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So I purchased a desktop dock charger from Best Buy for my 3d. Works great except for one thing. Each night in the middle of the night my phone screen turns on. I have it in dock mode and the screen just stays on. For me it's not a problem, I sleep like a rock. But my wife is about to throw my dock away. It's happened with different roms almost every night... I remember one night that it didn't happen. Anyone have an idea as to what may be causing this? Doesn't happen when I'm just plugged into the wall charger.
GadgetMonger said:
So I purchased a desktop dock charger from Best Buy for my 3d. Works great except for one thing. Each night in the middle of the night my phone screen turns on. I have it in dock mode and the screen just stays on. For me it's not a problem, I sleep like a rock. But my wife is about to throw my dock away. It's happened with different roms almost every night... I remember one night that it didn't happen. Anyone have an idea as to what may be causing this? Doesn't happen when I'm just plugged into the wall charger.
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I may be misinterpreting the issue but dock mode is supposed to keep the phone awake. Thats why it shows the weather in the background as well as a clock and other information. It is trying to mimick a desktop clock. It automatically dims the screen after so many minutes which is user configurable if you press menu then settings in dock mode. The screen will undim itself typically when recieving some form of notification. Lastly you can just tap the x button on the lower left corner of the screen to exit dock mode and have the phone sleep like normal or in the settings disable dock mode from starting whenever you place it in the dock. Hope that information helps.
Cordy said:
I may be misinterpreting the issue but dock mode is supposed to keep the phone awake. Thats why it shows the weather in the background as well as a clock and other information. It is trying to mimick a desktop clock. It automatically dims the screen after so many minutes which is user configurable if you press menu then settings in dock mode. The screen will undim itself typically when recieving some form of notification. Lastly you can just tap the x button on the lower left corner of the screen to exit dock mode and have the phone sleep like normal or in the settings disable dock mode from starting whenever you place it in the dock. Hope that information helps.
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Thanks. That's correct. The info I was for though is why is my phone waking up in the first place. Just once a night like clockwork.
I guess don't understand either. You're saying correct to the fact that dock mode keeps the phone awake, but then asking why is your phone awake.
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Maybe hes asking how to you have the screen go off at night? I too am using a dock, the Seido one. And its great during the day, but at night, I would like the screen to stay off, because obviously I'm not looking at it during the night so why keep it lit up (and its bright).
I press the sleep button at the top of the phone and it will turn off the display on the dock, and it doesn't go back on till my alarm goes off in the morning, but it would be nice if you could see it to go off automatically at a certain time at night if docked.
howie411 said:
Maybe hes asking how to you have the screen go off at night? I too am using a dock, the Seido one. And its great during the day, but at night, I would like the screen to stay off, because obviously I'm not looking at it during the night so why keep it lit up (and its bright).
I press the sleep button at the top of the phone and it will turn off the display on the dock, and it doesn't go back on till my alarm goes off in the morning, but it would be nice if you could see it to go off automatically at a certain time at night if docked.
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Tasker should be able to do this no problem... right?
stanglifemike said:
I guess don't understand either. You're saying correct to the fact that dock mode keeps the phone awake, but then asking why is your phone awake.
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Let me try to clarify. I know once my screen is on in dock mode it is supposed to stay on. My question is what is turning my screen on in the middle of the night when it's off to begin with. I would suspect some app running in the background, but it only happens when my phone is on the dock in dock mode. Just plugged into the wall charger the screen stays off all night.
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Tasker should be able to do this no problem... right?
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Yup. But in order to get Tasker to take care of this I would need to know what event is triggering the turning on of my screen wouldn't I? I have no clue what that might be. That's my question.
GadgetMonger said:
Let me try to clarify. I know once my screen is on in dock mode it is supposed to stay on. My question is what is turning my screen on in the middle of the night when it's off to begin with. I would suspect some app running in the background, but it only happens when my phone is on the dock in dock mode. Just plugged into the wall charger the screen stays off all night.
