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Is it possible to tell the Diamond to stay locked with the screen off until unlocked manually while a handsfree is connected? I keep my phone in my pocket while driving and it unlocks itself when a call is in progress and then locks itself again, when the call finishes. But if anything is pressed, and it does if I even move a centimetre, it won't lock back again and will in most cases call back the person I've just had a conversation with.
Is there a setting I'm missing or would an application have to be used?
IceBone said:
Is it possible to tell the Diamond to stay locked with the screen off until unlocked manually while a handsfree is connected? I keep my phone in my pocket while driving and it unlocks itself when a call is in progress and then locks itself again, when the call finishes. But if anything is pressed, and it does if I even move a centimetre, it won't lock back again and will in most cases call back the person I've just had a conversation with.
Is there a setting I'm missing or would an application have to be used?
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Use TouchLockPro
I have the same need and tried plenty of solutions, no good so far.
One of them was actually an early version of TouchLockPro, however it lacked an important functionality of treating locking as a mode. It has a "lock on incoming call" feature, but that's not what I need because most of the time my phone is on the desk and shouldn't lock on every incoming call. What I need (and I guess IceBone is with me on that) is just a way to make sure that when the phone is locked - it just stays this way till instructed otherwise...
erezshermer said:
I have the same need and tried plenty of solutions, no good so far.
One of them was actually an early version of TouchLockPro, however it lacked an important functionality of treating locking as a mode. It has a "lock on incoming call" feature, but that's not what I need because most of the time my phone is on the desk and shouldn't lock on every incoming call. What I need (and I guess IceBone is with me on that) is just a way to make sure that when the phone is locked - it just stays this way till instructed otherwise...
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TouchLockPro can be tuned to your needs, just disable autolockonpoweron and you are in control...
I will check it out.
EDIT: Sorry, but that's completely useless to me. There's a thousand other options that I had to disable, it didn't unlock itself with the power button, it also didn't stay locked on incoming call, even though I double checked I had that enabled, it also puts an annoying white square in the windows status bar, which covers the clock.
All I want is for the phone to stay locked on incoming and outgoing calls. If it can be set to only stay locked only while a handsfree set is connected (the phone does know the difference, it shows a nice little headset icon), it would be perfect.
This is the biggest issue with my TD...
Because of this issue BT headset is totaly useless (if device in your pocket or case).. After incoming or outgoing call need to check device for unwanted actions..
Well, if we get more people requesting this, maybe one of the devs could cook up a quick fix.
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I will check it out.
EDIT: Sorry, but that's completely useless to me. There's a thousand other options that I had to disable, it didn't unlock itself with the power button, it also didn't stay locked on incoming call, even though I double checked I had that enabled, it also puts an annoying white square in the windows status bar, which covers the clock.
All I want is for the phone to stay locked on incoming and outgoing calls. If it can be set to only stay locked only while a handsfree set is connected (the phone does know the difference, it shows a nice little headset icon), it would be perfect.
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The white square is the inidcator that it is locked. The configured foreground and background color are reversed when locked.
I will put a convenience setting (Bluetooth) in the action screen on the wish list, so it will never unlock/lock when that mode is activated by te other unlocking methods. But there must also be way to unlock then. Maybe the Stylus still unlocks, so you can disable Bluetooth mode?
Reason4444 said:
This is the biggest issue with my TD...
Because of this issue BT headset is totaly useless (if device in your pocket or case).. After incoming or outgoing call need to check device for unwanted actions..
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I will add this to the next version of TouchLockPro, a way to enable/disable bluetooth lock mode
Could you possibly release a cab that does only that? It would be perfect, it's the only functionality I want.
IceBone said:
Could you possibly release a cab that does only that? It would be perfect, it's the only functionality I want.
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You can use StylusLock, which makes it possible to lock/unlock only using the stylus sensor. This can be used in combination with Bluetooth.
