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display shuts off in ambient mode

It is my understanding that the display is supposed to dim, but never shutoff when ambient mode is selected. Is this true? if so, since mine does shutoff, could the fact that I have a screen protector be impacting this?

wethead4 said:
It is my understanding that the display is supposed to dim, but never shutoff when ambient mode is selected. Is this true? if so, since mine does shutoff, could the fact that I have a screen protector be impacting this?
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No it will still shut off after a certain amount of time. It's normal from what I heard.
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wethead4 said:
It is my understanding that the display is supposed to dim, but never shutoff when ambient mode is selected. Is this true? if so, since mine does shutoff, could the fact that I have a screen protector be impacting this?
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Also, if you want to turn it off....
There is an Ambient setting in the Android Wear application on your phone/tablet.
If you wait for the watch to dim, and then uncheck the Ambient setting box the screen will turn off.
Good luck!

It has to do with orientation and motion. It dims most of the time but is able to turn off if not in use or held down at your side.

SilentAce07 said:
It has to do with orientation and motion. It dims most of the time but is able to turn off if not in use or held down at your side.
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Thanks all. All the reviews online indicate that when ambient screen is enabled,the face would never shutoff, but enter a dimmed state. This clears it up. so the only difference between ambient and ambient mode off is that it would shutoff immedietely instead of entering a dimmed state prior to fully shutting off?

wethead4 said:
Thanks all. All the reviews online indicate that when ambient screen is enabled,the face would never shutoff, but enter a dimmed state. This clears it up. so the only difference between ambient and ambient mode off is that it would shutoff immedietely instead of entering a dimmed state prior to fully shutting off?
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Basically. Ambient mode is on and dimmed quite a bit. Not always. Just a lot.
Ambient mode off basically dims the screen briefly before turning it off completely.
While ambient mode off seems like it would be bad, it's not. The gesture to turn it on is pretty sensitive and responsive. Also, you can just touch the screen or the button to turn it on as well.

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Anyone know if you can turn off the gesture motion and only turn it on by pushing button. I believe this would save a ton of battery.
Just driving into work this morning the screen turned on 20+ times on a 45min commute.
SilentAce07 said:
Basically. Ambient mode is on and dimmed quite a bit. Not always. Just a lot.
Ambient mode off basically dims the screen briefly before turning it off completely.
While ambient mode off seems like it would be bad, it's not. The gesture to turn it on is pretty sensitive and responsive. Also, you can just touch the screen or the button to turn it on as well.
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OrionNE said:
Anyone know if you can turn off the gesture motion and only turn it on by pushing button. I believe this would save a ton of battery.
Just driving into work this morning the screen turned on 20+ times on a 45min commute.
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Yeah just about everyone wants that feature so I would expect it to be included in a future update sometime, it's mentioned on basically every page of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-360/general/battery-life-discussion-t2806528

How to stop Home screen rotation?

Hi!
My Desire Eye's home screen has been rotating whenever I slightly tilt it since this morning and no, the Auto Rotation mode is not enabled. I did a soft reset but still the screen keeps rotating, and I can't find any solutions for it anywhere.
Usually, when Auto Rotate is ON it rotates almost every apps' screens but never the home screen or menu screen. When I woke up today somehow the Car mode was turned ON, but I exited it without doing anything else. I wonder if it caused something to change in my phone.
Does anyone know how to fix this? You'd save a life. :crying:

suevietts said:
Hi!
My Desire Eye's home screen has been rotating whenever I slightly tilt it since this morning and no, the Auto Rotation mode is not enabled. I did a soft reset but still the screen keeps rotating, and I can't find any solutions for it anywhere.
Usually, when Auto Rotate is ON it rotates almost every apps' screens but never the home screen or menu screen. When I woke up today somehow the Car mode was turned ON, but I exited it without doing anything else. I wonder if it caused something to change in my phone.
Does anyone know how to fix this? You'd save a life. :crying:
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Wierd. Are you sure you dont hace any xposed setting or insertcoin control enabled?

luisitox22 said:
Wierd. Are you sure you dont hace any xposed setting or insertcoin control enabled?
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Yes, I'm sure.

