On most Android phones in the Development section you can set the screen to stay on when charging, but that's missing on this one. Any idea where it went, or how I can approximate the same function?
Trying to figure this one out too. "Screen On" in the market allows you to set this as an option, however I seemed to get the loss of signal problem much more frequently when I use this app. I haven't tested extensively so I could be wrong, but I hope this gets added through a custom ROM soon. Listening to Spotify at work is annoying when I have to wake up my phone and unlock each time I want to change tracks.
it was taken off of the galaxy I and II familys because super amoled screens suffer from burn in super easy
urinsane said:
Trying to figure this one out too. "Screen On" in the market allows you to set this as an option, however I seemed to get the loss of signal problem much more frequently when I use this app. I haven't tested extensively so I could be wrong, but I hope this gets added through a custom ROM soon. Listening to Spotify at work is annoying when I have to wake up my phone and unlock each time I want to change tracks.
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I installed ScreenTimeoutSwitch and I'm pretty happy with it. The most it will do is 240 minutes of on-time, but that's not bad.
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it was taken off of the galaxy I and II familys because super amoled screens suffer from burn in super easy
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Galaxy S 1 had it, since I'm coming from an Epic and used to having the feature. Hadn't heard about there being an issue before. That's a problem on car rides, when the point is not to have to reach over and turn on the screen. Also, as far as I'm aware their desk docks and car docks override this and keep it on, so that doesn't jive...
I have been using tasker to set this. Just made a profile that set the screen timeout to the highest when plugged in and then back to 30sec when not plugged in.
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it was taken off of the galaxy I and II familys because super amoled screens suffer from burn in super easy
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Do not set your screen to stay on unless you want to be annoyed by ghosting in about a month. I suggest you use the 15second screen timer and avoid displaying static images.
My OG Epic had some visible burn-in due to my music player staying dimly lit while driving. I could see the player controls in yellow on any white screen displayed.
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Do not set your screen to stay on unless you want to be annoyed by ghosting in about a month. I suggest you use the 15second screen timer and avoid displaying static images.
My OG Epic had some visible burn-in due to my music player staying dimly lit while driving. I could see the player controls in yellow on any white screen displayed.
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Odd, my OG Epic has no such problem. And a 15-second screen timer makes the phone next to useless. I find anything under a minute incredibly frustrating to use.
Sorry, these descriptions sound like an unusable device. 15 second timeout, and avoid displaying static images? Sounds excessively fragile. Also doesn't jive with anything I've heard about the device or my own experience with the previous one. I feel like people are being overly-cautious here. As well, if this is true, where's the public outcry? Those limitations are unreasonable and should have prevented this from being a popular technology.
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Odd, my OG Epic has no such problem. And a 15-second screen timer makes the phone next to useless. I find anything under a minute incredibly frustrating to use.
Sorry, these descriptions sound like an unusable device. 15 second timeout, and avoid displaying static images? Sounds excessively fragile. Also doesn't jive with anything I've heard about the device or my own experience with the previous one. I feel like people are being overly-cautious here. As well, if this is true, where's the public outcry? Those limitations are unreasonable and should have prevented this from being a popular technology.
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well, alot of the galaxy phones had it disabled. For example, I had the Samsung Galaxy S 4G from Tmobile and it did not have this option with the most recent software update.
Screen burn in is an issue on any amoled display. its not that bad, but if you do get it, it shows up on gray and blue images.
Thats the reason its been disabled on alot of them to prevent burn-in.
Now, if you choose to use a hack or app to keep it on just keep in mind that static images on full brightness after about a few minutes will cause ghosting from screen burn in
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well, alot of the galaxy phones had it disabled. For example, I had the Samsung Galaxy S 4G from Tmobile and it did not have this option with the most recent software update.
Screen burn in is an issue on any amoled display. its not that bad, but if you do get it, it shows up on gray and blue images.
Thats the reason its been disabled on alot of them to prevent burn-in.
