There are settings for anywhere from 5 seconds up to 30 minutes for the sleep timeout. However, no matter which one I select, the cover app goes to sleep in about 3 seconds. If I set it for Never, it will stay on but obviously that isn't an option as it would drain the battery fast.
Anyone else had this problem?
Really? I'm the only person who has ever had this problem?
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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)
Nissan350 said:
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!
Crey23 said:
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!
Ok so my One V locks its self before the time its set to timeout. I have the timeout time set at 10 mins but ever 5 or 6 seconds if im not touching the screen it goes black and locks its self. Anyone ever had this problem i don't know what to do about it .
try wiping cache,dalvik-cache in recovery. sounds like bad settings save info. once rebooted,reset timeout to the time you want and see if it resolves the issue.
Subject pretty much sums it up. Not sure what the heck happened but, for some reason everytime my note 8 sleeps the display time out resets to 10 mins. so if I set the display timeout to 15 or 30 seconds and then let my display time out in 15 or 30 seconds it will but when I wake if up the screen will then not turn off until 10 mins has past. if I check display time out in settings/display it shows 10 mins. WTF. I do not have any tasker type apps or display changing/tweaking apps that I know of or battery opto apps etc.. also i have not yet taken the bluetooth fixing update that vzw is insisting to push on my note 8 as I dont want to inhibit my phones ability to potentially get root/bootloader unlock eventually.
~SG
Anyone has the same problem? I think it's stupid approach since we only got 10 second AOD in setting to begin with. This way the battery consumption will be greater for even 1 notification that comes in.
well, how would you want it to get your attention then?
the logic seems to be... if notification then wake the screen, after 10 seconds the set limit kicks in, turns it off, rince and repeat while notifs.
if it would wake up just once and you're not looking at the phone those 10 seconds you have nothing to let you know a notif came in.
try to limit the apps that can show notifications instead, that way it's gonna popup less often? and just leave it always on without the 10 seconds.