Hello, I have a question. I have the Dell Streak and I'd like to ask a question. I had been using Blackberries for a while (years and years) and one feature that I loved was the sleeping mode. Basically, it dimmed the screen to nearly nothing and it showed a clock. I have an application on the streak called "alarm clock" and its icon is simply an alarm with 7:30 in the middle. Well, with it, you can scroll your fingers down and dim the screen. I'm wondering if this will burn out the screen at the minimum brightness.
Can anyone let me know? Will this application at the lowest setting burn out or burn in my screen? on my old BB that never happened, but it was a feature and application designed by RIM themselves, this is just a 3rd party app that allows me to lower the brightness to nearly nothing.
Thanks guys!
Link to free version: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ihandysoft.alarmclock&feature=search_result
Link to pro / paid version: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ihandysoft.alarmclockpro&feature=more_from_developer
I have used the same feature in Gentle Alarm a couple times, and was wondering the same thing...
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I am looking for a bedside clock app, and yes I know there are many, here is the catch. I want one that dims really low like Better alarm but also has all moving parts aka the clock bounces or moves and there are no parts at all that will cause possible screen burn. Would also be icing if it could enable itself when plugged in.
Does such an app exist?
Gentle Alarm has a really nice bedside clock that dims perfectly. Also it has an option to change the clocks position to reduce any screen burn. Oh and you can set different profiles. Works great!
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Try alarm clock plus.
You can set the clock to move around every minute when it is dimmed
Klaxon, the full version supports clockwork. Very nice dim. Black screen with dark green font. Still visible in dark room but doesn't light up the room, also has weather. Looks just like the stock android clock that our phones don't come with.
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I use Lightning Bug for white noise and has a nice bedside clock.
+1 for Gentle Alarm, especially if you're also looking for an excellent alarm clock. Btw, I use Tasker to automatically launch GA when I plug in the power. You can customize by time, or in my case, when I plug in the power, I get a popup menu giving me the choice of several "modes," including a night mode which launches GA, turns off connections, and adjusts the volume.
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I use bedside. It dims perfectly, has tons of options. I haven't found an option to move the clock around, but I've been using it for months with no burn in.
Night clock from Doug Ricket is the best alarm clock I have used since I got my G1 on day one. It is not in the market any more, just google it. It uses my mp3 files as the alarm, randomly, adjust brightness, color, snooze time...lots of settings
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Another vote for Bedside, even though it doesn't move the display. It is real dim and has a sleep mode that blanks the display until it is touched/moved. Very sensitive - I usually just tap the bedside table lightly and it wakes the display. Perfect way to keep it dark but still have the time on hand.
It seems that HTC has deleted the old Sense desktop clock I had on my Dinc. I have tried several new clocks but they all have a backlight in the dim mode that is very bright in a dark room and I assume it also consumes a lot of battery.
Does anyone know a clock app that has a "black" screen, meaning not backlit, that also turns off the red LEDs. I have tried Desktop Plus, Alarm Clock plus, Clock Saver, etc.
I tried to find something like this as well and just ended up using the stock alarm clock and turning the screen on the phone off when I go to bed...
Look for Relax and Sleep in the market. I don't use it for an alarm but it has a nice desk clock mode. Doesn't seem too bright at night to me either.
Thanks for the input. I tried the app and it is still pretty light in the dark--again it is backlit. However, this app made me think about Lighting Bug which is similar (also a sound machine). I opened it and it has a number of clock mods you can do and it might be the darkest screen yet.
I use Locale with the shortcut plugin. I tell it to turn the brightness down to 20% when docked and it's after 9pm. I also have it launch the clock app. The combination works great.
rockehill10 said:
It seems that HTC has deleted the old Sense desktop clock I had on my Dinc. I have tried several new clocks but they all have a backlight in the dim mode that is very bright in a dark room and I assume it also consumes a lot of battery.
Does anyone know a clock app that has a "black" screen, meaning not backlit, that also turns off the red LEDs. I have tried Desktop Plus, Alarm Clock plus, Clock Saver, etc.
