*FYI my M8 is not rooted*
Recently, my screen has been staying on constantly, not even dimming, unless I turn it off manually. A reboot temporarily fixes the problem.
I thought it was Tasker to start with but after disabling it, turning off all my profiles and turning them on one by one until the problem reoccurred (which it didn't when turning profiles on individually), the screen began to stay on again. Could this be a wake lock? I am not rooted so I can't use wakelock detector.
If you're not rooted, try the pc version of this to check wakelocks..
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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?
DeMiNe0 said:
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).
Hi, everyone. I have an odd problem that I can't seem to find being addressed anywhere.
I have a couple of simple Tasker profiles that 1) turns on airplane mode when I go to bed and 2) once every hour during the night turns airplane mode off for a few minutes to check for any messages/emails.
The problem is that the phone doesn't appear to get a connection when the second profile turns airplane mode off for those couple of minutes. In the morning when I wake up my phone, I have no notifications, but a couple will pop up a few seconds after I wake it up for emails that were sent several hours ago, indicating that the sync didn't occur until I woke up the phone.
I've run tests to verify that Tasker is indeed activating the profile. I've also run an httpget in that profile to verify that there's no network connection at all. I've even tried running a Secure Settings plugin task to wake the CPU, but that didn't solve it either.
I made a thread in the tasker forums, but no one there seems to have a solution.
It seems like the problem is that turning airplane mode off doesn't "take" when Tasker is toggling it during deep sleep?
I'm rooted running Juggernaut 4.1, faux's kernel, and GideonX's OC/UV VM script.
Thanks
FYI, I found a workaround by using the wake screen option in Secure Settings. It works decently for now (doesn't drain battery as much as I feared), but there is the issue of the screen flashing for a couple of seconds every hour during the night.
Hello,
For some reason the phone turns off mobile data and WiFi the second I turn off the screen using the button.
The only way I can see this is that I have to keep the screen on or else uploads and downloads fail, and also that I cannot use AirDroid when the screen is off. I have checked that WiFi is set up to never be in sleeping state regardless of phone state (Settings -> Wireless -> Advanced -> Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep).
My Galaxy Nexus is running the stock version of Jellybean, does anyone have a clue why this is happening?
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.
-TL
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.
Before Do Not Disturb even existed I used quite a few apps (llama, Phone Profiles Plus, Sound Profile) to achieve sound management over night. Unfortunately at some points in time some of these failed to work due to more aggressive battery management of my newer phones or after software updates that broke things.
However now I feel that DND provides more options and is a more elegant solution...if it would do what I want.
I would like to turn it *manually* on, go to sleep, and have it turned off at 8:00 AM. Anyone found a way to do that?
You can set a schedule to turn on and off automatically. You can also turn it on manually then set it to turn off automatically. You select how many hours you want it on.