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It sounds like an app or, more likely a notification that makes it wake up and since it is in dock mode, once it is awake the screen will stay on until you manually turn it off. The simple solution is to exit dock mode before you go to sleep
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Try putting it in airplane mode? Although there's probably easier ways of figuring out when apps are waking the phone up (and what apps are they). I think the phone also does that when it reaches full charge doesn't it?
Get System Panel from the Market. It will slow you what apps are doing what and when they are doing it. You should be able to see a spike in the graph at the time your phone is awaking every night. System Panel is an amazing app for figuring out wake-lock issues amongst many many other things. I'll run it for 2-3 days to gather the info that I need and then stop it until needed again to keep it from using battery.
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stanglifemike said:
Get System Panel from the Market. It will slow you what apps are doing what and when they are doing it. You should be able to see a spike in the graph at the time your phone is awaking every night. System Panel is an amazing app for figuring out wake-lock issues amongst many many other things. I'll run it for 2-3 days to gather the info that I need and then stop it until needed again to keep it from using battery.
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Thanks for the input all. Yeah system panel is a must have, been using it since the OG EVO. It's not showing me what's triggering my screen though. It's got to have something to do with dock mode I'm thinking. Turned it off for the night last night and no screen on. Of course that happened once while in dock mode as well so I'll go with out it again tonight to confirm. Maybe the combination of dock mode and another app running in the background. I know there's things I can do to work around this, it's just me wanting things to work like they should I guess...
I can't find a dock at BestBuy.
Hi,
I'm looking to try out a Note. But want to know if there is a feature in some kernel or flashable zip of some kind to achieve this. I searched around but got mixed results so I'm not certain. thank you in advance.
I remember having that option on my Vivid. However, I do believe that is an HTC/Sense option. Someone correct me?
iStatiK said:
I remember having that option on my Vivid. However, I do believe that is an HTC/Sense option. Someone correct me?
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hehe, yeah Vivid is what I have right now but looking to get something bigger screen-wise
I am happy I switched to be honest. Development just died for the vivid.
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I would love this too. I looked around awhile back and couldn't find anything.
Josh
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Its an option on the s2 with a kernel supporting extweaks
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That probably means we need a Siyah kernel
Whoa, funny to see 2 other people switching from a Vivid to a Note!
This is something I'd been looking for a while as well, never found anything. It was such a nice way to turn on/off my screen, made the button seem ancient and obsolete.
ElectroBeijing said:
Whoa, funny to see 2 other people switching from a Vivid to a Note!
This is something I'd been looking for a while as well, never found anything. It was such a nice way to turn on/off my screen, made the button seem ancient and obsolete.
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well, not just a note but just something a bit bigger than the vivid, i'm even considering the GS3 as well. but the thing is, I dock my phone onto my car's instrumentation panel and it seems to work well but there's no way i can get to the vivid's power button, and even the samsung lines would be difficult to get to as the power button is on the side; i hope someone can make something like this for the samsung lines.
thanks.
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Its an option on the s2 with a kernel supporting extweaks
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It doesn't really need to be 'swept' to wake. all I want is something that I can touch (or hold) on the front screen or bottoms to wake this thing up. anything? if not, I think what I'll do is go for the international version which, its middle button wakes the note up.
thanks!
you can flash a cm based rom and set device to stay awake while charging. you can also set to wake with volume keys. unless you mount phone with both sides blocked. i personaly set to stay awake and have modified my sunglass holder to hold phone. sits just above rear view mirror and works great even though power button is down and cant be pressed. if you want to stay with touchwiz screen times out at 10 minutes and no option to stay awake. however if you have sqlite editor you can change the database to stay awake but i have had issues with this not wanting to stick after reboot.
slamming_sammy1 said:
It doesn't really need to be 'swept' to wake. all I want is something that I can touch (or hold) on the front screen or bottoms to wake this thing up. anything? if not, I think what I'll do is go for the international version which, its middle button wakes the note up.
thanks!
