Hey Guys,
Initially before I got my phone I had another perception on how smart stay works and was a bit disappointed...
My thoughts were, that if you are reading something it checks up on you if you are still looking = Screen stays on and if you look away it turns off.
The breaking point in what I thought was, that after the screen has shut down and you look at it again (Lets say a time frame of 5-10 Seconds) it turns on again.
I hope some DEV reads this and could make a MOD or something like that. Would be really cool and I dont think, that programming that is that tough.
Regardless of this I would love to have Smart Stay as a toggle option in the 15 Toggle mode or something, is that possible?
Thanks in advance
think that you have put your phone aside after looking at it. And it will have to monitor your eyes on that time too. Too much battery drain because camera needs to be on all the time! this is why samsung didnt enabled this!
Ruchira88 said:
think that you have put your phone aside after looking at it. And it will have to monitor your eyes on that time too. Too much battery drain because camera needs to be on all the time! this is why samsung didnt enabled this!
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The camera does not need to be on "all the time". The way it works is as follows:
- The screen timeout is set to a certain time - let's say 30 seconds. After 30 seconds have elapsed, the screen will turn off if Smart Stay is not activated.
- If Smart Stay is active, after 30 seconds the camera will switch on and determine whether you are looking at the screen. If it determines you are, it will trigger the screen to stay on for another 30 seconds, after which it will do the same again, and so on. Once it has confirmed you're looking at the screen, the camera will switch off again.
Hence in fact the camera only needs to go on for a very short period of time - just enough to see your eyes, basically. You'll know it's doing this because it briefly shows an eye icon in the notification bar.
Yeah and I meant that after the screen is off it just should monitor for another 30 seconds or so
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Which would increase battery drain tenfold.
anthropolyte said:
- If Smart Stay is active, after 30 seconds the camera will switch on and determine whether you are looking at the screen. If it determines you are, it will trigger the screen to stay on for another 30 seconds, after which it will do the same again, and so on. Once it has confirmed you're looking at the screen, the camera will switch off again.
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ok lets say screen is turned off and camera is checking eyes once every 30seconds. what if I happen to look at it on the 15th second
i have put this in smart stay threads before, if only people would search before asking questions.
anyway, in order for smart stay to work well this condition must be met - open front camera and look at it if you can see your face and it isn't darkened then smart stay will work well. because some may ask that smart stay doesn't work even if lighting is good, that is because your face is darkened because of shadow and you are at the back of lighting.
if that condition is met then :
1. smart stay should be enabled obviously. set screen timeout to 15 seconds.
2. look at screen, you will see in 5 seconds the eye icon for smart stay will light up
3. turn your phone at an angle away from your face but enough that you can see the eye icon 5 seconds later.
- this time the screen dims but not turn off.
4. face phone screen again, 5 seconds later eye appears the screen brightens up.
5. repeat step 3, screen dims. then this time remain not looking at screen.
- after dim, 5 seconds later eye checks again and detects you're not facing screen thus it turns off screen.
now some will be thinking, having the front camera turn on at intervals will just use more battery. the thing is,turning the front cam to sense your face for just about 2 seconds at intervals won't consume as much battery consumed as compared to the display still turned on for 15,30seconds,1minute or more even when you're not using the phone.
purpose of smart stay:
1. already well-known since this is what they advertise for this feature, keep light on so you don't have to annoyingly touch the screen at intervals you think the screen timeout is nearing so as not to be inconvenienced by the screen turning off when you are reading or browsing.
2. THIS IS THE MAIN PURPOSE - to turn off display way before the screen timeout because there's no use having the display still on when you're not using the phone. we all know the display is one of the things that can drain battery fast. this is very helpful for those who set there screen timeout to 1minute or more.
note : the time interval for smart stay checking/eye appearing is different for the screen timeout interval you set.
a bit harsh but quite correct, he took time out to give you an explanation, and a very good one, a hit on the thanks button is what you should have done! Nice one radeon :thumbup::thumbup:
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radeonxt said:
i have put this in smart stay threads before, if only people would search before asking questions.
anyway, in order for smart stay to work well this condition must be met - open front camera and look at it if you can see your face and it isn't darkened then smart stay will work well. because some may ask that smart stay doesn't work even if lighting is good, that is because your face is darkened because of shadow and you are at the back of lighting.
if that condition is met then :
1. smart stay should be enabled obviously. set screen timeout to 15 seconds.
