How do I find out which program or programs are keeping the screen active?
I'm running the stock rooted software without Knox and clockwork recovery.
Your screen should go off by itself after a certain amount of time if you're not in any app (aka, on the home screen)
Otherwise, your screen off delay is set to something high. You can change it in settings > my device > display > screen timeout
CNexus said:
Your screen should go off by itself after a certain amount of time if you're not in any app (aka, on the home screen)
Otherwise, your screen off delay is set to something high. You can change it in settings > my device > display > screen timeout
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its currently set to 15 seconds and the screen does not turn off, if I reboot the phone the screen will automatically shutoff like its supposed to however after a short period of time (maybe an hour?) the screen will no longer automatically turn off. This is why I suspect some program I have loaded is preventing the screen from sleeping.
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after some trial and error I found the program keeping the screen active, it was Handcent, as soon as I uninstalled the application the phone would shutoff like it was supposed to.
It's a shame because I liked the interface it had.
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Hey Everyone,
I'm running into an issue, that i'm sure many of you have ran into at some point and found a way around.
When I have my Phone Plugged into the Charger (For example when in my car) after a set amount of time (I think it's around 30 seconds) my screen will Dim to only about 25% brightness(But never shut off completely). As you can imagine, this is horribly inconvenient when I'm running Google maps or sprint navigation.
How can I make it, so that when I'm charging the phone, the screen just always stays on and does not dim at all? And then when i'm on battery the screen resumes the normal behavior of shutting off after 30 seconds.
I've tried setting the "Stay Awake" option under "Applications > Development" to on, I've also tried setting the "Automatic Brightness" option under "Sound & Display > Brightness" to off. Neither of these worked.
The only thing that DOES work, is setting the "Screen Timeout" option under "Sound & Display" to "Never turn Off". But this disables the Automatic Shutoff of the screen even when on battery.
Anyone have a solution for me? My phone is rooted using Toast's method.
My screen never did this (Droid Incredible) until I installed then uninstalled Widget Locker. Now I can't get it to stay lit for Google Maps or anything for that matter, which is infuriating since it worked fine YESTERDAY (and the previous two months).
Setting? Service? Anyone know?
wow, that is silly. I can not find a way to do that either. I don't know why they would still have it dim when you check to keep awake when plugged in.
have you tried 'Screen On' from the market?
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Hey Everyone,
I'm running into an issue, that i'm sure many of you have ran into at some point and found a way around.
When I have my Phone Plugged into the Charger (For example when in my car) after a set amount of time (I think it's around 30 seconds) my screen will Dim to only about 25% brightness(But never shut off completely). As you can imagine, this is horribly inconvenient when I'm running Google maps or sprint navigation.
How can I make it, so that when I'm charging the phone, the screen just always stays on and does not dim at all? And then when i'm on battery the screen resumes the normal behavior of shutting off after 30 seconds.
I've tried setting the "Stay Awake" option under "Applications > Development" to on, I've also tried setting the "Automatic Brightness" option under "Sound & Display > Brightness" to off. Neither of these worked.
The only thing that DOES work, is setting the "Screen Timeout" option under "Sound & Display" to "Never turn Off". But this disables the Automatic Shutoff of the screen even when on battery.
Anyone have a solution for me? My phone is rooted using Toast's method.
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Yeah this was driving me nuts too. I ended up downloading an app called Screen On. Its a toggle that will disable the dimming, and basically keep the screen on until you turn it off (either through the toggle or menu bar).
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 am running CM 6.1 Stable, and have been for a while, yet this issue just popped up a few days ago.
I cannot get the phone to auto shutoff the screen when idle. I have it set to 5sec off and 1 sec lock, (down from 30 sec off, 5 sec lock before).
I have looked at the stock settings and all are in order.
The only thing different is I was trying to play with the setting on my Alarm Clock Plus regarding screen setup, but have reverted to original settings and even rebooted several times with no success.
Anyone else having issues with this? Any way to enable screen off again without having to flash a recovery?
It's really killing my battery fast!
Thanks for you help!
Crey23 said:
I am running CM 6.1 Stable, and have been for a while, yet this issue just popped up a few days ago.
I cannot get the phone to auto shutoff the screen when idle. I have it set to 5sec off and 1 sec lock, (down from 30 sec off, 5 sec lock before).
I have looked at the stock settings and all are in order.
The only thing different is I was trying to play with the setting on my Alarm Clock Plus regarding screen setup, but have reverted to original settings and even rebooted several times with no success.
Anyone else having issues with this? Any way to enable screen off again without having to flash a recovery?
It's really killing my battery fast!
Thanks for you help!
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In the android display settings, 15 seconds is the least amount of time to turn off display. how is yours set to 5?
In cyanogenmod settings, theres options to tell the lockscreen to kick in after the screen has automatically turned off and when the user has pushed the power (sleep) button. what is your time set to in the android settings? (settings - display - screen timeout)
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In the android display settings, 15 seconds is the least amount of time to turn off display. how is yours set to 5?
In cyanogenmod settings, theres options to tell the lockscreen to kick in after the screen has automatically turned off and when the user has pushed the power (sleep) button. what is your time set to in the android settings? (settings - display - screen timeout)
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Um....finding rock, and hiding underneath it!!!
Turns out I am a moron that can't read.....but I swore that I had the display set to 30 sec....It was disabled. I will test again, over the next few days if for some reason it reverts to disabled.
Thanks!
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Um....finding rock, and hiding underneath it!!!
Turns out I am a moron that can't read.....but I swore that I had the display set to 30 sec....It was disabled. I will test again, over the next few days if for some reason it reverts to disabled.
Thanks!
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Lol no prob. Happens to the best of us!
Is there any kind of mod I can do that dims my screen after say 15s of inactivity?
I don't want the screen to go off (i have it set at 5 min to turn off), but it would be good on the battery if it goes dim (the state that the screen goes 3s before going off).
Basically when I text, I feel like i'm constantly turning the screen on and off and wearing out my physical keys.
You might want to check out RootDim, but it does not have an "after 15s" rule like you were talking about, it's just always what you set it to. The horrible thing about this app is there is no "set on boot" feature and the dev refused to add one, making the app a pain in the ass to use unless you want to manually set the dim level after every reboot, maybe others don't reboot as much as me I dunno.
Hi am looking for an app that will still allow my phone to dim after so many seconds but not completely off. Anybody know of one or know how to do it with android?
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My old phone had a car mode that kept the screen on dim and unlocked. It was real handy for stuff like pandora. I think android has pulled it since 2.2 but im also interested in something like this for ics
Actually this still works, first figure out hoe to launch car mode from that vlingo app or download a car mode launcher app. Next download an app called car dock settings by ig88 and uncheck all the options except disable screen timeout. Now whenever the phone is in car mode after 30 seconds or whatever it will just dim but not lock. There must be a better way though.
You know most phones have had this option in the apps development settings to have screen always on when charging. It would eventually dim but never time out or turn off. I believe it's disabled on our phones due to that it uses an amoled screen. Leaving amoled screens on for long periods of time with a static image will cause the image to be burnt onto the screen. You can try searching the market for screen timeout for apps that will allow this and I believe there were some roms that allowed longer screen time out time and also the development option of screen always on, but just be careful that it will have a negative impact on the life of your screen.
examples of this issue here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937667
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1551974
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1388173