Hi,
I don' know if this is the right forum. I have a mecool KM2 android tv media player. The issue is that there is no option to turn off screensaver completely. In settings there is only to set the maximum of 2 hours before the screensaver kicks in. This is making every time the screensaver is loaded that programs like Kodi are shutdown and I have to restart them with all the necessary clicks to get back where I was last time. Is this a android tv missing feature to turn the screensaver completely off? Is there some other way to prevent the media player going into sleep mode?
Also unrelated to above, installing regular android apps on android tv is really hit and miss. Some apps won't start, and some when they start close unexpectedly.
Hope someone can point me into the right direction to solve this.
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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.
Sorry guys found a previous thread in another forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743861
Mods please delete.
I just bought the tasker app and figured I would let people know how its working for me, and to solicit suggestions for things I can do with it.
background:
Its a very good app that allows you to script the behavior of the phone based on a very large set of events or states.
My initial use:
As previously mentioned on this board the bluetooth streaming volume is not the loudest, so I always end up turning up the volume for bluetooth. Then when I plugin my headphones I destroy my eardrums.
So I setup a task that when I connect to my bluetooth car stereo, it automatically sets the volume to max and turns off wifi for good measure.
I have another task that when I plugin headphones, it sets the volume to 60% and opens the doubletwist music player.
Finally I setup the standard battery task so that when my battery gets to 20% it turns of all the GPS, wifi, and bluetooth radios, as well as dimming my screen.
Anyone else have this app and have something cool they have setup using it? I have heard of silent mode when the handset is placed flat facedown, which i thought was unique.
I have had it for a few days and am playing around with it. I have 2 tasks so far. First is to go to silent mode when face down. This is especially nice since I charge it overnight by my bed and don't want notifications (emails etc) waking me up so I have been just turning silent mode on at night and off in the morning. Sometime forgetting to turn on in the morning.
The 2nd task is to read the email sender and subject aloud when I am in the car and it is connected to my car stereo via bluetooth. I like the wifi off setting you did. I may do the same.
I also noticed that when listening to streaming through bluetooth with the wifi on but not connected to an ap, I get "skips" every once in awhile. Turning off wifi fixes it so I may set it to turn off wifi when streaming bluetooth audio.
Couple issues I have had. If the phone is in "standby" (pushing the power button) tasker won't go to silent mode. Also, I tried to make the screen go off when face down as well but it doesn't work. Apparently tasker can not turn the screen off but you are supposed to be able to change the timeout to as little as 7 seconds. I set that up but instead of the screen going off it just dims. Not sure of the issue.
I am interested in what others are doing so post the info.
I have two keyboards i really like in 2 different orientations.
Droid X keyboard:
its sweet autocorrections and large real estate makes it ideal for two thumb typing in landscape
swype:
slower than droid X keyboard in landscape, but in portrait, this is possibly the fastest/most accurate keyboard around.
I tried to set it up so that i could change my keyboards depending on the orientation, but i could not figure it out
im also for an app that turns your screen off with a timer (in the background). and have that work when you turn your screen downward./
any with either of these would be greatly appreciated.
can this be turned off in the settings? Sometimes when may girlfriend is running kodi she turns the tv off first which sends a power cycle command to the nexus player, but kodi picks it up and locks down the program somehow. The only thing I can do is pull the plug and restart.
Check the settings in Kodi. I know on the RasPi versions they have options to disable CEC response. Should be under input devices/peripherals if it is retained on the Android TV version. The Android TV itself should not be power cycling itself by default. Only thing I've ever seen it do is pause any currently playing media when the TV is shut off. But I may be completely wrong. I am still relatively new to the Nexus Player myself.
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
I barely interact with my head unit and as soon as it's booted up it launches music player app and continue playing last played track. So I have to switch off screen every time using the option located in swipe down menu. Is there a way to automate this so screen will automatically switch off when music player is running or if I haven't interacted with it for period of time just like in android phones?
I tried changing
Code:
screen_off_timeout
to 30000 using ADB. But that's seems to be making unit freeze time to time and the screen doesn't get switched off.