Any Screen Timeout Plus

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About this app

Any Screen Timeout Plus lets you adjust any time for the screen timeout after which the display will go to sleep. Are the on-board settings too limiting for you? Then this app is for you!

The timeout can be set to any value between 0 and 999m55s with a granularity of 5 seconds. Also, an infinite time can be set (INF). Note: the special android setting "screen never off" is not supported by Google anymore. So INF will simply be a very long time (about 25 days) which for most users will be practically equivalent to infinite.

Note: The Android operating system has a minimum screen-off-timeout limit. This limit is usually around 7 to 10 seconds depending on the device and/or Android version. There is no way around this (at least on unrooted devices). Nevertheless, Any Screen Timeout allows for lower settings for devices with a lower limit or in case that the minimum limit changes in future.

The user can define four custom timeout presets in order to change the screen timeout with just one touch.

Any Screen Timeout Plus is a very small app and it does not run as a service. It merely changes the desired settings of your device and terminates transparently.

EXTRA FEATURES
- A slider for Screen Brightness control
- A switch that controls the Screen Brightness Auto Mode
- Auto repeat function for all up and down buttons
- For devices with Android 4.1.1 or lower, a check box for "Stay on while plugged in" (Unfortunately, newer versions of Android do not provide this function anymore.)
- Info line that shows the current time with seconds, available memory for application and battery charge level + battery temperature.
- Landscape mode support
- Widget (see below)

WIDGET
You can put an Any Screen Timeout widget on the home screen. Widget features:
- Either 4 buttons that correspond to the 4 presets of the main app
- Or 2 buttons that correspond to the first 2 presets of the main app
- Next to the preset buttons a button that shows the current timeout setting
- This button will also launch the main app, so you don't need the main app launcher icon anymore
- Bellow this button, if enabled, you will see the battery info (charge level and temperature - updated once per minute)
- The setting for this function ("Bat Info on Widget") can be found in the main menu of the app
- The widget can be re-sized horizontally to fit your needs

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Any Screen Timeout Plus is user friendly and ad-free. It does not require any other permissions than the permission to modify the system settings and to run at startup. The latter is in order to reactivate the Battery Level Notifier.

Ratings and reviews

This is exactly what I was looking for (on an S10 w/Android 10) It keeps the screen on and even prevents the annoying dimming I was trying to avoid. I do have to click the setting I have for INF (Infinite) back on sometimes, like when I restart the phone but that's probably unavoidable; it's highly acceptable that this is the only time you have to re-click your Custom Set Button, however. The only change I could hope for is customizable appearance for the widget and to set the temp to Fahrenheit

Nice concept but widget doesn't work. I've used the free version for ages and found it excellent, but I liked the idea of a widget to display the current screen timeout. Unfortunately the app crashes every time I use it to change the timeout from the widget. However the developer responded very quickly to investigate. I think a 1x1 widget to display the current timeout would be good.

I don't know exactly how long I've had this app, but I got it when I had my Note 4, but it recently gave up and died and I now have a Note 9. This app is working with it just fine and does a great job. I know there are more screen time out apps than I care to count, but this one works great and I see no reason to change. Now if it would only do the same for my Galaxy watch.

What's new

1.5.0:
- Updated libraries to support newer Android devices
- Battery level notifier feature removed (Use the app Battery Life Extender instead)