Any way to enable second screen always on? - LG G7 ThinQ Questions & Answers

(VZW Phone) Greetings. I just traded in my trusty V20 for a G7. It was free. (bogo). With my V20, only the second screen was "always on" and I loved that! but with the G7, the only "aways on" feature seems to be for the main screen only. I don't see any way to have the second screen "always on" and the main screen off. Am I missing something here? this is a huge deal to me. Thanks for any info in advance.

Yes you missing something. True second screen. LG G series don't have two displays. But dont worry, LG G7 it turn on only few pixels of all screen for data with its need to be shown. And if you turn off "Daily timeout" it will turn off only if you cover proximity sensor.

Siley said:
Yes you missing something. True second screen. LG G series don't have two displays. But dont worry, LG G7 it turn on only few pixels of all screen for data with its need to be shown. And if you turn off "Daily timeout" it will turn off only if you cover proximity sensor.
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I beg to differ on this from my understanding. As per what I know what you have said will be correct for oled displays and not true for the g7 panel. The second screen is indeed "always on" unless it has been configured to phase out from time x to time y if configured that way. Or else once the option is turned on, the screen is indeed "always on".
P.s. if you look at the screen in a pitch dark room while second screen is on you will be able to see that the entire screen is on at very minimum brightness.

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[Q] Charging burn-in concern?

May be a dumb question, but any concerned with screen burn-in from charging? Under normal use the screen isn't lit up long enough, but while charging the screen stays lit (dimmed, yes but still lit) and with a static blue ring around the edge. Just seems odd that some kind of daydream mode isn't employed.
bob_loblaw_ said:
May be a dumb question, but any concerned with screen burn-in from charging? Under normal use the screen isn't lit up long enough, but while charging the screen stays lit (dimmed, yes but still lit) and with a static blue ring around the edge. Just seems odd that some kind of daydream mode isn't employed.
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The screen is LCD not OLED so burn in isn't an issue.
I had it on the charger for about 2 hours last night and can clearly see the ring and the "moto" and "100%" text, especially on the gray background of the settings menu.
filefly said:
I had it on the charger for about 2 hours last night and can clearly see the ring and the "moto" and "100%" text, especially on the gray background of the settings menu.
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That's my concern. I thought that LCD wasn't impervious just because it wasn't OLED and it is still susceptible to damage.
You can turn the screen off while charging if you just press the button (which is on top while charging).
slaydog said:
You can turn the screen off while charging if you just press the button (which is on top while charging).
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Strange when I charged yesterday the screen did turn off. It is charging now and the button on top just dims.
Character Zero said:
Strange when I charged yesterday the screen did turn off. It is charging now and the button on top just dims.
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I honestly can't figure this thing out, lol
It would appear that the last update keeps the screen on (although dim) while charging. Another change is that putting a turned off watch in the charger turns it on.
Well that solves my question. First charge was off, 2nd and current 3rd charge is staying dim. Thanks!
If you want it off when you charge, go into "Settings-->About" and tap on build number, repeatedly until it displays "You are now a developer". Then go back to "Settings-->Developer Options" and the first option is "Stay awake when charging". You can touch it to toggle between enabled and disabled.
jermaine151 said:
If you want it off when you charge, go into "Settings-->About" and tap on build number, repeatedly until it displays "You are now a developer". Then go back to "Settings-->Developer Options" and the first option is "Stay awake when charging". You can touch it to toggle between enabled and disabled.
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just a heads up (for me anyway) - I wanted to have it ON when charging, so i did the dev mode option. Then i wanted to turn it off, and it seems disabling the option in dev options wont turn it off lol
early release wonkiness i assume
ameilius said:
just a heads up (for me anyway) - I wanted to have it ON when charging, so i did the dev mode option. Then i wanted to turn it off, and it seems disabling the option in dev options wont turn it off lol
early release wonkiness i assume
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Thanks! Weird. I wonder if it needs a reboot to take affect?
jermaine151 said:
Thanks! Weird. I wonder if it needs a reboot to take affect?
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tried everything - just gonna wait for an update and see from there
ameilius said:
tried everything - just gonna wait for an update and see from there
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Once we get root we'll be able to change this option in the build.prop file:
Code:
ro.ambient.force_when_docked=true
To turn off the screen while charging:
1. Open the Android Wear app
2. Turn on "Always On" (if it's not already)
3. Wait for the screen on the watch to dim
4. Uncheck "Always On" in the Android App
The screen will turn off until it's taken off the charger, screen is tapped, or button is pushed.
dark79 said:
To turn off the screen while charging:
1. Open the Android Wear app
2. Turn on "Always On" (if it's not already)
3. Wait for the screen on the watch to dim
4. Uncheck "Always On" in the Android App
The screen will turn off until it's taken off the charger, screen is tapped, or button is pushed.
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This worked for the LG G Watch as well. But you have to substitute "always on" with "ambient screen" with the update to 4.4w1.
kpjimmy said:
This worked for the LG G Watch as well. But you have to substitute "always on" with "ambient screen" with the update to 4.4w1.
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Whoops. Forgot about the verbage difference in the Moto360.
Found this on reddit, looks like it answers my question. Curious to see if they had the screen left fully lit while charging.
http://www.reddit.com/r/moto360/comments/2gir11/charging_screen_image_burnin/
Tasker task I create to toggle the screen off automatically.
I've had it since Monday. Charging every night (~8 hours). Developer mode on, but no settings changed. No burn in. I think it's a defect.

