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Full disclosure: I am the author of the app I'm about to recommend. The link is below.
Wakey is an Android app that is built to keep your screen on, on your terms. I've worked very hard to make it work well and be simple to use, and gives you lots of options which may improve battery life while using Pokemon Go. It works better than the "Battery Saver" mode included in Pokemon Go, which only really works when the screen is upside down. Wakey works in any orientation.
You can choose a mode that will allow the best combination of screen and battery - you can choose CPU only (this allows the screen to shut off, but the phone stays awake. I'm not 100% sure this is compatible with Pokemon Go, but if not...), or you can choose "Minimal Brightness" mode, which lowers your screen to the lowest brightness, but keeps it on. Finally, there's "Allow Dimming" mode, which lets the screen go partially dim, but not fully dim or off. I would recommend trying the modes in that order, as they are listed in the order of most battery saving.
With Wakey, you can set it to keep your screen on manually, or as long as Pokemon Go is on screen (or any app or apps you choose), or as long as the device is charging (the Auto features require in-app upgrade to Premium, but everything else I'm talking about here is free).
Android users can download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_medium%3Dcomment%26utm_term%3Dpokemon%252Bgo
Full disclosure: I am the author of the app I'm about to recommend. The link is below.
Wakey is an Android app that is built to keep your screen on, on your terms. I've worked very hard to make it work well and be simple to use, and gives you lots of options which may improve battery life while using Pokemon Go. It works better than the "Battery Saver" mode included in Pokemon Go, which only really works when the screen is upside down. Wakey works in any orientation.
You can choose a mode that will allow the best combination of screen and battery - you can choose CPU only (this allows the screen to shut off, but the phone stays awake. I'm not 100% sure this is compatible with Pokemon Go, but if not...), or you can choose "Minimal Brightness" mode, which lowers your screen to the lowest brightness, but keeps it on. Finally, there's "Allow Dimming" mode, which lets the screen go partially dim, but not fully dim or off. I would recommend trying the modes in that order, as they are listed in the order of most battery saving.
With Wakey, you can set it to keep your screen on manually, or as long as Pokemon Go is on screen (or any app or apps you choose), or as long as the device is charging (the Auto features require in-app upgrade to Premium, but everything else I'm talking about here is free).
Android users can download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_medium%3Dcomment%26utm_term%3Dpokemon%252Bgo
PoGo didn't originally keep the screen awake, I ended up buying Wakey back in the day (and still use it).
Various dimming settings for when the phone times out, with an extra Idle timer if I want it even dimmer.
I wait until Prime Day or Black Friday and then load up on Amazon Fire tablets. Sometimes you can get them for as cheap as $30 each. I have 5 of them in my house running ActionTiles. You can use the Wakey app to keep them from going to sleep. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey&hl=en_US
I use Wakey.
I tried caffeinate and I didn't like it too much.
It had too many features when I just wanted an app that does one thing.
You can set it so the app is active for certain apps. They also have a "keep screen on while looking" and "keep screen on while charging".
You can set it to auto-activate for certain apps, so you should be able to tell the screen to stay on when you are using the Phone/Dialer app.
[DEV] I've added a Quick Settings Tile to Wakey (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey), but it is still rolling out, so if you install and can't add the tile to your quick settings yet, it will be available within a day or so.
The QS Tile for Wakey allows you to enable & disable Wakey (keeping your screen on as long as Wakey is enabled).
Also annoyed by this.
This app is helping somewhat, but it is still turning off after a while. I'm going to try some different keep-awake apps.
I am the developer of Wakey, and app that's been around for a while, but works really well with Pokemon Go - with Wakey, you can set it to dim the screen as much as the device allows (I'm hoping to get a mode that dims it even more than that), and with the premium version, you can set it to come on whenever Pokemon Go is on screen.
I am working on new features that I think will make it even better for Pokemon Go users (allow screen to turn off while not walking, but keep the screen on while walking, for instance), and I know of a bug that's affecting LG users' ability to use the "while Pokemon Go is running" feature, but I'm always working to improve it.