Now, if you choose to use a hack or app to keep it on just keep in mind that static images on full brightness after about a few minutes will cause ghosting from screen burn in
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Interesting. Well, I will keep that in mind. I've been doing it for a while now with this one with no problem, and obviously when I'm driving the navigation stays on the whole time. Still, it hasn't been very long. I figure if I have issues by the time we're closing in on a year I can always get a warranty replacement to hold me for the next eight months.
I mainly want screen on while I'm driving to reduce distractions/interactions when changing music tracks. I have the car home app and if I use car home when plugged in, the screen will never turn off.
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I mainly want screen on while I'm driving to reduce distractions/interactions when changing music tracks. I have the car home app and if I use car home when plugged in, the screen will never turn off.
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That's exactly how I got the burn in, using pandora and other music apps while driving allowed the controls to burn into the screen.
Now I have a bluetooth enabled car stereo and I can control pandora and my music player through it so the screen can just stay off.
The burn in issue is due to the fact that the blue led will start dimming before the other two. When that happens, the areas where the blues start dying get discolored since the blue subpixels aren't at 100%. I'm not sure if this was resolved with SAMOLED+, but it's probably still an issue. Again, as long as you don't leave a static image that drives the blue high, it won't be an issue.
Does burn in occur when the screen brightness is %100? Or will it also happen when the brightness its turned all the way down?
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Couple of things i've noticed....
First, does the notification LED have a mind completely of its own?? I get a voicemail...and the light flashes...then 2 minutes later get another voicemail and nothing.
Got an SMS, nothing showed...got another, nothing showed, just got one now and it starts flashing at me.
Secondly, when i've received an SMS, i've gone into messaging app...and the screen dimmed and came back again quickly, so i clicked on settings and it dimmed completely like an LCD with no backlight, exit settings and it comes back again, go back into settings and it goes etc etc. Lock screen, unlock and it works fine...bit weird.
The most annoying one is definitely the useless notication LED because...if i'm sat at my desk listening to music rather loud and i cant hear a notification because of the quiet speaker, or i'm away when a message arrives...i don't know i've got it because it isn't flashing.
Y U not use the search engine?
There are multiple threads about this 'problem' and the only useful advise is always: https://market.android.com/details?...29uc3VsdGluZy5hbmRyb2lkLmxpZ2h0Zmxvd2xpdGUiXQ..
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I'm not bothered about colours or customising the LED, i'm quite happy with the white flash, i'm also well aware of lightflow and there's reasons why i wont use it.
the problem is the sheer randomness of the standard notification LED randomly deciding to flash or not flash based on...absolutely nothing
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I'm not bothered about colours or customising the LED, i'm quite happy with the white flash, i'm also well aware of lightflow and there's reasons why i wont use it.
the problem is the sheer randomness of the standard notification LED randomly deciding to flash or not flash based on...absolutely nothing
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I have had several phones with notification LED and this one is the only one that doesn't work correctly. Hopefullly the boneheads in the LED department over at Google can fix this. By the time they do, we will probably be able to choose from several ICS phones.
On a $700 phone, why do you need to download a 3rd party app to make one of the phones features work ?
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I have had several phones with notification LED and this one is the only one that doesn't work correctly. Hopefullly the boneheads in the LED department over at Google can fix this. By the time they do, we will probably be able to choose from several ICS phones.
On a $700 phone, why do you need to download a 3rd party app to make one of the phones features work ?
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This $700 phone has more problems than the $500 Galaxy S2 it seems. ICS is good, but hardware problems are starting to outweigh the benefits in my opinion. We need to keep downloading apps to manage these little things like the notification light, battery usage, volume problems (which the apps around still cause friction with ICS) etc.
This is my first Nexus and when I went into Vodaphone the other day the man at the store admired my phone. Then proceeded to tell me Nexus have always had little problems surrounding the hardware and software of the phones, the quality control isn't as good as the Galaxy S range. I'm starting to get that feeling too.
Well considering the galaxy s and s2 had their share of problems and the last two nexus are Samsung phones I find that trivial. I'm not having a lot of the problems people are having and my battery life is great, especially considering 4.65" amoled screen. Maybe apples don't fall far from the tree.
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so has nobody at all had the weird dimming screen thing?