Also TouchLockPro can be used in combination with Bluetooth, but then you need to change more settings, but this is easy too, via the TouchLockAction settings screens:
- Light Sensor: Uncheck "Use Light Sensor"
- G Sensor: Uncheck "Use G Sensor"
- Nav Sensor: Uncheck "Use Capacitive Nav Sensor"
- TAPI: Uncheck "Use TAPI"
- Other Settings: Uncheck "AutoLockOnPowerOn"
Thereafter you can lock the phone by taking the Stylus Out and putting back in within 1 second and use Bluetooth for picking up the phone. If you take out the Stylus, it will also unlock.
But I would still have to take the stylus out if someone called and I wasn't connected to the bluetooth. Or is only the screen locked?
IceBone said:
But I would still have to take the stylus out if someone called and I wasn't connected to the bluetooth. Or is only the screen locked?
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With the settings I gave, you are in control of locking. So if you did not lock the phone via the Stylus Out/In, it will not be locked, also when a call comes in or you power on (or external event) the phone.
From your response, I understood you only wanted locking with Bluetooth:
IceBone said:
Could you possibly release a cab that does only that? It would be perfect, it's the only functionality I want.
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But of course, you can also use the capacitive touch area for unlocking and configure power on also as a locking means.
Other Settings: Check "AutoLockOnPowerOn"
Nav Sensor: Check "Use Capacitive Nav Sensor"
In the Nav Sensor screen you can fine tune your capacitive unlocking methods.....
Yes, the only thing I want is for it to stay locked until I unlock it manually when BT is connected.
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Yes, the only thing I want is for it to stay locked until I unlock it manually when BT is connected.
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Ok, so the settings I gave you will do that.
But will those settings be disabled when bt is disconnected and the phone will unlock on an incoming call?
IceBone said:
But will those settings be disabled when bt is disconnected and the phone will unlock on an incoming call?
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With the settings I gave, you are in control of locking. So if you did not lock the phone via the Stylus Out/In, it will not be locked, also when a call comes in or you power on (or external event) the phone.
The only thing you need to do, is lock it manually via the Stylus Out/In, when you want it locked (e.g. when using bluetooth).
Hmm i have the same problem , this sound very interesting. I did tried everything too. Nothing yet. The only solution is that "ZuinigeRijder" will find a fix or an addon. That would be really helpfull !!
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With the settings I gave, you are in control of locking. So if you did not lock the phone via the Stylus Out/In, it will not be locked, also when a call comes in or you power on (or external event) the phone.
The only thing you need to do, is lock it manually via the Stylus Out/In, when you want it locked (e.g. when using bluetooth).
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It would still require me to fiddle with it when I connect or disconnect. I've been thinking and the light sensor could also be used, lock the screen/keys permanently when in the dark (pocket) and switch to normal when out. I suspect your program can do that as well, but it's just too fiddly with all the other unneeded options. Can't you delete a few lines and make just a simple locker like that? Wouldn't even need to have a status icon like it does now.
It wakes up everytime I get a text message and sometimes seems to wake up for no reason. This didn't always happen but I can't find and option to disable this.
Anyone know what I can do about it?
i dont think so it might be better to leave it alone.
Pinesal said:
It wakes up everytime I get a text message and sometimes seems to wake up for no reason. This didn't always happen but I can't find and option to disable this.
Anyone know what I can do about it?
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On my phone, every time I receive a text message, the buttons light up for about half a second then starts to vibrate and play the ringtone. It's been doing that since the whole CnD thing and I've just ignored it since it didn't seem to be causing any issues.
You could go into the SMS app and shut off notifications from there. Might make a nice, powersaving script.
I don't know why the phone powers up without a notification. I have found I can't turn on my Wifi when I turn on Background data and it's been off for quite a while (still have autosync off). My data connection is showing heavy useage. The big G is watching us all. It makes me wonder if something is coming in to your phone from somewhere to wake it.
If it's killing you, you could try living without apps for a day you suspect might be doing it, or just schedule a kill at intervals if you can't uninstall it.
You could go into settings and change the screen timeout to 15 Sec so if it does come on, it wont stay on long..