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so you want to wake/unlock the device without using any hardware buttons?
i use lightlock or proximity screen off/on from the play store. it uses the front sensors to wake/unlock or sleep.
i set lightlock to just 1 sec so all i have to do is put my hand/finger over the front sensor then my note wakes up
melcali said:
so you want to wake/unlock the device without using any hardware buttons?
i use lightlock or proximity screen off/on from the play store. it uses the front sensors to wake/unlock or sleep.
i set lightlock to just 1 sec so all i have to do is put my hand/finger over the front sensor then my note wakes up
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Does this mean it wakes up in your pocket?
no. it will only wake if it senses a proximity change
so if you use lightlock and just cover the sensor, nothing will happen. if you cover the sensor for a set period that you choose and then remove your hand, then your device will wake.
you should try it out. it makes using your phone feel futuristic. impresses a lot of people especially when you show somebody with an iphone lol
melcali said:
so you want to wake/unlock the device without using any hardware buttons?
i use lightlock or proximity screen off/on from the play store. it uses the front sensors to wake/unlock or sleep.
i set lightlock to just 1 sec so all i have to do is put my hand/finger over the front sensor then my note wakes up
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thank you so much! I will check this out. this will work great. yeah i can now go look for a Note!!
and don't need to look for the international one, which seems to be more expensive.
Two days ago I received my One from T-Mobile. The auto sleeping/locking after inactivity feature is preventing me from using this device. Due to my severe physical disability (Spinal Muscular Atrophy), I am unable to push the power button to wake it up. I know this will drain the battery faster, but I have no other choice. Any suggestions to fix this are greatly appreciated.
Also, I cannot get Android Screencast to work like I did with my Sensation. The screen shows, but mouse/keyboard are nonfunctional.
bingman9517 said:
Two days ago I received my One from T-Mobile. The auto sleeping/locking after inactivity feature is preventing me from using this device. Due to my severe physical disability (Spinal Muscular Atrophy), I am unable to push the power button to wake it up. I know this will drain the battery faster, but I have no other choice. Any suggestions to fix this are greatly appreciated.
Also, I cannot get Android Screencast to work like I did with my Sensation. The screen shows, but mouse/keyboard are nonfunctional.
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I guess nobody can help.
bingman9517 said:
I guess nobody can help.
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Aside from maybe installing a custom rom, there is no way to force the screen awake.
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bingman9517 said:
Two days ago I received my One from T-Mobile. The auto sleeping/locking after inactivity feature is preventing me from using this device. Due to my severe physical disability (Spinal Muscular Atrophy), I am unable to push the power button to wake it up. I know this will drain the battery faster, but I have no other choice. Any suggestions to fix this are greatly appreciated.
Also, I cannot get Android Screencast to work like I did with my Sensation. The screen shows, but mouse/keyboard are nonfunctional.
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Is it just the power button that causes you difficulty, or can you perhaps use one of the volume buttons? There may be apps that can change the functionality of the buttons and can be remapped to turn on the screen. Barring that, the screen turns on when power is applied to the USB, so maybe you could use that fact somehow.
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Aside from maybe installing a custom rom, there is no way to force the screen awake.
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There's no way to set it to not automatically put the screen to sleep?
stevedebi said:
Is it just the power button that causes you difficulty, or can you perhaps use one of the volume buttons? There may be apps that can change the functionality of the buttons and can be remapped to turn on the screen. Barring that, the screen turns on when power is applied to the USB, so maybe you could use that fact somehow.
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The volume buttons aren't possible either. I'm not able to apply enough pressure to press down. Some days my mouse is even difficult. I am also not able to plug/unplug the USB. I appreciate the suggestions and welcome any input at all. If someone has specific questions about my exact limitations, to help figure out a solution, please private message me!