When I'm in my car, I have my GN mounted on a vent, and plugged into power. I'll often use this to check traffic with Google Maps, or for whatever reason, would like to keep the display on (preferrably full power since it's not running off the battery), and not dim after the preset time. I have yet to find a way to do this.
I have gone into Developer Settings, and enabled the "Stay Awake" when plugged into power, but this does not prevent the screen from dimming after the preset time. So this doesn't accomplish what I want.
On my prior Touch Pro 2, there was a simple setting - keep display on, full brightness, when plugged into power. Seems like a no-brainer to have this feature, but I'll be darned if I can find it.
Any ideas? Or Apps that will provide this functionality?
Thanks.
(Verizon Galaxy Nexus, Stock 4.0.2 ROM)
I think screebl might help. Not 100% sure that it will though
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Thanks. As you said, it doesn't seem Screebl will do what I'm wanting.
There are a few other Apps, such as "Stay Awake" where you can configure it to keep the display on whenever a specified app or apps are running. I guess this might be an option.
But seriously, this seems to be a major omission in Android. I understand why one might want the display to auto-dim (although I can just turn it off when I want, so even this is questionable). But if it's plugged into power, surely the user should have a readily available option to keep the display on. For example, a "Never" option in the screen that has the various timeout options.
I'm new to Android - is there really no straightforward way of doing this??
Bump..
Still hoping for a straightforward way to keep the display at full power when connected to my car charger.
Thanks.
Widgetsoid has as one of its display switches to keep the display always on, and it does work. So I made a 1x1 widget that has that one switch, and use it when I want the screen to stay on. Not elegant, but functional.
Thanks for the suggestion; I'll check it out.
I'm still somewhat surprised that this pretty basic functionality isn't built into the OS itself, or that there aren't ready-made Apps to implement this.
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Thanks for the suggestion; I'll check it out.
I'm still somewhat surprised that this pretty basic functionality isn't built into the OS itself, or that there aren't ready-made Apps to implement this.
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I dont think google had car mode ready for release. Couple that with the fact the car dock with pogo pins hasnt been released either. Yes google f'ed up but im sure we will see it in future update. Or a dev will probably be nice enough to do something.
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Settings, Developer Options, put a check mark on stay Awake.
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Settings, Developer Options, put a check mark on stay Awake.
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What he said.... I am assuming the OP is a first timer on Android. This has been the way to do it since the stock G1 software
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What he said.... I am assuming the OP is a first timer on Android. This has been the way to do it since the stock G1 software
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Yes, I'm a first timer with Android, but I still do my research before posting. Did you actually read my initial post or the Subject title?
I have already enabled this setting. Yes, it does keep the screen 'awake' but it still dims after the timeout in Display Settings.
My post is how to keep the screen at normal brightness when plugged into power
I read your post. I agree, it is annoying. I have not found a solution to it and it has bugged me for years while in the car. I have had 4 android phones and it has been the same on all of them so it is not an individual phone thing, it is an android thing. My best suggestion is while in the car to have navigation turned on, that keeps the screen fully lit. I would think that some enterprising developer could delve into how the navigation mode keeps the phone at full power and come up with an app to do the same.
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I read your post. I agree, it is annoying. I have not found a solution to it and it has bugged me for years while in the car. I have had 4 android phones and it has been the same on all of them so it is not an individual phone thing, it is an android thing. My best suggestion is while in the car to have navigation turned on, that keeps the screen fully lit. I would think that some enterprising developer could delve into how the navigation mode keeps the phone at full power and come up with an app to do the same.
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Thanks.
I've been looking at a few Apps (Screen On, Screen Timeout Widget, KeepScreen), but there are questions about each of them, uncertain compatibility with ICS, etc.
I did discover that when I had a Video playing (podcast through BeyondPod), the display did stay undimmed while I was plugged into Power. Navigation also works this way. Really crazy that this isn't an available option in the OS.
This worked on my old Droid, haven't tested on my Galaxy Nexus yet -- but hopefully the app is ICS compatible: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.probeez.liteprofiles&hl=en
Setting Profiles Lite is limited to one rule -- so make your one rule this: When charging, screen timeout=never (since this actually changes the screen timeout on the basic level, instead of the workaround that the Dev Settings option triggers).
