Is there any application to turn off screen light like after lock, but phone (mean touch) is still working? I want it because im listening a lot of music, or other apps, and when it is connected to music player with cable i can easly change track etc. It will save a lot of energy and time with lock, unlock, power button.
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I was wondering how i can make it so i can have my screen off while i'm playing music? I bugs me that it has to stay on and it uses abit more battery life. thanks in advanced
NekciuQ said:
I was wondering how i can make it so i can have my screen off while i'm playing music? I bugs me that it has to stay on and it uses abit more battery life. thanks in advanced
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Download Coreplayer. It lets you put your device on standby while listing to music
Which version should be look for?
isnt the screen auto turned off after 30 seconds (maybe you can set this in somewhere)?
after it's truned off automatically,the music is still on. i never turn off screen with my hand,dont bother,pro2 does the thing himself.
Pocket Player is another (not free, though) music player that has the ability to continue to play the music when the screen turns off. I find I like PP better than CorePlayer for music.
I have the same problem. if I'm playing music, the screen dims then blanks out and when it does the music stops. Seems pretty stupid. Same thing with the YouTube application. Would love to know how to let the screen go off but let the music keep playing
This sounds similar to some settings in diamond rom's. In some cooked versions, the cpu speed is set too low in standby mode. Search for the registry setting here, I'll bet this problem is similar.
This will probably be one of the first things I try to find a fix for when my TP2 arrives today.
NekciuQ said:
I was wondering how i can make it so i can have my screen off while i'm playing music? I bugs me that it has to stay on and it uses abit more battery life. thanks in advanced
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Download Nitrogen from these forums. Its free and it better for MP3's than most of the MP3 players listed here ( believe me I have tried nealy all of them ). Nitrogen has an on screen button that when pressed turns the screen off, then all you have to do is in the phones actual settings is to select to lock buttons when the screen is off. Only the power button will then turn the screen back on.
I use nitrogen also and I highly recommend it.
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.
I'm having fun playing with all the features with the phone but i'm stumped on something.
Say for example i've got my DHD in my brodit active car charger and i'm driving along listening to music being streamed via bluetooth to my head unit and say i'm using the stock media player or doubletwist as the media player.
After a bit the screen will turn off as i've got it to set to turn off after 30 secs.
Now obviously having it turn off after 30 secs is fine if i'm NOT using it in the car and attached to the charger but when in the car it's a pain if I want to switch tracks etc. as i've got to hit the top button and then swipe to unlock again
So is there a way to be selective on the screen turning off , so if it is on charge and a media player is running then the screen can be set to NOT turn off.
So basically IF on charge AND media player running - turn off screen = NO
on the flip side of that say I was charging the phone from my PC then of course I wouldn't be bothered if the screen was off.
Hi,
You can force your DHD to keep the screen on by selecting the "Stay Awake" check box. Whilst connected to a charger the screen will stay on.
Settings > Applications > Development > Stay Awake
The screen will dim after a set time, not sure where that setting is yet, but it will not switch off & lock.
Hope that solves your problem.
I have a similar requirement when using a GPS app which in my case has no "screen on" option. This works great for me: http://www.appbrain.com/app/screen-mode-widget-lite/com.ooha.screenmodelite
I am not sure this is even possible. If it is though, the community here will know how to do it. I am looking for a way to force the LCD off but keep the foreground app active. I don't want the device to sleep as I need the app (a video app) to continue to run in the foreground just as it would with the screen on.
I realize this may have as much to do with the hooks the app has as far as checking if the screen is off or listening to screen notifications (?). Anyway, wasn't sure if there was a lower level root hack or something that I could turn it off with. The reason I want to is that with the screen on, and plugged into a wall charger the GNEX can run the battery dead after a few hours of video play. I would like to keep the audio playing but save power by turning the screen off.
Any ideas?
Looking for something similar! Tried "no lock" app, with no success.
Don't know why you want to do it.
Anyway, if you are playing the same video everyday, you can convert the video into audio format. Every music player can play music with screen off.
it's not really like turning it off, but you can use apps called screen filter and reduce the brightness a lot. I used it when using a phone as a surveillance camera for nesting birds. Surely, it's not perfect but maybe a first step.
Hey guys, 2 issues.
On Malaysk's ROM, when the screensaver with the clock and speedo show up, it interrupts any video I am watching...ie YouTube. I does not mess with non-video apps like Pandora and Spotify.
Also, I never went back to fix this, but my button LEDs dont show. Only at Boot, everything lights up, but then they go off and never come back on. So no dimmer control either.
HELP...lol