Is there a way to keep the screen off when i plug it in to charge?
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umm it should turn itself off after the preset time you have it on. Mine only stays on if i have certain apps configured to keep it on, ie the clock set to the dimmed setting or whatever, navigation, etc...
do you have "stay awake while charging" enabled in applications > development settings?
The screen should time out and turn off as it normally would when not plugged in.
I think he might be referring to the screen turning on whenever you plug-in the phone. A long time ago (maybe CM5?) it would turn the phone on when plugging-in or unplugging. Newer versions only do it when plugging-in. I've long thought it should be configurable. The current behavior is the exact opposite of what I would find convenient. I plug my phone in when setting it down for the night. No need to power on then for me. I *always* turn it on and check for notifications when unplugging.
Seems so insignificant to want to go messing with things if you ask me lol.
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Seems so insignificant to want to go messing with things if you ask me lol.
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I don't know. This annoys me at least twice a day.
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When in the car, I would like my screen to stay on when charging.
I found a way to do this by going to Settings -> Applications -> Development -> Stay Awake
However the screen may stay on, but it still dims after X minutes (depending on the Time-out settings) so i cant see a thing on my phone during daytime.
I can ofcourse set the time-out to 30 minutes, but i dont want my screen to stay on full brightness for 30 mins when its NOT charging!
Anyone got an idea?
Thanks!
Setting profiles mate. You can set different profiles for when it is charging, including keeping the screen on, and when you unplug it, it goes back to normal. I've been using it for quite a while and it works spot on
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Sorry I'm a bit of a Droid newb. On my old 6,5 winmo there was a slider for brightness on battery and brightness on charge.
Is this profile setting stashed within the settings somewhere or is it an app?
Thanks for your help
Another way of doing this is to activate car dock mode when you're in the car. There are some apps that allow you to manually activate various dock modes, and I think when in car dock mode the screen stays on all the time at full brightness.
The app I used is called 'dock simulator' or something like that on the market, and it's free.
Sweet thanks. Any idea how to lose the logo?
Open settings, applications, development, and tick always on when charging, nice and easy
cgrec92 said:
Open settings, applications, development, and tick always on when charging, nice and easy
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Yea but as already said in post 1 the screen dims.
found a problem with the dock app where it puts calls out on the loudspeaker, and you get the icon.... damn!
you can always download power manager from the market and set to never dim/timeout
Yes but then it eats the battery
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Yes but then it eats the battery
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Ok seriously what's wrong with you you've started a thread cos ur screen dims, get use to it! Of course if you keep your screen on your battery will die quick you can't have everything
I agree this is annoying, when you have the phone plugged into the charger it would be great if the screen didn't dim, happens sometimes when I'm reading ebooks on my phone, don't want to change the dim settings as I want the screen timeout to kick in when not plugged into the charger.
Is there any app that wont let the cpu go to sleep when the screen is turned off and wifi is running with file transfer? cuz no matter which program i try. Transfer speed always slows down to 40% once monitor off. I think the cpu is downclocked.
=cgrec92;6887568]Ok seriously what's wrong with you you've started a thread cos ur screen dims, get use to it! Of course if you keep your screen on your battery will die quick you can't have everything
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Sorry I thought this was a forum to help people over come issues. looks like you may be in the right place.
1. I never started the thread
2. the initial thread was started by some who has the same problem as me. This means I am not the only one with the problem and maybe it's worth solving
3. The thread was started because on power, in the car the screen dims and I want it bright as I can't see it in the sun. I want an app or a setting so when the device detects its on power it does not dim the screen.
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"I can of course set the time-out to 30 minutes, but i don't want my screen to stay on full brightness for 30 mins when its NOT charging!"
I know this is possible because dock simulator does this but has unwanted side effects ( phone on loudspeaker ) I know I could just fix the brightness on every visit to the car but this is a pain in the ass and I will forget to disable it and flatten my battery.
I could do this on win mo 6.5 and android is a much more flexible operating system.
Sorry if this post covered old ground but I found your last post rather provoking and I would prefer if you directed similar posts, elsewhere.
Thanks to everyone else who has guided in the right direction so far..
I have the same problem and when I asked before I got the same (none) answers.
It is one of the very few flaws I have with Android.
On WiMo I could leave the browser with the traffic site active and VISIBLE in my car charger and I could hit refresh now with android I have to touch the screen to activate the backlight and then refresh the site if I want an update.
I too just want the backlight to stay on ONLY when the phone is on external power, it can't be that hard and it shouldn't involve installing elaborate programs that consume more of the little precious memory I have left (until FroYo ...)
try an app called 'Caffine' from the marketplace its free and does the job perfectly
Thanks I'll give it a try.
