[kimfamily]

Originally Posted by matthewrotherham

sigh. is it me or have all of the responses so far been a bit dense!

he wants the lock screen to show the battery even when it is not on charge.

he says nothing about the screen never turning off!!!

umm you are the dense one here...

[matthewrotherham]

wow... good insult.

i was just pointing out that if you look at the message from more than one perspective it can mean many things. but i guess that is a dense view to take.

[sziklassy]

I just love how people make fun of someone because they don't see what the person is asking to be useful. Who cares? If its not useful to you it doesn;t mean that it is not worthy of being done...

Originally Posted by MattMac

Isn't is said that if you leave the same image on the screen of a device for a long period of time it burns it into the screen. Couldn't this happen if it is aloud to stay on?

But this does sound interesting. I would like it at times.

You aren;t going to get burn-in on an LCD screen...

[JAG2621]

Some people read different than others.

[Reako]

It isn't possible yet. Nuff said.

Reako

[alexevo]

i know this is a somewhat old thread now but wouldn't the screen then technically never turn off if you had auto-lock set to never and the battery screen would always be displayed even when not in the charger? i.e.

current settings: in charger, displays battery charging for a little while then goes to black, out of charger, briefly displays lock screen then goes to black until you unlock it

new settings(hypothetical): in charger, displays battery charging and never goes to black, out of charger, displays lock screen and possibly goes to black until you unlock it depending on how code is written

so this would mean that the screen is active much more frequently which immediately starts draining the battery faster since it is always on? thus making you have to recharge the battery more often and shortening its life as well as unknown effects of having the screen on much more often?

EDIT: to you who said you would like to be able to look at your phone from bed and check if it is charged, i don't know if your iphone is like mine but i go from 10% battery remaining to full charge in less than 1hr, so chances are if you are in bed you are either planning on sleeping(probably longer than 1hr) or you are just relaxing in which case you are most likely going to be something different than constantly checking your phone to see if it is charged.

i propose a solution, leave the screen off except a small portion in the corner that can display red, yellow, or green pixels just to indicate charge status? this may solve the problem you are worried about

now the question is, is it possible to only activate a portion of the screen, we know it is possible to activate only portions of the screen to touch but can it be activated to display graphics on only a portion and leave the rest off or at least black so it lessens the chances of harming hardware components or shortening the life of others.

[nrowensby]

Originally Posted by alexevo

now the question is, is it possible to only activate a portion of the screen, we know it is possible to activate only portions of the screen to touch but can it be activated to display graphics on only a portion and leave the rest off or at least black so it lessens the chances of harming hardware components or shortening the life of others.

I don't think this is possible, I believe the backlight on the phone lights the entire phone. So I don't think there'd be a way to just light up a small section...

[pjtaylor]

This sort of hack would really help the usefulness of IntelliScreen. It would be nice to view this when my phone is in its cradle without having to keep pressing the Home button.