So you're looking for a way to never have your screen go off, is that right? And you can't press USB hard enough to insert? That means you'll be unable to charge a rapidly draining battery. That's not good. (Never sleep while plugged in seems like best option, to me)
If I can think of anything else, I'll come back.
Peace.
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bingman9517 said:
There's no way to set it to not automatically put the screen to sleep?
The volume buttons aren't possible either. I'm not able to apply enough pressure to press down. Some days my mouse is even difficult. I am also not able to plug/unplug the USB. I appreciate the suggestions and welcome any input at all. If someone has specific questions about my exact limitations, to help figure out a solution, please private message me!
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I'm thinking that you could have someone construct a large switch in the middle of the USB cable, which would turn the power on and off.
scottspa74 said:
So you're looking for a way to never have your screen go off, is that right? And you can't press USB hard enough to insert? That means you'll be unable to charge a rapidly draining battery. That's not good. (Never sleep while plugged in seems like best option, to me)
If I can think of anything else, I'll come back.
Peace.
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When I'm home, 90% of my life, my phone is always plugged in. When I'm out, my caregiver helps me with my phone.
bingman9517 said:
When I'm home, 90% of my life, my phone is always plugged in. When I'm out, my caregiver helps me with my phone.
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Well, a large toggle switch on the usb cable would allow you to disconnect and reconnect the power, which would cause the screen to come on.
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stevedebi said:
Well, a large toggle switch on the usb cable would allow you to disconnect and reconnect the power, which would cause the screen to come on.
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This is a good idea, however, I am not able to toggle a switch. What I am envisioning that you are referring to is something like a lamp that has the on off switch in the power cord instead of on the fixture. Is this what you mean?
Is there no way to edit the root to prevent the screen from automatically turning off when the device is idle? Also, any ideas on getting Android Screencast to accept mouse and keyboard input when connected to the PC via USB? From what I have read it is something to do with Jellybean. Perhaps an alternative app?
bingman9517 said:
This is a good idea, however, I am not able to toggle a switch. What I am envisioning that you are referring to is something like a lamp that has the on off switch in the power cord instead of on the fixture. Is this what you mean?
Is there no way to edit the root to prevent the screen from automatically turning off when the device is idle? Also, any ideas on getting Android Screencast to accept mouse and keyboard input when connected to the PC via USB? From what I have read it is something to do with Jellybean. Perhaps an alternative app?
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You should be able to rig a switch that turns on and off by touch, like some table lamps.
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stevedebi said:
You should be able to rig a switch that turns on and off by touch, like some table lamps.
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I've seen some touch lamps, but not just a switch.
bingman9517 said:
I've seen some touch lamps, but not just a switch.
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It might take some ingenuity and searching.
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I am using Galaxy note 2 and want such a application which will on/off the screen without using power button and also it should not use the proximity sensor.
The screen on/off should work only with screen touch.
Can anyone please help me for this?
I know its not ideal, but theres a toggle to turn the screen off, amd then maybe the stylus removed to turn the screen on. Otherwise I feel like that anything touching the screen would cause it to turn on in pocket, similar to when I used to have the screen turn on in my pocket when I recieved a text, and my phone was constantly being "touched" with the bloop sound
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bittoo1111 said:
I am using Galaxy note 2 and want such a application which will on/off the screen without using power button and also it should not use the proximity sensor.
The screen on/off should work only with screen touch.
Can anyone please help me for this?
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There is a feature in some kernels, Plasma for instance, that is called TouchWake. It will not do exactly what you're wanting, and there will be nothing that will because it would keep the phone from deep sleeping and drain your battery extremely fast (not to mention your phone would always be coming on in your pocket because the screen registers touch through clothes if they're thin like pockets are).
TouchWake is where when your screen times out you can set a time limit to just touch the screen to wake it back up instead of having to hit a button.
Other than TouchWake being built into certain kernels, for the use like I explained above, there is nothing remotely similar to what you're wanting. It would just drain the battery way too much because the screen will never be able to be completely powered because its always awake waiting on a touch.
