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Screen Not Dimming With Auto Shut Off Disabled?

Please bear with me as this may be a dumb newbie question. I searched every post on the Imagio section here and at PPC and was unable to find an answer.
Got the Imagio for my wife and she's loving it (we had Storms previously- bad, bad mojo). She uses Groovefish to stream music and the stock dimmer setting will shut down the player after the time limit is reached. No problem, right? Changed the setting to stop this (never auto shut down on battery power).
Now, the screen will dim somewhat when left idle, but never shuts down all the way. It's dim but still active. She's been having to change the setting every time in order to not kill the battery.
Should the screen power down all the way while leaving the device active (like hitting the "shut off screen option" after holding the end button)? If not, is there a way to do this?
Thanks for any insight you may be able to provide. I've done nothing but Blackberries for years and this is my first real foray into WinMo.

Try to check the power settings. Go to the Settings Tab and push All settings at the bottom. From there go to System > Power > then click the Advanced tab. That should have settings to turn off the screen after 1 min or 30 seconds.

Thanks for the quick reply. I probably should have been a bit more clear.
It is in that menu that I have been manipulating the settings. There are two options for battery power. There is one to "turn off backlight" after x amount of time, the other is to "turn off device". With backlight set to 30 (or whatever) and device disabled, the screen never completely goes off.
It functions properly with "turn device off" enabled, but interrupts Groovefish when playing. This does not interfere with the native TF3D media player. While its not the end of the world if she ends up having to change that setting to use the program, it would be nice to be able to disable the screen with a partial shutdown (and extra battery drain when using that application).
Cheers!

Thats interesting, seems like its the program thats doing that. I have Opera, FM radio, email client, etc. running all day without it crashing. I have seen this before with Internet Explorer where i would leave it running connected to a website. then when i check back IE is gone and i have to start it again. By any chances is this a website or an installable app that you are using?

Groovefish is a streaming music client that is installed on the device
BTW, it is incredibly cool if you don't have it yet. Stream just about any song you want for free (legally).
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=88505

I use g-trigger to shake my phone to turn off the display works great! Just disable the shake to turn it back on.

I'll give it a shot and see if the application stays running. Many thanks!

Actually I think backlight off is happening when it "dims". You need the screen to go off, not just the backlight. Try using xdaShutdown to go into Lightsout mode and see if that works for you. The program can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544016
Skins in the same thread as well.

Ambient Display on 5.1 turns on screen fully when using media buttons

Hey guys,
Don't know if you've noticed yet, but Ambient Display on the N6 5.1 turn on the screen fully when playing/pausing/skipping from a BT device (possibly inline headphone media controls as well, but I don't have those to test). This means that it will turn on in your pocket when changing/pausing songs (it doesn't use proximity sensor). It also means that if you're navigating with the screen off and listening to audio, it will turn on every time you press a media button on your bluetooth radio, and since navigation keeps the screen on, it will stay on.
I honestly don't know if it's a bug or if it's another one of Google's brilliant "features", but I have created a bug report. If this annoys you please take a few seconds to star it: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=160035
I have also created a thread on the Nexus product forums https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/nexus/nexus-6/oZ1RlOeZ-Q0
Thanks.

I just noticed my phone did it this morning in my car listening to music. Kind of annoying but for me its not a big deal.
thanks,

There are 2 ways around this. Either disable ambient display, or set up smart lock and add your BT device as trusted. Had the same issue with my car radio but after setting the screen lock and trusted device, the screen stays dark. Hope this helps.

goinflyn said:
There are 2 ways around this. Either disable ambient display, or set up smart lock and add your BT device as trusted. Had the same issue with my car radio but after setting the screen lock and trusted device, the screen stays dark. Hope this helps.
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My BT stereo is already a trusted device. Could you double check this, please? Check if Ambient display is working first, cause yesterday after messing with it, I couldn't enable it until a reboot.

andy o said:
My BT stereo is already a trusted device. Could you double check this, please? Check if Ambient display is working first, cause yesterday after messing with it, I couldn't enable it until a reboot.
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I also have my BT headset as a Trusted Device and can confirm that my display still wakes on play/pause events. Very frustrating, nearly enough that I'd switch back to wired headphones.

apraetor said:
I also have my BT headset as a Trusted Device and can confirm that my display still wakes on play/pause events. Very frustrating, nearly enough that I'd switch back to wired headphones.
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I found a fix, pretty much by blind luck at the Tasker user help forum, using Tasker and the Secure Settings plugin. You may need to be rooted though. Not sure cause it's not on the "root actions" section of Secure Settings, but I think you have to be.
When setting up the plugin task, select Actions -> Device Setting. Then on Setting Table, "secure". Setting name, "doze_enabled", and Setting Value, "0" for off, "1" for on.
It's still ridiculous that this is happening though.

