Whenever I touch/move my moto X play the screen awakes, is it possible to disable this so screen will always stay off until I push the power button? Tried looking in the screen settings, but can't find anything there.
I have another phone also with android 5.1.1 and the display is off until I push the power button - so this must be some motorola feature?
I want to disable it to save power, as screen flickering on and off all the time can't be a good thing.
There is an app called Moto and in there is display settings. I think you need to change the notification setting in there.
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As above, you can change it in the moto app under display or in settings->display -> screen notifications -> none
Thanks! I thought that setting was only for getting the notification icons on the display!
FWIW Under same settings there is one called "Ambient Display" - it's sort of half way between the "Moto Display" and none in that if you hit the power button it shows current notifications + plus lights up when new notifications come in but does not turn on when touched (as in Moto Display). I use the Ambient Display to offset the lack of a LED for notifications. I'll probably flash the kernel to enable the LED'S at some point but in the mean time I'm happy with it.
OC-Freak said:
Thanks! I thought that setting was only for getting the notification icons on the display!
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Tim3tripp3r said:
FWIW Under same settings there is one called "Ambient Display" - it's sort of half way between the "Moto Display" and none in that if you hit the power button it shows current notifications + plus lights up when new notifications come in but does not turn on when touched (as in Moto Display). I use the Ambient Display to offset the lack of a LED for notifications. I'll probably flash the kernel to enable the LED'S at some point but in the mean time I'm happy with it.
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Hi, where exactly is that ambient display setting? I don't see it in the moto app nor in my display settings under display. I'm on a moto z play unlocked. Not sure if that matters.
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clayaedwards said:
Hi, where exactly is that ambient display setting? I don't see it in the moto app nor in my display settings under display. I'm on a moto z play unlocked. Not sure if that matters.
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You won't see ambient display settings if you have Moto display. Once you disable Moto display I believe the ambient display settings will be automatically enabled
install glance plus.best ambient display like app ever.
pijes said:
You won't see ambient display settings if you have Moto display. Once you disable Moto display I believe the ambient display settings will be automatically enabled
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Just disabled Moto display and ambient display is not enabled under settings, display. Or I'm looking on the wrong place?
Edit: Never mind, Moto display must be disabled under app. Not just turned off in Moto app.
Edit2: But ambient display does not turn display on for notification.
So the phone must use motion sensors, right? That must be why they have one called Force. You can use Jedi hand waving on it.
I'm worried that turning off Moto display isn't enough. The motion sensors may be running all the time and are surely a drain on battery. Is there any way to turn motion sensing off altogether?
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Anyone else have issues with Lightflow making the phone screen turn on randomly when sitting on a table? The colors for the notifications are correct, but becausue of the screen coming on alot randomly this is going to kill the battery life. I even enabled a setting to reduce this in light flow but nothing works. Does anyone have lightflow working correctly?
Thanks!!
At the moment the only option is to switch off the ambient display. If there's an outstanding notification or one is getting updated it'll trigger ambient display and lightflow always has an active outstanding notification.
I've put a feature request in to Google to allow some control of when it triggers.
Can you star the issue here*
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=191786
I don't seem to have this problem. Ambient display only lights up on new notifications, even with the latest Light Flow with persistent notification. I do have issues with light flow losing control on a regular basis and then I just see the standard very slow white led blink regardless of notifications. Activating lock screen promptly fixes and then I see the appropriate color and blink rare from light flow.
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At the moment the only option is to switch off the ambient display. If there's an outstanding notification or one is getting updated it'll trigger ambient display and lightflow always has an active outstanding notification.
I've put a feature request in to Google to allow some control of when it triggers.
Can you star the issue here*
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=191786
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Thanks for the explanation. Hopefully u guys find a workaround
I also have had probles with the ambient display turning on seeminly randomly all the time, I didn't know it was light flow..
On another note, I miss the feature were my screen would turn on when I get a text messge (but not dismiss the lightflow) so in case the LED wasn't attention grabbing enough the screen turning on would be. Nexus doesn't seem to do that, can lightflow do this? (turn on the screen for 2-3 seconds right after a new specific notification, say text message?)
andrewpmoore said:
At the moment the only option is to switch off the ambient display. If there's an outstanding notification or one is getting updated it'll trigger ambient display and lightflow always has an active outstanding notification.
I've put a feature request in to Google to allow some control of when it triggers.
Can you star the issue here*
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=191786
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Out of curiosity is building the app with the new api's what triggers the need for the notification? Reason I ask is the previous (lollipop api???) version was working fine without the persistent notification on Marshmallow.
AndrasLOHF said:
Out of curiosity is building the app with the new api's what triggers the need for the notification? Reason I ask is the previous (lollipop api???) version was working fine without the persistent notification on Marshmallow.
