It's not working for me. When it detects HDMI the touchscreen stops responding. When I disconnected the cable or shake the device it doesn't turn back on. I have to reset the phone. I have a note 4. Any ideas?
When I try to capture something with my HTC One X, rooted, running Cyanogenmod 11, 4.4.4, KitKat, my phone A. Kills my battery and B. Runs hot. A fully charged phone attached to the original HTC charger end up with a dead battery in less than two hours. Obviously this has to do with my screen staying alive while recording. Enter Screen standby. I have now tried using Screen standby to do it's thing together with both the Google camera app that comes with Cyanogenmod and the OpenCamera app, but both cameras stops shooting when I switch to Screen standby. If I set a 15 seconds timer in Screen standby, switch to a camera and start recording, the screen don't go black. If I tell Screen standby to go to sleep when I start a camera, it does, literally. I have to shake the phone and start recording but then nothing more happens, except for another recording until my battery is dead.
It would seem Screen standby don't stay alive when I sweep down my top menu if a camera is recording, I don't see the icon. I started a youtube clip, pulled down the menu and I could select Screen standby to make my screen go black, and the song played on, so it's not broke.
What to do?
Ive got a Nexus 5 running lollipop and cant get the app to run properly. I have reset everything to default, have root and busybox installed. When I activate it, it goes black for a few seconds and then screen comes back on but says its still running. When I turn it off, the screen turns back to normal brightness. Its been hit and miss, and not sure whats going on. Any suggestions?
My Bad, Filedropper was a bad choice. I attached it directly to the forum post.
I tried this version with my Nexus 5 and lollipop but it's not working either (even less as the screen does not turn black).
Someone managed to make this app work with Lollipop ?
VIDEO CLIPS SHOWCASING THE APPS:
SEE NEW FEATURES IN ACTION!
SEE APP IN ACTION! (thanks Doctor.Krouch so much for the awesome clips)
All About Android - Episode 86 with a short review of Screen Standby
XDA TV Review of Screen Standby!
CooLoserTech·Top 10 Best Apps of the week # 171
INTRODUCTION
Hi everyone,
This is originally for HTC One X, however, I have ported it to the Galaxy Nexus and now it could work on all devices! (Galaxy S3 / Moto Razr / etc). "Screen Standby" will completely turn off the backlight while keeping the phone running for MHL / HDMI streaming|gaming. That means you can now watch movie / play games on big screen and can still turn off the screen (touch screen still works!).
FEATURES
- Switch off the screen temporarily without actually putting the phone into 'sleep mode'. The phone is still running! It saves your battery, avoids heating to prolong battery life
- Since 1.96, screen can be optionally turned into touchpad!
- It has a nice little widget that let you quickly turn the screen off from your homescreen
- Since version 1.5 beta 2, shaking your device will temporarily toggle between complete screen off and lowest brightness level (so that you can perform quick action without playing a blind guessing game)
- Non-root method now available with 1.98 Beta 7
- One two dimmer: Turn off screen automatically after an idling time (no user interaction)
- Simple interface
HOW TO TURN ON THE SCREEN AGAIN?
+ Click on the app notification on your status bar (since version 1.3) or
+ Simply put the phone into true sleep (short press power button) then turn it on (power button again)
+ Temporarily lid the light a bit by shaking the device (since 1.5b2, enable it in Menu -> Settings)
+ If you can't turn on using any of the above methods, press emergency button (in main app interface) to turn on / or use 2 by 1 widget
Installation
Install as normal apk No big deal
Remember, install and use as your own risk, even though I can't think of any damage this little app can cause to your phone
Changelogs:
ßeta 2 Changelog:
Add toggable UI: Metro and Android Dark Holo (in Settings -> Extra)
New feature: Outgoing call automator !
First ßeta Changelog:
- New! Setting Wizard to help user quickly and easily set up Screen Standby. Simply select your known-supported device (the list is expanding!
Please help me) and your use-case (Streaming movie / Playing ingress / Playing Youtube etc) and the wizard will automatically select the optimised preset for you!
- New! Screen Standby Search Plugin to help automate Screen Standby from Search key (long press search hardware-key or softkey) or Google Now gesture (swipe up from Home softkey on Jellybean device). The plugin can now open Screen Standby interface, activate / deactivate / toggle screen off or launch Remote Controller
- Added better Root & BusyBox checker and helper
- Added new Tasker intent to control screen standby:
com.nkahoang.screenstandby.action.TOGGLE : to toggle screen on and off automatically
com.nkahoang.screenstandby.action.REMOTE_CONTROL: to launch Remote Control from tasker
- Added new option to broadcast an intent to Tasker when HDMI is detected (go to my app's settings -> HDMI Detection -> Enable broadcast on HDMI Connection/Disconnection. Specify intent action (case-sensitive) for each case. Go to tasker, add New System Event -> Intent Received, type exactly the action intent you provided in Screen Standby). The best part is, HDMI Intent can also be broadcast without activating Screen Standby (yeah, so you can use SS as a HDMI sensor for tasker)
- Added ability to use Remote Controller with Wifi-Direct (if a warning message is shown, just click 'Continue Anyway')
Optimizations:
- Continued optimisation for Nexus 4
- Added wake-lock to One Two Dimmer
- Slightly tuned sensors
From user report:
Normally, with the same amount of time watching movie, battery drain drops from 30% down to just 2%!!!!!!!!!!!
Please report bugs / feedbacks / suggestions.
To help me solving your issue faster, since version 1.31, you may want to open the app, hit "Menu" key -> Print debug info. It will then generates a log file containing the required information. Please send that file over pm to me. Thank you
Special thanks to:
- ppmeis (helps with S2, now S3 / Transformer and lots of other stuffs)
- winsettr (helps with Galaxy Nexus compatibility and constant reports)
- mnsk (helps with his Sony and Iconia)
- cocatriz (helps with S2)
- TheDarkLux (helps with Galaxy S3)
- evilmtv (helps with problems on GB devices)
Coffee buyers:
Styles Vancleave
- agronick from AppRadio / ARLiberator forum
- jjwatmyself (and also thanks for his mention of my app on his thread)
- jdbaldi
- jhanson
- MichaelMotes
Youtube clip:
- Doctor.Krouch
Tutorial: Setup app to work with tasker / Llama
Follow the instruction of this post:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33073452&postcount=92 (Tasker)
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33073452&postcount=565 (Llama, thank Buzzthebuzzsaw)
DOWNLOAD
Stable version of app can be downloaded in attachments section on through Google Play Store. In addition, this thread will receive beta / experimental build in the future.
Archived build (1.1 to 1.96) can be downloaded from here