Hi. I was wondering if the watch can be set up to only turn on when a button is pressed. Right now, I have it set up to turn on when turning my wrist. This is good, but there are times that it comes on when doing other things.
Thanks.
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There is an option in settings - device.. ?
From S5
Settings>Device> Wake-up gesture (off)
Perfect! Thanks a lot. For some reason, I thought that shutting this off would just always leave the watch on. Instead it stays on for something like ten seconds and then shuts itself off.
Excellent!
You can turn it off even quicker by just putting two fingers (as opposed to your whole hand) over the screen should you want to preserve as much batt as possible..
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Hi, I've seen this problem in other places, but no answer to it yet:
I've always used my phone as my alarm, but I get an unexpected sleep-in this morning when the alarm didn't go off! I've just tested it, and putting the phone to "sleep" by pressing the power button seems to prevent the alarm from going off.
If I don't press the power button (which I started doing as it locks the keypad really easily), the screen never goes off. I guess that's just a setting.
Will try again for tomorrow morning, without putting sleep on. But is this a bug or a "feature", anyone know?
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Hi, I've seen this problem in other places, but no answer to it yet:
I've always used my phone as my alarm, but I get an unexpected sleep-in this morning when the alarm didn't go off! I've just tested it, and putting the phone to "sleep" by pressing the power button seems to prevent the alarm from going off.
If I don't press the power button (which I started doing as it locks the keypad really easily), the screen never goes off. I guess that's just a setting.
Will try again for tomorrow morning, without putting sleep on. But is this a bug or a "feature", anyone know?
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Nope. Mine is working perfectly even in "Sleep Mode".
madinga said:
Hi, I've seen this problem in other places, but no answer to it yet:
I've always used my phone as my alarm, but I get an unexpected sleep-in this morning when the alarm didn't go off! I've just tested it, and putting the phone to "sleep" by pressing the power button seems to prevent the alarm from going off.
If I don't press the power button (which I started doing as it locks the keypad really easily), the screen never goes off. I guess that's just a setting.
Will try again for tomorrow morning, without putting sleep on. But is this a bug or a "feature", anyone know?
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mine works fine too.
as for the fact that the screen never goes off, that can be adjusted if you go to settings/ power and/or settings/ system/ backlight/.
What software do you have installed?
I used to use PocketZenPhone, however it was mucking up the alarms.
Clean your notification queue is the other thing. Pocket Mechanic is good for this.
Well it woke me up this morning - but it still doesn't work if I lock the keys by single-pressing the power button. It does work with the red end-call key to lock the phone after a long key press. Less usable, but some mornings I just have to wake up!
madinga said:
Well it woke me up this morning - but it still doesn't work if I lock the keys by single-pressing the power button. It does work with the red end-call key to lock the phone after a long key press. Less usable, but some mornings I just have to wake up!
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I have no specific configuration. I set my alarm for the 5 working days with sound and vibration, press the power button, and no problems at all.
Ensure that you set the right time, example: morning instead of afternoon.
Play a bit to become familiar with it.
So when my phone is locked, the home button turns the screen on. This is fine, I often use it to check the time and such. However, to turn the screen back off I have to hit the power button.
Wondering if there's a way to set the phone so that the home button turns OFF the screen too (when phone is locked)? Possible?
Now, I'm no developer, but I'd have to say not possible. Unless someone can script an app to only work when the phone is in lock mode, but that just seems doubtful.
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byproxy said:
So when my phone is locked, the home button turns the screen on. This is fine, I often use it to check the time and such. However, to turn the screen back off I have to hit the power button.
Wondering if there's a way to set the phone so that the home button turns OFF the screen too (when phone is locked)? Possible?
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Same situation as you, found the answer in another forum.
Ive been using this app to turn off the screen by the proximity sensor, so far working great.
Smart Screen Off LITE
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEwMiwiaXQuYW5kcm9pZC5zbWFydHNjcmVlbm9mZiJd
you can try a custom rom to get it
byproxy said:
So when my phone is locked, the home button turns the screen on. This is fine, I often use it to check the time and such. However, to turn the screen back off I have to hit the power button.
Wondering if there's a way to set the phone so that the home button turns OFF the screen too (when phone is locked)? Possible?
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It is possible when you giving up actual home button function.
Then you have to enable on-screen navigation bar, instead of hardware physical button.
This thread is over 2 years old guys. Also, if you run AOSP, double tap the status bar to turn the display off. Works on SlimKat, should be like that on CM too.
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Noticed 2x today I walked away for an hour and came back to a bright screen. Both times I had just plugged it in and left it on the desk. I turned the sleep timer down to 15s and experimented a bit but couldn't replicate it...
I also noticed when it auto sleeps, there is no screen lock sound. Though I do hear it when I click the power button. The option is turned on in settings, and I remember my 300's all made the lock sound 5 seconds after the screen turned off. Maybe the 700s don't do it? Or maybe there's a problem with the hardware or not really sleeping?
Does yours make the lock sound when it locks after an automatic sleep?
