Moving from Symbian to Android: O Sleeping Screen, where art thou

I still do miss Sleeping Screen, the impressive free app that turns your Nokia AMOLED phone screen into a minimalistic notification system for your sleeping phone (when your phone is on stand-by).

I followed this app when it was just a promising Nokia Beta Labs offering, until it's maturity into the Nokia Store. The great thing about Sleeping Screen is you get an overview of missed calls, texts, and calendar alarms on your standby screen.

The killer feature offered by this app was that you could use the provided converter to make any photo or image to a reduced-pixel image. Because AMOLED can turn on individual pixels, and requires no LED light source, the pictures consume very little battery, while still offering quite amazing resolution. This gives you ultimate flexibility as to what pictures you want refreshing on your standby screen. You can see some results on my post about Sleeping Screen.

Many Android handsets feature a multi-coloured LED that gives you a basic indication of what notification type you have waiting for you on your handset. In my case, the Samsung Galaxy S2 does not have a LED.

Solution: NoLED.

While NoLED does not give you screensaver images, it gives you everything else.

It will notify you of missed calls, SMS, email, and other apps with small coloured dots. The dots move around the screen (configurable).

You can expand the dots to icons (similar to sleeping screen), app thumbnails (where available). It will even tell you how much charge is left on your phone when a notification is received, so you can do away with the battery widget on your home screen. You can even go so far as to instruct NoLED to sleep between a time range so it doesn't wake you up at night.

In short, NoLED is ultra-configurable. And it is free. You can opt to donate a small amount to the developers for their excellent work. I likely will.

This app is the best solution I've found to solve the gap between Sleeping Screen and the default lock screen on the Samsung Galaxy S2. If you have found another app that is better, please comment so other readers can benefit from your experience.

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