2. look at screen, you will see in 5 seconds the eye icon for smart stay will light up
3. turn your phone at an angle away from your face but enough that you can see the eye icon 5 seconds later.
- this time the screen dims but not turn off.
4. face phone screen again, 5 seconds later eye appears the screen brightens up.
5. repeat step 3, screen dims. then this time remain not looking at screen.
- after dim, 5 seconds later eye checks again and detects you're not facing screen thus it turns off screen.
now some will be thinking, having the front camera turn on at intervals will just use more battery. the thing is,turning the front cam to sense your face for just about 2 seconds at intervals won't consume as much battery consumed as compared to the display still turned on for 15,30seconds,1minute or more even when you're not using the phone.
purpose of smart stay:
1. already well-known since this is what they advertise for this feature, keep light on so you don't have to annoyingly touch the screen at intervals you think the screen timeout is nearing so as not to be inconvenienced by the screen turning off when you are reading or browsing.
2. THIS IS THE MAIN PURPOSE - to turn off display way before the screen timeout because there's no use having the display still on when you're not using the phone. we all know the display is one of the things that can drain battery fast. this is very helpful for those who set there screen timeout to 1minute or more.
note : the time interval for smart stay checking/eye appearing is different for the screen timeout interval you set.
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Also, don't forget to mention "SMART STAY doesn's work in dark". It can't see your face well.
Hi All,
I Purchased a New Lumia 920 and before updating it to Amber GDR2 the screen was flickering a lot. But after the update it stopped flickering but a new issue has arised lately. If I play any game or a Skype call for more than 5-10 mins I can see a blue line appearing at the top of the screen & the phone becomes bit hot. If I exit from the game and go in the start screen or in the menu & try to scroll up or down, the screen it stays there for a second or two.. I tried to take screenshots but couldn't the line in them so I took photographs from my other phone. I've attached the photos for the same. Please suggest.
Also when Glance Screen is on the screen flickers a lot.
Saggy said:
Hi All,
I Purchased a New Lumia 920 and before updating it to Amber GDR2 the screen was flickering a lot. But after the update it stopped flickering but a new issue has arised lately. If I play any game or a Skype call for more than 5-10 mins I can see a blue line appearing at the top of the screen & the phone becomes bit hot. If I exit from the game and go in the start screen or in the menu & try to scroll up or down, the screen it stays there for a second or two.. I tried to take screenshots but couldn't the line in them so I took photographs from my other phone. I've attached the photos for the same. Please suggest.
Also when Glance Screen is on the screen flickers a lot.
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Contact the store you bought it from for exchange/repair, it may be a hardware issue. First have you peformed a factory reset? You might try to flash the current rom with Nokia Software Updater 4.1.0 to be sure it isn`t a software issue.
Saggy said:
Hi All,
I Purchased a New Lumia 920 and before updating it to Amber GDR2 the screen was flickering a lot. But after the update it stopped flickering but a new issue has arised lately. If I play any game or a Skype call for more than 5-10 mins I can see a blue line appearing at the top of the screen & the phone becomes bit hot. If I exit from the game and go in the start screen or in the menu & try to scroll up or down, the screen it stays there for a second or two.. I tried to take screenshots but couldn't the line in them so I took photographs from my other phone. I've attached the photos for the same. Please suggest.
Also when Glance Screen is on the screen flickers a lot.
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if you can not see this error on the screenshot then it is not software related. then it is the hardware, the lcd. i changed my lcd just after 2 months of using my lumia 920, it had an dead pixel row after this short time. Nokia replaced my screen in an hour in the store. you should bring your device to a service too.
