The navigation app (HERE and OsmAnd) don't receive positions when navigation is started and the screen is off for more than some minutes. Everything is fine when the screen is on and every thing is fine if I switch on the screen for some seconds every minute. Icons of the navigation apps is visible in the statusbar so background navigation with screen off should work. Switching off the battery optimizations had no effect. I read here that background location behaviour changed in Oreo. Can some body tell me which services are required for navigation except the location provider? How is it possible to prevent the location provider from stopping providing locations when the screen switches off?
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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.
As of yesterday, I have been experiencing an issue where the GPS on my phone will suddenly turn itself on. Where the problem started persisting was when I was without signal in a basement. I checked my phone and it kept showing the GPS icon on the notification bar. To make sure that i'm not going insane, I left my screen on with the screen opened on the location services, and the button would just automatically switch to the ON position.
Now, I have full signal, performed a soft reset, and still sometimes when I get a call or a text the GPS icon will appear. I know for a fact, that I have been turning it off and have watched it turn itself back on with no command. Any ideas?
Hello,
can someone confirm, that the following is a general problem?
Enable Energy Saving (Via [quick] options)
Turn on Google Maps
Start Navigation to X
Wait for GPS Fix (GPS Symbol in statusbar stops flashing)
Turn screen off
Wait a few seconds
turn Screen back on and quickly watch for the gps icon
On my just-resetted M8 (6.0 Sense 7 - international - full stock) it lost GPS Fix while the screen was off.
As a check, I did the same with Power Saver disabled. Then it kept the GPS fix even when the screen was off.
Now, why is this important:
When using my M8 in my car, Android Auto will turn the screen off when connected to the entertainment system. So when Power Saver is enabled , navigation in Android Auto is broken because it will loose GPS Fix as soon the screen turns off.
Again, with Power Saver disabled navigation and Maps are working as intended.
Does anyone got a workaround ?
tl;dr: Power Saver breaks GPS when screen off
Trying to get the temperature to display next to the clock on the home screen. I've opted into Google taking all of my data and enabled everything weather that I can find. It worked briefly yesterday but never updated. Today it worked until I enabled airplane mode and when I reenabled it it disappears completely. Any idea what selections are the minimum requirements for this to show up?
I remember being able to tell Google Assistant to start a timer for x minutes and the screen would stay on until the timer is finished and stopped.
But for the last few months, the timer starts, then GA tells me a timer is running (doh) but it doesn't display the remaining time, then it goes to the lock screen.
Is there a way that I am missing to keep the screen on and on the Timer screen until I stop it?
Besides setting Stay awake on in Developer Settings, IDK
One way is to enable always on display (you can even have a quick toggle to enable/disable AOD for quickness) as the timer is displayed on there when screen goes off