Display timeout changes itself - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717

I am finding that the display timeout changes on it's own from 2 minutes to 15 seconds. What could be causing this?

sbddude said:
I am finding that the display timeout changes on it's own from 2 minutes to 15 seconds. What could be causing this?
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widgetlocker?

I am using widget locker. I turned on RootHelper, maybe that will keep the lockscreen timeout seperate from the regular timeout.

Also power saver changes it too
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I agree with James. I noticed the phone's per saver doing this. It annoyed me so I turned it off and noticed my battery lasted longer.
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As I surprisingly found out with my old HTC EVO 3D, there are actually TWO different settings options on the Galaxy Note, which control how long the screen stays on. One setting can be set to 1 minute and the other can simultaneously be set to 30 seconds, without overriding your previous setting. The result is that the lowest setting will always be used. I have no idea why this redundant and counterintuitive feature has been built into Android phones. I am not in front of my phone right now to tell you where to get into your settings to make sure BOTH are set to the same time, but once you do it, your problem should be solved. This was happening to me, too, when I first got my Note. It's no longer happening.

One is (obviously) under Display > Screen time-out.
Found another under Power Saving > Custom power saving settings (after turning on Custom power saving). I could see if you had "Power saving on at" set to its highest setting (50%), then that would override the one under Display very often.
Finished looking around, that's all I see.

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Power saving mode

Hi, got my galaxy S II a couple of days ago, very satisfied so far!
But I have one question I would like to ask..
when I enable the power savings mode, it says it is active even though the battery percentage is over the threshold I have set..
but I see the settings I have set doesn't get activated until the percentage drops under the threshold..
Is this the same with your handsets?
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I think it's only showing notification, but it activates at the threshold you set up.
Still, I would like to have option to turn the notification off.

Bug found

I think i found a bug. Please confirm if you have the same problem
i use my phone with below settings:
- brightness=auto
- screen time out=30 seconds
- auto adjust screen power=on
- power saving mode on at 30% battery power
Now when my battery is under 30% power saving mode works and decreases my brightness to %10 and screen time out to 15 seconds as i want. no problem so far
But after i charge my phone, my original settings (30 seconds screen timeout and auto brightness does NOT come back. it keeps using the power saving mode settings.
Any of you is having this issue? Please let us know.
I am using 2.3.4 stock and i had this problem on 2.3.3 stock too
yep same here, though I've set it to 10% for emergency cases
thanks for the answer
anyone else?
It's been reported by other users too. Mine does the same, but i stopped using it.
Interesting and I thought it was juice defender doing it. Yes I have too.
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@OP- Oops, hearing it first time. No, obviously mine doesn't act that way.
Regards.
Same happens to me.
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Is there any way to increase lock delay on ICS?

I would like to extend from 10 minutes, the standard maximum possibility on Ics for lock the screen. Do you know if it is possible?
I was supposing it was some parameter on the system.
Thanks.
Hi,
In order to increase the wakeup time, follow the following steps:
System->Display-> Sleep and from the menu select the time you want...
In my phone, I have 30 minutes as maximum time.
Hope this resolve your problem.
I use a widget called screen toggle timeout to set mine to never
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jbrt said:
I use a widget called screen toggle timeout to set mine to never
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Thanks for your responses but...
- If you increase the screen time, it will be ever displaying.
- My company forces me for strong password when screen is locked. The solution I need is something can increase the delay time between the screen is off and the screen is locked. I have tested many solutions in the market but it dont work: everytime you getup the device the password screen is the first action, later the application that apparently can extend the delay, I expect you understand my meaning.
I think the delay time of the lock screen after the screen is off (from seconds to 10 mins) is stored in some table in the system, and maybe is not complex to change...

Any way to stop screen dim when charging?

I like to listen to Pandora while working and keeping the phone charged. I have the setting to not turn off the screen when charging but it does dim, making it hard to see notifications/other things.
Is there a way to stop it from dimming while charging?
Go to settings -developer options-stay awake
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I use Tasker for this.
browning said:
Go to settings -developer options-stay awake
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Doesn't work, still dims after 10-15 seconds while plugged in.
kidstechno said:
Doesn't work, still dims after 10-15 seconds while plugged in.
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Ha you got a free thanks......
So what you do to keep the screen from dimming...goto settings/display and set the sleep to never turn off.......this will keep the screen from dimming but don't forget to change it back when not charging....this will drain your battery pretty fast.
slayer69 said:
Ha you got a free thanks......
So what you do to keep the screen from dimming...goto settings/display and set the sleep to never turn off.......this will keep the screen from dimming but don't forget to change it back when not charging....this will drain your battery pretty fast.
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It stills dims for me, it just doesn't turn off. I am running rotation locker but I doubt that affects brightness
fachadick said:
I use Tasker for this.
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This is the correct (albeit, more expensive) answer. Buy Tasker from the Play Store, set a profile that, when plugged in, sets brightness to a certain percent (instead of automatic) and sets screen timeout to never. Add an exit profile that returns brightness to automatic and sets screen timeout to whatever you want it to be.
I found a (legally) free solution
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm1kLmtpbmV0aWsuZnJlZSJd
"Always on"
I tried three or four anti-sleep/anti-dim apps and this one works great on my EVO 4G LTE stock ROM!
Please reply if this also works for you!

Lockscreen Screen Timeout?