I'm running the stock ROM from Docomo, and since my phone is acting and working fine as-is, I really don't want to flash it if it's not necessary. Just igured I'd get that out of the way first.
My goal is to stop the notification that appears when "The battery is fully charged". I don't really care about the notification itself, but when it appears, unlike other notes, it turns the screen on.
That wouldn't even be much of a problem, except that I set my screen to -not- time out while it's charging, so I can use it at my desk without having it constantly time out on me.
So basically, every night while I'm asleep, my phone gets to 100%, the screen stays on, and just sits there on all night until I wake up and turn it off.
Is there any way to get rid of -just- that notification? I've tried various 'tweak' apps, but haven't found anything for it. Even battery mods just change the appearance and doesn't stop the notifications.
I really like my phone, I'm just worried about its life-span if the screen is on so much.
did you find a solution for that?
im having the same trouble!
but for some reason mine has a very loud and anoying alarm.
it's an actual alarm. not just a notficiation,
and everytime i sleep that anyoing sound wakes me up.
please anyone help iof you have an idea!
thanx!
Go to this folder system/media/audio/notifications and delete cloud.ogg or sherbet.ogg
One of those would be your battery full notification. Its cloud.ogg on mine.
No more sound!
That's not a good way to do it, as it sounds (I'm not 100% sure, but, let's say, 99%) like it's the sound for the "Cloud" ringtone (used for the default new SMS notification for example).
One way to do it safely would be to remove all the notifications sounds in the interface, via Settings > Sound > Notification ringtone (or something like that, translating from french ^^) and set it to a silent ringtone (in french it's "Discret", don't know how it is named in english).
Then you won't have any sound for your notifications globally. You can set them back independantly using some 3rd party apps, like, for example, ChompSMS for the SMS notifications (don't know if the basic SMS app can do it too, never used it).
But your screen will continue to stay on :/
Yea, the screen is the main problem, since my notify volume is always set low anyway and it doesn't wake me.
I have deleted cloud.ogg in mine and it does it for me. I have backed up the following folder /system/media.
So, in case things go wrong, u can download that folder and get those files again.
btw, u can put notifications to silent like Khoral said.
I don't really care about the sound or the vibrate, I just don't want it to turn my screen on and stay on all night.
All deleting cloud.ogg does is make it silent, the screen still comes on and stays on.
try deleting chargingwarning.qmg in the /system/media folder.
I could be wrong, but surely it seems like there's a better way to do this than deleting media files...?
I installed Tasker a while ago, and have it doing a few things, but I see in different threads some people doing some really cool stuff, so I was wondering, what do you use Tasker for?
Just last night I figured out how to get it to tell me who is calling me if I have my headphones with a mic plugged in. The only other thing I've done is make auto-rotation turn on when I open Gallery and turn off when I exit.
Trying to think of other stuff to get it to do.
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Just last night I figured out how to get it to tell me who is calling me if I have my headphones with a mic plugged in. The only other thing I've done is make auto-rotation turn on when I open Gallery and turn off when I exit.
Trying to think of other stuff to get it to do.
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I like the gallery idea. Did you get the steps/profile from a site, or figure it out. I would be interested in it.
phlunkie said:
I like the gallery idea. Did you get the steps/profile from a site, or figure it out. I would be interested in it.
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There's a Tasker Wiki that has some good profile ideas here:
http://tasker.wikidot.com/
Here's all the stuff I have setup through Tasker right now, haha:
- Phone brightness goes to lowest level from midnight-6am.
- Silent mode turns on when headphones are plugged in.
- Silent mode turns on when phone is positioned face down.
- Silent mode turns on, Wifi/GPS/BT turn off between 8am-5pm (when I'm at work).
- TweetDeck/Voodoo App start up on boot.
- Data usage check via SMS automatically at 6:30am every day.
- GPS/BT turn off when I'm connected to Wifi, turn on when Wifi is out of range.
- Silent mode turns on when FxCamera is opened.
