Always On Screen vs. Doze feature

[Thiscrapsucks35]

All Android phones with Marshmallow MUST have Doze on it, it's not a setting or app that you can go and check, it's on the OS core. Google made it very clear when they announced Doze on Marshmallow that no OEM or Carrier can alter this feature by any mean.

Yeah, I've heard that before, but I have seen absolutely NO proof that it exists, or that an app has gone into doze mode. It seems highly unlikely that there would be nowhere to see a feature on the phone.

Can anyone on ATT provide proof that ATT s7 edge's have Doze?

 

[Iva_LadyDiCaprio98]

I'm on AT&T and my phone has doze

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[Iva_LadyDiCaprio98]

The plateau pretty much shows when the phone has been in doze mode

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[erasat]

Yeah, I've heard that before, but I have seen absolutely NO proof that it exists, or that an app has gone into doze mode. It seems highly unlikely that there would be nowhere to see a feature on the phone.

Can anyone on ATT provide proof that ATT s7 edge's have Doze?

It works just like the other tons of core features that are not available for the user, behind doors, hidden so they can't be messed with. Because you can't see them doesn't mean that they don't exist and are working on the phone.

 

[Thiscrapsucks35]

I guess I'm expecting to see something more along the lines of this...

http://forums.androidcentral.com/at...1522-galaxy-s7-edge-doesn-t-have-doze-651.jpg

This is at least 3rd party proof that Doze exists.

 

[erasat]

I guess I'm expecting to see something more along the lines of this...

http://forums.androidcentral.com/at...1522-galaxy-s7-edge-doesn-t-have-doze-651.jpg

This is at least 3rd party proof that Doze exists.

I know what you mean, want and expect, but what I'm saying is that you MUST trust Google on this one as they clearly specified that no OEM are allowed to mess with Doze, so in simple words, if you have Marshmallow on your phone, you MUST have Doze feature as intended by Google, and no, other than the option on the Optimize battery usage of the More settings on the Battery usage screen, there is nowhere else on these phones where to even check what apps are being optimized or not.

Obviously there are other stuff that can and will mess with Doze as it requires the phone to be resting on a place where no sensor is triggered for an specific amount of time (don't know for sure for how long) and the screen is Off, hence the reason I've mentioned since the S7 release that I highly doubt that the new AOD feature works well with Doze as it messes with the simple requirement of the screen being off. If Samsung took this in consideration or not is another story, until they come clean and explain exactly if AOD affects Doze or not, it's simply Gospel not facts.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Yeah, I've heard that before, but I have seen absolutely NO proof that it exists, or that an app has gone into doze mode. It seems highly unlikely that there would be nowhere to see a feature on the phone.

Can anyone on ATT provide proof that ATT s7 edge's have Doze?

Just install the free GSAM app. It'll show you whether your phone is going into Doze, and for how long.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Obviously there are other stuff that can and will mess with Doze as it requires the phone to be resting on a place where no sensor is triggered for an specific amount of time (don't know for sure for how long) and the screen is Off, hence the reason I've mentioned since the S7 release that I highly doubt that the new AOD feature works well with Doze as it messes with the simple requirement of the screen being off. If Samsung took this in consideration or not is another story, until they come clean and explain exactly if AOD affects Doze or not, it's simply Gospel not facts.

From what I can see, AOD bypasses the normal screen on detection, so the OS thinks the screen is off. But like I said above, you can find out from yourself. I don't get all the conspiracy theories and doubt. Just install GSAM, turn AOD on overnight, and see if the phone goes into Doze. There's no gray area - it will or will not.

 

[Iva_LadyDiCaprio98]

I have AOD on always and my phone still goes into doze mode

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[erasat]

From what I can see, AOD bypasses the normal screen on detection, so the OS thinks the screen is off. But like I said above, you can find out from yourself. I don't get all the conspiracy theories and doubt. Just install GSAM, turn AOD on overnight, and see if the phone goes into Doze. There's no gray area - it will or will not.

There's no conspiracy theory or anything similar just expressing my doubts about this, simply because as far as I know, or read our hear about, nobody have even mentioned the 2 of them together just people on different boards making tests and for that needing to download third party apps to be certain, when it would have been a lot easier and clearer to just have a confirmation from any Samsung official representative.

In my case there's not even an issue as I don't like or need AOD, my 4 S7 and S7 edge phones are going to Doze mode as expected, but like I mentioned since my first post about this topic, this was my understanding and I could have been wrong about it, if in fact I am, then now I know and can stop thinking otherwise.