[Q] Dimming Screen with Palm Not Working?

Anybody else having issues when placing your palm over the screen to dim it? It should turn the screen off and vibrate. I think I only saw that happen once, but I can't seem to get that to work.
Can somebody try it and tell me if it works for you all the time, some of the time, or rarely to never?
Thanks.
I got it working if I turn off the ambient screen setting on the device. You can also use the button too.
Ambient Screen Off
kpjimmy said:
I got it working if I turn off the ambient screen setting on the device. You can also use the button too.
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Yup, I tried with both, ambient screen on and ambient screen off. No luck. Yeah, I guess I'll just have to use the button, seems faster anyway, or wait until it turns itself off. I guess I was just concerned my ambient light sensor might be defective, haven't had the chance to see if auto-brightness works correctly since it has been raining and cloudy outside and light indoors generally keeps it mid-brightness.
DaPhang said:
Yup, I tried with both, ambient screen on and ambient screen off. No luck. Yeah, I guess I'll just have to use the button, seems faster anyway, or wait until it turns itself off. I guess I was just concerned my ambient light sensor might be defective, haven't had the chance to see if auto-brightness works correctly since it has been raining and cloudy outside and light indoors generally keeps it mid-brightness.
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Did you go to the android wear app and turn off ambient screen? I assume so. Mine turns "off" when I either "palm" it or push the button. I left the ambient screen sensor on and it still turned off for me.
Make sure your palm is touching the screen. If you're just cupping your hand over the screen, it won't work. It's not a "oh, it just turned dark" thing, but more of a "oh, my entire surface is being touched at once" thing.
Touch Screen Palm
jt3 said:
Make sure your palm is touching the screen. If you're just cupping your hand over the screen, it won't work. It's not a "oh, it just turned dark" thing, but more of a "oh, my entire surface is being touched at once" thing.
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Thank you very much, that was it. It works now, operator error.

How to stop G3 from locking right after dimming display

Hi there, I love the LG G3, but its also annoying that the phone just lock itself right after the screen is off, unlike other device which often first lower the light, then dim the light and sleep/lock the device, allowing you to have some time touching the screen to keep it on. With G3, no matter which app you are in, or you are in the middle of the call, when it's darken the screen means the phone is lock and you have to turn on screen, enter lock code again...
Does anyone find it annoying too and know how to fix it? Thank you!
hnyuk49 said:
Hi there, I love the LG G3, but its also annoying that the phone just lock itself right after the screen is off, unlike other device which often first lower the light, then dim the light and sleep/lock the device, allowing you to have some time touching the screen to keep it on. With G3, no matter which app you are in, or you are in the middle of the call, when it's darken the screen means the phone is lock and you have to turn on screen, enter lock code again...
Does anyone find it annoying too and know how to fix it? Thank you!
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Go to settings-lock screen-lock timer and set for 2 minutes or more. The default time is too short imo. I have mine set for 2 minutes.
Thanks but its not exactly what im looking for. I set for 30s time out and I think its enough for most of the time. On other phone, it allow you some dim time so that you can keep the screen on without having to unlock the device again but G3 just lock it, even in the middle of the call when the screen is off. Thats quite annoying.
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Thanks but its not exactly what im looking for. I set for 30s time out and I think its enough for most of the time. On other phone, it allow you some dim time so that you can keep the screen on without having to unlock the device again but G3 just lock it, even in the middle of the call when the screen is off. Thats quite annoying.
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Ok you want face detection. Go to settings-display-smart screen and check the box to enable. Screen will stay on when it detects your face.
face detection doesnt seem to work on LG phone as it does on Samsung. I find it useless feature. @@

[Q] Moto 360 [5.1.1] Stay Awake While Charging...

