Is there any way to increase lock delay on ICS? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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...

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[Q] Different Screen lock vs Security lock timeouts?

I'm new to Android, please be gentle. I have searched numerous sources for an answer to this. From what I can determine this is a change in Android that only provides for one screen timeout. IE, every time the screen turns off and I reactivate, I have to enter the security code.
Previously was using an N900, where I could turn off the screen on a 1-2 minute timer, but not have the security lock kick in for 1 hour of idle time.
Is there any way to implement the same behaviour with the SGS2?
I second this question. I find this extremely annoying and would like to know an answer to this too!
A bit of relief I just found is to use widgetoid and the lock screen disable function. It temporarily turns off the the security lock. Haven't figured out the details yet but it seems to re-enable it after a timeout as well.
Not perfect but a definite improvement!
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chargen2 said:
A bit of relief I just found is to use widgetoid and the lock screen disable function. It temporarily turns off the the security lock. Haven't figured out the details yet but it seems to re-enable it after a timeout as well.
Not perfect but a definite improvement!
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Widgetoid does not work if you have a security policy (device administrators) in effect. :'(
Anyone know any app that allows you to set the security timeout differently than the screen timeout?
i came from n900 too, also miss the separate screen/lock timings.
baron von bubba said:
i came from n900 too, also miss the separate screen/lock timings.
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me too!!!!!!!!!
believe it or not JUICEDEFENDER ultimate has this feature.
it goes a small step further in that you can have another (longer) time set for lock screen when the phone detects certain WIFIs. eg your home network.
the free and cheaper versions may also have this function, im not sure.
baron von bubba said:
believe it or not JUICEDEFENDER ultimate has this feature.
it goes a small step further in that you can have another (longer) time set for lock screen when the phone detects certain WIFIs. eg your home network.
the free and cheaper versions may also have this function, im not sure.
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Did this work for anybody..? with device aministrators /corporate email locks..
Would also like to know!
And a follow up question, SG2 should have some form of hardware encryption - how does this work?
/Voz
The Juice defender doesnt work if there is a remote device administrator enabled.
Please help us out here.. guys..
StayAwake app in market can help u .
Did this work even for Exchange admin?

Display timeout changes itself

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.

Is there any way to use face unlock with the stock lockscreen?

I am using ICS alpha 1, but I had this issue with the normal ICS leak as well. If I choose face unlock for security, and set the timeout to anything other than immediate, I have no lock screen at all until that timeout is reached. No swype or anything... anyone know why that is?
I think that's the entire purpose of the time out. It could get annoying holding the phone at the right angle in a decently lit area over and over if you're using your phone a lot but still allowing the screen to turn off. And that's at your best bet, at worst its too dark or bright and you have to really work to unlock it repeatedly.
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Surrylic said:
I think that's the entire purpose of the time out. It could get annoying holding the phone at the right angle in a decently lit area over and over if you're using your phone a lot but still allowing the screen to turn off. And that's at your best bet, at worst its too dark or bright and you have to really work to unlock it repeatedly.
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Right, but now if the phone wakes before the lock screen timeout, it wakes to the home screen... which can be bad for pocket dials, etc...
loudog3114 said:
Right, but now if the phone wakes before the lock screen timeout, it wakes to the home screen... which can be bad for pocket dials, etc...
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Not locking immediately is the entire point of setting that timeout. It doesn't lock. If you want it to lock when the screen goes off, you have to set it to immediately.
I think understand what you're asking, though. If use facelock and set it to lock after 5 minutes, anytime you unlock it up to 4 minutes and 59 seconds, you want to have to swipe or use some other method to unlock. Pretty sure that's not an option, unless there's an alternative app out there that does it or a dev mods it to do that.
lactardjosh said:
Not locking immediately is the entire point of setting that timeout. It doesn't lock. If you want it to lock when the screen goes off, you have to set it to immediately.
I think understand what you're asking, though. If use facelock and set it to lock after 5 minutes, anytime you unlock it up to 4 minutes and 59 seconds, you want to have to swipe or use some other method to unlock. Pretty sure that's not an option, unless there's an alternative app out there that does it or a dev mods it to do that.
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On other devices I have with ICS, its the default lockscreen until the faceunlock timeout is reached. The other device I have is HTC, so maybe sense has something to do with it. I was able to get the behavior I want just by using widgetlocker, but I dont like that solution... I like to stay as vanilla as possible.
loudog3114 said:
On other devices I have with ICS, its the default lockscreen until the faceunlock timeout is reached. The other device I have is HTC, so maybe sense has something to do with it. I was able to get the behavior I want just by using widgetlocker, but I dont like that solution... I like to stay as vanilla as possible.
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If your looking for an app that allows that vizidon face unlock has what i think your looking for
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can i have more then 15 minutes on lockout?

