Is there any way to disable screen timeout when playing games? Example is angry birds, Sometimes when I'm just waiting for the level to complete and the score to tally up, the screen turns off.
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Turn on Smart Stay.........Maybe.
or set your screen timeout for more that 15-30 seconds.
easy peasy
Smart stay doesn't work within games or apps, at least that's what the help pop up says when you enable it.
I was hoping for a more automatic solution.
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i have not seen any setting on my knowledge that enables the screen to stay on while a game is going.......so games keep the screen on no matter what. others default to the system settings and if your not pressing the screen then it thinks the phone is idle
Try an App called Screen Timeout Toggle, it's a widget that keeps the screen on permanently or a set time.
Post a comment on the game page for the game dev's, a time out should be built into the game like most games. It may come in the form of an update in the future.
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I realised it just today and while digging for some info I bumped onto this thread.
It seems quite awkward to me that prevent from sleep is not endorsed by default in all games' code, especially ones that are built by companies and not amateur developers, like Rovio for example...user should be able to change the setting from the game menu if he wishes different screen behaviour and not be forced to adjust a global setting like the screen timeout everytime he wants to play a game.
You can use the Tasker app. Set a context for each game. context = <insert game here>, task = screen timeout to none. When the game is no longer in focus, it should revert to the previous screen time out, or set an exit task
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Does anyone know or could point me toward information about how to impact the multi tasking in Android.
The problem is:
- Somehow 'screen off' event is linked with the activation of 'deep sleep'. Now that's all nice and well but it's interrupting downloads and stopping appplications (try it with dolphin browser during a download, try turn off your screen with angry birds on, etc)
- Multitasking seems random: you can download market apps, move to angry birds, and play while it downloads, but you can't play angry birds, move to market app, and go back where you were in angry birds (it will restart the whole game).
Can anyone clarify the above? Thank you.
Turning the screen of will send the phone into deep sleep unless something is holding a wakelock, downloads should hold one till they finish, and if they are not, it's a bug.
As far as multitasking goes, yes it does seem random, and very much depends how the application was coded to deal with it, it seems that ICS will deal with this by adding a dedicated multitasking button.
Android will kill background inactive tasks as and when needed, but again it depends if the app was designed to hold its state in the background or dump out. And in low memory situations, which we shouldn't really get on the sgs2 it will start aggressively killing stuff in the background.
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Do you have the setting "wifi off when display is off" ? That could disturb/stop download I guess..
Thank you. The reason of course is that I'm trying to use the phone as a 'mini computer' and on your pc you can off course turn off the screen while downloading files and doing some background processing.
The solution for me so far is to accept that the screen must be on when doing anything that takes time, so I have it set to never turn the screen off while charging, and have a widget that takes brightness down to 0% in a single click.
I suppose I just have to accept that the phone will eventually be outdated and the screen would die long after that - so 'using' the screen is not that big a deal.
cigaro78 said:
Thank you. The reason of course is that I'm trying to use the phone as a 'mini computer' and on your pc you can off course turn off the screen while downloading files and doing some background processing.
The solution for me so far is to accept that the screen must be on when doing anything that takes time, so I have it set to never turn the screen off while charging, and have a widget that takes brightness down to 0% in a single click.
I suppose I just have to accept that the phone will eventually be outdated and the screen would die long after that - so 'using' the screen is not that big a deal.
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How do you set screen always on when charging? Can't seem to find this option.
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How do you set screen always on when charging? Can't seem to find this option.
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Amusingly they hid it under 'settings > applications > development > stay awake'
cigaro78 said:
Amusingly they hid it under 'settings > applications > development > stay awake'
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No luck there is no such item.
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No luck there is no such item.
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Really? What ROM are you using? I'm on Cog 1.5. I *thought* it was a stock option, maybe it's a ROM specific one.
cigaro78 said:
Thank you. The reason of course is that I'm trying to use the phone as a 'mini computer' and on your pc you can off course turn off the screen while downloading files and doing some background processing.
The solution for me so far is to accept that the screen must be on when doing anything that takes time, so I have it set to never turn the screen off while charging, and have a widget that takes brightness down to 0% in a single click.
I suppose I just have to accept that the phone will eventually be outdated and the screen would die long after that - so 'using' the screen is not that big a deal.
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I have actually been happy that with my device, I can actually start a download, using either stock or opera browser (haven't tried others) and not have to keep the screen on and have the download finish. Not only for screen timeout, but actually pressing the button to turn it off. With windows mobile 6.x, pressing the sleep button killed data, and only push mail or scheduled things (usually/hopefully) would "wakelock" the phone enough to receive something. It worked very poorly.
