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There's a way to keep your Android screen always on while charging

Without having to change any display options.

ANDROID HAS A VAST number of features in settings, but there are more hidden away from users.

The main one is Developer Options, a feature used to help app development on Android, and it has a few interesting features.

One of them allows your screen to stay awake while you’re charging, which can be useful if you’re keeping tabs on something on-screen and your phone keeps going into sleep mode.

To start, you’ll need to activate Developer Options. If you haven’t done this already, you can access it by going into Settings > About phone (or Settings > About > Software Information > More for certain devices) and scroll down to Build number.

Start tapping it a few times and eventually it will tell you Developer Options is now available.

Now if you go back to Settings, the option will be available. Go into it, and turn it on. The stay awake option should be one of the first things you’ll see on the screen.

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Developer Options is a long menu of features but they’re hidden away for a very good reason. Messing around with them isn’t recommended unless you absolutely know what you’re doing and even then, you should keep it to a minimum.

Also, while you can do a similar thing by changing the sleep setting in display, this option only keeps your screen on constantly when you’re charging it.

Changing the length of time it takes for the screen to sleep happens regardless of what your phone is charging or not, and is less convenient as you have to change it back when you’re finished.

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    Mute Weddingcar Ie Wexford Limo
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:29 PM

    I drive a taxi and for many reasons I don’t belive it’s a job for a woman. I would hate to see my wife or daughter drive a taxi. And before I’m bashed I am not sexest

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    Mute Phillip Hogan
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:37 PM

    You clearly are a sexist if you believe women are too weak to drive a taxi. You didn’t say they were weak but that is clearly what you are inferring

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    Mute Phillip Hogan
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:38 PM

    Implying, damn it.

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    Mute Weddingcar Ie Wexford Limo
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:41 PM

    No Philip I’m not ! But keep trying

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    Mute Weddingcar Ie Wexford Limo
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:43 PM

    Ah I see your Twitter has been suspended Philip Hogan bit of a troll are you hiding behind false names !

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    Mute Danny Rigg
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:57 PM

    Just curious, what exactly are you saying?

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    Mute Phillip Hogan
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    Sep 10th 2014, 1:11 PM

    OK Mr Weddingcar, why shouldn’t women drive taxis?

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    Mute Weddingcar Ie Wexford Limo
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    Sep 10th 2014, 1:14 PM

    Because of the Philip Hogans off this world !!

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    Mute Phillip Hogan
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    Sep 10th 2014, 1:24 PM

    That doesn’t even make sense. You don’t think your wife and daughter are capable of driving a taxi. Is it any wonder that feminism is so aggressive when your misogyny is so engrained

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    Mute Step Off
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    Sep 10th 2014, 1:47 PM

    Are you busy tonight, weddingcar?

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    Mute Joanna
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    Sep 10th 2014, 1:50 PM

    I dunno. All the other car jackings had male taxi drivers. Is the experience less terrifying as a man? I wouldn’t say so.

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    Mute Weddingcar Ie Wexford Limo
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    Sep 10th 2014, 2:04 PM

    I wouldn’t think it would be either. If they take the car and let you go unharmed it’s the only good thing to come out of a car jacking.
    Why I wouldn’t like my wife etc driving is because you are dealing with people at their worst late at night drunk or worse on drugs. It’s hard enough without having guys trying it on or been intimidating which would and does happen with female drivers.
    Day time work wouldn’t be to bad but nights would be a disaster waiting to happen.

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    Mute James O Carroll
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    Sep 10th 2014, 2:24 PM

    what do you mean it’s not a job for a woman? you didn’t really say why :L

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    Mute Phillip Hogan
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    Sep 10th 2014, 2:44 PM

    So what you ate saying is that you would rather see women treated like glass, always kept away from danger. Give them a bit more credit. They might surprise you

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    Mute Weddingcar Ie Wexford Limo
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    Sep 10th 2014, 2:47 PM

    James and Philip grow up !

