How to increase the time the lock screen stays on for

[Sunny Rio]

I'm referring to the time between pressing the power button to switch on the screen, to the time the screen goes off again if I don't enter the PIN/pattern.

It used to annoy me a little, if the phone was slow doing BOINC, it would time out before it had acknowledged my pattern.

But now I've found a bigger annoyance, one which is not so unique to me. I switched on the ability to read a text on the lock screen. How the hell do I read a text in 5 seconds? What were Google thinking?!

It would appear there's no setting for this apart from using the front camera to stay awake while you're looking at the phone. But my front camera got cracked....

There's an app called Caffeinate but as per usual with Google's over the top security on modern versions of Android, it's no longer compatible.

Any ideas?

 

[ocnbrze]

Why are you always blaming Google? Why not also blame the manufacturer? They add more stuff to your device than Google does. What phone do you have?

Samsung has an Always On Display which i love. it will not only display the time, but also any notifications that comes thru.

 

[Sunny Rio]

I blame Google because all phones do this. And I doubt Samsung would adjust my timeout to make it unusable.

Always on? Doesn't that use the battery up with the backlight? Or is it unlit?

Anyway we don't all have such luxuries.

 

[ocnbrze]

I blame Google because all phones do this. And I doubt Samsung would adjust my timeout to make it unusable.

Always on? Doesn't that use the battery up with the backlight? Or is it unlit?

Anyway we don't all have such luxuries.

Always on display does drain the battery, but it is minimal.....never been an issue with me. works great on my lockscreen as i can see my notifications when they come in.

 

[Sunny Rio]

Can anyone have an always on display? Make the phone (with an app?) leave the screen on, but leave the light off? Or does it need a special type of screen?

 

[nickdalzell]

There's an app on Play Store called Always On Edge, that will run on any Android phone, but Always-on-display is more effective on an AMOLED display since there's no backlight and the AOD uses the few minimal pixels to display its info. So it's only going to exist on an AMOLED and likely a more expensive phone.

Always On Edge works on any phone but since an IPS LCD that's on many Android phones uses a full-grid LED backlight, the battery drain on such a display will be worse than on an AMOLED display. However, this app has a setting to turn itself off if the battery drops below a user-defined percentage level. I used to use it on a Galaxy A01 and it worked alright.

The last phones that utilized a display that didn't need a backlight were using what's called a 'transreflective LCD display' which meant in the right light it could still display info (such as the clock or a screensaver) but with the backlight off. It was almost like e-paper. The last smartphone I remember that used that was the Nokia N95.

 

[Sunny Rio]

There's an app on Play Store called Always On Edge, that will run on any Android phone, but Always-on-display is more effective on an AMOLED display since there's no backlight and the AOD uses the few minimal pixels to display its info. So it's only going to exist on an AMOLED and likely a more expensive phone.

Always On Edge works on any phone but since an IPS LCD that's on many Android phones uses a full-grid LED backlight, the battery drain on such a display will be worse than on an AMOLED display. However, this app has a setting to turn itself off if the battery drops below a user-defined percentage level. I used to use it on a Galaxy A01 and it worked alright.

The last phones that utilized a display that didn't need a backlight were using what's called a 'transreflective LCD display' which meant in the right light it could still display info (such as the clock or a screensaver) but with the backlight off. It was almost like e-paper. The last smartphone I remember that used that was the Nokia N95.

Will any of those apps allow the lock screen to stay on for say a few minutes, but then go off?