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I use Kaloer Clock and its awesome...tons of settings and its free. I have an orange led alarm clock with no backlight and 10% brightness.....works perfect and also has a screen saver setting to prevent burn in(although i dont know if burn in is really an issue on this phone..any thoughts?) Def check it out though
Interesting. So you guys are talking about being able to always see the time?
Yeah, might worry about burn in but that would be handy.
Thanks for this Kaloer Clock app. This one looks like a winner. It has the darkest screen, most settings, screen saver, and button lights out. Can't ask for more than that and it solves my problem.
Kaloer Clock Rocks
Itismetravis said:
I use Kaloer Clock and its awesome...tons of settings and its free. I have an orange led alarm clock with no backlight and 10% brightness.....works perfect and also has a screen saver setting to prevent burn in(although i dont know if burn in is really an issue on this phone..any thoughts?) Def check it out though
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Thank for showing me this app. It has the darkest screen I've seen, a lot of custom settings, and is exactly what I was looking for. I put it on 1% dim, dark blue letters, no button lights, full screen, and keep screen on--it's a winner. It'll be sweet dreams tonight.
feralicious said:
Interesting. So you guys are talking about being able to always see the time?
Yeah, might worry about burn in but that would be handy.
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There's no burn in on LCD screens
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Plus, the default clock app has the time show as a screensaver after a set amount of time.
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Plus, the default clock app has the time show as a screensaver after a set amount of time.
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Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for but I thought HTC had removed it. I just never waited long enough for it to take effect. Simple with the darkest screen. I do wish there was someway to activate it sooner but the screen is dark, time moves around the screen, and it turns off the buttons.
Thanks
I have found Gentle Alarm to work well. Was free a while back on Amazon's FAOTD. I use it on both my Touchpad and Rezound when we travel.
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There's no burn in on LCD screens
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Well, I think they call it "image persistance" or something. I've seen it on LCD monitors at work. I work on software that has a constant image (not a pic, but the software layout stays in one place) on one of the monitors and while most of the icons did not have a burn in, if you were at the desktop you could see a distinct line across the screen where there was a separation of screen elements on that monitor. So when watching a quicktime on that monitor's desktop level you could see a horizontal line through it. I don't know why just that one line showed up since the icons are usually permanent (they can be changed but usually once someone programs their setting that's what they use). The only thing is those are clicked and the button changes when that happens so maybe that's why.
Anyway, I'll wait for reports back before I use one of these clocks with my phone.
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Plus, the default clock app has the time show as a screensaver after a set amount of time.
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rockehill10 said:
Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for but I thought HTC had removed it. I just never waited long enough for it to take effect. Simple with the darkest screen. I do wish there was someway to activate it sooner but the screen is dark, time moves around the screen, and it turns off the buttons.
Thanks
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That sounds good, I like that it moves on the screen. I can't find out how to activate it though. Where are the settings?
If you go to the HTC Desk Clock (not the dock) and just leave the screen open, in about 5 minutes the small night clock will automatically start and the button lights will go out. There are no settings that I am aware of.
Sadly, after trying night clock last night, it is backlit like all the rest. The backlight is very bright in a dark room IMO. I just got out my old Dinc, went to the Desk Clock, and it has a button toward the bottom of the screen that lets you activate the night clock. Also the background is absolutely black, not backlit.
Still trying to find that dark screen with clock!!!!!
Hey there! I was hoping someone much smarter than i figured these things out and was willing to guide me My phone is a motorola atrix 4g (as reference to any reader )
I would like Car Mode to extend the display timeout from normal use to about an hour
Can I change the "Wake Up" phrase, and if so, where/how?
Can I get it to call open other applications other than the 4 default (hoping to add Torque?
Can I add my screens and buttons?
Thank you so much to all for your help!
For keeping your display on, you could use screebl. With that, the phone has to be flat before it goes into sleep.
Check out the lapdock thread, think they're trying to automate screen resolution change when docked. Should be able to work if you set it up right.
Also, if you're on the stock ROM, try Smart Actions app by Motorola. Think they had an option for car dock.
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with "IntelliScreen - screen control" app you can set custom screen timeouts for almost any application.
