I recently moved from a Hero to the Desire, its an absolutely awesome phone because of the speed!
My biggest annoyance is that my phone continuously turns on in my pocket, I do have a lock pattern set but I took my phone out the other night to find that the lock pattern had been attempted 5 times.
I'm not quite sure how I am managing to unlock it, has anyone had any similar occurrences?
Once we get root, I guess we may be able to have trackpad wake too.
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Since we need to have the screen turned on to keep wifi/gps etc. running, and there are a few apps that would ideally run in the background with the screen off; to save battery power (and burn in?) it would be nice to have the AMOLED screen display just a black image.
Is there any app out there that just displays a black screen and maybe ignores all but a specific input?
At the moment I just zoom into a black image in the browser, but I can't put the phone in my pocket like that.
(I tried searching for this, but it was beyond my google-fu.)
You dont have to keep the screen on to run either my gps is always on and it neva disconnects also ive spent many nights going to sleep leaving my wifi connected and its neva disconnected either
Yup. If you haven't set WiFi to switch off after 15mins, it should carry on running.
By doing what you proposed, you'll decrease battery life drastically as you'd effectively be disabling the chips sleep mode by keeping it running 100%. With that, only the screen switches off and everything else including Android keeps running. Any application holding a partial awake lock can achieve this.
Lock delay; an app to control the default screen-lock options allows this.
For instance, if you set the initial screen timeout to 2 minutes but standby/lock to 10 minutes in the settings, the screen will switch off after 2mins idling, but the rest of the phone will still be running incl. WiFi/GPS. You can enable a lock/pattern or no lock at all where you press any key including menu/trackpad and it'll come back on in the same place you left it, without any lock. If the phone idles for 10mins, it'll activate the screen lock and place the phone in the standard sleep mode. The max delay you can set the latter to is 24 hours.
I wouldn't advise avoiding the sleep mode unless required in specific circumstances. Battery loss will be drastic; I found out unintentionally when activating this option at the beginning.
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Thanks th3, that should do what I want. I don't intend to leave it unattended, it's just for when don't need the screen on while an app is doing something.
first i thought it was launcher pro's fault, but after changing launcher and rom release i'm pretty sure it's something else i haven't tracked down yet.
just after a reboot phone works as usual: screen lock runs after 30 seconds or by clicking the power button
after a while (days or even hours sometimes), the screen lock does not kick-in anymore: the screen just turns off and when you press the power button the phone is already unlocked.
i noticed that when the phone is in this "lock-bug" mode the notification led constantly shows a faint red light (you can barely notice it in the dark because it's really faint).
tested with:
launcher pro
go launcher
factory rom 2.21
blurless 2.34
I used to have the faint red light on after flashing a new rom.
It disapeared after I changed display setting to not automatic brightness.
It seems that the faint red light is the light sensor.
But I know nothing about your screen lock problem.
I have run into the same thing. I have not yet noticed the light, but I've had the screen lock stop working on my phone twice (I bought 3 phones 5 days ago for work). Like you, a simple reboot fixed the problem. I also tried toggling screen lock in the settings, and setting up a lock code, to see if the screen lock would start up. Both of my times, the first I noticed the issue was when I received a phone call and didn't have to swipe to answer, but that could have just been coincidence.
It isn't really a big deal for me or the employees, but it is a nuisance.
Happened to me as well, twice. First time it was just annoying that I had to reboot, second time it drained the s**t out of my battery in three hours.
So it's a bug allright.
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same here.. it just stops working.. any fixes yet?
Hi there, I love the LG G3, but its also annoying that the phone just lock itself right after the screen is off, unlike other device which often first lower the light, then dim the light and sleep/lock the device, allowing you to have some time touching the screen to keep it on. With G3, no matter which app you are in, or you are in the middle of the call, when it's darken the screen means the phone is lock and you have to turn on screen, enter lock code again...
Does anyone find it annoying too and know how to fix it? Thank you!
hnyuk49 said:
Hi there, I love the LG G3, but its also annoying that the phone just lock itself right after the screen is off, unlike other device which often first lower the light, then dim the light and sleep/lock the device, allowing you to have some time touching the screen to keep it on. With G3, no matter which app you are in, or you are in the middle of the call, when it's darken the screen means the phone is lock and you have to turn on screen, enter lock code again...
Does anyone find it annoying too and know how to fix it? Thank you!
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Go to settings-lock screen-lock timer and set for 2 minutes or more. The default time is too short imo. I have mine set for 2 minutes.
Thanks but its not exactly what im looking for. I set for 30s time out and I think its enough for most of the time. On other phone, it allow you some dim time so that you can keep the screen on without having to unlock the device again but G3 just lock it, even in the middle of the call when the screen is off. Thats quite annoying.
hnyuk49 said:
Thanks but its not exactly what im looking for. I set for 30s time out and I think its enough for most of the time. On other phone, it allow you some dim time so that you can keep the screen on without having to unlock the device again but G3 just lock it, even in the middle of the call when the screen is off. Thats quite annoying.
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Ok you want face detection. Go to settings-display-smart screen and check the box to enable. Screen will stay on when it detects your face.
face detection doesnt seem to work on LG phone as it does on Samsung. I find it useless feature. @@
If I try to use alternative home replacement (Nova, Smart Launcher or Apex), after a couple of days my smart cover start to act wierd. No correct lock, unlock with screen off, screen turns on after few seconds and, I have to reboot to have the situation normal.
No issues with google launcher.
UPDATE:
The issues is smart cover related. The smart cover stops to lock correctly the phone and, the phone itself doesn't unlock correctly.
For example, the fingerprint seems to unlock the phone but the screen remains off.
I just got my Pixel yesterday and started having this issue, so I thought I'd check in with the fine folks at XDA.
I had Ambient display set to "always on" and "double-tap to check phone" set to on. After a while of being in my pocket, the screen will be black when I pull it out. Double-tap to wake does not work and it never comes on. The only way I can wake the phone after that is the fingerprint reader or power button (which I never use on my Android phones). It seems like Ambient display is going to sleep due to the proximity sensor and then just not waking up.
I changed it to lift to wake and the problem is mostly gone, but I would rather have ambient display on all the time. This is brand new out of the box. It's not rooted or anything. I haven't even unlocked the bootloader.
My OnePlus 6t was doing something similar (to a lesser degree) and it drove me crazy. This is something I need to work consistently. I expect to take my phone out of my pocket, glance at the AOD, and then tap twice to wake it and interact with the lockscreen. That's how I use all of my phones.
I just wanted to see if anyone else is having the issue. I haven't wiped it because, really, it's been doing this since I took it out of the box (new). And I have seen some other scattered reports online. Rebooting also did not resolve it.
This has happened to me a couple of times. Quite annoying.
Yeah, I have this problem too. Another bug...
Yep. Happens to me fairly frequently
It started happening to me recently too.
Thanks for the confirmation, guys. Glad I'm not crazy. This may actually be a deal-breaker for me, though. I'm pretty anal about the consistency of tap-to-wake on my devices.