I have a shiny new FP5, (snagged in a black Friday deal from Orange in France), and installed Murena/e.os, version 2.5t-official. I am really enjoying it.
I do however have this observation and question: I use Signal a lot and when I get a message with the screen off, my phone vibrates and I briefly see a notification come up on the screen. If I don’t happen to see this notification, which happens a lot, how do I know there’s a message waiting for me without constantly checking my phone?
I moved to FP5 from an old Samsung S9, (screen died), which had both a LED and, when I waved my hand over the camera with the screen off, it would light up and show me the notification. By contrast, FP5 has neither of these. Is this normal?
In Display-settings there should be a feature called “tap to activate”, if enabled you can touble-tap your display to see the lockscreen and see your notifications.
Oh and in notification-settings you can enable the camera-flash to notify you. BTW I use iodeOS (Android 14), so menus and options might differ a bit for you.
It flashes once if I recall well.
There’s an app called WaveUp which allows bringing up the screen via waving over the sensors. I am not sure though whether this would work with e/OS
I will try wave to wake but what I really want is a flashing led equivalent which, apparently, would be Always on Display. Is that available on a stock Fairphone?
On iodeOS it is for sure, if you search “aod” in the settings it should show up. But I think it drains the battery quite much because the hardware is not optimized for that feature.
From what I understand, AoD should only power up the pixels concerned, (one for example), the rest of the screen, (black), staying off, thus using very little power. I believe that wasn’t the case for FP, the whole screen being powered, hence the removal from 14, although I really don’t know. Anyway, sounds like an implementation problem and I hope it gets fixed.
@Meaghan Meanwhile Wave-up actually works pretty well so thanks for that.