I know Android has never had this function on a phone, but is there a way to make an alarm sound when the phone is off? Something like an action programmed to turn the Gnex on and make the alarm sound... If my old phones could do it, why can't this one?
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I miss my blackberry for this very reason.
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Immediately thought of this, but it's not compatible with the GN: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.nomoarpowah&hl=en
I've had brick phones that have that functionality.
If I under stand you...phone screen off, try tasker
Not just the screen... I mean the whole system off.
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KayxGee1 said:
I miss my blackberry for this very reason.
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All the blackberry did when it turned the phone off is turn off all the radios and turn off the screen. and kill all apps except certain system apps. It really did not power off the phone, as if you left the blackberry in this state indefinitely it will eventually kill the battery. Its like a sleep mode. It really did not turn the system off.
For your phone you could use tasker that to create a task that turns off the screen, puts the phone in Airplane mode and kills all running apps to get the similar effect
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All the blackberry did when it turned the phone off is turn off all the radios and turn off the screen. and kill all apps except certain system apps. It really did not power off the phone, as if you left the blackberry in this state indefinitely it will eventually kill the battery. Its like a sleep mode. It really did not turn the system off.
For your phone you could use tasker that to create a task that turns off the screen, puts the phone in Airplane mode and kills all running apps to get the similar effect
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I don't know about that. All nokia phones had the alarm go off with the phone completely off. You could even pull the battery out, put back in but not boot, and alarm went off properly.
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All the blackberry did when it turned the phone off is turn off all the radios and turn off the screen. and kill all apps except certain system apps. It really did not power off the phone, as if you left the blackberry in this state indefinitely it will eventually kill the battery. Its like a sleep mode. It really did not turn the system off.
For your phone you could use tasker that to create a task that turns off the screen, puts the phone in Airplane mode and kills all running apps to get the similar effect
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It powered it off enough that I had a phone at 4% for an entire long weekend (ie killed it to the point it wouldn't power on to use anymore, and had forgot charger at work on the Friday) and it still got me up on Tuesday (and Monday :/). I didn't even actually realize the GN didn't do that as I normally plug mine in over night and leave it on.
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I don't know about that. All nokia phones had the alarm go off with the phone completely off. You could even pull the battery out, put back in but not boot, and alarm went off properly.
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You said you put the battery in and the Alarm goes off. Just because you did not push the power button does not mean the phones internal clock is still on pulling a small charge to keep the time, and produce a alarm event at a certain time.
Think of a desktop PC. Newer motherboards can actually turn on/off desktops at certain times even with it being completely off. Why? Because it has a small battery running the internal BIOS that can produce power events from an off state
Blackberry/Nokia probably implement this in different ways, but the fact remains their is something that stays on even when the phone is "off"
That's why as soon as you put the battery in for a blackberry the phone boots and takes forever to boot at that. But when you just turn it off with the power button and then turn it on, its back up running in seconds. The device is designed to always be on...even when it seems to be off.
This is prob a simple fix if you know where to look. When charging how do you stop the screen dimming. This is annoying when in the car and has only started doing it after the latest upgrade to 4.1.1.
Have looked in settings but cannot see anything in the display and battery sections.
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This is prob a simple fix if you know where to look. When charging how do you stop the screen dimming. This is annoying when in the car and has only started doing it after the latest upgrade to 4.1.1.
Have looked in settings but cannot see anything in the display and battery sections.
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you want the screen to stay on the entire time the phone is charging?
if so:
Settings > Developer Options > Stay Awake (Screen will never sleep while charging)
you want that checked.
No, he wants the screen not to dim after x amount of time, which it does even if set to stay awake during charge.
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Zeinzu said:
No, he wants the screen not to dim after x amount of time, which it does even if set to stay awake during charge.
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ahh yes, I see what's going on now. There's no direct setting for this (that I know of), but it would be very easy to set up in Tasker.
The screen normally dims 10 seconds (or is it 15 seconds) before it shuts off. So if you normally have it the screen turn off at 1 minute, it'll dim at around 45-50 seconds. However, when the option is checked to never turn off the screen when charging, the time at which the screen dims is still based on that same setting, and still occurs 10-15 seconds when the screen would have turned off (had the stay on setting not been checked).
If you already have tasker, you should be able to set this up in just a few minutes. Set up a profile that becomes active when the USB is plugged in. When that profile is active, it starts a task that sets the screen time to something crazy (like 20 hours). and if the screen time-out is set to 20 hours, then the screen shouldn't dim until 19 hours, 59 minutes, 45-50 seconds. and then set up an exit task so that when the USB cord is unplugged, it sets the display time-out back to what you normally use (1 minute for me, but set it back to whatever you normally want).
Zeinzu is correct in what is happening. Why this has changed in the update is strange.
"Member", I appreciate your reply but for a novice like me it seems a bit in depth. Where can I get this "tasker" and I will have a go.
