I have a shiny new FP5, recently installed e/os and am really enjoying it. One little bug with the Bliss Launcher which I don’t use, but not a showstopper.
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. Any thoughts?
On a tip from the FP forums I installed Wave-up. It doesn’t seem to have much of an impact on my battery life and works pretty well with a simple wave over the screen.
Ah, that sucks. It seems to have no real impact for me but then again, seeing as this phone is brand new and I’ve been running wave-up since pretty much the start, I don’t have a good idea of what battery life would be without it.
Without any heavy usage, my also brand new FP5 would use ~20 % per day. With WaveUp the same was gone over night already, going from up to 5 days to less than 2 days of battery life.
Yeah that’s not good. I think I’m a relatively heavy screen user, lots of reading, and I usually have around 35% at midnight, whereas my old Samsung S9 was dead by 5pm. Maybe I’ll turn it off for a day and see what happens.