Hello everyone,
My Samsung gt-i9500 (S4)'s screen gets hot very quick (15 seconds!) in normal usage, such as texting or web browsing. I can use the phone while it is hot, but it does not turn on again after locking it, until it gets cold again (sometimes i put it in the freezer for quick access). Is this a hardware or software fault?
Oh, and also light intensity does not change WHEN the 1 pixel height row at the bottom shows at the top, 1st row. It is another interesting issue which may help in diagnosis. It just gives the highest intensity regardless of my adjustments.
Thanks for the assist.
I recently unlocked my phone to find that the screen split into 4. horrible static and bottom half looked completely ruined. The touch was working as expected only the display was split into four parts. I had to figure out where each option would be and switch my phone off. Problem goes away on restart. occurred twice.
Recently updated to nougat.... But mostly it can't be a problem with the update cause I found someone on another forum who has the similar problem a year ago and I quote his description, - - - - - " just experienced my first issue with mine. I pressed the home button to light the display to check the time, the display was corrupt! I didn't have anything to take a photo of it but I'll explain it to the best I can. The display was split into 4 sections, each section was showing what the lockscreen should show usually. But the lower 2 sections had a lot of distortion, like old static tv's. This bled up into the upper 2 sections as well. I went to snap a photo but the display went off before I could. Did the same again and it was back to normal."-----
1 year ago I had encoutered this bug for the first time. The second time it appeared I recorded it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFK_hT80Re8
What caused such a strange bug?
Disable AOD
I noticed on the S6 Edge if you enable AOD (from the s7 firmware) it'll glitch like that, my advice would be to disable AOD.
I've been documenting my struggles with my lock screen in another thread. But I just had a major breakthrough and didn't want this to get buried.
To recap, my lockscreen has been a buggy mess from day one. The fingerprint sensor barely works, the fingerprint icon randomly disappears, and the gray border that's supposed to appear around the fingerprint icon simply doesn't show up. The lockscreen doesn't light up when I pick up the phone either (it stays dimmed). Also, wallpapers don't show up on the lock screen, and the big ugly clock sometimes disappears or moves itself to the top-left.
I've tried just about everything to fix this. As a last-ditch effort, I added a new user profile only to find that the lockscreen works perfectly well for this new profile (but still not for my main one).
Here's my main profile with the unusable lockscreen:
broken lockscreen of main profile
Watch "broken lockscreen of main profile" on Streamable.
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And here's what it looks like when using the other profile:
working lockscreen on new profile
Watch "working lockscreen on new profile" on Streamable.
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So there's clearly some obscure bug that most people aren't experiencing here. I'd love to just figure it out so I can move on.
When I didn't have the "always on display" turned on, the phone was very consistant about turning on properly when I picked it up. I ran it this way for 3-4 days without any issues.
After reading some articles on the P6, I realized that it has an AOD and that it was turned off. So I turned the AOD on while leaving all the other settings set the same. At first, the finger print icon wouldn't appear consistantly, but that is because I had adjusted the animation scale settings in the Developer settings. Changing that back to stock fixed the issue with the finger print icon not showing up.
That beings said, I have experienced the same "unresponsive" screen many times over the last couple of days that I have had the AOD turned on. The screen stays dimmed (or even turned off if I pull the phone out of my pocket) and the finger print reader is inactive (even though the icon is displayed). The screen is suppose to turn on when I lift the phone up, but it doesn't always do it. When this happens, I have to either manually turn the screen on using the power button, or double tap the screen to wake it. This is clearly a bug in the system somewhere. I probably need to report it to Google, but hopefully it is fixed soon.
After spending way too long on this, I've determined that the bug occurs consistently with these specific settings (although it may also occur for similar ones):
Lock after screen timeout: 30 minutes (or anything high enough to prevent it from locking between tests)
Power button instantly locks: disabled
Lift to check phone: disabled
Tap to check phone: disabled
Always show time and info: enabled
Replication steps:
1) Enter the above settings
2) Press the Power button to go to the lockscreen
3) Set your phone down for a couple seconds
4) Pick your phone back up and try to use the fingerprint sensor
Result: The fingerprint sensor won't work the first time.
I think all the other issues I had were actually stemming from this one issue.