Disable tilt to sleep

Hello guys,
i know there's a way to disable tilt to wake gestures from the watch settings, but is there a way to keep the watch on and also disable the "tilt to sleep" gesture ?
thanks

There is also a way to set screen always ON on watch setting

That's not the same thing. Always on screen is Active even if backlight is off. I want both active at same time ! If i tilt the Watch down, the backlight goes off and any sideloaded app open on Watch get closed.

what do you want ? screen ON with backlight ? without backlight ? active ? not active ?
if you add theater mode (double button click) screen keep ON and not active.
for always screen ON and backlight ON there are some app to keep backlight but battery last 5 hours....

dersie said:
what do you want ? screen ON with backlight ? without backlight ? active ? not active ?
if you add theater mode (double button click) screen keep ON and not active.
for always screen ON and backlight ON there are some app to keep backlight but battery last 5 hours....
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Yep, i want screen on and backlight on as i am testing a sideloaded app, i dont care about battery.
Which app ? I don't want to root my Watch

Some app like :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.instext.lightr
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phonephreak.extendedlight

Did you ever find something to achieve this? It seems there needs to be a way to disable the action of tilting backwards/down from triggering ambient mode. That StayLit appears to only be for when the watch is still facing you. Ambient still gets triggered in alternate directions.
EDIT: I just realized "Infinity" in StayLit did what I needed. The + didn't work so I thought it wasn't working at all.

Screen not turning on sometimes

Has anyone has an issue where the screen won't turn on after using the fingerprint sensor? I can feel it unlock but I sometimes have to hold the power button until the power off/reboot menu comes up which then starts the display up from being all black. Have Magisk beta and Xposed installed so maybe that's the issue?

Not So Pro said:
Has anyone has an issue where the screen won't turn on after using the fingerprint sensor? I can feel it unlock but I sometimes have to hold the power button until the power off/reboot menu comes up which then starts the display up from being all black. Have Magisk beta and Xposed installed so maybe that's the issue?
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Is AOD on or off? What happens when it's on?

Badger50 said:
Is AOD on or off? What happens when it's on?
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AOD is on. So what happens is if the phone is on my desk and AOD is showing time, it'll show the notification briefly then just go black(nothing is covering proximity sensor and notification light is blinking). I then usually have to either do the power menu trick I mentioned or just restart the phone. If it's in my pocket on the other hand I'll pull it out and it'll be black with a notification light.
Oddly enough it usually only occurs with Snapchat so I think it may have to do with having snaptools installed?

Not So Pro said:
AOD is on. So what happens is if the phone is on my desk and AOD is showing time, it'll show the notification briefly then just go black(nothing is covering proximity sensor and notification light is blinking). I then usually have to either do the power menu trick I mentioned or just restart the phone. If it's in my pocket on the other hand I'll pull it out and it'll be black with a notification light.
Oddly enough it usually only occurs with Snapchat so I think it may have to do with having snaptools installed?
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Quite possibly so. I know nothing about snap face, snap chat, or whatever these social media apps do. Although, you may try clearing the app data and cache on said app to see if it helps. No guarantees though. As is the case with many things android! ??

I've had the same issue ever since I installed, I believe, the nav bar immersive mod. Not sure, around same time. I was able to hurt power button twice for camera and that would pull it up and u could switch back to screen. I don't have xposed or Snapchat, so I don't think either of those are it. It's random when it happens to me.

I've had similar issues. I'm not rooted and have never used Snapchat or AOD. I do use immersive mode for some apps so I've thought that might be causing it. Like stated above, I can get the screen to come on my double tap to open the camera or just holding the phone face down and tap the back a couple times then flip back over and the screen comes on.

I'm also having this issue. Ambient display seems to prevent the issue for me. If I reboot the issue is gone for a period as well. Not rooted but have immersive mode acrive via nav bar hider.

shmity said:
I'm also having this issue. Ambient display seems to prevent the issue for me. If I reboot the issue is gone for a period as well. Not rooted but have immersive mode acrive via nav bar hider.
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Ok so a little more testing. When Ambient display is set to always on, I have no issue, maybe a slight lag when waking/unlocking. When ambient is set to tap or pick up i get issues, when ambient display is set to off at all times, i have no issue. Plugging the phone in to charge seems to force the issue to happen.
Edit: Seems that even with ambient display off totally the issue pops up. Strange thing is if i unlock the phone and take a screen shot, its totally black.