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bittoo1111 said:
I am using Galaxy note 2 and want such a application which will on/off the screen without using power button and also it should not use the proximity sensor.
The screen on/off should work only with screen touch.
Can anyone please help me for this?
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This is what I use for the same thing you need.....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nd.android.surfaceaction.offscreen
It's a homescreen widget. Hope it helps
Home2shortcuts App you can customize screen off.
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shangrila500 said:
There is a feature in some kernels, Plasma for instance, that is called TouchWake. It will not do exactly what you're wanting, and there will be nothing that will because it would keep the phone from deep sleeping and drain your battery extremely fast (not to mention your phone would always be coming on in your pocket because the screen registers touch through clothes if they're thin like pockets are).
TouchWake is where when your screen times out you can set a time limit to just touch the screen to wake it back up instead of having to hit a button.
Other than TouchWake being built into certain kernels, for the use like I explained above, there is nothing remotely similar to what you're wanting. It would just drain the battery way too much because the screen will never be able to be completely powered because its always awake waiting on a touch.
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I use touchwake and have great battery life. There have been many arguments in different threads about whether using this mod causes intolerable battery drain, and all I can say is, for my phone, it has barely any effect on my battery.
bittoo1111 said:
I am using Galaxy note 2 and want such a application which will on/off the screen without using power button and also it should not use the proximity sensor.
The screen on/off should work only with screen touch.
Can anyone please help me for this?
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I personally use Screen off and Lock donate. It allows you to have a home screen widget that you can make 100% transparent if wanted along with other levels of transparency. It also let's you change color of widget. Just has quite a few options.
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Moon rom has a lock
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demass430 said:
Moon rom has a lock
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So does goodness. Both great options
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Oopsy. Not Home2shortcut, my apologies. What I meant was QCustomShortcut.
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billku said:
I use touchwake and have great battery life. There have been many arguments in different threads about whether using this mod causes intolerable battery drain, and all I can say is, for my phone, it has barely any effect on my battery.
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I don't mean to say that under regular usage it would cause significant battery drain, I use it as well and have seen little to no change. I mean if the OP used it in the way he is wanting that it most definitely would cause significant battery drain because the screen would be constantly awake awaiting input instead of going to sleep after a set amount of time.
Even then touchwake wouldn't work for the OP unless he let the screen time out so it still isn't what he is looking for.
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shangrila500 said:
I don't mean to say that under regular usage it would cause significant battery drain, I use it as well and have seen little to no change. I mean if the OP used it in the way he is wanting that it most definitely would cause significant battery drain because the screen would be constantly awake awaiting input instead of going to sleep after a set amount of time.
Even then touchwake wouldn't work for the OP unless he let the screen time out so it still isn't what he is looking for.
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If you set the timeout to zero, then touchwake is constantly on, which is the way I've used it and there has still been no significant battery drain. I also haven't had any issue with it turning on in my pocket. I do, however, inadvertently turn it on often, which is why I wish Faux would activate his swipe2wake feature for his kernel app for the Note II. But he hasn't yet.
billku said:
If you set the timeout to zero, then touchwake is constantly on, which is the way I've used it and there has still been no significant battery drain. I also haven't had any issue with it turning on in my pocket. I do, however, inadvertently turn it on often, which is why I wish Faux would activate his swipe2wake feature for his kernel app for the Note II. But he hasn't yet.
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I'm using Plasma and the way it is set up is there is there is a time limit to how long the TouchWake feature will be active after the screen times out, if its different on Faux or any others I have no clue.
I find it hard to believe that the battery drain for it being always on isn't significant, I'm not saying you're wrong but that its hard to believe. Its constantly leaving a part of your phone awake, no deep sleep, to scan for touches.
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Certain aosp roms have it in settings to remap your hardware buttons to perform different actions including screen off/on. I agree with you. It would be nice if these features could be baked into tw sometime in the future.