- GPS is turned on when RunKeeper is opened.
- Auto-rotate is turned on when certain apps are opened.
Tasker is easily the best app I've bought in the Market. PowerAMP is a close 2nd. Haha.
KaLiBLeeK said:
There's a Tasker Wiki that has some good profile ideas here:
http://tasker.wikidot.com/
Here's all the stuff I have setup through Tasker right now, haha:
- Phone brightness goes to lowest level from midnight-6am.
- Silent mode turns on when headphones are plugged in.
- Silent mode turns on when phone is positioned face down.
- Silent mode turns on, Wifi/GPS/BT turn off between 8am-5pm (when I'm at work).
- TweetDeck/Voodoo App start up on boot.
- Data usage check via SMS automatically at 6:30am every day.
- GPS/BT turn off when I'm connected to Wifi, turn on when Wifi is out of range.
- Silent mode turns on when FxCamera is opened.
- GPS is turned on when RunKeeper is opened.
- Auto-rotate is turned on when certain apps are opened.
Tasker is easily the best app I've bought in the Market. PowerAMP is a close 2nd. Haha.
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yea, I go to that website too. I use it to turn GPS on and off for certain applications. I also downloaded the profile from the wiki to locate my phone if i lose it.
I think I just got the idea from being frustrated that the gallery hides the pull-down bar. It's simple though:
New task>context>Gallery
Display>rotation>on
It automatically turns itself off without having to add an exit task. As a matter of fact, if you add an exit task to turn rotation back off, it gets stuck sometimes.
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How large of a learning curve does this app take? Like first getting used to android OS took a little time, but didn't take to long. cause that is an app I'm really looking at getting
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How large of a learning curve does this app take? Like first getting used to android OS took a little time, but didn't take to long. cause that is an app I'm really looking at getting
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A lot of the basic things have very detailed instructions on the wiki.
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I also have mine set up to turn on screen filter at night so I don't get blinded when I look at my phone.
Lets see... I never messed around with it too much but I got it to do a few things.
-When I plug in USB, it automatically opens the notification bar so that I can mount it. Not much, but it makes it that much easier.
-When a headphone is plugged in, I have set my media volume down low to protect my ears and it also opens up my music player app automatically.
-From 7:25AM until 2:28PM, my phone automatically enters silent mode for school.
I have only owned Tasker for a few days but already find it indispensable and reason enough to never ever touch a fruity phone again. In the past week I have set up the following on my phone, most of them home-brewed:
1) Screen timeout to 7s when phone placed screen down
2) GPS auto start in apps that need GPS - maps, navigate, places, tracks, etc
3) Set screen timeout to 1hr in certain apps where I am likley to spend more than 30s without touching the screen - internet, reader, NY times, dirty jokes
4) Launch music player when headset plugged it, kill it when headset removed
5) Two sets of night modes - Mon-Fri and Sat-Sunday. They do the same stuff but with different trigger times - all sounds and vibrations except ringer off, no mobile date, no screen rotation. There are few things that are more frustrating than fumbling for my phone while in bed in the morning only to have the screen rotate on me. Ditto for late at night when I might be using the phone in bed lying on my side.
6) Turn Airplane mode on two minutes after loss of service, turn it off two minutes after service is restored. Prevents the phone from pissing away battery when there is no service. Would have preferred to do that based on signal strength but my phone does not report that correctly.
7) Vibrate for all email and messaging apps I use. The developers of many apps do bonehead things such as ignoring the system setting for "Vibrate on notify". Therefore even though my profile #5 above tells the phone not to vibrate at night GMail, Handcent and others will happily ignore you and wake you up. I have set them not to vibrate, then intercept their notifications with Tasker and trigger a vibration from within Tasker. I only wish there was an OR setting for that, so I don't have to maintain separate profiles for each app
8) Wifi auto stop/start when I am near a home cell tower. I also turn off mobile data.
9) Call home mode when I text "Where are you?" to my phone. The phone auto-replies with its GPS coordinates and address.
