Late last evening, when most folks were already snoozing, the Paranoid Android team announced Peek, an Active Display-like feature, much like you would find on the Moto X.
Since the Moto X’s release, many ROMs and applications on Google Play have attempted to recreate Motorola’s magic with the feature. One which has caught our attention for a few weeks is AcDisplay. Anyone not rooted and ROM’ing can go ahead and check that app out.
Making Peek standout from the pack, after the device receives a notification, it will go into a type of listening mode for 10 seconds following the notification. If the device detects noise or motion, like taking it out of your pocket or picking it up from a desk, the device’s display will turn on with a minimalist UI, displaying your notification.
To see Peek in action, watch the video below.
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Active Display is awesome and one of the features I loved about my X but mine seemed kind of goofy considering when it would sit on the table, with no notifications, the screen would occasionally come on and just show the time. Like about every few minutes.
what texting app is that on the Nexus 5?
Hello sms
Not compatible with the GS4….how great can it be?
I wonder if this feature will make use of the AMOLED display and save battery when active? Or if that is exclusive just to the X8 chip. That being said, this is the single feature that I enjoy the most on my Moto X.
My favorite feature of the newer Motorola phones.
A black background is what saves power on AMOLED.
Paranoid Android doing what they do best: stealing ideas from others and putting them in ROMs. To be quite frank I never liked P.A. ROMs. Lots of gimmicks and lots of bugs. No real substance.
Pie controls are one of their worst gimmicks I could think of.
The whole Halo thing was pretty awful as well.
Yeah, didnt come close to FB messenger. The physics on the FB chat heads is just awesome.
I absolutely loved the Halo feature and I really wish it was in some of their newest nightlies
It’s nice… But pretty buggy.
That’s pretty much the standard response when discussing anything P.A. “It’s nice… but it’s buggy.” lol
Or just taking the best ideas and making a BEAST ROM. Been using PA on my G2 since launch. Some bugs but takes the G2 from Cheetah to Beast Mode.
Also agree with the fact that pie isn’t great and I don’t use it.
It what every other rom dev does out there too.
Running PA on my G2. Might be worth getting an upgrade; just having a better notification system for those 10 seconds would be great. What I really miss from my AOKP days is the freakin’ left/right arrows on the navbar when the keyboard pulls up to let you fine-tune your cursor position without having to use two hands. Anybody know of a mod that I can apply? Tempted to grab the PA sources and merge that one in….
GravityBox! It’s got a setting for that. 😀
Sweet haha. That’s like one of my favorite features honestly.
How’s the rom? Pretty stable? I’ve been using malladus and the only problems are that camera and chrome lag sometimes
The great thing about active display is that whenever you pick the phone up or take it out of your pocket, it flashes. All of these knockoffs just don’t do that without wasting a ton of battery. Could active display be improved? Sure. But until a phone builds this set up like the moto x/droid line did with the X8 chip, nothing will come close to the convenience of it flashing info when I need it to.
Peak or Peek? Get it straight Paranoid Android!
I have yet to root my Moto X for any ROMs, if this feature evolves to outdo the Active Display features, I might just have to
The only thing I want root for is for Adaway… I just haven’t bothered to do it yet.
I don’t believe there is a way to root the Moto X if you took the recent 4.4.2 update. I would love to be proven wrong though..
Well I have the unlocked Moto X so I can unlock the bootloader… I just haven’t done it yet.
Someone in China is selling the unlock codes for the bootloader. First fruit of the lenovo acquisition.
and Gravity Box/Xposed.
looks cool, but theres something about Moto’s active notifications that’s just “better”. i don’t know what it is though
Lack of any battery hit.
Motorola specifically designed it with the X8 chip so that battery will not be wasted when using Active Display.
The main thing is the super amoled display only turns on the pixels that are displaying the notification. The rest of the screen stays off to save battery. I don’t know if any other non moto phone can do this, even those with amoled displays like the GNex (which absolutely cannot do it). this feature will be a massive battery hog on all devices I think.
Active display like features are the only reason I miss my note 3s amoled