Personally I use "No Screen Off" on an old phone used for domotica purposes.
It is free, requires no extra rights (some want your location and accessto other stuff. What does that have to do with no screen of) Harry 2016-07-05 2:03 GMT+02:00 fredf <[email protected]>: > I also would like to be able to use OsmAnd without the screen turning off. > I made the 3 Navigation mode changes to Turn Screen Off - Never but it made > no difference; the screen goes black while the voice prompt continues to > work. This is not good for situations where I have external power and would > like to view the map during navigation. > > Are there any solutions that work? > > Fred > Moto G > > > > On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 8:04:03 AM UTC-8, Jørgen Abrahamsen wrote: >> >> I recently started using Osmand, and it really works well for me except >> for one thing. The screen turns off between events. I can see this is a >> much desired feature, as there were many requests for it, but I actually >> prefer to have the screen always on during navigation. However I cannot >> figure out how to configure this. >> >> I can find the setting for how long before an event the screen should >> turn on, and I have this set to the maximum of 60 seconds. This would be an >> acceptable alternative, but 60 seconds is too short, 3-5 minutes would be >> better. Unfortunately my experience is that I am lucky if the screen turns >> on more than 10-15 seconds before an event. Very often the screen will turn >> on for an announcement (300 meters to next turn, which means the turn is in >> ~30 seconds), and then immediately turn off, and then turn on again just >> before the turn (less than 50 meters, maybe 5 seconds before the turn). >> >> I am using a Moto G, running android 5.0.2. >> >> Any suggestions? >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Osmand" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
