Running kitkat stock, with nova launcher, I've noticed that if I try trigger Ok Google voice search while my phone is charging, it will only actually trigger and launch the search after I unplug the phone from charging.
Has anyone heard or read of this behavior before? It's very strange and I can't pinpoint when it started happening.
Thank you
Bump! Still looking for some help.
To summarize, Ok Google is not working while charging. Works fine when not charging. Use stock Kitkat 4.4.4 with Nova Launcher.
maybe its a nova launcher issue
I've noticed when charging, the phone will wake/activate Ok Google about 1/10 times. When not charging, it's pretty consistent.
At this point in testing, it's random for charging vs non-charging.
Is anyone here using Nova Launcher that can chime in?
I don't think it has anything to do with charging. I will say "Ok Google" and nothing will happen, then I turn on the screen and it pops up. I think it has to do with the screen being off and the device being in deep sleep or something. After I wake it up and turn it back off though, it will wake up the screen with the hotword.
EDIT: After re-reading, I'm now thinking you mean it wont work at all even with the screen on?
Just tested, and off the charger/on the charger doesn't matter, it's for sure a screen on/off issue.
This is odd, as it used to work on my charger at night, screen off, responding to "Ok Google", now it will only work with the screen on. Just confirmed this with 10 tests w/ screen on vs screen off.
Mysticodex said:
Just tested, and off the charger/on the charger doesn't matter, it's for sure a screen on/off issue.
This is odd, as it used to work on my charger at night, screen off, responding to "Ok Google", now it will only work with the screen on. Just confirmed this with 10 tests w/ screen on vs screen off.
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Google has been updating and changing this feature quite a bit.
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G1ForFun said:
Google has been updating and changing this feature quite a bit.
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Randomly yesterday while screen off and charging. OK Google woke up my phone. I am very confused at what could be getting into the way at this point.
I have disabled Xposed Framework, which includes GravityBox, and will continue testing.
The issue boils down to this, on or off the charger, it is delayed response to OK Google. Any ideas?
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Hi all. Since updating to 2.3.5 my screen randomly lights up. The phone will be just sitting on the table, next to bed etc and the screen will light up for a few seconds and the turn off.
Not been on a stock ROM in a while, but I do remember hearing about this problem when the update rolled out. Just can’t remember if the problem was solved. Had a quick search and no joy. I'll keep looking. I have a theory though...
I had this problem once, and it was down to an app and the WiFi sleep policy. The WiFi sleep policy was set to ’15 minutes’ so the app was occasionally forcing a wake-lock to stop the WiFi from shutting off. This would also cause the screen to come on briefly. Could it be something like that? Sorry I can’t remember what the app was. Try leaving WiFi off and see if that stops it. If not successful try leaving auto-sync off. It will at least rule out or confirm something trying to force a wake-lock to sync something.
Edit: Does this do it only when on charge? Try opening up Car Dock Mode, and turning off 'Auto Launch'.
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Not been on a stock ROM in a while, but I do remember hearing about this problem when the update rolled out. Just can’t remember if the problem was solved. Had a quick search and no joy. I'll keep looking. I have a theory though...
I had this problem once, and it was down to an app and the WiFi sleep policy. The WiFi sleep policy was set to ’15 minutes’ so the app was occasionally forcing a wake-lock to stop the WiFi from shutting off. This would also cause the screen to come on briefly. Could it be something like that? Sorry I can’t remember what the app was. Try leaving WiFi off and see if that stops it. If not successful try leaving auto-sync off. It will at least rule out or confirm something trying to force a wake-lock to sync something.
Edit: Does this do it only when on charge? Try opening up Car Dock Mode, and turning off 'Auto Launch'.
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thanx for the answer friend.i ll try it.
efialtis1971 said:
Hi all. Since updating to 2.3.5 my screen randomly lights up. The phone will be just sitting on the table, next to bed etc and the screen will light up for a few seconds and the turn off.
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I noticed this too, but only on a Sense 3.5 ROM...Endymion (because, frankly, i didn't care much about any other Sense ROM to stay on it long enough to notice anything) ...but for me, the screen only lit up like a camera flash, just for a fraction of a second! not for a couple of seonds as you have experienced. Been on ICS betas, and RCs and currently on Reaper, but this issue never repeated itself. So far, this has happened to me only on a Sense 3.5 ROM...and my setup, sync frequency, installed apps hardly ever varies from ROM to ROM...I'm pretty consistent about how i like to use my phone.
And frankly, even when this was happening, i didn't bother much because it wasn't affecting performance or battery life... Sense is quirky, to say the least, but i've learnt to tolerate it like you would a sexy girlfriend. If it's sexy enough, it can get away with anything!!
I had this issue on the stock 2.3.3 ROM.
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I can confirm that issue, like enigmaamit described it. I'm on endy 3.4. Weird...
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I had the same issue but just one time few minutes after i pluged my phone .
Same here with MIUI... Just for a 1/10 of a second...
