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I want my flip to replace the bedside alarm clock when I'm resting. Open
to about 75 degrees and turned away like some book-end so as to to show
the cover screen inverted and toward the bed, with a low-power display showing time, weather, alarm and a time remaining slider. Don't want
YAFA (yet another fucking app), just a feature.
bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:
I want my flip to replace the bedside alarm clock when I'm resting. Open
to about 75 degrees and turned away like some book-end so as to to show
the cover screen inverted and toward the bed, with a low-power display
showing time, weather, alarm and a time remaining slider. Don't want
YAFA (yet another fucking app), just a feature.
No mention of which flip phone you have, but likely it does have an
alarm feature which is likely a YAFA, or you could install another YAFA.
Not sure why you want it open as the alarm should sound whether the
phone is flipped [partially] open or flipped close. Maybe you want to
see the cover screen, but then you'll be asleep, and when the phone
alarm sounds you'll know the time.
Your eyes must be sharper or younger than mine. My eyes couldn't focus
on a tiny cover screen with my head in the middle of the bed on a
pillow. I'd probably get a phone stand, so the phone could be fully
flipped open to view the bigger inside/main screen. I don't wear
eyeglasses to bed. Maybe you don't use them.
Despite a low-power cover screen, you might have to leave the flip phone plugged into a power source during the night, or sitting on a wireless charging stand. Could be it runs out of power on just its battery, and
you oversleep the alarm that never sounds to miss that morning meeting.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6: How to Add Alarm Widgets on the Cover Screen (Android 14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDH40vECeI
That guy shows adding an alarm widget to the cover screen. Looks like
there would be room to add a weather widget, too. As for a slider
counting down the remaining screen, that sounds more like a countdown
timer function. Phones with alarms often also have a timers. If you mentioned your brand and model of flip phone, someone else also using it might check what widgets you could add to the cover screen.
Were you looking for phone brand and model suggestions, or just opining?
I want my flip to replace the bedside alarm clock when I'm resting. Open
to about 75 degrees and turned away like some book-end so as to to show
the cover screen inverted and toward the bed, with a low-power display showing time, weather, alarm and a time remaining slider. Don't want
YAFA (yet another fucking app), just a feature.
bad sector wrote:
I want my flip to replace the bedside alarm clock when I'm resting.
Open to about 75 degrees and turned away like some book-end so as to
to show the cover screen inverted and toward the bed, with a low-power
display showing time, weather, alarm and a time remaining slider.
Don't want YAFA (yet another fucking app), just a feature.
You do realise that "features" of a phone are "just apps", eating up
some of the same flash, likely being impossible to remove and unlikely
to ever get updates ... right?
Google makes a nightstand for Pixel phones, and an app that turns it
into a sort-of alarm clock while charging. I have a Gen1 Nest Hub as my "alarm clock replacement" it has various clock faces, the largest using digits ~35mm, I suspect it could have used 45mm if it tried, but good
enough for me to read without reaching for glasses.
On 5/3/25 19:20, VanguardLH wrote:
bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:
I want my flip to replace the bedside alarm clock when I'm resting. Open >>> to about 75 degrees and turned away like some book-end so as to to show
the cover screen inverted and toward the bed, with a low-power display
showing time, weather, alarm and a time remaining slider. Don't want
YAFA (yet another fucking app), just a feature.
No mention of which flip phone you have, but likely it does have an
alarm feature which is likely a YAFA, or you could install another YAFA.
Not sure why you want it open as the alarm should sound whether the
phone is flipped [partially] open or flipped close. Maybe you want to
see the cover screen, but then you'll be asleep, and when the phone
alarm sounds you'll know the time.
Your eyes must be sharper or younger than mine. My eyes couldn't focus
on a tiny cover screen with my head in the middle of the bed on a
pillow. I'd probably get a phone stand, so the phone could be fully
flipped open to view the bigger inside/main screen. I don't wear
eyeglasses to bed. Maybe you don't use them.
Despite a low-power cover screen, you might have to leave the flip phone
plugged into a power source during the night, or sitting on a wireless
charging stand. Could be it runs out of power on just its battery, and
you oversleep the alarm that never sounds to miss that morning meeting.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6: How to Add Alarm Widgets on the Cover Screen
(Android 14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDH40vECeI
That guy shows adding an alarm widget to the cover screen. Looks like
there would be room to add a weather widget, too. As for a slider
counting down the remaining screen, that sounds more like a countdown
timer function. Phones with alarms often also have a timers. If you
mentioned your brand and model of flip phone, someone else also using it
might check what widgets you could add to the cover screen.