Issue with Pandora closing when screen sleeps

I've been having a problem recently work Pandora on my Axon 7. Music streams without any problems when the app is open or running in the background, but if I sleep the display the app stops running. Even if the app was open as on-screen. This doesn't with any of my other music steaming or player apps. I did a bit of research and found that power saving settings can closer it but this happens even of I turn off Smart power-saves and all power saving settings/policies. Has anyone r run into this before on their A7 or even another phone or is this normal behavior for Pandora?

gumbyx84 said:
I've been having a problem recently work Pandora on my Axon 7. Music streams without any problems when the app is open or running in the background, but if I sleep the display the app stops running. Even if the app was open as on-screen. This doesn't with any of my other music steaming or player apps. I did a bit of research and found that power saving settings can closer it but this happens even of I turn off Smart power-saves and all power saving settings/policies. Has anyone r run into this before on their A7 or even another phone or is this normal behavior for Pandora?
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What firmware you on,
I believe there was an issue on b29 or 27, the power saver settings didn't really work as in background app killing, it just killed everything lol
Have a look in the thread somewhere, can't remember where i read it

I'm on B29. This doesn't happen with all apps so I don't know why the power settings would be affecting it, especially if I shut the power saving settings off

Problem GPS apps like Strava & Runtastic stops functionin after a while in background

Problem GPS apps like Strava & Runtastic stops functionin after a while in background
Have A2017G at 7.1.1B04. I have installed both "Strava" and "Runtastic Road Bike" apps for GPS tracking my bike rides.
I start recording a session but after a while when I wake the screen and press capasitive-the-background-apps-listin-button to pick the app,
it restarts the app instead of continue its activity.
How could I fix the issue?

residento said:
Have A2017G at 7.1.1B04. I have installed both "Strava" and "Runtastic Road Bike" apps for GPS tracking my bike rides.
I start recording a session but after a while when I wake the screen and press capasitive-the-background-apps-listin-button to pick the app,
it restarts the app instead of continue its activity.
How could I fix the issue?
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Go to power management (hold the Smart power tile on the dropdown) --> Power Management for apps --> select the app and turn everything off

Thanks.

I'm having the same issue with Strava. I've adjusted my power settings (per app and phone settings) for no power saving but it still stops gps recording about 20 mins into my ride.
Same phone, axon 7, no root or custom rom. Have you managed to fix it?

cjay85 said:
I'm having the same issue with Strava. I've adjusted my power settings (per app and phone settings) for no power saving but it still stops gps recording about 20 mins into my ride.
Same phone, axon 7, no root or custom rom. Have you managed to fix it?
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It fixed mine. After disabling all 3 power settings for each GPS apps, they continue to record and run for hours.

Me too I'm having same problem on stock...very annoying. Must be other settings which stop this from happening.

[solution] lockscreen timeout

So my mxpe lockscreen wasnt timing out at all, using latest google phone wakes up the device leaving lockscreen opened and if plugging in the turbopower waking the lockscreen it would stay opened. I found this solution to work.
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Ok. So recently I used "power saving" mode. I took it off immediately after I didn't need it any longer. For some reason, the Android system on my phone didn't register that, so my phone lock screen kept time-outing after 3-seconds (kinda annoying when trying to use Samsung Pay).
Anyways, do what I did: simply go to Settings>System>Battery>Power Saving Mode>On
Then just turn it back off. Kinda like cycling it, but only once. This time around, my Edge seemed to pick it up, and register it. My timeout screen is now longer than those annoying 3-seconds.
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I guess it didnt fix it. The sleep when in active is set for screen and lock screen. This sux. I have sleep set @30min so my lockscreen will stay alive for 30min.

Found a real solution that works. Found here.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/s...n-doesnt-turn-off-ignores-timeout-option.html
Some stated to goto developer options/running services and kill one by one each service and power off the screen and back on till timeout works on screen well I did this and found that Material Notification Shader kept the timeout screen from timing out so I disabled the app and I have a timeout on the screen after I power on the screen and/or plug in the power cord.