topic Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream in Android TV

Bravia can't disable Daydream

rasmus.franke — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:56:49 GMT

Recently bought a Bravia for the purpose of displaying a browser based dashboard at our office, running all day only turning it off at nights/weekends. However, Bravia forces daydream at "inactivity", with timers only going up to max 1h. So basicly we have to touch the remote every hour. If daydream is "disabled", the TV turns off instead after 60 minutes.

Is there any solution to this? Seems very weird for a modern TV not to have such basic options.'

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

theshamelessmanc — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:27:49 GMT

@rasmus.franke

Hey,

Have you tried any of the following options.....

1) Press the Home button, scroll to the bottom, select "Timers" and check "On Timers" are "Off".

2) Still in the "Timers" options, check "Sleep Timers" are "Off".

3) Press the Home button, scroll to the bottom, select "Settings" scroll right until at "Daydream" and select it. I have never changed these settings, so will just say what they are as is... "Daydream"="Backdrop", "When to daydream"="After 1 hour of inactivity" "When to sleep"="Never"

4) In "Settings" scroll right (or left if you have just come out of Daydream options) to "Power" and select it. Only one option to select "Eco", select that! Make sure "Power saving" is "Off" and "Idle TV standby" is "Off"!

I am having a guess that the 4th option is the cause of your problem ;o)

Let me know if any of the options fixed it and by marking this as the solution to your issue.

Incase my personal guess is right, I drink only the finest whiskey ;o)

Hope one of those options help!

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

rasmus.franke — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:00:48 GMT

Hi,

Already have those exact settings, i´ve tried every reasonable option that exists! Im guessing the big issue is that having the browser open counts as inactivity, as if I was in the main menu or something. Sadly doesn't work.

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

theshamelessmanc — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:38:30 GMT

Damn! Thought I had it!

Are you using a PC connected to the TV or just the internal Opra app?

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

rasmus.franke — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:44:42 GMT

The internal Opera browser. The problem might be solved using a external device, but we got the android tv just to avoid that

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

theshamelessmanc — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:39:41 GMT

I am assuming you have a Google account? Personally, I think the Opera browser is rubbish. You could login on a PC with the account that you are signed into on the telly, go to the play store and install chrome from there to the TV! (The play store on the TV does not have chrome for some reason)

This is just brainstorming though, because I have no idea if using the chrome browser instead will have a different result of preventing the TV going into sleep!

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

CrimsonFault — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:07:15 GMT

I have this problem too.

I rotate URLs within a single peice of HTML using a JAVA script which was the thing I was worried about most when implementing this display as a Dashboard. However, this works fine, after being the main worry I had in regards to compatibility! It was only after a few days I noticed that images kept appearing on the screen and on further investigation I am unable to disable Daydream mode. I had planned on purchasing another 10 of these for installation around the offices of the company I work for.

Just seen on another area of the Sony website that you can access Settings, within the Settings menu, then TV, then turn off Daydream mode. I cannot recall seeing this section at all, but will try on Monday when I'm back in the office. I've also logged a support ticket with Sony, as its ridiculous when a feature like this cannot be turned off.... CRAZY!

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 14:54:32 GMT

Hi all

This issue has been added to the current faults and issues list. Any updates received will be posted back in the following thread:

https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/televisions/2015-android-tv-bugs-and-issues/m-p/2040020

Cheers

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

rasmus.franke — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:22:17 GMT

Can confirm that the issue also applies to other browsers (tried with chrome the slightly hackish way).

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

Andy-R — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:26:14 GMT

is this for real! i just bought a w807c and im going to have to press a button every hour!! most films are longer than that, some films id have to press twice. i spend a lot of my free time gaming, the last thing i want to have to do is keep leaning over and hitting buttons on the remote. i had the prompt appear last night while i was in the middle of a race. please Sony, an option to turn this off completely. i will set my tv to turn off after X hours of inactivity... i dont need it daydreaming on top of that.

i hope this issue will be addressed out side of the app stuff. i dont use any of that. its doing it via hdmi while im using my PC.

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 20:22:55 GMT

Hi there @Andy-R

I dont think your issue is with Daydream, i believe it is with Idle TV Standby, which is probably set to 1hr. So set this to OFF

Settings > Power > Eco > Idle TV Standby

Cheers

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

Andy-R — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:43:06 GMT

yep, i think you might be right. bit trigger happy there... sorry about that 😕

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

Johny3 — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:06:46 GMT

Thanks you expert. This works for my Bravia. i was in search of this problem. Finally got solved.

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

Normis83 — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:53:17 GMT

I think you need to go to the settings and then you can deselect the Daydream option. This might disable the Daydream.

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

rasmus.franke — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:59:30 GMT

It's currently not possible to turn off daydream. They are working on this feature apparently, so hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

Zwork1985 — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:19:05 GMT

Hello every
Do you fix this problem??
If yes, how??

Thanks

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

LaurenceHerbert — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 16:22:34 GMT

Guys,

A workaround for this problem is here -

https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/televisions/remove-daydream-android-tv-sony-quot-solution-quot/td-p/2160042

Thanks very much to Quinnicus and LucasdaMata

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 17:07:17 GMT

This work around has been confirmed for 2015 and 2016 Android TV models:

Work Around:

Credit to LucasdaMata for posting this work-around HERE.

Go to Settings > Daydream and set 'When to Sleep' to 'Never'
Activate developers mode by going to Settings > About > Build and press OK 7 times
Go out of settings completely (back to home screen)
Go to Settings > Developers Mode > General and set 'Stay Awake' to 'On'
Return out of settings and use web browser as you wish.

Note: Developers mode must stay enabled for this to work. To disable developers mode, you must do a factory reset.

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

marytt1106 — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:36:40 GMT

We just got a Songy 900E TV and this Fix also worked great on that TV. At First I could not find the Developer Utility section, but I had to scroll all the way to the right under the Setting Page (was in about the third row of options on that Settings page all the way to the right of the page). Under Developer you chose General as noted in the fix and set Stay Awake to ON. Yeah problem fixed!!!

so happy because even the Store people did not know how to turn this Daydream off!

Re: Bravia can't disable Daydream

Eewec_Ourbyni — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:35:21 GMT

Thank you! Been using my Bravia 43" as my main PC screen. There's nothing more annoying than playing a computer game and suddenly there's a message telling you to press a button on the remote or the TV will go to sleep. Middle of a fast paced game and you suddenly having to scramble to find the remote is not helpful. This works on my Bravia KD-43XF8796.

EDIT: Worked perfectly last night. .... but today got prompt to press a button on my remote (Setting in dev options is still set to "Stay awake")