I to have this happen and like sportytony I use camera to wake device. Sometimes that too takes a bit. Most of the time when it finally does wake there will be a notification that systemui isn't responding. So I wonder if it's related.

Ok, I've been having this issue happen multiple times a day. I use this immersive app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.tsdo.elw
Since I have turned all ambient display options off and made sure that System UI is unchecked in the immersive app i haven't had an issue at all.

Its definitely related to system UI, com.android.systemui to be precise
i used to try to set up Power Nap on this device, but it can't find System UI in app list, make me unable to whitelist it, thus causing same issue like yours,
Screen wont turn on after sleep, since System UI wake up is blocked

I was using hide navbars and had this issue
I uninstalled and never had that problem again
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Didn't expect all these replies but I'm going to try to untick system UI and see what happens. Thank you all!

Android 10 - how to return ambient mode on double tap?

On Android 9 Pie we can enable ambient mode when double tap on screen for checking notification and time. On Android 10 double tap turn on screen. Is any solution to return "old-fashion" double tap? I have root.

clever_man said:
On Android 9 Pie we can enable ambient mode when double tap on screen for checking notification and time. On Android 10 double tap turn on screen. Is any solution to return "old-fashion" double tap? I have root.
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If your using the EXKM app, disable native DT2W, then enable it in the EXKM app. Works very well :good:

Badger50 said:
If your using the EXKM app, disable native DT2W, then enable it in the EXKM app. Works very well :good:
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I tried it but it turn on screen also instead of enabling ambient mode. What's wrong?

clever_man said:
I tried it but it turn on screen also instead of enabling ambient mode. What's wrong?
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That's odd. What method did you use to update to A10? Was it a clean or dirty install?
I did a dirty install of the factory image, and DT2W works as it should with the EXKM method

I used clean install. If you'll disable dt2w in kernel settings and enable it in firmaware settings will you get ambient mode?

clever_man said:
I used clean install. If you'll disable dt2w in kernel settings and enable it in firmaware settings will you get ambient mode?
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Yes, I still get ambient mode. I just like the EXKM version better just because it's faster to wake the lock screen :good:

Badger50 said:
Yes, I still get ambient mode. I just like the EXKM version better just because it's faster to wake the lock screen :good:
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https://piunikaweb.com/2019/09/04/a...ck-phone-lift-to-check-phone-on-pixel-phones/
It's weird that you have ambient mode on Android 10.

clever_man said:
https://piunikaweb.com/2019/09/04/a...ck-phone-lift-to-check-phone-on-pixel-phones/
It's weird that you have ambient mode on Android 10.
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If this is what you mean by ambient mode, then yes I do. However, I suspect you don't. It's a feature I have never used, so forgive me if I mislead you. Or am I confusing ambient with AOD? Which is also a feature I never have used?

Ambient display Cannot double tap like this picture?

a_khusairi said:
Ambient display Cannot double tap like this picture?
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Not any more apparently. Personally, I don't really get the point of it. It's just a darker version of DT2W the lock screen to see the same thing. But that's just me I reckon.

Badger50 said:
Not any more apparently. Personally, I don't really get the point of it. It's just a darker version of DT2W the lock screen to see the same thing. But that's just me I reckon.
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No, it's not. When screen in ambient mode it not reacted on touches. Now on Android 10 my phone in pocket occasionally turning on display (at walking) and I have false touches - for seven minutes my player stopped twice, once change track and once turned off BT wich caused disconnection of headset. It pisses me off! Now I just turn off DT2W and had to turn AOD that drain my battery. Hey, Google, are you OK?

clever_man said:
No, it's not. When screen in ambient mode it not reacted on touches. Now on Android 10 my phone in pocket occasionally turning on display (at walking) and I have false touches - for seven minutes my player stopped twice, once change track and once turned off BT wich caused disconnection of headset. It pisses me off! Now I just turn off DT2W and had to turn AOD that drain my battery. Hey, Google, are you OK?
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No worries man. You have your opinions, and I have mine. It's just something I never really need