Missing led (how do you cope)

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So, after a whopping 7 years i feel like the xa2 battery is slowly dying and despite i wont probably buy it in the very short while, i suppose it’s time i start looking for a new xperia

I could buy an xperia 10iii but i don’t want to get an already old phone, so i’m geared more towards a 10v or a 10vi (which will eventually get sailfish at sometime in the future)

But the question is : how do you cope with the absence of the led?i saw that on android on some phones, screen’s borders gets illuminated, but don’t think there is something similar in sailfish. So how do you do?or you just turn on your screen from time to time?

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On the C2 I enable LowPowerMode and the “show the screen when the device is picked up” trick. Don’t know if that is working on 10v/vi.

It’s bearable this way.

It would be useful if LowPowerMode has something similar to the LED information, like the small notification icons that appear briefly on unlocking.

(Relatively unrelated side note: if I understand correctly the C2 board has a LED controller, and that would even support “breathing” LEDs in hardware like N9/J1. It’s just they didn’t install and wire up a LED! :grimacing:.
Maybe someone good with hardware can open it up and install one?? )

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The 10IV still has the LED. It was the reason why I bought this and not the 10V.

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Another idea is to use SailfishConnect which connects to your PC (KDE-Connect) and shares the System-Messages with the System.

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you’re right and i thought about that, but i have some observations

1 10vii is launching so by the time i will buy a new phone, the 10iv will be even older and
2 from the 10v and up they have a wonderful stereo sound, and that for me is an incentive to go newer…

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ah didn’t thought about lower power mode, does it show notifications too?cause that would be great

you reminded me i need to re-enable that on the xa2

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I assume one needs to run KDE to get this working?

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KDE-Connect, a stand-alone-tool, i use it under Linux Mint and Manjaro

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There is even a windows version

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There is also GSConnect for Gnome-Shell.

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Yeah, I found that one, too. Thanks. I am interested in the inner mechanisms and protocols of the solution.

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For me on android the solution was a smartwatch.

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Me too use smartwatch when I need to be reachable. Pebble is the most reliable one I use since 2016 and works very well with SFOS app Rockpool. The usage of smartwatch also saves screen.

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After 7 years with Jolla 1 and 5 years with Xz2 compact I thought I can’t live without LED notification.
Half year ago I decided to try Android on Xperia 10 VI. So no LED, no AoD. I thought it will be diffucult to live without LED and AoD. After one month using Xperia 10 VI I forgot about LED, I don’t need it.

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It’s a peaceful life.

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Well, it pretty much depends, what one uses the phone for. I have no social media on mobile devices, and if there is a led-able notification on my device, I would rather like it blinking.