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I get this on ICS (virtuos quattro) when screen is off and charging, like half a second on and off again...
i've had this issue with pretty much every ROM, actually had it since i've had the phone. The phone lights up for a quick second. Enough for you to realise when your eyes are closed. i don't pay much attention to it anymore. But i don't think mine lasts seconds like yours. Mine was just a blank screen flashing
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i've had this issue with pretty much every ROM, actually had it since i've had the phone. The phone lights up for a quick second. Enough for you to realise when your eyes are closed. i don't pay much attention to it anymore. But i don't think mine lasts seconds like yours. Mine was just a blank screen flashing
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Hmm I think I'm only one but I gess not. It flash for like 0,1-0.2 sec. Just a little bit and I have seen it only in night when room is dark but I'd you don't motivated hardline to see. Flash is low light with blank screen
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I hate this. Every time I plug the phone in or place it on the wireless charger, the screen comes on. When it hits 100%, the screen comes on again. This is completely unnecessary.
Does anyone know of a way to disable that?
Exposed could, but we know how that goes...
It's not available for the S6?
Nope
Bummer. It really helped with a lot of things on the S4. Is it in the works?
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Bummer. It really helped with a lot of things on the S4. Is it in the works?
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AFAIK, there's a working version for Lollipop. How compatible it is with the S6, I do not know.
just ignore it? The phone turns itself back off in 5 seconds.
Wow, yeah, you're right. Why would I take some little pet peeve about my phone and expect to find help from a community of people who dedicate their time to such things as removing the name of your carrier from your lock screen? Maybe we'd all be better off if we just sucked it up and lived with everything exactly the way the phone came out of the box.
I've worked around this in the past using Tasker and Screen Filter. Just set tasker to activate a fully black screen filter on top of your screen for a few seconds whenever the phones is sat on a wireless charger. Same thing when it's fully charged. Works great.
Not for everyone
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just ignore it? The phone turns itself back off in 5 seconds.
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I like to have the phone set to "screen always on when charging" so when i have it plugged in and am sort of using it, the screen won't time out on me. However, I don't need the screen on when it's not in "use". So with the phone set to screen always on when charging, it suchs that it awakes once 100% charged or when notifications come across and then stays on. This is exactly why all the customization mods are so beneficial. I don't wan't the screen to ever turn on, unless I initiate. Where can I choose that without a custom rom or mod of some sort, I don't think its possible. Anyone got a good option for me?
As the title states, my screen won't time out. It started happening a few hours ago. I'll leave my phone down, it'll dim the screen, but it won't shut the screen off. I have the timeout setting set for 30 seconds. Ironically enough, this happened to my first note 5 and I thought it was a manufacture defect so I exchanged it for a brand new Note 5 and now the issue came back. Any one know what I can do to alleviate this problem? Is an app causing the screen to stay on? I'm not sure what to do at this point. Any advice would be great.
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As the title states, my screen won't time out. It started happening a few hours ago. I'll leave my phone down, it'll dim the screen, but it won't shut the screen off. I have the timeout setting set for 30 seconds. Ironically enough, this happened to my first note 5 and I thought it was a manufacture defect so I exchanged it for a brand new Note 5 and now the issue came back. Any one know what I can do to alleviate this problem? Is an app causing the screen to stay on? I'm not sure what to do at this point. Any advice would be great.
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I seemed to have the same problem and then noticed my pen was ever so slightly out. I had already tried restarting, and that didn't help, but then put the pen back in and it's been fine since.
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As the title states, my screen won't time out. It started happening a few hours ago. I'll leave my phone down, it'll dim the screen, but it won't shut the screen off. I have the timeout setting set for 30 seconds. Ironically enough, this happened to my first note 5 and I thought it was a manufacture defect so I exchanged it for a brand new Note 5 and now the issue came back. Any one know what I can do to alleviate this problem? Is an app causing the screen to stay on? I'm not sure what to do at this point. Any advice would be great.
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I seem to be having the same problem. I only notice it when it's charging. I hit the lock button and screen goes off, but it goes back on again if I get a notification. I get up in the middle of the night and the screen is on, very dim but on nonetheless. My spen is not out, I checked that also.
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drot84 said:
I seemed to have the same problem and then noticed my pen was ever so slightly out. I had already tried restarting, and that didn't help, but then put the pen back in and it's been fine since.
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cmraymond said:
I seem to be having the same problem. I only notice it when it's charging. I hit the lock button and screen goes off, but it goes back on again if I get a notification. I get up in the middle of the night and the screen is on, very dim but on nonetheless. My spen is not out, I checked that also.
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Hey guys, thanks for your responses. It seems as though it was an app that was causing this timeout issue. I just manually uninstalled some apps that I never use/came with the phone and all is back to normal. Thanks for your replies!
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Hey guys, thanks for your responses. It seems as though it was an app that was causing this timeout issue. I just manually uninstalled some apps that I never use/came with the phone and all is back to normal. Thanks for your replies!
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May I ask what apps you Uninstalled that nay have caused this, because m8nrme is still doing it. It only does it when it is charging and I get an email or message notification. Could that be the problem? I would hate to turn off messaging notifications.
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If anyone is interested. I think I figured out the problem. I went into developer options and unchecked screen awake while charging. Stupid mistake, I have no idea why that would be turned on by default.
