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
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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!
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
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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.
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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.
when i look at the watch its on for like 2 seconds then dims and turns off..
is there any way to keep the watch on for longer without being on all the time?
i cant find any settings for screen timeout
As far as I know, you can turn ambient mode on where the watch face does not turn off but I have not seen a way (unrooted) that would allow you to change the timeout time. I could be wrong however.
Some 3rd party faces have this option. Not in wear itself yet.
All Watchfaces from Smartwatch Bureaux have a setting for defaut, 15s, 30s,......
Does anybody know if it is possible to have ambient mode come on and go off at specified times. I would like ambient on through the day and to go off automatically at say 9PM.
Tasker with autowear could certainly be used to toggle on schedule what auto wear calls "keep screen on" mode. But it's actually more aggressive at keeping the screen on than the normal ambient mode in watch settings.