Some of my watchfaces stay always on, others do not. Is there a way to force them all to stay always on (ideally in dimmed mode)?
Nobody has their watchfaces always on? How do you do it? Mine switch off after a while no matter what I do (watch has "Always on" selected)... Even those that I thought stay on go off after a while (granted - I did not try all of them as I just got my watch recently). I definitely need an "always on" experience otherwise the watch goes back... I used (have) a Pebble Time Steel - much worse display, but it is 100% of the time on. I do not mind charging daily, but I do mind if I do not see the time any time I want it... Thank you for any comments
it switch off if you do not move since 30min, so when you are not sleeping it stay always ON.
dersie said:
it switch off if you do not move since 30min, so when you are not sleeping it stay always ON.
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Thank you Dersie - you are right. I did not realize that you have to move around for the always on to work. I had the watch sitting on a desk...
I appreciate your reply
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been trying out this rom the past few days even though using sense roms is against my religion (i'll confess later and everything will be fine).
anyway, whenever i take it off of automatic brightness... like say, at night, i turn the brightness all the way down... once the screen goes off and i turn it back on, it's bright as hell again.
oddly, the brightness setting will still show that it's all the way down(even though it's bright as hell), so then i have to slide it up & then back down again.
and then it does the same thing all over again!
am i the only one experiencing this issue? is there a fix for it?
have you given up your booty to jesus?
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been trying out this rom the past few days even though using sense roms is against my religion (i'll confess later and everything will be fine).
anyway, whenever i take it off of automatic brightness... like say, at night, i turn the brightness all the way down... once the screen goes off and i turn it back on, it's bright as hell again.
oddly, the brightness setting will still show that it's all the way down(even though it's bright as hell), so then i have to slide it up & then back down again.
and then it does the same thing all over again!
am i the only one experiencing this issue? is there a fix for it?
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...nope. Ain't given up my booty to Jesus yet.
Never had that problem, but I haven't messed with screen brightness manually on beta8. Last time was Beta7 and it worked just fine. It does seem REAL slow on the brightness level uptake though. Like when you use the camera and it ramps up brightness all the way... it takes it about 30 seconds or so to readjust it.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tasker should be able to do this no problem... right?
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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.
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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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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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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 guys,
Recently, I was using this tablet to play a video under "Stamina mode" and all other energy saving features turned on in Settings/Power Management and discovered a phenomenon that I don't know previously.
A phenomenon was observed, the display shuts itself off at random times when and only when the device is being held up-side-down.
Turning off "Stamina mode" and this phenomenon does not reappear.
I can not think of any reason why this should occur and not when the device is held in any other orientation.
This tablet's screen can be turned on/off with a magnet in cover.
However, if the user decides to relax and use the tablet while up-side-down, I don't see the intelligent side of this in Stamina mode while device is held up-side-down.
Really, try it out on your tablet, this phenomenon is hysterical and quite annoying.
Do you use the tablet up-side-down?
And do you think this is a reasonable feature?
My device doesn't show this behavior.
yes i have noticed it i thought i was going mad.... but i have repeated it several times.. i quite often rest the tablet upside down under my nose to watch the tv then i flip it back up and the screens turned off.!! i thought i must have bumped the power switch or something, but I've repeated it several times now... very odd if is a feature. it's like flip to sleep or something...
i just had a thought maybe in stamina mode it turns this on.... flip to turn off or it's the eye ball tracking thingy when it can't see you looking at the screen it turns it off.....
just had a look in display settings its called smart back light control. but its not turned on.. so it's not that.
must just be the tilt sensor is enabled to turn the screen off when it's tilted flat on it's face..
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yes i have noticed it i thought i was going mad.... but i have repeated it several times.. i quite often rest the tablet upside down under my nose to watch the tv then i flip it back up and the screens turned off.!! i thought i must have bumped the power switch or something, but I've repeated it several times now... very odd if is a feature. it's like flip to sleep or something...
i just had a thought maybe in stamina mode it turns this on.... flip to turn off or it's the eye ball tracking thingy when it can't see you looking at the screen it turns it off.....
just had a look in display settings its called smart back light control. but its not turned on.. so it's not that.
must just be the tilt sensor is enabled to turn the screen off when it's tilted flat on it's face..
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I have experimented with this several times. It depends on whether or not the device has moved or stationary.
Since, this only happens face down, so it is annoying.
So, it's like telling you not to lying on your back to watch a Firework show using Stamina mode for example.
If you lay the device face down on a table using Stamina mode it will turn off the screen shortly after obviously to save energy.
And if it is held up-side-down it turns off the screen randomly as it detects no motion. So, the user isn't likely to continuously shake the device while looking at the device up-side-down for any reason.
I have an LG G Watch with 5.0.1 since a few days and I tried and sent back an identical LG G watch on 4.4W.1 a while ago and didn't experience it. Basically, I am noticing that after leaving the watch alone lying somewhere (I don't wear it at home) for some time (can't really say how long but at least an hour, I think) the display turns OFF. A single tap and it wakes up and then works "normally" until the next time...
