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I have the o2 XDA mini and just realised that after i adjust the screen to maximum brightness. When u press the camera button, the screen suddenly increased its brightness for 1 second before it enters the camera function. When u go to tools->adjust, you can even see that the screen turns very bright and clear which is much clearer than the screen itself on maximum brightness. Anyone knows whether that this only is a defect in my device or happens in every HTC magician. Try it and please tell me whether u seen the screen differences. After having the device for 4 months then i realised this effect hehe. :?:
tuyulaneh said:
I have the o2 XDA mini and just realised that after i adjust the screen to maximum brightness. When u press the camera button, the screen suddenly increased its brightness for 1 second before it enters the camera function. When u go to tools->adjust, you can even see that the screen turns very bright and clear which is much clearer than the screen itself on maximum brightness. Anyone knows whether that this only is a defect in my device or happens in every HTC magician. Try it and please tell me whether u seen the screen differences. After having the device for 4 months then i realised this effect hehe. :?:
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Your device is not defected it happens to other devices too depends on the rom that you're using..
depends on the rom????
i tried a qtek rom and a imate jam rom and they have the same
behaviour, in camera mode the brightness is increased.
i try also to hack the registry keys, but nothing happens.
who can explain?
Maybe its simply the camera application instructing the screen brightness to 'gain up' to make using the viewfinder for pictures in dark conditions more clear.
Alot of digital camera reviews say an camera digital display that gains-up at night/poor light is a plus as it allows you to see the subject of your photo more clearly (wanna buy a digicam and keep reading about this in all the reviews)
Could this offer an explanation?
Oh and P.s. My Qtek S100 with WWE 1.12 rom also does this.
Gero
Do you think that its possible to do something with the registry and increase them to same brightness as camera mode?? It would have amazing screen them!! I am really bad at registry tweaking hehe . Need advice from the pros pleaseee :lol:
Screen Brightness increases when camera is on
Did anyone figure out how to tweak the registry so that the screen brightens can be left at the higher level that it switches to when the camera is turned on? I would really like to keep my Jam's screen at that brightness level at all times. There must be something in the camera exe file that changes the brightness level beyond what is allowed in the settings.
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
V
vijay555 said:
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
V
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YEP! please!
ratcom said:
vijay555 said:
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
V
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YEP! please!
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I'll second that !
daffie said:
ratcom said:
vijay555 said:
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
V
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YEP! please!
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I'll second that !
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Me too! :lol:
Guys,
After having a brainwave this morning about how to do this, I've knocked together a little app to enable it. However, the technique has some issues I want to sort through to make it a bit more foolproof for you guys. It's not a great way to do it, but it does work for now until someone can think of a better way.
I'm a bit curious why HTC didn't enable it by default. It's not MUCH brighter, but it makes a difference, and going back to the old brightness is quite disappointing!
Just keeping you all informed
V
Great invention again..
More brightness can't be that bad i guess...
....but doesn't it drain your battery quicker ?
I suspect this won't only affect battery drain but display lamp life time. May be this setting is slightly above specs which is ok for a few seconds, but it might most probably decrease your displays life time if you leave it enabled for hours.
That's my assumption why HTC did not make it available to the average user.
I agree. As it happens, I might not release this at all.
For now it only works once per soft reset. After powering off, it goes back to normal brightness. Then you can only get the superbrightness again after a soft reset. Too impractical to be of any use, but an interesting idea for me to play with.
V
When i put my hands on the Qtek S100 (MDA Compact to be exact, in my case), i was so amazed by the screen and its high resolution/size (i never had a PPC/PPCPhone before) but a co-worker of me bought the SP5 (aka HTC. Tornado) and that screen is 4 times brighter compared to the S100's screen.
Chatty - about the screen life. I guess it must be relatively safe if it's enabled by default in the camera mode. Potentially you can leave you phone in camera mode all day, and there's no automatic time out or power off or anything.
I imagine the issue is more battery life than screen life. And for most of us, I guess we'll all be upgraded in < 1 year?
v
@vijay555: So any progress in making it usable? What API is used for that? RIL?
