Is there any way to adjust the screen brightness beyond Settings/ All Settings / System / Power > Backlight tab?
The sun is shining and i want to see what is happening on my screen.
No, but there are some programs that allow this.
You can use the mvbacklight(it's a today plugin, search in the forum for this), or you can use wktask or AE Button Plus which both have this functionality.
I think there is another fullscreen program in the forum for backlight for that, but I don't remember its name.
Isn´t so. You must tap at the battery-icon in Startmenu, tap at the battery then opens the energymanagement. Disable the "adjust brightness automatically", so you see the brightness-sliders. Its so, because the Iolite has a lightsensor right from the StatusLED.
Greetings Mirko
Obviously my question wasn't clear enough. I am not looking for some program, unless.... .
My problem is that in direct sunlight i can hardly read what is written on the screen.
I want more light, more contrast.
The sliders in the menu Settings/ All Settings / System / Power / Backlight are already in the right corner.
Aha! Then its open end. Nothing solution to solve this. Must use a umbrella?
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Have you ever been alone in the dark with only your cherished Diamond wishing you had a better light source than its dark theme can provide? It certainly happened to me, and here is the solution: Flashlight.
Why a new such program when a few freeware already exist? Well, this one is TOTALLY finger friendly.
While in the main screen, drag your finger upwards to increase the light or downwards to decrease it.
The program can also be used as an emergency beacon, flashing two colors. To set the colors, again move your finger (horizontally this time) on the red, green or blue markers. The settings are saved on exit.
Compact Framework 3.5 needed!
Update 24/08/08 v 1.1
Added SOS function. This uses Color1 from Options.
Update 29/08/08 v 1.2:
Added menu item to disable Auto backlight. This allows to get maximum luminosity. The program will remeber the setting. When exiting, it will restore your backlight to what it was before.
To use this facility with the best results, do the following:
Start -> Settings -> System -> Power -> Backlight
Uncheck Auto adjust backlight
Slide both cursors to maximum
Check Auto adjust backight
Now start flashlight, go to Options, click on Auto backlight (to uncheck it) and your device shoud have maximum light. Don't worry, it will go back to Auto when you leave the program (or whatever setting you had before you ran it).
Looks very nice and convenient especially for users who don't have flash on their devices; downloading now.
I needed this thanks!
does your tool set the backlight to the maximum or just fill the screen with a color?
Haha, very nice/funny app. Ive never used a cellphone as a flashlight. But hey, im gonna install this one. I like it
ageye said:
does your tool set the backlight to the maximum or just fill the screen with a color?
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Just fills the screen. Quite honestly, I don't know how to change the backlight, but if you have any pointers I'll try.
Really useful for me
Would it be possible to use vertical dragging to change the flashing speed ?
Timbermill said:
Really useful for me
Would it be possible to use vertical dragging to change the flashing speed ?
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Interesting idea. I can do that...
You need to find a way to disable the light sensor and adjust to the max brightness for this to work efficiently.
why i can not have white light without flashing? if i disable flashing i get a grey light
flashing OK, i choose red and white
KukurikU said:
why i can not have white light without flashing? if i disable flashing i get a grey light
flashing OK, i choose red and white
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Try to slide your finger upwards...
Can you make it flash SOS it could be usefull in an emergency...
I think it is 3 short 3 long 3 short flashes...
There is also another flashlight app. It called 'pLamp'. Version 1.5 is compatible with VGA. Google for it. It's freeware. Works great on my diamond.
aydc said:
You need to find a way to disable the light sensor and adjust to the max brightness for this to work efficiently.
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I realize that. Changing the backlight is not API implemented though as it is hardware dependent. I've been googling it for a couple of hours already and no luck yet.
so use registry?
to disable the light sensor
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\LightDetectOn
set it to 0->Sensor is off (will change immediatly)
this should make it ways brighter
don't know which key adjusts the brightness level but you may set Battery-Brightness-level to max and enable Lightsensor. So if you now disable it, you have max brightness
works well for me, jsut implement it in your app and i'll be very happy
Update to v 1.1: added SOS function. Download in first post.
kikakeule said:
so use registry?
to disable the light sensor
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\LightDetectOn
set it to 0->Sensor is off (will change immediatly)
this should make it ways brighter
don't know which key adjusts the brightness level but you may set Battery-Brightness-level to max and enable Lightsensor. So if you now disable it, you have max brightness
works well for me, jsut implement it in your app and i'll be very happy
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The problem with changing the registry is that it won't update the brightness until a soft reset, unless I'm mistaken.
yes yes yes turn backlight for max is more usefull then plenty of colours, btw 9 basic colours will be enough and still finger friendly... but still nice app
pedmond said:
Try to slide your finger upwards...
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multzumesc! thank you..it's all in the finger...lol
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The problem with changing the registry is that it won't update the brightness until a soft reset, unless I'm mistaken.
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just try it yourself
after changing the key the sensor will be deactivated immediatly
no soft reset needed
and with the workaround I posted early you will get max brightness very easyly
but even without the workaround this will increase brightness massivly as the main usability of a flashlight is to enlightend darkness and the sensor dimms the display to minimum in darkness^^
I generally have my backlight set pretty low for indoor purposes (20-30%) hopefully this conserves precious battery life.
However I find it mightily annoying when I'm on the move somewhere brighter than indoors eg. outdoors, and I have to check my phone and cannot see a thing because the backlight is set to "indoor settings" leaving me to navigate to settings> sound and display> backlight etc. This isn't usually a problem but when you can barely see the screen it is difficult.
Does anyone agree (hopefully a bright developer will) that it would great to have a backlight toggle on a quicklink within sense? I think a toggle between the setting you have manually selected and automatic adjustment of the backlight would be a handy application.