The other G Watch with the older Wear version didn't have this behaviour so is this a feature of the latest Wear version (or possibly an LG-exclusive mod to squeeze even more battery life) or is it maybe an "issue"..?
I am saying this especially because I installed the Slumber app to automatically turn the display OFF while charging but realized that it's easier and more elegantly done by simply choosing the new "Theater mode" in Android Wear 5.0.1 and uninstalled the app. I don't know if what I am seeing is due to having installed Slumber but I really don't think so.
Does anybody know for sure what it is and how it exactly works..?
TIA
I was just about to post about this I think it's a bug though... I don't use a Slumber app or anything, I want my screen truly to be always on. But it will turn off occasionally and I don't like that!! I definitely did not have this issue on 4.4W.2
Anyone know what the problem is or how to fix it?
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I think it's a bug though... I don't use a Slumber app or anything,
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Just to be clear, I don't use it anymore and uninstalled it just after getting the 5.0.1 update with its Theater mode. My worry was that having had it installed triggered this behaviour but since you get it without ever installing it I can put that to rest.
I want my screen truly to be always on. But it will turn off occasionally and I don't like that!! I definitely did not have this issue on 4.4W.2
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Have you ever got it while it is on your wrist..?
Reading this I just removed my g-watch and after a few minutes I see that my screen was OFF. Never happen when I have watch on my wrist the last 2 days. Screen alaways ON and turn on with movement OFF. So yes it is a new feature of the last update 5.01.
Same here, it happened twice on the table, and once on my wrist this morning.
Must be something like the ambient mode in Moto 360 that does this. For one moment I thought I accidentally triggered the cinema mode.
I always take my watch off at work and the screen keeps turning off after 30 minutes. I did a full reset in case it was an overhang from the old version but it's still turning off.
So based on all of the above replies it seems it's a feature of the latest Android Wear. I am not calling it a bug because, except for a single reported case from our friend with the Moto 360, it seems to never happen while wearing it, so the logic appears to be "save the battery when not in use".
Just to "investigate" it some more, I am trying to time it and confirm it's 30 minutes for me too like StuBFrost says, and may you all please confirm you have Ambient turned ON (i.e. the display is always ON) and state whether you have the new Tilt to wake up setting ON (i.e. the Display lights up from its dimmed state when you tilt your wrist).
My settings are Display always ON and Tilt to wake up OFF.
It would be good to have some more reports from owners of different Wear smartwatches, to this end I posted also in the general Android Wear forum but no replies so far. I am going to update that post with our findings and see if we can understand what exactly is this behaviour we are seeing...
Actually, I think it might be a good feature to keep ON in many cases but it absolutely should be an *option*!
I have both options switched on and both work fine except for this new stupid sleep mode that quite clearly hasn't been thought out properly. Surely the theatre mode allows people to turn the display off should they need to and for everythimg else it should do what it did before and stay on.. If it doesn't get "corrected" soon, I will be rooting my watch and putting a custom ROM on it.
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I have both options switched on and both work fine except for this new stupid sleep mode that quite clearly hasn't been thought out properly. Surely the theatre mode allows people to turn the display off should they need to and for everythimg else it should do what it did before and stay on.. If it doesn't get "corrected" soon, I will be rooting my watch and putting a custom ROM on it.
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Trying to time it, I think I can say (I am still trying to cover all of the different scenarios) that any event which normally wakes the display up to normal brightness (i.e. an incoming call) resets the countdown. BTW, I think you are right and it's 30 minutes off the wirst with no movement, no tapping on it and no event like the ones just mentioned. "Normal" incoming notifications don't seem to reset the countdown.
Like I said, I don't think it's a bad idea in and of itself (I would use it in most cases) but they should have made it an option! And, ideally, they would let us set the time after which the display turns itself off.
I use and *strongly* prefer Android instead of limited and dumbed down Windows Phone and even worse Apple's useless crap exactly because of its customizability and powerfulness...
"Funny" thing is that from further testing, this feature doesn't kick in while on the charger (which could actually be pretty useful for most people...) LOL
ADDENDUM: the kind of events which resets the countdown to this "deep sleep" state (i.e. an incoming call) also wakes the display up from "deep sleep".
I am running the LG G Watch, version 5.0.1 with accompanying Android Wear app on my phone version 1.0.5
Screen is set to ALWAYS ON.
Tilt to wake is OFF.
It happens BOTH on my wrist and off my wrist. The timing is variable from my limited observation, but I haven't tried to directly time it.
on my lg g watch too
may I ask something related? on mine, it happened to be able to stop display (full black) with a swype from bottom to the top, never been able to do it again. Anybody faced that?
Hi all,
Since Android Wear 2.0 the dock mode while charging with clock doesn't work any longer. When placing Moto on the dock it shows a black screen. When touching the screen de clock appears for a moment and vanishes after about 1.5 seconds. It appears to be a bug. Do you all have this bug or is it just me. Did anyone tried a reset of the watch? I would really like to able to fix it , cause I use that feature a lot.