Anyhow, you can try Wakey (and use it as long as you want) manually by just clicking the bulb on Wakey's main screen. If you want to try it out, get Wakey from the Play Store.
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gonna plug one of my fav apps ever wakey which I've been using for over 5 years. there's ads but you can purchase ad free, and the dev deserves it. you can have wakey activate on certain apps, i actually do this on the clock and Spotify.
Wakey has that feature but unfortunately it's locked behind a 'premium' for $2, but if you don't want to pay the $2 you can set a custom time limit on how long the phone screen will stay on.
pretty sure this should bypass it.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey&hl=en&gl=US
I don't think there's an official way to remove the screen timeout, but you can install an app that will keep the screen awake like Wakey (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey). There are others, but I've used wakey before, and you can add it as a Quick Setting item so it's easy to toggle on/off when you want to keep the screen on.
Unfortunately to change passcodes (at least with every recent android device I have used in the past 5 years) you have to enter the current passcode first so someone doesn't get ahold of your unlocked device and lock you out of your device.
What you can do is change the screen lockout timer to usually 30 min without the passcode.
Then in there is an app called Wakey which you can set to keep the device from locking. Plug it into a charger that is plugged in that charges as fast as that device can take and then it won't lock and you will have time to do what you need. proabably a good idea to take a power bank with you to make doubly sure that when transporting it it doesn't go dead since the screen on will eat battery life.
I couldn't find it. There's "adaptive brightness", but turning that off didn't help.
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Edit: so I installed app "wakey", which successfully kept the screen on without any dimming. But the app wanted camera permissions, and you had to pay to unlock the per-app functionality so I uninstalled that, and installed "Stay Alive" . That one also has a few permissions I'd rather not give, but I'm on a throw-away gmail account on my tablet so I don't care so much. (Nexus 10 is on an Android version that doesn't support disabling individual permissions.)
Using "Stay Alive" I put my developer option for always on, back to default (off), and the app still did its job, staying on only when I'm in the Wyze app. It times out if I'm in another app which is what I want.
I use an app called Wakey to keep the screen on. You can configure it to automatically turn on when certain apps are open.
Check out Wakey [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey] - you can set it to keep the screen on while you are looking at the screen, while certain apps are running, or even use it with Tasker.
You can also use a widget or a quick settings tile to toggle it on or off manually.
Full disclosure - I'm the dev of wakey, and the automation features do require an in-app purchase to go to premium. The widget and QS Tile work on the free version though.
I use the paid (~$2) version of Wakey on my S5 (old phone) and S7 (current phone).
When I have games (and whatever else I set to trigger the AppWake feature) up, instead of turning the screen off it'll Dim to minimum instead, returning to normal brightness if I interact with it.
I think it's better than just having it always on - it'll still save battery by dimming if I don't interact with it, and it'll still turn off the screen if I don't need it to stay awake.
I use Wakey for all my games, not just PokemonGo. When active, it makes it so my screen just dims to minimum brightness rather than going to sleep.
I had the same issue, my phone doesn't let me set the screen timeout to longer than 10 minutes. I grabbed Wakey after the author advertised in another thread, and I've found it works great on my Galaxy S5.
I just tap the widget to activate it (I have it set to Dim When Idle), and my phone won't go to sleep. I've actually started using it in other games - Fallout Shelter loads so slowly in missions that it's longer than my 1 minute screen timeout, and this has saved me the headache.
No need for Premium either, though it was like a buck so I bought it since it's been so helpful for Pokemon Go.
Just download this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey&hl=en I bought the premium version (in app purchase) so I can use "AppWake", the display only stays active if the Pokemon Go App is open. Works perfectly
i use this app wakey
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey
This is the best I've found: Wakey. You will have to pay two dollars.
perhaps you can workaround it with something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey&hl=en&gl=US to keep the screen on manually?
I use Wakey you can also pick a specific app to auto trigger the screen on time
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You could try using the Wakey app to prevent screen time out/lock. I use it on my tablet.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey&hl=en
For keeping the screen awake, I use Wakey
I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublep.wakey it keeps the screen awake per app. It is currently being updated regularly