(The full version of Setting Profiles will of course also do this, and I'm sure you can also do this with Tasker.)
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This worked on my old Droid, haven't tested on my Galaxy Nexus yet -- but hopefully the app is ICS compatible: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.probeez.liteprofiles&hl=en
Setting Profiles Lite is limited to one rule -- so make your one rule this: When charging, screen timeout=never (since this actually changes the screen timeout on the basic level, instead of the workaround that the Dev Settings option triggers).
(The full version of Setting Profiles will of course also do this, and I'm sure you can also do this with Tasker.)
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Thanks - will check it out!
I have something weird happening ,when auto-brightness is enabled or the phone screen is dimming down right before it goes to sleep a grey transparent looking screen flickers and sometimes sticks until i touch the screen to wake the phone back up and bring it back to whatever brightness setting i had it on . Im probably gonna do a warranty exchange when i get home i just wonder if this has happened to anyone else
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I have something weird happening ,when auto-brightness is enabled or the phone screen is dimming down right before it goes to sleep a grey transparent looking screen flickers and sometimes sticks until i touch the screen to wake the phone back up and bring it back to whatever brightness setting i had it on . Im probably gonna do a warranty exchange when i get home i just wonder if this has happened to anyone else
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Haven't seen that happen on mine over the two weeks I've had it.
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I have something weird happening ,when auto-brightness is enabled or the phone screen is dimming down right before it goes to sleep a grey transparent looking screen flickers and sometimes sticks until i touch the screen to wake the phone back up and bring it back to whatever brightness setting i had it on . Im probably gonna do a warranty exchange when i get home i just wonder if this has happened to anyone else
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I think I know what you are talking about. It's got to do with "Auto adjust screen tone" in Setting -> Display. For whatever the reason, transition between high brightness level and auto adjust screen tone isn't quite smooth. This happens all 3 of my Note 2 and S3. It's annoying as hell...
Let me know if that fix the flickering issue.
I have the same problem and every so often when useing the s pen the hole phone goes nuts, screen flipping by at a fast rate of speed and it is go from dim to bright to dim really fast too.
I have restart the phone and works for a few days and it comes right back.
Mike was it exposed to moisture? How long did you have the brighter note apk on there also?
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I think I know what you are talking about. It's got to do with "Auto adjust screen tone" in Setting -> Display. For whatever the reason, transition between high brightness level and auto adjust screen tone isn't quite smooth. This happens all 3 of my Note 2 and S3. It's annoying as hell...
Let me know if that fix the flickering issue.
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I just checked the box in the settings gonna mess with it for a while see if it happens again.
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Hmm ran some tests with that feature enabled and so far so good .Gonna play with it for a couple days thanks for the tip
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Mike was it exposed to moisture? How long did you have the brighter note apk on there also?
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No moisture exposure and its definitely a hardware issue im sure of ,don't think the app has anything to do with it
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No moisture exposure and its definitely a hardware issue im sure of ,don't think the app has anything to do with it
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May be the user of the phone messing with the settings in terminal when he don't know how to like me
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May be the user of the phone messing with the settings in terminal when he don't know how to like me
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probably not
I had the same issue. Its not a hardware issue or app or anything . You have to odin back stock . I won't go into detail but there is something stuck on your partition from a kernel it sounds to me that can only be removed by going back stock . That's a know issue with the note 2 with kernels. If you flashed a kernel that's why .
Hi all,
Just got a galaxy note 2 yesterday and started setting it all up and updating the software etc. I'm new at android so bear with me.
While I was testing it I found an issue with the stylus, it would work from quite a distance from the screen, so had no chance of drawing etc. a quick google revealed that slapping the stylus down hard on the table could fix it ? I tried this and amazingly it did fix it, wow
While charging it I also noticed the charger sqeals a lot of high pitched noises, so I may have to get this replaced as others have on here.
My main query though is that I notice if I have power saver enabled when I scroll up and down in a browser or sky news I see motion blur on text, more so when the text is bold. But turn power save off and it's fine. But then I left it enabled all night and it was fine this morning, wether it was on or off. Restarted the note 2 and the blur was back again ? Is this normal.
