As most of you know, Pokemon Go requires the screen to be on to track your km walked. That obviously sucks battery, but also, if I stick it in my pocket, sometimes something will brush it and the app closes or similar issues arise. The included "battery saver" mode tends to make the game freeze up and close, so I'd like to avoid that.
Is there a way to create a button or such, that, when pressed, dims the screen to nearly black until power button is pressed, or basically "locks" the screen so nothing can be pressed, until power button is pressed, so that I can stick in my pocket and not worry about the app closing?
if you have a samsung and ROOT or Amoled, then maybe I can help.
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i'm hoping there's a way to close all the open apps whenever the screen turns off or when i hit the power button to manually turn off the screen. Anyone know if this is possible?
Very nice idea, i'd like to know if this is possible to.
So my Note only reboots itself in my pocket. Whenever i bend down to pickup my dog or crouch down.
Ive tried pressing buttons and squeezing the device in my hands to see if any pressure or buttons pressed force the phone to reboot but nothings does it.
Is there a button combination to make the device reboot?
If i hold down the power button i only have the Power Off option. No Reboot option on this rom.
Anyone have any idea what this is? It has never rebooted itself outside my pocket.
Thanks
Neil
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It could be a really long press of the power button. I use that to get unstuck from whenever I manage to get it stupidly frozen with the apps I'm developing...
Try it, but keep in mind it should be close to 6 seconds or more.
Yep, long press on the power button will reboot your phone.
I could make so many off-colour remarks here, but I shall restrain myself. The long press of the power button is doing it (as suggested).
Oddly, I had a strange issue where having the screen in toward my thigh caused a press on the screen activating the speaker when on a call. As I was connected to the 'phones, it was irritating. I now keep the screen facing away from me to avoid this. I dislike exposing the screen to potential damage in this way, but thin jeans pockets make it a requirement.
I have exactly the same issue - I was just in the garden and my phone rebooted three times in about five minutes while inside my trouser pocket. There's nothing else in my pocket except a hanky, so how does the power button get pressed?
Like others, I too have the screen towards my thigh. It's happening so often recently that my three old son asks me every time what my phone is doing in my pocket!
I've never known a phone with such badly positioned buttons - fiddly to use volume controls, and now this - it's just really crap design. :-(
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chasmodo said:
Yep, long press on the power button will reboot your phone.
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interesting...
but to get the power button depressed while in the pocket is very unlikely for me.
Do you guys keep your vibration on as well?
hi guys found a little secret reboot into safe mode option in stock 4.3
if you hold power button until the power off option appears then hold your finger on shut down and rotate the screen to horizontal , it switches to saying:
"reboot into safe mode? all apps disabled until rebooted again"
nice little trick to determined if your apps are causing lag.:good:
chismay said:
hi guys found a little secret reboot into safe mode option in stock 4.3
if you hold power button until the power off option appears then hold your finger on shut down for a moment , it switches to saying:
"reboot into safe mode? all apps disabled until rebooted again"
nice little trick to determined if your apps are causing lag.:good:
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Fixed that for ya.
You don't need to rotate screen, just hold/tap a text a little bit longer.
chismay said:
hi guys found a little secret reboot into safe mode option in stock 4.3
if you hold power button until the power off option appears then hold your finger on shut down and rotate the screen to horizontal , it switches to saying:
"reboot into safe mode? all apps disabled until rebooted again"
nice little trick to determined if your apps are causing lag.:good:
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Hi, chismay...
There are a few half secret undocumented key presses in Android... and you've just stumbled upon one of 'em. Though you can skip the rotate screen part of it.
Two others that I know of, which are sort of half known...
Long press the Home Button in any app, and it will bring up a circular Google Button, swipe up to this button, and it fires up Google Search/Google Now. Very useful if, whilst in the middle of Temple Run, you want to Google the nearest pizza delivery service.
If you have the AOSP browser installed... in the browser, long press on the Back Button, and it brings up the Bookmarks/History/Saved Pages screen. This seems to work on any Android device running the AOSP browser. Sadly, however, it doesn't work with Chrome.
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If I remember correctly, Safe Mode was introduced with Jellybean 4.1. I became aware of it, quite accidentally, whilst running a Custom Jellybean 4.1.2 ROM on my Advent Vega about a year ago.
It's very useful, as you say, for identifying and then uninstalling potentially rogue apps, that might be interfering with the normal running of the tablet... as all user installed apps are temporarily suspended.
The only problem with it is, upon rebooting your tablet again normally, you tend to loose your widget placements... which can be a bit of a nuisance if you have several widgets, and each one has to be re-configured again afterwards. Very time consuming.
Although it's never happened to me, a rogue app could theoretically prevent the tablet from booting properly. In such a scenario, you can access Safe Mode from a fully shut down state, as follows...
QUOTE: "From a cold start boot (press & release Power button), wait 2 seconds after the B&W Google (bootloader) splash screen appears, then press and hold Vol-Down button until the normal OS boot is fully completed (lock screen or home screen appears)."