@Chatty, as I said in my earlier post, I'm not going to release this because it's not properly usable. Yet :wink:
The effect works, and you have superbrightness across the system, but only until you power off the system. When you switch on again, I can't get it to re-enable the superbrightness or the camera until you soft reset. HTC have used some curious programming. So it works once per boot for now, and that's nearly useless.
I'm only using a very dodgy hack to do this (which achieves the goal), but the best way would be to reverse engineer the camera/LCD drivers, and frankly I haven't looked into this at all, no time.
I doubt RIL would help, I think this requires direct interfacing to the screen driver/hardware.
My way is simple, and works, but not something I would put my name to as a release product...just an interesting trick for now.
V
vijay555, if you don't intend to release this "software" can you share the trick?
kta - let me see if I can pack it together into an app that won't cause hardresets. Soft resets I can live with, hard resets are a pain in the bum.
The trick? Sure: start the camera, click on the tools button near bottom right (you will now be in normal brightness), choose tools menu, then adjust. You should now be in superbright mode. the trick is keeping it there :wink:
V
Guys, a minor distraction, to get us in the mood for Christmas..
Recommended for Hermes only.
It works on the Universal too, but looks odd.
It might work on the Wizard, but is not recommended.
It should work on all recent HTC WM5 devices, but I can't guarantee.
For those who don't want to play, you're not missing much, move along
V
VJPlumBum
PS Turn your volume up.
V
It made me smile, thank you!
I had to SR after it because the left LED started to blink green instead of right, and I've lost BT indication, which was left blue before, and nothing after this app.
Sorry, about that. That was the whole point actually, it was a test of some code I wrote to control the other leds. You'll have to soft reset to get proper led indications again, but you don't have to, everything will continue to work, just leds will be off.
V
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Guys, a minor distraction, to get us in the mood for Christmas..
Recommended for Hermes only.
It works on the Universal too, but looks odd.
It might work on the Wizard, but is not recommended.
It should work on all recent HTC WM5 devices, but I can't guarantee.
For those who don't want to play, you're not missing much, move along
V
VJPlumBum
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The plum worked but not the bumming led's on my wizard V! Peace
Yeah, I don't have any reference material for the Wizard. It's tested and designed for Hermes because the two colour and tri colour LEDs are next to each other, which makes for a much sexier effect...
V
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Yeah, I don't have any reference material for the Wizard. It's tested and designed for Hermes because the two colour and tri colour LEDs are next to each other, which makes for a much sexier effect...
V
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Cheers V - i will test on my brothers hermes when i next see him.
Take care
works on my spv m700 (trinity)
strangly i think this is a useful tool. I hate flashing leds so when it turns off the lights at the end it leaves them off. This is better than the registry hack as I don't loose vibrate on the ringing.
whilst I love the close encounters bit, can you make this into a little wizard so we can choose which led to turn off or reset to normal behaviour.
this is because i want all the leds off except the blue one which i prefer to leave on as I don't like to leave BT running all the time.
Don't need to know my phone is charging or that there is some notices, notification alert or alarm. (when its in my pocket Im not going to see it!)
thanks Vijay
howdy all.
This is my first post so if this has been asked before I apolgize, i did do a search but came up with squat.
I have a tytn and a herald and I notice 2 major differences between the two in regards to the screen.
1) The herald's screen is WAY WAY WAY brighter, is there a way to make the tytn's screen any brighter? the tytn at max brightness is only about the half way setting on the herald.
2) maybe even a bigger difference than the brightness is the color, when I have the two side by side I notice that the color seems "off" on the tytn. I have a vista theme and the grass looks green (as it should) on my herald but it looks brownish yellow on the tytn. is there any way to change these settings so I can correct this problem on the tytn?
I could have sworn that I read about a app/reg hack to get more brightness out of the tytn but be damned if i could find it. oh and this is a cingular 8525 flashed to the hermes firmware, not sure if that makes a difference or not.
thanks for the help all.
Raz
Try a search on this forum for vjlumos.
Mike
mikechannon said:
Try a search on this forum for vjlumos.
Mike
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Thank you!!!!
Now what about those colors.....
