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Nexus 7 in car- lockscreen issues

So I decided last week to start using my nexus 7 in my car as a bigger screen for maps and music instead of my nexus 5. It's not a in dash mount, but got a nice lil holder that works very well.
So heres my set up thus far: stock rooted 4.4.2 and im using tasker to toggle airplane mode based on if power is present or not, as well as adjusting the screen time on (set to 23hrs when power is on, 15sec without power). Since I have the wifi model, i use a NFC tag to turn on hotspot on my phone when i put it in it's cradle in my car. Everything works great, fully functional, but I want to tweak some more.
I use google music, so those of you who do as well should know how awesome the lockscreen looks with the full screen album art when playing music via google play music.
I'd love to be able to take advantage of that lockscreen and have that stay on and not time out and turn off display. Does anyone know of a way that I could manage to have the screen not turn off when on the lockscreen?
I mainly want to do this because I don't like the the light theme of google music, hell I'd even be ok with if there could just be a dark/black theme option in the app, or rather all the google apps.
any and all help is appreciated. Thank you in advance.

google maps dim screen between turns

i like the dim screen feature and annoyed that you cant control it when you want it on or off, is there is mod to enable user control over this feature?
i am rooted with x-note rom

I recently posted a similar question on the CyanogenMod forum [1]:
I have been using the same installation of CyanogenMod 11 on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (variant for Canada AKA SM-N900W8 AKA hltecan) since I received my Galaxy Note 3 in 2015 May. I have configured CyanogenMod so that the display stays on while the computer is powered by the USB cable. (While the computer is powered by the battery and the battery is discharging, the display turns off after 1 minute of inactivity.) My problem is that I cannot find a way to disable the automatic dimming of the display while the computer is powered by the USB cable. My workaround is to touch the display after the display has automatically dimmed. However, this workaround does not work well when the computer is mounted on the windshield of my car and I am trying to watch a street map to follow a planned driving route. The automatic dimming makes the display too dim for me to read while I am driving. I have searched the Web, including this forum, but have not found a solution. I found a suggestion [1] to use the “Power Control” widget on the home screen but using that widget to change the display brightness does not disable the automatic dimming for me. I am using the build of CyanogenMod from “cm-11-20141112-SNAPSHOT-M12-hlte.zip”.
[1] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1615653
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[1] https://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic...-while-plugged-in-while-powered-by-usb-cable/

Places Edge Panel and high Google Services Battery Drain

For the last few days I have noticed that Google Play Services is my highest battery drainer (previously it was Android System). When you tap on Google Play Services in the battery monitor it suggests changing location settings. I have had the Places Edge panel set up to silence my phone and turn off wifi when I'm at work and enable sound and turn on wifi at home. I'm thinking that this might be aggressively polling GPS for my location. On my old phone I had Tasker set up to do this using Cell Near. I have set this up one the S7 Edge and want to disable Places. I have turned the panel off in the Edge panels settings, but I was wondering if this is enough to make it stop checking location or if there is something else I need to turn off or disable?

A few issues after switching to the S8

Hi
So I recently switched from a Google Nexus 5 to the Galaxy S8 and although there are a lot of things I like about the S8, there is also a few things that I do not like. Mostly this is software related.
Firstly, the quick toggles on the notification area, to quickly toggle WiFi, Bluetooth etc are a little strange. On my Nexus 5 with the stock rom (Android 6.0.x) and the LineageOS (Android 7.1.x) I could both turn on and off the wifi, bluetooth and other things without having to unlock the phone. Now with the S8, I have to unlock the phone to turn on the WiFi, but not to turn it off? This does not make any sense. Is there a way to change this? I noticed the same behaviour on my girlfriends S7 Edge, so it is clearly something in the stock Samsung ROM.
Another thing is related to the alarm clocks. On the stock Google Clock app, a notification would appear two hours before the alarm was due and allow me to cancel the alarm. Now with the Samsung ROM (Noticed this on the S7 Edge and the S8) these notifications do not appear and I cannot seem to find the settings for this, so that I can turn it on. Also I cannot find the settings for making the volume down key cancel the alarm instead of snoozing it.
Since the Samsung clock cannot be uninstalled or disabled, it would be stupid to install the stock Google Clock app to get these features back, but if this is the only way, then that might be what I have to do.
Can anyone tell me how to resolve the above issues or maybe provide a workaround for them?

Its a security thing, imagine if the phone is locked and you could turn off data/location, that would be pretty dumb wouldn't it?
Just download the google clock, you can disable the samsung one with a debloater tool.

Google Play keeps waking up device (turning screen on) when updating apps.

Hello everyone
I have a problem with my P10 Lite. Once the phone is plugged in to the charger google play automatically updates app, which is fine, however the screen always lights up once the app installs. On other phones e.g P20 Lite google play does this in the background. It is quite annoying when suddenly the screen turns on and off constantly as apps update.
Does anyone else have this problem and know of a fix?
Thanks in advance for your help.

No but either disable the notification in Google play or disable the screen turning on when you get notifications. That's the only solutions I can think of.