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This one aspect of my phone has been really bugging me. We don't have the option to disable the automatic locking of our phones. You could enable an infinite screen timeout, but that doesn't really solve the problem as it introduces a new problem (increased drain on the battery due to the display being on the whole time).
It'd be nice if we could control those two settings independently. One is to be able to control screen timeout, the other would be to enable/disable autolocking our phones.
The reason this is useful for someone like me is that I usually leave my phone on the desk when I'm not using it. In my situation the auto-locking is just a huge pain because I'm not worried about accidentally hitting any buttons while the phone is on the desk nor am I worried about security/privacy issues.
Anyone see a need?
I think lockbot gives you an option of how long before the lock screen goes into affect if you'd be willing to use an app for a lock screen...
erikikaz said:
This one aspect of my phone has been really bugging me. We don't have the option to disable the automatic locking of our phones. You could enable an infinite screen timeout, but that doesn't really solve the problem as it introduces a new problem (increased drain on the battery due to the display being on the whole time).
It'd be nice if we could control those two settings independently. One is to be able to control screen timeout, the other would be to enable/disable autolocking our phones.
The reason this is useful for someone like me is that I usually leave my phone on the desk when I'm not using it. In my situation the auto-locking is just a huge pain because I'm not worried about accidentally hitting any buttons while the phone is on the desk nor am I worried about security/privacy issues.
Anyone see a need?
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Well... I'll answer your question... But this won't be helpful (Just a warning )
A need? No.. I honestly don't find it troublesome to swipe my finger across the screen after pressing the trackball (or Power button if you're not rooted/haven't setup Trackball Wake)
So, I don't really see a need. But good luck finding someone to accomplish your request. Just seems like it'd be a fair amount of work, to remedy 1 seconds time... Just my $.02
Try ScreenModeWidget at market, free.
choose awake stay.
Try ScreenModeWidget at market, free.
choose awake stay.
Look in the market for "curvefish" he's a developer of widgets and has a lock screen on off widget that will let you turn it off then back on without having to reset the pattern. Hope that helps!
Keyguard disabler on the market. It works for me. I set it after a reboot and it works. It has a option to start on start but I just do it manually with the shortcut.
actually, i've been looking for the same solution as you are looking for! even i find it highly anoying when i keep the fone on my desk and have to sweep the screen each time i want to check it.
ideally, i'm looking for something likr what u get in the 5800.... the screen comes back on (after timning out) when you tap on the screen, unless u lock it explicitly via the hardware button...
neways, u kud try "no luck" which simply disables the lock screen. when the screen times out, pressing the hardware "home' or "lock/unlock" buttons brings the screen back on without having to go thru the unlock procedure...
Cheers,
I've been using touchscreen smartphones since the Omnia came out and never once have i needed a lock screen. I can't for the life of me work out why anyone would need anything more than a screen off/screen on button.
I'm using No Lock from the market now. It has a handy toggle widget/icon for enabling or disabling the lock function. As a bonus it allows screen wake on Trackball and volume buttons.
+1 for No Lock! It's the best way to get around that swipe pain.
I dock my phone during the night, and ideally, I'd like Daydream to kick in whilst it is docked (using Timely as the Daydream app). So far, so simple - just set this up under Display Settings, right?
The problem I have is that the screen goes blank (at some point - I'm not exactly sure when, although I have a suspicion it is when the battery reaches 100% charge). However, I'd quite like Daydream (i.e. Timely) to continue to be displayed so that when I wake up I can see the time. A small thing I know, but it's one of those mildly irritating things that gets more annoying each day
Previously, I had a Galaxy Nexus, and it does this without a problem, so 'something' is obviously blanking the screen on the Xperia Z (which I don't want happen).
Possibilities I've considered:
1. Use Smart Connect (or whatever it's called) to launch Timely when docked. This also seems to 'blank' the screen, seems to need the phone to be unlocked (I have, and must have, a PIN code lock), and it doesn't also seem to use Timely in full-screen nor in 'dim' mode.
2. Set up Tasker to disable whatever is blanking the screen when docked - definite possibility, but I've not figured out what is doing this. Also, setting the screen to not clear doesn't seem to work. Separately, I've tried to ensure the screen remains on whenever Endomondo is loaded/running, but this doesn't seem to 'stick', so I'm guessing it won't stick for the docked/Daydream scenario.
Would love to hear of any ideas, or ideally, solutions.
Thanks.
Screen dimming - requires single tap to "wake" - looking for a way to disable
So I am running a stock Sprint HTC One (Android 4.4.2, software version 5.03.651.3) and for months now (for some reason, I thought I first noticed this behavior right after 4.3 got pushed out), there is a single behavior that has perplexed me, and despite trying various configuration changes, I cannot seem to get it to resolve.
I currently have all power-saving features disabled, screen timeout set to 1 minute, automatic brightness enabled (slider, which shouldn't make any difference, is set to the middle), daydream is disabled, and developer options are on with no screen timeout while charging enabled.
