Stop turning on my phone

[sfbloodbrother]

This has annoyed me for so long and I want to do something about it. One of the most annoying things about cell phones is when you plug it into the charger, it turns on. When you unplug it, it turns on.

I find this really annoying as when I wake up, I unplug my phone but don't want to use it, but it still turns on.

When I place my phone on my bike and start riding, it turns on because I have a phone charger on my bike. When it turns on it stays on. I like it to stay on when I want it to, but the best way to solve this is to stop having the charger turn on and off the phone for me.

Is there something that I can do about this?

 

[dibblebill]

What phone? I know some have options to wake on power state changes. Do you mean actually on/off, or awake/sleep?

 

[sfbloodbrother]

What phone? I know some have options to wake on power state changes. Do you mean actually on/off, or awake/sleep?

I have the moto g. It runs stock android.

 

[zuben el genub]

The Nexus 4 does that, and so does the old Nook wifi. They will both turn off after a timed interval if the screen isn't touched or the phone moved. The Nook has a setting.

 

[sfbloodbrother]

The Nexus 4 does that, and so does the old Nook wifi. They will both turn off after a timed interval if the screen isn't touched or the phone moved. The Nook has a setting.

I know. I have my phone set for 30 minutes when not on the charger and never when the phone is on the charger. That's how I like it.

But I want to set it so that when I do plug it in or unplug the charger the phone will not turn on.

 

[mikedt]

Is it actually booting and turning on completely when you connect and disconnect the charger? It's not just the screen turning on when you charge it? Think that's normal, and depending on the settings it should go off eventually, the default should be 30 seconds.

 

[nickdalzell]

he's referring to the way our devices' screen lights up when we plug it in (normally to let us know it is actually charging, often showing the charge percentage on the lock screen) and when we unplug the charger later, the screen lights up. phone shows lock screen then turns off depending on what the timeout is set for.

those without the benefit of Smart Stay (thank you, Samsung) normally set their screen timeout to a half hour or, on budget devices, 'never' so it doesnt turn off in the middle of someone checking their email, browsing the Play Store, or reading an ebook, later manually locking the phone with the power button when done. this presents a problem for those who forget the device wakes up when unplugged and discover their battery is dead before lunch.

for the OP's issue, it is not solvable without root (unless an app like screen off and lock supports non-rooted phones?)

 

[Hadron]

I understand the use case (and the problem), though my normal 1 minute timeout is enough that I never have that problem with Play or mail (rarely go 15 seconds without touching the screen in those cases) and my ebook reader can keep the screen on itself. So that's an alternative approach: use something like Tasker to set a long timeout when running particular apps (e.g. I do that with Maps) and have a shorter timeout otherwise. But that's a different way of working.

I don't know whether you could set Tasker to turn the screen off when you unplug it? I can't test because my phone doesn't work that way: it turns on when I plug it in, but not when I unplug it.

 

[nickdalzell]

the only thing i know of was that Carbon ROM (a custom ROM for rooted phones) had a setting (not sure if CyanogenMod does it too?) that disabled the screen turning on when plugged in and another setting to keep it off when unplugging it as well. i did that with my S3 because the notification LED told me if it was charging or full, making the screen turning on moot.

there were also settings to disable the power button from waking the phone and having that function mapped to the home button, which helps when pockets trip the power key

but as far as i know those are only baked in Custom ROMs. the only app i know of is called 'Screen Off and Lock' but not sure if it requires root or not. some third-party lockscreen replacers (Go Locker, Widgetlocker) might offer a similar feature but again, not sure.