[Q]App to turn screen off - Xoom Themes and Apps

hey there
somebody know an app to turn off the display?
not to lock the device, just to turn off the screen.
i want to watch videos on my tv over hdmi and there´s no need for the display to stay on while watching.
thanks in advance

You can try changing the security settings to when you press the turnoff/on button it won't lock the screen... It's precisely:
Settings-Location & Security-Configure lock screen-Off
Maybe it'll make works as it says it "NEVER lock the screen" it's a good option I think

thanks for your answer
unfortunately thats not what i´m looking for. even if there´s no screen lock defined the device will go into a locked state if power button is pressed.
try to run a video on youtube and press power.
i cant imagine that its so odd to just turn off the display itself or that it whould be complicated to have an app for that.
am i the only one who uses android as a media player for a tv?

Ever tried androidwebkey? it's an app wich let you control your phone/tablet from your pc (or any other device with an internet browser). You can launch/close apps, acces terminal and stuff. But you can also adjust your brightness, even to zero (totally off). Try it out!

I imagine you could use Tasker to turn off the screen automatically whenever you plug the hdmi cord in.

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any way to enable key press when the display is off

I used to do things when the display is off with my old PDA phone but I found that my new Diamond tried to change my way of life, it will disable all key function when the screen is off except the keys of vol and up and down key. Does anyone know how to enable all key press when the screen is off? Many thanks
So what exactly would you do with your device when the screen is turned off for which you'd like the hardware buttons to work? I would imagine the only thing would be to control the volume slider etc which is already active. It kinda defeats the purpose of turning the screen off then don't you think?
Start/Settings/System tab/Key lock (or something like that).
There you can enable keys.
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So what exactly would you do with your device when the screen is turned off for which you'd like the hardware buttons to work? I would imagine the only thing would be to control the volume slider etc which is already active. It kinda defeats the purpose of turning the screen off then don't you think?
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I used to use my ASUS PDA phone as a book reader in the way that I read a book with my ears using text-to-speech software while I am walking or riding. surely when I don't need to read the screen, the screen can be turned off to save power. In addition, I used the hardware keys to go backward or forward one sentence to control the reading speed. The point is this diamond seems to be unable to response key function with the screen staying off. Letting user to customize the device is the reason I choose WM over other devices like iphone, but HTC seems to break this way.

Camera: Recording video with screen turned off?

Hello,
Is it possible to run the camera in the background and record video and turn off the screen while the video is recording?
Or does somebody know an application which can do it?
Thanks
The problem is that when you press the power button it suspends device and doesn't just turn off the screen. There are utilities that can just turn off the screen (which also "locks" the device). I use WKtasks function>Backlight off from ok-button long press and AEBPlus actions screen to do that
Thanks for the tip. I've tried these 2 applications, but they both don't turn off the display when recording. I have also tried to use CoolCamera, but it does'nt work.
I would love to know a solution for this also i use the Qik app and would love if it would run with the screen toggled off or even better in the background.

[Problem Solved]: Music Stops When Screen Turns Off In TF3D Mode..How To Change it?