I honestly think you have a bug somewhere, because you should not have to leave the screen on for long periods of time just to let a download finish.
Has anyone tried the Smartstay EX app in the Play Store? It's supposed to make things work like on the GSIII where it will not shut off the screen while you are looking at it.
I just tried it. Seems to be working. It was kinda hit and miss at arms length but bringing in the device a little seemed to really help.
My settings are 2 lives and 2 second timeout.
As I'm typing this I noticed it failed several times. I upped the timeout to 5 second and seems to be working better.
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ISeeYou does a great job aswell. You can uncheck the show notification box under the Apps settings if you don't want to see the icon on the taskbar. Works just fine without the icon aswell.
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smartstay ex works just fine for me, however to make it less obtrusive you have to do extensive setting up for app exceptions. The app works by taking pictures of the front and analyzing them to see if it sees a face, and for my device i already have it set to have no shutter sound, but there is an option in the app to "disable shutter sound", however it just seems like it will try to play a silent clip, which means that when it tries to do a check, if you are playing music it will take away audio focus in order to play the silent clip.
For some games the face check will cause an interruption to the gameplay, in my case while playing asphalt 7 the check will act as if i hit the menu button.
I bought the pro version to check out, and uninstalled it a week after because i figure the apps where i want the screen to be constantly on already have options to keep screen awake, and with Viper4G theres a quicksetting to just keep the screen on so it was really not worth the hassle and headaches to do something i can accomplish in 3 clicks.
For my lazy peeps...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elnware.smartStay10&hl=en
Lol!
The U.S government wouldn't lie to us...would they?
nevermind
There are situations when I want the phone awake and alive and powered and on high brightness when I need it, but want to save the screen. An example is when in the car on a bright day. I use Llama (like Tasker) and can get it to start an app under appropriate conditions...
What I need is an app that will display a black screen image (or a preset image I can set that's actually a blank screen), and ideally the app to exit when I touch the screen.
So I would have Llama launch this app after a delay (when other conditions indicate I'm in the car). It would act as a delayed screen blanker/saver that would exit as soon as I touch the screen Does such an app exist (or something very similar)?
Use an app called "Screen Filter". You can set the brightness level all the way down and add a screen widget which will toggle this setting. Of course set the screen to be on all the time.
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Use an app called "Screen Filter". You can set the brightness level all the way down and add a screen widget which will toggle this setting. Of course set the screen to be on all the time.
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Will that work? How would I exit the dimmed screen on-demand (e.g. by touching the screen)? I don't think Llama/Tasker can detect this in order to reset Screen Filter.
Yes you touch the on screen widget to exit it. Put a bunch on the screen to make it easier to enable and disable it.
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The usage model I have in mind won't work as you suggest. Say I have a music or gps app in the foreground. I want the screen to 'dim' after a while and to just tap the screen to restore normal brightness, still showing the app previously in the foreground. If I need widgets exposed, I have to switch to a home screen.
I think if I had an app that displayed a black screen, then the app could be launched in foreground over the music or gps app and designed to simply exit on a screen tap. This would re expose the music or gps app and I'd be good to continue using my phone on the app I was using before the 'screensaver' was launched...
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.
Anybody can suggest an app that will allow me to keep the G5 screen on? I am using Sound Profile to set various profiles, and it has an option to set the display timeout to 120 minutes. However, it appears that if the display timeout is not one of the G5 built-in values (which only goes up to 15 minutes) the timeout goes to 30 sec. The G5 has an option to keep the screen on always, so maybe it is possible with an app. Thanks!
I use this one, you can edit the presets to match the G5 otherwise as you've noted, it'll default to 30s
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fruit4droid.anyscreentimeout
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I use Wake Lock to keep the screen on for playing music in the car. You can select screen dim or bright. Has some other nice features
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.wl
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I use Wake Lock to keep the screen on for playing music in the car. You can select screen dim or bright. Has some other nice features
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.thedarken.wl
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look it up.
If you want to have it with some more "complicated comfort" .. use tasker and secure settings ...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intangibleobject.securesettings.plugin
Using it here since "ever" - creating a wakelock to keep the display on when certain apps are running - increasing brightness and so on. tasker overall is the swiss army knife ^^
--rgds marcO
dh3lix said:
If you want to have it with some more "complicated comfort" .. use tasker and secure settings ...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intangibleobject.securesettings.plugin
Using it here since "ever" - creating a wakelock to keep the display on when certain apps are running - increasing brightness and so on. tasker overall is the swiss army knife ^^
--rgds marcO
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I did some things with tasker before, and it does get the job done. I am hoping to have a lighter solution. Besides, once I start playing with it I spend way too much time