I am used to a notification LED (from FP1, FP2, Pixel 2) - and don’t want to miss this feature in the future.
As FP6 features an OLED-Display with adaptive refresh rates it sounds to me that an “allways on Display” (AOD) feature in combination with a special app can replace the missing LED.
Has anybody already tried out this FP6?
Which App would be most suitable?
Battery consumption often is given with 0.5-3% per hour - but is this only during a notification has to be shown, or also considered as app-standby without notification?
Cheers, Robert
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Uhm, if you’ll have a working AOD which can show the full notification natively, why would you like to have a special app? FP5 has already shown what that could look like, however because the display hardware does not fully support this feature we had too much energy consumption and eventually the feature was removed completely. This will definitely not be the case with the FP6, there it will work as expected.
Hm, I don’t want to have my display ALWAYS On and displaying any previews of new messages or the clock all the time.
I just want to have a decent blinking LED-Dummy in any corner/edge to notify my IF there is something new. For me it makes sense, but I never used AOD, maybe I don’t understand the features/settings…
Could you explain and prove your claim and what is different to FP5? How the battery drain translates to real numbers (%/h)? I am really curious about this.
All I want is a tiny context-coloured LED for notifications. Not more, not less. Like in good old days…
Cheers!
What is different to FP5: The complete hardware.
During the release of FP6 there was the chance to talk to some Fairphone people and since the FP5 AOD was a total fail, I asked how they are going to prevent something like this to happen again. Of course they could not guarantee that for each and every part of the phone, but at least for the AOD they were extremely sure that this time they did it correctly, meaning in a way how you can see it in most of the other phones of other brands, too. I also asked if the AOD would ever return to FP5. The FP person could only answer based on what he knows, but that was that the display hardware is not capable of what we all wanted to have (which must have caused the CPU to not be able to sleep properly).
For the battery drain on FP5 please search the thread about battery lifetime. I have always preferred to have a low energy consumption and thus turned off the AOD as soon as I realized that it eats more energy than I was willing to spend on it. For FP6 you’ll have to get numbers from people who own such a device. The next phone I’ll be buying will not be before 2032
Ok, maybe a poor proof of point, but we haven’t heard any complaints about AOD-caused battery drain on FP6 yet, have we?
Its just 2 weeks. But any positive and negative experience about this would be of great value, I also would like to see a photo of the the VOD-dummy-LED blinking in action …
Hi all. I’ve got my new FP6 - so far so good. Setup was easy. One small issue - I used to get LED ‘notification’ lights flash top left on my FP3. Different colours for different apps (blue for email, white for WhatsApp, for instance) so that I knew that I had received something that I hadn’t yet checked. Really useful as usually have sound and vibration off.
Is this possible with FP6? And if so, what do I need to do to set it up?
Besides the already mentioned apps I found the following ones in F-Droid store: NotifyBuddy Glimpse
I personally have the experience with an app called “NoLED” from the Google Playstore with my Samsong Galaxy S some years ago. But this app is no longer available in the store. Maybe you find it elsewhere, it’s from the developer “devasque”.
Edit:
There’s still an app called “NoLED” in the regular Playstore which looks similar to the one I used years before. It looks simple and lightweight.
In the notifications setting there’s the option to flash the rear camera flash LED or flash the screen. There isn’t a front notification LED, very few phones have these now as they were more common with LCD screens and also everyone is obsessed with small bezels, so there isn’t much room for an LED.
So if I understand this right, there is no actual LED so no option to have an LED indicator? But a third party app could recreate the idea by flashing a circle on the screen when the phone screen is ‘off’ to achieve the same thing? Sounds good. If so, which is the best/most effective/least annoying of the free ones?
Right, there’s no dedicated notification LED.
The above mentioned apps show little symbols on your black OLED screen. Usually these symbols can be configured and are changing positions in order to avoid a burned-in screen.
But this kind of apps/notification make only sense, in my opinion, if your phone is equipped with and OLED display or similar.