I've searched for this and haven't found an answer one way or the other.
I've got an EVO LTE running ICS, Charmeleon rom.
I want to set a PIN lock on the phone so i can enable encryption. but if i do that, the biggest timeout i can set is 15 minutes. I was hoping there was some setting i could tweak somewhere to really increase the maximum timeout. I'd prefer it to be something more like 2 hours, or even a day.
I did see there's an app called delayed lock that'll do this for me, but I want to use the encryption on ICS and it says it wont work with encryption enabled.
Is there someway to increase the lock timeout?
Just to be clear - i'm not talking about the screen turning off - i'm talking about the phone locking and having to enter a pin. Once i boot up the phone I don't want to have to re-enter that PIN again unless the phone has been idle for at least 2 hours (or longer).
Thanks
Use Widgetsoid to place an "Always On" toggle widget on homescreen.
Tap it to make timeout period Infinite. Tap it again to return to normal few minute timeout period.
SachinShekhar said:
Use Widgetsoid to place an "Always On" toggle widget on homescreen.
Tap it to make timeout period Infinite. Tap it again to return to normal few minute timeout period.
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There's no way to just change the timeout period within android itself? It seems pretty silly/stupid that we can't just set it to X minutes.
Do you know if this app will work if encryption is enabled?
Thanks
merkk said:
Do you know if this app will work if encryption is enabled?
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Yes, it'll work even if encryption is enabled.
File system is decrypted at the time of boot. Its not that file system encryption/decryption is performed at every screen lock/unlock. So, firmware (which isn't encrypted at all) can read configuration/activity at anytime.
SachinShekhar said:
Yes, it'll work even if encryption is enabled.
File system is decrypted at the time of boot. Its not that file system encryption/decryption is performed at every screen lock/unlock. So, firmware (which isn't encrypted at all) can read configuration/activity at anytime.
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The only reason I asked was i saw a similar app on the market which said it didn't work with encryption
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.delayedlock2
If you scroll down to the 'important' section it mentions it doesn't work with full encryption on ICS.
merkk said:
The only reason I asked was i saw a similar app on the market which said it didn't work with encryption
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.delayedlock2
If you scroll down to the 'important' section it mentions it doesn't work with full encryption on ICS.
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This app has problem with that because its hitting lock directly which is attached with encryption system directly. Screen timeout case is different.
Oh - hold on a second. I think we might be talking about two different things.
I'm not talking about the screen timeout. I'm talking about the lock. If i put a PIN lock on my phone, the most i can set it to is 15 minutes before I have to re-enter the PIN to unlock the phone. I'd prefer it if I only had to enter the PIN either when the phone restarts, or every few hours, not every few minutes.
merkk said:
Oh - hold on a second. I think we might be talking about two different things.
I'm not talking about the screen timeout. I'm talking about the lock. If i put a PIN lock on my phone, the most i can set it to is 15 minutes before I have to re-enter the PIN to unlock the phone. I'd prefer it if I only had to enter the PIN either when the phone restarts, or every few hours, not every few minutes.
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The lock initiates only after screen is timed out (or, you press lock button). So, I was considering normal usage case (when you're using device for several hours with considerable intervals).
Anyway, I'll update if I get a solution. Currently, I don't have any idea regarding this..
yeah - but I dont want to have to keep the screen on for a couple of hours just to avoid the phone locking. I'd like to have some battery left at the end of the day
Thanks for the help.

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?
MegaSharkXDA said:
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.
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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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