SOURCE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37606945
This requires a degree of precision timing, but it does work on the Nexus 7... and is very similar to how I access Safe Mode on my Samsung Galaxy S3, as the long press on the Power Off option doesn't work as it does on the Nexus 7.
Anyway... just some thoughts.
Rgrds,
Ged.
GedBlake said:
Hi, chismay...
There are a few half secret undocumented key presses in Android... and you've just stumbled upon one of 'em. Though you can skip the rotate screen part of it.
Two others that I know of, which are sort of half known...
Long press the Home Button in any app, and it will bring up a circular Google Button, swipe up to this button, and it fires up Google Search/Google Now. Very useful if, whilst in the middle of Temple Run, you want to Google the nearest pizza delivery service.
If you have the AOSP browser installed... in the browser, long press on the Back Button, and it brings up the Bookmarks/History/Saved Pages screen. This seems to work on any Android device running the AOSP browser. Sadly, however, it doesn't work with Chrome.
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If I remember correctly, Safe Mode was introduced with Jellybean 4.1. I became aware of it, quite accidentally, whilst running a Custom Jellybean 4.1.2 ROM on my Advent Vega about a year ago.
It's very useful, as you say, for identifying and then uninstalling potentially rogue apps, that might be interfering with the normal running of the tablet... as all user installed apps are temporarily suspended.
The only problem with it is, upon rebooting your tablet again normally, you tend to loose your widget placements... which can be a bit of a nuisance if you have several widgets, and each one has to be re-configured again afterwards. Very time consuming.
Although it's never happened to me, a rogue app could theoretically prevent the tablet from booting properly. In such a scenario, you can access Safe Mode from a fully shut down state, as follows...
QUOTE: "From a cold start boot (press & release Power button), wait 2 seconds after the B&W Google (bootloader) splash screen appears, then press and hold Vol-Down button until the normal OS boot is fully completed (lock screen or home screen appears)."
SOURCE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37606945
This requires a degree of precision timing, but it does work on the Nexus 7... and is very similar to how I access Safe Mode on my Samsung Galaxy S3, as the long press on the Power Off option doesn't work as it does on the Nexus 7.
Anyway... just some thoughts.
Rgrds,
Ged.
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cool i didnt know about the safe reboot from complete shut down, good to know:good:
Hi everyone,
So as I'm sure everyone is well aware, the buttons on the S6 Active are huge and very easy to press (probably designed to be used with gloves). Problem is, the phone frequently turns on in my pocket (I think) because the power button is somehow getting pressed. I'm looking for an app or setting that will require the power button to be double pressed to turn the screen on, or something to that effect. Has anyone found anything like this to save power?
Thanks for any help.
Mine did it a lot before I got a Supcase, now the buttons are a bit harder to press while in my pocket. I do notice that my phone screen turns on when a SMS comes thru, sometimes it'll do some crazy things if it registers touches.
Try putting a glass screen protector on. Pressing the home button brings up the lock screen, add does hitting the blue active button.
I bought my Note 8 brand new less than three weeks ago and I am noticing a fault with the home button. I don't use the always on display so when I go to use my device the screen is 100% off. I force press the virtual home button and the phone jumps to life....although in a faulty kind of way. The haptic feedback is random and the force required to press the button is random. Sometimes the screen turns on and there is a lag until the vibration feedback. It isn't a consistent button at all when the screen is off and I'm wondering if this is a hardware fault? I'm running the latest update.
Nobody has any home button issues when the screen is off? When using the always on display and the ambient light is low the always on display will be off, so in these situations will hard pressing the home button result in a consistently tactile operation each and every time?
Well, no, the home button behaves exactly as intended, in AOD, in homescreen and in any app, I even assigned it the lock screen behavior when long pressed
In general have never had issues with hard pressing with screen off, often when i fish my phone out my pocket i accidentally hard press and the vibration tells me so with no lag.
the only time there is a lag is when the phone just came out of a cold boot or if it's installing/updating stuff.
winol said:
Well, no, the home button behaves exactly as intended, in AOD, in homescreen and in any app, I even assigned it the lock screen behavior when long pressed
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Mine works fine for double taps of the home button within the AOD and for long presses when the screen is on. It is when the screen is fully off that the home button becomes temperamental. When it is too dark for the AOD to illuminate, or when the AOD is switched off and I press where the home button should be to wake the device....they're the scenarios when my pressure sensitive home button plays up. It should perform like a mechanical home button and wake the screen whether AOD is on or not, but 3 or 4 times out of 10 it plays up. It will still wake my device but it takes a harder/longer press, the press might not register at all, or the haptoc feedback will lag. The button becomes inconsistent and frustrating to use. So many people use the fingerprint sensor to unlock, the physical power button to wake the device or they're always in a well lit room so can double tap from the AOD that they won't come across this fault even if they have it.
Sunking, I dont think the light levels or anything else for that matter,make your button erratic, take your device to claim warranty