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    Mute James O Carroll
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    Sep 10th 2014, 3:01 PM

    but…i was asking a legit question. im not trying to be mean or cheeky

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    Mute Tom Red
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    Sep 10th 2014, 3:05 PM

    He is concentrating on his new big job in Europe from now on…

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    Mute Daniel Murray
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    Sep 10th 2014, 7:45 PM

    I’ve never seen one female taxi driver working at night. It’s common sense really.

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    Mute richard fennessy
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    Sep 10th 2014, 9:22 PM

    Daniel there is many

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    Mute Danny Rigg
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    Sep 10th 2014, 11:42 PM

    Would you suggest that women don’t work as police or in A&E then? They’d be facing the exact same people. What I’d suggest is taxis that have a partition between the driver at the front and the passenger at the back. You’d have to have fairly thick skin to be a taxi driver, so why shouldn’t a woman be a taxi driver if they’re as thick skinned as the male taxi drivers?

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    Mute Ronty Chowdhury
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    Sep 11th 2014, 12:57 AM

    Guys stop trying to prove Wexford limo a sexiest . what he is saying is very true. After a wild night out, most of the time Drank man make trouble at the street…you wont see many woman making trouble at night while they are drank. an drank man has a common issue to harass women. so in a Saturday night, when lots of drank wild mans are in the street, who will not bother about law and order or maybe not in a state of thinking clearly would probably find a woman taxi driver more easy rather than a Man driver. Its just a fact.

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    Mute Daniel Murray
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    Sep 11th 2014, 7:33 AM

    @Danny. Your a&e remark just makes no sense. In relation to female gardai, at night time gardai have to work in pairs. The also carry pepper spray, something which taxi drivers are not allowed have.
    If working at night was the same as day they wouldn’t have the pairing system.

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    Mute Tom Red
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:18 PM

    That young pup deserves the mother and father of a bating when caught..

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    Mute Liz O'Connor
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:55 PM

    Wow must admire her bravery for refusing to hand over the keys. May not always have worked out so well. But she definitely showed that chap there’s no messing with her.

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    Mute Brian Gormley
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    Sep 10th 2014, 1:02 PM

    I admire her bravery but it was a silly thing to do

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    Mute Steven Hillert
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:18 PM

    This type of crime is going on a weekly basis in dublin. Noting new here

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    Mute Banga Ncube
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:38 PM

    Women taxmen are not that uncommon now.

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    Mute Banga Ncube
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:38 PM

    Women taximen are not that uncommon now.

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    Mute Ian Walsh
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    Sep 10th 2014, 2:19 PM

    Bit of an echo here ;)

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    Mute Banga Ncube
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    Sep 10th 2014, 2:34 PM

    Here.

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    Mute richard fennessy
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    Sep 10th 2014, 9:23 PM

    Women taxi men maybe even women taxi drivers

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    Mute Danny Rigg
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:57 PM

    Why make a point of the taxi driver’s gender? Is it relevant?

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    Mute richard fennessy
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    Sep 10th 2014, 9:23 PM

    Yes

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    Mute Danny Rigg
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    Sep 10th 2014, 11:42 PM

    How?

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    Mute Trevor Weafer
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    Sep 10th 2014, 3:14 PM

    Fair play for standing her ground. Little cowardly asswipe.

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    Mute Phillip Hogan
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    Sep 10th 2014, 12:35 PM

    Wow a female taxi driver. It is so amazing that it must be put in the headline

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    Mute Brendan Julian
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    Sep 10th 2014, 1:01 PM

    When i saw the title. I new it was up north

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    Mute M Bowe
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    Sep 10th 2014, 1:26 PM

    Brendan ere you implying that such acts don’t happen south of the border???

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    Mute Dave O Halloran
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    Sep 10th 2014, 7:35 PM

    Shouldn’t have made any difference if the driver was a man or woman it shouldn’t be happening , why can’t a judge make a statement and send the next attacker down for at least 5 years and this might stop it ?

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    Mute Ronty Chowdhury
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    Sep 11th 2014, 1:01 AM

    but unfortunately it is always the case. weaker taxi driver are the easy target.

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