Thread 106318653

Why did they fucking remove this?
How am I supposed to know if I got a new notification now if I'm not using my phone and the screen is off?

>>106318653 (OP)
Vibration

>>106318782
does your phone keep vibrating indefinitely once you get a notification?

>>106318653 (OP)
I still have it on my Xperia. Anyway, some phones with always on display can approximate a notification LED

>>106318653 (OP)
Usecase? All phones do AOD now, they could even emulate the LED

>>106318653 (OP)
just turn the screen on you fucking idiot

>>106318653 (OP)
It would never stop notifying these days.

>>106318653 (OP)
you are supposed to buy the companion watch duh

>>106319243
AOD looks weird and wrong, why would I want my display to be always ON just dimmed out?
If I'm not using the phone then the display should be pitch black.

>>106319596
retard

>>106318653 (OP)
When you take a shit in the toilet (which I am generously assuming you do) do you need a fucking lightbulb that lights up whenever some pressure sensor detects a turd in the bowl, so that you are reminded to flush the toilet instead of fucking remembering you just shit in the toilet?

>>106319637
>yes goy, consume the limited hours of your oled by always having it on

>>106319243
The notification light is still lower power usage than AoD and visible in more light conditions

>>106319666
Nice retarded analogy, the light led would be the feeling of needing to shit in your example and if you lose that you have to manually try to shit every so often even if there is nothing in there.

>>106318653 (OP)
OP, you have no idea how much I wish there were notification lights on phones. Think about it: imagine a simple light that glows red for missed calls, blue for text messages, green for Facebook messages, etc (and you can customize for other apps.)

I understand that the AOD is the replacement, but I have a Motorola phone that doesn't offer that. Probably the biggest drawback of Moto phones.

>>106320307
I remember my Galaxy S4 had that exact feature you're describing. Literally.

>>106318653 (OP)
??? my pixel 3 has an always on screen and that shit is 7 years old

>>106320307
my blackberry priv had that

>>106320307
>imagine a simple light that glows red for missed calls, blue for text messages, green for Facebook messages, etc (and you can customize for other apps.)
The Nexus One had a giant glowing multicolored clit you could finger. It worked exactly as you described. Then they downgraded to tiny lights hidden around the screen. Then they disappeared entirely.

>>106320307
that used to be normal but google likes removing features. Still using my bacon until it breaks.

>>106318653 (OP)
It gave instagram women the ick so it had to go.

>>106318653 (OP)
>How am I supposed to know if I got a new notification now if I'm not using my phone and the screen is off?
YOU MUST BE USING ZE PHONE ALL THE TIME, GOYIM

>>106318653 (OP)
AOD is gay, I want my notification light back. And a replaceable battery. I fucking hate phones since they got rid of keypads.

>>106319666
you're a fucking retard. of course the first thing you thought about in relation to phone notification LED was... ah right.. poop, shit, turds, flushing toilets. i fucking despise that you somehow thought this was a worthwhile or profound analogy and that it would do anything but make you look like a complete moron with shit for brains.

it doesn't even make sense either, like the other anon said your body notifies when you have a shit in your bowels ready to be evacuated, such as a notification LED signals that there is a notification needing to be viewed, in a poop analogy removing the LED notification would be removing that feeling/urge to shit, and instead having to physically gape open your asshole and visually check inside if there is poop in there ready to be evacuated.

>>106318653 (OP)
You are either someone who always needs to check his phone anyway, or someone who never needs to check his phone, so it doesn't matter.

>>106321400
The notification is persistent. So if you walk away from the phone for a few minutes you don't have to turn the screen on when you get back to check if there are any messages or whatever unless the light is pulsing/blinking.

>>106318782
I fucking hate vibration. Has no use case, just wastes batttery. There's no way to disable globally on the config, and most games requires you to do a 30min unskippable tutorial with this shit on before allowing to enter the options to turn it off (if the dev includes an off switch).

>>106320307
>blue for text messages,
>green for Facebook messages, etc
Couldn't it be blue for facebook and green for text messages?

>(and you can customize for other apps.)
>other
And those default apps you can't customize?

>>106321581
>mobile gaming
why?

>>106320307
>simple light that glows red for missed calls, blue for text messages, green for Facebook messages
Good old Nexus 4 days.