I changed the following registry entry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight]
"AutoDeviceLockEnable"=dword:00000001
Now when I press the the power button of the blackstone the wm 6.5 slider will appear. So far it works fine. But when the phone is not used for a while the backlight is getting darker. When I unlock the blackstone with the slider, the backlight is not getting brighter, it remains darker (but still not turned off).
Does anybody know this behaviour? Any solutions?
Thanks
Andy
This is a known problem..Try to use auto csdevctrl for auto wm 6.5 locking..
wm6.5 lock is nice and functionally but it is slow and buggy. Don't know if it's final version will improve but I suggest you to use third-party solutions.
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wm6.5 lock is nice and functionally but it is slow and buggy. Don't know if it's final version will improve but I suggest you to use third-party solutions.
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Ever tried EnergyROM HD 'Phoenix' (21731)
faster than any other 6.1 ROM I have tried.
Anyways - why do we need another program to do what WM6.5 should do on ist own?
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Anyways - why do we need another program to do what WM6.5 should do on ist own?
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Because WM6.5 isn't officially released on the Blackstone
the reason is...I am cooking my own 6.5 rom and I just won't get it working.
on the new miri V18 the backlight work perfectly
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on the new miri V18 the backlight work perfectly
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no,it's not.
sorry it don't work after unlock but it work when touch the screen ! And on previous versions the wake up on touch don't worked
When I am using the following settings, the lock is not activated anymore when the backlight is dims...but when I tab on the screen, the backlight does not turn on anymore. So with those settings I went one step ahead, but I still not reached my goal. Has someone an idea? How can I force the backlight to turn on again?
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight]
"BatteryTimeout"=dword:0000003C
"LightDetectOn"=dword:00000001
"Brightness"=dword:00000005
"ACBrightness"=dword:00000005
"ExtOnOff"=dword:00000001
"LightSensorToScreenOff"=dword:00000005
"LightSensorPollingEnable"=dword:00000000
"AutoDeviceLockTimeout"=dword:0000012C
"AutoBklOffset"=dword:00000000
"LedOnOffAdcValue"=dword:0000013F
"AutoDeviceLockEnable"=dword:00000001
"DimBKLinUnlockScreen"=dword:00000000
"ACBacklightOnTap"=dword:00000001
"BacklightOnTap"=dword:00000001
"OnOff"=dword:00000001
"LightSensorThreshold"=dword:00000005
"LightSensorInterval"=dword:0000012C
"LightSensorTimeout"=dword:0000001E
"AutoSensor"=dword:00000001
"QKeyLedTimeout"=dword:0000000A
"BatteryTimeoutUnchecked"=dword:00000000
"BatteryTimeoutTemp"=dword:00000000
"ACTimeoutUnchecked"=dword:00000000
"ACTimeoutTemp"=dword:00000000
"ACTimeout"=dword:0000003C
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight\LockLevel]
"LockLevel"=dword:00000000
Hi mates,
If you want to use the AutoLock of WM6.5 without backlight issue, you need to do as follow:
1. Change Auto Backlight to Manual
2. Disable "Turn Off Backlight" in Power Setting
Now, the AutoLock will work only when you do poweroff.
Cheers,
thanks...but I know... I need the registry settings...cause I want to cook it into my rom.
backlight issues here too
I am having the exact same problem. I have the 6.5 5nergy ROM. I have to manually go to backlight and touch the screen. Even though the bar on the backlight program is up to the top, it's still dim.
This has made me avoid using my Fuze and stick with my N85 - which has a much better camera anyway. But that full QWERTY keyboard... I miss it so!
Does anybody want the fix for this, or is this old news?
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the reason is...I am cooking my own 6.5 rom and I just won't get it working.
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It is a known problems, have problem across three devise HD2, HD & SX1.
My 2 cent obser, slock mess up, device lock work good for me across three device, so far as I know only energy rom cook in and no issue. hope it help.
Cheers
The issue from what I have been able to determine, is that once your device Auto Locks, the BackLightOnTap stops working. Once it happens, it is not possible to get the backlight back on until you turn the screen off and back on again (if Auto adjust backlight is turned off this may not even work). One way to get around it is to never dim the backlight.
Anyway, I extracted the BackLight.dll from the leaked WM 6.5 ROM for the Diamond (Pine) and it corrects the issue on my Raphael. HTC seems to have fixed the issue, but there is one caveat.
