Help Keeping Screen on During Calls on Bluetooth?

[tweak4]

Anyone know how to prevent the screen from turning off during calls?

Specifically, when I'm driving, I keep my phone in a dash mount, since I'm usually using Waze or something like that, which keeps the display on. The problem is that whenever I get a call, the phone switches over to the call screen, and then shuts the display off after 30 seconds.

I've been trying to set up a Tasker profile that will update the Display Timeout whenever I get a call while the phone is connected to my car, and I can see that the profile is being activated and the task is running, and I'm using the Display Timeout action in other tasks, so I know that it works there, but for some reason, it doesn't seem to have any impact here- it's like the call screen is explicitly turning off the display, and I can't figure out how to stop it.

 

[PitCarver]

Try the app, KinScreen, from the play store.

 

[tweak4]

Try the app, KinScreen, from the play store.

There might be some potential there- at a glance, I see an option to keep the screen on during calls- I just need to do some digging to see if it can be used only for calls going through bluetooth- I think I'd still want the screen to turn off if I'm holding the phone up to my face!

Thanks for the idea though!

 

[PitCarver]

Might be able to use it, in conjunction with tasker, to activate it only when on bluetooth. I only use it when on speakerphone.

 

[tweak4]

From what I've been able to gather, the screen-off command is baked into directly Samsung's phone app, and completely ignores the system-wide display timeout setting. So, I fired up a port of Google's dialer and contacts apps instead, and it keeps the screen on just fine! I created a simple tasker profile to set my display timeout to 8 hours when I'm connected to the car and charging, and Google's dialer acts exactly like I would expect.