Anyone have a good mod or app that they use to replaced the standard Samsung docking screen? I use the phone on my night stand and the default Samsung app is basically a light bulb that doesn't rotate the location of the time, so just begging to ruin it with burn in.
Any recommendations?
I use Bedside Alarm Clock, got it off Amazon App store as one of the free apps of the day and it's pretty good but I can't remember how to make the screen dim... have you tried just dimming the screen in the stock clock app? It's still a little brighter than I would like it but it's better than nothing. The best alarm app I have ever used, in terms of reliability and features while still looking sleek and not having a lot of buttons, was the stock Motorola app. It would actually dim way further than you could manually dim tour screen and it had special wake up animations and stuff when you had it in the dock.
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Here's a customizable desk clock. You can use the stock alarm clock with it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gadgetjuice.dockclock
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Hi
I have several questions :
1. I already experienced that the night clock doesn't appear instantly when you put the watch onto the charger. Sometimes it takes a time till it appears.
2. What about screen burn from the night clock? I read about it in the forum for the first gen moto 360. Is it still a issue with the 2nd Gen 360?
3. There are wear developer options in the developer options. And there is the option "burn-in protection" (I hope it's called that way in English, I've got it on German) but it won't activate even after reboot as it tells me to do.
XxM4tzexX said:
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I have several questions :
1. I already experienced that the night clock doesn't appear instantly when you put the watch onto the charger. Sometimes it takes a time till it appears.
2. What about screen burn from the night clock? I read about it in the forum for the first gen moto 360. Is it still a issue with the 2nd Gen 360?
3. There are wear developer options in the developer options. And there is the option "burn-in protection" (I hope it's called that way in English, I've got it on German) but it won't activate even after reboot as it tells me to do.
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I disable the night clock by turning on theater mode (double click the side button). But I do this because it seems to fix the heart rate monitor from tracking the apparent 100BPM of the charger lol.
I use the Slumber app that automatically turns the screen off as soon as you place the watch on the charger.
I don't think there will be any burn in issue, since Moto360v2 have LCD screen. Burn-in have place on OLED screens only (Huawei Watch for example) since they have organic diods which degrade over time. LCD don't have this issue at all because they have one backlit light for all pixels and 'rotating' pixels. With LCD screens nothing is affected by the picture on the screen (technically). With OLED screens each pixel emits light on its own, therefore degradation of pixels is dependant on the picture on the screen (whether this particular pixel emits the light most time or not) = burn in.
Therefore night mode on Moto360 can be used safely for as long as you wish.
morpheusgt said:
I use the Slumber app that automatically turns the screen off as soon as you place the watch on the charger.
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Hola
I tried this slumber app but it did not turn my screen off during charging. Yes, I did launch the app from the watch and ensured that it was enabled.
Am I missing something?
Thanks.
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QAM said:
Hola
I tried this slumber app but it did not turn my screen off during charging. Yes, I did launch the app from the watch and ensured that it was enabled.
Am I missing something?
Thanks.
"So what you want me to do 'bout that?"
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The button to enable/disable Slumber wasn't very intuitive to me. I actually disabled it when I wanted to enable it, so you may have the same problem. Try toggling the setting the other way around.
also, incase anyone noticed, slumber only puts a black overlay on top of the clock. the screen is still lit up at night, but it's black. incredibly stupid on Motorola to not let us shut off the screen.
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Yes there is a problem and a big one... my watch with less than 5 months old are all burned now
Stupid setting just kill the watch
shaneledford said:
I disable the night clock by turning on theater mode (double click the side button). But I do this because it seems to fix the heart rate monitor from tracking the apparent 100BPM of the charger lol.
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That's the answer. Why is anyone doing anything else?
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bobby janow said:
That's the answer. Why is anyone doing anything else?
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Because this no longer works since one of the updates
shaneledford said:
Because this no longer works since one of the updates
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The most recent updates fixed it. I use it every night.
Kinsman-UK said:
The most recent updates fixed it. I use it every night.
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Correct. It was the one before the last one. Every night here too.
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I put my watch in Theater mode (swipe down from the top, then swipe left) and the face stays off until I remove the watch from the charger and press the button to wake it.