Were you looking for phone brand and model suggestions, or just opining?
1st reply got lost in Thunderbird's incomplete transmission fubar.
Flip-Z-5
I just want to replace my bedside clock with the phone, that's all,
mostly for the time display in huge characters and not requiring me to
lift my head to eyeball a display lying flat on its back. It's more than
a doable 'bedside mode' the way I see it:
- inverted low-power cover-screen only display
- cpu asleep except once every so many (5?) minutes
bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:
On 5/3/25 19:20, VanguardLH wrote:
bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:
I want my flip to replace the bedside alarm clock when I'm resting. Open >>>> to about 75 degrees and turned away like some book-end so as to to show >>>> the cover screen inverted and toward the bed, with a low-power display >>>> showing time, weather, alarm and a time remaining slider. Don't want
YAFA (yet another fucking app), just a feature.
No mention of which flip phone you have, but likely it does have an
alarm feature which is likely a YAFA, or you could install another YAFA. >>> Not sure why you want it open as the alarm should sound whether the
phone is flipped [partially] open or flipped close. Maybe you want to
see the cover screen, but then you'll be asleep, and when the phone
alarm sounds you'll know the time.
Your eyes must be sharper or younger than mine. My eyes couldn't focus
on a tiny cover screen with my head in the middle of the bed on a
pillow. I'd probably get a phone stand, so the phone could be fully
flipped open to view the bigger inside/main screen. I don't wear
eyeglasses to bed. Maybe you don't use them.
Despite a low-power cover screen, you might have to leave the flip phone >>> plugged into a power source during the night, or sitting on a wireless
charging stand. Could be it runs out of power on just its battery, and
you oversleep the alarm that never sounds to miss that morning meeting.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6: How to Add Alarm Widgets on the Cover Screen
(Android 14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDH40vECeI
That guy shows adding an alarm widget to the cover screen. Looks like
there would be room to add a weather widget, too. As for a slider
counting down the remaining screen, that sounds more like a countdown
timer function. Phones with alarms often also have a timers. If you
mentioned your brand and model of flip phone, someone else also using it >>> might check what widgets you could add to the cover screen.
Were you looking for phone brand and model suggestions, or just opining?
1st reply got lost in Thunderbird's incomplete transmission fubar.
Flip-Z-5
I just want to replace my bedside clock with the phone, that's all,
mostly for the time display in huge characters and not requiring me to
lift my head to eyeball a display lying flat on its back. It's more than
a doable 'bedside mode' the way I see it:
- inverted low-power cover-screen only display
- cpu asleep except once every so many (5?) minutes
I don't know if the cover screen can be inverted. If not, you could
open the phone to about 75 degrees, and prop it up on the table somewhat
in a pyramid shape (tips on table, hinge in the air). To keep the phone
from falling flat, you might need something to bolster the tips of the
phone sitting on the table, like self-stick rubber feet, or a phone
stand laid flat that has rubber bumpers to keep the phone on the stand.
Since the Galaxy Z Flip has wireless charging, and with a charger
sitting on your bedside table, will the phone charge when closed, and
upside down on the charger stand? If so, the charger stand should have
the phone angled up, like at 75 degrees. If you have a wireless charger
that sits flat on the table, you could get a different one that has the wireless charge sit upright.
In the Youtube video I cited, you can put an alarm widget on the cover screen. I doubt it can be inverted, but then don't invert the phone on
the upright wireless charger.
https://www.samsung.com/sg/support/mobile-devices/explore-new-cover-screen-widgets-on-the-galaxy-z-flip5/
That shows how to add widgets. In the list of widgets you can add to
the cover screen, and match on your wish list: weather, alarm,
stopwatch, timer. There are probably more by scrolling the list. The
alarm widget gives you the alarm you want. The timer widget might have
a countdown option. There is the weather widget. Whether all those
widgets fit on the cover screen is something you'll have to determine,
and if they can be enlarged to be readable from your head on the pillow
to the phone on the bedside table. You would have to check the config
of the widget to see if it will display upside-down, but you can
probably sit the phone right-side-up on an upright charger stand.