Please refer my post 14 for the solution / reason to keep music on
Freinds,
Whenever i play music in TF3d mode and when screen goes off automatically or if i press power off button (standby mode) then music turns off. This doesnt happen when headphones are connected. But without headphones it gets turned off. Please let me know any tweak so that i can play music through tf3d tab even when phone screen gets turnoff.
Regards,
Vishal
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Guys please help
Hi.
I have the same problem.
Please help...
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nobody to help?????????????????
i dont know if you understand what sleep mode is but when the screen turns off its in sleep mode and it turns off wifi bluetooth the screen and pauses some processes that may incude the tf3d music player. if it bugs u so much set your power options in settings so tat the phone turns off at a later time then what it is currently set to that way u can play your music longer. note that your battery will drain faster as the phone is still on even thought he screen is off
Quanni90 said:
i dont know if you understand what sleep mode is but when the screen turns off its in sleep mode and it turns off wifi bluetooth the screen and pauses some processes that may incude the tf3d music player. if it bugs u so much set your power options in settings so tat the phone turns off at a later time then what it is currently set to that way u can play your music longer. note that your battery will drain faster as the phone is still on even thought he screen is off
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Well i am aware of the sleep mode. Also changing the time in power option doesnt solve the purpose. I have also dechecked the option "turn off device if not used in X min" .
Still waiting a solution to this
i personlly gave it a try and my music continued to play after the screen turned off, ti even played the next song. It may possibly be a bug in your rom or it could be tf3d all together. Im using tf3d2 on the Gen Y D2 rom. If it really bugs u i suggest you give the rom a try,
AFAIK its not a bug, but rather a feature of WinMo.
Sleep means what: You are not going to use your device (apart from... recieving a call or an sms). So that includes playing music.
But if you connect the headphone, its different scenario, WM assumes that you just want to play music (since the headphone is connected). So it allows playback of Audio.
But to be doubly sure, goto HKLM-Software-HTC-AudioManager and search for the key enter_suspend, it should be 0 (zero)
One solution i've found... Start the music from TF3D, and then lock the screen. After that, in few seconds the display will turn off (depends of your settings)and music will play. Works for me
MindHunters said:
One solution i've found... Start the music from TF3D, and then lock the screen. After that, in few seconds the display will turn off (depends of your settings)and music will play. Works for me
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Well tried this also, it plays till the time backlight gets fade away but as soon as it gets completely off music stops. I think this is ridiculous feature of WinMO coz if i want to listen music in Tf3d mode with screen off i cant listen it. Too bad
do you really listen to music through the crappy tiny diamond speaker?
Try this with your preferred registry editor, change the value of hklm\system\state\hardware\headset
from 0 to 1 and see if it works
this works because I just tried on my diamond, play the music via windows media, assign a button in the options to switch off the screen and just push that button while playing.
Well i found the solution. Well rather reason why it music used to stop. I had installed older version of S2U2 which was locking the Tochflo3d. But now i have latest version i.e. 2.04 which has an option not to lock touchflo3d and also dont turn off the phone if screen goes blank. I have selected this option and now music remains on.
Anyways thanks a lot everybody to help me.
Regards,
Vishal
vishalkishnani said:
Well i found the solution. Well rather reason why it music used to stop. I had installed older version of S2U2 which was locking the Tochflo3d. But now i have latest version i.e. 2.04 which has an option not to lock touchflo3d and also dont turn off the phone if screen goes blank. I have selected this option and now music remains on.
Anyways thanks a lot everybody to help me.
Regards,
Vishal
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Turned both of these functions on (Don't lock TouchFlo3D, etc.)...still get my sound turned off if I hit power when playing through the phone's speaker. Most annoying issue...still no solution....

Is there an alternate way to turn off the screen?

In short, my power button is jacked up and at moment due to car troubles I have zero monies to even attempt to call HTC and see if they can do anything about it.
So I would like to know, is there an app that will allow other hardware buttons to power off the screen, or at least make a widget or something on the homescreen to power the phone off?
At the moment I am keyguard disabler to bypass using the power button to cut on the screen, but can't really do anything to cut the screen off.
I will work some on seeing if I can modify the keylayouts, but if anyone else knows anything, any help would be greatly appreciated.
only problem i see with the widget use is that once the screen is off, how would you turn it back on... remapping the hardware buttons would work, but then you wouldnt need a widget...
in the meantime just set the timeout on the screen to something small... just an idea i guess...
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only problem i see with the widget use is that once the screen is off, how would you turn it back on... remapping the hardware buttons would work, but then you wouldnt need a widget...
in the meantime just set the timeout on the screen to something small... just an idea i guess...
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I use keyguard disabler which then I can use the trackball to cut it on and yeah, when I'm at work, I just cut it to 15 seconds so it doesn't stay on forever whenever I need to check the time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645481
may help.
I do agree with the shorting the awake time. I did this to change mine to 5 seconds. I installed lock 2.0 and then changed the settings to 5 seconds, rebooted and then uninstall lock 2.0. If for some reason I need the screen on longer to read web or email I use stay awake app. I have stay awake in the status bar. I haven't had good luck with the apps that make the screen stay awake like keyscreen and screeble.

How to keep screen on indefinitely, natively, without using an app?

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

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