it drain in average?
I had it turned on from day one, but want to use it for the cool now listening songs feature while screen is off
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why not just try it and see how much it affects you?
I notice no drain from it at all, doesnt mean you will or wont however.
Been using it since day one and I'm fine with whatever minimal drain it does.
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It would have to use some amount not matter what. People that state they don't notice a difference etc is not possible. So there is no doubt about it. It will definitely get a hit. I suggest you try it for a day or two and see how you go
It is both.
In few cases it affect battery life.
In few cases it saves battery life.
My usage of phone ambience more than 90% of time is same so I manually set brightness. Enabling adaptiveness affected battery life.
However for others whose ambience changes from low brightness to high brightness, enabling it may save battery. Auto setting feature of phone do consume battery but battery saving provided by auto setting can be less or more depending on usage.
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Hi
It all depends on your usage. If you regularly use your phone during the day, so need to charge your phone every day, than the percentage of power used by Ambient display is low compared to the phone usage, so it wouldn't seem to impact much on the battery. If however you are a light user of the phone (for example I can go 3 to 5 days sometimes without needing to charge my XL), then having Ambient display turned on would probably half or more your standby time.
This is why some people will see extra power drain, others it goes un-noticed.
Regards
Phil
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How many of you are using the ambient display and how much battery does it drain in average?
I had it turned on from day one, but want to use it for the cool now listening songs feature while screen is off
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actually I had measure battery drain between ambient display ON or OFF (I let double tap and life to check phone ON).
based on my actual results, ambient ON takes 47 mAh and ambient OFF takes 9.1 mAh. To put simply, ambient ON drain 1.5%/hour while ambient OFF drain 0.3%/hour. In summary, putting ON ambient display will takes 1.2%/hour.
*sorry for my bad english
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actually I had measure battery drain between ambient display ON or OFF (I let double tap and life to check phone ON).
based on my actual results, ambient ON takes 47 mAh and ambient OFF takes 9.1 mAh. To put simply, ambient ON drain 1.5%/hour while ambient OFF drain 0.3%/hour. In summary, putting ON ambient display will takes 1.2%/hour.
*sorry for my bad english
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may i ask how many measure (and the duration of the measurement) did you take ?
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may i ask how many measure (and the duration of the measurement) did you take ?
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When ambient is ON I measure for 6 hours, and while OFF only about 2 hours.
I'm using AccuBattery to get the numbers
yuyakuchiki said:
actually I had measure battery drain between ambient display ON or OFF (I let double tap and life to check phone ON).
based on my actual results, ambient ON takes 47 mAh and ambient OFF takes 9.1 mAh. To put simply, ambient ON drain 1.5%/hour while ambient OFF drain 0.3%/hour. In summary, putting ON ambient display will takes 1.2%/hour.
*sorry for my bad english
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Very useful information, bro, thank you so much for doing the test I was planning to do XD
By the way:
Never apologize for your "bad english". You're not speaking your native language, you're not writing an resumee or applying for a job, you're on a internet forum about technology bringing useful information to people. The objective of language is to complete communication, you're not obligated to be fluent or to be perfect on a language that is not your own.
What are people expecting? I found the December one fixed most things.
More memory management: ZRAM=3072 & swappiness=300. Maybe they can add more cores with software too! LOL
Seriously, I felt a good kernel, like Kirisakura, fixed all my issues before Google did.
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What are people expecting? I found the December one fixed most things.
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You never know until the Bulletin comes out on Monday the 7th.
I am hoping for them to fix the static/clicking noise from the top earpiece. It's getting really annoying hearing it during phone calls.
I want them to fix the eq for the mic. The audio is garbage like it was on pixel 2 when it came out.
Battery battery battery. Fix the standby time
I hope they fix when I answer a call using speakerphone and the person on the other end for the first few seconds is saying" are you there"?
Battery Stand by and performance could be better.
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Battery battery battery. Fix the standby time
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Really? I mean, for me the battery life is great on this phone. Specially the stand by. Just like the 2 XL. With AOD, overnight I lose ~8%; very simliar to any Samsung Note. Without AOD I lose ~2% overnight. This is like 6 - 8 hours we are talking about.
