topic Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming in Android

Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 19:23:53 GMT

Hi, I am having a problem whilst gaming on my Samsung S7 Edge since I upgraded to Nougat. The phone is going to sleep after 30 seconds due to inactivity, It never used to do this on Marshmallow. The game I'm playing is Final Fantasy 9 which has a long cut scene at the beginning of the game. When I go to app permissions, one of the permissions is to stop the phone from going to sleep.

Sorry if this has already been asked, I gave it a quick google but I found no hits. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

MI5 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 19:28:58 GMT

I'm not a gamer so can't offer advice about that game in particular, but one of the changes in Nougat was to make doze more aggressive to improve battery life.
My initial thoughts are that maybe the game hasn't been updated by the app devs to be compatible with this feature of Nougat?

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 19:37:04 GMT

Aah, so is there not a setting I can change to prevent it sleeping whilst gaming? I seem to remember an option for this on Marshmallow in the game tools app or something like that?

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

MI5 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 19:46:21 GMT

There might be but I'm not sure where, sorry, I just know there are changes in Nougat that could explain why it's different now.
Is there a forum for this game you could look on?

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 19:55:38 GMT

Ive had a quick look for the problem but because the game is so old (it was originally a playstation one game) and its been released on different platforms, you get a lot of hits that arent related to your search. Ill try asking on the playstore app page, thanks for the help.

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

MI5 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:15:53 GMT

OK mate, I'm sure it's something to do with those changes but let us know if you find out exactly what it is.
I'll just mention @viridis too as I know he's into games but has a Sony rather than a Samsung at the moment.

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

Slushpuppy1 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:21:54 GMT

How about changing the screen timeout setting in the display setting from 30 secondso to 5 minutes or so

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

viridis — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:24:14 GMT

You could go into advanced battery settings and see if there's an option to turn off power saving features for that app. Other than that it will be down to the app developers to enable the screen off bypass

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:24:50 GMT

The update has been perfect apart from this one tiny issue. The only work around is to change the screen timeout to 5 minutes to prevent it sleeping.

Thanks for all your help.

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

viridis — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:25:57 GMT

You could also check the app permissions. They may have reset and stopped the normal function of the game

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

MI5 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:27:05 GMT

As it's such an old game, as you say, a workaround might be your only option.

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:38:56 GMT

The game was released on the google playstore last year, its just a port of the original game. Under app permissions it says 'prevent phone from sleeping', in battery settings it wasnt set to 'app power monitor' so i moved it to unmonitored apps and the screen is still turning off whilst ingame. If i go to battery usage, optimize battery usage and turn it off for the game, the screen still goes to sleep.

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

MI5 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:42:10 GMT

Would you lose too much game progress if you deleted and reinstalled it?

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:48:28 GMT

Well since I upgraded I lost my save file lol so it wouldnt matter, Ill try that. I just tested another game and the screen didn't timeout so it must be game specific and not the operating system. Sorry guys.

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

MI5 — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:50:43 GMT

No worries mate - no guarantees deleting will fix it but worth a shot if you've got nothing to lose.

Re: Samsung S7 Edge going to sleep whilst gaming

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 07:51:56 GMT

Sound silly this one but try play it again but keep tapping or touching screen to prevent sleeping that way