And one last thing (sorry) I notice when scrolling up and down in the photo section the image thumbnails tend to rotate anticlockwise a bit and then return to normal position, this is hard to explain but looks odd, is this normal as well ?
Thanks.
Congrats on ur new phone.
High pitch noise is pretty normal. If your phone starts charging in a long time perhaps ask for a replecement one. My uk charger always making that noise but no probs on charging.
I can not see any weird issues with my thumbnails pictures etc so I anmot help you on that one.
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Display
Auto adjust screen tone option is checked or not. This option normally changes the tone on the display for stock browser and mail app to conserve battery. If its checked please uncheck and test.
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Congrats on ur new phone.
High pitch noise is pretty normal. If your phone starts charging in a long time perhaps ask for a replecement one. My uk charger always making that noise but no probs on charging.
I can not see any weird issues with my thumbnails pictures etc so I anmot help you on that one.
Check to see
In settings
Display
Auto adjust screen tone option is checked or not. This option normally changes the tone on the display for stock browser and mail app to conserve battery. If its checked please uncheck and test.
Regards
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Ok thanks for the reply. I do have that setting off, so it's not that. Only seems to relate to power saver, and I can turn off three options within that and just leave the CPU one on and it still does it. So I'm lost.
Yes the photo issue is hard to explain. If the thumbnail images are small it's fine, but when you make them bigger that's when they sort of animate anti-clockwise or tilt while scrolling, then return to normal when you stop scrolling.
Thanks again.
Does anyone else get this issue? I love having my brightness cranked to the fullest to see all the beautiful colors and sharpness of the screen. I noticed the other night while in my living room, the screen was dimmer than normal it made the whites have a yellow tint to it. Well case in point i checked my brightness settings and they were cranked up along with Auto Brightness turned off.
I did check in the display options that there is a color mode setup i always have mine on Cinema because it makes it the fullest of color and never changes.
I find this to be strange and im almost wondering that regardless of what i set my brightness too something in the software is manipulating the adaptive brightness. Hmm.. This is going to drive me bonkers. I wonder if its a Lollipop thing. Thanks!
I noticed when I was taking pictures on a sunny day and maybe a few times at the house. I have full brightness on until around dinner time. Hopefully fixed with a update.
I'm not sure where I read it, but this is a known occurrence on this phone, so there is nothing wrong with your phone..
I'll look for the story were I first saw this..
I have the same problem with the auto brigthness with my galaxy S6 edge . but when i uninstall the car app from samsung its gone
i hope it works for you too
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I have the same problem with the auto brigthness with my galaxy S6 edge . but when i uninstall the car app from samsung its gone
i hope it works for you too
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has anyone tried this?
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has anyone tried this?
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yes doesn't work at all. I restored the phone and at that stage there is no car app installed yet, so it is not this causing the bug.
I suggest everyone that has the s6 edge to check it and eventually to return it back if you're still on time. Honestly I'm really disappointed, all this hype and then the flagship phone has this enormous bug! I chatted with my local assistance of Samsung and they were not aware of the issue. So I asked to the guy in chat if he could try to do the test that is on youtube (cover the light sensor and then use a flashlight comparing S6 and S6 edge) and he confirmed that even with brightness set to manual, the s6 edge is still reacting to the changes of light conditions. He didn't know if this is supposed to be a "feature" of the s6 edge but honestly I strongly doubt. It is a common bug of all the s6 edge, probably will be corrected, probably not, who knows. I returned mine in the meantime, if solved (confirmed by Samsung) I will consider to buy it again in the coming months.
Same problem
With auto brightness turned off it seems that the sensor still triggers the screen to dim or increase brightness.
I noticed it after i had the screen on and went from outdoor to indoor, it just automatically dimmed the screen. This is an issue with the software so hopefully with the new 5.1.1 update it will fix it.
heres a link to where i found out the issue but unfortunately since i am a new member i cannot post it yet.
but search THE DROID GUY SAMSUNG GALAXY S6 EDGE COMMON PROBLEMS
hope this helps