Thanks for all your help on this.
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Zeinzu is correct in what is happening. Why this has changed in the update is strange.
"Member", I appreciate your reply but for a novice like me it seems a bit in depth. Where can I get this "tasker" and I will have a go.
Thanks for all your help on this.
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Tasker is available on the play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...MsIm5ldC5kaW5nbGlzY2guYW5kcm9pZC50YXNrZXJtIl0.
it can be little confusing at first, but read through the online guides, and I'd also be happy to help you get it set-up (at least with the profile/tasks I mentioned above to get you going with Tasker).
That is not the issue. When the charger is plugged in by default the phone makes a noise very X seconds which can be turned off but the screen dims and brightens as well when the charger is plugged in. This is really annoying!
Apparently the S9+ does not like my USB hub for charging. The hub even has charging only ports. When I plugged the phone into the normal ports I kept getting a pop up ever few seconds about that the computer should do with the phone. The red light would pop on and off while plugged into the usb port. When I connected the phone to a wall charger this dimming stopped.
I was also see the charging message pop on and off which I thought was quite odd. That disappeared when connected to the wall. It would appear that the phone was probing the usb for some kind of connection?
I have a routine to plug in the phone when it's off into the chrager to speed up the chrage time and take a nap :silly:
Now, since the official jelly bean update that I jut recieved, I noticed that the phone stays on after I turn it off and plug it into AC.
It stays on all the charge time until I wake up to see that the phone wasn't turned off. It stays at the same state I 'turned if off' before the chraging.
That's weired because on ICS it didn't happend.
Seems that when you plug the chrager in after the screen turned black (after the shutdown routine of course) it stops shutting down and stay awake like nothing happend.
This thing doesn't happen if I plug the charger in after the phone is "off" for at least 1 minute. But if I plug it in earlier it stays on without a notice.
Anyone noticed this issue? It's annoying. I can't trust my phone to be powered off anymore
P.S: I don't use "Fast boot" option in battery settings menu.
Really? I'm the only one that have this issue? Cause I already unlocked my bootloader, installed custom rom after a full wipe and the issue still present. Please, can someone check if he has the same issue as mine?
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Really? I'm the only one that have this issue? Cause I already unlocked my bootloader, installed custom rom after a full wipe and the issue still present. Please, can someone check if he has the same issue as mine?
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Nah dude, not the only one. By "turn off", I assume you mean the screen not shutting down the whole phone.
Easy solution: go to Settings > Power and there should be an option that says something along the lines of "never dim screen when charging." You can de-select this. There is also an option that says dim screen after x mins - you might like to put this on 1 or 2 mins if it isn't already.
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Nah dude, not the only one. By "turn off", I assume you mean the screen not shutting down the whole phone.
Easy solution: go to Settings > Power and there should be an option that says something along the lines of "never dim screen when charging." You can de-select this. There is also an option that says dim screen after x mins - you might like to put this on 1 or 2 mins if it isn't already.
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Silly me. Didn't notice that option got ticked. Thanks! :good:
1. Go into About found under Settings, click "Build number" 5 times to enable developer mode.
2. Now swipe back into Settings main menu and select Developer Options.
3. Enable Stay awake when charging.
Beware, this doesn't appear to be reversible. Turned it off, screen stays on when charging. Reset the watch, screen stays on. Makes charging much slower.
EDIT: Actually appears to be part of an update, will always stay dimly lit now.
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Beware, this doesn't appear to be reversible. Turned it off, screen stays on when charging. Reset the watch, screen stays on. Makes charging much slower.
EDIT: Actually appears to be part of an update, will always stay dimly lit now.
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Just found that out myself as well. It's tough when a device is so limited. Not much info out there yet
Wait, its supposed to go off when charging? The damn thing stayed on all night last night for me (first night with it). I thought it was a feature. I took it off several times and it stayed on, even when I pressed the power button. I'd really prefer it not stay on.
I enabled dev options and its not set to stay on. Weird. I'll check again tonight. When i first opened it and did the initial charge it did turn off but I thought maybe since the ambient light sensor saw it was night time it stayed on but goes off during the day. Weird.
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Beware, this doesn't appear to be reversible. Turned it off, screen stays on when charging. Reset the watch, screen stays on. Makes charging much slower.
EDIT: Actually appears to be part of an update, will always stay dimly lit now.
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I've noticed there's different modes of dim too. Sometimes it's very dim, and at other times it's somewhat dim. Really strange. I turned the watch off and put it on the charger. It automatically turned off, but stayed in a very dim mode compared to how it was when I just put it on the charger without turning it on. I am slightly worried about burn in rather than charging slower. Since I'll be charging overnight.
I wish there was a way to turn it off or at least turn down the brightness, I like my room completely dark.