Hey there.
One thing I remember from Gingerbread is how, when on lockscreen, the screen would turn off after some 7 secs. So say I wanted to check the clock I could just turn on the screen and put the phone away again. On JB it seems like it uses the same timeout setting as the rest of the system, one I keep at 1 min..
Is there a way to make to make it seperate? I want the screen to turn off after 10 secs when Im on the lockscreen, so I dont have to press the, quite, inconviniently placed power button on my phone, each time (seeing as I got tap2wake on my phone)
Kocayine said:
Hey there.
One thing I remember from Gingerbread is how, when on lockscreen, the screen would turn off after some 7 secs. So say I wanted to check the clock I could just turn on the screen and put the phone away again. On JB it seems like it uses the same timeout setting as the rest of the system, one I keep at 1 min..
Is there a way to make to make it seperate? I want the screen to turn off after 10 secs when Im on the lockscreen, so I dont have to press the, quite, inconviniently placed power button on my phone, each time (seeing as I got tap2wake on my phone)
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You can try my app, KinScreen. It allows setting a different timeout for the lockscreen. However, the lockscreen timeout doesn't seem to have an effect in KitKat (where the default is 10s).
Kocayine said:
Hey there.
One thing I remember from Gingerbread is how, when on lockscreen, the screen would turn off after some 7 secs. So say I wanted to check the clock I could just turn on the screen and put the phone away again. On JB it seems like it uses the same timeout setting as the rest of the system, one I keep at 1 min..
Is there a way to make to make it seperate? I want the screen to turn off after 10 secs when Im on the lockscreen, so I dont have to press the, quite, inconviniently placed power button on my phone, each time (seeing as I got tap2wake on my phone)
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Have you found a way to do this? My new 4.3 JB smartphone used to have a lockscreen screen timeout of 5 seconds, which I liked, but somehow it is now something like 30 seconds... which is TOO long for my liking... I've tried any combination of settings to revert this but with no luck...
BTW, 30 seconds is not even my screen timeout ... I have it set to 1 minute. So... I have absolutely no clues...
MegaSharkXDA said:
Have you found a way to do this? My new 4.3 JB smartphone used to have a lockscreen screen timeout of 5 seconds, which I liked, but somehow it is now something like 30 seconds... which is TOO long for my liking... I've tried any combination of settings to revert this but with no luck...
BTW, 30 seconds is not even my screen timeout ... I have it set to 1 minute. So... I have absolutely no clues...
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Only way I could come up with was to use Tasker. Make a profile that does when on lockscreen timeout is 7 secs and when not its 1 minute.
Not very ideal.
Kocayine said:
Only way I could come up with was to use Tasker. Make a profile that does when on lockscreen timeout is 7 secs and when not its 1 minute.
Not very ideal.
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Can you share how was your Tasker profile created? I remember trying to do a similar profile on my previous smartphone (actually it was running KitKat) and I couldn't figure a way for a profile to detect lockscreen for the timeout to be set differently.
Also you can't set it below 7 seconds....
Interestingly enough, I suspect Tasker was the reason why I lost my "short" lockscreen screen timeout in the first place on my new smartphone
MegaSharkXDA said:
Can you share how was your Tasker profile created? I remember trying to do a similar profile on my previous smartphone (actually it was running KitKat) and I couldn't figure a way for a profile to detect lockscreen for the timeout to be set differently.
Also you can't set it below 7 seconds....
Interestingly enough, I suspect Tasker was the reason why I lost my "short" lockscreen screen timeout in the first place on my new smartphone
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That was indeed the trick. To detect the lockscreen. I came across this plugin:
https://bitbucket.org/laceous/android-atlockscreen/wiki/Home
AtLockScreenTaskerConditionPlugin.1.0.0.apk
AtLockScreenTaskerSettingPlugin.1.0.1.apk
Those you'll need. It runs a background service, without battery drain ofcourse, that uses something 4 mb ram.
Attached is the entire "project" you can import to get something that works.
Kocayine said:
That was indeed the trick. To detect the lockscreen. I came across this plugin:
https://bitbucket.org/laceous/android-atlockscreen/wiki/Home
AtLockScreenTaskerConditionPlugin.1.0.0.apk
AtLockScreenTaskerSettingPlugin.1.0.1.apk
Those you'll need. It runs a background service, without battery drain ofcourse, that uses something 4 mb ram.
Attached is the entire "project" you can import to get something that works.
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Thanks! But I managed to do it yesterday all by myself just using Tasker and nothing else wanna know how?
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Thanks! But I managed to do it yesterday all by myself just using Tasker and nothing else wanna know how?
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Yes we want to know how! What Android version? I haven't been able to change the lockscreen timeout on KitKat from the default 10s (higher or lower) on stock Nexus 5 ROM.
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Flyview said:
Yes we want to know how! What Android version? I haven't been able to change the lockscreen timeout on KitKat from the default 10s (higher or lower) on stock Nexus 5 ROM.
Sent from my Nexus 5
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So basically this is set by using two profiles:
. Event Screen on -» Display timeout 7 seconds
. Event Screen unlocked -» Display timeout 60 seconds
The only caveat I can think of is that instantly lock after sleep should be activated to prevent false positives.
Now if only I could set the timeout to a value lower than 7 seconds...
MegaSharkXDA said:
So basically this is set by using two profiles:
. Event Screen on -» Display timeout 7 seconds
. Event Screen unlocked -» Display timeout 60 seconds
The only caveat I can think of is that instantly lock after sleep should be activated to prevent false positives.
Now if only I could set the timeout to a value lower than 7 seconds...
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Cool.
However, the reason I didn't go with something like this is because there's times where I'll have the lockscreen disabled thru a widget OR if I wake up right after it had turned the screen off (and there's a time of 5-15 secs before actually locking the phone). That would result in having an extremely fast dispaly timeout at times where it's not actually wanted. The way I've gone about it ensures, for the most part, that it only applies when locked.

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