Please can someone just turn up their volume and let their tf700 stock ROM go to sleep with the lock sound enabled? Tell me if you hear the lock sound when it AUTOMATICALLY goes to sleep? (Without clicking the power button)
I only have a couple days to exchange and need to know if this is normal for the 700
Again, the lock sound only plays when I click the power button, Not when it auto sleeps and locks. The tf300 always played the audio.
Hi, my S3 has a problem in that if the screen turns off and I immediately (well, fairly soon) press the home button or side power button to wake it up again.. there is a very long delay... so much that I only use the home button now, because I keep clicking the side button and often by the time the screen wakes up, it will have gone back to sleep because I had pressed the power button again.
So now I use home because home will not turn the screen off, only on.
Anyhow I'm sure it must be due to some app doing some processing when the screen goes off...
my question is, how do I track down the app? I have no idea which one it is
I have no problem to get the screen to turn on immediately, if some time has passed... let's say 30 seconds.. but often you need to turn the screen back on after it has timed out, so it's annoying to have to wait 10 seconds after immediately pressing the button.
btw. I use Cyanogenmod (android 4.3) but I don't think it's the cause because I don't remember this behaviour when I first installed it.
any ideas? thanks
mishaxz said:
Hi, my S3 has a problem in that if the screen turns off and I immediately (well, fairly soon) press the home button or side power button to wake it up again.. there is a very long delay... so much that I only use the home button now, because I keep clicking the side button and often by the time the screen wakes up, it will have gone back to sleep because I had pressed the power button again.
So now I use home because home will not turn the screen off, only on.
Anyhow I'm sure it must be due to some app doing some processing when the screen goes off...
my question is, how do I track down the app? I have no idea which one it is
I have no problem to get the screen to turn on immediately, if some time has passed... let's say 30 seconds.. but often you need to turn the screen back on after it has timed out, so it's annoying to have to wait 10 seconds after immediately pressing the button.
btw. I use Cyanogenmod (android 4.3) but I don't think it's the cause because I don't remember this behaviour when I first installed it.
any ideas? thanks
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I'm interested as well, I really wish samsung would improve the wake time on their phones. My HTC turned on without delay
If I use wrist gestures to turn the screen on, it only stays on for about 6 seconds. It will only stay on for the selected duration if I interact with the watch or turn the watch on by pressing the back button. Is this by design? I've already reset the watch multiple times.
This can be adjusted in settings. Display screen timeout.
Whatever settings I use, if the screen is turned on by gesture and not interacted with, it only stays on for about 6 seconds. Watch only obeys the setting if I touch the screen after it turns on or I hit the back button.
Can anyone confirm if this is normal behavior?
genero said:
Can anyone confirm if this is normal behavior?
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Yep, is normal. If you raise your wrist to see the time, there is no reason to keep the screen alive for 15 or 30 seconds.
if you turn the bezel one click left and one click right it will remain on for the 15 seconds, 30 seconds, minute or what you have it set to, in failing that there is a widget you can download called flaunt and it gives you the option to have the watch face on for up to 30 mins
I know this is probably way too late but my Gear S3 Classic has the same issue. no matter what time frame you choose for the timeout it only goes for 7 seconds. I've reset to factory twice. i've used factory watchfaces and 3rd party watchfaces but same issue. i'm not sure that the replies above know what they are saying since there are 4 screen timeout settings (15 secs, 30, 1 min & 5 min). If these are options then why don't they work?
augman68 said:
I know this is probably way too late but my Gear S3 Classic has the same issue. no matter what time frame you choose for the timeout it only goes for 7 seconds. I've reset to factory twice. i've used factory watchfaces and 3rd party watchfaces but same issue. i'm not sure that the replies above know what they are saying since there are 4 screen timeout settings (15 secs, 30, 1 min & 5 min). If these are options then why don't they work?
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The timing for the "wake up" gesture is at a fixed duration of 6 seconds - just long enough for you to see the time. It is independent of the standard display timeout settings for 15 / 30 / 60 seconds.
This is normal behaviour. There is no way to change the timeout for the "wake up" gesture.
It does what's supposed to do...
genero said:
If I use wrist gestures to turn the screen on, it only stays on for about 6 seconds. It will only stay on for the selected duration if I interact with the watch or turn the watch on by pressing the back button. Is this by design? I've already reset the watch multiple times.
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Hi,
Yes, the watch will only start timing down (or stay lit) the pre-defined number of seconds if you either: rotate the bezel right/left or
left/right on one click as someone already explained, or you either press the top OR lower buttons once. With no 'mechanical' intervention, the default 6-7 seconds ON will prevail. If you think about it, it's a smart design. Turning your wrist get time to see the watch screen; any other actions will leave it on for your desired limit.
Best.
I agree in part. You don't really want the watch to stay on for the timeout period when woken by gesture. However, it should be possible to set a duration for the watch to stay on for a different period on gesture wake up. Perhaps 1 to 10 seconds?
My watch only stays in for 4 seconds, way too short!
genero said:
If I use wrist gestures to turn the screen on, it only stays on for about 6 seconds. It will only stay on for the selected duration if I interact with the watch or turn the watch on by pressing the back button. Is this by design? I've already reset the watch multiple times.
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Turn off wakeup gesture in settings. U'll have to wake it up using the buttons tho. Fine for me. Doesn't work half of the time anyway.