Same here.
A temporary solution I have found is to enable in developer options 'stay awake while charging' now it stays on. But it is not the same. The display appears to be much brighter. probably because ambient mode (Not sure that's how its called) is not enabled.
Edit: That appears to be the fix. When turning on in settings 'always on display' it works like before. no need to enable stay awake while charging in developers settings.
Although this fixes the issue, I am somewhat disappointed because this option reduces battery life.
I noticed I should have put this question into 'troubleshoot and questions'. I am sorry for placing it here. Perhaps a moderator can place it in the right section for me?
Not a problem here.
Always on is normally activated.
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I've noticed the same behavior when I upgraded my Moto 360 to AW 2.0
For me, the clock stays on but the background is really bright whereas it used to be black before
Same thing here, background to bright. I don't think this is on purpose. They would probably get out fixed in an upcoming patch(?)
Same here.
I liked docking my watch on my bathroom counter and using it as my clock while getting ready in morning. Now it doesn't stay on and when I tap the screen I can see it for a few seconds. When it is on ....the brightness of the background is terrible.
I sure hope they fix this problem.
I have the same problem
Can't believe there is still no fix for this?
This is really annoying! I was hoping XDA had found an answer. Having always on screen on is not a solution since Moto made a bad design decision on the screen making it best to turn that option off. I assume everyone else's keep awake while charging option doesn't really solve it either because the screen turns off once the battery is full. Anyone think there's a workaround to be found in Tasker and maybe AutoInput (maybe turn always on screen on while charging, off otherwise, or even based on hours). I'm no tasker expert, so I'm not sure if that combo could work on android wear.
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Hi all,
Since Android Wear 2.0 the dock mode while charging with clock doesn't work any longer. When placing Moto on the dock it shows a black screen. When touching the screen de clock appears for a moment and vanishes after about 1.5 seconds. It appears to be a bug. Do you all have this bug or is it just me. Did anyone tried a reset of the watch? I would really like to able to fix it , cause I use that feature a lot.
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I have found this to be an issue when I use a charger that is not the Motorola plug that came with the watch. If you switch to the Motorola OEM charger you'll see a lag of about one to two seconds but the clock will always come on.
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I have found this to be an issue when I use a charger that is not the Motorola plug that came with the watch. If you switch to the Motorola OEM charger you'll see a lag of about one to two seconds but the clock will always come on.
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Not on mine. I'm using the factory charger.
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Not on mine. I'm using the factory charger.
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That's so odd. I'm not having that problem at all
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I have found this to be an issue when I use a charger that is not the Motorola plug that came with the watch. If you switch to the Motorola OEM charger you'll see a lag of about one to two seconds but the clock will always come on.
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I am using Motorola's dock charger. I am positive that the issue lies with Android Wear 2.0 and not the charger. Before wear 2.0 it worked as it should.
I think it's random with AW2.
After flashing a new rom at my mobile, I had to forget and pair again the watch to the Android wear.
From now on, the clock stays on during charging.
This was not the case before that.
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I have the very same issue (watch paired with a Nexus 4, 5.1.1). Anything I can try? Thanks!
Well, at least this is validation for me. It's been driving me insane, and I'm almost positive it's killing my battery life. I used to be able to stretch a full week on a single charge, but now it's more like a full day.
I'm sure this is what everyone else has been experiencing: there is now a setting called "Always on screen" in Android wear settings. The new behavior for this setting is a strict enforcement of this property; that is, to be either always on or auto off. This seems absurd because before Android wear 2 (not sure if the option existed or not), it seemed to work as we expected, to auto off in active wear but stay lit while docked. There should at the very least be another mode for when docked/standby vs active wear.
Something else that makes it seem buggy is that when the always on screen option is disabled, and the watch is docked and charging, the screen is still faintly lit although only a blank black and no clock. I do think this is a bug and not a feature. For anyone interested, there are also settings for other things you might not be using. I'm turning them off and pray the battery gets better.
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Well, at least this is validation for me. It's been driving me insane, and I'm almost positive it's killing my battery life. I used to be able to stretch a full week on a single charge, but now it's more like a full day.
I'm sure this is what everyone else has been experiencing: there is now a setting called "Always on screen" in Android wear settings. The new behavior for this setting is a strict enforcement of this property; that is, to be either always on or auto off. This seems absurd because before Android wear 2 (not sure if the option existed or not), it seemed to work as we expected, to auto off in active wear but stay lit while docked. There should at the very least be another mode for when docked/standby vs active wear.
Something else that makes it seem buggy is that when the always on screen option is disabled, and the watch is docked and charging, the screen is still faintly lit although only a blank black and no clock. I do think this is a bug and not a feature. For anyone interested, there are also settings for other things you might not be using. I'm turning them off and pray the battery gets better.
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What r u talking about?
Always On was there since Android Wear 1.5.
And come again?
1 week use of the watch with 1 charge?
How did u manage to do that?
By turning on the watch for 2 hours every day?
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