I'm running a Droid4 with ICS and use it with the Motorola car dock. When I'm using the phone on its own, I like having the slide screen lock so I can immediately go to phone, text etc. However, when I'm using the phone in the car dock, I have no use for the screen lock. I generally turn the screen off when driving unless I want to make a call or switch audio tracks. This requires paying attention to the phone for a second or so to make sure I'm sliding the right location which feels unsafe. I'd like to keep the screen lock on normally and not have to manually switch it to none when docked. Is this a built in capability that I'm missing somehow? I didn't see a way to do this with smart actions (which I already use for a couple tasks). Any thoughts?
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I'm looking for a possible app that can automatically lock the phone regardless of what it is doing. I use the MHL to HDMI cable to output to my tv when I'm in bed and I like to watch shows to put me to sleep.
The thing is when the cable is plugged in, the phone's screen never turns off because it would turn off the tv display as well. The display just goes dim when it's idle. I can manually lock it and it will shut off, but I would like something that can send a lock command or a power off command after a certain amount of time, sorta like a sleep mode.
I don't like having my phone screen's stay on until morning even though it's staying fully charged. It's usually pretty warm when I wake up. Is there any way this can be done?
Maybe it could be done with tasker? https://market.android.com/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm&feature=search_result
I gave it a try and it seems like a really nice app, but I couldn't find a way to command it to lock or turn off the phone. There were 2 options I saw called "lock" and "system lock" and I tried both but nothing happened when the specified event occurred.
I'm tempted to try the HDMI on my Galaxy Tab 10.1, but I'm thinking it would remain on as well if plugged in. Thanks for the suggestion though.
How the heck do you keep this thing from going to sleep in the vehicle dock? I am coming from a Bionic and it NEVER used to do this...grrrrrrrr (frustrated)
And "smart actions" will not fix this issue...
neither will keep screen on while charging...
Running ICS 4.0.4
bearcatfan78 said:
How the heck do you keep this thing from going to sleep in the vehicle dock? I am coming from a Bionic and it NEVER used to do this...grrrrrrrr (frustrated)
And "smart actions" will not fix this issue...
neither will keep screen on while charging...
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That's really strange. I have the nav dock as well and the screen only dims to keep it from overheating and burning the amoled.
And if that's not annoying enough, VZ navigator keeps popping up every time i put the phone in the dock
I just disabled vz navigator. Never used it so disabled it.
I have the same frustration. Does the Razr have a magnetic sensor that identifies when it's in dock? i don't have a Motorola dock but my Droid 1 had such a sensor.
I cannot make Tasker solve this issue either. I have tried setting it up to stay on when in motion, when connected to BT audio, connected to USB and neither Smart Actions or Tasker will keep the display on. It's maddening.
mordo
UPDATE: I can only successfully keep the screen on when I have no screen lock at all. I suppose I can create a Tasker profile that will disable screen lock when connected to USB charging or when BT audio is connected.
This is a new feature with ICS. I never had this problem on GB. It does not happen all the time either and I have not figure out why it sometimes sleeps in car dock and other times does not. Also annoying with ICS is that home button does not take you to car home, but to regular home screen. Only way I have found to get to car home after hitting home button is to undock and redock.
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Until my S4, I have pretty much been a Moto phone owner. I did have a brief fling with a Thunderbolt but that phone was god awful.
Whenever I docked any of my moto devices (D1, Bionic, RAZR MAXX) depending on what kind of dock it went in, the phones would just enter the correct dock mode. I had it set that when in my desktop dock Alarm Clock Plus would come to the front and be the active application. When in car mode, G Maps would become the active app.
I have purchased the official Samsung multimedia desktop dock as well as the official Samsung vehicle dock. When I dock to either of them, nothing special happens at all. The phone will light up the lock screen when it sees the power applied, but aside from that, 30 seconds later the screen turns back off no matter what app is running (exceptions being navigation (not just maps) and alarm clock plus. If in either docks, something like Slacker will run fine but the screen turns off at the defined times. This is not how things worked with any of my motos. This is a rather annoying problem especially with the car dock as I am constantly going to fiddle with the screen to get G Maps back to being visible. I don't like the idea of having to manually change the screen timeout every time I use the phone in my car as I *know* one time I will forget to turn the screen timeout back to normal and when I reach to use my phone the battery will be dead.
Is there a way to get the screen to stay on when docked? Is there a way to have a default app launch when docking in a specific dock? I know I could have disabled whatever sammy program manages the docks, but I have not disabled anything which has dock in the name (not that I even see one).
I have searched the forums, but my lame searches did not turn up anything.
There are situations where I want to immediately lock my phone: e.g. I'm charging it at my desk and have to run away for a meeting or something. In that case I just want to lock it immediately and go. I don't want to put it to sleep because because it's not really locked in that mode. With my old "dumb" phone, I could just hold down one of the keys (* or #) and it would be locked. But I can't figure out how to do that with the Amaze. I found a one-touch option for turning wifi off/on and changing the sound profile but nothing for locking the screen.
I searched the manual and online but could only find how to customize the lock screen, not a one-touch solution. There must be one right?
I'm not running stock, but I thought there was an option have it lock immediately after it's put to sleep. The option is there in CM anyway.
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There are situations where I want to immediately lock my phone: e.g. I'm charging it at my desk and have to run away for a meeting or something. In that case I just want to lock it immediately and go. I don't want to put it to sleep because because it's not really locked in that mode. With my old "dumb" phone, I could just hold down one of the keys (* or #) and it would be locked. But I can't figure out how to do that with the Amaze. I found a one-touch option for turning wifi off/on and changing the sound profile but nothing for locking the screen.
I searched the manual and online but could only find how to customize the lock screen, not a one-touch solution. There must be one right?
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Screen lock and off app. You can set it to lock on long press of the search button, or just add a shortcut to your home screen or Dock.
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Hi all,
So if you are on Android 4.2+, you may already know the feature called Daydream, which is essentially a screensaver that activates when the phone is docked or charging. I'm very fond of how minimalistic the screensaver clock is, and I would like to put my phone in this Daydream mode and wrap it on my wrist so that it acts as a low power "smart watch".
Question is, I can't seem to figure out how to keep Daydream awake without having to keep the phone plugged in.
1. I used various "wake lock" apps that can keep screen awake in regular cases, but they all don't work in Daydream.
2. I tried an app named Car Mode Enabler which sends a sticky "car mode" intent. The phone thinks it's docked and goes into Daydream, but it would still shut the screen after some time.
3. I tried to find an app that sends charging intents (so as to simulate a charging behavior) but to no avail.
So can anyone get me out of this? You can either tell me how to make Daydream stay on, or even better, tell me if there's an app that functions like Daydream (white clock on black background, with system font). Thanks in advance!