Thankfully, we can execute a simple ADB command to customize the screen timeout value (I have my Galaxy Note 10+ set to 30 minutes). But what about those who want the screen to stay on for 15+ minutes before timing out? On Samsung devices, the default values to choose from are 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, and 10 minutes. So many of these options or features are completely hidden from the user.Ī great example of this happens when you want to set the screen timeout value for your smartphone. The OEM (Samsung, LG, HTC) gets to choose which features are available to you and which ones are not. When you think about it, the graphical UI buttons and toggles that you tap on are essentially executing these ADB commands for you. The thing is, we can actually do much more with ADB and Fastboot commands than we ever could with the traditional user interface.
The process isn’t as easy as clicking or tapping on graphical user interface elements and typing just one thing wrong can, in some cases, completely mess up what you were initially trying to do. I understand that a lot of people are put off when they think of typing text into a command prompt.
We can do change things with the Android OS over the command prompt as well, but first, you need to have ADB and Fastboot tools installed. These are generally called “user-facing features” as they are what the OEM presents to us in the firmware. Most of us interact with our smartphones through one method: tapping the screen.