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May I ask what apps you Uninstalled that nay have caused this, because m8nrme is still doing it. It only does it when it is charging and I get an email or message notification. Could that be the problem? I would hate to turn off messaging notifications.
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If anyone is interested. I think I figured out the problem. I went into developer options and unchecked screen awake while charging. Stupid mistake, I have no idea why that would be turned on by default.
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Hey man sorry for the delayed response. I actually didn't have screen awake on in developer mode. As for the app culprit, I'm not sure which app was keeping my screen on but I suggest disbaling/uninstalling every app that you don't use/need. It worked for me and hasn't been giving me a problem since then.
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If anyone is interested. I think I figured out the problem. I went into developer options and unchecked screen awake while charging. Stupid mistake, I have no idea why that would be turned on by default.
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It could be if you had your carrier transfer stuff for you. We use developer options to turn USB debugging on. Also states to use the stay awake while charging option. Doesn't require it but lets us transfer without interruption. Just make sure its switched off under developer options.
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Got a problem when using Google maps for navigation with the screen dimming and then after about a minute the screen switches off completely, am I missing a setting somewhere to stop this happening? Thanks
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Are you rooted?
No man totally stock, can you sort it if your rooted? Ta
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No, i just wondered if you'd disabled some of its permissions using root. It's supposed to dim to save battery if you're just on a long straight road etc. Then when it comes to saying directions again and junctions it should light back up to normal
Ah ok thanks it dims fine but then the screen goes off...
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Have you tried simply clearing the apps data and cache, force stopping it and then rebooting the phone before opening again?
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I'm just about to set off for work and gonna use maps actually so I'll see what mine does as I'm unsure I've actually used it on my z5 yet
Mine works as normal, tried and tested
Thanks mate I'll remove / re install and give it a try this morning
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Getting somewhere still not as it should be though..
Got a stereo in my car that supposed to support android mirrorlink (it doesn't work) but what it does do is charge just like a mains charger, anyway what i've found when the stereo is in mirrorlink mode it switches the phone screen off, when i take the stereo out of mirrorlink mode the phone screen stays on, it is however really really dim just about visible i tried without the cable charging at all and still the same...
Thanks for the suggestions though if i can figure out how to have it not go so dim it'll be fine... (i would say it goes down to maybe 10% screen brightness maybe even less)
So as soon as you use maps to navigate whether it's on charge or not the screen just goes stupidly dim?
What about ticking the stay awake box and have it charging?
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So as soon as you use maps to navigate whether it's on charge or not the screen just goes stupidly dim?
What about ticking the stay awake box and have it charging?
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Yeah after about 10sec the screen goes really dim and stays like that...
Tried your above suggestion yesterday (thought it might work too) doesn't make any difference, i have ambient setting enabled in the phone settings i'll try disabling that on the way home see if that makes a difference and do some googling later on, cheers though...
Crazy thought, your case or car holder isn't simply just covering up the light sensor is it?
Well I'm confused but the issue is sorted turned adaptive brightness setting off screen was perfect, so 5min later turned adaptive brightness back on expecting screen to dim it didn't so no idea but seems sorted #bangheadonwall
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Lol. Well hope it stays that way!
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turned adaptive brightness setting off screen was perfect, so 5min later turned adaptive brightness back on expecting screen to dim it didn't so no idea but seems sorted
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Ah, the ol' turn EVERYTHING off and on again fix. Classic.
I want to know if there is a way to wake the phone without pressing the power button but instead just say OK Google . This would allow me to interact with the Phone without having to pick it up to push the power button. I know this would use more battery as the phone would have to continue to listen for the OK Google phrase but even if it just worked when the phone was connect to a wireless charger would be good. I cannot see a way at the moment to do this.
I have the AOD turned off and the Edge Panel and Edge Notifications turned off.
I use to have this feature available to me on the Note 4 so thought it would be available on the S8 as I like to get the news and weather when I first wake up and having to try and find the phone is annoying. I cannot see any switches in Accessbilty to change this.
It's not possible. Using "OK Google" to wake the device doors not work on this device. I've heard it works when the phone is plugged in and charging, but I've never got it to work. For some reason Samsung started disabling that feature with the S7.
It works for me just not when AOD is activated
Bixby can do this. Watch this YouTube video for help.
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It works for me just not when AOD is activated
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I couldn't get it work with or without AOD. Someone actually claimed this was a Google problem, not a Samsung problem. Seems a little hard to believe considering it works on every other Android device.
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It's not possible. Using "OK Google" to wake the device doors not work on this device. I've heard it works when the phone is plugged in and charging, but I've never got it to work. For some reason Samsung started disabling that feature with the S7.
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I think it was to save battery as.the phone has to continually listen for ok Google otherwise
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I think it was to save battery as.the phone has to continually listen for ok Google otherwise
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Worked great on my Pixel XL and I got better battery life on that phone. Plus, if they're just concerned about using battery life while the device listens for "OK Google," then how does Bixby Voice work to wake up the device.
Since the Moto X, chipsets have been able to continuously listen for key words, even while in deep sleep, yet use very little battery.