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Really? I mean, for me the battery life is great on this phone. Specially the stand by. Just like the 2 XL. With AOD, overnight I lose ~8%; very simliar to any Samsung Note. Without AOD I lose ~2% overnight. This is like 6 - 8 hours we are talking about.
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Not just talking about standby time overnight when the phone is laying in one spot. I'm talking about standby time when its in your pocket during the day and you're moving around. It's significantly worse then my iPhone xs max. I used both of them the same and when I'm done with work the iPhone is around 73% the pixel is around 45% with same usage. Cause the pixel is losing battery while sitting in my pocket
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Not just talking about standby time overnight when the phone is laying in one spot. I'm talking about standby time when its in your pocket during the day and you're moving around. It's significantly worse then my iPhone xs max. I used both of them the same and when I'm done with work the iPhone is around 73% the pixel is around 45% with same usage. Cause the pixel is losing battery while sitting in my pocket
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Same network? Also, does your phone heat up while in your pocket?
Google needs to fix the exposure issues with the camera. The Pixel underexposes way to much crushing shadow details in bright lit environments especially. Shutter speed can be improved further reducing motion blur as well. The iPhone with its Smart HDR has superior dynamic range in my opinion. Google really needs to make some updates to its visual core and add 4K 60fps.
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Same network? Also, does your phone heat up while in your pocket?
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Same network. Same account. Same location. I haven't noticed any heating up at all.
I would like to see them add an option in display settings to do basically what Nacho Notch does and hide the notch, while putting the notification and time, battery content up on the top of the screen and not force it down like they do now with the option to hide it in only developer settings. I want this option added by default so I don't need to load a third party app to do it and we don't have the issues with the back button being the same color as the background like we do with Nacho Notch.
Yep. I've mentioned this elsewhere. I like to call and answer with speakerphone and there is always a delay.
This is probably my biggest gripe with the phone.
I had the 2xl and the 3xl is better in every way except for this and a couple of other really minor issues.
The December update took care of the memory issues and overall seemed like a robust update.
Hopefully people complained about this issue and it gets resolved asap.
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I hope they fix when I answer a call using speakerphone and the person on the other end for the first few seconds is saying" are you there"?
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Stop the Bluetooth volume slider from popping up when you answer a call on BT. I don't understand why they thought blocking the button to choose whether to take the call on BT/Speaker/Phone was a good idea.
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9.1???
Anyone having screen brightness issues? I find that the screen sometimes does not adjust brightness levels according to the environment. Even manually adjusting the level still results in a dim screen. I have to reboot the device to fix it.
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9.1???
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Nah impossible, every years we got leaks months earlier and this year we got nothing
You must have something in the background that is draining your battery. My Pixel will lose between 1-3% overnight.
I'm wondering what kinda battery life you get on the zfold3. When I opened youtube with the big screen on my accusatory app says it dr omegle ains 32%/hr does anyone else have any knowledge of if this is normal rate or high? I got it on ebay so I'm trying to make sure that everything is running as expected.
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Also if I open lifeafter and play it while fast charging the back of the phone gets really realty hot! Think it was in the 120-130° range xender and screen goes really dim. Anyone else experience this on any slightly more demanding games?
When I watch videos on YouTube with the Fold open I have the same behavior as you, I reduced this by forcing the refresh to 48hz on the videos. For games I don't know, however it consumes when open.
Use manual brightness control and keep below 50% Display brightness sucks a lot of battery.
Using dark mode and wallpaper helps too.
Black pixels use no power... darker ones use a lot less.
Once the OS learns your usage patterns, you should experience much better battery life. That usually take around a month or 2.
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Once the OS learns your usage patterns, you should experience much better battery life. That usually take around a month or 2.
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Lol, it never worked that I saw. Google global power management and it's tarded buckets will also cause erratic behaviors that can't be resolved unless you turn it off.
Hand optimizing is better, harder to do... but it works.