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I'm running nova launcher pro and it has gesture supports so I made a setting in Tasker so when I double tap the screen it shuts off. There's also an app you can have do this called screen off and lock
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock
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I'm using Plasma and the way it is set up is there is there is a time limit to how long the TouchWake feature will be active after the screen times out, if its different on Faux or any others I have no clue.
I find it hard to believe that the battery drain for it being always on isn't significant, I'm not saying you're wrong but that its hard to believe. Its constantly leaving a part of your phone awake, no deep sleep, to scan for touches.
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I know it's hard to believe, but I suppose the theory relates to idling a car under certain circumstances vs. turning it on and off over and over. There are instances where the former is actually more energy efficient than the latter (there are threads on XDA that discuss this theory, I can't remember where they are). Also, even though the phone isn't in deep sleep, it "idles" at a very low power usage rate. Again, for me, there is no significant drain at all. Last night, before I plugged it in to charge, the phone was at 53% after being "up" for 16 hours.
You can set any physical key to wake the device by editing gpio-keys.kl in /system/use/keylayout and putting WAKE at the end of the line.
This is how the home key wakes the device by default, you can also disable this by removing WAKE from that line.
Example:
key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE
Would make the volume down button wake the phone.
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Here is a suggestion
Try using GO LOCKER and the lock screen setting add on.
Works very well on my NOTE Running Jelly Beans B20.
Plus you can juice up your lock screen.
Is there any way to set the AOD to turn on only when you pick up the phone? (like in Iphones).
good question, i have no idea, maybe someone..
madvinegar said:
Is there any way to set the AOD to turn on only when you pick up the phone? (like in Iphones).
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I don't think so but if you cover the proximity sensor for around 15 seconds or so it turns off the display until it's not covered. I got into the habit of facing it face down to trigger it or covering the top part of the display with something
madvinegar said:
Is there any way to set the AOD to turn on only when you pick up the phone? (like in Iphones).
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Don't think it can be done so yet. Something like double tap on the screen to wake would have been better than AOD all the time sucking battery.
I found a thing and I am currently trying it out. In the AOD settings you can adjust the brightness yourself (rather than leaving it on auto-brightness).
It has 4 levels. I have set it to level 2 (level 1 was almost not visible during day light).
Up to now I see much lower battery consumption from AOD. Will keep testing and report.
madvinegar said:
Is there any way to set the AOD to turn on only when you pick up the phone? (like in Iphones).
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There are tilt to wake apps in the play store.... I could not get them to work right....
I did find one super cool option to help me solve this issue. Its buried deep in accessibility settings. Its the "interaction and dexterity option." It will allow you to wake the screen by waving your hand over it. Yes, this is deeply buried but one of the most useful features of the phone.
Sure, this is not what you are asking but I thought I would throw it out there so you have an option.
madvinegar said:
Is there any way to set the AOD to turn on only when you pick up the phone? (like in Iphones).
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Does the iPhone X even have AOD?
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foxmeister said:
Does the iPhone X even have AOD?
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Yes, sorry I meant to say to wake the phone when you pick it up. But to take it a step further it would be nice to have an option to just open AOD when you pick the phone up.
Scott said:
I did find one super cool option to help me solve this issue. Its buried deep in accessibility settings. Its the "interaction and dexterity option." It will allow you to wake the screen by waving your hand over it. Yes, this is deeply buried but one of the most useful features of the phone.
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This indeed works gr8. I don't need to look at the screen all the time just to see what's there at the cost of battery.
Virgo_Guy said:
This indeed works gr8. I don't need to look at the screen all the time just to see what's there at the cost of battery.
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I know right? Why doesnt Samsung push that as a standard user feature?
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I know right? Why doesnt Samsung push that as a standard user feature?
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Yup u know. :good:
Like why Samsung hiding nifty features that u mentioned, and slow motion camera mode of rear camera in deep inside camera settings to have [email protected]!