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When the phone is idle, the screen turns off after the configured time. For ex: if time is set to 30 sec, first the screen will dim after approximately 25 seconds and then after 5 seconds it will turn off the screen completely.

How can I increase that "5" seconds time to 30 seconds or any other value?

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  • There's no built-in way to do this, because the dim is there to warn you that the screen is about to turn off.
    – Dan Hulme
    Aug 26, 2013 at 8:59
  • Different phone has different pattern of turn off screen. So, can you please tell me the name of your phone you are currently using?
    – Aiden Ruse
    Aug 26, 2013 at 9:06
  • Mine is a Samsung S3. I am sure there must be a timer where this count happens.
    – user40097
    Aug 26, 2013 at 11:16

2 Answers 2

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If you are using a custom ROM (like CyanogenMod) or stock Android go to Settings>Display>Automatic backlight. Click on enable and select the window length option to change the time according to your needs.

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  • Unfortunately this option is not available on my ROM.
    – user40097
    Aug 26, 2013 at 11:17
  • you can use apps like screebl from the playstore to manipulate the screen dimness but i am not sure about the time option in that... Aug 26, 2013 at 11:47
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If you have source code of frameworks, you could modify dim duration in PowerManagerService:

private static final int SCREEN_DIM_DURATION = 7 * 1000;
private static final float MAXIMUM_SCREEN_DIM_RATIO = 0.2f;

private int getScreenDimDurationLocked(int screenOffTimeout) {
    return Math.min(SCREEN_DIM_DURATION,
            (int)(screenOffTimeout * MAXIMUM_SCREEN_DIM_RATIO));
}

The return value of getScreenDimDurationLocked() is what you want, you could modify it.

Below link is a post to solve this problem, I wrote in Chinese:

CSDN Blog: Modify Android dim duration in frameworks

I hope that would be useful for you.

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    Appreciate your efforts to provide a solution , but this is a end user site and programmatic questions and answers are not encouraged
    – beeshyams
    May 18, 2016 at 7:08
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    Please see: Should we delete answers that are purely programming solutions? I agree with beeshyams here (though I didn't downvote nor take any action on this). Android.SE is a site for end-users, so purely programming solutions do not really fit and thus should be absolute exceptions.
    – Izzy
    May 18, 2016 at 20:16

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