With the new driver, the screen dims when ever the device is locked. The backlight will turn back on once it is unlocked. What this means is that if you are outdoors and your device is locked, it will be difficult to see the slider in order to unlock it.
This is the only issue I have encountered so far.
Update: Doh, what an easy fix. The value that controls the backlight level while the screen is locked is here...
Code:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight\LockLevel]
"LockLevel"=dword:0
By default, this is set to 0. Values 0 through 10 are valid (0 = lowest, 10 = highest).
Update 2: Bah! One of the drivers sets the LockLevel back to 0 on boot, which is a good thing because if you set the LockLevel to anything but 0 and use AutoLock, BackLight.dll crashes (probably why HTC forces it back to 0 on boot).
Also, a note for Raphael users, since this dll is from a Diamond, you will loose the keyboard backlight.
TrueG
trueg said:
The issue from what I have been able to determine, is that once your device Auto Locks, the BackLightOnTap stops working. Once it happens, it is not possible to get the backlight back on until you turn the screen off and back on again (if Auto adjust backlight is turned off this may not even work). One way to get around it is to never dim the backlight.
Anyway, I extracted the BackLight.dll from the leaked WM 6.5 ROM for the Diamond (Pine) and it corrects the issue on my Raphael. HTC seems to have fixed the issue, but there is one caveat.
With the new driver, the screen dims when ever the device is locked. The backlight will turn back on once it is unlocked. What this means is that if you are outdoors and your device is locked, it will be difficult to see the slider in order to unlock it.
This is the only issue I have encountered so far.
Update: Doh, what an easy fix. The value that controls the backlight level while the screen is locked is here...
Code:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight\LockLevel]
"LockLevel"=dword:0
By default, this is set to 0. Values 0 through 10 are valid (0 = lowest, 10 = highest).
Update 2: Bah! One of the drivers sets the LockLevel back to 0 on boot, which is a good thing because if you set the LockLevel to anything but 0 and use AutoLock, BackLight.dll crashes (probably why HTC forces it back to 0 on boot).
Also, a note for Raphael users, since this dll is from a Diamond, you will loose the keyboard backlight.
TrueG
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so ,does it working on HD?
I can't say as I have a Raphael, but it should.
Also, I have found that if you lock the screen using a password [\Control Panel\Lock] there is no problem with the backlight. The crappy part being you have to enter a password from then on, but it's one way.
Any solution yet?
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I changed the following registry entry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight]
"AutoDeviceLockEnable"=dword:00000001
Now when I press the the power button of the blackstone the wm 6.5 slider will appear. So far it works fine. But when the phone is not used for a while the backlight is getting darker. When I unlock the blackstone with the slider, the backlight is not getting brighter, it remains darker (but still not turned off).
Does anybody know this behaviour? Any solutions?
Thanks
Andy
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Does anyone have a solution for this problem yet?
You can try the CAB I posted. The only quirk is that the screen DIMs when the device is locked (which seems to be the same behaviour as the Omnia). The backlight turns back one once unlocked. This appears to be HTCs answer to the problem.
Hello,
I'm having a very annoying problem with my HD2 : the backlight doesn't work.
I can see the screen, but very badly, when I put the phone to sunlight. It displays normally the sense screens and the keypad is working, but it is impossible to use the phone.
I was using the CHT theme, but I did a hard reset and I'm now on the original sense and it still doesn't work. I also tried to retrieve the SD card, the battery. Nothing worked.
Does anyone already had this problem ?
Thanks for your help !
Marc
Sorry to tell you this but it sounds like your LCD or digitizer is going out. I am more inclined to say it is your LCD as tbe brightness of the screen is the only tging affected. If it was the digitizer your touch functionality would be affected also.
Have you went to Settings/Sounds & Display/ scoll down to Backlight and adjusted the brightness of the display?
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Have you went to Settings/Sounds & Display/ scoll down to Backlight and adjusted the brightness of the display?
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Thanks for your response !
i will try to adjust the brightness manualy, but as i just realized a hard rest, i think th default parameters are on...
But luckily it is still under warranty so my HD2 won a nice trip to the shop !