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How to stay on longer
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puppykickr
Android Expert
What turns off, the screen?
Can you plug the phone in when you want it to stay on longer?
If so (your device may vary, but a general pathway follows)...
Settings
System
Developers options
Stay awake
If you have not activated the developers options on your device, then this is a perfect opportunity to do so.
Developers options must first be activated on the device in order for it to appear in the settings.
A general pathway is...
Settings
System
About phone
Build number
(tap build number 7 times)
Thanks puppykickr.
Re: "What turns off, the screen?" I don't know. I'm, say, listening to a Pod Cast and a few mins later I go to FF it and and I have to log in again.
I turned on Developer Options and Stay Awake. I'll let you know what happens.
Kerry
Re: "What turns off, the screen?" I don't know. I'm, say, listening to a Pod Cast and a few mins later I go to FF it and and I have to log in again.
I turned on Developer Options and Stay Awake. I'll let you know what happens.
Kerry
puppykickr
Android Expert
The stay awake feature will only work while the device is charging.
What sounds like is happening is a combination of things.
First, Android systems are becoming better about turning things off. This is good for battery life, but can also become annoying when you want things to run for extended periods.
Second, you are being logged out of whatever you are listening to. So, if you are using a browser to log in and listen to your podcast, what this tells me is that you have your browser set to delete cookies when the browser closes.
What I would do first is to start from your homepage, then goto...
Settings
Battery
{three dot menu in upper right}
Battery optimization
{down arrow in upper right}
All apps
Locate the app that you use to listen to the podcast, and make sure that you select it to be NOT OPTIMIZED.
This will help to make sure that the system does not turn this app off.
However, the system may still do so if other app{s} become a draw on available resources.
If you are using a browser to listen to the podcast, and you do have it set to delete cookies when the app closes, then you must change this setting if you wish to avoid logging in over and over.
Some cookies have expiration dates, and some sites only allow you to stay logged in for so long at a time.
Another option that may be available, depending on the device, is app pinning.
App pinning forces the pinned app to stay in recent memory, or to be the main focus of the device {once again, depending upon the device}.
App pinning is not something that I have really messed with very much, as these other things have remedied the same problem for me when it occurred in the past.
Hope this helps!
What sounds like is happening is a combination of things.
First, Android systems are becoming better about turning things off. This is good for battery life, but can also become annoying when you want things to run for extended periods.
Second, you are being logged out of whatever you are listening to. So, if you are using a browser to log in and listen to your podcast, what this tells me is that you have your browser set to delete cookies when the browser closes.
What I would do first is to start from your homepage, then goto...
Settings
Battery
{three dot menu in upper right}
Battery optimization
{down arrow in upper right}
All apps
Locate the app that you use to listen to the podcast, and make sure that you select it to be NOT OPTIMIZED.
This will help to make sure that the system does not turn this app off.
However, the system may still do so if other app{s} become a draw on available resources.
If you are using a browser to listen to the podcast, and you do have it set to delete cookies when the app closes, then you must change this setting if you wish to avoid logging in over and over.
Some cookies have expiration dates, and some sites only allow you to stay logged in for so long at a time.
Another option that may be available, depending on the device, is app pinning.
App pinning forces the pinned app to stay in recent memory, or to be the main focus of the device {once again, depending upon the device}.
App pinning is not something that I have really messed with very much, as these other things have remedied the same problem for me when it occurred in the past.
Hope this helps!
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M
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AS puppykicker just mentioned.
It saves the battery when doing streaming anything, I am enjoying my media right now and my tablet's screen is off.
It saves the battery when doing streaming anything, I am enjoying my media right now and my tablet's screen is off.
puppykickr
Android Expert
You have to tap on the app after you locate it.
Notice here, how the app Midori is shown as OPTIMIZING BATTERY use...
And then when I tap on it...
you can then see that I am given the choice to OPTIMIZE or DON'T OPTIMIZE.
Does the app you are using for the podcast only work for the one podcast, or can it work for many?
If it only does the one, then perhaps you would be better off using a browser for it instead.
I do not know if the app that you are using has settings for cookies, or if there is an automatic timer built in- or if it does if that timer is adjustable.
A browser is much easier to control as far as cookies, and would not have a timer.
But, in my experience, browsers do not tend to play in the background very well.
Yet another thing to consider is whether or not the app that you are using places a constant notification when it is running.
If it does, and you have turned this notification off, this can allow the system to turn the app off more easily.
Because Android systems are becoming more aggressive at turning apps off, some apps are using a 'sticky' notification in order to play continuously.
A browser that I use that does have such a 'sticky' notification as an option is called IDM+.
If this notification is bothersome, typically what you would do is to allow the notification via the app, and then block the notification in your notification settings.
Notice here, how the app Midori is shown as OPTIMIZING BATTERY use...
And then when I tap on it...
you can then see that I am given the choice to OPTIMIZE or DON'T OPTIMIZE.
Does the app you are using for the podcast only work for the one podcast, or can it work for many?
If it only does the one, then perhaps you would be better off using a browser for it instead.
I do not know if the app that you are using has settings for cookies, or if there is an automatic timer built in- or if it does if that timer is adjustable.
A browser is much easier to control as far as cookies, and would not have a timer.
But, in my experience, browsers do not tend to play in the background very well.
Yet another thing to consider is whether or not the app that you are using places a constant notification when it is running.
If it does, and you have turned this notification off, this can allow the system to turn the app off more easily.
Because Android systems are becoming more aggressive at turning apps off, some apps are using a 'sticky' notification in order to play continuously.
A browser that I use that does have such a 'sticky' notification as an option is called IDM+.
If this notification is bothersome, typically what you would do is to allow the notification via the app, and then block the notification in your notification settings.