On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 09:40:03AM -0700, 'P Wat' via Osmand wrote:
On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 4:33:45 PM UTC+1, Xavier wrote:
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 07:01:45AM -0700, 'P Wat' via Osmand wrote:
>This brilliant feature [screen on/off automatically] had formerly been
>one of the great selling points of this excellent app. Who else would
>like to see it working again?
Don't blame OsmAnd, blame Google:
https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues/6675
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fosmandapp%2FOsmand%2Fissues%2F6675&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHLUJx9UUtgWJPEso1kyEXydxuIvw>
Specifically these notes:
dmpr0 commented on Mar 14
Hello @bluescreen303!
The current release doesn't include this feature, we had to remove
this option because of Google Play rules about the permission
needed to that action. We are trying to find a solution to get it
back.
Somewhere else (that I can't locate at this time) I had also found
reference to the Google Play Store rules change resulting in OsmAnd
being removed from the Play Store because it used the permission that
Google is now upset about.
The current version you have is the dev's first attempt at restoring
the feature without utilizing the permission setting that Google is
upset about, and it seems that not all of the bugs have been found and
fixed yet.
So your best way to let the dev's know of the problem you see is to
post a note on Github about the problem.
Hi Xavier - You (quite rightly) say; "Don't blame OsmAnd". - Indeed, I
don't. My purpose was to question the logic of offering a range of "Turn
Off" times, without mentioning that they are (currently) not available.
Best guess -- the range of times for 'on time' worked on the devices
the developers tested against. They just missed that not all deviced
worked. So best is to file a report indicating device, android
version, etc. in hopes that such can help them further enhance the
feature.
Your reference to https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues/6675 is
useful, thanks, and right down the bottom it links to #7315
<https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues/7315> on which max-klaus said 2
days ago "It ... ... don't work on all devices."
One can at least hope the gurus are still working on a solution for all
devices.
I would expect so. But adding a report for your device would, at
least, give them another data point to work with.
Meanwhile, I'd love to know if there is a (fairly simple) way for me to
make it work on mine.
Unknown. Although for "fairly simple" I'd say that answer is most
likely a no. There might be a very complex way involving writing Java
and compiling it for Android, but that's far from 'fairly simple'.
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