My application (Power Manager) available in the Android markeplace has a setting which allows you to set the amount of time the screen stays on during a call. It also allows you to set if you want the phone to stay on when the keyboard is open (with the keyboard light on), plus much more.
On Jan 1, 1:14 pm, GW <[email protected]> wrote: > As this still doesn't seem to have been addressed yet by Google, > Kipling, go for it. Please, please. I agree with the rest of the > people here about the impracticality of a phone which goes black > before you get a chance to dial menu options on a call or while you're > using the maps while driving. We need an app for this, badly. > > On Nov 6 2008, 1:41 pm, "Kipling Inscore" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:48 PM, mlevin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Along these same lines... when using Google Maps for navigation with > > > the GPS, it appears that thescreenblanks/locks after the user-set > > >timeout. While driving and trying to use this for nav, that's pretty > > > annoying and not very useful. > > > > Any suggestions for how to make the maps app keep thescreenfrom > > > blanking while navigating? > > > There's a setting buried in Applications > Development > Stay awake. > > Turn this on and plug your G1 into a car charger when you want to use > > it for navigation and it won't blank/lock. If you don't want to use a > > charger or misplace it, see below. > > > >> > As many people have posted on this and other sites, the defaultscreen > > >> >timeoutduring a call is much too short, particularly while using the > > >> > onscreen keyboard (e.g. for checking voicemail). I just timed it at 5 > > >> > seconds(!), which means the phone will blank out and lock while > > >> > listening to the intro voicemail message, and during every subsequent > > >> > message. Very annoying!!! > > > >> > Some people have pointed out that using the slide keyboard prevents > > >> > this. Using the keyboard is not a good solution in many instances-- > > >> > while driving, or in an any circumstance where one would like to use > > >> > only one hand, for example. Thanks for any advice. > > > A background service could listen for phone call status, set a > > wakelock when a phone call is ongoing and release when the call is > > terminated; thus thescreenwill not time out during phone calls but > > the regulartimeoutgoes back into effect when the call ends. This is > > on my list of utilities to write if Google doesn't fix this in the > > system, where it aught to be, first. > > > Since there are other instances in which one might want to quickly > > disable thetimeout(and later restore it), like navigation when one > > doesn't have a charger on hand, I might release a utility for that as > > well (this will be quicker to write). > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