What seems to happen is that after about 1 minute (also the duration set for screen timeout, which initially made me wonder), the screen (while plugged in and charging) will dim slightly, maybe about 50% of the standard brightness when the phone is actively being used, and I have to tap the screen (not the double-tap I have been reading about, which supposedly isn't even implemented yet) just once to dismiss the dimming in order to register touch input.
At first, I checked Daydream a bunch of times, enabled it, disabled it, changed settings, and it seemed to have nothing to do with it, because when I did enable Daydream, I got the real screensaver or colored screensaver that I had chosen in the options.
I then disabled auto-brightness, set the manual brightness level to minimum, maximum, and a dozen levels in between, and I still got the dimming that required a single tap to restore use of the screen and brought the brightness back up to its normal level.
I made a bunch of power saving changes, enabled, disabled, to no avail.
Three factory resets later, (tested with no installed apps) I still have the same behavior. It seems like there is a setting that is enabling some sort of screen saver (that only dims the screen to about 50% of the set brightness level, but disables interaction from the user until the screen is tapped a single time) that is dismissed with that single tap.
I've gotten used to it, but it's really infuriating, especially in the car when I have it mounted on the dash for things like GPS, streaming audio (I just want to be able to see what song is playing if it's a new album), and other things that require a glance over to the phone. Sadly, in the car is probably the worst time for the dimming, since the ambient light outside makes the screen appear off when this "feature" kicks in.
I've spent a great deal of time searching/reading threads not only here, but on other mobile forums as well, and I cannot even find a reference to this issue that behaves the same way mine does.
This is my Hail Mary in the hopes that I really have missed something simple.
Thanks in advance for any ideas!
I normally don't have capacitive button phones (or disbale the backlights on Samsungs) and this is my first DROID phone.. but I do notice that the capactive buttons backlight will auto turn off outdoors or in areas with a lot of light.
Has anyone found a way to manually disable the capactive button backlight without root? Is it even possible without root? I'd like to turn them off, becomes a bit of a distraction when watching videos or reading in the dark. Hopefully Motorola will put in an option in the near future.
Also, is anyone else kind of disappointed that Motorola did not implement the new graphic button layout design that Android 5.0 Lollipop will use? I understand it might be confusing to some newcomers or people in general, but I wish it was done personally. They were plenty aware of 5.0's layout. Just a weird oversight.
The Lux app allows you to turn them off.
I accomplished it by using Screen Filter and auto-launching it on startup with AutoStart.
I'm coming from the same background, a Galaxy S3 with the capacitive backlights turned off (CM11) and an S5 right after that briefly (they have that feature built into the OS).
So far literally the only complaint I've had is the backlight on my recent app-switcher is super uneven, likely an air-bubble in the glue. It bothered me having it on because it was uneven and this was my solution (which I prefer to having the lights enabled, even if it was an even distribution).
Pardon if this is a noob question, but can you turn this feature off? I tend to use my phone one handed... I'm a heavy user of the notification panel, and what I'm finding is that I typically drag from the corner due to the ergonomics of my thumb and the size of the screen.
Whenever I do this inside of an app, bam, it's minimized into split screen mode. It's happening so often I want to punch things.
So can we turn this feature off? I couldn't find a setting so without an unlocked bootloader I suspect not?
A related question... I'm curious if anyone actually uses this feature with any frequency? I used to do all the usability testing for AT&T's new phone launches and always had trouble coming up with a realistic scenario that wouldn't be better served by just switching between open apps in full screen mode (heck we have a dedicated button for this!)... But I'm only one user, curious what others think.
Idk about turning it off, but I use it sometimes. Screen is a bit small to use split screen to it potential but it has it's uses, like sometimes I watch a video on YouTube while reading the reddit thread that goes with it. Also filling out or replicating forms and applications for jobs with information I don't know off hand. That's about all I've come up with this far.
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elguapo84 said:
Pardon if this is a noob question, but can you turn this feature off? I tend to use my phone one handed... I'm a heavy user of the notification panel, and what I'm finding is that I typically drag from the corner due to the ergonomics of my thumb and the size of the screen.
Whenever I do this inside of an app, bam, it's minimized into split screen mode. It's happening so often I want to punch things.
So can we turn this feature off? I couldn't find a setting so without an unlocked bootloader I suspect not?
A related question... I'm curious if anyone actually uses this feature with any frequency? I used to do all the usability testing for AT&T's new phone launches and always had trouble coming up with a realistic scenario that wouldn't be better served by just switching between open apps in full screen mode (heck we have a dedicated button for this!)... But I'm only one user, curious what others think.
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There isn't a way to disable it without root. The pop-up display can't be disabled either, and I trigger it accidently all the time. Waste of space on a phone if you ask me.
“MultiWindow Toggle for Samsung” allows you to disable the feature. It's available from the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nerd.multiwindowtoggle