Any ideas? Does this already exist?
Nobody interested in this mod? Could save some battery
try myLight of mylostblog. google it. it's a very finger-friendly app that adjusts the backlight whenever you like but you have to set the auto-adjust backlight to off.
I have installed and it works well thanks for the link.
I would still like to see a toggle option between automatic and a preset value.
I would also like a toggle button or buttons for different settings (30%, 60%, 100% or customisable). Another idea would be for the auto backlight to work better. I had a Diamond and it was problematic with that. Not bad for most of the time in UK but if the sun comes out it's almost impossible to see what is on the screen. I might look at a mortscript solution using the reg key for now if I get a chance.
Yea I reckon that would be great. I think the HTC desire has this sort of toggle option in a status bar. To take the idea even further, it would be nice to see this sort of bar added to Cookies Home tab, similar to the new notifications bar added to v1.7.
Possibly: Wifi, backlight, bluetooth, 3g/2g connection all in one bar.
Im trialling MyLight now and it works well, it is finger friend and can be added to a quicklink for easy access, but looks a little dated perhaps.
I have the backlight set to automatically adjust, but when I am using my phone in the dark, I like it fixed at 10%.
Rather than going through 6 screens to manually update it every time, I would love it if someone could come up with a button (like the WiFi switch on windows market place), so that I can just hit a shortcut on the today screen and the auto adjust is toggled on and off.
The registry entry that turns the auto adjust on or off is called
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight and the key is Light Detect On
Any pointers or help would be appreciated!
you can make a link that opens the backlight page directly.
see the "control panel items" link in my sig.
not quite a toggle but reduces the clicks to 2.
Just made a request thread for this yesterday
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=675898
Think it would be a good quicklink for sense
samsamuel said:
you can make a link that opens the backlight page directly.
see the "control panel items" link in my sig.
not quite a toggle but reduces the clicks to 2.
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To be honest, I saw your thread back along and didn't quite get it. I do now though!
Can't wait to get home from work and try this. Not a complete solution, but it will certainly save me a load of hassle.
Thanks!
with ya pal!
what gets me is the sensor, when its dark its at full brightness, when its light its dim...... shouldn't this be the other way round?
Small App to switch screen brightness between "minimum" and "auto" ?
Hi.
The "Auto" setting for screen brightness on the HD2 still leaves the screen too bright for reading in bed at night. On the other end, forgetting the setting at "lowest" instead of "auto" is a pain to change in sunlight every morning. The setting is hidden several clicks away.
Is there by any chance a small App that toggles between these "minimum" and "auto" settings just by clicking on its icon, that I could put on my home screen ?
Or is there a registry hack to make the HD2 lower the screen brightness more aggressively while on auto setting ? actually going all the way down when in a quasi-dark room ?
Thanks in advance for any help.
PS I've tried searching the forum, nothing came up.
Try g-light or lumos, g-light is simpler, lumos is more customisable. both should work on the hd2, personally I use lumos. btw both these apps are auto backlight adjusters, but you get to set what brightness the phone uses dependant on how much external light it detects.
lumos:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450318
g-light:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=440665
myLight
I use myLight, it's user-friendly and it works!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485141
thanks guys
i'll try them out
thank you for the replies
Search for "AutoBacklight Toggle + Steps" on the forums, it should give you what you want.
Hello,
I can't seem to find the setting to calibrate my screen. My screen is just off with the touch screen so I need to calibrate it. On other forums I read it should be under: settings menu all system. In that screen there should be a "screen" button. But in my dutch ROM 1.36.404.1 (94358) that button is not there. Can anyone confirm the button should be indeed there? And would there be an other way to start the calibration?
thx
Paul
In settings button, you will see sound & display button, come to the last option in this menu which is of G sensor, calibration, follow instructions and you are done.
option not available
salimabbas said:
In settings button, you will see sound & display button, come to the last option in this menu which is of G sensor, calibration, follow instructions and you are done.
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thanks, but I checked it: the last option is G-Sensor, which helps me to calibrate it, the one before is for display: in that one, I can only adjust the brightness settings, when back light is switched off, whether is is controlled automatically etc, but nothing like screen calibration. Would this be ROM dependent?
There is no screen calibration control for current HTC models with capacitive screens. The original calibration control doesn't work as it's designed for stylus input and needs a pin point press to register.
So, HTC leave the Screen control out of the build, which is also the reason Cleartype can't be activated as it's part of the same control.
If you really want to try it, look in the Cleartype topic for the registry change needed to make the Screen control visible, but beware that using screen calibration might make things worse rather than better !
Inaccurate touch centering is one of the built-in downside of capacitive touch screens. There's no such thing as pin-point accuracy in this territory.
We're seeing similar complaints about Android devices, especially the Nexus One. The theory is that the software is supposed to be intelligent enough to register where a 'broad' point of contact is intended to be centred, but sometimes it simply doesn't work as it should.
The only remedy, if a soft reset doesn't sort it is to do a hard reset but reports say the benefits of this may only be short lived.
Use this registry setting
HKLM\ControlPanel\Pen and change from 1 to 0.
infact u dun need this function coz u'll never pass the calibration, i'd juz tried it yesterday(the capititive mon can't make an accurate calibration)
at last i need to soft-reset my device to leave the calibration page= =
keith819 said:
infact u dun need this function coz u'll never pass the calibration, i'd juz tried it yesterday(the capititive mon can't make an accurate calibration)
at last i need to soft-reset my device to leave the calibration page= =
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You're right! Although my fingers are not the smallest, it does not work. Thanks and topic closed I guess.