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Yes that's exactly it.
I'm bringing out a new play store version later today which will be targeting lollipop's API for people who don't mind loosing android 6 specific features (ie runtime permissions, camera flash control) but don't want the notification related issues of apps targeting android 6.
a fine trade off for me. Had to stop using the app because of that for the time being.
Absolutely fine with me as well. Thanks for the great work as always Andrew.:good::highfive:
Is there a way to enable Ambient display on the mate 8 or something similar so when I receive a notification, the screen will light up itself?
Also the notification light led is very dim, hardly noticeable compared to samsung devices.
On the dimness issue, have you tried turning off the auto brightness feature in your shortcuts pulldown?
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Zechosenjuan said:
On the dimness issue, have you tried turning off the auto brightness feature in your shortcuts pulldown?
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I'm not referring to screen brightness
bissa said:
Is there a way to enable Ambient display on the mate 8 or something similar so when I receive a notification, the screen will light up itself?
Also the notification light led is very dim, hardly noticeable compared to samsung devices.
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I use ZUI Locker to get lock screen notifications. Echo is also good. The screen lights up on notification and the duration can be specified.
settings --> screen lock & passwords --> notification turn on screen
crabamer said:
settings --> screen lock & passwords --> notification turn on screen
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correct, I discovered it but weird that it only works with certain lock screen themes and not with all, you must select the theme with (magazine)
FYI I installed xposed with both gravitybox and the ambient display module. Neither works.
Anyway to replace AOD with Androids Ambient Display?
AOD is nice, but I'd rather have Ambient displays. Ambient Displays temporary feature which just shows notifications briefly is what I'd prefer instead of just an icon and a big ass click always there.
There used to be Xposed modules but those are pretty much gone nowadays.
Download NILS.
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Download NILS.
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I believe NILS is for lockscreen notifications only, it won't replace AOD screen.
Ambient display turns on the screen when you receive a notification. This is exactly what NILS does if you set it that way and turn off it's notification service, so it'll turn on the screen when you receive notifications and show the standard notifications from the phone you're using.
Hey XDA,
Does anyone know if it's possible to enable the android ambient display on a rooted style (I much prefer it to Moto's Active Display). I've been trying to get it working for a few days now. I disabled the moto display task, and can select ambient display in settings, but no go. I've installed the Ambient Display xposed module, and have all the options, but still doesn't turn on when I get a notification or when I reach for it.
I've also tried setting up a tasker profile to make use of the sensors, but can't figure out how to switch on Ambient display, not the entire screen.
Any ideas?
Yes, running into the same issue with stock OTA 7.0 and ambient display on XT1575.
Was anyone ever able to get stock ambient display (not Moto Active Display) working?
No... As most developers of ROMs for this device who have ever tried to get Moto Display working on a custom ROM will tell you, Ambient Display and Moto Display cannot co-exist in the same device. If Moto Display is installed (as in on stock), then Moto removed or otherwise permanently the default Android Ambient Display functionality, likewise if Ambient Display is working, Moto Display cannot even be installed, because of how this works it likely has hooks into the kernel as well.
TLDR answer... If you want Ambient Display go to a custom ROM, otherwise live with Moto Display if you want to stay stock.
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No... As most developers of ROMs for this device who have ever tried to get Moto Display working on a custom ROM will tell you, Ambient Display and Moto Display cannot co-exist in the same device..
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Nope, the truth is that lenevo intentionally removed some ambient display code from 7.0 for some unknown reasons. On previous 6.0 android you could enable it just by disabling moto display app in the settings.
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Nope, the truth is that lenevo intentionally removed some ambient display code from 7.0 for some unknown reasons. On previous 6.0 android you could enable it just by disabling moto display app in the settings.
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Hmm... Then why can't we add Moto Display to a third party ROM? (I only refer to Nougat, Marshmallow is legacy in my book)
Like we enabled camera2 api and debloated apps. Is there anyway to enable Ambient display features.
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Like we enabled camera2 api and debloated apps. Is there anyway to enable Ambient display features.
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Even if we could we shouldn't do that. It's a LCD panel the back light will be always on and will eat as much battery as in use.
z1_nile said:
Even if we could we shouldn't do that. It's a LCD panel the back light will be always on and will eat as much battery as in use.
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ambient display is not always on display
Display turn on only when noyification arrives or we lift the device
There is a quick setting app
Which adds quick setting tile of ambiemt display after giving adb permissions
I tried that
It shows ambient display on
But ambient display does not really work
iamfarhanansari said:
ambient display is not always on display
Display turn on only when noyification arrives or we lift the device
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You can ask a resurrection or lineage developer for a flash able zip to enable it.
Use app glance plus available in android play store.
Use app glance plus available in android play store.