10) Voice SMS toggle widget - the phone will read my texts to me, e.g., if I am in the car and expect to be there for a while.
Things I wish Tasker would do:
1) Correctly recognize busy/free slots on my calendar. I could then set the phone to mute every time I have a meeting scheduled on my calendar. This would reduce the chance of my phone singing to me in the middle of a meeting... I like big butts and I cannot lie... you catch the drift. The current version claims it can do it but the functionality is broken on my phone. Not sure if it is a custom ROM issue or a Tasker issue.
2) Toggle 2G and 3G. This is not Taskfer's fault, but I really would like to be able to switch to 2G every time Wifi is on, or while I am near a cell tower at work. The signal strength inside the buildings at work is pathetic and leaving 3G on drains the battery big time as the phone continuously tries to boos the signal
3) Some type of readout from the orientation sensors. Imagine all the stupid pet tricks we could do if we had access to orientation-based scripting. Disabling screen rotation wen the phone is nearly horizontal comes to mind. I think Screebl can do that but why pay $2 extra just for that when Tasker ought to be able to do it just as well.
I've had Tasker for a while, and generally like it. It is crazy-powerful, but also crazy-difficult to learn how to use it to its full potential.
right now, only a couple things I use it for but I plan to use it more:
-when I turn my car on and it connects to the BT, it will automatically turn on GPS, Pandora and turn up the media volume (in case it was turned down before).
-when I turn the car off, GPS turns off and Pandora closes
-When I'm at work, a different ringtone is enabled and all volumes is turned down.
-when I leave work, my normal ringtone is re-enabled and all volumes are back high.
I really love Tasker. My 2 main uses are
1. Between the hours of 10pm and 6am, Tasker mutes my phone. If a call comes, it sends a text message to caller saying that I'm down for the night. If it's an emergency, the caller will have other numbers they can call. If I get a text message, it sends a auto reply of some sort but if it deals with golf, it will turn up the volume and play a song from Caddie Shack. I don't want to miss out on an early tee time!
2. I use Macs and have a music service set up that plays music throughout the house using various Airport Expresses and speakers via Airfoil. Speakers that I'm always playing to are the outdoor speakers (I live out in the country so let it rip!). I use Tasker to control volume, change stations or music services (Slacker, Pandora, iTunes, etc) and other music/video related items. The main conduit being iChat on the Mac and Google Talk on my Android thus being within range of the wireless access point is not necessary. Using SL4A and Python on the Android with Tasker allows for some very powerful scripting to happen. This in turn gets sent to the Mac via Google Talk and converted to applescripts for controlling all the apps and devices. The best part is that it's very powerful but easy to program, inexpensive and most important. very very reliable! Try that with a Sonos or Logitech Squeezebox.
Ummm… maybe I should write up details about this setup...
how to change pandora station?
Sorry for the noob reply to such an old post, but have been looking all over these forums and elsewhere and just can't find the answer. How did you use tasker to change pandora stations? If not Pandora, any other Internet radio service would do. Eventual goal is to set up some presets in Car Home to select channels while driving in a single touch, and I can use whichever web service executes this function best.
Thanks!
TuneinRadioPro has a Car Mode Screen thst may meet your need, without tasker.
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Any thoughts on how to keep the screen on forever like the LG V20 allowed me to? I realized that I never put my phone down, in my pocket, connected to a cradle, without turning the screen off first, so why should I use some low screen timeout number when I hate having it turn off on me when I don't need it to? Furthermore, I couldn't find a way to have my car dock setup keep the screen on without the use of an app on the LG, and I hate having a stupid notification on the bar to tell me "hey, we're doing something for you all the time, thanks for using this app!" if I don't have to. I'm trying to sell you on the idea, not sure why, but those are my reasons in case someone asks why I prefer it this way....
ANYWAYS, the maximum timeout is 10 mins on the Note8, and I couldn't find anything other than the setting in developer's options to keep screen on while charging (which, I'll have you know for those trying to suggest that one, dims the screen after a period of time - I don't know what that is, I just know I saw it do it once and turned that setting off because that's not what I need while using Google Maps and driving). Any thoughts on this, natively, within the phone's own settings somehow???
