For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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    What I don’t understand is why the notification LED was removed in the first place? It can easily be put under the screen.
    The LED was so helpful, and it’s so annoying when I don’t see an important message for hours, because I haven’t used my phone.

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      11 months ago

      I’m guessing… they don’t want us deciding whether to engage with our phones, they want us looking at them more. If that means less convenience for us we can get fucked

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        I think you may have a point, It’s kind of weird how the first 10 years of smartphones, was an ever higher climb for better phones, driven by competition.
        But now that everybody are dependent on the phones, they all agree on taking useful features away???

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        It’s probably also a little safer with only system apis accessing system hardware. If you look at how the camera assembly is one piece and apps basically access the whole thing securely.

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      I used to have a custom ROM that would allow me to change the color based on which app had the most recent notification: FB was Blue, SMS was Green. Let me be prepared ahead of time if it was going to be important or not.

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        I used to have a custom ROM that would allow me to change the color based on which app had the most recent notification

        Even more than that, in early versions of Android this setting was baked in. I had colors set based on text messages, emails, etc. I think around 2.x was when the option was removed.

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            I don’t know about the original, but I rocked a Droid 4 for the longest time. It’s probably my all time favorite phone. I really miss how quickly I could type and the extra screen space I got from not needing the software keyboard.

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        Ironically I was grateful for a custom rom to turn off the light. It was useful but I hated it at night because at least on my phone it was stupidly bright

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      Nowadays most phones have OLED screens, which can easily replicate the function of the notification LED with the “always on” feature.

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        11 months ago

        I really can’t. I did it all. It just doesn’t come near the tiny lil LED shining bright.

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        I’m pretty sure mine has a tiny LED under the screen, that only shows very shortly on reboot. But as you say, it’s disabled for some weird reason.

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      Because if you can read an LED notification system you have no purpose to pick up the cellphone.

      Cellphones are not designed FOR YOU. They are designed by marketeers for you to use.

      Once you realize this, all the anti-consumer shit makes sense.

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      I have no effing clue. Maybe to get us to actually look at the damn phone more often? Because of the people who’re drowning in spam? Makes not THAT much sense. Probably to save a cent in circuit-design, because only the nerds were using the stupid LED? I really would like to know too.