Can't find another question like this one... so here goes:
Just got a Moto 360 for 149.99 USD and its great so far.
Did that force update to 5.1.1, this one worked for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/moto360/comments/3ahj1l/a_surefire_way_to_force_the_511_update/
Now I look into turning off the screen when its charging, only to run into a very strange issue...
In the developer options, which you can enable using 10 taps on the build number in about, there are two options:
1) stay awake while charging
2) burn-in protection
Burn-in protection will NOT save the check when your restart, so in essence, is useless.
However I found that using stay awake while charging DOES indeed turn off the screen, but here's the catch: you have to set it to ENABLED.
Don't believe I have ever seen a setting on android that required it to be on, to be off...
But hey, it does work, on mine at least.
Also the whole "just hit the button to make the screen go off" ONLY works in Theater Mode! And I personally dont like pushing a button to check the time.
If Theater Mode is off, it will just brighten the screen for around 2 seconds, then dim again.
Here's my question, what does that burn-in protection do anyways? Just pixel shift over time? Why can't it be enabled?
Hope this helps some people!
that setting does nothing for me
the screen stays awake regardless of ENABLED or DISABLED
funny how motorola hasn't fixed this yet
just put watch in "Theater mode" before charging
and it would switch the screen off on charger too
da_coder said:
Can't find another question like this one... so here goes:
Just got a Moto 360 for 149.99 USD and its great so far.
Did that force update to 5.1.1, this one worked for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/moto360/comments/3ahj1l/a_surefire_way_to_force_the_511_update/
Now I look into turning off the screen when its charging, only to run into a very strange issue...
In the developer options, which you can enable using 10 taps on the build number in about, there are two options:
1) stay awake while charging
2) burn-in protection
Burn-in protection will NOT save the check when your restart, so in essence, is useless.
However I found that using stay awake while charging DOES indeed turn off the screen, but here's the catch: you have to set it to ENABLED.
Don't believe I have ever seen a setting on android that required it to be on, to be off...
But hey, it does work, on mine at least.
Also the whole "just hit the button to make the screen go off" ONLY works in Theater Mode! And I personally dont like pushing a button to check the time.
If Theater Mode is off, it will just brighten the screen for around 2 seconds, then dim again.
Here's my question, what does that burn-in protection do anyways? Just pixel shift over time? Why can't it be enabled?
Hope this helps some people!
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It started on mine, in the dock. Every few minutes everything on the display jumps in size from small to large and vice visa
The staying awake feature is backwards. Crazy
Sent by entanglement.
I restarted mine after setting to enabled, also ambient / theater mode are both off.
Hi,
as ShadowVlican wrote: just enable the theater mode to switch the screen off during charging. It is also important, the you undo any changes you did in the developer menu ("stay awake while charging" and the "burn in protection" as well).
Stephan
cyvr1 said:
Hi,
as ShadowVlican wrote: just enable the theater mode to switch the screen off during charging. It is also important, the you undo any changes you did in the developer menu ("stay awake while charging" and the "burn in protection" as well).
Stephan
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Yeah, no. My screen turns off for 10 seconds then just becomes dim black with backlight again.
Is there no damn working solution?!

faint red Led

Hello fellow lenovo p2 owners i purchased this phone 2 days ago everything most things seem to be working fine apart from a couple of quirks. double tap to wake is hit n miss which is rather annoying but i can live with it in the hope future software will fix it. On another note i have noticed their is very faint red led light always on to the left of the speaker after i turn the screen off. Has anyone experienced this issue with the faint red led which when the screen is switched on goes off but whenever the screen is off i can see it light up just left of the speaker. I am concerned that this led might affect the battery usage in some way iff it is always on. should i take it back to the shop on account of this faint light always being on which appears much brighter in complete darkness. t
Thankyou all for reading.
That's the proximity sensor. Have you got any apps that use it?
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Uibon said:
That's the proximity sensor. Have you got any apps that use it?
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Hi thanks for the reply the only app I think might be using it is Ac display but not sure.
OK fixed its a false alarm its definetly the app AC display which is using the sensor while screen off because i disabled the app and the red faint light vanished. the only other thing left is double tap to wake is fragile and needs about 10 taps to wake screen sometimes. Hopefully this is software related.
Why use double tap when you can touch sensor once to wake the screen?
not too sure but i prefer double tapping the middle of the screen rather than all the way up on a specific point where the sensor is.
Finger print is at bottom. Can also click it once with a non registered finger to bring lock screen up.
Kind of think dttw is redundant on a phone with front finger print sensor and physical home button.
To reduce the wear-and-tear like in iPhone home button...
waj1234 said:
Finger print is at bottom. Can also click it once with a non registered finger to bring lock screen up.
Kind of think dttw is redundant on a phone with front finger print sensor and physical home button.
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As for me, I'll use the DTTW feature just to see the time and glance thru incoming notifications and if nothing important, the screen will turn off after 5 seconds... If we wake the screen, then, we have to turn off the screen "manually" (unless we set the display off timing to 5 seconds...or DTT-sleep is implemented...)
If we were to always "press" the home button, there is high change of "wear-and-tear" failure in the near future...
My iPhone 4 after 3 years, the home button failed due to "wear-and-tear" because too many double-click to get to the background apps...now the iPhone is running "virtual floating button"...LOL...
My current Note 5 home button seems to be very reliable which is now closed to 2 years ownership... But I'm not too confident at P2a42's front fingerprint scanner "durability"... Hence, I'll try to reduce the "clicking" actions as much as possible...
I wonder after warranty ended, how much is the repair cost for the fingerprint scanner... Should be less than 20% of the selling price...
Can see your point. I never own a phone 2 years lol so makes no difference to me. Don't think I have had a phone 12 months before either, just too addicted to em lol.

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