Like many I assume, I have my watch on charge on my bed side table, and use the alarm clock function to wake me in the morning.
What is slightly annoying is that when it is on charge, the watch face turns itself off after a few seconds, and you have to touch the screen to wake up the display to see the time if you wake up in the night.
Now by accident, after reading this thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/watch-sport/help/lg-watch-sport-adb-t3554776
I have turned on developer options, and I now have the option while under developer options, to 'stay awake when charging'.
Now when the watch is charging, the screen rotates as usual, shows the time with charge status as before, but now, the display does not time out but remains on! The perfect bedside clock while on charge!
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However, is there any downsides to having the display on all night with the potential to damage the display?
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Both with the default ATT ROM as well as with the TILT AKU.0.7.0 ROM my phone will not turn the screen off when docked.
I have the backlight and power settings adjusted to allow the phone to turn off the screen after 1 minute and turn off after 5 minutes.
When docked, instead of going dark and powering off per my settings, the screen drops to about a 20-30% brightness level and the phone never turns off.
I supsect some app may be keeping the phone awake, but disabling my plugins did not make a difference.
Anyone else experience this behavior?
I have an unlocked TyTN II, with stock HTC ROM, and thats how it's always been out of the box.
Maybe I'm just used to how my old Hermes behaved.
I noticed this too. Now if someone knew how this could be deactivated so the screen was completely off, that would be nice.
-James
The Kaiser's screen, unlike Hermes, is not transreflective and if the backlight is off, the display is completely blank. HTC elected to have the display stay ON at a minimal brightness when the timer runs out.
At first I wasn't happy but at night, navigating, I like the fact that it auto-dims while attached to a charge cord.
Perhaps is supposed to be this way, but I have noticed that my backlight won't turn off when plugged in - even though set to turn off after 2 minutes when plugged in. Instead of turning off, it seems to revert to a dim mode - but the light still remains on. I have to manually turn it off. Any thoughts?
That's what it does. Unless the phone is off, the display can't be turned completely off. This is because the screen is not transreflective.
I understand that, but the trouble is that the backlight remains on. Surely that's not supposed to happen, right?
no, thats not normal behaviour.
do you have anything running in the background? its sometimes a good idea to go into the settings and untick the boxes, soft reset the device, then put the settings back the way you want them. This has worked for me in the past.
Are you talking when the device is plugged into the USB port w/ ActiveSync running? If so that is how it works - device will stay on.
If you are talking about plugged into AC then it should power off after x amount of minutes.
To be clear, if the phone is ON, the backlight will always be ON. This is different from the previous Hermes/8525 that had a transreflective screen which could be seen in bright light with the backlight off.
The Kaiser/Tilt's don't have transreflective displays so they changed the backlight control to dim instead of OFF. When the display brightness slider is put to minimum or the display timer expires the display just dims.
Pressing the power button and going to standby is the only way to turn off the display that I'm aware of.
Now, Auto Power off after a timer expire is different. If you set the power settings to turn off after 2 minutes while on A/C, the Kaiser will turn off, IF it's not connected to Active Sync, and IF there isn't some other application keeping the phone alive (Apps like iNav keep the phone alive).
Hi guys,
I've got a little problem with my official Samsung docking station.
As soon as the battery gets fully charged the displays turns on and won't switch off automatically again, so every night the display is running for several hours, showing the dock clock until I wake up and turn it off.
I'm quite worried about early AMOLED wear-out or burn in issues because of this and am wondering if there is any way to prevent this behavior.
Thanks in advance!
I just got this watch yesterday. When I first placed it on the charging cradle, it would make a little chime when it started charging, the screen would rotate, and it would show a clock and the charging percentage.
It didn't ship with the latest Android version. After it charged a bit, I got the notice that there was a system update. I installed it and everything went fine and it updated to build NQF430.
Now I'm noticing that when I place it on the charger, it no longer makes a sound and the screen doesn't rotate. I'm not 100% sure it was related to the update as I didn't notice right away, but I am sure that at the moment, the sound and charging screen showing the clock and battery percentage have disappeared.
It is charging just fine and if I wake it, I see the lightning bolt icon at the top, but there's no longer any special charging screen.
Note that I have "always on" disabled, but even if I enable it, when the watch is on the charger, it just dims to the ambient version of the watchface, not a special charging screen.
Am I missing something here? Is there some setting to bring back the clock functionality?
Hi,
I noticed on the default wallpaper for the always on display, you have two variants of the background. One is completely black except for the stars at the top, and the other has a grey gradient in the same place. When the AoD activates, the gradients turns off after a minute or so, leaving only the stars. This is all fine and dandy, but when charging the phone the gradient comes on and *stays* on, even when charging is done (at least when wireless charging).
This concerns me because if the phone sits on the dock all day, then I fear that grey gradient is going to be responsible for burn-in eventually because it's not moving like everything else on the AoD does every minute or so.
Is this common behaviour? Thinking about just turning Infinity wallpapers off if they're going to be dumb like that, as I'm at home a lot and so the phone will sit on the charging dock a bunch, and I don't want the risk of burn in from that.
Well, it has been said a lot, AOD moves, and the parts that appear static, switch pixels on and off, now, it is not good to have the phone charging all the time! It will degrade your battery
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Well, it has been said a lot, AOD moves, and the parts that appear static, switch pixels on and off, now, it is not good to have the phone charging all the time! It will degrade your battery
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I was under the belief that charging was a lot smarter these days and trickled once fully charged, explicitly to stop the degradation of the battery, which means it should be fine. Since you can't exactly turn the wireless charger on and off easily it would defeat the purpose of it having a docking stand, no?
My issue is the gradient is quite bright and doesn't appear to move. Maybe it flickers but considering the uneven brightness I just cannot see how this is good for the screen in the long run when the other 75% of it is completely black except for the clock elements which do move.
Yes, the original samsung chargers are designed to stop sending power once 100% is attained, but this is the first bad thing, charging to 100% puts some stress to the batt, the second one is, when charge reaches 100%, stops charging, as a little time passes and charge level drops, the charging ressumes, and so on, until you disconnect the phone, the optimal charge range is between 20-80 %, okay, that when being extra careful about batt helth, but search about leaving the phone connected for very long periods of time, you will find in detail what I try to say
My research doesn't seem to share your conclusions. Have you got verifiable sources on that?
Take a look at this:
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
just one, there are others out there