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Waking up screen from a timeout

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Androidtizen

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I have this frustrating problem. I have my screen timeout at 30s. So say when I'm reading a webpage and after 30s of non activity the screen turns off on me while I'm reading. During this immediate moment the phone is not yet locked. I quickly turn back on the screen by pressing the home button to continue my reading. The screen turns on but it also returns to the home screen! I wish it would stay at my last screen whenever I wake up the display again! Try it and you will know what I am talking about. So when it goes to homescreen I have to open the browser once again etc. On the iphone this is not the case. Or is there another method to turn on the screen again?
 
On my Optimus, the screen dims for a few seconds before it goes out. During those few seconds, I can just tap the screen to bring it back to whatever it was doing before. If I react snappily, I never have to reopen anything... I thought that was an Android OS standard, but maybe not.
 
Download App Auto Setting, look for your browser in it, and set it to never turn off screen when browser is active in foreground.
 
Instead of pushing the home button to wake the device, try pushing the power button during that brief time before it locks.
 
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