KryptosXLayer2 said:
Any thoughts on how to keep the screen on forever like the LG V20 allowed me to? I realized that I never put my phone down, in my pocket, connected to a cradle, without turning the screen off first, so why should I use some low screen timeout number when I hate having it turn off on me when I don't need it to? Furthermore, I couldn't find a way to have my car dock setup keep the screen on without the use of an app on the LG, and I hate having a stupid notification on the bar to tell me "hey, we're doing something for you all the time, thanks for using this app!" if I don't have to. I'm trying to sell you on the idea, not sure why, but those are my reasons in case someone asks why I prefer it this way....
ANYWAYS, the maximum timeout is 10 mins on the Note8, and I couldn't find anything other than the setting in developer's options to keep screen on while charging (which, I'll have you know for those trying to suggest that one, dims the screen after a period of time - I don't know what that is, I just know I saw it do it once and turned that setting off because that's not what I need while using Google Maps and driving). Any thoughts on this, natively, within the phone's own settings somehow???
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Just FYI, you can get rid of those "always running" notifications indefinitely by swiping the notification to the right and tapping "block notifications". It simply removes the card, and has no affect on the apps functionality.
Use Caffeine.
- Open it, give it the proper permissions (it will ask)
- Enable it
- Enable " Start at boot" and "Auto enable at boot"
- Close the app, open the notification panel, swipe right on the caffeine card and tap "block all notifications".
- As long as you don't go and change the display timeout settings in the actual settings app, your phone will never auto turn off, and can only be turned on/off manually just like normal.
And if app drawer clutter is something you want to get rid of, just hide the app icon.
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And if app drawer clutter is something you want to get rid of, just hide the app icon.
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I'm familiar with this method, even familiar with Caffeine, which I like more than any of the other junk ones in the Play Store, but I was hoping for something built-in that wouldn't require another running app to do something simple - Samsung / Android should have all the simple stuff figured out by now.... this was DEFINITIVELY the only thing the V20 had over the Note7 and now the Note8, I hated almost everything else about the phone but wasn't going backwards to the S7 when I had to turn the the Note7.
Thanks for your help, will use this solution until / unless someone has another (native, preferable) solution
Found the issue with using Caffeine as opposed to something native. Caffeine does a great job of keeping the screen in no matter what, any time it comes on. This also includes if the power state is changed, a missed call comes through, etc. It will turn on the screen, show you the lock screen, and just sit there.
The LG was capable of shutting the screen off after a short timeout when only on the lock screen, which would allow a notification or change in power from keeping the screen on indefinitely because it wasn't forcing ANY screen on input from doing it, only when unlocked, when it was appropriate to do so.
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Be very careful. Unlike your LG v20 this phone has a AMOLED display. If you leave it on the same screen for a long time it will cause burn in on the display.
What ever happened to Screebl? I was going to recommend it to a friend, and couldn't find it any more... I guess it has just survived the port from phone to phone.
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Be very careful. Unlike your LG v20 this phone has a AMOLED display. If you leave it on the same screen for a long time it will cause burn in on the display.
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See signature - not my first AMOLED display phone.... When the screen is on for a long time, it's because I'm driving and using Maps and switching to Play Music, etc. I'm trying to avoid having the screen on all night long with it coming on when A) the phone gets fully charged, and B) when a notification or something wakes it because Caffeine is almost "too good" at what it does!
Hate that I had to use an app to do this, but I am really liking Screen Timeout that disables the timeout options Samsung gave us all together. Would love to know how to get this done, without the need for root, where I don't have to disable notifications for an app that constantly runs, though....
What it does, if anyone cares, is make none of the selections selected so the screen stays on ONLY when unlocked, exactly what I figured out I was looking for. I hope this helps someone else looking for a solution like this!
Here's the link to the app I'm using:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lhoer0.screentimeout