>>106321616
Am glad you are here anon

>>106321589
>And those default apps you can't customize?
You could assign whatever color you wanted to any app on Android.

>>106318653 (OP)
>Why did they fucking remove this?
it was too useful, is all I can think of. anything useful that prevents you from picking up your phone and doomscrolling is not conclusive for the agenda.

same reason why none of the AI features implemented are actually to help keep you off your phone. it's difficult to even disable all notifications that you don't give a shit about. I have to keep my phone on DND.

>>106318653 (OP)
i only buy phones that still has this.

as for why did they remove it, their target customer groups millennials and zoomers stare at phones 24/7 anyway

>>106319683
Nice b8, clown.

>>106320307
That's literally what the Galaxy up until the Galaxy S7 at least. It was very useful. .

>>106321467
I mean I'm the second but sometimes my mom or sister message me on WhatsApp I don't want to leave them hanging for hours :(

>>106322448
How is he wrong? Even if the screen is dimmed it is still wasting some battery isnt it

I complained about this years ago and everyone told me nobody needs a notifications LED
I resigned myself to use AOD for notifications

>>106322648
my S7 that I'm posting this from does and has all of that

so what the latest phone that still have this feature, xperia iv?

>>106322978
I'm not sure if Sony are keeping all the good features on purpose or are so far "behind" the rest that it counts as features since the industry is moving forwards.
Either way not paying 1500$ for a phone with 3 years security updates.

>>106320307
why is technology going backwards bros
how did we lose this

>>106321581
>phone games
might I recommend hanging by your neck

It is called aodNotify but yes it requires AOD.
Not sure if there is a way to make it work without AOD, would be neat.

>>106318653 (OP)
still werks on my blackberry

>>106319243
Great, constant stress on the battery to the detriment of the devices longevity. Planned obsolescence is good actually.

>>106323346
you know that black pixels do not use power in OLEDs, right? if you are troubled about burn in, worry not. Any half competent OEM makes it so that the clock in AOD is offset and scaled randomly every once in a while

>>106323367
They're not completely black though are they? They just become gray. If they were black you wouldn't be able to see anything.

>>106320307
smartphones peaked in 2011

>>106324040
are you talking about LCD? that essentially works by selectively blocking a white backlight but process is not 100% efficient so some inevitably leak. OLED is made up of very small LEDs, which are not lit if the color is pure black. Of course, there's bound to be and inherent energy cost of driving the display but it would be safe to assume that it would be negligible when compared to a screen in use at 50% brightness

>>106319394
for retards like you maybe

>>106324172
Well my wallpaper isnt black so I guess I just see dimmed out gray
Still the battery usage should be less if the phones screen is completely off even if the difference is little it feels wrong to use AOD

>>106324172
feel like oledfags think LCD is btfo here, but there is nothing wrong with the display on the right. it's really not a problem at all that a display is emitting light. i do not need black pixels to be off. literally whats the use case

>>106325965
there is no use case, the difference disappears completely if you are not in a pitch dark room.

>>106318653 (OP)
Because they wanted to sell smart watches (remember those? lol)

My first text-capable phone was a slide keyboard Windows phone. Honestly can't remember the model, but the center button had a light around the edge that would pulse in a circle if you had an unread notification. It was a handy feature back in those days when you weren't expected to have your phone on your person 24/7.

>>106325965
OLED makes sense on phones, where hardware can't be changed and will be obsoleted by ever-increasing requirements so burn-in is a nonissue. On monitors, though, you have to consider it since it's independent to the thing you're plugging it to. I think LCD makes more sense for monitors since I tend to use the same monitor for longer.

>>106326406
wait do smart watches have this?

As someone who lived that life with old galaxy phones and my first android (razr hd with a kino light bar), I don't entirely miss it. Phone is either in my pocket or on a charge pad on my desk. Pixel 7 now, I don't use AOD, though it's pretty good at lighting up when something comes in.
That said, I'd settle for AMOLED screens lighting up a small dot or line in place of a separate light. Similar to what galaxy edge phones did. That way, you know what the notification is and battery for the whole screen isn't used.
Will never happen, but I would personally trade the selfie camera for a notification light.

>>106318653 (OP)
Gotta shave that BOM, anon.

>>106318653 (OP)
Samsung Galaxy Nexus, circa 2011